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December 24, 2018 by Admin 0 comments on "Chinese Set to Finally Assume Control of Gwadar, Pakistan Port"
Chinese Set to Finally Assume Control of Gwadar, Pakistan Port
Chinese delegation visited the port city of Gwadar, Pakistan. The Chinese government has invested USD 250 million over the past decade to develop the port, which it will eventually control through a government consortium called the China Harbour Engineering Company. The port isn't fully operational yet, but Chinese media's willingness to report on the issue may be a signal that the port may finally transfer to Chinese control soon. Pakistan's government has also publicly made it clear that it would like to hand control of the port over to China within one month.
The port is of extreme geographical significance to the Chinese, who have over the past ten years begun to flex their muscles and expand their influence far beyond their own borders. China is developing ports throughout South Asia – something often referred to as China's 'String of Pearls.'
For example, in July of this year, China outbid India to secure the rights to upgrade Chahabar Port, which sits in southeastern Iran along the Strait of Hormuz. And, in early August, Sri Lanka opened a Chinese-developed port at a total cost of USD 500 million. In total, China operates 15 ports in foreign countries, with most of them in Southeast Asia.
Gwadar offers China a chance at quicker oil acquisition from countries exporting through the Persian Gulf. China is the world's largest consumer of Middle Eastern oil, meeting nearly 60% of its total energy needs from energy exports shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. After clearing the Strait, the oil must then be shipped east through the Indian Ocean, then slowly ferried through the Strait of Malacca (the narrow coastal throughway between Malaysia and Indonesia). Finally, it arrives at its destination through various ports in east China. The oil's journey, from start to finish, is long and, often, prohibitively expensive.
The port at Gwadar would also give China something it desperately needs – a viable energy conduit that is completely free from a potential American naval blockade. Control of the port would allow the Chinese to ship their oil through the Strait of Hormuz into Gwadar, and then use overland transport to travel northeast through Pakistan. Once at Islamabad, the route will then use the also-Chinese-developed Karakoram Highway, and travel through the K2 mountain range, the second highest in the world, which lies adjacent to the Himilayas. From there, it will travel through the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir province of Gilgit-Baltistan, and will, finally, cross the Chinese border and be sent to Kashgar, a former Silk Road city located in western China's Xinjiang Province. China has recently spent upwards of USD 18 billion to further develop roads in Gilgit-Baltistan to facilitate this process, and Kashgar is regularly the recipient of Chinese infrastructure investment. This all sounds good on paper, but the reality of transporting high profile soft targets, such as oil, through Pakistan is not as simple as our Chinese friends may think.
Gwadar sits in one of Pakistan's most unstable provinces – Balochistan. Balochis are a fiercely independent people who are ethnically related to the also-fiercely-independent Kurds. Balochistan sees regular violence against representatives of the Pakistani government and foreigners (often Chinese). Balochis have an extensive list of grievances against the Pakistani government and do not like being ruled from Islamabad. Their situation has even attracted the attention of the U.S. Congress which, in light of China's attempt to circumvent an American-dominated Pacific Ocean, considered a resolution in 2012 that was to suggest the funding of Balochi separatist groups. News of the resolution led to protests in both China and Pakistan, with the usual complaint that the U.S. was interfering in each country's internal affairs.
China insists that there is no cause for alarm, and that their 'String of Pearls' is designed to support Chinese commercial interests, and nothing more. They have, for some time, maintained the position that India and the United States are locked in a 'Cold War mentality' that sees Chinese overseas ports as playing a threatening host to the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), as opposed to friendly outposts that exist solely to import/export manufactured goods. As we know, China, colonized in its past, increasingly plays the role of an international victim and regularly points its finger at Western countries for what it calls repeated attempts at limiting its outwardly-focused posture.
It's anybody's guess, at this point, as to China's true intentions, but history has shown that great empires need not be built on military conquest alone. The British Empire was founded almost entirely on the establishment of overseas commercial interests – only later, when those interests were threatened, did the soldiers come. China is rising and, therefore, will begin to butt heads with those who have already risen.
But, for the sake of argument, must the Chinese have a martial mindset at the outset to be accused of doing what they are, in fact, doing? When is a counter by India or the United States, thus, warranted? I think that there needn't be a sinister 'master plan' if it leads to the same result as a well-intentioned one. Chinese expansion, hostile or not, arouses great fear in India and well-founded concern in the United States. Throughout history, and in every corner of the world, countries have balanced each other, re-balanced each other, and re-balanced each other yet again. This game of 'balance and re-balance' plays out even between allies – how much more so must it play out between rivals? Therefore, just as Chinese expansion may not be inherently hostile, China should not consider other countries' attempted checks on that expansion as inherently hostile either.
By seeking to avoid a rival's check on its security through development of an overland energy route, China is acting in its best interests, and therefore doing exactly what it is supposed to do – India and the United States will do likewise, and so the world turns.
November 24, 2018 by Admin 0 comments on "Managing Trademark Investigations for Nonuse in China"
Managing Trademark Investigations for Nonuse in China
American Bar Association's Section of Intellectual Property Law has an interesting article entitled: Managing Trademark Investigations for Nonuse in China. The article may be found at the July/August 2013 Landslide Magazine Site.
The article notes that:
"In sum, one should expect to pay more but get less in terms of quality from trademark investigations in China when compared with their U.S. counterparts. As trademark practice improves in China, and as competition among investigation firms increases, we can expect quality to improve and prices to drop. In particular, if the Trademark Amendment Laws are enacted within three years of nonuse disqualifying the trademark owner from claiming damages for infringement, investigations should become even more routine."
The article is recommended for those in need of guidance before retaining an investigator and, also, for attorneys that work with these investigators.
October 24, 2018 by Admin 0 comments on "Basics for Partnering with a Chinese Company: More than Just Due Diligence"
Basics for Partnering with a Chinese Company: More than Just Due Diligence
The following post was written by, Tom Coyner, MBA, one of IPG's senior business advisers. Tom has has worked in Asia for over twenty years. Please read the following post in conjunction with the articles listed at the end of this articles for needed due diligence prior to engaging in any arrangement with Chinese company.
Many foreign companies in China, for practical reasons, choose to partner with a local company to market, sell and support their products and services. While once upon a time there were legal requirements to do so, now China, in most industries, has a relatively free market in this regard.
Frankly speaking, finding a China partner company can be ridiculously easy. Finding a successful partnership, however, can be ridiculously difficult. That is, many China companies are willing to partner for all of the wrong reasons. And this may be said for a like number of foreign firms attempting to do business in China.
Many China firms look at partnering with overseas companies as a cheap and easy way to become "international," or at least more international, via this foreign partnerships. Partnering can add to their market prestige and provide new products and services the domestic competition lacks, or that they cannot easily develop on their own. Thus, in their reasoning, sales may often be secondary to domestic market positioning.
Foreign firms often regard the China market as the most important international market for the next decade and that if they are not in China at this time, they better be in China quickly. As a result, they may be tempted to do a "quick and dirty" market entry, finding a China company selling into the right market niche and boasting a glib speaker of English or some other appropriate foreign language. After the China joint venture agreement is inked, its back on the plane without much expectation to return to China for another six or even twelve months.
These two descriptions are stereotypes, but unfortunately they are closer to the reality mark than many Chinese and foreign firms may like to admit. So what may be a better way to find and develop a successful partnership?
First, look carefully at the company and the key people on whom you will depend. Many China firms look absolutely great on paper, but it will be a couple of key people who will largely determine whether your joint venture will succeed. Certainly the Chinese company needs to be financially stable and credible in your market niche. At the same time, that company must have individuals with sufficient authority to ensure commitments with the foreign company remain at a mutually appropriate priority level.
Key people include the CEO, marketing or planning director, sales director and product support director. If you do not perceive a personal stake in the venture for each of these people, your partnership with the Chinese company may be in danger from the beginning. You should be able to accurately articulate from the Chinese perspectives why this venture is personally important to each key person. Then you should honestly compare their motivations with your own. Even if you like the company and the people, if there is a not a good match, its time to move on.
Second, consider how and with whom your company will be able to communicate. Assuming you do not have Chinese speakers in the home or regional offices, it can be critical to ensure there are capable English speakers at least in the marketing/planning and product support groups. Ideally there should also be a strong English speaker representing the China sales team, but that may be harder to find. Naturally, the larger the company, the more likely the China partner will have employees with foreign language skills.
That brings us to our third point: It is important to partner with the appropriate-sized Chinese company. It is surprisingly easy to go too big or too small. The big companies are usually part of the giant business conglomerates. Their prestige often brings instant credibility to the market for your products, but their ability to sell to other companies within their group is usually exaggerated.
Furthermore, big companies typically have annual or even more frequent organizational reshuffles. The net result can be that the Chinese in whom you have invested a great deal bringing them up to speed on your company and products may one day, perhaps without notice, be reassigned to other departments. Major corporations anywhere in the world tend to be systemically arrogant, holding the unstated assumption that you need them more than they need you. Chinese companies are no different.
Partnering with too small a company, meanwhile, may entail another set of traps. The good news is that they may need you as much as you need them – or even more so. Consequently, insure that they will be putting enough skin into the game to consider you more than simply another arrow in the quiver. The personnel you train are probably more likely to stay dedicated to your products than those of the larger firms.
However, if you are selling large capital assets, these smaller firms may themselves having to partner with other local China firms to be credible producers, marketers and supporters of your products for future customers. Additional, de facto partners mean smaller pieces of the shared pie of profits and/or higher pricing that may make your products less competitive.
Finally, even if you are able to get the right mix and balance, you have just begun the partnership. Chinese, generally, look at all written agreements as just the launching of a new relationship that will need to adapt to unforeseen circumstances. So the foreign firm should not be shocked if, almost from the very beginning, the Korean partner asks for variances from the written partnership agreement as the first real sales opportunity approaches.
Such requests for variances might be justifiable in some cases, but there are also times when the Chinese partner has not done adequate due diligence in selling or preparing support for the foreign products. At these times, one needs a reasonable adjudicator who can advise from ground zero on how to handle variance requests.
Established foreign firms usually have local representative offices with enough employees to act as the local eyes and ears and advise home office management. Those firms not yet ready to set up representative offices can outsource to consultants. IPG works with some of the leading consultants in Asia.


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DKMS announced today that international superstar Ariana Grande will perform at the 10th Annual DKMS Gala, taking place Thursday, May 5 at Cipriani Wall Street.
DKMS also announced today that the benefit gala will honor Angelina & Monte Lipman and Daniele & Alexandre Behring for their continued support and dedication to help delete blood cancer. The event will raise funds for the largest bone marrow donor center in the world.
Dr. Angelina Lipman and Monte Lipman are pillars of the New York philanthropic community. Not only are they integral to the heartbeat of DKMS, but they also remain active for other great causes and serve on the board of TJ Martell Foundation, Amy Winehouse Foundation, and recently honored by UJA-Federation of New York. Dr. Lipman's experience includes serving as Professor at the Business School of Columbia University while also working in the corporate sector. Her forthcoming literary debut, Blocking The Noise, is scheduled for release later this year. Mr. Lipman is the co-founder and chief executive of Republic Records — the music industry's #1 label for four consecutive years according Nielsen's Soundscan.
Alex Behring is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of 3G Capital, a global investment firm. Behring serves as Chairman of Restaurant Brands International since December 2014, following 3G Capital's acquisition of Burger King in October 2010 and subsequent combination with Tim Hortons in December 2014. Mr. Behring also serves as Chairman of the Kraft Heinz Company since July 2015, following Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital's acquisition H.J. Heinz Company in June 2013 and subsequent combination with Kraft Foods Group in July 2015. He also serves as a Director of Anheuser-Busch Inbev since April 2014. Daniele Giacomazzi Behring is an untiring advocate of the children's health cause. Mrs. Behring worked in corporate marketing and human resources, and complemented her studies at Tavistock Institute London. In 2011, her ties with Brazil put her in contact with the work developed by Hospital Pequeno Príncipe – the biggest pediatrician Hospital in Brazil and the Pelé Little Prince Research Institute since then, she has been working to engage Corporations and individuals to the cause. The Behrings work to help individuals and corporations become supporters that help in the advance of many of the institution's projects related to Health as DKMS.
"We are so thrilled to have the support of Ariana and can't wait to see her performance!" stated DKMS co-founder Katharina Harf. "The efforts and support of the Lipmans and Behrings over the years also make them overdue for the recognition they deserve. We're so pleased both families could be with us this year so DKMS could give them the appreciation they deserve."
This year also marks the 25th anniversary of DKMS, whose mission is to continually increase the number of suitable bone marrow donors. This year's Corporate Founding Sponsor is COTY Inc. and COTY Global Ambassador Georgia May Jagger. Event Honorary Chair members include interim CEO of COTY Inc., Bart Becht, EVP & CFO of COTY Inc., Patrice de Talhouet, and Delete Blood Cancer DKMS Co-Founder Katharina Harf. Katharina and her father, Peter Harf, founded DKMS in honor of their mother and wife, Mechtild Harf. Carina Ortel is the Delete Blood Cancer DKMS Chief Executive Officer.
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A journalist for 30 years, her byline (as Cara Jepsen) appeared in The (UK) Guardian, Salon, Brink.com, Billboard, Book, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Time Out Chicago, NewCity, and Crain's Chicago Business. From 1993 to 2013 she was the media columnist for the Illinois Entertainer, and for eight years she wrote the Chicago Reader's "Days of the Week" Calendar. She's written film and music criticism for the Reader and music criticism for the Chicago Tribune. She also contributed chapters to the books DK's Real City Chicago guide and SPIN Underground USA.
A former filmmaker, she has taken bows at the New York Film Festival, and her video "Public Enemy" appeared on the WTTW-Channel 11 program "Image Union."
Her radio essays aired on the WBEZ-FM program "Eight Forty-Eight," and she was a yoga columnist for Conscious Choice magazine and a vegetarian food columnist for The Local Palate. She was also a music columnist for the Windy City Times.
She holds a Master's Degree in journalism from Columbia College - where she was a recipient of the Follett Fellowship. She has a B.A. in sociology and communications from Lake Forest College, from which she graduated cum laude with honors in her major and honors on her senior thesis.
In 2017, she was awarded an artist residency at Starry Night in Truth or Consequences, NM, and in 2018 she was awarded a writing residency at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL - where she worked on Beyond the Mat: Don't Just Do Yoga - Live It.
Kali Om is has been teaching yoga since 1998 and is a disciple of Sri Dharma Mittra. She is author of the 2018 book, Beyond the Mat: Don't Just Do Yoga - Live It.
A former triathlete, she began studying yoga after her mother died and believes that regular practice can help people weather rough patches with dignity and grace - and keep them grounded when things are going well.
She completed 200- 500 and 800-hour trainings with Sri Dharma Mittra, who gave her the name Kali Om. She is the senior teacher of Dharma Yoga in Chicago and is certified beyond the highest (ERYT-500) level.
Kali also made five trips to Mysuru, India to study with Pattahi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute. She has also completed teacher trainings with Suddha Weixler and Manju Jois.
Kali is also certified in Therapeutic Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Senior's Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Rocket Yoga, Gentle/Restorative Yoga, Psychic Development and Hormone Yoga Therapy for Menopause. In addition, she has studied with a long list of master teachers. Her articles about these experiences are archived at the Yoga Chicago website, which is where her column "Beyond the Mat" also appears.
She is a lead instructor for the Chicago School of Yoga's teacher training program, and is co-chair of the Vivekananda East-West Yoga Festival held each January at the Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago. She's also a Yoga Alliance YACEP (continuing education provider).
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"The purpose, even existence, of our Union is being questioned" – this is the opening line from the June 2016 EU Global Strategy and, above all, it's over this widely spread awareness that the whole Future of Europe process initiated its reflection. Defence and security had its momentum with the launch of PESCO in December 2017, and it's now revamping in relevant political statements, and not only in rhetoric. In fact, Jim Mattis – US Secretary of defence – pressed the European allies, on February 14th, to stick to the increase of the military budgets in the NATO framework.
The past 12 months have seen more activity in EU defence than has ever been witnessed over the last 12 years. The High Representative, Federica Mogherini, boosted the action on EU defence, aiming at making the EU able to meet the triple task of dealing with international crises, of helping partners and of protecting Europe. One could therefore ask what the US concern is due to.
The reason lies in the excitement that has energised politicians in Brussels for the milestone achieved with the launch of the European Defence Fund (EDF) and the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD). And in its antithetical historical premise: the collapse of the project for a European Defence Community. It was 1954, and Italy called for an all–in: it was necessary to choose whether the European States should have pooled their defence capabilities and established a democratic control over it, or if the European Community should have been founded on different basis. The latter solution succeeded. Why does this matter, now?
While the world becomes less and less stable, with the international relations being more and more based on multipolarism, and the US losing their political influence, Europeans started to firmly believe that the EU can brace itself or can act, together. Acting together was the 63 years–late answer. Yet something must have gone wrong when the EU delivered to the US the message of its increased commitment to the world stability.
The EU never really questioned its belonging to North–Atlantic Alliance: kick–starting a European common defence plan doesn't imply to have it out of the NATO. If anything, it means more autonomy of the EU to pursue its foreign politics goals, and weigh its leverage in the NATO, instead of following the US international politics only. The paradox of the US political leadership lies here: while it bullies, in Juncker's words, EU Member States on NATO spending, it also calls for less interventionism and no responsibility on the US' shoulders for the global disorder.
The renewed European will to democratically take its responsibilities and role in the world balance of power is the natural consequence of the current situation. The paramount function of every State is to protect its citizens. The Future of Europe process has its foundations in the assumption that European citizenship is not a reality yet, or at least that it isn't tangible for the European people.
This awareness walks hand in hand with the reflection on the missing dimension of the European sovereignty, that instead could make Member States stronger together. The defence and the External Action have always been the main example to explain the fragile balance that animates the fakir–like EU institutional framework. Therefore, the EU Commission decision and effort to link its citizenship and its external dimension, and to use the latter to revamp the first, can only be welcomed. Also because this will make the EU more relevant both internally and externally.
The American frustration has been comforted many times by all the EU officials and representatives: the EU project doesn't aim at undermining NATO but at making it more aligned with the world state of affairs.
In a multipolar world, the US have to start accepting a plural leadership in NATO. Having the cake and eating it was never a good premise in history for the peaceful developments of any crisis. The EU is baking a new cake, and the US can only help with the recipe. Otherwise we will all have to eat a burned one.
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Email is the best way to reach us! Our lobby is often full, and emails may be answered during our intake and discharge process.
The lobby closes after the last cat is discharged at 4:30 PM. This allows the staff to perform a full deep cleaning of the entire clinic. We have a very strict disease control protocol which includes the sanitization of any items or equipment which came into contact with the patient including floors, walls, cabinets, kennels, surgery suite, prep room, etc. The evening cleaning process takes a lot of time which is why our lobby closes just after 4:30PM. The front office staff is very involved in our deep cleaning so phone calls may be limited from 9AM to 3PM.


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America's Next Top Model recap
Cycle 5 of America's Next Top Model started out with a bang--a two-hour episode that at times felt like The Real World and at times felt like...America's Next Top Model. The first half of the two-hour episode was devoted to narrowing down the 36 semi-semifinalists to 20 semifinalists and, finally (ha!) 13 finalists. As you'd expect, this portion of the show was filled with many girls acting crazy and crying as Tyra, wide-eyed and head tilted, nods, with that "I feel you, girlfriend" look, which really means, "crazy girls equals huge ratings." The 20 semifinalists walked in a runway show, and the 16 non-semifinalists were forced to watch them--which seemed like cruel and unusual punishment to me, since most of them were just sitting there crying. After more "I feel you, girlfriend" one-on-one interviews with Tyra (many of which felt like promos for Tyra's daytime talk show), they narrowed the bunch down to 13 girls. Cue more crying and "I'm going to be a model no matter what--it's my destiny"-type proclamations.
In the second half of the episode, the girls were given a bizarre where-the-stars-live tour of Hollywood by Robin Leach, who then escorted them to their new home, an ugly '70s-era split-level house that's decorated to look like a department store. Because that's where models really live. Anyway, the girls' first test was to walk in a Life & Style magazine fashion show; some of the girls are not so bad, but one girl walks like a dude and another fell--twice (more on them later). The next test was to "pose like a superhero" on cables with...crazy wardrobe, hair and makeup! Yes, it's not an ANTM episode without a totally outlandish photo shoot. While most of the girls seemed to be nailing their shots, more than a few turned out some pretty bad photos, although I felt the judges were pretty easy on them for the most part--Nigel Barker, J. Alexander , and Jay Manuel are back, and instead of Janice Dickinson, '60s supermodel Twiggy is there to provide former-model feedback. I think I'm definitely going to miss Janice's bitchy--but often accurate--opinions, but Twiggy has that model-godmother thing going on, which is kind of nice for a change. Ashley, a Florida buyer, was the first to go, for no good reason other than that's she's too pretty and the judges felt she was kind of bland. But pretty. Right. So here's my assessment of the remining 12 contestants:
Bre: is young (19) and a Harlem native; at times, I think she kind of looks like Eva (cycle 3's winner), which could count against her. Also, she's a bit sassy, which is fun.
Cassandra: is from Texas, a former beauty pageant queen and young (19) but short (5'7"). Since she publicly defended George W. Bush on national TV, I'm loathe to say anything nice about her, but I will allow that she photographs well. But I think she's going to annoy the hell out of everyone (read: this season's Yaya).
Coryn: is really striking, and she's had a hard-knocks life, which we all know Tyra loves. The King Tut eyebrows need to go, but after that, I think she'll be a serious contender.
Diane: is this season's plus-size contestant, but she's not all "I'm big and beautiful, woo-hoo!" like, oh, Toccara was. But we all know what happens to plus-size contestants on this show. Still, she seems cool--like a girl you want to have a beer with.
Ebony: is the youngest of the bunch, and she's a bit on the crazy side--she has a motto, which is "Don't get it twisted." I don't know, she seems too smart and ambitious to be a model. But that could be her strength.
Jayla: totally reminds me of Norelle, my favorite girl from cycle 3. I think she's really cute, and I bet she can look both "pretty" and "edgy." Um, and I like her haircut. And she's got a model name already.
Kim: is my favorite, for reasons I can't really explain, but look at her profile--how can you not love a girl who lists both US Weekly and The Economist as her favorite magazines? So, she kind of looks like a dude (she's a lesbian and has already made out with Sarah's DSL) and she certainly walks like a dude, but I think she's really cute and unique-looking.
Kyle: has a hilarious Michigan accent, which reminds me of summer. More importantly, she's nice and tall (5' 10"), although I have a feeling she's going to get those "too commercial" comments from the judges, on account of being bubbly and blonde.
Lisa: kind of looks like she got hit with a bag of fugly, but she photographs really well, dresses cool, and seems to have the favor of the judges already. She's kind of old (24) and short (5' 8"), but I bet she'll stick around for awhile.
Nicole: was already getting on everyone's nerves by 8:15, so god knows what's going to happen in the next few weeks. I think she's really pretty--she looks like my coworker Heidi--although we know how the judges feel about "really pretty."
Niki: is the one the judges have already pegged as the "secret weapon." She photographs well, and she seems to have a pretty even disposition. At the same time, I don't see a ton of personality. But that can change.
Sarah: is young (18), blonde, and in possession of some very huge DSL (which lesbian Kim had the pleasure of kissing already). She's also the one who fell (twice) on the runway. But even if she learns how to walk, I have a feeling that those DSL are going to come back to haunt her--cue the porn star comments.
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Archdiocese of Davao
Assumption College of Davao,
J.P. Cabaguio Avenue, P.O. Box
80908, 8000 Davao City
Sr. Marietta B. Banayo, Personnel
Coordinator, President of Assumption
College of Davao, Local
Animator; Sr. Julie R. Abarquez,
Finance Officer of Assumption
College of Davao and Sunday
High School Education Program
(SHSEP); Sr. Ma. Luz F. Mallo,
Sisters Association in Mindanao
Executive Secretary (SA MIN); Sr.
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Diocese of Butuan
San Luis Lumad Community High
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Luis, 8511 Agusan del Sur
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Q: Symfony 4 on heroku : log tails i try to deploy my app on heroku and i have this error :

I don't understand the documentation.
Can you help me please ?
Sorry for my english i'm french

A: I had the same problem.

*

*Write how you deploy the app on the heroku (which commands you used).

*Show the result of the heroku logs command.

*Do u use webpack - if yes u should set up environment variables (NPM_CONFIG_PRODUCTION, YARN_PRODUCTION and NODE_MODULES_CACHE to false).

*What do u have in Procfile file? For Symfony4 it should be look like this:

web: $(composer config bin-dir)/heroku-php-apache2 public/

*Did u run this command - it creating .htaccess file.

composer require apache-pack

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APIs help virtually every industry with airlines and airports being mention most frequently by the respondents.
To gather insights on the current and future state of API management, we talked to 17 executives who are using APIs in their own organization, as well as helping clients use APIs to accelerate their digital transformation and the development of quality applications. We asked them "What are some real-world problems you, or your clients, are solving with APIs?"
RTD Denver mobile experience for buses, next available buses using an API platform offering citizens a rich app to experience public transport in Denver. A lot of customers in banking using for online, retail and to comply with regulatory requirements. Ikea using for digital experience for the customers 48 countries, 500 stores with a true hybrid approach. Used by airlines to offer backend integration for P&I for consumers to schedule travel.
Airlines. Our clients manage data for their websites. A third-party company manages data for hotel room availability to make sure inventory up to date. Anyone with a mobile app can access. For healthcare providers, it's critical to protect account data on mobile and web devices.
1) A hotel customer goes mobile first 65 million users, mobile apps connected to thousands of APIs. One minute of downtime thousands in lost revenue uses SOAP UI to keep running, built with high quality. AlertSet monitoring millions of point in the backend email notify in seconds to isolate and fix. 2) Airline with hundreds of thousands of users. Weather events drive use SwggerHub allows API design first approach. Align with business and consumer objective. Use virtualization software to virtualize APIs.
Amsterdam airport is using data from applications to push the envelope of friendliness to users. Take data and make it accessible. Created APIs on top of REST endpoint and put APIs on top enabled partners to get and make better decisions and applications for customers. Very flexible environment.
APIs are the very fabric of any digital transformation story. We have customers across a range of verticals: media & data services, travel & hospitality, retail, healthcare etc. Some real-world use-cases are highlighted below: 1) Airlines are using us to enable third parties to improve the end-to-end customer travel experience and to focus on operational improvements such as flight operations automation and leveraging back office data more effectively in their airport operations. 2) Media companies are using us to facilitate more customization and real-time delivery of data and services to their client bases. Many of our customers in data services are relying on open APIs to create new revenue streams from existing data and content. 3) Retailers are using us to deliver new ways to engage with their customers in a multi-channel context and to allow third parties to embed their catalog and inventory data in other applications. 4) We have customers in healthcare that are using us to drive revenue through partner channels and bring down costs by digitizing their IT and exposing data assets to strategic partners via APIs.
We get to help companies use APIs in transformative ways. 1) We're helping a railroad company do track inspection with drones. There are thousands of miles of railroad tracks constantly in need of manual inspection. We are working with this company to enable drones, using Azure IoT Edge on Windows IoT Core, to run AI-based image recognition models and send abnormalities in the tracks up to the cloud. When unusual circumstances are detected, the company can send out a team to inspect further. This model lets people focus on higher-value things as opposed to the labor-intensive, tedious work, which machines are really good at. Our technology is helping the railroad company save on costs, cover a wider area, and ultimately improve track safety. 2) We work with a robotics company to enable remote control communication from a device to the cloud via a mobile app, focusing on gateways and securely getting data in and out. 3) We also work with HVAC companies and their customers to control thermostats remotely. This allows consumers, for example, who are on their way home to remotely turn on or control the temperature before they arrive. Meanwhile, the data collected also helps feed a smart grid where energy companies can understand how their service is used.
Loan origination process at a certain point during the process the application that customer submits must be evaluated and a score returned. One of the use cases is Scorecard as a Service. Using our tool you generate APIs that are essentially a contract. Give me some variables from an application and me as a risk professional will return a score. As long as I don't violate the contract of four variables in one score out, I'm allowed to use sophisticated modeling and techniques behind the scenes to optimize my risk strategy without negatively impacting my overall business. I am using data to make more informed decisions. I am able to adapt to changes to the regulatory environment or the market in general quickly without going through an entire process of rewriting their loan origination structure.
Since APIs are a horizontal approach to development and integration, they are relevant across any vertical. These include automotive companies building a developer community and providing a secure access point for connected car apps, to airlines creating customer loyalty through mobile engagement, to financial services firms implementing PSD2-mandated Open Banking regulations, to government agencies sharing intelligence across secure domain boundaries.
1) E-commerce Under Armor fast, relevant, typo tolerant, run and running quickly without cycles of engineering — Google/Amazon level search with click tracking and ranking formula in just a month or two. 2) Twitch, an Amazon company, strong technical use case, live indexing, asynchronous indexing live streams of video games have to be available in under a second. Multiple languages. 3)OEM of SaaS search software for e-commerce for tracking packages. Enabled to power search of their customers in a segregated way. Deal with tech in your stack for solving technical use cases.
Pitney Bowes 10 to 15 years ago mail scales. Shipping is not a growth business added billing systems and address lookup and use us to secure APIs plug into marketplace address confirmation delivery confirmation ordering flowers. Prevent fraud in retail.
The key thing with API consumption management is the ease of how users consume data from third-party applications. Data from SFDC, ServiceNow, and SAP and manage how users interact with that data. Rather than thinking about the API think about the data. See what the APIs are doing as they come together. Take disparate systems and unify the API experience and layer the virtual data layer on top.
Evolved email API over the years with a REST API using JSON to expand over time without having to introduce a lot of different versions. Version-less, evolutionary approach to APIs, stored template, tracking, A/B test as customers integrate with us they don't have to keep upgrading to a new API version. Adopt or enable new features as necessary. Help customer adoption without creating a lot of destruction. Taking an evolutionary approach beneficial to them and customers. Beyond email sending is getting all of the data back. Provide services to pull data and people love using webhooks to get data pushed to you.
1) Biggest help we can offer is to help organizations graduate from current brownfield way of running the edge with embedded technology. Sophistication kicks in at the application. The platform is used to uplift the application. It runs on our platform rather than bare metal using APIs to orchestrate what's happening on the device. It's a cheaper way to create a nice set of microservices while still running everything. Refactor and start leveraging the platform from day one. 2) Companies interested in launching sophisticated microservices to do what they want to do from the data center to the edge.
Attaching third-party apps to coincide with ours. Compatibility, interoperability, scalability.
We have a long history or really instrumenting and gathering data from hundreds of devices and applications. Pushing 100 different applications and devices. All that data is not stopping at applications manager. It's going further upstream. In more cases than not our application is being used to integrate with other applications.
At a business with a larger level of customers, they are using security as a differentiator. Platform secure by design is a differentiator — competitive advantage. Scan continuously over a period of time to provide an advantage. From a technology perspective see a lot of customers doing API-first development. The way we were are doing today is different than how we did, relying more on microservices. We involved a product set to do API testing, start seeing microservices to build up API. We do that by asking sure our testing capabilities are embedded deeply in the SDLC.
We help our customers put more data to work for their business, faster – to improve the online shopping experience, to implement predictive maintenance or to report on business activities. APIs are critical in those projects to enable data access and monetization via partner APIs. To help solve these problems, we support API-first integration workflows in our platform where you can start from the data needs of the customer or partner, capture that visually and collaboratively in a formal API contract (OAS compatible) and then implement it with our Data Services offering, including both a visual data flow builder and a cloud runtime.


Bogey's Books ("New, Used and Out of Print Books") was a wonderful little independent bookstore located in the heart of Downtown. It closed in January 2008, after running a closing sale for a number of weeks.
Why would you go to Borders if you can find your book here? Borders doesn't even smell like books! By and large their books are cheaper than those found at Borders, largely because most of the books they carry are used. Being a used bookstore, they also buy books — every day from 10am to 3pm. They also carry some new(er) books, including fairly recent releases that have been discounted/marked down a bit from what you might find in a "new books" bookstore. In fact, Bogey's always sells below list, and if you're a member of a book club or otherwise need several copies of a book, ask about Bogey's volume discount. As an independent "used books" bookstore, Bogey's complements The Avid Reader, which carries "new books." On the display tables by the fiction shelves you'll often find lesser-known or underrated fiction works that are often quite good.
They have a surprisingly good art and history collection.
Along with just about every other independent bookseller in Davis, the owner of Bogey's books, Mark Nemmers, was quite active in fighting the establishment of Borders. The Next Chapter went so far as relocating from Davis to Woodland in direct protest of Borders' arrival.
Recent England->California transplant Kevin Weedon wrote this entertaining article, which features Bogey's Books, on interesting differences between British English and American English.
2006-01-02 22:34 One needn't be elitist in order to appreciate quality of service. The fact that I've received consistently good service from AmEx is why I've stuck with them. But, I know from firsthand experience that AmEx is expensive from the vendor's point of view, and while I still think it makes good business sense to make it easy for your customers to pay you I can understand why small businesses often balk at AmEx's terms.
With regard to VISA/MC-tied ATM cards, I'm of the opinion that they're too risky. I'm not comfortable with the prospect of someone being able to empty my personal checking account simply by stealing my VISA/MC number. Sure, my liability is limited to $50 if I report fraudulent charges promptly, but why should I have to risk being out any amount of money, or having to deal with that situation at all? With a conventional credit card, the credit card issuer doesn't get my money until the bill is completely correct.
2007-11-06 12:07:15 I need to make a slight correction to BarryAllard's post...the reason the store is closing has less to do with the rent increase than with the owner's desire to move into a different phase of life. He's been doing this for 17.5 years and needs a change. Rent increase or not, the store would be closing. My wife and I were going to buy the shop (I've worked there since 2001) and came up against the rent increase, forcing us to back out. So, yes, it's a factor, but the landlords made their decision well after the owner had decided to sell/close the business.
As an employee of the shop, I've come to love Davis's reading community. You're some of the nicest and most intellectually curious and stimulating folks I've ever met. I'll miss seeing you in the store surrounded by all those books, all those ideas, opinions, and even the occasional tirade about something or other that happens to be in the air around us. Be well, and thanks for so many unforgettable evenings.
2007-12-08 06:06:43 I was sorry when Bogey's closed, but don't forget that independent bookstores still exist in Davis. My personal favorite is Sweet Briar Books, on G Street in the same plaza as the Food Coop.
It's similar to Bogey's in a lot of ways. They buy and sell used books, and, for that reason, have incredibly low prices. I've bought paperbacks in excellent condition for only a couple of dollars.
And their selection of music CDs is incomparable—especially for lovers of jazz standards like myself. I've bought several two-disc collections there, each for under ten dollars.


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Synteza granularna – technika generowania dźwięku w cyfrowych instrumentach muzycznych w mikroskali.

Syntezator granularny nie generuje ciągłej fali, ale zbiór bardzo krótkich, trwających od 1 do 50 milisekund fragmentów, zwanych granulkami (ang. grains). Granulki mogą być odtwarzane jedna po drugiej, mogą też na siebie nachodzić lub być odtwarzane równocześnie, z różną prędkością, fazą i głośnością. Rezultatem syntezy granularnej nie jest pojedynczy ton, ale chmura granularna składająca się z tysięcy granulek, którą kontroluje się w sposób odmienny od tradycyjnych instrumentów i technik syntezy: można zmieniać wysokość dźwięku poszczególnych granulek, ich obwiednię, długość, wzajemną pozycję granulek i ich gęstość. Powstaje więc klaster dźwięku o złożonej charakterystyce.

Najpopularniejszą implementacją syntezy granularnej jest sampling granularny, w którym poszczególne granulki nie są syntetyzowane przez np. oscylator, ale wycinane z dowolnego nagrania (sampla). Technika ta znalazła szerokie zastosowanie w programach zmieniających tempo nagrania bez zmiany wysokości dźwięku lub odwrotnie (tzw. time stretching, pitch shifting). Pozwala na przykład na dowolne przedłużanie wybrzmiewania instrumentów akustycznych bez nieprzyjemnego efektu zapętlenia charakterystycznego dla tradycyjnych samplerów.

Historia syntezy granularnej
Początki syntezy granularnej sięgają połowy XX wieku, ale dopiero od późnych lat 90. jest szeroko dostępna za sprawą wzrostu mocy obliczeniowej komputerów osobistych.

Za twórców idei dźwięku jako zbioru elementarnych granulek rozłożonych w czasie, która w efekcie doprowadziła do rozwoju syntezy granularnej, uważa się Iannisa Xenakisa oraz węgierskiego fizyka Dennisa Gabora (1900-1979), znanego z wynalezienia holografii w 1947 r., za który to wynalazek został w 1971 r. uhonorowany nagrodą Nobla z dziedziny fizyki; niemniej prawo do palmy pierwszeństwa przypisywał sobie Xenakis – grecki kompozytor wyraźnie wypowiadał się w tej sprawie w książce Formalized Music, wstęp, xiii. Xenakis zastosował ideę dźwięku jako zbioru granulek w swoich kompozycjach na orkiestrę, która korzystając z tradycyjnych instrumentów grała wiele krótkich dźwięków, tworzących większą, jednorodną całość, analogiczną do chmury granularnej.

Iannis Xenakis rozpoczął badania teoretyczne nad syntezą granularną w 1958 r., ale dopiero w 1972 r. jego uczeń, Curtis Roads zajął się ich praktyczną realizacją z zastosowaniem dwuprocesorowego komputera mainframe Burroughs B6700, programowanego w języku Algol, oraz programu Music, którego autorem był Max Mathews. Dane były wprowadzane za pomocą kart perforowanych. Komputer ten potrafił po kilku dniach obliczeń wygenerować tylko minutę dźwięku o częstotliwości 20 kHz. Oczywiście nie posiadał on przetwornika cyfrowo-analogowego, dlatego Roads zapisywał dane wyjściowe na taśmę cyfrową, którą potem kopiował na kartridż dyskowy w Instytucie Oceanografii. Kartridż zabierał do Centre for Music Experiment by wreszcie przetworzyć dane na dźwięk na komputerze DEC PDP-11/20.

Tą metodą Roads w 1974 roku stworzył pierwszy, eksperymentalny, trwający 30 sekund utwór granularny Klang-1. Składał się 766 granulek, z których każda zaprogramowana była na osobnej karcie perforowanej. Wszystkie miały tą samą długość 40 milisekund, Roads traktował je jak indywidualne nuty w skali zawierającej 1000 tonów od 16,11 Hz do 9937,84 Hz. W ciągu sekundy odtwarzanych było do 25 granulek. Mimo tak skromnych parametrów, Roads był zachwycony magicznym wręcz rezultatem. Utwór Klang-1 jest dostępny na płycie dołączonej do książki Curtisa Roadsa Microsound.

Drugi utwór granularny nie był już eksperymentem, ale prawdziwą kompozycją – jest to trwający 8 minut Prototype z 1975 r. Na jego potrzeby Roads napisał w Algolu program PLFKLANG, który potrafił wygenerować tysiące granulek, tworząc 123 chmury granularne, w których znaczenie poszczególnych granulek było wtórne. Roads ominął problem ograniczonej pojemności pamięci komputera, która skracała nagranie do jednej minuty, generując osiem fragmentów, które potem zmiksował w studio dodając niewielki pogłos oraz panoramę.

W 1980 r. Curtis Roads rozpoczął prace badawcze w Eksperymentalnym Studio Muzycznym Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gdzie miał do dyspozycji uniksowy minikomputer DEC PDP-11/50, który przyspieszył pracę, pomimo że był słabszy od mainframea, na którym pracował dotąd, Roads miał go bowiem na własny użytek, mógł także pisać własne oprogramowanie w języku C oraz uruchamiać program Music 11 napisany przez Barry Vercoea. Krótkie fragmenty gotowej muzyki Roads miksował na czterośladowym analogowym magnetofonie, ponieważ montaż całego utworu na komputerze był jeszcze niemożliwy. Zwieńczeniem kilkuletniej pracy był utwór Nscor, trwający 9 minut, który został publicznie odtworzony na Międzynarodowej Konferencji Muzyki Komputerowej w Nowym Jorku w 1980 r. Roads nadał mu ostateczny kształt w 1987 r., wykorzystując różne techniki syntezy, nie tylko granularną.

Linki zewnętrzne
  (Mac, freeware)
 Audiomulch (PC, shareware)
 Chaosynth (PC, shareware)
 Csound (PC & Mac, freeware)
  (Mac, shareware)
  (PC, shareware)
 Max/MSP (Mac & PC, komercyjny)
 Pure Data (PC, freeware)
 Reaktor (Mac & PC, komercyjny)
 Soundhack (Mac, shareware)
 SuperCollider (Mac, Linux & Win, freeware)

Synteza dźwięku


Sterrehof Stud has its very own distinguishing architecture, characterised by sustainability, sturdiness and atmosphere. The pyramid shaped roofs as well as the plentifully applied and now greyed oak wood from Polish production forests immediately catch your eye.
When they had this stud built, Ivo and Ellen used all the horse industry experience they had gained in the years prior. They knew exactly what to do and, just as importantly, what not to do. All this has added up to a state-of-the-art blend in the facilities present, offering lots of air, light, variation and exercise for the horses, just like they wanted.
The indoor school is one of the eye-catchers. It's the ideal place to work the horses when the weather or other circumstances outside don't allow it. The arena offers the perfect training ground for our horses and riders. We have decorated the walls with beautiful photo canvasses showing the well-known Sterrehof horses and scenic images.
The foyer is also exceptional, hanging at two-third of the arena, allowing horses and their riders to ride underneath. The architect initially put our idea aside, but construction calculations proved us right. The horses and their performances can be watched easily and comfortably from behind the glass.
Sterrehof Stud boasts extensive and excellent training facilities. Our riding arenas are equipped with first-rate footing. Everything is drained and we even get to train outside when it freezes. The racetrack we have put around one of the pastures turns out to work really well for the horses. Condition and stamina can be worked on with interval training, while a full, straight gallop every now and then keeps the horses happy.
We also have a cage used for free-jumping young horses, comparable to the so-called couloir that KWPN uses for their stallion selections. We use it as a selection tool to ascertain how horses 'think about' a jump and to assess their technique.
The back of the yard offers a wide view of the countryside, as well as fourteen hectares of pastures, for the horses to graze on and for gaining hay silage. We have four big sand paddocks where the horses like to roll and play in. We tried draining them but that didn't work out, as the young horses seemed to enjoy digging up the draining pipes.
In our stables we have paid a lot of attention to the horses' social possibilities. The sport stables' inner walls have barred openings so the horses can see and smell each other, but not injure each other. All stable passages can be closed separately with sliding doors and an inventive height system allows for plenty of fresh air to enter the stables without it ever getting draughty.
Thanks to our Flybusters system we never have lots of flies in our stables. The system is applied more and more these days, but we have had it for many years. We have all modern professional sport yard facilities, such as a tackroom, washing areas and a feed and supplements area.
Our big, spacious group housing for the youngsters have long proven their function and usefulness. In front there is a coated floor. When they're eating, the young horses stand on rubber instead of concrete, which we feel is better for the hooves. We always have one feeder in excess, so there has to be no arguing over space or feed. The front also has a wind canvas that can be lowered in case of strong winds. We use a deep litter system. We remove droppings and soiled patches on a daily basis and add fresh bedding, but leave the base untouched.
The base of the bed is lifted twice a year. We have a circulating water system that prevents the water from freezing. Thanks to camera surveillance we can watch all the horses from our home computer.


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from copy import deepcopy
import numpy as np
import nussl.core.effects as effects
from nussl.core.audio_signal import AudioSignalException
import os
import os.path as path
import pytest

REGRESSION_PATH = "tests/core/regression/effects"
os.makedirs(REGRESSION_PATH, exist_ok=True)

# Note: When changing these tests, please do not call `mix_and_sources["mix"].apply_effects`
# with overwrite=True

def fx_regression(audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data):
    scores = {
        'test_metrics': {
            "variance": [np.sum(np.var(audio_data, dtype=float, axis=1))],
            "sum": np.sum(audio_data, dtype=float, axis=1).tolist()
        }
    }
    check_against_regression_data(scores, reg_path)

def test_stretch(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    stretch_factor = .8
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    filters = [effects.time_stretch(stretch_factor)]
    augmented = effects.apply_effects_sox(signal, filters)

    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "time_stretch.json")
    fx_regression(augmented.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_pitch_shift(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    shift = 2
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    filters = [effects.pitch_shift(shift)]
    augmented = effects.apply_effects_sox(signal, filters)

    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "pitch_shift.json")
    fx_regression(augmented.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_params(mix_and_sources):
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.time_stretch(-1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.time_stretch("not numeric")

def test_metadata(mix_and_sources):
    shift = 1
    factor = 1.05
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    # Resample to a weird sampling rate nobody uses
    signal = deepcopy(signal)
    signal.resample(13370)
    signal.pitch_shift(shift).time_stretch(factor)

    augmented = signal.apply_effects(overwrite=False)

    assert augmented.sample_rate == signal.sample_rate
    assert augmented.num_channels == augmented.num_channels

def test_tremolo(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    f = 15
    d = .5
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "tremolo.json")

    filters = [effects.tremolo(f, d)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)

    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data,
                  reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_vibrato(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    f = 5
    d = .5
    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "vibrato.json")
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources

    filters = [effects.vibrato(f, d)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)

def test_emphasis(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    level_in = 1
    level_out = 2
    types = ['col', 'riaa', 'cd']
    mode = 'production'

    for _type in types:
        reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, f"emphasis_{_type}.json")
        filters = [effects.emphasis(level_in, level_out, _type, mode=mode)]
        augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
        fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_compressor(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    level_in = 1

    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, f"compression.json")
    filters = [effects.compressor(level_in)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

# noinspection DuplicatedCode
def test_compression_fail(mix_and_sources):
    # Out of bounds values
    level_in = -1
    reduction_ratio = 299
    attack = 19999
    release = 89999
    makeup = 69
    knee = 10
    link = "fail"
    detection = "fail"
    mode = "fail"
    mix = 8
    threshold = 0
    phase = -1

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(level_in)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, knee=knee)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, reduction_ratio=reduction_ratio)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, release=release)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, makeup=makeup)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, link=link)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, detection=detection)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, attack=attack)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, mix=mix)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, threshold=threshold)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.compressor(1, mode=mode)

def test_equalizer(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    bands = [
        {
            "chn": [0, 1],
            "f": i,
            "w": (5 * np.log2(i)),
            "g": 5,
            "t": 0
        } for i in [110, 440, 10000]
    ]

    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    filters = [effects.equalizer(bands)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)

    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "equalizer.json")
    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data,
                  reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_phaser(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources

    in_gain = .4
    out_gain = .74
    delay = 3
    speed = .8

    filters = [effects.phaser(in_gain, out_gain, delay, speed)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "phaser.json")
    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path,
                  check_against_regression_data)

def test_chorus(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources

    in_gain = .4
    out_gain = .7
    delays = [45, 55]
    decays = [.6, .2]
    speeds = [.9, .8]
    depths = [2, 1.5]

    filters = [effects.chorus(delays, decays,
                              speeds, depths, in_gain=in_gain, out_gain=out_gain)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "chorus.json")
    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path,
                  check_against_regression_data)

def test_flanger(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources

    delay = 10
    depth = 2
    regen = 10
    width = 70
    speed = .5
    phase = 25

    filters = [effects.flanger(delay=delay, depth=depth, regen=regen,
                               width=width, speed=speed, phase=phase)]
    augmented_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "flanger.json")
    fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path,
                  check_against_regression_data)

def test_low_high_pass(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    f = 512
    filters = [effects.low_pass(f)]
    low_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    low_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "low_pass.json")
    fx_regression(low_signal.audio_data, low_path,
                  check_against_regression_data)

    filters = [effects.high_pass(f)]
    high_signal = effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, filters)
    high_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "high_pass.json")
    fx_regression(high_signal.audio_data, high_path,
                  check_against_regression_data)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.low_pass(-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.low_pass("fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.low_pass(1, poles=0)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.low_pass(1, width_type=0)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.low_pass(1, width=-1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.high_pass(-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.high_pass("fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.high_pass(1, poles=0)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.high_pass(1, width_type=0)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.high_pass(1, width=-1)

def test_misc_param_check():
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.vibrato(-1, 1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.vibrato(1, -1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.tremolo(-1, 1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.tremolo(1, -1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.chorus([1], [2, 3], [45, 6], [4])
    with pytest.warns(UserWarning):
        effects.chorus([2000], [.5], [.7], [.4])
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.chorus([1], [30], [.7], [.4], in_gain=-1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.phaser(in_gain=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.phaser(out_gain=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.phaser(decay=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.phaser(type_="fail")

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(delay=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(depth=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(regen=-100)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(width=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(speed=-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(shape="fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(interp="fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.flanger(phase=-1)

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.emphasis(1, 1, type_="fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.emphasis(1, 1, mode="fail")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.emphasis(1, -1)

    band = {
        'chn': [0],
        'f': 300,
        'w': 10,
        'g': 10,
        't': 5
    }
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.equalizer([band])
    band["g"] = -1
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.equalizer([band])
    band["w"] = -1
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.equalizer([band])
    band["f"] = -1
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.equalizer([band])
    band["chn"].append(-1)
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.equalizer([band])

    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        effects.SoXFilter('fail')

def test_silent_mode(mix_and_sources):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    effects.apply_effects_ffmpeg(signal, [], silent=True)

def order_check(filters):
    # A helper function for test_hooks and test_make_effect
    expected_filters = [
        'time_stretch',
        'pitch_shift',
        'low_pass',
        'high_pass',
        'tremolo',
        'vibrato',
        'chorus',
        'phaser',
        'flanger',
        'emphasis',
        'compressor',
        'equalizer'
    ]
    for exp_name, filterfunc in zip(expected_filters, filters):
        name = filterfunc.filter
        assert exp_name == name

def test_one_at_a_time(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    signal = deepcopy(signal)
    effects = [
        ("time_stretch", {'factor': 3}),
        ("pitch_shift", {'n_semitones': 2}),
        ("low_pass", {'freq': 2048}),
        ("high_pass", {'freq': 256}),
        # ("tremolo", {'mod_freq': 5, 'mod_depth': .4}), # TODO: These don't work for some reason
        # ("vibrato", {'mod_freq': 3, 'mod_depth': .9}), # Likely due to something in ffmpeg.
        ("chorus", {'delays': [20, 70], 'decays': [.9, .4], 'speeds': [.9, .6], 'depths': [1, .9]}),
        ("phaser", {}),
        ("flanger", {'delay': 3}),
        ("emphasis", {'level_in': 1, 'level_out': .5, 'type_': 'riaa'}),
        ("compressor", {'level_in': .9}),
        ("equalizer", {
            'bands': [
                {
                    'chn': [0, 1],
                    'f': 512,
                    'w': 10,
                    'g': 4,
                    't': 0
                }
            ]
        })
    ]

    for idx, (effect_name, params) in enumerate(effects):
        print(idx, effect_name, params)
        reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, f"one_at_a_time/hooks{idx}.json")
        signal.make_effect(effect_name, **params)
        augmented_signal = signal.apply_effects(reset=False)
        fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)

def test_hooks(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources

    signal = (
        signal
            .time_stretch(3)
            .pitch_shift(2)
            .low_pass(512)
            .high_pass(512)
            .tremolo(5, .4)
            .vibrato(3, .9)
            .chorus([20, 70], [.9, .4], [.9, .6], [1, .9])
            .phaser()
            .flanger(delay=3)
            .emphasis(1, .5, type_='riaa')
            .compressor(.9)
            .equalizer([{
                'chn': [0, 1],
                'f': 512,
                'w': 10,
                'g': 4,
                't': 0
            }])
    )

    assert len(signal.effects_chain) == 12
    print(signal.effects_chain)
    augmented_signal = signal.apply_effects(reset=False, user_order=False)
    assert len(signal.effects_chain) == 12
    assert len(augmented_signal.effects_applied) == 12
    assert len(augmented_signal.effects_chain) == 0

    # reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "hooks.json")
    # fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)
    order_check(augmented_signal.effects_applied)

    augmented_signal.time_stretch(.7).apply_effects(overwrite=True, user_order=False)

    assert len(augmented_signal.effects_chain) == 0
    assert len(augmented_signal.effects_applied) == 25

    assert str(augmented_signal.effects_applied[-1]) == "time_stretch (params: factor=0.7)"

    equal_signal = augmented_signal.apply_effects()
    assert equal_signal == augmented_signal

def test_make_effect(mix_and_sources, check_against_regression_data):
    signal, _ = mix_and_sources
    signal.reset_effects_chain()

    (signal
    .make_effect("time_stretch", factor=3)
    .make_effect("pitch_shift", n_semitones=2)
    .make_effect("low_pass", freq=512)
    .make_effect("high_pass", freq=512)
    .make_effect("tremolo", mod_freq=5, mod_depth=.4)
    .make_effect("vibrato", mod_freq=.5, mod_depth=.3)
    .make_effect("chorus", delays=[20, 70], decays=[.9, .5], speeds=[.9, .6], depths=[1, .9])
    .make_effect("phaser")
    .make_effect("flanger", delay=3)
    .make_effect("emphasis", level_in=1, level_out=.5, type_='riaa')
    .make_effect("compressor", level_in=.9)
    .make_effect("equalizer", bands=[{
                'chn': [0, 1],
                'f': 512,
                'w': 10,
                'g': 4,
                't': 0
            }])
    )
    print(signal.effects_chain)
    augmented_signal = signal.apply_effects(user_order=False)
    # reg_path = path.join(REGRESSION_PATH, "hooks.json")
    # This should result in the same signal in test_hooks
    # fx_regression(augmented_signal.audio_data, reg_path, check_against_regression_data)
    order_check(augmented_signal.effects_applied)

    for effect in augmented_signal.effects_applied:
        _filter = effect.filter
        params = effect.params
        signal.make_effect(_filter, **params)

    augmented_signal2 = signal.apply_effects(user_order=False)

    with pytest.raises(AudioSignalException):
        signal.make_effect("fail")

    assert np.allclose(augmented_signal.audio_data, augmented_signal2.audio_data)

def test_order(mix_and_sources):
    mix, _ = mix_and_sources
    mix.reset_effects_chain().time_stretch(1.5).tremolo(.3,.4).pitch_shift(5).vibrato(.3, .4)
    ## User order
    signal_user = mix.apply_effects(reset=False)

    ## SoX-FFmpeg Order
    signal_sf = mix.apply_effects(reset=False, user_order=False)

    assert len(signal_user.effects_applied) == len(signal_sf.effects_applied)

    user_order = ["time_stretch", "tremolo", "pitch_shift", "vibrato"]
    for effect, _filter in zip(signal_user.effects_applied, user_order):
        assert effect.filter == _filter

    sox_ffmpeg_order = ["time_stretch", "pitch_shift", "tremolo", "vibrato"]
    for effect, _filter in zip(signal_sf.effects_applied, sox_ffmpeg_order):
        assert effect.filter == _filter

def test_kwargs():
    kwargs = {"a":1, "b":2, "c":3}
    filter_func = effects.time_stretch(1.3, **kwargs)
    for key, value in kwargs.items():
        assert filter_func.params[key] == value
    assert filter_func.params["factor"] == 1.3

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Turbo haraldi är en snäckart som beskrevs av Robertson 1957. Turbo haraldi ingår i släktet Turbo och familjen turbinsnäckor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Källor

Turbinsnäckor
haraldi


What is AMP in alfresco? How it work?
You should always package your extensions in an AMP file and apply them on a original Alfresco installation, in order to keep things well separated/.
This would be very useful when applying Alfresco patches.


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[Herald Interview] Just like 'Would You Run,' Tri.be wishes to run higher
Universal Music Korea's first K-pop act aims to stand out in competitive landscape
By Park Jun-hee
Girl group Tri.be (TR Entertainment and Mellow Entertainment)
In an industry where idol bands are still burgeoning, it's a tough place for rookie groups to make it. But for Tri.be, they knew they had the potential to rise in the competitive landscape.
Produced by famous K-pop songwriter Sinsadong Tiger and global entertainment giant Universal Music Group's Korean leg, Tri.be threw their glitzy hats into the ring in February.
Being the label's first quadrilingual band, the seven members -- Song-sun, Jin-ha, So-eun and Hyun-bin, who are Koreans, Kelly and Jia from Taiwan and Mire from Japan -- boldly marched into the music scene with their two-track package "Tri.be Da Loca."
The biggest hit, "Doom Doom Ta," speaks about confidence and self-empowerment. Beside the main song's tuneful melody, hip-hop, synth-pop side track "Loca" also emblazoned the band's debut release.
Hit song maker Sinsadong Tiger and rapper-songwriter LE of girl group EXID co-composed Tri.be's recent lead single.
When asked about what advice the band got from the two producers, Mire said she was told to sing in a moody way on the track "-18." "He told me to sing along to the song according to my style, and I think this helped out a lot because I didn't get that much pressure," she said.
Kelly also said that producer Sinsadong Tiger always wanted a certain vibe that suits the song.
"I sang four songs for this album, and he wanted four different singing styles, which I found hard. But he helped me out a lot when recording, which later on became a great output."
This time, the group dropped their first EP, "Veni Vidi Vici," on Oct. 12. Leading the album is "Would You Run," a moombahton tune blended with tense brass riffs for an energetic tempo. In particular, the "fly higher" part gives a feeling of being in space.
"Apart from interweaving ourselves with a hard-hitting music and donning ourselves in powerful concepts, compared to our previous two albums, this time we were able to brim our album with five songs, whereas we were only able to list two songs before," So-eun said in a recent interview with The Korea Herald.
She went on to say that one of the factors that made this album unique in its way was releasing a song based on two units -- a vocal team and a performance team. The vocalist said the two groups could touch on different aspects, saying the new challenge was a "leap of faith" for the group.
Speaking about the performance team, Hyun-bin said she spent a lot of time with So-eun and Mire. "It's a song called '-18,' and I struggled at first because I didn't know how to dance along to the mood of the song, but I've realized that So-eun had the ability to do so," she added.
Also, Song-sun talked about how she listed her name as both composer and lyricist for "Got Your Back," which the vocal unit sang.
"As So-eun has mentioned, we divided into teams for our side tracks, and I was able to sing a self-composed song for the first time in my life. While coming up with the song, I thought about how I could draw out the traits and colors that each bandmate has, which led me to focus on the melody more," she said.
She thanked her bandmates for completing the song with their voices, saying that "the different voices and vibes each person contributed to better, higher song quality." The singer-songwriter added that practice made perfect as a result.
Although the septet is only nine months into their debut, the band's road to debut was no walk in the park. In Korea, kids in elementary school, or even younger, embark on intensive dance and vocal training with the ambition to become the next K-pop sensation.
But unlike other bandmates, Song-sun spent nine years as a K-pop trainee, shuttling between entertainment companies, as it's hard for idol hopefuls to survive big agencies' wide trainee pools.
"I entered the real world at a young age, which gave me a better understanding of society. My experiences as a trainee eventually gave me the opportunity to learn from people who are older than me," the leader said.
She continued to say that the way each company handles their trainees is different, and undergoing various training systems as a K-pop wannabe taught her to find the practice methods that match her style and what suits her best.
Song-sun, the only bandmate in her 20s, spent almost a decade as a trainee. But surprisingly, she said she doesn't regret her time as an idol-wannabe. Reminiscing about her past, Song said it hurt when she couldn't make her debut for years. But she thinks those processes and times of trouble over the years made her who she is today.
"You know the Korean pop music industry is very big. I see a very bright future in this industry, and I think idol groups can play a pivotal role, which is why we have to be versatile. As corny as it sounds, it's a must to have a good personality, and apart from being able to sing and dance, idols must have the ability to speak different languages, write songs and even act," she added.
For bandmates who crossed borders to pursue their careers as in K-pop, language was the biggest barrier of all.
"Our foreign bandmates couldn't speak Korean at all when we first met them, so the Korean members had to help them out because they weren't able to communicate with any of us. We actually tried to talk in English and even used a translator at times," Jia said.
But now, she said speaking and communicating in Korea is not that big of a hassle for her because other non-Korean members are becoming more fluent.
Kelly chimed in and said she feels more comfortable speaking in Korean with Jia than Chinese.
Mire also recalled when she first set foot in Korea. She said she struggled with Korean pronunciation at first, and wasn't able to undergo song evaluations.
"But I studied the language from that point on, and other bandmates helped me muddle through difficult situations. For example, they would help me find the word I was looking for, which is not a problem anymore. There are times when I'm unable to think of an adequate word, but it is not as bad as it used to be when I was a trainee," she added.
Tri.be is only in their ninth month as a group, but they are enjoying the musical journey more than ever, exciting fans about what they'll do for their next album.
Song-sun said she had fun while making a song for the band's album, hinting that she works on different pieces in the practice room. She continued to say that she hopes to see all the bandmates sing one of her songs for the band's next album.
"I want to come up with a song that can convene everyone, maybe a hip-hop, R&B-based tune that music listeners can hear anytime, anywhere," she added.
By Park Jun-hee (junheee@heraldcorp.com)