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Kenyan police say they have stopped a Westgate Mall-style terror attack
Kenyans attend a memorial vigil in Nairobi for the victims of an attack by gunmen at the Garissa University College in 2015.
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Lily Kuo
Kenyan authorities have stopped an "East African terror network" from launching a biological attack on the country. According to a police statement on May 3, three people have been arrested—Mohammed Abdi Ali, a medical student at a hospital in eastern Kenya, his wife, and another woman who has been detained in Uganda.
"The suspects were planning large scale attacks akin to the Westgate Mall attack with the intention of killing innocent Kenyans. His network also included medical experts with whom they planned to unleash a biological attack in Kenya using anthrax," the police said, referring to the 2013 attack in an upscale Nairobi mall that left 67 people dead. The police have offered cash rewards for two men who are still at large.
The possibility of a new group launching violence in Kenya, which has already suffered attacks from the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab from neighboring Somalia, is alarming. Police did not say the name of the network involved, but accused Ali of sending Kenyan youths to fight with jihadists in Libya and Syria, suggesting Islamic State links. Earlier this year, a new group called the Jahba East Africa pledged allegiance to the ISIL and called on fighters to desert al-Shabaab.
ISIL has been competing for recruits in Somalia and may be gaining a foothold in East Africa, which would give the group access to Somalia's long coastline, as well as proximity to the key US allies Kenya and Ethiopia.
Kenya's security forces need a win. Public confidence in the police and military is low—soldiers were caught on video looting stores in Westgate while the mall was still under attack in 2013, and NGOs have accused the military of colluding with al-Shabaab to smuggle sugar and charcoal into Somalia. In February, an al-Shabaab attack on an African Union base in Adde, Somalia left at least 180 Kenyan soldiers dead, according to Somali officials. (Kenyan authorities won't disclose the death toll or how many soldiers are still held captive by al-Shabaab.)
The police did not provide details as to how they discovered or foiled the alleged terror plot. The police said they would investigate Ali's case for another 30 days. "His arrest and those of his accomplices is a major breakthrough in the fight against terrorism in Kenya and the region," the police said.
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The Woodsworth Condos is a new condominium development by Lamb Development Corp currently in pre-construction located at 440 Richmond Street West, Toronto in the Chinatown-Alexandra Park neighbourhood with a 100/100 walk score and a 100/100 transit score. The Woodsworth Condos is designed by architectsAlliance and will feature interior design by U31. Development is scheduled to be completed in 2021. Woodsworth Condos will transform a car-lot on Richmond St. between Spadina Ave. and Bathurst St. into an elegant, marble-clad, 17-storey tower.
Premium Location
Woodsworth Condos will occupy an area that has it all! Cutting-edge boutiques, art galleries, hip bars and trendy restaurants are just a few of the wonderful amenities within walking distance. The Woodsworth Condos has
-Walkscore of 100/100
-Nestled in the Queen West district, the world's 2nd coolest neighbourhood ranked by Vogue Magazine
-A short walk to the business district and U of T
-Nearby parks include Carr Street Parkette, Clarence Square and Grange Park Toronto
With 24-hr streetcars, subway stations, accessible bus routes, the UP Express to Pearson International Airport and more are just outside your door!
Suites & Building Features
Large windows and 9' Ceilings. Smooth ceilings throughout. Exposed concrete feature wall and columns, Glass sliding bedroom doors. Pre-finished engineered wood floors. Washer & Dryer. Custom designed European style kitchen cabinetry with island. Stone surface countertops. Stainless steel appliances, gas cooktop and built-in oven. Custom designed European style bathroom cabinetry with contemporary shower head and deep soaker bathtub. Individually controlled heating and air conditioning system, Gas BBQ connection provided on balconies and terraces. Party Room, Gym, Stunning Lobby.
Great Return of Investment
Investors and first-time homebuyers alike will see the benefits of this modern 124-unit project. With close proximity to the financial district, store-fronts surrounding this address, and a variety of entertainment, these units will surely attract young professionals with an appetite to work and play close to home. Woodsworth Condos is also a fantastic location for university students. Nearby is UofT, OCADU, Ryerson University, and George Brown College.
Lamb Development Corp. (LDC) was founded in 2001 by Toronto's top condominium broker Brad J. Lamb to directly participate in the development of stylish, urban condominium projects. At that time, with over 13 years of experience in consulting, marketing, and the selling of more than 100 of Toronto's most innovative and exciting projects, Mr Lamb wanted to bring something different to the developing world. Since then, he has done just that; completing 19 developments, approximately 3,200 suites for over $1.3B. Lamb Development Corp has 18 projects and 4,500 units currently in development or under construction.

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Q: watermark and upload image on codeigniter im trying to watermark my image on codeigniter
i can watermark image which i have to gave path and that works fine but i want to watermark  my image which im going to upload that means i choose files and watermark them and upload it to database so how can i do that here is my image uploading controller
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function add_page() {

    $this->access_denied();
    //new page add from form process
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      $this->form_validation->set_rules('slug', 'slug', 'trim|required|min_length[4]|max_length[200]');
      $this->form_validation->set_rules('title', 'title', 'trim|required');
      $this->form_validation->set_rules('details', 'details', 'trim|required');
      if ($this->form_validation->run()) {

        $slug = strip_tags(url_title($this->input->post('slug')));
        $title = $this->input->post('title');
        $details = $this->input->post('details');
        $publish_date = time();
        $added_by = $this->session->userdata('full_name');

        // if image is uploaded
        if (isset($_FILES['userfile']['name']) && $_FILES['userfile']['size']>0) {

          $config = array('upload_path' => './uploads/page/',
                          'allowed_types' => 'jpg|gif|png|jpeg|ico',
                          'max_size' => 0,
                          'max_height' => 0,
                          'max_width' =>0
                        );
          $this->load->library('upload', $config);

          if ($this->upload->do_upload()) {
            $image_files = $this->upload->data();z
            $this->page_model->add_page($slug, $title, $details, $image_files['file_name'], $publish_date, $added_by);
            $this->session->set_flashdata('error_msg', 'session->set_flashdata('error_msg', $this->upload->display_errors());
            redirect('page/add_page');
          }

        }
        else {
          $this->page_model->add_page($slug, $title, $details, null,$publish_date,$added_by);
          $this->session->set_flashdata('error_msg', ' "Add new page",
                  'keywords' =>"",
                  'description' => "",
                  'image' => "",
                  'url'=> "",
                  'author' => "",
                  'page_content' => $this->load->view('page/add', '', true)
                );
    $this->load->view('dashboard', $data);
  }

i hope it wont freak you out guys but it would be great help for me thanks.

A: You may use the library WideImage in PHP. It has the predefined functions for adding the watermarks. link

A: You can use codeigniter for Watermarking link
$config['source_image'] = '/path/to/image/mypic.jpg';
$config['wm_text'] = 'Copyright 2006 - John Doe';
$config['wm_type'] = 'text';
$config['wm_font_path'] = './system/fonts/texb.ttf';
$config['wm_font_size'] = '16';
$config['wm_font_color'] = 'ffffff';
$config['wm_vrt_alignment'] = 'bottom';
$config['wm_hor_alignment'] = 'center';
$config['wm_padding'] = '20';

$this->image_lib->initialize($config);

$this->image_lib->watermark();

A: Here is the good code which will help you for the image upload and watermarking
Image Upload and Watermarking
http://demo.codesamplez.com/codeigniter/image-demo

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Q: What is the difference between deleting package-lock.json + npm install and npm install? I'm upgrading dependencies and was wondering why these two workflows don't lead to the same result.
Option 1 - Delete package-lock.json and npm install.

*

*Completely upgrades/changes majority of the package-lock.json in addition to the dependencies I upgraded in the package.json

*Source: https://poanchen.github.io/blog/2020/04/13/how-to-update-package-lock-json-file-in-order-to-honour-the-and-~-symbol
Option 2 - Not deleting package-lock.json and npm install

*

*Upgrades the dependencies in package-lock.json that I changed in the package.json.

*Source: https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-upgrade-dependencies-in-package-json-e5546804187f
I've searched stackoverflow and no one seems to be asking this.  Can someone please explain the difference between the two and possibly recommend the ideal workflow for upgrading a few dependencies?


Barry University's accredited Andreas School of Business offers solid curriculum, innovative community programs and life lessons in ethics, new Dean Tomislav Mandakovic says. Now, he wants the world to know.
"I think we have a good school with values and a good place located in the heart of Miami," he says. "It's like they put a good business in your hands, and all you have to do is go out and sell it."
Mr. Mandakovic joins Barry this month after serving as associate dean of the Florida International University College of Business Administration's Chapman Graduate School of Business. There, he had a hand in myriad international programs. He intends to bring some of that global focus to Barry.
"My idea here is to have a center of excellence for international education available to international students, high standards and again always looking at the ethics component," he says.
He plans also to build relationships with the local business community. "I'm looking for a lot of ties," Mr. Mandakovic says. "I don't believe in the motto of going out and asking for help. I do believe in the motto of going and building partnerships with businesspeople." He sees a challenge in transitioning from large institution to small but is attracted by Barry's intimate class sizes.
Though as dean he's not meant to teach, Mr. Mandakovic plans to find a way into the classroom. "I'm not supposed to," he says, "but I think I'd die if I didn't teach." He shared his vision with Miami Today staff writer Risa Polansky shortly before taking over at Barry.


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'Badla' full movie leaked online in HD quality; can affect Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu starrer's box office collection
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Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu starrer 'Badla' has been leaked online by illegal websites. The entire movie is available online to view and download. Badla is a crime thriller which released on March 8, and soon in the evening it was available for download on the piracy website.
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The Republic of China-born and real estate developer, Harry Triguboff started his journey as a house-buyer entering the market of Sydney. The former taxi fleet owner flourished his real estate business after moving to Australia and became one of the Australian billionaires.
He is the Managing Director of the country's biggest residential home builder, Meriton. Initially, he built 18 apartments, but now the company has about 75,000 apartments across the eastern states equating the estimated 0.05 percentage of Australia's GDP.
What Is Harry Triguboff's Net Worth?
Australian billionaire Harry, 85, garners the net worth of $6 billion from his career as a real estate developer. He is one of Australia's wealthiest people who secured #2 spot in 2015 with assets worth $11.43 billion. Most of his income source consists from his stint in the Meriton property development that dominated the industry of Sydney.
In 2016, Meriton sold apartments worth $1.2 billion and Harry grew his duties increasing the price of rentals to almost $120 million within a year.
Harry first bought a 643-square-meter block in Roseville for £4025. The White Family bought the brick-house on Arrunga Avenue for a price of $34,250 in 1969. Harry bought Tempe land in 1963 and developed it into eight apartments and two years later in Meriton Street, Gladesville building 18 flats.
That was the inauguration to start his company Meriton which got its name from the first solo property development in Gladsville. His company flourished over the course in Sydney and also build the tallest residential towers in Brisbane, Sydney, and the Gold Coast.
According to her interview with Gold Coast Bulletin, the wife of Australian billionaire revealed that she told her husband that she wouldn't go to the Golden Coast if he build the apartment and he would have to sell their penthouse at Main Beach.
Following her stand, he has now dropped the idea to build the skyscraper. The duo now resides in Sydney managing the residential construction industry.
The Managing Director of Meriton shares two children Orna Triguboff and Sharon Triguboff from his previous marriage. He has two grandsons Daniel Hendler, and Ariel Hendler with his daughter Sharon and Orna is his older daughter.
When Harry was 14 years old, Australian Immigration Department tried to stop him and his brother Jospeh fleeing to Australia from China. The siblings' past border authorities and the Immigration considered deporting them to China.
After World War II, his parents Moshe and Frida fled to northeastern China after the rise of Lenin. When the Australian real estate developer and his brother Joseph settled in Australia, they tried to plead visas for their parents. However, the visa got rejected and during the mid-1960s and both of their parents had a sad demise. Harry who was alone in Isreal had no family connections when Moshe and Frida died in China.
Born as Harry Oskar Triguboff AO on 3 March 1933, Harry is a native of Dalian, Liaoning, Republic of China. The managing director of Meriton grew up in a Jewish community in Tianjin and moved to Australia at the age of 14. The real estate developer then studied at the Scots College in Sydney.
After spending time in Australia, Harry moved to England where he graduated with a degree in textiles from the University of Leeds. He then worked flourishing his textile business in South Africa and Isreal. In 1960, the Australian billionaire returned to Australia, and a year later, he became an official citizen.


Modern industrial production, storage, and distribution would be impossible without the extensive use of refrigeration. Ammonia (NH3) has long been the prevalent refrigerant in industrial refrigeration due to its high degree of efficiency, low environmental impact, and affordability. Ammonia is commonly used in food processing facilities, dairies, breweries, meat processing plants and cold storage warehouses, where a large cooling demand is required.
Ammonia is a cost-effective and efficient refrigerant. The only drawback is its classification as a poisonous refrigerant that in case of leakage can be harmful to personnel and the food items that the refrigeration system was designed to protect.
The risk of leaks arises from many different sources, ranging from inadequate operating procedures or lack of training to failures in piping, welds or poor maintenance.
Due to its classification as a poisonous gas, design, construction and operation of ammonia refrigeration systems are governed by strict standards. Early-warning detection devices, efficient ventilation systems, emergency switch-off systems are among the typical measures implemented to limit the risk during operation.
But the risk of leakage can also be reduced in the design of the refrigeration system. Placing ammonia refrigeration equipment in separate rooms and with vapor-tight separations are basic design parameters. Considering that quite a few leakages result from poor welding, the weld quality or reducing the number of field welds can also be an effective measure to prevent leaks.
In most processing applications, combined ammonia and CO2 refrigeration in cascading systems can improve both plant safety and efficiency. The use of the two natural refrigerants working side by side combines the advantages of both and greatly reduces the ammonia charge.
The single most important advantage of using combined CO2 and ammonia solutions is to achieve maximum personnel and food safety. In cascade systems, the ammonia charge is reduced significantly and confined to the machinery room, which reduces the safety risk.
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The Night Of Recap: The Plea Deal
By VIkram Murthi
Editor's Rating 3 stars ***
Glenne Headly as Alison, Riz Ahmed as Naz. Photo: HBO
"You wanna play roulette? Go to Atlantic City where the odds are better," John tells Naz in court, just before he's about to take a plea deal constructed by Alison, his slick, manipulative new lawyer. In "The Art of War," Alison negotiates Naz's charges down from murder and sexual assault to manslaughter. With a plea, he will serve a flat 15-year sentence. The district attorney's office wants the case to be over and done with. Alison wants a quick, easy victory to tout in front of the press. Even Freddy, the Rikers inmate looking over Naz's shoulder, advises him to accept the offer. "Take the deal," they all keep telling Naz, who finds his options dwindling and his life expectancy shortening by the day.
But John doesn't tell Naz to take the plea out of self-interest, but rather out of sheer empathy for his awful situation. "Unless you fuck it up in there, 15 years is 12 years. Twelve years, you still have a chance of walking out of there a human being," he says, approaching him like the kid he is. When Naz worries that the world will see his plea as an admission that he killed Andrea, John tells him gently that it will only mean he doesn't "trust 12 idiots on a jury to get it right." It's a powerful expression of kindness in a series that doesn't dole it out too often, but despite John's pleading, Naz has ideas of his own. He knows he didn't kill Andrea, and he's not going to accept a guilty plea just because it's easier for everyone else. They don't believe he's innocent, but Naz does, and that's more than enough of a reason to take the case to trial.
The second half of "The Art of War" focuses on the excellent drama that pits Naz against his legal council and his own self-doubt, but before series co-creator Richard Price injects some energy into the script, the episode appears to be the weakest so far, primarily because of Naz's prison story line. In short, Naz gets close to another inmate (Ashley Thomas), who takes it upon himself to teach him the ropes of the joint. "Respect is all people got in here," he tells Naz, explaining how to walk, talk, and live in an institution beset on all sides by danger — "Everything is a weapon," "Get some meat on your bones," "Don't look people in the eye," and so on. Meanwhile, Freddy keeps trying to persuade Naz into accepting his protection, and gives him a blue jumpsuit instead of an orange one when he goes in front of the judge, so he doesn't look like a violent offender. Why does Freddy like Naz so much? "You're like a care package for my brain," he tells him, expressing admiration for his intellect and naïve compassion.
Yet, the prison material feels like such well-worn territory that even Price can't quite save it. Last week, he and co-creator Steven Zaillian focused almost entirely on atmosphere and mechanics of the institution — the milieu of visiting hours, the various stages of enclosure, the ways prisoners vie for better food by claiming they're Muslim — but here, Price and director James Marsh (Man on Wire, The Theory of Everything) simply follow the hierarchy of Rikers. It's much less compelling and much more rote than last week's episode, and the dynamism of "The Art of the War" dips every time it cuts back to Naz. Plus, Price telegraphs many of the story beats, particularly with the new inmate's background and his allegiance with (and eventual betrayal of) Naz. The ending in particular — Naz finally accepting Freddy's protection — reads like an obvious turn of events that was drawn out for two entire episodes in an attempt to goose the drama.
Although the prison story line isn't quite up to snuff, everything else fires on all cylinders. The Night Of subtly starts moving the pieces as it heads into its back half, bringing characters like Chandra into the foreground after teasing her involvement last week and maintaining a tone of devastation in the background. After John loses interest in his usual clientele, he starts snooping around a rehab center and strikes up a deal with an employee to get him patient records. He later shows these to Chandra, who reluctantly accepts them and realizes John's worth in the process — unlike Alison, who mocks him in court in front of a judge. ("John, that was uncalled for," Helen tells him sympathetically.) While Chandra observes the proceedings, she realizes two things: (1) The limitations of Alison's expertise, given her eagerness to win over the press and her unwillingness to go to trial, and (2) There's more to Naz's case than meets the eye. Amara Karan (who played Rita in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited) wonderfully conveys this shift with sympathetic looks and curious facial movements, demonstrating that some of the best acting in The Night Of requires silence and listening.
It's Chandra who ultimately convinces Naz not to take the plea. Alison pushes her to see Naz before they go in front of the judge, so as to make him feel comfortable, but Chandra doesn't make Naz feel comfortable because of her race. Instead, it's because she talks to him like a human being. She explains to him that trials cost a lot of money, so it's in everyone's best interest that he accept the deal. But she also looks him straight in the eye and says that the only reason to take the deal would be if he killed Andrea. If he didn't, he shouldn't take it. Plain and simple.
That's what Naz takes into the courtroom when Helen interrogates him about the night in question. After she runs through a litany of questions, she finally asks, "Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?" to which Naz, filmed in an intimate straight-ahead close-up, meekly affirms. But when Helen actually asks Naz to describe the night in question, he flashes back to a series of out-of-focus images in his head — beads hanging from the ceiling, the moose's head, a staircase — and ultimately tells the truth about what he remembers. Alison reams him out in the jail cell for screwing himself over, then hands primary duties over to Chandra — a calculated move since she won't receive the blame for the trial — and tells Naz's parents that she can no longer work for free.
Though the walls may be closing in on Naz, he's no longer a bystander in his own life. He's taken control of his fate by refusing to back down to legal pressure. (And by accepting Freddy's protection.) He acts like someone who knows his own actions and is unwilling to compromise his memory and beliefs. There's pride in believing your own innocence, something Naz hasn't felt since he got pinched. "This joint full of so many 'I didn't do it' motherfuckers, they're falling from the rafters," his faux-friend sneers, but Naz knows he's different. And now, he can only hope that the few people remaining in his corner can convince those 12 idiots to believe the same. They hold his life in their hands.
Crimes and Misdemeanors:
In other John stories this week, he visits a second doctor (played by the great character actor Jack Gilpin), who tells him to bathe in bleach and stop picking at his feet with a pencil. He also has sex with a prostitute in exchange for getting her off solicitation charges.
More devastating news for the Khan family: Naz's brother is forced to take a leave of absence from school, despite being on the honor roll, after parents complain about his presence in the classroom.
The two books everyone reads in prison according to Freddy: The Art of War by Sun Tzu and The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon, for "obvious reasons." Freddy tries to get Naz to pick up Jack London's The Call of the Wild, but he's already read it before.
Alison shows her true colors when she snaps at Salim for suggesting he make a statement to the press. In turn, he gives her a knowing look when she tells him that she needs to charge for her services. He's realizing what a snake she really is.
Two Sopranos alums make appearances as the rehab employees: Aida Turturro (John Turturro's cousin), who played Janice, and Max Casella, who played Benny.


"Our coastal areas are suffering from gigantism," a civil servant from Bombay tells author Don Hinrichsen. "They are becoming like Frankenstein monsters: They are too big and out of control for us to manage." This fear of the current plight of the planet's coasts as the global population migrates to where water meets land is the thread running through this book.
Don Hinrichsen is not a scientist or economist. But he is a first-rate working journalist. In that role he explores the state of our coasts today, how they came to be in that condition, and the future challenges and complexities of managing their resources. Hinrichsen delivers a call for attention to the pressures being inflicted on coastal resources that is clear and compelling to any reader.
The author bolsters his presentation with demographics and statistics that make the case for the need for immediate action to sustain coastal resources. He does this without overwhelming the reader or neglecting the need to substantiate the anecdotal claims of his many sources and interviewees. He has travelled extensively, and done the legwork required to bring the real voice of coastal residents into play to create an on-the-scene vision of living on the edge.
This epitomised by his prologue on the island-dwelling Kuna Indians of San Blas, Panama. These effective de facto coastal managers have long recognised the value of the resources that surround them, and succeeded in working to sustain their use. This stewardship effort has been accomplished in the face of substantial outside pressures, including direct confrontation with the government of Panama itself.
Hinrichsen emphasises the need for such local ownership of coastal management efforts - hopefully in combination with top-level policy guidance - the necessity of an informed process of governance, and the benchmarking and evaluation of coastal projects as key strategies to effective management. He also calls upon his colleagues in the media to take responsibility to help disseminate knowledge about coastal issues.
By breaking down the main body of the book into an evaluation of the coasts along the world's regional seas, Hinrichsen provides a logical and concise way to compare and contrast past and ongoing efforts in coastal management. Combined with the tightly - focused case studies, this body of information allows the author to lay out the bigger picture-one which drives his summary recommendations. These identify the need for global alliances that weave together current management initiatives worldwide.
Coastal Waters of the World provides an excellent overview of the variety and value of the world's coastlines, and the effort to ensure their qualities are not forever lost. Coastal professionals are often asked by laymen what they are attempting to do. The practitioners frequently have a difficult time providing a clear response to this question of "What's the problem?" If that inquisitive person really wants to know, this is the book to hand them.
Reviewer Info: Lynne Hale is Associate Director of the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island, USA, and has led the Center's field projects in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mexico, among other international and US sites.


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I teach lessons at Cascade Mountain in Portage, WI and all lessons can be booked through the Snow Sports School desk (608-742-5588).
I'd suggest a private ski lesson because you get more attention and feedback. We can either do a 1-hour, 2-hour, half day or whole day. If you are an intermediate skier (which means "non-beginner") and if you want some video analysis done, then we'll need at least a 2-hour lesson to cover that so that we have time to go in and watch the video.
You can request me for a private lesson for $60/hour. Each additional person is $30, so for 2 people (adults or kids), it would be $90/hour.
You can save money on private lessons by purchasing a 5-lesson card for $225, which brings it down to $45 per lesson (per hour).
A half day lesson (3 hours) would be $150 (or $135 using the 5-lesson card).
A full day lesson (5 hours) would be $225 using the 5-lesson card).
At Cascade Mountain, we can skip to the front of the lift line if we're doing a private lesson. This gives us more time for skiing. Some people even get a private lesson just for this privilege – if you want to do that, that's fine with me… I'll ski with you.
Once you complete the lesson, you get a gift card for $10 off your next group or private lesson.
"Hi Erika, I want to thank you again for setting us up with Tony. He was very patient with my 2 youngest grandchildren, who can be a handful to say the least. I was worried that Joe and/or Katie would have meltdowns, but Tony kept their attention.
I teach lessons at Cascade Mountain (Portage, WI), Devil's Head (Baraboo, WI) or Tyrol Basin (Mount Horeb, WI). I'm mainly available at Cascade Mountain since I'm officially employed there. At any other place, my lessons will cost more since you'll need to cover my lift ticket – also I'd have limited availability at any other place than Cascade.
If you would like to set up a lesson, please contact Cascade Mountain (608-742-5588) and ask to book a lesson with me. Make sure you call right away (the sooner, the better) as assigning lessons there is a fluid situation. Sometimes, if we don't have enough instructors, I'll have to be put on group lessons and I won't be able to do a private lesson but if you call ahead and request a private lesson with me, you have a better chance of getting it rather than call on your way there or try to book it the same day, when you get there. They can maybe try to get more instructors to show up in that case.
I typically work on Friday nights, Saturdays (days) and some Sundays (days). If you are interested in a lesson with me, please contact both me and Cascade for availability.
If you would like a good beginner or intermediate ski instructor for skiing at other locations (even other countries), I'm available. I can work with adults or kids. We would do plenty of free skiing with integrated instruction.
You would need to provide travel, accommodations and lift tickets for me. We can negotiate a daily fee.
I do often get lessons for people who want to get ready to ski out West or do bigger mountain skiing. Sometimes the lessons are for them or sometimes it's their spouse. They realize that it's cheaper and easier to get some lessons locally before going to bigger resorts.
This is a good idea because the hills here are easier, less intimidating and are great for learning how to ski. Getting a lesson here will build up confidence for big mountain skiing for anyone at any level.
If this is what you're looking for, then I'd suggest a 2 or 3 hour private lesson. We'd spend the first hour doing the lesson and the second and third hours would be a combination of putting some miles on it (skiing) and some fine tuning. If I know your aim is to ski in Colorado, Utah or somewhere else, I can help gear you up and get you ready for that kind of skiing so that your trip is more enjoyable.


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function varargout = Animation(varargin)
% ANIMATION MATLAB code for Animation.fig
%      ANIMATION, by itself, creates a new ANIMATION or raises the existing
%      singleton*.
%
%      H = ANIMATION returns the handle to a new ANIMATION or the handle to
%      the existing singleton*.
%
%      ANIMATION('CALLBACK',hObject,eventData,handles,...) calls the local
%      function named CALLBACK in ANIMATION.M with the given input arguments.
%
%      ANIMATION('Property','Value',...) creates a new ANIMATION or raises the
%      existing singleton*.  Starting from the left, property value pairs are
%      applied to the GUI before Animation_OpeningFcn gets called.  An
%      unrecognized property name or invalid value makes property application
%      stop.  All inputs are passed to Animation_OpeningFcn via varargin.
%
%      *See GUI Options on GUIDE's Tools menu.  Choose "GUI allows only one
%      instance to run (singleton)".
%
% See also: GUIDE, GUIDATA, GUIHANDLES

% Edit the above text to modify the response to help Animation

% Last Modified by GUIDE v2.5 02-Aug-2014 16:14:56

% Begin initialization code - DO NOT EDIT
gui_Singleton = 1;
gui_State = struct('gui_Name',       mfilename, ...
                   'gui_Singleton',  gui_Singleton, ...
                   'gui_OpeningFcn', @Animation_OpeningFcn, ...
                   'gui_OutputFcn',  @Animation_OutputFcn, ...
                   'gui_LayoutFcn',  [] , ...
                   'gui_Callback',   []);
if nargin && ischar(varargin{1})
    gui_State.gui_Callback = str2func(varargin{1});
end

if nargout
    [varargout{1:nargout}] = gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});
else
    gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});
end
% End initialization code - DO NOT EDIT

% --- Executes just before Animation is made visible.
function Animation_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
% This function has no output args, see OutputFcn.
% hObject    handle to figure
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
% varargin   command line arguments to Animation (see VARARGIN)

% Choose default command line output for Animation
handles.output = hObject;

% Update handles structure
guidata(hObject, handles);
imshow('Ship.jpg','parent',handles.Ship);
handles.trianglex = [50, 75, 100];
handles.triangley = [50,75,50];
% Set Thresholds
handles.thresholdz = .50;
handles.thresholdy = .50;
% Set above/below threshold value
handles.above = 0;
handles.below =0;
handles.shootBelow = 0;
% Set Alpha value
handles.alpha = .50;

guidata(hObject, handles);
% UIWAIT makes Animation wait for user response (see UIRESUME)
% uiwait(handles.figure1);

% --- Outputs from this function are returned to the command line.
function varargout = Animation_OutputFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% varargout  cell array for returning output args (see VARARGOUT);
% hObject    handle to figure
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

% Get default command line output from handles structure
varargout{1} = handles.output;

% --- Executes on button press in startStopButton.
function startStopButton_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to startStopButton (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

%read the startstopButton string
handles.startstop = get(handles.startStopButton,'String');

% Switches name of startButton between 'Start' and 'Stop' depending on the
% previous setting
if strcmp(handles.startstop,'Start')
    set(handles.startStopButton,'String','Stop')
    % Update handles structure
    guidata(hObject,handles);
else
    set(handles.startStopButton,'String','Start')
    % Update handles structure
    guidata(hObject, handles);
end

handles.buff_len = 200; % initializes the length of the graph
handles.filtX = zeros(handles.buff_len,1);  % initialize filtered gx data collection
handles.filtY = zeros(handles.buff_len,1);  % initialize filtered gy data collection
handles.filtZ = zeros(handles.buff_len,1);  % initialize filtered gz data collection
    %------------------------------
% Setup xcoordinates for bullet
handles.xlen = handles.trianglex(3)-handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xp1 = (handles.xlen*.25)+ handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xp3 = (handles.xlen*.75)+ handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xp2 = (handles.xlen*.5)+ handles.trianglex(1);
% Setup y coordinates for bullet
handles.ylen = handles.triangley(2)-handles.triangley(1);
handles.yp1 = handles.triangley(2);
handles.yp3 = handles.triangley(2);
handles.yp2 = handles.ylen*.25+handles.triangley(2);
handles.xBullet = [handles.xp1,handles.xp2,handles.xp3];
handles.yBullet = [handles.yp1,handles.yp2,handles.yp3];
%------------------------------

while (strcmp(get(handles.startStopButton,'String'),'Stop'))

    % Alpha Smoothing
    % Read accelerometer values
    [handles.gx, handles.gy, handles.gz] = readAcc(handles.accelerometer, handles.calCo);

    axes(handles.Board);
    handles.filtX = [handles.filtX(2:end); (1-handles.alpha)*handles.filtX(end) + handles.alpha*handles.gx]; % calculate the x axis alpha smoothing
    handles.filtY = [handles.filtY(2:end); (1-handles.alpha)*handles.filtY(end) + handles.alpha*handles.gy]; % calculate the y axis alpha smoothing
    handles.filtZ = [handles.filtZ(2:end); (1-handles.alpha)*handles.filtZ(end) + handles.alpha*handles.gz]; % calculate the z axis alpha smoothing

    % Check if the magnitude is above the threshold
    if handles.filtY(handles.buff_len,1) >= handles.thresholdy && handles.above == 0
        handles.above = 1;             % set variable to 1 until data goes below the threshold
        handles.below = 0;
    elseif handles.filtY(handles.buff_len,1) < handles.thresholdy && handles.above == 1 % if the magnitude falls below threshold, reset variable
        handles.above = 0;       % set variable to 0 if under threshold
    elseif handles.filtY(handles.buff_len,1) < -1*handles.thresholdy && handles.below == 0  % if threshold is under negative threshold y
        handles.above = 0;  % Set above threshold to 0
        handles.below = 1;  % Set under threshold to 1
    elseif handles.filtY(handles.buff_len,1) > -1*handles.thresholdy && handles.below == 1  % if threshold is above minimum
        handles.below = 0;  % Set underthreshold to 0
    end
    %Clear screen
    cla;
    %--------------------- Shoot functionallity
    if handles.filtZ(handles.buff_len,1) >= handles.thresholdz && handles.shootBelow == 0
        % Set Coordinates
        % X
        handles.xp1 = (handles.xlen*.25)+ handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xp3 = (handles.xlen*.75)+ handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xp2 = (handles.xlen*.5)+ handles.trianglex(1);
handles.xBullet = [handles.xp1,handles.xp2,handles.xp3];
        % Y
        handles.yp1 = handles.triangley(2);
handles.yp3 = handles.triangley(2);
handles.yp2 = handles.ylen*.25+handles.triangley(2);
handles.yBullet = [handles.yp1,handles.yp2,handles.yp3];

        handles.shootBelow = 1;

    elseif handles.shootBelow>0 && handles.shootBelow<=50
        handles.shootBelow= handles.shootBelow+1;
        handles.yBullet = handles.yBullet + [20,20,20];
        fill(handles.xBullet,handles.yBullet,'r');
        hold on
       guidata(hObject, handles);
    elseif handles.shootBelow >50
        handles.shootBelow = 0;
    end

    %------------------------------- End shoot functionality

    if handles.below == 1   % if threshold is below min
        handles.trianglex = handles.trianglex+[2,2,2];  % move right
    elseif handles.above == 1   % if threshold is above max
        handles.trianglex = handles.trianglex+[-2,-2,-2];   % Move left
    end

    fill(handles.trianglex,handles.triangley,'g');
    axis([0,1000,0,1000]);
    guidata(hObject, handles);
end
guidata(hObject, handles);

% --- Executes on button press in calibrateButton.
function calibrateButton_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to calibrateButton (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
% 1. Specifies the COM port that the Arduino board is connected to
handles.comPort = 'COM3';%This can be found out using the device manager (Windows)

%comPort = '/dev/tty.usbmodemfd121';

% 2. Initialize the Serial Port - setupSerial() (not to be altered)

%connect MATLAB to the accelerometer
if (~exist('handles.serialFlag','var'))
    [handles.accelerometer.s,handles.serialFlag] = setupSerial(handles.comPort);
end

% 3. Run a calibration routine if needed - calibrate() (not to be altered)

%if the accelerometer is not calibrated, calibrate now
if(~exist('handles.calCo', 'var'))
    handles.calCo = calibrate(handles.accelerometer.s);
end

guidata(hObject, handles);

% --- Executes on button press in closeSerialButton.
function closeSerialButton_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to closeSerialButton (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

% Close figures and clear variables
clc
clear all

% Close serial Port
if ~isempty(instrfind)
    fclose(instrfind);
    delete(instrfind);
end
close all
clc
disp('Serial Port Closed')

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Q: Python + OpenCV color segmentation using Kmeans I am trying to apply the kmeans from opencv in order to segment the image in HSV color space.
def leftOffset(src, p_countours):
    height, width, size = src.shape

    p_width = width/p_countours
    o_left = src[0:height, 0:p_width]

    HSV_img = cv2.cvtColor(o_left, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
    hue = HSV_img[0]
    hue = np.float32(HSV_img)

    # Define criteria = ( type, max_iter = 10 , epsilon = 1.0 )
    criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS + cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_MAX_ITER, 10, 1.0)

    # Set flags (Just to avoid line break in the code)
    flags = cv2.KMEANS_RANDOM_CENTERS

    # Apply KMeans
    compactness,labels,centers = cv2.kmeans(hue,2,criteria,10,flags)

    centers = np.uint8(centers)
    res = centers[labels.flatten()]
    res2 = res.reshape((hue.shape))
    cv2.imshow("o_left", hue)
    cv2.waitKey(0)

I am now able to apply the kmeans algorithm to the HSVImage[0] with K=2, and how can I get a image like threshold according to the result?
Thanks
To clarify the question:
I have color-based captchas, and I want to segment each digits.
The image is like

I am going to use k-means method to find out the dominant color and segment the digits inside.

A: 1) If all you need is to find the dominant color why not find the histograms of each color channel? Find the dominant channel then segment only that channel using otsu? For example if I threshold only the hue I can get nice results. K-means could be an overkill for this task:
import cv2
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as plt

## Simple Otsu over hue
six = cv2.imread('7zovC.jpg')

##convert to hsv
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(six, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
hue = hsv[:, :, 0]

binary_img = cv2.threshold(hue, 128, 255, cv2.THRESH_OTSU)

plt.figure()
plt.imshow(binary_img*255)
plt.show()

2) Why not use all channels for clustering instead of just hue? What you need is clustering -> color quantization this link should be useful. This is for opencv version > 3.0.0
Note for python 2.4.11, cv2.kmeans has a slightly difference interface and you could use this instead:
def color_quantize(img, K):
    Z = img.reshape((-1, 3))

    # convert to np.float32
    Z = np.float32(Z)

    # define criteria, number of clusters(K) and apply kmeans()
    criteria = (cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_EPS + cv2.TERM_CRITERIA_MAX_ITER, 10, 1.0)
    ret, label, center = cv2.kmeans(Z, 2, criteria, 10, cv2.KMEANS_RANDOM_CENTERS)

    # Now convert back into uint8, and make original image
    center = np.uint8(center)
    res = center[label.flatten()]
    quantized_img = res.reshape((img.shape))

    label_img = label.reshape((img.shape[:2]))
    return label_img, quantized_img

six = cv2.imread('7zovC.jpg')

##convert to hsv
hsv = cv2.cvtColor(six, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)

K = 2
label_img, six_q = color_quantize(hsv, K)

plt.figure()
plt.imshow(label_img)

plt.show()

My results for color quantization were not impressive.

A: May I suggest a conventional alternative? I you get rid of the very dark and bright regions first, you may be able to simply rely on the most frequent value of the hue component calculated from the histogram.
Mind that the borders of the numbers will never be absolutely exact, since colours are similar in the surrounding.
Furthrmore, you could select the maximum blob only (according to size) to suppress remaining small blobs outside.
Results:

Code:
import cv2
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

img = cv2.imread('image1.jpg')

#get rid of very bright and very dark regions
delta=30
lower_gray = np.array([delta, delta,delta])
upper_gray = np.array([255-delta,255-delta,255-delta])
# Threshold the image to get only selected
mask = cv2.inRange(img, lower_gray, upper_gray)
# Bitwise-AND mask and original image
res = cv2.bitwise_and(img,img, mask= mask)

#Convert to HSV space
HSV_img = cv2.cvtColor(res, cv2.COLOR_BGR2HSV)
hue = HSV_img[:, :, 0]

#select maximum value of H component from histogram
hist = cv2.calcHist([hue],[0],None,[256],[0,256])
hist= hist[1:, :] #suppress black value
elem = np.argmax(hist)
print np.max(hist), np.argmax(hist)

tolerance=10
lower_gray = np.array([elem-tolerance, 0,0])
upper_gray = np.array([elem+tolerance,255,255])
# Threshold the image to get only selected
mask = cv2.inRange(HSV_img, lower_gray, upper_gray)
# Bitwise-AND mask and original image
res2 = cv2.bitwise_and(img,img, mask= mask)

titles = ['Original Image', 'Selected Gray Values', 'Hue', 'Result']
images = [img, res, hue, res2]
for i in xrange(4):
    plt.subplot(2,2,i+1),plt.imshow(images[i],'gray')
    plt.title(titles[i])
    plt.xticks([]),plt.yticks([])
plt.show()


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Step 3 - Enrollment
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To ensure that security audits are carried out at the highest levels of quality and professionalism, the PCI Security Standards Council encourages the payment brands and other entities to submit audit Quality Feedback Forms, which will be evaluated by the Council's Technical Working Group. If a PA-QSA is judged to be deficient in its audit efforts, the Council will engage in dialog to recommend measures for improvement. If improvement is not deemed sufficient, the result could be disqualification for the PA-QSA and removal from the Website list.


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"James and the Giant Peach, Jr." will be performed by middle school
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Wrestling program asks for sports grade qualification change
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Council discusses increased load limit on East Bingham
Mayor Larry Barrett said Simplot wants the load limit on East Bingham to increase from the current 105,000 pounds to 129,000 pounds. With the increase they could add an extra axle on their potato trucks hauling from the cellars on…
Joseph Carrasco named Mr. AHS for 2018
Joseph Carrasco, son of Irma Gonzalez and Norberto Carrasco, earned the title of Mr. AHS after the competition held Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Aberdeen High School auditorium. First runner up was Chance Reynolds, son of Troy and Karla Reynolds,…
Mr. AHS contestants for 2018
Mr. AHS competition is tonight Aberdeen High School boys will be competing in the first Mr. AHS on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Mr. AHS will be like the Distinguished Young Woman program except…
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The Aberdeen American Legion Hall has a new flag, that is old, flying in their main room. This is a 48 Star Flag. These flags were flown from July 4, 1912 to July 3, 1959, when additional states were added to the United States. The flag was found stored in the Aberdeen American Legion Hall and is now framed and will fly in the room permanently.
Senior Citizen Christmas Tree in Aberdeen
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Training 'gamble' on Linux begins to pay off
One of the UK's IT training firms is seeing increasing demand for Linux courses, but experts say that there's a lot more going on in other parts of the world
By Ingrid Marson | October 14, 2004 -- 13:45 GMT (06:45 PDT) | Topic: Developer
QA Training has said that is starting to see some demand from larger organisations in the nascent market for Linux training services.
QA started doing Linux training courses in June 2004, and has since been busy training large companies. Alina Swietochowska, a principal technologist at QA, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that the decision to start Linux training was initially seen as a risk, as it appeared that Linux was mostly making headway in small companies.
QA is the third most profitable IT training company in the UK, and made £24.6m in 2003, according to a study by IT Skills Research.
"When we put our new portfolio together we were gambling, as growth in the Linux training market is very gentle. I was concerned about providing Linux training as I deal with large organisations, and Linux seemed to be making most headway in small organisations," she said.
Since June its gamble has paid off, the company says, and Swietochowska has been busy running courses for six large companies, including three financial institutions, two public sector organisations and one logistics company.
Swietochowska said there has been no interest in scheduled courses; instead, companies have been interested in on-site events. She said this is because the real market is coming from IT professionals within IT departments.
"HR is not sending people on scheduled courses, but IT managers can see the need and are organising special events," she said.
This lack of interest outside IT is also shown by the job titles of the people that QA has been training: systems administrators, operators and developers, according to Swietochowska. Half of the events that have been run have involved cross-training technical people from the Solaris or Unix operating system to Linux.
QA's customers have little interest in certification, so professional exams are not part of the course, according to Swietochowska. But she said that the content of the courses includes the exam objectives of two of the independent Linux certifications: the CompTIA Linux+ and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Level 1 qualification.
Swietochowska does not see large IT training companies as competition, as although the majority offer Linux training, she claims they tend to outsource such training requests to a third party, while QA carries out Linux training in-house. She believes QA's main competition is coming from Linux vendors themselves, such as IBM and Red Hat.
Evan Leibovitch, president of LPI, which offers an independent Linux certification course, said the UK is lagging behind other countries in terms of providing Linux training.
"More than 65,000 people have achieved LPI qualifications since we started at the end of 2002, but most of our success has been in other countries such as the US, Japan, Brazil and Germany."
Last week, at the LinuxWorld Expo in London, LPI announced the launch of its Approved Training Partner programme in the UK. The ITS Group, a provider of training services to the public sector, was made the first partner.
Gillian Brown, an administrator at ITS, said that Linux certification is important for system administrators as senior executives and HR often want to have proof of skills.
"If you say that you have played with Linux for the last 10 years, someone in HR will say, 'prove it'. HR departments and senior IT managers understand what exams mean," said Brown.
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INTERSECTIONS: AAH Conference 2009–Call for Sesssions
Venue: Manchester, UK
Manchester Metropolitan University.
Conference will focus on the intersections (connections, linkages, overlaps) of art history with different disciplinary, methodological, political and historical spaces. Three areas of intersection might be identified: between areas of convention and innovation within the discipline; between art history and its adjacent fields of inquiry, display and production; and between the subjects and objects of interpretative and historical practice. Intersections can be understood as the convergence, however temporary or in-process, of art history's divergent values and practices.
Within the discipline, areas of intersection may encompass: the descriptive, interrogative, ethical, pedagogical and critical elements of art historical practice. Between art history and its adjacent fields lie the margins, overlaps and divisions that notions of intersectionality are able to highlight. Interactions with visual processes and practitioners invoke social worlds, individuals, performative and public spaces.
Intersections opens up room for a variety of critical engagements with, and creative responses to, traditional and new art histories. What are the issues and implications involved in locating and exploring the crossovers of visual and cultural histories and practices? How should historians of the visual consider the intersections between interpretative subjects and objects? By looking at the boundaries and meeting points of different histories of art, what new intersections emerge? What are the intersections between artistic and other aspects of visual culture, such as the popular? What are intersections between different artistic media?
Send session proposals to aah09@mmu.ac.uk. Include a session title and abstract (maximum 250 words) and contact details of the session convenor(s).
See for submissions details, registration, and all further information:http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/aah09/
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The plans of mice and men and enthusiastic volunteer kiln builders keep on keeping on.
The weather, actual work commitments and international travel have neatly combined to drive our planned schedule into a delightful blend of chaos and fantasy.
The roof mesh has been made, the end panels constructed and today's efforts will be all about attaching the fibre to the roof, completing the 'pointing' and chimney construction.
Then four metal doors need to be welded up for the fireboxes and a plethora of other small jobs completed.
It's absolutely beautiful out at Entopia Wines and Brian and Heather Hunt remain enthusiastic and calm in the face of a kiln capable of containing six adults standing with room for more inside.
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Did this really happen? House committee moves to decriminalize adultery, co-habitation and a strain of marijuana
Word is today that people are still wondering if they existed briefly in an alternate reality Thursday as they watched the conservative House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice embrace a proposed committee bill that would decriminalize adultery, co-habitation and a strain of non-euphoric marijuana as part of a sweeping rewrite of the state's sentencing laws.
Was this some parallel universe or is it possible that Florida -- and Florida's Legislature -- is progressing?
Here's our story on the dramatic appeal by parents of children who suffer from rare forms of epilepsy to seek the legalization of a strain of marijuana for medical purposes. But it wasn't the only interesting development.
The marijuana debate Thursday was tempered, with the predictable questions from legislators aligned with the Florida Medical Association asking about the need for double-blind studies before allowing patient access to an herbal remedy. Then Rep. Charles Van Zant spoke. The Palatka Republican and Baptist preacher is possibily one of the most conservative members of the House.
"I'm moved by the compassion of all of this," he said. He said he opposes marijuana but, using it to help desparate parents treat their children's maladies was not "substance abuse. I think it's using this wisely," he said.
Then there was the skillful handling of the doubters by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Shalimar, chairman of the committee.
His next door neighbors, the Browning family, were among those who spoke up in favor of allowing for the decriminalization of a strain high in cannabidiol or CBD, the ingredient that controls seizures, but is low in tetrahydrocannabinol, THC, the compound that creates a high. They have bought a House in Colorado, where they plan to take their toddler daughter, who is suffering from debilitating seizures, for treatment -- unless Florida changes its laws.
Gaetz not only anticipated the naysayers, he used his debate and legal skills and set up their arguments, only to skillfully knock them down.
At one point, he compared the strain known as Charlotte's Web to Centrum Silver -- an over-the-counter vitamin used by older Floridians across the state -- but a product that has never received FDA approval.
When the FMA lobbyist said they wanted the marijuana strain to undergo years of pharmaceutical tests before being available for families in Florida, Gaetz shot back:
"You would concede, and we have over-the-counter medications, so what is it about Charlotte's Web that is something more,'' he asked. "Go back to the FMA and ask them the questions I asked today: I want to know what is so unique about this substance that these folks are going to wait five, six, eight years for it?"
Then he compared the strain, and its trace amounts of the psychoactive THC, to the hemp products that line the shelves of the local Whole Foods store and called an FDLE agent to the podium and asked her to test the hemp products for THC, to show whether a routine roadside field test already used by law enforcement is effectivive in testing for the substance. Half of the products tested positive for THC; half of them did not.
"We sell products today on our shelves which test positive for THC,'' Gaetz said. "So to all of those who would say if we pass this law we'll have all kinds of problems with testing, perhaps we need a new tests anyway if the things we buy on our shelves can generate multiple results."
What was equally surreal, however, was the debate that preceeded the medical marijuana testimony -- all part of the committee's workshop on its sentencing reform overhaul.
First, the committee agreed to decriminalize co-habitation -- a practice that had been outlawed in Florida law although rarely, if ever, enforced.
Removing the cohabitation provision was originally proposed by Rep. Richard Stark, D-Weston, as an attempt to update what he considered outdated statutes.
"Does anyone on the committee want to throw anyone in jail for cohabitating?,'' Gaetz asked. When no one responded, he concluded: "Seems to have pretty broad support."
Next, the committee turned to another seemingly outdated law -- the state statute that makes it a second degree misdemeanor to commit adultery -- and agreed to decriminalize that as well.
"For the record I disapprove of adultery,'' said Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, who originally sponsored the proposal. Gaetz noted that Workman had recently been divorced and remarried.
"I do not want to have a debate on whether it is morally right to cheat on your spouse,'' Workman said. "The fact of the matter is we are no-fault divorce state." He noted that while the statute allows someone who cheats on a spouse to go to jail, it is not an issue that can be considered in a divorce proceeding in civil court.
"It's not about whether this state has the right to legalize your bedroom,'' he said. He urged the committee to "have the intestinal fortitude to repeal what is a ridiculous law."
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Since 2012, Cheeky Little Monkey Photography has been creating beautiful images of Queensland children and their families.
For too long this style of photography has been pushed to the side and not given the value it deserves. These photographs should not just be for record keeping, they should be proudly displayed in your home.
Cheeky Little Monkey approaches childcare photography with the same respect as they do for their family portrait sessions. Whatever the style that is chosen by the centre, be it studio or candid, the outcome will be the same, professional quality photographs of your child that you will want to frame.
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Angry Asian Man talks to Actor/Blogger Lynn Chen about soap opera love triangles, Asian American indie film and getting yelled at by Samuel L. Jackson.
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Quinn on the White Sox, "sacrifice," governing
* My Sun-Times column…
Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn is a different breed of White Sox fan.
"My heart is big enough for two teams," the lifelong Sox fan said Thursday.
No hate?
No taunting the North Side minor league team's fans about their 100-year championship drought?
"I want Cubs fans to know they'll get a fair shake from me," Quinn said, referring to the fact that he'll almost certainly be governor in a matter of days — once the Illinois Senate finishes Rod Blagojevich's impeachment trial and removes him from office.
Quinn will take office at the worst possible time. Not only has the government been run by criminals for at least the last 10 years, but the state budget is facing its worst crisis since the Great Depression, and the state's economy has been badly damaged by the worst recession since, well, the Great Depression.
Quinn pledges openness, respect for the process and confidence in the citizenry. The bar was set so shockingly low by Blagojevich that Quinn will easily achieve progress in all three of those areas.
But will it be enough?
Quinn's history shows he will give it his best shot. The cause of political reform and putting more power into the hands of voters has literally been his life's work. He has regularly consulted with the legislative leaders while awaiting his likely ascension, which is something Blagojevich has almost never done.
Quinn said Thursday that the best way to help the economy right now is to stimulate consumer spending.
"I don't know if that was the best game plan to follow," Quinn said of Gov. Jim Thompson's income tax increase proposal during the deep recession of 1982-83. A tax increase would likely curtail that all-important consumer spending.
Even so, Quinn said paying the state's bills and avoiding layoffs of state workers are both key to preventing further economic backsliding. And for that, he will probably need more revenue sources.
"It's a demanding time when we might all have to make sacrifices. I see people do that all the time," Quinn said.
"In an economic emergency, we may have to do things differently," he added.
"Differently" has always been Quinn's drummer. How many politically connected fans do you know who buy season tickets in the nosebleed section?
"They're really good seats, right behind home plate," Quinn claimed, confusing the phrase "right behind" with "cloud level."
"There's a lot of good people up there," he said when I told him one of his staffers had offered me a Quinn ticket years ago and I wouldn't take it.
"I have no intention of leaving" the seats," Quinn said. He has developed strong friendships with people who have tickets near his, and he won't abandon them after he becomes governor, which could come as early as next week.
And then he tried to get the topic back onto politics and his future. "Sports of all kinds bring people together," Quinn said, describing fans as "folks of different backgrounds with a common purpose."
"Maybe that's a metaphor for what we have to do in Illinois. We need to band together," he said.
That's gonna be tough. Fans love their teams. Illinois citizens don't exactly love their state government these days. Persuading them to rally around Quinn's new administration and whatever sacrifices he wants them to make might be like persuading White Sox fans to root for the Cubs to win the World Series.
But he's a different sort of fellow, so people may see that quality and give him a chance, particularly if he starts "winning."
He'll never persuade me to stop hating the Cubs, however. I'll tell you that right now.
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* Sox heed Obama's call to service
* Sox official gets close view of First Fan
- Old Shepherd - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 8:48 am:
His heart better get big enough for three teams. I hope he doesn't forget about all of us redbird fans down here in Cardinal Nation. We share a common hatred of the Cubs!
- tc - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 8:57 am:
Cardinals? Where do they play? Aren't they in Arizona?
- Leave a light on George - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 9:05 am:
To all you Sox and Cardinal fans - Bite me!
In a Christian sort of way, of course.
- wordslinger - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 9:05 am:
Maybe Obama can make Ozzie Special Envoy to Venezuela. He and Hugo ought to be able to work out any differences between us in a reasonable and diplomatic manner.
- Secret Square - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 9:57 am:
I hope this means Quinn is considering a balanced approach to budgeting which doesn't make one group of people, one agency or one economic sector the target for all tax hikes or budget cuts. If things are as bad as you say, we are going to need both (tax increases and spending cuts).
- Boone Logan Square - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 12:05 pm:
I may loathe the Cubs, but given the state of the State today, I welcome someone mature enough to respect his constituents.
That said, here's some immature gloating. Perhaps I missed a comment about it, but how funny was watching the inaugural parade Tuesday? The Illinois float had two humanoids on it — Lincoln and the Sox mascot. Sox hat sales have gone way up the past couple of months, with sales all around the world. President Obama's the best ambassador for the team since Reinsdorf and Einhorn chased Harry Caray off to Wrigley with SportsVision.
- Capitol View - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 12:52 pm:
I'm a Sox fan, but I am also tolerant of Cub supporters - I consider it "emotional charity".
- Kevin Fanning - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 1:43 pm:
Rich runs on Cubs hatred
- Reddbyrd - Friday, Jan 23, 09 @ 5:08 pm:
True members of CardinalNation need not waste time or energy on the Cubs. We will always come out ahead. And now they go from a bankrupt media company to the Wall Street crowd. That seems akin to switching from the Hindenberg to the Titanic for their transportation needs.
- Mighty M. Mouse - Sunday, Jan 25, 09 @ 12:45 am:
Great Sun-Times column! As a lifelong White Sox fan, I agree with everything Rich says except that I don't hate the Cubs, I just root for them to lose. And to be fair and give credit where credit is due, unlike the White Sox, come the end of every season the Cubs have NEVER let me down.


A Teesside college has announced it will open the North East's first health and safety training academy this summer to unlock the aspirations of employers and students in the region.
Redcar and Cleveland College will launch the academy in September to deliver high-quality training and relevant hands-on experience for people who aspire to work in the health and safety industry.
Colin Willis (pictured), lead tutor in health and safety, along with a dedicated team of practitioners, will provide an extensive range of accredited courses, including the NEBOSH Level 3 International General Certificate and the flagship NEBOSH Level 6 National Diploma.
The academy, which opens in September, will also offer bespoke health and safety courses at foundation level, in conjunction with employers across the region.
Unique to the academy will be the opportunity for employers to draw on the experience that the team have acquired with SABIC UK at Wilton International in delivering a Competence Assurance programme.
This programme includes policy development, competence assessor training and mentoring and on-going support.
All courses are designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of any organisation which intends to monitor the competence of their employees.
Colin said: "I'm thrilled the college is taking strides to provide specialist health and safety provision in the North East education market.
"We are always looking for new opportunities to expand our service to our students. Drawing upon our reputation, expertise and facilities we look forward to assisting them to raise competence in health and safety management in their workplace.
"The college has for many years boasted an on-demand course portfolio but health and safety courses were integrated with other courses and this specialist capacity was often lost in the college offering.
"We have evolved to formalise the courses under a training academy banner with a dedicated team of experts to offer a unique service to both employers and students looking to work in the field.
Students interested in enrolling on a health and safety course are advised to sign up during enrolment week August 25 to September 2.


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Saturn's Hexagon Unlikely To Be An Alien Base... It's Far Too Windy
Saturn's hexagon-shaped "storm" is really a base for the Illuminati. No, wait, actually it's an alien space base. Erm... would you believe a gateway to Hell? Alright, let's stop with the conspiracy theories and hear what science has to say, thanks to Discovery News.
As British solar physicist Dr Ian O'Neill explains, researchers have their own theory as to why there's a hexagon tornado tearing it up at Saturn's north pole, a weather anomaly that's remained a consistent feature since its discovery by the Voyager probe in the early 1980s.
One convincing answer comes from observing fluid dynamics. During simulations by scientists it was shown that if a liquid is spun faster in its centre than its edge, eddies form around the perimeter, causing the liquid to be "corralled".
As a result, a polygon-like structure forms from what was once a mostly circular shape. It's believed that a similar situation occurs at Saturn's north pole, with the Cassini probe detecting faster winds at higher latitudes than lower ones.
Of course, it is just a hypothesis, but an extremely provable one. I guess it'll take a visit by humans to dispel the conspiracy theories (you'd hope).
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Observation gives you the opportunity to understand human behavior, but no one takes time to observe. If we observed, we wouldn't ask so many questions because all the answers were there, in our faces. Because sometimes you don't need words to know reasons, it's like the souls were connected… you just know it.


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By 1981, the classic OMD lineup [L-R]: Malcolm Holmes, Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper
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As OMD moved from 1980 into 1981, they found themselves synchronizing immaculately with the zeitgeist of the year which saw Post-Punk and the emergent New Pop aesthetic reaching for its acme in the public consciousness. 1981 was a watershed year for me as a listener of pop music. I can't say when as many left-field, intensely creative productions managed to find such a wide audience as what happened [at least in the UK] that year. At the time, I was eagerly soaking up as much of it as I could from my home in Orlando, Florida; not the most progressive of locales. Needless to say, a huge proportion of my favorite albums of all time date from this calendar year. It was a year in which the sort of music that I care the most passionately about was at its commercial peak. And it was the year that OMD rode the gravy train to enormous fame and sales in many parts of the world.
OMD as a touring entity by the end of 1980 encompassed the core duo with drummer Malcolm Holmes. Dave [Dalek I Love You] Hughes was their second keyboardist that year but left, and he was replaced by Martin Cooper, who knew the band and had earlier played sax on "Mysterality." By the time that the third album, "Architecture + Morality," was released in November of 1981, Cooper was firmly ensconced as the fourth wheel on the OMD bus.
The album proper got its name in a roundabout way from their friend/designer Peter Saville, who had a long and storied history with the band. His girlfriend at the time was Martha Ladly. At the time she was one of Martha + The Muffins [by the next year she would join The Associates] and she was a graphic designer like Saville. She had been reading the David Watkin's book "Morality + Architecture" and the thought occurred that it would make a great title for the OMD album currently in the oven. This would not be the last time that Ms. Ladly had something to offer OMD.
It was in September of '81 that I had heard the pre-release single from this album. "Souvenir" had gotten airplay on WUSF-FM's excellent Friday night New Wave programming. I could barely receive the signal in Orlando; 90 miles away from Tampa, Florida but I listened that year since it was filled with the kind of music that I really wanted to hear. One night that summer the 10″ extended version of "Souvenir" had been played as an import single. I had no idea that the single was released at the time so it came as a pleasant surprise, to put it mildly! The song did not sound remotely like any previous OMD track and now I knew that OMD were stirring. A new album would be forthcoming soon.
It was two months later when I got the news that Record Mart Warehouse [my favorite store at the time] had the new OMD album on import and I wasted no time in getting down there and buying a copy. 1981 was an interesting year for me. I was graduating high school, starting college, and my music listening was insanely active and the role payed my import vinyl in my life was exploding. I was honing in on import albums as being in my best interests and my attention to import singles was just around the corner. I bought the album and took it home; admiring the die-cut cream sleeve from Peter Saville Associates. The inner sleeve could show one of two photos in the front of sleeve window, but to me, the cover must always look as shown on he sleeve above. Inside was an insert for the OMD fan club in green ink on matching cream paper [see left]. It tantalized me with offers that were pretty much out of my reach with the impossibility of paying for anything in a foreign currency at that point in time. Life before PayPal was no walk in the park in this regard.
Next… We played the album
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