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LED luminaires light up art details in St. Peter's basilica
January 28, 2019 //By Julien Happich
Following nearly 18 month of planning and the installation of a new LED lighting system, St. Peter's Basilica now shines in brilliant light, with an entire lighting concept tailor-made by Osram to highlight all the treasures of the world's most important and historic basilica.
More than 780 special luminaires equipped with approximately 100,000 LEDs were used in this project. Thanks to intelligent lighting control, the lighting of the church, which covers an area of around 22,000 square meters, can be quickly and easily adapted to predefined lighting scenarios.
With the new LED light, for example, the mosaics in the domes of the side aisles now can be seen down to the smallest detail. Numerous works of art that previously disappeared in semi-darkness now shine in all their glory.
"We are very proud of this lighting masterpiece in St. Peter's Basilica," said Olaf Berlien, CEO of OSRAM Licht AG. "The project demonstrates just how history and high tech can be combined in the best possible way by using the right expertise. More than 500 years of history are now being bathed in digitally controlled LED light."
The innovative LED illumination with high spectral quality and efficient photometric distribution has significantly reduced glare. Due to their special geometry and compact dimensions, the luminaires could be optimally integrated into the architecture. The number of luminaires also has been significantly reduced thanks to their efficiency. Together with the digital control system, energy savings of up to 90 percent are possible compared with the old lighting.
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Monday Sweater Junior by PetiteKnit
Tämä ohje on englanniksi ja paperikopio.
The Monday Sweater Junior is worked from the top down with raglan increases to shape the yoke. The neck rib edge is folded and knitted together (to form a double neckband) and short rows are worked at the back of the neck to shape the neckline and raise the back. The sleeves are worked in the round on double-pointed needles or on a circular needle using the Magic Loop technique. The yoke, body and sleeves are worked on stockinette stitch and finished with a 1x1 rib edge.
Sizes: 1-2 (2-3) 3-4 (4-5) 5-6 (6-7) 7-8 (8-9) 9-10 (10-12) 12-14 (14-15) years
Chest circumference: 69 (71) 73 (75) 77 (80) 84 (89) 92 (96) 99 (102) cm [27¼ (28) 28¾ (29½) 30¼ (31½) 33 (35) 36¼ (37¾) 39 (40¼) inches]
Length: 37 (38) 40 (42) 44 (46) 48 (50) 52 (53) 55 (57) cm [14½ (15) 15¾ (16½) 17¼ (18) 19 (19¾) 20½ (20¾) 21¾ (22½) inches] (measured mid back)
Gauge: 21 sts x 28 rows= 10 x 10 cm [4 x 4 inches] in stockinette stitch on 4 mm [US6] needles
Needles: Circular needles: 3.5 mm [US4] / 40 and 60 cm [14 and 24 inches] and 4 mm [US6] / 40 and 60 cm [14 and 24 inches]; Double-pointed needles: 3.5 mm [US4] and 4 mm [US6]
Materials: Suggestion 1: 100-200 (200) 200 (200) 200 (200) 200 (200) 200-300 (300) 300 (300) g Merino Singles by Sysleriget (100 g = 366 m [400 yds]) held together with 50 (50-75) 75 (75) 75 (75) 100 (100) 100 (100) 125 (125) g Silk Mohair by Isager (25 g = 212 m [232 yds]) or Tilia by Filcolana (25 g = 210 m [230 ys])
Suggestion 2: 100 (100) 100-150 (150) 150 (150) 150 (150) 200 (200) 200-250 (250) g Sunday by Sandnes Garn (50 g = 235 m [257 yds]) held together with 50 (50-75) 75 (75) 75 (75) 100 (100) 100 (100) 125 (125) g Tynn Silk Mohair by Sandnes Garn (25 g = 212 m [232 yds])
Suggestion 3: 200 (200-250) 250 (250) 250 (250-300) 300 (350) 350-400 (400) 450 (500) g Double Sunday by Sandnes Garn (50 g = 108 m [118 yds])
Difficulty: ★ ★ ★ (3 out of 5)
The blue Monday Sweater Junior is knitted in Merino Singles by Sysleriget in the color Mrs Potts held together with Silk Mohair by Isager in the color E0.
The pink Monday Sweater Junior is knitted in Sunday by Sandnes Garn in the color Hvit [1001] held together with Tynn Silk Mohair by Sandnes Garn in the color Ferskenblomst [4033].

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Correcting Revisionism Re: Ruwart
SC) During the 2008 campaign for the Libertarian presidential nomination, there was controversy about how to handle the topic of teens, children and sex, with some Libertarians being fearful that an LP candidate applying the usual libertarian stance in favor of more personal freedom to this particular issue would harm the party's popularity. (SC
Ruwart's stance was hardly "the usual libertarian" one. Your revisionism here can be corrected with some quotes from the LP Platform, from Ruwart's writings, and from my blog postings at the time.
The Platform said then (and now): "Government exists to protect the rights of every individual including life, liberty and property. [...] Consenting ADULTS should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships." (emphasis added)
Ruwart's stance was different from both of these propositions. As an anarchist she denies that there should be any government protection of children from sexual predation. She wrote that "Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make for choice is just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life." And: "A libertarian society would not have laws that discriminate on the basis of age."
BH on Apr 25: Let's not pretend that the reason Ruwart's in trouble is for opposing bright lines in state legislation for protecting minors. She's in trouble for opposing any state legislation that isn't completely age-blind -- i.e., that doesn't make the same default assumptions about 3-year-olds as it does about 30-year-olds. She further said -- in the context of child pornography, child sex, and children's contractual rights, mind you -- that the readiness of children to enter contracts should be determined not by the judgment of their parents, but by the risk tolerance of the strangers seeking to contract with those children: "In practice, you would decide if a child is old enough to enter into a contract with you. Is the child willing and able to provide the contracted service to you?" The only role she mentioned for parents is that they can decline to drive the child to her chosen workplace. In Mary's defense, she might not know that pedophiles sometimes have their own cars...
Still, I'm confident this child pornography issue would no more affect a general-election Ruwart candidacy than the various smears on Root would affect his candidacy, or than Badnarik's driver's license affected his 2004 race. The Ron Paul newsletter episode demonstrated that the MSM just isn't interested in knocking people off of pedestals that are only an inch high. The scalp of a L/libertarian candidate just isn't a valuable addition to a mainstream journalist's resume.
The real concern here is that the potential attack on Ruwart is not about some aspect of her past from which she's moved on, but rather is about her current position on a fundamental question of libertarian ideology -- the role of the state in protecting unemancipated children from adults such as their own guardians. The anarchist Ruwart clearly believes there should be no such role whatsoever. Ruwart's supporters are holding up her anarchism as the gold standard of "pure"/"plumbline" ideology, but the LP has grown and evolved beyond such a pinched and narrow vision of libertarianism.
BH on May 1: It's nice to see that Ruwart has backed away somewhat from her book's statement that "A libertarian society would not have laws that discriminate on the basis of age." Apparently, what she meant to say was that a libertarian society would not have laws that draw bright lines regarding age, but that it's OK to have legally-binding court precedents -- and perhaps even laws -- that make the burden of proof a function of age. She now says:
"Courts are likely to consider that pre-pubescent children had been coerced, since desire would be absent. The burden of proof would be on the pornography producer or older sex partner to show that coercion, e.g. rape, had not occurred. With older teens, the burden of proof would likely be to show that coercion had occurred."
BH on May 8: It took Ruwart eight days to back off from her book's position that the rules should be age-blind, but once she endorsed a sliding rebuttable-presumption standard, there was no longer an interesting controversy here about "age of consent". (She's still vulnerable for her mistaken claim that "desire" can be the only reason for a child to competently want to engage in sexual activity, but that's a technicality that most of her critics, and all of her supporters, will overlook.) Even the question of whether the rules about consent should be established by legislation vs. markets doesn't make for a truly novel controversy among libertarians -- although this is surely the first time that a serious LP presidential contender had a written record on this extremely sensitive subtopic.
No, the most intellectually interesting remainder of this controversy is the question of how children's rights are balanced against the rights of parents as guardians. Ruwart's book clearly suggests that she sees parents having no rights whatsoever to constrain their children's choices, except by denying them e.g. transportation to the child's pornography photo shoots. This is a topic that Ruwart and her supporters aren't touching with a ten-foot pole. And with good reason, because it leads directly to an unanswered question I asked of Ruwart ten days ago: "Do you agree with Rothbard that it should not be a crime for parents to starve their children, or do you hold that the legal system should require a positive obligation of parents not to starve their children?"


Ladies model Doctor Cunnington's collection of old gowns. Finchley, North London.
No title - Old frocks.
Doctor Cunnington's collection of old dresses. Finchley, North London.
Various shots of old gowns hung up. M/S of Dr Cunnington looking at one dress, M/S as he looks at a corset from 1780. M/S as a woman unwraps a dress which is 100 years old. M/S of ladies modelling an evening dress of 1821, a ball dress of 1864 and walking dress of 1837. Various shots of the girls. Various shots of another old gown. Various shots of Victorian costumes. M/S of dresses from 1863 which are long and wide. M/S of carriage dress of 1857, the lady also has a folding parasol, C/U of her face and bonnet.


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Like many 17 year old girls, Charlotte Lowes was starstruck by a glamorous actor, but her infatuation with Penrith lad William Johnstone, a common travelling player, was never going to satisfy middle class society. When her father, a wealthy Wigton lawyer, forbade the match, Charlotte escaped her locked bedchamber and eloped to Gretna Green with William. So began a life on the road, captured in her popular memoir, A Travelling Actress in the North and Scotland.
The company's performances would be held wherever they were accepted, with Charlotte's memoir recounting appearances as far apart as Arbroath and Flookburgh, Berwick and Maryport, Cartmel and Catterick; in the back rooms of inns, in barns and halls, and even outside. Musical interludes would be interspersed between short theatrical performances. In later years this style evolved into the ever popular music hall and variety genre, but for Charlotte celebrity status was a distant hope and penury a near neighbour.
In some parts of the North country pockets of local prosperity benefitted the visiting actors. Entertaining the rich miners of Alston Moor and the genteel company at the Keswick Regatta was well paid, but for much of the year the players had to eke out a precarious living.
In Charlotte's case, a year or so after eloping with William she was herself persuaded to join her husband in treading the boards. She proved to be a talented actress and the income she earned in that way, though erratic, was needed to support her growing family.
For a while things looked up as Charlotte's acting skills led her to Mr Cawdell's superior theatre company in the North East, but there a dispute led to her return to the nomadic uncertainties of the travelling player. By chance, Charlotte, William and their expanding family headed back to Wigton with another acting troupe, where her father's surviving relations attempted to intimidate local inn-keepers into withdrawing offers of venues.
Not long afterwards the couple took the tenancy of the Hare and Hounds on Wigton's Allonby Road, perhaps hoping to give their children a settled upbringing. Sadly this hope was dashed as William was accused of debt and dragged away to Carlisle Gaol. Charlotte took what work she could find, washing silk stockings and quilting to raise the money needed for his release. After William's freedom was secured the couple worked hard to establish a secure living and his subsequent employment as an auctioneer suggested that they were heading towards respectability. Sadly, this too was shortlived, as Charlotte was struck down insensibly for four months with brain fever. When she regained her senses she found that her beloved William had succumbed mortally to the same illness.
Charlotte again returned to the acting life and in Penrith joined Mr Hobson's Company of Comedians, soon becoming joint manager of the company. The risks of being on the road with a fairly disreputable crew led Charlotte, now aged thirty five to take another actor Mr Thomas Deans, thirteen years her junior, to be her husband. Marriage in Workington was followed by the rapid expansion of their family as Charlotte's existing brood of six was supplemented in the following years by eleven more children, one born backstage during a performance and one in a hedgerow.
The family suffered extremes of hardship, often going hungry and penniless. Life on the road must have been a never-ending trial but Charlotte showed great resilience and strength of character, leading them on as they were buffeted by the weather and threatened by vigilantes who tried to shut down their shows.
Whether from feeling some genuine joy in acting, or fearing what might happen if she pursued another path, Charlotte could not step aside from the life of the travelling player and she continued to act until she was in her seventies. Much of her story would have been forgotten if she hadn't published her memoirs in 1837, the proceeds from which allowed her to furnish a small cottage for her old age. She passed away in March 1859 in a small house behind Carlisle's Botchergate Post Office with Thomas at her side. She was 90 years old.
In more recent times her autobiography inspired its own stage play which brought echoes of her voice to the same Cumbrian towns and villages where she had performed two centuries earlier.


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BNSF to Take More Land at Dallas Logistics Hub
The San Diego-based Allen Group and BNSF Railway Co. announced a deal this week to build an intermodal facility at the Dallas Logistics Hub. Under the terms of the agreement, BNSF will buy between 387 and 530 acres at the hub, a 6,000-acre master planned logistics park in southern Dallas County.
"They now have the rights to purchase that land to build an intermodal facility," Jon Cross, The Allen Group's director of marketing, told CPN today. "They have a due diligence period to evaluate and study that area and see if it's efficient (for an intermodal facility). We feel pretty confident that it will be the perfect location for them."
The site BNSF may take fronts 8,000 feet of track in the city of Dallas and is part of 2½ miles of BNSF track within the Dallas Logistics Hub. If BNSF constructs an intermodal facility there, Cross said, the hub would be the first logistics park in North America to house two intermodal facilities.
CPN reported last November that BNSF was in talks with The Allen Group to acquire several hundred acres within the logistics hub, which will serve as an inland port for distributing goods to the central and eastern United States, and has up to 60 million square feet of development potential. Last Friday, about 1,000 people attended the park's grand opening ceremony.
The Allen Group announced at the event that construction will begin in June on two speculative industrial buildings for delivery by the end of the year. The two buildings will total 640,000 and 210,000 square feet. "Our hope is to go after that user looking for a 200,000- or 600,000-square-foot deal, but we can also set it up for multiple users," Cross said.
Cross said the company is also creating a cost calculator for the park's Web site, that will allow potential users to analyze distribution cost savings from the park to any one of Dallas' submarkets.
The master-plan for the hub includes business-class hotels, restaurants and single- and multi-family housing in addition to warehouse, distribution and light manufacturing facilities. In sum the property is expected to increase the tax bases of the municipalities of Dallas, Lancaster, Wilmer and Hutchins by $2.4 billion.
The Allen Group specializes in developing rail-served industrial parks and build-to-suit facilities, and currently has over 8,000 acres of land under development, including a BNSF intermodal logistics park in Kansas City.
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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 40 of the most recognizable alternative rock hits of the modern era are featured in this piano/vocal/guitar collection, including: Bring Me to Life (Evanescence) * Crazy (Gnarls Barkley) * Drive (Incubus) * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Green Day) * How You Remind Me (Nickelback) * Iris (Goo Goo Dolls) * The Middle (Jimmy Eat World) * The Only Exception (Paramore) * Radioactive (Imagine Dragons) * Smells like Teen Spirit (Nirvana) * Thnks Fr Th Mmrs (Fall Out Boy) * Use Somebody (Kings of Leon) * We Are Young (fun.) * and more.


I just realised my article on estimating word counts for longer books is online here in the Extensive Reading Journal.
It compares various methods for estimating word counts of longer books. See what you think!
We're almost halfway through year three of the Cambridge Academy. As I wrote about in the last update we're trying out our new Fluency Course this year along with larger classes (up to ten students). I'm also teaching six nights a week.
So far, so good. The Fluency Course is going well with the first years, who are using it as their only materials. For the second and third years we have been using the first year timed reading texts alongside our original question cards and workbooks, as well as commercial textbooks.
From this month the third years have been trying our second year Fluency Course. Right now we only have the first month written, so we have to write each month in order for the students to use it the following month. I am writing the second month as we speak (well, actually I am procrastinating by writing this blog post instead!).
The junior high school students are streamed by school year (we have three first year, two second year, and one third year class), apart from advanced students who either get private classes or join a senior high school class. Senior high school students are streamed by level/ability, and we currently have three levels/classes.
We made another big book order for YL0.3 and 0.4 taking us to roughly ten copies of each set, and I think we'll probably do the same for 0.5 and 0.6 later in the year.
The main developments have been in the input (reading) classes, and how we approach them now and in the future.
At this point it seems like our current first years are doing better than our first years last year. I can think of several reasons. We made student manuals to help explain the system. We modeled what we wanted to see in the reading classes, both at the beginning and several weeks in when we saw that some students were going off track. We introduced a read to the teacher extra step when students finish a set.
It seems likely that we should be able to aim for our students to reach intermediate level (YL1.1+) by the end of the third year of our course, having read over half a million words. If they then choose to stay with us during senior high school, we can try to get them to the lift-off stage where they go on to read 1-2 million words over the following three years.
However, we are still not achieving the results that some of the best ER programs in Japan boast. This month I attended the Extensive Reading World Congress and was able to attend some very inspiring presentations by Japan Extensive Reading Association members.
The results reported by some programs seem to be outlier students chosen for effect and do not represent the average student. In the case of SEG, they have three levels of class (advanced, normal, and low-level). Due to their student demographics (large number of returnees and kids expecting to get into Tokyo University), our student population is closest to their low-level classes, and we are achieving similar results so I feel much better about our program now.
With guided ER it is important not to increase student levels linearly, but instead to have them fluctuate up and down. This is expressed in the concepts of kirin (giraffe) reading, where students read above their baseline level, and panda reading, where they read below. Through judicious use of these two variations, we should be able to have our students progress slightly faster than they have done until now.
We have identified three types of student at our school, each of which requires slightly different treatment.
Fast students: can advance quickly, only reading a couple of books/sets at each level. Goals are to get to intermediate then find a series they enjoy in order to do narrow reading. I think our current approach is fine with these students, but we might be able to do better at introducing books/encouraging them to stretch themselves.
Normal students: can advance at a normal pace, reading about 2/3 of our readers at each level while also doing kirin reading and panda reading. Goals are to level up as quickly as possible without getting ahead of their understanding. I think we can help these students move quicker by judicious coaching.
Slow students: can advance only slowly, often requiring extra reading at each level before moving up. Kirin reading may help these students and is something we will investigate. Perhaps we could provide more support by reading with these students or helping them understand/interact with the texts.
Compared to SEG, we have about half the in-class reading time, and much more importantly a much less motivated and academically-gifted student body. Despite these restrictions, I am hopeful we'll be able to help most of our students achieve meaningful progress in their English skills.
The obstacle is that even for SEG it seems to take 4-5 years before the effects really start to show. Getting students (and their parents) to persist until they reap the benefits of their effort seems to be the tricky part. We're getting better at this, and are losing fewer students than we were in the first year.
Last year we almost filled our three classes of ten. It looks like we'll have around thirty students coming up from elementary school classes, so should have similar numbers in April.
Do we increase our class limits to twelve? I think it would work pedagogically, and of course it would make the classes more profitable, but we'd really be stretching the physical limits of both our input and output classrooms. Right now ten is snug, so twelve might be too tight.
Who is going to teach the classes? We could go in one of four directions: I keep teaching both input and output classes, alongside other teachers and our interns. I teach all the output classes, and leave the input classes to our interns. I leave the output classes to our teachers and teach all the input classes. I ask our teachers and interns to teach all the classes, and float, observing and helping as needed. I think it might be a bit soon for the last option.
Running the Academy is still one of the most fun and interesting things I have done as a teacher, and I am really looking forward to figuring out how to make the program even better over the next few years.


When it comes to getting a mortgage, everyone wants to know the bottom line: How much am I going to have to pay every month for my mortgage? The mortgage payment calculator uses the amount of your mortgage, how often you make the mortgage payments, and the interest rate that you're getting from your lender in order to figure how much your mortgage payments will be.
• Amortization period refers to the number of years it will take to pay down the principal balance of your mortgage in full. The most common amortization period is 25 years.
• Also known as interim financing, a bridge loan is a second mortgage that is paid of immediately following the closing date of the buyer's current home. Bridge financing is typically used when the sale of the buyer's current home closes after the purchase of his or her new home closes.
• A mortgage that, for a specified term, locks you into paying the mortgage for that period of time. It also locks in a mortgage rate, which doesn't increase/decrease if rates do. Generally, if you break a closed mortgage, you will be required to pay three months interest payments as a penalty. The most common term for a closed mortgage is five years.
•The number of times per year that the interest rate is compounded. In Canada, mortgage interest rates are compounded semi-annually, or twice per year.
• Condo fees consist of the monthly payments collected that cover a resident's shared expenses for the upkeep of all common areas.
• The amount of cash that the buyer can initially invest in the property. The down payment is the difference between the purchase price and the value of the mortgage loan.
• A mortgage that is more than 80% of the home's appraised value or purchase price (whichever is less). High-ratio mortgages must be insured to protect the lender against default.
• The percentage of the mortgage loan charged by the lender for use of the lender's money. In Canada, this mortgage rate is compounded semi-annually, or twice per year.
• This is insurance that is required for high-ratio mortgages. It protects the lender in the event that a borrower defaults on a mortgage. The three mortgage insurers in Canada are CMHC (Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation), Genworth, and AIG. Prior to the creation of CMHC, Canadians could not purchase a home without a 25% down payment.
• This is insurance that pays off the mortgage in the event of death or disability. To read more about mortgage life insurance, please click here.
• A mortgage loan is a loan secured by real estate owned by the borrower.
• A mortgage payment is a periodic amount paid to a mortgage holder for repayment of a mortgage loan.
• Mortgage principal is the outstanding balance of your mortgage.
• Mortgage rate is the interest that a mortgage borrower will pay for money borrowed against a mortgage.
• A mortgage term is the length of time, usually in years, in which the parameters of a mortgage have legal effect.
• The party that advances the funds for a mortgage loan; the lender.
• The party that uses their home as a security for a mortgage; the borrower.
• This is a mortgage with no term, which means that you can pay off your mortgage either fully or partially at any time with no penalty. Open mortgage rates are usually higher than closed mortgage rates.
• The amount of money borrowed or still owing on a mortgage.
• A real estate agent who is a member of a local real estate board, the Canadian Real Estate Association and a provincial association.
• Insurance that protects the owner or mortgagee of the property from any lawsuits or claims arising from a defective title.


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HBO Brings True Blood Reboot
Samantha Jones
HBO is rebooting the 2008 to 2013 hit fantasy series, True Blood! Based off of Charlaine Harris' series of vampire novels, True Blood's original series featured Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. No word yet as to the reboot's actors, story line or release date, but our blood is pumping for more news!
You'll Be Shook By What Books These Movies Are Based On
Synovia Roberts
There's a saying that no idea is original, that everything is borrowed or recycled to make something new. That is definitely the case with these movies and shows. Spoiler warning for all mediums listed. You (2018 – ) The captivating Netflix thriller is actually based on both You and Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes. Like all adaptations, there are a few ways that the show moves away from the events of the novel as a way to keep things fresh. A major, but common, shift is the addition of characters that never existed in the original novels. Characters like …
5 Bloody Fantastic Vampire Adaptations: From Book to Screen
Krisdee Dishmon
Vampires are climbing out of their coffins and onto our TV screens—and we're rushing to invite them in. For centuries, vampires have been both monster and metaphor, a representation of anything from immigration, to capitalism, to homosexuality. These creatures have been whatever we needed them to be… including sexy, sparkly, teen heartthrobs when the cultural zeitgeist demanded it. But mostly, they've been damn entertaining. Whether they're scary or scary seductive, vampires continue to be the subject of our collective fascination. Here are five phenomenal onscreen adaptations of the most unique vampire novels out there. 1. NOS4A2 Listen, feminism and …
Literary Valentines: Modern Edition
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What modern literary character would you want to spend Valentine's Day with; take a look and comment below?
'True Blood' Actor Nelsan Ellis Dies At 39
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Nelsan Ellis, most famous for his role as short-order cook Lafayette Reynolds on HBO's 'True Blood', has passed away after complications with heart failure. This was confirmed by his manager Emily Gerson Saines. Born in Harvey, Illinois in 1977, Ellis went to Thorn Ridge High School before attending Illinois State University. Ellis then earned his B.F.A. from the prestigious Juilliard School, where he also found himself a class above his eventual 'True Blood' co-star, Rutina Wesley. Via The Huffington Post In 2008, Ellis joined the cast for 'True Blood', a HBO dark horror fantasy television show based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. Since then, he has …


Nearly 500 yearbook advisers from all over the country entered Walsworth's "The Best Thing About Yearbook is…" contest during National Yearbook Week 2018 last week. Once the dust settled, two lucky winners were drawn at the end of the day on Friday as winners.
Mary Beth Lee from Chisholm Trail High School in Fort Worth, Texas, and Sheena Zadai from North Ridgeville High School in North Ridgeville, Ohio, each won fully stocked mini-fridges for their yearbook room, as well as a fun poster pack and buttons.
Yearbook advisers were entered into the drawing by simply filling out the form at walsworthyearbooks.com/thebestthing and telling us what they thought the best thing about yearbook is.


Problems can occur when users attempt to share workbooks using the public folder, a workgroup or a server. In addition, sharing a workbook does not work with conditional formatting, charts, pivot... The INDIRECT function is really cool as it can be used to reference sheet cells or a range of cells. It opens up a lot of interesting possibilities as you can have fun creating flexible formulas, like indirectly summing the values that reside in another worksheet!
Run a macro or function from another workbook This code can be used to run a macro from another workbook. It must open the file first, and then the other workbook's macro can be executed. Excel Run a macro or function from another workbook Ease of Use Intermediate Version tested with 97, 2003 Submitted by: Ken Puls. Description: This code can be used to run a macro from another workbook. …... As demonstrated in the above example, you can use the Excel INDIRECT function to put the address of one cell into another as a usual text string, and get the value of the 1 st cell by referencing the 2 nd. However, that trivial example is no more than a hint at the INDIRECT capabilities.
Import Data from another Workbook using External Reference If you wonder how to pull data from another Excel file, this is the simplest method available. To understand this, just type a '=' Equal to symbol in any cell.
I want to create a user defined function in Excel 2007 to return the name of a month from the month number. If I create the function within a module in VBAProject (Book1), then it works; but if I put the function in VBAProject (PERSONAL.XLSB) it just returns #NAME? in the worksheet cell.
Use the functions - They will appear in the Paste Function dialog box (Shift+F3) under the "User Defined" category If you want to use a UDF in more than one workbook, you can save your functions to your personal.xlsb workbook or save them in your own custom add-in.
28/08/2014 · The function should be a Public function in a standard module (not a sheet module) The module must not use "Option Private Module" The workbook it is in must be open. (putting the function in an add-in helps, as add-ins are loaded when Excel starts) A reference to the workbook containing the function in Tools Reference is not necessary.


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Sidney M. Jourard papers
The Jourard papers contain correspondence, drafts of his various publications, a large research collection, his personal library, and digital copies of lectures he did 1965-1974. Of particular interest is his correspondence with Abraham Maslow, O. Hobart Mowrer, David Riesman, Carl Rogers, Thomas Szasz, and other prominent psychologists.
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Sidney Marshall "Sid" Jourard was born in Mt. Dennis, Canada January 21, 1926, the son of Albert Louis Jourard and Anna Rubinoff Jourard. He received a B.A. degree in 1947 and a M.A. degree in 1948 from the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in psychology at the University of Buffalo in 1953, having begun his career in 1948 as an instructor in psychology at the University of Buffalo.
Jourard was an assistant professor of psychology at Emory University from 1951-1956 and at the University of Alabama Medical School 1956-1957, although he was in part-time practice as a psychologist after 1951 and continued a limited private practice throughout his professional career
In 1958 Jourard became an associate research professor at the College of Nursing of the University of Florida at Gainesville, at the same time holding an appointment in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. After 1962 he became a full time professor of psychology.
Along with teaching, research, and clinical activities, he conducted seminars and discussion groups for various churches, organizations, and community groups. He also served as a consultant to state and national government agencies. In 1964 Jourard founded the Center of Man at Gainesville, Florida. This was one of the early centers for personal growth.
An authority on the psychological aspects of personality development, he was interested in body cathexis and the ego, the development of attitudes toward the self in relation to parental and societal influences, the dynamics of self-disclosure and the role of disclosure in the practice of psychotherapy, the aspects of personality related to nursing care, and alcoholism.
Jourard authored many journal articles and book chapters. He also authored the following books: Personal Adjustment: An Approach through the Study of Healthy Personality (1958, 1963); The Transparent Self: Self-Disclosure and Well-Being (1964, 1971); Disclosing Man to Himself (1968); Self-Disclosure: An Experimental Analysis of the Transparent Self (1971); and, Healthy Personality: An Approach From the Viewpoint of Humanistic Psychology (1974)
Jourard was founding fellow and first elected president (1963-1964) of the American Association for Humanistic Psychology. He was a fellow of the American Psychological Association and served on the editorial boards of several periodicals, including the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Psychotherapy.
He was married in Toronto, Canada on June 20, 1948 to Antoinette R. "Toni" Hertz, and they were the parents of three children: Jeffrey Alan, Martin Richard, and Leonard Morris Jourard. He died December 2, 1974 in an accident at Gainesville, Florida.
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Q: Bootstrap single file upload and submission button I am trying to make a button on user profile that will allow the user to choose file and after the file has been chosen, it will be uploaded with the same button.
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This assumes that you only have one object with that exact class on the page. If you have more you will have to add the logic to select the correct button.
If you need to do something with the file that is loaded you will need to have some sort of server side language or scripting language since this can not be done in HTML and CSS alone.

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Mirandilla is a municipality located in Badajoz Province, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1358 inhabitants.

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No B&B 70.3, but it was a wonderful day.
Today was one of those days that I would not have and could not have planned. I had planned to spend the day doing a practice half ironman. Instead, because I was sick, I spent the day at home. As it turns out, I seem to have made great strides geting my personal life in order and getting some much needed rest. I slept in, caught up on magazines, wrote a speech for Toastmasters, took a nap, did my laundry, baked brownies for a potluck, hung out with Mom and Armineh, prepared my area contest materials, watched a movie, and did my taxes. I also got to love on the cats. A lot. It was a lovely day of being at home and getting things done that needed doing. I suddenly feel on top of things, which is odd for me. I'm usually about three steps behind.
I don't remember the last time I spent a full day at home. Why is that? Why do I feel the need to book myself up relentlessly? Why isn't time at home a regular part of my weekly schedule? Maybe it should be. Maybe a day like today where I can rest and catch up on home stuff should be a regular part of my schedule every week or couple of weeks. Can I convince myself to make such a thing a regular life event for me? It's worth a try. I feel fresh right now – fresh and ready to see tomorrow come. I haven't felt that way in…I don't know how long. Maybe since the night we flew home from Coeur d'Alene?
← No B&B 70.3 for me today.


I'm trying something new - to see if I can easily post more often... I'm posting from my email. I know going to the actual blogger site shouldn't be that much harder, but well... cut me some slack people - I'm trying to bring you content. HAHA!
My experience yesterday made me think about some things that might have been misconceptions before I had a child of my own. It is simply amazing how much their little tiny personalities can be different - and when they've got an opinion about something - it's usually not a mild opinion. It is typically at one of the extremes.
The grocery store experience was just simply amazing to me because one minute there we were happily shopping, smiling, and having a good time looking around at all the stuff... and the next minute - we were on total DEF CON 5 meltdown. There was simply no consoling James in that moment, and I thought back to the times before I had kids - that I just simply didn't understand what the parents were going through.
Kids are unpredictable and sometimes that can turn out to be messy. The interesting thing is that you could almost see the sympathy on the faces of the other mothers and fathers (the ones that were involved with raising their kids) - and then the ones that just didn't get it. I for one am NOT someone that would EVER draw attention to myself - so add that on top of the fit... and it makes for one stressful situation.
I just never realized how common that phenomenon could be. Now, all of that being said - I will certainly have a different thought process and sympathy when I see someone else going through it in public... or at a restaurant. I can totally relate - BUT there is also a tollerable level of allowing that to go on.
We've all been somewhere and seen the ladies standing around talking... ignoring their kids - while those kids tear up everything around them and just completely act like animals in public. I still don't have any patience for that or tollerace... but I don't see that as a problem with the children (never have) as much as the parents. I mean most of us can applaud a mother or father who has a child acting badly in public and tries to deal with it - sometimes that means they have to leave the store to prove a point... but ultimately - no matter what happens - they are parenting.
So many these days just simply don't do that - it's almost like their children are accessories instead of little people that need to learn from their parents. Those people are also the ones that drain our teachers of being able to do the things they could be doing in the classroom - because they instead have to spend their time parenting children who are lacking that at home. It's just a sad situation - and unfortunately happens more and more often in today's world.
All parents are different, just like children... and react in different ways to different situations. What is critically important to one parent - won't be a big deal to another... but it is always refreshing to me to see the parent teaching the child. Hopefully that is seen in a loving way - instead of like one instance I saw this weekend where a mother slapped her maybe 6 year old son in the back of the head while walking into a movie theater.
I guess above all else... I now have the experience to be able to see another mother in a store having a moment like I did yesterday, and completely understand what she's feeling. It might not be with the severity that I was feeling it - but hey... I'm pregnant on top of it all.
And, can I just say that I find it completely odd that I live in the South... am pregnant... have an infant... and yet people think it's okay to jump in front of me to get in a check out line... or get a parking place. Or even just backing out of the spot next to me... someone almost took my car door off yesterday while I was putting James' carseat back in the base... really guys? What happened to a little chivalry?! Am I really that spoiled by John, the men at my church, and the rest of our family?
Oh, I LIKE this!! Whoopee for posts by email!
I feel compelled to say absolutely nothing in response, because as I'm sure you can attest before getting James, non-parents thinking very highly of their own opinions about parenting but the fact is, we haven't walked an inch in a parents' shoes.
I was just having a conversation with the grocery store check-out clerk - I asked her, "Is it just me, or do people not give a rip about the fact that their kids are (a) killing the store, (b) beating each other over the head, and (c) screaming their ever loving heads off?" Her eyes got wide and she said, "Oh my gosh! Yes! Totally true! It is SO MUCH worse than it was, even just a few years ago."
You are completely right - God holds us accountable for how we raise these precious children. Now that mine are teenagers (my eldest heading to college in weeks!) I'm so thankful for the Godly input and direction we were given as young parents. Read Boundaries yet? I still re-read it every year!
Always good to hear from you! I have fallen off the blogging/blog reading bandwagon and it is good to catch up!
Although I have to say on the parenting thing...don't be so quick to judge even those with older kids. Just wait until you have two little monsters running around, one of which who still doesn't sleep through the night even though he's three, you are sleep deprived, exausted, and just trying to survive! And sometimes surviving (without harming a child) means letting them run a little amok while you chat with a friend and try to regain your sanity or complete that errand that needs to be done!
I do get what your saying, but I have lived the other side many, many times as parenting has taken me to highs and lows that I never imagined possible for a sane, reasonable, well educated person!!!


We are currently sold out of 'Descent Tomb of Ice Expansion'.
Far north of Terrinoth, past the Spires of Thunder, lies the icy realm of Isheim. Here, unquiet apparitions of a lost people are the harbingers of an age of frost that threatens to swallow the world. Day by day, this arctic blight encroaches further south.
Mighty heroes must enter Isheim�s frozen caverns to defeat this supernatural menace before the south is trapped in endless winter. In this glacial underground, treacherous ice chasms crumble underfoot. Ghostly creatures, immune to the touch of sword and axe, haunt derelict ruins. The growls of ferocious beasts � capable of swallowing a man whole � can be heard from the cold blue darkness.
The Tomb of Ice is the fourth expansion for the best-selling board game Descent: Journeys in the Dark. Included are more than two dozen new plastic figures representing spectral shades, volcanic lava beetles, petrifying medusas, stealthy wendigos, and gigantic ice wyrms � not to mention six new heroes. Along with new treasures and a new potion type, The Tomb of Ice provides its heroes with the power of Feat cards. No longer will the element of surprise lie with the overlord alone.
This product also introduces new features for The Road to LegendTM* campaign games in the form of outdoor terrain and new Dungeon, Rumor, Location, and Incident cards.
The path before your heroes is frozen and deadly. Can they survive the Tomb of Ice?


Satires are generally not known for being grounded and, when utilized to critique the often farfetched superhero genre, are oftentimes known for going way over the top. With The Tick being a satirical take on the average superhero and having to compete in a world overridden by superhero content, one of the biggest concerns has been how to make The Tick standout in the current superhero climate while also making it relatable to the general audience.
Screen Rant got a chance to ask the cast and producer Barry Josephson of Amazon's The Tick how they focused on keeping the superhero satire series grounded.
I know this is a superhero satire show, but it is a very grounded Dot than we've seen from previous incarnations. How was it playing alongside Arthur because that seems like it would be so much fun to do?
Valorie Curry: I have a wonderful time and Griffin and I have had an incredibly easy chemistry and relationship from day one, which is a real gift. But it helps that you have this multi-tonal quality that I think makes it really unique where it can shift on a dime from incredibly absurd and otherworldly to very grounded and very realistic, even like dramatic moments. And it has to turn on a dime. And I think Griffin as Arthur is really the linchpin of that, so he does a beautiful job and he definitely helps me in terms of connecting Dot into those scenes where the tone is constantly shifting.
I think right now with the big superhero climate being the way that it is, I think that having a superhero satire in this era is brilliant. So how does it stay grounded though from other iterations of The Tick that have come before it?
Brendan Hines: Yeah. That's a good question. There are so many people on the show who aren't superheroes or are resisting the call of heroic acts that that is incredible grounding for us, I think for the audience, because that's probably the experience that they would have if somebody knocks on their door one day and shows up and says, "Let's go jump off that building." Most of us would probably say, "No, thank you. I'm reading e-mail." But all of those people are sort of the core of the show. Superion, my character, this enormously famous superhero that has been around for 100 years and comes from another planet, he is not the entry point for the audience. The entry point for the audience is Arthur and Dot and Kahlil, who plays the guy who works at the convenience store, and even Ms. Lint, the villain. She is incredibly human and humanized by the show. That to me is all very grounding.
Talk to me a little bit about Overkill and how does that character stay grounded in this darker superhero satire?
Scott Speiser: Yeah. So Overkill is, what I really enjoy about Overkill is he's impatient. He's angry. He's violent. He doesn't have much tolerance for The Tick and his clueless and buffoonish ways. He takes no prisoners and what I like about it is he is able to express his rage in almost everything he does and everything that he says and, of course, it causes major conflict. So it's fun to like, you know, I have things that make me angry in life, little pet peeves or whatever and it's fun to use this character as this way to let that out. Everything he says, he's so vengeful and so angry.
The Tick premieres on Amazon August 25, 2017.


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Dolphin Rescues Beached Whales
New Zealand dolphin rescues beached whales:
The pygmy sperm whales had repeatedly beached, and both they and the humans were tired and set to give up, he said. But then the dolphin appeared, communicated with the whales, and led them to safety.
The bottlenose dolphin, called Moko by local residents, is well known for playing with swimmers off Mahia beach on the east coast of the North Island.
Mr Smith said he felt fortunate to have witnessed the extraordinary event, and was delighted for the whales, as in the past he has had to put down animals which have become beached. He said that the whales have not been seen since, but that the dolphin had returned to its usual practice of playing with swimmers in the bay.
"I shouldn't do this I know, we are meant to remain scientific," Mr Smith said, "but I actually went into the water with the dolphin and gave it a pat afterwards because she really did save the day."
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It's amazing! I have heard that dolphins can save a person from drowning and that they are very smart. But whales… Is it an unique occurrence?
Dave Head
July 30th, 2008 @ 5:04 am
This dolphin [ a young male bottlenose] is something special. I have spent 7 hours in the water with him in the last 7 months. I don't really believe myself the things we get up to! But when a so-called wild dolphin comes up and rests his head on your chest and 'talks' to you then you start to wonder if you are dreaming. But after 6 hours he started taking me for rides, me sitting just in front of his dorsal fin and behind his blowhole -an 'arm-chair' ride. aroha Dave
October 29th, 2008 @ 5:20 am
Dave, you lucky, lucky man. I would love to swim with dolphins, I think they are amazing creatures. I love all animals, but my 3 favourites are cats, donkeys and dolphins. As I am unlikely to ever meet a dolphin, or own a donkey, I've spent my life caring for stray cats.
Ryan Biddulph
This is an amazing article. I just viewed a show on Animal Planet the other night where dolphins were protecting people who were attacked by a great white shark. I feel that their level of intelligence is so much higher than we give them credit for. This is probably the case with most animals.
Curious Cat Science: Dolphins Using Tools to Hunt
Once the fish start swimming away the dolphin abandons the sponge and catches and eats the fish. Then the dolphin goes back and gets the sponge and continues…
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Chronic Hunger Lingers in the Midst of Plenty
The global food security challenge is unambiguous: by 2050, the world must feed 9 billion people.
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Despite being one of the biggest grain producers of the world, India lags behind on food security with nearly 25 percent of its population going to bed hungry. (Photo: Neeta Lal / IPS)
New Delhi—In a fraught global economic environment, exacerbated by climate change and shrinking resources, ensuring food and nutrition security is a daunting challenge for many nations. India, Asia's third largest economy and the world's second most populous nation after China with 1.3 billion people, is no exception.
The World Health Organization defines food security as a situation when all people at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preference for an active and healthy life. The lack of a balanced diet minus essential nutrients results in chronic malnutrition.
According to the Global Hunger Index 2014, India ranks 55 out of the world's 120 hungriest countries even behind some of its smaller South Asian counterparts like Nepal (rank 44) and Sri Lanka (39).
Despite its self-sufficiency in food availability, and being one of the world's largest grain producers, about 25 per cent of Indians go to bed without food. Describing malnutrition as India's silent emergency, a World Bank report says that the rate of malnutrition cases among Indian children is almost five times more than in China, and twice that in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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So what are the reasons for India not being able to rise to the challenge of feeding its poor with its own plentiful resources? Experts ascribe many reasons for this deficit. They say the concept of food security is a complex and multi-dimensional one which becomes even more complicated in the context of large and diverse country like India with its overwhelming population and pervasive poverty and malnutrition.
According to Shaleen Jain of Hidayatullah National Law University in India, food security has three broad dimensions — food availability, which encompasses total food production, including imports and buffer stocks maintained in government granaries. Food accessibility- food's availability or accessibility to each and every person. And thirdly, food affordability- an individual's capacity to purchase proper, safe, healthy and nutritious food to meet his dietary needs.
Pawan Ahuja, former Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, says India's problems result mostly from a deeply flawed public distribution system than anything else. "Despite abundant production of grains and vegetables, distribution of food through a corruption-ridden public distribution system prevents the benefits from reaching the poor," says Ahuja.
There are other challenges which India faces in attaining food security, adds the expert. "Natural calamities like excessive rainfall, accessibility of water for irrigation purpose, drought and soil erosion. Further, lack of improvement in agriculture facilities as well as population explosion have only made matters worse."
India's agriculture sectors have to bolster productivity by adopting efficient business models and forging public-private partnerships. (Photo: Neeta Lal / IPS)
To grapple with its food security problem, India operates one of the largest food safety nets in the world — the National Food Security Act 2013. India's Department of Food and Public Distribution, in collaboration with World Food Program, is implementing this scheme which provides a whopping 800 million people (67 percent of the country's population or 10 percent of the world's) with subsidised monthly household rations each year. Yet the results of the program have been largely a hit and miss affair, with experts blaming the country's entrenched corruption in the distribution chain for its inefficacy.
The global food security challenge is unambiguous: by 2050, the world must feed nine billion people. To feed those hungry mouths, the demand for food will be 60 percent greater than it is today. The United Nations has set ending hunger and achieving food security and promoting sustainable agriculture as the second of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030.
"To achieve these objectives requires addressing a host of critical issues, from gender parity and ageing demographics to skills development and global warming," elaborates Sumit Bose, an agriculture economist.
According to the economist, India's agriculture sectors have to bolster productivity by adopting efficient business models and forging public-private partnerships. Achieving sustainability by addressing greenhouse gas emissions, water use and waste are also crucial, he adds.
To work towards greater food security, India is also working in close synergy with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) which is not only an implementer of development projects in the country, but also a knowledge partner, adding value to existing technologies and approaches. The agency has helped India take the holistic "seed to plate" approach.
Also being addressed are challenges like livelihoods and access to food by poorer communities, sustainability of water and natural resources and soil health have moved centre stage. The idea, say experts, is to augment India's multilateral cooperation in areas such as trans-boundary pests and diseases, livestock production, fisheries management, food safety and climate change.
FAO also provides technical assistance and capacity building to enable the transfer of best practices as well as successful lessons from other countries to replicate them to India's agriculture system. By strengthening the resilience of smallholder farmers, food security can be guaranteed for the planet's increasingly hungry global population while also whittling down carbon emissions.
"Growing food in a sustainable way means adopting practices that produce more with less in the same area of land and use natural resources wisely," advises Bose. "It also means reducing food losses before the final product or retail stage through a number of initiatives including better harvesting, storage, packing, transport, infrastructure, market mechanisms, as well as institutional and legal frameworks.
"India is a long way off from all these goals. The current dispensation would do well to work towards them if it aims to bolster India's food security and feed its poor."
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Neeta Lal is a New Delhi-based journalist and editor.
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import cv2 as cv
import numpy as np
import time
import sys
import os

lcdEnable = True
gpioEnable = True

if lcdEnable == True or gpioEnable == True:
	import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

# Define GPIO to LCD mapping
LCD_RS = 7
LCD_E  = 8
LCD_D4 = 25
LCD_D5 = 24
LCD_D6 = 23
LCD_D7 = 18

SWITCH_CAPTURE 	= 11
SWITCH_STOP		= 9

LED_GREEN = 10
LED_RED = 22

# Green has to remove and unit is required to calc %
redThresholdArea 	= 10000
greenThresholdArea 	= 10000

#SERVO_PIN = 4
#FREQ = 50

def gpioInit():
	GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
	GPIO.setup(LED_GREEN, GPIO.OUT)
	GPIO.setup(LED_RED, GPIO.OUT)
	GPIO.setup(SWITCH_CAPTURE, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down = GPIO.PUD_UP)
	GPIO.setup(SWITCH_STOP, GPIO.IN, pull_up_down = GPIO.PUD_UP)
	GPIO.output(LED_RED, True)
	GPIO.output(LED_GREEN, True)
	#GPIO.setup(SERVO_PIN, GPIO.OUT)

# Class for LCD
class LCD:

	def __init__(self, lcd_rs,lcd_en,lcd_d4,lcd_d5,lcd_d6,lcd_d7):

		self.LCD_RS = lcd_rs
		self.LCD_EN = lcd_en
		self.LCD_D4 = lcd_d4
		self.LCD_D5 = lcd_d5
		self.LCD_D6 = lcd_d6
		self.LCD_D7 = lcd_d7

		self.LCD_WIDTH = 20
		self.LCD_CHR = True
		self.LCD_CMD = False

		self.LCD_LINE_1 = 0x80
		self.LCD_LINE_2 = 0xC0

		self.E_PULSE = 0.0001
		self.E_DELAY = 0.0001

		GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_EN, GPIO.OUT)  # E
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_RS, GPIO.OUT) # RS
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_D4, GPIO.OUT) # DB4
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_D5, GPIO.OUT) # DB5
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_D6, GPIO.OUT) # DB6
		GPIO.setup(self.LCD_D7, GPIO.OUT) # DB7

		self.lcd_init()

		# Initialise display
		self.lcd_init()

		# Send some test
		#self.lcd_byte(0x80, False)
		#self.lcd_string("Rasbperry Pi")
		#self.lcd_byte(0xC0, False)
		#self.lcd_string("Model B")
		#time.sleep(5)

	def lcd_init(self):
		# Initialise display
		self.lcd_byte(0x33,False)
		self.lcd_byte(0x32,False)
		self.lcd_byte(0x28,False)
		self.lcd_byte(0x0C,False)
		self.lcd_byte(0x06,False)
		self.lcd_byte(0x01,False)

	def lcd_string(self, message):
		# Send string to display

		message = message.ljust(self.LCD_WIDTH," ")

		for i in range(self.LCD_WIDTH):
			self.lcd_byte(ord(message[i]),True)

	def lcd_byte(self,bits, mode):
		# Send byte to data pins
		# bits = data
		# mode = True  for character
		#        False for command

		GPIO.output(self.LCD_RS, mode) # RS

		# High bits
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D4, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D5, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D6, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D7, False)
		if bits&0x10==0x10:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D4, True)
		if bits&0x20==0x20:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D5, True)
		if bits&0x40==0x40:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D6, True)
		if bits&0x80==0x80:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D7, True)

		# Toggle 'Enable' pin
		time.sleep(self.E_DELAY)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_EN, True)
		time.sleep(self.E_PULSE)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_EN, False)
		time.sleep(self.E_DELAY)

		# Low bits
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D4, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D5, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D6, False)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_D7, False)
		if bits&0x01==0x01:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D4, True)
		if bits&0x02==0x02:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D5, True)
		if bits&0x04==0x04:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D6, True)
		if bits&0x08==0x08:
			GPIO.output(self.LCD_D7, True)

		# Toggle 'Enable' pin
		time.sleep(self.E_DELAY)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_EN, True)
		time.sleep(self.E_PULSE)
		GPIO.output(self.LCD_EN, False)
		time.sleep(self.E_DELAY)

# Class for Image Processing
class Image:

	def __init__(self, _camera, _interval, filt, rlowHSV, rhighHSV, glowHSV, ghighHSV):

		# store
		self.cameraIndex = _camera
		self.frameInterval = _interval
		self.filt = filt
		self.capture = cv.VideoCapture(self.cameraIndex)

		#self.fwindow = cv.namedWindow("Result")
		self.redlowHSV = rlowHSV
		self.redhighHSV = rhighHSV

		self.greenlowHSV = glowHSV
		self.greenhighHSV = ghighHSV

		self.greenlastX = 0
		self.greenlastY = 0
		self.redlastX 	= 0
		self.redlastY 	= 0

		self.red_count = 0
		self.green_count = 0

		self.green_flag = False
		self.red_flag = False

	def clearFlags(self):
		self.red_flag = False
		self.green_flag = False

	def clearCounts(self):
		self.red_count = 0
		self.green_count = 0

	def getFlags(self):
		if self.red_flag == True and self.green_flag == True:
			return -1 # Both found
		elif self.red_flag == False and self.green_flag == False:
			return -2 # Not found
		elif self.red_flag == True and self.green_flag == False:
			return 1 # Success
		elif self.red_flag == False and self.green_flag == True:
			return 2

	def doCaptureAndProcess(self):
		#_frame = ''
		for i in range(10):
			_, _frame = self.capture.read()

		frame = cv.resize(_frame, (640, 480))

		if self.filt == 0:
			filteredImage = frame
		elif self.filt == 1:
			filteredImage = cv.blur(frame, (5,5))
		elif self.filt == 2:
			filteredImage = cv.GaussianBlur(frame, (5,5),0)
		elif self.filt == 3:
			filteredImage = cv.medianBlur(frame, 5)
		elif self.filt == 4:
			filteredImage = cv.bilateralFilter(frame,9,75,75)

		kernel = cv.getStructuringElement(cv.MORPH_ELLIPSE,(5,5))

		hsvImage = cv.cvtColor(filteredImage, cv.COLOR_BGR2HSV)

		RedimgThresholded = cv.inRange(hsvImage, self.redlowHSV, self.redhighHSV)
		GreenimgThresholded = cv.inRange(hsvImage, self.greenlowHSV, self.greenhighHSV)
		erosion = cv.erode(RedimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)
		dilation = cv.dilate(RedimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)

		dilation = cv.dilate(RedimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)
		erosion = cv.erode(RedimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)

		erosion = cv.erode(GreenimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)
		dilation = cv.dilate(GreenimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)

		dilation = cv.dilate(GreenimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)
		erosion = cv.erode(GreenimgThresholded,kernel,iterations = 1)

		Redmoments = cv.moments(RedimgThresholded)
		Greenmoments = cv.moments(GreenimgThresholded)

		Redm01  = Redmoments['m01']
		Redm10  = Redmoments['m10']
		Redarea = Redmoments['m00']

		Greenm01  = Greenmoments['m01']
		Greenm10  = Greenmoments['m10']
		Greenarea = Greenmoments['m00']

		if Redarea > redThresholdArea:
			#print "Red"
			posX = Redm10 / Redarea
			posY = Redm01 / Redarea

			if self.redlastX >= 0 and self.redlastY >= 0 and posX >= 0  and posY >= 0:
				cv.line(filteredImage, (int(posX), int(posY)), (int(self.redlastX),int(self.redlastY)), (0,0,255), 5)

			redlastX = posX
			redlastY = posY
			if Redarea > Greenarea:
				if gpioEnable == True:
					GPIO.output(LED_GREEN, False)
					GPIO.output(LED_RED, True)
				self.red_count += 1
				self.red_flag = True

		if Greenarea > greenThresholdArea:
			posX = Greenm10 / Greenarea
			posY = Greenm01 / Greenarea

			if self.greenlastX >= 0 and self.greenlastY >= 0 and posX >= 0  and posY >= 0:
				cv.line(filteredImage, (int(posX), int(posY)), (int(self.greenlastX),int(self.greenlastY)), (0,0,255), 5)

			greenlastX = posX
			greenlastY = posY

			if Greenarea > Redarea:
				if gpioEnable == True:
					GPIO.output(LED_GREEN, True)
					GPIO.output(LED_RED, False)
				self.green_count += 1
				self.green_flag = True

		# Calculate percentage area
		red_per = (Redarea * 100) / (640 * 480)
		green_per = (Greenarea * 100) / (640 * 480)

		print "red: " + str("%.2f" % red_per) + "%"
		print "green: " + str("%.2f" % green_per) + "%"

		if lcdEnable == True:
			lcd.lcd_byte(0xC0, False)
			lcd.lcd_string(str(self.green_count))
			lcd.lcd_string(", ")
			lcd.lcd_string(str(self.red_count))
			lcd.lcd_string("        ")
			lcd.lcd_byte(0x94, False)
			lcd.lcd_string("red: " + str("%.2f" % red_per) + "%")
			lcd.lcd_byte(0xD4, False)
			lcd.lcd_string("green: " + str("%.2f" % green_per) + "%")

		cv.imshow("Red Thresholded Image", RedimgThresholded)
		cv.imshow("Green Thresholded Image", GreenimgThresholded)
		cv.imshow("Original Image", filteredImage)

redlowHSV = np.array([170,150,60], dtype=np.uint8)
redhighHSV = np.array([179,255,255], dtype=np.uint8)

greenlowHSV = np.array([60,150,60], dtype=np.uint8)
greenhighHSV = np.array([70,255,255], dtype=np.uint8)

#os.system("servod")
time.sleep(1)

obj = Image(0, 1, 1, redlowHSV, redhighHSV, greenlowHSV, greenhighHSV)
if gpioEnable == True:
	gpioInit()

# If LCD is enabled enable lcd for display
if lcdEnable == True:
	lcd = LCD(LCD_RS, LCD_E, LCD_D4, LCD_D5,LCD_D6,LCD_D7)
	time.sleep(2)
	lcd.lcd_byte(0x80, False)
	lcd.lcd_string("  Color Detection  ")

def process():
	count = 0
	while count < 10:
		obj.doCaptureAndProcess()
		count += 1
		res = obj.getFlags()
		if res == -1:
			print "Both Found"
		elif res == -2:
			print "Not Found"
		elif res == 1:
			os.system("echo 0=100% > /dev/servoblaster")
			print "Red"
			count = 11
			time.sleep(5)
			os.system("echo 0=50% > /dev/servoblaster")
		elif res == 2:
			print "Green"
			os.system("echo 0=0% > /dev/servoblaster")
			count = 11
			time.sleep(5)
			os.system("echo 0=50% > /dev/servoblaster")
	obj.clearFlags()

os.system("servod --p1pins=7,0,0,0,0,0,0,0")
#time.sleep(1)
os.system("echo 0=50% > /dev/servoblaster")
print "System started"
obj.doCaptureAndProcess()
#Servo = GPIO.PWM(SERVO_PIN, FREQ)
while True:

	#process()
	if gpioEnable == True:
		if GPIO.input(SWITCH_CAPTURE) == 0:
			print "Capture"
			time.sleep(0.3)
			process()
		if GPIO.input(SWITCH_STOP) == 0:
			print "Clear"
			time.sleep(0.3)
			obj.clearCounts()

	# Break Operation if key interrupt
	k = cv.waitKey(5) & 0xFF
	if k == 27:
		break


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