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Hi guys! so because I have seen some inactivity in the forum, I have decided to do this. Basically, I am going to name a clan and a * number and can u guys please contribute to nmbering the best to worst card for that star number. Lets start off with Junkz, 4 stars.
imo: Rowdy, Qubik, Eibeza, Gibson, fizzle, nobrodroid, malmoth,(and then rest are pointless)
ok lets see what you think of this tier
0_4DPaladin Veteran Wednesday 05/12/2012, 01:11
Chicken came first. Kthxbai.
KitsuneKatsumi Imperator XiongDang Friday 07/12/2012, 09:24
I thought it would be interesting to do:
5*: Baldovino, Erpeto, Rhyno, Daqun
4*: Grudj, Bogdan, Pyro, Wolfgang
3*: Olga, Quasichoco, Varoslav, Olga Noel
2*: Bertha, Wonald, Magda, Harleen, Esmeralda, Soushee
Freaks really have multiple personality disorder. Each Freak really has to be considered from two angles: how good are they on turn 1, and then how good are they after turn 1. All of the 2* are pretty lousy on turn 1, so you really have to think about their usefulness in a supporting role after turn 1.
It really depend on whether youre playing half freaks or mono freaks( who the heck would play mono freaks )
So this is for half deck freaks
Freaks my oppinion
5* Baldovino, Splata cr, Erpeto, Rhyno, Cassandra, Daqun, Eve
4* Bogdan, Grudj, Pyro, Wolfgang
3* Olga, Varoslav, Akendram, Olga Noel
2* Esmeralda OR Wonald (depends on the other half of your deck), Bertha, Hula, magda, harleen
Bogdan or grudj really depends on your opponents hand. I like bogdan a bit more because he doesnt have to worry about ability sob. And the opponent cannot use cards like muze, zhu tang, tobbie against him. I love grudj too, put 8 or 9 pillz on him and IF the opponent doesnt pill youre still good. If he does pill its almost always an auto win
0_The_Oracle Imperator Open Casket Saturday 08/12/2012, 04:51
LOL ummm kinda agree with both of yours but im a fellow freaks user so heres mine.
5* Baldovino, Splata Cr, Daqun (heavily underrated he has perfect synergy with bonus), Oren (huge gap), blah blah
4* Bogdan (SoA too good to ignore), Grudj, Wolfgang (Dr too good), Pyro/Maciej
3* Olga, Mira (she is so good against SoA which is really common), Olga Noel, Varoslav/ akendram idk, blah blah
2* Bertha lol 8 power is really good, esmeralda/ wonald, soushee, then im not sure with the rest, magda seems really playable tho
0_The_Oracle Imperator Open Casket Saturday 22/12/2012, 16:45
Hey guys i need a lil bit of help for ulu??
2*: fanny, tiago, gabrielle, reef blah rest bad
3*: eugene (i like a lot), nanook, douglas, felicia, janice, kirk, lin bee, gaia, ice jim
4*: eddie, numar, shayna, buck, zack
5*: THIS I NEED HELP WITH personally oraya, lulabee, stanly, serena, hikiyousan
BUT since you will most likely use eddie cuz hes so damn good, is having oraya a good choice as well?


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"Viva Colonia!" on repeat. Ear-splitting Schunkel-Sound, a ska-schlager bastard of a genre that should have never seen the light of day. Fifty thousand people in a Kölsch-fuelled state of bliss. Lukas Podolski waving his hands at the crowd, egging them on. Tears of joy in the eyes of Dirk Lottner, the assistant coach and local legend. It was, in many ways, business as usual in RheinEnergieStadion, the cathedral of all-year-round carnival.
"Humour is laughing in spite of it" goes a German proverb. In Cologne, they've taken that [frightening] motto to its logical extreme. They'll dance where others would lie down and die, celebrate the uncelebratable, party at the drop of a hat, no excuse needed. But there was a marked difference on Saturday. For once, the crowd actually had a reason to go mental. Kölner Express called it the "Miracle of Müngersdorf" (after the ground's old name) and a "Lederhosen-Takeoff-Fairytale", Karl-Heinz Rummenigge called it "laughable". Christian Eichner had no idea what to call it. "I just don't get it," said the Köln defender, "it's not normal."
Louis van Gaal said it was "unbelievable" but he's been saying that all season. Actually, the most incomprehensible thing about Bayern Munich's second-half collapse after a 2-0 lead at the break was its eerie predictability. "It has happened before, in Gladbach, Leverkusen, Schalke, Wolfsburg and I don't know where else," said an angry Rummenigge. The champions, for whom a 1-0 lead used to be synonymous with a win, have become world-class wasters away from home: no one throws it away like them this season. In the Champions League game at Roma, the Bavarians managed to lose after scoring two goals in the first half. The last time they pulled that trick off in the league was in 1997, in Leverkusen.
And now against Köln, a team whose one outstanding feature is the sheer size of its limitations. Bayern, it is true, were fortunate to have Holger Badstuber still on the pitch early on, when the defender hacked down Milivoje Novakovic and prevented a clear goal-scoring opportunity. The rest, though, had been cake-walk. Bayern passed it around slowly, patiently. They didn't need more than a half a chance to score two goals. (Mario Gómez, Hamit Altintop). It could have been three – ref Felix Zwayer didn't spot Youssef Mohamad's handball in the box. It didn't seem to matter much. Gómez, confident of the win, sarcastically offered up his shirt to the Lebanese defender on the way into the tunnel.
In Köln's dressing room, their coach Frank Schaefer told his men they were at a crossroads. "You can let yourself go and lose 3-0, the way we did at St Pauli [last week]", said Eichner. "Or you can pay back the supporters for their fantastic support and go for it." Schaefer knew Bayern wouldn't be able to exert this much control over 90 minutes but even he couldn't have foreseen the visitor's total loss of concentration. An error-strewn 18-minute spell helped Köln turn it around in impressive fashion. Bayern only started playing football again once Novakovic's second strike had given the home side the lead (73) but by then, it was too late. "We came out like sleeping tablets [after the break]," said Thomas Müller, "we're destroying our whole season that way." Instead of moving up to second place, Bayern slumped to fifth.
In the stands, the official "Triumvirate" of Cologne's carnival season were having a field day. Prinz Frank I was there. So was Farmer Günter, an accountant in real life, and Virgin Reni, a real-life father of seven. Neutral observers didn't seem quite sure if the players in white might not be impostors, too. "Is that really Bayern Munich?", asked Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Van Gaal, in uncharacteristic introspective mood, wondered whether his relaxed team-talk was to blame. "Maybe I should have taken Badstuber off", he added. The Germany international did have a nightmare but wasn't helped by the even more disastrous mistakes of Anatoly Tymoshchuk, who was doing his darn best to prove to Van Gaal that he's anything but a centre-back.
No one really knows how to explain Bayern's second-half flaccidness. Van Gaal's curious penchant for the kind of numerous, risky positional changes that you're more expected to find in a flock of desert bats during heat season might have something do with it though. Bastian Schweinsteiger (behind the strikers, not in defensive midfield), Danijel Pranjic (defensive midfield, not on the left or on the bench), Müller (right or left, not behind the strikers) and Tymoshchuk are all forced to moonlight in unfamiliar territory. There's still enough quality on the pitch to win most games despite this confusion but not enough stability to withstand the slightest bout of headwind.
"I'm shocked", said Van Gaal. Uli Hoeness, ominously, said nothing. The president had warned of consequences – for the manager – if the minimum target, qualification for the Champions League, was in danger. After the latest overdose of sedatives, that time has (almost) come.
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• Forty-odd years ago, Borussia Mönchengladbach were ruling the Bundesliga roost and frightening Europe alongside Bayern. The two team's fortunes have since varied wildly but on Saturday night, Michael Frontzeck's men showed that they could do exactly what Bayern did, only better: On top of throwing away a 2-0 half-time lead (against Stuttgart) and losing the match 3-2, they went the extra mile by doing so in front of their own shell-shocked supporters. Unlike Bayern, though, they could at least point to a Dowdyesque performance from the referee Thorsten Kinhöfer who wrongly ruled out a third goal for the home side and awarded the Swabians a late, contentious penalty for the win. "We got it right in the neck, it's a tough blow," said Frontzeck.
• "Manuel is the best goalkeeper in the world. That's good for Germany but bad for Dortmund." Little needs to be added to Mats Hummels's appraisal of Manuel Neuer after the goalless draw in the Ruhr derby on Friday night. Borussia were utterly dominant but frustrated by Schalke's hero between the sticks. Five times he pulled off terrific saves, twice the 2011 champions hit the post. "We didn't really deserve to get a point, that's for sure," Neuer said honestly. The result offered a tiny respite for S04 coach Felix Magath, who has enraged his own fans with a flurry of nebulous transfers. "At Schalke, it's important to get the supporters on your side," warned the club chief executive Clemens Toennies. "[Magath] didn't do that. It's his own fault he was criticised." Magath has admitted to his mistakes ("I should have talked more to the fans") but denies there is a problem. "Everything is going according to plan." He's right, of course – if the plan entailed slipping dangerously close to the relegation places.
• No goals either at the other big derby, Hamburg v St Pauli. This time, however, it wasn't goalkeeping heroics but gardening blunders that kept the sheets blank: the newly relaid pitch in the Volksparkstadion couldn't cope with the rain and the match was called off. In a bizarre bet, the HSV captain Heiko Westermann and the deputy St Pauli captain Gerald Asamoah had agreed that the loser would clean the winner's car. Topless.
• In the Volkswagen town of Wolfsburg, they might well have mooted a similar punishment for Diego but at the end of the day, it's cold, hard cash they prefer. The Brazilian midfielder will reportedly be fined €100,000 and possibly banned for taking (and missing) a penalty against the express wishes of Steve McClaren. The new striker Patrick Helmes was supposed to take it but was pushed aside by Diego, who himself had been muscled out by Edin Dzeko earlier in the season. "This is unacceptable," thundered McClaren. "I'm very angry. This matter had a direct influence on the outcome of the game." Wolfsburg lost 1-0 away to Hannover and are only one point clear of the play-off relegation place. "I'll have to think about things," the general manager Dieter Hoeness replied when asked about the Yorkshireman's job prospects. Translation: One more defeat and for you, ze game is up, Stefan.
Results: Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Schalke, Hoffenheim 3-2 Kaiserslautern, Nürnberg 1-0 Bayer Leverkusen, Mainz 1-1 Werder Bremen, Hannover 1-0 Wolfsburg, Köln 3-2 Bayern Munich, Gladbach 2-3 Stuttgart, Freiburg 0-0 Eintracht Frankfurt.
• After this blog was published, Steve McClaren was sacked by Wolfsburg. You can read more about his dismissal here.


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- Paul Butler: At Morehouse commencement speech, Obama must show grads he's a brother
- He says blacks have supported him even as they've felt neglect as he's balanced his role
- He says Obama should thank grads for support, provide role model of 21st century masculinity
- Butler: Obama must show he's engaged on issue of disproportionate incarceration
"My brothers."
That is how President Obama should begin one of the most significant speeches of his presidency: the commencement address at Morehouse College this Sunday. Addressing the historically black all male institution gives Obama an opportunity to rectify his strategic neglect of African-Americans. In this high-profile talk to his own demographic, the president has some explaining to do.
Obama's identity as a black man is usually communicated subliminally, with the swag in his walk, the basketball court on the East Lawn, the sexy glances at the first lady, his overall cool. Now, however, comes the time to be explicit: to speak out loud his affiliation, his fraternal pride and concern. That's the good work that calling us "brothers" would do.
In appearances before African-American audiences, the president sometimes sounds like he's saying the wrong thing. He told the Congressional Black Caucus to "stop grumbling, stop complaining, stop crying." In a Father's Day talk at a black church in Chicago, he criticized "too many fathers" for "acting like boys not men."
African-American men certainly could use an intervention from the most successful African-American man in history. They are on the bottom of many indicators of achievement. They suffer the highest level of incarceration, and the largest homicide rates, of any Americans. In urban areas, fewer than half graduate from high school. Their unemployment is among the highest in the country.
"I'm sorry I haven't done more."
The president has not spoken out forcefully against racial profiling and mass incarceration. He has not memorialized the mainly African-American victims of gun violence in Chicago the way he has memorialized the mainly white victims of gun violence in Newtown and Columbine. Asked why he hadn't done more to remedy the catastrophic rate of African-American unemployment, Obama said, "I can't pass laws that say I'm just helping black folks. I'm president of the entire United States."
"Thank you for your support."
Nobody understands, like this audience will, the contortions a successful African-American man has to make to fit in but stand out, to be strong but not intimidate or frighten, to be black enough but not too black.
But in some ways the African-American community has been too understanding. Emanuel Cleaver, while chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "the president knows we are going to act in deference to him in a way we wouldn't to someone white." Politically it was not the smartest thing to say (the LGBT community didn't turn Obama into the most gay friendly president in U.S. history by going easy on him) but any black man could understand the sentiment. That's why the African-American turnout for the president's re-election was higher than the white turnout.
Now blacks who supported the president are doing exactly what other groups responsible for his victory are doing: waiting for him to return the favor.
"We've all got to do better."
The president isn't the only black man who needs to step up support of his brothers. My friend runs a mentoring organization for black boys in Prince George's County, Maryland, the nation's most affluent black community. There is a long waiting list of boys, mostly without dads in the home, and only about 10 active African-American male mentors.
President Obama provides, for Morehouse men and everyone else, a 21st century model of African-American masculinity. His oft stated support for women's rights is a crucial component. The casual misogyny of some black popular culture, especially hip-hop music and videos, is a disgrace. It's OK for the president to note that not every aspect of black male culture is praiseworthy.
"That includes me."
The government's primary intervention for black men is to lock them up. President Obama cannot, on his own, reverse this course, but he can do much more than he has to disrupt the flow of the one in three young black men who are headed to prison. One example would be to speak in favor of decriminalizing marijuana, as have other politicians like New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Black men are selectively arrested for marijuana crimes, and these arrests have a stigmatizing effect on future employment and earnings that redounds to the detriment of African-American families. Barack Obama was once a young black man who smoked pot, and it would be surprising if he actually believes that it's fair for other young black men to be selectively prosecuted for that.
"I am the most powerful man in the world, and I've got your back."
Those are words profound enough to make a black man cry. I believe them to be true, but hearing them proclaimed out loud would be incredibly meaningful. African-American men feel a special kinship with this president. How inspiring it would be for the president to acknowledge this connection, in his words and in his actions. What a difference it might make for the millions of black boys who now are headed to destinies very different from graduating from Morehouse College or becoming president of the United States.
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Drouin, McDavid highlight Canada WJC camp rosterNHL.com @NHLdotcom
Many pundits considered the inclusion of forward Jonathan Drouin on the Canadian roster a bit of a surprise at the 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in Ufa, Russia last season.
The 18-year-old left wing, selected in the first round (No. 3) of the 2013 NHL Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning, is in the midst of another spectacular season for the Halifax Mooseheads. Not surprisingly, he was one of 25 players invited to the country's WJC selection camp scheduled Dec. 12-15 at the MasterCard Centre in Etobicoke, Ont.
The announcement Monday was made by Hockey Canada and the Canadian Hockey League at duel press conferences in Toronto and Montreal.
"I would like to congratulate the 25 players that received an invitation today," head scout for the Canadian National Junior Team Ryan Jankowski said in a statement. "Canada is fortunate to have great depth of talent, and these players should be proud of this special opportunity. I would also like to thank the general managers and coaches of the Canadian Hockey League for their great support throughout this process."
Three players were invited to camp from the team that finished fourth in Ufa last year -- Drouin, defensemen Griffin Reinhart and goalie Jake Paterson. Paterson was named Canada's emergency goalie last year and did not see any action.
Drouin, second in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with 47 points (15 goals, 32 assists) in 21 games this season, earned a spot on the country's top line at the 2013 WJC at one point with captain Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (Edmonton Oilers) and Mark Schiefele (Winnipeg Jets).
He finished with one assist and a plus-1 rating filling in for Jonathan Huberdeau (Florida Panthers) on the top line in Canada's 4-1 preliminary-round victory over Russia. He finished the tournament with two goals, four points and a plus-4 rating in six games.
While many people in the hockey world thought Drouin would be starring in the NHL this season, Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman opted to return him to Halifax in order to give him the necessary ice time he needed to improve his overall game. That plan also enabled Hockey Canada to have one of the country's finest hockey talents available to them a second straight year.
GOALIES: Zachary Fucale, Halifax, QMJHL (Montreal), *Jake Paterson, Saginaw, OHL (Detroit)
DEFENSEMEN: Aaron Ekblad, Barrie, OHL (2014 eligible), Chris Bigras, Owen Sound, OHL (Colorado), Adam Pelech, Erie, OHL (New York Islanders), Matt Dumba, Red Deer, WHL (Minnesota), Joshua Morrissey, Prince Albert, WHL (Winnipeg), Derrick Pouliot, Portland, WHL (Pittsburgh), *Griffin Reinhart, Edmonton, WHL (New York Islanders), Damon Severson, Kelowna, WHL (New Jersey)
FORWARDS: *Jonathan Drouin, Halifax, QMJHL (Tampa Bay), Frederik Gauthier, Rimouski, QMJHL (Toronto), Felix Girard, Baie-Comeau, QMJHL (Nashville), Bo Horvat, London, OHL (Vancouver), #Charles Hudon, Chicoutimi, QMJHL (Montreal), Taylor Leier, Portland, WHL (Philadelphia), Scott Laughton, Oshawa, OHL (Philadelphia), Josh Anderson, London, OHL (Columbus), Curtis Lazar, Edmonton, WHL (Ottawa), Anthony Mantha, Val-d'Or, QMJHL (Detroit), Connor McDavid, Erie, OHL (2015), Nicolas Petan, Portland, WHL (Winnipeg), Sam Reinhart, Kootenay, WHL (2014), Kerby Rychel, Windsor, OHL (Columbus), Hunter Shinkaruk, Medicine Hat, WHL (Vancouver)
*- Returning player#- Selected to 2013 team but missed tournament because of injury
Canada will be coached by Brent Sutter, who served as an assistant coach during the country's silver medal-winning effort at the 2010 WJC. Before becoming an NHL head coach, Sutter coached the national junior squad for three years, winning gold in 2005 and 2006.
Currently the head coach, general manager and owner of the Western Hockey League's Red Deer Rebels, Sutter went 6-0 in North Dakota in 2005 and 6-0 in Vancouver in 2006.
Canada hasn't celebrated a gold medal at the WJC since 2009.
"Hockey Canada is looking forward to an extremely competitive camp in December, as we look to assemble a team that will make all Canadians proud," said Scott Salmond, Hockey Canada's senior director of men's national teams and hockey operations. "This is a first step towards naming our roster for the IIHF World Junior Championship. We look forward to the camp getting underway."
Three players, Kootenay Ice center Sam Reinhart, Erie Otters center Connor McDavid and Barrie Colts defenseman Aaron Ekblad, will earn plenty of attention from NHL scouts. Reinhart and Ekblad are eligible for the 2014 NHL Draft and McDavid is eligible the following year.
Reinhart, who has 16 goals and 46 points in 29 games for Kootenay, is expected to be the first pick of the 2014 NHL Draft. The 18-year-old right-handed shot captained Canada to the gold medal at the 2013 IIHF World Under-18 Championship. He is the younger brother of fellow camp invite, Griffin.
McDavid, who made his debut in the Ontario Hockey League last season after being granted exceptional-player status from Hockey Canada, is expected to be the first pick at the 2015 NHL Draft. The 6-foot, 185-pound left-handed shot is bidding to be the first 16-year-old to play on Canada's WJC team since Sidney Crosby in 2004.
Ekblad, a 6-foot-3.5, 216-pound right-handed shot, was also granted exceptional player status by Hockey Canada to be eligible for the 2011 OHL priority selection draft as a 15-year-old. He captained Canada to the 2013 Under-18 Memorial of Ivan Hlinka title this past summer. He has nine goals and 23 points in 26 games.
Canada, which placed fourth at the 2013 WJC, will compete in a group with the United States, Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia. The U.S. scored a 3-1 victory against Sweden in the 2013 WJC gold medal game to garner its third championship at the tournament (2004, 2010).
The U.S. will announce its selection camp roster on Wednesday.


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On paper, "The Monuments Men" has a lot going for it, including a starry cast led by director and co-writer George Clooney and a remarkable true story -- about a group of soldiers on a mission to protect priceless works of art in World War II Europe -- as its inspiration. On the screen, however, the movie stumbles, at least according to most film critics, who said it suffers from tonal inconsistency.
The Times' Kenneth Turan wrote, "Earnest and well-intentioned but ultimately inert, 'The Monuments Men' talks a better game than it can deliver. Inspired by true tales of World War II derring-do, it can't decide what kind of a film it wants to be and so ends up failing across a fairly wide spectrum."
The problem, Turan continued, "is that 'Monuments Men's' eyes are bigger than its stomach. In attempting to mix ersatz 'Ocean's Eleven' buddy humor with life-threatening World War II action while doing justice to the true story that underlies it all, the film never finds a consistent tone and ends up lacking in all areas."
The New York Times' Manohla Dargis called the film "a lightweight entertainment that doesn't ask you to think too hard." Of the cast, which includes Matt Damon, John Goodman and Bob Balaban, Dargis wrote, "It can be nice to spend time with these actors even when you don't believe their characters for a single second, and there's no denying this movie's easy pleasures, including the guaranteed satisfaction that comes in watching, yet again, the Nazis go down in defeat. Yet because Mr. Clooney can't figure out what kind of story this is, he too often slips into pandering mode, including in his own performance, which is filled with too many smiles and speeches."
Ty Burr of the Boston Globe said the movie "should work like a pip. Instead, 'The Monuments Men' is a tonal mishmash: Half 'Hogan's Post-Doctoral Heroes,' half 'Saving Private Rembrandt,' and half 'Ingres's 11.' That's three halves, so you can see the problem."
He added, "All the pieces are here -- a fascinating story, excellent production values, a handful of solid scenes, and strong performances. ... Yet the pieces never match up, because the script can't decide whether it's a caper comedy, a patriotic drama, or a historical adventure."
The Village Voice's Stephanie Zacharek wrote that "'The Monuments Men,' either despite its clearly noble intentions or because of them, stumbles on the march. ... Clooney can't control the story; it keeps flying out of his grasp like an unruly spring." On the plus side, "Clooney finds glory in the corners. His great skill as a director may be his affinity for actors. The performers in a Clooney-directed movie nearly always have some quiet sparkle about them."
Claudia Puig of USA Today found the film "genial and well-intentioned, but tepid." It represents "a particular disappointment coming from Clooney who, as a filmmaker, has directed some undeniably smart and nuanced films such as 'Good Night, and Good Luck' and 'The Ides of March.' Here he seems torn between approaching the story with a sense of reverence and making it a more mainstream, oversimplified entertainment. He settles on a pedestrian perspective, and slack pacing does it no favors."
"The Monuments Men" does have its supporters, however, chief among them Rex Reed of the New York Observer. In a rave review, he wrote that "Monuments Men" is "riveting, suspenseful, harrowing and exciting, and somehow, it also manages to be something rare among war pictures -- a big-scale entertainment."


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The shoes will hit the ground running at the end of August at Comme des Garçons boutiques worldwide, as well as select PLAY retailers. At just $100 a pop, the collection shows a commitment to recession-friendly prices—and we can think of no better way to spring into fall.
—Franklin Melendez
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The aim of this project would be to bring ghost removal techniques to the enfuse tool.
Current deghosting code will be completely refactored. My idea is to create abstract base class with defined interface for:
- adding one or more images (It should allow loading both color images and luminance images based on image names)
- adding one or more luminance images (will have to be in the same order as the loaded images id the names are no corresponding)
- setting optional flags to the algorithm (by using bits in integer number so it will not be dependent on how many parameters there are so it will be easier to add new deghosting algorithms)
- generating weight mask for HDR merging (used in hugin_hdrmerge)
- generating weight mask for enfuse if it's not possible to do it by different approach
Possible approaches of how to implement deghosting to enfuse:
- use the weight mask based on luminance images and do the difference between it and the input luminance image
- use weights generated by enfuse instead of luminance images
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CEDC hires new economic developer
The Custer County Economic Development Corporation has a new leader. Melissa Garcia has been hired as its new economic developer and will take the title of president.Melissa has spent the last five years working for Mid Plains Community College as a community liaison for their Center for Enterprise Business and Community Development.She was born in Broken Bow where she started elementary school. She moved out of the community with her family when her father joined the service, and later returned to Custer County and graduated from Callaway High School."As a youth who left Custer County, it is very rewarding to come back and be able to see what a progressive community Broken Bow has become and I am very excited about the opportunity to be a part of effecting that positive growth," said Melissa.Melissa's husband works as an engineer for the Nebraska Department of Roads. He will be transferring to the Broken Bow office as they sell their home in North Platte and relocate to Broken Bow. "We are very excited about the move," she said. They have two children, a second grader and an 18-month-old toddler. In addition to her experience with Mid Plains Community College, Melissa is a certified business developer and has had training in grant writing, coalition building and business planning and expansion. "I very much enjoyed the interview process," she added. "I have heard great things about the community, and about the organization from friends and partners not only locally but also at the state level. I am very excited about the direction the board wants to take."


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In 2012, it cost an average of $12,176 a year to place a preschool child in a day care center in Massachusetts. That is roughly 11 percent of the income for a married couple earning the state median of $109,090.
Massachusetts ranks among the least affordable states in the nation for child care, which doesn't surprise Amanda Scowcroft of Stoughton, who left her management job because her salary would not have covered the day care cost for her two children, she said.
In 2012, it cost an average of $12,176 a year to place a preschool child in a day care center in Massachusetts. That is roughly 11 percent of the income for a married couple earning the state median of $109,090. Add an infant to that family and the cost goes up $16,430 more – more than a quarter of the family's income – according to a report released last year by Child Care Aware of America, a resource center partially funded by the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Massachusetts is the seventh least affordable state when comparing day care costs for a 4-year-old for 2012, the resource center's most recent report said.
The rankings consider child care costs as a percentage of median income. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services considers child care affordable if it is 10 percent or less of a family's income.
"One concerning trend is that as the cost of care continues to increase, it continues to be a major expense, often exceeding the cost of housing, college tuition or even food," Lynette Fraga, executive director of Child Care Aware of America, said. "As we continue to look at quality issues, child care professionals continue to be one of the lowest-paying professional fields."
The burden is greater for families earning below the median. A family of three living at the poverty line in Massachusetts would have to pay more than 86 percent of its income for full-time, center-based infant care.
Tom Weber, commissioner of the state Department of Early Education and Care, said day care costs must be viewed within the context of a state's economy and demographics.
"Massachusetts is a relatively high-cost state for any industry, so I don't think it's altogether surprising we would see ourselves ranked near the top of the list," he said.
He said the cost of staff and space drives prices.
"To attract and retain early educators comes with a cost," he said. "Similarly, real estate is more expensive here than in other parts of the country and that represents a significant overhead."
Fraga agreed that business costs such as utilities, mortgage, rent and insurance typically drive day care costs.
"What we can say is in 2012, the cost of operating a small business generally went up as well," Fraga said. "They do operate at such a small profit margin that providers had to pass these expenses on to parents."
Massachusetts' relatively high population density may also influence costs.
The Child Care Aware report indicates that on the national scale, families in urban areas paid "dramatically more" for child care than families in rural areas, often as much as 30 percent more. The report uses the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of an urban area as a population cluster of at least 50,000. More than 91 percent of Massachusetts residents live in areas the Census Bureau considers "urban," compared with 49 percent in Mississippi, the state with the least expensive child care.
"Because there are fewer child care centers and licensed care providers in rural areas, families tend to rely on informal child care from neighbors and friends more often than urban families," the report states.
States in the Northeast generally rank among the most expensive for care in the Child Care Aware report, while a large concentration of states in the Southeast rank among the most affordable.
Massachusetts offers financial assistance for child care, including subsidies for about 53,000 income-eligible families. Despite recent funding initiatives to expand access, however, more than 40,000 families are on the subsidy waiting list.
"One of the recommendations we have is that we need to have a national conversation about child care and together find a solution," Fraga said.
Weber said Massachusetts is working to expand access to child care while maintaining high standards.
All child care providers must be licensed in Massachusetts, with fees ranging from $100 for family-based child care providers to $450 for a center-based operation with more than 100 children.
"I think Mass. has historically been a state where people place a high priority on education and opportunities for their kids," Weber said. "My sense is families here are probably willing to invest in higher-quality options and I do think we have higher-quality options to offer families."
For Scowcroft, the Stoughton mother, there was only one option when her second child was born.
"I had to leave my full-time management position, which really kind of hurts considering that I worked really hard to get where I was," she said.
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State offers little help to low-income parents.
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text: It must be free Friday again. SimCity Deluxe, and the Sims 3 are now free in App World. The games are part of a collection of free premium apps that RIM has offered to its customers following that nasty outage a few weeks ago. SimCity has been around on multiple platforms for years, and is one of those classic games you simply must have. The Sims 3 will also provide you with hours of fun simulating the life of your Sims. Now you can control your own city and simulate your life all from your BlackBerry. Thanks RIM !


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THE 2005 JOINT ASSEMBLY, a partnership between AGU, SEG, NABS and SPD/AAS, is being held 23—27 May 2005 at the Morial Convention Center (CC) located at 900 Convention Center Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Program Committee is developing a Union-wide science program that will cover topics in all areas of geophysical sciences. With a reputation as one of the country's hottest spots for music, food, and nightlife, New Orleans is an exciting venue for the Joint Assembly.
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AGU is an international scientific society of over 41,000 members that fosters high-quality scientific research in the understanding of Earth and atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, space and planetary sciences.
North American Benthological Society (NABS)The North American Benthological Society (NABS) is an international scientific organization whose purpose is to promote better understanding of the biotic communities of lake and stream bottoms and their role in aquatic ecosystems, by providing media and disseminating new investigation results, new interpretations, and other benthological information to aquatic biologists and to the scientific community at large.
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) promotes the science of geophysics and the education of exploration geophysicists. The Society fosters the expert and ethical practice of geophysics in the exploration and development of natural resources, in characterizing the near-surface, and in mitigating earth hazards.
Solar Physics Division - American Astronomical Society (SPD/AAS)The Solar Physics Division of the AAS advances the study of the Sun and promotion of coordination of such research with other branches of science. The AAS promotes the advancements of astronomy and closely related branches of science.
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Autism is the fastest-growing serious developmental disability in the U.S. One in 110 children is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, yet there are no fully effective means of prevention, treatment, or a cure. On April 1 and 2, Penn State Lehigh Valley will join hundreds of other businesses and organizations across the country to help shine a light on autism through the Autism Speaks Light It Up Blue campaign. During the campaign, the Nittany Lion Shrine at the north entrance of the campus will be awash in special blue light.
Penn State Lehigh Valley students also are mobilizing for this cause by forming a team and participating in the Lehigh Valley Walk Now for Autism event on April 16 at the Lehigh Parkway.
"Our students have been active during Autism Awareness Month in the past, but we are excited to expand our participation this year by lighting up our most recognizable icon, our Nittany Lion, blue," said Ann Williams, chancellor of the Lehigh Valley campus.
To find out more about the Light It Up Blue campaign, visit www.lightitupblue.org.
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Welcome to Student Support Services at Marshall University! We are happy you are here and a part of SSS. For those new, we look forward to getting to know you. For those returning, we look forward to seeing you again. Please let us know if you have any questions or if there is any way we can assist you. See you soon!
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Well, my first Boondoggle has come and gone. I will be completely honest with you, I am actually really sad that I have to wait until February to attend the next one. This event shed an entirely different light on how I perceived the kayak fishing community. I had always known that kayak anglers shared a bond and helped each other out, but little did I know that they were some of the most welcoming people I have ever had the pleasure to know.
As Andrew and myself pulled into Perdido Key, Florida late Friday afternoon, we proceeded to the entrance of Big Lagoon State Park to check in and scope out the lay of the land. As we drove closer to the camp grounds, droves of kayaks kept passing by strapped to the roofs of cars, truck beds, and trailers. It was a miniature caravan of plastic awesomeness. We pulled onto the road that lead to our camp site and got to behold a spectacle that I will have a hard time erasing from my memory bank. Every single campsite was packed full of kayaks as far as the eye could see and were chalk full of the latest and greatest kayak fishing accessories you could find. Every type, brand and color of kayak you could ever imagine was present and accounted for. Even some that had been discontinued for nearly 10 years. As we got to our site and started to unpack, we heard the first Boondoggle chant, and little did we know that it would be echoing through the camp grounds all weekend as each excited kayak angler wanted every one to know just how elated they were to be at the event. A single person would scream out, "BOOOOOONDOGGLE!", and everyone followed suit shortly thereafter. We had not even set our tents up and we had already hollered our response nearly a half dozen different times. Never once did we feel silly. If anything, we felt as if it were a right of passage. With camp completely set up, we got the kayaks loaded on top of our car and made a b-line for the beach since the offshore conditions were supposed to be about as perfect as you could imagine for some offshore kayak fishing.
When we got the kayaks unloaded and down on the sand, we really had to sit back and soak in what we were seeing. Being from Texas, it is a rare event that I see water so blue that it resembles a clear summer sky nor white powder sand that rivals cake flour in texture. To sum up what we thought in one word as to how to describe the sight…."heaven". We launched our kayaks and quickly paddled out to about 30 feet of water to try and sabiki up some live bait so that we could start trolling. I managed to bring up a few cigar minnows and we quickly put them on our lines and began to paddle around in search of our quarry, the speedy king mackerel. The conditions were so beautiful that we easily found ourselves lost in just the sheer serenity of the open calm ocean. We also forgot to take into consideration how fast the sun was setting, so once we snapped out of our trance we decided to paddle back towards the shore. We got within 3/4 of a mile from the beach when my bait got slammed. I got the rod out of the holder, engaged the drag, and reeled down to the fish. The fight was short due to a pulled hook.
Andrew sat and watched the event unfold since this was his first true offshore kayak fishing experience. Out of no where, his reel starts screaming shortly after mine. He goes through the same process and locks down on a solid king. I got my rod stowed away and proceeded over to assist him with the catch. He was grinning from ear to ear, but you could tell it was all business with him. He wrestled the fish boat side when I leaned in for the tail grab. With his first ever kayak caught king mackerel in hand, he could now show his excitement. "I can't believe how fast my line was disappearing off my reel," he would proclaim several times on our paddle in. I have been doing offshore kayak fishing for nearly 10 years and it never gets old watching someone get a rush from their first big fish caught from a kayak. We got back to the sand, took the customary photos, loaded the kayaks back onto the car, and headed back to the camp grounds so as to make it to the meet and greet that night.
As we arrived at the pavilion, we were amazed by the tremendous number of people that we starting to pour in. As we began to meet everyone, it was amazing to hear just how far some people drove to be at this event. If my memory serves me correct, I could have swore that I met someone who said they had made the trip all the way down from Alaska! Now THAT is some dedication. As the meet and greet ended, we made our way back to the camp site to cook dinner over an open fire and crack open a few adult beverages. While sitting in our chairs and soaking in our surroundings, people began to stop by our camp and hang out with us. We'd chit chat for a while, exchange some fishing stories, and then it typically ended with our new friends inviting us over to their camp sites for some good food or an invite was extended to fish the next morning as a group. After a while, we heard some people chatting a few sites down from us and little did we know that our friend Thomas from Diablo Paddlesports had made the journey down to Florida from Texas as well. We hung out for a few hours and exhaustion hit us like a ton of bricks. A short stroll back to our tents and then it was lights out for the night.
We woke up the next morning later than planned and took a walk to scope out the area where we were going to set up our booth. After locating our spot, we gathered our materials and set up shop right next to the kind folks who run www.yangler.com. People started to pour into the vendor area and we were off to meeting new people all over again. Twelve o'clock rolled around and it was time for our seminar, which was titled Offshore Kayak Fishing 101. Roughly 30 eager kayak fishermen found their way into the pavilion to listen to us speak on topics such as ideal kayaks for offshore fishing, basic gear, safety equipment, and fish targeting techniques. Once the seminar was over, we made our way back down to the booth to finish out the day. That night, Andrew and I decided to take the kayaks out for a little night fishing. There was little tide movement making for a tough bite. We managed one measly trout for our efforts and headed back to camp. The next morning we would try our luck offshore again.
The fishing the next morning ended up tough as well with Andrew landing another solid king and me losing another one. There seems to be a pattern here, wouldn't you say? When we got back to our booth after our brisk 12 miles paddle, we got a chance to catch up with some of the guys who put on the Boondoggle. Mark Watanabe of YakAngler.com sat down and gave us the back story of how the Boondoggle came to be and just how much it has grown in size, attendance-wise, since it's inception 3 years ago. We also got to shoot the breeze with Chip Gibson, the owner of www.kayakfishingradio.com, who invited us over to his camp site that night for a pot luck dinner. We were lured in by the promises of fresh venison and shrimp called ruby reds, which I found out were caught in about 800 feet of water! The night was spent just hanging out with our fellow kayak fishermen and swapping fishing stories from the previous 2 days with all who showed up. Nothing like good food and amazing company to make for an entertaining and awesome evening. As we walked back to our camp, we would make several pit stops into various campers sites, just to say our goodbyes and exchange handshakes. Sleep came easy that night on a full stomach.
As we woke up the next morning to break camp, we were greeted by the same chants as the first night being yelled across the camp grounds. I guess the term Boondoggle can be taken several ways at this event. Not just as the name of the event, it potentially could be used as a greeting, as a way of describing a particular feeling, and as a parting phrase to your fellow kayak fishing brethren. I am beyond excited I got to attend this event, and have already made plans for the next one that is coming up in February. If I could ever recommend a family style event for kayak anglers of ALL experience levels, the Boondoggle is the one I would encourage you to attend. Until next time, "BOOOOOOOOONDOGGLE!"