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The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?
- By Michel Bozgounov
- September 17th, 2010
- 239 Comments
Our recent article covering the new features of Adobe Fireworks CS51 provoked a very interesting and intense debate. But because comments ranged from "Fireworks is the best tool for screen design!" to "What exactly is Fireworks?", we thought that another article on this topic might be very useful to Smashing Magazine readers.
However, this time the article will not focus so much on the tool itself, but rather on what can be achieved with it, and more specifically — what can be achieved with its visual/graphic design capabilities. We also hope that the following showcase of inspiring illustrations, created entirely in Fireworks, will not only be interesting to our readers, but will also help put an end to the common misconception that Fireworks is mostly a prototyping tool – and – that for "serious" design you must switch to other tools, namely Photoshop or Illustrator.
…What Exactly Is Fireworks? Link
Finding the answer to this question is not so easy. Is it a prototyping or wireframing tool? Or is it a powerful graphics editor? Is it a Photoshop competitor, but for Web design only? Is it none of these, or all of the above?
Perhaps presenting you with a quick overview of some of the key features of Fireworks will help you decide the answer to that question yourself.
What is it? Link
Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor formerly developed by Macromedia and since 2006 developed by Adobe. The main purpose of Adobe Fireworks is for creating expressive, highly optimized graphics for Web, screen and various devices (it should be noted that because of its main purpose, Fireworks has certain limitations: it supports only RGB/RGBa colors and the maximum canvas size of its files is approximately 10,000×10,000 pixels).
What is it good for? Link
With Fireworks you can make websites, user interfaces and rich Internet application (RIA) interfaces which are editable in both vector and bitmap modes. Fireworks has Pages/Master Pages, Layers, States and Symbols – all features that considerably speed up development of Web designs. You can also use it to create wireframes and interactive prototypes — you can apply behaviors to objects to simulate interactivity; you can add text, symbols, images and also import Illustrator and Photoshop assets; and once ready with the design you can export the files as clickable PDF mock-ups for approval.
Fireworks can turn a graphic design project instantly into an interactive Web prototype — simply export a Fireworks single-page or multi-page PNG file as HTML, CSS and images3. You can then send such an interactive prototype to a client for approval; or you can further edit the exported code (which is almost standards compliant4 and uses an external style sheet) in Dreamweaver, Coda or any other code editor of your choice.
Export features Link
Fireworks can export to JPG, GIF/GIF-animated, PNG8/24/32, TIFF and a variety of other graphic formats. The Fireworks compression algorithms are on par with, or even better5 than, Photoshop's. Not only this but Fireworks can also export graphics directly to PNG8 alpha+index transparency format with true cross-browser compatibility (this means the exported PNG files will display correctly even in Internet Explorer 6 and 7). This is one of the areas where Fireworks excels and Photoshop still lags behind6. Fireworks also shows excellent compression options for the iPad and iPhone7 PNG formats.
You can also export Fireworks PNG files as Adobe AIR application prototypes or FXG 2.0 files for development in Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder (FXG 2.0 also allows a much better integration with Illustrator and Photoshop). You can create skin components such as buttons, menu types and form elements for use in Flash Builder (previously known as Adobe Flex Builder).
Formats support Link
Because the native file format of Fireworks is editable PNG (it simply stores additional metadata for layers, animation, vector data, text, effects) and Fireworks is primarily a vector application, development for the iPhone8 is easy and effective in Fireworks. There exist a variety9 of toolkits10 and rich symbol libraries11 for Fireworks iPhone development and they can speed up your work measurably.
Fireworks can open/import native Photoshop (.psd) and Illustrator (.ai) files with high fidelity of layers, effects and blend modes; you can also import native Adobe Flash vector objects (you may first need to convert them to .ai, though). And from Fireworks you can readily transfer graphic assets back to Illustrator and Photoshop. You can also take your design into Adobe Flash Professional and preserve layer states and symbols for animation interactivity development.
Highly extensible Link
Fireworks is also highly extensible12 — this makes possible the developing of amazing extensions (such as TweetFire13, which lets you instantly tweet the image/design you're currently working on without leaving Fireworks), complex panels, commands and auto shapes.
The Showcase Of Fireworks Illustrations Link
So now that we know what Fireworks is capable of, let's see what designers across the globe are actually doing with it!
The following selection of vector illustrations, logo and icon designs – created in Fireworks – is limited to 19 designers. To make the most of this article, we have made available some Fireworks editable PNG files (.fw.png) which you are welcome to download and deconstruct.
1. David Hogue Link
Dave Hogue14 is the Director of Information Design & Usability at Fluid15, a design and development agency located in San Francisco. His areas of interest include user experience design, usability, interaction design and information design. Dave speaks regularly at the Web Experience Forum and Adobe MAX. He is very active in the Adobe Fireworks community and he regularly posts useful Fireworks tips and tricks on his Twitter16 account.
{01} Golden Compass illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors, and inspired by this tutorial18 made for Adobe Illustrator (download editable PNG19).
{02} Quartz Watches illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors, and inspired by a photo of a real quartz watch21 (download editable PNG22).
2. Matthew Inman Link
Matthew is a designer and illustrator who runs the highly successful comics, The Oatmeal23. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and uses Adobe Fireworks to draw all the comic strips24 (http://web.archive.org/web/20110810065019/http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/25).
Fireworks is intended for web design, but it's also a very capable vector editing tool and it works beautifully if your work is going to end up on a website. …I don't use Photoshop and I'm actually pretty terrible with it. I also have Illustrator and I was using it for a few months, but I ended up going back to Fireworks simply because I'm more comfortable with it and it's better for creating web content.
Following here is a very short selection of only 5 comic strips — all made with Fireworks (but of course you're welcome to explore the full Oatmeal collection26):
{03} 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee Link
{04} 20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer Link
{05} How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell Link
{06} Why working at home is both awesome and horrible Link
{07} Duck in Coffee illustration Link
Matthew does not use Fireworks only for drawing his comic strips — for example, see this beautiful "There's a duck in my coffee" vector illustration32, created entirely in Fireworks (see screenshot33 from the process). Check Matthew's portfolio34 if you'd like to see more of his works.
3. Ryan Hicks Link
Did you ever wonder what happens behind the closed doors of Adobe? How their design teams are working? What applications are creating the icons and splash screens of the various Adobe apps? Ryan could tell us a lot about this subject, since he's currently working at Adobe as Design Manager, and prior to that he was Senior Experience Designer at Adobe and Experience Designer at Macromedia. His list of clients also include Polygram Music, Wired Magazine35 and many others (see Ryan's portfolio36).
Let's take a look at some of his design and illustration work.
{08} XD Brownbag Poster series Link
After posting it to the Adobe Developer Connection | Fireworks38 website, Ryan shared the following about this illustration:
This illustration is just one example of a series from the XD Brownbag seminars at Adobe (XD is the Experience Design team at Adobe). The poster art is drawn up at screen resolution and later scaled, because this enables me to build up the shapes more quickly and get into the "drawing light," which is where the real magic of Fireworks comes in. Its incredibly intuitive gradient opacity controls and the Ellipse gradient's multi-handle directional controls allow a drawing approach that mimics the real behavior of light. Solid objects have a primary base color and separate slices of cast light, bright highlights, and shadows to build up volume and surface.
After the illustration is completed, it is scaled up to print resolution in Fireworks (eat a snack during this process, as big resolutions is one thing Fireworks isn't entirely happy with). This large Fireworks PNG illustration is then taken through Adobe Photoshop to output a transparent PSD, and finally into Adobe Illustrator for layout, typography, and output for the final, print-resolution 24″ x 36″ poster.
Download the Fireworks PNG file3940.
{09} XD Lunchbox poster Link
{10} XD Beet poster Link
{11} XD Mackerel poster Link
{12} XD Salad poster Link
{13} XD Brownbag poster Link
4. Rogie King Link
Rogie King is the guy behind Komodo Media46. He is a web designer, illustrator and blogger. Lately Rogie started a series of tutorials on Fireworks47 that are becoming more and more popular every day.
{14} rogieking.com personal site illustrations Link
Composed entirely of vector artwork in Fireworks, this is a piece of art for the new and upcoming tumblog for rogieking.com49.
{15} Logo for rainboxx.de Link
Created for Matthias Dietrich for his PHP development shop, Rainboxx53, this logo was created entirely in Fireworks as vectors. Matthias wanted an evolution to his brand and a professional 3D icon evolution of his current Rainboxx identity. You can view more info about the process54, the related dribbble shot55, and you can learn more about the particularly interesting brushed metal effect in this video tutorial56.
{16} Mad Mimi Illustrations Link
These are just a couple of illustrations from a series created for the redesign of Mad Mimi60. The illustrations are composed entirely of vectors with the additional use of Fireworks symbols for repeating shapes (such as the boxes).
{17} Adaptive UI icons Link
A custom icon set designed entirely in Fireworks for andCulture62 who wanted an icon set that was smooth, silky and that fit in with the aesthetic of their Flex web application (see a screenshot from the work in progress63).
5. Xiao Cai Link
Xiao currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He's currently building his portfolio and preparing for the RMIT University64. He does not have a personal website but you can check his profile in deviantart65 where he posts some of his works.
Xiao shared with me a bit more details concerning his very interesting technique, which he uses in Adobe Fireworks:
During my free time, I looked through a lot of online tutorials on the use of software like Fireworks, Photoshop and 3DS Max. It is quite amazing that you can learn pretty much anything yourself as long as you put theory and practice together. At the beginning, I created a few simple wallpapers using Fireworks, to get familiar with its tools and options. Then I read an article about creating Chinese painting-like pictures in Adobe Fireworks. I tried a few times and then came up with a style of my own, something like Digital Chinese Painting, and was quite happy with the results. Since then I went deeper and deeper with Gongbi (a meticulously detailed painting style) and Shuimo (a water color style) paintings and re-created them with Fireworks. I was trying different tools and effects to get the right one, then compared these pictures with real Chinese painting reference photos and modified them, until I was satisfied with the end result.
Sometimes, I am also using Fireworks to create icons and other design elements.
Next, you'll see four of Xiao's digital drwaings, each one has a short description added by the author.
{18} DCP2 Fireworks illustration Link
"My first complete painting by using Fireworks. I did everything piece by piece, from background to stamen, with the pen tool, then adjusted the colors and effects. Not really a technical one, but did take me a lot of time. This painting is also featured in "2 Faces Apart", Vol.1, published by King Ink (ISBN: 978-91-85807-05-5)."
{19} DCP3 Fireworks illustration Link
"Created in Fireworks, in a bit different style. And with the experience from the previous one, it was finished easily."
{20} DCP4 Fireworks illustration Link
"Here I tried to focus on the flower, and at the same time combine two different styles together (Gongbi and Shuimo). However, I think I still need to work on the composition."
{21} DCP8 Fireworks illustration Link
"One more illustration in the same style; it also has a night72 version."
6. Jon Hicks Link
Jon Hicks (hicksdesign.co.uk73, @hicksdesign74) is a designer we need not introduce. Among other things, he is the maker of the Firefox, Thunderbird & Mailchimp logos and lately he was Senior Designer at Opera Software75, before returning to freelance work this year.
{22} Mozilla Firefox logo Link
The logo of Mozilla Firefox, one of the leading modern Web browsers, was originally created in Macromedia Fireworks78 in 2004. (Note: Later Jon Hicks re-created79 the logo also in Adobe Illustrator, so that it could be transferred to print more easily).
Currently, Jon Hicks admits that he both loves and hates Fireworks80, one of the reasons for which was apparently Fireworks version CS4, which initially proved to be very unstable on MacOS X and Adobe were quite slow to release two stability patches81 for it.
When I e-mailed Jon a couple of days ago, he was kind enough to share the following with me:
Apart from the first version of the Mozilla Firefox logo, I do all my illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, rather than Adobe Fireworks. I would often use Fireworks for small icons and mocking up site designs, but anything larger and more complicated would be done in Illustrator. The next higher res [resolution] version of the Firefox logo was created in Illustrator — that's not to say it's impossible in Fireworks, but I find Illustrator easier for that kind of thing, and it's then simple to create high res CMYK versions for print, as well as screen.
7. Fabio Sasso Link
Fabio82 is a graphic and web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. He's the founder of Abduzeedo83, a blog about design, and he and other designers have published there many tutorials on Fireworks84. Fabio acknowledges that Fireworks is his favorite and most versatile tool for Web design with its amazing vector capabilities and good bitmap editing options as well.
{23} Apple Air banner Link
Done entirely in vectors; there's also a related tutorial as to how it's done in Fireworks86.
{24} Light Effects illustration Link
Done entirely in vectors; there's also a related tutorial as to how it's done in Fireworks88.
{25} The Abduzeetles Rockband website design Link
Hilarious — this tutorial90 will teach you how to create a colorful and funny website design for the Abduzeetles Rockband — all with the power of Fireworks vectors! ;)
8. Lucian Dragomir Link
Lucian Dragomir from 2313 Studio91 is a 20-year-old freelance branding and web designer who is currently studying art and visual technology in Virginia. Graphic design is his passion and Fireworks is what feeds his hunger for design. He likes Fireworks for its user-friendly interface and advanced vector engine which, combined, create good results for fast prototyping, Web design and occasionally even print.
Lucian also loves to share his work at deviantart92.
{26} Vectorizer illustration Link
This is an illustration that won first prize at the 2009 Fireworks Wallpaper Contest, organized by Adobe94 and FwZone95. It was created in Fireworks CS4 and is 100% vector work. To see the full complexity of this illustration, you can download the Fireworks PNG96 file.
{27} Anger Management illustration Link
Experimental 3D render of a fire extinguisher and a lighter using only vectors (Fireworks 8).
{28} iCry illustration Link
Experimental characters and lighting/shadow/reflection simulation, 100% vector work in Adobe Fireworks.
{29} TakeOFF illustration Link
Created in Fireworks 8 with the help of the Alien Skin Splat plugin.
9. Fred Michel Link
Fred Michel100 is 30 years old and a freelance graphic and web designer, currently living in Montréal, Canada. He first made his way into the graphic design world through being inspired by Fireworks. An interesting fact is that he is color blind. So how does he manage to put the colors together? He says that this is a secret!
{30} Porsche Carrera illustration Link
Originally created in Fireworks in 2004 and is all vector work (download Fireworks PNG102).
{31} Cadillac illustration Link
Created in Fireworks, all vector work (download Fireworks PNG104).
{32} Mercedes SLA concept car illustration Link
Mercedes SLA concept car — originally created in 2005 in Fireworks, all vector work (editable PNG is available for download106). A curious fact is that the concept of the Mercedes SLA car is as old as the year 2000, however, Mercedes did not yet create such a car107 — it only remains a concept till now.
{33} VW Tiguan illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, in 2010, and is all vector work (you may download the editable PNG109). One of Fred's most complex vector illustrations made in Fireworks.
10. Mikko Vartio Link
Mikko Vartio110 is a visual web designer from Helsinki, Finland. He uses Adobe Fireworks as a primary tool for creating websites, illustrations, for UI Design and wireframing. When he's not working with Fireworks he's reading old sci-fi books and cruising the streets with a longboard.
For Mikko, Fireworks is the perfect tool for delivering ideas destined for screen because of its extensibility, native .ai/.psd support and pixel-perfect accuracy. Mikko can be found on Twitter111 and Flickr112 (where he often posts Fireworks illustrations).
{34} Bears illustration Link
{35} Sealife illustration Link
{36} Longboard illustration Link
{37} Surprise illustration Link
{38} Darth Android illustration Link
Made in Fireworks CS5 in less than an hour, this funny Darth Vader + Google Android mashup118 can be also seen as a live design session119 recorded at 5x speed. Worth watching!
{39} Magic Mushroom illustration Link
All 100% Fireworks vector work — the original Fireworks PNG file will be available for download as a freebie later at Mikko's personal blog121.
11. Angelo Sabal Link
Angelo Sabal122 works and lives in the Philippines. He's been an avid freelance graphic designer since 2002, specializing in logos, layouts, digital art and multimedia presentations. Fireworks is his design tool of choice.
{40} Colt gun illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG124).
{41} Candle illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vectors (download editable PNG126).
{42} Dragon shield illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG128)
{43} Iron Man 2 helmet illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors (download editable PNG130).
12. Craig Erskine Link
Craig Erskine131 was born, and is still working, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He has a passion for designing and building standards compliant, stylish and accessible websites.
Craig is using Fireworks on a daily basis132 and has also published quite a lot of Fireworks tutorials133. You may find him on dribbbble134 and Twitter135.
{44} Mac Mini illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG137).
{45} Apple remotes illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG139).
13. Pete Lacey Link
Pete Lacey140 is an English graphic designer and artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He's working in the field of graphic design, illustration, photography, video editing, motion-graphics, web development, art direction and even audio recording. When it comes to Web design, Fireworks is one of his programs of choice.
When not working with a computer, Pete can often be found behind a drum kit or a guitar instead. And on Twitter141, too.
{46} Fireworks icons Link
Created in Fireworks for a client, 100% vector work.
14. David Brooks Link
David143 is a UX designer at Fellowship Technologies144 and also a photographer. He currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas (USA). You can find him on dribbble145 and Twitter146.
One of his tools of choice is Fireworks.
{47} Camera-Phone illustration Link
Created in Fireworks for pure fun; all vectors.
{48} Northward Compass website illustration Link
Everything (except the map, which is an imported bitmap), is done as vectors in Fireworks.
15. Tomas Gajar Link
Tomas Gajar is a senior user interface designer. He has been using Fireworks in his daily work for about 7+ years. All designs that you'll see in his DigitalLabs Portfolio149 has been made in Fireworks. You can also find Tomas on Twitter150 and SofaSurfer151.
{49} DigitalLabs website design Link
{50} Beck's design concept Link
{51} SofaSurfer website design Link
16. Vincent Tremblay Link
Vincent Tremblay155 is currently studying computer programming at Bois-de-Boulogne College in Montreal, Canada. He spends most of his free time coding desktop applications, but he also loves working with his favorite web design software, Adobe Fireworks. Vincent can also be found at deviantart156.
{52} Neos Carbon 2 logo prototype (neOS Sapphire logo) Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors.
{53} iCompanion logo prototype (iTunes Companion logo) Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors.
17. José Rivera Link
José is a very active member of the FireworksGuru forum159 and he also runs a personal blog160 dedicated to Fireworks. You can also check his deviantart161 profile.
{54} Twitter icons Link
Twitter icons, all re-created in Fireworks vectors.
{55} The iPhone, in Fireworks PNG (.fw.png) format Link
The idea to fully vectorize the iPhone is not new — for example, you may check this excellent tutorial165 on how to create the iPhone frame in Adobe Fireworks.
However, José Rivera went one step further and offered the iPhone in Fireworks full vector format166 for free download (download iPhone in editable PNG format167). It should be fully compatible with Fireworks versions CS4/CS5 (and even lower).
18. Nick Isenberg Link
Nick is a Web and graphic designer who lives and works in Boise, Idaho (USA). You may check his portfolio168 and deviantart profile169, where he publishes some of his illustrations made with Fireworks.
{56} Spiral Notebooks illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vector work (download the Fireworks PNG171).
{57} Le Petit Porcelet illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vector work (download the Fireworks PNG173).
{58} Safari Dock icon Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, almost 100% vector work (download the Fireworks PNG175).
19. Adobe CS5 Branding Link
Next you'll see more details about the whole Adobe CS5 branding, which — it shouldn't be actually a surprise — was not made in Photoshop, but mainly in Fireworks.
{59} The Adobe CS5 branding Link
{60} The Adobe CS5 branding — the icons Link
{61} The Adobe CS5 branding — the splash screens Link
The Adobe CS5 Branding work was conceived and executed by Ryan Hicks (lead), Shawn Cheris and Dave Nelson. There's a very interesting article at Veerle Pieters's blog179 dedicated to the "making of". I highly recommend reading this as well as Ryan's thoughts180 on the matter too:
Producing assets for nearly a hundred separate software products takes enormous discipline. Discipline in what a few people can commit to executing in terms of fancy design, and discipline in coordinating and scheduling a hundred separate engineering development cycles and their deadlines. And to keep things interesting, Dave bails just before our production schedule was set to kick off. Shawn and I are now an army of two.
Our survival was dependent on the carefully-hewn master files we created for all the hand-built primary assets such as app icons and splash screens. The files leveraged clever layer structures and the attributes management Adobe Fireworks does best.
We have become, in so many words, an outrageously efficient icon factory, pumped up on caffeine, razor sharp pixels, and a couple AIR apps.
CS5 is my third iteration of Adobe's product identity system. The project was one of the most enjoyable and satisfying I've had in my nearly seven years of working at Macromedia/Adobe.
All splash screens and many of the icons of the CS5 apps were made in Fireworks — and most of them exist in various formats including .fw.png and .ai.
So, how good is Fireworks for Web design? Link
Fireworks is a solid application for creating Web graphics and as John Nack181 from Adobe Photoshop team says: "Photoshop's vector shapes & layer effects (strokes, gradients, etc.) are mainstays of Web & mobile design work, but they haven't gotten updated in a while. If the Photoshop team were to improve this area of the app, what improvements would you find the most important?"
John then lists all features that could probably be added to the next version of Photoshop (CS6?). Let's take a look at his list — I have marked the features that are proposed to be included in the next version of Photoshop but already exist in Adobe Fireworks182 (version CS5 or even lower) in italics.
- Enable "real" vector shapes (stroke & fill directly editable, without reliance on layer effects or a dialog box).
- Support dashed— and dotted—line strokes.
- Enable smart shapes — preserve corner roundness when scaling rounded rectangles; support other parameterized shapes (e.g. stars with an adjustable number of points; lines with arrowheads).
- Make various layer effects enhancements — apply effects at the layer group level?; re-order effects; duplicate effects (e.g. apply multiple strokes per layer); enable panel-based editing of effects (instead of relying on a dialog box); add/edit effects on multiple selected layers at once; make graphical styles "live" (i.e. if edit the style definition, all styled objects update).
- Enable layer search (i.e. type to filter by layer name or attributes).
- Improve snap-to-pixel behavior.
- Improve text rendering (this is possible in Fireworks with the ClearType Styles183 extension).
- Export text & graphical styles as CSS* (this is already partially possible in Fireworks – it can export a Web graphic design as HTML/CSS code and also can quickly "translate" some objects' properties into CSS via extensions such as "Copy CSS Dimensions to Clipboard").
- Support guide sets (e.g. for grid layouts).
- Support linked files (i.e. edit one file to update buttons, icons, etc. across multiple PSDs).
As can be seen, almost all future features for Photoshop proposed by John Nack are actually existing features in Fireworks and are used by many designers today. It'll be certainly interesting to keep tabs on how Adobe develops both Photoshop and Fireworks in the future – and what designers will then achieve.
Conclusion Link
Adobe Fireworks is a powerful graphic design application that is used by many professional Web and graphic designers, UX designers, illustrators and visual artists. In the right hands, it can produce beautiful results with remarkable speed. You have seen some complex vector designs, various drawing techniques, logos and icons and simply cool illustrations.
Perhaps what is the nicest thing about Fireworks is that if you plan to create artwork in Fireworks, your project development is not limited to Fireworks only. You can easily import multi-layered .psd files, .ai files with multiple artboards and even visual assets from Flash. And then in the other direction, from Fireworks, you can transfer graphic assets to Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Professional and Flash Catalyst. You can combine the Fireworks speed, vector power, Pages/Master Pages, Symbols and ease-of-use together with the options of both Photoshop and Illustrator and achieve all-round results, faster and with great flexibility.
In my personal opinion, there exists much more than 7 reasons to prefer Fireworks to Photoshop184. While Fireworks may be not better than Photoshop185, when it comes to designing for the Web and screen, it is faster, easier and can produce results as good as those that can be achieved in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other modern graphic design programs. Fireworks is very close to the real Web design application186 that Jason Santa Maria was discussing not long ago (although for this to happen, Fireworks would need much more intensive development from the part of Adobe).
{62} Adobe Photoshop CS5 splash screen Link
And there you have our final illustration. Next time you start Photoshop CS5, you may ponder that the "blue fish" splash screen you see was actually created in Fireworks — the lightweight, versatile design application that is responsible for most of the artwork across the Adobe CS5 suite.
If you think that I may have missed someone's truly great (Fireworks) work, please let us know in the comments, thanks!
Further Reading Link
- Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks188
- iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 1)189
- Interactive Prototypes And Time-Savers With Adobe Fireworks190
Footnotes Link
- 1 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/22/adobe-fireworks-is-it-worth-switching-to-cs5/
- 2 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fireworks-cs5-splash-screen.fullscreen1.png
- 3 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/fireworks_web_design_css.html
- 4 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/standards_compliant_design.html
- 5 http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/fireworks-vs-photoshop-compression/
- 6 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/08/do-you-care-about-png-8-with-transparency.html
- 7 http://www.craftymind.com/2010/09/01/png-compression-on-iphoneipad/
- 8 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/prototype_iphone_app.html
- 9 http://blog.metaspark.com/2009/02/fireworks-toolkit-for-creating-iphone-ui-mockups/
- 10 http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/about/stencils/fireworks.html
- 11 http://jcorrea.es/2008/08/07/iphone-gui-as-rich-symbols-for-fireworks/
- 12 http://help.adobe.com/en_US/fireworks/cs/extend/
- 13 http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/TweetFire
- 14 http://www.idux.com/
- 15 http://www.fluid.com/
- 16 http://twitter.com/DaveHogue
- 17 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/compass.fullsize.jpg
- 18 http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/icon-design/how-to-create-a-golden-vector-compass-in-illustrator/
- 19 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/compass.fw_.png
- 20 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/quartz-watches.fullsize.png
- 21 http://www.uniformwares.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=28#pic25
- 22 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/quartz-watches.fw_.png
- 23 http://theoatmeal.com/comics
- 24 http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/
- 25 http://web.archive.org/web/20110810065019/http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/
- 26 http://theoatmeal.com/comics
- 27 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
- 28 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer
- 29 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
- 30 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
- 31 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coffee-duck.fullscreen.jpg
- 32 http://0at.org/blog/coffee_duck
- 33 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coffee-duck-screenshot.fullscreen.jpg
- 34 http://0at.org/portfolio
- 35 http://www.wired.com/
- 36 http://rhworks.com/
- 37 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/xd-fwcs3-poster.fullsize.png
- 38 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/samples/xd_brownbag.html
- 39 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/samples/xd_brownbag.html
- 40 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/samples/xd_brownbag.html
- 41 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/xd-lunchbox.fullsize.jpg
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After the Purple Wedding, and the bombshell White Walker reveal last week, it looks like season four of "Game of Thrones" is nowhere near finished making its big, epic moves.
Indeed, tonight's episode, titled "First of His Name," is all about making moves — be it in King's Landing, where Tyrion Lannister stands accused of killing the king; in the far north, as Jon marches toward Craster's Keep, where Bran is being held captive by deserters of the Night's Watch; or in the far east, where Daenerys reigns as queen of Meereen.
Here are our predictions for who will make moves on tonight's episode.
1. Daenerys Will Make Moves
She sacked Meereen. She hung up the Targaryen flag. She's conquered Slaver's Bay. Now what? Now more than ever, Dany is poised to make her great Westerosi comeback — and based on the preview, it sure looks like she's finally ready to sail home toward her birthright.
2. Cersei Will Make Moves
Last week, Margaery paid a midnight visit to the new king, Tommen Baratheon. This week, her moves aren't going unnoticed, as Queen Regent Cersei has her eye on the pride of Tyrell. Who will win the battle of the Lion and the Rose? And just what the heck is Cersei doing palling around with Oberyn Martell, anyway?
3. Littlefinger Will Make Moves
After saving Sansa and informing her of his role in the death of Joffrey, Lord Petyr Baelish has seemingly laid all of his cards out on the table. He wants "everything," and that ambition surely includes a seat at the table alongside Lysa Arryn, glimpsed in the preview for tonight's episode.
4. Arya Will Make Moves
Her father is dead. Her mother is dead. Her oldest brother is dead. For all she knows, Sansa and Bran and Rickon are dead. For all she knows, Arya is the last remaining Stark — and she's in the hands of the enemy. Yes, she's coexisting with the Hound. But the time for coexistence is over. Expect Arya to make her big break.
5. Bran Will Make Moves
Beyond the Wall, the broken heir of Winterfell is in the custody of renegade members of the Night's Watch. He's in great danger right now, but don't forget Bran's brilliant ability to warg into other creatures. Is it possible that Bran can warg his way out of the Night's Watch — perhaps even by warging into his captors and controlling their actions? It's certainly an option, but an option he'll need to carefully consider.
6. Jon Will Make Moves
Even if Bran can't warg his way out of jeopardy, he's in luck: his half-brother, Jon Snow, is on his way toward Craster's Keep. If Jon gets there on time, he won't just kill all of the villainous Night's Watchmen. He'll also reunite with his younger brother. Are we just hours away from the first genuine Stark family reunion since season one? Time will tell.
7. The White Walkers Won't Make Moves
Last week's conclusion was enough of a tease of what's in store with the coming White Walker menace. That was an absolutely bonkers moment for fans of the show, and even more so for fans of the books. But for now, that's all we're getting. Don't expect any more forward momentum on the White Walker front until later in the season at best, if not even further down the line.
(Unless I'm wrong, and tonight's episode is all White Walkers, all the time. Which would be crazy and unpredictable and incredible.)
What do you expect to see from tonight's "Game of Thrones" episode?

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Svante Myrick is exactly what Ithaca needs at this moment. Vitality, passion, strength and progression. Svante embodies all of these concepts and shows them daily in his working to improve the lives of Ithacans. He is ready and willing to answer the call for leadership in Ithaca. Our education systems need his intellect, our environmental progress needs his green thinking, and our city needs his leadership at our behest.
I have known Svante for several years now, and watched him grow, learn and engage. His diplomatic style and poise make him and his team among the most important 21 century change agents of our time. Let's rally behind this young man to bring leadership to ithaca. It begins with an affirmation to support his bid of Mayor. Let our words become our actions, our actions become our convictions, and our convictions become our duties. Our duty now is to elect Svante Myrick as Mayor of Ithaca, NY
Kind Regards,
Justin E. Davis
United States Diplomatic Corps
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VFW And Auxiliary Holds Christmas Party Dec. 8
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The Fayette Memorial VFW Post #5254 and its Ladies Auxiliary honored several special guests at their Christmas party, Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Post Home. A Citizenship Education Teacher of the Year, Youth Essay and Voice of Democracy students were honored and members received year pins.
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Voyo Connects Your Car To The Cloud
Now that connected car startups are now thick on the ground, it takes a special amount of pizzaz to stand out. Thankfully Voyo has amped up the jazz hands and is producing a small device that can truly change the way we drive. What does this little dongle do? It can interface with your car's computer system via the OBD-II as well as via your relay panel. By connecting these two port… Read More
Android Auto Has Very Limited Access To Data In GM And Ford Vehicles
GM and Ford released statements to TechCrunch indicating that in their vehicles, Android Auto has very limited access to vehicle information. This comes after claims published by Motor Trend magazine that stated Porsche opted to not include Android Auto over the data collected by Google's in-car infotainment system. Read More
Connected Car Company Zubie Rolls Out An API For The "Internet Of Cars"
Zubie, a company that sells a device allowing drivers to tap into their car's onboard computer and then sync vehicle diagnostic data to their smartphone, is today expanding its footprint with the introduction of an open API that will now allow developers to build on top of this platform. Called "ZinC" – or, "Zubie for the Internet of Cars" – the… Read More
USAA Leads $24 Million Round For Connected Car Platform Automatic
Automatic, the connected car platform whose sensor and app combination is sometimes referred to as a "Fitbit for your car," announced this morning $24 million in Series B funding, led by the investment arm at USAA, a top insurance and financial services provider for military families, which today counts 11 million members. Also participating in the round were new investors CDK… Read More
Zendrive Lets Ridesharing And Delivery Companies Know If Their Drivers Are Distracted
Zendrive, a startup that uses smartphone sensors to measure drivers' behavior, today announced ZenFleets, its first paid service. As the name implies, ZenFleets is meant for companies that have a large number of cars on the road at any given time. With ZenFleets, businesses can track where those cars are, but more importantly, the service also tries to figure out if the driver is focused… Read More
Dash Launches Chassis, An API To Build The "Internet Of Cars"
Dash was one of the earliest and most design-focused apps to offer direct connectivity to your car via their OBD-II port, which is designed to provide mechanics with detailed stats and information. Now, the app is expanding beyond its own software with the Chassis API, a connected car platform that gives other developers access to fuel consumption and efficiency data, driving stats like… Read More
With A Series Of Upgrades, Dash Becomes A Viable Competitor Among Smart Driving Apps
Dash, a smart driving app that's something of a "Fitbit for you car," is now rolling out a series of updates, including integration with notifications platform IFTTT, as well as an API for third-party developers, and more. The company has also beaten competitors to an international launch, which is a notable milestone for apps like this. According to CEO Jamyn Edis, Dash has… Read More
Dash's Smart Driving App – A "Fitbit For Cars" – Arrives On Android
Dash, a Techstars New York-backed startup that wants to be like a Fitbit for your car, has now launched. The product includes a combination of a hardware device and smartphone application which offers real-time feedback on your driving, trip logs, access to vehicle diagnostics (that pesky "check engine" light, and who can fix it!), a map showing where the cheapest gas is nearby… Read More
Study: 57% Of Consumers Worldwide Say They Would Trust Driverless Cars, 46% Would Let Their Kids Ride In Them
Cisco today announced the results of its study into consumer's thoughts about connected and driverless cars. While a large part of the study focused on the role of technology in the car shopping experience (unsurprisingly, nobody likes car dealerships), the study also looked into drivers' attitudes about driverless cars. Surprisingly, 57% of all of the respondents said that they… Read More
Splitsecnd Turns Any Car Into A Connected Car, Launches Plug-In Crash Detection Device
Many new cars now feature an automatic crash-detection system that will call 911 for you whenever you are in a crash that is bad enough for your airbags to inflate. Adding this kind of functionality to an older car is typically very costly, but the Nashville-based startup Splitsecnd just launched an Internet-connected plugin for any car that offers the same kind of functionality and also lets… Read More
Ford And Microsoft Deliver Their 5 Millionth SYNC-Enabled Vehicle, Plan To Bring Cloud And Car Closer Together
At GigaOm's Roadmap event today, Microsoft and Ford just announced that they have delivered more than 5 million SYNC-enabled cars. SYNC, Ford's in-car connectivity system, is powered by Microsoft's embedded platform and launched about five years ago. While it had its ups and downs, Ford is quite committed to the platform and plans to open it up to more developers over time. Read More


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Apple has pushed iOS 6 live, meaning you can update now, either by visiting Settings > General > Software Update on your iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch 4th gen or later, or iPad, or by plugging into iTunes and checking for updates. iOS 6 offers a long list of new features, including some highlights like system-wide Facebook integration, Apple's new Passbook app, a much more generally useful Siri, and many more besides.
But while iOS 6 offers a lot of new stuff, not everyone will get it. There are certain device-specific features, so we've prepared this handy chart with some of the key features of the new mobile OS to help you navigate what is and isn't available from iOS 6, depending on what kind of device you happen to have (or have on the way, in the case of the iPhone 5 or 5th gen iPod touch). Be patient if you aren't seeing it yet, we're hearing that Apple's servers may be slammed but that it is indeed live.
See the chart at TechCrunch:


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Women's basketball ranked 25th in national preseason poll
The first of the preseason hoops magazines have hit the newsstands, and for the first time in program history, the Quinnipiac University women's basketball team has made its way onto a national poll. The Bobcats were recently ranked 25th in the… Read More ›
Funeral planned for slave that Quinnipiac professors, students helped examine
A slave who was abused during his lifetime and even after he died will be honored at an elaborate funeral, the Associated Press reports. The man, who was known as Fortune and died near the Naugatuck River in 1798, will… Read More ›
Alumnus, adjunct professor appointed web writer and editor
John Pettit has been appointed web writer and editor at Quinnipiac University. In his new position, Pettit is part of the team that generates and maintains content for the university's external website, quinnipiac.edu. "Through my experiences as a student, alumnus and… Read More ›
University to screen 'Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare' Sept. 17
Quinnipiac University's Primary Care Progress chapter will present a screening of "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the auditorium at the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences on the university's… Read More ›
Christopher Ball to be inaugurated as Honorary Consul of Hungary for Connecticut Sept. 19
Christopher Ball, director of the Central European Institute and Istvan Szechenyi Chair in International Economics at Quinnipiac University, will be inaugurated as Honorary Consul of Hungary for the state of Connecticut on Thursday, Sept. 19. Ball's selection is in recognition of his two-decade association with Hungary…. Read More ›
Professor Rich Hanley: ESPN needs to maintain some level of newsgathering
Rich Hanley, associate professor and director of the graduate journalism program in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, was quoted in a Meriden Record-Journal article about the future of ESPN. "ESPN is in extraordinarily strong condition with basic cable subscribers," Hanley told the daily newspaper. However,… Read More ›
Professor Carolyn Wilkes Kaas quoted nationally about the effects divorce could have on children
Carolyn Wilkes Kaas, an associate professor in the School of Law at Quinnipiac University, co-director of the university's Center on Dispute Center and director of the university's legal clinic, was quoted nationally via an Associated Press story about the effects… Read More ›
Quinnipiac couple contributes $1 million to create the William and Barbara Weldon Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine
A vice chairman of Quinnipiac University's Board of Trustees and his wife, both alumni of the university, have donated $1 million to endow a chair in Quinnipiac's new Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. The university has established the William and Barbara… Read More ›
U.S. News & World Report names Quinnipiac best 'up-and-coming university' for second consecutive year
U.S. News & World Report has named Quinnipiac University as the "top up-and-coming university in the North Region," in its 2014 edition of Best Colleges, which was released today. This marks the second consecutive year that U.S. News has bestowed the honor on Quinnipiac. "This… Read More ›
School of Law names new associate dean of professional and career development
Shelley R. Sadin has been named associate dean of professional and career development for the Quinnipiac University School of Law. "Shelley Sadin brings to this role enormous experience, enthusiasm, energy, warmth and wisdom," said Jennifer Gerarda Brown, dean of the School of… Read More ›


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Search engine optimization guru PJ Fusco, director at Netconcepts, a natural search optimization firm, tells Marketing Voices listeners to get a handle on metrics for their search. Offering 5 tips that all companies must understand, Fusco gives great advice to get companies who want to make their sites better. The next best thing one can do is get smarter about how to use your URLs. Fusco also tells listeners to think about using images and video for their sites as well as Flickr. Fusco also says to think globally and link locally.
On January 27, 2009 Marketing Voices was graciously "comped" as an attendee for the conference hosted Advertising Research Foundation called, "Transform Your Research By Listening". Joel Rubinson and Jennifer Jones talked about the highlights from the conference.
Scott Monty, Ford's head of social media talks about how he is engaging consumers and customers for Ford. After just 6 months on the job, Scott mentions the highlights and lowlights of his reign.
The lowlights involve a dilemma the middle of the market crash in November—no surprise! The case study that is connected to this post tells how Ford used social media to extinguish a major PR nightmare in just 24 hours.
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"You saved my child's life." The team at BRITAX hears that all the time. As manufacturers of strollers, infant carriers, and car seats, BRITAX protects children all over the world. That's why we are more than honored that BRITAX uses PTC Creo.
My name is Janie Harms. I'm a mother of two. My son, Jake, is four, and my daughter, London, is two. It was just an ordinary day, it was clear. The sun was out. It was the morning time. I'm driving my son to preschool with my daughter in the car as well, and sitting in standstill traffic, I felt a big jolt in my car, and so I took my seatbelt off right away, and I turned around and I looked at my kids, just to make sure everything was OK with them. And my daughter was actually crying, and my son was a little scared but didn't know what had happened either. And then that's when I realized that a big semi-truck had hit the back of my car. It totaled my car. We went straight to the emergency room to get all of us checked out. (PAUSE) Thank goodness for the Britax car seats that my children were in; there was actually no harm to either one of them.
A big drive here at Britax is the ability to keep kids safer while, they're traveling in their cars and vehicles. It's a real big deal. We do a lot of the concept ideation here. We do most of the engineering here, if not all. And then we do the testing here, and we do produce the product here. In a lot of cases for the seats, we're the last person to touch the product before the customer.
Great design will always be a competitive advantage in the marketplace, things that look nice and function well will always survive and succeed better than things that don't look as good and don't function as well.
I think PTC Creo gives us that competitive advantage. We're able to really push the boundaries on styling, and safety, and innovation, because of the tools that we have available to us. Because I'm getting very early into a surface model within PTC Creo, it makes changes that the engineers need to perform, easier to manipulate, because we're working in the same environment.
It makes product development much more fluid, and much quicker, and much freer then it could have been. And then for time management, it helps us avoid mistakes that we may run into otherwise, because we're constantly evaluating what we have.
It definitely wasn't anything that I thought about, because as a new mom, you don't -- there are so many car seats out there. You don't know one from the other. But after being in this accident that I was in, I would never choose another one,
My appreciation for what these engineers do is great. We have these complex assemblies, and everything has to mate up really close. And engineering is what brings that all together. There's probably 100 to 150 parts that make up the Frontier 90.
PTC Creo enables us to really predict how the final model's going to function. And we can see that before we get out into the production floor. We want the products to be as safe as they possibly can be, but also to be as easy to use as they possibly can be, because the best car seat is a car seat that's used often, and that's used properly.
Proper installation of the car seat is very important. But thank goodness for my husband; he read the directions thoroughly and put them in there just right so they did not move.
This is the testimonial board, and customer service gets calls, emails, letters sent every day about stories that families have been in horrific crashes and their children have been protected.
So this is a letter that has recently come to us from an individual that survived an accident. This is the picture of the vehicle that was mentioned in the story I'm about to read.
My son and I were struck in a side collision by a drunk driver. We were both traveling about 55 miles per hour. The other driver was killed instantly. I have several significant injuries, but my six-year-old son, who was restrained in a Britax Marathon, escaped with bruises and stiffness. In fact, he was able to help me on the roadside and direct first responders to help me tell them where I was injured. I'm writing to say a big thank you to Britax for the quality of your car seats. Last night, my family, including my husband, myself, my 23-month-old daughter, and my three-year-old son were involved in an accident a mid-size truck heading southbound T-boned our car, spinning it 90 degrees. The impact point was at the door of my 23-month-old daughter, secured in her Britax Boulevard CS. Thankfully, the car seat did its job. I truly believe this car seat saved her life. We chose Britax because of your engineering and quality. Thank you so much for keeping my children safe
It's incredible that we're able to do this for those families, for those kids. The stories of the children that have been saved and spared because of the product that we make. It gives you a lot of pride and a lot of drive in your job.
Parents need to know and understand is that a car seat is the most important thing you can have for your children, is definitely not to be taken for granted by any means.
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tubeplot(C, options)
set of spacecurves
The tubeplot function defines a tube about one or more three-dimensional space curves. A given space curve is a list of three or more components. The initial three components define parametrically the x, y, and z components. Additional components of a given space curve specify various local attributes of the curve.
Remaining components of an individual space curve are interpreted as local options which are specified as equations of the form option = value. These include equations of the form numpoints = n or tubepoints = m with n and m integers. These allow the user to designate the number of points evaluated on the space curve and the number of points on the tube, respectively. The default values used by Maple are numpoints=50 and tubepoints=10. An equation of the form radius = f, where f is some expression, defines the radius of the tube about the given space curve. If no radius is specified, then the default used is radius=1. An equation of the form t=a..b, where a and b evaluate to constants, specifies the range of the parameter of the curve.
Remaining arguments to tubeplot include such specifications as numpoints = n, tubepoints = m, t= a..b, and radius = f. These are to be used in the case where an individual space curve does not have the option specified.
Additional options are the same as those found in spacecurve (and similar to options for plot3d). For example, the option axes= boxed specifies that the tubeplot is to include a boxed axis bounding the plot. See also plot3d/option.
The result of a call to tubeplot is a PLOT3D structure which can be rendered by the plotting device. The user may assign a PLOT3D value to a variable, save it in a file, then read it back in for redisplay. See plot3d/structure.
tubeplot may be defined by with(plots) or with(plots,tubeplot). It can also be used by the name plots[tubeplot].
Multiple tubeplots are also allowed
Can specify color option as a two argument procedure
The command to create the plot from the Plotting Guide is
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plot3d/option, plot3d/structure, plots[spacecurve]
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By Harry Kane
A resolution passed during the Board of Aldermen meeting on May 9, which will ask the Human Rights Commission to investigate complaints of unlawful treatment, discrimination and harassment of tenants by the management of the Clarendon Hill Towers.
Clarendon Hill Towers is a housing complex located at 1374 Broadway in West Somerville. There are 501 apartments at the complex and roughly 50 percent of the residents are elderly. Despite repeated attempts to contact Clarendon Hill Towers, management declined to comment regarding the recent complaints.
"This has been an ongoing issue for some time," said Ward 7 Alderman Robert Trane. "A week doesn't go by where I don't get a phone call of some sort of complaint." Trane cannot even believe some of the allegations coming from tenants, but the more he looks into the continued concerns of the residents, the more he finds there is a "grain of truth to it."
Trane says that an independent group needs to investigate the complaints. The rest of the aldermen joined Trane in asking the Somerville Human Rights Commission to investigate the complaints. The hope is to protect and serve the constitutional, civil and human rights of the people in the city, explained Trane.
According to Trane, he has heard complaints that include harassment, intimidation and vandalism. "It goes on and on and on," said Trane. During a recent deposition concerning a lawsuit for a tenant that used to live at Clarendon Hill Towers, Trane said he found out that some 20 to 30 residents are allegedly evicted every month. "I almost fell off my chair when I heard that number," said Trane.
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Someone was served with a no-tresspassing notice illegally by the property manager. She actually did this by blackmailing a tenant into signing the notice or the 'tenant' would be evicted. No one should live under such a threatening environment. The true facts of the situation are being manipulated by the management. Also, there are those who have gone to housing and housing sent them to Clarendon hill towers when they get to the top of the list. Three apointments later, they were finally told to just wait for them to call or whatever it was pointless they were not accepted, but done in a way where they were not told why. It's obvious discrimination.
Cornerstone Corp, First Hartford Corp, and Connolly and Partners LLC abuse and set-up frivolous evictions against low-income residents on their other properties too. They overwhelm the housing courts in Brockton (Southeast Housing Court) and Boston too. Unrepresented tenants are too often forced into mediation where they are coerced into signing documents they don't fully understand. These corporate landlords and partners have attempted to extort extra rent money from tenants during mediation too. The same executives form a variety of corporate partnerships under various LLC, LLP, LP names. The Law Firm of Scolnick and Russo on Oliver Street in Boston usually represents these various partnerships in several courts in Massachusetts. A number of complaints have already been filed with MCAD, HUD, MassHousing, Attorney General's Office, etc. etc. but not much has been done to put an end to the abuse of vulnerable tenants of Massachusetts. Please take a look at the website http://typog.blogspot.com to know more.


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30 years ago this week, the 1984 Winter Olympics began in Sarajevo.
20 years ago this week, the Markale marketplace massacre in Sarajevo shocked the world.
This week, riot police in Tuzla clashed with demonstrators fed up with the political and economic status quo. (Protests quickly spread; see the updates below.)
This summer, Sarajevo will mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Sarajevo, bearing a message of peace. The Vienna Philharmonic is scheduled to perform. And by sheer, wonderful coincidence, Bosnia & Herzegovina's national soccer team will make its first appearance in the World Cup.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's history is tragic, its future uncertain. Here's hoping that enough good people, there and abroad, will invest in that future, so that history can finally be on Bosnians' side.
Update, Feb. 11: Thanks to able translators, an impressive — and growing — collection of Bosnians' own statements and commentary about the ongoing, peaceful demonstrations is now widely available, in English, at the new site "Bosnia-Herzegovina Protest Files."
Update, Feb. 10: More analysis of /political fallout from the weekend's protests. See The Balkanist's live blogs and updates page; the BBC's "Bosnia Unrest: Bruised and Bitter in Sarajevo," on the multi-ethnic and multi-generational character of the protests; and Slavoj Žižek's "Anger in Bosnia" (The Guardian).
Update, Feb. 9: Citizens are back in the streets of Sarajevo Sunday afternoon, demanding sweeping political reforms and the release of demonstrators arrested Friday. A few fresh links: Jasmin Mujanović's "It's Spring At Last in Bosnia and Herzegovina" and his updated "Demands of the People of Tuzla, Sarajevo, and Bihać;" a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo on the protests; Eric Gordy's observations and predictions and Florian Bieber's Thoughts on the Bosnian Protests; and impassioned statements from Valentina Pellizzer, Nick Semwogerere aka "Smooth Deep," and Damir Nikšić.
Update, Feb. 8: here is a link to a "Declaration by Workers and Citizens of the Tuzla Canton" and Jasmin Mujanović's latest post "The Demands of the People of Tuzla and Sarajevo." See also Elvira Jukic's powerful piece "Sarajevo, My City on Fire" and Tim Judah's BBC article "Bosnian Protests: A Balkan Spring?"
Update, Feb. 7: protests are spreading across the country, to cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Bihać, and Zenica. Here is a link to an article in English in The Sarajevo Times.
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So you've been reading these rants with nothing to add, huh? Your fantasy football season has been running smooth as cream cheese, you say? Not anymore, I bet. If you didn't get 'got' within the first few weeks of the season, I'm willing to bet the fantasy gods reached down this past weekend and smacked the crap out of you. I do a Depth Chart Watch article for RotoWire every late Sunday night/early Monday morning that covers all the injuries and position battles around the league and that sucker was long. Like painfully long. This was, without question, a week that destroyed many a playoff hope and kicked a world of owners right in the fantasy groin.
And with that, the complaints have been rolling in. I was getting emails from people Sunday afternoon after the first wave of games was over. The weekend hit so many people so hard that I actually had to get a jump on the bitching and complaining in a piece I did for Fantasy Alarm yesterday discussing how Murphy's Law reared its ugly head and ruined so many Sundays. I just couldn't help myself. But that doesn't mean there isn't plenty more to complain about because there is. There's tons.
So let's get to it…
Before I get to the meat of the weekend, let's just mention one thing about last Thursday's game – if you're complaining about being told that Andre Ellington will soon supplant Rashard Mendenhall as the lead back in Arizona and did something stupid like start him against the Seahawks, then you've got no one to blame but yourself. I mean, seriously, why would you start a guy who doesn't even have the starting job against one of the fiercest defenses in the league? I can't imagine that if you asked me whether or not you should start him, that I would have said anything but a flat-out no. Ellington will eventually take the job, but until you hear it actually happen, everything else is just speculation. No excuses for bonehead moves here.
Ray Rice, are you kidding me? What kind of a first-round pick are you? Forty-five rushing yards with 27 receiving yards and no touchdowns and that's actually one of your better weeks? You better take a long, hard look at yourself during the bye week and really ask yourself if you still want to be a part of my fantasy team. My patience is wearing thin.
The only thing saving Doug Martin from being on every 'Biggest Bust of 2013' list is the fact that he's now likely done for the year with a torn labrum. Had that not occurred, he and Rice would be at the top of my list for each and every site I write for. What a waste of a first-round pick. Can you believe that this guy went third in most drafts? Crazy.
Those who started Bilal Powell this weekend took it on the chin as the Jets finally turned the ground game over to Chris Ivory. I say finally, because that's what has been expected for most of the season. Late in the spring the Jets actually said they wanted to make Ivory their lead back with Powell getting the fill-in work on passing downs. The plan got delayed when Ivory had trouble with his ankle and Powell filled in fairly well, but there was no indication that the original plan was being scrapped. Now it's welcome to the Ivory era, folks.
OK, so not a complaint, but more of a 'SUCK IT' to all of you who bailed on Matt Ryan after Julio Jones went down. Matty Ice is one of the most underrated quarterbacks in the NFL. He's been posting rock solid numbers without a decent ground game for most of the season and now without his top two wideouts. I happily played him in three leagues this week and didn't think twice about doing so.
I hit on this in the Fantasy Alarm piece, but let's just turn the bitching up a notch here. Wasn't this game supposed to be a battle of the leagues worst pass defenses but with also two of the most potent passing attacks? WTF? This game was supposed to have a final score of like 63-56, right? Nick Foles got hurt, Tony Romo was below average, Dez Bryant couldn't find the endzone, DeSean Jackson flew the coop and no running back seemed to want to represent. Sure Dez went over 100 yards and yes, Terrance Williams scored a touchdown, but is that what we've resorted to? Celebrating a Terrance Williams touchdown? This game was crap from both a real and fantasy perspective.
So long, Reggie Wayne, my little PPR dynamo. It's been a fun 13 years. Good luck in your job as an analyst for CBS, the NFL Network, Fox, or whomever is going to hire you.
Trent Richardson blows. Can you name a more overrated running back this season? Remember when we all laughed at the Browns for dealing him to the Colts? Another first-round fantasy disaster.
How many of you are fed up with Cam Newton? Two bad games in his last three and what's worse is that both bad games were against weak teams — Arizona and St. Louis. He's got the Bucs up next and while they're a bad team on the whole, their pass defense is actually pretty good. Looks like it's going to be another long week for Newton owners.
Come on, Washington. Roy Helu? If he was really worth something, he'd have at least been getting carries all year long. The poached touchdown in Week 4 seemed to be a rarity, and that's fine, but three touchdowns this week with two of them coming on runs from inside the three-yard line? You've got to be kidding me. Alfred Morris' value was tenuous at best, but now you're just turning him into garbage. Another pick from the first three rounds going in the toilet.
It's a good thing the Chargers have a bye this coming week. If you wanted to know the definition of a 'trap game,' it would have been the one where every Ryan Mathews owner started him after two straight 100-yard performances. He is exactly who we thought he was.
Dwayne Bowe-ned. 'Nuff said.
Time to go fill out some waiver claims now.
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RC Helicopters Controlled by Cell Phones (Parrot AR Drone and Others)
There's been a huge increase in the number of RC helicopters controlled by cell phones and tablets. Since almost everyone has a smartphone of some kind, it makes sense that these gadgets would show up and increase in popularity.
Parrot AR Drone
This is one of the higher end cell phone controlled RC helicopters. It works by generating it's own wifi network that you can connect to with your Android or Apple phone. After you're connected, you can fly the rc helicopter around and look at a live video feed. The Parrot even has an ultrasound altimeter that tells you how high you're flying above the ground. The Parrot AR is gyro stabilized, so you can get the hang of flying it in only a few tries.
It has a foam structure around all the rotor blades, so collisions with walls and furniture really aren't a big deal. The Parrot AR works outside as well – it's big enough to not get bounced around by light wind too much.
Cheap RC Helicopters without Cameras
If you walk in to Best Buy or Target you're likely to see boxes of smaller RC helicopters that work with iphones. These are usually fairly simple, only two or three channel RC helicopters. They are sold with a simple interface to your iphone, usually one that plugs in to the headphone jack on the bottom. These ones are usually in the $50 dollar price range.
Building your Own
Building an RC helicopter that you can control by a cellphone or over a network isn't as hard as it once was. Small computers like the Arduino can control brushless motors and servos, and they also have modules that enable wireless communication. If you build a quad copter airframe and control it over a cell network, you can make a helicopter that works almost anywhere.
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November 14, 2014
The Pembroke Center has awarded seven research grants to students pursuing honors theses and dissertations in a variety of fields, including: Africana Studies, History, Modern Culture and Media, International Relations, Science and Technology Studies, Health and Human Biology, and American Studies.
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It's something you see in old westerns: two quarreling gunslingers facing off to see who's the quickest draw around.
You might be surprised to know that showdowns are still happening today. These ones are just for fun though and use targets in a fast growing sport called Cowboy Fast Draw.
Tammie Lipscomb is better known in these parts as Lefty. She's the reigning women's national champion in Cowboy Fast Draw and she's back in Mitchell this week to defend her title.
"It's me and the target and most of the time it's not the people that beat me; I beat myself because I won't hit the target. The goal is, you have to hit it three times and your light better be blinking," Lipscomb said.
Lefty drove all the way from California to compete this week. She's been trying to outdraw opponents since 2007 when she got her start. She was much slower back then with times over 1.
"Which is 1-point-something and now I can get down to the fours. My fastest time right now is .479," Lipscomb said.
Lefty is one of more than 100 enthusiasts in Mitchell this week taking part in the National competition.
The contest, which usually takes place farther west, is hosted by the Mitchell-based Powder Horn Ranch Regulators and Troy Bollock. He goes by the alias "Boulder" and has helped run a shooting range just outside of town since 2003.
Cowboy Fast Draw is one of the fastest growing gun sports in the country. Part of the reason is that it's inexpensive and a lot of fun.
"It's very inexpensive. You shoot roughly, it's $48-$50 bucks to shoot 1,000 rounds. There's no other sport anywhere you're going to shoot a thousand rounds for that kind of money," Bollock said.
Wax bullets are used in competition and safety is a top priority. You don't have to be a fan of the Old West to get into it. Lefty used to leave the room when her dad would turn on a Western movie.
"I like it a lot. I wasn't into it and then when I tried it, I can't stop coming. I go everywhere now," Lipscomb said.
"When that light comes on, we call it drag racing pistols. You're reacting to a light just as a drag racer would in a quarter mile," Bollock said.
Historically, showdowns took place between two gunslingers looking to settle an argument. Ironically, after gun challenges these days, opponents may want to hug it out.
"It may be fierce on the line but win, lose or draw, it's a hand shake; most time it's a hug. It's a huggie group. You walk off, it's a big hug, 'Good shooting.' The only person you can be mad at is yourself because you're the only one pulling the gun and squeezing the trigger. If you miss it, you did it yourself," Bollock said.
It's mostly about having fun anyways and the people you meet dressed in Old West period attire. As for Lefty, the defending champ is looking forward to hanging with friends and adding some more hardware to her trophy case.
"I'm looking forward to trying to do it again," Lipscomb said.
The Cowboy Fast Draw competitions continue this weekend in Mitchell next to the Cabela's parking lot. Action begins at 8 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.


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Sunday April 13, 2014Gators Celebrate 2013-14 at Postseason Banquet
Gainesville, Fla.
The 2013-14 Gators had a lot to celebrate.
Gainesville, Fla.
The 2013-14 Gators had a lot to celebrate.
Nearly 200 fans, friends and family members gathered the Gator Room to celebrate the 2013-14 season with the Gators on Sunday afternoon.
Florida compiled a 20-13 overall record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Championship, the programs 14th appearance in the Big Dance.
A number of individual awards were presented to the Gators, who voted for the most deserving member of the squad for each non-statistical honor.
2013-14 Banquet Award Winners
The Dish Award (most assists) Cassie Peoples
Most Improved Player Kayla Lewis
Game Day Brick House Award Kayla Lewis
Practice Brick House Award Jaterra Bonds
Academic Achievement Award - Lily Svete
Mary Elliott Unsung Hero Award Pam Begic
The Charge Award (most charges taken) - Carlie Needles
Most Valuable Player - Jaterra Bonds
Additional Team Honors, Notes & Highlights from the 2013-14 Season
· Advanced to the NCAA Second Round for the ninth time in program history
· Received votes in the final 2013-14 ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll
· Posted 14th 20-win season in program history; fourth consecutive season
· Earned the programs 14th NCAA Tournament berth, as well as the 21st postseason berth (14 NCAA, 7 WNIT & NWIT)
· For the fourth consecutive year the Gators won their first game in the SEC Tournament.
· Finished fifth in the SEC regular-season standings, the Gators best finish since the 2008-09 season when the team tied for fourth.
· Earned No. 5 Seed in the SEC Tournament - just ninth time with a five-seed or higher in the 34-year history of the event; highest since No. 4 seed in 2009
· Feb. 27 win at Vanderbilt was just the teams seventh ever at Memorial Gym in 23 games
· All three of UFs wins vs. ranked teams this year have been when the Gators were unranked.
· The Feb. 9 victory vs. No. 15/13 Kentucky marked UFs 31st win in program history against a ranked team when the Gators were unranked.
· This is the 12th season UF and Kentucky have met multiple times and only the third time the Gators have swept the season series (other Gator sweeps: 1997-98 and 1984-85)
· Defeated ranked opponents in consecutive games for first time (No. 6 Kentucky on Jan. 5, No. 25 Arkansas on Jan. 9) since 2003-04 season
· Earned back-to-back wins vs. ranked opponents for first time since 2008-09 season, however, those games we not played consecutively
· Earned first win vs. top-10 team top-10 team since Feb. 26, 2006 (def. No. 6 Kentucky, Jan. 5, 2014)
· Posted 29th upset win vs. a ranked team when UF was unranked (def. No. 6 Kentucky, Jan. 5)
· Collected first win vs. ranked team since March 18, 2012 vs. No. 16 Ohio State in NCAA First Round (def. No. 6 Kentucky, Jan. 5)
· Compiled nine-game win streak, tied for the fourth-longest in program history
· Posted first undefeated record in December (6-0) since the 2008-09 season
· Recorded consecutive 100-plus scoring games for the second time in program history (also during 1994-95 season)
· Scored 100-plus points in a game for the first time since a 100-54 win vs. Tennessee State on Dec. 28, 2000 (def. Troy, 104-74, Dec. 4)
· Seven Gators tallied double-figure scoring effort vs. Bethune-Cookman (Nov. 8) - most in program history; repeated the effort against Saint Francis (Dec. 19)
Amanda Butler
· Won 175th game in nine-year overall head coaching career (d. Alabama, 75-67, Jan. 30)
· Earned first win vs. Top-10 opponent (d. No. 6 Kentucky, Jan. 5, 2014; 83-73)
· Collected 125th win as UF head coach (Nov. 30 vs. Oregon State); 165th of nine-year career
Antoinette Bannister
· SEC Academic Honor Roll
Jaterra Bonds
· First Team All-SEC (Coaches Team)
· Second Team All-SEC (media)
· Broke her own UF season record for made free throws in a season (was 140 in 2012-13)
· Set UF record for career minutes played (was 3,987 by Murriel Page, 1994-98)
· 10th Gator to score 1,500 career points (reached milestone Feb. 23 at South Carolina)
· 13th Gator to score 1,400 career points (reached milestone Jan. 23 vs. Auburn)
· NATIONAL Player of the Week by www.CollegeSportsMadness.com (Jan. 5)
· SEC Player of the Week (awarded Jan. 5)
· SEC Player of the Week (Dec. 30)
· Junkanoo Jam All-Tournament Team
· Preseason Second-Team All-SEC (coaches)
Viktorija Dimiate
· SEC Academic Honor Roll
Kayla Lewis
· SEC Co-Player of the Week (Feb. 10)
· Madness SEC Player of the Week by www.CollegeSportsMadness.com (Feb. 3)
Christin Mercer
· Gator Holiday Classic All-Tournament Team
· 31 points vs. FIU (Dec. 21) - Became first Gator since Jan. 8, 2009 to score 30+ points in a game; became just 16th different Gator to score at least 30 points in a game
January Miller
· SEC Academic Honor Roll
Carlie Needles
· SEC Academic Honor Roll
Cassie Peoples
· Gator Holiday Classic MVP
Lily Svete
· Capital One Academic All-District 4 team
· Ranked No. 4 in program history for Three-Point FG Percentage in a season (36.0% (50-139)
· Ranked No. 4 in program history for Three-Point FG Percentage in a season by a Senior
Ronni Williams
· SEC All-Freshman Team (Coaches Team)
· SEC Co-Freshman of the Week (Feb. 3)
· CSSs Geico Go To Player of the Game vs. Kentucky (Jan. 5)
· SEC Freshman of the Week (Nov. 11)
· 17 rebounds in season-opener most in Gator debut (was 13 boards by junior Courtney Cooper on Nov. 16, 2001, and sophomore Benita Locklear on Dec. 4, 1976)
· Second freshman ever to net double-double (15 points, 17 rebounds) in Gator debut (Tammy Jackson, 13 points and 12 rebounds vs. Virginia on Nov. 20, 1981)
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Gilda's LaughFest, the nation's only community-wide festival of laughter, is recruiting talent to participate in free community showcases during LaughFest 2014. Individuals of all ages, and groups of any size, are encouraged to showcase their talents during Gilda's LaughFest. Applications are being accepted online through Dec. 1 at laughfestgr.org.
"Since the first LaughFest, in 2011, participation in the community showcases has been phenomenal," said Wendy Wigger, president of Gilda's Club Grand Rapids and LaughFest. "Participants representing more than 20 states have traveled here to take part in this festival. We are excited to keep this as part of LaughFest and allow individuals a chance to show off their seriously funny talent in so many ways."
During LaughFest 2014, officials expect to host more than 100 community showcases and other free events at various locations in downtown Grand Rapids, Lowell and Holland. The categories for these showcases include stand-up comedy, music, short-film, sketch/improv, dance and kids' jokes. Plans this year include hosting a festival favorite, Kids Joke Night in Holland, Lowell and Grand Rapids. These non-ticketed events will be free of charge and will take place at various times throughout the 10 days of LaughFest, March 6–16, 2014.
Those interested in showcasing their talents may sign up at laughfestgr.org under the "About" section or call (616)735-4242. Applicants will be notified in early February.
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