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Juliane Klein (*1966)
Musical theatre for children by Juliane Klein (*1966)
for chorus and piano, adapted from "Something Else", a picture book by Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell
Premiere at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 14. May 2013.
|Christian Lindhorst
|Frauke Meyer
|Set-Design, Costume-Design
|Uta Materne
|Curt A. Roesler
|Douglas V. Brown
|Kinderchor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
"Sorry, but you're not like us"… "You don't belong here"… - just two of the sentences aimed over and over again at the harmless little creature with the curious name of Something Else. One day, just as Something Else is about to resign himself to being alone forever, he meets Something. Something insists that he is as 'else' as Something Else is, but actually Something's 'else' is different from Something Else's and Something Else wants nothing to do with him. But the sad expression on the face of Something as he turns to leave teaches Something Else that it's precisely this kind of response that's the problem. He hurries to fetch Something back. They have something in common after all, even if it's just the knowledge that everyone needs a friend and no one should reject someone just because they look or behave odd.
Awarded the 1997 UNESCO Award for Children's and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance, the picture book by Kathryn Cave and illustrator Chris Riddell also amounts to a manual or blueprint for the set design. A former pupil of Helmut Lachenmann, Berlin composer Juliane Klein is building on two successful children and teenager projects - her Westzeitstory from 2001 and Hyp'Op in 2003. This 2008 musical theatre production for children and adults provides audiences with scope for personal interpretation and association. Members of the Children's Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, acting alongside a narrator, are the main characters in this musical voyage of discovery for school children and adults. Who knows, together the two protagonists may even stumble upon some music that is "something else" and, precisely for that reason, exciting and lovable.


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We were 12th in points against and 3rd in take away's.
Again, I'm not saying we were good this year. I'm saying we weren't the 31st best defense in the league.
Our poor D line play especially our poor pass rush was the main culprit.
If you want to blame PF for Osi and Tuck's poor play. If you want to blame PF for the D line getting older and broken down, that's fine.
Lifetime member of the "specific element" and proud of it.
Thinking about buying an AR 15 with all this hoopla going on.
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Nestled among the lush greenery of the Ozark Mountains in southern Missouri, Silver Dollar City is the area's main attraction. It all started with the 'hole in the ground' now referred to as Marvel Cave. But, today this 1800s-themed park offers visitors an experience of a lifetime which includes great roller coasters like WildfireÖ and ThuNderaTion as well as many wonderful restaurants, shops, shows, festivals and craftsmen.
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Phelps County Regional Medial Center (PCRMC) plans to begin construction soon on a 73,000-square-foot medical clinic in Waynesville and will celebrate the groundbreaking with a ceremony Friday.
The Waynesville PCRMC clinic will be adjacent to the Veterans Primary Care Clinic and near the Waynesville High School.
The clinic will include many services, including urgent care and a walk-in clinic, a full imaging suite, cardiac testing services, physicians' offices, physical therapy and a sleep lab.
Inside the various levels will have a women's clinic, a physicians' clinic with 23 exam rooms, space for the various services, space for a coffee shop, an atrium entryway.
PCRMC invites the public to attend the groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Dec. 6 at the construction site located on GW Lane near Waynesville High School at 1 p.m.
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HTML 5, Codecs and the Video Tag
Spending the last two days at the Open Video Conference has been a great experience, lots of interesting speakers and I've learned a few things. Perhaps I'll write more in general later, however it's worth mentioning, while still fresh in my mind, today's sessions around royalty-free codecs and the HTML 5 <video> tag.
The main focus of the Royalty Free Codecs session seemed to be around Ogg Theora. Also present though were Sun, speaking about their new Open Media Stack, and David Schleef to represent his work on the Schroedinger Dirac library. I would have loved to hear more about what was happening with Dirac, but the crowd wanted Theora news.
A short demonstation on the projector screen showed H.263/H.264 content versus the same Ogg Theora content at various bit rates, the highest less than 500Kbps. The results, from Theora's perspective, were very good. Visually I couldn't pick out any differences on the large screen. I would have liked to see the demonstration done at higher, greater than 1Mbps, bitrates, though. Not the one used today, but a similar demonstration is available here.
Sun did not do themselves any favours at this Conference. A session yesterday gave them time to discuss the process they undertook to ensure there were no IP encumbrance in their new codec and Open Media Stack, but right at the end the key revelation was that they're unable to Open Source their work.
David did not have much of a chance to talk in depth about Dirac, and I was disappointed not to have gained a better understanding the current development status, and community input velocity around Dirac. He did make a point that the BBC were using Dirac internally, which is true but only to a very small extent. In non-linear editing environments, DVCProHD, AVC-I 100 and ProRes are still the codecs of choice. In my opinion this due to the lack of tools available for Dirac work. Dirac tool development needs a great leap forward if this codec is to gain any significant traction.
The next session had representatives from all major browsers (Firefox, Webkit and Opera), except IE, present to talk about HTML 5 and the new <video> tag.
Firstly, I was particularly interested in the W3C Draft Web Fragments specification. Amongst other things, this will allow playback of just segments of video, based on a time specification in seconds. While not currently possible, if this could be extended to read an embedded timecode track and seek in a frame accurate manner, that would be truly powerful in an open standard.
With Safari on Mac, the <video> tag can be used to playback any video format for which the user has the relevant codec and QuickTime component installed. Thus we have Theora support through the XiphQT component. In the latest version of iMovie, QuickTime Pro and Final Cut Pro, users can now also choose to export or render in Ogg Theora. If only the Dirac QT component was ready.
The cross fade is particularly interesting. Do we no longer need to finish clips in a non-linear editor? Can we now perform hard cuts based on an edit decision list and let the browser deal with the fading or finishing element of the job?
Hopefully there's some exciting times ahead for open source, royalty free video codecs and ubiquity of embedded video on the Web.


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Cycle@Staiths, an urban renewal project, launched a bike share program. In the video, Wayne Hemingway sums it up well with his statement that he's working to end "car-dominated developments in a sea of black tarmac." Continuing his quest to get Brits on bikes, Wayne Hemingway's firm has designed an inexpensive folding bike (not online yet), and a bike shed.
With the primary election moved up to August 21st, many Seattleites find themselves flipping through election pamphlets, researching candidates and bombarded with advertisements. Cascade released their 2007 Primary Endorsements today, offering up another perspective on the many transportation issues currently faced by Puget Sound residents.
The Cascade Bicycle Club ventures into politics and elections for one vitally important reason - policies that effect bicycling begin and end with our elected representatives.
However, good answers can't tell the whole story. We also evaluate a candidate's past votes, talk to local activists and, when necessary, interview them face to face.
Critical votes for incumbents spanned a range of issues impacting bicycling, including: child safety, bicycle lanes and trails, transportation funding, land-use and sprawl.
Finally, we ask ourselves, "If elected, will they work with us to improve conditions for bicycling?"
Remember, Cascade's endorsement process is strictly non-partisan.
The Bike Master Plan has yet to be approved by the City Council and the Stone Way Gap is an issue that impacts city residents across the board, far beyond us crazy cyclists.
Make people-moving a priority over moving cars. Get out the vote!
Corresponded by email today with Robin Sansom, Kona USA, about the Ute and learned more. The kona.cz photo we posted is an early version from Kona's product launch and some changes have been made to the final production version (new image below is from their catalog and more current), including
- 700c wheels & tires
- longer head tube for better handlebar position
- lower top tube to increase standover/clearance
- change of specification on stem, grips and saddle (aesthetics)
- rear plastic deck on the rear is machined from 100% post consumer recycled material
- Ships standard with two specifically designed, grocery-style pannier bags that include a raincover. Four bags capacity with with additional bags and accessories offered.
And Robin shared the insight that, "I see these types of bikes blossoming over the next couple of years, with the rise in fuel prices, green awareness and the escalation of overseas economies."
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- MSRP is $799, explaining some of the spec decisions (rear V-brake, no internal hub, etc.).
- Xtracycle compatibility – " … the design concept was to make a complete bike that is economical, comfortable, light & offers a cargo area/options. Although we considered making the bike compatible with Xtracycle bags, this compromised the other design objectives. Xtracycle is a wonderful concept, but to accommodate their accessories, we would have added to the weight, complexity and expense of the model. We are definitely considering a variety of accessories & bags that will become available for the bike."
- Wheels – Kona tested this bike with both 26" and 700c wheels and 700cc was preferred
- Foot Rests – Kona is considering and will keep us posted
The 26th Almost-Annual Big Wheel Rally is coming up, in Boulder, on Saturday August 25th. During the last critical mass ride, a dude was there on a big, big wheel and it reminded me of all the power-sliding I'd do on my big wheel, way back in the day – I led the big-wheel gang in the neighborhood, knocking off lemonade stands, demanding lunch money for safe passage, that sort of thing (I also had a big Green Machine, which was made just to spin). I'd have to check that delinquent big-wheel past at the Rally, as it's for fun and benefits Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Appeal Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Lord Justice PillTable of Contents
|< Background
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|Result >>
Conclusion on Meaning
4. We refer immediately to the judge's "Conclusion on meaning". At 2.15 the judge stated:
"Adopting the approach set out earlier, my conclusion is that the passages complained of in their context and read collectively bear the following meanings all of which are defamatory of him [the applicant]:
- i. that Irving is an apologist for and partisan of Hitler, who has resorted to the distortion of evidence; the manipulation and skewing of documents; the misrepresentation of data and the application of double-standards to the evidence, in order to serve his own purpose of exonerating Hitler and portraying him as sympathetic towards the Jews;
- ii. that Irving is one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial, who has on numerous occasions denied that the Nazis embarked upon the deliberate planned extermination of Jews and has alleged that it is a Jewish deception that gas chambers were used by the Nazis at Auschwitz as a means of carrying out such extermination;
- iii. that Irving, in denying that the Holocaust happened, has misstated evidence; misquoted sources; falsified statistics; misconstrued information and bent historical evidence so that it conforms to his neo-fascist political agenda and ideological beliefs;
- iv. that Irving has allied himself with representatives of a variety of extremist and anti-semitic groups and individuals and on one occasion agreed to participate in a conference at which representatives of terrorist organisations were due to speak;
- v. that Irving, in breach of an agreement which he had made and without permission, removed and transported abroad certain microfiches of Goebbels' diaries, thereby exposing them to a real risk of damage;
- vi.that Irving is discredited as an historian.
5. It should be said at once that the judge found that the respondents had failed to justify the second allegation in sub-paragraph (iv) and the allegations in (v). The judge relied on section 5 of the Defamation Act 1952 ("The 1952 Act") to give judgment in favour of the respondents, notwithstanding those findings against them.


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Monday, December 20, 2010
Cheesy Chorizo Chowder
There you have it folks. It's beginning to look a lot like soup isn't just a cure for the common cold anymore.
Cheesy Chorizo Chowder
1/2 lb chorizo
1 medium onion, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
1 red bell pepper, seeded, diced
pinch of crushed red pepper flakes
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp Mexican oregano
kosher salt and pepper
1 quart chicken stock
3 medium potatoes, peeled, small cubed
2 cups frozen corn kernels
2 cups loosely packed spinach leaves, chopped
4-6 ounces shredded Queso Chihuahua (could substitute Velveeta)
In soup pot brown chorizo until fat is rendered. Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, crushed red pepper flakes, cumin, oregano and a little kosher salt and pepper. Saute vegetables for 6-8 minutes and then add the chicken both and cubed potatoes. Bring to a boil, season with kosher salt, reduce heat, and simmer until potatoes are nearly tender, about 10-12 minutes. Add the corn kernels and spinach and simmer for another 3-5 minutes. Remove pot from heat and gradually add the shredded cheese and stir until smooth.
10 comments:
- Jessica @ How Sweet said...
This is another meal my husband would LOVE!
- December 20, 2010 at 5:46 AM
- briarrose said...
Hahahaha....a wonderful cure all I will have to remember. ;) Delicious soup....lovely, lovely chorizo. Nom nom!
- December 20, 2010 at 7:59 AM
- SeattleDee said...
What a tasty bowl of comfort food - but how could it be anything else with chorizo and a little chile heat?!
- December 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- June said...
mmmm yum. You're darn right I'm gonna substitute Velveeta. Looks absolutely fabulous Mags. You are hilarious! Thanks for the laughs - kinda' needed it today. Max...4 am...4 seizures. Darn.
- December 20, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Mary said...
Mags, this looks ammmazing!!! Another recipe I HAVE to try ;)
Mary xo
- December 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM
We bumped into your blog and we really liked it - great recipes YUM YUM.
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- December 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM
- Karen said...
You better pass some of this around ;) Merry Christmas to you and your family, Mags!
- December 20, 2010 at 12:06 PM
- Design Wine and Dine said...
Ah, the perfect cure for sure! :) I'm right there with you - out of my mind!
Soups looks fantastic!
- December 20, 2010 at 2:30 PM
- Nanan said...
Soup is a savior!
- December 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Moogie said...
Girl.... you are so funny and stressed. I'm thinking you are not drinking near enough.
- December 20, 2010 at 10:51 PM


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The 62nd annual observance of the National Day of Prayer at Lake of the Ozarks was held Thursday morning at Central Bank in Osage Beach.
Despite a strong northwest wind and temperatures around 50, the half-hour program included prayers and musical salutes.
Jim Judas, president of Central Bank, welcomed the group and shared a personal moment about his daily dedication to prayer.
The program included:
Pledge of Allegiance, John Porth; History of the Day, Mary Adkisson; singing of "Lead Me to the Cross" by Nicole Fanning; prayers for federal leaders by Jack Funderburk, for Supreme Court justices by Todd Rader, state leaders by Mike Long, local leaders by Joe Roeger, local businesses by Chris Rahmoeller, schools and churches by the Rev. Buck Cueni-Smith, arts/entertainment/media by Greg Olsen and Armed Forces by Tom Smith. "God Bless America" was sung by the entire group and Kathy Herx provided a closing prayer for the nation.
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"Religion allows believers to praise a god who consciously lets its creations suffer"
The question of the creator allowing for suffering is one asked by many. However in the course of my existence i have come to find flaws in this idea.
Firstly, I have noticed the self-importance we humans endow ourselves with. If we work with the assumption that there is a multitude of planets harboring life forms, than why would our Earth, that is us who inhabit its surface deserve precedence over the rest? Life on Earth is a very miniscule part of the entire cosmos, and us as individuals, even more so.
Secondly, perhaps it wouldn't even be possible for such an all-encompassing being to nullify our sufferings. Wouldnt that be like me trying to protect a single cell of my body from all fluctuations in temperature, radiation, electro-magnetic waves and physical interactions etc? Its impossible for a parent to protect their child from everything inducing suffering in the world. Parents cant protect themselves from suffering and the inevitable suffering of their children is proof.
Being "asleep" is a topic which very much garners my attention and it seems of many people. That being said, i believe false assumptions are one force which bring us back to sleep.
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GREAT BEND, Kan. – March 16, 2012 – Ducks Unlimited announced today the winners of the 2012 Wetland Conservation Achievement Awards during the 77th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, held at the Hilton Atlanta. This year's winner in the State/Provincial Agency category is Joe Kramer, chief of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Wildlife and Fisheries Division.
"In his 34-year conservation career, Joe has made significant contributions to the future of waterfowl and wetlands in Kansas, the Central Flyway and beyond," said DU Chief Conservation Officer Paul Schmidt. "He has been a strong partner to Ducks Unlimited and throughout the conservation community, and we are pleased to honor him with this award."
DU's Wetland Conservation Achievement Awards recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the restoration and conservation of North America's wetlands and other waterfowl habitat.
Kramer, of Great Bend, began his career with KDWPT in 1976 as a wildlife area technician. In just 11 years, he rose through the ranks to his current position, and has been responsible for putting together the majority of the current Wildlife and Fisheries Division staff, one of the most progressive state conservation staffs in the country. KDWPT and DU have worked together to deliver 18,000 acres of conserved wetlands across Kansas, and Kramer's partner-centric approach to conservation has made that possible.
"Joe has been a leader in fostering wetlands conservation partnerships for the good of the resource," said Scott Manley, DU director of conservation programs, who nominated Kramer for the award.
One example of these strong partnerships is McPherson Valley Wetlands, which now spans 4,500 acres in central Kansas and provides a critical anchor point for waterfowl and other migratory birds traversing the continent between their historical breeding and wintering grounds. This acquisition and restoration project was built on partnerships, including one with DU, and took nearly 20 years to fully accomplish.
"Joe personally encouraged each of 15 partners to focus on common goals and to stay engaged over the long haul, as he knew each brought important resources, expertise and funding to the table," Manley said.
Kramer's contributions to conservation reach far beyond Kansas as well. He has served on the Central Flyway Council and the North American Waterfowl Management Plan Committee, and he is a founding board member of the Playa Lakes Joint Venture.
"By virtue of his 34 years of contributions to the wildlife conservation field and longtime support of joint ventures, local habitat partnerships and the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, I can think of no more deserving person for this recognition," said Mike Carter, Playa Lakes Joint Venture coordinator.
To view all 2012 Wetland Conservation Achievement Award winners, please visit www.ducks.org.
Ducks Unlimited is the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats. Established in 1937, DU is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, with special events, projects and promotions across the continent. Ducks Unlimited has conserved more than 12 million acres thanks to contributions from more than a million supporters across the continent. Guided by science and dedicated to program efficiency, DU works toward the vision of wetlands sufficient to fill the skies with waterfowl today, tomorrow and forever.
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Processing digital images is a very common task today. Image processing tools are so common that users often process images by trial and error, without really knowing what they are doing. One of the operations people fail most commonly is resizing an image.
In this article I will explain how to resize images. This is a way for me to celebrate 10 years since I started studying digital image processing!
There are plenty of digital image formats out there. Each of them provide common or unique features. The most common formats, such as TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), PNG (Portable Network Graphics), are defined raster formats, as they represent the image as a matrix. Each matrix entry is called a pixel (picture element) and represents a color (also called light frequency). These images are commonly known as intensity images.
There are other types of raster images, such as:
- range images, where colors represent the distance between the object and the sensor (usually white pixels represent surfaces that are nearer to the observer and black ones represent surfaces that are the furthest away);
- thermal images, where colors represent temperatures;
- acoustic images, where colors represent the acoustic reflectance.
You also have vector images, where the represented scene is not a matrix of pixels, but is instead described by formulas instead. Examples of such formats are SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript). They are usually used to store technical drawings, plots and camera-ready documents.
The resolution indicates how close each pixel is to the others
The advantage of a vector image over the raster is that it can be scaled (in or out) without loss of quality. However, vector images can't efficiently store complex images such as photographs.
In this article I'll focus on raster images, and I'll explain how to resize them with the GIMP [1]. Keep in mind that you can usually open a vector image with the GIMP, which will rasterize the input image before showing it. You can also read more on image formats in [2].
Images, pixels, resolution
Open the GIMP and create a new image typing
Ctrl + n (that means "hold the 'Ctrl' key and type 'n'") or by choosing
New from the
File menu. You'll be given the window in figure 1.
You are asked to enter the image size; this information is expressed in pixels by default. A summary tells you that the image resolution is 72 dpi (or "dots per inch"—I'll talk about this more in a moment). You can also edit the advanced features to change the resolution, and other information I won't talk about here.
Once you have created the image, you can see how big it is exactly in inches or centimeters, because you know the image's resolution which is expressed in dots per inch (dpi) or in dots per centimeter (dpcm). This piece of information tells you how many pixels will make up each inch or centimeter.
Consider, for example, a 512 x 512 pixel image. The so-called print size is calculated using the following formula: size = pixels / resolution. So, since 512 / 72 = 7.11, the considered image is 7.11 x 7.11 square inches (or in²) at 72 dpi (on an output device like a monitor), and 1.71 x 1.71in² at 300 dpi (on an output device like a common printer). Of course, GIMP and similar programs will take into account the image resolution, and will show the image accordingly, regardless of the output device's resolution.
GIMP and similar programs will take into account the image resolution, and will show the image accordingly, regardless of the output device's resolution
You can also enter image size in other unit measures, as humans are more experienced with centimeters or inches than with pixels.
You now know how to create an image of the right size from scratch. However, you will often work on third party images: digital pictures, scanned documents, screen shots, and so on. Opening such an image is straightforward: either type
Ctrl + o or select
Lossless resize
If you've just opened an image to work on, at the top of the image's window, in the title bar, you can see the image's size in pixels. To find out more, you have to select
View→Info Window (or
Shift + Ctrl + i). The info window provides you the dimensions in pixels and the resolution, along with the print size.
If you have an image that is 2775 x 3525 pixels, stored at 72 dpi, the info window would tell you that it is about 38 x 48in². How can you make it smaller? Select
Image→Scale Image to get the window shown in figure 2.
Change the X resolution value to 300 pixels/in (pixels/in is another way to say dpi). As soon as you enter the value, the corresponding Y resolution value will change to 300. This happens because the chain next to the resolution values is "locked" (in which case, the same dpi will be kept for the image's height and width). If you "unlock" the chain, you will be able to change each of the resolutions separately. To apply the resize just click on
Look now at the info window: you can see that the print size is 9.25 x 11.75in². You resized the image by putting the same amount of pixels in a smaller area. This means that you're not losing information, and the image file remains substantially untouched in its byte count (how much space it will take on disk).
If you want to change the image's file size you need to change the number of pixels
If you decrease the resolution, the pixels will be rendered bigger and the resulting image will also be larger. Because of the rendering, the final image's quality will be slightly worse.
In figure 3, I show a real example: FSM's cover. Though both the images are 2775 x 3525 pixel, the left one is 300 dpi and fits a U.S. letter page (i.e., 8.5 x 11.0in²), once trimmed 0.375in per side. The right one is larger (72 dpi), so a U.S. letter page shows only a small portion of the whole image.
Lossy resize
If you want to change the image's file size, you need to change the number of pixels. This kind of change determines an information change: a loss of detail if you decrease the number of pixels; or an arbitrary addition of pixels, or interpolation, if you increase them. You have to decide if such changes are a good trade-off between file size and image intelligibility.
An operation I perform very frequently for FSM (see textbox 1) is resizing FSM's covers and ad images. I make them low resolution following a simple procedure: the new image will have the same print size as the original, but a lower resolution. So the new pixel dimension is determined with formula 1.
I fixed medium resolution to be 200 dpi, and low resolution to be 72 dpi. Of course, what "high", "medium" and "low" mean depends on you. For instance, images for a web site could be considered high resolution at 72 dpi, medium resolution at 60 dpi, low resolution at 48 dpi, since a web site is mainly viewed on a computer screen.
Textbox 1: How FSM provides small downloadable PDFs
Once in a while, one of our readers ask me how we manage to stuff the whole magazine (including the cover and the ads!) in a 5MB PDF file.
You might have noticed that the PDF available to our subscribers isn't good enough to be professionally printed, since the image quality is too low for a printing house. Well, it's as simple as that!
Our typesetting system is based on a real programming language. So I was able to write a wrapper command to embed the right image in the final PDF. To typeset the downloadable magazine, the wrapper is programmed to include low resolution cover, ads and images. The images are preprocessed the way I described in the section "Lossy resize".
It's now time to lossy resize images. Considering FSM cover: as I said, I want it to have the same print size (i.e., 9.25 x 11.75in²) but at 72 dpi resolution. So, using formula 1, I get X = 2775x72/300 → X = 666; Y = 3525x72/300 → Y = 846. So, 666, 846 and 72 are the figures I have to input in figure 2's window, to replace the pixel size and the resolution. The resulting image will be print-sized as the original.
You're not forced to apply formula 1 every time you resize an image. You are free to enter the figures you like, and experiment to find the results that suit you best.
What you might have realized by looking at my example, is that the resulting image has less pixels than the original. This means that it has less information, and thus it's not as defined. A similar consideration applies when you increase the number of pixels, and, hence, add information (the program has to add "extra" pixels). This leads to the creation of artifacts. In figure 4 I show an example of both the cases.
In this article I explained how to use the GIMP to resize images. Now you can see that there's a lot more to resizing images than you probably thought!
You are strongly advised to check the GIMP's manual [3], particularly when experimenting. Happy resizing!
[1] The GNU Image Manipulation Program.
[2] Graphics file format entry in Wikipedia.
[3] GIMP User Manual.
Thanks for the tutorial
Great. Thanks for the explanation. I'll have to practise that one. GIMP is one of my interests but I'm very new at it.
digital image resizing with the gimp article
thanks for the very informative article, however tried to print it and get over-print of side adds. Could you please email me a complete copy of this article for my reference use. Thanks again.
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Hi Larry,
I just read your post: I apologize for reading it too late. Please, send me an email I can send the article to: I don't find your address.
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Hello, Thank you for the tutorial. Actually it is the first time I heard about GIMP. I am using a resizing tool right now called Reshade and I am stunned by the high quality results that I get but GIMP caught my attention so I am looking forward for further articles on this.
Great article, but not quite enough.. help wanted
Could anyone help a nearly complete newby? I trying out GIMP again on a hardware able to handle it, but having trouble printing. My backup is to do it in MS powerpoint, but I'd really like to get GIMP going...
I've always wanted to learn GIMP, so I started using it for my passport photos. After almost an hour of playing with image scale, and print size in GIMP, plus image settings on the print dialog, and printer properties (aka preferences), and reading this article, I'm still out a loss as to how to get a print image 2" by 2". Here's what
I have:
Gimp 2.4.6 for windows:
a ~1950x~1950 pixel file in GIMP
print size 1" by 1" (1872 pixel/in)
image settings size:2" by 2" (on the print dialog)
Lexmark 2500 properties:quality:photo, letter, portrait.
I get a full page print containing about 1/4 the photo.
what has no effect:
-downsampling in GIMP via Image scale (144x144 pix image: huge result, low quality)
print size in GIMP 1" or 2" or 0.29" - same output
what helps:
image setting on the print dialog 2nd tab: this has an effect, but even 1"x1" is 4 sheets huge.
Does GIMP do some kind of negotiation with the print driver? It's as if the driver always prints to 4 sheets big. Has anyone else had problems using the Lexmark 2500 with GIMP?


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24 June 2011
Blogging the Caine Prize: "In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata"
Lauri Kubuitsile's "In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata" (PDF) is a delightful little story about, among other things, sex. The story is written in the style and manner of a comic folktale, its characters cartoonish and its situations amusingly absurd. Though sex is the topic of the story, at its heart this is a tale of equilibrium lost and regained -- just about the most surefire and time-tested template for comedy.
I'm wary of saying much about this one, because it would feel a bit like trying to explain a joke, and explaining jokes is the quickest way to kill them. Certainly, there's a bit to say about the gender and labor relations in the story, there's a bit to say about the attitudes toward marriage and sex (the husbands are not, it seems, angry with McPhineas Lata because he is sleeping with their wives -- instead, they're relieved he's dead because he had such better lovemaking technique than they had and thus put them to shame; this is a refreshing change of pace from the jealous, pathological monogamy that fills the majority of stories we read and see), and there's even a bit to say, perhaps, about this being a story in the form of an African folktale by an American-born white African (I'm not the person to do that, though, being a white American with no expertise in folktales, African or otherwise).
But this doesn't seem to me to be a particularly ambitious or complex story, and I think that's its strength, and what makes it by far my favorite of the Caine Prize stories we've read so far. It's nice to read a Caine story that's humorous, and it's nice to read a Caine story that's not ponderous, thumping realism -- it's nice to read a story that has a sense of play in its plot, its form, and its language. Of the stories we've read so far, this is the first one I can imagine handing to somebody else and saying, "Hey, read this, it's worth the time."
So, hey. Read it. It's worth the time.
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Perhaps I took this story too seriously but I did not really like this story much at all-I found it to be racist and it seemed like a rejected script from the old 1940s USA TV show Amos and Andy that made from of African Americans-I did not find it particularly funny-I think this story very much fits what Edward Said says in Orientalism when he says western colonizers use "native experts" to cast people outside of Europe as inherently immature and in need of protection-I agree it was a change of pace-I have elaborated on this in my postReplyDelete
I accept that it is good for readers of the Caine stories to offer a lighter work or do-I enjoyed your post a lot-
if you have time I invite your comment on my post
Certainly, the story is wide open to various charges, and your reading is legitimate and understandable. I'm not even remotely settled in my own mind about the appropriateness or not of using a traditional rural Botswanan community as a setting for this story -- indeed, I think it pretty easily can be read as promulgating a "stupid, primitive Africans" idea. And that's unfortunate and a fault in the story.ReplyDelete
The mitigating elements for me, at least right now, are that the characters are cartoons in a story told in the mode of a folktale, and the amusement and laughter (and I laughed out loud reading this story a couple of times) feels directed not at the characters for being Africans or even for being in a traditional rural African community, but for the specific situation they're in. Now, we could say that Kabuitsile is able to make this a setting we'll accept because of Orientalist attitudes, or because of an idea that such settings are exotic and therefore more likely to have attitudes toward sex and marriage that are not common to, say, the average urban American -- and I think there's some truth to that.
After all, what would we make of this story if it was set in a farming town in Vermont? (I could actually see this same plot and situation told as a story of a village in rural Vermont, say in the Northeast Kingdom. A story of perplexed farming men and their wives. It would be like a light Shirley Jackson story. But there isn't a tradition, really, of denigrating and oppressing Vermonters, and there is a very real history of that against rural Africans, and Africans in general, so it's not an equal playing field.)
The key to the story for me, though, is not that it is necessarily an African setting, but a remote one -- it has to be set in a place where the characters don't have a lot of contact with the knowledge and mores of a larger society. It's a story of a small, isolated community having, losing, and regaining equilibrium in an amusing way.
Do the characters seem stupid and ignorant because they are Africans, or because they are cartoons? Do we come away from the story thinking, "Oh, those stupid, ignorant, primitive, unenlightened, worthless Africans! Look at how silly they are!" Do we come away from the story feeling superior to the characters and their world -- flattered in our own enlightenment, happy we don't live in such a backward place? Does the story encourage a sense of white supremacy? Does it draw its energy from a tradition that is demeaning and harmful, a tradition of stereotyping? (Amos & Andy are designed to be funny not just because they are caricatures, but because they are caricatures of black folks, they are caricatures based on a racial idea -- the engine of the humor is not just cartoonish behavior and people, but cartoonish behavior and people that the general culture says are light exaggerations of qualities all black folks possess -- we are encouraged, even required, to extrapolate beyond the immediate situations and behaviors to the cultural "knowledge" that created those stereotypes, allowed them to disperse, and benefited in clear political, economic, social, and cultural ways from such demeaning stereotypes being spread -- white supremacy benefited from those stereotypes, and they were stereotypes that worked because of race [and were, thus, racist]. They were part of a long and painful tradition of racist stereotyping, one going back at least through minstrel shows.)
Those questions (before the parenthetical there) are ones each reader must answer alone, I think, and if the answer to any of those questions is incontrovertibly yes, then it's a real problem. I think there's room for answering yes to most, maybe even all, of those questions in this story, and it's a reservation I have about it. But I didn't come away from the story feeling encouraged or required to answer yes to those questions, and I ended up feeling real affection for these cartoons.
you make very good points in your post-as I finished this story I did not feel superior to the people in the story (one does not feel superior or inferior to cartoon characters which is how I see the people in the story-)-I think making fun of Africans in the way this story does is almost like a story that makes fun of people of Jewish heritage as money grubbers or Irish as drunks-as to Shirley Jackson stories-I have read only "The Lottery"-I think "The Lottery " does a much better job of creating a credible background for the story-ReplyDelete
As I read the story, I did think "am I over reacting or being too harsh-is this, as you said, like a parable in which characters represent types or virtues and thus need not be "whole characters"?-maybe this is right but I did not get that feeling-about two years ago I read Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea"-I found unless you read the story almost as work of Japanese theater it is terrible-understood correctly then it is a brilliant parable-
so my response to the idea that this story should be seen as a parable so this makes it "OK" to use the people as cartoon figures is maybe-
I think it is Orientalism that allows us to accept such notions-
in defense of the story-perhaps the author is making fun of these attitudes-
even if it is parable-as such I thought it was too long and too broad-
I did not leave this story feeling superior or happy I do not live in the area where the story is set-I left it feeling kind of embarrassed to have read it
maybe I am just being cranky but I did not find it all that funny-
if you listen to the old Amos and Andy shows (they can all be heard online)-I thought they were over all better written than this story
My post on the "In the Spirit of McPhineas Lata"


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I guess we finally got to see LeBron James in a dunk contest. But did he win or did John Wall win?
Regarding the game, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant's team defeated LeBron and Dwyane Wade's team 175-146. Chris Paul was quoted after the game saying, "I think that was the most fun I've ever had playing in a basketball game."
Click here to watch the full game.
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SenneyKuel says:
LBJ Won. That seems apparent. Love or hate regardless. That was rare ability to catch that high and far away.
DH says:
Is it just me or does Lebron's headband in that video seem to be twice the width of a normal headband?
JR says:
Yeah Senney, I can't stand LeBron, but those were some awesome in game dunks. Wall too though. Especially for a point guard.
And DH it isn't just you. He'll have his head shaved within 2 years.
DH says:
Lebron is going to have his own line of giant headbands soon for people with pre-mature balding.
John Wall was clearly the best, that last dunk by Lebron doesn't seem that great to me after John Wall's Dunk, that shit was crazy
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2.11-6 Specific Unanimity
New, May 20, 2011The state has alleged that the defendant has committed the offense of <insert name of offense> in two different ways, <identify the two way of committing the offense>. You may find the defendant guilty of the offense only if you all unanimously agree on which of the two ways the defendant committed the offense. This means you may not find the defendant guilty unless you all agree that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant <insert first theory of culpability> or you all agree that the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant <insert second theory of culpability>.
When a statute provides alternative ways of committing a crime, the jury must be unanimous on which of the alternatives has been proved only if the alternatives are conceptually distinct. State v. Benite, 6 Conn. App. 667, 675 (1986) (the three alternatives in burglary in the first degree, § 53a-101, are conceptually distinct).
Unanimity is not required when the prohibited conduct described in the statute may be satisfied in various ways. In other words, the focus is on the nature of the prohibited conduct, not the various ways one can engage in such conduct. See State v. Dyson, 238 Conn. 784, 794-95 (1996) (the six verbs in the accessory statute, § 53a-8 (a), all describe the conduct of furthering a crime); State v. Tucker, 226 Conn. 618, 648 (1993) ("the use of force or the threat of the use of force," when both were alleged, were merely two means of compelling another person and were not conceptually distinct); State v. James, 211 Conn. 555, 584-85 (1989) (whether the injury was to the health or morals of the child was of no consequence in assessing the defendant's conduct); State v. Bailey, 82 Conn. App. 1, cert. denied, 269 Conn. 913 (2004) (various facts supported the alleged fact of possession of marijuana with intent to sell; the jury only had to be unanimous that at least one of them proved possession); State v. Anderson, 16 Conn. App. 346, 357-58, cert. denied, 209 Conn. 828 (1988) (no agreement necessary as to whether the victim suffered serious physical injury due to a risk of death, disfigurement or impairment); State v. Mancinone, 15 Conn. App. 251, 274, cert. denied, 209 Conn. 818 (1988), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1017, 109 S. Ct. 1132, 103 L. Ed. 2d 194 (1989) (risk of injury allegations all involved ways of creating a harmful situation).
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I'm Ashley (McMillan) Weightman. I grew up in the small town of Wimbledon, North Dakota. In 2005 I moved to Bismarck to go to school where I graduated from the University of Mary with a Bachelors Degree in Communications and Business. I began working at the CBS affiliate as a reporter while in college and spent three years there. From CBS, I moved to Devils Lake to work at WDAZ-TV for a year, before continuing to work at WDAZ in Grand Forks. I married the love of my life Travis on June 23, 2012 and we now live in Bismarck with our three year old son, Corbin. Travis works at KXMB-TV and I at KLJ Engineering and attend Rasmussen College where I'm pursing a Bachelors Degree in Human Resources Management and Organizational Leadership.
Weight has been a struggle for me since I can remember. I do well for a while and then fall off the wagon. Four years ago I lost nearly 50lbs and was doing great. Two months after maintaining my weight, I found out that I was pregnant and gained 70lbs in nine months. I figured after I had Corbin, some of the pounds would fall off. Corbin weight 8lbs 12oz and I only lost 3lbs. Ever since December of 2009, I've been doing fad diets for about a month, trying the gym on and off, and eat healthy and nothing seems to be working. I've recently had some health issues and my doctor told me that in order to have more children and be a part of my children's life, I need to lose weight, but most importantly, I need to do it for me.
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Hello, i have tried searching for a fix to this issue for a while now, to no avail. So i figured i would create an account and ask the experts.
After about an hour of streaming, the audio will cut out and the video will continue to play for about 5 seconds. then the video will freeze as well. after about 15 seconds of total pause, the audio starts back up and catches up to the video. At this point, it streams normally for another 30 seconds until it does this again.
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Caregiver alleged to molest senior patient
Published: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 9:20 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, March 15, 2013 at 9:20 a.m.
A caregiver at an assisted living facility in Bradenton was arrested Thursday for reportedly touching a disabled elderly person inappropriately, according to authorities.
Robert Nygard, 62, of Sarasota is being charged with lewd and lascivious molestation on an elderly disabled adult, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office reported. Nygard also is charged with possession of a controlled substance, for several pills deputies found in his shoe.
Nygard reportedly massaged the victim's back, then began inappropriately touching the victim, according to his arrest report.
The home manager of the facility, on 30th Avenue East, told deputies that Nygard was very aware of the victim's medical conditions.
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