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Welcome to TeXtalk! Our interviewee is Mico. Mico has collected 158k+ rep, 3,000+ answers, and 730+ badges on TeX.sx. He is a regular participant in the chat room.
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Welcome to TeXtalk! Our interviewee is Mico. Mico has collected 158k+ rep, 3,000+ answers, and 730+ badges on TeX.sx. He is a regular participant in the chat room.
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Update: extended by 1 week, plus print book availability, see updated image.
As I'm proud of the book: any TeX.SE user who took the pre-order discount but doesn't like the print book at first sight, could send it to me if in original shape and I would refund personally. Can take copies for friends. :-) But this is limited to already registered TeX.SE users, 20 pcs in total, and 1 per person. For safety. :-D
Dear friends of TeX.SE,
after more than a year of work, I finished the LaTeX Cookbook. It's a great moment for me, and I'd like to share it with you. Especially, because the years here gave me a lot of inspiration and enlightenment.
The book is a collection of useful and interesting LaTeX recipes. Those are examples with step by step instructions. Each how-to is followed by an explanation of how it works. Then additional tuning details follow.
Take a look: Table of Contents.
To give you a better look at the style of this book, I made a website for it: LaTeX-Cookbook.net. The website shows you
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I already wrote it on LaTeX-Community.org: at http://www.dante.de/events/Herbst2015/anmeldung.html you can now register to the autumn meeting 2015 of DANTE e.V. It takes place on September 5th at the TU Graz. Besides the member's meeting and the program with talks, there will be an evening gathering the day before, and a tourist program afterwards. Early registering is extremely helpful for the organizers!
The meeting is also open for TeX friends who are not member of DANTE e.V. Participation at the meeting and at the talks is free.
I registered already, and I will fly Sep 4 from Hamburg to Graz and Sep 6 back. If anybody likes to join me, send me an email: I can get up to 2 cheaper tickets for traveling partners, because I work at the airline.
All information regarding place, travel information, and program can be found here.
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Congratulations for the new milestone, Enrico!
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From 20th to 22nd of July, the TUG 2015 conference took place in Darmstadt, Germany. It was a splendid time, and it was so great to meat you brilliant TeX Stack Exchange friends there!
We had
Joseph posted daily reviews on his blog, so you could follow the proceedings close to the time, or now see a summary.
I posted notes and thoughts on LaTeX-Community.org, you can find daily posts right on the front page. I tried to tell details about the presentations too, so it's a bit longish. I need to write another post there what happened on day 3, so stay tuned!
I don't repeat what Joseph and I wrote in the reports in detail, except the most important: thanks to the TUG, thanks to the sponsors DANTE and River Valley Technologies, special thanks to Klaus Hoeppner who did a marvelous job of organizing the meeting!
We made a photo of our TeX.SE group, so guess who is who!
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Yesterday, we lost Hermann Zapf. Brilliant type designer, a very special person. Hermann was 96.
He lived in Darmstadt, Germany and had been an Honorary member of the board of the TeX Users Group since 1980, with the deserved title of "Wizard of Fonts".
Hermann Zapf directly contributed to the TeX world with the Euler fonts and with several discussions with Donald Knuth about the design of the Computer Modern fonts. His legacy to the world of typography and type design is too big to be reduced to a list of his contributions: just the mention of Palatino, Optima and Zapfino, three fonts he designed, can illustrate his craftsmanship in type design.
Hermann was also a precursor of micro-typography in computer aided typesetting, with his HZ system on which the micro-typographic features of pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX are based.
Thank you for everything, Hermann.
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As announced a week ago, the ebook version of "LaTeX Beginner's Guide" written by me is available for free download today, March 4, 2015.
There's some background information on LaTeX-Community.org and specifically in a forum thread, and also here on this blog.
I will answer any question to the book's contents in the LaTeX Community forum. Experts: our forum also needs your help, perhaps have a look at the unanswered questions. Are you able to answer one, even if it's older? Orginal poster and later readers would be happy!
Some details, simply copied from what I provided to the publisher earlier:
About This Book
Who This Book Is For
If you are about to write mathematical or scientific papers, seminar handouts, or even plan to write a thesis, then this book offers you a fast-paced and practical introduction. Particularly during studying in school and university you will benefit much, as a mathematician or physicist as well as an engineer or a humanist. Everybody with high expectations who plans to write a paper or a book will be delighted by this stable software.
What You Will Learn
More details, including table of contents and sample chapter: Publisher's LaTeX book page.
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In agreement with the publisher, the "LaTeX Beginner's Guide" ebook will soon be officially available for free download. But this will be for a single day only, within the next two weeks. I cannot tell the date yet, not even if it's tomorrow or next week. Otherwise, the regular price is € 24.97, just € 0,00 during 24 hours, as the publisher allowed.
I'm the author of the book; and I want to make it freely available for our LaTeX friends who support or share our hobby without getting paid or rewarded for it. So, while on Stack Exchange we get reputation points and shiny badges for producing content and for various kinds of activity, there are still older web forums without that game. That's why my personal reward gets there at first: the whole story with more information and updates is here on LaTeX-Community.org.
Though it's an internal subforum thread to honor members, everybody can easily join to read it. A small LaTeX challenge question prevents bots from entering, but it won't be an obstacle for a LaTeX friend.
Life is peaceful there. No race to be the first, and room for all. There are hundreds if not thousands of unanswered questions, and even more unsolved questions
Would you like to help out a bit? If I see some of our fellow TeX friends from here helping with their experience to solve some topics and to answer some lonely question, I'll thank by sharing the upcoming download link for here as well.
Have a gut feeling that it's kind of site promotion? Well, LaTeX-Community.org already promotes TeX.SE, for example Luca's recent articles on the front page are purely advertising TeX.SE solutions.
Image courtesy of David Carlisle (MS Paint skillz FTW)
Welcome to TeXtalk! Our interviewee is Paulo Cereda. Paulo has collected 24k+ rep, 160+ answers, and 240+ badges on TeX.sx. He is an avid participant in the chat rooms, and a lover of ducks. Paulo is usually our interviewer, but today we've turned the tables.
I think we'll start in traditional fashion. Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what first led you to get involved in TeX?
Everyone feel free to ask away, and remember these things get edited before going into the blog!
Paulo is likely busy writing just now, I'll give him some air to breathe before hitting him with my questions.
Thanks everybody for this nice interview!
I'm Brazilian, born and raised in the countryside area of the economic heart of the country, the great São Paulo state. The city where I live is quite small (about 4k people), and it's a great place. I've been working with software development for quite a long time and just recently I'm back to academia for a PhD in computer engineering. Fun times, I'd say.
My first contact with TeX and friends was during my Masters, when I had to write a lot of mathematics. Nothing was working (Microsoft Word, I'm looking at you!), so I was in despair. Suddenly, a friend of mine suggested about this LaTeX thingy he was using for his own thesis, so I decided to give it a try. It was surely love at first sight.
How long was the break between your Masters and your PhD?
I believe it was something close to 4 years, if I recall correctly. It was interesting because it was a great time for discovery. Sometimes we need to broaden our horizons.
How many programming languages do you know?
The first language I learned was Pascal (Wirth is truly amazing). It was a lovely experience. Then later came C and C++. Nowadays, I always try to learn something new (at least the basics) language-wise. I know Java (it's the language I use on a daily basis), PHP, Scala, Ruby, Groovy, a bit of Python, Haskell, Lisp, Clojure, Prolog, Lua and probably a couple more, not to mention the languages I write myself. I love languages.
Wow, that's amazing!!
Thanks, but it's not that impressive. Once you know about algorithms, it's just a matter of learning a particular syntax.
You forgot the most important one.
or BASIC?
Oh of course, silly me.
Oh no! I was joking!
Can we presume that TeX is one of your favorite languages?
Do many of your colleagues (at university or when you were working in software development) use TeX or are you a lone voice for TeX?
Sadly, I think I'm a lone voice for TeX and friends. IMHO Brazil has no strong tradition of TeX in universities (if I had to blame something, I'd point my finger at ABNT, but that's another story). I know a couple of departments which offer LaTeX templates, but students prefer to stick with Microsoft Office. I usually try to act as a TeX evangelist at times, but my claims go unheard.
I think some comments on ABNT would be interesting.
Well, maybe at least explain the abbreviation.
ABNT should be the Brazilian analog of German DIN or the international ISO. It shares with the other similar organization a deep ignorance of typography.
Thanks. Well, let's mention IEEE, too, it fits in this society it seems.
Including their nice templates
ABNT stands for Brazilian National Standards Organization (acronym in Portuguese, of course: Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas).
They are responsible for technical standards. Personally I don't like their standards, and bear in mind that they have so many rules that one university can select which subset to follow and then a certain department can override these subsets by defining their own standards. I love standards, there are lots and lots for you to choose from.
It's a living hell to comply with their rules, and you are hearing this from someone that (to some extent) knows how to write TeX code.
May we know your sub field of research/specialization of PhD?
I work with adaptive technology (think of something that has self-modification features). A bit of theory of computation and a couple of mathematical models.
How did you get the motivation to come back to academia after having worked in the software industry for four years?
I'd blame that on being a researcher at heart. Everything happens at the right time, and it's been a wonderful time since then.
If you have tried to popularise TeX in your place, we would be glad to hear the modus operandi you have followed.
I usually do everything with TeX (from a conference certificate to a pamphlet). So when people mention to me that the layout is nice, I then reveal it's TeX-powered.
What kind of software do you usually work on?
For my work, I have a couple of IDE's (Eclipse, NetBeans, Idea) and several terminal windows side by side. For TeX, it's usually vim or TeXworks. Since I use Linux and Mac, I can organize all my things in several workspaces.
How did you come in contact with TeX.sx?
I wrote a tool that generated some images of finite state machines, but I was unable to make my TeX code keep the aspect ratio. I found TeX.sx and decided to give it a try. It was my first question. And the answer was quite obvious: I had to use
keepaspectratio. D'oh.
Thank Donald Arseneau for that.
Donald's packages are awesome!
Could you say something about your choice of editor?
I always go with vim and TeXworks. Vim is something I learned to love; I was enraged at the beginning, but then I was successfully brainwashed.
I like the modal philosophy and since I always had endless fights with my keyboard, reducing my typing range was something desirable.
It's like Marmite, I guess. I have emacs installed in my machines as well and I tried AUCTeX for once. Since it's Lisp-based, I somehow respect it. But since I look like a heavy vim bloke, I need to fight on the right side.
You also seem to have an interest in graphic design? The expl3 logo, your lion series, not to mention certain birds…
I used to work with producing animated GIFs (oh the shame). Those were the times, I used to draw every single frame with a very bad mouse and almost no skills. I decided to give it a try and I could make some bucks out of it, that's why I somehow draw things from time to time.
You created
arara [a macaw] and made the bird popular among us (not to mention ducks). What was the motivation to create it?
arara came by accident. I had a nice experience with rubber and liked some things about it (directives, for instance). Then I wrote a very basic code in less than 24 hours and showed a screenshot of it in the TeX.sx chatroom. You guys bought the idea and I decided to convert my attempt into something more serious.
Marco Daniel was the culprit for arara growing so fast; he was the true evangelist.
Are you fan of Disney's Ducks as well?
Donald is surely a great character, but he's very angry!
And speaking of ducks, is there any (particular) reason you like them so much? How about other birds?
I like araras too, and parrots. And hummingbirds. And lots more!
I think I once mentioned the duck story in the chatroom, but I'm glad to tell it again!
I think the story starts when I tried to learn German. I was very eager to learn it (I was a Rammstein fan at that time), but my time was quite limited: I was in the beginning of my Masters and had lots and lots of things to do, so I had to give up the classes. I decided then to try to study some language by myself, and I opted for sign language.
Brazil has its own format called Libras. I think the one I started was ASL (American Sign Language), if I recall correctly. Pardon if I say something very stupid, it's been a while. I tried to memorize the basic gestures, but I'm a slow learner. In a short period of time, I forgot almost all sentences. Except for a few words.
One day, I was in a conference and saw a lone girl in the corner of the auditorium. And I decided to talk to her.
When I said hi, she actually didn't look at me. When I came near her (apparently she didn't notice my presence), she then looked at me, but said no words. Then she wrote in a piece of paper that she was hearing impaired.
So I decided to talk to her through writing sentences in my notebook.
At some point, I think I mentioned that I tried to learn ASL, but failed miserably, mostly because I was stupid and could not memorize things. She then asked me to try a sentence for her. I got stuck because, as I said, almost 100% of my sign vocabulary was lost in broken synapses.
The only words I could remember were: I (you point your index finger to your chest), love (you cross your arms in front of your chest, just like some pirate flag), you (you point your index finger to the person you want to refer to) and, of course, duck (you close your hand and "quack" twice with it).
I thought that if I said I love you, it wouldn't be interesting. So I went with the second best sentence ever known to mankind: I love ducks.
When I did this, she looked at me, very surprised. And then laughed a lot.
So I still keep the theme as a good memory of something very tender.
I will learn the second best sentence known to mankind in sign language.
Behold the power of the duck!
it seems conventional in these things to ask what is your favourite question or answer on site (that you have posted)
My favourite question was Creating a zebra effect using listings, which resulted in yet another great package from Martin Scharrer.
Which of your answers on the site is your favourite?
I'd say my favourite answer was this one (Can I print only some functions with minted?). It's quite trivial now that I look at it, but it was the first I actually dealt with coding.
Grandma is probably the one that we still harvest points from, but I also like the cute document.
You're the highest ranked voter in the SE world. Can you tell us something about your voting philosophy?
I would say voting plays an important role in our community. Because it's a way of making people feel welcome. My philosophy is, if a question shows effort, it deserves an upvote. For answers, the idea is basically the same. If, by chance, there's a huge feeling towards downvoting a question, I prefer to leave the question be and try to ask the OP to rephrase things.
We can move the world with votes. It's a good way of making things happen. Everything wins.
Upvotes of course.
I vote a lot because I care a lot. I want people to feel the same way I do with this community. We have a lot of fun, it's a way of brightening your day. We are all part of this and the more people we can get involved, the better.
Which musical instruments do you play, which do you own, and which would you like to own?
I have a piano and a couple of guitars (accoustic and electric). I'd like to have a bassoon, so I could run after people while carrying an orchestra bazooka.
Or a trombone!
What do you do in your spare time (assuming you have any)?
I used to play soccer, but I had several injuries, so I had to quit. Nowadays, I do some bow and arrow and jog a lot. Not to mention that I like to read comics.
And which is your favourite piece to play?
I'm used to some Brazilian pieces, like the ones from Heitor Villa-Lobos. Also Bossa Nova is a great exercise for pianists, I think everybody should at least give it a try (start with Girl from Ipanema).
Thanks for the tip! Do you ever give performances?
It's been a while. I used to have a band, but nowadays I don't have time for performances. I play in the church, but that's another kind of repertoire.
Indeed it is, but it's known to be tough, accompanying the congregation.
Indeed. You need to think fast.
Cool! How often do you play?
I almost have no spare time. But at least once a day I play some notes on the piano.
And listening to music? But I'm a bit afraid of asking what's your preferred kind of music.
I love classical music, but when I jog, it's usually Pink Floyd that follows me (You better run! — bad pun, I know). I think it's good for musicians to have a wide knowledge of songs, including the ones you don't like too much.
Could you say more about the comics you read? Which is your favorite one?
I used to read a lot of comics (Marvel in general), but for now I only read those that are available on the web. These are the ones I follow: Awkward Zombie, Dilbert, Dumbing of Age, Garfield, Nerf Now, Foxtrot, XKCD and Questionable Content. Oh and PhD Comics.
Hehe… I was about to mention that.
How have you got involved with TUG and UK-TUG?
I don't know. Maybe because Joseph poked me about giving a talk at the 2012 speaker meeting through Skype. And I'm still struggling with getting my subscription. But when I ever get one, it will be from UK-TUG — they have David, so it's awesome.
So you're not a member of any of these associations?
Sadly, not yet. I plan to. I was also thinking of DANTE, but I cannot read German.
So not a member of the Brazilian LUG? (Is there one?)
There's no Brazilian TUG so far, although I thought of founding one (Karl even gave me some ideas on this subject). I think it wouldn't be a big group and we would have a lot of headaches because of ABNT.
The logotype would be a toucan. Look at this majestic bird!
Overfull hbox.
Uh-oh, we already failed.
You could have a group of one and be its absolute dictator.
Ooh ducktator!
Do you make much use of Lua or XeTeX (especially if not writing in English) ?
To be honest, I'm still stuck with PDFLaTeX for now, but I'm gradually moving things to XeLaTeX. Once in a while, I write one or two documents which require XeLaTeX, but in general, it's PDFLaTeX all day and all night.
What about LuaTeX?
I had some fun with LuaTeX but so far I have been quite pleased with XeLaTeX. The idea of embedding Lua code inside a TeX document is quite interesting, but I'm quite reluctant to mix them. Maybe in the future.
Are you planning a visit to Europe, in search for your roots?
Yes, it's in my TODO list. I'd love to visit Italy, specially now that I am officially an Italian citizen. And of course I need to lure you to sign my TeXbook.
What do you hate the most about TeX?
Can you make a minimal working example?
I'll say something crazy: I actually don't hate anything about TeX. Perhaps because I love languages, I learned to appreciate the design of them. Knuth knew what he was doing (as always) and the result was awesome. I once wrote my own macro expander and I discovered how tricky it is to provide "mere expansion".
Which books on *TeX are on your bookshelf?
I have The TeXbook, The LaTeX Companion, TeX By Topic (I printed one copy) and the L3 interfaces (but thanks to Joseph, my copy is now outdated).
Do you like to cook, and what is your favourite dish?
I actually don't know how to cook. Being half Italian, I love my mom's lasagna.
You are missing out on some fun. lasagna omnomnom
And tortellini, of course!
Ooh indeed!
Tonight we're cooking duck…
What?! Oh no!
Any current big project? You have to procrastinate writing your PhD thesis, remember!
I have arara 4.0 ready, except I still have the manual to write, so the release will be greatly delayed.
Let's see if I can fix that in December. I have plans for a local tree package manager (associated with Martin Scharrer's CTAN archive), so we will be able to deploy any package version in our local TeX tree for testing purposes. Let's see if I find time to finish this project.
That would be a very nice addition!
I blame percusse and his development versions of TikZ.
Any more questions? Or should we let Paulo escape?
Can I be British too?
If you wish.
It might be complicated.
You'd have to bow to the Queen!
Should do that anyway
Ooh! Or get up every time they play God save the Queen.
Wouldn't "Good morning, ma'am?" suffice?
So long as he knew the rules of cricket, it might.
Wait hold the press! When do you plan to finish that GUI for biblatex style creation? I want this promise on paper as an evidence for future annoyance.
Oh no! Maybe mid-2015? It's been a complicated year. I'll do my best and try to achieve something by mid-2015.
Thank you for your contributions to TeX and its SX network by the way. I salute you with a 40-duck quack.
No, I am the one to thank you guys. We are a team. We only grow as a group.
I only work alone mister… Where did I park my DB9?
Hi! Thanks for being our interviewee, and thanks to David for that.
Hello, thanks for joining the interview!
Apart from software are you interested in hardware design and assembly using basic processor chips?
I know a couple of things, but to be honest, I never got into hardware design. I think I'm more of a software bloke. But it's surely nice to have important concepts in mind, even if you don't work directly in any specific area.
One more Q: Why do you love Fedora so much vs. other Linux distros? Any particular reason?
I started with Linux in 2000/2001 with a distro based on Red Hat. Later on, I jumped into Slackware and got stuck with it for quite some time. Then I came back to Red Hat until version 9.0, I guess. If I recall correctly, after version 9.0, Red Hat forked their distro into a community driven effort named Fedora Core and a corporative branch named Enterprise Linux. I decided to give FC1 a try and I'm a loyal user since then.
I think it's a natural path, like Debian folks trying out Ubuntu. I believe I'm still a Slackware user at core (my old laptop proudly runs the latest version), but I think Fedora is a great option. As long as people use Linux the right way, I'm happy.
Thanks for your time and good chat over TeX.sx.
Speaking of your machines, what are their names? And what exactly is the system?
The naming convention I have for my machines is cities. I have alexandria (Fedora 20), manchester (Fedora 20), oxford (Mac OSX Yosemite), herakompolis (Mac OSX Lion), and thebes (Slackware 14.1). To break the pattern a little, my development laptop is satyagraha which means insistence on truth.
My portable devices are named after cardinal virtues (in Latin): my iPad is temperantia (temperance), my iPod is iustitia (justice), my other tablet is sapientia (prudence) and my cellphone is fortitudo (fortitude).
And my router is named potato.
Lol, I'm far from being that well-organized
CS people.
At a certain point, life forces you to be organized.
In names of your computers?
Probably in everything, I guess.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and time. You are a nice human being. I had to run away in the middle but thanks a lot for arara and biblatex GUI (in advance) and local tree package manager (in advance). (You are caught!)
Oh no!
Great answers. Where is herakompolis?
Hi Yiannis! I think I borrowed the name from a city of the ancient Egypt (I believe the spelling might vary). I once also had a machine named hamunaptra, surprisingly not from Egypt as The mummy movie portrays, but from India.
You said you tried to learn some German, some sign language. Are there any plans to learn some basic cooking recipes?
To be completely honest, there are plans for me to learn cooking. Once in a while, I grab a notebook and make some notes while my mum is cooking. I even considered preparing a cookbook (in LaTeX, of course). I might come back to this project sometime soon. Also, I want to try German again.
German language or German cooking?
Both, I guess. I really like German food.
How do you manage your voting "strategies". Do you keep a log of "to do"s handy for when the UTC flips over to 00:00:00 and then let your voting duck bots kick in?
I used to have a "to upvote" list in a plain text file, so my voting spree was actually
head -n 15 list.txt, then I'd get usually 30 votes (1 question and 1 answer), which would grant me 10 extra votes. Then these votes keep going to the next 5 items in my list or other answers from the threads I've already visited.
I guess as the popularity of TeX / LaTeX increases — see this map/graph — there may come a day when you may struggle with the voting decisions.
I think I won't suffer that badly. If a question deserves an answer, it deserves an upvote.
That's admirable, and something that definitely distinguishes this community from others. True, tenacious, unsung heros are non-existent, but ever-present.
I think we all do what we can. It's so lovely to see egreg and David, two TeX demigods, having fun writing competing answers for the sake of helping people to understand TeX and friends.
I agree. Major players in this community understand that there is a greater benefit to just answering the question. A little capitalistic competition is benefiting the greater good.
Arbitrary question: When did you join this community?
January 23, 2011. Two days before egreg joined, if I recall correctly. It's been a while.
Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.
Exactly. And I haven't finished reading my TeXbook yet.
Ha ha!
I'm stuck in some chapter. Afraid to look which one.
Thank you for this interview!
My pleasure!
Indeed, I think we can say 'That's a wrap.'
Thanks, pal!
Thank you for joining, Tom!
Thank you guys, you are awesome!
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My own thesis – which the template here is based on – can officially be found at the University Server (TUM) or on my PHD project website (German).
I first published my PHD thesis on the Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends page. I was asked to publish the LaTeX code on the Stack Exchange TeX Blog here which made me very proud.
I then started to create a lean template that is suitable as a starting point for most thesis projects. Therefore I kept the number of packages to a reasonable minimum.
Here are some impressions of the template:
The following packages are used in the template:
The template uses a recommended folder structure which looks like:
> 00_Backup > 01_Preamble > 02_Chapters > 03_GraphicFiles > 04_Tables > 05_Bibliography > 06_Listings > 99_AppendixFiles Batch_CleanUp.bat Batch_CompileFile.bat MainFile.pdf MainFile.tex
The main file does not contain much code. It includes different tex files using the \input command which leads to a very tidy and readable structure.
%%% File encoding is ISO-8859-1 (also known as Latin-1) %%% You can use special characters just liek ä,ü and ñ %%% LaTeX template by Manuel Kuehner, 2015
%%% If you use this template then please give credit like this: %%% ---------------------------- % LaTeX code inspired by the LaTeX Thesis Template by Manuel Kuehner % www.bedienhaptik.de/latex-template/ %%% ----------------------------
% ############################################## % Start: Template Preamble % ############################################## %
% Documentclass definition \input{01_Preamble/documentclass.tex}
% Loading additional packages from the KOMA-Script family \input{01_Preamble/KOMA-Script-Packages.tex}
% Page layout definition \input{01_Preamble/PageLayout.tex}
% Standard packages \input{01_Preamble/CommonPackages.tex}
% ####-Important-#### % % Definition of the two main colors % ----------------------- % The corresponding xcolor package ist loaded in the file % 01_Preamble/StandardPackages.tex % % ####-Important-#### \definecolor[named]{myColorMainA}{RGB}{0,26,153} \definecolor[named]{myColorMainB}{RGB}{174,49,54}
% Customization of % - Floating Objects (Caption) % - Table of Contents (TOC) % - List of Figures % - List of Tables % - Headings (like chapter, section, etc.) \input{01_Preamble/Floating-AND-TOC-AND-ListOf-AND-Headings.tex}
% Customization of the header, footer and teh margin note \input{01_Preamble/HeaderFooterMarginnote.tex}
% Optimize paragraphs (avoid overfull... warnings) \input{01_Preamble/ParagraphOptimization.tex}
% PDF related packages \input{01_Preamble/PDF-Related.tex}
% PDF related packages \input{01_Preamble/RandomTextPackage.tex}
% % ####################### % Ende: Template Preamble % #######################
% ############################################## % Start: Document % ############################################## % % ------------------------------------------------------------------ \begin{document}
% Title page \input{02_Chapters/TitlePage.tex} % Empty page after title page \cleardoublepage
% Activate header and footer defined in the file: % 01_Preamble/HeaderFooterMarginnote.tex \pagestyle{scrheadings}
% Activate roman numbering (e. g. xii) \pagenumbering{roman}
% Start with page 1 (I) \setcounter{page}{1}
% Prologue \input{02_Chapters/Prologue.tex}
% Abstract \input{02_Chapters/Abstract.tex}
% Table of Contents and Lost of Figures/Tables \input{02_Chapters/TOC-AND-ListOf.tex}
% Activate arabic numbering (e. g. 12) \pagenumbering{arabic}
% Start with page 1 \setcounter{page}{1}
% Introduction \input{02_Chapters/Introduction.tex}
% Main Part \input{02_Chapters/MainPart.tex}
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The template uses two colors as eye candy. In my opinion this leads to a more modern look of the document. The colors are defined in the main file:
% ####-Important-#### \definecolor[named]{myColorMainA}{RGB}{0,26,153} \definecolor[named]{myColorMainB}{RGB}{174,49,54}myColor_MainA is a dark blue and myColor_MainB is a dark red. You can reuse the colors like this:
\definecolor{myColor_Example}{named}{myColor_MainA}I also used the named colors in my TikZ/PGF drawings as you can see in the example output of the template: Example Document (PDF)
I use the KOMA-Script class scrbook as the document class. This has the advantage that there is a very extensive German documentation and the document class covers a wide range of features. Therefore I do not need less packages. The memoir document class offers similar advantages (but no German documentation).
% KOMA-Script class 'scrbook' % Link to the documentation: % German: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/doc/scrguide.pdf % English: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/doc/scrguien.pdf % CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/koma-script % Author of the KOMA-Script family is Markus Kohm \documentclass% [% paper=a4 ,fontsize=11pt % common are 10, 11 or 12 ,headings=big ,parskip ,numbers=noendperiod % 2.3.1 vs 2.3.1. (no dot after the last chapter number) ,twoside=true ,toc=bibliography % Bibliography appears in Table of Contents (without a number) ,toc=listof % List of Figures and List of Tables appear in Table of Contents ,version=last % Use latest version of the KOMA-Script ]% {scrbook}
In order to keep the template small and compatible with other packages there are features that are not implemented, such as extended math support, many symbols, bibliography, complicated tables, indexes, typesetting units correctly and fancy fonts. Here are some suggestions:
Regarding fonts make sure you visit the following discussions on tex.stackexchange.com:
I also like to use the hypercap package which solves the problem that hyperlinks to figures (floats in gereral) normally aim to the caption rather then to the start of the figure/picture.
The template can be downloaded on my PHD project website (scroll to the bottom of the page, I couldn't upload a ZIP file here). Here you can download an example document (PDF) which was generated with the template files.
I used LaTeX (pdfTeX) on a Windows 7 system (MiKTeX distribution) and chose Texmaker as my LaTeX text editor. There is a video tutorial that shows how to setup up such a system:
YouTube: Installing LaTeX/MiKTeX and Texmaker on a Windows 7 System (Version 2014)
I added two batch files to the template which work under Windows in combination with MiKTeX.
:: Delete all auxiliary files del *.aux del *.log del *.gz del *.blg del *.bbl del *.lof del *.lot del *.out del *.ptc del *.toc del *blx.bib del *run.xml del *.bcf
:: Delete all auxiliary files rem --- 'rem' or '::' is the key word for comments in batch files like this
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rem --- First LaTeX run (pdflatex) with special options (more memory) for large LaTeX projects and tikz stuff (-shell-escape) --- rem --- I use MiKTeX -- maybe you need another syntax if you use TeX Live for example --- :: --- pdflatex --extra-mem-top=60000000 -synctex=1 -shell-escape -interaction=batchmode MainFile.tex
rem --- Execute biber if used --- :: --- biber MainFile :: ---
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Other thesis templates can be found in the discussion here. Here I especially like the thesis template project from Siarhei Khirevich.
Some users saw the error message like in this screenshot:
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Politics Apropos of All the Sexist Pure-Bashing…
…below, I'll just note: The 43rd District is now the only legislative district in Seattle without a single female representative.
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And the 36th is the ONLY LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT without a male representative.
Helen Sommers isn't a guy?
I wouldn't be so sure about Mary Lou Dickerson either...
Another question: Which of Seattle underwhelming legislative delegations is the worst?
Had the Stranger's voting readership of (fill in imaginary number) only heeded its endorsement of Pure, the outcome would surely have resulted in feminine representation for the 43rd. Or - take an even greater leap of faith - had Dodson and Pure combined forces, their total vote would now exceed Pedersen's. But that premise is predicated on two imaginaries: one of them would have had to withdraw from the race and then persuaded her adherents to vote for the other. Or an even wilder supposition: if all women in the 43rd who could vote did vote for either Dodson or Pure, then this thread would be moot.
Obviously Erica it is because the good and right thinking citizens of the 43rd realize that women are completely and absolutely incapable of leadership. Either that or there happened to be some decent male candidates running for positions.
Give the victimization a rest. 90% of the Pure-bashing that I read on the Slog centered around the premise that she ran a bad campaign or was a bad candidate - NOT that she was a woman. Hopefully someone will give you and Nicastro a dictionary so that you can both look up the real definition of misogyny.
It's people like you - who claim race, gender or orientation bias any time that things don't go their way - that set back efforts to create a world in which these differences are not the central issue in any decision.
For some strange reason, I thought genital configuration was no longer much of an issue in Seattle - but - all of a sudden ...... Erica it is the same city that had 6 or 7 women on the city council at one time, a few years back.
Christine would not be the Gov. has it not been for Seatttle.
Won't float.
And when gay men call each other Mary, ask Dan, doesnt that count? Or is Jamie too hyper macho?
what the holy fuck? ECB, your constant promoting of Pure is garbage. You are quickly losing credility as a journalist.
Some things people need to consider.
1. Pure did do better than Dodson, in the face of some of the establishment trying to put her down, which is all Erica's original Slog post pointed out. But without the Stranger endorsement and subsequent puff piece this would not have been the case. This race was not about gender, it was about quality, experience and effectiveness. Pure lost because she didn't measure up in those areas. Unfortunately ECB has made it about her personal relationship and now is trying to worm out of her bad call by accusing people of sexism.
2. Erica Barnett and Josh Feit are close personal friends with Pure. Their support of her brings into question the Stranger's ethics (or maybe not, depending where you thought they were to start with). The argument that Pure got the Stranger's endorsement the same way every other candidate gets it is just wrong. She had an inside track, which is fine, but the endless promotion needs to stop somewhere. No one ranked on this relationship before the 'The Real Winner ' Slog post by Erica, which just seemed to go to far. Erica went to the well one too many times, and has now created a backlash. Pure doesn't really deserve it, but The Stranger does.
3. Pure is not young, she lacks experience. Compare what Pure has done at 33 to what any of the other candidates had done at 33. Does this mean she is a bad candidate? No, just that she would need to deliver fresh exciting ideas and strong, specific policy objectives to be a good one, which she didn't do. That's not sexism, it's fact. Kelley suffered the same fate.
4. Pure's attempt to appeal to the 'cool kids' didn't fly. She got a little traction only after the Stranger tirelessly hyped their close friend. Both Pure and Pedersen are 'shiny happy people'. A little on the annoying side to the people Pure was trying to appeal to. As much as Street and Kelley were boring, Jamie and Stephanie were bouncy and annoying. The difference being that Jamie has a law degree, works at one of the top law firms in the country, helped craft progressive legislation at the state level that passed, and didn't try to appeal to the cynical 'cool kids'. Sherman came out the best on the personality ratings in my book.
It looks like Pedersen will win this race. All the candidates were good, and all will stay involved in politics. Pure no doubt has a future in politics and she did well by herself to get into this race to start building a base of supporters.
Does anything else really need to be said? We're beating a dead horse. Salute to Jamie, let's all work together to help him do a good job.
NYKOF: Please read my post before you accuse me of "claiming gender bias any time things don't go my way." In the future, I will not hesitate to delete ignorant comments like yours.
Wow! To threaten to delete comments simply because you disagree with them. What a healthy way to run a forum.
I guess it was my bad to not realize that in your world loaded words like SEXIST used in the title only have meaning and value when they benefit your point of view. How very ignorant of me.
Ever notice how Stranger writers like to dish it out but don't like it in return?
Stephanie, is it time to pick some better friends?
I'm curious:
What are the voting records of those reps in the 43rd district when it comes to issues which strongly affect the lives of women? Do any of the reps have a record of votes against women, or sexist attitudes, or avoiding legislation that helps the lives of women?
If not, then aren't these reps doing a good job in helping women, and helping all the people in their district?
If a candidate like Linda Smith or Ellen Craswell were running in this district, should she deserve a seat because she's a woman?
Are all the returns for the district in? I wanted to see if Street and this absentee edge he was supposed to have had materialized.
No one is questioning what other personal friends the Stranger may have among the candidates - only ECB and Josh. Nor is anyone ragging on the other "puff piece" that ran much earlier on JAMIE. Finally, Pure has WAY more legislative experience than any other candidate besides Jim. Being a corporate lawyer is not the same as crafting legislation. Do a little more research next time.
The Stranger got ranked on hard for the Pedersen puff piece as I remember. And no one is questioning if the other candidates are friends with political writers and editors at The Stranger because those friendships did not play a part in an endorsement in this race. I specifically said Jamie helped craft legislation at the State level, which he did. Stephanie has not. If Pure has so much legislative experience then she should have talked it up, pointing to specific legislation she worked on that passed. Pederesen did this and it was effective.
"NYKOF: Please read my post before you accuse me of "claiming gender bias any time things don't go my way." In the future, I will not hesitate to delete ignorant comments like yours."
ECB! Have you lost all your political smarts! Never delete posts like that... they prove the point for you!
Even if you were trying to 'satirize' them... you couldn't equal the inate indignation that flows from these guys naturally. Let em rip!
Besides, all the young female candidates in the poli-pipeline can more than take it. They grew up on it for Christ's sake. They're not going to give up because a bunch of guys bitch at them!
Wow. I have to say that reading the comments on Stephanie over the last few days has been, well, revealing - like much of this campaign. I worked closely on the campaign and think I have been called everything from her campaign manager, to her consultant to her spokesperson. But more importantly, Stephanie is a friend. She's a good person and sincerely cares about giving access to those who don't have a voice in government. Each of the candidates does, methinks, or they wouldn't have a "Democrat" next to their name. Let's try to keep that in mind when we evaluate the candidates and their campaigns, shan't we?
I think I speak for Stephanie (why stop now?) when I say, we congratulate Jamie (and the other candidates) on a great campaign (I'll be sending in my make-up contribution shortly, Jamie). And no matter how much back and forth goes on in the comments thread, we feel really good about our showing. We were outspent 3-to-1 (and could be 4-to-1 when the final reports come in), Stephanie wasn't able to campaign full time until August and most personal endorsements amongst the political movers and shakers were decided well before Stephanie jumped in the race. These aren't excuses - but forgive us if we won't subscribe to the 'lousy campaign' mentality. We are really proud of her showing despite months of people predicting a humiliating loss (thanks for the 'poll' Eli and Meinert!). Other than a few cranks on here, I think most folks raised their eyebrows at her showing.
A final note - we are grateful to the Stranger for their endorsement. Did it help? Who knows. I think it did. I hope it did. But so did the Times endorsement for Sherman, so did the PI's endorsement for Jim Street, Labor's backing of Dodson and Ed's endorsement of Jamie. It all helps - that's why we seek endorsements.
I also think its hi-larious that folks are criticizing us for targeting young voters as a worthless venture. If we don't ever reach out to them, other than some cursory mention during major presidential elections, how do we ever get them engaged? Or is the advice just write them off completely?
"Erica Barnett and Josh Feit are close personal friends with Pure."
Really? Erica, Josh - any comment here?
I was grasping for something to help navigate the large field of good candidates, and the Stranger endorsement piece definitely influenced my vote for Pure. Man, do I feel stupid.
On the balance, I love The Stranger, but the editorial content coming out of News Department is a serious weak link. That Josh and Erica regularly delete negative comments on Slog only illustrate this point.
Dan, please hire some smart people to run news!
I'm confused. Why would the fact that Josh and Erica know Stephanie and like her make their endorsements unethical?
Both Jean Godden and Jim Compton were media professionals and had many close personal friends on the newpapers that went on to endorse them. No one thought that was wrong. Like minded people do tend to travel in packs.
So why is The Stranger not allowed to endorse a friend? There's already a buzz that ex-Seattle Weekly writer George Howland is thinking of running for the council. Does that mean no one in the alt press can endorse him?
The issue isn't that they endorsed a friend, it's that they failed to mention she was a friend in their endorsement or the other puff pieces they wrote about her.
Not a good way to build credibility or trust among readers. Cheesy and unprofessional.
Oh yea, and to reply to the Erica's inane post, I'll just note: Washington is now the *only* state in the country without a single male U.S. Senator. Discuss.
Not true. See for example California or Maine.
How about we split the difference and have Pedersen represent the 43rd in drag?
"Not true. See for example California or Maine."
Good god, the man-haters are even more widespread than I thought!
Congratulations ECB. You've accomplished something that most thought was impossible. It was hard to imagine that anyone could possibly eclipse Philip Dawdy in terms of amateurish journalism and petulant blogging. All hail the new champion.
So what IF (note: IF) Erica IS friends with Ms. Pure? Note: SHE didn't write any articles on her until AFTER the election results were pretty much in the bag.
And for you continued "Stranger haters" (why the hell are you on here if you hate the Stranger so much anyway?), you will notice they write fluff pieces on practically everyone they endorse. Big deal - they want their endorsement to mean something so they do a profile piece following the endorsment.
And I wouldn't call the piece all that spectacular for Ms. Pure - they basically called her the long shot the whole time. Wow, what a politcal blow job.
Oh, and finally, Sarah Mirk wrote the story, not Erica - and Sarah isn't even on the Endorsments Board. But maybe Erica held her at gunpoint and forced her to write the story and also forced the other Endorsment board members to vote for Stephanie. Yes, that must be it. God forbid Ms. Pure might have EARNED the endorsement because she might APPEAL to their readership. Oh heavans no.
Jamie pulled ahead by another 20 votes - tooth fairly doen not like the loosers - Jamie wins.
To the person who said they were very involved in Pure's piecemeal campaign - next time use focus groups for feedback - not you half wit friends.
Who can only tell you how neat you are - at risk of telling you the truth and losing your frindship.
Doris, now I understand why Judy was a one term pony - take tainted money, dilute your politics, and them blame the male old fashioned sexist thing --- dear God, get a clue. This town is the least sexist place I have ever been.
Jake, do you get up on the wrong side of the bed every day? Do you talk to people like this in real life? I feel like I've seen you on a street corner screaming at cars or something recently.
Don't pay any attention to them Jake. The natives get grumpy when you ask them to think or expect them to grow(Mr. X, where are you...) They figure that they have theirs and all you're going to do is ruin it if you don't shut up.
I would dial it back a bit though on the pro-Jamie rhetoric as no one likes a sore winner.
"God forbid Ms. Pure might have EARNED the endorsement because she might APPEAL to their readership."
The point is that it's impossible to say whether she earned The Stranger endorsement when the News Editor and Senior News Writer are friends with her and neglected to mention that in their endorsement. Come on, who else are they going to vote for?
Stephanie Pure may be the second coming of Christ, but I won't be taking The Stranger Election Board's word for it.
Come to think of it, The Stranger trashed Pederson by incorrectly asserting he was a "lobbyist" for Preston, Gates, & Ellis. Interesting.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Stranger. The columns are one of a kind, and the reporting is often great (the whole Microsoft, Ken Hutchinson deal comes to mind). But Josh and Erica have always been weak, and now they've sunk to pathetic.
"This town is the least sexist place I have ever been."
Yeah, but it got a lot more sexist once you and Frank showed up.
"Jamie pulled ahead by another 20 votes - tooth fairly doen not like the loosers - Jamie wins.
To the person who said they were very involved in Pure's piecemeal campaign - next time use focus groups for feedback - not you half wit friends.
Who can only tell you how neat you are - at risk of telling you the truth and losing your frindship."
Creative use of irony, Jake. My half-wit friends and I savored every intentional mis-spelling and planned incomplete sentence. Way to drive your point home!
Focus Groups! Of course! Why didn't we think of that? With all of our stockpiles of cash laying around, we definitely should have spent it on focus groups. We were seeking the Di Vinci code for this campaign and it was staring us right in the face the whole time. How half-witted of us.
There's only two spots IIRC. Flip a coin twice: sometimes it'll come up heads both times.
I bet in the next rep election, that'll change. Don't get too crazy.
Also, while Erica and Josh being friends with Pure doesn't make the Stranger's endorsement unethical, the relationship is certainly something to consider. There is a definite bias that the educated reader must recognize.
It's not damning, but it's certainly not a factor to be ignored.
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This is my second trip to Montreal and despite having spent over a month here in total so far I really feel like I am missing the essence of the city.
When I normally travel I like to walk around and soak up the atmosphere but that hasn't worked for me here.
Back in October I did make my way to the tourist office where I had a very strange encounter. The tourist office employee told me that I had picked the worst month to come and not much was happening. When I asked him to recommend a few things to see and do he told me I really should figure that out myself. When I asked for advice where to eat etc he said he could not tell me as it was against the rules and I could be a spy sent from restaurants trying to catch him out!
I am sure you will all be more forthcoming.
I am looking for advice on where to eat and where to get the best take out.
I am young(ish) female travelling alone so I am not going to eat dinner out at night by myself thus any good take away or delivery options downtown would be appreciated as would lunch recommendations.
I would like to do some cultural and historical activities. Maybe a walking tour of the city or Old Montreal if such a thing exists. When I visited Old Montreal in October it was sweet but like a ghost town.
I don't want to travel too far as I am relying on pubic transport.
All the activities would preferably be executable during the daytime. As a lone female traveller I never feel comfortable out after dark regardless of the city I am in.
Any suggestions fro gifts that I could bring back from Montreal that or typical to the area or typically Canadian? Bearing in mind that I have a modest budget.
Also where are all the supermarkets? The ones I have visited so far are more like convenience stores. Is this because I am in downtown? They all seem quite small.
There are probably more things I should be asking so if you think there is anything I haven't asked but I should have then let me know!
And if you could get rid of the rain that would be a great help...


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Actress Sara Rue 'I Want to Get Off the Roller-Coaster!'
After Years of Yo-Yo Dieting, This Former "Chubby Kid" and Star of Shows Like Less Than Perfect Signs Up to Lose 30 Lbs.
Feeling anxiety about her body is nothing new for Rue, 31, a veteran TV actress best known for her starring roles as what she calls the "awkward fish out of water" on shows including Popular and Less than Perfect. But after several years of trying everything from juice fasts to restricted-calorie diets, Rue has signed on as the new Jenny Craig spokeswoman, hoping to lose 30 lbs. "She's me three years ago," says fellow Jenny Craig spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli. "She's let herself believe the negatives too often, but that will slowly fade away." Admits Rue: "My weight has been an emotional roller-coaster for me, and I am ready to get off it."
Rue's body struggles began in childhood, when her parents' encouragement to "finish everything on your plate" turned into overeating. "I got picked on by other kids," says Rue, who found it "harder to control what I was eating when things got hard emotionally." But in 2002, after becoming a breakout TV star on the hit sitcom Less than Perfect, Rue decided to slim down. Limiting herself to only 1,000 calories a day, she cut out all carbohydrates, sticking to a diet of mostly hard-boiled eggs, fruit and salad. "That would be it all day," says the 5'8" Rue, who also diligently hit the gym, shedding so much weight, "one magazine said I was only 112 lbs., which at my height would mean I was dead on the floor!"
But sticking to such an extreme diet, Rue admits, wasn't something she could do "forever." And then in 2006, she split from her husband of six years—a situation she calls "really hard and sad" and which found her once again turning to food for comfort. "The reality is, I had lost a lot of weight when I was feeling really good about myself," she says. "And then my personal life fell flat. It took me a couple of years to recover."
Hollywood, however, didn't welcome back the fuller Rue with open arms. "Last year a network executive wanted me for a show, but then I got an e-mail saying, 'We've seen a recent picture and we're no longer interested,'" Rue recalls. "You get something like that, and it's shocking and sad."
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''One hundred and eighteen years,'' the decorator said, heading into a narrow aisle of floor samples. The model names were as famous as those on the guest list for a benefit at the Municipal Art Society.
''That sofa over in the corner is Mrs. Whitney's sofa,'' Hadley said. ''That's the Vanderbilt sofa; the Kinnicutt sofa, which was Mrs. Parish's maiden name. The Astor sofa, which we did for Mrs. Astor years ago. We're redoing it now; the fabric's faded.''
Behind the Schnellers' showroom is the workroom, with a steady tock-tock of hammers, as though woodpeckers worked there. The sofas and chairs are hand-built from soft maple frames, hand-sprung, with horsehair construction, hand-stitching and down padding, Schneller explained.
''I always take clients to the workroom when we start a job,'' Hadley said. ''Then they understand what they're getting.''
He added that the attention to detail with basic, background elements like upholstered furniture was as important as the attention-getting accent items, like Marotta's.
''Unless it's done right, it never looks right,'' he said. ''If an arm gets too padded, or gets too heavy, then you lose the whole thing.''
the last place on hadley's schedule was the Scalamandre mill in Long Island City, Queens, where he had an appointment to meet Robert Bitter, who with his brother, Mark, now runs the company that their grandfather Franco Scalamandre founded in 1929.
''It is nice, we're all friends,'' Hadley said, speaking of his day at work and of all the places that he had visited. ''That's what I love about doing this, what I missed, is all the people. We have history. You asked if I had old friends,'' he said.
''Yes,'' he concluded, as the Schnellers' elevator rattled slowly to the street, where pushcarts crowded the sidewalk. ''A lot of them in places like this.''
Scalamandre's reception office at a block-big factory in Long Island City is hung with family photographs and framed thank-you's from various presidential administrations for historical reproduction work at the White House.
Upstairs, running on a loom that day was the new peach-beige fabric for the Clintons' Chappaqua, N.Y., living room.
Marie Antoinette's silk- winding machine sits in a glass case in the reception room, too.
Robert Bitter, a sandy-haired young man with a flint-shaped nose, arrived, introducing himself. He led Hadley back into the building.
Despite the installations of metal-hooded electronic looms, Scalamandre's mill still looks like an illustration from Diderot's 18th-century encyclopedia that has come to life.
On the ground floor, vast stretches of paper and cloth were being hand-printed with screens and paints. The workers moved, mural-like, down ribbons of decorative pattern developing under their hands as they shifted from repeat to repeat. The tableau could have been a scene from an antique fabric.
Upstairs, the musical noise of weblike spinning wheels that looked last used in fairy tales gave the mill a kind of manic, children's enchantment: Willy Wonka or Edward Scissorhands. A woman sat at a desk with a sewing box, stitching a huge, intricate white tassel that looked like a Lilliputian wedding dress.
Hadley seemed to draw as much strength as inspiration from the sight, as though the past could be visited, his own in particular. And the past was still hard at work on the present, doing things the right way, not the wrong way, though the process still had to be checked.
''This kind of work, you never stop,'' he said, speaking of his career as he got in the car to go back to the Upper East Side.
Twenty-two boxes of books from Southport, Conn., were arriving at his apartment that afternoon.
''Any time you want to come arrange books, be my guest,'' Hadley said graciously, watching the Manhattan skyline appear, like a place to be conquered, as the car crossed the bridge.
Photos: The top floor of the Scalamandre mill in Long Island City, Queens. The mill was founded by Franco Scalamandre in 1929, and is now run by his grandsons, Robert and Mark Bitter. On the top floor, where the older, more labor-intensive machinery is kept, the firm's smaller jobs get done -- like restoration pieces or custom fabrics for a decorator. On the day Albert Hadley visited, running on the loom was a peach-beige fabric (not shown) for the Clintons' Chappaqua, N.Y., home. (pg. 81); Near left: Early-19th-century Italian chairs recently on display at Lou Marotta Inc. in Manhattan. The tole wall sconce is 1920's French. The object on the chair is a 17th-century Venetian fragment of a blackamoor. Lou Marotta keeps no warehouse; as a result, most items in the shop reflect his immediate enthusiasms. Bottom left: A worker on the top floor of the bustling Scalamandre mill, in Long Island City, Queens. Below: Eighteenth-century French and English chandeliers and replicas at Charles J. Winston & Company, a Manhattan manufacturer and importer. Winston, founded in 1919, has fashioned lighting for Radio City Music Hall, the Plaza Hotel, Bergdorf Goodman, the White House and Lut ce. Winston also sells other antiques: the clock is a two-faced Louis XVI gilt-bronze, circa 1780. Opposite page: At A. Schneller Sons Inc., a Manhattan source that has built upholstered furniture and made draperies for decorators for more than a century. Here, in a multiple exposure, a Schneller worker carefully hand-builds a Windsor-style wing chair. (pgs. 82 & 83); Near right: A view of Brooke Astor's library, redone by Albert Hadley to showcase the 3,000-book collection of her late husband, Vincent. Hadley's design includes brass trim, recessed floor-to-ceiling shelves and bright red enamel for the walls, which were given a glossy varnish, then polished three times. The wooden panels were built directly into them. Below: A watercolor rendering of the sitting room of Hadley's East 70th Street apartment, designed in 1962. The room's four Louis XVI chairs were originally designed for a theater in the south of France. Below, right: The Princess Margaret bedroom of the Long Island estate of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. A visit by the Princess and Lord Snowdon led to a redesign by Parish-Hadley that included two bedrooms, a sitting room and a bath. A Louis XVI fruitwood armchair sits in front of a dressing table with a triptych mirror and bronze giraffe-and-palm-tree candlestick lamps. Linen roller shades, edged with Irish lace, and Swiss muslin curtains with loop fringe hang below Empire-style, gently draped valances. (Albert Hadley photographed by Anders Overgaard) (Interiors photographed by Francois Dischinger) (pg. 84)


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Television special looks at Vermont diversity and its effect on schools
A television special airing Thursday will look at how Vermonts increasingly diverse population could manifest into questionable student behaviors in schools.
Vermont Public Televisions Diversity Report Card special at 8 p.m. will discuss, in a live town hall-style forum, ethnic diversity in the states public schools and how some conflicts have arisen inside school walls regarding the treatment of new Americans.
A panel of experts includes Patrick Brown, executive director, Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center; Jeanne Collins, superintendent, Burlington School District, and Charles Johnson, education consultant for the Vermont Department of Education Safe Schools program. They will consider how schools can best achieve their diversity goals, including the impacts of testing requirements of non-English speakers, such as in the case of some Burlington schools.
Collins nearly lost her job as district leader this school year after students protested, saying the citys schools failed to educate minority and new Americans, and some even hinted at racism.
The Burlington School Board last month adopted a diversity and inclusion plan.
Joe Merone, a senior producer at VPT, said the protest happened too late last school year for the station to do an in-depth piece on the issue so its doing it now.
The motivation for the special was to look at what happened in Burlington but then, after speaking with experts, Merone said there was more to the issue than what was on the surface.
What was interesting to me was listening to (Robert) Appel (director of the VT Human Rights Commission) drawing the distinction between harassment and bullying, Merone said.
We didnt know there was a distinction, let alone how it works into the world of diversity.
It was also news to Merone to learn that most cases of harassment and bullying in Vermont schools happens in middle school.
Jon Margolis is an author with VPT and wrote an investigative report posted on the VPT blog Thursday that looked at the states growing diverse population and the effect it has on kids in schools.
Vermont is still the second whitest state at 95.5 percent, but not as white as it was 10 years ago, according to the U.S. Census, a statistic listed in Margolis report.
In the last 10 years, the black population doubled to more than 6,200 and the number of Hispanics rose 67 percent to more than 9,200. The Asian-American population rose about 50 percent to more than 8,700, and more than 10,000 Vermonters reported that they were an amalgam of two or more races, according to Margolis report.
During the Thursday show, students in the studio audience will ask questions, and viewers will be invited to call 1-866-424-LIVE or email firstname.lastname@example.com with their comments and questions.
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Hey all,
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