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Two graphic novels, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Craig Thompson's Habibi, were among the 10 most frequently challenged books last year in U.S. public schools and libraries, according to the American Library Association.
The annual findings of the organization's Office of Intellectual Freedom were released Monday to help kick off National Library Week.
Creators | Political cartoonist Ted Rall talks to the local news about his firing by the Los Angeles Times, which concluded a post he wrote in May for its OpinionLA blog about being stopped by police in 2001 for jaywalking contained "inconsistencies." Rall, who worked for the Times on a freelance basis, insists the audiotape of the incident provided to the newspaper by the Los Angeles Police Department doesn't contradict his statements about being treated rudely and handcuffed. "I would do it all over the same way today," Rall told CBS Los Angeles. "I'm disgusted that the Times took the LAPD's word, based on nothing." [CBS Los Angeles]
Awards | Big Questions by Anders Nilsen has won the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for 2012, the second such award given by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book. The organization also named four honorees: Freeway by Mark Kalesniko, Habibi by Craig Thompson, Life with Mr. Dangerous by Paul Hornschemeier and Zahra's Paradise by Amir and Khalil. The awards will be presented during a ceremony at Penn State later this year. [Pennsylvania Center for the Book]
Publishing | IDW Publishing has promoted Dirk Wood to vice president of marketing. Wood joined IDW in 2010 as director of retail marketing. [IDW Publishing]
Conventions | Misha Davenport previews this weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. [Chicago Sun-Times]
Hello and welcome to What Are You Reading? This week's special guest is Simon Monk, an artist whose "Secret Identity" paintings we featured here on Robot 6 not too long ago. Monk is actually selling limited edition prints of his paintings on his website now, so go check them out.
To see what Simon and the Robot 6 crew have been reading, click below.
• iFanboy has named Petrograd by Phil Gelatt and Tyler Crook as their book of the year.
• Johanna Draper Carlson shares her top ten graphic novels of the year, a list that includes Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol, Criminal: The Last of the Innocent by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, Love and Capes: Wake Up Where You Are by Thomas Zahler and Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton.
• Danny Djeljosevic, Nick Hanover and Jason Sacks at Comics Bulletin count down their top ten graphic novels of 2011, which include Frank Miller's Holy Terror, Oil and Water by Steve Duin and Shannon Wheeler, and Habibi by Craig Thompson.
• Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson continues her countdown of the top people of 2011. Jeffrey Brown comes in at No. 71, while Brian Selznick lands at No. 55. Jeff Lemire is at No. 31. Robert Kirkman and Kevin Smith both break into the top 20. I won't spoil the No. 1 pick, but I agree with it wholeheartedly.
• Jonathan P. Kuehlein of the Toronto Star picks his year's best, including Vietnamerica: A Family's Journey by GB Tran, Joe The Barbarian: The Deluxe Edition by Grant Morrison and Sean Murphy, and Scarlet: Book 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev.
• Ryan K Lindsay and Ken Boehm share some of their favorite comics of the year over at The Weekly Crisis.
Season's Greetings and welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading?, our weekly look at what we've been reading lately. Today our special guests are Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows, editors of Devastator: The Quarterly Comedy Magazine for Humans. Their latest issue has a video game theme, with contributions from James Kochalka, Corey Lewis, Danny Hellman and many more. And if you head over to their website between now through Dec. 16, the code ROBOT6 gets you 20 percent off single issues.
To see what Amanda, Geoffrey and the Robot 6 crew have been reading lately, click below.
Yesterday we kicked off our holiday gift-giving guide, where we asked creators like Jim McCann, Matt Kindt and more for gift suggestion and what they'd want to receive this year. Today we're back with six more creators, and we asked them the same questions:
1. What comic-related gift or gifts would you recommend giving this year, and why?
2. What gift (comic or otherwise) is at the top of your personal wish list, and why?
So without further ado, let the joy continue …
Jeff Parker
1. If you have young children, you can give them hours of quality time with any of Dark Horse's Harvey Comics collections. My kids have been poring through them repeatedly. I'll be following up with old back issues of Casper, Dot, Richie Rich and Hot Stuff from the local comics shops; they're always very cheap.
2. I would not sneeze at getting that Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes volume from Fantagraphics.
Jeff Parker is the writer of Hulk, Thunderbolts and the webcomic Bucko.
Tim Seeley
1. I'm a firm believer in buying comics for everyone on your list, even if they aren't an avid fan. Make 'em a fan! All-Star Superman for the superhero fan, Dungeons & Dragons from IDW for the gamer, Habibi for the sophisticated reader, and, of course, my Hack/Slash Omnibi for the horror fan. Or, if you're planning on dropping a bit more, might I suggest an iPad, loaded with comics apps?
2. I want the collected version of the web strip OGLAF, which I thoroughly enjoy. I wouldn't mind a CS Moore Witchblade statue to inspire me while I write.
Tim Seeley seems to be all over the place lately, whether it's writing the new Bloodstrike series from Extreme or Witchblade for Top Cow, drawing issues of Marvel's Generation Hope, or working on his own creations like Hack/Slash and Jack Kraken. There's a good chance I forgot something, but you can follow him on Twitter to learn more.
Sales charts | Responding to an iFanboy article that speculates on what titles Marvel might cancel next, Men of War and Viking writer Ivan Brandon makes the case against sales charts and the subsequent analysis of them each month: "There's an ongoing debate, for a bunch of years now. There are numbers that circulate every month, inaccurate numbers, people track them, people use that flawed 'data' to comment on what they see as the progress or decline on the list. A lot of comics professionals are against this, for a lot of reasons. In my case, for my books, the books I personally share copyright on … my reason is, and no offense to anyone out there: My income is none of your business. Just as your income is none of mine."
Tom Spurgeon offers a counterpoint: "Sales information seems to me an obvious positive, not because it reveals the bank accounts of creators, but because what sells and to what extent is basic information about a marketplace, and the shape and potency of a marketplace seems to me a primary item of interest for anyone covering that marketplace. It's foundational to our understanding of how things work and why. Certainly this information is already manipulated to brazen effect by companies with something to put over on customers; I have to imagine this would become worse under a system of no information at all being released." [Ivan Brandon, The Comics Reporter]
I'm not even paraphrasing! In a lengthy and fascinating interview with Nadim Damluji, the writer whose thoughtful critique of Craig Thompson's Habibi spearheaded the discussion of Thompson's use of Orientalist tropes and stereotypes in his depiction of Arab and Islamic culture and people (particularly women), Thompson comes right out and welcomes all the sticky, tricky, at times uncomfortable and unpleasant associations his use of harems, slavers, sultans and so on call to mind.
Whatever you end up thinking of it, settling in with a comic book as big as Craig Thompson's Middle Eastern fantasia Habibi is one of the great pleasures of being a comics reader: "That thing you like doing? Now you're gonna get to do it for a long, long time."
For fans of good writing about comics, The Comics Journal's roundtable discussion of Habibi affords similar pleasures. Over the course of some 10,000 words, a group of critics and scholars comprising Charles Hatfield, Hayley Campbell, Tom Hart, Katie Haegele, Joe "Jog" McCulloch, and Robot 6's own Chris Mautner tackle nearly every aspect of Thompson's remarkably fecund book. Jog's comprehensive look at Thompson's mysticism-derived structure for the book — probably the most complex such structure used on this scale by anyone other than Alan Moore — makes the roundtable worth a read all on its own. But I also greatly enjoyed the discussion of the influence of Will Eisner; the potential for race to be a more problematic aspect of the book than religion or culture; the tension between depicting exploitation and being exploitative oneself; the question of whether Thompson leaves room for interpretation or puts everything right there on the page… As with Habibi itself, perhaps it's best just to dive right in and see where it takes you.
Okay, now I'm picturing the authors of Alec and Subway Series standing shoulder to shoulder, swords in hand, fending off the critical Ringwraiths as Craig Thompson cowers Frodo-style in the background. So yeah, the headline's a bit dramatic. But in light of critic and scholar Nadim Damluji's thoughtful and widely linked critique of Thompson's massive new book Habibi, I thought it worthwhile to direct you to a pair of acclaimed cartoonists' responses.
Damluji argued that in treating the Orientalist art and literature of the past as just another genre to play with, Thompson ended up perpetuating some of the very stereotypes he presumably set out to subvert when he decided to set his near-future fantasy in a fictional but still recognizably Arab/Islamic culture — particularly where sexuality and male-female relationships, often used by Western nations as a pretext for action against Middle Eastern ones, are concerned. Eddie Campbell responds that Thompson's interest in these topics, or more generally Love, are consistent; the Middle Eastern trappings of the tale are just the vehicle Thompson selected to get where he's going:
King City cartoonist Brandon Graham dropped this beauty on twitpic the other day — it's a lovely tribute to Craig Thompson's Middle Eastern epic Habibi, centered on the book's female lead Dodola. It's funny: I never would have thought there'd be much visual kinship between Thompson's lush brushwork and Graham's thin lines, but both artists have a curvilenear sweep to their work that turns out to make their styles mesh beautifully. And obviously, Graham can pack in the Thompson-esque ornamentation like whoa.
The best thing about the illustration is that no matter what you like about it, you can find more of that thing someplace online today:
Legal | Defense testimony began in the Michael George trial Monday after the judge denied a motion by the defense to order an acquittal. George's daughter Tracie testified that she remembers her father sleeping on the couch in his mother's house the night in 1990 when his first wife Barbara was shot and killed in their Clinton Township, Michigan, comic store. Another defense witness, Douglas Kenyon, told the jury he saw a "suspicious person" in the store that evening and that Barbara George, who waited on him, seemed nervous. [Detroit Free Press]
Conventions | Last weekend's Alternative Press Expo inspired Deb Aoki to offer a burst of suggestions on Twitter as to how it could be made better. Heidi MacDonald collected the tweets into a single post, and the commenters add some worthwhile points (including not scheduling it opposite the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, which attracts much of the same audience and is free). [Deb Aoki's Twitter, The Beat]
Awards | Ian Culbard's adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness won the British Fantasy Award for best comic/graphic novel, presented Saturday by the British Fantasy Society. [The British Fantasy Society]
Welcome to Food or Comics?, where every week we talk about what comics we'd buy at our local comic shop based on certain spending limits — $15 and $30 — as well as what we'd get if we had extra money or a gift card to spend on a "Splurge" item.
Check out Diamond's release list or ComicList, and tell us what you're getting in our comments field.
Graeme McMillan
It is, thankfully, the last week of September which means that, if I had $15, I only have one more week of new launches from DC to pick out potential favorites, Sophie's Choice-style. This week: Aquaman #1, Flash #1, Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Men #1, Justice League Dark #1 and Superman #1 make the cut (All DC, all $2.99 each).
If I had the chance to add some more money to take that total to $30, I'd go for some Marvel books: Brian Michael Bendis gets well-represented with Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #2 ($3.99); New Avengers #16.1 ($2.99), his "new readers jump on" issue with art by Neal Adams; and Brilliant #1 ($3.99), his new creator-owned book with Mark Bagley. Here's hoping I'm in a suitably Bendis-y mood when I read all of these ones.
Splurgewise, it has to be Habibi (Pantheon, $35), Craig Thompson's new graphic novel. I know a few people who've had a chance to read it already, and everyone has made it sound like a large leap ahead from Blankets, and something almost worth the many-year wait it's been since his breakthrough last book. I'm really looking forward to this one.
Habibi is in, if you can call it a genre, the Arabian Nights genre. It's borrowing from the tradition of 1001 Nights where one story folds into another and you lose sight of where you began. I was drawing from that book as a genre as if it were superheroes or crime noir, borrowing from a lot of the tropes of Arabian Nights and the bawdiness, the sensuality, the adventure, the violence, the religious aspects, the landscapes, the deserts, the harems.
— Craig Thompson, in conversation with CBR's Alex Dueben, on his ambitious new graphic novel Habibi, which is set in a world shaped both by actual Islamic and Arab culture and an old-school, romanticized/exoticized Western vision of the same. As I've written elsewhere, Habibi isn't really a book "about Islam," as some of its PR makes it seem — it's a book that uses Islam and the Middle East as a vector for exploring issues and obsessions close to Thompson's heart, from religious texts to sexuality to art and design to simply drawing sweeping panoramic views of the desert. In that sense, his use of the term "genre" makes a good deal of sense, since like any genre artist might do, he's using preexisting tropes as building blocks for his world.


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Worst One-Night Stand Ever
An anonymous encounter goes bad.
Of the many things one might be fearful that one's one-night stand might suddenly whip out during sex — an oversize anal plug, a hamster, an extra sex organ, a volume of self-penned poetry, put yours in the comments — the thing one Hell's Kitchen resident found brandished in their face during a recent casual encounter may be the scariest.
From this morning's crime log:
The 34-year-old victim and the assailant, in his 30s, were engaged in sex in the apartment on West 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue at 7:15 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Suddenly, the assailant pulled a knife and robbed the victim of a BlackBerry and $40.
Not least because if they were already "engaged in sex," where was the guy hiding the knife?
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The Suffering Servant
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Exposed to God
Though written thousands of years ago to a culture very different from our own, Scripture still communicates God's Word to us today. The power of the Bible to convict us and lead us lies in the fact that it is ...Read More
Into Holy Places
The high priests of old entered into a presence that had only the types and symbols of the immediate presence of God. But Christ, the God-man and Mediator of the new covenant, has entered into the direct, immediate presence of ...Read More
A Call to Praise the Lord
Worshiping God in spirit and truth must be the goal of our lives. Our Lord seeks such worship, and this worship is acceptable to him whether it comes from Jews or Gentiles (John 4:19–24). How do we know if we ...Read More
In the Fullness of Time
On the last day, God's perfect plan will be fulfilled, and throughout the universe, all creatures great and small will honor Christ. Our task as we anticipate this final day is twofold. First, we must live as He has commanded, ...Read More
The Joy of Forgiveness
We can stand in right relationship to God only if the perfect obedience of Christ is put on our record. If this has happened, the Lord no longer counts sin against us. At the conclusion of our study of repentance, ...Read More
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Many today believe, as Saul seems to have thought, that what one does is not as important as the sincerity behind the action. But God wants us to have right motives and right actions. True good deeds are motivated by ...Read More
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God's warning that we might not enter the promise is a real warning. Only those who keep their faith in Christ will finally be saved. But only Christ can keep us in our faith. He keeps us in faith through ...Read More
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The Mayor of London has said it would be 'insane' for the government not to spend big on London's transport.
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I boosted the lexiconographer achievement. I unlocked Jubilee for 50 played games...but not decennial for 10.
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The patch was going to come out on the 17th of Jan but it has not. Their twitter account has gone quite as well. It is starting to look like we won't get the update.
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We're running a website spread across three severs. Two of them are load-balanced web servers, and the last is a dedicated mysql server. The mysql server is running RHEL5 64-bit using a 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 #1 SMP kernel and MySQL 5.0.45. It's a pretty beefy server too, with a Xeon L5420 and 8 gigs of RAM. Our web server's php pages are configured to use mysqli.
Normally we don't really utilize all the resources we're given, we do 20-25 queries a second in the daytime. However, every so often, we'll smack headfirst into the max database connections limit and with that our site croaks. What's more, it's seems to happen at night, where the site's traffic should be at a minimum.
We started out at 100 max connections, we upped it to 300 and yet it still occurs. If it makes a difference, we notice that sometimes there are tons of sleeping MySQL processes, yet nothing that connects to the database utilizes persistent connections. It does not happen every night, we had some issues where it would croak every night and then it was fine for about a week and a half until today.
We don't have any monster queries that would tie up the database for minutes at a time. We've tried glancing over the SLOW_QUERY log. We have a few queries that show up in there, but generally they don't last for more than 1 or 2 seconds and those are quite infrequent.
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The short of it is I've been patiently (some would argue that "patiently" is not the correct word) for a new LOOK mountain bike. This is their first year into the full suspension market and so far the bike has gotten rave reviews from industry experts.
The first photo below shows the bike receiving some post-shipping TLC from Roy Gatesman at Peloton Cycles in Loveland, Colorado. The second photo is not the best quality, due to my error. Even though the quality of the photo isn't great, I had to include it because only the best shops let dogs visit. Meeka is seen enjoying TLC from Roy pre-run. Andy Yount is on the right side of the second shot. He is a new mechanic and a freerider currently healing a knee injury. Though I haven't seen him ride, I suspect his skills are very, very good.
Bad weather is moving in tonight. Sadly, it will be awhile before I get to go for a ride on the new LOOK. As soon as temperature and trail conditions allow, I'll go for a ride and give you a report. Until then, I'll patiently wait...
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After dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Bride (Thurman) resumes her quest for justice in the series' second installment. With those two down, the Bride has two remaining foes on her 'Death List' to pursue - Budd (Madsen) and Elle Driver (Hannah) - before moving on to her ultimate goal... to kill Bill (Carradine).


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Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities.
Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us to bring the advantages of "slow" to our community decision making. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered.
Susan Clark and Woden Teachout outline the qualities of real, local decision making and show us the range of ways that communities are breathing new life into participatory democracy around the country. We meet residents who seize back control of their municipal water systems from global corporations, parents who find unique solutions to seemingly divisive school-redistricting issues, and a host of other citizens across the nation who have designed local decision-making systems to solve the problems unique to their area in ways that work best for their communities.
Though rooted in the direct participation that defined our nation's early days, slow democracy is not a romantic vision for reigniting the ways of old. Rather, the strategies outlined here are uniquely suited to 21st-century technologies and culture.If our future holds an increased focus on local food, local energy, and local economy, then surely we will need to improve our skills at local governance as well.
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The Defense Ministry plans to load its infrared sensors onto JAXA's new satellite to conduct research and improve its capabilities to analyze satellite images, according to the draft policy.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to rework the country's defense posture as North Korea has repeatedly defied international pressure and launched missiles and other projectiles. Japan is also vigilant against China's possible militarization of space.
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation released May North American Free Trade Agreement freight numbers showing that trucks carried 60.8% of the $98.6 billion of freight moved in May 2013 between the United States and its NAFTA partners, Canada and Mexico.
Trucks were followed by rail at 15.1%, vessels at 8.6%, pipelines at 6.8% and air at 3.9%. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 82.7% of the total NAFTA freight flows.
BTS, a part of the Department's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, reported that in May, for freight flows with Canada, trucks carried 55.2% of the $54.8 billion of the freight, followed by rail at 16.5%, pipelines at 11.4%, vessels at 6.4% and air at 4.6%. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 83.2% of the total U.S.-Canada freight flows.
For freight flows with Mexico in May, trucks carried 67.8% of the $43.8 billion of the freight, followed by rail at 13.4%, vessel at 11.4%, air at 3% and pipelines at 0.9%. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 82.1 % of the total U.S.-Mexico freight flows.
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I've done a few of these Biggest Loser workouts; when I do I feel like a big loser…and not in the play-on-words meaning of the show. Seriously, these people are twice my weight and can totally out workout me.
The hook of The Biggest Loser Workout: 30-Day Power X-Train is cross-training. Bob Harper and Dolvett Quince take us—and few of the TV losers—through a combo of shorter workouts. (Sorry, no Jillian on this one). There's the standard Warm-Up (5 mins), followed by the typical Metabolic Circuit, Power Training, and All About Reps (15 mins each). Oh, they don't sound typical? Well, despite the fancy names, they are. Which isn't a bad thing. Effective moves are effective moves, no matter what they call them. What we get here are lots of squats. Are you mad at your quads? Because Bob and Dolvett will help you punish them. Other moves include variations on squats. Oh, and some curls and presses too, which means you'll need a pair of hand weights. The three main segments aren't all that different. A quite decent Cooldown (5 mins)—at least for these types of DVDs—helps us stretch it all out.
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I've been feeling twinges and pangs since week 5. ┬ĀI still have 2 weeks before my first OB appt, but no apparent problems (bleeding or significant cramping), so I'm just assuming that it's normal growth/stretching.
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I have an 18 month old DD, but I don't remember getting RLP with her. ┬ĀI never understood what people were talking about when they said how much it hurt. ┬ĀI feel fine otherwise.
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Delaney - 1/23/10 & Gavin - 1/26/12
I kinda feel like I have round ligament pain from the begining to the end of my pregnancies, it never really stops for me.┬Ā It's not constant pain or anything, but the occasional twinges or sudden pulls/tugs down by my ovaries is pretty much my norm.┬Ā In fact, with all three, that was my first sign of pregnancy, right around 4 weeks, I feel a tugging on my extreme lower right side.
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DS: (10) DD: (8) DD: (4)...trying for #4!
RLP was the reason I took a pregnancy test :) This is my third but I had it by 5 or 6 weeks with my first and second babies as well.┬Ā It's the worst when I move suddenly or cough/sneeze.┬Ā I was really worried when I felt it with my first baby until I knew what it was.┬Ā It can really hurt!
Stay at home mama to Lila (January '08) and Ethan (June '11) and baby # 3 due mid February.
I never had it with DS, but I noticed it a few weeks ago with this one. ┬ĀIt actually was pretty bad--it was on my right side, just to the left of my right hip bone though. ┬ĀI read that it isn't supposed to start until second trimester, but this is my second, so who knows. ┬ĀIt seems to have stopped (knock on wood), along with MOST of my other symptoms (the gas/bloating is still here--oh joy). ┬ĀI'm 10 weeks 5 days though, so I think that may have something to do with it.
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I just had a problem where texworks would not start after hunspell was updated (1.3.0 -> 1.4.1) and instead print the error:
texworks: error while loading shared libraries: libhunspell-1.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The solution was to reinstall texworks so it would use the updated hunspell.
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Package Details: texworks 0.6.1-1
|Git Clone URL:
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|A TeX IDE inspired by TeXShop.
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- desktop-file-utils
- hunspell
- poppler-qt5 (poppler-qt5-git)
- qt5-script (qt5-script-git)
- cmake (make)
- hardening-wrapper (make)
- lua (make)
- python (make)
- qt5-tools (qt5-tools-git) (make)
- lua (optional) – Support for Lua scripting/plugins
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MarkH commented on 2016-07-06 23:32
I just had a problem where texworks would not start after hunspell was updated (1.3.0 -> 1.4.1) and instead print the error:
jakebailey commented on 2016-04-08 01:33
Thanks, everything builds now. Sorry I didn't respond, I made the post, but forgot to subscribe to the comments. :\
trichards commented on 2016-04-07 14:38
@qwertzdenek: Thanks the the suggestion. I've switched the build to use qt5. Adding qt5-script (and qt5-tools in makedepends) makes the qt5 build work correctly for me in a clean chroot.
qwertzdenek commented on 2016-04-07 14:02
@trichards: I finally built it using QT5. I missed qt5-script. So you need:
'qt5-base' 'qt5-script' 'poppler-qt5'
now you can set desired version to 5 and get rid of 4.
Happy TeXting
trichards commented on 2016-04-07 13:27
@henkm: Thanks for the feedback; I've added that flag to the PKGBUILD.
henkm commented on 2016-04-07 07:24
You can force CMake to use qt4 by adding the following to the CMake options:
This made it compile for me (you may need to clean out leftover stuff, I deleted and redownloaded the whole project)
qwertzdenek commented on 2016-04-06 22:32
@trichards: I can confirm that. CMake require QT4 so I hope he know what is doing. It crashed in section QtPDF for me. I don't know how to force QMake to accept QT5.
trichards commented on 2016-04-06 19:24
@jakebailey: I built this package successfully before pushing changes to the AUR, both in my normal environment, and in a clean chroot.
What is the output of your "TeXworks has been configured:" section while building?
jakebailey commented on 2016-04-06 18:53
I can't seem to build this release (v0.6.0) at all. Tons of errors, more than I'm willing to copy here. It seems like some of the source is being made for Qt5, for example:
In file included from /home/jake/texworks/src/texworks-release-0.6.0/plugins-src/TWLuaPlugin/TWLuaPlugin_automoc.cpp:2:0:
/home/jake/texworks/src/texworks-release-0.6.0/plugins-src/TWLuaPlugin/moc_TWLuaPlugin.cpp:15:2: error: #error "This file was generated using the moc from 5.6.0. It"
#error "This file was generated using the moc from 5.6.0. It"
/home/jake/texworks/src/texworks-release-0.6.0/plugins-src/TWLuaPlugin/moc_TWLuaPlugin.cpp:16:2: error: #error "cannot be used with the include files from this version of Qt."
#error "cannot be used with the include files from this version of Qt."
/home/jake/texworks/src/texworks-release-0.6.0/plugins-src/TWLuaPlugin/moc_TWLuaPlugin.cpp:17:2: error: #error "(The moc has changed too much.)"
#error "(The moc has changed too much.)"
Has anyone had any success building this?
Anonymous comment on 2013-08-23 00:45
When I zoom some document, texworks uses a lot of CPU and the movement of the magnifying glass is slow. I have also built texworks on Crunchbang and if I copy the texworks binary to my Arch setup it works fine so I am using the binary built on Crunchbang. What can be? the compiler?


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text: Workshops, Conference papers, Panels, etc http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3125 2016-07-28T20:50:20Z 2016-07-28T20:50:20Z The role of an ICT research professor in South Africa Kroeze, Jan H Pretorius, P D Roode, J D http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3655 2016-04-28T20:45:08Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The role of an ICT research professor in South Africa Kroeze, Jan H; Pretorius, P D; Roode, J D Until recently it has been assumed that all lecturers at tertiary institutions should teach, conduct research and do community service. Due to heavy teaching loads, this assumption has become evident as a very idealistic goal, especially in smaller universities where few academic staff members have to cope with various programmes and a high student to teacher ratio. Some universities seem to have realised this predicament and have started to advertise positions for research professors. According to authors' knowledge, NWU (VTC) was the first institution in South Africa to create a full-time research professorship in a School of Information Technology. This short paper is an attempt to clarify the expectations, roles and duties of such a position. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Issues in software development practices : A South African software practitioners' viewpoint Mavetera, Nehemiah Kroeze, Jan H http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3142 2016-04-28T20:44:13Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Issues in software development practices : A South African software practitioners' viewpoint Mavetera, Nehemiah; Kroeze, Jan H Software development is a process tasked with the development of artefacts that are used to implement organizational information systems. Depending on the social, economical and environmental setting, different software practices are used. These, however, have an effect on the resultant software product. In this paper, the authors investigate some of the software development practices that are used in South Africa. Through the use of interview techniques, the study highlighted a plethora of methods, techniques and tools that are used during the software development process. This paper advocates for a paradigm shift in the way information systems are developed. It motivates for developers to consider the social context of organizational information systems when developing software products. In a social context, capturing the organizational culture, context and human aspect contributes to the system's responsiveness and its adaptiveness to the ever changing organizational environment. Proceedings of the 11th International Business Information Management Conference (11th IBIMA), 4 - 6 January 2009, Cairo, Innovation and Knowledge Management in Twin Track Economies: Challenges & Solutions, edited by Khalid S. Soliman) 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A Preliminary Study for Post-Kyoto Period for Turkey by MARKAL Model Sulukan, Egemen Sağlam, Mustafa Uyar, Tanay Sıdkı Kırlıdog, Melih http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3139 2016-04-28T20:42:55Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A Preliminary Study for Post-Kyoto Period for Turkey by MARKAL Model Sulukan, Egemen; Sağlam, Mustafa; Uyar, Tanay Sıdkı; Kırlıdog, Melih There are several mathematical models that have been developed for assessing specific energy systems and MARKAL, that has been developed by the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program (ETSAP) of the International Energy Agency (IEA), is one of them. With several input parameters of technology related, economic and environmental coefficients MARKAL calculates the alternatives for minimum possible cost. This article reports the results of the Turkish energy model that has been developed by using MARKAL Model Generator. 5th International Ege Energy Symposium and Exhibition (IEESE-5)27-30 June 2010 Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Relevancy of ACM Curriculum for IS Postgraduate Courses in South Africa (Announcement) Kirlidog, Melih Pretorius, Philip D Jordaan, Dawid Zeeman, Malie http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3128 2016-04-28T20:45:34Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Relevancy of ACM Curriculum for IS Postgraduate Courses in South Africa (Announcement) Kirlidog, Melih; Pretorius, Philip D; Jordaan, Dawid; Zeeman, Malie SACLA Workshop 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z


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Physical Danger
There's not a lot of danger connected with being a cardiologist. After all, that ice-cold stethoscope goes on someone else's chest. The hours are long, but you learned to handle that in med school. And you're certainly doing better than the skeleton that's playing an eternal game of hangman in your office.
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Enablement services
What are enablement services?
In adult social care, enablement means giving people the support they need to enable them to stay as independent as possible, for as long as possible, in their own home.
The type of enablement services and support that someone can get depends on their need. For example, it could be:
- physiotherapy in hospital after surgery
- providing a simple piece of equipment or 'assistive technology'
- learning or relearning skills such as washing, dressing and cooking
- carers visiting regularly to help the person build their confidence to return home after being in hospital.
The enablement services we provide to people in Birmingham help them to do things for themselves and find out how much support they need.
Enablement services are now being used by social care and health workers in many other local authorities in the UK and in the National Health Service (NHS). There is more information about enablement (also called 're-ablement') on the NHS website. Click here to go to the enablement page on the NHS website.
Who can get enablement services?
Enablement services are for people who are finding it difficult to manage living independently at home and for people who have been in hospital.
How do I get enablement services?
If you are in hospital, a hospital social worker will talk to you about enablement services before you leave hospital.
If you live at home and you are having difficulty managing, we can arrange for a social worker to visit you and assess your needs.
Getting an assessment
You can read more about getting an assessment of your social care needs on our web page 'How to get adult social care services and support'. Click here to go to the 'How to get adult social care services and support' web page.
The assessment will help us to find out if are eligible for services from us. To read more about being eligible (or 'qualifying'), please see our web page 'Are you eligible for our services?' Click here to go to the 'Are you eligible for our services?' web page.
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Faust Nachts
Total Time
4hrs 30mins
Prep 4 hrs
Cook 30 mins
Fried dough in my German grandmother's tradition. A treat for Fat Tuesday.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 8 cups flour
- 2 3⁄4 cups milk (2% or whole)
- 2 compressed yeast cakes (sub ( 2 3/4 packets)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter (not margarine)
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 4 eggs
- 1⁄4 lb powdered sugar
- 1 quart canola oil
- Warm 1 cup milk. Add yeast and sugar. Stir and set aside.
- Melt butter. Add remaining milk. Heat to warm.
- Add slightly beaten eggs.
- Add yeast mixture.
- Add flour, use hole technique, using spoon then hand to mix and knead until dough does not stick to sides of bowl. Add flour if needed.
- Transfer dough, clean bowl, butter bowl with room temperature butter. Move dough back to bowl; turning dough to cover in butter.
- Cover bowl with lightweight, dry towel. Set aside for 2 hours or it doubles in size.
- Punch it, divide it into balls the size of baseballs. Set on wooden board.
- Cover dough balls for about an 1 hour.
- Heat Oil.
- Stretch dough and fry. Turn as dough browns. Remove when both sides brown.
- Add 1/2 cup 10X sugar to doubled, brown shopping bag. Place faust nacht in bag and shack. Kids love to help in this step.
- Freeze leftovers before sugaring.


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Bengals re-signed KR/WR Brandon Tate.
Free agent KR/WR Brandon Tate visited the Chiefs on Monday.
Paul Dehner of the Cincinnati Enquirer doesn't expect the Bengals to re-sign free agent Brandon Tate.
Brandon Tate was held without a catch on five targets in Cincinnati's Wild Card loss to the Colts.
Brandon Tate caught one pass for seven yards in Sunday's Week 7 loss to the Colts.
Brandon Tate caught four passes for 38 yards and one touchdown in the Bengals' Week 6 tie with the Panthers.
Brandon Tate caught 1-of-3 targets for 50 yards in Cincinnati's Week 2 win over the Falcons.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Bengals KR/WR Brandon Tate's "job appears in jeopardy more than ever."
Bengals re-signed WR/KR Brandon Tate.
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Wooden Caddy Building Plans – Unicorn Spit
YOU GUYS are so stinking sweet and awesome about my Lyme Disease diagnosis, and sure know how to make a girl feel loved. I'm SO happy to report that the past few days have been amazing, and I've almost felt 100%. (I hope I didn't just jinx it!) You better believe I made the most of it. It's so weird not knowing which days will be good and bad, and makes me want to have my ducks in a row every night before I go to bed… just in case I wake up feeling like I've been hit by a truck.
Anyway! It's easy to fake energy with excessive use of exclamation points!!! Am I right?!?!?! ENERGYYYY!!!!!
But seriously, I do have an exciting tutorial for you today. I whipped up a couple little wooden totes that can be used for SO MANY different things, and I'm gonna show you how to make one! A super simple building project.
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I first decided to build one of these to keep my collection of Unicorn Spit paint / stain / glaze. I use this stuff all the time for various projects, and they're so unorganized in a pile in my craft room. I'm always digging for a certain color, or trying to grab as many colors in my arms as possible for a craft project with the girls. It was a situation. So that's the background info on what inspired this project. But I also love the versatility of these wooden caddies and I'm wishing I had one for each room. So let's do this!
Supplies for Wooden Caddy
- 1×6 pine board
- 1" dowel
- 1 1/4" Kreg Screws
- Kreg Jig
- Jigsaw
I started by cutting my board to the following dimensions with a miter saw. These are the components for the box.
I hit the edges of each with some 220 grit sand paper, and then drilled pocket holes with my Kreg Jig… as follows:
In hindsight, I went a little crazy with pocket holes… this thing will be STURDY. That's for sure. If you don't have a Kreg Jig, some glue and brad nails would do the job just fine.
Next, assembly!
I screwed together 3 of the sides, then put the bottom in, and finished up with the 4th side. I didn't want to get all 4 sides together, and then have trouble fitting the bottom in. #beentheredonethat
Now that my box is built, it's time to start on the handle! You could use the dimensions/template from the building plans, or just use a ruler and something round to draw out your own. And don't forget, you can cut one and then trace it for your second side so they will be identical!
I used my Jigsaw to cut these out, but you could use a band saw or scroll saw too. We drilled the holes with a 1" forstner bit and sanded everything a bit. And then put the dowel in and screwed those suckas into place. Don't forget pilot holes!
You can see that we put some scrap pieces of wood underneath the caddy when assembling the handles onto the box. I loved how it gave the caddy 'feet by raising it up a bit.
I stained this guy using the new Unicorn Spit shade called 'Rustic Reality' (don't you loooove that name?!)
If I would have had the energy, I would have staged this thing up in so many different scenarios so you could see just how incredibly useful and adorable it is. But alas… NO.
But just think about it, you could throw in a bunch of mason jars as vases or to put paint brushes / markers in. You could use it for diapers / wipes. You could fill it with craft supplies, or legos, or snacks. Think bathroom counter with cute jars of q-tips, cotton balls, etc. Just so many options. The sky is the limit!
Side note: YOU GUYS… I'm obsessed with plants. That is all. ^^
Here's what I did with the second caddy that I built (specifically for my Unicorn Spit). I decided to change it up a bit and add some fun scalloped side. I also made the handle slightly shorter, and left off the little legs.
Don't you love how this simple build can be modified and personalized however you want? You could easily change the dimensions to fit your needs too. So versatile!
I traced the bottle of Unicorn Spit to get the scallops exactly the right size, and then I used the Unicorn Spit to stain each section… both for looks AND to use as a reference for knowing exactly what each color looks like on wood.
For those of you that aren't familiar with Unicorn Spit… it's like magical liquid gold. The colors are vibrant and numerous. And it can be used as paint, stain, glaze, and so many other applications. There's lots more info on this post I wrote awhile back, along with tons of gorgeous examples of what it can do. And how it's not toxic, miraculously smells like jasmin, blah blah blah.
I'm not getting paid to say any of this BTW… I just love this product and want the world to know. I've also become friends with the owner/inventor/genius, Michelle. And she's feeling super generous, because she's giving away a FULL SET OF ALL 15 UNICORN SPIT COLORS to one of my readers. That's like… a $250 value!
How to Enter:
- Leave a comment on this blog post
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- Must be 18 or older
- Open to US residents only
- Giveaway ends on 7/31/16, and will be announced the next time I blog
- Good luck to you!
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Wooden Caddy Building Plans – Unicorn Spit
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Geometric Pattern Plywood Accent Wall
So today I'm going to show you what we've been doing in the bedroom! Other than sleeping, and… stuff. Let's talk accent walls, shall we? You know I'm a fan of geometric accent walls, especially when there's a 3-dimensional aspect involved. Kinda ... [ Read More ]
Cinnamon Churro Ice Cream Sandwiches
Hey! Its Meghan from Cupcakes with Sprinkles. This month I have a cookie that's a twist on the churro. I LOVE summer!! My favorite part of summer is all the city festivals. Mainly for the parades. I love going to parades and I love that my kids ... [ Read More ]
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I've been doing some soul searching to try and figure out why I've been lacking inspiration and motivation lately (which should explain my absence). I've narrowed it down to the following: I had all 4 wisdom teeth removed We had 2 nieces ... [ Read More ]
Old desk turned into two Night Stands!
If you've been following our blog since 2011, you deserve an award for Most Loyal Reader Evah. (Dad you don't count). And you also probably remember this little furniture transformation where we chopped a desk in half to make two identical night ... [ Read More ]
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Monster Toss Yard Game
Nick and I love to entertain, especially in the summer. We're pretty casual about it though… no twinkle lights and fancy mixed drinks with beautiful tablescapes. Just us and some wide open space and good conversation. Playing corn hole, ladder ... [ Read More ]
Rounded Wooden Doormat Tutorial
My tutorial for our Half Circle Wooden Doormat has been very popular since I posted it almost 2 years ago. I love it when people email us their versions of our project… makes my DIY-lovin' heart happy. I even noticed that one of my blogging friends ... [ Read More ]
What we've been up to, and project sneak peaks!
It's been awhile since I've popped in to share what we've been up to as family. Sometimes I tell myself that 'nobody really cares' to see behind the scenes of our happy little country-bumpkin life. But when my dear loyal readers are emailing and ... [ Read More ]


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I need to organize a trip with friends, and this is the opportunity to check free online schedulers. Is Google Calendar the right tool for this, or are there better alternatives?
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Hi, I'm very new to wordpress and website building all together. I just added a Tweet button on my site but it's at the top of the page. How can I move it so it's sitting on the edge of my Featured page?
I put it on the Header.php, here's the code

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I tried to change the px but it doesn't do anything.
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Race Cleansing In America
A nationwide gene-purity movement promoted methods that eventually were adopted by the Third Reich. And everyone from John D. Rockefeller to W. E. B. Du Bois supported it.
March 2003 | Volume 54, Issue 1
Laughlin found a highly effective ally in Henry H. Goddard. Among the first American social scientists to use intelligence testing, Goddard was looking for the causes of retardation and mental defectiveness, and his search led him to a family in the Piney Woods of New Jersey that would function, in Stephen Jay Gould's words, "as a primal myth of the eugenics movement for several decades."
The family consisted of two bloodlines living in close proximity, each descended from the same Quaker progenitor who left home to fight in the American Revolution. Before returning to the fold, marrying an upright woman, and settling down as a prosperous farmer, the wayward soldier sired an illegitimate son with a feeble-minded tavern wench in a nearby settlement. Two hereditary roads diverged in those Piney Woods, both of which Goddard gathered under the pseudonym of the Kallikaks (kallos is the Greek for "beauty"; kakos, for "bad"). One led to generations of solid, hardworking citizens; the other, to a morass of felony, harlotry, and idiocy. Published in 1912, The Kallikak Family was widely quoted. It would be another 70 years before the photographs in the book, which displayed the imbecilic, almost demonic faces of the defective branch of the family, were exposed as having been heavily doctored to create the desired effect.
The spreading influence of eugenics not only drew on a conservative fear of lower-class behavior, and on the enthusiasm of middle-class progressives seeking scientific answers to the dislocations inflicted by industrialization and urbanization, but also attracted support from those even more radically opposed to the status quo. For the birth-control crusader Margaret Sanger, eugenics was "the great biological interpretation of the human race" that provided "the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems." The African-American writer and philosopher W. E. B. Du Bois even accepted the need for "the fit" of each race to increase their numbers, while vehemently rejecting the notions of white supremacy spouted by many eugenicists. African-Americans must learn, he wrote, "that among human beings, as among vegetables, quality and not mere quantity count."
The aftermath of American participation in World War I provided an ideal environment for the movement. The postwar hysteria over alien radicals and the resurgence of the racist, antiforeign Ku Klux Klan signaled a wider willingness to curtail dramatically the influx of new immigrants. Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, published in 1916, had sounded a call to arms against "the maudlin sentimentalism" that left America's borders open to the riffraff of Europe and that was "sweeping the nation toward a racial abyss."
When, in 1921 the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization took up the issue of postwar controls on foreign entry into the United States, Chairman Albert Johnson called only one scientific expert, Harry Laughlin. Laughlin was charged with making a statistical survey of the impact of recent immigration. His findings, published by Congress, repeated what was by now a familiar refrain: "... the recent immigrants (largely from Southern and Eastern Europe) as a whole, present a higher percentage of inborn socially inadequate qualities than do older stocks." In 1921 Congress took the historic step of imposing a quota system on immigration that was based on national origin and limited annual arrivals from Europe to 3 percent of those Americans who had claimed a specific country as their place of origin in 1910.
That same year, the Second International Congress on Eugenics was held in New York City, at the American Museum of Natural History, home to the recently established Galton Society—the inner circle of the movement—and a center of eugenic fervor. In his opening address, Henry Fairfield Osborn, a professor at Columbia University and president of the museum, insisted that the battle "to maintain the predominance of our race" had still to be won. He warned that America must learn from the example of "national decadence and decline which undermined the great republics of Greece and Rome" and reject "the appeals of false humanitarianism." As chairman of the Exhibits Committee at the conference, Harry Laughlin prepared elaborate displays on the genetic toxicity of the unfit. He displayed this skill again when Congress revisited its immigration restrictions imposed in 1921. In the months preceding passage of the Immigration Act of 1924, members of Congress and visitors walking the halls of the Capitol passed charts and posters that made clear the looming threat to the nation's germ plasm.
Harry Hamilton Laughlin
I want to get that bastard by shining a light on his evil acts which included turning back two thirds of the Jews on the steamship St. Louis that tried to offload 900 refugees on the East coast in 1939. Some two hundred plus eventually were gassed by Germany. This and a wealth of eye-opening detail can be found in MERCHANTS OF DESPAIR by Robert Zubrin 2012 Encounter Books. He details the enthusiastic involvement in racial house cleaning by our "First Families" which resulted in closing Ellis Island and effectively rendering emigration by German Jews impossible by reason of their potential to degrade the racial stock of any recipient country.
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