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Feuds in the rap game are nothing new, but rarely does it happen with your own father. After verbally punching past Meek Mill, Kanye West, and Pusha T – the latest beef for Drake comes courtesy of his Dad, Dennis Graham.
During an interview with Nick Cannon for his radio show, Graham recalled a conversation he had with his son, asking the artist why he painted him as an absentee father in his rhymes. "I have always been with Drake," Dennis explained to Cannon. "I said, 'Drake, why are you saying all of this different stuff about me, man? This is not cool.' And he goes, 'Dad, it sells records.'"
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The response was quick from the "Nice For What" star, who took to his Instagram Story to refute his father's claim and to demand that his songs are honest. "Woke up today so hurt, man. My father will say anything to anyone that's willing to listen to him," Drake wrote. "It's sad when family gets like this, but what can we really do? That's the people we are stuck with. Every bar I ever spit was the truth and the truth is hard for some people to accept."
Drake has rapped about his father and the struggles within his family since his first release, remaining consistent about their situation. The two have since reconciled, with Dennis joining Drake on stage at the Billboard Music Awards in 2017. The two also appeared together later in 2017 in an ad for Drake's whiskey brand.
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In a move that many feel will only increase crime rates in the country, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte plans to ban pothead tourists from visiting the Netherlands' many legal cannabis coffeehouses. Under his new plan, residents would have to carry cannabis cards to frequent any of the country's 670 weed shops.
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"The measure will come into force for the (southern) provinces of Limburg, North-Brabant and Zeeland, the provinces most affected by drug tourism, on January 1," justice ministry spokeswoman Charlotte Menten told AFP.
Under the new policy, which some have warned could drastically curb tourism revenues, licenced coffee shops will be considered private clubs with a maximum of 2,000 members limited to Dutch residents who are older than 18.
Menten said the measures would come into force in the rest of the country in January 2013.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela's recovery is 'on track' at his home in Johannesburg, the government said on Wednesday in its first statement since the anti-apartheid hero was released from hospital a week ago.
Mandela, 94, who has been in frail health for several years, spent nearly three weeks in a Pretoria hospital in December for treatment of a lung infection and surgery to remove gallstones, his longest stay for medical care since his release from prison in 1990.
"Madiba's recovery continues on track," presidency spokesman Mac Maharaj said referring to Mandela by his clan name.
"We are now in the phase where if we do not hear from his doctors, we assume he is all right," he said, without giving details on Mandela's condition.
Mandela has been receiving what the government calls "home-based high care" at his residence in an upscale Johannesburg neighborhood.
Mandela became South Africa's first black president after the first all-race elections in 1994, serving a five-year term.
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Here's how a Plan B could work: Take for example the engineer who had a strong background but was beginning to dread industry ups and downs. Instead of waiting for another round of organizational restructuring, he began focusing on his interest in finance. He started taking classes in management and finance. He now has a degree in finance, and his background is more adaptable to changes in the market. His engineering experience, when combined with his finance degree, gives him more opportunities to transfer his skills to different industries.
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He's a handsome, sophisticated, dashing older gentleman, and we enjoyed a fine evening of gourmet food and wine.
The fact that he's my dad doesn't make it any less scandalous. On the contrary, I saw several sets of raised eyebrows.
You see, my dad is a retired teacher who spent 30 years at the same school. Pretty much anywhere he goes in Salem, Oregon, there's a chance he'll run into a former student, parent, or colleague.
Since my mom prefers her wine to include the word "cooler," it's one of those things my dad and I enjoy together. We enjoy it best of all at the Celebration Oregon, an annual event that includes wines from 50+ wineries and food from 15 chefs.
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We've been attending for years, and without fail, we always run into someone who knows my dad.
On Saturday night, it was a perky 20-something pouring for one of the wineries.
"Mr. Fenske!" she called. "Hi, Mr. Fenske! Remember me?"
As always, there was a long pause. I could see the wheels turning in my dad's head. I could see him trying hard to place her – maybe in the back of the classroom in 1999? No, no, maybe third seat from the front the last semester of 1997– did she have braces then?
"It's Jane," she announced. "You were my English and Social Studies teacher. I thought you were the best!"
As my dad continued to study her and wait for recognition to dawn, I watched the girl steal a look at me. That's when I saw the wheels start to turn in her head:
Wait – that's not his wife. I know that's not his wife, he had a picture on his desk. Is she the mistress? Oh, man. Maybe I'm not supposed to see this. Or maybe his wife died and he got a younger one. Wow, that's so sad, but good for him. I mean, a guy deserves to be happy, right?
If I were a nicer person, I'd step in every time this happens and clear the whole thing up by introducing myself as Mr. Fenske's daughter.
But the fact is, I enjoy this. For all those times my dad went out of his way to embarrass me in middle school by calling me by my nickname in front of my classmates (Buzzard Snot, if you must know) this is payback.
Eventually, we wandered off with our wineglasses in hand. I was already scanning the crowd for the next former student. Just for fun, I reached up with my napkin to dab some barbecue sauce from my dad's chin.
I'm a considerate sort of trophy wife.
Did you have parents who liked to embarrass you? Has the tide shifted now that you're older, or are they still yelling across public places to ask if you need to use the bathroom? Please share in the comments.
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The second terms of U.S. Presidents tend to be difficult for any number of reasons, but they are often disrupted by a foreign policy crisis. It's easy to see how that might happen over the next four years with Iran or Syria, and the Obama Administration is surely attentive to these risks. But there is a distinct possibility that the next big foreign policy crisis will take place somewhere else, perhaps thousands of miles away, in Asian waters, over five islets and three barren rocks--all uninhabited except for a few feral goats.
For months, Chinese and Japanese naval forces have been confronting each other in the East China Sea. Both countries claim a set of tiny islands; the Japanese call them the Senkaku Islands, the Chinese the Diaoyu Islands. The dispute involves energy--there are immense natural gas reserves below the seafloor--but above all it involves politics and history.
Asia's greatest geopolitical problem is that its two great powers--with the two largest economies and militaries--have an unresolved, bitter relationship. China and Japan have never had to occupy the world stage as equals. One has always dominated the other. For most of the past 500 years, China was the region's hegemon and Japan accepted its role as a distant satellite of the great Chinese empire. That changed in the late 19th century, as Japan became the first Asian country to modernize its economy and society and catch up to the West. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan's military strength grew, and in 1895 it defeated the Qing dynasty in China. One of the consequences of the war was that Tokyo formally annexed the Senkaku Islands. But their sovereignty has been in dispute for the past 40 years, with China asserting its historic claims and Japan its modern possession.
Over the past two months, both countries have acted in ways that could easily spiral out of control toward conflict. There are almost daily encounters between Japanese and Chinese ships as they patrol these waters. On dry land, riots and protests have taken place in both countries--with the populations in each getting more nationalistic. There have been few efforts by either government to defuse the situation and move toward a diplomatic solution. The U.S. is involved too, because it is bound by treaty to go to Japan's military aid if Japan is attacked, and Washington has confirmed that the Senkaku Islands are covered by this obligation. In other words, if one of these naval encounters goes awry and China and Japan get into a naval conflict, the U.S. could find itself involved in an Asian war.
I realize this sounds far-fetched, but given the extremely bad relations between China and Japan, it is possible that honor, pride, miscalculation and accident could lead us there. And remember, China is in the midst of an enormous leadership change, one that is far more significant than this month's election in the U.S.


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The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri compares this to Jon Stewart's game-changing takedown of Crossfire nine years ago, and there's no doubt that this is hardly Morning Joe's finest hour. The problem starts immediately with the introduction of Russell Brand, in which Mika Brzezinski admits to knowing little about her guest, but the tone stays friendly and frothy until about the 4:45 mark. At that point, it really goes off the rails, and Brand shreds his hosts into near-incoherence:
This video of Russell Brand laying waste to the cast of "Morning Joe" on MSNBC has been making the rounds, and it's devastating. They start by oddly baiting him ("He's a really big deal… I'm told this. I'm not very pop cultured, I'm sorry") addressing him in the third person, and at some point calling him Willy? I think? It's unclear what they think they're doing. And about six minutes in, he commandeers the show and marches off with it, leaving no survivors. ("Is this what you all do for a living?" he asks, later adding, "These people, I'm sure, are typically very good at their jobs. You're conveying news to the people of America? People of America, we're going to be okay.") I would liken the hosts to a kitten pouncing on what it assumes is a dazed snake and discovering it has latched onto the tail end of a dragon. It's cringe-inducing. "You're talking about me as if I'm not here and as if I'm an extraterrestrial," he observes. Never mock someone with a British accent.
"Thank you for your casual objectification," Brand says, after one of the hosts starts talking about him and his accent in the third person. Another of the hosts, after Brand suggests more serious topics for discussion, goes back to riffing on the comic's attire, and Brand cuts in, "That's the problem with current affairs. You forget about what's important and you allow the agenda to be decided by superficial information."
Ah, the excitement of live broadcasting! This is what happens when a show doesn't do adequate preparation for a guest, and then tries to cover that with snark. Most guests might not challenge their hosts under those circumstances, but Brand clearly reached his limit midway through this segment. (Ironically, Brand himself hilariously demonstrated what happens when a guest is unprepared for a television interview in the film Get Him to the Greek.)
However, two factors separate this from the Stewart confrontation on Crossfire in 2004. Crossfire suffered from self-righteousness and self-importance, posing as informed debate when it was often little more than a shoutfest. Morning talk shows are supposed to be rather frothy. They're chatty and snarky by design, even those that tackle more serious issues. More so than evening talking-head shows, they're primarily intended to entertain rather than present a Buckleyesque debate on philosophy, which might be sorely missing from broadcast these days (and was also missing from Crossfire, which was Stewart's point) but wouldn't work as morning TV in any case. Fox and Friends and probably hundreds of local talk shows take the same approach, covering the news stories but selling the sense of community and kaffeeklatsch.
Second, no offense to Russell Brand, but what did he expect? Certainly better manners, and perhaps not to be confused with Willy Brandt, but his comedy show isn't exactly a pressing world issue, either. Perhaps his expounding on religious and cultural icons like Jesus, Gandhi, and Che Guevara might come to the level of a doctoral dissertation, but I somehow doubt it — and from his description, I'm not sure how Christians, Hindus, and peace activists will be anxious to hear from a comedian how they've gotten the message wrong from their central figures all their lives. If he's taking himself this seriously on a morning talk show, it probably doesn't take a Buckley to figure out how sanctimonious the "Messiah Complex" tour will be.


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Main-event winner Junior Dos Santos earned an event-high $200,000 payday, and co-main-event winner Kenny Florian earned $130,000 at this past month's UFC 131 event.
Overall, the 24 event fighters accounted for a $782,000 payroll for the June 11 event.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) requested and today received the list of disclosed salaries from the Vancouver Athletic Commission.
UFC 131 took place at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Portions of the night's card aired on pay-per-view, broadcast on Spike TV and streamed on Facebook.
Much of the post-event information from UFC 131, including medical suspensions and drug-testing results, was distributed later than most events. The VAC's procedures are a little more time-consuming and deliberate when compared to other regulatory bodies.
The full UFC 131 payouts included:
Junior Dos Santos: $200,000 (includes $100,000 win bonus)
def. Shane Carwin: $40,000
Kenny Florian: $130,000 ($65,000 win bonus)
def. Diego Nunes: $12,000
Mark Munoz: $60,000 ($30,000 win bonus)
def. Demian Maia: $43,000
Dave Herman: $36,000 ($18,000 win bonus)
def. Jon Olav Einemo: $15,000
Donald Cerrone: $40,000 ($20,000 win bonus)
def. Vagner Rocha: $6,000
Sam Stout: $38,000 ($19,000 win bonus)
def. Yves Edwards: $12,000
Chris Weidman: $20,000 ($10,000 win bonus)
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Krzysztof Soszynski: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus)
def. Mike Massenzio: $8,000
Nick Ring: $16,000 ($8,000 win bonus)
def. James Head via submission: $6,000
Dustin Poirier: $10,000 ($5,000 win bonus)
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Joey Beltran: $24,000 ($12,000 win bonus)
def. Aaron Rosa: $6,000
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substantial portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any
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In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to
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cmake ../panomatic-lib
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make install
make install
Revision as of 03:29, 21 May 2010
These instructions are work in progress and updated when newer versions of Ubuntu are released or when Hugin introduces new dependencies. They have worked, at the time of release or soon thereafter, with the following Ubuntu/Kubuntu versions:
- Ubuntu 9.10: on AMD64 computer
- Ubuntu 9.04: on AMD64 computer
- Ubuntu 8.10: on AMD64 computer
- Ubuntu 8.04: on an Intel processor
- Ubuntu 7.10: on AMD Athlon XP
- Ubuntu 7.04: on AMD64 computer
- Ubuntu 6.06: on AMD64 computer
They are likely to work only for the latest one, but you can check this page's history at the time that the older Ubuntu version was the most recent one to find the specifics for that version.
Apart from the odd change in package name, nothing should be substantially different (and if does not work, please leave a comment on the hugin-ptx mailing list). Don't worry if the same package appears twice in an apt-get install line - apt-get will update existing packages if there is a newer version, and ignore duplicates if the latest version is already installed. On the other hand, if apt-get says that it can't find a package, it might be the odd change in package name. You can find a replacement package by using apt-cache search with a substring of the package required, e.g.
apt-cache search wxW
The goal is to build hugin and the whole set of helper applications required.
- 1 Building environment
- 2 Building Enblend
- 3 Building Libpano13
- 4 Building Hugin
- 5 Autopano-sift-C
- 6 Match-n-shift
- 7 MatchPoint
- 8 Pan-o-matic
- 9 Exiftool
- 10 Panoglview
- 11 FreePV
- 12 Notes for Packagers
Building environment
Since we are going to build hugin, libpano13 and enblend we need to download and install all the development packages. This is very easy with apt-get. In a terminal window (K menu -> System -> Konsole or Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (in Kubuntu), Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal (in Ubuntu))
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb
Unless you have an amd64 system prior to 7.10, add the following packages.
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev libgcc1
For older amd64 environments, the packages have a slightly different name:
sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
To get the bleeding edge we'll need access to the SVN and Mercurial repositories, and for this we need the correct tools:
sudo apt-get install subversion mercurial
Not necessary, but useful if you want to move to the next level and build packages for distribution (list is incomplete):
sudo apt-get install subversion-tools
Building Enblend
Get the dependencies. If you are working with large images (300 megapixels and up), you should have a libtiff-devel compiled with large file support and libstdc++6.
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libtiff4-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-thread-dev \ liblcms1-dev libglew1.5-dev libplot-dev libglut3-dev libopenexr-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev \ help2man texi2html texinfo fig2ps tidy gnuplot libxml-xpath-perl
For Ubuntu systems prior to 8.10, you will also need
sudo apt-get install libopenexr2ldbl
Once all dependencies are in place, get the code. The official repository has migrated from CVS to Mercurial:
hg clone http://enblend.hg.sourceforge.net:8000/hgroot/enblend/enblend enblend cd enblend
If you already have checked out enblend, to update the code to the latest version you need to run:
hg pull hg update
We are then ready to compile. The CXXFLAGS --param inline-unit-growth=60 is a workaround for x86_64 systems, Feb 2009, and apparently no longer needed (set by default). If you have an SMP machine and you're building a recent version, --disable-image-cache and --enable-openmp will speed up enblend/enfuse massively but may cause segmentation faults; in that case you will be better off with --enable-image-cache and --disable-openmp. -march=native is also beneficial and -O2 is better than -O3.
make --makefile=Makefile.scm mkdir BUILD cd BUILD CXXFLAGS="--param inline-unit-growth=60 -march=native -O2" ../configure --disable-image-cache --enable-openmp make
The second make step can be very long and memory consuming. Make sure you have enough swap space, and go get a healthy snack while the computer is compiling.
If you encounter problems at any of these stages, please report back to the hugin-ptx mailing list. Report what command in the sequence you were executing, what machine/operating system, the revision checked out from CVS, and all other relevant information.
You are then ready to install with
sudo make install
Building Libpano13
libpano13 is the new version of the PanoTools libraries. This is a necessary component for hugin, and we need to build it first.
To build libpano13 we need some libraries and particularly their
dev package:
sudo apt-get install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg62-dev libtiff4-dev cmake
On older distributions, zlib1g and zlib1g-dev may not be found. In that case, the same library may be available with the names lib64z1 and lib64z1-dev.
We then need to download the source code from SVN:
svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/trunk/libpano libpano13 cd libpano13
In the future there is no need to get the whole source again. Just issue the following commands to bring your source up to date:
cd libpano13 svn up
Now start the building process.
cd .. mkdir build.libpano cd build.libpano cmake ../libpano13 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF make package sudo dpkg -i libpano13-*-Linux.deb
The above described building process uses CMake to build libpano which has many advantages. Amongst others it creates a clean package to install / deinstall and decreases the likelihood of wrecking the system. However CMake support is relatively new in libpano. The old autotools way is documented below for completness. You should not need it. However if you do, make sure to run either the CMake build or the autotools build on fresh SVN checkouts to avoid interferences.
If any libraries are missing, the script will complain (or at least, let you know that some library hasn't been found). In that case you probably need to install the library. To find in what package is that library, a general rule is to run the command
apt-cache search missingfile, find the relevant library and install both the library and the related
-dev package.
Run the
./configure script and repeat this process until you have met all the dependencies.
Then we are ready to launch the make process with
If the library successfully compiles, you have to install it with
sudo make install sudo ldconfig
The last part is for the OS to be aware of the new library (that has been installed in
We can now go back up one folder level and get ready for hugin.
cd ..
Building Hugin
First we need to activate the
universe repository (in adept package manager, or by editing the /etc/apt/sources.lst file for example) and get the dependencies:
sudo apt-get install cmake libopenexr-dev libboost-dev boost-build libboost-thread-dev libboost-graph-dev \ gettext libwxgtk2.8-dev libexiv2-dev libimage-exiftool-perl libglew-dev liblapack-dev
Fetch the Source Code from SVN
Next we download Hugin from SVN. But which Hugin? There are many branches in SVN. Also SVN keeps track of every single change (revision) in time, so we can download a branch in its state at a specific point in time. For example
-r 4008 https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/trunk/ will download the trunk branch at the point in time when revision 4008 was committed, which happens to be Tue Jul 7 22:07:54 2009 UTC. It also happens to be the same as the 0.8.0 release. For a list of branches and revisions that build well, refer to these lists. There is no guarantee that a particular branch and/or revision builds and/or performs as expected.
cd svn co -r 4061 https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/tags/hugin-2009.07.1/ hugin
If you know what you are doing, you can replace /hugin-2009.07.1/ with another branch; and you can omit the -r and get the last revision of that branch.
For hugin 2010.0 use:
cd svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/hugin/releases/2010.0 hugin
In the future there is no need to get the whole source again. Just issue the following commands to bring your source up to date:
cd hugin svn up
Set the Build Environment
Next we set up the build environment using cmake.
If you compiled and installed libpano to a non standard location set the variables CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH to point to your install location's include and lib directories.
If you are building for distribution, you want to set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
cd mkdir hugin-build cd hugin-build cmake ../hugin -DENABLE_LAPACK=YES -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF
Build and Install
Finally, we use make to build the code and package it, and dpkg to install it. Look for the version number in the .deb file created and edit the lines below accordingly:
make package sudo dpkg -i hugin-*-Linux.deb sudo ldconfig
Important: the package does not track dependencies yet, so it likely to fail on machines others than yours.
Reference: [1]
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
To build
(Note January 2010: Currently the autopano-sift-C SVN trunk is unstable, use the 2.5.1 release tarball instead)
cd svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/autopano-sift-C/trunk/ autopano-sift-C cd mkdir autopano-sift-C.build cd autopano-sift-C.build cmake ../autopano-sift-C -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCPACK_BINARY_DEB:BOOL=ON -DCPACK_BINARY_NSIS:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_RPM:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_STGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TBZ2:BOOL=OFF \ -DCPACK_BINARY_TGZ:BOOL=OFF -DCPACK_BINARY_TZ:BOOL=OFF make package sudo dpkg -i autopano-sift-C-*-Linux.deb
Match-n-shift is yet an other Autopano-SIFT replacement. It comes in a bundle with pto file manipulation perl libraries and a rich selection of other tools that use nona, enblend, ImageMagick among other things. To use match-n-shift, you need to install at least the Panotools::Script library and some other perl modules. It requires:
- Image::Size 2.9
- Storable 2.0
- Image::ExifTool 6
Chances are that you do not need to update Storable which is a standard perl module. To check the version of installed versions of these modules, write these lines to the command prompt:
perl -MStorable -le 'print Storable->VERSION;' perl -MImage::Size -le 'print Image::Size->VERSION;' perl -MImage::ExifTool -le 'print Image::ExifTool->VERSION;'
There are various ways to install or upgrade these modules. Ubuntu has binary packages for many perl modules, you can skip the CPAN installation below and type:
sudo apt-get install libimage-size-perl libimage-exiftool-perl
Alternatively, perl is an interpreted language and these modules are pure perl, so installing from source is an easy thing.
The best place to install perl modules is directly from a CPAN archive. CPAN is short for Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. The program to interact with CPAN comes with all perl installations. Start it by running:
sudo cpan
If this is your first time running the program you will be asked a number of questions (you can safely accept the suggested values). Last question lets you select a number of CPAN mirrors nearest to you.
When all is done, you can enter the install commands after the 'cpan>' prompt:
install Image::Size Storable Image::ExifTool
Answer 'y' to any question of dependencies and wait for install to complete. 'exit' leaves the cpan shell.
Next, you need to retrieve and install the Panotools-Script collection of perl libraries (Panotools::Script) and programs that use them - including match-n-shift:
svn co https://panotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/panotools/trunk/Panotools-Script Panotools-Script cd Panotools-Script perl Makefile.PL make make test sudo make install
Just to confuse you, you can also ignore everything above and just install Panotools::Script and all its dependencies from CPAN. From command line, type:
sudo cpan Panotools::Script
You can run match-n-shift from command line using the same parameters as autopano-c-complete.sh or you can modify hugin to run it for you:
- start Hugin
- navigate the menu File to Preferences
- In the Preferences window, open the Autopano tab
- Select Autopano -> Autopano-SIFT
- tick the checkbox for Use alternative Autopano-SIFT program
- enter the full path to match-n-shift (/usr/local/bin/match-n-shift) in the Autopano-SIFT field
- enter the following string in the Arguments field:
-f %f -v %v -c -p %p -o %o %i
MatchPoint is a next generation CP generator. The result of a GSoC2007 project, it is still very experimental. Experience reports needed. Read more here
Matchpoint is now located inside the main hugin source tree, no need to checkout https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/gsoc07_featuredetection anymore. It is compiled together with hugin, but not installed by default.
- copy the MatchPoint executable into /usr/local/bin manually
sudo cp src/matchpoint/matchpoint /usr/local/bin/
- edit /usr/local/bin/autopano-c-complete.sh (do it with sudo to have the necessary permission)
- line 79: replace the .key.gz extension with .key (not sure if matchpoint supports compression)
- lines 83 and 88: replace generatekeys "$arg" $FILENAME $SIZE with matchpoint "$arg" $FILENAME (not sure if the size option or any other options of the original generatekeys are applicable)
Yet another control point generator Home Page
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev
Download Panomatic 0.9.4 bz2 and if you're on Ubuntu 9.10 or newer also the patch for the gcc4.4 compiler.
tar xvfj panomatic-0.9.4-src.tar.bz2 cd panomatic-0.9.4 patch -p 1 < ../panomatic_gcc44.patch ./configure make sudo make install
To use Pano-o-matic, open Hugin
- In File > Preferences > Autopano :
- Select Autopano-SIFT
- Check "Use alternative autopaon-SIFT program"
- Choose the path to the binary ( /usr/local/bin )
- In Arguments, put : -o %o %i
Pablo's variation
Around the end of the year 2009, Pablo integrated a new experimental descriptor based on the geometric blur and DAISY papers. Also, Pablo said that the algorithm is not really based on a published approach, just on some ideas that are mentioned in a few of them, and its currently simpler than any of them:
o geometric blur: [2]
o daisy: [3]
o descriptor learning: [4]
To build that version of panomatic instead, follow these instructions:
sudo aptitude install libboost-python-dev bzr cmake libvigraimpex-dev
bzr branch lp:~pablo.dangelo/hugin/panomatic-lib mkdir build cd build cmake ../panomatic-lib make sudo make install
To use the new descriptor the arguments for Hugin are: --grad --sieve1size 100 --sieve2size 2 -o %o %i
ExifTool is a platform-independent Perl library plus a command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information in image, audio and video files.
sudo apt-get purge libimage-exiftool-perl
wget http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/Image-ExifTool-7.94.tar.gz tar -xzf Image-ExifTool-7.94.tar.gz cd Image-ExifTool-7.94 perl Makefile.PL make test sudo make install
PanoGLView is an OpenGL hardware accelerated interactive immersive viewer for equirectangular images.
sudo apt-get install wx-common
To build
svn co https://hugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hugin/panoglview/trunk panoglview cd panoglview ./bootstrap ./configure make sudo make install
sudo apt-get install cmake make pkg-config g++ mozilla-dev freeglut-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev libxext-dev libxmu-dev \ x11proto-xf86vidmode-dev libxxf86vm-dev libnspr4-dev libxml2-dev libpng12-dev
To build
svn co https://freepv.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freepv/freepv/trunk/ freepv cd freepv cmake . make sudo make install
Notes for Packagers
- before releasing a tarball, upgrade the Changelog with svn2cl
$ svn up $ svn2cl $ svn ci


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With an easy and fun way we will learn the essence of the Spanish language, writing (grammar), reading, and pronunciation in order to have a conversation with your service provider, on your next vacation to Latin America, or to read and understand from a basic magazine or book. We hope you join!
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text: Over the past thirty years, selected municipal water authorities have implemented strategies, including stand by fees and other policies, to recover costs for water consumed in fires in sprinklered buildings. Typically these fees are not directly related to sprinkler fire flows but rather are recognition of the fact that these flows are not metered and thus not accounted for in conventional water cost recovery mechanisms. In contrast, water consumption at fires at unsprinklered properties is typically not subject to fees nor metered at the hydrant. With the growing adoption of residential sprinkler ordinances in communities across the country, the National Fire Protection Association commissioned this study to assess the relative community impacts of water consumption in sprinklered and unsprinklered properties. The study considered standard estimates of the amount of water expected to be used in various building types with and without automatic sprinkler protection during a fire condition and also estimated the water used per year for commissioning, inspection, testing and maintenance of buildings with systems for each building type. The total amount of water anticipated to be used for fire protection was compared with fees in sample jurisdictions; methods were developed to calculate fire water fees that are proportional to the anticipated volume of fire water used.


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Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank village of Jenin in the early hours of Tuesday. At least one Israeli soldier and 12 Palestinians were injured in the course of the Israeli army's raid on the village.
The Israeli army said overnight there was a joint security forces operation to arrest what the army described as a senior Hamas operative in Jenin. An army spokesperson said Israeli forces demolished the home in which the Hamas figure was suspected of evading arrest.
Gunfire was reportedly exchanged in the course of the arrest, and according the Israeli military spokesperson Palestinians threw rocks and Molotov cocktails during the Israeli army's incursion on the village.
Al Jazeera reported Tuesday that, "dozens of people were wounded in a shootout between Israeli forces and Islamic Jihad members in the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank."
The agency reported that approximately 40 Israeli military vehicles were deployed in the course of the raid. According to Israeli media, the injured Israeli soldier was wounded by friendly fire.
Medical sources indicated to Al Jazeera that they were treating 12 Palestinians who had been injured in the course of the raid.
The fighting broke out near the home of Islamic Jihad leader and Jenin resident Bassam al-Saeedi. A Palestinian security official told the agency that one local Hamas leader Majdi Abu al-Heija, his brother and son were arrested by Israeli security forces during the raid.
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Westhampton Beach Walking Club
Date(s) - December 1 - May 17
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Eckarts Luncheonette
Calling ALL Fitbit fanatics, Apple Watch wearers and step counters of all types.
Sundays December 1, 2019 until Spring 2020 (except Easter and Mothers' Day).
We are establishing a Walking Club to view the progress of the Main Street Improvement Project and support the local merchants by spreading the word that we are here and we are open.
Departing from Eckarts Lucheonette at 3:00pm and proceeding down Mill Road to Main Street and back down Sunset Avenue, ending at The Mill Roadhouse. Walkers will receive a punch card and 1 punch for each completed walk and receive additional punches at participating merchants by making a purchase along the route at any time during the month. All punches are redeemable for raffle entries for a basket of local gift certificates and merchandise. Raffle will be held at the end of each month. Redeem your punches each month or accumulate them until the spring for even more chances to win. The more punches you receive the more chances you will have.
No sign up required. Just show up at the designated spot to receive your card and start your walk.
The more you walk the more we all win!
Westhampton Beach shops are open for business!


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What: Boulder County commissioners will consider — and hold a public hearing on — proposed revisions, updates and additions to the county Land Use Code's regulations about oil and gas exploration and production in unincorporated parts of the county.
When: 4 p.m. Tuesday
Where: Boulder County Courthouse's third-floor hearing room, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder.
Further information: The Board of County Commissioners may table any action on the oil and gas regulations and resume their discussions of the proposed rules during a meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday. That Thursday morning meeting will be open to the public, but commissioners may not take public-hearing testimony. The latest draft of the regulations, including provisions the County Planning Commission recommended Oct. 30, is posted at bouldercounty.org/dept/landuse/pages/oilgas.aspx.
BOULDER — The latest proposed version of Boulder County's efforts to avoid potentially negative impacts of oil and gas operations in unincorporated parts of the county — or to mitigate those impacts, if they can't be avoided — is up for the Board of County Commissioners' review Tuesday afternoon.
The commissioners are actively seeking comments from members of the general public, representatives of the oil and gas industry and government agencies about a draft of Boulder County Land Use Code regulations that'll be the subject of a public hearing at Tuesday's meeting, county officials said.
The Board of County Commissioners' Tuesday hearing comes two weeks after the County Planning Commission concluded several months of hearings and meetings on updating local land-use rules intended to address the impacts of an expected expansion of oil and gas drilling and production, particularly in eastern Boulder County, after a county moratorium on accepting and processing new drilling applications expires next Feb. 4.
Meanwhile, the county commissioners' Tuesday consideration of the planning panel's Oct. 30 recommendations will come a week after Longmont voters approved amending the city's municipal charter to ban fracking inside Longmont's city limits.
For months, Boulder County officials have been getting written and public-hearing appeals from county residents wanting the county to prohibit the practice of hydraulic fracturing — the injection of a mixture of sand, chemicals and water to free underground oil and gas deposits — throughout unincorporated Boulder County.
Last month, planning commissioners got a batch of virtually identical emails that Food and Water Watch sent on behalf of county residents, such as one from Longmont resident Stephanie Ziegler, who said: "I urge you to protect our drinking water, our clean air and our property by banning fracking in Boulder County."
Thus far, the county's staff has taken the position that Boulder County can't legally impose such a permanent drilling ban under current Colorado statutes and past court decisions.
Some fracking critics have complained the stricter land-use restrictions Boulder County is considering wouldn't do enough to protect the environment and the public's health and safety, but Boulder County has also been hearing from some oil and gas industry representatives who contend that at least some of the proposed conditions are preempted by the state-assigned regulatory authority of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Daniel Kelly, Noble Energy Inc.'s vice president for operations in the Wattenberg Field, wrote planning commissioners last month that though Boulder County has solicited comments from Noble and other oil and gas companies, the county "has not afforded adequate opportunity for stakeholders to meaningfully participate in the development of the rules or to conduct the kind of thorough review that is required of such sweeping regulations."
In the county Land Use Department's memo to the Board of County Commissioners for Tuesday's meeting, the county staff said the draft regulations are intended "to provide the maximum protection possible for local public health, safety and welfare under current state and federal law."
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From basic maintenance to troubleshooting to complete overhaul, Clymer manuals provide the information you need. The most important tool in your tool box may be your Clymer manual, get one today.
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The United States has reiterated that its planned missile defense system for Europe, aimed at Iran, will not threaten Russia?s strategic missile deterrent. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned Wednesday that Moscow will take counter-measures against the U.S. system being developed with NATO.
The Obama administration is again reassuring Russia about the missile defense plan but also saying the project is going well and will not be limited or changed.
The comments from the White House and State Department followed a speech by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in which he renewed threats by Moscow to counter the program by putting missiles near NATO countries and possibly leaving the new U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms Reduction accord, or New-START.
U.S. plans for missile defenses in Europe to counter what is seen as an emerging threat from Iran have long been an irritant in relations with Moscow.
In 2009, the Obama administration scrapped plans for a system of radars and interceptors based in Poland and the Czech Republic for a less-ambitious project with sites in Poland, Romania and perhaps other NATO countries.
But Wednesday?s televised speech by Mr. Medvedev made clear Moscow?s concerns remain. He revived a threat to counter the U.S. plan with missiles in the Russian Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad and said the dispute could be ?a basis? for Moscow leaving New-START.
A White House spokesman, Tommy Vietor, said Russia has been assured repeatedly the envisaged system does not and cannot threaten Russia?s large strategic arsenal, and that the United States will not in any way limit of change the program.
State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said a U.S. offer to bring Moscow into the anti-missile program stands and that the administration remains committed to improved relations overall. ?We?ve seen these comments before. Again, our focus is on cooperation, is on making clear to Russian authorities that this is in no way a system that directed at Russia. It?s directed as I said to a threat to our allies in Europe, and in Russia, in fact from Iran," he said.
Arms control expert Bruce MacDonald, a senior adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace, says Moscow is understandably sensitive about any potential threat to its strategic deterrent which, he said, helps define its big-power status.
But the former White House and Congressional aide said Russian concerns about the missile defense plan are largely not valid. ?The Russians have a lot of respect for our technological capabilities, and they tend to be, I think, hyper-sensitive on this issue. And they are imagining things that are just extremely unlikely to happen. We?re not going to suddenly develop a huge missile defense system. On the very remote chance that we would, they?d have plenty of time to accommodate or respond to it, since this would take a long time," he said.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was very disappointed over the Medvedev remarks which he said are inconsistent with the strategic relationship Russia and NATO have agreed to pursue.
US: Missile Defense in Europe No Threat to Russia
The United States has reiterated that its planned missile defense system for Europe, aimed at Iran, will not threaten Russia?s strategic missile deterrent. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev warned Wednesday that Moscow will take counter-measures against the U.S. system being developed with NATO.


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Or at least, could the sources be released ?
I understand very well the author of Regen may have lost interest or have not enough time to fix it.
But i like the debug version of this emu, I'm used to it (whereas I'm lost with Gens), and there are some minor fixes that would make my life (and I think, most others users) much more comfortable (see below).
I'm ready to dive into the code if needed, but for that the source must be available.
Some inconvenient bugs / missing features :
1) when breaking on a write on RAM address, it actually breaks on both reads and writes
2) it often breaks just after the breaking instruction, so either the disassembly should show the previous line, or the breaking process must be fixed
3) traces could be much more usable if they showed :
* the address of the current instruction
* on R/W, which value is written where
Is there any chance this project will be continued ?
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Re: Is there any chance this project will be continued ?
seems like the regen project is sort of on prolonged hiatus like zsnes.
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