I seems that LinearSmoothedValue::setValue is deprecated on latest develop branch.
What is the replacement for setValue(val, true) ?
Yes, that's right. The comment above the deprecated function explains what you can do instead of calling setValue.
changed 3 files with 25 additions and 16 deletions.
Is it the final change? I just want to update dozens places where I used it.
It's very likely to be the final change.
LinearSmoothedVaule::setValue - What does this function do? It's completely unclear. From its name it most likely sets the current value (which is wrong in the default case).
lsv.setValue (3.0f, true), lsv.setValue (3.0f, false) - This is even less clear what's going on.
It's not entirely unnecessary - it's an improvement to the interface. When you work on a library there is a constant tension between maintaining backwards compatibility and making the library better.
This class, for example, was flagged up as being confusing. I took a look at it again after not seeing it for a few months and I had to read the docs, quite carefully, to work out exactly what that method was doing. Leaving it in there will cause confusion and mistakes for new code, removing it will mean that old code will need to be updated. In this case switching over to the new code is fairly straightforward, so we made the change.
A bigger, more disruptive, change will be when we move to using std::unique_ptr and friends to indicate ownership through API calls. We've wanted to do this for a long time, but are waiting for a moment (probably just after a bugfix release) when it would be the least problematic for everyone. This will, inevitably, bring out some moaning from people with existing applications, but I'm convinced the increase in safety and clarity will be worth it. Similar pain will be necessary to improve the thread safety of all the AudioProcessorParameter handling. The benefits of these changes are probably much more obvious, and you'd be unlikely to argue against them, but it's all part of the same process.
Thanks, Could you elaborate the changes to AudioProcessorParameter handling a little bit further?
I hope there is no need to introduce complexity, to fix things which could be solved in a simpler way.
I am looking at the AudioParameterFloat and AudioParameterInt classes in JUCE and I fail to see how they are thread safe. It appears that setValue sets the value and the audio thread gets the value without any sort of fifo or thread safety despite in their base class AudioProcessorParameter it says that getValue and setValue should be "thread aware". Is it safe to use these classes and set them on the UI thread and get them on the Processing thread as is done in the AudioPlugin Examples?


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Q: Android service behavior is different in debug mode and release mode when use sleep button, why? I am developing an application that uses a Service as Contdown. When the user starts the countdown from the activity and the activity goes in background after the sleep button is pressed, I am using this Service to continue the countdown. When the count is finished the Service shows a notification with ringtone.
I use wait() "to count" the time in the Service. The strange behavior occurs when I use the application on a real device, but in debug mode. When Eclipse debugger is attached, the Service works well; when I test the application on the device without Eclipse debugger attached, the Service doesn't show the notification when the countdown is finished, unless the sleep button is repressed and the monitor is activated - then the notification and the ringtone are activated.
Can anyone can explain what causes this strange behavior? Maybe the issue is is related to Wake lock or a similar construct?

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I use wait() "to count" the time in Service.

That is poor programming practice. Time elapses even without your tying up RAM to do it.

Anyone can explaine why this strange behavior?

The device fell asleep. This is normal, and desirable, behavior, to conserve battery life. With the USB cable plugged in, the device does not need to fall asleep, and if you checked the appropriate option in Developer Options, the device specifically will not fall asleep while plugged in.

Maybe is connected with Wake lock

Please do not use a WakeLock to keep the device awake for you to watch the clock tick by. Please use AlarmManager to get control when the countdown period is over. You can use a _WAKEUP-style alarm to arrange to wake up the device, and your BroadcastReceiver that gets control at that point can "launch a notification and ringtone". As a bonus, you can get rid of your service, so that your app can be better behaved on the user's device.

A: wait() calls are not guaranteed to wait for the right amount of time if the device goes to sleep. You should use AlarmManager to trigger your countdown timer instead.

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Posts Tagged 'The Killing'
Robot vacuum and Grandsons surviving Grandparents.
Thomas without tablet (de)vice
My nemesis throughout life has been how to escape ennui. Mother's answer was always; keep busy and don't nourish impure thoughts (hold hands above blankets) and think of poor little Moses in its reed basket floating down the Nile. But…sometimes keeping busy does not always mean an escape from boredom. Take vacuuming. What can be more soul destroying? It is a painful truth but Jack Russell roughies lose their bodyweight in hair each day. Hence the relentless vacuuming. Helvi pretends she doesn't understand the technicalities of switching on/off the vacuum cleaner. Humfppp and grrr.
But here is where Aldi shines, yet again. They had a robotic vacuum cleaner for $179.- .It was on 'special' and it would be 'saving money' at that price. Who could resist? I hurried home to tell Helvi the good news. "Will it work, she sceptically asked?" "Oh, it will. Come upstairs and I'll show you the video. It is a very clean movie, no nudity or strange hairy bits, I added for comfort". The video was no Godfather or The Killing. It did show how deft and persistent the robot fulfilled its programmed task. It faultlessly skirted around crevices and dipped into every nook and cranny. Not a square inch forgotten. It reared up over carpets and assaulted dust as if Lawrence of Arabia in the Sahara. Amazing. I was so happy and more happy. I was on the edge of my chair. I had overcome.
Yes, there is more. Remember the kids' tablets behind lock and key? We just could not stand them sitting around on holiday fiddling with those tablets eating up all our data. I had an emergency e-mail from Telstra that most of my data was used up and there were still over twenty days left. I took charge and locked up the devices. The good news was that after an initial period of pissed off kids, scowling and threatening to call their mother, they relented, and lifted their heads up from the almost permanent 90 degree angle of heads to chest. In between Emergency Hospital visits, Thomas read hundreds of pages and started building his V8 engine. He managed to get the 8 pistons in the cylinders on the crankshaft. No mean feat considering the pistons moved up and down in series of two. He also got all the tappets working. I just took a minor role providing him with nice words and a Philips screwdriver. Max started going around on skateboard and managed to wack three tennis balls over the fence.. So, all came good at the end.
Bored Grandchildren with tablets.
I remember during my school holidays being flat out stealing lead flashings from windows or going around with a magnifying glass burning shoe laces that would slowly creep towards a box full of match-heads which we had laid on the local tram-rail. We would collect a bucket full of thistle heads which we would throw on fashionably dressed ladies' coats. How fortunate no Internet tablets were around to corrupt and spoil us.
We were so lucky!
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Borgen :11 out of 10
Borgen; 11 out of 10.
You can't go past a good series of Danish TV. Not long ago we had 'The Bridge' and 'The Killing', which I believe was a Swedish-Danish Co-production. It was riveting TV watching and we were counting the days when it would be on again. The pepper-crackers would be out and the Stilton cheese with the Shiraz brought to room temperature together with my ear-phones. Those earphones were superfluous. The series were translated in English sub-titles but I wanted to hear the Danish language. Dutch and Danish are brother languages, (or sisters for the pc readers of this blog).
What makes these series so extraordinary is the ordinariness of it all. The prime minister lives in a modest house with the dishes piling up at an overflowing kitchen bench top, husband walking around in his singlet and their children wanting to eat Coco-pops for breakfast. She goes to work on a pushbike without wearing a helmet, and seems to have no security concerns. Husband of the PM and mother of their two children seem to have the best of a most normal of functional marriage. The odd thing is, in most of the Northern European governments, the Borgen treatment of PMs (and their royal families), it is not that far removed from reality.
The TV show apparently was difficult to obtain in the US with claims by competing commercial TV stations of piracy. I believe in California people can now see the series legally. It seems that the differences of political systems and the holders of power between the US and Denmark were seen as almost un-transferable in a TV series and, that at least in the US 'normality of politics' is hardly ever residing in a world of being 'normal'. No president would go to the White-House on a bicycle and would probably have to go through numerous security cycles to just buy his wife a bunch of flowers.
The Danish TV drama shows how the PM can remain herself despite having risen to the highest office. She remains cool and normal and the series is not blown up in grandiosity like so many American dramas such as West-Wing, Homeland, and House of Cards. There are no lines of limousines or black-clad security lurking on roof tops with machine guns at the ready or hovering gun-ships overhead. No one is seen talking into their sleeves or wear Polaroid sunglasses.
The Danish way on thorny issues and legislations are resolved or passed with the parties sitting around the table sipping coffee and making sensible compromises within minutes. The Danes have a serious addiction to caffeine. What I would not give for our Australian politicians to behave like that!
We had just about given up on TV watching when Borgen rose up like Phoenix from ashes, none too late. The urgings of funeral insurances advertisements and the manic laughter of so many comedy trailers got us so depressed our intake of Stilton with Shiraz almost doubled. True, the Ancestry.com.au kept us going but soon waned when most of people restlessly searching for their ancestors ended up teary and overwrought when it was found out, their great, great, great, great grandfather had succumbed to whoring and a dose of the clap with blindness to dear Aunty Betty at birth in 1789 in Yorkshire to have been a result of all that.
We soon came to switching off the telly and just sat amongst the crackers and cheese, talked or did the after dinner washing up instead. Not anymore now though. Another five days and Borgen will be on again.
There is hope for all of us now.
Go, buy some good cheese and watch "Borgen."
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'Red lines' are on the US flag, not Syrian soil
Written on September 6, 2013 by Editor in Syria, USA
By Osamah Golpy:
It is as if Syria has changed the colours, if not on ground, then at least in diplomatic games. The red line, unlike for conventional weapons, and as President Obama puts it, is for a weapon that kills, but does not make its victims bleed that red colour of blood. That very same weapon, even if the allegations turn out to be true, will have killed just a tiny portion of the many dead in the long conflict in Syria. Now, why is the international community so worried about chemical attack? With more than one hundred thousand dead, why should we really feel that the blood of a chemical victim is any redder than the rest?
The fact is that chemical attacks, or other forms of massacres, happen almost all the time at a certain stage of conflicts. This happened to the Kurdish population in Iraq. The Saddam regime killed hundreds of thousands of civilians – 182,000 people in just one campaign, the so called Anfal campaign. But this did not heighten international feelings, until the notorious chemical attack on March, 16th 1988 which led to the immediate death of 5000 people, almost all civilians, and the majority women and children, in the town of Halabja.
At that stage, the situation was very much like in Syria today. But it was not enough to cause an intervention; it was a US ally, the Iraq regime, which had crossed 'the red line' already in a 'war zone' and allegedly against the advances of Iranian troops, the US's number one enemy in the region. So, the Halabja attack remained in the shadows in US terms up until the mass exodus of millions of Kurds to Iran and Turkey in 1991, coinciding with the popular uprising across Iraq which would have meant the inevitable collapse of the Iraqi Baath regime had the coalition forces not given the green light to Saddam for his 'search and kill' mission against Iraqi protesters. The aftermath of the Kuwait invasion and all those killings was only a No-Fly zone imposed only in the northern part of Iraq; forgetting about the rest of Iraq.
One way or another, people on all sides, and not just the old Cold War two sides, are finding similarities between the Syria conflict and the Iraq occupation. The commonly quoted similarity is that the West going to war here will just create one more Iraq, with sectarian violence and an undeclared Third World War on Syria soil. But what the world is not searching for is how Iraq and Syria could be dissimilar, or at least how to prevent Syria from becoming another Iraq.
Imagine if the Western countries had intervened in 1980, at the beginning of Iraq-Iran war, or in 1988 at the end of the war and right after the Halabja chemical attack or, at the latest, in 1991 – wouldn't it have been different from the 2003 war? The first scenario might have prevented the eight-year Iran-Iraq war; the second, the Kuwait invasion and mass exodus; and the last, the sectarian violence and terrorism. Now, back to Syria: how about intervention today, or decades later? Would it be different, too? Or does not it matter, so long as red lines do not correspond to any colour on the ground, but rather to that on the US and other nation's flags?
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Senator Dave Min Sends Letter To OUSD Asking For Answers Into Firing of Sup.
ORANGE, CA – Today, Senator Dave Min sent a letter to the President of the Orange Unified School District Board requesting more information about the unusual circumstances surrounding last week's emergency meeting to terminate OUSD's Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, who had consistently earned exemplary performance reviews. The two high profile firings, which were decided by 4-3 votes, came without warning, as schools were still closed for winter break and the newly elected Trustees were just a few weeks into their term. Charged with managing one of the largest school districts in Southern California, the superintendents were responsible for overseeing principals, teachers, support staff, and public education provided to 26,000 students.
"I know I speak for many thousands of parents who are outraged and perplexed by these sudden and seemingly baseless actions by the Orange Unified School Board," Min said. "Firing a superintendent is a serious and destabilizing move, and it is clear that this will be incredibly costly to the California taxpayers I represent. The suddenness of this decision, the lack of transparency, and the failure to even attempt to provide an explanation to the public, have raised serious questions about the Board majority's motivations and whether they have breached their duties as Trustees. I am also deeply concerned about reports of potential Brown Act violations, and want to give Trustees the opportunity to publicly explain the events that preceded this vote before taking more aggressive action. School boards have a responsibility to ensure that every student receives a high quality education. They should not be playing politics with our kids' education."
It is estimated that the Board's actions will result in a $1.3 million cost to OUSD, not including legal fees or other liability.


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Many personal injury law attorneys and their staff will tell you that working with clients who have been injured is part legal work and part social work. In additional to pain from the injuries and having to go to doctors, being unable to work is a huge deal for some victims who may have jobs that don't pay if they don't go to work. They may even lose their jobs. How can they live and support their family without a paycheck?
There are a few things a personal injury law attorney can do to try and help a client who can't work.
Call your client's employer, if necessary, to verify that he cannot work and could they please save this job until he was medically cleared to return to work.
Have your client figure out how many vacation, sick or others days he has available to cover his time off while still getting a pay check or being able to keep his job.
If your client works for a company with more than 50 employees and has been employed there for a year or more, he is entitled to 12 weeks of leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. Although he won't get paid during that time, he won't lose his job.
Companies with more than 15 workers must accommodate an injured employee who is unable to do his job. The employer should be asked if there is any other job you can do and if he can be flexible in the hours your client works.
If your client's work is something he can do at home, have him ask his employer if this is possible.
If your client is permanently disabled, he can apply for Social Security disability benefits.
A few states, like California, Rhode Island, Hawaii, New York and New Jersey, provide injured employees temporary disability insurance through state-run programs.
If your client can't make his mortgage or credit card payments, the federal government offers the Home Affordable Modification Program to help with the mortgage. Have your client contact his mortgage holder and ask about it.
Call your client's landlord and medical providers and ask them to put a lien on the eventual settlement.
Suffering the pain from a personal injury is bad enough and when it is compounded by financial problems, it can wreak havoc on someone's life. If any readers out there have other suggestions on how to help clients who can't work during their recovery, please comment here.


The best muscle building supplements should always be based on a balanced diet. When you look for methods to supplement your needs you should already be having all the nutrients you need to make your daily meals. This being said, there are some supplements which have been proven to provide results, especially for people with intense physical activities, like gym-goers.
Supplements come in various shapes and sizes. Most supplements come in powdered form, but you can also buy supplements in solid or liquid form. The form of the supplements plays an important role in the digestion and absorption process. You should always look for the best alternative for the supplement you want to use. So which are the best muscle building supplements?
Protein is the base for muscle building because its complex value offers the fuel muscles need to grow. Protein supplements can be a good addition to an already rich nutrition plan. If you want to see the best results for protein powders you need to be consuming various protein sources such as meats, eggs or milk.
Protein supplements can be made from milk, eggs or beef. Some vegan alternatives include peas and rice protein powders. Studies show that the best protein source comes from whey. This means that whey protein is fast to digest and it transforms into fuel for muscle growth.
The recommended quantities of protein supplementation may vary from person to person. If you train every day you might need more protein to rebuild muscle tissue. If you train a few times per week you should still make sure you have plenty of protein even on rest days as those are the days in which your body recovers.
Protein supplements can come in many flavors. The best source of protein supplements should not include flavors, or it can include healthier alternatives to traditional flavoring.
When you look for protein supplements you also need to consider it will take a long time for your body to transform the foods into muscles. So you need to be patient, even with supplementation.
Creatine is one of the most studied supplements on the market. It comes as a great addition for muscle recovery and strength. Although the body naturally produces Creatine, people with intense physical activities tend to use this supplement. Professional athletes use Creatine to speed up the body`s response to multiple training sessions per day.
As your body produces Creatine naturally, you should only supplement it in cycles. So you can take Creatine for a few weeks and then take a break for the same period before using the supplement again.
Vitamins are essential to the health of our body. Since you might struggle to get all the vitamins you need from your diet, it might be recommended to use a good multivitamin. The key here is to find a good brand which doesn`t use replacements for the actual vitamins and only uses food sources to manufacture the products. There are too many brands selling vitamins which are made artificially.
A multivitamin supplementation may also sustain some other functions. It can benefit your brain, sight or skin. So make sure you know what your vitamin needs are and add a good supplement to your daily nutrition plan.
Amino acids or BCAAs are the building blocks of protein. There are essential and non-essential amino acids. Usually, you can have your required BCAAs from foods like meat or eggs. But you might benefit from using a quality supplement to get the complete chain of amino acids which can fuel your muscle growth.
Amino acids can be taken before, during or after a workout. Make sure you follow the guidelines on the packaging and don`t supplement a bigger dose as your body has a limited ability of BCAAs absorption.
Pre-workout supplements have started to get used on a large scale by gym-goers. The bad news is that most products are not that healthy and they don`t do much in terms of manageable energy. Even more, your body gets accustomed to certain products and it doesn`t respond the same after a few weeks of usage. The best pre-workouts have been made from plants. The natural sources for the ingredients are one of the top features to look for in a quality product.
Pre-workouts can also be a good alternative for people who don`t drink coffee. If you need a little extra boost to get you motivated, pre-workouts can be a good source if you take the time to find a quality product.
There are other supplements you might be taking such as fish oils or Glutamine. However, once you have your basics in place you should focus on your training sessions. And in the end, no supplement can help you build muscle if you don`t eat right or sleep enough.
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Sekolah Alam Palembang or the nature school of Palembang has attracted many tourists these days. It is because the school offers a unique education method. As the name suggests, the students get their education while enjoying the beauty of nature and the breeze of the fresh air. The concept is to promote a natural way of learning. Hopefully, it can prevent the boredom so students can learn in an efficient manner. This becomes the reason why tourists often come here. The location is at Putri Kembang Dadar Street, Bukit Siguntang.
Once tourists reach this unique school, they may find some kids around. Here is the thing. All of the students don't wear a uniform! The school only requires a neat, clean, and appropriate outfit. There is no formality at all. Students can learn in a free and comfortable manner. The nature school has become a great alternative for students. It promotes motivation, freedom, activeness, and fun. That means kids are able to learn several good things like farming, recycling, learning about organic foods, and much more. They will be closer to nature.
What makes nature school a worthy tourist spot? Visitors can join the activity. They can witness how these kids learn with nature. The school empowers them to do an experiment and discuss something. The purpose is to enhance the creativity of these kids. It also helps them to train their logical thinking. Not to mention they can be more motivated and confident. There is no restriction and burden. This is a good way to learn some skills.
Apart from such interesting way of learning, there are many other attractions. Tourists can explore the environment near to the nature school of Palembang. One thing, there is no building at all. The medium is the nature itself. There are only some wooden dividers in the midst of wilderness. Due to this reason, the owner doesn't need to spend much money in constructing this school. Just because there is no formal building, doesn't mean the quality is bad. This school focuses on the quality of teaching, resources, and methodologies.
An educative retreat becomes more interesting among tourists. In the nature school of Palembang, visitors can witness enthusiastic students. These kids learn something different than those of formal schools'. Tourists are able to take pictures with these kids and join them in an experiment. One thing, they should get permission from the owner and teacher first. Actually, it is an easy task. The school represents the freedom, after all. It will be an amusing vacation in Palembang.
Sekolah Alam Palembang is located in Bukit Siguntang. It is easy to reach this location. In fact, it is located in the midst of Palembang city. Tourists only need to ride a public transportation and head to Ampera-Bukit Besar. This line directly heads to Bukit Siguntang. Once they reach the location, they need to take a little walk to the nature school. It won't take long. Also, there are some accommodations nearby. They can even find Empek-empek food stands.


"Law is traditionally a conservative business that is slow to change," says Craig Columbus, CIO at Russell McVeagh.
But over the past 20 months, he says, the relatively traditional law firm has transformed its physical and technical environment, without interrupting its ability to provide excellent service to clients.
As CIO, there is no formula for leading a transformation of this scope, says Columbus.
Craig traces the seeds of the programme to 2015, when the senior leadership team recognised that they needed to be more nimble to better position the firm for the future.
One component of the transformation was a building project to transform the firm's offices physical premises from cellular office, to fully open plan.
The refit required that the company completely gut two floors in its high rise and create a large atrium featuring a bespoke spiral stair connecting the space.
They also installed 10 "smart" videoconferencing rooms across the firm. The new smart videoconferencing rooms have proven so popular that they are investing expanding this capability, says Columbus.
"Another component of the transformation project was a complete revamp of our technical infrastructure," Columbus says.
With the mandate for mobility, the technology team removed desktops and physical phones and gave every employee a high-end 2-in- 1 laptop running Windows 10, Office 2016, Skype for Business, and new versions of their proprietary core business applications.
"Security was a key concern, so we deployed a number of state of the art security controls to ensure the confidentiality of our systems and associated data," says Columbus.
"The construction project and the technical infrastructure projects were completed on time and under budget and the payoff was immediate," he says. "Within hours of launch, we had people using all aspects of the new facility, working in new ways and using the technology to the fullest.
One last major phase of the transformation was to provide Russell McVeagh lawyers with better insights into clients and their needs. To accomplish this, the firm needed a change in technology and a change in the way the lawyers worked with data.
"My team replaced our old CRM system with a modern system that allows us to have better insights into our data stores at the click of a mouse and we worked closely with our head of business development to ensure our lawyers were fully trained to take advantage of the new technology.
"We have already seen significant business benefit, as the technology allows us to better understand our strengths and weaknesses and tune our approach to ensure a better outcome for our clients," Columbus says.
As for lessons learned, he says the biggest challenge to date with IT is striking a balance between the need to change along with a rapidly changing world and ensuring that the firm doesn't get sucked into the hype of solutions that aren't yet ready for commercial use.
"We must choose our path thoughtfully and strategically to ensure the best outcome for our clients and for the firm.
While overseeing the traditional projects, Columbus also spends a great deal of time working with the company's cross disciplinary Innovation Committee, looking into new and exciting technologies, including AI and machine learning.
"Sometimes, however, the benefit gained isn't in what technology you deploy, but in the time spent learning about some areas in sufficient depth to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff," he notes.
He says this especially applies to artificial intelligence.
Thus, he says, "we have decided to take a careful, thoughtful approach to AI investment," and is able to bring this year "some true innovations" through this technology to their clients.


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Rejon utworzony w 1923, ma powierzchnię 889 km² i liczy 17 326 mieszkańców. Siedzibą władz rejonu jest Onufrijiwka.

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Google is attempting to build the world's most comprehensive resource on the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of extinction.
The search engine announced on Thursday the launch of the Endangered Languages Project, a website that allows users to archive audio, video and written information about the world's rarest languages and dialects. The project could prove a boon to cultural preservation in Canada, where dozens of aboriginal languages are at risk of fading away.
The site already has an archive of information about more than 3,000 languages, or nearly half the number believed to be endangered around the world. The list ranges from the Harsusi language, spoken by about 700 people in Oman, to the Assiniboine language, spoken natively by fewer than 150 people in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
"A diverse group of collaborators have already begun to contribute content ranging from 18th-century manuscripts to modern teaching tools like video and audio language samples and knowledge-sharing articles," Google said in a post announcing the new site.
"Google has played a role in the development and launch of this project, but the long-term goal is for true experts in the field of language preservation to take the lead."
The idea for the website surfaced a couple of years ago, when a group of YouTube users approached Google for help with an endangered-language preservation project they were running on the video site. Google's staff decided to expand the project, and went searching for partners.
At around the same time, the First Peoples' Heritage, Language & Culture Council (FPHLCC), a British Columbia-based Crown corporation charged with supporting aboriginal culture, was starting to use new technology to aid in preserving endangered languages. The group had begun developing various keyboards that allowed users to type in some of the 34 languages and 61 dialects present in B.C. alone – many of them spoken by only a handful of people. It also developed an online app that allowed users to chat in some of the languages.
As such, the FPHLCC became one of the earliest partners in the project. In all, more than two dozen language and cultural groups were involved in creating the site, with Google's philanthropic arm providing funding.
In a few months, Google will hand over control of the entire project to the FPHLCC and the Institute for Language Information and Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Together, the two groups will be responsible for maintaining and expanding the site.
"I'm really excited about it because it gives us an opportunity to be visible," said Tracey Herbert, executive director of the FPHLCC. "We're doing this work behind the scenes and only a handful of people in the world are excited and care about it.
"[This project is] going to bring a lot of attention to the issue. It says: 'Hey, this is important.' "
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Some of the best horse racing anywhere in the world takes place in the UK, and because of this it is no surprise to see many people betting on horses in the country. Many of the best horses and races are ran throughout the UK summer, meaning the next few months are vitally important.
With big meetings such as the Royal Ascot meeting, there are many Class 1 races ran on the flat during the summer, and these bring together the cream of the crop. The early classics have been completed, and now we get to see those winners defend their title as being some of the best horses over a specific distance.
The great thing about these races is that betting is available on them many weeks before the actual events take place. This means you can take advantage of the online horse racing options and place your wagers early, with the intention of getting a bigger price about your runner. This is known as antepost betting, and is something that a lot of punters like to do as they search for value in the big races.
One of the biggest stories of the summer is likely to be the horse Stradivarius. He won the £1 million bonus last season after winning four selected staying races in the season. He is back for more in 2019, and after winning at York on seasonal reappearance, he now only has three races to win before he wins another £1 million bonus, in June, July and August.
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The Vegas Hero online casino covers a wide variety of themes and offer a great way for horse racing fans to relax, by playing a slot game with a fantastic horse racing theme. The Scudamore's Super Stakes slot is designed for fans of the sport, showcasing great slot play alongside a familiar feel for racing fans. One of the easiest ways to get into playing at an online casino is to look at the best no deposit casino welcome offers that are available on a review site like Slotsia. These allow you to experience casino games without having to deposit any of your own money.
Elsewhere, the buzz of being a virtual jockey can be found by playing with a racing simulator game. Gallop Racer is one of the biggest tiles, and this game gives you the chance to take over the reins and try to win some of the biggest races on the worldwide calendar. Those who prefer strategy games should take a look at the Starters Orders franchise, which offers players the chance to train horses and work their way up to the top of the training ladder.
A very busy summer of racing is about to start, with plenty of top quality action taking place in the UK. Betting on the racing there will be hugely popular, as it always is, and some big performances are expected from the superstars on show.
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Building on the success of recent exhibitions including Analysing Cubism, Patrick Scott and Cecil King, IMMA's Modern Irish Masters exhibitions create important points of reflection on Irish art and provide audiences the opportunity to experience firsthand some of Ireland's greatest masterworks, many of which are held in private collections and rarely seen.
Through this website, we aim to create a digital resource for Modern Irish Masters' work, providing access to the rich imagery and information uncovered by IMMA curator Seán Kissane. In the menus above, you will find images of artists' work, of the exhibitions and access to essays and documentation about the artists. This is a live resource and we will be adding to it as the exhibitions continue.
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My friend Sam and I REALLY want to go but our college friend is having a baby shower this weekend. Bummer. I know I'm not a Sisterlock rocker but I'd love to go to this event and learn some thangs. Not to mention, it appears that the only way my Mom would consider going natural is through Sisterlocks. I need to brush up my knowledge so that I make her transition easier.
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2018 Nissan Leaf to up range past BMW i3
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Compared to its cheaper rivals, the BMW i3 has always been a bit hamstrung on range. While using a 60 Ah battery, the BMW i3 had a range of around 80 miles, which was about the same as a Nissan Leaf. However, the Leaf then bumped range to 107 miles. So BMW upped its i3 to 90 Ah, which gave it 114 miles. Then, the Chevy Bolt came out it its 238 miles of range, squashing both while being cheaper than the i3. Now, Nissan has come out with a new Leaf, which will boast a further range than the i3 again, for significantly less money.
How far of an EV range will the new Nissan Leaf have? About 150 miles. Which, frankly, is still a bit small these days. But it's more than the i3 and almost as much as the BMW i3 REx. Plus, the new 2018 Nissan Leaf will only cost around $30,000, or about $15,000 less than the i3. To add insult to the i3's injury, Nissan will be debuting an SL trim level next year that will come with a bigger battery. That larger battery will give the Leaf a supposed range of 225 miles, really rubbing salt in BMW's wound.
In terms of design, the new Leaf is far improved over its predecessor but still a bit ungainly. That could just be me, though, as I really don't like the new design language of all Nissan/Infiniti products. This new Leaf looks better than before but still like a bug, post windshield-splatter. On the inside, it's again better but drab. It seems to be a see of black plastics. Ergonomics look good and the screens look smart but it's a bit dark and a bit too staid.
When the new Nissan Leaf finally hits US shores, the BMW i3 will have the least amount of range of any mainstream EV on the market. All the while, it will be one of the more expensive EVs on the market. So, as far electric-range value goes, the BMW i3 will be in pretty poor shape.
Admittedly, BMW has announced that it's working on twelve new EV models and it's likely that it will have at least one car to combat such EVs. But we don't yet know what those cars are, what then entail or how much they will cost. So, for now at least, the BMW i3 has begun to be backed into a corner.
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11 responses to "2018 Nissan Leaf to up range past BMW i3"
Terry Cowan says:
If range is the issue, why buy an EV? i3 designed as city car, if your daily commute is longer than its range you need to rethink your life choices. If you hate your family, get a faraway job & commute in a diesel.
Tom Ward says:
We have a BMW I3 for city use and a Lexus CT200 hybrid in case of longer journeys. The I3 is a delight to drive. It is comfortable, nimble, quick and really quiet. It is very inexpensive to run and service. I paid slightly more than the going rate for a small hatchback when I bought it aged 3 years old and I plug it into a household 13 amp socket at night, usually with most of its 80 mile range intact. Because it is so easy to drive, I magnanimously allow my wife to have its use and I mainly use it for short errands. It makes me smile every time I drive off.
Andrewthecarguy says:
"It makes me smile every time I drive off."<—–
The first time I drove an i3 it melted my heart. I will always have one.
It makes me smile every time I see one.
Well, fall about laughing.
Good point. but I think ultimately, we all want an electric car that has the range of a full tank of gas in the typical ICE vehicle.
The first company to make an EV that directly replaces a car/truck/SUV in its utility AND has a range of 350 to 400 miles per charge AND can rapid-recharge (15 minutes?) at least half that range will completely decimate the ICE industry as we know it.
Over 80 million ICE sold last year, 2 million EV – there is insufficient production capacity for EV to decimate anything! Plus most consumers are not willing to pay the EV premium. I'm curious to see how EV range develops for its impact on commercial diesel traffic, still seems to be early days.
Hinu says:
Shut up with the city car crap… It's marketed as a city car because the range is obviously crippled to being one!
Why they also offer the range extender.
BMW is lazy. A Leaf is suprassing it in terms of features… Great… Don't ruin a brilliant car, BMW! They should've gotten on with the 120 Ah cells together with Samsung SDI long ago so that they'd actually be ready for this launch… They're appearantly more interested in the easy cash… Not serious. Which is seriously disappointing!
Joel Fritchman says:
One thing to note is that if you want leather seating in the Leaf you have to go up in model which adds $6000, making it closer to the I3. And strangely the lease price is about the same between the two when you compare leather to leather models. I think that has to do with resale value. Cost of ownership is more important than sales price.
All to note, if you plug in every night I don't think the average person would need more than 100 miles a day. But I agree more range is better. I will be test driving both.
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Father to My Baby, by Corrie
Luke knew from the moment he bumped, literally, into Molly Reese that she was
the one for him.
"Ouch!" The pretty brunette's books scattered, and her glasses clattered to the
floor.
"Sorry!" Luke knelt and helped her up, "I didn't see you! Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." The girl stood and brushed herself off.
"I'm Luke Acosta," Luke said, sticking out his hand.
The girl shook his hand and pushed her glasses on, "Molly Reese. Nice to meet you,
but I've got to go. I'm going to be late for class!"
"Okay, sorry again!" Luke called.
"No problem." She called back over her shoulder.
That's when Luke knew he'd found the one.
She was in his biology class at Summerfield University, studying to be a science
teacher, so he often made time to talk. Despite coming from far different
backgrounds, his dad being a CEO and mom a lawyer, while her parents were a
plumber and stay-at-home mom, they found themselves falling in love. Pretty
soon, they spent all their time together. They were perfect for each other, both
having ambitions and dreams for their future, which now included a life together.
Life was good and nothing could go wrong.
Then, one day Molly called and asked him to meet her at the park, needing to talk,
That's when Luke's life changed forever.
"You're what?" He asked, not believing what she'd said.
"I'm pregnant, Luke. Pregnant." She started to cry, " What are we going to do?"
Luke took her in his arms, "Hey, it's okay. Listen, we're going to get through this."
Molly looked up, tears in her eyes, "I was thinking we need to go to one of those
clinics downtown and get it taken care of. You know, those places do it safely and
"What?" Luke asked, holding her back, "No, Molly, no. I want to…I want to keep the
"Keep the baby?" Molly said, "What are you talking about? It's not a baby yet. We can't keep it, anyway. Our lives will be ruined. What about my plans to
be a teacher? What about your medical studies? How are we going to live our lives
with a baby?"
"Our lives won't be ruined, Molls. I love you. I want to make you a part of my life.
And this baby."
Molly pulled away, "I can't, Luke. No."
She turned to go.
"Molly, wait!" Luke said, reaching for her, "Please don't leave."
Molly shook her head, "I need some time to think, Luke. Alone. Please."
Over the next few days, Luke tried everything he could to get ahold of Molly. She
didn't answer his calls, his texts or answer her door. Luke felt like he was losing not
only her, but any chance their baby had.
Finally, he ran into Molly on his way to get lunch one day.
"Sorry…" she started to say, as she looked up, "Luke. I…" She mumbled.
"Molly, please, just listen." Luke pled.
She sighed, "Okay."
"I am so sorry for what happened. I love you so much." Luke said. "Molly, I want to
fix our relationship. You mean so much to me."
Molly smiled, teary-eyed. "I love you, too, Luke. I've, well, I've decided that I want
to keep our baby, too."
Luke laughed, "Really? Oh, Molly, that makes me so happy!"
3 Months Later:
Molly smiled, "I love this park, Luke."
Luke's heart pounded, "Me too. Hey, Molls?"
"Uh huh?" Molly turned around to look at him.
Luke knelt on the ground. "Molly Reese, I love you and I want to spend the rest of
my life with you. I want to take care of you and love you no matter what. I want to
be a father to our baby. Will you marry me?"
Molly gasped, "Of course I will! Yes!"
Their wedding was a small one with a few close friends and their parents. It was
Seven months later, on Christmas Day, Molly gave birth to a healthy baby boy.
"He's adorable." She smiled, "I can't believe he's ours."
Luke grinned, stroking the baby's head. "What should we name him?"
Molly thought for a minute. "I was thinking Matthew Aaron. Matthew means gift of
God and Aaron means miracle." She looked over at Luke, "What do you think?"
Luke smiled, "That's perfect, hon. Matthew Aaron Acosta, our little miracle from
Thank you, God. Luke thought. Thank you for a miracle.
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Oh, the public spaces you'll go. A school assignment.
As much as I love fashion, I also love going out to new places—free is usually my motivation. You'll see through my Instagram that I scatter my outfit posts with my favorite places to go in Raleigh, North Carolina. A lot of these include coffee shops and museums. North Carolina is a very diverse place with many things to. It is also home to some exquisite architectural designed public spaces that deserve some spotlight.
One of my favorite public spaces in Raleigh is the North Carolina Museum of Art's Greenway. Or, as I like to call it, the "Art Park." An appropriate name for a park that not only is available for people to bike, walk, picnic, but also to experienced outdoor art placed around the trails. The Art Park is over 160 acres of natural forests and fields that connect to Umstead State Park and Schenck Forest, which makes the park almost endless.
Found off of Blue Ridge Road, the Art Park is spread out wide behind the NCMA's East and West Buildings. To initially get here, one must take a car. Although, you can argue that biking or walking is still doable, but not recommended with all the traffic. You'll see the giant sign for the NCMA and a silver warehouse-type of building a.k.a West Building. The Art Park is hard to miss on the right of it. The trail itself you can walk and/or ride your bike on. Taking a map, you can go through the miles of trails and see the landmark of different arts.
The function of the Art Park is meant to be a greenway that incorporates different works of art. From the "Forest for the Chairs" to the "Thyre", most of these outdoor artworks incorporate different ideas to not only adapt to surroundings but also stand out. It enhances the experience of viewing art and the connection you feel with nature as opposed to how you feel when you enter the exhibited buildings. This is the NCMA's incorporation of architectural proportion to show bigger the greenway's world is compared to the smaller human-sized exhibits.
One of those most notable art works in the Art Park is the Thyre (seen above), also known as the onion rings. This particular art work is one that you'll see at the beginning of the trails and stand out from the green contrast. The Thyre contrasts both in the daylight and night time with illuminated lights. There is a glowing affect that is given that guides night walkers' paths.
The artwork and natural woods create an architectural texture to show the difference between what we find in nature and what is unnatural to draw our eyes. For instance, the art piece "Forest for the Chairs"(on the right) includes chairs in the trees to show a juxtaposition between natural wood and product of the wood. This is one of my favorite pieces. Much of the greenway in the beginning is fields of green but trees are strategically placed around to signal paths or in this case artwork. It's a subtle difference of texture among the trees, but there is obvious dissimilarity between how a tree and chair function.
Combining the works of landscape architecture and the use of space, the Art Park allows people to enjoy the natural surrounding and how it elevates different works. The trails and artwork are strategically placed so that people are able to follow along and find different pieces. One unique piece is the "Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky." This pieces utilizes the daylight to give you an inverted perspective of the sky and tree on to the floor. It resembles more of a hobbit home at first glance, but is meant to show the world from a different view. Though, it is actually the perfect size for me.
As any kind of public space, the Art Park is meant for people to gather and allow them to communicate with each other but also use it in different ways. Though, the sereneness of the park draws a more calming sorts of crowd. You won't find many who are yelling and running across the fields, unless you are my group of friends. The Art Park does restrictions of wandering off the trails and disturbing the uninhibited natural areas, which goes against the public space domain of being able to do whatever you want. Honestly, there are always concerns about anyone who starts doing pyrotechnics around a field of grass.
Most people have an understanding that nature need not to be interrupted and do stay on the trails. The Art Park is also is used as a prop and a background for people who come out to the Art Park to take photoshoots as well as go on dates. I, myself have done a few shoots around here. It's also a great place for friends to gather and throw a party. Further into the trail, you'll find people exploring the woods and taking mini-hikes. Being able to walk through trails and point out different artwork is a perk. There is also an outdoor amphitheater which lets you screen movies or have live performances. The Art Park allows us to really use all 5 of our senses to get one with nature and art.


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Q: When Does It Make Sense To Rewrite A Python Module in C? In a game that I am writing, I use a 2D vector class which I have written to handle the speeds of the objects. This is called a large number of times every frame as there are a lot of objects on the screen, so any increase I can make in its speed will be useful.
It is pretty simple, consisting mostly of wrappers to the related math functions. It would be quite trivial to rewrite in C, but I am not sure whether doing so will make any significant difference as all it really does is call the underlying math functions, add, multiply or divide.
So, my question is under what circumstances does it make sense to rewrite in C? Where will you see a significant speed boost, and where can you see a reasonable speed boost without rewriting an extensive amount of the program?

A: First measure then optimize

A: If you're vector-munging, give numpy a try first. Chances are you will get speeds not far from C if you utilize numpy's vector manipulation functions wisely.
Other than that, your question is very heuristic. If your code is too slow:

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*Profile it - chances are you'll be able to improve it in Python

*Use the correct optimized C-based libraries (numpy in your case)

*Try psyco

*Try rewriting parts with cython

*If all else fails, rewrite in C

A: You should never optimize anything, be it in C or any other language, without timing your code before and after your optimization:

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*your clever optimization could in fact induce a slow down

*optimizing something that takes 1% of the total execution time will never give you more than 1% performance

The common approach is:

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*profile your code

*identify a hotspot

*time this hotspot

*optimize it

*time the hotspot again, see if it's faster. If it's not goto 3.

If you can't find hotspots it could mean that your app is already optimized, or that you are not using the good algorithm for your problem. In both cases profiling helps understanding what your code does.
For profiling python code under Linux, you can use pyprof2calltree which works in conjunction with kcachegrind, and is totally awesome.

A: A nice Profiler I use on Linux is pycallgraph - however, as your program gets bigger it starts to create much larger images which are harder to trace. I'm pretty sure you can exclude modules, though.

A: Common wisdom is "profile", "measure", etc. Well - maybe. Just get in the debugger and take 10 stackshots. If more than one of them terminates in your wrapper code, then it is costing more than 10% roughly, so you should consider re-doing it in C, to save that time. Chances are you will find other things also that are costing more than that.


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// Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Lionel MOISAN.
// Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Pascal MONASSE.
// Copyright (c) 2012, 2013 Pierre MOULON.

// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

#ifndef OPENMVG_ROBUST_ESTIMATOR_ACRANSAC_H_
#define OPENMVG_ROBUST_ESTIMATOR_ACRANSAC_H_

//-------------------
// Generic implementation of ACRANSAC
//-------------------
// The A contrario parametrization have been first explained in [1] and
//  later extended to generic model estimation in [2] (with a demonstration for
//  the homography) and extended and use at large scale for Structure from
//  Motion in [3].
//
//--
//  [1] Lionel Moisan, Berenger Stival,
//  A probalistic criterion to detect rigid point matches between
//  two images and estimate the fundamental matrix.
//  IJCV 04.
//--
//  [2] Lionel Moisan, Pierre Moulon, Pascal Monasse.
//  Automatic Homographic Registration of a Pair of Images,
//    with A Contrario Elimination of Outliers
//  Image Processing On Line (IPOL), 2012.
//  http://dx.doi.org/10.5201/ipol.2012.mmm-oh
//--
//  [3] Pierre Moulon, Pascal Monasse and Renaud Marlet.
//  Adaptive Structure from Motion with a contrario mode estimation.
//  In 11th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2012)
//--

#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>
#include <iterator>
#include <vector>
#include <limits>
#include <iostream>

#include "openMVG/robust_estimation/rand_sampling.hpp"

namespace openMVG {
namespace robust{

/// logarithm (base 10) of binomial coefficient
static double logcombi(size_t k, size_t n)
{
  if (k>=n || k<=0) return(0.0);
  if (n-k<k) k=n-k;
  double r = 0.0;
  for (size_t i = 1; i <= k; i++)
    r += log10((double)(n-i+1))-log10((double)i);

  return r;
}

/// tabulate logcombi(.,n)
template<typename Type>
static void makelogcombi_n(size_t n, std::vector<Type> & l)
{
  l.resize(n+1);
  for (size_t k = 0; k <= n; k++)
    l[k] = static_cast<Type>( logcombi(k,n) );
}

/// tabulate logcombi(k,.)
template<typename Type>
static void makelogcombi_k(size_t k, size_t nmax, std::vector<Type> & l)
{
  l.resize(nmax+1);
  for (size_t n = 0; n <= nmax; n++)
    l[n] = static_cast<Type>(logcombi(k,n));
}

/// Distance and associated index
typedef std::pair<double,size_t> ErrorIndex;

/// Find best NFA and its index wrt square error threshold in e.
static ErrorIndex bestNFA(
  int startIndex, //number of point required for estimation
  double logalpha0,
  const std::vector<ErrorIndex>& e,
  double loge0,
  double maxThreshold,
  const std::vector<float> &logc_n,
  const std::vector<float> &logc_k,
  double multError = 1.0)
{
  ErrorIndex bestIndex(std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity(), startIndex);
  const size_t n = e.size();
  for(size_t k=startIndex+1; k<=n && e[k-1].first<=maxThreshold; ++k) {
    double logalpha = logalpha0 + multError * log10(e[k-1].first + std::numeric_limits<float>::min());
    ErrorIndex index(loge0 +
      logalpha * (double)(k-startIndex) +
      logc_n[k] +
      logc_k[k], k);

    if(index.first < bestIndex.first)
      bestIndex = index;
  }
  return bestIndex;
}

/// Pick a random sample
/// \param sizeSample The size of the sample.
/// \param vec_index  The possible data indices.
/// \param sample The random sample of sizeSample indices (output).
static void UniformSample(int sizeSample,
  const std::vector<size_t> &vec_index,
  std::vector<size_t> *sample)
{
  sample->resize(sizeSample);
  random_sample(sizeSample, vec_index.size(), sample);
  for(int i = 0; i < sizeSample; ++i)
    (*sample)[i] = vec_index[ (*sample)[i] ];
}

/**
 * @brief ACRANSAC routine (ErrorThreshold, NFA)
 *
 * @param[in] kernel model and metric object
 * @param[out] vec_inliers points that fit the estimated model
 * @param[in] nIter maximum number of consecutive iterations
 * @param[out] model returned model if found
 * @param[in] precision upper bound of the precision (squared error)
 * @param[in] bVerbose display console log
 *
 * @return (errorMax, minNFA)
 */
template<typename Kernel>
std::pair<double, double> ACRANSAC(const Kernel &kernel,
  std::vector<size_t> & vec_inliers,
  size_t nIter = 1024,
  typename Kernel::Model * model = NULL,
  double precision = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity(),
  bool bVerbose = false)
{
  vec_inliers.clear();

  const size_t sizeSample = Kernel::MINIMUM_SAMPLES;
  const size_t nData = kernel.NumSamples();
  if(nData <= (size_t)sizeSample)
    return std::make_pair(0.0,0.0);

  const double maxThreshold = (precision==std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity()) ?
    std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity() :
    precision * kernel.normalizer2()(0,0) * kernel.normalizer2()(0,0);

  std::vector<ErrorIndex> vec_residuals(nData); // [residual,index]
  std::vector<double> vec_residuals_(nData);
  std::vector<size_t> vec_sample(sizeSample); // Sample indices

  // Possible sampling indices (could change in the optimization phase)
  std::vector<size_t> vec_index(nData);
  for (size_t i = 0; i < nData; ++i)
    vec_index[i] = i;

  // Precompute log combi
  double loge0 = log10((double)Kernel::MAX_MODELS * (nData-sizeSample));
  std::vector<float> vec_logc_n, vec_logc_k;
  makelogcombi_n(nData, vec_logc_n);
  makelogcombi_k(sizeSample, nData, vec_logc_k);

  // Output parameters
  double minNFA = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();
  double errorMax = std::numeric_limits<double>::infinity();

  // Reserve 10% of iterations for focused sampling
  size_t nIterReserve = nIter/10;
  nIter -= nIterReserve;

  // Main estimation loop.
  for (size_t iter=0; iter < nIter; ++iter) {
    UniformSample(sizeSample, vec_index, &vec_sample); // Get random sample

    std::vector<typename Kernel::Model> vec_models; // Up to max_models solutions
    kernel.Fit(vec_sample, &vec_models);

    // Evaluate models
    bool better = false;
    for (size_t k = 0; k < vec_models.size(); ++k)  {
      // Residuals computation and ordering
      kernel.Errors(vec_models[k], vec_residuals_);
      for (size_t i = 0; i < nData; ++i)  {
        const double error = vec_residuals_[i];
        vec_residuals[i] = ErrorIndex(error, i);
      }
      std::sort(vec_residuals.begin(), vec_residuals.end());

      // Most meaningful discrimination inliers/outliers
      const ErrorIndex best = bestNFA(
        sizeSample,
        kernel.logalpha0(),
        vec_residuals,
        loge0,
        maxThreshold,
        vec_logc_n,
        vec_logc_k,
        kernel.multError());

      if (best.first < minNFA /*&& vec_residuals[best.second-1].first < errorMax*/)  {
        // A better model was found
        better = true;
        minNFA = best.first;
        vec_inliers.resize(best.second);
        for (size_t i=0; i<best.second; ++i)
          vec_inliers[i] = vec_residuals[i].second;
        errorMax = vec_residuals[best.second-1].first; // Error threshold
        if(model) *model = vec_models[k];

        if(bVerbose)  {
          std::cout << "  nfa=" << minNFA
            << " inliers=" << best.second << "/" << nData
            << " precisionNormalized=" << errorMax
            << " precision=" << kernel.unormalizeError(errorMax)
            << " (iter=" << iter;
          std::cout << ",sample=";
          std::copy(vec_sample.begin(), vec_sample.end(),
            std::ostream_iterator<size_t>(std::cout, ","));
          std::cout << ")" <<std::endl;
        }
      }
    }

    // ACRANSAC optimization: draw samples among best set of inliers so far
    if((better && minNFA<0) || (iter+1==nIter && nIterReserve)) {
      if(vec_inliers.empty()) { // No model found at all so far
        nIter++; // Continue to look for any model, even not meaningful
        nIterReserve--;
      } else {
        // ACRANSAC optimization: draw samples among best set of inliers so far
        vec_index = vec_inliers;
        if(nIterReserve) {
            nIter = iter+1+nIterReserve;
            nIterReserve=0;
        }
      }
    }
  }

  if(minNFA >= 0)
    vec_inliers.clear();

  if (!vec_inliers.empty())
  {
    if (model)
      kernel.Unnormalize(model);
    errorMax = kernel.unormalizeError(errorMax);
  }

  return std::make_pair(errorMax, minNFA);
}

} // namespace robust
} // namespace openMVG
#endif // OPENMVG_ROBUST_ESTIMATOR_ACRANSAC_H_

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Everything about Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye is beautiful. It's a wonderful place to hold our summer calligraphy courses. Or we wouldn't have been doing it since 1989.
Unfortunately for me, a Canine Complication meant I was unable to be there for Deuxième Niveau this summer. So Keith took on this summer's second-level students alone.
Is it good- or ill-fortune to have "only" four students? Javier, Ausiàs, Cathy & Gérard. Only three languages to juggle?
Lots of luminous space in the Salle Blanche.
Based on elements from the Visconti Hours, along with the stunning pen-made Roman majuscules from manuscripts by Bartolomeo San Vito. None of them are easy, but all are worth pursuing. I wasn't there to take photos myself – many of these are Cathy's. I believe Ausiàs is going to send some more? And so is Javier? Madame, messieurs? Vos photos? I rather think Gérard, you travel without a camera, and devote yourself to doing lettering rather than photographing it?
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merci beaucoup Amanda, c'est une sorte d'expo de fin de stage!


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Ariana Luna
Thursday, 28. June 2018 / Published in General
sonoVTS meets BRG
Germany-based broadcast products, rental and systems company sonoVTS GmbH has announced that it has established a cooperative partnership with Broadcast Remote Global (BRG) Ltd, the UK-based video production service company. The new agreement – which is to be officially signed tomorrow at Broadcast Asia (Suntec, Singapore, 26-28 June 2018) – will initially focus on developing shared interests in China, with the burgeoning eSports market expected to provide particularly exciting opportunities for the two companies in the coming years.
A long working relationship
The collaboration has its origins in a long working relationship between sonoVTS Business Development Manager Bart Meeus and Colin Cradock, who is the owner of Broadcast Remote Global and the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of China BRG. Meeus and Cradock worked together on "many major sports productions some years ago," and since then Meeus has observed with interest BRG's "ongoing expansion in China and other Asian markets, with Colin rapidly becoming an influential participant in the emerging eSports broadcast and events industry."
Since 2014 Colin has serviced numerous eSports events from Korea to Los Angeles, including the Formula E Grand Prix and Riot Games World Finals, as well as overseeing the development and build of new broadcast studios worldwide. sonoVTS – whose extensive system design, integration and service capabilities are augmented by an increasingly powerful manufacturing offer that includes the HDQLINE series of modular videowall and IP-enabled broadcast displays – has also been collecting some significant references in this exciting market, and together the two companies are confident that their complementary skillsets can make them a dominant force in the Asian eSports industry.
Incredible dynamic market
"IP is going to be very important in giving eSports producers the flexibility and functionality they require to undertake events of increasing complexity," says Meeus. "With our latest IP-capable displays – as well as our expertise in designing and developing OB facilities and flypacks – we believe that we will be a valuable partner to BRG as we jointly explore the incredible opportunities presented by this dynamic market. We are also in the process of developing new solutions geared specifically towards the requirements of eSports."
The next level – Augmented Reality (AR)
With live stage performances and Augmented Reality (AR) also being added to eSports events formats, Cradock believes the time is right for a partnership able to offer such a range of technical capabilities and future-proofed solutions. "As Bart has remarked, BRG will be the 'eyes and ears on the ground' for the partnership in China and elsewhere in Asia as the eSports market matures to become a permanent element of the sports and events industry," he says. "In combination we will have a very strong offer to put to event organisers and broadcasters wishing to accommodate the growing expectations of audiences watching both at eSports venues and on mobile and OTT platforms throughout the region and beyond. We have already had some positive conversations about specific projects and look forward to making further announcements in the near-future."
Wednesday, 20. June 2018 / Published in General
Let's play ball
sonoVTS providing equipment facilities and support personnel at global football tournament
The host broadcast operation of the international football tournament taking place in June and July 2018 is making extensive use of sonoVTS broadcast technologies and technical expertise in order to support production in multiple formats, including 4K.
Connecting 12 venues
Following on from its successful deployment at the previous tournament four years ago, the host broadcaster again decided to utilise the Equipment Room Container (ERC) concept at this event. Incorporating a variety of solutions from leading broadcast technology suppliers, these containers provide the tools to allow the host broadcaster to service its many rights holding broadcasters around the world. One ERC is located at the TV compound sited at each of the 12 venues and connected to the host broadcaster's container house.
Russia meets UHD, 4K & HDR
With UHD/4K and HDR production becoming increasingly commonplace, the host broadcaster decided to upgrade the specification of the ERCs in advance of the latest tournament. The refurbishment work was carried out by the sonoVTS team in Munich, Germany, in close cooperation with the host broadcaster, with the units being shipped to the host country in advance of the first matches.
As a result of the upgrade the units are now able to accommodate simultaneous output in 1080p, UHD and 4K HDR, as well as production in HD and legacy formats. With the first events taking place at the 14th of June, the units are said to be performing well, and they will continue to be supported by sonoVTS personnel on the ground for the duration of the championships.
Let's play ball in Russia
"We are delighted to be supporting this hugely important sports event with equipment facilities and technical capabilities that will ensure viewers around the world are able to enjoy matches in the best possible quality," says sonoVTS Head of Business Development Tobias Kronenwett, adding that sonoVTS has also supplied a dozen localised Technical Operation Centres.


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Investing.com - The pound rallied in early European hours on Tuesday after British Prime Minister Theresa May secured last-minute changes from the European Union for her Brexit deal before a crucial vote in parliament later in the day.
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European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker agreed to additional assurances in an updated Brexit deal with British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday.
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The euro was up 0.2% on the day at $1.1272 (EUR/USD).
Elsewhere, the U.S. dollar stayed within familiar trading ranges as investors looked ahead to February inflation figures due at 8:30AM ET (12:30 GMT).
Data on Monday showed U.S. retail sales rose moderately in January, lifted by an increase in purchases of building materials and discretionary spending.
The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, was down 0.25% at 96.93.
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The Mood Swings of a Child.
I find myself wishing off and on that Chris and I were Jonathan's babysitters rather than his parents. Don't get me wrong, we love him very much and are extremely grateful to have him. Usually the only time I get this longing is when we actually do leave him with a babysitter. When we come back to pick him up, the answer we always get to 'How was he?' is "Oh, he's a perfect angel! I wish my kids were as calm as him! He slept almost the whole time! He's so sweet! Can I keep him?" or some variation on that. To that final question, Chris and I invariably think 'you can keep him overnight...' but we of course say nothing.
The reason for all of this? He can be a little terror. (I say this lovingly, of course.) He never screams or cries for no apparent reason in front of other people, even when we visit home or have family visit here. He is really quite a well-mannered child. Until, that is, he is alone with his parents. Then, all bets are off. Then, the sweet well-mannered child sits on the doorstep while our sweet little terror comes inside to play. Not always, mind you, but often enough for him to be just like every other child. I promise. He's a sweetheart, really he is. But he is not above screaming tantrums when I take my phone out of his reach, or unrolling the entire roll of toilet paper and then tearing it to shreds and eating it. Once, he knocked over my 3-year old violet plant and began to eat the dirt off the floor. Then threw a tantrum when I put him in his crib to clean up the mess.
I do love my child. I must stress this. He is frustrating, but I do love him so very very much, and I would not trade him for anything or anyone in this world. His mood swings throw me for a loop sometimes, but secretly, I wouldn't have him any other way.