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Lynne Slepian perseveres ten years later : Home: The Buffalo News

Lynne Slepian perseveres ten years later : Home: The Buffalo News: "“I hope my boys understand more about what their father stood for,” she said. “While none have chosen their father’s profession, they all believe strongly in a woman’s right for choice.

“And that their father didn’t die in vain.”"

Telindus - Home Page

Telindus - Home Page

Jammin’ in the East Room - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Jammin’ in the East Room - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims - CNN.com

Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims - CNN.com

Mathieu Badimon | FIVe3D

Mathieu Badimon | FIVe3D

Papervision3D: Dynamic TrueType Font Loading - com.zavoo.labs

Papervision3D: Dynamic TrueType Font Loading - com.zavoo.labs

3D Perlin noise in Flash | Seb Lee-Delisle

3D Perlin noise in Flash | Seb Lee-Delisle

Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Optimizing Perlin Noise

Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog: Optimizing Perlin Noise

Flash8 Perlin Wood Texture | connectedpixel.com

Flash8 Perlin Wood Texture | connectedpixel.com

Perlin noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Perlin noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

pv3d.org ARCHIVE ? Blog Archive ? Understanding Papervision3D: Matrix3D

pv3d.org ARCHIVE ? Blog Archive ? Understanding Papervision3D: Matrix3D

trace(myBitmapdata); ? Blog Archive ? Away3D Fog filter tutorial

trace(myBitmapdata); ? Blog Archive ? Away3D Fog filter tutorial

Flash Tutorials | Away3D tutorials roundup | Lemlinh.com

Flash Tutorials | Away3D tutorials roundup | Lemlinh.com

Pimp My Swine Flu Mask | Guanabee

Pimp My Swine Flu Mask | Guanabee

::CraftyChica™ - Kathy Cano-Murillo::

::CraftyChica™ - Kathy Cano-Murillo::

- Hospital Food -

- Hospital Food -

Keep Six Contemporary

Keep Six Contemporary

Adobe Flex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Adobe Flex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ActionScript language migration | Adobe Developer Connection

ActionScript language migration | Adobe Developer Connection

Adobe Developer Connection

Adobe Developer Connection

Injured Woman Wins Wal-Mart Saga - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog

Injured Woman Wins Wal-Mart Saga - Well - Tara Parker-Pope - Health - New York Times Blog

Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path - New York Times

Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path - New York Times: "In a society where until quite recently premarital sex was often punished, the issue of single motherhood has been slow to enter the public arena. But now, a new awareness of the issue is raising questions about the status of women in China. And the debate is also stretching to other areas of citizens’ rights, including the most basic societal tenets like the hukou, or residency permit, a central tool of population control passed down from the Maoist era that restricts movement by linking people to the towns of their birth."

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Sterling Hundley Lecture

Sterling Hundley Lecture«
Wednesday, March 12, 7 pm

San Francisco campus
Boardroom

Sterling Hundley graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1998. While still a student, he received national acclaim through the Society of Illustrators professional show and student scholarship competition. During the summers of 1998 and 1999, he attended the Illustration Academy in Kansas City.

Sterling's work has appeared regularly in the pages of the major annuals, including Communication Arts, American Illustration, PRINT, Los Angeles Society of Illustrators, Step by Step Graphics, Society of Publication Designers, and New York Society of Illustrators. Sterling has been awarded a silver medal from the Society of Illustrators, New York, as well as gold and silver medals from the Illustrators Club in Washington DC. His clients of note include Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, the Atlantic Monthly, Grammys, GQ, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the LA Times, HarperCollins, Penguin/Putnam, Scholastic, UPS, and Virginia Living Magazine.

In the 2002–3 academic year, Sterling served as a visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He spends his summers teaching full time at the Illustration Academy. He lives in Brooklyn and is represented internationally by Shannon Associates.

Read more and view his work at www.sterlinghundley.com.

Adobe - Flex 3

Adobe - Flex 3: "Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, developers can use Adobe? Flex? Builder™ 3 software to dramatically accelerate development. Try Flex Builder 3 free for 60 days."

Clinton spent big for rooms on Strip; Obama workers stayed with backers - Las Vegas Sun

Clinton spent big for rooms on Strip; Obama workers stayed with backers - Las Vegas Sun: "The tabs at such hotels as the Bellagio and the Four Seasons aren’t meaningless: Clinton faces an emerging financial disadvantage against her rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, in the run-up to must-win contests in Ohio and Texas.

The gap came to bear in Wisconsin, where Obama outspent Clinton by a ratio of 5-to-1 on TV advertising in Tuesday’s primary and won by 17 percentage points.

The Clinton campaign spent at least $264,133 in Nevada during January, 47 percent of which went for travel and lodging."

Hillary Clinton on Abortion

Hillary Clinton on Abortion

hillary 4 choice buttons

One can purchase the buttons and magnets and coffee mugs and other swag online.

Some Inspiration:
i was listening to Jack Ohman, The Oregonian’s political cartoonist, and he said Hillary’s hair was the hardest to draw, so that was something i wanted to have fun with.

Ohman said she was a changeling because of her different looks/styles, offering this as a reason for the challenges artists face when drawing her. He also noted that some of his peers draw her like a dump truck… he believes there’s better ways to editorialize than to attack her figure.

i agree.

Montara Map

Montara Map

Montara is a quiet and serene residential community of about 2,500 people located just south of Devil's Slide on Highway One. Most residents commute to San Francisco or other bay area workplaces. The town is an interesting mix of cottages, larger family homes, oceanfront property and estate homes with acerage on rustic narrow streets with "natural" landscaping. Montara State Beach has pristine white sand where you'll see surfers and be able to whale watch! Montara is "A Magical Place"! With Montara Mountain to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the west, it is seemingly untouched by time.

Demonstrating, once again, his contempt for the needs of poor women and families around the world, President Bush is calling on Congress to slash funding for overseas family planning programs by $134 million (or 29 percent) from the current level of $461 million.

Sadly, U.S. contributions to international family planning programs have been woefully inadequate over the past decade. Indeed, today, our nation is contributing significantly less than it did 14 years ago. The need, though, is increasing. As you may know, there are 6.7 billion people in the world today. By 2050, that number is projected to range from below 8 billion -- if we act now to make family planning and contraceptives available to the hundreds of millions of women who lack access to them -- to nearly 12 billion.

With this growing population comes a growing demand for family planning services. In fact, there are some 200 million women in the developing world who would like to delay or prevent pregnancy but lack access to safe, effective contraceptives, and the demand for contraceptives is projected to increase by 40 percent over the next 15 years.

Family planning benefits everyone, and few investments promise so high a return. It improves the health of women and children, economic and social conditions of communities and countries, and the environment.

In addition, the president today requested that Congress increase funding for discredited and dangerous abstinence-only programs targeted at young Americans. These programs have been found to be ineffective at reducing adolescent sexual activity and preventing teen pregnancy. Numerous evaluations have also found that federally funded abstinence-only programs are riddled with misinformation.

The president's proposal is the first step in a long budget process on Capitol Hill, and you can help ensure that these draconian cuts are rejected, and that Congress works to increase the funding for these programs. Please be on the lookout in the coming days for ways you can help.





Population Connection depends on your support.

new york *chicago* san francisco

feel like raghu tonight?

those ems and ens

i keep getting asked about ems and ens and pixels. 72 points in an inch...so 72 ems in an inch... pixels, that's another story. I tend to use pixels, then again, I like to control the look as much as possible, which is why i use flash as much as i can get away with.

An “em” is a unit of measurement defined as the point size of the font—12 point type uses a 12 point “em.” An “en” is one-half of an “em.”

Though some of the finer points in the rules are complex, their basic applications are clear-cut and their misuse easily identifiable. First, neither an em dash nor an en dash should be confused with the hyphen (-), which is used to join compound words together.

The correct use of em and en

The em dash (—) is used to indicate a sudden break in thought (“I was thinking about writing a—what time did you say the movie started?”), a parenthetical statement that deserves more attention than parentheses indicate, or instead of a colon or semicolon to link clauses. It is also used to indicate an open range, such as from a given date with no end yet (as in “Peter Sheerin [1969—] authored this document.”), or vague dates (as a stand-in for the last two digits of a four-digit year).

Two adjacent em dashes (a 2-em dash) are used to indicate missing letters in a word (“I just don’t f——ing care about 3.0 browsers”).

Three adjacent em dashes (a 3-em dash) are used to substitute for the author’s name when a repeated series of works are presented in a bibliography, as well as to indicate an entire missing word in the text.

The en dash (–) is used to indicate a range of just about anything with numbers, including dates, numbers, game scores, and pages in any sort of document.

It is also used instead of the word “to” or a hyphen to indicate a connection between things, including geographic references (like the Mason–Dixon Line) and routes (such as the New York–Boston commuter train).

It is used to hyphenate compounds of compounds, where at least one pair is already hyphenated (as in “Netscape 6.1 is an Open-Source–based browser.”). The Chicago Manual of style also states that it should be used “Where one of the components of a compound adjective contains more than one word,” instead of a hyphen (as in “Netscape 6.1 is an Open Source–based browser”). Both of these rules are for clarity in indicating exactly what is being modified by the compound.

Other sources also specify the use of an en dash when referring to joint authors, as in the “Bose–Einstein” paper. Some also prefer it to a hyphen when text is set in all capital letters.

Some typographers prefer to use an en dash surrounded by full spaces instead of an em dash. Others prefer to insert hair spaces on either side of the em dash, but this is problematic with some web browsers.

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What to Use?

Once you've decided not to use points for your screen style sheets, you need to decide what unit of measure to use. There are two rules of thumb.

Accessibility
If accessibility is your biggest concern, then you should use ems. Ems are sized so that the font size is relative to the parent element. In the case of most Web pages, this is the body element - and so the font is sized relative to the standard size of the browser.

Using ems as your font size measurement ensures that your pages will be accessible to most browsers and platforms. Plus, if your readers choose to change the default font size on the fly, your page will scale to that new size.

The problem with ems is that you lose control over the exact look of your page. Some people may have a much larger or smaller default size than you are used to, and with ems, your fonts will scale relative to that size. This can result in strange font sizes.

Control
If control over the look of your Web page is your biggest concern, then you should use pixels. Pixels are the standard unit of measure for screens and monitors, and fonts will be more precisely the size you want on the screen.

Pixels are the measure of resolution, and the resolution of your customers' monitors can affect the readability of your type. For example, most Windows machines are set at 96 dpi, while most Macintosh machines are set at 72 dpi. So, a font set at 72px will be 1 inch (approximately) tall on a Macintosh and three quarters of an inch tall on a Windows machine. Also, some OS's (most often Linux and Unix) can make fonts extremely jagged and hard to read if they try to scale the font sizes from the pixel sizes embedded on the OS.
Know Your Audience

If you're catering to an older audience, then ems and a larger font size will be more important. If most of your audience browses on a Macintosh and you're designing on Windows, then beware of really small fonts. Decide which is more important, control or accessibility, and use the measure that's right for you.

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i saw another ani concert! a center seat at the warfield, which is quite a beautiful place on the inside. i sketched the theatre quickly between acts and someone with an amazing mohawk.
i loved her new material and her return to a more subtle sound. here's two examples of songs she preformed:





the drive home was bad... dense fog and another serious accident on the slide before emergency vehicles arrived. i managed to slowly get around, but something hit me as i skirted around a disabled SUV and the cliff that drops to the ocean. this is the 6th or 7th time i've been at the slide just after an accident occurred. at least i didn't hafta sleep in my car. delays on the slide can last hours.

it seems like i work over every holiday these days. though last year i managed to build stuff for symantec, rent condos at mammoth and ski on Memorial day weekend and the July 4th holiday. no luck this year... no snow. work work work. code code code. like a good little monkey.... or in this case a woman with a bird on her head?

but i wanna draw!!!!! i've taken to drawing in traffic now. always in abundance! i'll post some more drawings soon.

people who know me, know i've been trying to grow a beard/mustache for years. hey! they even came up with a product that rhymes with my name to promote hair growth. this would be a nice start. i've always lit up when speaking about vincent. too bad they're sold out.

perhaps working 'round the clock, trying to meet deadlines has done it... but i've lost my voice, and my ear is begging to be cut off... again. a mustache could go a long way in countering that! an amusing distraction! i've done several pieces on this concept... the ear thing. sans le mustache. this is one of 'em.

A good article on the fire. Another family I know who lost their home is mentioned. Built a website for Squaw and worked on many more Tahoe sites at the time... good news/ironic is the Angora Lookout was saved. at least that's what i've heard, rumors tend to fly in small, tight communities like tahoe. I've been affiliated with the Tahoe Heritage Foundation for several years and they've been restoring the Lookout (for spotting wildfires). The fire started in the Seneca Pond area, locals say by a fisherman with a cigarette. Officals say by human cause. View from echo summit, looking towards the angora ridge and off towards the burn area.