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The No. 1 large place to work in IT for 2014: Quicken Loans
The No. 1 large place to work in IT: Quicken Loans
Best Places to Work in IT 2013: A tour of Quicken Loans
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The No. 1 place to work in IT for 2013: Quicken Loans
IT employees enjoy the company's relaxed atmosphere and culture of innovation, but they're equally thrilled to be part of the revitalization of downtown Detroit.
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Walk into the IT department at one of Quicken Loans' downtown Detroit offices and you'll be met by a sea of big heads -- not overblown egos, but giant cardboard faces like the ones that fans wave on sticks at basketball games.
"That's everybody's name tag now," says Pat Hartford, an enterprise architect who has been with the company for seven years. "Everybody has a picture of themselves at their desk that you can dress up however you want. It makes it easier to find people when you're walking" through the open office space.
Identifying co-workers became even more challenging in 2012 when the company beefed up its IT staff by 80% to more than 850 technology-related positions, in response to the escalating demands of a business that served more than 1.5 million customers and was handling $70 billion in home loans.
Other than ones of the cardboard variety, you won't find many swollen heads in the IT department at the nation's largest online retail mortgage lender, employees say. "Leaders tend to sit out on the floor with everybody else, because they are just like everybody else," says Hartford.
Employees say there are few barriers -- physical or bureaucratic -- at Quicken Loans. "I've had conversations with [CEO] Bill Emerson in the hallway," says Tim Brickey, a business intelligence engineer who joined the company in 2009. "The first time, I was terrified. But now I know he's funny and friendly -- and he knows my name."
CIO Linglong He says the keys to staying engaged with so many employees are to always walk the floor and to empower rank-and-file staffers. "We give team members the tools, the training and the freedom to grow. They take ownership and actually can make an impact on the outcome," she says.
Teams consist of about five to 10 people, and leaders hold biweekly meetings to make sure that morale is high and that projects are moving along without obstacles. "I always try to figure out where people's passions are and really connect them to that passion," says Noah Ravenscroft, senior vice president of application development. "If we're driving toward that, folks are much more productive and happier."
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Employees are proud to be part of the revitalization of Detroit. Credit: Quicken Loans. Click to take a slideshow tour of Quicken Loans.
As CIO, He says that she tries to make sure that "every single team member lives and breathes the same culture." Employees are guided by 19 corporate ideals -- or as Quicken calls them, isms -- that the entire company lives by. Those isms include "Always raising our level of awareness," "It's not about who is right, it's about what is right," "Yes before no" and "Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped."
Leaders and employees recognize people who do things that embody those ideals by nominating them for monthly ISM Awards. And each year, executives give Gilbert Awards to those who exemplify the isms at the highest degree. Named after Quicken Loans founder and chairman Dan Gilbert, Gilbert Awards are presented at an Academy Awards-type event.
"It's a great way that leaders and team members acknowledge the work we do," says Brickey, who has won both an ISM Award and a Gilbert Award in his four years at the company.
Quirks and perks
David Polidori, director of platform engineering, credits the executive team for giving directors like him "the leniency to do what we need to do to keep that culture" and to pass it forward.
IT staffers, for instance, participate in informal weekly "innovation time" where they can freely explore and prototype ideas. "It's a very good investment. The team members love it, the business loves it and the impact is huge," says He.
Vibrant colors and team members on scooters are common sights. Credit: Quicken Loans. Click to take a slideshow tour of Quicken Loans.
With vibrant colors and an open floor plan, Quicken Loans' offices were designed to encourage creativity. Adding to the relaxed environment are Xboxes, Ping-Pong tables, all-you-can-eat popcorn, free-flowing slushies and a weekly dose of veggies and hummus. At "Big Wheel parking stations," employees can grab a three-wheeler or a scooter for an indoor spin.
"I use the scooters to get just about everywhere," says John Fair, senior software engineer. His day typically starts at 8:30 a.m., and then he'll spend an hour or more in meetings, depending on a project's status. "I go to a couple different 'stand-up' meetings, which are short five-to-10-minute briefings," says Fair. The rest of his day is spent on engineering work at his standing desk. "I think better on my feet," he says, adding that he may try a treadmill desk that sits on another floor.
His favorite perk, though, is the freedom to choose the right technologies for his projects. "I can pitch the best solution for the problem and be heard. I don't have to use the same technology we've done before -- I'm encouraged to look into it. I wake up every morning excited to do that."
A close second, he says, might be tickets to Cleveland Cavaliers basketball games that Gilbert (the team's majority owner) occasionally gives away. "There will be contests, or you'll hear our CEO over the loudspeaker saying, 'Caller No. 20 will get tickets to the game.' You'll hear his phone start to ring in the background," Fair says.
In 2009, Gilbert committed to playing a role in revitalizing Detroit into a tech-focused urban core. Today, Quicken Loans occupies several downtown buildings, some just steps from Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers play, and Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions. New apartment buildings have gone up near its offices, and more than 70 companies have moved to or opened new shops in downtown Detroit over the past three years.
"There's an absolute positive with working downtown," Polidori says. "I grew up in Dearborn, which is 10 to 12 miles from here. I spent a lot of my childhood at the old Tiger Stadium and downtown. So it was pretty cool to move down here."
He says employees love the fact that they can go to Tigers games after work, or maybe walk by the stadium at lunch during a day game and get 10 minutes of baseball in before heading back to the office.
IT employees relish their part in the rebirth of the Motor City. "You can be part of the solution here," Ravenscroft says. "It's something greater than just Quicken Loans. You're part of the revival of Detroit."
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A massive thank you to Tesco, Morrisons and Fruit and Veg Delivery Barnsley for their kind donations of fruit which were sold today in aid of Sport Relief.
The children had a wonderful day, full of sporting activities and enjoyed the fruit stall.
We raised a total of £265 which will be split between Sports Relief and sporting equipment for school.


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Saturnalia is the anticipated first album from The Gutter Twins, the collaboration forged in late 2003 by Mark Lanegan and fellow maverick singer/songwriter Greg Dulli. Saturnalia finds the axis Dulli nicknamed 'the Satanic Everly Brothers' going even deeper into the shadows than ever before. Mystical, unpredictable, ultimately masterful, the album both embodies and defies any expectations suggested by the principals' individual notoriety. Pointedly not resting on the sonic laurels of their previous successes, Saturnalia instead proves rootsy but Baroque, handmade yet modernist, teeming with siren melodies that don't resolve. Produced by Dulli and Lanegan along with the band's unofficial third member Mathias Schneeberger.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J., April 28, 2015 — Zoetis recently presented Milk Source LLC with the 2014 Zoetis Customer Diversity and Inclusion Award. The award recognizes customers who promote outstanding employee diversity and inclusion programs. Zoetis selected Milk Source LLC from a pool of 13 candidates, the largest group of award nominees to date.
Milk Source LLC, based in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, employs more than 500 employees on eight dairy operations throughout Wisconsin, Michigan and Kansas. Workers come from across the globe, including Mexico, Canada, Israel, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Australia. Milk Source also has hired immigrants from Sudan and Eritrea through a collaboration with World Relief Fox Valley, an organization that assists with and supports refugee resettlement and placement.


The Stratford State School Honour Roll commemorates former pupils of the school who enlisted in World War One.
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Florina M. Ciorba (Universität Basel, CH)
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Torsten Wilde (HPE- Böblingen, DE)
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Advances in analytic approaches have brought the vision of efficient HPC operations enabled by dynamic analysis and automated feedback/adaptation within reach. Many HPC centers have started the development and deployment of frameworks to enable continuous and holistic monitoring, archiving, and analysis of performance data from their production machines and related infrastructures. The impact of such frameworks rests upon the ability to effectively analyze such data. Analytic techniques have been successfully developed and applied in other domains but their features may not apply directly to HPC Operations data and situations. Leveraging, adapting, and extending such techniques would open up new avenues for research and development of actionable analytics that can drive more intelligent operations through both manual and automated response to conditions of interest.
This Dagstuhl Seminar will bring together HPC practitioners in the areas of system management and monitoring and computer science research to collaboratively work on developing community solutions for efficient HPC system operations. The topics to be discussed in this seminar range from use cases to data and analytic approaches required to address them, to ultimately using the results of analyses to improve performance, operations, and research, both with and without human-in-the-loop. Specifically, the topics to be discussed will include:
Center-specific urgent use cases that drive data collection, analysis, and response requirements across the variety of institutions represented.
Types of available data, including sources, meanings, and fidelities, to support continuous analyses.
Requirements for actionable analytics: What do we need to convert raw data into information upon which we can act (e.g., confidence measures, explainability requirements not inherent in AI approaches, representation of results, latency, etc.)?
Applicability of existing analytics and informatics approaches to the domain-specifics of HPC operations. While there are many promising ML/AI approaches in other domains (e.g., image/speech processing, autonomous vehicles), it is not yet clear how many of those apply to the HPC operations and research domains (e.g., the occurrence of rare fault events, discontinuity of inertia-less measurements).
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Enormous projects in Russia - 42.000 finishers
SKIOLD, who are amongst the world's leading suppliers of complete feeding plant solutions, has signed a contract with RBPI Group in Russia for two identical feed milling plants, each with a capacity of 28 tons per hour. RBPI Group are building two very large pig farms in Kaliningrad and Nizhniy Novgorod. Each of the pig farms has 6.200 sows and a yearly production of 42.000 finishers. The feed milling plants consist of intake, grain cleaning, silos, dosing, transport equipment, grinding, mixing, pellet line and control systems. (see the progressing of the project here)
The size of this order is not the only spectacular thing about these projects - for each plant, two SK780 will also be delivered. The SK780 is the world's largest disc mill and the first of this type to be delivered to Russia.
The first plant will be delivered before the end of 2017 and the second plant during the end of 2017/beginning of 2018. 20.000 tons meat per year will be produced on each farm, which can provide the entire area with quality meat, whilst creating more than 400 jobs.
RGPI has a vision of being the most efficient, profitable and eco-friendly manufacturer of quality meat in Russia. The company is highly involved in its immediate environment and is a keen contributor to charity projects in Russia of benefit to the immediate environment.
"RGPI Group has since 2009 had a SKIOLD feeding plant for production of feed for an existing pig-production. When planning a further expansion, we again chose SKIOLD as our preferred supplier. With 12.400 sows, operational reliability is one of our highest priorities when choosing a supplier as well as products" says Thomas Norgaard.
SKIOLD's SK780 is suitable for grinding of many different raw materials. The grinding degree can be adjusted during operation and the feed structure is optimal for all groups of animals. The mill has a very low noise level, exceptional long durability on all wearing parts and a high capacity with a low power consumption.
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Cover of Theo Hill album "Promethean"
Theo Hill is a dynamically percussive pianist, so it's not surprising that the musicians who have inspired him have been primarily drummers and likeminded keyboardists. As its title indicates, Promethean "steals fire" from these demigods—principally Tony Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Kirkland and Jeff "Tain" Watts—for a bold hard-bop showcase also featuring bassist Yasushi Nakamura and drummer Mark Whitfield Jr.
The album is book-ended by tunes inspired by the Williams-Miller tandem. "This Here," a funky, poppy melody Bobby Timmons wrote for Cannonball Adderley, is rendered closer to the spunkier piano-trio rendition found on Williams' Young at Heart disc. He closes with "Citadel," a burner from Williams' Civilization album with Miller. Dues are also paid to the less-heralded gentler side of Williams, via covers of the ballad "Pee Wee," from Miles' Sorcerer album, and Hancock's "Finger Painting," from the V.S.O.P. set list.
Hill feels more muddled and less incisive on "Blasphemy" and "Chance," two songs, from Kenny Kirkland's eponymous debut, with shifting moods. But these are exceptions—the dominant motif of Promethean is that of a young pianist reveling in the imperial command of his instrument. You hear it on his lone original, "The Phoenix," composed in tribute to Watts, which competes with "Citadel" and a cover of Chick Corea's "Litha" as the most incandescent, two-fisted hard-bop pieces on the disc. And don't overlook the stylish rendition of Duke Pearson's "Is That So," the rare occasion where the rhythm section is allowed a democratic share of the spotlight.
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I thought some distractionary tactics might be helpful (while waiting for other things) and realised that there's nothing like a new bit of gear to focus the mind, get the cables flying and the speakers wobbling!
For me it's been the Rainmaker, crikey, this thing can throw some delays around and then some, totally inspiring and the complete opposite in terms of usability to how it looks, the UI is really simple and easy to use. It sounds great!! It's inspiring me to get back into the nitty gritty of sound design. It pairs really well with the ER-301 - it's got the extra processing power to handle ridiculous delays freeing up the ER-301 to do other things (I like to use the ER-301 for delays a lot - I like delays).
So, what's new for you and how is it inspiring? Does it complement the O|D modules in any particular way? How did you get to the point of choosing that particular module?
Anything goes, pour your heart out!
The last thing I added is the Industrial Music Electronics Bionic Lester MK3 that I'm beta testing for Scott Jaeger. It's early in its "Work In Progress" state and so I'll be hoping for some frequent updates prior to me heading to Superbooth.
Something I'm seriously looking forward to is a cassette module from Xavier Gazon who is making 15 of them, one is for me. CV controlled playback is one feature and with my unit there will be something "extra" that I'll share after I receive it. My idea here is to feed the hissing warble of the tape into the ER-301 and my WhimsicalRaps W/ before looping it back from whence it came (big hint regarding the extra).
Whoa… I am somewhat envious, and also dismayed to deduce from this that the BL mkII is probably never going to appear… I will never complete that mkII case!!
Last "substantial" thing I added was the E370.
My most recent add is Rainmaker as well. Unless you count the Nin expander for Zadar but I have not installed that yet.
I've barely scratched the surface of Rainmaker - it's such a deep monster. Delays, reverbs, modal synthesis. It is a module I've been eyeing for a long time, but never pulled the trigger because I figured I'd never use more than 10% of it.
There's a lot to it, but it really is easy to use once you understand it. I think I'll be using a lot more than 10%.
Nice. The only euro-delay I've ever owned is the Echophon–still have it, but hasn't been in my case for some time. The sound-design possibilities of the Rainmaker are really enticing, but if my current trends hold up, I'd have four of the largest euro modules in my 12U setup.
Forgot to mention: haven't dug into the sample player function on the E370 yet, but I'm very interested to see how it plays out.
The only main one I haven't had is the Chronoblob, the original never appealed and the new one might get a try out one day.
The two main ones that are still around are the 1-bit and the Rainmaker, neither are going anywhere. Two completely different styles of delay that I think pretty much cover all the ground between them except actual tape I guess!?
edit, I realised I was probably wrong so looked on MG and yeah - there's a lot of delays I haven't tried Still it's surprising how many I have and I missed two main ones I will keep around: Tyme Sefari - also awesome - and Clouds!
since we are talking delays here, i can't abstain from sharing some Folktek Conduit love. however cranky and weird it is, it's my favorite Eurorack delay — maybe because i tend to try and hide the "obvious" "delayness" of most of them — but that thing is a BEAST. in many way it's not "more than a delay" but 'less than a delay" (for clean stuff ER-301 caters to all, and beyond, my needs). It is a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster of delays capable of complete destruction of input sound in layered gurgles of most delicious noise and feedback. I also have the Echophon that i just love something about, the character, the gritty pitch shifter.
I've been eyeing the Rainmaker since it came around but never had the cash. Or, always found different application for cash.
love my 101/102 and another recent addition — teletype. i consider the sequencers covered for the foreseeable future.
The last thing I added was an ADDAC200PI Pedal Integrator, with a custom black faceplate. Up in the top corner of my case, upside-down with right-angle 1/4" cables. For me this is the perfect design for pedal interface: no controls I don't need, nice and compact, and everything's out of the way.
The last thing I added is the Industrial Music Electronics Bionic Lester MK3 that I'm beta testing for Scott Jaeger.
I won't ask too many questions, but… should I be saving space for that one?
Can't really say anything about it yet as it's early in the design phase with some of the jacks yet to be coded for. Scott will continue to iterate until he starts to tightly dial in the characteristics he has in mind. As of right now the basics of the filter work. Matter of fact I'm hoping for an update this weekend. One other note, I just took possession of the filter last weekend at Synthplex in Burbank, California.
I had a demo of the Panharmonium last Saturday from Dave Rossum and was BLOWN away by how complete, magical, and amazing it is. Dave was using a fragment of a speech by Ronald Reagan and brought the edges of sounds into a harmonic synthesis that was nothing less than perfect. If I wasn't going to Superbooth and incurring those costs, I'd be pre-ordering the Panharmonium without hesitation.
Eek! Seriously hoping I won't be adding the Rossum to a future entry on this thread. 1-10, how magical @Unity2k?
Unrelated, my Erica Synths Plasma Drive recently arrived and will report back on how nasty it (hopefully) sounds!
Ooh! Another one I'm impossibly curious about. The videos sound SOOOO good!
Looks good - how do you connect your modular to it?
Is this thing in any way similar to Xaoc Odessa?
Also no Superbooth for me this year, though I will be following the new announcements with interest!
The Panharmonium takes an input such as a clip of speech and resynthesizes it using its grains that are manipulated as they feed through.


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A key to a successful #LiveEvent is great event promotion via social media, email and a killer (#MobileReady) website with key information (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How you can participate) and setting expectations via content (audio, video, photography, text, links, etc.) to attract the right audience.
OKLAHOMA CITY: Ronna Pernell, professional fine artist from Oklahoma City, will present an exhibition of 22 new works of art in the North Gallery of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The exhibition, titled Unspoken Woman, will be on display Nov. 16th, 2015 through January 27th, 2016 on the 1st floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol building. A special artist reception will be held on Friday, November 20th from 5:00 to 8:30 pm with light refreshments from Rococo Catering. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibition will also utilize new technology to provide a recorded narration specific to each of the illustrations. Gallery guest will be able to use their smartphones to hear a description of each work and what it represents to the artist. This multimedia experience will be the first of its kind in a State Capitol gallery. The artwork and narration will be accessible on a show-specific website beginning Friday, November 20th at 5:00 coinciding with the artist reception. This unique combination of audio and visual art was a collaboration between Pernell, Kyle Golding of The Golding Group and wordsmith Barbara L. Eikner of Trabar & Associates, along with the narration of Dr. Melanie Bratcher, PhD. Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma.
The UnspokenWoman.com website was designed and built by The Golding Group. The full interactive site with artwork, recorded narratives and interactive elements will not be publicly available until the beginning of the artist reception on November 20th. The Capitol North Gallery will have QR Codes placed on each piece of art to allow show attendees to hear the recorded narratives while experiencing the art in person. A video of the opening event will also be posted on the Unspoken Woman website shortly after the event ends. The Golding Group will also be hosting several art and entertainment celebrities from Oklahoma City, Chicago and New York City during the evening of November 20th.
Pernell's Official Artist Statement for Unspoken Woman: This exhibition is not a history lesson or study of tribal activities. It will not unveil secrets of the dark continent left dormant for thousands of years or gender psychologies discovered by some unknown scientist. This exhibition is a moment in time to see/hear the voice of women that are suppressed across all civilizations of the earth yet resonates loudly through the lives of women of color.
The State Capitol North Gallery is open from 8:00 am through 6:00 pm Monday – Friday and 9:00 am through 4:00 pm on weekends. All State Capitol galleries are curated by the Oklahoma Arts Council. For more information contact the Curator of Education and Capitol Galleries Alyson Aitchison.
The Oklahoma Arts Council supports the work of Oklahoma artists in part by presenting 60-day exhibitions of their artwork for thousands of students, visitors, and others to enjoy at the Oklahoma State Capitol. The Oklahoma Arts Council is the official state agency for the support and development of the arts. The Council's mission is to lead, cultivate and support a thriving arts environment, which is essential to quality of life, education and economic vitality for all Oklahomans. The Council provides more than 500 grants to over 300 organizations in communities statewide each year, organizes professional development opportunities for the state's arts and cultural industry, and manages hundreds of works of art in the public spaces of the state Capitol.
We take great pride in announcing our latest non-profit client partnership: Tipton Children's Home. Founded in 1924, The Tipton Children's Home mission is to raise children in a loving, caring and stable Christian environment in rural SW Oklahoma. This is a safe place for children, whose parents can no longer care for them, to live and prosper.
Unlike many programs, the Tipton Children's Home is designed for long-term (up to age 17) residential care focused on preparing children for adulthood.
The mission of Tipton Children's Home is to provide the highest quality of long-term residential childcare in the areas of spiritual instruction, nutrition, shelter, clothing, education and safety. The Tipton Children's Home is made up of children ages 5-18, house parents and other staff. The purpose of Tipton Children's Home is to provide a loving, Christian atmosphere where children can grow physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
The Golding Group is creating a comprehensive, top-to-bottom plan for the Tipton Children's Home to cover marketing, fundraising, program development, internal efficiencies and long-term sustainability. We began working with the Tipton Children's Home leadership team over 9 months ago with program analysis, asset inventory and assessment. We plan to keep working actively with the Tipton Children's Home over the next 12-18 months developing communications, programming and financial support tools. Check out their new website (we designed for them, built by T&S Online) for more info.
Since 1976, Smith & Pickel Construction has successfully completed nearly 700 construction projects in central Oklahoma with a total contract value of over $1.8 billion. Smith & Pickel is one of the top construction contractors in the area. Some of their most well-know construction success stories include the Dean McGee Eye Institute, Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum, Chesapeake Boathouse and Finish Line Tower.
Look for future project collaborations between The Golding Group and Smith & Pickel. Another prime example of a strong strategic partnership making great things happen. Special THANKS to Erin Page, APR for the project referral.


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We will have a list of topics and facilitators will choose at random. Big ideas can spring from small conversations. When we come together face-to-face to find common ground on community issues and challenges that matter to people, powerful things can happen.
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On the Table is part of a national civic engagement initiative supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; it was initially developed by The Chicago Community Trust.
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\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
\vspace{-5pt}
In this paper we proposed a novel framework for adversarial training end-to-end speech recognition using a criticizing language model.
This offers a direction for better utilizing additional text data without the need for a separately trained language model.
This framework can be used with any end-to-end speech recognition and language modeling frameworks.
Experiments on one example set of the proposed framework showed consistent improvement over different settings.
\section{Experiment}
\label{sec:experiment}
\input{experiment/setting.tex}
\input{tables/performance.tex}
\input{experiment/qn_result.tex}
\input{experiment/ql_result.tex}
\input{tables/demo.tex}

\subsection{Experimental Results}
\label{subsec:qn_result}
\vspace{-5pt}
In the experiments, the ASR model was trained on the 100 hours speech data but combined with different amount of unpaired text utilized in different ways.
The results are listed in Table~\ref{table:comp}, where "Baseline" refers to the plain end-to-end speech recognition framework as described in Sec.~\ref{subsec:asr},
"+LM" refers to the shallow fusion decoding with a separately trained RNN language model (RNN-LM)~\cite{hori2017advances,sriram2017cold} and "+AT" refers to the adversarial training proposed here.
AT is actually compatible with any existing end-to-end speech recognition decoding approach, so "+Both" refers to training with AT while jointly decoding with RNN-LM.
We ran all experiments three times with random initialization and reported the averaged error rate with decoding beam size set to 20.

Part (A) lists the results without extra text data.
It is  worth mentioning that even without extra text data, AT offered improvements over the baseline (rows(c) vs (a)), and the performance was further improved when integrated with RNN-LM (rows(d) vs (c)).
Parts (B) and (C) are for results respectively with 360 hours and 860 hours of unpaired text data.
We see AT lowers recognition error rate as the RNN language model do (rows(f) vs (e), (k) vs (j)) and the improvements can be accumulated (rows(g) vs (f), (l) vs (k)).
The previous work of back-translation (BT) style data augmentation~\cite{hayashi2018back}, which aimed to utilize unpaired text data as AT do, was also listed in rows (h),(i).
We see AT did better than BT under the same setting (rows (f) vs (h) and (g) vs (i)).

Fig~\ref{fig:beam} demonstrates the performance gap between different models (rows (a), (e), (f) and (g) of Table~\ref{table:comp}) with varying the beam size from 1 to 30.
The points for beam size 20 are those in Table~\ref{table:comp}.
We see that the proposed AT consistently improved the performance regardless of the beam size during decoding.
It is clear that for all beam sizes considered AT outperformed RNN-LM in terms of utilizing the extra text data (curves (f) vs (e)), and AT is compatible to  and able to offer additional improvements on top of the separately trained RNN-LM (curves (g) vs (f)).
All these verified AT proposed here is able to integrate more linguistic knowledge from unpaired text data into the ASR model.

\subsection{Experimental Setup}
\label{subsec:setting}
\vspace{-3pt}
The experiments were performed on the  LibriSpeech~\cite{panayotov2015librispeech}.
100 hours of clean speech data and their transcriptions are used as the paired data.
We took the text of other 360 hours of clean speech and 500 hours of noisy speech and utilized them as the unpaired data (text-only).
The clean development set and clean test set were used for evaluation.
We used the end-to-end speech processing toolkit ESPnet~\cite{watanabe2018espnet} for data preprocessing  and customized it for our adversarial training processes.
We followed the previous work~\cite{hori2017advances,hayashi2018back} to use 80-dimensional log Mel-filter bank and 3-dimensional pitch features as the acoustic features.
Text data are represented by sequences of 5000 subword units one-hot vectors.
For the CLM model, the dimension of the output of all layers were set to 128 except the last.
The first convolution had a window size of 2 and stride of 1, and the second had window size 3 and stride 1.
Batch normalization is applied between layers.
For the ASR model, the encoder included a 6-layer VGG extractor with downsampling used in the previous work~\cite{hori2017advances} and a 5-layer BLSTM with 320 units per direction. 300-dimensional location-aware attention~\cite{chorowski2015attention} was used in the attention layer.
The decoder was a single layer LSTM with 320 units.
$\lambda_{gp}$ was set to 10 and $\lambda_{s2s}$ is set to 0.5.
$\lambda_{CLM}$ is set to $10^{-4}$ since CLM output value was usually much higher than other loss values.
Also, the update frequency of CLM is set to 5 times less than the ASR model to stabilize AT process.

\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

With the fast advances of deep learning technologies, converting the well matured multi-module speech recognition processes~\cite{jelinek1976continuous} into a single speech-to-text model~\cite{graves2013speech} becomes highly attractive.
Such end-to-end speech recognition approaches are primarily based on two distinct models: connectionist temporal classification (CTC)~\cite{graves2006connectionist,graves2014towards,soltau2017neural} and sequence-to-sequence (Seq2seq)~\cite{bahdanau2016end,chorowski2015attention,chan2016listen} models.
By introducing an additional blank symbol and a specially defined loss function aggregating many allowed paths within a graph, CTC model can be optimized to generate the correct character sequences from the speech signals regardless of the blank symbols  interspersed among.
The seq2seq models, on the other hand, simply maximized the likelihood of observing the decoded sequence given the ground truth at every time step.
With many recent results~\cite{amodei2016deep,prabhavalkar2017comparison,chiu2017state,kim2017joint,hori2017advances} approaching the state-of-the-art, end-to-end deep learning has definitely been a very important direction for speech recognition.

Most end-to-end speech recognition approaches require a considerable amount of paired audio-text data, which is costly and time-consuming.
Semi-supervised approaches~\cite{thomas2013deep,vesely2013semi,dikici2016semi,karita2018semi} have been developed to address such problem by involving unpaired text data (which are relatively easy to obtain) in the training progress.
One approach is to utilize unpaired text data to produce a separately trained language model (LM) to rescore the output of the end-to-end approach~\cite{mikolov2010recurrent,hori2017advances,chorowski2016towards,sriram2017cold}, but at the price of extra computation during testing.
Also, in this way the unpaired text data and paired audio-text data were used separately, and the machines could not learn from them jointly.
Another approach is to back-translate (synthesize) speech signals or encoder state sequences~\cite{karita2018semi,hayashi2018back,tjandra2017listening} from the unpaired text data, so they can be jointly learned in training.
However, the improvements achievable with such approaches were limited by the quality of the synthesized data, which is usually far from real.
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The Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)~\cite{goodfellow2014generative} have been shown to be very successful in diversified application areas.
Instead of learning from a set of ground truth taken as the upper bound for learning, a generator model and a discriminator model are trained iteratively to challenge and learn from each other step by step.
In this paper, inspired by GANs, we propose a novel approach to embed the advantages of adversarial training (AT) into end-to-end speech recognition. With the proposed approach, huge quantities of unpaired text data can be utilized without a separately trained model, extra computation during testing and the shortcomings of back-translation style data augmentation.

\subsection{Criticizing Language Model (CLM)}
\label{subsec:alm}
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\noindent\textbf{Network Architecture.}
CLM takes either real text or ASR transcriptions as input and outputs a scalar $s$ as the quality score.
The real text is represented as a sequence of one-hot vectors $y=y_1,y_2,...,y_L$, while for ASR transcriptions this is a sequence of vectors for distributions $\tilde{y}=\tilde{y_1},\tilde{y_2},\tilde{y_3},...$ .
Fig.~\ref{fig:alm} illustrates an example architecture of CLM used in this work.
The input vector sequence $y$ (or $\tilde{y}$) is first projected to a lower dimensional space through a single layer neural net.
Next, two layers of one-dimensional convolution neural network extracts features for each time index.
Finally, average pooling over the time axis is applied to get a single representative feature, which is then transformed to a scalar $s$ (the quality score) with linear projection.

The reason a convolution-based network instead of a recurrent network is used in Fig~\ref{fig:alm} is twofold.
Convolution with small window size captures local relation features, which can then be averaged over time.
Also, CNN based network is relatively more computationally efficient, which is important in adversarial training.
But other network architectures such as RNN-LM~\cite{hori2017advances} can also be used here.

\noindent\textbf{Loss Function.}
A major problem here is that soft distribution vectors produced by the ASR model is very different from one-hot vectors for real text data, making the task of CLM trivial, and the ASR model almost always fail to compete against it.
Thanks to Wasserstein GAN (WGAN)~\cite{arjovsky2017wasserstein} which addressed the above problem to some good extent.
Based on the concept of WGAN, CLM is designed to estimate the \textit{Earth-Mover} (Wasserstein-1)~\cite{villani2008optimal} distance between sequences from real data and ASR output.
The loss function of CLM is the weighted sum of a loss $L_{D}$ and a gradient penalty $gp$ as follows,
\vspace{-5pt}
\begin{equation}
L_{CLM} =  \lambda_{CLM} L_{D} + \lambda_{gp}~gp,
\label{eq:L_ALM}
\vspace{-3pt}
\end{equation}
in which $\lambda_{CLM}$,$\lambda_{gp}$ are wieghts and $L_{D}$ and $gp$ are respectively in Eq~(\ref{eq:dist}) and Eq~(\ref{eq:gp}) below.
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:dist}
L_{D} = \mathop{\mathbb{E}}_{\tilde{y}\thicksim \mathbb{P}_{a}}\big[CLM(\tilde{y})\big] -
\mathop{\mathbb{E}}_{y\thicksim \mathbb{P}_{d}}\big[CLM(y)\big],
\vspace{-3pt}
\end{equation}
where $CLM(y)$ is the quality score for $y$ given by CLM,
$\mathbb{P}_{a}$ the distribution of ASR output $\tilde{y}$ and
$\mathbb{P}_{d}$ the distribution of real text $y$.
The 1-Lipschtiz restriction is imposed for CLM by applying the gradient penalty~\cite{gulrajani2017improved} as below,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:gp}
gp = \mathop{\mathbb{E}}_{\hat{y}\thicksim\mathbb{P}_{\hat{y}}} {\big[(\lVert\nabla_{\hat{y}}CLM(\hat{y})\rVert-1)^2\big]},
\vspace{-3pt}
\end{equation}
where $\hat{y}$ are samples generated by randomly interpolating between $\tilde{y}$ and $y$,
and $\mathbb{P}_{\hat{y}}$ is the distribution of $\hat{y}$.

\subsection{ASR Model}
\label{subsec:asr}
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\textbf{Network Architecture.}
Any network architecture for end-to-end speech recognition can be used here, while Fig.~\ref{fig:asr} gives the one used in this work, following the previous work~\cite{hori2017advances} of integrating attentioned Seq2seq with CTC.
The model takes a sequence of speech features $O=o_1,o_2,...,o_N$ with length $N$ as the input.
$O$ is encoded into sequence of hidden state $H=h_1,h_2,...,h_{T}$ by the encoder (consists of a VGG extractor performing input downsampling followed by several BLSTM layers) with $T$ being the output sequence length.
The decoder is a single layer LSTM maintaining its own hidden state $q$.
For each time index $t$, location-aware attention mechanism~\cite{chorowski2015attention} $Attention$ is used to integrate $H$ with the previous decoder state $q_{t-1}$ to generate the context vector $c_t$.
The decoder then decodes $c_t$ together with the ground truth one-hot vector of the previous time step $y_{t-1}$ to $q_t$.
Finally, a fully connected layer with softmax activation $CharDistribution$ takes $q_t$ and predicts the distribution vector $\tilde{y_t}$.
$h_t$ is also projected to $\check{y_t}$ with linear layer $Transform$ as output to help in learning of the encoder as shown in previous work~\cite{kim2017joint}.
The ASR model outputs two character sequences, $\tilde{y}=\tilde{y_1},\tilde{y_2},...,\tilde{y_T}$ and $\check{y}=\check{y_1},\check{y_2},...,\check{y_T}$, respectively supervised by Seq2seq loss and CTC loss.
CLM only takes $\tilde{y}$ as input.
During testing, $\tilde{y}$ and $\check{y}$ are integrated into a single output sequence just as done in the previous work~\cite{hori2017advances}.
\noindent\textbf{Seq2seq Loss.}
The Seq2seq ASR model is to estimate the posterior probability,
\vspace{-5pt}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:Seq2seq}
P_{s2s}(\tilde{y}|O) = \prod_{l=1}^{T}{P_{s2s}(\tilde{y}_l|\tilde{y}_{1:l-1},O)}.
\end{equation}

The loss function of the Seq2seq model model can be then computed as below,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:loss_att}
L_{s2s} \equiv -\log P_{s2s}(y|O) = - \sum\limits_{t=1}^{T} \log P_{s2s}(y_t|y_{1:t-1},O),
\end{equation}
except here $y=y_1,y_2,...,y_T$ is the ground truth of $O$ with length $T$.

\textbf{CTC Loss.}
CTC~\cite{graves2006connectionist} objective function is also used in this work for multi-task learning.
CTC computes the posterior probability as below,
\begin{equation}
P(y|O) = - \sum\limits_{\pi \in y'} P(\pi|O),
\vspace{-6pt}
\end{equation}
where $y'$ is the set of all possible sequences $\pi$ obtained by arbitrarily repeating symbols of $y$ and inserting blank symbols into $y$.
The probability $P(\pi|O)$ can be approximated by $\check{y}$,
\vspace{-5pt}
\begin{equation}
P(\pi|O) \approx  \prod_{t=1}^{T}{P_{ctc}(\check{y}_t|O)}.
\vspace{-6pt}
\end{equation}
The loss function of CTC is defined as:
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:loss_ctc}
L_{ctc} \equiv -\log P(y|O).
\vspace{-3pt}
\end{equation}

\noindent\textbf{Total Loss.}
The ASR model is trained by minimizing the loss function constructed with Eq~(\ref{eq:loss_att}) and (\ref{eq:loss_ctc}) minus the quality score from CLM,
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:asr_loss}
L_{ASR} = \lambda_{s2s}~L_{s2s} + (1-\lambda_{s2s})~L_{ctc} - \lambda_{CLM}~CLM(\tilde{y})
\end{equation}
where  $\lambda_{s2s}$ controls the weights for the multi-task learning between Seq2seq and CTC.
The last term in Eq~(\ref{eq:asr_loss}) is the adversarial loss from CLM, pushing the ASR model to maximize the quality score from CLM.

\section{Proposed Approach}
\label{sec:method}

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\subsection{Overview}
\vspace{-3pt}
\label{subsec:overview}
In our Adversarial Training approach to end-to-end speech recognition, the ASR model is considered as a generator conditioned on the input speech signal whose output is the corresponding transcription.
A \textit{Criticizing Language Model} (CLM) is used as a discriminator to distinguish real text from ASR transcriptions.
The ASR model and CLM are trained iteratively, so they learn from each other step by step.
Fig.~\ref{fig:overview} gives an overview of the proposed approach.

In Fig.~\ref{fig:overview}(a) for CLM training step, the CLM learns to assign higher scores to real text and lower scores to ASR transcriptions.
The real text here does not have to be paired with audio, which is how the unpaired text can be involved in the training processes.
This CLM is to evaluate the quality of each given text sequence by offering a score for adversarial purposes, with details given in Sec.~\ref{subsec:alm}.

In Fig.~\ref{fig:overview}(b) for ASR model learning step, the parameters of CLM are fixed and we train the ASR model by minimizing the sequence loss (e.g. seq2seq loss and/or CTC loss) evaluated with the ground truth just as typical end-to-end training.
At the same time, with CLM acting as a discriminator evaluating the quality score for the output of ASR model, the ASR model also has to learn to generate transcriptions obtaining higher quality scores from CLM.
The details of the ASR model is in Sec.~\ref{subsec:asr}.

Note that the ASR model and the CLM are learned iteratively both  from scratch. No pre-training is needed.
Each of them improves itself based on the challenges offered by the other in each iteration.
Once the training ends, the ASR model is expected to implicitly leverage the linguistic knowledge learned from CLM, and the latter is no longer used during testing.
This approach can be used with any existing end-to-end speech recognition frameworks and any language modeling framework.
Below we take one example set of the proposed approach to explain the details.

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Being a man-made lake, several properties were purchased by the government for the creation of Lake Arthur. Some of these properties contained burial plots. The most famous of these plots is Snyder Cemetery. The cemetery is known for its frequent hauntings that have been perceived by many different people. Other cemeteries in the area include: Davis Cemetery, Shaffer Cemetery, McCandless Cemetery, Robertson Cemetery, Horse Cemetery and many others.


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13 years old girl is thrown from Theme Park ride and dies in China
Latest News, News February 6, 2017 admin
A 13-year-old girl has died after being flung out of a fast-turning ride at an amusement park in China.
China's product safety regulator said an initial investigation showed her seat-belt had broken and a passenger safety bar did not fit tightly enough at the Chaohua Park in Fengdu county, which comes under Chongqing municipality.
Mobile phone footage carried by state media showed the girl flying out of the Travel Through Space ride on Friday afternoon as seats repeatedly spun round 360 degrees.
Media reports say she fell on to iron railings and was taken to hospital, where she died.
The West China Metropolis Daily reported on Sunday that the girl's family had reached a compensation agreement with the park for their only child's death amounting to 870,000 yuan (US $127,000).
The newspaper also said the ride had passed a routine quality inspection in December.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said it had asked Chongqing authorities to suspend all the park's large amusement facilities to "carry out checks and eliminate hidden dangers".
It also ordered companies operating the same Travel Through Space ride across the country to immediately suspend use of it and contact its Chengdu city-based manufacturer for further checks.
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Sale 16980
The David Gilmour Guitar Collection
GIBSON INCORPORATED, KALAMAZOO, 1953
A SOLID-BODY ELECTRIC GUITAR, LES PAUL
Inlaid to the headstock Gibson and silkscreened Les Paul MODEL, and ink stamped on the reverse 3 0148, with later case bearing a label inscribed GIBSON LES PAUL STANDARD 1953 GOLD #3 0148 BIGSBY; accompanied by two color photographs by guitar technician Phil Taylor of David Gilmour playing the guitar at Stanley House Studios on 21st January 2010, together with a handwritten note by Taylor on Astoria headed stationery, dated March 2010, detailing various repairs and alterations made to the guitar
Length of back 17 1/8 in. (43.4 cm.)
gilmourguitars@christies.com
This guitar was purchased in London in early 2006 as a spare for David Gilmour's On an Island Tour, which ran from 7th March to 26th August 2006. Gilmour later used the guitar during a recording session for Bryan Ferry's 2010 solo album Olympia at London's Stanley House Studios on 21st January 2010. One of numerous guest artists that contributed to the album, Gilmour can be seen playing this guitar in the documentary film The Making of Olympia, which was released with the Deluxe and Collector's editions of the album. The guitar was again enlisted as a spare for Gilmour's Rattle That Lock Tour from 5th September 2015 to 30th September 2016.
Please note lots marked with a square will be moved to Christie's Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn) on the last day of the sale. Lots are not available for collection at Christie's Fine Art Storage Services until after the third business day following the sale. All lots will be stored free of charge for 30 days from the auction date at Christie's Rockefeller Center or Christie's Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn). Operation hours for collection from either location are from 9.30 am to 5.00 pm, Monday-Friday. After 30 days from the auction date property may be moved at Christie's discretion. Please contact Post-Sale Services to confirm the location of your property prior to collection. Lots may not be collected during the day of their move to Christie's Fine Art Storage Services (CFASS in Red Hook, Brooklyn). Please consult the Lot Collection Notice for collection information.
Lots made of or including (regardless of the percentage) endangered and other protected species of wildlife are marked with the symbol ~ in the catalogue. This material includes, among other things, ivory, tortoiseshell, crocodile skin, rhinoceros horn, whalebone certain species of coral, and Brazilian rosewood. You should check the relevant customs laws and regulations before bidding on any lot containing wildlife material if you plan to import the lot into another country. Several countries refuse to allow you to import property containing these materials, and some other countries require a licence from the relevant regulatory agencies in the countries of exportation as well as importation. In some cases, the lot can only be shipped with an independent scientific confirmation of species and/or age, and you will need to obtain these at your own cost.
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2015 marks 25 years since the first Human Development Report introduced a new approach for advancing human flourishing. The expression "human development" is likely familiar; it is understood and used in different ways around the world. Measuring the human progress and well-being has itself becoming an industry: last year the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) listed over a hundred indices currently used to measure some aspect, or aspects, of human progress -wellbeing, happiness, peace.
Human development grew out of global discussions on the links between economic growth and development in the 1980s. In previous decades, GDP and economic growth emerged as leading indicator of national progress in many countries, yet GDP was never intended to be used as a measure of wellbeing. In the 1970s and 80s the development debate considered using alternative focuses, including giving greater emphasis on employment, followed by redistribution with growth, whether people had their basic needs met and structural adjustment with a human face.
These ideas helped pave the way for the human development approach, about expanding the richness of human life, rather than simply the richness of the economy in which people live.
One of the more important achievements of the human development approach, as embodied in successive Human Development Reports, has been the growing acceptance that money-metric measures, such as GDP per capita, are inadequate proxies of development. The first Human Development Report introduced the Human Development Index (HDI) as a measure of achievement in the basic dimensions of human development and it has become widely accepted in development discourse.
Over the years, some modifications and refinements have been made to the HDI. Indeed, the critics of the index and their concerns are stimulating refinements to the index and the development of companion indices which help paint a broader picture of global human development. However, the HDI has been subject to criticism that questions its validity. In this context, it is important to understand its nature and what is it and what is not.
The Human Development Index (HDI) was a pioneer and remains one of the – if not the – most influential indices in development debate. It was constructed as a focus measure, or a composite index, and as such concentrates on some basic dimensions of human development: it is an equally weighted average weighted (each dimension given the weight of 1) of a nation's longevity, education and standard of living (income per capita).
By definition, composite indices provide a single number to synthesize the state of affairs, but cannot provide a comprehensive picture of the state of human development as other measures such as Human Development Accounting does.
Three things prompted to come up with the HDI as measure:
· First, the HDI captures these basic dimensions of human development: lead a long and healthy life, acquire knowledge and have access to resources needed for a decent standard of living. Without them, many other opportunities remain inaccessible.
· Second, if only breadth measures of human development are presented, people will revert to GDP per capita for a single measure of development. The HDI changed that outlook.
· Third, for measuring human well-being, one needs as vulgar but not as narrow a measure like income per capita, which is blind to broader aspects of human lives. The HDI provides a broader measure.
Five observations are therefore quite pertinent about the HDI:
· First, the HDI is not a comprehensive measure of human development. It just focuses on the basic dimensions but does not take into account a number of other important ones.
· Second, it is composed of long-term human development outcomes. Thus it does not reflect the input efforts in terms of policies nor can it measure short-term achievements.
· Third, it shares all the limitations of composite measures. But keeping it simple ensures its acceptability, understanding and predictability.
· Fourth, the HDI is an average measure and thus masks a series of disparities and inequalities within countries. Disaggregation of the HDI in terms of gender, regions and ethnic groups can be and has been used widely for policy formulation, at the country level.
· Fifth, income enters into the HDI as a proxy for resources needed to have a decent standard of living - how it is transformed into the health and education dimensions of the HDI.
Any suggested measure for any concept cannot fully capture the richness, the breadth and the depth of the concept itself. This is true of the notion of human development as well. The HDI cannot provide a complete picture of human development in any situation. It has to be supplemented with other useful indicators (a dashboard) in order to get a more comprehensive view. However, as a focus measure, it has been successful for advocacy, for initiating healthy competition among societies and for raising awareness.
If a metaphor is used, human development accounting represents a house and the HDI is the door to the house. One should not mistake the door to be the house and one should not stop at the door, rather one should enter the house.
Selim Jahan
Human Development Report Office


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A primer on essential beauty topics, from talc contamination to biodegradability.
Everybody has a story about beauty. Some of the world's most intriguing people share theirs.
Expert beauty advice to inform and inspire.
A glimpse inside Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's world.
The Profile: Candace Marie Stewart
Everybody has a story about beauty. And in The Profile, a new evolution of Rose Inc.'s Go-See feature, some of the world's most intriguing people share theirs. In this intimate interview series, we get (virtually) up close and personal to explore their definitions of beauty, path to self-confidence, and the power of femininity. Featuring imagery shot through their own lens, The Profile presents these compelling personalities in a new light—one that illuminates their own journey, dreams, and desires while highlighting their unique relationship with beauty.
Candace Marie Stewart's professional journey has included a lot of pit stops along the way. She worked in public relations at Alexander Wang; was a manager at JPMorgan Chase; held roles at publications like Lucky, Essence, and Refinery29; and worked within companies like Barneys New York and Prada. It's in these many positions that Stewart got a sweeping view of the fashion industry—and it often involved being the only Black person in the room. Today, she works as a social media consultant by trade, but it's these experiences that inspired her to launch Black In Corporate, an organization meant to provide relief, support, and guidance for Black people working in white-majority institutions.
If Stewart looks familiar, you may have seen her in Vogue's recent Hope issue where she's recognized as an unsung hero of the fashion industry—and she's just getting started. Rose Inc. caught up with Stewart to discuss her relationship with social media, what drives her, and how her beauty rituals have morphed to serve her better during these challenging times.
RI:
It's been a life-changing year for all of us. How have you been doing?
At times, I am overwhelmingly exhausted—mentally, physically, and emotionally. However, despite all of the challenges and hardships, I am able to say I still see light at the end of the road. It is distant, but this helps me to not give up and to keep moving forward.
What were your motivations and goals when you founded Black in Corporate?
My motivation came from so many different directions, but one in particular has been the lack of Black colleagues I have seen in the corporations that I have worked in. Being "the only" for so long just becomes frustrating and I can only imagine how other Black individuals in corporate feel. Most white people will never know what it is like to work with an all-Black team and walk into a meeting with all-Black colleagues. However, Black individuals walk into white-majority environments every day and have no sense of community within a space in which they spend the majority of their time. My hope is that Black In Corporate not only provides resources for those looking for relief, support, and guidance in their corporate jobs, but also a sense of community.
As someone who is entrenched in the fashion world, what changes would you like to see prioritized within the industry?
Having executive-level managers diversified within fashion companies would be a great start. Not just one token person working in a diversion and inclusion role, but a truly diverse and inclusive C-Suite.
Are you optimistic about the future of fashion?
I am. I think it is a realistic optimism, but I am hopeful that change will happen.
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...it is a realistic optimism, but I am hopeful that change will happen.
As a social media consultant, what's your relationship like with social media outside of your work?
It is truly a love-hate relationship. There is a sense that I'm always working so I've started to implement practices that help me feel more balanced, like not sleeping with my phone and turning my 'do not disturb' on at 8 p.m. It's the little things that help me.
How has your idea of beauty and self-care changed this year?
When you think of self-care, most times we think of baths and meditation—which I'm all for—but, for me, self-care has really been about speaking up for myself and voicing my truth. Things that I might have held onto in the past, I now feel this unapologetic freedom to relinquish and let out. Whether it is in a therapy session or in a boardroom, vouching for myself is the ultimate form of self-care.
What's your earliest beauty memory?
My mother hot combing my hair in front of the stove. This was pure torture, but there is something about that smell and setting that is forever engrained in my memory.
When do you feel most confident in your beauty?
My boyfriend makes me feel like I am the only one in the room. Honestly, hearing myself say that makes me laugh, but it's true.
What is your skin-care routine like?
In the morning, I use face wash from La Roche-Posay, Chanel Hydra Beauty Micro Liquid Essence, Epi.logic Even Balance CoQ10 Facial Toning Formula, and the brand's Eye Contact 360 Night Repair Cream. In the evening, I start with Epi.logic Brightening Glycolic Gel wash then use Aesop Facial Toner, Epi.logic Collagen Renew Growth Factor Serum, and Murad Intensive C Radiance peel.
What about your hair? What does a wash day look like for you?
The days change based on how I do my hair. Most recently, for my twists, I section my hair into fours and wash each section twice with Shea Moisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil shampoo. The first is always for cleanliness and the second is to detangle. Once I am finished, I towel dry and work Brown Butter Beauty's Detangling Leave In Conditioner into each section. I then apply Carol's Daughter Mimosa Hair Honey and black castor oil as I create smaller sections. Finally, I twist in the braiding hair.
Who do you look to for hairstyle inspiration?
Solange is the ultimate hair goals for me.
Are there any beauty looks or styles you've been wanting to try, but aren't yet ready to take on?
I've often wondered about completely shaving my head, but I'm too nervous to try it...
What beauty rituals have you created for yourself?
I'm a huge fan of my bathtub; it's how I wind down at the end of each day. I light a candle, turn town the lights, add extra bubbles, and sometimes add flowers to the end of the tub. It has truly been my perfect ritual for years.
Where do you want to be in a few years?
For now, I'm working hard, being kind to others, and letting opportunities flow.


When your looking to Start Up a new business make sure you know all the facts, advantages and disadvantages so you can truly make an informed decision on whether or not to purchase or start up. Similar to buying your home, you do due diligence and conduct a building and pest inspecting, council checks etc and you must ensure you do the same for your business venture.
On of the first steps on improving your profit comes down to having the right foundations, accurate numbers and key measurements in a timely manner so you know what is currently happening now.
From there you are able to regularly review and monitor and make changes quickly to improve your profit and get more return from your business in your pocket.
Improving efficiencies is one of the most overlook opportunities in business, but with regular meetings, monitoring and implementation of your strategies you can quickly see improvements to your profits.
Will your business plans put you on the road to achieving better business growth? Many businesses fail because of poor planning. There are an abundance of opportunities to grow any business you just need to act on the right ones which attract your target audience/clientele.
It is imperative you manage, monitor and measure your growth successes to adapt and pivot to an ever changing market to ensure maximum return on your strategies.
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You will receive personalised advice on the structure that best suits your needs as there are advantages and disadvantages of different structures and when to use the right structure.
As a business owner you need to understand the potential risks associated with your assets. One of our key objectives at KEYPOINT is to continually review your position to ensure your assets are protected and stay in your hands in the future.
So who is the Risk taker and Asset holder in your group structure? Are your assets exposed?
To be wealthy simply means you can afford your lifestyle. How much that is varies from person to person. If you sometimes worry if your investments will support you when your income from work stops, take the first step and meet with our professional wealth adviser, Reine Clemow at Keypoint Wealth. Contact us today so we can help you build more wealth for a brighter future.
A good succession plan will help your business transition smoothly to the new owner. It clearly outlines your timeframe, expected sales value and who is your targeted purchaser.
It is highly recommended to plan your exit early, the sooner the better. That way you have time on your side to maximise the value of your business for sale.
Once your timeline is set you can then clearly set measurable targets to reach your businesses full market potential for sale.
It is important to know who your targeted purchaser is, being your family, an investor, a new working owner or your business team. There are many different strategies and planning solutions depending on your ideal purchaser. In addition the funding of the sale varies from purchaser to purchaser so knowing your likely funding options for sale is also critical as this may be your main source for retirement or funding for your new business venture. So get planning today!
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Friends! I have missed you so. First, I'm truly sorry for the delay in putting up this post; senior year has turned out to be far more hectic than I anticipated. Here are a few highlights from this past month: I almost got hustled by a monk in the city, someone pulled a tree out of the garden in my apartment complex at the first big party of the semester (yes, a tree; our landlord was THRILLED) and of course attempting, somewhat unsuccesfully, to avoid senioritis. It's been a fun month, but I've missed writing for you guys dearly so I'm herby promising not to let that much time lapse between posts again! P.S. to keep up with my ridiculous life on a more daily basis be sure to follow me on Instagram @loansandlouboutins. Now, all this fun has led to this chick bringing broke betch to a whole new level (pasta all night errynight). This was particularly problematic when I was decorating my apartment so I decided to get a little crafty with my jewelry storage. Check out how I took a junky storage container and an old Lilly Pulitzer planner to create an adorable jewelry box!
So I found this little storage container while cleaning out my room over the summer. I'm not sure when I decided to decorate this box with butterfly and shamrock stickers but lets just say it's not so cute for a 20-year-old. I figured I would just toss it, been then I realized I needed something to keep my jewelry in at school and that's when this idea struck me. My Lilly Pulitzer planner from last year had so many cute pages that I wanted to use for a project, and this was the perfect opportunity!
If you guys have read any of my previous craft posts you know I generally go into these projects thinking they'll be super easy and end up wanting to pull my hair out 2 hours later. This project was much different ,however, the ease of it still didn't stop me from a glass or two of wine; a crafting essential in my book. All that I really needed to do was pick which patterns from the planner I wanted to use and cut them to the measurements of the box.
At this point all I had to do was tape the patterns to the box and voila! I had my very own Lilly Pulitzer jewelry box! I decided to line the drawers of the box with the patterns as well for a fun little punch of color when I pull something out to wear. The best part of this project was that it didn't cost a thing and it had relatively no cleanup required. The lazy girl in me was pleased with how an hour of work turned this junky storage container into a designer jewelry box!
I'm so glad you liked the idea! I still have a bunch of pages left in the planner so stay tuned for future Lilly crafts!


I am still getting over the initial shock. The innocent looking letter arrived from my doctor on April 11th. I quickly opened it, read through it and everything looked pretty normal. Test results … all negative. Except one. My Hemoglobin A1c was elevated. It is a blood test that is used to monitor the control of blood sugars.
It indicated that I had type 2 diabetes.
I had two choices. Do nothing and the insulin shots and medication would soon follow. Or IMMEDIATELY change my eating habits, exercise and permanently change my lifestyle.
Listen to today's show and find out what I did next.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe GopkgParser do
  let(:parser){ GopkgParser.new }
  let(:test_content){ File.read 'spec/fixtures/files/golang/Gopkg.toml' }

  let(:prod1){
    Product.new(
      language: Product::A_LANGUAGE_GO,
      prod_type: Project::A_TYPE_GODEP,
      prod_key:  'github.com/Masterminds/semver',
      name: 'github.com/Masterminds/semver',
      version: '2.0.0'
    )
  }

  let(:prod2){
    Product.new(
      language: Product::A_LANGUAGE_GO,
      prod_type: Project::A_TYPE_GODEP,
      prod_key:  'github.com/Masterminds/vcs',
      name: 'github.com/Masterminds/vcs',
      version: '1.11.0'
    )
  }

  let(:prod3){
    Product.new(
      language: Product::A_LANGUAGE_GO,
      prod_type: Project::A_TYPE_GODEP,
      prod_key:  'github.com/go-yaml/yaml',
      name: 'github.com/go-yaml/yaml',
      version: '2.3.0'
    )
  }

  let(:prod4){
    Product.new(
      language: Product::A_LANGUAGE_GO,
      prod_type: Project::A_TYPE_GODEP,
      prod_key:  'github.com/pelletier/go-toml',
      name: 'github.com/pelletier/go-toml',
      version: '1.4.0'
    )
  }

  let(:prod5){
    Product.new(
      language: Product::A_LANGUAGE_GO,
      prod_type: Project::A_TYPE_GODEP,
      prod_key:  'github.com/pkg/errors',
      name: 'github.com/pkg/errors',
      version: '0.8.0'
    )
  }

  context "parse_content" do
    before do
      prod1.save
      prod2.save
      prod3.save
      prod4.save
      prod5.save
    end

    it "parses testfile correctly" do
      proj = parser.parse_content test_content
      expect(proj).not_to be_nil
      expect(proj.dependencies.size).to eq(5)

      dep1 = proj.dependencies[0]
      expect(dep1).not_to be_nil
      expect(dep1[:language]).to eq(prod1[:language])
      expect(dep1[:prod_key]).to eq(prod1[:prod_key])
      expect(dep1[:version_label]).to eq('2.x')
      expect(dep1[:version_requested]).to eq('0.0.0+NA')
      expect(dep1[:outdated]).to be_truthy

      dep2 = proj.dependencies[1]
      expect(dep2).not_to be_nil
      expect(dep2[:language]).to eq(prod2[:language])
      expect(dep2[:prod_key]).to eq(prod2[:prod_key])
      expect(dep2[:version_label]).to eq('1.11.0')
      expect(dep2[:version_requested]).to eq('0.0.0+NA')
      expect(dep2[:outdated]).to be_truthy

      dep3 = proj.dependencies[2]
      expect(dep3).not_to be_nil
      expect(dep3[:language]).to eq(prod3[:language])
      expect(dep3[:prod_key]).to eq(prod3[:prod_key])
      expect(dep3[:version_label]).to eq('v2')
      expect(dep3[:version_requested]).to eq('0.0.0+NA')
      expect(dep3[:outdated]).to be_truthy

      dep4 = proj.dependencies[3]
      expect(dep4).not_to be_nil
      expect(dep4[:language]).to eq(prod4[:language])
      expect(dep4[:prod_key]).to eq(prod4[:prod_key])
      expect(dep4[:version_label]).to eq('master')
      expect(dep4[:version_requested]).to eq('0.0.0+NA')
      expect(dep4[:outdated]).to be_truthy

      dep5 = proj.dependencies[4]
      expect(dep5).not_to be_nil
      expect(dep5[:language]).to eq(prod5[:language])
      expect(dep5[:prod_key]).to eq(prod5[:prod_key])
      expect(dep5[:version_label]).to eq('0.8.0')
      expect(dep5[:version_requested]).to eq('0.0.0+NA')
      expect(dep5[:outdated]).to be_truthy

    end
  end

end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Update (2011/09/05): Updated the instructions for cfengine 3.2.0, cygwin 1.7.9, and tested them on a clean cygwin install.
Installing the cfengine community edition under Windows (the commercial version includes native Windows support) is fairly easy under cygwin, you just need to have the appropriate dependencies installed. Here's how I did it.
To install these, run cygwin's setup.exe, search for each packages in turn, and install them. Make sure you agree to install any additional packages that are listed as dependencies (setup.exe will ask you about it).
That should be it. Remember that there is some functionality missing in the community edition under Windows (for example, userexists() does not return correct results). If you want full Windows support (including native features like registry editing, etc.) you have to use the commercial edition of cfengine. But for most purposes, the community edition works just fine.
If you have different experiences, or with different versions of Windows, please let me know! I'll update these instructions as needed.
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The Witch Doctor's Market is located in southwest corner of Mercado Modelo of Chiclayo city. The brujos (witch doctors), curanderos (healers) and shamans sell tonics, hallucinogenic beverages, aromatic herbs, amulets and more, and they make traditional medicine treatments, also read cards, guess the future or move away the bad spirits. Ancestral knowledge of the curative properties of plants has permitted Peruvian healers to develop a veritable pharmacopoeia as part of man's religious integration with nature. A "chamico" (Datura stramonium) tea is recommended to combat asthma while quinine, an extract of the "quina" or "cascarilla" (Cinchona officinalis) is a sure remedy against malaria. Kidney and gall bladder stones can be dissolved drinking a beverage made with "cola de caballo" (Andropogon bicornis) or "chancapiedra" (literally "stone crusher", or Phyllanthus niruri). Meanwhile, jacaranda (Jacaranda acutifolia) and "huamanripa" (Laccopetalum giganteum) have proven effectiveness against bronchial conditions. "Matico" (Piper adumcum) is an anti-inflammatory and "tara" (Caesalpina spinosa) leaves are an effective anti-diarrheic. "Uña de gato" (Uncaria tomentosa) acts as an inhibitor of cancer cells and valerian (Valeriana pinnatifida) prevents epilepsy and cures insomnia.