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7 Terrifying Giant Versions of Disgusting Critters
Puppies, kittens, infants: All adorable. And do you know why? Because they're tiny. If you start to magnify these things, then you wind up with the substantially less cute wolves, jaguars and teenagers.
Yes, if there's one thing nature teaches us, it's that what may start out as an adorable little animal friend can quickly turn into a Lovecraftian horror when its itty-bitty wittle mouth gets big enough to start eating your face. And when the little versions are already a little bit creepy, the big versions are the stuff nightmares are made of:
#7. Snails
Snails are like minuscule old-timey hobos; the charming kind you see in silent movies with little red bags on sticks--not the kind that pee in your hand when you fall asleep on the subway. They carry their homes on their backs, pose no threat to anybody and generally stay out of sight from polite society.
Occasionally, you might see one that's an inch or more and think, "Christ, that thing is fucking huge!" But, as we told your mom when she exclaimed that very same thing last night: "You ain't seen nothin' yet."
The Horror, Oh God the Horror:
The Giant African Land Snail is one of the rare things that both science and religion can agree should not exist: They can be up to 14-inches long, are simultaneously male and female and can survive up to three years sealed in their shell. And, as you can see from the above picture, they are aggressively not cute.
While tiny humans lose their cuteness gradually after reaching puberty, it's actually quite easy to identify the precise moment a snail stops being cute: When its sickly green snail labia drape over your outstretched fingers like the genitals of an old whore stationed too long outside an army base.
Holy Shit! Is it Dangerous?
Yes, sort of. They're highly invasive and can utterly destroy a local ecosystem. In fact, they were introduced on purpose to several islands in Indonesia during WWII in an attempt to cheaply produce food for U.S. troops. This ingenious plan ultimately failed when U.S. troops, after suffering the countless hardships of war, were less than eager to go down on a snail the size of their face for dinner.
#6. Crabs
Big eyes, tiny legs and a funny walk: Crabs are nature's adorable cartoon character, scuttling awkwardly across our beaches, hilariously clambering for freedom from our chefs and occasionally composing catchy songs for our oddly arousing mermaids.
We even keep hermit crabs as disposable pets to teach our children that life is fleeting, and that it is OK to paint smiley faces on animals as long as they're smaller than you.
The Horror, Oh God the Horror:
From left to right, those monstrosities are a coconut crab, a Tasmanian giant crab and the Japanese spider crab. The Tasmanian one is the runt of the litter, being only a foot and a half across the carapace, while the Japanese spider crab can be on average 13-feet across with the legs spread out! Shit!
The coconut crab is the only land living one of the bunch, and there are reports of them reaching up to six-feet long and weighing over 30 pounds. So it's probably not singing any songs about how great it is under the sea, not that you'd be able to hear anything over the sound of your shrieking vocal chords.
Holy Shit! Is it Dangerous?
OK, none of those three crabs are typically a threat to people, but we assume that's only because of their lack of organization. The coconut crab, for example, is so named because it uses its claws to tear open fucking coconuts. Coconuts! Those are nature's cannonballs!
By the way, if seized by a Coconut Crab, experts suggest that "gentle titillation of the under soft parts of the body with any light material will cause the crab to lose its hold." That's right: The best way to get this enormous, amphibious, cannonball-eating tank-spider to release its death grip is to tickle its junk with a feather.
We doubt that's even an automatic reflex, the crab probably just thinks it's funny to watch you demean yourself for its amusement.
#5. Earthworms
Your average earthworm is about as threatening as cooked spaghetti, and they basically only exist as either bait or the official courting gift of eight-year-old boys who don't know how to like girls yet. They eat dirt and dead leaves, and are basically little more than slimy rice noodles that shit mud.
The Horror, Oh God the Horror:
The biggest earthworm on well... Earth, is the Giant South African earthworm, pictured above, which can reach over 20-feet in length. And their campaign of weirdness doesn't stop with looking like monsters from a 50s sci-fi movie.
Or, in the case of the ones from Ecuador, like props from another, less SFW film genre.
The Giant Gippsland Worm (following the South African Earthworm at a monstrous 10 feet in length) can be heard gurgling as it burrows through the ground. And Terriswalkeris Terraereginae, also from Australia and measuring a meager three-feet in length, is bright blue and glows in the fucking dark:
And, because New Zealand is close enough to Australia to absorb horror by proxy, New Zealanders have upped the bizarre threshold even further with the North Auckland Worm, a four and a half foot-long monster that glows so brightly, you can read by wormlight.
Holy Shit! Is it Dangerous?
Well no, they can't harm you physically, but try telling that to your therapist when you innocently fall asleep in a South African meadow and wake to find yourself coiled in a two-story length of slithering, segmented penis rope.
#4. Pill Bugs
Pill bugs, potato bugs, rollie pollies; whatever you call them, you have to admit that, for insects, they're pretty damn cute. Look at it. Isn't that adorable? It's like a little Extra Strength Tylenol that's trying to cuddle with itself. Awww...
The Horror, Oh God the Horror:
... wwwwWOH CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?
The Giant Marine Isopod, like pretty much everything else we wish we didn't know about, comes to us from the deep sea. They're usually scavengers, but do sometimes hunt slow moving creatures and much like horrible, alien, insectile guinea pigs, they're known to eat so much in one meal that they become bloated and unable to move.
Holy Shit! Is it Dangerous?
They're not going to be a threat unless you're already immobile and trapped on the floor of the deep sea (like say, from a cramp-inducing jellyfish sting) but if that is the case, they'll likely swarm over your motionless body and feast on your soon-to-be corpse until they're bursting at the seams.
There's no record of anything like that ever happening, of course, but then again, there's no record of it not happening, and looking at this thing's smug horrible "face," we're ready to assume the worst.


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I use Google Reader a lot, and find it very convenient for reading things offline. One feature missing is support for adding articles/pages you wish to read later. What I'd like to do is occasionally mark a web page to read later, and have it show up in my Google Reader feeds.
I know there are a few services that set out to do the "mark to read later" part of this (Instapaper comes to mind), but so far I have not been able to find one which offers a feed that I can subscribe to in Google Reader. (Instapaper has a feed, but it only contains links to actual articles rather than their content.)
How can I set something like this up in Google Reader? Is there an Instapaper-like service out there that doesn't silo in the articles?

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I'm building up an old Terry bike and will likely pick up a NOS Shimano 600EX FC-6207 crankset. The corresponding bottom bracket for this crankset is the 116 mm BB-6207 cup and cone. However, given the ease of finding a new UN54 cartridge compared to sourcing a BB-6207, would I be able to use the crankset with a 115 mm cartridge? My bike has 68 mm diameter English threads.
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Yes. Remember that 1mm of difference is 0.5mm difference on each side and you will not have to adjust your derailleur or gears to accommodate that. Sounds like you have done your homework already.
But also be aware that offset is an important criterion. Cartridge offsets can vary from zero to 6-8 mm, IIRC, and you want to be within about 3mm or the cups won't be adjustable enough to maintain the proper chainline.


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I would like to thank everyone who made a contribution, monetarily or in deed, to the Family Day and Teen Night fundraiser held Nov. 10 at Crossroads Christian Church. The day was a blast and money was raised to provide for group mission trips to send nearly 300 teens to our area this coming July for repair of more than 25 homes for the underprivileged.
Our plan was to open Crossroad's doors and our hearts to the community while offering a positive, safe, loving, friendly and interactive experience that glorifies God. That happened. From the joy of presenting monster trophies to contest winners, to the spectacle of 32 cornhole teams, free throw and 3-point shooting contests, fire trucks, paramedics, a K9 unit, bounce house, barbecue, the Mud Coffee Parlor, Upward/Group WorkCamps information, nearly four hours of awesome worship music and so on ... there truly was fun for all. The residual effects from this event will have an everlasting impact on many lives.
Thank you to our sponsors - Acuity Specialty Hospital Ohio Valley, Trinity Health System, the Herald-Star, Upward Sports, DeFelice Brothers Pizza, Hickory Lodge Catering, IBEW No. 246 and to all the tireless hours from our many volunteers. A special thank you to Wintersville Fire and Rescue for the fire truck and paramedic display and to Wintersville Police Department for sending its K9 unit. If I left someone out, I apologize. Once again, a heartfelt thank you to all who made this event a success.
Much love in Christ.
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Hash Re-Hash
It's worth rising early for these old and new takes on one delicious mess
SOME BEGIN THE day with a shower and shave, others with sun salutations. I prefer to meditate over a cutting board and a hot skillet. Whisking eggs, slicing onions, buttering toast—there's an optimistic rhythm to the rites of breakfast.
Those rites are what this column is all about. Each time, we'll pair a classic from the breakfast canon with a new twist inspired by a creative chef or cookbook. The result, I hope, will be a collection of recipes that are simple and enticing enough to make a morning person out of anyone.
I can think of no better starting point than the all-American red flannel hash. Hearty yet humble, it awakens the appetite but does not ask too much of the cook. (Who wants theatrics before coffee?) Traditionally assembled from the leftovers of that iconic New England meat-and-potatoes-feast known as "boiled dinner," it is utilitarian and forgiving.
The rugged beets that lend the dish its color and its colorful name; the soft scraps of carrot and parsnip; the waxy potatoes, their freckled skin still clinging; the ruddy corned beef: Apart, they're anything but sexy. But dice and season and scatter them in a searingly hot pan. Watch their edges crisp and blush as the beets bleed. Slide it all onto a plate and crown the lot with a fried egg, as bright and cheerful as a buttercup. You'll fall, and hard.
Indeed, that was as fine a start to the day as I could imagine—until a few weeks ago, when I sat down for breakfast at Prime Meats, a Brooklyn restaurant specializing in hearty Alpine dishes. Prime Meats does a lot of things very, very well, but one of the things it truly excels at is spaetzle, so I was intrigued when I spied on the menu a hash that combined those tiny wheat-flour dumplings with gently smoked haddock and sweet beets. As it happens, historically, cod or haddock often played the part in boiled dinners that corned beef does today. It got me thinking: They'd swapped the starches, but this was basically red flannel hash in lederhosen.
Yet that description doesn't quite do it justice. Tender, creamy and finished with a tasteful flurry of poppy seeds, the dish in front of me was more like a charming and coddled European paramour arrived to vie with the square-jawed, calloused-handed Yankee hash for my affections. I won't lie: I enjoyed the fling.
Red Flannel Hash
Total Time: 1 hour Serves: 4-6
2 small beets
2 small-medium carrots
1 parsnip
4 boiling potatoes
1 yellow onion, peeled
4 cups beef stock
2 tablespoons butter or bacon grease, plus extra for hash crust
1 cup cooked corned beef, cut into ½-inch dice
Salt and pepper, to taste
4-6 eggs, optional
What To Do
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Wrap beets in foil and roast until tender, 40 minutes. When cool enough to handle, remove foil and rub off skins. Dice beets and set aside.
2. Place carrots, parsnip, potatoes and onion in a large pot. Add stock and enough water to cover vegetables by 1 inch. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are just tender, 10-15 minutes. Drain off stock. When cool enough to handle, roughly chop onions and cut remaining vegetables into a ½- to 1-inch dice. Set aside.
3. Place a large skillet over medium-high heat. (Avoid using a nonstick skillet, as it will prevent hash from forming a crunchy crust.) Add 2 tablespoons butter. Once pan is hot, add corned beef and all vegetables. Stir gently to combine. Season generously with salt and pepper.
4. Cook hash, stirring once or twice, until a brown crust begins to form on the bottom (though take care to avoid burning), 5-6 minutes. Toss to flip ingredients. If skillet seems dry, add a bit more butter. Cook until bottom is crusty, another 5-6 minutes. Stir and remove from heat. Season with more salt and pepper if desired. Serve topped with a poached or sunny-side-up egg per serving, if you like.
Smoked Haddock Spaetzle
Total Time: 1 hour Serves: 4-6
2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon salt
3 eggs
¾ cup plus 1 tablespoon milk
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups heavy cream
½ cup smoked haddock or trout
3 shallots, minced
Black pepper, to taste
½ teaspoon poppy seeds
1 roasted beet, cut into ½-inch cubes
1 tablespoon minced chives
What To Do
1. Fill a pot with salted water and bring to a boil. In a bowl, combine flour, nutmeg and salt. Make a well in center of flour, add eggs and mix. Drizzle in milk, stirring well, until mixture is glossy and a little thicker than pancake batter.
2. Place a spaetzle press or colander with holes at least ¼-inch wide over pot of boiling water. Working in ½-cup batches, use a rubber spatula to press batter through holes and into water. When spaetzle float, they are done. With a slotted spoon, transfer cooked spaetzle to a large bowl, and repeat with remaining batter. Toss spaetzle with 1 tablespoon butter, cover and refrigerate. (Spaetzle will keep one day.)
3. In a small saucepan combine cream, ¼ cup haddock and shallots over low heat. Warm cream but do not let it boil. Turn off flame and let cream mixture steep until it takes on a smoky flavor, 30 minutes. Strain out fish and shallots and set aside.
4. Place a wide pan over low heat. Add cream, remaining butter and pepper to taste. When cream begins to simmer, add 4 cups spaetzle. Cook gently, stirring occasionally, until cream reduces, 8-10 minutes. Add reserved haddock and shallots, remaining haddock, poppy seeds and beets. Simmer until thick and creamy, 3-5 minutes more. Garnish with chives.
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Polenta Fries
Serves 6, total time:
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cups chicken broth (see recipe)
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 1 cup rice flour
- 2 cups canola oil for frying
- Brush a 9″x9″ casserole dish with olive oil, being sure to coat the entire bottom and sides of the dish.
- In a medium sauce pot bring the chicken broth to a boil. Add the salt and slowly sprinkle in the cornmeal while whisking constantly. Continue to whisk until the liquid returns to a simmer.
- Remove from the heat and immediately pour all of the polenta into the oiled casserole dish. Working quickly with a rubber spatula, spread the polenta evenly over the entire dish to make level. Place in the refrigerator for 4 hours or until fully chilled and firm.
- Invert the casserole dish with the polenta onto a cutting board, using a rubber spatula to loosen the edges if they stick. Cut the polenta into 3″x ½″ x ½″ fries, and coat each fry with rice flour.
- Heat the canola oil to 375°F in a deep sided sauté pan. Fry the polenta fries in the canola oil until golden brown. Let drain on a wire rack and serve immediately.
Bon Appetito!
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What is a ribbon graph? What is the ribbon graph decomposition of the moduli space of curves? What are some good references for this material?
There are a number of essentially different ways to get coordinates on moduli space using ribbon graphs. The survey
MR0963064 (90a:32026) Harer, John L. The cohomology of the moduli space of curves. Theory of moduli (Montecatini Terme, 1985), 138--221, Lecture Notes in Math., 1337, Springer, Berlin, 1988.
by Harer gives an inspiring account of one of them. Another useful survey is the article "Lambda Lengths" by Penner, which can be downloaded at the bottom of the following webpage :
Penner is doing something slightly different (his spaces have certain decorations), but it is still quite useful.
I can answer only the first question.
Reshetikhin and Turaev [Ribbon graphs and their invariants derived from quantum groups, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 1990 vol. 127 (1) pp. 1-26; MR1036112] provide the following definitions [p. 8; small edits]:
Well, perhaps the pictures would make it better. Let me try to explain better. My definition might be slightly different from RT's, but what really matters is the category of graphs-up-to-isotopy, and in the categorical sense the definitions are equivalent. A tangled graph is a finite one-dimensional CW complex embedded smoothly into R3. A (tangled) ribbon graph is more or less a thickening of a tangled graph into an oriented embedded surface --- the core of a ribbon graph is a graph. So it's equivalent to take your graph and choose a section of the unit normal bundle. (What happens near the vertices? Think of your normal vector as pointing perpendicular to the ribbon, and you get the right answer. First require that at each vertex in your tangled graph the incoming edges all lie in a plane, and are never tangent; then the unit normal bundle at the vertex consists of two points.)
RT think about the vertices of their graphs as "coupons": little rectangles, and the ribbons can only attach onto the top and bottom edges. This is the same as first using the orientation at each vertex to determine a cyclic ordering, and then picking two strands to be the leftmost-top-strand and the rightmost-bottom-strand.
RT consider directed ribbon graphs, in which the cores of each ribbon are directed. Then they consider colored directed ribbon graphs, in which the edges are labeled by objects of your favorite (at least monoidal rigid pivotal; I'll say these in a moment) category, and the coupons by morphisms.
Then they have, essentially: Ribbon graphs are the free ribbon category, in the sense that there is a unique functor from the category of labeled ribbon graphs to your category that respects everything you want it to. Some category words: monoidal if there is a functorial "tensor" product. rigid if every object has left- and right- duals. braided if there is a functorial isomorphism V \otimes W \to W \otimes V satisfying natural conditions [the map V \otimes (W\otimes X) \to (W\otimes X) \otimes V agrees with the map V \otimes (W\otimes X) \to (V \otimes W) \otimes X \to (W \otimes V) \otimes X \to W \otimes (V \otimes X) \to W \otimes (X \otimes V) \to (W\otimes X) \otimes V]; ribbon if it is monoidal rigid braided and has a functorial isomorphism "twist": V\to V, which is the identity on the monoidal unit, commutes with duals, and the twist of A\otimes B is achieved by twisting in each component and applying the braiding twice.
The canonical example of a ribbon category is the category of representations of the standard quantization of a semisimple Lie algebra.
Kiyoshi Igusa constructs the category of fat graphs (ribbon graphs) both in his paper Graph cohomology and Kontsevich cycles and his book Higher Franz-Reidemeister Torsion and are excellent references, containing lots of details in a clearly-written manner. There you can find, for example, a proof of the fact that the homology of the category of fat graphs is rationally isomorphic to the homology of the mappping class groups of marked surfaces. Details relating ribbon graphs to the Miller-Morita-Mumford classes are found there, too.
I don't know, frankly, but have you tried plain old googling? It seems to be fairly easy to answer the first question, e.g. here:
or here
The second question is apparently answered in the book "The Moduli Space of Curves" by Dijkgraaf et al, specifically the paper by Looijenga on p. 369 (found in a google books result). This is also probably a good answer to your third question.
Also worth reading:
Kevin Costello's paper "A dual point of view on the ribbon graph decomposition of moduli space" (http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601130).
Barton Zwiebach's paper "How covariant closed string theory solves a minimal area problem" in Communications in Mathematical Physics. (A lot of the string theory papers from the 80s -- when the string theorists couldn't get away with assuming their readers knew the relevant math -- contain explanations of mathematics which a math grad student might find accessible.)


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I'm having trouble with integrating this function. Could someone please add the steps to get to the answer? Initial condition $y(0) = 2$.
$y' = 4e^{0.8t}-0.5y$
$y= 4/1.3(e^{0.8t} - e^{-0.5t}) + 2e^{-0.5t}$
I'm having trouble with integrating this function. Could someone please add the steps to get to the answer? Initial condition $y(0) = 2$.
$y' = 4e^{0.8t}-0.5y$
$y= 4/1.3(e^{0.8t} - e^{-0.5t}) + 2e^{-0.5t}$
Let $u(t) = e^{\int.5 dt} = e^{.5t}.$ This is our integrating factor. Multiplying the equation by $u(t)$ we get
$$e^{.5t}y'+.5e^{.5t}y = \frac{d}{dt}(e^{.5t}y) = 4e^{1.3t}$$
Integrating both sides yields
$$e^{.5t}y = \frac{4}{1.3}e^{1.3t} + C$$
So the general solution is
$$y = \frac{4}{1.3}e^{.8t} + Ce^{-.5t}$$
Now use the initial conditions to find $C$.
Outline: (i) Find the general solution of the homogeneous equation $y'+0.5y=0$ or equivalently $y'=-0.5y$. You probably know how to do this, it is a differential equation for exponential decay. Make sure that the expression you get includes all solutions of the homogeneous equation.
(ii) Find a particular solution of the inhomogeneous equation $y'+0.5y=4e^{0.8t}$. I suggest looking for a particular solution of the shape $Be^{0.8t}$, and substituting in $y'+0.5y=4e^{0.8t}$ to find the $B$ that works.
(iii) The general solution of your equation is then the general solution found in (i) plus the particular solution found in (ii).
(iv) Use your initial condition $y(0)=2$ to get the final answer.
As to how you get the integrating factor (nothing original here, but I'm just writing it explicitly):
If you want $y' + ay = f(x)$, use the fact that $(e^{ax}y)' = ae^{ax}y+e^{ax}y' = e^{ax}(y'+ay)$. Like magic, the left side of your equation appears.
So, multiplying your equation by $e^{ax}$ (which is, fortunately, always non-zero), $e^{ax}f(x) = e^{ax}(y'+ay) = (e^{ax}y)'$.
Integrating this, $e^{ax}y = \int e^{ax}f(x) \ dx$, or $y = e^{-ax}\int e^{ax}f(x) \ dx$.
This has the standard generalization to $y' + g(x)y = f(x)$.
We must realise that this kind of problem has homogeneous and particular solution.
Thus it helps to write the form of the equation given as below; $$ (D+0.5)y = 4e^{0.8t} $$ D is the differential operator. Now this shows that (m+0.5) = 0, which gives m=-0.5. So the homogeneous solution is $$ y_{h}= Ke^{0.8t} $$ Where K is a constant which need to solve by using the given initial condition.
Now we have to find the particular solution. It has to have some form of the derivatives of the forcing function i.e
$$ 4e^{0.8t} $$
lets assume that the particular solution has this form;
$$ y_{p} = Ae^{0.8t} $$
putting this into the original equation;
$$ D(Ae^{0.8t}) + 0.5(Ae^{0.8t}) = 4e^{0.8t} $$
$$ 0.8Ae^{0.8t} +0.5Ae^{0.8t} = 4e^{0.8t} $$ Which means
so A = 4/1.3
Thus the particular solution is
$$ y_{p} = 4/1.3 (e^{0.8t}) $$
now putting everything together;
$$ y = y_{h} + y_{p} $$
$$ y = Ke^{-0.5t} + 4/1.3 e^{0.8t} $$
To find K, we have to use the initial condition given.
$$ y(0) = 2 = Ke^{-0.5(0)} + 4/1.3 e^{0.8(0)} $$ $$ 2 = K(1) + 4/1.3 (1) $$ $$ K = 2 - 4/1.3 $$
Putting everything back into the solution;
$$ y = 2e^{-0.5t} + (4/1.3) (e^{0.8t} -e^{-0.5t}) $$


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Issue Date:
December, 2010
The January 2011 issue of Budget & Tax News reports that cash from the federal government is now the largest revenue source for state and local governments, surpassing sales and property taxes. Fed monies include funding for education, housing, Medicaid, and other state programs.
Also in this issue:
- Debate continues in Maryland over a proposed new metro transit line, a conflict that spilled over into the recent campaign between candidates in the state's gubernatorial race.
- One advantage of shopping online is that purchasers often don't have to pay sales taxes. That could change if two Indiana legislators get their way. They are urging passage of a federal bill to give states the power to tax Internet purchases.
- Municipalities seeking to boost revenues to cover budget shortfalls caused by overspending are setting their sights on online booking companies such as Orbitz and Expedia.
- Washington State voters overwhelmingly rejected a measure that would have imposed the state's first income tax, one limited to wealthy residents.
- Higher government spending on dependence-creating programs, and an ever-shrinking number of taxpayers, are imperiling the nation's fiscal position, researchers say.
- Proponents of subsidized commuter rail are trying to extend a little-used line in Minnesota despite budget difficulties in the cities and towns whose taxes help support it. Ridership is 20 percent below projections.
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I am a beginner to indesign and can't work out why when I print my document onto an A4 sheet my background colour won't go to the edge of the page. My document when printed has an uneven white border (thicker at the bottom and thin on the sides and top). Even when I choose the print option (borderless A4) it still has an inch thick white border at the bottom. I don't mind if there is a border, I just want it even on all 4 sides or not one at all.
If you are printing your document on a regular laser printer (either color or b/w) this is absolutely normal. Laser printers do not have the capability to print to the very edge of the paper sheet - there is always around 4 mm of unprintable margin along each edge (actual margins vary from printer to printer).
However, many inkjet printers do have this capability, but it has to be switched on manually in the printer settings (off by default).
Create the border in InDesign by keeping the background away from the edges, e.g. with margins.
Hint: A proper bleed will be printed on a larger-than-final-size paper and then cut.
Maybe it's the bleeding.
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Published on Mon, Jul 30, 2012
IPC's Immigration Impact blog was referred to by Southern California Public Radio's Leslie Berestein Rojas in her own blog about immigration and cultural fusion in Southern California. The article gives tribute to the diverse US athletes participating in this year's exciting Olympic Games:
Did you know that more than three dozen members of Team USA competing in the Olympic games in London are naturalized U.S. citizens?
There's a list of them on ImmigrationImpact [1], the blog of the American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy organization. The 38 athletes were born in countries ranging from Mexico and Cuba to Kenya and Germany.
Published in the Southern California Public Radio: Multi-American


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Petro Rabigh said supplies of power and steam had been interrupted from its provider, which forced the firm to stop its operations. The firm utilizes 400,000 bpd of crude oil and 1.2 million tpy of ethane as primary feedstock to produce several refined petroleum products and petrochemical products.
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CAIRO -- Saudi's Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co., or Petro Rabigh,
said Tuesday it will halt operations at its refinery for 20 days to carry out
necessary maintenance after it suffered a
power cut.
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6 People Who Gained Amazing Skills from Brain Injuries
#3. Man Survives Stroke, Becomes Graphic Artist
Ken Walters' story begins with a ridiculous run of bad luck that started in 1986, when he got into an accident that broke his back. That left him bedridden and in pain for an entire year, and unable to walk ever again. Later, he was actually kicked out of his new house by the government -- then charged 5,000 pounds (nearly $8,000 in 2011 dollars). The stress ended up giving him two heart attacks. In 2005, after nearly 20 years of joblessness, depression and living off the government that screwed him, Walters had a stroke.
We're just sayin'.
Walters didn't know it at the time, but a blood clot in the fleshy innards of his skull would change his life -- for the better. During the first day of his latest stay at the hospital, he wrote a note to a nurse, presumably asking her if the hospital had medicine to treat gypsy curses, when he noticed something odd. After he wrote the note, his hand began to wander across the piece of paper, and he began to doodle -- something he was never really prone to doing.
Weirdest of all, he didn't even notice he was doing it until the nurse asked him what he was drawing. Only then did he look down at the piece of paper and realize his hand was drawing patterns all by itself.
Via Imagekind.com
What you just heard was the sound of several thousand desktop wallpapers changing.
The floodgates opened from there. Walters would wake up every night in the wee hours of the morning with visions of art in his head, and he would draw until the sun came up. He had hated art in school, and was never any good at it, so he thought of it as a symptom. He asked his doctor what the heck was happening to him and, controlling his urge to tell Walters that he was possessed by Casper the Friendly Drawer, the doctor instead told him that after a stroke, the brain can rewire itself to avoid damaged areas. Usually, this rewiring causes things like personality changes, but in Walters' case, it gave him the insatiable urge -- and the ability -- to draw. The doc told him not to worry, that this was likely just temporary. Boy, was he wrong.
Walters, who was an engineer before he was paralyzed, started to draw like a maniac. He used mostly his computer to draw abstract patterns, eschewing paper and pencil for the digital canvas, and sold his designs over the Internet in the online game Second Life.
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It took off from there. People started buying Walters' pieces by the dozen. Companies like IBM and Java were contacting him, telling him they wanted to hang his art in their offices. He got his art featured in magazines and real-life galleries where real-life people oohed and aahed at his digital abstract creations.
But Walters' biggest break came when video game maker Electronic Arts saw his gallery. They hired Walters to draw them some monsters, and now his stuff appears in the world-building video game Spore.
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Which of course were then morphed into dicks by the actual players.
No longer down in the dumps, Walters actually says he wouldn't change his life for anything. Yeah, that tends to happen when you raise your income by nearly 2,000 percent and become a world-renowned digital artist.
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He's still got a ways to go before achieving his ultimate goal: Buying the government and having them dissolved. In acid.
#2. Man Has Aneurysm, Becomes Painter/Poet/Sculptor
British man Tommy McHugh had made it to his 50s by being one of the bigger assholes in the U.K., having been arrested for a bit of a drug habit and an unfortunate lifelong penchant for punching random blokes in bars. Then, while he was sitting on the crapper, he got a violent headache and went to the hospital. There he got mildly bad news: his brain had started to bleed from not one but both sides due to ruptured aneurysms (nasty blood bulges in a brain's blood vessel), and he'd have to go into surgery immediately ... or die.
Via Mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk
"First tosser I see when I wake up is getting my thumb in his eye socket, he is."
McHugh got his internal head wounds all clamped up and everything seemed fine to the docs, at least brain-wise. Yet, when McHugh got home, he started doing some seriously odd things. For the first three months after his surgery, he was only able to speak in weird rhyme, and after that passed, he experienced a never-ending "slideshow" of images in his brain.
Never in his 50 years of drunken fisticuffs did McHugh express any creativity. The dude was a builder by trade and creative arts fell squarely into the "shove it up your piehole" category. But after his aneurysms, McHugh was unable to stop the flow of words and images in his brain. He felt the need to pour them onto paper, or onto a canvas, or to make sculptures out of them. One day, his wife came in to the kitchen to find her hubby drawing hundreds of alien-like faces with mouths agape.
Via Tommymchugh.com
"Honey, I'm feeling a bit down. Could you make me a cup of t-WHAT THE FUCK!"
McHugh's mania only got more pronounced. He'd finish a painting and then have to start another, then follow that up with a poem, then maybe sculpt himself a little something, then write, then paint, then do it all the hell over again. The man who previously couldn't string two words together on a piece of paper began to fill notebooks with poems and make sculptures like they were going out of style. And like Michelangelo on speed, the dude used his own walls to paint murals on, covering every inch of his house with his art, floors and ceilings included.
Via Wirralart.com
"Honey, could you take the out the trash and -- You have GOT to stop this!"
McHugh sent letters out to doctors -- written in verse, of course -- so they could come look at him. Soon, a team of researchers put him through every cognitive test imaginable and concluded that, yes, his artistic output was due to his brain's sudden decision to start bleeding, which caused some damage to his frontal lobe.
Via Tommymchugh.com
Though, hey, if life gives you visions of freaky skinless couples with extra faces on their backs, why not share them with the world?
McHugh has had his art exhibited in many galleries in the U.K., and obviously continues to sculpt, write and draw. Though he's particularly fascinated with faces, it seems that the dude will make art about anything, just about anywhere. He says of his experience, "My mind is like a volcano exploding with bubbles and each bubble contains a million other bubbles, and then another million bubbles of unstoppable creative ideas." We totally believe you, man.
One additional nice side effect of McHugh's aneurysm-induced artsplosion, according to McHugh himself, is that he's actually become a much nicer person. That's right, in addition to becoming an artist, he's also forsaken the ways of the bar warrior, and he says he wishes he'd been that way all his life.
#1. Man Has Part of Brain Removed After Stroke, Becomes Artist
At the age of 35, New Jersey man Jon Sarkin started to hear ringing in his ear. This was the type of ringing that, it turns out, could only be explained by overgrown blood vessels that require freaking brain surgery to fix.
Sarkin got his noggin cut open to fix the blood vessel, but later suffered a stroke and actually had to have part of his brain removed. All in all, it was almost the worst possible outcome for the surgery aside from death.
Via Vimeo.com
Or losing those awesome eyebrows.
Or at least, it would appear that way. Apparently the stroke and the brain surgery affected the "not being an artist" part of Sarkin's brain, because after he left the hospital, the man became obsessed with drawing. Like the other people on this list, he had never shown any talent or flair for art, but became so fixated on it that he would rush off in the middle of family dinners to sketch symbols, draw objects and plain old paint for hours as ideas came to him -- delicious mashed potatoes be damned!
Via Amyellisnutt.com
Sinead O'Connor?
Sarkin was a chiropractor by trade, and actually returned to work, but he found no joy in savage neck twisting and back breaking anymore. He became withdrawn, and in between seeing patients, he would doodle obsessively. Then, his sister told him that if he liked drawing so dang much, he might as well make a buck or two at it. Sarkin sent a dozen drawings of weird and ghostly faces to The New Yorker, and much to his delight, the magazine bought them.
Via Amyellisnutt.com
Dick Tracy?
From then on, the dude has been on an artistic roll. So much so that the doctors who examined him said his stroke has rewired his brain and given him something they dub "sudden artistic output," a rare condition that has seen less than a handful of diagnosed cases ever (another of them being fellow Cracked listee Tommy McHugh), and which continues to mostly baffle the experts since it doesn't really follow a specific pattern of brain injuries.
Via Jsarkin.com
... Nixon?
Meanwhile, other national magazines such as GQ have bought Sarkin's stuff, his paintings regularly sell for $10,000 a canvas and he's had a book written about him. Oh, and Tom Cruise's production company has actually bought the rights to his life story, so there's a chance we could see Cruise himself play Jon Sarkin in a future biopic.
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February 1, 2011
Sorry for not updating yesterday but I stayed home from work sick and basically spent all day lying on the couch watching TV in my pajamas. I don't have that much to report right now anyway. I seem to be having a small flare-up in my right shoulder at the moment which started sometime last week. The pain isn't that bad, it's just more of an annoyance. I think I should be able to get rid of it without having to resort to going back on prednisone. I hope.
Regarding other exciting RA info – I keep meaning to call PANF (Patient Access Network Foundation) to see if I still have available funds from them to use toward my next few Remicade infusions. I'm due soon for my next infusion and I don't want to have to put it off, of course. This shoulder flare-up is making me suspicious of needing the Remicade soon. PANF helping me out with my deductible/out-of-pocket for the insanely expensive Remicade infusion is wonderful and I appreciate it so much. However I'm also not looking forward to having to deal with all of the paperwork crap and waiting two months for everything to go through from Fairview billing/health insurance/PANF. Dealing with all of that is such a huge pain, but I know I shouldn't complain. Without the help from PANF and/or the HealthWell Foundation, I would not be able to get the medication I so desperately need.
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February 1, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Hi Angela – I just found your blog – every person who has an autoimmune disease or chronic illness that blogs makes us stronger! Thank you for your courage to share your story. I just wanted to mention that Remicade has help for co-pays too. It's called Remistart and pays up to $4400/year. The paperwork is worth it! Have a pain free day! Jenna
February 1, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Hi Angela – I too just came across your blog today. I've had PsA since 2003 and going through a horrible flare the last few weeks and i try to absorb all the info I can on PsA as well as RA, since my symptoms mimic RA quite often. Doc just added Methotrexate to my Enbrel regimen …hoping for relief, but mostly exhausted. Hope you feel better soon!


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Where is history being made?
Sunday or Monday I heard a woman in New Hampshire say that she had been inclining toward Obama but then she wondered whether shed be able to live with herself years from now if she had to confess that she had had an opportunity to vote for the first woman president and hadnt done so. I wouldnt be surprised if many other women did and will feel the same way. And, on the other hand, that there have been and will be many people who decide for Obama for the reason that hed be the first black president.Prescinding from these two particular candidates, of the two possibilitiesthe first woman or the first blackwhich would be of greater historic significance?
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How far can we skip a stone across this shallow pond?The question may be moot in any event. One will probably be the other's VP.
It is not even close. Truly the fact that we do not know the answer shows how backward we are. Women, hands down. Black Males got the vote before women. As Steinem points out, no woman would have had a prayer to run for president with as brief a resume as Obama.
I disagree with Bill. A black president would be of greater significance, since historically that's going from three-fifths of a person to president. However, it is not a sufficiently good reason to vote for someone solely because his or her election would be the most historically significant. I wouldn't argue that it should play absolutely no role in how people vote, either.
I think they are equally historic. It seems futile to argue about who suffered more or less discrimination. But be that as it may, perhaps we would have had a two-fer--a black woman president--in Barbara Jordan if she hadn't become debilitated from MS and suffered an untimely death. Those old enough to remember the following from her during the Nixon impeachment hearings will recall an eloquent, charismatic, powerful (in the best sense of the word) individual: "My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution."
Many countries have elected women political leaders--the UK, India, Israel, Pakistan, Germany, etc.--not to mention the royal female leaders of the past: Victoria, Elizabeth, Catherine the Great, Cleopatra, etc. But what country has ever elected as its leader a member of a minority group that was once enslaved and still accounts for only about 12 percent of the total population? An African-American president would be the greater historical precedent by far.
Anybody who would base her vote on "making history" rather than selecting a competent candidate who knows how to govern without being crooked is an idiot. If you think Hillary or Obama (or Romney, who'd be the first Mormon; or Richardson, the first Hispanic) are best qualified to deal with hard times in the Middle East, Putin, climate change, the economy, health care and the deficit, by all means, vote for them. But the question--which is more historic--encourages people to think more about the race and gender of the candidates than about which are most qualified.
Jean has said it all and said it very well.
My goodness! The question's not encouraging anyone to do anything. Everyone knows that if either is elected, there will be all kinds of stroies about the historic meaning of it all; the papers were already full of them when Obama won Iowa. What's wrong with anticipating them? I was presuming that people could make some elementary distinctions. And if people find themselves torn, thinking both of them capable, I don't myself think there's anything wrong with choosing on the basis of hisroic significance.Without justifying this (I guess I must preface this), how many votes do you think JFK got because he would be the first Catholic (and lost because he was Catholic, too)? A good friend of mine who was prepared to vote for Nixon was frustrated because his mother was going to cancel out his vote by choosing JFK, because she thought Pat Nixon's eyes were "shifty"!
I AGRRE WITH JEAN!Having said that, I'd sentence Bill M. to six years as a deacon in a black inner city parish to view firsthand the hardships black males continue to endure in their struggle.Finally, I think "historic significance" will not be a major factor in chosing xandidates, but rather how one strives to bring about what is fast becoming the biggest semantic of the campaign, "change."
Robert Scheer made the same point many of you are making in his column reprinted today in the San Francisco Chronicle:"Yes, it is important for the health of our democracy to break barriers that have held back a majority of our citizens, and for that reason it would certainly be an advance to have a black or female president. But that alone is not enough to to justify a vote. What we need far more than a change in appearance is one of perspective. Otherwise, Condoleeza Rice would make an ideal candidate."
Not one of you related to the fact that black men got the vote before women and that no woman would receive consideration with Obama'a brief resume. How do you discount that?Remember we are not talking about one's place in society so much as whether a woman can be the CEO of the country. Bob, I have been in inner city parishes and have been a counselor/therapist to Black males.Women are 50% of the country and there are only ten in fortune 500 countries while blacks at 12% are or have been ceos on six 500 companies. Those six have been on much higher ranked companies.Kenneth Chennault of American Express, Aylwin Lewis of Sears Holding, Clarence Otis at Darden Restaurants, Ronald Williams at Aetna, Rodney ONeal at Delphi, and Richard Parsons of Time Warner. Charles Prince III, Citibanks CEO. E. Stanley ONeal of Merrill Lynch.Let's not play the litany of women who have led their country. St Paul had a bunch who were prominent leaders. With most of them their tenures were short as male dominance reasserted itself. Your reasoning seems faulty unless you can relate to Steinem's two points.
The change campaign is as old as the hills. It is a marketing method the way the appeals to JFK and King are. Eisenhower campaigned that "it was time for a change." We need more than gimmicks. Remember what Truman said.
I think that having a black president would be of considerably greater historical significance than having a woman in the White House. True indeed, as G. Steinem pointed out in yesterday's NYT, that blacks got the vote before women, but I'm not sure that fact is terribly important (quite apart from the fact that intimidation, custom, bias, etc., kept many blacks from voting till the civil rights movement of the late xx. century.)Women, after all, never lost their legal freedom; they were never enslaved, with all that that state entailed. But then Obama, while black, is not precisely what most people mean by African-American, since the latter term seems to be today more and more used of those whose ancestors were enslaved in the US. His father was (is?) a Kenyan, and his mother a white American. Colin Powell, of course, is the descendant of slaves; but they were British West Indian, not US, slaves; do we call him African-American? Black? West Indian? or what? which makes me think of a story told by a prof. of English, who was teaching Othello to a bunch of undergraduates, and was taken to task by one of his students for referring to Othello as "black." "So what do you call Othello?" he asked said student, who replied, "He's African-American, of course."Later the prof asked one of his colleagues, who happened to be black, how he should deal with Othello. "Why don't you do as Shakespeare does?" said the other prof. "Call him a Moor."
Can we all stipulate that to discuss the question of comparative historic significance is not to encourage people to vote on the sole basis of sex or color?
One more comment on historic firsts. JFK was our first Catholic president, and much was made of that at the time; but (so far, at least) he's also been our last. Is that also historically significant? And what about a possible Jewish president? Is anyone talking about that? (any groundswell for Bloomberg?) Back in '64 when Goldwater was a candidate, some remarked rather waggishly that it would be typically American for our first Jewish president to be an Episcopalian.
Resurrect Shirley Chisholm or Barbara Jordan. That would solve the problem. Jordan was an amazing individual. What a loss with her death! I'd vote for her as POTUS in a New York minute.
Bill, I read Gloria Steinem's column, too, and I've admired her for a long time. Steinem was one of the first people to put her money where her mouth was re: working mothers. She set up onsite day care at Ms. Magazine. She has been a tireless defender of women who were sometimes marginalized and villified by "the movement" (i.e., her bio of Marilyn Monroe), and has always said that feminism is not about doctrine, but choice.So I could not understand her "who's the biggest victim, women or black men" column in yesterday's NYT.What about the fact that there are more black men in prison than in college?What about the fact that black men receive the death sentence for equivalent crimes oftener than white men?Shameful, and signs of what's wrong with our nation? Indubitably.But I wouldn't say those are reasons to vote for Obama, nor I don't think that Steinem's facts prove that we should vote for Hillary. They just prove that sometimes being a woman isn't all bon bons and manicures. Jimmy, Barbara Jordan would have been a great prez with Fanny Lou Hamer as her straight-talking press secretary. Remember, "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
I believe that it would be historically important if either Obama or Clinton were elected to the White House. That said, to answer Joseph's question, I think it would have greater historical "moment" if Obama were elected. The devastation unfolding in our country today within particular communities that are overwhelmingly black has no comparison to gender specific problems. The evils of patriarchy are still real, but the evils of racial inequality, not insignificantly affected by patriarchy, are simply more pressing, and I think an Obama presidency would yield a better chance at responding to these evils than that of any other candidate.If I had a dollar for every time one of my students (recall, I teach at a historically black university) told me that the U.S. considered blacks to be three-fifths of a person and then could not tell me the context of that fact, I would be a very rich man. Here, historical accuracy is important. The number came out of a constitutional debate regarding proportional representation in Congress. Southern states wanted slaves to be counted as full persons. Northern states thought this was ridiculous because, among other reasons, slaves would not get to vote, and would not be treated as citizens. Thus, the compromise of three-fifths. The constitution never says that blacks as such are to be designated three fifths of a person. All free persons are whole persons for the purpose of representation, including free blacks. Moreover, many of those who wanted to reduce the power of southern states did not want slaves counted at all. Thus, to be anti-slavery meant advocating that, for the purposes of representation in Congress, blacks not be considered persons at all.The real problem in our country has nothing to do with fractions, but with a kind of species taxonomy that reduces blacks either to a different breed of human being, or even a different species altogether. This is not an unusual strategy for societies that have biologically linked caste systems. While I think we have gone a long way in ridding ourselves of this notion, I think it still lingers in terrible ways in our country (perhaps most clearly in our willingness to tolerate the above mentioned devastation, a devastation seen simply as a natural outcome when too many blacks live in the neighborhood).Steinem's argument both is and is not persuasive. I think she is absolutely correct that there is a double standard at play. However, her switching of the sexes (please, this is what we all mean, not gender, we just can't say/write the word SEX!) makes something of a point, but not the one she really wants to make. She is likely correct that a woman with Obama's qualifications would have a much more difficult time being considered qualified. However, this does not mean that those making such a judgment about a woman with Obama's qualifications would be correct in their conclusion, just as I do not think one is correct in drawing the conclusion that Obama is not qualified (despite her claim that she would volunteer for Obama, I do think Steinem's argument has the deliberate implication that Clinton is more qualified, an argument that I do not agree with).I have never given an argument against voting for Clinton (and Bill, I have read Schussler Fiorenza, Johnson, and Ruether, along with with hooks and many others). I have only sought to give reasons to vote for Obama. I, for one, am very glad that New Hampshire voters gave us reason to believe that media driven sensationalism is not the final arbiter of presidential politics. If Obama is going to win in November, it would almost certainly be because he showed he could win a long campaign against Clinton. An easy victory in the primaries would only add to concerns that there is something symbolic rather than substantive about his candidacy.
Here you are ladies. Obama, the post feminist is really the one who understands you.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/us/politics/02women.html?pagewanted=2&...
Greater historical significance to whom?Although I appreciated Steinem's recent column, I still prefer last year's column where she warns against the problems of trying to decide whether racism or sexism is worse. "[T]he greatest reason for progressives to refuse to be drawn into an irrelevant debate about Senators Clinton and Obama is that it is destructive. We can accomplish much more if we act as a coalition."Arguing about whether a black man or a white woman would be more historic simply encourages an image of the two groups as adversaries rather than partners in a new future. Let the pundits pontificate if they will -- I don't see the helpfulness.
Just saw this thread.for the reasons mentioned in the other thread. Obama would be more historically significant and important.Race is an important issue in the Anglo world. It needs to be addressed in symbolic ways. Obama does that by being able to transcend the issue and not run as a "black" candidate, his blackness is part of who he is but not the reason he is running.Race is an issue in Canada and certainly and issue in other parts of the Western world although they are less willing to talk about openly.As has been mentioned, women HAVE been elected political leaders of Western countries (heirs to Roman imperialism and colonialism). It would be far more historically significant symbolically for the 'other' to finally become the leader, particularly of the most visible and powerful country, the United States (the new "Rome" of our world).
As an asideHillary was the first to play that card in the race. "I embody change. I would be first female president" (didn't she actually say that recently)Obama is trying to transcend the issue and build the coalition Gina mentioned. That fact alone should decide it.
Obama is trying to transcend the issue and build the coalition Gina mentioned.
George, No doubt many Americans are tired of extreme partisanship. But Obama is running as a liberal Democrat, not a centrist. So exactly how is he going to remain true to his liberal Democratic positions and end partisanship? Is he going to press a liberal Democratic agenda using a civil tone of voice? Is that going to cause Republicans to join the coalition? Or is he planning to compromise with Republicans and give them a significant amount of what they want? And if so, which of his liberal Democratic positions is he going to abandon?Republicans and Democrats have fundamental disagreements, and after eight years of George Bush taking a hardline conservative approach, do Democrats really want to win the election so they can compromise with the conservatives?It is questions like these that make a number of us believe "Change You Can Believe In" is actually a fantasy. Check out this article in the Washington Post.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/06/AR200801...
Just out of curiosity, where is the liberal Democrat label coming from? I certainly remember David Brooks using it, but I do not remember Obama using it. He has argued for greater personal reponsbility within certain (often very black) communities. When I was in Illinois, he suported (if memory serves) Illinois's own version of the Patriot Act.Compromise is a often seen as dirty word, but I hardly find it to be so. Rather than being a failure in principle, I think it can be viewed as the highest political principle. I also do not see working with those less liberal as requiring one to "abandon" political positions. For example, if I were a politician, I would work with businesses to increase the safety net for workers, especially those in areas impacted by globalization. I take this to be a rather liberal concern. However, I would be willing to consider reducing (even further) corporate taxes, often considered a conservative desire. I would consider it a win-win, personally, because I, for one, worry about the impact of corporate taxes on corporate flight. Thus, I get businesses on board for improving the employee safety net, and I reduce the risk of loss of jobs from corporate flight. Would such a strategy be misleadingly characterized as liberal? This is a genuine question for those who are leveling this critique against Obama (remember, the WaPo article cited by Grant in an earlier thread shows that Obama used this strategy to get police interrogations video taped in Illinois).


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I'm trying to run ubuntu 12.10 alongside windows 7, so that if one os crashes I have a backup. My machine is 64 bit intel celeron, i think 900ghz. Whenever I selected "install ubuntu" from the dvd options at startup and got to the page where it said "run alongside windows" and "replace windows." Whenever I select "run alongside windows," the screen flashes black, shows the ubuntu starting up/shutting down screen, and the progress bar does not move. After a couple minutes of not doing anything, the disk ejects. What exactly is happening to cause this?
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Can commenting services like Disqus, IntenseDebate, etc. pose a security risk for corporations?
Edit: What risks could arise when embedding such services into corporate websites?
Can commenting services like Disqus, IntenseDebate, etc. pose a security risk for corporations?
Edit: What risks could arise when embedding such services into corporate websites?
Answer to the original question: No, it's not a security risk for your employees to use Disqus etc. -- at least, no more than any other form of communication.
Of course, if employees post sensitive corporate information on these systems, then that may harm the corporation's interests. But you could say the same of any other means of communication. Hopefully, you train employees not to do that, and can rely upon them to be sensible.
Adding to @D.W.'s great answer...
If your company is regulated and requires all communications to be audited by a 3rd party then that could be an issue.
For an example, financial advisors are required under FINRA to have all communications logged and monitored by someone like SMARSH. The implementation of such a compliance solution outside of email is a headache depending on the compliance officers requirements.
I'll suggest checking on a department by department basis, or business line.
I personally believe that using Disqus is more secure. My logic you ask? It's simple. Disqus gives you a few popular service that you can use to log in with, Facebook, OpenID, etc. I would much rather use credentials stored on their servers, than on some total random site that I can't verify has decent security. I'm not saying that just because the services Disqus provides are popular that they are secure, I just think they've had more time to correct & improve their security. There are exceptions of course.
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WLP051 California Ale V Yeast
From Northern California. This strain is more fruity than WLP001, and slightly more flocculent. Attenuation is lower, resulting in a fuller bodied beer than with WLP001.
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?
"Different But Good"
Slow to ferment, produces sulfur compounds but creates a great beer with slight fruity esters with bit more body than 001. Overall a nice alternative to 001 when you still want an American Ale yeast but not quite as clean as 001 and not as malty as East Coast. Doesn't flocculate very well but nothing a bit of gelatin and cold conditioning cant fix. Plan on leaving in primary a bit longer than usual and doing some fining but you'll be happy with the result.
"Be prepared for sulfer aroma. "
I'm currently driving my wife crazy with the sulfer aroma coming off of this strain.
"Somewhat frustrating"
I wanted something with a touch more character than 001/1056. I thought this might work. Instead, it's a rather finicky thing. The yeast produces a full bodied, slightly sweet beer that clears nice. It has a low to moderate fruitiness. It's not as fruity as an English strain, but much less neutral than the typical American strains.
While I like the flavor, it is a rather tempermental yeast. Many of the stains White Labs sells work well outside their temperature range. This is not one of them. It basically ceases to ferment if the temp drops much below 64F. Above 72F it gets a bit estery.
The attenuation for me was around 71% in a 1.060 beer.
I think you can find a less tempermental yeast in 001. I don't know that the flavor is different enough to make it worthwhile.
"...very "Victory" taste, which I love"
I was surprised to see very little fermentation occurring after 5 days in primary, as I was on the warm side (hard to get below 76F here in FL) and I had an OG of 1.060. However, after moving it into secondary along with 6oz of whole cone Cascade, these little guys took off and I had the advertised attenuation within ~8 more days. Now after some keg conditioning it is super crisp with no off flavors. Cascade DH may have masked the "undesired"! ; fruity tones of yeast. Has a very "Victory" taste, which I love!
"Fermentation took off within 8hours"
I brewed an Amber Ale with this yeast finished with Amarillo Hops, the beer was very fruity & the hops came through lovely on the beer. I kegged my beer in a cornelius keg as bottling requires adding priming sugar which for me distorts the flavour of my beers I noted some sulphur smell during fermentation. Fermentation took off within 8hours & the end product was one of the nicest i've had. I will definitely be using this strain again i! t has become one of my favourites along with American Ale Yeast Blend!
" ... the beer consistently tastes great"
I've used this strain for several beers and have enjoyed the clean flavors produced. The only issue is the rotten egg smell I get when this yeast ferments my wort. The wife really hates it! But, the beer consistently tastes great. I've harvested it from several primary fermentations and stored it in the fridge for up to 3 months. It still wakes up and takes of within hours of pitching. Good stuff.
"One of my favorite yeasts"
One of my favorite yeasts. While it is fruitier than WLP001, it does not get strongly fruity, even when kept at the upper end of the optimal range. It always starts reliably. I find that it does need some rousing to completely attenuate, but racking and a day or two takes care of that, without additional effort. My beers fermented with WLP051 condition very well, and even the moderately-high gravity beers (1.055-1.065) continue improving over several months or even a year.
"The beer fermented well ... "
I picked this yeast up the day before brewing, as the local shop was out of WLP001, which I had planned on using. I made APAs and Ambers with this yeast before, so I thought I'd give it a try. I made a 1L starter on a stir plate and pitched at slightly higher temp than I would have liked, 72F. The beer fermented well (14P --> 3P) and it is overall pretty good, but I would not recommend it for this style. The fruitiness is a bit excessive at serving temps (44F) and competes with the roasty and hop aromas rather than complements them (like and English ale yeast might). Perhaps it works better at lower fermentation temperatures, but that was how hot my basement was ...
"I'm pleased with the result"
Fermented almost immediately (6 hours) due to an active 2L starter and oxygenating it with bottled oxygen. After 5 days it had cleared well and was down from 1.062 to 1.018 and will drop more over the next few days as fermentation is still active, so 75% attenuation is likely. Did not taste "fruity" but I used a lot of hops so that flavor trait may come through later as hops dissipate. I used this strain in place of WLP001 because my LHBS was out of stock. I'm pleased with the result.
"That is exactly what I got ... "
I chose this strain to ferment a light blonde ale that I intended to use as the base for a fruit beer. I wanted the beer to have a soft malty character and subtle sweetness. That is exactly what I got thanks to this yeast.
"Don't let it get above 70 degrees ... "
I love the lacey head this strain gives you. Also the ability to pull off a fermentation at a lower temp makes this yeast ideal for me. Don't let get above 70 degrees though. For best results try to keep it below 68 and you should be good. Cheers!
"Long trails of yeast flocking up and down ... "
I made a 1 quart starter with two vials and pitched it into two- 5 gallon fermenters. Ferm. temp was in the low 60°s, I gave it 3 weeks then racked it. Then transferred into serving kegs cooled down and then carbonated. I love the way this yeast ferments... Long trails of yeast flocking up and down the tank with a very alien looking crown on top. It's alive!
"... lets the Cascade hops sing!"
Outstanding results with this strain. Used it thru 4 successive all grain 5 gallon brews of slightly varied recipes. Recommend using a starter for best results. The slurry is absolutely voracious and visibly active fermentation occurs in as little as 4 hours after pitching. Produces a round malty brew that lets the Cascade hops sing!
"Overall I like the results ..."
I have used this yeast many times over the past year with only first generation pitches. I have one going now and plan on doing 7 or 8 re-pitches to see how it holds up. With a fermentable wort I get 75-80% attenuation consistently. It ferments very slow compared to most English strains, isn't tart, fairly fruity, and flocculent. There is some distinct sulphur aroma during fermentation only. Any temps over 70 have shown some or lots of fusel alcohols. It's also not going to be a good top cropper. Overall I like the results or I wouldn't use it but I'm searching for a faster fermenting strain in the long run.
" ... this beer was frequently mistaken for ... "
This yeast produced a very well received fuller bodied pale ale. There seemed to be remnants of diacetyl, so a rest may be useful. The beer was extremely balanced in terms of hops and malt: a bit sweet in the end, but rich with lighter caramel notes, contrasting a deeper duller bitterness from CTZ hops, with a big citrus finish from Centennial hops. As a side note, this beer was frequently mistaken for Bell's Two Hearted Ale, but I found it to be slightly sweeter and fuller bodied, so I might assume lower attenuated. The yeast character present was slightly fruity for a California style, and very rich. Great yeast. May let this one sit in primary for an extra day or two next time though (primary for 5 days in this case).
"I'm going to use this in my ..."
Attenuation was on point and yielded a nicely rounded, slightly fruity finish which I love in my Pale Ales. I'm going to use this in my Imperial Red to give the same finish... can't wait! Great quality yeast, as always!
"I used this yeast to brew the recently released White House pale ale recipe"
I used this yeast to brew the recently released White House pale ale recipe, which calls for 1 lb. honey at the end of the boil. WLP051 was recommended as a substitute for the dry yeast in the recipe because it would allow more of the honey palate to come through. This I can confirm. The yeast plays well with honey, leaving enough complex sugar tones at the end of fermentation to make the honey shine. I think I got better results than what I've heard ! from other home brewers who followed this recipe with the conventional English ale yeast that it calls for. I didn't have the issues with getting adequate attenuation that others have reported: I had vigorous early fermentation, and after 8-9 days in the primary, the gravity had dropped from 1.060 to 1.014. Happy yeast, happy brewer.
"I've brewed 2 APA's using this yeast"
I've brewed 2 APA's using this yeast one with a 800ML starter (36 hours) and the other was slurry from prior batch. Both batches started @ 1.062OG and both finished around 1.011. Both batches fermented in a single vessel @ 64F(no secondary) for 14-15 days. I usually use WLP001, but thought I'd try something different this time around. The WLP051 was a bit more fruity and cleared up a touch faster than WLP001. I didn't perceive any off smells! (well maybe a bit during active fermenation -- not after kegging) or flavors and didn't experience any fermentation troubles. The beer turned out delicious.
"This is our choice for..."
This is our choice for making mead and melomels. The great thing is the mead is ready to drink after the settling out(think 3-4 weeks) and ages well(we have some we made 6 yrs ago). This is also my favorite when doing any fruit ales.
"Fantastic yeast!"
Fantastic yeast! A bit fruitier than the WLP001, which is exactly what I was looking for. Haven't experienced any of the troubles described in earlier posts, even second generation stored in fridge for two weeks. Fermentations start within 6 hours, complete within a week, and attenuate to ~71%-73%. Its become my house strain. Try it, you won't be disappointed.
Frequently Asked Questions
I was wondering if 051 is a slow fermenter or not. I brewed an IPA on the 5th and today is the 13th and it is very slowly fermenting and is currently at 7.5 Plato. I'd like to get it down to 3.5 Plato. The temp is at 69 and has been between 66 and 70 the whole time. I roused the yeast on the 11th and it seemed to work. Any ideas on what I should do?
Thank you for your inquiry. The WLP051 is a bit slower than other strains, which is one reason for its clean profile. It is also more temperature sensitive, so it might have slowed down more due to the temperature. I would rouse again, and raise the temperature to 72, there's no need to keep it low now because it is not fermenting quickly. If you can transfer the beer, do so, as this is the best way to rouse, but that is not always possible.
FlocculationMedium to High
Optimum Ferment Temp.66-70°F (18-21°C)
Alcohol ToleranceMedium- High
MiniFerment Data ?
As-is DiacetylNA
Total Diacetyl61.88ppb
As-is 2,3-Pentanedione6.98
Total 2,3-Pentanedione21.56ppb
Ethyl Acetate33.13ppm
Isoamyl Acetate0.985ppm
Isoamyl Alcohol145.03ppm


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You don't need to be a mathematical genius or equipped with expensive technical equipment to find the direction of Qiblah, all you need is familiarisation with some key facts and basic terms which have served humanity as a guide for navigation for thousands of years.
There is no disagreement amongst Muslims that Masjidul-Haram should be faced when praying Salah.
When inside the Masjid itself then the Kaa'bah has to be faced and hence Muslims line up in a circular fashion as shown here.
These circular lines are extended as you move away throughout the rest of the world but the general concept is still the same.
Ease in locating Qiblah
Shaykh (Mufti) Shafi Usmani (HA) explains that the rules of Shariah are based on ease and not on any philosophical technicalities. After giving some examples of this Hadrat Mufti Saheb goes on to explain that the basis of calculating the Qibla is the narration wherein Sayyidina Rasul-ullah (Sallaho Alaihe Wassalam) mentions that whatever is between the east and west is the Qibla. Though this ruling is for the people of Madina Munawwara, but from this we deduce that in looking for the Qibla we need not to go in to any technical issues.
The honourable Sahaba (RA) based the Qibla on some major signs which denoted upon the Qibla, without going into any technicalities, using their discretion stipulated the Qibla. Those who followed the Sahaba (RA) also accepted their discretion. Allama Maqrizi (RA) mentions that when Ahmed Tulun intended to build a Masjid in Egypt he sent some people to Madina Munawwara to find out the Qibla of Masjid Nabawi (Sallaho Alaihe Wassalam) and thereafter build his Masjid according to that calculation. This differed with the Qibla of the Masjid of Sayyidina Amr ibn Al-Aas (RA). However, the Ulama still preferred the Qibla of Sayyidina Amr ibn Al-Aas (RA) and built new Masjids in Egypt according to it.
There was a group of Sahaba (RA) who used their discretion in stipulating the Qibla of Masjid of Sayyidina Amr ibn Al-Aas (RA) despite the fact that there were astronomers in Egypt.
Thereafter Shaykh (Mufti) Shafi Usmani (HA) explains that in places where there are Masjids already built the Qibla will be based on these Masajid.
Areas where there are no old Masajid then we will follow the method of the Sahaba (RA) in calculating their Qibla (i.e. using ones discretion and looking at signs stipulate the Qibla.)
It is not permissible to use astronomical calculations in areas were Masajid already exist. Unless there is a strong possibility that the Qibla of those Masajid are wrong. In areas which do not have old Masajid then the Ulama differ regarding the permissibility of using astronomical calculations. Allama Shami (RA) narrates the Hanafi Madhab gives permission to use these calculations.
The most Authentic way to find Qiblah (4 times a year)
On the following two dates/times when you face the Sun you will be facing the Qiblah because the Sun will be directly above the Kaa'ba.
1: May 28th at 09:18 UT Click to Convert to your local time
2: July 15th at 09:27 UT Click to Convert to your local time
On the following two dates/times when you face your shadow you will be facing the direction of the Qiblah, providing that there is sunlight on your location and if you cannot see the shadow simply turn your back towards the sun and your face will be facing the Qiblah.
1: November 28th at 21:09 UT Click to Convert to your local time
2: January 13th at 21:29 UT Click to Convert to your local time
Direction Basics
This article will therefore focus on circumstances when someone is travelling and unable to find a Masjid and needs to locate the direction of Qiblah to offer their prayers.
This article is relevant to the Northern Hemisphere which covers:
1 Entirety of Europe
2 Entirety of North America,
Before beginning you will need to know the most basic direction of Qiblah from your country, understand what it is and how to find it using North. You can find the Qiblah direction from your country using Islamic Finder or Qibla Locator or even Google Map
1 Know the general direction of Qiblah from your country
2 Memorise it
3 You don't need to know the exact degrees so knowing SE (South-East) etc would be sufficient.
There are four basic directions which are:
1 North and then moving clockwise
2 East
3 South (directly opposite to North)
4 West (directly opposite to East)
A compass is a simple navigational equipment in use for over 2000 years. Whether you use a digital compass (on your iphone) or a traditional compass with a needle; as long as it's working and free from interference it will point to "Magnetic North" which is the Earth's Magnetic Pole. For simplicity, assume that the compass always points to North.
As stated earlier that there are actually four directions and each of them are then subdivided as shown which looks a little complicated but the picture is being given for illustration only.
In fact your task is a lot simpler. If we draw the four directions on a paper with the north point up (and assign it degree 0) as we move clockwise we will get to East (90), South (270) and West (270) and then back to North (360). If you are looking for 120 degrees which is roughly the direction of Qiblah from London see how it pans out in the figure shown:
All you need to know is to figure our "North" and armed with your knowledge of Qiblah direction you can Insha'Allah pray. You don't even need to know the exact degrees a rough idea (SE etc) would also be sufficient for this purpose.
Using an ordinary Compass to find North
There is no need to buy a specialised Qiblah compass etc as a normal and ordinary compass will point North. Just remember that it's not a good idea to use a compass indoors due to magnetic interference so always use a compass outdoors.Once you know North then you are up and away with finding the direction of the Qiblah.
Using an ordinary Compass Watch to find North
There is no need to buy a specialised Qiblah compass watch etc as a normal and ordinary compass watch will point North. Just remember that it's not a good idea to use a compass indoors due to magnetic interference so always use a compass outdoors.Once you know North then you are up and away with finding the direction of the Qiblah.
Using the sun at Noon to find North
In the Northern Hemisphere the sun always rises from the east and sets in the west and at noon it is in the middle of the horizon so when you face the sun and walk towards it you will be walking South and your back will be towards North.
Using the sun and an analgoue watch outside of Noon to find North
1 Place your watch flat on the floor
2 Point the Hour hand at the Sun
3 Imagine an angle created between your hour hand and the 12 o/clock position
4 Then draw an imaginary line bisecting that angle and the line will represent "South" with "North" in the opposite direction.
Using the sun and and a stick outside of Noon to find North
1 Place a stick into the ground (or use an existing object) like a Pole
2 Mark its shadow with a stone and this is West
3 Wait 15 minutes
4 Now mark the shadow with a stone and this is East
5 Draw a line between the first mark (3) and the second mark (4) and this is your West-East Line
6 Draw a straight line between the two markings and that is North
Using Stars to find North
On a normal night it is fairly easy to find the "Big Dipper" it is shaped like a question mark and may appear in various forms of a question mark ( straight, upside down, backwards) in your night sky, depending on your location. In UK it is called a Plough.
Once you have spotted it you need to start drawing an imaginary line starting from Merak which is the second star at the tip of your question mark and join in to Dubhe which is the tip of the question mark and then extend that line until it is about 4-5 times the distance between Merak and Dubhe to spot Polaris (North Star).
Polaris (North Star) points to North.
Qiblah direction using Google
You can find the direction of Qiblah from your location by using the widget below.
May Allah (SWT) reward Br Abu Mohammed for his assistance in creating his article and his research at Muftisays.


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Here's a little video shot and edited yesterday for my group's final project in Linguistics 480, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), with Dr. Trude Heift @ Simon Fraser University, Spring 2012.
The idea was to make a content-based video on the topic of food that could be easily incorporated into an ESL lesson. Each of the members in our group then has to create a mock ESL lesson plan incorporating this CALL technology for the second part of this assignment.
There are a few simple lessons that this video could be used for:
- Introducing imperative verb forms
- Food vocabulary
- Food preparation verbs
- Reviewing numbers (eg. "Step Six: Dice The Onion")
Total runtime: ~4 minutes.
Feel free to use this video as part of your own ESL lesson planning.
"Lettuce" know if you find it useful!
Thanks to Lauren and Andrea for being really great to work with for this project.


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I want to see how much total space
/ is taking, but I don't know how to do that. I can use
ls -hal and add up the subtotals, or I can use
fdisk to tell me the size of that partition, but is there a better way?
Are you asking about the total size of files/directories contained within
If the former, use
If the latter, you can do this with
There are usually no files in the root directory, so I assume you want to know how much space is used in the root filesystem. The command for this is
With no arguments,
If you want to know how much space is used by a directory and its subdirectories, that don't make up the full filesystem, use
Hence if you want to know: