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Review: Django Unchained Hardcover
by Cody "The Thorverine" Ferrell
The seven-issue comics adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie by Quentin Tarantino is now collected in hardcover! Don't miss this blood-soaked tale of a bounty-hunting dentist and his partner Django, a recently freed slave, as they search the post-Civil War South for Django's wife!
Today sees the release of the Django Unchained trade paperback. The hardcover book collects all seven issues of the comic adaptation of the Oscar-winning movie from Quentin Tarantino. Of course it's written by Tarantino since it's the first draft of his script, but it's adapted into comic book form by Reginald Hudlin. Issues 1, 2, 4, 7 feature art from R.M. Guera and Jason Latour. Issues 3 and 6 features pencils from Denys Cowan with inks by John Floyd. Issue 5's art is handled by Danijel Zezelj. Giulia Brussco and Jose Villarubia handle colors while Sal Cipriano and Taylor Esposito provide lettering. The movie was a hit with critics and fans, but how does the adaptation hold up to the source?
The story doesn't deviate too far from the finished project. Django is "freed" by Dr. King Schultz who then offers Django his freedom in exchange for helping him track down and kill the Brittle brothers. Their time collecting bounties forges a friendship and leads Schultz to train Django and offer to help him find his lost wife, Broomhilda, if he agrees to help him collect bounties over the winter. The duo track Broomhilda down to the villainous Calvin Candie, owner of the notorious Candyland. Django and Schultz will have to orchestra their most brilliant ruse yet if they hope to rescue Django's love.
Hudlin adapts Tarantino's first draft well. Things don't differ too greatly from what we see on the big screen, but there is a large portion devoted to Broomhilda and her trip to Candyland. The final battle between Django and the white inhabitants of Candyland also goes down a little different than it does on film as well. Other than that, this is really just a great director's cut of the film. The art is top notch all around. R.M. Guera is the prefect artist for this adaptation. He is probably best known for Scalped, and that was a comic series that was a fantastic Quentin Tarantino-ish film. Guera fits right in with the look and feel of Tarantino's film. Cowan's art on issues 3 and 6 are a good compliment to Guera. He has his own style, but the change isn't drastic or jarring. Zezelji's art on issue 5 is the most noticeable shift. The heavier line work and use of shading does work well with the introduction of Candlyand though.
Bottom Line: Django Unchained is just as good as its movie counterpart. There is enough here to keep it from feeling like a straight movie adaption comic, though most of the story plays out the same way. Like I said above, Django Unchained #1-7 is a stellar director's cut of the film in comic book form. If you enjoyed Django Unchained, are a cinephile, or just love Tarantino films, this is well worth picking up. Tarantino proves it's worth a comic book adaptation with his love letter to western comics in the book's introduction. It's a well put together trade to boot. 4.5/5
Summary: Django Unchained is just as good as its movie counterpart.
Django Unchained - The Comic Book
Q&A: 'Django Unchained' Producer Reginald Hudlin Offers Up a Rare Inside Look at the 'Django' Comic Book & Quentin Tarantino's Passion-Filled Process
When "Django Unchained" opens in theaters Dec. 25, audiences will finally see just what Quentin Tarantino has wrought with his provocative, ultraviolent slave-era Western. But that big-screen version is a long way from the screenplay Tarantino originally wrote that sparked a burst of excitement (along with juicy debate) when it first surfaced online in 2011.
Since then, scenes have been axed, dialogue has been added and major sections have been completely rewritten. Even the climax of the film was ditched — no longer does the titular character, played by Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, ride through town on his way to the Candyland plantation to blow up the master's house. (Not to worry: Foxx himself claimed recently, "The new ending trumps it because Quentin made it a 'ghost story.'")
But fans of that original version will still have a chance to check out what it might have looked like visually, since Tarantino's script has been adapted into a comic book series by Vertigo/DC Entertainment. The first of six installments drops Dec. 19; the second, which features a cover by Denys Cowan revealed here for the first time, hits Jan. 30 (three and four go on sale in February and March). Think of the comic series as an alternate version — that happens to come out first.
"There'll be a lot of scenes in the comic that are not in the finished film," says "Django" producer Reginald Hudlin, whose comic book credits include Marvel's "Black Panther" and "Birth of a Nation." While putting the final touches on the film, Hudlin took some time to give Indiewire his first in-depth interview about it — plus his thoughts on black superheroes, nerding out with Tarantino and the challenge of translating a 168-page screenplay into panels and word balloons.
Who came up with the idea for a "Django Unchained" comic book?
Has a slave ever been the hero of a comic book?
There haven't been many, but yes. I mean, I have a great appreciation for the medium and so does Quentin. His specialty is, in whatever you're talking about — film, television, comic books — he will mention very obscure characters and titles. For example, we talked about comic books — specifically the subcategory of Western comic books — and how big a fan he was of "Gunhawks," which had a black slave who was teamed up with a Confederate soldier. To me, that's typical Marvel. [laughs] Like, what's the boldest, craziest combination we can put together? The fact is, as per usual, comic books are bold and will go to provocative places. I can also say, pretty confidently, that no one's ever seen anything like "Django" before.
The plot for "Django" revolves around a newly freed slave in the antebellum South attempting to rescue his lost love, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who was sold to another plantation. Though slaves could not legally marry during that period, did Django and Broomhilda consider themselves husband and wife?
You're asking the question we bring up in the movie. Schultz [Christoph Waltz's character] tells Django, "I didn't know slaves recognized the institution of marriage." And Django says, "Me and my wife do." I mean, at the end of the day, doesn't it come down to that? Marriage is a state of mind. Plenty of marriages on paper mean absolutely nothing.
Speaking of things on paper that aren't necessarily binding, the original "Django"script went through numerous changes during production, and I heard that the gang rape of Broomhilda was toned down considerably. Quentin decided to shoot it in a way that protected Kerry while still conveying that something horrible happened to her character. Were those changes a direct result of her conversations with you and Quentin?
Let me answer that by making a broader statement. Quentin writes these scripts, and obviously he's one of the best writers we have in our business right now. As the crew, we tend to treat his scripts with great reverence, like, "let's figure out how to execute this exactly as he wrote it." Quentin, though, looks at the script very much as a living document. He'll show up on set with some new dialogue written on lined paper that he's ripped out of a notebook and give it to an actor and say, "Learn this." [laughs] And we're going, "WHAT?" Then we see what he's doing and say, "Oh, my God."
Because it's so much better.
We were completely happy before. But Quentin is constantly trying to figure out how to elevate, and part of that is talking with his actors. He's not necessarily trying to appease his actors. But they are his partners, and he listens to them for their emotional truth.
Can you give us an example?
There was a whole other scene that kind of kicks off the third act of the film. Quentin knew the scene worked for every character except one, Jamie's character, and when we were rehearsing it, Jamie said, "Oh, I'd play it this other way." Quentin said, "Oh, really? I didn't think you'd do that." Jamie said, "Definitely, I'd play it like this…" That previous concern Quentin had, combined with Jamie's instincts, made Quentin rewrite the third act of the movie! He always wants things to be true. That's why he shoots the movie in what he calls "emotional order," meaning it's not quite in continuity order. But his thinking is, here's a big scene, and based on how that goes maybe I don't need so much of this other stuff, or maybe I need more of something else. Those things happened throughout the process of making the film.
You and Quentin seem like a very unlikely team. How did you first meet?
We met years and years ago. I'm friends with Pam Grier, who invited my brother Warrington and I to an awards event where she was being honored for her work in "Jackie Brown." Quentin was presenting the award. And as soon as we met, Quentin said, "I saw that special you did for HBO, 'Cosmic Slop.'" Now, this is something very few people have seen. It's an obscure part of my filmography. And Quentin goes, "I don't know why you did that short 'Space Traders' [about aliens who offer to buy the African American population] for HBO. That's a feature. You blew that!" I was like, whoa. Then I thought about it and said, yeah, you know, he's kind of right. [laughs] That kind of started our relationship, where we would meet up whenever and talk very, very passionately about movies, about everything.
Do you ever get competitive with each other when it comes to pop minutiae?
"Competitive" is not the right term. It's more like we "revel in our nerditude." I remember overhearing my assistant describe our interaction to someone. He said, "Yeah, Reggie and Quentin will talk, and then they'll just go to a place and no one knows what they're talking about."
Is there any talk of releasing Quentin's earlier films, such as "Pulp Fiction," as comic books?
Funny you should say that. When we were looking at the "Django" pages, we were lamenting that we hadn't started this a lot sooner. And I said, "Well, maybe it's not too late." So, yes, that conversation has started. I think comic books are part of the complex strain of DNA that make up what people think is the Tarantino style of storytelling. You've got all kinds of things that go into that mix. And for someone like myself, who never understood why he never did anything in that medium, I was very excited to shepherd "Django"into the comic book format.
Tarantino's scripts are extremely quotable and dialogue-heavy. How do you go about adapting one?
I was a little intimidated at first. But if you just break up the story into the appropriate number of panels, it actually flows really well. When I was showing Quentin the first 10 pages of the book, I said, "Look, we've got it all in there, and the page isn't drowning in word balloons. You still have plenty of room for the art.
Can you talk about the decision to go with R.M. Guera for the book's illustration, and what kind of direction Quentin gave him?
We looked at a lot of artists, and Quentin picked R.M. Guera, who has done great work but is best known for "Scalped," which is a kind of noir series among Native Americans set on a reservation. He's a brilliant artist, and that sensibility is perfect for what Quentin's doing. Also, R.M. already worked with Quentin, adapting a couple of scenes from "Inglourious Basterds" for Playboy magazine. "Django" was that same approach: Don't draw what's in the movie; draw what's in the script, which in some ways is different from what's in the movie. We also have a great lineup of different cover artists: Jim Lee, Denys Cowan, Alex Ross and Frank Quitely. They all do their interpretation of Django. I get excited about projects like this, because I also feel like it's a way to help support a medium that means so much to me.
It's been a while since the comics industry has seen a new iconic black superhero. Do you think "Django"has the stuff?
He could. I'm committed to the concept of black superheroes, no matter what. And I certainly consider Django a superhero.
The first commercial black superhero was "Black Panther," which you helped revive in 2005.
That's right. When I was writing "Black Panther" for Marvel, I told them I want to give back to that next generation, and the series turned out to be a huge success. "Black Panther" is the biggest seller in the Marvel Knights line of animated DVDs. It out-sold Joss Whedon's "X-Men," which is pretty amazing given the brand power of those two great names. It out-sold "Iron-Man Extremis." BET, who reluctantly aired the series at midnight, keeps re-running it because it gets a huge ratings bump every time, without any marketing and promotion. The show has become this amazing cult hit. [Hudlin was BET's president of entertainment from 2005 to 2008.] A lot of my interest in comic books is diversifying the audience base. One of the nicest compliments I ever got was from a comic book retailer who said, "Reggie, we love when your comic books come out because we get different people coming into the store." By "different," he didn't just mean black, he meant not the same people who come in every Wednesday. When I go to a comic book signing, there are tons of women. I see adults and kids — Latin, Asian, white, black — and I think that's healthy for the industry.
Are you still planning a big-screen version of "Black Panther?"
Yeah, but those decisions are up to Marvel. Certainly, Stan Lee [who created the character with artist Jack Kirby in 1966] has said on multiple occasions he wants a "Black Panther" movie to get made. People are constantly asking me, "What's the holdup?"
And what's going to happen to Django when the miniseries wraps up?
Don't know. Of course, I want very much to see the further adventures of Django. Quentin and I have talked about what those might be. But I want to see it in a feature film, and I don't want a comic book to pre-empt or put him off doing a sequel, even though Quentin's [officially] never done a sequel in his life and may never do one. All I know is we've got a great movie coming out, and we've got a great comic book, and we'll see what happens after that.
Craigh Barboza is a New York-based freelance writer. His work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Uptown, USA Weekend and Vibe.
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Reginald Hudlin's "Black Panther" is perhaps one of the most dynamic pieces of comic storytelling converted to animation.
Featuring outstanding voice acting and a level of motion that blew away all competitors, the title left me itching for more.
The Marvel Knights offering is filled with intrigue and action thanks to it being written masterfully by Reginald Hudlin and animated in true Marvel fashion by John Romita Jr. and it all comes to a climactic head with an ending that won't let you down. Yeah, I know I'm nerding it up right now, but I can't help it. This DVD was an absolute joy to behold.
With Black Panther, the decision was made to feature big-name actors (Djimon Hounsou, Alfre Woodard, Carl Lumbly) and pepper the cast with plenty of other recognizable voices (Nolan North, Phil LaMarr, Kevin Michael Richardson, Jill Scott, Stephen Stanton). It pays off splendidly.
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I loved it. T'Challa, voiced by Kimora's boo Djimon Hounsou, has this catchy theme song and Kerry Washington and Alfre Woodard also contribute their vocals for T'Challa's sister and mother, respectively. And like any good comic, the writer Reginald Hudlin, weaved in other superheroes including the X-Men and my favorite, Storm.
But what's really interesting about the series is its incorporation of African history, including all of the European invaders from the Dutch to the French.
Unlike Marvel's earlier Saturday morning TV shows, Black Panther uses the original artwork done by John Romita, Jr. This isn't simplified limited animation techniques commonly used. His shading and character design is part of the image. The big difference between this and previous Marvel Knights productions is that there's more than what was on the page. BET had greenlit the production so each episode needed to be twice the length of the previous Marvel Knights projects. Hudlin added more subplots and brought in Storm from the X-Men to fatten up the comic books. The additions work for the series. Benin's Djmon Hounsou (Gladiator) lends a true African voice to Black Panther. He should play the role if it goes live action. Jill Scott does a better job as Storm's voice than Halle Berry.
Black Panther should have lasted longer than six episodes.
Marijuana Man
My friend and neighbor Ziggy Marley isn't just a son of a musical legend, or a 5-time Grammy winner himself. He's also a real comic book fan. So when he decided to create his own comic book character, he enlisted the help of the talented team of Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood to write and draw his concept.
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Ziggy Marley explains his new superhero, Marijuanaman!
At Wondercon, we had glimmers of hope for the Green Lantern movie — but there was another green superhero being unveiled. We were lucky enough to spend some time chatting with Ziggy Marley about his new superhero, Marijuanaman.
Regular humans' genetic makeup is built out of DNA — but Marijuanaman's genes are made out of THC. And he gets his power from one plant in particular. Can you guess what it is?
Spoilers and cannabis ahead...
Not surprisingly, Marijuanaman is being released by Image Comics on 4/20, featuring a script by Joe Casey and art by Jim Mahfood.
It's the story of Sedona, an alien who travels to Earth from the planet Yelram. Sedona finds that he has a particular affinity with Earth's biosphere, and then he makes a connection with one plant in particular. But he's faced with an evil corporation that wants to sell a synthetic marijuana substitute called GanjaRex — and the corporation sends a deadly monster named Cash-Money to destroy Marijuanaman and his nature-loving friends.
We caught up with Ziggy Marley at Wondercon, and he told us more about how this epic superhero story came to be.
The idea of Marijuanaman came from learning more about cannabis, and the fact that this plant "has millions of uses beyond just smoking," says Marley. And he started to wonder why the world isn't taking advantage of this versatile plant. "It's beneficial to the environment and less destructive than some of the things we're doing now," he adds — for example, you could use hemp-derived products in place of a lot of oil-based plastics and other stuff.
So I said, let me create a superhero. Let me create someone who can shed another light on the plant and put it in a different perspective.
And he says that Marijuanaman's planet faces an ecological crisis because the THC that's in the atmosphere is being depleted "similar to our own Ozone layer." So Marijuanaman is sent on a journey to Earth to find a solution, and when he arrives here, "he feels a connection to this plant." He joins a community of people who live in harmony with the environment and teach him more about the plant. And he gets power from marijuana — just like Popeye with his spinach.
It's very important to Marley that Marijuanaman gets his power from marijuana without smoking it — he's not a smoker. "His friend [Smokestack] smokes and he gets a contact high." Marley stresses: "Nobody can say he's a bad influence because he smokes. He doesn't smoke. But he still gets his power from marijuana anyway."
When Marijuanaman encounters the plant, it empowers him and "his connection with it is immediate." But even though he gets superpowers, he's not violent — he has a philosophy of pacifism, "that sometimes is contrary to what we here would want him to be. We would want him to just beat the bad guy all the time."
Marley says there are a lot of industries out there that don't want marijuana to be legal — including pharmaceutical companies like the one in his comic book that are trying to sell "fake marijuana" and synethetic cannabinoids.
Not to mention the alcohol and tobacco industries, which don't want the competition. Marley is very passionate about the potential of cannabis to transform the environment and the economy, and replace oil-based byproducts.
"Hemp and other alternative energies could be used, but they don't want to do that. They're okay with the risk of... destroying the environment to have oil. They're not okay with the risk of somebody smoking weed."
We asked Marley if he'd like to see more Marijuanaman stuff come out, like a television show or movies, or action figures. And he was definitely into the idea. "We want to use him to just shed a light for this world to see, for the common people to see. Somebody to speak the truth about the plant. Somebody who stands up for the plant. And still, he doesn't smoke." Even though Marijanaman's sidekick is named Smokestack, "He's not promoting you smoking."
Adds Marley: "I want him to be a hero just like Superman, Batman, [or] any one of those guys. Everybody can love him. Kids can love him. Just because he's called Marijuanaman doesn't mean kids can't love him."
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News release Oct. 25 from the Gay European Tourism Association:
A report out today shows that gay Europeans spend up to $65 billion (€50 billion or £41 billion) each year on tourism, roughly the same as the USA although Europe's population is nearly three times as large. The study comes as the Gay European Tourism Association (GETA) launches Gay Welcome, its new website to help people find gay and gay-friendly hotels, events and destinations throughout Europe.
GETA's report, Gay Tourism Matters, estimates for the first time the number of people who live open gay lifestyles in western, central and eastern Europe at nearly 26 million, or 2.6% of the total population. This figure ranges from 5% in Western European countries down to just 0.25% in Turkey and the former Soviet states in Eastern Europe.
Drawing on existing research into the tourism spending of gay people from outside Europe, including the USA, Canada, Brazil, Japan and Australia, the report estimates that there is an additional market of $112 billion (€86 billion or £70 billion), much of which is spent in Europe. Community Marketing, the San Francisco based market research agency, reported in its 2011-2012 Annual Gay and Lesbian Tourism Report that London and Paris are the third and fourth favourite destinations for gay Americans, after New York and San Francisco.
Although 'out' gay people only represent 2.6% of the European population, the $62 billion spend represents 8% of the $823 billion (€632 billion) that the European Union estimates is spent on tourism in Europe each year.
"Gay people are a great market for the tourism industry" said Carlos Kytka, Executive Director of GETA. "Because we tend not to have children we have more disposable income and free time. We have a higher propensity to travel, particularly in quieter periods outside school holidays."
Many destinations and hotels are actively promoting themselves to the gay market. European cities including London, Berlin, Stockholm and Cannes already market themselves as gay destinations understanding the value of gay spending power.
Christina Guggenberger of the Stockholm Visitors Board says that "Stockholm clearly understands the importance of targeting the gay market. Diversity, openness and respect are core values for any welcoming destination. Stockholm profits from being a popular destination for the LGBT travelers and it also supports our position as a world class destination."
Increasing numbers of hotels are appealing to gay tourists. GETA's GayWelcome.com website lists over 3,500 hotels and guesthouses throughout Europe that welcome gay guests. Travellers can rate their experience and recommend local attractions. The site also provides guides to gay destinations and major event listings throughout Europe.
"You don't have to paint your hotel pink to appeal to gay guests" said Carlos Kytka. "You just need to make us feel welcome. Gay people who are questioned about sharing a double bed or excluded from honeymoon and valentine offers are not going to come back."
GETA is rolling out programmes to help its members understand how to welcome and promote themselves to gay guests. "As societies become more open to gay men and women, businesses cannot afford to ignore this important market segment" said Kytka. "We want to improve the travel experience in Europe for gay people and help gay-friendly companies to prosper and grow."
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A 61-year-old agricultural cooperative, the Producers Cooperative Oil Mill (PCOM), will soon enter another phase of service to farmers and farm cooperatives.
In cooperation with Plains Oilseed Products Cooperative, PCOM will soon begin processing canola, sunflowers and other oilseeds.
At the same time, the cooperative will continue its more than a half-century of service to cotton farmers in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee.
"We see this new venture with Plains Oilseed Products as a way to better serve all agricultural entities throughout the Great Plains," says Gary Conkling, president of PCOM. "And we want our customers who are cotton farmers, ginners and warehousemen to know we will continue to provide them with the best service we possibly can."
No lightweight in the cotton production business, Producers Cooperative Oil Mill began processing about 150 tons of whole cottonseed per day in 1945.
Times have certainly changed, Conkling says. Now, the Oklahoma City-based mill can store 125,000 tons of whole cottonseed and process as much as 1,000 tons of whole cottonseed daily. As the mill's capacity to process more cottonseed increased, a larger area of supply was needed. Holding on to their original supply area in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, in 1999, the cooperative bought Osceola Products, with locations in Osceola and Wilson, Arkansas, and Kennett, Missouri. This purchase gave PCOM an additional storage capacity of 200,000 tons of whole cottonseed.
In 2000, PCOM again increased its capacity by building a storage facility at Covington, Tennessee. This facility can store 60,000 tons of whole cottonseed.
Purchasing these facilities resulted in the formation of Producers Mid-South Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCOM, Conkling says.
Locations controlled by PMSC are used for buying and storing whole cottonseed and marketing cottonseed for dairy feed.
Cottonseed from these facilities needed to supplement product processing in Oklahoma City is transported to the Oklahoma site. Additional cottonseed is sold for the whole seed market, Conkling says.
From cottonseed, PCOM produces whole cottonseed, oil, hulls, cottonseed meal and cake, and linters. Meal and cake are used for livestock feed and fertilizer.
Linters are used for upholstery, yarns, absorbent medical grade cotton, fiber pulp for paper and explosives. Hulls are also used for livestock feed, oil well drilling mud, and in synthetic rubber and plastics.
Cottonseed oil is the basic ingredient for cooking and salad oil and dressings, soap, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
PCOM's new oilseed processing will yield canola meal, crude oil and refined oil, Conkling said.


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So, came up with a trick to make it seem like Bobs and monsters are using switches the way a player would. I don't think I've ever seen this mentioned, and I don't think I've seen this used in any mods I've played.
The attachment is a merged map file that I polished up before sharing. Drag it onto aleph one, or do whatever your preferred method happens to be.
There's not a lot of combat since the point is just to show off a few iterations of this mapmaking trick.


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So, with no further adu - my Bottled Rainbow Quilt - all done!!
Finished size: 68 x 84
I don't use it often, but I did back this one with minky. The last quilt I used minky on was the Supernova, that I gave to my hubby. Well... I kept stealing it from him (it's so snuggly!!), so I decided to splurge and back this one with minky for ME. So he could keep his... You know - keeping the peace! lol!
The binding was from Riley Blake's "Feeling Groovy" line. It's flannel. The only reason I decided this was okay was because I was using minky on the back, so a flannel binding would be okay. Well, that's just how I justified it. Truth be told, I just loved it so much, and it was SO perfect, I just HAD to use it!!! :)
This has been so fun! I am kind of thinking that a weekly ticker tape block may still be in order, because they are SO fun! This is now my very own snuggle-on-the-couch quilt! Yay!!


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H. C. Artmann
Artmann, born in 1921, was one of the most remarkable experimental writers of his generation. An Austrian, in the 1950s he was the co-founder of The Vienna Group with Rühm, Bayer, Wiener and Achleitner. The group's black romanticism allied with a linguistic scepticism partly derived from Wittgenstein had a great influence on German letters. The Quest for Dr. U is like all Artmann's works: protean, spanning and subverting all genres (detective fiction, romantic novels, heroic poetry, dada related experiment). Its hero pursues the ghastly Dr. Unspeakable, an ultimate villain, across continents, through situations alternately bizarre and commonplace, always enmeshed in ways of writing text. Dr. U remains a mystery, perhaps he is "not I": a wonderful modernist novel, humorous and entertaining to boot.
Artmann is certainly one of Austria's premier writers, and this imaginative romp through the mysteries of identity is highly recommended for collectors of experimental fiction. - Library Journal.
...a tour de force of sheer virtuosity ... a late flowering of the Austrian baroque, distinctly decadent, as Artmann is well aware, brilliantly brought off, with an elegant inventiveness peculiar to this extraordinary writer. - Michael Hamburger in The Times Literary Supplement.
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DURHAM, N.C. -- Former Duke All-American and 2010 NCAA Champion Jon Scheyer recently signed a two-year contract to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli League.
"I am really excited to take the next step in my basketball career and go play for Maccabi Tel Aviv," said Scheyer. "I am looking forward to the opportunity to play for a team with such great tradition."
Scheyer spent last season in the NBA D-League after suffering a signiifcant eye injury during an NBA Summer League game. He helped lead the Rio Grande Vipers to the D-League finals and closed the year averaging 13.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game.
Since Scheyer is Jewish, he won't be considered as a foreigner player, but as an Israeli which will be a good advantage to Maccabi in the Israeli league.
"I wanted Jon already last season and I'm very happy that we managed to sign him," said David Blatt, head coach of Maccabi. "Jon is a very talented and smart player, he is a true winner although his young age, not less importantly he is Jewish who is coming to Israel and I wish he will stay here for many more years."
Scheyer will join a Maccabi Tel Aviv team that went 26-1 in the Premier League and features Americans Jeremy Pargo (Gonzaga), Richard Hendrix (Alabama), Shawn James (Duquesne) and Derrick Sharp (South Florida).
Maccabi Tel Aviv has the richest tradition of basketball success in Israel with five European championships, 49 Israeli championships, 38 Israeli Cups and two League Cups. It is also the fourth-most successful club in European history, and one of the most successful teams of the past decade in European basketball, having won three titles and reaching the finals five times in that period.


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JCL Media necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 78 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
We will be the provider of the newest and trendiest information on the national, regional, and local level to the Manhattan, NY area. The websites and other diverse listings will have a positive impact on the quality of life for its readers.
We are looking to enter the market of family with a focus on the woman of the household.
Primary Audience: Families with children; ages: 25-55
Secondary: single women; ages: 25 to seniors
This guide should look very contemporary keeping in mind the female and family target. Also, it should differentiate itself from traditional mundane community resource guides.
- Bright colors
- include title: Manhattan Area Resource Guide; and subtitle: a unique and valuable source for families
("Resource Guide" should be bold and stand out more than "Manhattan Area") -this will allow us to expand to other geographical points by interchanging the location name
- include text: Fall 2009
- SIZE: 11x13 (news letter size
- Include pictures of women and families
- We are looking to feature 2 or 3 businesses on the cover with no more than 7 words in the caption.
Pictures may be in collage form as long as 2-3 are larger in size.


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Museum Ship Cap San Diego in Hamburg harbour during the festivities for the harbour birthday 2009.
Read more about the history of that ship here or here in Wikipedia in German.( a bit feeling like DiCaprio on the Titanic....)
Hamburg: Second largest city of Germany, situated in the north at the river Elbe, because of the seaport well known as a city of merchants. Because of the nearby sea, you will always have some fresh breeze while you are walking through the streets with nice private town-houses or while you are floating along aboard an "Alsterdampfer" on the river Alster.


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Free, French course on PPPs offers customized case studies, relevant regional perspectives
As a former country manager in Benin, my team and I advised the national administration on the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Project Law then under consideration and engaged in PPPs. This effort took place after the private sector, both domestic and international, made a strong commitment to finance large infrastructure programs. Timing is everything, of course, and the window for passing the legislation through parliament before legislative elections was tight – ultimately, too tight. A better understanding of PPPs and the options these partnerships can offer to a country like Benin, which needs substantial infrastructure investments, would have helped the process tremendously.
At the time, however, PPP educational options for French speakers were scarce. Although plenty of PPP resources exist in English, many fewer tools are available for Francophone African countries. These tools are critical to understanding PPPs, creating and adopting legislation, applying PPPs when they may serve a need, and knowing when not to use them to secure infrastructure services.
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When TAUK traveled to Colorado, the band fulfilled a dream by performing at Red Rocks. As a support act for jamband Umphrey's McGee, TAUK stepped onto a stage that represents a peak of accomplishment for musicians throughout the country.
The four members of TAUK made one other stop while in the state: Second Story Garage. The band, which plays what it describes as heavy instrumental rock fusion, is based on the north shore of Long Island, in Oyster Bay, and has been on tour in advance of the September release of a new album, Headroom. We got to hear the band at a moment of ascendancy, when its national presence and musical development is reaching a new level. It's a milestone for a band when its fans get their own nickname — TAUK's fans have come to be known as "Staukers."
TAUK plays all-instrumental music, and its members are capable of jaw-dropping licks, riffs, runs and jams. Isaac Teel, on drums, is precise and versatile. Other drummers will watch him in awe, while non-musician listeners will fall under the spell of his beats. He's joined by Matt Jalbert on guitar, Charlie Dolan on bass and Alric "A.C." Carter on keys. The quartet played "Sweet Revenge," "Friction" and "Rainwalk" during their Garage session, and when they sat down for a chat with Quentin, they talked about preparing for Red Rocks.
What they brought us: A pair of black TAUK panties.
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Over ten years since it was first released on the Dreamcast, Bangai-O is back, and boy, are you in for some bullets.
Due out in the Spring, Bangai-O HD is a shiny update of the original, which was first released on the N64 in Japan before later turning up in Europe and North America on the Dreamcast (and spawning a sequel on the DS). It's cute, and bright, and cheery, but don't let that fool you: this game will kick your ass, and when it's done, it'll move onto your thighs and lower back. It's got that much kicking in it.
It's considered one of Treasure's finest works. Since they also did Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga, that should give you an idea of how fine that is.
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roel_v necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 63 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a researcher who just got her latest paper accepted for publication but who wants to add an extra touch by getting the graphics professionally done :)
Fellow academics; students; practitioners of integrated decision support system design and development.
This contest is for the redesign of three illustrations that are used in my latest paper entitled "A methodology for the design and development of integrated models for policy support". In this paper I present a description of best practices for developing software systems (or Decision Support Systems) that are made by scientists to be used by policy analysts for investigating the impact of spatial planning alternatives, such as the effects of building a new road on the job market in areas next to this road, or the environmental effects of industry expansion or urban sprawl.
I made the first version in Word and, as you can imagine, they don't look as good as they could. I'm hoping this contest will attract some creative minds who can package the idea that the illustration is meant to convey into an attractive picture :)
Please see my comments below for more information...


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Free online tool for image resize. convert png to ico online. Enjoy free service ! thanks for using it. What is image editing? Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photochemical photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any traditional art medium. Graphic software programs, which can be broadly grouped into vector graphics editors, raster graphics editors, and 3D modelers, are the primary tools with which a user may manipulate, enhance, and transform images. Many image editing programs are also used to render or create computer art from scratch.
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One of the prerequisites for many of the applications mentioned below is a method of selecting part(s) of an image, thus applying a change selectively without affecting the entire picture. Most graphics programs have several means of accomplishing this, such as:
a marquee tool for selecting rectangular or other regular polygon-shaped regions,
a lasso tool for freehand selection of a region,
a magic wand tool that selects objects or regions in the image defined by proximity of color or luminance,
vector-based pen tools,
as well as more advanced facilities such as edge detection, masking, alpha compositing, and color and channel-based extraction. The border of a selected area in an image is often animated with the marching ants effect to help the user to distinguish the selection border from the image background.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man overlaid with Goethe's Color Wheel using a screen layer in Adobe Photoshop. Screen layers can be helpful in graphic design and in creating multiple exposures in photography.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man overlaid a soft light layer Moses Harris's Color Wheel and a soft light layer of Ignaz Schiffermller's Color Wheel. Soft light layers have a darker, more translucent look than screen layers.
Main article: Layers (digital image editing) Another feature common to many graphics applications is that of Layers, which are analogous to sheets of transparent acetate (each containing separate elements that make up a combined picture), stacked on top of each other, each capable of being individually positioned, altered and blended with the layers below, without affecting any of the elements on the other layers. This is a fundamental workflow which has become the norm for the majority of programs on the market today, and enables maximum flexibility for the user while maintaining non-destructive editing principles and ease of use.
Image editors can resize images in a process often called image scaling, making them larger, or smaller. High image resolution cameras can produce large images which are often reduced in size for Internet use. Image editor programs use a mathematical process called resampling to calculate new pixel values whose spacing is larger or smaller than the original pixel values. Images for Internet use are kept small, say 640 x 480 pixels which would equal 0.3 megapixels.
Main article: Cropping (image) Digital editors are used to crop images. Cropping creates a new image by selecting a desired rectangular portion from the image being cropped. The unwanted part of the image is discarded. Image cropping does not reduce the resolution of the area cropped. Best results are obtained when the original image has a high resolution. A primary reason for cropping is to improve the image composition in the new image.
I recommend open source instrument Universal Image Loader. It is originally based on Fedor Vlasov's project LazyList and has been vastly improved since then.
The only (and the best cross-browser) way as I know is to use an
inline-block helper with
height: 100% and
vertical-align: middle on both elements.
So there is a solution: http://jsfiddle.net/kizu/4RPFa/4570/
Or, if you don't want to have an extra element in modern browsers and don't mind using IE expressions, you can use a pseudo-element and add it to IE using a convenient Expression, that runs only once per element, so there won't be any performance issues:
The solution with
:before and
expression() for IE: http://jsfiddle.net/kizu/4RPFa/4571/
.frame {
height: 35px; /* equals max image height */
width: 160px;
border: 1px solid red;
text-align: center;
margin: 1em 0;
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: middle;
img {
background: #3A6F9A;
display: block;
max-height: 35px;
max-width: 160px;
The key property is display: table-cell; for .frame. Div.frame is displayed as inline with this, so you need to wrap it in a block element.
This works in FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari and IE8+.
For IE7 we need to add a css expression:
*:first-child+html img {
position: relative;
top: expression((this.parentNode.clientHeight-this.clientHeight)/2+"px");
BitmapFactory class provides several decoding methods (
decodeResource(), etc.) for creating a
Bitmap from various sources. Choose the most appropriate decode method based on your image data source. These methods attempt to allocate memory for the constructed bitmap and therefore can easily result in an
OutOfMemoryexception. Each type of decode method has additional signatures that let you specify decoding options via the
BitmapFactory.Options class. Setting the
inJustDecodeBounds property to
truewhile decoding avoids memory allocation, returning
null for the bitmap object but setting
outHeight and
outMimeType. This technique allows you to read the dimensions and type of the image data prior to construction (and memory allocation) of the bitmap.
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, options);
int imageHeight = options.outHeight;
int imageWidth = options.outWidth;
String imageType = options.outMimeType;
To avoid
java.lang.OutOfMemory exceptions, check the dimensions of a bitmap before decoding it, unless you absolutely trust the source to provide you with predictably sized image data that comfortably fits within the available memory.
For example, it's not worth loading a 1024x768 pixel image into memory if it will eventually be displayed in a 128x96 pixel thumbnail in an
To tell the decoder to subsample the image, loading a smaller version into memory, set
inSampleSize to
true in your
BitmapFactory.Options object. For example, an image with resolution 2048x1536 that is decoded with an
inSampleSize of 4 produces a bitmap of approximately 512x384. Loading this into memory uses 0.75MB rather than 12MB for the full image (assuming a bitmap configuration of
ARGB_8888). Here's a method to calculate a sample size value that is a power of two based on a target width and height:
public static int calculateInSampleSize(
BitmapFactory.Options options, int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {
// Raw height and width of image
final int height = options.outHeight;
final int width = options.outWidth;
int inSampleSize = 1;
if (height > reqHeight || width > reqWidth) {
final int halfHeight = height / 2;
final int halfWidth = width / 2;
// Calculate the largest inSampleSize value that is a power of 2 and keeps both
// height and width larger than the requested height and width.
while ((halfHeight / inSampleSize) > reqHeight
&& (halfWidth / inSampleSize) > reqWidth) {
inSampleSize *= 2;
return inSampleSize;
Note: A power of two value is calculated because the decoder uses a final value by rounding down to the nearest power of two, as per the
To use this method, first decode with
inJustDecodeBounds set to
true, pass the options through and then decode again using the new
inSampleSize value and
inJustDecodeBounds set to
public static Bitmap decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(Resources res, int resId,
int reqWidth, int reqHeight) {
// First decode with inJustDecodeBounds=true to check dimensions
final BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);
// Calculate inSampleSize
options.inSampleSize = calculateInSampleSize(options, reqWidth, reqHeight);
// Decode bitmap with inSampleSize set
options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
return BitmapFactory.decodeResource(res, resId, options);
This method makes it easy to load a bitmap of arbitrarily large size into an
ImageView that displays a 100x100 pixel thumbnail, as shown in the following example code:
decodeSampledBitmapFromResource(getResources(), R.id.myimage, 100, 100));
You can follow a similar process to decode bitmaps from other sources, by substituting the appropriate
BitmapFactory.decode* method as needed.
Do not apply an explicit width or height to the image tag. Instead, give it:
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/xwrvxser/1/
img {
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
.portrait {
height: 80px;
width: 30px;
.landscape {
height: 30px;
width: 80px;
.square {
height: 75px;
width: 75px;
Portrait Div

Landscape Div

Square Div

Currently there is no way to do this correctly in a deterministic way, with fixed-size images such as JPEGs or PNG files.
To resize an image proportionally, you have to set either the height or width to "100%", but not both. If you set both to "100%", your image will be stretched.
Choosing whether to do height or width depends on your image and container dimensions:
height="100%" on the image.
width="100%" on the image.
If your image is an SVG, which is a variable-sized vector image format, you can have the expansion to fit the container happen automatically.
You just have to ensure that the SVG file has none of these properties set in the
<svg> tag:
Most vector drawing programs out there will set these properties when exporting an SVG file, so you will have to manually edit your file every time you export, or write a script to do it.
IMG if you intend to have people print your page and you want the image to be included by default. —JayTee
IMG (with
alt text) when the image has an important semantic meaning, such as a warning icon. This ensures that the meaning of the image can be communicated in all user-agents, including screen readers.
IMG plus alt attribute if the image is part of the content such as a logo or diagram or person (real person, not stock photo people). —sanchothefat
IMG if you rely on browser scaling to render an image in proportion to text size.
IMG for multiple overlay images in IE6.
IMG with a
z-index in order to stretch a background image to fill its entire window.
img instead of
background-image can dramatically improve performance of animations over a background.
background-image if you intend to have people print your page and you do not want the image to be included by default. —JayTee
background-image if you need to improve download times, as with CSS sprites.
background-image if you need for only a portion of the image to be visible, as with CSS sprites.
background-image with
background-size:cover in order to stretch a background image to fill its entire window.
Above answers considers only Design aspect . I am listing it in SEO aspects.
When to use

alt and
title attribute.
When to use CSS
As i will use them based on these reasons. These are Good practices of Search Engine Optimization of Images.
Following on from brillout.com's answer, and also Roman Nurik's answer, and relaxing somewhat the the 'no SVG' requirement, you can desaturate images in Firefox using only a single SVG file and some CSS.
Your SVG file will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg version="1.1"
<filter id="desaturate">
<feColorMatrix type="matrix" values="0.3333 0.3333 0.3333 0 0
0.3333 0.3333 0.3333 0 0
0.3333 0.3333 0.3333 0 0
0 0 0 1 0"/>
Save that as resources.svg, it can be reused from now on for any image you want to change to greyscale.
In your CSS you reference the filter using the Firefox specific
filter property:
.target {
filter: url(resources.svg#desaturate);
Add the MS proprietary ones too if you feel like it, apply that class to any image you want to convert to greyscale (works in Firefox >3.5, IE8).
edit: Here's a nice blog post which describes using the new CSS3
filter property in SalmanPK's answer in concert with the SVG approach described here. Using that approach you'd end up with something like:
filter: gray; /* IE */
-webkit-filter: grayscale(1); /* Old WebKit */
-webkit-filter: grayscale(100%); /* New WebKit */
filter: url(resources.svg#desaturate); /* older Firefox */
filter: grayscale(100%); /* Current draft standard */
Just got the same problem today. I've initially used SalmanPK solution but found out that effect differs between FF and other browsers. That's because conversion matrix works on lightness only not luminosity like filters in Chrome/IE . To my surprise I've found out that alternative and simpler solution in SVG also works in FF4+ and produces better results:
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<filter id="desaturate">
<feColorMatrix type="saturate" values="0"/>
With css:
img {
filter: url(filters.svg#desaturate); /* Firefox 3.5+ */
filter: gray; /* IE6-9 */
-webkit-filter: grayscale(1); /* Google Chrome & Safari 6+ */
One more caveat is that IE10 doesn't support "filter: gray:" in standards compliant mode anymore, so needs compatibility mode switch in headers to work:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
You can use jQuery's attr() function. For example, if you img tag has an id attribute of 'my_image':

Then you can change the src in jQuery by:
To attach this to a
click event, you could write:
'click': function(){
To rotate the image, you could do this:
'click': function() {
var src = ($(this).attr('src') === 'img1_on.jpg')
? 'img2_on.jpg'
: 'img1_on.jpg';
$(this).attr('src', src);
I'll show you how to change the image
src, so that when you click an image it rotates through all the images that are in your HTML (in your
d1 id and
c1 class specifically)... whether you have 2 or more images in your HTML.
I'll also show you how to clean up the page after the document is ready, so that only one image is displayed initially.
The full code
$(function() {
var $images = $("#d1 > .c1 > a").clone();
var $length = $images.length;
var $imgShow = 0;
$("#d1 > .c1").html( $("#d1 > .c1 > a:first") );
$("#d1 > .c1 > a").click(function(event) {
$("img", $images).eq(++$imgShow % $length).attr("src") );
The breakdown
Create a copy of the links containing the images (note: you could also make use of the href attribute of the links for added functionality... for example display the working link below each image):
var $images = $("#d1 > .c1 > a").clone(); ;
Check how many images were in the HTML and create a variable to track which image is being shown:
var $length = $images.length;
var $imgShow = 0;
Modify the document's HTML so that only the first image is being shown. Delete all the other images.
$("#d1 > .c1").html( $("#d1 > .c1 > a:first") );
Bind a function to handle when the image link is clicked.
$("#d1 > .c1 > a").click(function(event) {
$(this).children().attr("src", $("img", $images).eq(++$imgShow % $length).attr("src") );
The heart of the above code is using
++$imgShow % $length to cycle through the jQuery object containing the images.
++$imgShow % $length first increases our counter by one, then it mods that number with how many images there are. This will keep the resultant index cycling from
0 to
length-1, which are the indices of the
$images object. This means this code will work with 2, 3, 5, 10, or 100 images... cycling through each image in order and restarting at the first image when the last image is reached.
.attr() is used to get and set the "src" attribute of the images. To pick elements from among the
$images object, I set
$images as the jQuery context using the form
$(selector, context). Then I use
.eq() to pick just the element with the specific index I'm interested in.
First, there are two types of compression: Lossless and Lossy.
There are also different colour depths (palettes): Indexed color and Direct color.
BMP - Lossless / Indexed and Direct
This is an old format. It is Lossless (no image data is lost on save) but there's also little to no compression at all, meaning saving as BMP results in VERY large file sizes. It can have palettes of both Indexed and Direct, but that's a small consolation. The file sizes are so unnecessarily large that nobody ever really uses this format.
Good for: Nothing really. There isn't anything BMP excels at, or isn't done better by other formats.
GIF - Lossless / Indexed only
GIF uses lossless compression, meaning that you can save the image over and over and never lose any data. The file sizes are much smaller than BMP, because good compression is actually used, but it can only store an Indexed palette. This means that for most use cases, there can only be a maximum of 256 different colours in the file. That sounds like quite a small amount, and it is.
GIF images can also be animated and have transparency.
Good for: Logos, line drawings, and other simple images that need to be small. Only really used for websites.
JPEG - Lossy / Direct
JPEGs images were designed to make detailed photographic images as small as possible by removing information that the human eye won't notice. As a result it's a Lossy format, and saving the same file over and over will result in more data being lost over time. It has a palette of thousands of colours and so is great for photographs, but the lossy compression means it's bad for logos and line drawings: Not only will they look fuzzy, but such images will also have a larger file-size compared to GIFs!
Good for: Photographs. Also, gradients.
PNG is a newer format, and PNG-8 (the indexed version of PNG) is really a good replacement for GIFs. Sadly, however, it has a few drawbacks: Firstly it cannot support animation like GIF can (well it can, but only Firefox seems to support it, unlike GIF animation which is supported by every browser). Secondly it has some support issues with older browsers like IE6. Thirdly, important software like Photoshop have very poor implementation of the format. (Damn you, Adobe!) PNG-8 can only store 256 colours, like GIFs.
Good for: The main thing that PNG-8 does better than GIFs is having support for Alpha Transparency.
PNG-24 is a great format that combines Lossless encoding with Direct color (thousands of colours, just like JPEG). It's very much like BMP in that regard, except that PNG actually compresses images, so it results in much smaller files. Unfortunately PNG-24 files will still be bigger than JPEGs (for photos), and GIFs/PNG-8s (for logos and graphics), so you still need to consider if you really want to use one.
Even though PNG-24s allow thousands of colours while having compression, they are not intended to replace JPEG images. A photograph saved as a PNG-24 will likely be at least 5 times larger than a equivalent JPEG image, with very little improvement in visible quality. (Of course, this may be a desirable outcome if you're not concerned about filesize, and want to get the best quality image you can.)
Just like PNG-8, PNG-24 supports alpha-transparency, too.
SVG - Lossless / Vector
A filetype that is currently growing in popularity is SVG, which is different than all the above in that it's a vector file format (the above are all raster). This means that it's actually comprised of lines and curves instead of pixels. When you zoom in on a vector image, you still see a curve or a line. When you zoom in on a raster image, you will see pixels.
This means SVG is perfect for logos and icons you wish to retain sharpness on Retina screens or at different sizes. It also means a small SVG logo can be used at a much larger size -- something that would otherwise require a separate larger file with raster formats.
SVG file sizes are often tiny, even if they're visually very large, which is great. It's worth bearing in mind, however, that it does depend on the complexity of the shapes used. SVGs require more computing power than raster images because mathematical calculations are involved in drawing the curves and lines. If your logo is especially complicated it could slow down a user's computer, and even have a very large file size. It's important that you simplify your vector shapes as much as possible.
Additionally, SVG files are written in XML, and so can be opened and edited in a text editor(!). This means its values can be manipulated on the fly. For example, you could use JavaScript to change the colour of an SVG icon on a website, much like you would some text (ie. no need for a second image), or even animate them.
clientWidth and clientHeight are DOM properties that show the current in-browser size of the inner dimensions of a DOM element (excluding margin and border). So in the case of an IMG element, this will get the actual dimensions of the visible image.
var img = document.getElementById('imageid');
//or however you get a handle to the IMG
var width = img.clientWidth;
var height = img.clientHeight;
You can call
setBackgroundDrawable() on a
Button to set the background of the button.
Any text will appear above the background.
If you are looking for something similar in xml there is:
android:background attribute which works the same way.
I took a different approach from the ones stated here, and it is working really well, so I wanted to share it.
I'm using a Style to create a custom button with image at the left and text at the center-right. Just follow the 4 "easy steps" below:
I. Create your 9 patches using at least 3 different PNG files and the tool you have at: /YOUR_OWN_PATH/android-sdk-mac_x86/tools/./draw9patch. After this you should have:
button_normal.9.png, button_focused.9.png and button_pressed.9.png
Then download or create a 24x24 PNG icon.
Save all in the drawable/ folder on your Android project.
II. Create a XML file called button_selector.xml in your project under the drawable/ folder. The states should be like this:
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button_pressed" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/button_focused" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/button_normal" />
III. Go to the values/ folder and open or create the styles.xml file and create the following XML code:


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Screaming Monkey Slingshot
Super Simian to the Rescue!
- Plush monkey flies through the air
- Rubber arms allows you to launch him like a slingshot
- Screams as he flies and again as he hits the ground
Legend tells of a hero not born unto this world, but destined to change forever the course of human existence. A hero so grand that all past legends will turn to dust in the wake of his greatness. This is not that hero. This is, however, the next best thing: a monkey with a cape and a mask. Because nothing says power like a cape and a mask.
This monkey has a secret - there are pockets in the monkey's hands. Slip your fingers in, pull back his hind legs, and his arms will stretch to a crazy length with the magic of rubber! You can just feel the potential energy coursing through the monkey's imaginary veins. Let fly and you will be treated to a wondrous sight. The monkey will scream with delight when jolted. So, if the launch is hard enough, you'll get a scream of power in mid air; or if the landing is hard, you'll get a scream of protest as gravity does its work. Or, you fling like a master, you'll get a double-dose of monkey justice (i.e. noise).
Dimensions: 11" Tall (arms at sides)


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Over the years since I started blogging I have been noting the feedback I receive about my blog so I can better serve you.
Some of the feedback included;
- Need more professional page layout
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- My favorite ; "you need to eat your own dog food and tell us the problems you solve"
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission did not properly vet as many as 70 contractors with possible criminal records, including one man who later assaulted his girlfriend in a lobby at SEC headquarters, the agency's internal watchdog has found.
A summary of the inspector general's findings was publicly released last fall in a semiannual 2012 report to Congress. A full redacted copy of the investigative report was obtained by Reuters last week through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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The report faulted the SEC for providing a preclearance waiver to the unnamed enforcement division contactor that granted him full access to the building and information technology systems for several years.
Preclearance waivers are sometimes issued to contractors to allow them to start working before a full background check is completed.
The document did not include details about the contractor's criminal record.
It also found that 40 to 70 other contractors at the SEC may also have had criminal pasts, but the SEC did not take the proper steps to weigh all of the facts about their backgrounds to make sure they could work for the agency and did not pose a security threat.
It was not clear from the report whether any of those contractors actually did have criminal backgrounds, and whether they involved minor offenses and misdemeanors or serious felony convictions.
SEC spokesman John Nester said the agency has implemented numerous changes since the report was completed, from installing additional physical security barriers to putting the SEC's security staff in charge of criminal background checks instead of human resources.
A criminal background does not necessarily disqualify a person from federal service. Federal guidelines call for several factors to be weighed, including the seriousness of the conduct, how long ago it occurred, and the age of the person at the time the conduct occurred.
The other contractors who also had preclearance waivers were all screened and met the proper guidelines, Nester added.
"The issues have been resolved to the (Office of the Inspector General's) satisfaction," Nester said.
The inspector general also noted that the enforcement contractor highlighted in the report was removed from federal service.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said the watchdog report sheds light on an area of the SEC that Congress should oversee more closely.
"The SEC controls sensitive information that it has to secure from convicted criminals and non-employees walking in off the street," Charles Grassley said in a statement to Reuters.
The allegations about the enforcement contractor came to light last year, after David Weber, a former top investigator in the inspector general's office, launched a probe into whether the SEC's security personnel had mishandled the matter and failed to report it to law enforcement.
The SEC suspended and later fired Weber after employees complained he wanted to arm himself and other staff in the inspector general's office.
He filed a lawsuit alleging he had been fired for blowing the whistle on misconduct he had uncovered. Weber reached a $580,000 settlement with the SEC in June.
In his lawsuit, he discusses the issues with the contractor and the flaws in the SEC's hiring and vetting process.
"Despite this criminal background, the contractor had been permitted to work with the SEC's most sensitive enforcement data as an enforcement forensic IT contractor for years," Weber said.
The watchdog's report redacts the name of the contractor and the details of his criminal record, though Weber's lawsuit says he was on an early parole release from a 10-year prison sentence for drug distribution.
The report says that on January 11, 2012, at 8:41 p.m., the contractor gave his girlfriend improper access to the building by swiping his card to let her inside without registering her as a guest.
A few hours later, a security camera caught the contractor and his girlfriend engaging in a pushing fight until she broke away and ducked under a turnstile, setting off an alarm, the report said.
(Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Karey Van Hall and Richard Chang)


text: > I looking for some general comments about the pros/cons of torus (2D/3D) > and (fat) tree network topologies, for HPC of course. latency, of course (bandwidth is easy). > My investigation thus far has led me to believe that one reason a torus > topology might be better is because it eliminates the need for a switch. what do you have against switches? *someone* has to do the switching, so why not dedicated hardware? think of it this way: in an n-dim mesh, you only get 2^n-1 outputs per node, and only half-ish of those will make progress, so each hop gives you only a small amount of "routing computation". compare this to something like myrinet, where switching is done by 16 or 32x crossbar units. not only fewer hops, but think also of the wiring - you don't really want connectors for all those mesh links, do you? not to mention tranceivers for each you save a lot of pain by putting most or all the switching into a dedicated box which can etch all those links into a nice, reliable board with simpler PHY's and higher branching factor at each hop. > On the other hand fat tree interconnects seem to dominate the > larger(est) clusters out there, why? practical factors, I believe: latency and packaging. bisection bandwidth seems to appeal to a lot of people, but I'm not sure why. n-dim tori have good BB which scales with size (and dimension). if you really had code which was mostly near-neighbor, it's pretty easy to see mesh-like interconnect making sense - you'd have little need for much routing intelligence. most codes I see have very non-NN patterns (need nontrivial routing) and often do really care about latency. and don't forget that switch-vs-mesh is not an either-or: you can do interesting things to combine them (FNN, grid-of-switches, etc.) regards, Mark Hahn.


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For installation, first connect the adapter ring to the holder and then mount it onto your lens. The ring has a customized fit for the lens, and as a bonus it offers threads for holding an optional circular polarizer. The filter slots simply snap into place, while the barndoors go on hinges on each side of the holder. Finally, you can attach the french flag to the top barndoor for a larger cover that helps block the light from overhead fixtures.
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A prolonged drought is forcing Denver Parks and Recreation to close its grass sports fields for soccer and lacrosse until April 1 — which will keep thousands of children and adults from playing their sports.
The news of the closure came only 15 days before the start of the spring season for most teams.
"Disappointing," said Aaron Nagle, executive director of Skyline Soccer Association, which has about 3,000 players ages 3-18. "We had the same conditions last year. I said we need to prepare. Then 15 days before we are supposed to start, this e-mail goes out."
Nagle sent e-mails to members of his organization, asking them to contact City Hall and push for a short-term solution for this season and to come up with a long-term plan to deal with drought conditions.
City officials, who say the fields are too vulnerable after more than a year of drought conditions, on Friday sent out an e-mail to notify organizations that fields in 80 to 100 parks will be shut down. Fields for baseball and softball will open March 18 — but not for soccer and other field sports.
"We don't have a lot of moisture," said parks spokesman Jeff Green. "(Wednesday) night's snow helped, but we will need more. If we were to let a lot of activity start up, the fields are going to get torn up and the grass will disintegrate. It jeopardizes keeping the fields open for the remainder of the season."
READ the letter from Prescription Root Zone, the sports turf consulting company that recommended the shutdown.
Denver officials sought the opinion of Prescription Root Zone, an international sports turf consulting company based in Colorado Springs. The firm's president advised the city to close the fields to allow the grass that has been dormant during winter to restore itself.
"If play is allowed on the drought-dormant grasses, the turf will be completely destroyed, and there is not enough sod in this region to replace all that would be destroyed nor the money it would take to do so," said Larry D. Musser in a Feb. 14 letter to the city.
Musser said allowing soccer to be played on the field would be "a disaster waiting to happen."
The city's golf courses are not being closed, but that could change, Green said.
"We have considered closing golf courses on rotating basis. But we are not seeing a tremendous overuse that we couldn't repair," he said.
The parks department will begin posting signs with closure information in the parks and at the fields. The closed areas will be monitored by city staff and rangers through April 1.
A message sent to sports organizations said groups that are found practicing or playing on the fields will be warned or issued citations and asked to leave the field.
The city is also delaying sending invoices to groups that have requested to use the fields for the summer. City officials will monitor the grass and moisture content daily. If conditions don't improve, the fields could be closed beyond April 1, Green said.
"March is typically our snowiest month," he said. "We are hoping that will help things."
Denver Public Schools, which has 362 acres of irrigated playgrounds and sports fields that normally consume 400 million gallons of water a year, is examining whether to shut down access to its fields. District officials will meet with Denver Water to figure out the next steps, but at this point, the district's fields are still open for the spring.
Ian Olson, who coaches his second-grade daughter's team, the Cobras, said he was planning to start practices Monday.
"I understand that the drought is impactful," he said, "but to close down the entire parks system because they are afraid of the fields getting torn up, … you would think that they would have had a plan in place to mitigate for a shortage of water."
Bernie Woessner, whose sons have been playing soccer for Skyline for about seven years, said he wishes the parks department would help work out a solution. Now, kids in suburban communities will have access to fields, putting Denver's teams at a disadvantage.
Ultimately, he said, if the season gets canceled, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit organization such as Skyline would have to refund all of its players their entry fees and it may not be able to survive.
"I think they could be flexible to make it work, by alternating fields," he said. "It's pretty disappointing for them to shut it down with no cooperation to figure out a solution."
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HM3D - 2 Bedroom + Den Suite / 3 Bath, Sleeps 5
Bedding: 3 Beds (K, Q, FSS)
BEDDING GUIDE: K = King, SK - Split King, Q - Queen, T - Twin, QSS - Queen Sleeper Sofa, BB - Bunk Beds, F - Full, FSS - Full Sleeper Sofa, TR - Trundle
This two bedroom suite is a roomy and comfortable residence with over 1,500 square feet to enjoy. The private balcony off of the main living area faces west and looks out at Emerald Mountain, a perfect place to enjoy the beautiful sunsets after a full day of activities. This beautifully decorated space offers a main viewing area with a large flat screen TV and surround sound, flat screen TV's in each bedroom, a gas fireplace, gourmet kitchen as well as a washer and dryer. An iPod docking station feeds your personal music into the central audio system which can also be streamed into the bedrooms. The master bedroom suite offers the sumptuous comfort of a king bed with luxury linens and plush bedding while the Hollywood master bath features a Jacuzzi tub and walk-in shower. The second bedroom offers a queen bed with luxury linens, plush bedding and its own private bathroom. For those in need of a work space, this unit provides a supremely functional working study with an additional sleeper sofa. An elegant dining table seats six with additional seating available at the breakfast counter styled bar. This residence has recently been updated with new floors, carpet in the bedrooms, "Nest" technology thermostats, paint throughout, some updated furnishings and artwork and is perfect for a family or couples planning an adult get away.
Individual Unit Features
- Flat Screen TV's
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- Gas fireplace
- Washer/dryer
- Private balcony
- One level floor plan
- Central air conditioning
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Western New York Radiology Associates (WNYRA) partner with all Kaleida Health Adult Hospitals to offer the best in diagnostic and interpretive imaging services. Kaleida Health Imaging departments provide optimal benefits to patients and physicians through the use of the latest technology. Services available include:
- Ultrasound
- A test that uses sound waves and a computer to produce pictures of internal organs.
- Nuclear Medicine
- Small tracer amounts of radioactivity are used to evaluate how organs are functioning. The radioactivity is injected, breathed or ingested into the body and nuclear medicine cameras detect the short lived radioactive material to create an image.
- Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA)
- CTA's 64 slice technology offers many advantages for assessing the cardiovascular system, including the ability to scan the heart within five seconds to provide high quality images of the heart and coronary arteries with remarkable resolution. CTA is available at Buffalo General Hospital and Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital.
- Multiple high speed X-rays of the body which are used to create two to three dimensional images.
- Mammogram
- An X-ray of the breast that uses low dose radiation to produce an image of the inner breast tissue for early detection of breast cancer. Millard Fillmore Suburban is a pink ribbon facility that offers the latest advancement in mammography - 3D digital tomosynthesis.
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- The Buffalo Niagara MRI Center provides the most advanced MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) technology and services available in a comfortable and welcoming environment.
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- A magnetic field is created to send radio waves into the body so a computer can evaluate the body's response and produce images of the body's internal structures.
- X-ray
- A method of creating images of body parts using radiation.
- Dexa
- A Dexa scan or bone densitometry is an X-ray exam that uses a very low dose of radiation to measure the mineral content of the bones.


text: The Dragonfly remains a symbol of versatility and comfort, engages many different styles of music and sound. Art meets performance with the Dragonfly in all versions and beautiful finishes. "The Dragonfly would be a fine instrument even if it only had the two pickups. It's well made, very attractive, and sounds great. When you add the Sustainer to the equation, however, the 'Fly becomes a wildly unique guitar that is just bursting with creativity. This is a great guitar. If you can't instantly come up with an inspiring part when you plug in the Dragonfly, you need to check your pulse." – Guitar Player Magazine


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Eduardo Saverin Finally Opens Up: 'No Hard Feelings Between Me And Mark Zuckerberg'
It took almost a decade, one Hollywood flick and roughly a billion friends for Eduardo Saverin to agree on telling his side of the story about the founding of Facebook, the social-networking website that since 2004 has changed the way we communicate. Now, tens of billions of dollars later, the Brazil-born, Miami-bred billionaire finally addressed some of the topics that have been fueling people's imagination for years. Much of what people say about him is–he states–nothing but "Hollywood fantasy."
In a revealing, world-exclusive interview with reporter Fábio Altman published this weekend by Veja, Brazil's leading newsmagazine, Saverin explained that he never talked to the media before due to contract restraints with the other Facebook shareholders. Ready to set the record straight, and after months of negotiations, Saverin welcomed Altman and photographer Gilberto Tadday at his new multi-million dollar condo in Singapore, where he lives since 2009, which also serves as his office. He keeps connected to the world through his iPhone, iPad, and his 3 Mac displays, one of which is constantly running weather softwares about hurricanes and tsunamis, a childhood hobby deepened by the time when he saw how Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida, in 1992. "I was fascinated by it, and, already having some scientific knowledge, I was able to see the eye of the hurricane, literally."
Funny story: Saverin first made international headlines at the tender age of 13, when he beat a chess grandmaster during a match in Orlando. The fact was so unusual that he was mentioned on an article published by The International Chess Magazine. His parents' best bit of the day: moments before delivering the checkmate, Saverin turned to his mother and asked, "Do you think it's alright if I win?"
Described by Altman as a shy, and yet strong-willed person, Saverin began his chat with the journalist explaining how his family immigrated to the United States from Brazil, in the early 1990s. Contrary to what has been said, the Saverins didn't choose to leave the South American nation because of kidnapping threats. "I've always wanted to live in the United States, that was a dream I decided to fulfill because Brazil was facing a crisis, [former president] Fernando Collor had just freezed all saving accounts, the situation wasn't easy," said Roberto Saverin, Eduardo's father, who now runs a Miami-based pharmaceutical drugs export business and was also interviewed by Altman.
Along with his wife, a psychologist, and his three children–Eduardo being the youngest one–Roberto settled in the Florida city which is a favorite destination for Brazilian tourists and immigrants. Only years after moving to the U.S. he found that his father and Eduardo's grandfather, Eugênio Saverin, was on a list of potential kidnapping targets. A prominent Romanian Jew, Eugênio founded the chain of kidswear retailer Tip Top in São Paulo, in 1952. His entrepreneurial skills earned him, 50 years later, the title of official of the Order of Rio Branco, the highest honor that a Brazilian citizen can receive, which was given to the patriarch of the Saverin family by the then president Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
After making that clear, Saverin, who's worth an estimated $2 billion as of Forbes' last count, credited his grandparents for inspiring him to become successful. "All of us, always, ended up doing something," he proudly said, almost not realizing that his 'something' just became the most talked-about IPO in a decade, only eight years after being first registered as 'Thafacebook' at his parents' Miami home.
Following are some of the highlights from the interview.
On the choice of giving up his U.S. citizenship:
"The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen."
On this topic, Saverin's father, Roberto, told Altman how he feels about his son giving up his U.S. citizenship:
"It was hard for me, because of the life I built in the U.S., hearing from Eduardo that he had to give up on his citizenship. But he did this not because he wanted to, but because he had no other choice as a foreigner living in Singapore, where financial transactions are more restricted and bureaucratic for those who hold a U.S. passport. There was no other way. Besides, after Facebook's IPO, there would be much pressure on him if he stayed in America."
On the now infamous e-mail sent by Mark Zuckerberg to another Facebook cofounder, Dustin Moskovitz, in which he discusses how Saverin's stake in the site could be reduced:
"I have only good things to say about Mark, there are no hard feelings between us. His focus on the company since its very first day is anything short of admirable. He was a visionary, he always knew that the only way for Facebook to grow was to maintain its central idea, that of people truly presenting themselves as they are, without nicknames or pseudonyms. That's Facebook's biggest strength, what allowed us to transform it into an instrument of protest, like what happened in Egypt, but also in an instrument of business, not to mention a way of naturally connecting with friends."
On keeping a low profile on his Facebook page, where he's 'liked' by 1.4 million people:
"I don't like showing my privacy online."
On his current investments:
"I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart. I've recently been cc'd on e-mails sent to Eike Batista [Brazil's richest man]. But that's not how I want to invest in Brazil, through minerals, unless it's silicon or something tech-related. And I believe there's a new Facebook out there to be found. Where? My guess is in healthcare."
On the movie 'The Social Network,' where he is portrayed by American-English actor Andrew Garfield:
"That's Hollywood fantasy, not a documentary. Facebook wasn't built out of a Harvard dorm window. And I would never throw a laptop at someone, like it appears in the movie. Not even at Mark."


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