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2020 Nissan Frontier Highlights
Matthew Keegan May 12, 2020 3 Comments on 2020 Nissan Frontier Highlights Posted in Model Overviews 0 Likes 120 Views
Last call on an aging model.
A cut-out of the engine bays shows the new 3.8-liter V6 powering every 2020 Frontier.
We haven't seen a new Nissan Frontier pickup truck since 2005 and that's an awfully long time between new models. In the interim, Nissan rolled out new and updated versions of its full-size Titan pickup truck and introduced a special Titan XD version, which fills the white space between light- and heavy-duty models.
We're expecting a new Frontier in 2021 (as a 2022 model), but in the meantime Nissan has given us an important hint of what's coming our way, namely an all-new V6 engine paired with a 9-speed automatic transmission. Doubtlessly, Nissan knows that a new Frontier is overdue, so for 2020 it introduced a new powertrain for the current-generation Frontier, one that it says will appear in the next-generation model.
Here are the highlights of the 2020 Nissan Frontier:
New engine. The heart of the 2020 Frontier is an all-new 3.8-liter V6 engine. This one makes 310 horsepower and 281 pound-feet of torque, up from the 261 horsepower and 281 pound-feet of torque delivered in the previous 4.0-liter engine. Nissan says the new engine has best-in-class performance (we confirmed this), improved fuel efficiency, and a better emissions record. The front-wheel-drive version earns 18 mpg in the city, 24 mpg on the highway for a combined 20 mpg. This beats the 16/23/19 mpg city/highway/combined rating of the outgoing engine.
New transmission. Nissan's powertrain offering is all-new with a 9-speed automatic transmission replacing the previous 5-speed automatic. It is similar to the one introduced in the Titan. Also gone is the 6-speed manual gearbox and the base 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. We think the next-generation model will also offer a four-cylinder engine, but you won't find one or a manual transmission with the current model.
Five trims for the choosing. Nissan offers the 2020 Frontier in five trims: Frontier King Cab S and SV (4×2 and 4×4), Frontier Crew Cab S, SV (4×2 and 4×4), and PRO-4X (4×4 only). The 2020 Frontier is available in King Cab and Crew Cab body configurations, and in SV Crew Cab Long Bed. It has a standard 59.5-inch Crew Cab bed or an optional 73.3 SV Crew Cab Long Bed. You'll also find a standard 73.3-inch King Cab bed.
Three package choices. As expected, Nissan offers multiple package choices available with the 2020 Frontier. They are: Value Truck Package( King Cab SV, Crew Cab SV), Midnight Edition Package (Crew Cab SV SWB), Special Edition Package (Crew Cab SV SWB). Among the features of the Value Truck Package are fog lights, heated front seats, dual-zone climate control, a spray-in bedliner, and a sliding truck bed extender.
We're awaiting driver-assist features. Buyers desiring such driver-assist features as lane-keep assist, adaptive cruise control, and automatic emergency braking. These items will most likely appear in the 2021 Frontier. What you will find is the usual suite of airbags and the required rear-view monitor.
Light on the standard creature features. It took all these years, but power door locks and power windows are finally standard with the 2020 Frontier. Push-button start, a leather-wrapped shift knob, and tilt steering wheel control are also now standard items. Other creature features of note include air conditioning, a fold-up rear seat, Bluetooth connectivity, a USB port, and Siri Eyes Free. Included among the upgrades are dual-zone climate control, leather seats, navigation, a Rockford-Fosgate audio system, and satellite radio.
Out with the old, in with the new.
The 2020 Frontier is an old truck, no doubt about it. Competing models such as the Toyota Tacoma, Jeep Gladiator, Ford Ranger, GMC Canyon, and the Chevrolet Colorado, have more to offer. What they can't match is the Nissan's low starting price, which comes in around $20,000.
We think most buyers will look closely at the four-wheel-drive Frontier SV and admire its circa $30,000 price tag. As for the top-of-the-line PRO-4X, it pulls out all the off-road stops and retails for about $40,000.
2020 Nissan Frontier Specifications
Segment Midsize Pickup Truck
Price Range TBD
Destination Charge TBD
Standard Engine 3.8-liter, V6
Horsepower 310 @ 6,400 rpm
Torque (lb.-ft.) 281 @ 4,400 rpm
Seating Up to 5
Curb Weight (pounds) From 4,264 to 4,696
Wheelbase (inches) 125.9/139.9
Length (inches) 205.5/219.4
Width (inches) 72.8
Height (inches) 70.1/73.9
Headroom (f,r…inches) 39.9, 38.6
Legroom (f,r…inches) 42.4, 33.6
Shoulder room (f,r…inches) 58.3, 58.3
Hip room (f,r…inches) 55.6, 58.0
Storage (cubic feet) 27.1 (std.); 33.5 (long)
Gross vehicle weight (pounds) NR
Towing (pounds) 6,720
Payload (pounds) 1,020 to 1,460
Fuel regular
Fuel Tank (gallons) 21.1
EPA Fuel MPG (city/highway/combined) 18/24/20
Manufacturing Plant Canton, Miss.
Data compiled by Tom Keegan. Specifications supplied by the manufacturer.
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Things are going pretty well following my stroke almost a month ago - St. Pat's weekend. I still get pretty worn out by mid-day, but everybody say I look good. My reply "Boy that's changed - I never have looked good!" I wish I could've made it to the "class reunion luncheon" last Friday at the Red Room, but I had a Grilled Cheese Championships meeting at the same time - haven't found a way to be two places at the same time yet, but I'm working on it!
Speaking of the Grilled Cheese Championships, it's not too far down the road. It's the last Saturday of April (27th). It's always a great time and to see Ley Pavilion at Harris Park filled to the hilt with people watching the competitors make their famous sandwiches. There will be a lot of local and area vendors there, a game and fun area for the kids plus the food trucks that will provide great meals made with cheese and much more! The Dodgeville FFA is back with their grilled cheese stand for the youngsters and the Ice Wolves Hockey will provide refreshments alongside them. Of course, there's the famous beer and wine area and this year the Dodgeville Lions Club is providing the "Cheese Curd" stand. Many of our "famous"judges are back with some new ones and Kyle Cherek will provide a lot of fun with his announcing. Plus watch the famous cheese carver, Troy Landwehr, come up with another great creation! It goes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the 27th.
Great weather on Monday with temperature in the low 70s, but Wednesday may find a mix of snow and rain - yuck! Hopefully things on the way to a pretty good spring so everybody can get all their games/meets in and not have them be bunched one after another!
Besides the Grilled Cheese event on the 27th there is also a huge fundraising event for the Free Clinic at the Wisconsin Riverside Resort in Spring Green that day. Love Dodgeville is coming up the first weekend of May too. It's always a busy time come May with all the schools finishing up, including colleges/universities. That will mean that there will be a bunch of young people around for a few months anyway.
This Sunday (14th) at the Riverside Resort is a "memory" celebration of life for the late Erin Honerbaum Jacobson. She passed a couple weeks ago from her long battle with cancer. She was in a graduating class where I have many very special friends. I hope to get to it, but I still get pretty tired by mid afternoon, especially on the weekends.
My crossing "main street" has changed some. Instead of walking out in front of vehicles and pretty much forcing them to stop, I stop and watch to make sure they are stopping as I'm walking slower. Also there is a lot more traffic at times due to the increased traffic due to construction. That is supposed to last from the south until mid or late June and then we will get it from the north/east until November. (see above photo - but it's not this bad!).


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North Hampton is een plaats (village) in de Amerikaanse staat Ohio, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Clark County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 370.
In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 360, een daling van 10 (-2,7%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
0,7 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 12 km rond North Hampton.

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Q: Error concerning decimal specification when creating a dummy variable in SAS I am very new to SAS and want to create a simple dummy variable (MALE) that equals 1 if SEX = 1, and equals 0 if SEX = 2. However, I get error messages: ERROR: The decimal specification of 2 must be less than the width specification of 1.
How do I solve this? This is the code I use:
DATA WORK.BMI_D ;
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  IF SEX = 1 THEN MALE = 1;
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RUN;

The variable SEX has length 8, type Numeric and format F8.2. What am I doing wrong?

A: You have not showed the code that is generating that error message but why not just remove the illogical format that you have attached to the variable SEX.  Perhaps the error is from later step that is trying to display SEX with a width of only 1 byte and is having trouble display the strings like     1.00 or     2.00 that the F8.2 format would generate.
Since there is no need to use a special display format for numeric values of 1 and 2 just remove the format from SEX and see if that solves the issue.
DATA WORK.BMI_D ;
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  IF SEX = 1 THEN MALE = 1;
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Southern Poverty Law Center Fires Co-Founder for Sexual Harassment
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On Wednesday, the far-left smear factory Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) fired its co-founder and former chief litigator, Morris Dees.
"Effective yesterday, Morris Dees' employment at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was terminated," SPLC president Richard Cohen told The Montgomery Advertiser in a statement on Thursday. "As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring that the conduct of our staff reflects the mission of the organization and the values we hope to instill in the world. When one of our own fails to meet those standards, no matter his or her role in the organization, we take it seriously and must take appropriate action."
Dees, 82, co-founded the SPLC in 1971. The organization gained a reputation for taking the Ku Klux Klan to court and then it started labeling and tracking "hate groups." In recent decades, it started listing conservative and Christian organizations along with the KKK, and last year it settled a defamation lawsuit for $3.375 million.
Dees's departure is not the only big news Cohen broke on Thursday, however.
"Today we announced a number of immediate, concrete next steps we're taking, including bringing in an outside organization to conduct a comprehensive assessment of our internal climate and workplace practices, to ensure that our talented staff is working in the environment that they deserve – one in which all voices are heard and all staff members are respected," Cohen said in the statement.
According to Big League Politics, he may have had an affair with an employee, but the rumor on that has not been confirmed.
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Count me in count me in. It is where the locals get up and shop; where the locals get up and eat their breakfast before work; and where the locals go and do their ingredient shopping, so it's really exciting and there's multiple food vendors. Satay doesn't actually mean peanut sauce - Southeast Asia's favourite street food snack is a dish of skewered, grilled meat with infinite variations. Nominations will be judged in ten categories with an additional category for fan favourites. You could, of course, argue that eating al fresco is about as traditionally Emirati as you can get – the Bedouin are renowned for great hospitality, not great dining rooms. You realise why it's the busiest stall in Bangkok because it's so delicious – good for you and affordable. He has taken us to the Greater Mekong, to France and to the United Kingdom - now chef Luke Nguyen explores the streets of Asia and presents some of the local food highlights, hideaways and heroes of Asian street food. to hear from you! The ones the guy sells in one bag, and then all the chaat masla on the papar goes in eyes … Leave us a note. Gol gappay, exclusively the kind you get from Pak gate in multan. https://www.sbs.com.au/.../lukes-favourite-street-food-finds Flying Wantan Mee: A bit of fun, a bit of theatre with some noodles. gol gappai, shawarma from sangam market, and those aloo kai samosai, Press J to jump to the feed. Sherif Abaza, co-founder of Catchme Events, and co-founder of the "Streetnights" event in Dubai for the past three years, said, "Street food is an integral part of every person's food journey, no matter where they come from. A final shortlist in each category will be announced in January 2018, when the second round of judging will commence. Voting in the Fan Favourite category will open in February, asking for votes from some of the judges' favourites. Definitely a favourite - I was able to compare the satay in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur and I think I might just lean towards Jakarta. All submissions will be online. Sign up now. What is your favourite street food? But it's worth. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Foursquare uses cookies to provide you with an optimal experience, to personalize ads that you may see, and to help advertisers measure the results of their ad campaigns. You could, of course, argue that eating al fresco is about as traditionally Emirati as you can get – the Bedouin are renowned for great hospitality, not great dining rooms. The awards will be judged by a panel of food influencers, bloggers and writers. Visit the program page for more details, recipes and guides. news and event details, as well as foodie I sat with the locals on wooden benches, immersed in the charcoal smoke and the aroma of satay skewers, Java-style. Whether it's a street food festival, a quick snack on the go, or a special trip out to one of the Last Exit venues; Dubai loves its street food. Street vendors sell this healthy breakfast dish of fresh fruit topped with crema, a mixture of Mexican crema, yogurt, and sweetened condensed milk. Through the awards, voted for by a jury of leading food bloggers and entrepreneurs, the organisers hope to raise the profile of street easts across the region. Trendy young things and Jumeirah Janes are gathering at Tania's Teahouse, a paean to all …, This week is your last chance this year to taste the wonderful suhoor at Seven …, Society Café and Lounge in Jumeirah 1 has made quite the impact on society – …, We do not deliver pizza. 23 minutes of street food with Luke Nguyen. We will reveal the jurors once the winners have been selected around the end of February 2018.". I was like 'wow!' They were really, really good satay sticks, I really enjoyed that. Ask Pakistan. Exclusive TV sneak peeks, recipes and competitions, Luke Nguyen sitting roadside with locals outside table-less curry stall Jek Pui in Chinatown, Bangkok. Aur Karachi may seaview ya Clifton kay Pappar. Over the past few years, the street food scene in Dubai has blossomed, and it's time for some serious recognition, which is why we wanted to introduce the Dubai Street Food Awards.". I was just like 'wow, I just feel like a local.'. Bhai bun kabab kay ilawa. I love that strip, especially in the morning, it's so vibrant. The breakfast street - Cô Giang: You definitely want to get up early, get to this street by 6am, and just eat and absorb the energy of that strip. Cold water to stop the cooking process and then back to blanch to make them warm again. Aur Karachi may seaview ya Clifton kay Pappar. Mujhay sitta, Shakar Qandi or Qatlama bohat pasand hai. Chef Mr. Hung [of Flying Wantan Mee] was incredible. Taking the crew there they were like, 'where do we shoot – everything is a great shot'. Discover more about street food with the brand-new series Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia, which airs Thursdays at 8.30pm on SBS and then on SBS On Demand. We're not around but we still want You're in Chinatown and so the curries are very different and you can't help but have two or three different curries to yourself. Jalan Kyai Maia, Sate Ayam satay stall: This was a great experience - eating all the satay in Jakarta. Finally winners will be chosen based on a final visit to the short list and a tasting. You need to shake that off, similar to ramen noodles where they shake off all the water. All nominations will be initially screened for eligibility according to the criteria. Watch Luke eat the streets Thursday nights at 8.30pm on SBS. inspiration straight to your inbox. And you need to get rid of all that excess water, otherwise it will dilute the actual broth that you've worked on for hours on end. Pearl fishermen ate where and when they could, and the greatest way to eat local food is with your hands, in the desert. In this melting pot that is the UAE, we are spoilt for choice, whether it's a beloved but ubiquitous burger, shawarma, falafel or churros. I blanch the noodles in boiling hot water - it just can't be hot, it has to be on a rapid boil, really quickly, so you do that for 10-12 seconds and then you take it straight out onto cold water and then back again into the hot water. The final eligible submissions will be submitted to the jury for their evaluation and scored over two rounds: first based on the nomination documents. You really do feel like you're experiencing the real Saigon right there. Got a favourite burger truck? (Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia). And I sat there thinking what an interesting dish this was, lots of white pepper through there and this was an offal dish that made me go, 'wow!'. I'm not talking about bacon and eggs or cereal, I am talking about really exciting dishes. Love taking your ice cream from a van? When I go through and I make these noodles with him, it's all about being precise in your approach. SBS acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia. Mita Srinivasan, director at Market Buzz and a community supporter, said, "We are very lucky to have the support of some of the stalwarts in the food blogging and reporting sector, as well as entrepreneurs that know what it is to set up a food business and make it work. Pack your backpack as we chat to Luke about his brand-new series and the food frenzy, crazy crowds and the intriguing people and dishes he encounters along the way. It is one of those places you just want to take a photo of everything. You can nominate your favourite food truck here. Jek Pui, Chinatown: What I really enjoyed in Bangkok was this curry house in Jek Pui, Chinatown, with the beautiful wall and a queue that goes forever this stall has been here for 70 years. Luke pulls up a stool at Jek Pui in Chinatown. And so, instead of just sitting there and doing that, Mr. Hung throws them up in the air 5-6 storeys high and then you see the water escaping the noodles and as it lands it's done. By continuing to use our site, you accept the use of our cookies as described in our privacy policy and cookie policy. Dubai Streetfood Awards 2018 celebrates the growing eat-on-the-street trend. Mujhay sitta, Shakar Qandi or Qatlama bohat pasand hai. Soi 11's Kuai Jap Num Sai stall: I love offal and so another highlight for me was this soup stall in Bangkok that serves all their offal in a beautiful noodle soup. The new awards, created by Catchme Events and Market Buzz, aim to recognise and award talented home-grown street food vendors. We asked Luke about his favourite food hotspots from the series, and here a few places and eats to bookmark for your next trip. The categories are: Best Sandwich, Best Wrap, Best Snack / Side Dish, Best Vegetarian Dish, Best Dessert, Best Main Dish, Best Original Drink, Best Use of Social Media, Best New Street Food Concept, Best Food Truck, and Fan Favorite (the People's Choice). Especially because Saigon is so cosmopolitan these days, but that experience – and that is near my parents old house, in their neighbourhood so I personally get a sense of how it used to be when they were young. It is just genius!". All you need to keep up with Dubai's food scene, Virtual tours of Dubai eateries and hotspots, Behind the scenes with Dubai restaurateurs, Must be a homegrown brand: it can be regional (anywhere in the Middle East) but can't be part of an international franchise or have a hotel affiliation, Must be in operation for a minimum of six months prior to the date of the awards. Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia is off to a delicious start, and we've rounded up some of the more common condiments you can expect to find on your table in the cities that Luke visits. We do deliver good So doing a breakfast crawl there is amazing! Inspired by his brand-new TV series, Luke Nguyen has launched a street food pop-up in Sydney, sharing some of his favourite Southeast Asian delights inspired by the series. The ones the guy sells in one bag, and then all the chaat masla on the papar goes in eyes with the sand. Uff Mast. Street Food Asia's guide to table condiments. Whether it's a street food festival, a quick snack on the go, or a special trip out to one of the Last Exit venues; Dubai loves its street food. A Javanese satay is cooked with a kecap manis, a sweet soy sauce and what else is interesting is how it is served - with chilli on the side, sweet soy sauce on top as well and a steamed rice cake on the side. The jury will remain anonymous to make sure that it is fair throughout the process. I have to travel 104 km to get the jalebis. Winners will be announced during the Dubai Food Festival. You just sit there on the curb side on the footpath, no table - it's just you and your chair and a whole bunch of locals and there's four curries that you eat. "They originated in street food carts in Guadalajara, Mexico, and are commonly topped with shredded coconut, raisins, and granola," says Yoly.
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Six H1 Unlimited Hydroplane Racing Series race teams are scheduled to hit the water in the Tri-Cities, Washington, on Friday, May 31, to prepare for the season opener at the second annual Southern Cup on Lake Guntersville, Alabama, on June 28-30.
A temporary river course representing the 2- 1/2-mile racecourse will be available for H1 Unlimited hydroplane testing at 9 a.m. The course is scheduled to be open until 5 p.m. The event is free to the public at Columbia Park in Kennewick, Wash.
The teams confirmed to be participating include the U-1 Delta/RealTrac - Jones Racing, driven by Andrew Tate of Walled Lake, Mich.; the U-6 Miss HomeStreet, driven by Jimmy Shane of Maple Valley, Wash.; the U-11 J&D's presented by Reliable Diamond Tool, driven by Tom Thompson of Cambridge, Md.; the U-12 Graham Trucking, driven by J. Michael Kelly of Bonney Lake, Wash.; the U-440 Bucket List Racing, driven by Dustin Echols of Sultan, Wash.; and a second boat to be entered by the U-12 Graham Trucking team, piloted by 40-year-old rookie Corey Peabody.
Defending national champion Andrew Tate and the U-1 Delta/RealTrac - Jones Racing confirmed they are set to start the season at the Columbia River test session. Tate said his boat was totally taken apart in the winter and gone through meticulously by last year's crew chief, Jeff Campbell.
"The boat is back together, and we are testing all the systems and making sure that it's ready to go to Guntersville," Tate said.
After a frustrating 2018 season, Jimmy Shane and his freshman race boat hopes to gather valuable time on the water leading into the season opener. The team is slated to test its primary race hull, which debuted mid-season last year, and has yet to make any announcements on who will replace Cindy Shirley, who recently resigned as crew chief, or if they intend to race their second boat.
The renamed U-11 J&D's presented by Reliable Diamond Tool and its driver, Tom Thompson, are planning to test off-season upgrades, which were made after a strong third place in the national championship in 2018.
"This year, the U-11 team is more prepared than ever," Thompson said. "The team has worked very hard during the off season, making some very interesting changes and upgrades that should prove very exciting."
Also scheduled to test is J. Michael Kelly, driving the U-12 Graham Trucking. In the two races Kelly's team entered in 2018, their best finish was second at Seattle's Seafair Trophy race. This year the team is expected to compete the entire season and give Tate, Shane, Thompson, and the remaining fleet a run for their money.
"I'm excited and so is the team to be back out racing a full season," Kelly said. "The competition will be tough this year and I wouldn't want it any other way. We know we have a very competitive boat and there is no better way to start the season than by testing in the Tri-Cities."
One of the favorites of younger race fans, the U-440 Bucket List Racing and driver Dustin Echols, will again make the test in the team's bright orange hull. Although an underdog, Echols and his team will take advantage of their time on the water. As a result of their testing last year, the team was able to increase its competition speeds by over 15 mph. They hope this year's testing will provide valuable data for the upcoming season.
"This has been a huge off season for our team," said Echols. "We learned so much last year and desperately needed to make some changes to the boat. We replaced several key pieces of hardware to help the boat handle higher speeds. Our engine guys are smiling, and team co-owner Kelly Stocklin started making some brand-new propellers."
The test session will allow the U-440 Bucket List Racing team time on the river and ensure that the changes will be effective in the 2019 season.
The daylong event held on the Columbia River is hosted for the 12th year by the Tri-City Water Follies organization, promoters of the July 26-28 HAPO Columbia Cup race.
Kathy Powell, Tri-City Water Follies event director said, "We are happy to host the hydroplane racing community and to kick-off the start of their racing season. The hydroplane testing is a great way for us to signal the start of summer in the Tri-Cities community, as well. You know when there are hydros on the river, it must be summer," she said.
The Tri-City Water Follies have extended invitations to the Grand Prix World Supercharged Hydroplane class and two have accepted the invitation. Scott Pierce, former H1 Unlimited hydroplane driver and owner of the GP-55 Atomic Screen Printing, driven by Jamie Nielsen of Gig Harbor, Wash., and the 2018 Grand Prix national champion GP-20 Blown Income driven by Ed Preston of Olympia, will represent their class.
The event will be streamed live on the Internet beginning at 8:30 a.m. by local TV affiliate SWX Right Now (KNDU-TV) with Matt Funk, Mark Allen, and Kay Brewer describing the day's action. Catch the live-streaming on swxrightnow.com or a link at nbcrightnow.com.
Powell said a vintage unlimited hydroplane from Chelan, Wash., will also participate in the event.


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Why You Should Forgive Yourself if You Want to Make Up for Your Past Mistakes
By Angela Schultz / May 15, 2019 February 15, 2020
The regret follows you.
Regardless of what you're doing now, you're also reliving then.
You wish you could stop. Rewind. Redo. Since you can't, you replay. Again and again. It's like a form of penance.
But what if there were a better way? A way to not only give your past mistakes meaning, but to make sure that you move beyond them in the future?
There is. But it might not be what you're thinking.
It's self-forgiveness.
The Man Who Thought He Didn't Deserve Forgiveness
I'd like to introduce you to Johnny. He didn't believe in forgiving himself either. In fact, that was one of the points he led with early in our relationship.
Johnny was one of my community college students. He walked into class the first day equal parts swagger and regret. He had a mohawk, multiple facial piercings, and white supremacist tattoos covering eighty percent of his body.
He let all of us know the first day that he had recently been released from prison, and that he had a long history of gang involvement and drug use.
The other students were intimidated. By the second day of class no one sat within two seats of Johnny in any direction.
That had been his goal.
He didn't really think he belonged in college. And he wanted to be the first one to make that clear.
But the funny thing was, even though Johnny carried his past with him like a flag, he actually wanted desperately to do something different. To become someone different.
Have you ever done the same thing? Held onto your past as a defense against your past?
There is a natural human tendency to go to our old habits, especially at times of insecurity or regret. But if the old habits were part of the original problem, it just sets you on an endless repeat loop.
To build a different life, Johnny had to let go of the past. And to do that, he had to decide that he deserved a different future.
Forgiving Yourself Through Making Amends
Johnny confided that he was stuck in his twelve-step addiction recovery program. He couldn't progress any further, because the next step required that he forgive himself, and he just wasn't willing to do that.
He had hurt people. Therefore, he thought he deserved to hurt as well.
He told me stayed up at night sometimes wondering, for example, if an old woman whose home he had invaded was still traumatized. If she could sleep at night. And if she couldn't sleep, why should he?
It's a fair question.
If there were a way to take her insomnia (assuming she experiences it) on himself, that might be fair restitution. And making amends where possible is an important part of healing from our past mistakes.
But he had no way of knowing if she actually experienced insomnia, and no way of taking it from her if she did.
He wasn't making amends. He was tying himself to the past in a way that ensured he would repeat it.
Be searchingly honest with yourself. Input from a trusted outside source can be valuable here.
Have you done those things that you should have done to make amends for the behavior you regret?
Would any additional action you could take be welcome and helpful to the other people involved?
Would any additional action you could take help you better live your newly earned wisdom in the future?
In Johnny's case, he had served his allotted prison time and made a commitment to living differently, including leaving behind gang involvement and substance use. Further contact with people from his old life might have been frightening to them, and it might have pulled him back down the same old path, so he avoided that.
Instead he was trying to build a different life by going to school and building relationships with different people. But his focus was still so far in the past that his efforts weren't working.
How to Stop Letting Guilt Anchor You to the Past
Johnny was my student in a series of three term-length courses. During that time, he followed a predictable pattern.
He worked hard, trying to power through his doubts and the burden of regret he carried with sheer determination.
It worked—for a while. But inevitably the weight of everything he was carrying caught up with him. That's when he just disappeared. Sometimes for a week. Sometimes two.
To his credit, he always came back. He kept trying. But I could tell when he had fallen off the wagon, because the weight of the guilt he carried was visibly heavier when he finally made his way back into class.
It wasn't a pattern that honored the people he had hurt in the past. It was a pattern that tied him to his past mistakes like an anchor, and it increased the likelihood that he would hurt more people in the future.
His effort to honor the victims he had injured by ruminating about his mistakes was setting him up to create more victims.
As hard as it was for him to accept, his best chance to make amends was to move forward with a productive, healthy life. And that included forgiving himself.
Three Myths About Forgiveness to Let Go of
Does Johnny's history of violence seem unforgivable to you? Or do you have your own seemingly unforgivable history? If so, there There are 3 myths about forgiveness that it might help to clear up.
Forgiving means I'm okay with what I did: Forgive yourself, not your action. In retrospect, certain choices are just wrong. Hang onto the wisdom you have gained, while understanding that you are now a different person for having gained it. Maya Angelou said, "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."
Forgiving means it will happen again: Self-forgiveness frees you from the emotional bonds that tie you to your old behavior. The idea isn't to escape accountability. If there are actions you can take to make restitution for your mistake, take them. Then shift your emotional energy towards building a healthier future.
Forgiving means forgetting: Deep enough regret won't just be forgotten. But memories can live on transformed into pain or into healing. Which do you want to bring to the people you touch? If your focus is on pain, that is what you will carry with you to everyone else.
Once you understand what forgiveness is, and you have taken accountability for your actions, it's time to heal through reframing your story.
How to Heal Through Reframing Your Story
Imagine the events of your life like individual points drawn on a piece of paper. Your story is the way you connect the dots through those points. The same events can be drawn together into very different stories.
Are you a victim or a hero? The difference is how you frame the story. Every hero's story includes struggle, adversity, and failure. The part that makes it interesting is how the hero moves beyond those experiences.
If you haven't moved beyond the painful parts, it means the story isn't over yet. You can design an ending of resilience, strength and triumph. (Or you can give up give up. But why would you want to do that?)
The same is true for creating meaning from the mistakes you made. You can use those mistakes to build something inspiring and good, or you can hold them close to you. You can't do both.
You can't build something positive while constantly undercutting your own efforts. If you are serious about making amends by making something better, you have to be willing to shift your focus. Shifting your language can help you do that.
How to Forgive Yourself Through Changing Your Self Talk
We all have regrets. In the words of Loren Ford, "Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes from poor decisions." Your responsibility is to set yourself up to use your wisdom effectively in the future. Here are three ways your self-talk can help you do that:
No more would have/could have/should have. Once you know what to do differently in the future, that train of thought isn't helpful anymore.
Tell yourself it is what it is. Dwelling on the past won't change it. Positivity and hard work are your best chance to change the future.
Remind yourself that you did the best that you could with the knowledge and resources you had at the time. Commit to what you know to be a better course for the future.
Remember, the goal is to build a life where those past mistakes aren't repeated. The best way to travel anywhere is to look where you are going. When your thoughts drift to past regrets, refocus them on the positive future you are building.
Why Forgiving Yourself is the Unselfish Thing to Do
The last I time I heard from Johnny was when his new wife tracked me down on campus.
He was working long hours at a steady job to pay for her education, she said. They had a child together. He was maintaining his sobriety. "He's so unselfish," she gushed, describing his efforts to help her build a future career.
And he was. He had finally given up his stubborn focus on his past. And it allowed him to build a future for other people.
Are you ready to be unselfish?
Choosing Change
The regret is heavy, and you are tired.
There's a part of you that liked it that way. Keeping yourself uncomfortable felt like a small form of justice. It's what you thought you deserved.
Except you had it all wrong.
Because the most important part isn't punishing yourself.
It's creating something better. In your life. In the lives of people around you.
Anyone can sit motionless and feel sorry for themselves, repeating the same old mistakes in an endless cycle.
You want something different. You are ready for change that makes a difference, and you will do whatever it takes to get there.
Including forgiving yourself.


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/*++

Module Name:

  DevicePathUtilitiesBBTestMain.c

Abstract:

  Test Driver of Device Path Utilities Protocol

--*/

#include "SctLib.h"
#include "DevicePathUtilitiesBBTestMain.h"

//
// Build Data structure here
//
EFI_BB_TEST_PROTOCOL_FIELD  gBBTestProtocolField = {
  DEVICE_PATH_PROTOCOL_TEST_REVISION,
  EFI_DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_GUID,
  L"Device Path Utilities Protocol Test",
  L"UEFI Device Path Utilities Protocol Test"
};

EFI_GUID                    gSupportProtocolGuid1[2] = {
  EFI_STANDARD_TEST_LIBRARY_GUID,
  EFI_NULL_GUID
};

EFI_BB_TEST_ENTRY_FIELD     gBBTestEntryField[] = {
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_CREATEDEVICENODE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"CreatDeviceNode_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the CreatDeviceNode and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesCreateDeviceNodeFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICENODE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"AppendDeviceNode_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the AppendDeviceNode and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDeviceNodeFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_GETDEVICEPATHSIZE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"GetDevicePathSize_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the GetDevicePathSize and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesGetDevicePathSizeFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_DUPLICATEDEVICEPATH_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"DuplicateDevicePath_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the DuplicateDevicePath and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesDuplicateDevicePathFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICEPATH_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"AppendDevicePath_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the AppendDevicePath and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDevicePathFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICEPATHINSTANCE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"AppendDevicePathInstance_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the AppendDevicePathInstance and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDevicePathInstanceFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_GETNEXTDEVICEPATHINSTANCE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"GetNextDevicePathInstance_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the GetNextDevicePathInstance and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesGetNextDevicePathInstanceFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_ISDEVICEPATHMULTIINSTANCE_FUNCTION_GUID,
    L"IsDevicePathMultiInstance_Functionality",
    L"Invoke the IsDevicePathMultiInstance and verify service correctness within test case",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesIsDevicePathMultiInstanceFunctionTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_CREATEDEVICENODE_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"CreateDeviceNode_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the CreatDeviceNode service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesCreateDeviceNodeConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICENODE_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"AppendDeviceNode_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the AppendDeviceNode service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDeviceNodeConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICEPATH_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"AppendDevicePath_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the AppendDevicePath service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDevicePathConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_APPENDDEVICEPATHINSTANCE_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"AppendDevicePathInstance_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the AppendDevicePathInstance service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesAppendDevicePathInstanceConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_GETNEXTDEVICEPATHINSTANCE_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"GetNextDevicePathInstance_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the GetNextDevicePathInstance service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesGetNextDevicePathInstanceConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_GETDEVICEPATHSIZE_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"GetDevicePathSize_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the GetDevicePathSize service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesGetDevicePathSizeConformanceTest
  },
  {
    DEVICE_PATH_UTILITIES_PROTOCOL_DUPLICATEDEVICEPATH_CONFORMANCE_GUID,
    L"DuplicateDevicePath_Conformance",
    L"Perform conformance test on the DuplicateDevicePath service",
    EFI_TEST_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
    gSupportProtocolGuid1,
    EFI_TEST_CASE_AUTO,
    DevicePathUtilitiesDuplicateDevicePathConformanceTest
  },
  0
};

EFI_BB_TEST_PROTOCOL        *gBBTestProtocolInterface;

EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
BBTestDevicePathUtilitiesProtocolUnload (
  IN EFI_HANDLE       ImageHandle
  );

/**
 *  Device Path Protocol Test Driver Entry point.
 *  @param ImageHandle the driver image handle.
 *  @param SystemTable the system table.
 *  @return EFI_SUCCESS the driver is loaded successfully.
 */
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
InitializeBBTestDevicePathUtilitiesProtocol (
  IN EFI_HANDLE           ImageHandle,
  IN EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE     *SystemTable
  )
{
  EfiInitializeTestLib (ImageHandle, SystemTable);
  SctInitializeLib (ImageHandle, SystemTable);

  return EfiInitAndInstallBBTestInterface (
          &ImageHandle,
          &gBBTestProtocolField,
          gBBTestEntryField,
          BBTestDevicePathUtilitiesProtocolUnload,
          &gBBTestProtocolInterface
          );
}

/**
 *  The driver's Unload function.
 *  @param ImageHandle the test driver image handle.
 *  @return EFI_SUCCESS unload successfully.
 */
EFI_STATUS
EFIAPI
BBTestDevicePathUtilitiesProtocolUnload (
  IN EFI_HANDLE       ImageHandle
  )
{
  EFI_STATUS  Status;

  Status = EfiUninstallAndFreeBBTestInterface (
            ImageHandle,
            gBBTestProtocolInterface
            );

  return Status;
}

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Item #: SCP-170
Special Containment Procedure: SCP-170 presents no danger, and as such can be contained safely in any secure storage locker. However, due to the potential misuse of the substance, as well the limited quantity of SCP-170 available, no personnel may remove it from storage without prior approval from Dr. ███.
Description: SCP-170 appears to be a standard tube of superglue, in a yellow tube 13 cm long. There is no manufacturer information or any other text on the outside of the container, apart from the word 'SUPERGLUE' printed in bold letters on the front.
Whenever any amount of the substance is applied to solid material, and that solid is put in contact with any surface, both objects lose molecular cohesion in the area surrounding the contact points, allowing one to be pushed through the other. The effect lasts only moments, however. Within a third of a second of the two surfaces making contact, the ability of each to pass through the other is nullified, leaving both permanently bonded together.
SCP-170 was seized in a raid on an illegal laboratory in ████████, ███, in 19██. The unusual properties of SCP-170 were unknown until a standard test on all seized materials was performed on it. A laboratory technician used a pipette to extract a small amount of SCP-170 for analysis. Upon attempting to dispense the substance onto a slide, the pipette immediately passed straight through the slide, which was on a mount. Further tests were run upon the pipette/slide, and it was discovered that they were bonded on the molecular level. Upon hearing of this, SCP personnel were dispatched to confiscate all seized materials.
Notable tests
Test 04:
Test materials: 1 x heavy duty chain, weights of various sizes.
Procedure: A small amount of SCP-170 was applied to the last link of the chain, which was then bonded to the reinforced ceiling of containment area 17f. Weights of various sizes were then hung on the chain to determine the structural failing point of the bond.
Results: After approximately 9 metric tons were suspended, the chain finally snapped, but not at the bond point. It snapped at the 9th link from the bottom. All links apart from the one embedded in the ceiling were tested and showed signs of distortion and stretching. However, the bond point in the ceiling showed no sign of weakness or separation of chain and ceiling.
Test materials: 2 x identical cubes of 24 carat gold (as close to 100% pure as possible)
Procedure: Using robotic arms to ensure perfect alignment, cube 1 (the cube with SCP-170 applied) was pushed completely through cube 2, leaving what appeared to be 1 gold cube equal in size to either of the original cubes.
Results: Upon examination of the sole remaining cube, it was found to have a density of 38.6 grams per cm3, which is precisely twice the density of gold. Even melting the sample did nothing to change this, as the resulting liquid gold also had the same density. This implies that the substances don't displace each other - every atom is accounted for. Analysis of the atoms has proven that they are regular gold atoms, implying that they don't undergo nuclear fusion to accomplish the increase in density. The atoms are simply packed into a smaller space than the laws of physics would seem to allow.
In light of this experiment, Dr. ██████ has requested permission to use SCP-170 to 'glue' two pieces of uranium together to make a more fissile sample. Due to the obvious safety concerns this poses, this request was denied.
X-ray of subject's finger bonded to the desk (post amputation). The fracture was caused by the subject struggling to free himself.
Test materials: 1 x D-class personnel, 1 x wooden desk.
Procedure: First test using live biological subjects. D-class personnel had a small amount of SCP-170 applied to his right index finger, and was instructed to "poke the desk".
Results: Subject's finger sank into the desk up to the first knuckle. Despite obvious panic, the subject reported no pain, discomfort or sensation below the bond point. However, his finger quickly began swelling and turned purple, as his circulatory system continued pumping blood to an area that could no longer return it. Finger was amputated between the first and second knuckle.
Test materials: 1 x Pratt & Whitney F100 jet engine, the reinforced ceiling of containment area 19b.
Procedure: SCP-170 was applied to the jet engine mountings, which were quickly pushed 3.2 cm (approximately 1.25 inches) into the ceiling of the chamber. After connecting an appropriate fuel supply and control system, the jet engine was fired.
Results: The engine was run continuously at high speed for 40 minutes, while cameras monitored the join point for any signs of stress. While small cracks appeared in the concrete around the join point, there were no indications of any possible structural failures or separation of the two materials, even under a force of 120,000 newtons.
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\section{Introduction}
Voice Conversion (VC) is a technique used to change the perceived identity of a source speaker to that of a target speaker, while maintaining linguistic information unchanged. It has many potential applications, such as generating new voices for TTS (Text-To-Speech) systems \cite{Kain1998}, dubbing in movies and videogames, speaking assistance \cite{Kain2007,Nakamura2012} and speech enhancement \cite{Inanoglu2009,Turk2010,Toda2012}. This technique consists in creating a mapping function between voice features of two or more speakers. Many ways of obtaining this result have been explored: Gaussian mixture models (GMM) \cite{Stylianou1998,Toda2007,Helander2010}, restricted Boltzmann machine (RBM) \cite{Chen2014,Nakashika2014}, feed forward neural networks
(NN) \cite{Sun2015}, recurrent neural networks (RNN) \cite{Desai2010,Mohammadi2014} and convolutional neural networks (CNN) \cite{Kaneko2017}. The majority of the mentioned VC approaches make use of parallel speech data, or, in other terms, recordings of different speakers speaking the same utterances. When the recordings are not perfectly time aligned, these techniques require some sort of automatic time alignment of the speech data between the different speakers, which can often be tricky and not robust. Methods that don't require parallel data have also been explored: some of them need a high degree of supervision \cite{Dong2015,MengZhang2008}, requiring transcripts of every speech recording and lacking the ability to accurately capture non-verbal information. Methods involving Generative Adversarial Networks \cite{Goodfellow2014} have also been proposed \cite{Kaneko2018,Kameoka2018,Kaneko2019}: while often producing realistic results, they only allow the conversion of speech samples with a fixed or maximum length. We propose a voice conversion method that doesn't rely on parallel speech recordings and other kinds of supervision and is able to convert samples of arbitrary length. It consists of a Generative Adversarial Network architecture, made of a single generator and discriminator. The generator takes high definition spectrograms of speaker A as input and converts them to spectrograms of speaker B. A siamese network is used to maintain linguistic information during the conversion by the generator. An identity loss is also used to strengthen the linguistic connection between the source and generated samples. We are able to translate spectrograms with a time axis that is arbitrarily long. To accomplish that, we split spectrograms along the time axis, feed the resulting samples to the generator, concatenate pairs of generated samples along the time axis and feed them to the discriminator. This allows us to obtain a generated concatenated spectrogram that doesn't present any discontinuities in the concatenated edges. We finally show that the same technique previously described can also translate a music sample of one genre to another genre, proving that the algorithm is flexible enough to perform different kinds of audio style transfer.

\section{Related Work}
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs, \cite{Goodfellow2014}) have been especially used in the context of image generation and image-to-image translation \cite{Radford2016,Karras2018,Brock2019,Isola2017,Zhu2017,Liu2017,Liu2019}. Applying the same GAN architectures designed for images to other kinds of data such as audio data is possible and has been explored before. \cite{Donahue2018a} shows that generating audio with GANs is possible, using a convolutional architecture on waveform data and spectrogram data. \cite{Kaneko2018,Kameoka2018,Kaneko2019} propose to use the different GAN architectures to perform voice conversion translating different features (MCEPs, log $F_{0}$, APs) instead of spectrograms. We choose a single generator and discriminator architecture as explained in \cite{Amodio2019}, where a siamese network is also used to preserve content information in the translation. The proposed TraVeL loss aims at making the generator preserve vector arithmetic in the latent space produced by the siamese network. The transformation vector between images (or spectrograms) of the source domain (or speaker) must be the same as the transformation vector between the same images converted by the generator to the target domain. In this way the network doesn't rely on pixel-wise differences (cycle-consistency constraint) and proves to be more flexible at translating between domains with substantially different low-level pixel features. This is particularly effective on the conversion of speech spectrograms, which can be quite visibly different from speaker to speaker. Furthermore, not relying on pixel-wise constraints we are also able to work with audio data different from speech such as music, translating between totally different music genres.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.85\textwidth]{fig}
\caption{MelGAN-VC training procedure. We split spectrogram samples, feed them to the generator $G$, concatenate them back together and feed the resulting samples to the discriminator $D$ to allow translation of samples of arbitrary length without discrepancies. We add a siamese network $S$ to the traditional generator-discriminator GAN architecture to preserve vector arithmetic in latent space and thus have a constraint on low-level content in the translation. An optional identity mapping constraint is added in tasks which also need a preservation of high-level information (linguistic information in the case of voice translation).}
\label{fig:model}
\end{figure}

\section{Model}
Given audio samples in the form of spectrograms from a source domain (speaker, music genre), our goal is to generate realistic audio samples of the target domain while keeping content (linguistic information in the case of voice translation) from the original samples (see Fig. \ref{fig:model}).
\subsection{Spectrogram Splitting and Concatenation}
Let $A$ be the source domain and $B$ the target domain. $\{a_{tot,i}\}_{i=1}^{N_atot}\in A$ and $\{b_{tot,i}\}_{i=1}^{N_btot}\in B$ are the spectrogram representations of the audio samples in the training dataset, each with shape $M\times t$, where $M$ represents the height of the spectrogram (mel channels in the case of mel-spectrograms) and where $t$, the time axis, varies from sample to sample. In order to be able to translate spectrograms with a time axis of arbitrary length, we extract from the training spectrograms $\{a_i\}_{i=1}^{N_a}\in A$ and $\{b_i\}_{i=1}^{N_b}\in B$, each with a shape $M\times L$, where $L<t$ $\forall t$ is a constant. We then split each $a_i$ along the time axis obtaining $a_i^1$ and $a_i^2$ with shape $M\times \frac{L}{2}$. Translating each pair $(a_i^1,a_i^2)$ with a generator $G$ results in pairs $(\hat{b}_i^1,\hat{b}_i^2)$: concatenating them together along the time axis results in $\hat{b}_i$ with shape $M\times L$, where $\{\hat{b_i}\}_{i=1}^{N_a}\in \hat{B}\equiv G(A)$. We finally feed the real samples $\{b_i\}_{i=1}^{N_b}$ and the generated and concatenated samples $\{\hat{b_i}\}_{i=1}^{N_a}$ to a discriminator $D$. With this technique the generator is forced to generate realistic $M\times \frac{L}{2}$ samples with no discontinuities on the edges of the frequency axes, so that when concatenated with adjacent spectrogram samples the final $M\times L$ spectrograms look realistic to the discriminator. After training, when translating a $M\times t$ spectrogram, we first split it in sequential $M\times \frac{L}{2}$ samples (we use padding if $t$ is not a multiple of $\frac{L}{2}$), feed them to the generator and concatenate them back together into the original $M\times t$ shape.
\subsection{Adversarial Loss}
MelGAN-VC relies on a generator $G$ and discriminator $D$. $G$ is a mapping function from the distribution $A$ to the distribution $B$. We call $\hat{B}=G(A)$ the generated distribution. $D$ distinguishes between the real $B$ and the generated $\hat{B}$.  Given training samples $\{a_i\}_{i=1}^{N_a}\in A$ and $\{b_i\}_{i=1}^{N_b}\in B$ with shape $M\times L$ the generator must learn the mapping function. With $G_c(x)$ we define the function that takes the spectrogram $x$ with shape $M\times L$ as input, splits it along the time axis into $(x_{\frac{L}{2}}^1,x_{\frac{L}{2}}^2)$ with shape $M\times \frac{L}{2}$, feeds each one of the two samples to $G$ and concatenates the outputs to obtain a final $M\times L$ spectrogram. An adversarial loss is used: we notice that the hinge loss \cite{Zhang2018} performs well for this task. Thus we use the following adversarial losses for $D$ and $G$
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{D,adv}=-\mathbb{E}_{b\sim B}[min(0,-1+D(b))]-\mathbb{E}_{a\sim A}[min(0,-1-D(G_c(a)))]
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{G,adv}=-\mathbb{E}_{a\sim A}D(G_c(a))
\end{equation}
The discriminator $D$ iteratively learns how to distinguish real samples of distribution $B$ from generated samples of distribution $\hat{B}$, while the generator $G$ iteratively learns how to improve its mapping to increase the loss of $D$. In this way $G$ generates the distribution $\hat{B}$ as similar to $B$ as possible, achieving realism in the generated samples.
\subsection{TraVeL Loss}
Originally introduced in \cite{Amodio2019}, the TraVeL loss (Transformation Vector Learning loss) aims at keeping transformation vectors between encodings of pairs of samples $[(a_{\frac{L}{2},i},a_{\frac{L}{2},j}), (\hat{b}_{\frac{L}{2},i},\hat{b}_{\frac{L}{2},j})]$ equal, $\{G(a_{\frac{L}{2},i})\}_{i=1}^{2N_a}=\{\hat{b_{\frac{L}{2},i}}\}_{i=1}^{2N_a}\in \hat{B}$ being the generated samples with shape $M\times \frac{L}{2}$. This allows the generator to preserve content in the translation without relying on pixel-wise losses such as the cycle-consistency constraint \cite{Zhu2017}, as this makes the translation between complex and heterogeneous domains substantially difficult.We define a transformation vector between $(x_i,x_j)\in X$ as
\begin{equation}
t(x_i,x_j)=x_j - x_i
\end{equation}
We use a cooperative siamese network $S$ to encode samples in a semantic latent space and formulate a loss to preserve vector arithmetic in the space such as
\begin{equation}
t(S(a_{\frac{L}{2},i}),S(a_{\frac{L}{2},j}))=t(S(\hat{b}_{\frac{L}{2},i}),S(\hat{b}_{\frac{L}{2},j}))\quad \forall i,j
\end{equation}
where $S(x)$ with $x\in X$ is the output vector of siamese network $S$.
Thus the loss is the following
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{(G,S),TraVeL}=\mathbb{E}_{(a_{\frac{L}{2},1},a_{\frac{L}{2},2})\sim A}[cosine\_similarity(t_{12},t'_{12})+|| t_{12}-t'_{12}|| _2^2)] \quad with\ a_{\frac{L}{2},1}\neq a_{\frac{L}{2},2}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation*}
t_{ij}=S(a_{\frac{L}{2},i})-S(a_{\frac{L}{2},j})
\end{equation*}
\begin{equation*}
t'_{ij}=S(G(a_{\frac{L}{2},i}))-S(G(a_{\frac{L}{2},j}))
\end{equation*}
We consider both cosine similarity and euclidean distance so that both angle and magnitude of transformation vectors must be preserved in latent space. The TraVeL loss is minimized by both $G$ and $S$: the two networks must 'cooperate' to satisfy the loss requirement. $S$ can learn a trivial function to satisfy (5), thus we add the standard siamese margin-based contrastive loss \cite{Melekhov2016,Ong2017} to eliminate this possibility.
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{S,margin}=\mathbb{E}_{(a_{\frac{L}{2},1},a_{\frac{L}{2},2})\sim A}max(0,(\delta-||t_{12}||_2)) \quad with\ a_{\frac{L}{2},1}\neq a_{\frac{L}{2},2}
\end{equation}
where $\delta$ is a fixed value. With this constraint, $S$ encodes samples so that in latent space each encoding must be at least $\delta$ apart from every other encoding, saving the network from collapsing into a trivial function.
\subsection{Identity Mapping}
We notice that when training the system for a voice conversion task with the constraints explained above, while the generated voices sound realistic, some linguistic information is lost during the translation process. This is to be expected given the reconstruction flexibility of the generator under the TraVeL constraint. We extract $b_i^{id}$ samples of shape $M\times \frac{L}{2}$ from original $M\times t$ spectrograms in domain $B$ and we adopt an identity mapping \cite{Taigman2017,Zhu2017} to solve this issue.
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_{G,id}=\mathbb{E}_{b^{id}\sim B}[||G(b^{id})-b^{id}||_2^2]
\end{equation}
The identity mapping constraint isn't necessary when training for audio style transfer tasks that are different from voice conversion, as there is no linguistic information to be preserved in the translation.
\subsection{MelGAN-VC Loss}
The final losses for $D$, $G$ and $S$ are the following
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_D=\mathcal{L}_{D,adv}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_G=\mathcal{L}_{G,adv}+\alpha\mathcal{L}_{G,id}+\beta\mathcal{L}_{(G,S),TraVeL}
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{L}_S=\beta\mathcal{L}_{(G,S),TraVeL}+\gamma\mathcal{L}_{S,margin}
\end{equation}
While $\mathcal{L}_{(G,S),TraVeL}$ aims at making the generator preserve low-level content information, without relying on pixel-wise constraints, $\mathcal{L}_{G,id}$ influences the generator to preserve high-level features. Tweaking the weight constant $\alpha$ allows to balance the two content-preserving constraints. A high value of $\alpha$ will result in generated samples that have similar high-level structure as the source samples, but generally inferior resemblance to the style of the target samples, thus less realistic. On the other hand, eliminating the identity mapping component from the loss ($\alpha=0$) will generally result in more realistic translated samples with less similar structure to the source ones.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.81\textwidth]{fig2.png}
\caption{Mel-spectrograms (with log-amplitudes) of audio samples. $Female$, $Male1$ and $Male2$ are from the ARCTIC dataset, $Trump$ is from noisy speech samples of Donald Trump extracted from videos on $youtube.com$, while $Classical$, $Pop$ and $Metal$ are from the GTZAN dataset of music samples. Each spectrogram represents $\sim$1 second of audio.}
\label{fig:samples}
\end{figure}

\section{Implementation Details}
We use fully convolutional architectures for the generator ($G$), discriminator ($D$, PatchGAN discriminator \cite{Isola2017}), and siamese ($S$) networks. $S$ outputs a vector of length $len_S$. For our experiments we choose $len_S=128$. $G$ relies on a u-net architecture, with $strides=2$ convolutions for downscaling and sub-pixel convolutions \cite{Shi2016} for upscaling, to eliminate the possibility of checkerboard artifacts of transposed convolutions. Following recent trends in GAN research \cite{Miyato2018,Zhang2018}, each convolutional filter of both $G$ and $D$ is spectrally normalized as this greatly improves training stability. Batch normalization is used in $G$ and $S$. After experimenting with different loss weight values, we choose $\alpha=1$, $\beta=10$, $\gamma=10$ when training for voice conversion tasks, while we eliminate the identity mapping constraint ($\alpha=0$) for any other kind of audio style transfer. During training, we choose $batch\_size=16$, Adam \cite{Kingma2015} as the optimizer, $lr_D=0.0004$ as the learning rate for $D$ and $lr_{G,S}=0.0001$ as the learning rate for $G$ and $S$ \cite{Heusel2017,Zhang2018}, while we update $D$ multiple times for each $G$ and $S$ update. We use audio files with a sampling rate of 16 kHz. We extract spectrograms in the mel scale with log-scaled amplitudes (Fig. \ref{fig:samples}), normalizing them between -1 and 1 to match the output of the $tanh$ activation of the generator. The following hyperparameters are used: $hop\_size=192$, $window\_size=6*hop\_size$, $mel\_channels=hop\_size$, $L=\frac{hop\_size}{2}$. We notice that a higher value of $L$ allows the network to model longer range dependencies, while increasing the computational cost. To invert the mel-spectrograms back into waveform audio the traditional Griffin-Lim algorithm \cite{Griffin1983} is used, which, thanks to the high dimensionality of the spectrograms, doesn't result in a significant loss in quality.

\section{Experiments}
We experiment with the ARCTIC dataset\footnote{http://www.festvox.org/cmu\_arctic/} for voice conversion tasks. We perform intra-gender and inter-gender voice translation. In both cases MelGAN-VC produces realistic results with clearly understandable linguistic information that is preserved in the translation. We also extract audio from a number of online videos from $youtube.com$ featuring speeches of Donald Trump. The extracted audio data appears noisier and more heterogeneous than the speech data from the ARCTIC dataset, as the Donald Trump speeches were recorded in multiple different real-world conditions. Training MelGAN-VC for voice translation using the real-world noisy data as source or target predictably results in noisier translated speeches with less understandable linguistic information, but the final generated voices are overall realistic. We finally experiment with the GTZAN dataset\footnote{http://marsyas.info/downloads/datasets.html}, which contains 30 seconds samples of different musical pieces belonging to multiple genres. We train MelGAN-VC to perform genre conversion between different musical genres (Fig. \ref{fig:converted}). After training with and without the identity mapping constraint we conclude that it is not necessary for this task, where high-level information is less important, and we decide not to implement it during the rest of our experiments in genre conversion, as this greatly reduces computational costs. If implemented however, we notice that the translated music samples have a stronger resemblance to the source ones, and in some applications this result could be preferred. Translated samples of speech and music are available on $youtube.com$\footnote{https://youtu.be/3BN577LK62Y}.

\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig3.png}
\caption{Random source (left of each arrow) and translated (right of each arrow) spectrogram samples from multiple categories. Each spectrogram represents $\sim$1.5 seconds of audio. The spectrograms are then converted back to waveform data using the Griffin-Lim algorithm \cite{Griffin1983}.}
\label{fig:converted}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}
We proposed a method to perform voice translation and other kinds of audio style transfer that doesn't rely on parallel data and is able to translate samples of arbitrary length. The generator-discriminator architecture and the adversarial constraint result in highly realistic generated samples, while the TraVeL loss shows to be an effective constraint to preserve content in the translation, while not relying on cycle-consistency. We conducted experiments and showed the flexibility of our method with substantially different tasks. We believe it is important to discuss the possibility of misuse of our technique, especially given the level of realism achievable by our technique as well as other methods. While applications such as music genre conversion don't appear to present dangerous uses, voice conversion can be easily misused to create fake audio data for political or personal reasons. It is crucial to also invest resources into developing methods to recognize fake audio data.

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Lai Chau is 450km north-west of Hanoi, 80km from Sapa Town (Lao Cai Province), 200km from Dien Bien Phu City, 210km from Son La City.


Never been to Las Vegas because gambling is a gamble, but the Fresh Faces raffle for a 2012 Mercedes Benz is better than buying Facebook last Friday. Sure, you're taking a chance to win a luxury vehicle, but you're also helping to fund the Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas.
But time's a wasting. You have until 3 p.m. Wednesday to buy a $100-raffle ticket online for the Fresh Faces Mercedes Benz. After that, the only way possible to purchase a chance is to attend the drawing Wednesday night at Park Place and buy it there.
If you want feedback on raffles, check with Lynn McBee, who won a Mercedes a few years ago thanks to a raffle, or Julia Keith, who picked up that adorable little Lexus at TACA's Party on the Green a couple of weeks ago.
Well the day is finally here.. and we are very excited to see who walks away with the keys to a new Mercedes.. and will be unveiling the newest gem from Mercedes.. the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL 550… and you can get up-close and personal to see it unveiled by the Fresh Faces of Fashion. Get your raffle online by 3 pm or get it at Park Place to night.. Thanks MSC for helping us help SCC.. The most important part to the evening and year.


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News & Media Western Michigan University selects Avidyne's R9
Western Michigan University selects Avidyne's R9
January 26, 2010 By Ian J. Twombly
Western Michigan University's (WMU) aviation program has selected the Avidyne Entegra Release 9 integrated avionics package for its fleet of Cirrus SR20 aircraft, the avionics manufacturer announced Jan. 25. WMU's fleet of 26 aircraft will feature dual displays, the WAAS-capable flight management system, and the datalink weather.
David Powell, dean of WMU's College of Aviation, said, "We are fully committed to Avidyne, and Release 9's fantastic FMS capabilities make it especially valuable for training tomorrow's corporate and air transport pilots."
Powell says that the college's goal is to train future commercial pilots, so the transition between general aviation airplanes and the more complex transport-category aircraft must be as seamless as possible. "We try to equip our general aviation Cirrus fleet so that they are configured as much as possible like the commercial cockpits our students will use in the future," he said.
WMU is one of the few in the country that uses Cirrus aircraft for training, and the advanced airplane coupled with the FMS-equipped R9 means the cockpits are highly integrated.
Ian J. Twombly
Ian J. Twombly is senior content producer for AOPA Media.
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Q: Passed data lost in Laravel paginator starting from page 2 I am trying to list people by their appRole. Here's the controller:
public function indexByAppRole(Request $request, $appRoleId)
{
    $h1 = AppRole::where('id', $appRoleId)->first()->name;

    return view('admin.people.index', [
        'people' => $this->people->byAppRole($appRoleId),
        'appRoles' => $this->appRoles->forAll(),
        'h1'     => 'Role: '. $h1,
    ]);
}

Paginator is used in the repository:
public function byAppRole($appRoleId)
{
    return Person::where('person_app_role.app_role_id', $appRoleId)
    ->join('person_app_role', 'person_app_role.person_id', '=', 'people.id')
    ->select('people.*')    // fix ID confusion but why?
    ->paginate(20);
}

The main view lists the returned people. In the sidebar, I have the following list as side-navigation:

    @foreach ($appRoles as $appRole)

             $appRole->id]) }}">{{ str_plural($appRole->name) }}

        @endforeach

The navigation list works on page 1 of search results or listings, but the list is not showing up on page 2 and subsequent pages. What did I do wrong?

A: I solved the problem. For AppRole, I also used a paginator, so this was fixed by using all() instead of paginate() to get all appRoles.
// Before...........
public function forAll()
{
    return AppRole::paginate(20);
}

And:
// After............
public function forAll()
{
    return AppRole::all();
}


near China (unless one counts Chinatown in SF, perhaps :-) ).
> with announcements about Google bringing 'search' to mobile phones in China.
The search part, they'll announce.
>>> | to a local software executive.
>>> | framework for better international cooperation.
> For what it's worth, Ubuntu can handle Hebrew just fine. Seen that before.
> on Palm devices is likely to bring upon the community.


No toys are just for boys or girls, challenge stereotypical ideas. Show different genders, people, abilities, and ethnic groups in positive images. For example use of books, colouring sheets, food from around the world festivals, etc can be used to explore their own and other peoples cultures.
I will work in partnership with parents / carers with any child in my care. There are many excellent resources and help available from West Sussex Council that I can use for supporting any child with learning difficulties or have a disability, if required.
I have attended a course on 'Including All Children'.
Teach children to value and respect themselves and others.