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China Mieville's London: the (authentic) city and the (banks and surveillance) city
Ex-Grand Junction inn owner in court over wife's 1997 killing
VueScan 9.0.85 - Scanner software with advanced features.. (Demo)
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Posted: 04 Mar 2012 12:00 AM PST

Defending Monster Energy Supercross champ Ryan Villopoto scored his fifth victory of the season in St. Louis following another flawless performance.

China Mieville's London: the (authentic) city and the (banks and surveillance) city

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 02:05 AM PST

Writing in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, China Mieville blazingly describes two Londons: an exuberant, organic place that has been lived and built over and remade, bursting with energy and vitality; and a fearful, banker-driven collection of megaprojects and guard labour, where billions of pounds can be found to surround the Olympics with snipers and legions of police, but nothing can be found for the library on the corner, where the center of town is being purged of anyone but the super-rich, and where rioting has nothing to do with stop-and-search powers and poverty, and is the result of mere "pure criminality."

The Olympics are slated to cost taxpayers $14.7 billion. In this time of "austerity," youth clubs and libraries are being shut down as expendable fripperies; this expenditure, though, is not negotiable. The uprisen young of London, participants in extraordinary riots that shook the country last summer, do the math. "Because you want to host the Olympics, yeah," one participant told researchers, "so your country can look better and be there, we should suffer."
This is a city where buoyed-up audiences yell advice to young boxers in Bethnal Green's York Hall, where tidal crowds of football fans commune in raucous rude chants, where fans adopt local heroes to receive Olympic cheers. It's not sport that troubles those troubled by the city's priorities.
Mike Marqusee, writer and activist, has been an East London local and a sports fan for decades. American by birth, he nonetheless not only understands and loves cricket, of all things, but even wrote a book about it. He's excited to see the track and field when it arrives up the road from him in July. Still, he was, and remains, opposed to the coming of the Olympics. "For the reasons that've all been confirmed," he says. "These mega-events in general are bad for the communities where they take place, they do not provide long-term employment, they are very exploitative of the area."
Stratford sightseers are funneled into prescribed walkways; going off-piste is vigorously discouraged. The "access routes," the enormous structures are neurotically planned and policed. For the area to be other than a charnel ground of Ozymandian skeletons in 30 years, it will have to develop like a living thing. That means beyond the planners', beyond any, preparations.

'Oh, London, You Drama Queen' (via Making Light)

Ex-Grand Junction inn owner in court over wife's 1997 killing

Posted: 04 Mar 2012 01:13 AM PST

An English poker champion is facing murder charges in Garfield County District Court - more than 14 years after he allegedly killed his wife in western Colorado.

VueScan 9.0.85 - Scanner software with advanced features.. (Demo)

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PST

VueScan is a scanning program that works with most high-quality flatbed and film scanners to produce scans that have excellent color fidelity and color balance. VueScan is easy to use, and has advanced features for restoring faded colors, batch scanning and other features used by professional photographers.

Why should you use VueScan?

Easy to use - just run VueScan, press Preview, adjust the cropping, then press Scan
Accurate colors - uses ICC profiles and IT8 calibration
Powerful - dozens of advanced options
Faster workflow - can edit one image while the next image is being scanned (most scanner software won't let you work with one image while another is being scanned)
Simple to install - installing VueScan changes nothing on your system, installs nothing in your operating system and all other scanner software will continue to function.
Award winning - 2002 "Best Utility", Mac Addict Magazine

The list of supported scanners is available here

The list of supported digital camera RAW files is available here.

You can improve your Optical Character Recognition (OCR) results if you download a dictionary containing common US English, French, Dutch and UK English words. Put this file (vuedict.dat) in the same directory as the VueScan program. You can choose the language using the "Output|OCR text language" option.

Version 9.0.85:

Improved infrared cleaning
Fixed problem with some crashes

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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GraphicConverter 7.6.2 - Graphics editor with powerful features.. (Shareware)

Posted: 03 Mar 2012 08:59 PM PST

GraphicConverter is an all-purpose image editing program that can import 200 different graphic-based formats, edit the image, and export it out of 80 file available file formats.

The high-end editing tools are perfect for graphic manipulation as well as the ability to use Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. It offers batch-conversion capabilities, a slide show window, and so much more.

Version 7.6.2:

New features:

added Equalizer
added support for IptcCore contact data (single images and browser)
added browsing of versions (10.7 or later)
added indicator for display of images with unapplied XMP changes (used by Lightroom)
added tiled display as option to slideshow
zoom with trackpad during slideshow added
added font preview in font popup
added option to start slideshow with offset
added toggle margins option to catalog printing
added shortcuts option + delete and control + delete to align bounds during unskew
added keyword count to iptc dialog
added move to and copy to command to context menu of the browser
added import of themepack archives
added a workaround for a bug in a Lion call during display an icns

Updated features:

added preview checkbox to operator
added shortcut for Xe847 filter
improved Xe847 gui

Bug fixes:

fixed possible bug with the regions in the clipboard on 10.7
fixed Xe847 note after next/previous image
fixed bug in tga save as options
fixed crash during export of slideshow as movie
fixed bug with openstreetmap
many small bug fixes

Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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