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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The aims of the Illustrators Exhibition,staged as part of the Bologna Children's Book Fair,organized by BolognaFiere and held from 19 to 22.March 2012,are to bring illustrators and publishers together and to promote illustrators and their works among publishers. QUALIFICATIONS *Individual illustrators or groups of illustrators of any nationality, if they were born before 31st December l994,whose artwork is intended for use in children's books,are qualified to enter the Exhibition, either directly or through publishing houses or schools. *Please state in the application form whether you are entering work for the Fiction or Non-fiction Category.Illustrators may only enter one category. *Artwork previously presented to the Exhibition may not be re-entered. *The confirmation form must be filled in and a photograph attached, then presented together with illustrations no later than 26 September 2011. SHIPMENT Entries may be delivered by post,express delivery service or by hand.From abroad,please use the following forms:Form "A" for registered mail or post by air;Form "B" if using an international forwarding agent or airline. To avoid deiays, material should not be sent by normal post.Material should be sent "carriage paid",including any customs and delivery costs. BolognaFiere may not be held responsible for the non-arrival or late arrival of artwork.All published works must be accompanied by a declaration bearing the ISBN number,publisher's name and address. REQUIREMENTS The illustrations (i.e. the size of the sheet) must not exceed   the following dimensions: Fiction:32*42cm(or 42*32cm) Non-fiction:50*70cm(70*50cm) Illustrations in larger formats will not be considered,nor will they be returned by BolognaFiere.The illustrations must be on paper or flexible board,maximum thickness 2mm(for scanner separation purposes). SELECTIONPROCESS All artwork received by the stated deadtine and meeting the specified requirements will be examined and selected by an international group(whose decision is final),inclnding five... Question: Which of the following is unacceptable for delivering entries? Options: A: Normal post. B: Airline post. C: Registered mail. D: Express delivery.
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Please post rumors, trades here. Actual Padres-specific completed trades may have their own thread.
You better be bringing doughnuts.
Any bold predictions?
I have one... by Thursday Willson Contreras will be our catcher.
Preller finds someone to take Myers.
Henry, you've said a million things over the last month.
Rosenthal wrote that he expects the Cubs to do something this week.
With Contreras? I'm assuming something like Mejia and a pitching prospect (Weathers, Morejon or Cantillo) would get it done?April 10, 2011: Question: Do I need to stop making payments for my bank to consider a short sale? I moved and put my house on the market a year ago but got no bites despite three price reductions. The only way I’m likely to sell it is to reduce the price below what I owe the lender. I want my credit to remain as good as possible, but I worry that if I have to miss payments to get the lender to consent to a short sale my scores will be lower than if I had kept up the payments before selling short.
Answer: Lenders have different policies on short sales, which is when they agree to let a borrower sell a home for less than what is owed on the mortgage. You’ll need to talk to yours about what’s required. But expect your credit scores to take a major hit, whether or not you stop payments first.
A short sale typically will have the same effect on your credit scores as a foreclosure, according to Fair Isaac, the company that created the leading credit scoring formula, the FICO. Fair Isaac recently released a chart showing the effects of various credit score blows, from a missed mortgage payment to a foreclosure or a short sale with a deficiency balance (the difference between the home sale proceeds and what you owe). Someone with FICO scores in the 780 range would lose 90 to 110 points with a single skipped payment. A short sale or foreclosure would trim 140 to 160 points from that 780 score. (You can see the charts at Fair Isaac’s Banking Analytics Blog at http://tinyurl.com/3eze2a5.) Your score will plummet that far whether or not you stop making payments before the foreclosure or short sale.
You might be able to reduce the damage from a short sale if you can persuade the lender not to report the deficiency balance to the credit bureaus. Short sales without a reported deficiency balance would trim 105 to 125 points from a 780 score, according to Fair Isaac. But lenders that have been cajoled into a short sale often aren’t in the mood to grant you additional favors.
There are some advantages to a short sale over a foreclosure. One is that you can start the long road to credit recovery sooner because foreclosures usually take much longer than short sales. The other bit of good news: You can qualify for another mortgage faster. Lenders typically will consider you for a home loan two years after a short sale, versus a wait of up to seven years if you let the current lender foreclose.
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A foreclosure can keep you from getting another loan, but it may or may not. It depends on the lender and the borrower.
At the end of this article you say that a foreclosure can keep you from getting a loan for up to 7 years. Where do you get that number? I don’t think that is right, it would seem that if a person can qualify for a loan after bankruptcy without waiting 8 years, there shouldn’t be any longer wait for foreclosure. Would you have a citation for that assertion?This lively comedy takes a light-hearted look at slimming. Set in a regimented Health Farm, presided over by the humourless and power-loving Nurse Burton, its guests respond to its structure like naughty schoolchildren. They all have their different reasons for being there, and there is plenty of fun and games as the different ways of cheating are sought.\section{Introduction}
Speech synthesis has numerous practical applications in enhancing user experiences such as reading online newspapers and voice assistants. Technically, there are two main stages to produce synthetic speech: generating acoustic features and transforming acoustic features to waveform signals. The second stage usually refers to the vocoder stage. Traditional vocoder approaches generate audio samples using either the spectral density model~\cite{grifinlim} or the basis of the source-filter model~\cite{world}. However, the fidelity of generated speech from those approaches is low and sounds like a robotic voice. Therefore, in recent years, a lot of studies in neural vocoders have provided remarkable performance in producing speech signals from Mel-spectrogram. They are classified into two categories: autoregressive and non-autoregressive vocoders. Regarding high-fidelity, autoregressive vocoders outperform non-autoregressive vocoders. On the contrary, the latter run much faster and are used in real world applications.

For non-autoregressive vocoders, the~\acrfull{gan}-based method is the most successful neural vocoders that provide high-fidelity speech~\cite{melgan,hifigan,parallelWaveGAN,ganTTS,waveGAN,multibandGAN, StyleMelGAN, UnivNet}. Although ~\acrshort{gan}-based vocoders are able to generate synthetic speech in real-time and have a small memory footprint, they are still fragile to train due to adversarial training. To overcome this training issue, MelGAN~\cite{melgan} and HiFi-GAN~\cite{hifigan} utilize an auxiliary loss called features matching between real and generated data to facilitate adversarial training.
Moreover, only relying on adversarial loss causes degradation of audio quality, so the mean square error of Mel-spectrogram~\cite{hifigan} opts to deal with the degradation of synthetic speech.
While Multiband MelGAN~\cite{multibandGAN} replaces the naive features matching with the multi-resolution STFT to better estimate the discrepancy between ground-truth and generated speech. Instead of using auxiliary loss, GAN-TTS~\cite{ganTTS} uses an ensemble of discriminators to take the linguistic features into account and stabilize the training process.

Another vein of research on non-autoregressive vocoders is to leverage normalizing flow models in order to model waveform signals directly from either acoustic features like Mel-spectrogram~\cite{waveglow} or linguistic features~\cite{clarinet}. Both Parallel Wavenet~\cite{parallelwavenet} and Clarinet~\cite{clarinet} are inverse autoregressive flow models, thus, at inference time they are able to synthesize audio in parallel. Those models are trained in the teacher-student procedure from a well trained Wavenet~\cite{wavenet} to benefit from autoregressive models and achieve real-time inference. Nevertheless, they require a well trained Wavenet teacher and a set of auxiliary losses to acquire high fidelity synthesis, thus, they are