![]() I have several college degrees including a BA in English Writing, a BA in Anthropology, and an MS in Evolutionary Ecology (a subdiscipline of Anthropology).I think my ultimate goal with my graphics - what I really hope to get out of all of this - is to create something truly beautiful one day that either someone will deeply appreciate in their heart or that will inspire someone to create something beautiful. I am a huge fan of classic artists like Salvador Dali, Calder and Leonardo da Vinci, but am also strongly influenced and inspired by the works of contemporaries like Jack Pedota, David Ho, Luis Royo, Olivia and many of my fellow Renderosity artists who continue to inspire me on a daily basis. My other tools of the trade include Hexagon, Silo, ZBrush and Vue, and I also do black & white digital photography and photo restoration on the side. My art is a mixture of DAZ Studio, Poser, Photoshop CS5 and Filter Forge. Now I'm equally obsessed (if not more so) with all things 3D as well. Der Tektronix Phaser II SDX ersetzt in Verbindung mit einem guten Bildbearbeitungsprogramm wie Adobe Photoshop oder Aldus Photostyler eine Dunkelkammer. I had always been a little intimidated by 3D graphics, thinking it was way too hard to do, but I decided to give it a shot anyways. About two years ago I came across an ad in a magazine for DAZ Studio. Since then I have been teaching myself all things Photoshop. A few years later a friend introduced me to Photoshop, and it was love at first sight. I went home that day and created some silly little piece and after that I was totally hooked. I first became interested in computer graphics some time circa 1995 when my dad gave me this CD package of some new, up-and-coming computer software at the time which included Aldus Photostyler and KAI PowerTools. SoftPC 4.1 comes with MS-DOS° and Microsoft° Windows° 3.1 preinstalled.Hi there! My name is Victoria, and I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California (but live elsewhere now). PhotoStyler is a good photo-editing program. It is optimized to take advantage of the native Intel hardware, supports all DOS and Windows applications compliant with DPMI (DOS Protect Mode Interface), and includes network support for Novell IPX and LAN Workplace DOS TCP/IP. It can be great for people who want to give their pictures a nice, retro style, and also suitable for those who are new to photo-editing and try to. With SoftPC, you can easily copy and paste text and graphics between NEXTSTEP applications and PC programs such as CorelDraw, dBFast, Excel, and Object Vision. The software includes special Insignia Windows and mouse drivers that optimize the performance of graphics-intensive applications. ALDUS PHOTOSTYLER 2.0 Brand: Aldus 3.4 out of 5 stars3 ratings Imaging Photo cropping and editing Customers also viewed these products of 1Start over of 1 Previous page Ralix Windows Emergency Boot Disk - For Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 10 PC Repair DVD All in One Tool (Latest Version) Ralix 3. SoftPC supports extended and expanded memory for DOS applications requiring more than 640 kilobytes, PC floppies and CD-ROMs, and serial and parallel ports. Support for VGA graphics with 256 colors provides increased display resolution with crisp, vibrant graphics. A special resizable window under Windows allows you to easily expand the window to the display's limits. Improved mouse performance when using full-screen mode.You can also access PC CD-ROMs in Microsoft CD-ROM extension format, which supports ISO 9660 and High Sierra. ![]() Enhanced WinSock software, including a software fix that corrects the reverse IP address issue in SoftPC 4.0 Ulead Systems is a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu. Photostyler for windows serial#īundled with SoftPC 4.1 are three NEXTSTEP 3.3 operating system patches that improve SoftPC support for full screen mode, MS-DOS boxes, and serial ports.Ability to access NEXTSTEP DOS partitions on physical drives larger than 504MB.Ulead sold PhotoStyler through Aldus Corporation as a software developer. MS-DOS books Mailman 3 hosting buy link here. ![]() SoftPC 4.1 allows you to run many Windows applications that require enhanced mode. The both files to download have Aldus Photostyler 2.0 Special Edition - It was a version without the more powerful options of the program (I think it was included with handheld scanners, printers. ![]() This compatibility is provided by the addition of a pseudo-enhanced mode, which can either be selected for all applications or for individually selected applications. Aldus PhotoStyler was a graphics software program developed by the Taiwanese company Ulead. Examples of enhanced mode applications that can be run with SoftPC 4.1 are:Ĭomments and questions: email 2020 Black Hole, Incorporated,ĭesign and layout by Rob Blessin and Antoine Valot. ![]()
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![]() ![]() sticker tape liner (March 28-April 3, 2013).eraser sofa (February 28-March 6, 2013).The eight items, in order of their release, are: Unlike the 7-Eleven items, the Campus Stationery items are reorderable in the catalog for 23,760 Bells each. They were available for download from Februto April 17, 2013. The eight Campus Stationery items are the second series of promotional items from a real company, and these were promoting the company Kokuyo Camlin. The aurora screen, which references the northern and southern lights, Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis, could be downloaded in Japan from February 1 to February 28, 2013, the entire month of February 2013. It was available for download in Japan from January 1 to January 18. The kagamimochi, meaning "mirror mochi", or "mirror rice cake", is a traditional Japanese New Year's decoration. It could be received the whole month of January 2013, from January 1 to January 31, 2013. To celebrate the sunrise of the new year, the sunrise lamp, a wall lamp, was available for download in Japan. It, along with the tree-stump chair, celebrate the Christmas holidays. ![]() The yule log was available to download in Japan from December 13 to December 25, 2012. It is one of the two current Christmas DLC items. The tree-stump chair was available to download in Japan from December 1 to December 13, 2012. The turkey was available to download in Japan from November 15 to November 22, 2012, to celebrate Thanksgiving. Unlike the normal 7-Eleven items, the clerk's shirt can be purchased from the catalog. It may or may not be related to the 7-Eleven items, however, the 24-Hour-Shop Uniform, which is also a shirt, was released at the same time. The 11th item, the clerk's shirt, was an accidental release by Nintendo, and was available on Mafor a short amount of time. The ten different items in order of distribution are: The 7-Eleven DLC series was split into two different sets, consisting of five items each, and none of the ten items are reorderable from the catalog. These items were the first promotional items based on a real company. Eleven different items were released in Japan from Decemto and could be downloaded if a player brought their 3DS to a 7-Eleven wirelessly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also if I do: print label.gettext () nothing is printed. ![]() In order to change the axis labels we use the txlabel () and tylabel () methods as in the following example. However, if try: ttext ('Foo') the tick label is not modified. A simple line plot example using Matplotlib Changing the axis labels We can change the labels and the axis values themselves. If you are stuck on an older version of matplotlib, you can still achieve the result by overlaying a scatterplot on the line plot. label () 2.label tfontsize (size) trotation ('vertical') the font size and the orientation of the tick label is changed. This last example using the markevery kwarg is possible in since 1.4+, due to the merge of this feature branch. Plt.plot(xs, ys, '-gD', markevery=markers_on, label='line with select markers') Here is a list of the possible line and marker styles: =Įdit: with an example of marking an arbitrary subset of points, as requested in the comments: import numpy as np In the example below, the following text properties are provided to the function in order to customize the label text: fontweight, color, fontsize, and horizontalalignment. You need to pass a string for the label text to the function. ![]() Specify the keyword args linestyle and/or marker in your call to plot.įor example, using a dashed line and blue circle markers: plt.plot(range(10), linestyle='-', marker='o', color='b', label='line with marker')Ī shortcut call for the same thing: plt.plot(range(10), '-bo', label='line with marker') You can customize the title of your matplotlib chart with the xlabel () and ylabel () functions. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had never had a self I was much interested in keeping and a child will give direction as well as, better than, a married professor." She writes, "Many women fear losing, in childbirth, in the daily act of mothering, autonomy, independence, selfhood. In an intriguing twist, the narrator finds this abdication of responsibility in motherhood, with its imperative to respond to her infant son's demands without thought. In this provocative debut, Popkey has gone deep inside the head of someone who is wired to make things hard for herself. The narrator is horrified - "the act itself, of course, wrong, that was indisputable, criminal even" - but wonders, "Could what the graduate student did be wrong and what I sometimes felt I wanted also be right?" What did she want? "Something to do with being chosen, something to do with release of responsibility." At a graduate school gathering in Ann Arbor, another literature student slowly spools a story of a party where no one spoke up when a TA who was known to prey on coeds carried a very drunk, inexperienced undergraduate into a spare bedroom and emerged 20 minutes later fiddling with his belt. In subsequent chapters we see this miserable young woman struggling to find the right narrative to make sense of her life as she self-medicates with alcohol and lands in dead-end jobs. Unmentioned, along with the fact that her boyfriend won't be following her to graduate school in Michigan because he's actually a married professor, is something it will take years - and a failed marriage to an "endlessly supportive" man who gets on her nerves - to face: "he fact that I instinctively hate kindness." But in this first conversation, the narrator, like the writer in Cusk's Outline trilogy, does not divulge much about herself. We'll learn much more about the narrator's shame later. The narrator absorbs all this, along with Artemisia's remarks that for women, "raised to believe that they should not desire sex," desire is often linked to shame. in a hedge maze of her own careful design."īook Reviews 'Normal People' Appeals Across Genders And Generations What she found, the narrator surmises, was security, but at the cost of being "Trapped. ![]() What she wanted, she tells the 21-year-old narrator, was a strong man who could take care of her without needing to control her. She left her first husband, she explains, after an episode of jealous, violent sex - not because she was afraid of him but because it revealed his weakness and desperation. She joins the narrator one night on their hotel suite's terrace, and, over wine and cigarettes, soliloquizes on her two marriages to older, esteemed professors. Artemisia Perez, an elegant, New York-based Argentinian psychotherapist "no older than forty-four" has hired the narrator - her daughter's friend - to accompany the family on vacation to Italy to mind her 7-year-old twin sons. The first conversation, with the mother of the narrator's college classmate, has the flavor of a Rachel Cusk interchange - which is to say, it's mostly a one-way confession. But above all, the vagaries of female desire, which for some is about a wish to be cared for, while for others takes the form of wanting to control or be controlled. Irritation with weak or overly dependent men. Female subjugation, exploitation, and humiliation. ![]() Self-sabotaging behavior, including deliberately harmful lies. What do these women talk about when they talk about love? Affairs with older professors. Her unnamed narrator, a troubled young woman, reports on a series of conversations with various other women - a classmate's mother, fellow graduate students, fellow single mothers - over a span of 17 years following her graduation from college in 2000. In Miranda Popkey's slim but potent first novel, Topics of Conversation, sex, desire, and failed relationships are ever at the fore. Not just from accused men proclaiming their innocence, but from a wave of novels (including Mary Gaitskill's This Is Pleasure, and Sally Rooney's Normal People) reminding us that relationships and female desire can be complicated and quirky. You knew it was bound to happen: the pushback against the #MeToo movement, the arguments for nuance. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Topics of Conversation Author Miranda Popkey ![]() ![]() ![]() I haven't yet tested whether Phil Harvey's updated exiftool can operate likewise on a DjVu file: Interesting to see that of the video you open the djvu file with what looks like WinDjView: Sadly my old version 9 of ABBYY FineReader can read but not write DjVu format and I'm too tight to upgrade running that program I find in its "Edit" menu a sub-item: "Add Bookmark". I haven't had to create an ebook for quite a long while but taking a random djvu file and first making a copy, I then played with the menu item and added a few specimen bookmarks - the methodology being the same as in my antique copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro, viz, place mouse cursor in location on desired page in DjVu reader's mainscreen, open the "Edit" menu, select "Add Bookmark", type in the description and OK. (WinDjView appears to save the bookmarks without being told). They allow simple modification and extraction of DjVu outlines.WinDjView also allows exporting the bookmarks it's created but I'm wondering if its a format specific to that program as opening the same djvu file in DjVuLibre's DjVu no bookmarks were visible (I'm assuming it can ordinarily read bookmarks) nor in SumatraPDF which also reads DjVu - being a portable install here maybe that affected it. Shell utility to manipulate pages of a DjVu fileĪ tool to create highly compressed djvu files with ocr, metadata, and bookmarksĭjVu encoder with foreground/background separationīookmark-djvu and bookmark-djvu-extract are YAML -enabled wrappers around DjVuLibre’s djvused tool. The goal of this program is to make easier and faster the process of creating bookmarks for DjVu and PDF documents.ĭocument viewer (PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex support with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt)) Qt based ebook reader with support for PDF, epub, djvu, fb2, comicbooks, mobi, azwĪn ebook reader supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats. Suite to create, manipulate and view DjVu ('déjà vu') documents (mingw-w64) Highly efficient DjVu encoder for black-and-white images Ocrodjvu is a wrapper for OCR systems, that allows you to perform OCR on DjVu files. ocrodjvu is a wrapper for OCR systems, that allows you to perform OCR on DjVu files. 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PDF/DJVU/TXT viewer which behaves like vi Python DJVU to PDF (djvu2pdf) converter which preserves OCR text and bookmarks (table of contents) ![]() An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devicesĬsBooks is the best epub reader, pdf reader, mobi book reader and djvu readerĬsBooks is the best epub reader, pdf reader, mobi book reader and djvu reader.Ī small script to convert DjVu files to PDF files ![]() ![]() ![]() Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. 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Humidity 39 UV Index 5 of 10 Sunrise 5:40 am Sunset 8:04 pm Sat 13 Night 56° N 9 mph Cloudy skies early, then. Not all restaurants allow you to enter wearing shorts. What to wear in the summer in New YorkĮven if the heat makes you feel like wearing shorts and flip-flops, there are a few things to remember: Flip-flops are not the most comfortable choice for walking around the city. This is especially crucial for children and if you are taking one of the New York sightseeing cruises. Windiest day is expected to see wind of up to 27. Most precipitation falling will be 3.30 mm / 0.13 inch on Wed 31. It’s important to stay hydrated and wear plenty of sunscreen. Min temperature will be 8c / 47f on Thu 18. ![]() Summer in New York begins in mid-June and it can get really hot, tropical even. Best to keep the weather forecast in check. You’ll still need a coat for sure and I might even pack an umbrella too. In April, usually, you’ll already have warmer days. In March it can still get chilly and you might need a warm coat. The early spring might be one of the trickiest seasons to pack for. Spring in New York begins in mid-March and lasts until the middle of June. A Broadway Musical is a great way to spend the evening warm. For evenings, nothing beats a sports game in Madison Square Garden (indoors!) like the Rangers or the Knicks. Hop on Hop off bus is a good choice for sightseeing and you can visit one of the many museums. On those days, I like to plan a mix of indoor activities. The wind can be brutal and New Yorkers often talk about the wind chill factor which can make -5c temperatures feel like -15c. Don’t forget gloves, a hat and good winter boots especially if it snows.Įric’s Tip: It can get really cold in New York in January and February. It really helps when you’re sightseeing and spending time outdoors and indoors where the heaters are blasting. Not sure what to wear in New York? The secret to enjoying New York in the winter months is to wear layers. This is when you are most likely to see snow in New York, perhaps even a blizzard which often brings everything in the city, including your flight if you’re very unlucky, to a halt! What to wear in the winter The coldest months of the year and when the real winter usually arrives are in January and February. In December it’s not yet full-blown winter and contrary to what the movies show, it rarely snows on Christmas in New York. Winter in New York begins in mid-December and lasts until the middle of March. 5.1 What to wear in the autumn in New York.4.1 What to wear in the summer in New York.(Weather station: New York City - Central Park, USA). 3.1 What to wear in the spring in New York New York 14 Day Extended Forecast DST Changes Weather Today Weather Hourly 14 Day Forecast Yesterday/Past Weather Climate (Averages) Currently: 61 F.US Open Tennis Championship: You can buy tickets online to this grand slam tournament that attracts the world's top tennis players to the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens during the first week of September.Here, you can gorge yourself on authentic Italian treats and learn more about Italian-American culture. ![]() Feast of San Gennaro:You can't walk through Little Italy in September without running into the Feast of San Gennaro.The Vendys: This is an annual street food competition that pits the best street food vendors in New York City against each other in a delicious competition on Governors Island.NYC Broadway Week: Every September, Broadway shows become much more accessible with two-for-one tickets during NYC Broadway Week.Watch live streaming video and stay updated on New York news. Many of the runway shows and pop-up exhibits are open to the public and you can find tickets on the event's official website. ABC7 is your source for breaking news from New York City and the surrounding neighborhoods. New York Fashion Week: During the second week of September, New York City streets fill up with models, designers, bloggers, fashion editors, and other style enthusiasts. ![]() Labor Day: Labor Day is a federal holiday that is always observed on the first Monday of September and while many New Yorkers leave the city for the three-day weekend, you can attend events in towns, such as the West Indian Day Parade, sometimes called the Labor Day Carnival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ivacy is among the top-tier VPNs in the industry. ![]() Get Ivacy VPN What features do you get with Ivacy? Just check out our Ivacy speed test blog for all the details. By the way, while we’re talking about speed, let me tell you that Ivacy is super fast. 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Taking shape more than a century ago in the African-American street procession known as the “second line,” wherein dancing revelers form a second line behind the musicians, New Orleans brass bands thrive on interaction with the crowd. As the musicians chanted the song’s titular question, the crowd quickly joined in, and after a few moments the policeman backed off.Īlthough the performances inside the festival gates draw most of the press coverage, it is in the streets that the New Orleans brass band tradition finds its most becoming context. ![]() The song is effectively tailor-made for such confrontations, which are frequent in a city where musicians and legislators have fought over the right to perform in public spaces for well over a century. When the group ignored his order and the police officer angrily made a throat-slashing gesture, the band struck into “Who Dat Call Da Police?” a song originally recorded by local rapper Kilo in 1998 that was later adapted by the New Birth Brass Band and has emerged over the past decade as a brass band standard. As the crowd expanded into the road, a police officer approached and sharply signaled for the band to cease playing. I joined the growing crowd surrounding the band, whose cowbell-led second line rhythms inspired kinesthetic dancing from a couple of middle-aged locals and a youth of about 6 or 7. With some 100,000 people just then emerging from the gates of the Fair Grounds, it was a wise time to be playing on the street. ![]() There, in front of the headquarters of local radio station WBOK 1230 AM, the To Be Continued (TBC) Brass Band was playing for tips. In this state of jubilation, the group would then march back to the location of their reception.Ī symbol of life, a symbol of death and a symbol of re-birth, the New Orleans jazz funeral salutes a life well lived and the passage of a departed soul into a better world.As I left the Fair Grounds Race Course after my first day at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, I heard the familiar sound of a brass band emanating from the corner of Fortin and Gentilly Street. The music and dancing were both a cathartic release for mourners and a celebration of a life well lived. The brass band would then launch into upbeat dance music with tambourines and drums. ![]() People on the streets where the march passed were welcome to join in and go along with the mourners to the cemetery. After the memorial service, the march would proceed to the cemetery and the tone would remain somber until the coffin had been placed in the ground or until the group was out of sight of the church. During the march, the coffin may have been carried by a horse-drawn hearse and was accompanied by a brass band playing somber dirges and hymns. A typical funeral began with a slow march from the home of the deceased to the church or designated memorial service site. Historically, the New Orleans jazz funeral could last up to a week and sometimes even included a parade. In American culture, this type of funeral caught on especially among the African- American population. The call-and-response style of music and chant, coupled with tambourines, drums and dancing were elements of African funeral ceremonies which crossed the seas with the captive slaves. The music and dancing of the jazz funeral were intended to both help the deceased find their way to heaven and to celebrate the final release from the hardship and bounds of earthly life. Although the upbeat music and dancing has, historically, flown in the face of prevailing sentiments about the required solemnity of the traditional memorial service, the New Orleans jazz funeral grew throughout the 20th century to achieve its own respected standing among the many ways to commemorate the passage of a loved one. The jazz funeral tradition grew to become New Orleans’ most honored of funeral ceremonies, with horse-drawn hearses and parades, well-known musicians and other pillars of the community. ![]() |
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