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Hello !
I use XFCE for a while and I'm always impressed by its simplicity and lightweight.
So I've chosen Xubuntu as the OS for my HTPC.
The screen is a LCD TV with a big resolution and I watch it from a sofa. So the normal size fonts are unreadable (or you must have very good eyes ).
I have increased the size of fonts in XFCE parameters and it works well ... for all GTK applications
I use Kaffeine and Amarok sometimes which are QT applications. I've found the QT4 parameters in the menus but the settings apply just for the configuration window. The font size is not used by the others QT applications.
I've searched a lot in Google but I didn't found something useful.
I don't know where to start to solve this problem.
Someone has an idea ?
As a fellow traveler and user of Xfce (and most certainly not an expert) I'll just jump in here and show my ignorance.
I have a couple of QT applications. The QT4 configuration applet was installed with the QT4 application (KeePassX). When I set font name and size in the QT4 configuration applet and saved the settings by hitting Ctrl+S, it would correctly affect KeePassX, but it had no apparent effect on the other QT application. It turned out that the other application was a QT3 application which had not installed the QT3 configuration applet as a dependency. Once I figured that out I installed the qt3-qtconfig and was able to set font type and size for the QT3 application. I thought it was weird to have to do that, but at least it worked.
I don't suppose your situation might be similar? If not, please forgive my intrusion.
I will watch this thread with interest, because I would like to know whether or not one can control all QT applications of all levels with just a single configuration applet.
I tried the qt3 config but nothing changed ...
Maybe I should ask this question to a QT or KDE forum ?
Seems like a good idea. I'm sure that someone at http://www.qtforum.org/ can help you. The place seems to be more for developers than users, but they do have an installation forum.
I'm sorry my idea didn't pan out for you, but it was a shot in the dark.
Same problem here with Kaffeine and qt4 and qt3 config! I'm also on a LCD TV and fonts in menus are really small. I'm using kaffeine 0.8.7
Well, I wasn't very helpful the first time around, so I'm back to see if I can be just as unhelpful in the second try.
The only QT application I'm using now is KeePassX. I found that adjusting fonts and point sizes in the QT4-config applet didn't fix all text in KeePassX, just most of it. The text in its descriptions / comments areas was really tiny.
It turned out that the application itself had a location in its preferences dialogs that I was able to use for specifying more legible fonts. If your problem is with small fonts withing the menus of Kaffeine itself, then maybe Kaffeine has a setting buried somewhere within its GUI (or maybe in its configuration files) that can help you.
I'm totally unfamiliar with Kaffeine, so I'm only guessing.
Hope you find a solution. I'm thinking that either QT people or Kaffeine people may be able to help you more than Xfce people.
Good luck!
Caffeine and Amarok are KDE4 apps, not just Qt4 ones. Try installing KDE system settings (if not already installed) and configuring them from there.
Sry, forgot to mention I already installed and tried systemsettings (for kde) with no luck. I also checked .kde/share/apps/kaffeine for possible settings. I even compiled Kaffeine 0.8.8 - no change.
Often times in Linux, there is a small config file you can edit manually and solve your problem, but not this time it seems.
EDIT: there is no font widget in systemsettings (kde) only for icons, and that changes icons (buttons) in Kaffeine. Weird.
Jiipiii! SOLVED!
desktopFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
fixed=Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,14,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=Bitstream Vera Sans,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
smallestReadableFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,16,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
To the file .kde/share/config/kdeglobals
(In some cases it could be .kde4/share/config/kdeglobals)
Edit to your liking! Now I have BIG fonts in kaffeine!
Congratulations on your solution!
And thanks for posting it.
Found out that the font widget/module supposed to appear in systemsettings is included in the package kde4-workspace and that has A LOT of dependencies. Not fun fun if you're running LXDE or Xfce.
And that there actually was a plain text config file to edit!! Linux is great!
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Possibly foolish...
... but I've signed up for NaBloPoMo again, posting daily in November. I think it'll cheer me up on the long dark nights, and might finally get me posting some of the things I've knitted this year!! I'll hope to do some more of the alphabetical posts, and dig out some of the photos I've taken and not blogged anywhere... wish me luck.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
2011 books, #101-105
Good omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [audiobook]. Read by Stephen Briggs. Oxford: Isis, [n.d.].
I had forgotten quite how good this was - both the Pratchett/Gaiman team and Briggs's reading. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse meet William and the Outlaws (or Adam and The Them, in this case), with the attendant presence of angels and demons; and it's hilarious. There are some elements I'd imagine are pure Gaiman - such as the notion that every tape left in a vehicle for long enough eventually morphs into Queen's Greatest Hits - and others which are pure Pratchett - but they blend perfectly. I hadn't read any Gaiman last time I listened to this, and it's much more fun having done so.
The Oyster House siege, by Jay Rayner. London: Atlantic, 2007.
Brilliant. A pair of gunmen fleeing from a failed raid on a jewellery shop end up in the kitchen of a Jermyn Street restaurant on Election Night, 1983, and a hostage situation is on. Some of the events are genuinely terrifying, and some extremely funny. The importance of food is never undervalued, and forms an extremely important part of the plot. This is genuinely unputdownable and I'll be looking for anything else Rayner's written because he really can tell a story, and he captures the attitudes and politics of the early 80s in a very perceptive way.
Want to play? by PJ Tracy. London: Penguin, 2004.
Someone is killing people in Minneapolis and the surrounding areas, but the second murder is so bizarre that Grace McBride and her Monkeewrench game-designing team realise that someone playing their test system must be recreating a version of their serial-killer-detection game. They go to the police (and the team of Gino and Magozzi), and another game begins - are they helping the police, or are they suspects?
I started reading this a couple of years ago, I see - and I had a bookmark at page 150 or so and couldn't remember anything about the book. I started again from the beginning, having read Snow Blind (review from the last couple of book posts), and found it completely riveting; I started the next one in the series immediately. The relationships between characters are brilliant, and there are some genuinely moving moments - not something you generally expect from a serial-killer thriller...
The reversal, by Michael Connolly [audiobook]. Read by John Chancer. Bath: AudioGO, 2011.
Mickey Haller and Harry Bosch get together, which is always a good thing. While Chancer isn't quite as good a reader as Jeff Harding, he's still pretty impressive, and this is a tremendous courtroom drama with a lot of compassion and some very interesting twists and turns.
Live bait, by PJ Tracy. London: Penguin, 2005.
Someone in Minneapolis is killing old people; and as facts emerge, the nature of the murders becomes more confusing and more tied up with the past. Gino and Magozzi again investigate; and the relationships they've developed with the Monkeewrench crew from the first book are carried on in this book. For the mother-and-daughter team behind PJ Tracy, relationships are important, and it's very seldom you end up in tears repeatedly during what's essentially a serial-killer novel. I'm really hoping I can get hold of the next in this series soon.
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
2011 books, #96-100
Missing, by Karin Alvtegen. Kindle edition.
Again, I'm going with blurb from the author website here...
Sibylla Forsenström doesn't exist. For fifteen years, she has been excluded from society. As one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes and has all her possessions in her rucksack. To find food for the day and somewhere to sleep for the night demands all her time and effort. But it does not help her in keeping the thoughts away from the past – from the questions about why her life has turned out the way it did. Then a catastrophe happens. One night, she is in the wrong place at the wrong time. A man is brutally murdered and too many circumstances lead to Sibylla as being the murderer. For fifteen years nobody has asked for her, but suddenly she is the most wanted person in Sweden. She knows how to survive, but now she has to flee…
I really enjoyed this, although there was a tiny bit of anti-climax at the end. Sibylla and Patrik are both very sympathetic, compelling characters, and there are some heartbreaking incidents here. It's a novel about survival, and about whether you compromise with the world to ensure your own safety; and to a large extent, the thriller plot is just about secondary although it's also well worked out. (And without wanting to introduce spoilers, although this book was written in 1999, it was translated at about the same time as many other authors were jumping on the same plot bandwagon, so it would have been much more difficult to guess what was going on if you were reading it in the original Swedish when first published!)
The fifth witness, by Michael Connolly. London: Orion, 2011.
A Mickey Haller novel - a woman whose house foreclosure Haller's firm was dealing with is accused of murdering the chief executive of her bank. The client, Lisa Trammel, is her own worst enemy, but the evidence seems to be circumstantial and the police appear to have cut corners with their investigation. There's more time than usual spent in the courtroom and the cross-examinations are fascinating; well up to the usual standard.
Flesh and bone, by Jefferson Bass. London: Quercus, 2008.
Another very good Body Farm thriller. (Not to be confused with the recent TV crime drama - I thought I'd have a look on iPlayer as it'd normally be the sort of thing I'd like - I lasted about 5 minutes!) A bizarrely dressed body is hung up in a tree in the experimental site to determine cause of death, and shortly afterwards it is joined by the body of the visiting medical examiner, one of protagonist Bill Brockton's closest friends. Brockton is suspected of the murder and the evidence seems compelling. Well-plotted and with an excellent ending.
The spire, by William Golding. London: Faber, 2005. Originally published in 1964.
A book club book, and one which inspired the best discussion we've had for a long time. Dean Jocelin is told by a vision to build a spire on his great cathedral; the builders insist that the foundations won't take the strain, and the congregation is forced to move out as building works continue. How much of Jocelin's vision is due to madness or physical illness is always in doubt, and there are some fascinating contrasts between faith and science in the medieval era, with a large dollop of sexual jealousy dropped into the mixture.
Relentless, by Simon Kernick. London: Corgi, 2007.
The title's pretty apt - a fast-paced thriller set over 24 hours. Tom Meron is enjoying a Satuday afternoon at home with his kids when the phone rings - it's a friend he hasn't heard from for 4 years, who is obviously terrified and being attacked, and the only information he hears is the first two lines of his own address. Tom packs the children into the car and takes them to grandma's and goes to search for his wife at the university, and his life begins unravelling from there. This story really doesn't let up, and one twist after another means that Tom gradually realises nothing in his life so far has been as it seemed. This would make an absolutely terrific film.
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Roof construction and maintenance can provide significant long-term savings
Roof construction and maintenance can provide significant long-term savings
Look out for deficient terminations and trash and debris left on the roof by subcontractors. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF GLAZING CONSULTANTS INC.
By Samuel Chiodo
We've all heard people say that you have to spend money to make money; however, in today's uncertain economic times, companies across the country aren't just looking to make money - they're tightening their belts, battening down the hatches, and looking for ways to save money. But, even during hard times, it's important to remember that the old "spending" adage can still hold true for savings; sometimes you have to spend money to save money, especially with regard to a building's roof.
Although they are perhaps the least visible portion of buildings, roofs can account for up to 50 percent of a building's total surface area, and they can represent up to 25 percent of total building value. By proactively investing resources in building and maintaining a solid roof, building owners may extend the lives of their 15-year roofs to 25-year roofs by heading off leaks and other adverse conditions, which translates into significant long-term cost savings.
Roof inspections focus not just on the quality of the work installed, but also on the complete roofing project. This means that inspectors not only review how well the roofing contractor installed the work, but they also look at how the other trades have treated the roof in progress or completed installation.
Consider the case of a condominium building in Florida. The roofing contractor was a reputable firm, known for quality work. The initial and midpoint inspections revealed a quality roof installation, with good workmanship, industry-standard terminations, and tight flashings.
During construction, however, the roof system cap sheet was unprotected and exposed to a multitude of staging equipment and debris by other subcontractor trades. Later inspections revealed that counter flashing and base flashing terminations had been damaged, and stucco residue had been left to harden on the field membrane. As a result of this extensive surface damage, the warranty was withheld until the roof surface was recoated as required by the manufacturer.
Because the roofing consultant kept inspection records throughout the building process, it was easy to see that damages were not due to negligence on the part of the roofing contractor. Instead, the general contractor back-charged the cost of cleaning the roof and repairing damages to the subcontractors. Once damages were repaired, the roof manufacturer was able to provide a warranty.
New Construction
Like any area of construction, from glazing to structural engineering, roofs require unique expertise to maximize their effectiveness. Having an expert involved during the building's design, all the way through construction, can ensure that the roof is designed, engineered, fabricated, and assembled to provide the building and its contents with watertight protection.
The optimal time to get a roof expert involved in the construction of a building is during the design phase, while the architectural team is still working on its detailed plans. A pre-design meeting between the owner/developer, architect, and roofing expert can help highlight issues that architects may need to address in the design - especially issues that may be unique to a particular climate.
An architect designing in South Florida, for example, will need to plan for stronger attachment of all roof components due to calculated uplift pressure requirements outlined in hurricane-related building codes. In northern climates, though, considerations must be made for snow weight and removal, ice dams, and the expansion and contraction associated with building materials in extreme climates. In either situation, it can be helpful for an architect to have a roofing expert available to alert him/her to potential issues before they arise.
As the design progresses, the roofing consultant should review architectural drawings and CSI Division 7 specifications related to waterproofing and roofing. The goal here is twofold: to ensure that the architectural team designs and specifies a roofing system that will adequately protect the building, and to ensure that the drawings and specifications are detailed and accurate enough for the general contractor to obtain accurate bids from roofing subcontractors. Accurate and detailed drawings at this stage can prevent the necessity of time-consuming architectural drawing changes and costly rebids or bid-change orders later in the building process.
In general, the roof expert will be looking at the design drawings and specifications for things like:
Coping impact damage should be looked for during quality-assurance inspections.
Product Submittals
After a roofing contractor has been selected, the contractor must submit full specifications for the system and all the components he/she intends to use. The roofing consultant should review these submittals to ensure that they coincide with the original specifications, and to be sure all details are appropriate for the system and the climate.
One common mistake in many projects is specification of the wrong type of fasteners. For example, roofing subcontractors for projects in coastal Florida may propose using galvanized screws to secure flashing; however, in Florida, the salt air will rust galvanized screws, so a roofing consultant would call out his or her recommendation to use stainless steel. It's a small detail, but it can have tremendous impact on the life of a roof and the necessity of future repairs.
Pre-Installation Conference
Many of the various subcontractors involved in a building project will require roof access at some point to complete their portions of the building. Many may actually need to penetrate the roof to install pipes, vents, conduits, or machinery. To coordinate these efforts and ensure that they don't cause damage to the roof, a pre-installation conference should be a top priority.
At this meeting, the roof consultant will sit down with the architect, general contractor, roof manufacturer, and any subcontractors whose work may impact the roof to coordinate schedules and plans. This conference can also help determine where extra roof protection pads may be needed.
"Another issue we often address is the spacing and separation of all roof penetrations," says Jon B. Blehar, an architect in Lake Worth, FL. "We need to be sure that all pipes, vents, and conduits are spaced far enough apart that they leave enough room for the roofers to properly flash them. Lack of proper flashing can cause leaks and may affect the roof manufacturer's warranty."
Quality-Assurance Inspections
After all plans, submittals, and products are approved, and the actual work begins, quality-assurance inspections should be conducted at various points throughout the installation. The number of inspections varies from as few as two to as many as eight to 12, depending on the project. Four is a good guideline: one at the beginning to be sure everything is off to a good start, one in the middle as a progress check, one toward the end, and a punch-list inspection at the very end.
Common problems encountered in these inspections include everything from waterproofing seam failures to damaged flashing and debris left on the roof. See Roof Disarray, below, for an example of one project's inspection finds. The ultimate goal is a secure building envelope and a watertight roof that's in accordance with required codes and specifications.
Bad terminations and other surface problems that occur during construction can cause the roof manufacturer to withhold the warranty until damages are repaired.
Preventive Maintenance: Roof Asset Management
All roofs have a limited lifespan and will eventually require replacement, retrofit, repair, or restoration. Whether a roofing consultant was involved in the construction of the building or not, developing a preventive maintenance plan can further extend the life of a roof and save money by correcting problems before they become major leaks that could cause structural damage. Over time, a roof asset management program can optimize roof performance, save money, and allow for roof replacement or repairs on a planned basis - not in reaction to a crisis.
If a roof is new and has been inspected by a roofing consultant throughout construction, the final inspection report should provide enough information to establish a maintenance plan and inspection timetable.
For an existing roof, a consultant should thoroughly inspect the roof and provide a written report of findings with a photo survey of roof conditions for future reference. Based on those findings, the consultant will develop projected life-cycle budget cost estimates and establish plans for upcoming maintenance, replacement, or repair.
From this point, a good roof-management program should include annual inspections for an inspector to look for damage, including:
If the roof shows signs of deterioration, the consultant may recommend moisture testing, such as:
Ultimately, the goal of both new construction roofing review and ongoing roof-management programs is to protect the interest of building owners, extend the life of the roof, and prevent costly leaks and damage. In today's business climate, many building owners and businesses are understandably looking for ways to cut costs; however, involving a roofing consultant in construction or an ongoing maintenance program will end up saving you more than you spend.
Samuel Chiodo is a roof specialist at West Palm Beach, FL-based Glazing Consultants Intl. LLC.


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The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
–Joel 2:31 NIV
. . . three Tetrads that are specifically linked to Jewish history have appeared in the past five hundred years. Each Tetrad series, consisting of four consecutive Blood Moons with a total solar eclipse occurring somewhere within the sequence of the total lunar eclipses, announced a time of tears and tribulation that would end in national triumph for the Jewish people.
In 1493-94, the first Tetrad of Blood Moons occurred on the Jewish holidays of Passover and Feast of Tabernacles:
- Passover, April 2, 1493
- Feast of Tabernacles, September 25, 1493
- Passover, March 22, 1494
- Feast of Tabernacles, September 15, 1494
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The first Blood Moon in the Tetrad appeared on April 2, 1493—on the first day of Passover after the Jewish events of 1492. There was a total solar eclipse on September 24, 1493—one day before the blood moon of the Feast of Tabernacles, September 25, 1493.
What was happening to the Jewish people during this time?
Ferdinand II, also known as Ferdinand the Catholic, was king of Aragon and Castile from 1479 to 1516, where he ruled with his wife, Queen Isabella I. They consolidated their power by uniting the Spanish kingdoms into the nation of Spain and began Spain's entry into the modern period of imperial expansion.
In 1481, fear of Jewish influence led Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to pressure Pope Sixtus IV to allow a monarchy-controlled inquisition in Spain by threatening to withdraw military support at a time when the Turks were a peril to Rome. [Henry Kamen, Spanish Inquisition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999) 49.] Their request was granted and in 1483 the Dominican confessor of Queen Isabella was appointed Inquisitor General of Spain; his name was Tomas de Torquemada. Through his villainous acts of torture the Spanish Inquisition ultimately surpassed the Medieval Inquisition of 1233 in scope, intensity, and atrocities.
Torquemada quickly established malicious and cruel procedures for the Spanish Inquisition. A new court was announced with a thirty-day grace period for confessions and the gathering of accusation by neighbors. Evidence that was used to identify a crypto-Jew (secretly observant) included the absence of chimney smoke on Saturdays (a sign the family might secretly be honoring the Sabbath) or the buying of many vegetables before Passover or the purchase of meat from a converted butcher.
The Inquisition's court employed physical torture to extract confessions. Crypto-Jews were allowed to confess and do penance, although those who relapsed were burned at the stake. [H. H. Ben-Sasson, ed. A History of the Jewish People (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1976), 588-590.]
The Medieval Inquisition originated years before as a Roman Catholic tribunal for the discovery and punishment of heresy. It was created under Pope Innocent III of Rome (1198-1216) and later established under Pope Gregory IX in 1233. [Encyclopedia Judaica; The Spanish Inquisition Gates to Jewish Heritage.]
Anti-Semitism sponsored by the Roman Church began to manifest itself openly in 1412, when Jews were told they would have to live in separate quarters. These isolated quarters were the later template of the Polish ghettos established by the Nazis (1939-42) and the Minsk Ghetto of Russia (1941-43). [Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008).]
In addition to being forced to live in the ghettos, the Jewish people were told they must distinguish themselves from Christians by allowing their beards to grow out and wearing the yellow Star of David on their clothing. The Jews could no longer hold public office, could not be physicians, and could not lend their money with interest. All schools and professions were closed to the Jewish people, and all commerce by which they might make a living was prohibited. [Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 15 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1972), 235.]
This was only the beginning of the persecution, torture, and death of the Jewish people by the Roman Church's Inquisitors. In less than twelve years the Inquisition condemned no fewer than thirteen thousand Jews, men and women who had continued to practice Judaism in secret. [Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 15 (Jerusalem: Keter, 1972), 235.]
I now take you back to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella who established and controlled the Spanish Inquisition. The monarchy took increasingly drastic measures against the Jews and on March 30, 1492, at their palace in Granada, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella signed a decree ordering the Jews to leave Castile and Aragon by August 1. This was known as the Edict of Expulsion, which banished all Jewish people from Spain who refused to convert to Catholicism.
The ousted Jews were stripped of their wealth, for the Edict prohibited them from taking gold, silver, and precious metals. More than poverty, however, the decree meant homelessness and uncertainty, since the Jews did not know which nations would receive them. They also feared the journey, which would bring death to those too weak to endure it.
Christopher Columbus recorded this infamous edict in his diary:
In the same month in which their Majesties [Ferdi-
nand and Isabella] issued the edict that all Jews should
be driven out of the kingdom and its territories, in the
same month they gave me the order to undertake with
sufficient men my expedition of discovery to the Indies.
The expulsion that Columbus referred to was so cataclysmic an event that since then, the year 1492 has been almost as important in Jewish history as in American history. On July 30 of that year, the entire Jewish community that had not been converted or killed—some 200,000—were expelled from Spain. [Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History (New York: William Morrow, 1991).]
The Jews were given the date of August 1 as the deadline for their departure from Spain, but some left the following day, August 2, which was the 9th of Av (Tishah b'Av) on the Jewish calendar. Tishah b'Av is a fast day that commemorates the destruction of the first and second temples; once again, remember a Jewish day begins and ends at sunset.
The following day, Christopher Columbus and his expedition set sail out of the harbor near Seville, past the ships upon which Jewish exiles were embarking. His voyage of discovery was financed by money confiscated from the Jewish people. [2000-2011 Jewish-American Hall of Fame c. 2012 American Numismatic Society.]
I call to the witness stand of history the scholar Dagobert D. Runes, who recorded the brutal and godless acts of torture upon the Jews of Spain during the Spanish Inquisition by those who called themselves Christians.
The Spanish Inquisition was perhaps the most cynical
plot in the dark history of Catholicism, aimed at ex-
propriating the property of well-to-do Jews and con-
verts in Spain, for the benefit of the royal court and
the Church. Even dead "suspects" had their bones dug
up for "trial" so estates could be confiscated from their
[Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.]
Solemn ritualistic burning of Jews and other "heretics" at the behest of the inquisitional authorities of the Catholic Church began. "Trials" were conducted in the presence of the clergy and invariably ended in confession under torture by fire, skinning alive, bone-crushing, etc. The verdict was almost always; "burn them alive.
[Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.]
The infamous "blood libel" tale was employed by the Inquisitors to justify the torture of the Jews of Spain. The blood libel had at its root the rumor that a Christian child had been killed by Jews and his blood used to celebrate Passover.
In Avila, a Spanish town near Madrid in 1491 a child
from "La Guardia," a village that never existed was al-
legedly found dead. A Jewish shoemaker, his broth-
er and father were accused by the Church of hav-
ing killed the child (later canonized) and drinking
its blood for Passover. The accused admitted, under
torture, all points of the indictment. Following their
burning, all Jews in this little town were murdered and
their homes sacked. The Catholic clergy appropriated
the synagogue for a church.
[Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.]
In the town of Seville, Fernando Martinez, who was archdeacon of the town, mobilized the people in a massacre against the Jewish quarter. A total of four thousand Jews were killed, and the townspeople force the remainder to enroll in their so-called religion of love! These church-sponsored pogroms spread throughout Spain. Runes writes, "Synagogues were converted, together with pitifully few Jewish survivors, to the 'Truth Faith.' In some ghettos, not a single Jew survived, and the local Christians had their new 'House of God' to themselves.
[Dagobert D. Runes, The War Against the Jew (New York: Philosophical Library, 2008), 171.]
Elinor and Robert Slater write about a long night of anti-Semitism in their book, Great Moments in Jewish History:
Any Jew who observed Jewish customs, even the
wearing of clean clothes on the Jewish Sabbath," be-
came suspect and were brought before the Inquisitors
for trial. Some were fined; others suffered confiscation
of property and torture. The rack was used not only to
extract confessions from the accused but to force them
to inform against others. Many of the accused were
put to death in theatrical executions staged in public
squares of Spanish towns. An execution of this type,
usually by fire was known as auto-da-fe, or act of faith.
[Elinor and Robert Slater, Great Moments in Jewish History (Jerusalem: Jonathan David Publisher, 1998, 170.]
The Jewish community in Spain tried desperately to have the Edict of Expulsion repealed. A delegation consisting of Abraham Senior and Isaac Abravanel obtained an audience with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Senior, the Chief Rabbi of Castile, was, in effect, the leader of Spanish Jewry. Isaac Abravanel, a scholar and philosopher, was the financial adviser whose skill had enabled Spain to conquer Granada.
They appealed to the king and queen for mercy, and to strengthen their case they offered a substantial payment in exchange for revocation of the decree. According to one version of this meeting, the delegation placed the bag of money on the table.
Moved both by the power of their arguments and by the sight of the gold, Ferdinand and Isabella hesitated. "Just then, the Grand Inquisitor, Thomas de Torquemada, entered the room. He approached the table, set the cross he held in his hand near the bag of gold, and said, pointing to the figure of Jesus on the cross, 'Here He is, sell Him!' The royal couple's doubts vanished. They rejected the delegations's pleas and ordered the Jews to prepare for departure." [Elinor and Robert Slater, Great Moments in Jewish History (Jerusalem: Jonathan David Publisher, 1998, 170.]
Lest we believe that anti-Semitism was exclusive to the Roman church, let me direct you to Martin Luther (1483-1586), the primary leader of the Protestant Reformation.
Having been disillusioned by the corruption of the Roman church, Luther turned to Scripture for solace. He discovered that salvation comes through faith in Christ and not through Rome. After being excommunicated by the Church and marked as a "convicted heretic" for his vocal and written criticisms of its doctrines, Luther went into hiding where he translated the New Testament into German, giving the "common people" the opportunity to benefit from its truths.
Luther initially was a friend of the Jews, writing that "treating the Jews in an unfriendly way was unchristian." He truly believed that his revelation of salvation through grace would appeal to the Jewish people. However, when his efforts to convert them failed, Luther became angry and vindictive. He subsequently wrote a pamphlet, Against the Jews and Their Lies.
Luther declared the Jews as "public enemies" and beseeched that the Church and civil leaders take action against the Jewish people. Among his evil recommendations: (1) burn synagogues and Jewish schools, (2) raze and destroy Jewish homes, (3) take their prayer books and Talmudic writings, (4) forbid Rabbis to teach, (5) take their silver and gold, (6) make them work for their keep.
Martin Luther's Against the Jews and Their Lies was a blueprint for "Kristallnacht," so much so that in honor of Luther's works, the first synagogues were burned on his birthday. Many believe Hitler's "Final Solution" was inspired by Luther's writing works, which embodied his vile hatred against the Jewish people.
Why were the Jewish people segregated, tortured, killed, and banished?
For one reason and one reason only: they were a people who would not convert from their belief in the One God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember, as I said in chapter 1, it may have been called Christianity for hundreds of years, but the acts of the Inquisition had nothing to do with Christianity. . . .
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God had promised Abraham centuries before in Genesis 12:3,
I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
God has blessed America because we opened our arms to the seed of Abraham who have blessed the world beyond measure. I believe the day America turns its back on Israel and the Jewish people will be the exact day in history when God Almighty lifts His hand of blessing from America. The policies of our present government are putting daylight between Washington and Israel. . . .
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God continued His proclamation concerning Abraham and the Jewish people, saying, "I will curse him who curses you" (Genesis 12:3). The era of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella's reign in Spain before the expulsion of the Jews is recorded in history as the Spanish Golden Age. The prosperity of Spain plummeted after the Jews were expelled and has never recovered.
Ever since the Edict of Expulsion, Spain has been ruled by dictators and despots, and today is facing national bankruptcy. In the twenty-first century, Spain is controlled by radical Islamists who blow up their trains and plot the death of anyone who dares to resist them. [Hakevi, "Al-queda: The Next Goal Is to Liberate Spain from the Infidels," Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Vol 7, no. 16, Oct 11, 2007.] The irony cannot be ignored—the Jews who were expelled from Spain were a people who loved life. The radical Islamists love death. Spain is experiencing the curse of Genesis 12:32!
God continues His proclamation to Abraham, stating, "And in you [the Jewish people] all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (12:3). . . . the Jewish people have given us the Bible, the patriarchs, the first family of Christianity, and the apostles. Christianity cannot explain its existence with Judaism. That's why our faith is referred as the Judeo-Christian faith. Our roots are found in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
The Spanish Inquisition was a time of tears and tribulation that would end in triumph for the Jewish people as God brought them to America's harbor of protection.
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 was a world-changing moment. The mantle of prosperity was lifted from Spain and placed upon the shoulders of an infant nation that would become the United States of America. . . .
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Central Connecticut track and field junior Ronea Saunders was named NEC Field Athlete of the week Tuesday for her impressive performance this weekend at the Boston University Season Opener.
The third-year Blue Devil won the Boston University Season Opener by leaping 1.75m, a height that only four other Division I jumpers in the nation cleared during the season's first week.
Saunders holds the CCSU record in the event in both indoor and outdoor (5' 10" indoor, 5' 8.75" outdoor), both of which she set in 2012.
The defending NEC high jump champion cleared 1.70m at the 2013 NEC Indoor Championships and now opens her junior season with one of the top jumps in Division I.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) On a night when rookies Robert Griffin III and Alfred Morris led the Washington Redskins to the top of the NFC East, team owner Dan Snyder sought out a long-suffering veteran during the postgame celebration.
``He said you've known how it's felt around here the last seven years,'' defensive lineman Kedric Golston said. ``So this is a sweet time.''
The Redskins are division champions for the first time since 1999, beating the Dallas Cowboys 28-18 Sunday in a winner-take-all end to the NFL's regular season. Washington (10-6) has won seven straight games and will host the Seattle Seahawks next Sunday.
How long ago was 1999? It was six Redskins head coaches ago.
``I've been here for the 4-12, the bad times, almost being the joke of the NFL,'' said Golston, who came along in 2006. ``But to do this with this group of guys - the old and the new - it's good to be here.''
Certainly, Sunday night was mostly about the new. Morris, the out-of-nowhere sixth-round pick from Florida Atlantic, ran for 200 yards and had touchdown runs of 17, 32 and 1 yards. He was so dominant that the Cowboys - missing their five best run defenders due to injuries - fell hook, line and sinker nearly every time the Redskins faked the ball to him.
Morris finished with 1,613 yards for the year, breaking Clinton Portis' franchise single-season record of 1,516 in 2005. By the end of the game, the fans who usually chant ``R-G-3!'' for Griffin were trying out a new chorus: ``Alf-red Mor-ris!''
``I'll tell you what: Alfred Morris became a star tonight,'' Redskins tight end Chris Cooley said. ``He deserved it. He's a phenomenal football player.''
To which Morris answered: ``I'm never a star. I'll never be a star. Other people might think I'm a star, but I'm just Alfred.''
Griffin, seeking to regain his explosiveness after spraining his right knee four weeks ago, ran for 63 yards and a touchdown. With the running game working so well, he didn't have to throw much, completing just 9 of 18 passes for 100 yards.
``Move the chains,'' Griffin said. ``That's all they asked me to do.''
Washington is the first NFL team to rally from 3-6 to make the playoffs since the Jacksonville Jaguars in 1996.
The Cowboys (8-8), meanwhile, will miss the playoffs for the third straight season, having stumbled in a make-or-break end-of-regular-season game for the third time in five years.
``We have to look where we are within our division and see exactly how to approach a team with the good players like they've got and a good coach like they've got,'' Dallas owner Jerry Jones said. ``And we have a big challenge ahead of us. They are, of course, in the tournament, and we have to sit at home and think about how to get in the tournament. This is very disappointing.''
Tony Romo threw three interceptions - matching his total from the last eight games combined. A poor throw was picked off by Rob Jackson when the Cowboys had a chance to drive for a winning score in the final minutes.
``I feel as though I let our team down,'' Romo said.
Romo completed 20 of 31 passes for 218 yards, and his career is now further tainted by post-Christmas disappointments, including Week 17 losses to the Philadelphia Eagles (44-6) in 2008 and the New York Giants (31-14) last year. He's also 1-3 in playoff games.
``Your legacy will be written when you're done playing the game,'' Romo said. ``And when it's over with, you'll look back. ... It's disappointing not being able to get over that hump.''
The Cowboys also dealt with in-game injuries to receivers Miles Austin (left ankle), Dez Bryant (back) and Dwayne Harris (lower leg). Bryant, who had a torrid second half of the season despite breaking his left index finger, had four catches for 71 yards.
Washington's slow start this season prompted coach Mike Shanahan to dismiss playoff hopes and declare that the remaining seven games would determine which players would be on his team ``for years to come.''
Griffin and his teammates had other plans, and the coach quickly changed his tune. Now the Redskins will be playing in January.
``All odds were against us,'' Morris said. ``But we believed in each other.''
NOTES: Griffin set two more NFL rookie records. His 102.4 passer rating topped Ben Roethlisberger's 98.1 in 2004, and his 1.3 percentage of passes intercepted is better than Charlie Batch's 1.98 in 1998. Griffin had already set the league mark for rushing yards by a rookie QB (815). ... Washington also set a franchise record for fewest turnovers in a season with 14, fewer even than the 1982 team that played only nine regular-season games because of a players strike. ... The Redskins will be playing a third consecutive playoff game against the Seahawks. They lost at Seattle as a wild card team in the 2005 and 2007 seasons.
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1. Lit. to make and mark a trail. The scout blazed a trail through the forest.
2. Fig. to do early or pioneering work that others will follow up on. Professor Williams blazed a trail in the study of physics.
blaze a trail
Find a new path or method; begin a new undertaking. For example, His research blazed a trail for new kinds of gene therapy. This expression was first used literally in the 18th century for the practice of marking a forest trail by making blazes, that is, marking trees with notches or chips in the bark. [Late 1800s]
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COMMON If someone blazes a trail or blazes the trail, they are the first person to do or discover something new and important, and this makes it easier for other people to do the same thing. With his first book Parker has blazed a new trail in American literature. The party is blazing the trail for the advancement of women in politics. Note: You can use trail-blazing to describe someone who does something new and important or to describe the thing that they do. Many companies are happy to follow in the shadow of a trail-blazing competitor. This trail-blazing study went into immense detail on the habits of pub-goers. Note: People or organizations who act like this can be called trail-blazers and what they do is called trail-blazing. They are trail-blazers who took on a man's world and made it theirs. Despite all his trail-blazing, he spent most of his life looking back to the works of Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Note: New trails or routes through forests were often marked by `blazing', which involved making white marks called `blazes' on tree trunks, usually by chipping off a piece of bark.
blaze a trailbe the first to do something and so set an example for others to follow.
Blaze in this sense comes ultimately from an Old Norse noun meaning 'a white mark on a horse's face'. In its literal sense, blazing a trail refers to the practice of making white marks on trees by chipping off bits of their bark, thereby indicating your route to those who are following you.
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To find a new path or begin a new enterprise. The term comes from the practice of marking a forest trail by making blazes, that is, spots or marks on trees made by notching or chipping away pieces of the bark. The term was first used in eighteenth-century America by scouts who marked new trails for the soldiers behind them, and was used figuratively from the late nineteenth century on.
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CHICO — A Chico woman was left rattled, but uninjured Wednesday afternoon after her sport utility vehicle crashed into a residence in the 400 block of East Fifth Street.
Kathy Nettleton, 72, was westbound on East Fifth Street on her way to Chico Fire Station 1 at about 3:20 p.m. when a northbound Toyota Prius reportedly struck her Buick SUV, Nettleton said.
The driver of the Prius, 51-year-old Kimarie Hull, stated she did not see the Buick when she advanced into the intersection, Chico Police Officer Todd Lefkowitz said. The Prius hit the Buick near the back left tire and passenger door, picked up the back tires causing the SUV to spin out and redirected its path.
Lucas Ross-Merz, 26, was walking west on East Fifth Street with his dog when he saw the Prius dart onto the intersection and clip the Buick, he said. The Buick's tires were lifted; it turned and jumped the curb.
Ross-Merz immediately called 9-1-1 and made sure that no one was in shock, he said.
Nettleton's SUV slammed into the living room of a residence on the southwest corner of East Fifth and Olive streets and was lodged about 10 feet deep.
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|Extension of vector
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|Cross-Platform (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
Gcodetools is a plug-in for Inkscape. It prepares and converts paths from Inkscape to Gcode, using biarc interpolation.
Screenshots and photos are needed. Please post them at this thread.
- Export paths to Gcode
- Using circular (biarc approximation) or straight line interpolation
- Automatic path subdivision to reach defined tolerance
- Multiply tool processing
- Export Gcode in parametric of flat form
- Including personal headers and footers
- Choosing units
- Multi-pass processing
- Numeric suffix is added to generated files to avoid overwriting
- Compute trajectories for lathe
- Fine cut
- Define fine cut's depth
- Define fine rounds
- Two different computation functions for fine cut
- Standard axis remapping
Path's area processing
- Building area paths
- Area paths could be modified
- Building trajectory according to the cutter's shape
- Defining different cutter's shapes
- Defining different tool's parameters (diameter, feed, depth step, penetration feed, personal Gcode before/after each path, cutters shape, personal tool's changing Gcode)
- Tools can be managed by Inkscape's standard procedures (copy, delete, assigned to different layer)
- Multiply tools processing
- Applying scale along any axis
- Apply rotate in the ХY plane
- Apply translation along any axis
- Apply transforms according to arbitrary points
- You can create custom post-processor by writing down the commands or choose from the list of default post-processors
- Scale and offset Gcode
- Gcode commands remapping
- Parameterize Gcode
- Round floating point values to specified precision
- Select and remove small paths (area artefacts)
- Tool's alignment check
- Cutting order check
- Export to Gcode for plotter with tangential knife. Forth axis A is knife's rotation.
LicenseInkscape and Gcodetools are licensed under GNU GPL.
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- 1 Ideas on Improving the Fedora Docs Workflow
- 1.1 Table of Contents
- 1.2 Introduction
- 1.3 The Current Three-Pronged (Three Tools) Approach
- 1.4 Challenges Resulting from This Approach
Ideas on Improving the Fedora Docs Workflow
Table of Contents
- #Introduction
- Advancing the Project and Community
- Innovative Approaches
- GNOME Tools
- KDE Tools
- Java-based Tools
- Appendix A: The Documentation Workflow Cycle
- Appendix B: Type of Knowledge Contributions to a FOSS Project
- Appendix C: Components of the FOSS Docs Toolchain
- Appendix D: Another View
- References
This is a collection of ideas currently being discussed to improve the publication of official Fedora content. These ideas have been raised by various Fedora Documentation Project team members. They are collected here so that the FDP team can review and further refine the workflow process.
The Current Three-Pronged (Three Tools) Approach
MoinMoin Wiki - online editing
The Fedora Project is using this approach to produce the release notes. See The Release Notes Process . We have publicly been complimented on the quality of this work.
Currently, we are experimenting with updating the "Software Management Guide" in a similar manner. Once the wiki entries are finalized, the guides are converted into Doc
Book XML.
ADVANTAGES: Ease-of-use, low barrier to entry, WYSIWYG editing.
DISADVANTAGES: No automatic tracking of cross-references, no completely automated conversion to Doc
Book XML, markup lacks semantic meaning (provides visual formatting only).
Plone CMS - cleaner look, content workflow
We can use the Plone CMS (Content Management System) application for static pages and a more polished look. Of course, we need to decide what exactly is "static" versus "dynamic". It has been proposed that the "index.html" or equivalent be static, with dynamic updating going on in Drafts. Once a document is finalized, it can be "static" in Plone and the team can jointly edit the new version in MoinMoin.
ADVANTAGES: More polished presentation, improvements in document maintenance, writer <--> editor --> publisher workflow.
DISADVANTAGES: Learning curve in Plone, which includes Zope and Subversion.
DocBook XML - greater flexibility
A contributor can use his or her favorite editor and Doc
Book XML to publish material in any desired format: web pages, PDFs, Postscript, etc. While some contributors may prefer Emacs, others are free to choose another editor. The advantage of this is the "write once, use often" approach, which is a primary tenet of modular programming and intrinsic to FLOSS. These documents are also the base for the many translations which are produced by our Translation team members.
ADVANTAGES: Flexibility of editors, automatic tracking of cross-references, version tracking, standard "code" base, useful as interim code, transformable into anything, controllable with
Makefile in a build system, fits into Fedora Translation and RHEL content infrastructure.
DISADVANTAGES: Learning curve in Doc
Book and XML (similar to HTML).
Challenges Resulting from This Approach
There are definite disadvantages to this three-pronged approach. It would be great if we could do everything with one tool - maybe someday soon we will. For now, we can enjoy the advantages this approach offers. Now here are the obstacles, which are best seen as challenges.
Complexity - too many tools and techniques
Multiple tools are harder to use than one tool. Most of us know one tool really well, some of us know two tools pretty well, and a few know all the tools. There is also the issue of conversion from one format to the other.
This is why the team approach (the bazaar) is so powerful. As a community, we are stronger than as individuals. We can pool our expertise and produce a whole greater than the sum of its parts. We also have powerful FLOSS tools from which to draw.
SOLUTION: Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork and tools, tools, tools
Coordination of Effort - too many projects and priorities
This is always a challenge. Many times "we have a failure to communicate". The good news is, we have great tools at our disposal: wikis, email, IRC channels, etc. We have the tools we need already at hand - we just have to make use of them. New tools are emerging, such as VoIP.
SOLUTION: Explain to contributors the best ways to communicate. One great guide is Communicating and Getting Help .
Multilingual Teams - too many technical terms and contexts
Technical content that has a clear meaning can be difficult to write. It can be equally difficult to collaborate across language and cultural barriers.
This is a challenge that arises from our success. GNU/Linux is a truly global phenomenon. Consider all the languages the Fedora Translation Project supports. It is encouraging to remember that this challenge is overcome everyday by numerous international and multinational groups.
The English language has local dialects, shades, and subtleties. Our global audience should be foremost in our minds. We should speak and write in clear, standard English. Our challenge is to write and speak English free of idioms and local color (culture) - and still be meaningful and noteworthy (have impact or pack a punch). This is done out of respect for our Fedora users for whom English is a second language, for the translation teams, and in recognition of the future of Fedora as a multilingual distribution.
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The goal of the Longboat Key Club's Islandside Redevelopment Plan Town Hall meeting is to give those voices that haven't been heard a chance to discuss the plan.
"We want anyone there who is on the fence or has questions," Longboat Key Club Public Relations Manager Katherine Songster said.
The meeting will begin with a 15-minute presentation by Key Club General Manager Michael Welly. A panel discussion moderated by Longboat Key, Lido Key, St. Armands Key Chamber of Commerce President Tom
Aposporos will follow. Panelists will include north-Key registered voter Bill Kary and mid-Key registered voter
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"Given these times and recent events on Longboat Key, this project may be one of the most important events of our time," Aposporos said.
Longboat Key Club Town Hall redevelopment meeting
When: 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13
Where: Key Club's Harbourside Dining Room, 3000 Harbourside Drive
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Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law school student at the center of the Rush Limbaugh "slut" controversy, took a stand against her conservative detractors this morning, reemerging on CNN to promise that she will not be "silenced" by Limbaugh's "smears."
"Opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves," Fluke wrote in a commentary for CNN.com. "These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care. These attempts to silence women and the men who support them have clearly failed."
"Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us," she added.
In an interview on CNN's "Early Start," Fluke elaborated on her op-ed, explaining that she wrote the piece to combat misinformation about the contraception debate.
"I wanted people to understand that this is neither government-subsidized contraception nor is contraception as incredibly cheap as some people have shared," Fluke said, adding that her Congressional testimony was about whether private employers should be required to cover contraception in their employee health plans.
Fluke's appearance is likely to fuel the controversy that has erupted in the wake of Limbaugh's verbal assault. Although Limbaugh has apologized for calling the 30-year-old law student a "slut" and a "prostitute," conservative pundits have taken to the ramparts to cast Fluke as a Democratic pawn. The right-wing blogosphere has dug up Fluke's resume to support this theory, pointing out that she has a history of women's rights activism and once supported a law to prevent employer discrimination against LGBT peoples.
Fox News' firebrand Bill O'Reilly has been particularly outspoken about his distaste for Fluke, saying last week that she had "allowed herself to be run by very, very high forces." He also suggested that she might be getting financial backing from Democrats.
"For six days, we have been telling you that the 30-year-old Georgetown law student has become a major player in the presidential election," O'Reilly said during his show last Friday. "Last night, we reported that she is now being handled pro bono, for free, by [former Obama aide Anita Dunn's] PR firm SKDKnickerbocker, which is good, because Sandra doesn't have enough money to buy birth control pills, as we know. But there is more to Sandra's story than just contraception. Right now, she's on spring break in California with her boyfriend, who is the son of Democratic stalwart William Mutterperl. He has made at least 56 donations to Democratic candidates or organizations. Nothing wrong with that — I'm just pointing it out."


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My first exposure to the Tightwad Gazette was on the sitting table at a friend's house. I actually remember them having several copies of the original newsletter, and I flipped through several issues of it, utterly amazed that there was this much that could be written on how to save money. Some of them seemed massively over the top, some of them seemed like common sense (my family did them), and others seemed like clever ideas, but they were all entertaining. It's very similar to the impression I have of it today, actually.
Promoting thrift as a viable alternative lifestyle is the proud, loud subheading on the cover of the massive Complete Tightwad Gazette. Weighing in at a hefty 972 pages, this book is a compendium of the entire six year run of The Tightwad Gazette newsletter, a publication written and distributed quarterly between 1991 and 1996. The focus of all of the material is on frugal living in some form or another.
What's inside? Virtually every article ever published in that newsletter, organized in an almost random fashion. The book is actually just a series of articles, almost like blog postings, from a seriously frugal individual. I would roughly estimate that the book contains about 1,200 short articles on specific topics of frugality. While the original newsletters aren't reprinted verbatim, almost all of the vital information from each one is included in this tome.
A Deeper Look At The Complete Tightwad Gazette
The Complete Tightwad Gazette is a giant tome of short articles. In some ways, it's reminiscent of a great blog on frugality, merely in printed form.
Instead of attempting to walk through every little bit of this tome, I tried to pull out fifteen ideas from the book that really inspired me to save some money. When I read through this slowly over the last several months, I took lots of notes (with page numbers) and then actually attempted to use many of them in my life – all twenty of these have found some success for me (I actually had about seventy in my notes that I marked with a star as being useful – I just started at the top and somewhat chose at random).
Start a price book (p. 33) Get a three ring binder and a small pile of sheets with three holes punched on them. At the top of each page, write an item you buy regularly (toilet paper, peanut butter, etc.). Then start going to different stores and writing down the prices on the brands that you buy. Spend a month or two trying different stores out and jotting the prices, then start planning shopping trips using that book, focusing on stocking up on the items that are cheapest at a particular store. Plus you can find out if store flyers are actually saving a lot of money versus the competition.
Buy cars near the end of the month (p. 39) Car dealers often have to fill a monthly sales quota, so go in at the end of the month and drive a very hard bargain. You might cut into their commission, but if it makes them reach their quota, it's probably worth it to them.
Buy fewer Christmas presents for a child (p. 79) I strongly agree with this philosophy. My most memorable Christmases as a child were the ones where I received just one or two amazing gifts, not other years where my parents had more money and got me a pile. For instance, I would rather buy my daughter an iPod than six or seven gifts between $20 or $30 – she'll forget those gifts quickly, but that one will be dear to her.
Make potholders out of old blue jeans (p. 121) I actually did this by hand (yes, a guy who enjoys sewing on occasion), stuffing it with some leftovers from one of my wife's projects. Easy as pie, just cut out two pieces out of an old pair of jeans that would otherwise get tossed, sew them together, turn it inside out, stuff it, and sew the opening. Viola – an interesting pot holder for the kitchen and it was basically free. A denim potholder actually has a really nice "homey" feeling to it.
Deconstruct a recipe (p. 212) A delicious seafood casserole recipe appears here, but the real value is in looking carefully at the items and seeing how you can save money on each of them by buying store brands or making it yourself instead.
Make your own popsicles (p. 223) This is one summer treat that my son truly enjoys, and we've been making them out of our own healthy ingredients (applesauce, fruit juices, etc.). This article gave a lot of tips on how to make them. I found, after experimenting, that an ice cube tray with deep wells makes great popsicles.
Make your own salad dressings (p. 230) These recipes became the basis of a lot of food experimentation at home with my wife, and we discovered that even when we made a few disastrous batches, it was sstill cheaper than buying it in the store.
Make solar iced tea (p. 255) Just get a gallon jug of water (we use a gallon glass jar, actually), put six tea bags in it, and let it sit out in the sun for several hours (the longer it sits, the stronger the tea). My wife and I drink it unsweetened, but you can add sugar or lemon juice to taste after it's done. It's simple and a very cheap beverage.
Buy store brand foods (p. 320) Many store brands are actually just repackages of the name brand stuff. Why pay more for the company's advertising budget? You've got me. This also confirms my suspicion about several items that appeared identical in store brand and name brand from my local grocery store.
Discuss cutting down on Christmas gift exchanges (p. 493) Many families (mine included) spend far too much at Christmastime on unnecessary gifts. A frank discussion about these (and this article provides tips) can often save everyone some serious cash.
Don't change your car oil every 3,000 miles (p. 526) For starters, read your car's manual – it might recommend longer intervals. You might also switch to a synthetic oil that requires less frequent changes.
Introduce frugality to your kids (p. 536) If you've introduced them to money, frugality is easy. If they want gummy fruit treats, show them how much cheaper real fruit is. If they want juice boxes, show them how much cheaper juice is in bulk even if you buy a reusable container to drink it out of. Not only does it teach the child how to think frugally, it can cut down on junk food, too.
Memorize a generic recipe (p. 625) Basically, the idea is that if you memorize the framework of a very basic recipe, you can reuse it with variations forever. The sample here is a casserole recipe that has infinite variations:
1 cup main ingredient
1 cup second ingredient
1-2 cups starchy ingredient
1 1/2 cups binder
1/4 cup "goodie"
Main ingredient: tuna, cubed chicken, turkey, ham, seafood, etc.
Second ingredient: thinly sliced celery, mushrooms, peas, chopped hard-boiled eggs, etc.
Starchy ingredient: thinly sliced potatoes, cooked noodles, cooked rice, etc.
Binder: cream sauce, sour cream, can of soup, etc.
"Goodie": pimiento, olives, almonds, water chestnuts, etc.
Topping: cheese, bread crumbs, etc.
Using this, you can just buy whatever's on sale to fit each slot. I'll say that the chicken + mushrooms + rice + cream of chicken soup + cheese combo (no goodie) is fantastic, for instance.
Take up reading as a hobby (p. 862) Reading is about the cheapest hobby you can have, especially with libraries available to you. It's actually far cheaper than television, even, and can provide both educational and entertainment rewards.
Don't spend money to raise money (p. 868) If you're trying to raise money for an organization, try doing things like having a white elephant auction (people bring stuff to be auctioned off that is just laying around the house) along with donated items from local businesses, a potluck dinner, a group yard sale, and so on. My high school class sold candy bars, which now seems kind of silly.
Buy or Don't Buy?
The Complete Tightwad Gazette is spectacular from start to finish. Even if a few of the ideas are a bit dated or a few are corny, they're always entertaining, and a large number of the ideas are very usable for saving money in your monthly budget. If you find yourself struggling to start cutting down on spending, or are interested in cutting your spending even more, this book is an incredibly worthwhile and entertaining read. Highly recommended, and the single best book on frugality I've read, bar none.
The Complete Tightwad Gazette is the thirty-seventh of fifty-two books in The Simple Dollar's series 52 Personal Finance Books in 52 Weeks.


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If Major Labels Are All About Helping Artists, Why Do We Keep Seeing Artists Calling Out Their Labels For Screwing Them?
from the just-saying deptIt still really amazes me that anyone takes the major labels or the RIAA seriously when they make claims about how they're doing what they do to help artists. The labels have a long and detailed track record of screwing over artists at every opportunity. We're seeing some details around that in some of the recent lawsuits we've covered. But, as we've heard time and time again from various artists, it goes much further than just fancy RIAA accounting.
The major labels tend to pick ahead of time just a few "winners" that they're going to put any real effort behind. If you're signed to a label, but aren't one of the chosen few, you're pretty much screwed. The label still owns everything, but you get no real marketing support, and you're limited in what you can do. So your album "flops" even though it was destined to do that from the beginning. To some extent, this is the nature of the business model that the majors have set up, where they only make money on a very small number of big hit albums, that they spend a ridiculous amount of money promoting. Everything else just isn't worth it for them. Of course, that doesn't mean those albums are bad, or that they might be quite profitable if they weren't locked into the majors' obsolete way of doing things. But for the artists who get the short end of one of those types of label deals it can be incredibly frustrating.
Take, for example, the situation of KiD CuDi, a hip hop artist who's been considered one of the bigger up and coming acts these days. However, he recently decided to go in a slightly different direction, and put together a more rock-influenced album, citing inspiration from Pink Floyd, Nirvana, the Pixies and ELO. That album came out yesterday, and apparently Universal Music decided that it wasn't going to support the album much at all, leading CuDi to unload on Universal via Twitter for its lack of support. Put together, his tweets read:
Ok so just a heads up, my weak ass label only shipped 55k physicals cuz they treated this like some indie side project tax right off. So i apologize on behalf of my weak ass major label. And I apologize for the lack of promo, again, my weak ass major label. They tried to rush me thru this so i can just give em another MOTM, but guess what? Fuck that, next album is WZRD. MOTM3 on hold til 2014. who mad??? not me and @DotDaGenius. So its def gonna be tough to find one in the stores guys, I'm sorry about that. I gotta go out and find one too, becuz my weak ass label never even gave us a copy of our own album. FAIL!!! Im lettin Universal Republic have it, fuck it. What they gon' do, spank me?? hahahaha. AND Teleport 2 Me, Jamie aint on the radio!!!! like helloooooooooo????? HIT HIT HIT!!!Obviously, Universal Republic made a decision not to support this album, because they don't think it'll bring back what they want it to. And that's their decision -- but that's one of the risks of signing with a major label, and it's one of the reasons why more artists should really think twice about giving so much control to an entity that might just decide to stop supporting you. I don't begrudge Universal making this decision, but it again highlights that the major labels aren't looking out for the best interests of the artists at all. They're looking out for their own best interests.
This isn't to say that all labels are bad. Artists can find some smart and innovative independent labels that still give the artists plenty of say and control, but the majors are the majors, and to think they represent the artists is clearly a joke. So when it comes to public policy debates, why do politicians and the press still continue to assume that the RIAA and major label view is what's best for the artists?
Filed Under: kid cudi, labels, music, promotion, wzrd
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Laika, makers of Coraline and the upcoming ParaNorman, gives us a peek inside their stop-motion animation process with this fun little "making-of" featurette. Here, we get to see how one of those stop-motion figurines is made, starting from the jointed skeleton, through the molded body and the sewn-on clothes.
Honestly, I could watch stuff like this all day, although I'd eventually convince myself that I could make my own ParaNorman doll. That can only end with burned rubber splashed across my counter tops.
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What am I talking about? How come when humans wander in nature and enter the habitat's of wild animals (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/05/norway.polar.bear.death/...) and a human casualty results - subsequently they kill the animal? It is like this with mountain lions, bears, etc. I don't understand - we wander in their turf, what do we expect? These things are going to happen from time to time.
There was one exception - recently in Yosemite there was an attack in which the bear was simply defending its cubs so they didn't kill the bear as the visitors seemed to encroach into the bear's territory - but I just don't understand why the first knee-jerk reaction is to kill the wild animal. I actually find it sad and abhorrent. I don't know...am I getting upset over nothing??
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The training given is on how to use a rifle should it be needed. Expert advice is given on when to shoot a polar bear, and the only way to shoot one - is to kill. There is every intention of avoiding having to do so, and they go to some lengths on that front.
They deliberately travelled to Svaalbard - which is 'heavily' (?) populated with bears. There are bears there - that's where they live. But this organisation has been running since 1932, started by one of the members of Scott's expedition. It puts young people into the arctic every year and has a fantastic track record in terms of environmental and other primary arctic research.
If you go to places where there are polar bears you have to accept that occasionally either they will eat you, or you may have to shoot one. Significant efforts can and are made to avoid the last scenario by BSES. But unless you ban travel to Svaalbard, then the bears cannot be entirely avoided. Why would you question the research they have done? They are genuine experts on Svaalbard! They send Young Expeditioners there with highly experienced Arctic leaders, every year.
So you are now displaying real ignorance. Please educate yourself on the specifics of this organisation and their expeditions before wading in and making these comments. You accuse them of arrogance. I find that more than slightly ironic given the strength of opinions you expressed and the lack of knowledge you had to hand when making them. Now that is arrogant.
More tragedy for Norway. I wonder did that bear read the Anders Brevik manifesto. Ahhh, that's it!
I find it very hard to find a sliver of sympathy for humans who wander into other animals territory and expect nothing to happen. Is this shocking? No. Is it sad? No, it is completely normal.
Derek - this utterly misrepresentative. They did not 'wander' in.
Seriously. Educate yourself as to what happened before commenting.
Wandered in or travelled in for research? What is the meaningful difference in such a situation? I know what happened Jimmy, I've read up on it. But as I've said I find it very hard to find any sympathy for the death of the schoolboy. I've tried but it's just not there. If you are willing to put your life at risk for such research then that's great - but you must accept all of the consequences that come with it, and that includes death. You play with fire you get burned.
The bear was starved and possibly infected with rabies. It would have killed everyone if it had not been put down. In fact, the guy who shot it actually tried to fight it off with the noble art of fisticuffs before reaching for his rifle.
If you care so much about starving bears, you might want to give them a hand. ;)
That's fine Arcus, shoot the bear in self defence but why bother to put lives at risk in the first place? - human and bear. The bears on Svalbard are under stress, there is little food as the ice won't return for a few more months and we have idiots moving through their range, cooking etc and expecting a fence to warn of a bears approach. This is hardly a safe environment for "expeditions" is it?
Why was a single fence used? Why were they sleeping in a similar area to where they had been cooking etc. Seems to me there are a number of serious questions to be asked here of the organisation of this expedition.
There needs to be a serious and deep inquiry into future expeditions to Svalbard as it is clear we should not be there if we do not know how to mitigate the risks to both human and bear.
There are answers to all those questions if you bother to read.
However you would continue to infer human failure rather then get the facts.
The facts infer human failure. There is no shame in that.
Because Svalbard is a source of great knowledge in a number of fields such as climatology, paleontology, and ecology. The research carried out there adds vast amounts of information to the pool of human knowledge. In addition, it is also home of the Global Seed Vault and there are serious suggestions to put up massive server parks due to it's prime geographical location.
The young man who died was on track to become a medical doctor. The remaining researchers are all young, bright and promising. How many such lives are you willing to sacrifice to save a bear?
No life is worth sacrificing. My point is, why get into that situation in the first place. 100% safety should come before research.
There is no such thing as 100% safety.
That's true. But at least prioritize it over the research.


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