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Upon the River Bend captures all that Riverside living has to offer. Imagine strolling to the Huon River to picnic beside,or fish at your leisure. Come home after a day out of touring the famous Huon Valley Tourist Region to a relaxing, peaceful cottage nestled among the paddocks and trees of the Huon Valley.
It is situated only a few minutes away from the main township, yet seemingly a world away from the hustle and bustle of normal life.
The two bedroom, self contained cottage is carefully furnished with quality fittings; linen, crockery, fresh flowers, homemade jam and Tasmanian fudge await your arrival. The setting is delightful; with established fragrant gardens, mountain vistas and water views to unwind the senses.
Enjoy the many Tourist Attractions
Only 35 minute drive to Hobart, Salamanca Market, Battery Point, Mount Wellington and the Hobart Waterfront. Explore a little further to find the Cadbury's Chocolate Factory or MONA. A little closer to home means you are directly in the centre of the Huon Wine Region and Tourist route. Just 30 minutes south of the cottage is the famous Tahune Air walk, heritage museums, bush walks to the Hartz Mountains and surrounding adventures such as white water rafting, flying fox and other outdoor adventure sports are available.
Back at the cottage the Huon River Jet boat ventures past for a thrilling ride. Paddle boats can be hired from a venue just five minutes south of the cottage, for a leisurely way to experience the river.
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Upon the River Bend will provide you with your dream holiday. Experience the invigoration of country air, pleasant pastures, flowing river water and nature at its best.
Wrap yourself in the ambience created from the wood heating fire and bask in the comfort and cosy atmosphere that is created as you delight in a peaceful holiday stay.
Perfect for one or two couples. A great location for a family.
Create memories to treasure for years to come as you enjoy your Tasmanian Holiday. You will feel spoilt as you enjoy your complimentary breakfast hamper and fresh flowers, walk through the door and be delighted with careful preparation and presentation of Upon the River Bend cottage.
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How To Find The Size Of A Directory In Linux
This brief tutorial will walk you through how to find the size of a directory in Linux. In GUI mode, you can easily find out the directory or the folder, by simply right clicking on the folder or directory and go to the properties option. But, In CLI mode, the method is different. Let me show you how to find the directory or folder size in Linux in command line.
Find the size of a directory / folder
To find out the size of a directory or folder, we will use 'du' command. du is stands for disk usage.
The typical du command usage is given below:
du [OPTION]... [FILE] [directory]... du [OPTION]... --files0-from=F
Let us type the 'du' command in the Terminal and see what it displays.
sample output:
As you see above, du command displays the disk usage of the directories along with its sub-directories in the current directory.
To display a particular directory's size, for example ostechnix directory's size, run:
du ostechnix/
Sample output:
36252 ostechnix/Swami Vivekananda (Chicago Speech) 452 ostechnix/MultiCD/plugins 44 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/hooks 4 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/branches 1012 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects/pack 4 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects/info 1020 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects 8 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/heads 8 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin 12 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/remotes 24 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs 32 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs 8 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/heads 4 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/tags 8 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/remotes/origin 12 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/remotes 28 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs 8 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/info 1168 ostechnix/MultiCD/.git 140 ostechnix/MultiCD/maps 2706504 ostechnix/MultiCD 2832056 ostechnix/
As you see size of the directories is displayed in bits. Let us display it in human readable format.
To do so, add -h tag with du command as shown below.
du -h ostechnix/
Sample output:
36M ostechnix/Swami Vivekananda (Chicago Speech) 452K ostechnix/MultiCD/plugins 44K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/hooks 4.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/branches 1012K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects/pack 4.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects/info 1020K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/objects 8.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/heads 8.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin 12K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs/remotes 24K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs/refs 32K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/logs 8.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/heads 4.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/tags 8.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/remotes/origin 12K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs/remotes 28K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/refs 8.0K ostechnix/MultiCD/.git/info 1.2M ostechnix/MultiCD/.git 140K ostechnix/MultiCD/maps 2.6G ostechnix/MultiCD 2.8G ostechnix/
Now, the output is more clear. And the size of the directories is shown in Kilobytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes.
Also, you can display the disk usages size only in KB, MB, or GB. To do so, use -k for kilobytes, -m for megabytes
du -k ostechnix/
du -m ostechnix/
As you see in the above outputs, du command only displays the disk usage of folders. So, what about the files? To display the disk usage of files and directories, use -a flag.
du -ah ostechnix/
Sample output:
Now, you will see the disk usage of all files and folders in human readable form.
You can also display the size of multiple directories at once as shown below.
du -h directory1 directory2
If you want to check the total disk space used by a particular directory, use the -s flag.
du -sh ostechnix
Sample output:
2.8G ostechnix
Similarly, to display the total disk space used by multiple directories, for example ostechnix and /etc, run:
du -sh ostechnix /home/sk/
Sample output:
2.8G ostechnix 279G /home/sk/
To display the grand total of directories, add -c flag with du -sh command.
du -csh ostechnix /home/sk/
Sample output:
2.8G ostechnix 279G /home/sk/ 281G total
For more details about 'du' command, check the man pages.
man du
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Sunday Style Obsession: Sparkle + Shine
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PS- glad you liked and it was my absolute pleasure! xo
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Cornerback Jamie Nixon out of New Haven (Conn.) Hyde Leadership made such an impression at combines, particularly the Elite College Combine, that he has seen four offers roll in and many other schools showing sudden interest.
Nixon's first offer came right before the combine last week from Rutgers.
"That one was a shocker to me because they basically saw one game of mine on film and then they put an offer on the table," he said. "I didn't think they'd like my tape that much, but I guess they did and I was pretty shocked."
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After that offer, the 6-foot-1, 177-pounder had an impressive showing at the Elite Combine.
"I feel like it was very competitive down there and they pushed me to try to do my best, it was a good experience for me, I learned a lot," he said. "I thought I had a pretty bad day, but everyone else thought I ran well. I ran 4.3 seconds in the 40-yard dash and 4.4 seconds in the shuttle. I know I can run faster than that, my fastest time has been 4.19 seconds in the 40-yard dash."
Nixon did this despite having a sprained ankle. Was that a problem for the day?
"It became a problem and started to bother me during one-on-ones because I couldn't move like I wanted to," he said. "It got annoying after awhile, but basically the camp was the journey to my future and if I didn't show up, I might not have a future in football and I just wanted to do my best regardless."
With the injury, Nixon only saw time for four reps during one-on-one drills.
"I think I did fairly decent, I know it's not my best because I was limping around after four reps and they sat me out," he said. "Most of the wide receivers down there were pretty good. I got beat bad on my first rep, but on the last three I did fairly decent sticking with my man and even picked the ball off on one."
Nixon showed a lot to scouts.
"I think I showed heart by still competing even with the hurt ankle, just by going out there and doing my best regardless."
After the combine, Nixon picked up three more offers from some major universities.
"Since the camp, I got offers from Florida, Virginia and Oklahoma; I've also gotten a lot of interest from Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue."
What did Nixon think about each of the offers?
"The one from Florida was a shock. Urban Meyer called my coach and told him he liked my 40 time and how they like bigger defensive backs. I never would have thought Florida would offer me," he said. "Virginia came down to the school and offered me and my teammate Bruce Campbell at the same time. They like to give their offers face to face and that started to get my head big, but if feels good. I like their competitiveness.
"Oklahoma is another school I never thought would be interested in me. It's just that one and the Florida offers haven't settled in my mind yet, I'm really shocked about both of those. I like Oklahoma's team and the way it's run, I love their offense."
Besides offers, the evaluation period has started for Nixon who has gotten calls visits from Maryland, Purdue, Illinois, Florida and Miami.
Does the prospect have any favorites?
"Right now I'd say Maryland because they were always my childhood favorite," he said. "I grew up a fan of them, watching them since I was seven. I started spending summer vacation down there and I like it there, it's pretty nice. I think I got interested in the first place because I had been in love with the ninja turtles when I was little (he said jokingly) and Maryland is the turtles."
Besides Maryland, Nixon also likes Virginia.
"I just kind of like their background, but I'm not really sure why beyond that."
Nixon is planning to visit Penn State, Maryland and Virginia in the next few months.
"I'm basically going to be checking out the campus and meeting the coaches and stuff," he said. "I want to see if I can connect with them."
This summer the athlete is looking at attending camps at Penn State, Connecticut, Maryland, Syracuse, Virginia, Michigan State, Rutgers and Purdue.
"It's possible I'll try to go to all of them."
Nixon is an All-American track athlete and played in just four games last year, but he recorded 650 yards receiving and seven touchdowns. He added four interceptions on defense.


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For those who have completed at least one in-depth course in the principles of Family Constellation work and wish to be mentored into greater confidence and competence, this series will provide a safe bridge to cross that threshold. No matter your specific leaning — spiritual, therapeutic, body-centered, structural, cognitive — the movements and perspectives of Constellations can be incorporated to anchor and give wings to your orientation. Thus, your voice, exactly as it is, will be just right for an awaiting audience. A grounded and embodied understanding of the originating Constellation observations and the personal mobility to accompany people through uncharted territories will ensure that that voice has the range necessary to be heard across facilitation platforms.
When one looks at a piece of art, there is the image that can be seen and there is a depth and organic matter that lie beneath the surface. Like the painter, the facilitator collaborates with seen and unseen creativities. The facilitator inhabits his or her guidance, without agenda or presumption.
This is a three-session series, three days in each segment. The learning format will include practice with one another, supervised facilitation with outside clients, close annotation of diverse case studies, Q and A, and exercises designed to balance confidence and humility. Participants will explore both group and individual facilitation.
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11 Superpowers Completely Ruined by Basic Science
written by Sam Greenspan
The best part about science is that it ruined everything you dream about. (The second-best part is the baking soda volcano.)
Here are 11 superheroes who should be dead -- or superpowers that shouldn't work -- because of some pretty basic science. I say basic science because I forgot everything I ever knew about complicated science about two days after taking the AP Physics test.
Iron Man - the suit.
There are a bunch of flaws with the Iron Man suit -- like the tremendous amount of energy it would take to propel -- but the big one is that it's just a guy in that relatively thin suit. When he makes a sharp turn in the air,
the g-force would be strong enough to make him explode inside of the suit
. When he accelerates toward the ground, his blood vessels would tear and cause massive internal bleeding. And when he slammed into the ground or a wall, the suit couldn't absorb enough of the impact to keep him from splattering inside of it. None of those three outcomes is particularly conducive to Robert Downey Jr. making a pithy comment, however.
Spider-Man - shooting webs.
This only refers to the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man character, who has the web shooters appear in his forearms (rather than other Spider-Men who didn't attain web-making ability and built their own web slinging devices). Most spiders don't shoot webs out of their limbs;
they shoot webs out of their butts
. That would've been a whole different movie.
The Flash - super speed.
His suit is made of some kind of
mysterious material so he doesn't burn up or explode when he's outrunning Superman or a monorail. Unfortunately, it doesn't account for
his organs sloshing around inside of him
-- and the friction and inertia smashing and burning them up.
Wolverine - bones replaced by an indestructible metal called Adamantium.
If Wolverine ever ended up in the ocean... or even a deep swimming pool...
he would sink to the bottom
. Eventually he'd drown and die, only he can't die, so he'd stay alive. Then he'd drown again. Then not die again. And that cycle would repeat until either someone rescued him or the world came to an end.
Zack Morris - freeze time.
when Zack Morris stopped time, he also stopped science
. Which certainly would bother Mr. Tuttle (who taught science, I think, along with driver's ed, music, and everything else available). When Zack stopped time, in theory, he stopped the movement of all the molecules in the world -- including the molecules of oxygen in the air. So as he walked around, the molecules of oxygen couldn't move -- which would've caused him to spontaneously combust long before calling "time in."
Invisible Man - invisibility.
The problem with invisibility is
you'd also be blind
. (And since spying on people is really the entire point of invisibility, that's not a particularly good trade-off.) You see things by having light hit your retinas. Light passes right through transparent objects (or, in another explanation for the power of invisibility, it wraps around the invisible person). In both cases, blind. And then you'd need an invisible seeing-eye dog, although he too would be blind.
vampires - sexiness.
I guess I can buy that vampires have super jumping and fighting abilities -- but their sexiness is questionable. Without blood, that means...
no vampire erections
. And sure,
is PG/Utahan sexy, which means a lot of arm touching and hugging -- but eventually, the situation is going to call for an erection and there's no way a Cullen can sparkle his way out of that one.
The Thing.
The Thing - super strength.
The first time you flex your super strong muscles?
You snap your bones.
Then you're stuck in the hospital recovering with nothing to watch but
The Incredibles
Slimer - pass through walls.
My issue with walking through walls might not affect a ghost, but there wasn't really any other character I liked who had the ability to move through walls. (Other than, apparently, The Flash again. That guy might be a more versatile superhero than Superman.) The big problem with being able to walk through walls is...
what's also stopping you from falling through the floor?
Magneto - ability to move magnetic objects.
Magneto's problem are Newton's laws of motion. Whenever he (meaning Magneto, not Isaac Newton) magnetically lifted an object, by law
it would apply force to him in return
. So if he lifted a car, the pressure back on him would probably break him in half.
The Hulk - gamma ray-induced transformation.
The Hulk really shouldn't exist, because the gamma rays that turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk definitely would've killed him. As soon as he was hit with the gamma radiation he would've either burned up immediately or turned him into a shell of a human being rapidly of radiation poisoning.
Of course, that science stops the Hulk before he could even start. So if you want to look past that and find a different scientific flaw, how about his
unbreakable pants
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This invention relates to the field of image manipulation.
The techniques available to graphic artists and video/film editors for the overlay of text on images are limited. The inevitable problem encountered by the designer when overlaying a photograph with text is that of the text colour merging into similarly coloured regions in the background image, rendering the text unreadable.
This problem has been crudely solved by text outlining, text shadow-casting, under-text blocking or text-surround glow etc. These methods all more or less hide the image and make strong graphic impressions that compromise aesthetic intention of the designer. For example, in the overlay of subtitles on video and film it is readily apparent that particular damage is caused to the image content.
The present invention seeks to solve the text readability problems described above in a way that is less destructive to the image than known solutions.
According to the present invention there is provided a method for processing an image comprising the steps of:
providing a first image and a second image;
locating donor pixels in the first image which correspond to active pixels on the second image;
selecting a channel of the first image;
selecting a donor pixel;
searching the pixels, in the first image, in the region of the donor pixel, to determine suitable receiver pixels;
performing a transfer of luminance from the donor pixel to the receiver pixels through the receiver pixel array; and
repeating the donor pixel selection, the searching and the performing steps for each donor pixel.
The searching and performing steps may be performed in a predetermined sequence. Where more than one channel is present, such as three colour channels, the method is repeated for each channel. The local pixel group aggregate luminance level may be maintained to preserve the original image.
According to the invention there is further provided a method for processing an image comprising the steps of:
providing a first image and a second image;
locating donor pixels in the first image which correspond to active pixels on the second image;
assessing colour values present in the first image to form a palette;
selecting a donor pixel;
searching the pixels, in the first image, in the region of the donor pixel, to determine a suitable swap pixel;
performing a swap of colour value between the donor pixel and the swap pixel; and
repeating the selecting, searching and performing steps for each donor pixel.
The first image may be a picture image, which may be photographic or from any other source of full colour or monochrome continuous-tone image. They may represent still images or frames from a moving image. The second image may be a black on white representation of text, it may be a linear diagram, map, symbol or any other graphical object that can be represented as black on white lines. Where text is used, this may be either anti-alaised or alaised. Where the first image is a frame from a moving image, the second image may be one of a corresponding sequence in order to create moving text.
The present invention produces text-on-image overlays which exhibit an hitherto largely unexploited visual phenomenon, that is, overlaid text which is clearly legible seen up close, but which becomes nearly invisible when seen at some greater distance. Employed in the right spatial situation, e.g. where a poster is viewed by an observer who walks towards it, this produces a quite arresting visual experience. Observers, seeing the poster in the distance, wonder why they are presented with an image in an advertising context but without apparent message. When the observer has approached close enough, the text message appears, creating a graphical surprise.
The present invention achieves this text delineation by manipulating the chromatic and luminance properties already present in an image, as opposed to conventional text overlay methods where a portion of the image information is replaced (and thus lost) by the overlaid text.
An example of the present invention will now be described with reference the following figures.
The primary example of the present invention processes RGB bitmaps. This is the image format most common to the internal function of image manipulation and video effects processing systems.
An example picture image is illustrated in
In a text/image composite of the present invention the text is revealed by moving luminance value from the "under-text" image pixels to "near-to-text" image pixels. While RGB values for "under-text" pixels and "near-to-text" pixels change, the aggregate RGB values for local groups of pixels remains the same as for the corresponding group in the original image, hence local groups of pixels have the same tone/colour appearance. The text is seen to disappear when the image is viewed at sufficient distance for the angular size of the text character line widths to be unresolved in human vision.
The image suffers loss of detail in the text regions up to the resolution of the text character size, but because local pixel group aggregate luminance values are constant, the image appears unobscured by the text when viewed at sufficient distance for the human eye not to resolve that detail. When seen from near enough for the eye to resolve the text, it is clearly readable.
The fundamental technical principal of the invention is that of local displacement of luminance value from pixel to pixel in an image bitmap, in order to create local contrast edges that reveal text characters, while maintaining local pixel group aggregate luminance values that preserve the image.
The heavy borders indicate "under-text" pixels of an overlaid letter "T" in a corresponding text image bitmap. The values in that bitmap are not displayed and for the purposes of this drawing we assume an alaised text representation such that each of the text pixels associated with the letter "T" has an identical luminance.
In this case the highlighted pixel on the bar of the T, in this colour channel, has a luminance value of 45. This value is to be redistributed amongst the five potential receivers to reduce the luminance of this pixel to zero as illustrated in
Where an image contains regions that are too nearly black or white (or near maximum and minimum luminance on all three colour channels), the system will fail because there is no tone range (or value range on any colour channel) available for creating contrast between text and non-text pixels. This is illustrated in
This problem can be avoided by pre-processing of the image to avoid its containing under-text areas, which are too nearly black or white at the expense of a sacrifice of image tone contrast and/or colour saturation.
Since the invention treats each text pixel individually, these text pixels may each have their own luminance value associated with them. This means that anti-alaised text can be treated in a similar manner to alaised text and that anti-alaised text image bitmaps will render as anti-alaised in the resulting image.
The current example produces a result where the text is darker than the image background. An alternative example can result in the text being lighter than the image background and that example employs the same technical principal (see
Other variations that extend functionality while employing the same principal will be explained later.
In this flowchart the logical steps are divided into those which are carried out in the chosen photo-processing application (on the left), those that are carried out in the present invention (on the right), the logical steps required to prepare for a given output process (above), and the steps required to process individual composites (below).
In step 401 the CM of the PPA is set-up by invoking the colour profile of the output device to be used.
In step 402, auxiliary program 1 of the present invention constructs an RGB image bitmap consisting of an ordered set of every possible colour in the RGB gamut, the Gamut Image (GI).
In step 403 the GI is opened in the PPA and reconstructed so that all RGB values are scaled to fall within the gamut of the output process. This is saved as the scaled gamut image (SGI).
In step 404, auxiliary program 2 of the present invention analyses the SGI to construct a file of an array representing a comprehensive look-up-table containing, for every "in gamut" RGB colour value set, the maximum colour value displacement which may be applied positively and negatively to the given value without producing a colour which lies outside the gamut of the output process. It may be called the luminance transfer look-up-table (LTLUT). This LTLUT will be employed by the "core program" of the present invention to limit luminance transfer between pixels in order to ensure that new colours are not created which lie outside the gamut of the output process.
The analysis required to produce the primary version of the LTLUT (in which the contained gamut-safe colour displacements are the maximum possible) requires interpretation of ICC colour profiles, procedures which are in the public domain, hence this analysis cannot be made part of the claims of the present invention.
The LTLUT may be further processed so a group of LTLUTs are available that give different graphical effects in the final composite. In one example the values are limited to some constant thereby enforcing an upper limit on the contrast that develops between under-text and near-to-text pixels. This is useful in "levelling" the apparent visibility of the text over the composite surface. In another example the values are weighted differently on each colour channel, causing useful colour effects in the composite text rendering.
In step 405 a picture image bitmap is prepared for compositing by invoking the CM function of the PPA to ensure that none of the original RGB values in the picture lie outside the gamut of the output process.
In step 406 a bitmap of the text mask image is prepared for compositing. Colour management is irrelevant to this stage so the text mask could be prepared in any appropriate application.
In step 407 the core process of the present invention constructs the picture/text composite from the prepared picture and text mask images, (see
In step 408 the composite is printed or otherwise displayed by the PPA utilising CM to interpret the composite, given the chosen output process colour profile.
Step 601 sets up the data required as follows:
The picture image bitmap is loaded and de-constructed into three arrays representing its RGB colour channel bitmaps.
The text mask image is loaded and reconstructed as an array with values −1.0 to +1.0 representing the black to white values for anti-alaised text.
The LTLUT is loaded.
A pre-existing data array SearchField, is loaded. Searchfield contains x and y pixel offset values for use in the search for receiver pixels that are active to a donor pixel. Alternative examples of the SearchField array may define a circular or other shaped group of pixels.
The parameter SearchDepth is set to determine how many elements of the SearchField are used.
Two more arrays, GivRec and Sums, are initiated with elements corresponding to each element in the picture image arrays.
In step 602 a pixel scan of the picture image is initiated.
Step 603 tests each pixel to determine if it is a potential luminance donor by testing the corresponding value in the text mask array for being less than zero (values which represent anti-alaised under-text-pixels darker than the mid-value).
In step 604 the amount of luminance that can be donated (its Giveability) is calculated by finding the permitted transfer value in the LTLUT and reducing this as the product of the absolute value of the corresponding text mask value. This Giveability value is stored in the GivRec array. A variable RecSum (for receivability sum) is (re) set to zero.
In step 605 a search is initiated for receiver pixels corresponding to the found donor. X and Y displacements found in the SearchField array are added to the position of the donor giving the position of the proposed receiver.
Step 606 determines if the proposed receiver is valid by testing the corresponding value in the text mask array for being greater than zero, i.e. a not-under-text pixel or an under-text pixel of lighter than anti-alaised middle value.
In step 607 the Receivability of valid receivers is calculated by finding the permitted transfer value in the LTLUT and reducing this as the product of the value of the corresponding text mask value. This Receivability value is stored in the GivRec array. The RecSum variable is incremented by Receivability.
Step 608 determines if the SearchDepth limit to the receiver search has been reached.
If the search is complete, step 609 loads the RecSum value in the Sums array at the position corresponding to the found donor.
Step 610 determines if the picture scan is complete.
Steps 611 to 619 duplicate the pattern of steps 602 to 609, but find all receiver pixels and for each receiver, the corresponding eligible donors.
In order that the same set of donors to a given receiver are found as had previously been found when searching for receivers from a given donor, the values in SearchField are reflected (x =−x and y =−y). This is necessary in case the SearchField is irregular or unsymmetrical.
For each receiver, its Receivability is calculated as at 607 and stored in the GivRec array. For each of the receivers' found donors, the Giveability of the donor is calculated as at 604 and the sum of these Giveability values is stored in the Sums array in the position corresponding to the found receiver.
Steps 602 to 619 are repeated for each of the RGB colour channels. When this is complete the GivRec array contains the maximum Giveability or Receivability on each channel for each found Donor and Receiver pixel and the Sums array contains, for each of these, the sum of the corresponding found set of pixel values for Receivability or Giveability.
Steps 620 to 629 execute the luminance value transfers as follows.
At 620 another scan of the picture image is initiated.
Step 621 filters for donor pixels as at 603
Step 622 gets a found donor's Giveability from the GivRec array and (re)sets a variable Havegiven to zero.
Step 623 initiates a search for receivers as at 605.
At step 624 the proposed receiver is validated or rejected as at 606.
Step 625 gets the Receivability of the validated receiver from the GivRec array and determines the "safe" luminance transfer value togive from the donor to this receiver as the smaller of the following: TogiveA=Giveability (of the donor) * Receivability (of this receiver)/the sum of Receivability values of all receivers taking luminance from this donor, or TogiveB=Receivability (of this receiver)*Giveability (of the donor)/sum of Giveability values of all donors giving luminance to this receiver. Togive is then added to the corresponding picture image colour value and Havegiven is incremented by Togive.
Step 626 determines if the receiver search is complete for this donor. All receivers taking from this donor will have taken their share of its giveable luminance value.
At step 627 the donor's corresponding picture image colour value is reduced by Havegiven.
Step 628 determines if the picture image pixel scan is complete.
Steps 620 to 628 are repeated for each colour channel.
At step 629 the picture image/text composite RGB bitmap is reconstituted from the colour channel arrays and saved. The core program ends.
In the principal example described above, the core process is applied equally to each of the 3 colour channels that constitute the picture image. If the 3 colour channels are treated differently, some interesting and graphically useful results occur.
If the blue channel (for instance) is not processed, the result has text appearing with a colour contrast as well as a tonal contrast, with respect to the image background. Text on a colour neutral region of the image appears bluish on a yellowish background.
In an example that allows the giving/receiving direction to be reversed from that described in the primary example, the result will be text that is lighter than the surrounding image (as noted above and illustrated in
In a further example, the factors determining which channels are processed or not processed or reverse processed are made to depend on the image region relative colour values. If, for instance, colour channel processing is suppressed or reversed for that colour channel which corresponds to the maximum value colour channel of the donor pixel, the result will be text with complementary colour contrast in all image colour regions. In red regions of the picture the text will appear redder against a green-bluish background, while in green regions of the picture text will appear greener against an orange-reddish background, and in the blue regions of the image the text will appear bluer against a yellowish background.
These variant examples maintain local aggregate pixel luminosity and thus whatever effects are produced in apparent text colour, the colours will merge to make the original image appear in the result when seen at a distance.
These colour effect variations are particularly dramatic when applied to black & white or tinted monochrome images (represented by RGB bitmaps). Seen up close the texts can be very colourful, but these colours merge back into the monochrome image when seen at a distance.
Another useful example employs a partial compromise of the principal of maintaining local aggregate pixel luminosity. In this example, under-text regions that cannot be processed to reveal text because they are too nearly black or white (or polarised on all colour channels) are allowed to give luminance that they do not have. This allows the text to be revealed without overall contrast reduction or colour desaturation pre-processing of the subject image. Image fidelity suffers in these regions of the picture, but this may be a worthwhile compromise. For automatic production of multi-frame images in film/video production this would be an advantage because the designer/editor cannot consider or test proof the result for every frame.
The primary example and the variations described above apply the technique of the invention to RGB bitmaps of the image and text. The technique can also be applied to any other colour space that might be used to represent an image and which permits linear calculations effecting equal displacement of colour value within the image.
Another example has the same general structure and flow of the primary example, but produces images from palettised image data like GIFs. In this example local displacement of luminance value from pixel to pixel in an image map, in order to create local contrast edges that reveal text characters, while maintaining local pixel group aggregate luminance values that preserve the image is achieved by pixel for pixel swapping of palette colours between text and non-text image pixels. The program must be given a "colour palette order" that forms the basis of pixel colour swap decisions. The "colour palette order" is carefully chosen to put the colours in ascending tonal order. As under-text pixels are processed the near-to-text pixels are compared and the furthest down (or up) the colour order is chosen for the swap. This method cannot reveal text in image regions composed of only one colour from the palette. When the image is "palettised" from its original representation, the palette must be carefully chosen so that all under-text regions in the image become represented by a mix of at least two colours from the palette. Automatic palette colour determination does not produce the required result.
Blurring of the photographic component of the composite may be reduced by filtering proposed receiver pixels for those that are in the same colour/tone region to the donor pixel. This is achieved by making available an additional array which represents a non-dithered, hard-boundaried version of the RGB bitmapped image, which functions as a colour/tone region map. To generate this colour/tone region map, an image may have a common graphical filter applied to it which divides the image into a specified number of colours which are applied to the image as unmixed regions that have boundaries corresponding to the contrast edges of the original image. This map is created outside the above described method using standard image processing software. The actual colours are irrelevant except in providing region difference information. The giving/receiving luminance value is applied to the RGB channel bitmaps as described in the earlier method, but receivers are not active to donors that lie across a colour region boundary in the region map. The boundaries are thus preserving detail as they cross text and text "halo" areas in the composite result. Use of this technique may be counterproductive if "undertext" regions contain details in the region map of similar scale to the text line widths, since preservation of this image detail can obscure that text. Manual correction of an automatically generated region map may be implemented to achieve enhanced results.
All of the examples of the technique described above could be employed in stand alone applications or in "plugins" for existing graphical applications that process images.
The technique of the invention could also be implemented as a digital electronic device for overlay of text on image in a real-time video environment.
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Inspired by a typical nineteenth century British Columbian mining town era with Victorian architecture, this town is a true winter wonderland. The mountains of British Columbia were once home to vibrant gold and silver mining towns. The prize people are now after is pure white, but the character and charm of Silver Star's village is a page from the past with its own unique twist. The buildings are all painted vibrant colours creating a magical setting like no other.


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The sound here just JUMPS out of the speakers, which is exactly what the best copies of the album are supposed to (but rarely) do. For fans of the band -- and Power Pop in general -- this is the Straight Up you have been waiting for!
We rarely do shootouts for this album, not because we don't like the record or have enough customers for it; rather it's the fact that clean copies of the album just aren't out there in the bins the way they used to be. Two or three a year is all we can find, and that's with hitting the stores every week. Subtract the noisy and groove-damaged ones and you don't have much to work with until years have gone by.
The Sound
Good copies of this record, ones that are mastered properly and pressed on "good" vinyl, sound a lot like a stipped down version of Abbey Road, which is what they're supposed to sound like. That's clearly the sound Badfinger and their producers George Harrison and Todd Rundgren (with some help from the Beatles' engineer Geoff Emerick* ) were aiming at.
You will also hear some influences from All Things Must Pass and McCartney's first . The music owes a lot to both The Beatles as well as Harrison and McCartney as individuals. What's not to like? Catchy pop songs with grungy guitars -- it's ear candy when the sound is good, and the sound is very good here!
Power Pop
This is Power Pop, plain and simple. The basics are what count: punchy drums, grungy guitars, present vocals, clear but full bass lines -- just the meat and potatoes of rock, no fancy sauces.
For this music to work all the elements need to be in balance, with correct timbre for the relatively few instruments that make up the arrangements. Opacity, smear or grit instantly destroy the whole point of having a straightforward production, which is to be able to have all the parts laid out cleanly and clearly. Get the production out of the way and just let the music speak for itself.
The truly Hot Stampers remind you of the kind of basic rock and roll record that really knows how to rock. Back in Black comes instantly to mind. Black Dog off Zep IV. This is the sound you want your Straight Up to have. The title of the album is the key to the sound. No fancy packaging, just the band, Straight Up.
Vinyl Condition
Few copies of Straight Up play even Mint Minus to Mint Minus Minus; the vast majority of nice looking, thoroughly-scrubbed pressings played Mint Minus Minus at best. Much like McCartney's first album on Apple, quiet copies just aren't out there so there's really no point in holding out for one.
If you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we're can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear with quieter background noise.
Side One
Take It All
Baby Blue
I'd Die Babe
Name of the Game
Side Two
Sweet Tuesday Morning
Day After Day
It's Over
Side Two
Sweet Tuesday Morning
Day After Day
It's Over
... Frankly, the increased production is for the best, since Badfinger sounds best when there's as much craft in the production as there is in the writing. Here, there's absolutely no filler and everybody is in top form. Pete Ham's "Baby Blue" is textbook power-pop — irresistibly catchy fuzz riffs and sighing melodies — and with its Harrison-esque slide guitars, "Day After Day" is so gorgeous it practically aches. "Perfection" is an unheralded gem, while "Name of the Game" and "Take It All" are note-perfect pop ballads. Tom Evans isn't as prolific here, but the one-two punch of "Money" and "Flying" is the closest Straight Up gets to Abbey Road, and "It's Over" is a fine closer.
Still, what holds the record together is Joey Molland's emergence as a songwriter. His work on No Dice is enjoyable, but here, he comes into his own with a set of well-constructed songs. This fine songwriting, combined with sharp performances and exquisite studio craft, make Straight Up one of the cornerstones of power-pop, a record that proved that it was possible to make classic guitar-pop after its golden era had passed.
Still, what holds the record together is Joey Molland's emergence as a songwriter. His work on No Dice is enjoyable, but here, he comes into his own with a set of well-constructed songs. This fine songwriting, combined with sharp performances and exquisite studio craft, make Straight Up one of the cornerstones of power-pop, a record that proved that it was possible to make classic guitar-pop after its golden era had passed.
Straight Up recordings began in early 1971 under the direction of producer Geoff Emerick, who produced the bulk of Badfinger's preceding album No Dice. Although these early recordings were completed and ready to be pressed, Apple Records co-president George Harrison decided the unreleased album could be improved under his personal direction. Harrison produced new versions of a couple of the earlier songs, as well as recording a couple new tracks with the band in the summer of 1971. Harrison can be heard playing a lead-guitar duet with Pete Ham on the song Day After Day, with Leon Russell featured on piano.
Due to a hurriedly-assembled benefit concert that summer, The Concert for Bangladesh (which Badfinger performed in), Harrison did not complete the Straight Up project. Todd Rundgren was retained to finish the album; utilizing recordings begun by both Emerick and Harrison, and recording several new tracks with the band.


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The Hamilton Lady Broncs defeated Dillon 55-47 in the Saturday night Girls Southwestern A championship game.
The Hamilton Broncs and Lady Broncs are playing in the final night of the Southwestern A Divisonal tournament at Hamilton High School.
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The Hamilton Lady Broncs defeated the Butte Central Lady Maroons 66 to 58 in the Southwestern A Girls Divisional semi-final game.
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Corvallis tennis teams dominated last weekend in the Southwestern A Divisional Tournament in Hamilton and Corvallis.
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So I'm a big fan of the color wheel. I could play with that thing all day. I know all about complements, split complements, analogous colors, etc etc whatever.
My problem is, I'm really -crap- at implementing them. At least creatively.
I'd like to do more dyeing. Especially because now my mother got me 5 pounds of wool for Christmas and I'd love to do something interesting with it. Perhaps even start selling on Etsy like I've been meaning to. But I always seem to find myself using analogous color somehow, and while they can be quite pretty, after a while they get boring. Not very interesting at all.
So for people who do a lot of dyeing, especially roving/yarn, do you have any tips? Where to do you get your inspiration? Do you maybe even just throw random colors together and see what happens? I don't know if I don't understand how to implement color theory, am not creative enough, or I'm just too darn afraid to take some chances.


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Hi, everyone! Just a quick intro since I'm new to JMs and definitely want to spend some time on this board... I'm Kristin, wife to Gene, mommy to Rachael, and expecting our second little girl, Amelia, in late November. I had a pretty typical hospital birth with Rachael - Pitocin, epidural, etc. - I just didn't know the options then, past what the OB told me was "normal", and went along with it. I definitely plan for things to go differently this time!
I started training to be a birth doula after Rachael's arrival, and I'm certainly better informed now - much more comfortable with my body's ability to birth without intervention. We're planning a midwife-assisted homebirth this time, probably in water. Just hoping and praying that all continues to go well and that plan doesn't get messed up.
I'll admit, I'm a little nervous about birthing naturally - it's just "not done" where I live, I get VERY little support of my plans and tons of horror stories when I admit that I'll be having my baby at home. :unsure: But, I've just added the postpartum "told you so" factor to my list of benefits of a natural birth, and am continuing to prepare mentally/emotionally for it.
Looking forward to getting to know you all on this board! :smile:
welcome and wtg for you!! if it weren't for the VBA2C, and money :rolleyes: then we too would love a homebirth. we will be getting a pool to birth in at home though before heading out to the hospital. homebirth sounds so wonderful and i have done tons of research on it.
the post partum thoughts and feelings are great to keep in mind when laboring and transitioning, remembering what things were like or will be like if there's intervening and for me - a cesarean again. it will help keep us strong! cheers to you and good luck!
Welcome Kristin. :D I look forward to getting to know you better over the coming months and hope that you get the birth experience that you want. I'm Cindy. :D
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In the pages that display a list of the top sellers, is it possible to change the colour of the background that sits behind "Top Seller"?
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Hi Steven, is it really necessary to start so many new threads? Perhaps you could start one and ask all of your questions in it.
This forum is quickly filling up with all of your new posts - don't mean to offend, it's just I think it unnecessary.
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In ae.ini, edit the xgridB configuration variable; this variable is used to specify the grid grid parameter value used to display the "Top Sellers" on browse index pages.
The default value of xgridB is:
Specifically, you want to change the first colour value of the h (header) option from 669999 to whatever colour you want to use. The first color (669999) is the header's background colour and the second colour (FFFFFF) is the header's foreground colour. The "Top_Sellers" is the header's text (_=space).
By changing the value of xgridB, you can change the way the "Top Sellers" grid is formatted on browse index pages. For example, try adding ",u" to the end or changing "c:3,r:2" to "c:3,r:3". See: grid parameter for grid parameter option meanings.
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At The Science Network, we share Carl Sagan's vision of science as a candle in the dark. It is part of our mission to enlarge the constituency of reason. This is why we make programs about science. We celebrate rational conversation. Come, let us reason together. More programs, more candles, more light.
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Carrie Patterson will become Georgia's greatest all-time goal scorer the next time she hits the back of the net. Michelle Betos starts her senior season already as the second-leading career shot-stopper in Georgia history.
With Betos and Patterson to bookend the field, the Bulldogs hope they can improve on two consecutive appearances in the Southeastern Conference Tournament title game the last two seasons, which is a much different ending than when the pair arrived as freshman.
"It's been an awesome journey and more than we've dreamed about," Betos said. "We came in and we knew we were an underdog program. We knew that we were coming to build history and we've done that. It's been an amazing experience, even last year.
"We came together more last year than any other year because of what we went through. We've still got some things on the table that we want to do before we graduate, that's getting an SEC championship and getting to an NCAA championship."
Georgia was happy with where it ended last season. But Patterson certainly does not want to duplicate the start to last season when the injury-plagued Bulldogs failed to win in the first month.
Georgia starts its 2009 season at home against Kennesaw State at 7 p.m. today.
"We have to win," Patterson said. "We went all of September without winning last year, and we don't want to do that. I thin we've got a lot of potential to win a lot of games. We want to make it to the SEC championship again But we want to close the deal this time. That's our main goal."
Patterson enters her senior season with 33 career goals and is tied with Mandy Aiken for the school record. Patterson already owns Georgia's career points record with 84. Her knack for scoring goals gives the Bulldogs an automatic focal point for the offense.
"She (Patterson) has got a great mentality," Betos said. "She can strike a ball. She's more than gifted and talented but there's a lot of people who are gifted and talented. She wants to score. She wants to win. She doesn't like it when she doesn't win and she'll let you know it. She's tenacious and she's determined and she never stops."
Betos also could threaten some rarefied circles this season. Betos is second in Georgia's all-time shutout list with 18 and second in career wins with 34. Nicole Williams leads the Georgia record book with 29 1/2 career shutouts and 49 career wins.
"I like playing with Michelle," Patterson said. "She's an awesome leader both on and off the field. She's really vocal and lets you know what she's thinking. She's got a passion that spreads through the whole team. She's from New York, so she's got that New York attitude. Her attitude gives us attitude too. She's intense, she loves what she does and she has a passion for the game."
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A teenager and 2 young boys have been arrested over a spate of fires in Littlemoor.
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"HOUSE OF DAUGHTERS is a thrilling blend of adventure, romance, and the personal courage of men and women, during the birth of the Turkish Republic of the 1920s. Exploring the British and Turkish conflict in Anatolia and written like a romantic fable with a dark side, the novel tells of high romance, honor, betrayal, and family saga, in a beautiful mash-up of classic and modern literature.
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