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Attorneys for John Edwards asked a federal judge to dismiss the charges against the former Democratic presidential candidate.
Five motions were filed Tuesday by Edwards' defense team. Among other issues, Edwards' attorneys contend the charges are unconstitutionally vague and were pursued by a Republican prosecutor for political gain.
Edwards, a former North Carolina senator and the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee, was indicted in June on charges that he broke campaign finance laws to cover up his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter, a videographer on his 2008 campaign.
Edwards has admitted he did wrong, but contends he "did not break the law." His lawyers say in the court filings that he was trying to keep the affair from his family. After months of denials, Edwards admitted he fathered a daughter with Hunter.
"Mr. Edwards had a number of non-campaign-related, purely personal reasons to conceal his relationship with Ms. Hunter," Edwards' lawyers say, according to the Associated Press. "Like most men in his situation, he naturally wanted to shield his extramarital affair from public view to avoid hurting his wife and children and to protect his reputation."
Edwards' lawyers also contend prosecutors abused their authority and the case "is about politics," according to The News and Observer. The Edwards investigation was headed by former U.S. Attorney George Holding, an appointee of George W. Bush, who is now running for Congress.
"In this prosecution, a major figure in the Democratic Party had been brought down and, as it turns out, a Republican U.S. Attorney with political ambitions of his own has used this high profile case to his personal benefit," Edwards' lawyers wrote.
Holding declined comment on the Edwards case in an interview with the Associated Press.
Catalina Camia leads the OnPolitics online community and has been at USA TODAY since 2005. She has been a reporter or editor covering politics and Congress for two decades, including stints at The Dallas Morning News and Congressional Quarterly. Follow her at @USATOnPolitics.
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The 1930s were a turbulent time for the South. A decade earlier, the boll weevil wrecked the cotton crops—a major part of the South's fragile economy. As prices for cotton and other agricultural goods fell, so did the farm workers' ability to earn a living wage. Tenant farming and sharecropping were common. The collapse of the stock market in 1929 and falling prices of farm products signaled a death knell for the "Old South."
People flocked to cities, hoping for steady wages as laborers in the textile mills. Though the industry had once been located mostly in northern states, by the mid 1930s southern mills produced more than 70 percent of cotton and woolen textiles. Dispossessed Southern farmers earned roughly 40 percent less than workers in the North. Many mills in the South were owned by northern corporations. As the economy slowed, mill owners cut employees' hours and decreased production, angering workers who were already living near the poverty line.
Some workers, enraged by reductions in wages, turned to a form of Marxism that embraced working-class emancipation. In the opening of The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx writes, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." Marxist theory addressed a wide range of social issues, including the alienation and exploitation of the workforce, capitalism, and materialism.
While the South wrestled with its economic challenges, it was also battling the devastating effects of racism. Racial segregation and discrimination were prevalent throughout the South. For example, blacks were not allowed to eat in the same restaurants, drink from the same water fountains, or attend the same schools with whites.
By the late 1930s, blacks began to protest against discrimination. President Roosevelt shepherded in a new era when he appointed Hugo Black—a U.S. Senator from Alabama and eventual proponent of racial equality—to the Supreme Court in 1937. As early as 1938, courts began to display a new attitude toward minority rights, and the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement were sown.
"The largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. These cotton mills were big and flourishing and most of the workers in the town were poor. Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness."
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again very nice, for people working in tjech...it's worth the drive!!
This is my seconed visit to the hotel and it was just like the first excellent!! We use it as our base to watch the MotoGp at the Sachsenring.We arrived on the Friday afternoon after a wet ride on our bikes across Germany The hotel staff where great,very helpful and a secure place to park the bikes.A lot different to English hotels when two wet and tired bikers arrive.
Free off-street parking. Breakfast for 2 included. The breakfast offered many choices and the coffee was good. Thin walls but we were lucky that we didn't have any noisy neighbors. No ac, but we were lucky that the night was cool. No hot water in the morning. Don't stay in Marienberg if you intend on exploring the town. There's nothing to see in this town.
very nice Hotel. good food good rooms nice people
the service ,quality of accomodation and food,the attention of the staff NO
it was a pleasant hotel to stay in. staff were friendly nothing comes to mind
We all found the hotel easy to find, were made to feel very welcome and the staff were very friendly and helpful. Every where was very clean and the food and service excellent We have no complaints whatsoever
Atmosphere, Comfort, Service Cellar Bar/Restaurant smelt of Damp. Food disappointing
Absolutely fantastic, big and clean room and bathroom, working place and small hall with wardrobe on the room, very well furnished hotel, rich breakfest, quiet location in the forest, private parking, free internet, friendly staffs, very good and cheap restaurant in the hotel. We want to return and stay again for a longer time.
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MEMBERS of the Rotary Club of North Worcestershire were out in force last weekend collecting for the End Polio Now campaign.
The rotary club members set up camp in Morrison's in Bromsgrove on Saturday, February 15, while people were clearly still feeling generous of spirit after Valentine's Day and managed to raise a impressive £550 from shoppers.
That money can now be matched two to one by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which invests heavily in vaccines to prevent infectious diseases including HIV, polio, and malaria, as well as supporting the development of integrated services for family planning, nutrition, and maternal and child health.
Together with the support from the foundation, the money raised in Bromsgrove will be able to fund polio immunisation for approximately 5,000 children in the developing world.
Robert Moule, president of the Rotary Club of North Worcestershire, said: "I should like to thank all those who gave so generously to the collection, and we should also like to thank the staff of Morrison's help in organising this and providing us with such a good spot on the day from which to operate."


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By Corpus Christi Hooks | October 22, 2013 11:49 AM ET
Friday, October 25 - Whataburger Field - Corpus Christi, Texas
Gates Open 4 p.m.
Presented by Ziegenbock and H-E-B
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Acts in Order of Appearance
5:00 The Elise
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10:10 Kevin Fowler
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Blankets and towels are allowed.
NO re-entry permitted.
Any personal bags, purses, etc., will be checked upon entry.
Personal misters and/or spray bottles are allowed but MUST be empty upon entry. Guests will be able to fill bottles using sinks or water fountains.
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Shrimp with Green Chiles and Avocado-Tomatillo Sauce
Andrew Zimmern's Kitchen Adventures
This dish has lots of hot chiles but isn't all that spicy. It has lots of olive oil, but it's not greasy-tasting. It has lots of onions and shrimp, but it's not a two-note-Charlie sort of dish. This simple dinner is deceptively complex.
I don't know where I got this recipe, but I have been cooking it since the late 1980s, according to my food diary, and because it's fast and easy I make it all the time. You can have dinner on the table in 15 minutes and the flavors are crazy good. I also happen to be a sucker for the curious ingredient—the ketchup in my Bangkok Chicken recipe, the mayo in this one; they seem so out of place, but the dishes don't work as well without them. Anyway, my family and I love Mexican food—it's one of the world's truly great cuisines. It's regional and as varied as the states that produce it. Mexico also has a fascinating pre- and post-colonial food history that is tangible as I eat my way around the country every time I visit. This dish is often seen in the Yucatán, in Veracruz and in and around oceanfront communities, but for any indefatigable travelers who need to see it up close in its own milieu, head to Huatulco and to the little restaurant called El Marinero. Drop my name. Who knows? They might make it for you. For everyone else, this version is the real deal.—Andrew Zimmern
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- 1/2 pound tomatillos—husked, rinsed and quartered
- 1 small onion, coarsely chopped
- 1 large serrano chile, seeded and coarsely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup packed cilantro leaves
- 1 Hass avocado, halved and pitted
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- Salt
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 large onion, finely diced
- 8 garlic cloves, halved and very thinly sliced
- 6 jalapeños, halved, seeded and thinly sliced
- 2 pounds medium shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- Warm corn tortillas, for serving
- Diced tomatoes, for serving
- Lime wedges, for serving
- Cilantro leaves, for serving
How to make this recipe
Make the sauce

In a food processor, puree the tomatillos with the onion, serrano, garlic and cilantro. Scoop the avocado into the food processor, add the lime juice and puree. Season with salt and transfer to a serving bowl.

Prepare the shrimp

In a large skillet, heat the olive oil until shimmering. Add the onion and garlic and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until lightly golden, about 3 minutes. Add the jalapeños and cook until softened, about 1 minute. Add the shrimp, salt and pepper and cook, stirring occasionally, until the shrimp are just cooked through, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the mayonnaise.

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Piracy and the Law
From time immemorial, piracy has been referred to as the third oldest profession and inextricably linked to law. During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, preservation and expansion of commerce between merchants of different sovereign nations required a workable system of law. Much of the development of the common law of England, the civil law of Rome, admiralty and international law was in response to the disruption of commerce by pirates acting both on their own behalf against all shipping and under license of a sovereign state and preying on foreign ships. Legally, the latter were designated as privateers pursuant to letters of marque and reprisal known as commissions and were not to be treated as pirates — that is, not summarily executed. Among the most famous pirates were Sir Richard Grenville, an Elizabethan lawyer, member of the Inner Temple and gallant captain of the HMS Revenge, whose last sea battle with the Spanish fleet was immortalized by Alfred Tennyson; and Sir Henry Mainwaring, a lawyer of the Inner Temple, vice admiral, member of Parliament, author of Discourse of Pirates, and scourge of Spanish shipping. Mainwaring eventually was pardoned under the Great Seal of England on the grounds that he "had committed no great wrong." In 1787, the practice of issuing commissions found its way into the U.S. Constitution under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11, which provides that Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. In 1856, the major world powers signed the Declaration of Paris, which abolished letters of marque and reprisal, and with it the end of privateers but not pirates, whose trepidations continue to this day and have involved such historical luminaries as Julius Caesar and Miguel de Cervantes. In 78 B.C. a young, arrogant Julius Caesar, who had just been banished from Italy by the dictator Sulla, was captured off the island of Pharmacusa by pirates while sailing the Aegean Sea.
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Ransom was initially set at 3,000 pounds. Upon hearing this, Caesar responded that if the pirates knew their business they would realize that he was worth at least four times that amount. Thereupon, the ransom was set at 12,000 pounds. Thirty-eight days later the ransom was paid and Caesar given his freedom. He immediately borrowed four warships and 500 soldiers, sailed to the island of Pharmacusa, captured 350 drunken pirates, recovered the ransom, and executed the whole lot of them. In 1575 Miguel de Cervantes, while on a voyage from Naples to Spain, was captured by pirates and sold into slavery at Algiers. He languished five years in Moorish prisons before the ransom was paid. Had he not survived, the world would have been deprived of his novel Don Quixote, the first part of which was written in 1605. In the College of Law library, all this and more can be found in The History of Piracy, written by Philip Gosse and in The Law of Piracy, written by Professor Alfred P. Rubin of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and published by the Naval War College Press as Volume 63 of the U.S. Naval War College International Law Studies.
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I come to present an opinion not to change yours..
The evil that athletes do and the good that they end up doing is always equally reported.
So let it be with the athletes...
Here under the leave of Bleacher and the rest, for bleacher is an honorable man- so are they all honorable men. come i to present my opinion..
Sport is my friend faithful and just to me..
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Go tell the world it is Bleacher not the world that is the Honorable man...
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Vogue Scrubs Syria's First Lady From Its Website
Oh Vogue, you are so very good with the fashions, but the politics? Not so much. The high fashion mag's latest gaffe is a poorly-timed profile of Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad, which ran in the mag's March 2011 issue. It used to be searchable on Vogue's website, but it's since been taken off the site. Why, you might ask? Well, Asma's husband, Bashar al-Assad, is responsible for a vicious crackdown on his own citizens that began last year — right around when the profile on Asma was published — and has resulted in more than 9,000 Syrians have died. And according to reports, Asma is far from innocent. She's been characterized as a "Marie Antoinette" of the regime, shopping for jewelry and clothing online while the violent uprising occurred.
Despite knowledge of al-Assad as an oppressive leader, no mention of it is made in the profile. Instead, Asma is described as "glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies," by writer Joan Juliet Buck. Buck also notes that "the 35-year-old first lady's central mission is to change the mind-set of six million Syrians under 18, encourage them to engage in what she calls 'active citizenship.'"
Since the profile was originally published — complete with accompanying photos of Asma, Bashar and their children — it's been pulled from Vogue's website, but is still available on database Nexis (for a fee). For her part, Buck says that she regrets that Vogue named the piece "A Rose In the Desert," and is horrified to have spent time in the al-Assads' presence. Last week, Asma was called on to appeal to her husband to stop the bruatlity in a viral video. "Stand up for peace, Asma," says a voiceover in the video. "…Stop being a bystander." [Washington Post]


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Swaggering down the red carpet Wednesday night (January 23), LeAnn Rimes and hubby Eddie Cibrian attended Billboard Celebrates the 2014 Power in LA.
The celebrity sweethearts made quite the impression, as the "Borrowed" songstress rocked a sexy black leather dress, holding her man, who was handsome in a gray sport coat and vest, with dark dress pants.
Taking leave of Hollywood to ring in the new year, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian caught a flight with his boys at LAX Airport on Monday (December 30).
The country crooner wore a black button-down shirt, matching pants, and lace-up boots as she prepared for vacation with her family.
Stepping out for a good cause, LeAnn Rimes and her husband Eddie Cibrian stopped by the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai Gala in Beverly HIlls on Tuesday (November 19).
The 31-year-old country star looked absolutely gorgeous in a gray dress while her hubby donned a casual black suit.
They're one of the most-watched couples in Hollywood, and LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian are excited about what's next for their family.
During their interview with "Extra," the celeb duo shared that they're interested in having a child when the time is right.
Celebrating all the men and women who keep this country safe, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian attended the Skydive Elsinore Disabled Veterans Event on Monday afternoon (November 11).
Clad in blue jumpsuits, the "Can't Fight the Moonlight" songstress and her handsome husband enjoyed a tandem skydive jump with Mario Lopez to kick off the day.
It's no secret that things between LeAnn Rimes and Brandi Glanville have been strained since the "How Do I Live" singer stole her husband Eddie Cibrian.
Pushing breakup rumors to the curb, LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian packed on the PDA at "The Best Man Holiday" premiere last night (November 5).
The happy Hollywood couple struck a few poses together before sharing a smooch on the red carpet at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Coming at us with a classic American music tribute for Halloween last night (October 31), country beauty LeAnn Rimes and her husband Eddie Cibrian dressed up as the iconic Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.


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If you're a woman in a Western or Westernized culture in the twenty-first century, chances are good that you have, do or will own, wear, struggle to get into and on occasion hasten to get out of a garment called a brassiere. A bra. A couple of fabric cups and some elastic which contain, shape and redistribute the weight of two masses of mammary tissue… while also bearing the burden of more than a hundred years of cultural, medical and political debate and opinion. Just off the top of my head here, a bra:
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First, a naiad is a water nymph in Greek myth—a woman who looked over the waterways.
If you look in the dictionary today, it says "naiad: any skillful female wimmer."
The naiad willow, arching lowland brooks, speaks as water, very secretly.
Why it is thus, one knows in heaven above: But, a poor naiad, I guess not.
She vanished like a naiad startled by the approach of a mortal.
Not so Aimée; her pencil had been busy all the while, but there was no naiad on her page.
The next morning our signal was made to pass within hail, and the captain of the naiad inquired how I was.
For a fortnight we cruised without seeing any vessel but the naiad.
Close beneath, a little fountain rose in slender diamond threads, and fell again with a soft trickling, like a naiad's sigh.
Bit of a lake; bathing-shed; the naiad's bower: pretty water to see.'
"water nymph," c.1600, from Latin Nais, Naias (genitive naiadis), from Greek Naias (plural Naiades) "river nymph," from naiein "to flow," from PIE *naw-yo-, suffixed form of root *(s)nau- "to swim, flow, let flow" (see nutriment). Dryden used the Latin singular form Nais, and the plural Naiades is attested in English from late 14c.


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Pax Runner (since 0.20.0) supports running as a detached process out of the box. This means that Pax Runner can start up as a process that can run in the background and will not require the console to keep it running. This support can be used to make it run as a daemon (in Unix based systems) or as a Windows service (in Windows systems) with little effort.
Starting up
Use the following command to start Pax Runner as a detached process:
pax-rund --startd
startd signifies startdaemon or startdetached.
To run the Pax Runner as an attached process, you can use the following command:
pax-rund --start
In case you are using Java 1.4, you can replace
pax-rund above with
The commands above will start up Pax Runner with default options and with no provisioning, but with an option to stop the Pax Runner remotely.
If you are running either of the commands for the first time, you will be prompted to enter a password for the configuration. This password will be required to stop the Pax Runner from a remote location. A configuration for daemon is maintained for every user.
Once the Pax Runner is started using the
pax-rund scripts, you can stop the Pax Runner in various ways.
Stopping using remote telnet
You can stop the Daemonised Pax Runner by a connecting to the instance using a telnet client and issuing a shutdown command. By default the Pax Runner Daemon will accept telnet connection at port 8008. The telnet screen will look similar to this:
>telnet 192.168.1.3 8008 Trying 192.168.1.3... Connected to 192.168.1.3. Escape character is '^]'. ==================================== Welcome to Pax-Runner Remote Console ==================================== Please enter password:
You will have to supply the password set for the configuration to log in and provide shutdown command. The Pax Runner Daemon instance will stop only on the correct shutdown command. The default shutdown command is
You can choose to stop the Pax Runner Daemon after a specified amount of time by specifying the milliseconds after the shutdown command, after which the shutdown sequence will begin. By default (not specifying anything) the shudown sequence will begin immediately.
Stopping using local telnet
If you connect to the Daemonised Pax Runner by a connecting to the instance using a telnet client from the same machine itself. In this case however, no password will be prompted, but you will have to still provide the correct shutdown command.
Enter the command to shutdown the Pax Runner: > shutdown Connection closed by foreign host.
Stopping using scripts
You can stop the Pax Runner Daemon instance running on the same machine using scripts using the following command:
pax-rund --stop
Stopping this way using scripts will not prompt you for a password or a shutdown command.
Stopping other ways
The Daemon will stop if the Pax Runner itself stops - either due to some errors, or if the OSGi platform was shutdown, and additionally in the attached mode by applying control signals (such as Ctrl+C) that will stop the JVM.
Providing options and parameters
The Daemon accepts the all the Pax Runner options and parameters and additionally accepts the following options:
Option Key
The time for which the telnet connection should be valid. After the specified amount of milliseconds, the telnet connection will be disconnected. The default time is 1 minute. Specifying
The time (in ms) after which the shutdown sequence will begin. The default value is 0. You can always override this value by specifying the timeout after the shutdown command.
The command that will be accepted as the valid shutdown command. The default value is shutdown.
The port on which the Pax Runner Daemon will listen to telnet connections and shutdown commands. The default port is 8008.
For example, to start Pax Runner as a detached process with a custom shutdown port:
pax-rund --startd --org.ops4j.pax.runner.daemon.shutdown.port=9009
Starting and stopping Pax Runner Daemon with the Operating System
The Pax Runner Daemon can be easily integrated with OS startup and shutdown sequence (effectively as a daemon/service in the real sense) with very little effort.


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A New Production of Wagner's Götterdämmerung Opens at Met Opera 1/27
A new production of Götterdämmerung, the final opera in Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, will open January 27 in a performance led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi and directed by Robert Lepage. The central role of Brünnhilde will be sung by Deborah Voigt in her Met role debut. Jay Hunter Morris, who stepped into the title role of Wagner's Siegfried earlier this season to great acclaim, will again take the role of the doomed hero in this final installment of the Ring cycle. The company of Wagnerians also includes Wendy Bryn Harmer as Gutrune, Waltraud Meier as Waltraute, Hans-Peter König as Hagen, Eric Owens as Alberich, and Iain Paterson as Gunther; all but Paterson are making their house role debuts.
The February 11 matinee of Götterdämmerung will be transmitted live around the world as part of The Met: Live in HD series, which now reaches more than 1700 movie theaters in 54 countries.
Luisi will lead his first Met performances of Wagner's conclusion to the Ring tetralogy. Earlier this season, he led the new production premieres of Siegfried and Don Giovanni, and he will conduct the first complete cycles of Lepage's Ring staging beginning this April. His future Met engagements this season also include the new production premiere of Massenet's Manon and a revival of Verdi's La Traviata. Lepage's Ring production, which features a technologically advanced set that can assume many configurations and receive video projections to realize Wagner's stage directions, opened the Met's 2010-11 season with the premiere of Das Rheingold; the new productions of Die Walküre and Siegfried followed in April and October 2011.
Voigt, acclaimed for her Wagner performances at the Met, is singing her first Brünnhildes in this production of the Ring. Götterdämmerung will be the seventh Wagner opera in her Met repertory, which also includes Brünnhilde in Siegfried, both Brünnhilde and Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Elsa in Lohengrin, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, and Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer.
Earlier this season, Morris took over the starring role in the new production premiere of Siegfried with a week's notice, and had a major success in the demanding title role. Last season, he sang Siegfried in complete Ring cycles with the San Francisco Opera. Throughout his career, he has starred in numerous world premieres, including John Adams's Doctor Atomic, Howard Shore's The Fly, Elliott Goldenthal's Grendel, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, and André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire.


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A New Classic: The Urban Nutcracker
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Shoppers at a Pittsburgh, Pa., Target (NYSE:TGT) got an unwelcome surprise on Monday afternoon after a man ran into the store brandishing a knife.
The unidentified man seized a 16-year-old girl who was near the checkout area. Arriving on scene, police sprayed the man with pepper spray and overpowered him. The girl was stabbed during the struggle. Two other men also received cuts, the Associated Press noted.
Witnesses say that the knife-wielding man was shouting, claiming that he'd been robbed and that he appeared to be taking the girl hostage. The girl was taken to the hospital and is listed in serious condition.
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Once the TADz usage import runs, does it delete old data or keep it in the database?
The Usage import does not delete old data. HSISUDEL is the Usage Deletion job and it needs to be run on a periodic basis.
From Chapter 3. Installing and customizing IBM Tivoli Asset Discovery for z/OS of the TADz Admin & Reference guide, under "Maintaining the Production Repository Database":
You must perform regular maintenance tasks on the production Repository database to ensure that performance is optimal. The maintenance tasks cull obsolete and unwanted data and reorganize the database as necessary.
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Trenton, NJ – Disaster assistance may sometimes cover damages that insurance doesn't. That is why individuals affected by Hurricane Sandy are urged by the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to apply for assistance even if they have insurance.
Apply for FEMA assistance by registering online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov, or by web-enabled mobile device at m.fema.gov. Applicants can also register by phone by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362), 711/VRS, or TTY 1-800-462-7585.
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(CNSNews.com) - An HIV-infected man who is fighting to regain his job as a blood technician has received a legal assist from the American Civil Liberties Union and a homosexual advocacy group.
In briefs filed Thursday, Lambda Legal and the ACLU told a federal appeals court in Denver that John Couture should have the same protections from discrimination as other people with disabilities.
The Bonfils Memorial Blood Center in Denver removed Couture from a training program for technicians who draw blood from donors after Couture told a supervisor he was HIV positive.
According to press reports, Couture volunteered the information before a training exercise because he didn't want to accidentally expose anyone to his blood. At the time, the technicians were practicing drawing blood from each other.
A lower court ruled in Bonfils' favor, Lambda Legal said, and Couture is now appealing.
"It is well established law that people with HIV are considered disabled because the disease affects major life activities," said Jon Givner, a staff attorney in Lambda Legal's HIV Project.
"HIV discrimination is irrational, it's hurtful, and it's usually based on fear and stereotypes. People with HIV need the same protections from discrimination that other people with disabilities have."
Lambda Legal's friend-of-the-court brief cites a range of cases where people with HIV have been protected under federal and state disability laws.
A staff attorney with the ACLU's AIDS Project said Couture "posed no real risk to blood donors," and she called his firing "disgraceful."
"HIV positive people need to be able to make a living and support themselves just like everyone else, and their livelihood shouldn't be at the mercy of irrational stereotypes," staff attorney Rose Saxe said in a press release.
The ACLU press release notes that even in the "incredibly unlikely event that a donor was exposed to the HIV virus, it is "unlikely" that the donor would become infected.
And if it did happen? "In the event of such an unheard of exposure in the blood-donor setting," the ACLU said, "there are also drugs that would further decrease the likelihood of infection if taken immediately after the exposure."
The group that is representing Couture, the Legal Center for People with Disabilities and Older People, said it hopes the court "sends a message to all employers confirming that the law doesn't allow people to be fired because of unfounded prejudice."
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c.1510, from L. alacritatem (nom. alacritas) "liveliness," from alacer (gen. alacris) "cheerful, brisk, lively;" cognate with Goth. aljan "zeal," O.E. ellen, O.H.G. ellian.
Obviously related to the Italian musical term allegro... But I thought from the looks of the O.E. relative ellen that it would also be related to French élan -- but no!
1877, from Fr. élan, from élancer "to rush, dart," from O.Fr. elancer, from e- "out" + lancer "to throw a lance," from L.L. lanceare, from L. lancea "lance."
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Singh, H and Sharma, S and Jha, RM (2007) Steady state analysis of adaptive sidelobe cancellers in multiple radar environment. In: North American Radio Science Conference URSI-CNC/USNC, 22-26 Jul 2007, Ottawa, ON, Canada.Full text not available from this repository.
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· English civil war between York and Lancaster' their house symbol were both roses
Henry VI was mad and led by his wife Margaret into battle where she kills the duke of york Richard and carried his head around town as a trophy
Richard is taken over by Edward IV
Edward claims that god is on his side over the war
Edward captures the Henry and kills him at the tower of London along with Margaret; York beats Lancaster
· His first duty as duke was that he sends Edward IV sons to the tower of London and the 2 boys are never seen again
· It becomes a very controversial topic in England
Known as a tyrant, mystically religious, bribes saints for favors for the dead, astrology, and science very important
He was loved by the commoners
He would get his enemies to fight each other
He left France on the foot of becoming a monarchy
· Humanist
· Still no title but runs Florence at age of 21
· Icon for the renaissance
· The pope tries to kill him with assassins but he gets away
· Makes war between the papacy and Rome
· inherited Aragon and Sicily; which he uses to conquer Naples
· rules from Castel Nuovo
· he never came back to Spain
· first renaissance king; loved the arts and was a fair writer
· his wife Maria took care of the spain side while
·in between 1480-1490 everything gone except the city of Granada
1492 the most important year for Spain
Christopher Columbus lent money to go to India; in the west
She is pushed to make Spain a uniform catholic country and get rid of the Jews; March 3 Edith of expulsion, convert or leave
Oct 12 new world for Columbus; Spain to be first global power
[Francesco] Petrarch (1304 – 1374)
Father of Humanism
He changes attitude toward pagan books; classical
Instrumental in increasing the amount a books
Birth of modern education
Most of his life in law school; express contempt for lawyers and their work
His parents paid and he quit when they died
He then became a poet at Avignon, which led him to the church
Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry, Literature, Moral Philosophy, History
Good for creating bureaucrats and government works
Not creating free thinkers
Things did not change universities often
Things begin to change, Henry VIII, banned scholasticism and made Humanitaties at Cambridge
4 Humors
o Choler or yellow bile
o Phlegm or mucus
o Melancholer or black bile
o Blood; refined blood was semen
When a disease was diagnosed; bringing the humors back in order; get rid of the excess humor
· oil, wine, and wax were the bases for most medications
o Theriac (15th century) a "cure all"; prevent swelling, plague, bowel issues, anti-venom, etc.
o Galene- very expensive medicine; 46 ingredients most important being the skin of a viper 14 years to mature
Shunned by both churches and physicians
· Seldom had university training
· Considered manual labor
· They cut hair and performed surgery
· Fixed broken limbs, gum surgery, teeth, battle field trauma, hernias, castrations, abdominal surgery, kidney stones,
Aristotle: believed that the earth was in the center, around that were 55 celestial spheres
· Sun was one of the closer planets to earth
· Everything rotate around the earth
· He did not believe that the earth was the center of the universe
Becomes Cathedral Priest
· He was also half blind and had no telescope
· He dedicated his life to the idea of celestial planets are moving and published it in a book
· Sun centered universe
· Argued by Copernicus
· It is critical because the earth is no longer the center of the universe that is makes humanistic theories change
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· Movable type, arranged into words and sentences
Johann Fust and Peter Schoffer
Johann Gutenbergs assistants
Sue him for the patent and win
· Guntenberg was thought to do much of the work and they both ended up making their own printing businesses
Aldus Manutius
· Aldine Press
· Published all books from classic antiquity
· Hired humanists and antiquitist for accuracy of text
· He made books portable and affordable
o A Manutius Ocatavo- the divine comedy
§ Small books
· He developed the italic
· The Swiss develop the pike and were the best infantry men in Europe. They would be hired to fight for other nations
· They were trained very fast
· People would not go to battle without a swissmen on their side
Pike Square
· A defensive unit that would form a square with spears all facing out; mainly killed peoples horses
· Were on shot guns and had swords to attack soon after
· Comes from china
o Chinese used it to light things on fire and fireworks and too launch missiles
· Arrived in Europe late 13th century
· Used bell metal to make cannon metal
A corporate partnership between two families, very businessy
· they were bound together like two oxen
· unparticular this would be the case with higher caste people
o arranged by marriage brokers
§ looked a social relationship and hierarchies
· They would save funds that families could put money into which the family would save a s a dowry
· A daughter of a good family could about 10-20% of the entire families wealth
· Families with a lot a daughters would be married off to people below their class because of the cost of the dowry
· Love as hard to describe at the time
· Dante and Beatrice; never wrote a thing about his wife but made her his muse for his writings
· Pretarch wife, his friends did not know her wife
o People thought he was making her up
o He writes 350 sonnets about her
· Pact with the devil 1669
o Trying to sell his soul to the devil for his bosses wife to marry him
Europe--word used for magic derived from devils and used against or to harm others
usually magic used by women
person who commits evil deeds
John Cabot (c. 1450 – c. 1498)
Claims to make 4 trips to America
describes South America as Munos Novus "New World"
· the letter get published widely
· also helps Waldseemuller to make anew map of the world
· not very accurate; but is notable that there is a new world and he names is America; since amerigo supposedly knew the most about this new world
Results of Contact
The Native people got really sick, which would bring African slaves over.
It developed more language
It incorporated new food in Europe
Chocolate Tea Coffee
Gold and Silver
Siege of Malta (1565)
Kills 30000 of sullymans soldiers
The knights of malta were so short that the wounded knights were propped up to fight
2500 knights total somehow win and get tons of presents from all over Europe
malta was able to stay together to give a falcon to the king every year
They burn a bunch of Turkish ships and ottomans backed off, the Mediterranean was stable
Wittenburg 1517
Catholic monk
99 thesis
western Europe had 2 cultures now
A social critic and sorrowful about the church's conditions, he would attack from the gullibility of the masses
Attacked by both protestants and catholics
Encouraged people to look at the bible themselves and that everyone was capable of reading the bible
The parliament was next set in 1521
Charles the 5th king of spain and holy roman emporer
At the diet Luther was told to disembowel his works
Frederick of Saxon to luther and hid him in the castle of Watburg, living his life as a knight and grows a beard
He translates the bible into german
Many people decide to break from the church in order to appoint their own ecclesiastical rulers
Pope Paul III (r. 1534 – 49)
No one expected him to have a reformation effort
He was critical in building the catholic defense against the spread against the catholic faith
Had Jesuits
The Jesuit priests had to teach a good catholic education
The idea was to educate the catholic masses against the protestant reformations
They would have universities everywhere even in the united states
Last for 18 years
Met under 3 popes
Objective to find a response to protestant criticism
Trent called for the strict praying of priests
For bishops to live in their daises – their assigned area
Created an index of forbidden books
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The 2013 Baby of the Year competition, held at Derby's Eagle Market, saw 285 babies and children putting on their best smiles for the camera. Over 1,200 votes were taken, with city residents voting for their favourites from each of the three age categories...
Overall winner was Daisy Shaw (0-9 months category) who was presented with a cheque for £1,000, a trophy and a framed print by Councillor Mick Barker, who is Vice President of the National Association of British Markets Authorities (NABMA), and Councillor Dave Roberts. Commenting on the successful event, Cllr Barker said:
"Derby's Markets are the foundations of the city's retail sector so I'm delighted that this family orientated event generated such interest and a very worthy winner in little Daisy!"
Baby of the Year winner Daisy's mum, Chelsey Shaw of Mackworth, said she would be putting the money into a bank account until her daughter was older and thanked everyone who came out to vote for her 'little Princess'.
Runners up, Poppy Williamson (0 to 9 months) Kaleb Wheldon (10 to 18 months) and Ethan Brown (19 to 36 months) were also presented with framed pictures.
Organiser Carol Jordan, Director or Bellenino Ltd Photography, said:
"The event was a tremendous success, despite the inclement weather, for both for the residents of Derby and their children and the Eagle Market itself. We also raised £132.50 for the charity Wish Upon A Star, as we donated 50p from each entrant to the cause. We will be back-bigger and better-in 2014!"
Markets are held every third Thursday in each month throughout the year on the Market Place in Derby. To apply for a market stall or enquire about current availability telephone 01332 287362.
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Questions on adult use of tobacco are reproduced in two documents: (1) 1965-1995 and (2)1997-2011. These documents contain only tobacco use questions. The complete questionnaires from which the tobacco questions were extracted can be accessed from the Guide for Data Users
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The American Cancer Society estimates more than 106,000 men and women in the United States were diagnosed with colon cancer in 2009, and almost 41,000 new cases of rectal cancer were reported.
Since colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in the United States and the second most deadly, it is important to understand different factors that affect your risk of developing the disease and know what you can do to reduce your risk.
Individuals at increased risk for developing colorectal cancer include:
Reducing your risk is essential to your health. Activities that have been proven to reduce individual risk include the following recommendations:
It is important to know that both prevention and early detection are key factors in reducing your risk for this disease. Colorectal cancer is preventable and highly curable if found in the early stages. You have the ability to address both of these factors directly at little or no cost.
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DIP 2/e—Student
The following sample laboratory projects are keyed to the material in
Digital Image Processing, 2/e. Several projects are designated as having "multiple uses" because
their results are used in some of the other projects that follow them.
They should be given assignment priority.
A note on programming: The principal objectives of the following projects are (1) to teach the student how to manipulate images, and (2) to
help in developing a sense of how image processing solutions are prototyped
in software. To this end, the programming environment needed to implement
these projects can consist of a truly general-purpose environment (e.g., a C++
approach) to an environment in which the projects can be implemented as a
combination of existing functions with the capability to write code that can
expand the capabilities of those functions. Perhaps the best exponent of
that approach is MATLAB's Image Processing Toolbox (IPT). We prefer an
approach that uses such a combination of capabilities because it is more
representative of what the student is likely to find in practice after
graduation. The
Software section of this web site contains
resources and links to resources that can be helpful in developing a programming
environment for the projects.
Download the projects as a PDF file.
Project No.
Suggested format for submitting project reports.
Image Printing Program Based on Halftoning.
Reducing the Number of Gray
Levels in an Image.
Zooming and Shrinking Images by Pixel Replication.
Zooming and Shrinking Images by Bilinear
Multiple uses.
Image Enhancement Using Intensity Transformations.
Histogram Equalization.
Arithmetic Operations.
Spatial Filtering.
Enhancement Using the Laplacian.
Unsharp Masking.
Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform.
Fourier Spectrum and Average Value.
Lowpass Filtering.
Highpass Filtering Using a Lowpass Image.
Correlation in the Frequency Domain.
Noise Generators.
Noise Reduction Using a Median Filter.
Periodic Noise Reduction Using a Notch Filter.
Parametric Wiener Filter.
Web-Safe Colors.
Pseudo-Color Image Processing.
Color Image Enhancement by Histogram Processing.
Color Image Segmentation.
One-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transforms.
Two-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transforms.
Wavelet Transform Modifications.
Image De-Noising.
Objective Fidelity Criteria.
Image Entropy.
Transform Coding.
Wavelet Coding.
Morphological and Other Set Operations.
Boundary Extraction.
Connected Components.
Morphological Solution to Problem 9.27.
Edge Detection Combined with Smoothing and Thresholding.
Global Thresholding.
Optimum Thresholding.
Region Growing.
Fourier Descriptors.
Principal Components.
Generating Pattern Classes.
Minimum Distance Classifier.
Bayes Classifier.
Perceptron Classifier.
Suggested Format for Submitting Project Reports
Suggested Format for Submitting Project Reports
Because laboratory projects are in addition to course work, it is suggested that
project reports be kept short, and be organized in a uniform manner to simplify
grading. The following format achieves these objectives.
Page 1. Cover Page. Typed or printed neatly.
Project title
Project number
Course number
Student's name
Date due
Date handed in
Abstract (not to exceed 1/2 page)
Page 2. Technical discussion. One to two pages (max). This
section should include the techniques used and the principal equations (if any)
Page 3 (or 4). Discussion of results. One to two pages
(max). A discussion of results should include major findings in terms of
the project objectives, and make clear reference to any images generated.
Results. Includes all the images generated in the project.
Number images individually so they can be referenced in the preceding
Appendix. Program listings. Includes listings of all
programs written by the student. Standard routines and other material
obtained from other sources should be acknowledged by name, but their listings
should not be included.
Layout. The entire report must be in standard sheet size format
(8.5 x 11 inches in the U.S.) All sheets should be stapled in three
locations to form a binding booklet-like support on the left margin.
Alternatively, sheets can be assembled using a commercial plastic binding
product with a clear plastic cover.
A note on program implementation: As noted earlier, the objective of the computer
programs used in the following projects is to teach the student how to
manipulate images. There are numerous packages that perform some of the
functions required to implement the projects. However, the use of "canned"
routines as the only method to implement an entire project is discouraged.
For example, if the students are using MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox,
a balanced approach is to use MATLAB's programming environment to write M
functions to implement the projects, using some of MATLAB's own functions in the
process. A good example is the implementation of the 2-D Fourier Fast
Transform. The student should use the MATLAB function that computes the
2-D FFT directly, but write functions for operations such as centering the
transform, multiplying it by a filter function, and obtaining the spectrum.
Image Printing Program Based on Halftoning
The following figure shows ten shades of gray approximated by dot patterns.
Each gray level is represented by a 3 x 3 pattern of black and white dots.
A 3 x 3 area full of black dots is the approximation to gray-level black,
or 0. Similarly, a 3 x 3 area of white dots represents gray level 9, or
white. The other dot patterns are approximations to gray levels in
between these two extremes. A gray-level printing scheme based on dots
patterns such as these is called "halftoning." Note that each pixel in an
input image will correspond to 3 x 3 pixels on the printed image, so spatial
resolution will be reduced to 33% of the original in both the vertical and
horizontal direction. Size scaling as required in (a) may further reduce
resolution, depending on the size of the input image.
(a) Write a halftoning computer program for printing gray-scale images based on
the dot patterns just discussed. Your program must be able to scale the
size of an input image so that it does not exceed the area available in a sheet
of size 8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm). Your program must also scale the
gray levels of the input image to span the full halftoning range.
(b) Write a program to generate a test pattern image consisting of a gray scale
wedge of size 256 x 256, whose first column is all 0's, the next column is all
1's, and so on, with the last column being 255's. Print this image using
your gray-scale printing program.
(c) Print book Figs. 2.22(a) through (c) using your gray-scale printing program.
Do your results agree with the conclusions arrived at in the text in pgs. 61-62
and Fig. 2.23? Explain. You will need to
Figs. 2.22(a) through (c).
Reducing the Number of Gray Levels in an Image
(a) Write a computer program capable of reducing the number of gray levels in a
image from 256 to 2, in integer powers of 2. The desired number of gray
levels needs to be a variable input to your program.
Fig. 2.21(a) and duplicate the results shown in Fig. 2.21 of the book.
Zooming and Shrinking Images by Pixel Replication
(a) Write a computer program capable of zooming and shrinking an image by pixel
replication. Assume that the desired zoom/shrink factors are integers. You
may ignore aliasing effects.
Fig. 2.19 (a) and use your program to shrink the image from 1024 x 1024 to 256
x 256 pixels.
(c) Use your program to zoom the image in (b) back to 1024 x 1024. Explain
the reasons for their differences.
PROJECT 02-04 [Multiple Uses]
Zooming and Shrinking Images by Bilinear Interpolation
(a) Write a computer program capable of zooming and shrinking an image by
bilinear interpolation. The input to your program is the desired size of the
resulting image in the horizontal and vertical direction. You may ignore aliasing
Fig. 2.19(a) and use your program to shrink this image from 1024 x 1024 to 256
x 256 pixels.
Image Enhancement Using Intensity Transformations
The focus of this project is to experiment with intensity transformations to
enhance an image.
Fig. 3.8(a) and enhance it using
(a) The log transformation of Eq. (3.2-2).
(b) A power-law transformation of the form shown in Eq. (3.2-3).
In (a) the only free parameter is c, but in (b) there are two parameters,
c and r for which values have to be selected. As in most
enhancement tasks, experimentation is a must. The objective of this
project is to obtain the best visual enhancement possible with the methods in
(a) and (b). Once (according to your judgment) you have the best visual
result for each transformation, explain the reasons for the major differences
between them.
PROJECT 03-02 [Multiple Uses]
Histogram Equalization
(a) Write a computer program for computing the histogram of an image.
(b) Implement the histogram equalization technique discussed in Section 3.3.1.
Fig. 3.8(a) and perform histogram equalization on it.
As a minimum, your report should include the original image, a plot of its
histogram, a plot of the histogram-equalization transformation function, the
enhanced image, and a plot of its histogram. Use this information to explain why
the resulting image was enhanced as it was.
PROJECT 03-03 [Multiple Uses]
Arithmetic Operations
Write a computer program capable of performing the
four arithmetic operations between two images. This project is generic, in
the sense that it will be used in other projects to follow. (See comments
on pages 112 and 116 regarding scaling). In addition to multiplying two
images, your multiplication function must be able to handle multiplication of an
image by a constant.
PROJECT 03-04 [Multiple Uses]
Spatial Filtering
Write program to perform spatial filtering of an image (see Section 3.5 regarding
implementation). You can fix the size of the spatial mask at 3 x 3, but
the coefficients need to be variables that can be input into your program. This project is generic, in the sense that it will
be used in other projects to follow.
Enhancement Using the Laplacian
(a) Use the programs developed in Projects 03-03 and 03-04 to implement the
Laplacian enhancement technique described in connection with Eq. (3.7-5).
Use the mask shown in Fig. 3.39(d).
(b) Duplicate the results in Fig. 3.40. You will need to
download Fig. 3.40(a).
Unsharp Masking
(a) Use the programs developed in Projects 03-03 and 03-04 to implement
high-boost filtering, as given in Eq. (3.7-8). The averaging part of the
process should be done using the mask in Fig. 3.34(a).
Fig. 3.43(a) and enhance it using the program you developed in (a). Your
objective is to choose constant A so that your result visually
approximates Fig. 3.43(d).
PROJECT 04-01 [Multiple Uses]
Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform
The purpose of this project is to develop a 2-D FFT program
"package" that will be used in several other projects that follow. Your
implementation must have the capabilities to:
(a) Multiply the input image by (-1)x+y to center the transform for
(b) Multiply the resulting (complex) array by a real function (in the sense that
the the real coefficients multiply both the real and imaginary parts of the
transforms). Recall that multiplication of two images is done on pairs of
corresponding elements.
(c) Compute the inverse Fourier transform.
(d) Multiply the result by (-1)x+y and take the real part.
(e) Compute the spectrum.
Basically, this project implements Fig. 4.5. If you
are using MATLAB, then your Fourier transform program will not be limited to
images whose size are integer powers of 2. If you are implementing the
program yourself, then the FFT routine you are using may be limited to integer
powers of 2. In this case, you may need to zoom or shrink an image to the
proper size by using the program you developed in Project 02-04.
An approximation: To simplify this and the
following projects (with the exception of Project 04-05), you may ignore image
padding (Section 4.6.3). Although your results will not be strictly
correct, significant simplifications will be gained not only in image sizes, but
also in the need for cropping the final result. The principles will not be
affected by this approximation.
Fourier Spectrum and Average Value
Fig. 4.18(a) and compute its (centered) Fourier spectrum.
(b) Display the spectrum.
(c) Use your result in (a) to compute the average value of
the image.
Lowpass Filtering
(a) Implement the Gaussian lowpass filter in Eq. (4.3-7).
You must be able to specify the size, M x N, of the resulting 2D function.
In addition, you must be able to specify where the 2D location of the center of
the Gaussian function.
Fig. 4.11(a) [this image is the same as Fig. 4.18(a)] and lowpass filter it to obtain Fig. 4.18(c).
Highpass Filtering Using a Lowpass Image
(a) Subtract your image in Project 04-03(b) from the
original to obtain a sharpened image, as in Eq. (4.4-14). You will note
that the resulting image does not resemble the Gaussian highpass results in Fig.
4.26. Explain why this is so.
(b) Adjust the variance of your Gaussian lowpass filter
until the result obtained by image subtraction looks similar to Fig. 4.26(c).
Explain your result.
Correlation in the Frequency Domain
Figs. 4.41(a) and (b) and duplicate Example 4.11 to obtain Fig. 4.41(e).
Give the (x,y) coordinates of the location of the maximum value in the 2D
correlation function. There is no need to plot the profile in Fig.
PROJECT 05-01 [Multiple Uses]
Noise Generators
is a generic project, in the sense that the programs developed here are used in
several of the projects that follow. See Fig. 5.2 for the shapes and
parameters of the following noise probability density functions.
(a) Find (or develop) a program to add Gaussian noise to an image. You
must be able to specify the noise mean and variance.
(b) Find (or develop) a program to add salt-and-pepper (impulse) noise to an
image. You must be able to specify the probabilities of each of the two
noise components.
Noise Reduction Using a Median Filter
(a) Modify the program that you developed in Project 03-04 to perform 3 x 3
median filtering.
Download Fig. 5.7(a) and add salt-and-pepper noise to it, with Pa = Pb = 0.2.
(c) Apply median filtering to the image in (b). Explain the major
differences between your result and Fig. 5.10(b).
Periodic Noise Reduction Using a Notch Filter
(a) Write a program that implements sinusoidal noise of the form given in
Problem 5.14. The inputs to the program must be the amplitude, A,
and the two frequency components u0 and v0
shown in the problem equation.
Download image 5.26(a) and add sinusoidal noise to it, with u0 = M/2 (the image is square) and v0 = 0. The value
of A must be high enough for the noise to be quite visible in the image.
(c) Compute and display the spectrum of the image. If the FFT program you
developed in Project 4.01 can only handle images of size equal to an integer
power of 2, reduce the size of the image to 512 x 512 or 256 x 256 using the
program from Project 02-04. Resize the image before adding noise to it.
(d) Notch-filter the image using a notch filter of the form shown in Fig.
Parametric Wiener Filter
(a) Implement a blurring filter as in Eq. (5.6-11).
(b) Blur image 5.26(a) in the +45o direction using T = 1, as
in Fig. 5.26(b).
(c) Add Gaussian noise of 0 mean and variance of 10 pixels to the blurred image.
(d) Restore the image using the parametric Wiener filter given in Eq. (5.8-3).
Web-Safe Colors
order to complete this project, it is necessary that you find a program capable
of generating the RGB component images for a given jpg color image. For
example, MATLAB's Image Processing Toolbox can do this, but you can also do it
with image editing programs like Adobe's Photo-Shop or Corel's Photo-Paint.
It is acceptable for the purposes of this project to convert an image to RGB
(and back) manually.
(a) Write a computer program that converts an arbitrary RGB color image to a
web-safe RGB image (see Fig. 6.10 for a definition of web-safe colors).
the image in Fig. 6.8 and convert it to a web-safe RGB color image. Figure
6.8 is given in jpg format, so convert your result back to jpg (see comments at
the beginning of this project). Explain the differences between your
result and Fig.
Pseudo-Color Image Processing
(a) Implement Fig. 6.23, with the characteristic
that you can specify two ranges of gray-level values for the input image and
your program will output an RGB image whose pixels have a specified color
corresponding to one range of gray levels in the input image, and the remaining
pixels in the RGB image have the same shade of gray as they had in the input
image. You can limit the input colors to all the colors in Fig. 6.4(a).
the image in Fig. 1.10(4) and process it with your program so that the river
appears yellow and the rest of the pixels are the same shades of gray as in the
input image. It is acceptable to have isolated specs in the image that
also appear yellow, but these should be kept as few as possible by proper choice
of the two gray-level bands that you input into your program.
Color Image Enhancement by Histogram Processing
the dark-stream color picture in Fig. 6.35 (this image is labeled Fig. 6.35(05)
in the image gallery for Chapter 6). Convert the image to RGB (see
comments at the beginning of Project 06-01). Histogram-equalize the R, G,
and B images separately using the histogram-equalization program and convert the
image back to jpg format.
(b) Form an average histogram from the three histograms in (a) and use it as the
basis to obtain a single histogram equalization intensity transformation
function. Apply this function to the R, G, and B components individually,
and convert the results to jpg. Compare and explain the differences in the
jpg images in (a) and (b).
Color Image Segmentation
Fig. 6.28(b) and duplicate Example 6.15, but segment instead the darkest regions
in the image.
PROJECT 07-01 [Multiple Uses]
One-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transforms
purpose of this project is to build a rudimentary wavelet transform package
using Haar wavelets that can be used in projects that follow. You will use an
"averaging and differencing" approach that is unique to Haar basis functions. As
an introduction to the method, consider the function in Example 7.8. The
necessary "averaging and differencing" operations are:
Step 1: Compute two-point sums and differences across the function vector and
divide the results by the square root of 2. Since f(x) = {1, 4, -3, 0}, we get
{1 + 4, -3 + 0, 1 - 4, -3 - 0} / 1.414
{5, -3, -3, -3} / 1.414
Note that the sums are positioned consecutively at the beginning of the
intermediate result and followed by the corresponding differences.
Step 2: Repeat the process over the sums computed in the first step to get
{[5 + (-3)] / 1.414, [5 - (-3)] / 1.414,
-3, -3} / 1.414
{2 / 1.414, 8 / 1.414, -3, -3} / 1.414
4, -2.121, -2.121}
coefficients of the final vector match those in Example 7.8. The two-step
computation generates a two-scale DWT with respect to Haar wavelets. It can be
generalized to higher scales and functions with more than 4 points. Moreover, an
inverse DWT can be computed by reversing the process.
(a) Write a program to compute j-scale DWTs with respect to Haar
wavelets. Let scale be an input parameter and assume a 2M point discrete
one-dimensional function. Use the averaging and differencing approach described
(b) Write a program to compute the inverse DWT of a j-scale DWT based on
Haar wavelets.
(c) Test your programs using the function in Example 7.8.
PROJECT 07-02 [Multiple Uses]
Two-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transforms
(a) Use the routines developed in Project 07-01 to write a program that computes
j-scale two-dimensional DWTs with Haar wavelets. Base your routine on the
discussion of separable wavelets and two-dimensional wavelet transforms in
Section 7.5.
the image in Fig. 7.1 and use your program to generate the three-scale DWT (or
Haar transform) shown in Fig. 7.8(a). Label the various detail and approximation
coefficients that make up the transform and indicate their scales.
(c) Write a program to compute the inverse two-dimensional DWT with respect to
Haar wavelets and use it to reconstruct the original image from the wavelet
decomposition in (b).
(d) Write a program to scale the detail coefficients of the DWT in (b) so that
the underlying structure is more visible. The approximation coefficients do not
need to be scaled.
Wavelet Transform Modifications
the image from Fig. 4.18(a) and pad it with 0s to obtain a 512 x 512 array. Use
the two-dimensional DWT program developed in Project 07-02 to compute the transform
of the padded image at a variety of scales between 1 and 9.
(a) Zero the approximation coefficients of the generated transforms and record
your observations regarding subsequently reconstructed images. That is, compute
the inverse transforms of the decompositions after the approximation
coefficients have been zeroed and record the impact on the transform
(b) Repeat the process in (a) but zero the horizontal detail coefficients
(c) Repeat the process in (a) but zero the vertical detail coefficients instead.
(d) Repeat the process in (a) but zero both the horizontal and vertical detail
Image De-Noising
Download the noisy MRI image of Fig. 7.26(a) and de-noise it using a Haar-based
PROJECT 08-01 [Multiple Uses]
Objective Fidelity Criteria
(a) Write a program to compute the root-mean-square error [see Eq. (8.1-8)] and
mean-square signal-to-noise ratio [per Eq. (8.1-9)] of a compressed-
decompressed image. This project is generic in the sense that it will be used in
other projects that follow.
Download the image of Fig. 8.4(a) and write a program to generate the
results in the (b) and (c) parts of the figure. Use your fidelity criteria
program to characterize any loss of visual information and comment on your
Image Entropy
(a) Write a program to compute the first and second order entropy estimates of
an image.
Download the images of Figures 8.14(a) and (b) and use your program to
estimate their entropies. Interpret the results in view of the compression
results given in Tables 8.8 and 8.9.
Transform Coding
(a) Write a program to compute the information loss associated with the
following transform coding schemes:
Case 1
Case 2
Subimage Size:
8 x 8
Bit Allocation:
8-largest coding
Use the routines developed in Project 08-01 to quantify the loss of information.
the image in Fig. 8.23 and use the program to compare Cases 1 and 2.
(b) Gradually decrease the number of retained coefficients until the
reconstruction error for Case 2 becomes objectionable. That is, try 7-largest,
6-largest, … coding as the bit allocation method.
Wavelet Coding
and compress the image of Fig. 8.23 using the Haar-based DWT program of Project
07-02. Use various scales while truncating the detail coefficients to achieve
compression. Quantify the reconstruction error using the program from Project
08-01 and compare both the computed error and wavelet-based compression
performance to the results from Proj08-03.
PROJECT 09-01 [Multiple Uses]
Morphological and Other Set Operations
(a) Write a computer program capable of performing binary dilation and erosion
with an arbitrary (i.e., specified) structuring element of size 3 x 3.
(b) Write a computer program for performing set intersection, differencing, and
PROJECT 09-02 [Multiple Uses]
Boundary Extraction
(a) Use your results from Project 09-01 to implement morphological
boundary extraction as in Eq. (9.5-1).
Fig. Prob9.20(left) and extract the boundaries of the characters.
PROJECT 09-03 [Multiple Uses]
Connected Components
(a) Use your results from Project 09-01 to write a computer program capable of
extracting (and counting) the connected components from a binary image.
Fig. Prob9.27 and use your program in (a) to count the number of connected
Morphological Solution to Problem 9.27
Use previous results plus any new required techniques and
write a computer program to completely solve Problem 9.27. Solve the
Edge Detection Combined with Smoothing and Thresholding
(a) Extend the program from Project 03-04 to compute the Sobel gradient using
the masks in Fig. 10.8. Your program should implement Eq. (10.1-12), and have
the option of outputting a binary image by comparing each gradient point against
a specified threshold, T.
Fig. 10.15(a). By combining smoothing with a 3 x 3 mask from Project 03-04
and your program from (a), process Fig. 10.15(a) and produce a binary image that
isolates (segments) the large blood vessel in the center of the image.
This will require repeated trials of smoothing and choices of T.
Looking at the histogram (Project 03-02) of the gradient image before it is
thresholded will help you select a value for T.
PROJECT 10-02 [Multiple Uses]
Global Thresholding
(a) Write a global thresholding program in which the threshold is estimated
automatically using the procedure discussed in Section 10.3.3. The output
of your program should be a segmented (binary) image.
Fig. 10.27(a) and segment the object using your thresholding program.
Optimum Thresholding
(a) Implement the optimum thresholding approach discussed in Section 10.3-5.
Assume Gaussian densities in which
the variances of the objects and background are the same. In addition to
an image, the inputs to your program are as shown in Eq. (10.3-14).
(b) Write a program that, given an image patch, computes the mean and variance
of the pixels in the patch.
Fig. 10.27(a) and select a small patch in the region of the object and also of
the background to estimate the mean and variance of each. Compute the
value of a single variance by averaging the two variances just obtained.
Obtain the probabilities P1 and P2 by
estimating (manually) the relative areas occupied by the object and background.
Input the parameters thus obtained into your program and segment Fig. 10.27(a).
If you were assigned Project 10-02 as well, compare the results.
Region Growing
Implement a
region-growing procedure (see Section 10.4.2) for segmenting an image into two regions. Hint:
One approach is to grow only one region. Then, by default, the other
region is the set of points left over after growth of the first region stops.
At any step in the growth process, a new point is appended to the region only if
a set of pre-established predicates is satisfied. For example, let s
represent the average gray level of the region grown thus far at any
iterative step in the procedure. One possibility is to append a new point
to the region if (1) its gray level does not differ by more than a specified
constant, k, from s, and (2) the point is connected (see Section
2.5.2) to the region grown thus far.
(b) If
Project 10-03 was not assigned, write a program that, given an image
patch, computes the mean and variance of the pixels in the patch.
Fig. 10.27(a). Select a small patch in the object region and compute the
mean and variance. Let the mean be the starting value of s.
Use a multiple of the standard deviation as the value of k.
(d) Segment the image by region growing.
(a) Implement the skeletonizing procedure described in Section 11.1.5.
Fig. 10.25, threshold it using your program from Project 10-02, and obtain its
PROJECT 11-02 [Multiple Uses]
Fourier Descriptors
(a) Implement the Fourier descriptor scheme developed in
Section 11.2.3.
Figs. 12.18(a1) and (a2)
and obtain the boundaries of each using your program from Project 09-02.
Choose 256 points to represent each boundary. The 256 points should be as
equally-spaced as reasonably possible.
(c) Obtain the Fourier descriptors of each figure (be sure
to start at approximately the same point in each figure). Approximate the
boundaries using the first 16, 32, 164 and 128 of the coefficients (see Example
11.3 for guidance). Plot each result.
(a) Implement the statistical texture measures described in Section 11.3.3.
Figs. 1.14(a), (d) and (e), and extract a 100 x 100 segment from the lower,
right quadrant of each image.
(c) Compute the statistical measures of the subimages using the measures
described in Table 11.2. Present your results in the same table format and
Principal Components
(a) Implement the principal components transform discussed
in Section 11.4. The objective is to be able to use Eqs. (11.4-11) and
(11.4.-12). You will need routines to compute the eigenvalues and
eigenvectors of the covariance matrix.
Figs. 1.10(1) through 1.10(6) and duplicate the sequence of operations described
in Example 11.10, including the images and tables. It is not necessary to
duplicate Fig. 11.27.
PROJECT 12-01 [Multiple Uses]
Generating Pattern Classes
(a) Refer to your results in Project 11-02. Choose
the smallest number of descriptors that preserved the basic differences between
the two figures. This will give you two sequences of Fourier descriptors,
one for each figure. Express each set of coefficients as a vector, xA=(x1,
x2, . . . ,xn)T and xB=(x1,
x2, . . . ,xn)T, where n
is the number of descriptors.
(b) Create two pattern classes, class A and
class B, by adding noise (Project 05-01) to the components of each
vector. Use Gaussian noise of zero mean and standard deviation equal to
the maximum component of each vector divided by 10. Generate 100 samples
each of class A and B. Call the aggregate of the two sets
the training set. Generate an additional 100 samples of each class
and call the aggregate of these two sets the test set.
Minimum Distance Classifier
(a) Implement the minimum distance classifier (for two
classes) discussed in Section 12.2.1.
(b) Compute the classifier parameters using the training
set developed in Project 12-01.
(c) Establish the classifier recognition performance by
determining the percent of patterns from the test set that are classified
Bayes Classifier
(a) Implement the Bayes classifier (for two classes)
discussed in Section 12.2.2. Assume Gaussian pattern classes.
Perceptron Classifier
(a) Implement the perceptron classifier (for two classes)
discussed in Section 12.2.3.
(b) Compute the classifier parameters by training, using
the training set developed in Project 12-01. Since training convergence
can be guaranteed only if the classes are linearly separable, and this is not
known a priori, establish a limit that stops the algorithm after it executes 10n
passes through the entire training set, where n is the dimensionality of
the pattern vectors.


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