Have you ever poured all your creativity into a Flash movie, but found your friends grumbling at the download size? Have you tried to use just one tiny picture in your movie, and seen the file size go through the roof? Is it possible to do anything remotely effective in a small file? More than you could possibly imagine! This collection shows you just exactly what can be done with tiny Flash files, using some of the hottest Flash designers around. These authors pull designs out of the top drawer and show you exactly how you can go about creating great SWFs with the smallest amount of download pain. We will look at: creating incredible generative designs -- so small you can use them for wallpaper producing 3D animations that roll in at under 5k in size creating sound toys in the smallest possible file space de-mystifying the use of JPEGs and photographs while keeping your Flash movies small strategic use of back-end technology to keep your delivery times down to nanoseconds! changing the boundaries to look at new ways of delivering entire sites! From the Publisher Who is this book for You've worked with Flash, but are wondering why people are getting tetchy at the download time. You're willing to start learning some ActionScript tricks to fight the file flab, and you're not afraid to become addicted to optimization! About the Author Genevieve Garand Conceived 3weeksinApril.com, an experimental web site that explores new ways of navigation and features an engaging narrative. David Hirmes is a Flash developer living in Brooklyn, New York. Kip Parker Works through his own company Hi-Rise Limited and in collaboration with Anthony Burrill as Friendchip, which was established in 1998. Keith Peters Found Flash to be the ideal medium for creating graphics with code. Robert Reich lives in Hamburg, Germany. Flash became his favourite besides normal HTML and serverside driven website creation. He is working as freelancer for several firms. Roy Tanck Currently employed in Hilversum, as part of a team that creates innovative e-learning solutions. Within this environment, Flash is a great tool.

'A very good guide to the state we're in' Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books 'A well-written, thought-provoking book by one of America's leading economic thinkers and progressive champions.' Huffington Post Do you recall a time when the income of a single schoolteacher or baker or salesman or mechanic was enough to buy a home, have two cars, and raise a family? Robert Reich does - in the 1950s his father sold clothes to factory workers and the family earnt enough to live comfortably. Today, this middle class is rapidly shrinking: American income inequality and wealth disparity is the greatest it's been in eighty years. As Reich, who served in three US administrations, shows, the threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability. With an exclusive chapter for Icon's edition, Saving Capitalism is passionate yet practical, sweeping yet exactingly argued, a revelatory indictment of the economic status quo and an empowering call to action.

Attractive couple, Joan and Tom Brent, have retired to a charming new house in a charming Cape Cod town. Joan, as a self-designated sophisticated ex-New Yorker, finds herself in conflict with local citizens whom she considers vulgarians, and whom they consider to be an outsider troublemaker. Joan's dream of an idyllic rustic retirement begins to seriously fall apart when a fire destroys their new home. Thus begins the unraveling of their idyllic lives. Tom, stressed out, suffers a stroke that renders him a helpless invalid. Joan, distraught, turns to alcohol and prescription drugs, resulting in her incarceration against her will in a rehab clinic. With all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy, the story proceeds to a devastating heartbreaking brutal conclusion.

The honeymoon death by drowning of Sheila Moran in the company of her husband for which there is no immediate forthcoming explanation is the intriguing opening of "Philly Moran." Mysterious circumstances surround the incident while the two are sail-ing off the coast of Kusadasi, Turkey. But the unexplained event is merely the subtext of a tragic love story between Sheila, a socially prominent golden girl, and her husband Philly, a high school dropout suitor, a young man of much charm, sexual attractiveness and high ambition who achieves a multi-millionaire status before obtaining the object of his affection. The novel deals essentially with the fate of these two people, a man of humble origin determined to succeed, and a privileged woman's effort to achieve recog-nition on her own terms. The mystery of Sheila Moran's death is ultimately uncovered in the last chapter, and the resultant consequences are moving and tragic for both.

A talented classical flute player (flautist), name of Kruger, married with two small children, is drawn to and ultimately seduced by an older man of the world, rich, sophisticated and elegant Charles DuLong, a music impresario who can help Kruger in his career. Kruger's wife Sara, heartbroken and dismayed, throws her husband out. In time, she meets a new man, another talented musician by the name of Claude who wins her heart. Meanwhile, Kruger wants to come back to her and the children. Sara is torn between Kruger and her new lover who has been offered a symphony chair in Berlin, and wants her and the children to join him there, a very large decision which she is hesitant to make. When it turns out that Sara is pregnant with Claude's child, and undecided about her feelings toward Kruger, she cannot tell either man, but chooses to have an abortion as her only alternative. A somewhat demented anti-abortion activist intervenes outside the abortion clinic, with tragic results for all involved. The story is a new twist on gay culture, though it is much more than that, having to do with the human heart and love's confusions.

"Fear No Eagle" is a romantic love story of literary quality that addresses the matter of a modern woman's ability to surmount the most difficult circumstances of her life, her courage and ultimate triumph in the face of many trials, including abandonment as a child, orphanage institutionalization, molestation by a priest, abuse by a farm family that has taken her in as a servant, her escape to New York, the not inconsiderable struggle to overcome demons of her own, flight from a crazed stalker, and romantic tribulations with an indecisive lover. There are some very funny scenes, as well as brutal moments in this novel. There is a shooting, a killing. There are parts of the novel that are poignant, absolutely guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes. The story moves back and forth in time and to various locations, some by the romantic seaside, some to a life of career advancement and romance in New York, some to the dark origins and abandonment and loneliness of childhood years, all adding up to a complex, inspirational and suspenseful experience that keeps the reader turning pages.

"Between the Two Great Wars" is an epic novel - the story of a young soldier in World War I who following several hair-raising adventures (one in the accompaniment of Ernest Hemingway) returns home ambitious to make his way in the world from the humblest beginnings to quite considerable achievements, including wealth, community prominence, marriage to a beautiful girl, and the birth of a son. He lives through the prohibition era, the flapper era, the 1919 flu epidemic, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the stock market crash of 1929, the depression years, meanwhile becoming involved in several sexual liaisons. Conflict develops as the novel progresses to the beginning of World War II when the son, against his father's wishes. volunteers for military duty. Two strong characters who love each other ultimately must find a way to come to terms.

"Bad Girl" is the tragic story of Lara, a lower middle class girl of unusual beauty and naivete whose obsessive quest for a pop culture romantic life leads her into a series of sexual relationships, first, with her fellow high school students, later, with her high school phys ed instructor, then the companionship of a rough group of dopers, and finally into an abortive career as a call girl. She gradually disintegrates into periods of drug-induced obliviousness, at one point finding herself the object of an attempted gang-rape, left abandoned by the roadside. What happens after that is the sad finale to a young girl's romantic aspirations. Sympathy for Lara is sustained as we observe her self-destructive behavior. The story has some explicit sexual scenes which are not gratuitous, but develop in the course of the youth's misdirected aspirations.

"The P.R. Guy" is a comic novel in which a lay-about young narrator running out of unemployment insurance checks reluctantly takes a job as a Junior Account Executive in a P.R. firm that has as its client Alexander's Department store. When the narrator is enticed by a sexy banana heiress into joining a group of left-wing anarchists who regularly picket in front of Alexander's he finds himself in a bit of a quandary. Adding to his perplexity, the banana heiress turns out to be a lesbian and a hooker. Other members of the lefty group include a poet who speaks only in olde English, a stay-at-home husband whose wife supports his horse betting habit, a postal worker (who goes berserk and shoots up the Post Office), a con man who works in the same Alexander's stealing from the cash register, and the leader of the group, a commie apparatchik who tries to leap off the Brooklyn Bridge after Kruschev denounces Stalin. At Alexander's the narrator must deal with a stern female executive who demands sexual favors before approving his P.R. copy. Also on the scene is a gorgeous German aristocrat lady who spent the war years as a guest of Franco, and the narrator's boss who spends his days in the office splattering paint over abstract expressionist paintings. Underneath the craziness there is a sober and serious intent.

These new and selected poems by Robert Riche are a delight - not just because they welcome and invite the reader inside, but they reach out with humanity, sometimes with sadness, other times with rollicking good humor and wit. The collection is varied, encompassing nature, mortality, the grief of warfare, and the ordinary events of everyday life. "Robert Riche's poems are a fine blend of lyricism and accessibility, romance and humor, historical perspective and a glimpse of the interior life of a 20th, now 21st, century man and poet. Riche writes about ideas and core truths, always with a subtle and graceful touch. He confronts politics, love, mortality, and our foibles and frailties between. What he doesn't do is fall prey to naval gazing, sentimentality, or trendy word acrobatics. When you finish reading a Robert Riche poem, you feel, well, richer for the experience, spoken to and satisfied. You sense that something important has been revealed. What else could you want of a poet?" - Connie Everett, Publisher/Editor Pudding Magazine "Robert Riche's poems gird us against a world largely devoid of the poetic. His tender, mature, and unrestrained writing acknowledges the ragged edges of the everyday." - John Smelcer, Assoc. Publisher and Poetry Editor Rosebud Magazine. "Most of us see old age as the end of the parade, a finality. Robert Riche's collection of poems disabuses us of this notion by exploring one's senior years in an active and completely unique way. The divergence of children's paths in life, some curmudgeonly observations about hugging and even the ageing of a favorite pet have their place here in this wonderful collection of poetry." -- Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Editor-in-Chief Quill and Parchment, 7 time Pushcart Prize nominee

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Calfiornia was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus.
This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown writings offers insight and perspective into the disruptive yet nonviolent civil disobedience tactics used by Savio. "The Essential Mario Savio" is the perfect introduction to an American icon and to one of the most important social movements of the post-war period in the United States.

"Monty Karel" is an introduction to computer programming for novices. It uses the Python programming language to introduce the principles of dynamic object-oriented programming. It is the latest version in the "Karel The Robot" series, originally developed by Richard Pattis. It is a true successor to the original, emphasizing problem solving in a simple but "Turing Complete" and interesting virtual world.

"Monty Karel" stresses problem solving rather than language syntax. It has been shown to be an effective learning environment for novice programmers. A student able to do the exercises in this book, or one of its companions, is truly on his or her way to a deep understanding of programming.

Learn to write sophisticated Python code in a few weeks. It is not a comprehensive treatment of Python, but emphasizes problem solving using objects, writing classes, and developing skill in algorithmic and polymorphic thinking. It goes beyond thinking of computing as just "if" and "while."

The advantages pointed out by reviewers of the earlier "Karel J Robot" apply to this version as well:

"Karel J Robot" is an excellent introduction to modern computer science, without letting students get overwhelmed by the details of a programming language (even though it is real Java). KJR provides a framework for understanding Object-Oriented Programming from the very beginning. Students are encouraged to develop problem-solving skills by producing projects that solve very complex problems with a relatively small set of tools.
Don Slater, Carnegie-Mellon University

I have been successfully introducing students in grades 9 through 12 to programming using Karel for the past twenty years and "Karel J Robot" is the most effective version yet. Students love it They find principles of OOP (class design, constructors, methods, inheritance, polymorphism) come naturally to them, even before they learn about control structures. They discover recursive solutions without ever being taught recursion. Best of all, Karel is gender neutral --- both girls and boys are so involved and excited that I have to push them out the door and on to their next class when the period ends.
Kathy Larson, Kingston High School, Kingston New York

"Karel J Robot: A Gentle Introduction to the Art of Object-Oriented Programming in Java" takes you on a well-sequenced and thoughtful journey through the essential concepts in a first semester computer science course. Experience computer science at the level that it is most inspiring - the conceptual level. The visual environment will help you teach and your students learn because everyone will have immediate visual feedback, enabling them to see what they are doing. You will leave the Karel world with a deep understanding of polymorphism, inheritance, abstraction, modularization, and step-wise refinement, to name just a few topics. If you are an AP Computer Science teacher, you have just found the perfect guide to help ensure you do not lose sight of the forest (i.e., computer science) through the trees (i.e., the details of the language).
Dave Wittry, Troy High School

"Karel J Robot" provides an uncluttered setting for laying the foundation for all of the key OO concepts. The perfect "starter" for understanding objects, OO design and OO programming.
Michael Goldweber, Xavier University

Title: The epistles of Mr. Robert Rich to the seven churches: (so called by him) viz, 1. To the Roman Catholick, 2. the Episcopal Protestant, 3. the Presbyterian, 4. the Independent, 5. the Anabaptist, 6. the Quaker, 7. the Church of the First-Born: containing his testimony to God's approbation of the good, and aversion to the evil in all persuasions: together with an abstract of a letter of the authors, declaring his gift, or benevolence, sent to each of the said churches.Author: Robert RichPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02925200CollectionID: CTRG99-B757PublicationDate: 16800101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: "The Presbyterian, the Independent, the Anabaptist in one ternary." "Published by particular direction given by the author in his life-time."Collation: 18], 116 p

"Brock Downsized" - the story When the prostheses and condom manufacturing factory where Bill Brock has been Communications Manager goes belly-up Brock finds himself out on the street. In this comic but ultimately serious novel, Brock is obliged to take up the somewhat undignified role of wedding videogra pher. At the same time he is suddenly faced with a series of mid-life setbacks. His prostate goes floppy down, and the jolly, high-spirited doctors pre scribe every type of wrong medication, while at the same time the nutty sexy wife of his nutty psychiatrist tries to seduce him, his aged father is dying in a nursing home, his nextdoor neigh bor draws him unwittingly into a kiddyporn ring, and his artist son is implicated as a terrorist storing fertilizer and metal bomb parts in the family's backyard, while his daughter's infatuation with a married man is about to drive him crazy. After all this, and quite a bit more, Brock finds himself, one could say, a bit discomfitted. Brock's spirit is indomitable, however, as he flounders about attempting to gain control over his life. The humor is laugh-out-loud comical, and yet the book has moments that are often deeply moving, while eschewing false sentimentality.

The Whispers Of Angels was written as a two-part guide for greater inspirational living. The first part is written in modern-day parables for greater understanding of what "whispers" look like in real-life form. The second part was compiled to help bring out the readers powers of intuition and creativity to allow for expansion of the spiritual genius patiently waiting to be released. The author states, "God's work is the creation of all things good. Man's work is to find and discover those good things." Van Gogh was aware of these life-altering principles when he said, "The best way to know God is to love many things." These "many things" are revealed as the creative essence of The Whispers Of Angels.

The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Calfiornia was pivotal in shaping 1960s America. Led by Mario Savio and other young veterans of the civil rights movement, student activists organized what was to that point the most tumultuous student rebellion in American history. Mass sit-ins, a nonviolent blockade around a police car, occupations of the campus administration building, and a student strike united thousands of students to champion the right of students to free speech and unrestricted political advocacy on campus.
This compendium of influential speeches and previously unknown writings offers insight and perspective into the disruptive yet nonviolent civil disobedience tactics used by Savio. "The Essential Mario Savio" is the perfect introduction to an American icon and to one of the most important social movements of the post-war period in the United States.