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How one CPG brand built a business on Amazon
March 27, 2019 | By Hilary Milnes
Amazon's rocked the boat for its vendor partners over the past month, but not all brands selling on the platform are reconsidering their relationship with the platform.
Colavita, a CPG company selling Italian-sourced products like olive oil, tomato sauce, pastas and chocolates, launched an e-commerce store 15 years ago that served primarily as a marketing tool for customers searching for Italian olive oils and related products online. It didn't drive considerable sales. Colavita USA CEO Giovanni Colavita said that he had to rethink the brand's e-commerce strategy when he came to the realization that people don't shop for grocery products piecemeal online.
"We're not a supermarket, and our dot com would never become a one-stop shop," said Colavita. "So I stopped investing in our own e-commerce site, and launched on Amazon and Jet.com and other online partners."
At the time, the brand's priority was to raise customer awareness by appearing on major platforms. But, Colavita said, e-commerce sales dramatically increased, beginning in 2014, driven by results on Amazon.
Colavita's key stats:
Colavita's olive oil is now the top-selling olive oil on Amazon.
E-commerce sales now account for around 20 percent of the Colavita Group's total $250 million in annual sales.
The company expects to see e-commerce sales increase in the triple digits this year, brick and mortar sales to increase by 10 percent, and meal kit sales to double.
Colavita said that he attributes the brand's success on Amazon and other e-commerce sites, like HelloFresh, to organizing a "non-traditional" retail team around e-commerce and social media and marketing efforts as soon as the company began investing in selling there. It didn't wait until the product took off online to build a team around the digital business. In 2010, as soon as Colavita put products on Amazon and other e-commerce platforms, it began building its online retail team: According to Colavita, the brand hired an SEO manager, a graphic designer, and a full social media and digital marketing team.
The brand also made the decision to sell directly to Amazon as a vendor, a move that Colavita said ensured that everything shipped to customers was packaged properly and in a way that would survive the delivery journey. Also critical was preparing both manufacturing and e-commerce teams for unanticipated growth: Orders could vary from 10 cases to 1,000 cases from week to week — hinting at the unpredictable cost of doing business on Amazon — so order fulfillment was sourced openly, from wherever product was available.
Colavita said putting together a nimble e-commerce team that could work with and optimize the Amazon business was critical in protecting the brand from a future where, for example, Amazon could flip a switch and change how it works with vendors.
"Regardless of whether you're running your own e-commerce or not, you need to have a team in place first that can handle e-commerce," said Colavita. "That's not a traditional team. You will never succeed online with traditional sales and customer service — it's like trying to do business in two different countries, with one team." — Hilary Milnes
Measuring the power of Amazon
Feedvisor released a study last week that measured Amazon's impact on online shoppers. The 2019 Amazon Consumer Behavior Report sheds light on how influential Amazon, and Prime, is on the shopping journey.
Amazon owns online: 66 percent of customers typically start their search for new products on Amazon, and 95 percent are satisfied with Amazon search results. When consumers are ready to buy a specific product, 74 percent go to Amazon to do so.
And Prime wins: Prime eligibility is a significant factor for 67 percent of customers when choosing to purchase a product on Amazon, and 75 percent of Prime members search specifically for Prime-eligible items on Amazon.
Ads are helping: 73 percent of daily or almost daily online shoppers have clicked on an Amazon product ad while browsing the web, and 83 percent ultimately purchased the product.
Consumers are eager for more brands to have a presence on Amazon: Of the consumers who shop on Amazon daily, 100 percent at least occasionally go to Amazon in search of products from specific brands. However, only 41 percent strongly agree that they are satisfied with the number of brands they know on Amazon.
Our data says you want fries with that
McDonald's has acquired marketing technology company Dynamic Yield for $300 million, a marked investment in machine learning and big data for the fast-food chain. Dynamic Yield's data technology tracks patterns in customer purchasing behavior to offer up related suggested items at checkout for people shopping online. McDonald's, which serves 68 million people in 120 countries, plans to use Dynamic Yield's technology to crunch information and strategic decisions out of the massive amount of customer data that flows through touchpoints like in-store, drive-thru and online ordering.
McDonald's is likely to set off a string of copycat acquisitions as brands and retailers begin to accept that when it comes to machine learning and data processing, it's faster to buy than to build, and buying it means that brands no longer need to rely on third-party data. There's evidence of this type of purchase playing out positively in the market already: Kroger's grown its Precision Marketing business off the back of its 2015 acquisition of 84.51, Dunnhumby's technology assets. In November, beauty retailer Ulta purchase two AI and augmented reality startups, QM Scientific and GlamST, as it looks to own a piece of the tech direction that cosmetics is headed in.
"Major brands are investing in a variety of areas, including data and technology solutions, to deliver more tailored and unique consumer experiences in-store and online. For McDonald's specifically, this acquisition shows their continued efforts to move in a customer-first direction and to improve the buyer experience by providing a higher level of convenience and personalization," said Kelly Davis-Felner, head of North America Marketing at Bazaarvoice. "McDonald's taking the technology in-house to collect their own data may point to their leadership in delivering a personalized experience. The key is using this data in meaningful and relevant ways that improve the customer experience." — Hilary Milnes
The Care/of expansion strategy
Monthly vitamin subscription service Care/of announced this week that it's releasing a line of protein and nutrition powders — the company's first new product line since launching in 2016. It's a logical extension to give the company another entry point into the booming wellness space. Care/of CEO Craig Elbert spoke with Digiday more about how it's marketing the new product line, and the company's plans for 2019. Care/of has taken on $44 million in venture capital funding in total, and Elbert said the company's revenue grew 5x in 2018.
Quizzes: A key component of Care/of's strategy, the company asks customers to take a quiz before recommending specific vitamins (and now protein powders to them). Elbert said that more than 2 million customers have taken Care/of's quiz since 2016. The quiz asks potential customers questions about how often they currently take vitamins, whether they're looking to take vitamins to improve the health of a specific organ, like their hair or skin, as well as diet and exercise habits. The quiz then spits out a recommendation of vitamins to take (fish oil, magnesium), as well as a summary of what research shows about the benefits of that vitamin or nutritional supplement.
Elbert said that the goal of Care/of's quiz is to "make complex problems — human nutrition and academic research — as simple and straightforward as possible." But: it's also a valuable data gathering exercise. It mixes in nutritional questions with questions about how a customer heard of the company, and how often they're willing to take vitamins or nutritional supplements.
Marketing: Elbert said that Care/of relies on podcast sponsorships, direct mail, and deals with influencers to spread the word about the product.
2019 plans: Elbert said that one of the things Care/of is focused on this year is "keeping an eye on other ways to incorporate more convenience into a person's wellness routine." Translation: Care/of seems committed to the subscription model, and is exploring other wellness products that people will want on a regular basis.
Other news to know
Glossier has hired Elle.com editor Leah Chernikoff as its head of content, who will oversee all brand content as well as content on Into the Gloss, Glossier's sister blog.
Amazon is opening 100 kiosks at malls in India, where it will sell Amazon-branded tech products.
Tommy Hilfiger's Fifth Avenue store is officially closed.
CVS will start selling CBD products in stores.
What we've covered
Wayfair finds a home: The online furniture retailer is opening its first permanent store outside of Boston.
Just download it: Nike's app is driving direct sales in Nike stores.
Full circle: DTC brands are acting like traditional brands.
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How The Trade Desk went from media agency BFF to frenemy
Google is increasingly turning to resellers as it conducts the largest round of layoffs in its history
Business of TV
Disney plans to extend Hulu's ad targeting options to Disney+'s ad tier
With TikTok's growing list of issues, should marketers think twice about the platform?
GroupM confirms layoffs of staffers across N. America, EMEA regions
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The real question Snap faces is whether adding AR elements to its platform will help it continue growing in the face of competition and uncertainty.
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Why digital clutter is driving brands to rethink the value of newspapers advertising
GE, Equinox, Take 5 Oil and agency TBWA New York are among those investing in newspaper ads to generate social media buzz in an ever-more cluttered digital environment.
How ad tech is tackling waste by optimizing supply chains
Sponsored by Bidtellect The programmatic and digital advertising industry is well aware of the inefficiencies in buying and selling — from auction duplication and volume bias to multi-integrations and reselling — but how did it get this out of control? How can we fix it? A redundant, multiple-step process to ad delivery has become the norm, […]
The 'retirement' of M&M spokescandies raises questions about viral marketing, edgy content
Marketers have mixed feelings and questions about the value of viral, stunt marketing after M&M's "retirement" of its spokescandies.
There is a growing list of issues that TikTok needs to resolve, but marketers seem unfazed and continue to be enthralled by the platform.


The House of Representatives voted 369 to 64 late on Wednesday, December 2, to approve the Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal education law which will replace the No Child Left Behind Act. The bill now goes to the Senate for their approval as soon as next week, then to the President by year end for his signature.
On Monday, November 30, House and Senate education committee leaders released the final legislative language of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the bipartisan bill that will replace the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
This legislation is scheduled to go to the House floor for final consideration this afternoon (Dec. 2) , then to the Senate for a final vote next week. President Obama is expected to sign the bill into law by year end. NSTA has endorsed the bill (read the press release here), as have many other groups, including the National Governors Association.
Two key highlights of interest from the bill: The new bill eliminates the NCLB highly qualified teacher requirement. States are no longer required by the federal government to do teacher evaluations using student outcomes (although they could elect to do this). A $1.6 billion block grant (Title II) consolidates a number of programs, including the Math and Science Partnership program. However, there are funding opportunities for STEM teacher professional development, leadership training, grants for performance pay and differential pay, and alternative cert programs throughout the bill available to both states and districts.
Links to articles and the text of the legislation, and a longer synopsis of the STEM initiatives in the Every Student Succeeds Act are below. More to come in the weeks ahead as this legislation FINALLY moves to the finish line.
Read the ED Week article on the bill here.
Jodi Peterson is Assistant Executive Director of Legislative Affairs for the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and Chair of the STEM Education Coalition. e-mail Jodi at jpeterson@nsta.org; follow her on Twitter at @stemedadvocate.
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It's not unusual at all for people who don't write to imagine that this is what writers do all the time–or at least what they do full time. How I–and thousands of other writers!–wish that were so. Alas, it isn't for most of us. But if you're curious about the work that absorbs most of my time, my work that, from August to April,is not only my day job, but my night job and my weekend job, click here.
My work for the Bluegrass Writers Studio is what pays the bills so I can spend the precious summer months in my writing cave.
It's that time of year again, when the weather in most of the United States is turning toward the dry and cold–FUDGE-MAKING TIME!
I posted this recipe last year, but here it is again, in case you missed it. This is the fudge–at least it is in my imagination–that Bertie makes in Chapter Seven of The Sisters in anticipation of Alma's Christmas visit. The flavor of black walnuts permeates everything it comes near–which makes the black walnut the perfect signature nut for Bertie. If you dislike the flavor of black walnuts, you can substitute any other nut, but if you don't like nuts at all (say it isn't so!) you can leave them out altogether and still come away with a devastatingly dark chocolate fudge.


"For too long, we have been like every other Applebee's—actually, more like Home Town Buffet, because we do focus on quantity of life over quality. Why offer a full plate of handmade pasta when unlimited Mac 'n Cheese sitting in a trough for six hours will do? I apologize for the analogies, but there was a delay flying in my lobster lunch from Maine paired with a white Burgundy, so I'm starving.
Because that impressive speech really didn't explain anything, our timid reporter asked for clarification.
This truly will make the Mill Valley campus stand out, at least until sister hospitals in Napa Valley hear about the changes, or the Mexican campuses launch a similar program with Tequila. However, it is a brave new step to recover individual hospital identity, one greatly appreciated by the sheepish crucifixes from Catholic hospitals bought out by their Baptist counterparts.


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Sequius De la Torre
Lea Steiner
Originally from Mexico, I had the opportunity to live in different cities within Mexico. From a very young age I was fascinated by architecture. I could see that it had its own language through its shapes and colors, that it could tell stories and witness many events and have its own personality. While studying architecture, I learned that it can also transmit feelings and emotions. Pritzker Prize Award-winning architect Luis Barragan said, "I believe in the emotional architecture, it is very important for humanity that stirs architecture for its beauty." This quote impacted me, compelling me to design every structure so that it conveys beauty and gives identity to its city and place.
One of my passions is travel. I explore a new city by immersing myself in the culture, customs, and traditions of the community. Because I view architecture as a catalyst for connecting people, I seek to blend my architectural concepts with local concepts in ways that improve quality of life for all who use the space.
At 3ten we have no limit to create and provide new ideas for our clients who crave new concepts that identify them and give them authenticity in their projects.

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Q: PCA: How to get PC2 and PC3 scores? How I can get the score of PC2 and PC3 (Dim2 and Dim3)? I run this code which generated a graph with only PC1 and PC2 scores.
library("FactoMineR")
library("factoextra")
mydata<- read.csv("mussels.csv", TRUE, ",")
mydata[is.na(mydata)]=0
attach(mydata)
X=cbind (As, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Zn)
summary(X)
cor(X)

res.pca <- princomp(X, scores=TRUE, cor=TRUE)
summary(res.pca)

fviz_pca_var(res.pca, col.var="contrib",
         gradient.cols = c("#00AFBB", "#E7B800", "#FC4E07"),
         repel = TRUE # Avoid text overlapping
)

A: Unfortunately, I do not have your data to work with. I'll solve your problem using iris dataset:
library("FactoMineR")
library("factoextra")

res.pca <- princomp(iris[, 1:4], scores=TRUE, cor=TRUE)
summary(res.pca)

fviz_pca_var(res.pca, col.var="contrib",
             gradient.cols = c("#00AFBB", "#E7B800", "#FC4E07"),
             repel = TRUE, # Avoid text overlapping
             axes = c(2, 3) # choose PCs to plot
)

Notice that I just used axes = c(2, 3) argument inside fviz_pca_var function in order to plot the principal components I want.

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Q: Do you always win sieges in EU4 if there is no intrerruption? I am playing the EU4 demo and I am confused about sieges. I saw a youtube video where the player said that 2000 infantry is enough for a siege. I have several questions about this:

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*If 2000 infantry are sieging a province, will they win eventually no matter what? (unless of course they are defeated by another army)

*If I have more troops, will they win the siege faster?

*The attackers and defenders both have a morale bar in the siege window. Is the win condition getting the enemy's morale to zero?

A: 2000 is enough for any province without fortification. It will take around 1 month game time. There is attrition, meaning that your force may lose men. Since 1000 is the minimum needed, 1000 men could easily become 999, so 2000 avoids this potential problem.
If there is fortification, things are completely different. First of all, 2000 is never enough. How many men you need depends on the fortification level and ranges from 3000 to around 20k. (Again, bring a few more because of attrition). Adding more troops beyond the minimum is useless and usually bad because of attrition (cannons are an exception).
In addition, fortified provinces are not taken over within 1 month usually. You need to win a dice roll, of which you have around 1 per month. The outcome of the dice depends on many factors. You can see the chance to win the siege as a percentage. Some of them are:

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*the level of the fortification (a small fort has a small malus while a large star fort has a very high malus)

*the number of cannons in your army (more is better, but there is a limit)

*the siege ability of the leader of your army, if present (more is better)

*access to the sea, modified by blockade of this access

*a few other things

*a timer, that increases over time and after a long time gives an extremely high bonus

The time increases faster the higher the sum of bonuses minus maluses is, you should always try to provide full force instead of simply waiting it out with minimum forces.
For your planning, if the percentage is x%, you will probably win the siege within 100/x turns. For instance, with 20% chance it will probably take 100/20 - 5 turns. 1 turn is around 1 month, the exact span depends on many things.
If you need to reduce your available manpower very quickly(*), you can also assault the castle under certain conditions. For that you need a lot of men. You will lose a ridiculous number of men (something like losing 17k men against a defending garrison of 1200 is not unusual). If either the morale bar or the number of (only foot, not horse) men of one faction become zero, the battle is over.
(*) That was a joke. Do not do this.

A: To expand on mafus excellent answer with some more numbers:

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*The dice you roll is between 1 and 14, whereas rolling a 1 results in a disease outbreak in the besiegers camp, killing 5% of the troops.

*the dice result is roll + leader modifier + artillery modifier + blockade status - fort level + wall breach + obsolete fort level + garrison bonus + siege status modifier

*the dice result means the following:

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*under 4 - nothing happens

*5-11 - +1 siege status and -1% garrison

*12-13 - +2 siege status, -3% garrison

*14-15 - +3 siege status, -5% garrison

*16-19 - +2 siege status, -10% garrison

*20+ - surrender, attacker wins

*The percentage nubmer shown on the interface is the chance of the final dice result being 20+

*How the modifiers are determined

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*Leader - 0-6, depending on their siege stat

*The artillery bonus adds between 1 and 5 (or up to 8 with napoleonic warfare). The exact number depends on the fort level and the number of cannons you bring. however a single cannon regiment will always add +1

*Blockade - if a province is coastal, blockade is a -2 modifier, if the province isn't blockaded by ships. Otherwise it's a +2. So, that's a swing of four depending on sea control.

*Fort level - Between -2 (a castle) and -8 (a fortress). The capital province always a level 1 fort, though.

*Obsolete fort bonus - If you can build better forts than you are sieging, you get this bonus, +1 per level difference. E.g., when you can build a fortress and siege a bastion you get a +2

*Garrison bonus - If the forts garrison is at less than half strength, this is a +1 bonus

*Walls breached - adds +2. A breach occurs when roll + artillery bonus/3 + max fort level/10 > 14. Alternatively you can spend 50 military points to force a breach with an artillery barrage.

*The turn timer maru described as "about a month" depends on the attackers siege ability and the defenders fort defense as well as the tactics difference. The time is 30 days + fort defense percent - seige ability percent +/- 6.25% per 0.25 tactics difference.

*The siege only progresses when the attacker outnumbers the garrison at least 3:1. Note, that the attacker constantly suffers attrition. If the attackers numbers fall below that threshhold, siege progress immediately stops.

*Assaulting is, as maru says, generally a bad idea, but do consider it vs very lightly defended forts (less than 500 men garrison).


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Q: How to handle Many-To-Many Relation with existed data in Hibernate I had three table i.e,personalinfo,groups_designation,groups_desig_category

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*personalinfo:pid(personal id)

*groups_designation:gid(group id)

*groups_desig_category:gid,pid

Actually I have data in both table's (personalinfo,groups_designation).So we have provide one screen.In that,The user selects the group and assign personal id and the data pulled  into groups_desig_category table.In this scenario,i mapped like
Personal.hbm.xml:-

<set name="empwthgrp" inverse="true" lazy="true"  table="groups_desig_category">
 <key>
    <column name="pid" not-null="true" />
  </key>

            <many-to-many entity-name="com.aims.beans.DesignationGroupBean">
                <column name="gid" not-null="true" />
            </many-to-many>

</set>

Personal.java:-
/**
 *
 */
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private int pid,deptno;
private String name,designation;
private Address address;
private Address permentaddress;
private Set famildtlslst;
private Set empwthgrp=new HashSet();
public Set getEmpwthgrp() {
    return empwthgrp;
}
public void setEmpwthgrp(Set empwthgrp) {
    this.empwthgrp = empwthgrp;
}
public Set getFamildtlslst() {
    return famildtlslst;
}
public void setFamildtlslst(Set famildtlslst) {
    this.famildtlslst = famildtlslst;
}
public Address getPermentaddress() {

    return permentaddress;
}
public void setPermentaddress(Address permentaddress) {

    this.permentaddress = permentaddress;
}
public Address getAddress() {

    return address;
}
public void setAddress(Address address) {
    this.address = address;
}
public int getDeptno() {
    return deptno;
}
public void setDeptno(int deptno) {
    this.deptno = deptno;
}
public String getName() {
    return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}
public int getPid() {
    return pid;
}
public void setPid(int pid) {
    this.pid = pid;
}
public String getDesignation() {
    return designation;
}
public void setDesignation(String designation) {
    this.designation = designation;
}

GroupingDesig.hbm.xml:-
<class name="beans.DesignationGroupBean" table="groups_designation" proxy=beans.DesignationGroupBean">

<id name="gid" column="gid" type="java.lang.Integer">
 <generator class="sequence"><param name="sequence">gid_seq</param> </generator>
</id>
<property name="gname"  type="java.lang.String" column="gname" not-null="true" />
<property name="description"  type="java.lang.String" column="description" not-null="true" />
<set name="grpwthemp" inverse="true" lazy="true" table="groups_desig_category">
 <key>
    <column name="gid" not-null="true" />
  </key>
             <many-to-many entity-name="com.aims.beans.Personal">
                <column name="pid" not-null="true" />
            </many-to-many>
</set>
</class>

DesignationGroupBean.java:-
private int gid;
private String gname,description;
private Set grpwthemp=new HashSet();
public Set getGrpwthemp() {
    return grpwthemp;
}
public void setGrpwthemp(Set grpwthemp) {
    this.grpwthemp = grpwthemp;
}
public String getDescription() {
    return description;
}
public void setDescription(String description) {
    this.description = description;
}
public int getGid() {
    return gid;
}
public void setGid(int gid) {
    this.gid = gid;
}
public String getGname() {
    return gname;
}
public void setGname(String gname) {
    this.gname = gname;
}

Actually I trying session.saveOrUpdate(pBean).But its not working.May be can change one-to many and many-to-one instead of many-to-many relation.I think it is not suitable in this scenario.So,How to handle in this scenario?.If you using reverse engineering then it created as one-to-many and many-to-one relation? why?.Please help me.
Update:-
I am implemented in one-to-many and many-to-one relation hibernate whereas in database its many-to-many relation.then Its working fine and below pasted the hibernate mapping files with one-to-many relation ship
GroupingDesig.hbm.xml:-
<set name="grpwthemp" inverse="true" lazy="true" table="groups_desig_category">
 <key>
    <column name="gid" not-null="true" />
  </key>
                <one-to-many class="com.aims.beans.GroupAssignment"/>

           <!--  <many-to-many entity-name="com.aims.beans.Personal">
                <column name="pid" not-null="true" />
            </many-to-many>-->

</set>

Personal.hbm.xml
<set name="empwthgrp" inverse="true" lazy="true"  table="groups_desig_category">
 <key>
    <column name="pid" not-null="true" />
  </key>
    <one-to-many class="com.aims.beans.GroupAssignment"/>

            <!--
            <many-to-many entity-name="com.aims.beans.DesignationGroupBean">
                <column name="gid" not-null="true" />
            </many-to-many>-->

</set>

AssigGroupingDesig.hbm.xml:-
<many-to-one name="personal" column="pid" class="com.aims.beans.Personal" not-null="true"></many-to-one>
<many-to-one name="desigdt" column="gid" class="com.aims.beans.DesignationGroupBean" not-null="true"></many-to-one>

When will be came picture the  relation ship?.I have search many-to-many relation example's in web i.e,.
Mykong many-to-many
Please help me.My Question is when will be came/used many-to-many relation ship in real time?.
Update 2:-
Thanks.Removing the inverse tag its working fine.But i have doubt regarding generation of deleting the query.Please check the logs
 /* load com.beans.Personal */ select personal0_.pid as pid0_, personal0_.name as name5_0_, personal0_.DEPTNO as DEPTNO5_0_, personal0_.designation as designat4_5_0_, personal0_.pddress1 as pddress5_5_0_, personal0_.pddress2 as pddress6_5_0_, personal0_.pcity as pcity5_0_, personal0_.pstate as pstate5_0_, personal0_1_.HomeAddress1 as HomeAddr2_7_0_, personal0_1_.HomeAddress2 as HomeAddr3_7_0_, personal0_1_.homecity as homecity7_0_, personal0_1_.homestate as homestate7_0_ from personalinfo personal0_, address personal0_1_ where personal0_.pid=personal0_1_.pid and personal0_.pid=?

delete collection com.beans.Personal.empwthgrp */ delete from groups_desig_category where pid=?

insert collection row com.beans.Personal.empwthgrp */ insert into groups_desig_category (pid, gid) values (?, ?)

why generating the "delete from groups_desig_category where pid=?".Plz help me
Update 3:-
Yes.Iam loading the data using session.get.becuase i got exception regarding the some of mandatory fields.that is reason i loaded the data then update the records
          per=(Personal)session.get(Personal.class,new Integer(pBean.getPid()));
    per.setEmpwthgrp(pBean.getEmpwthgrp());
    session.saveOrUpdate(per);

A: In your many-to-many mappings, you set both of them to inverse. You need to choose one entity that will own the relationship - for that one, in the mapping, you will remove the inverse="true" setting. That will be the entity that, when saved or updated, will persist the person to group relationship.
Since in your question you posted saveOrUpdate(pBean), and I assume pBean is Personal entity, then you need to remove the inverse="true" setting in Personal.hbm.xml.
More info in the reference documentation: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html/associations.html#assoc-bidirectional-join-m2m


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Home » Business » Finance
NDB's first loan project unveils
By Leng Cheng | December 21, 2016, Wednesday | Online Edition
THE New Development Bank (NDB) signed 525 million yuan (US$75.53 million) of sovereign loan to a solar power project in Shanghai, marking BRICS bank's first loan project in China, the lender said in announcement today.
The financing, to be used on Shangahai Lingang Distributed Solar Power Project, will allow Lingang Industrial Area to have a solar photovoltaic power plant with total capacity of 100 megawatts, according to the bank.
The loan agreement, jointly signed by Shi Yaobin, vice minister of Ministry of Finance and Kundapur Vaman Kamath, president of NDB, will be issued in stages in a three-year period to smaller sub-projects.
"As Shanghai embarks on a more balanced, coordinated, and sustainable development path, we look forward to working with the NDB and benefit from its financial, technological, and managerial expertise," said Ying Yong, executive vice mayor of Shanghai.
The financing followed a November loan proposal of 2 billion yuan on a wind power project in Fujian Province which is pending for the final approval from the government.
The multilateral lender, founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa in 2009, plans to lend out US$2.5 billion for 2017, bank president Kamath said in an earlier statement.


English version (Springer): Ukrainian Mathematical Journal 32 (1980), no. 2, pp 133-135.
Citation Example: Zyukov M. Ye. Invariance principle for processes with independent increments, conditioned to be positive // Ukr. Mat. Zh. - 1980. - 32, № 2. - pp. 220 - 222.


Travelers looking to experience first hand the labors of the fall harvest can now pay for that privilege. From cooking classes to apple picking to hands-on vineyard visits, seasonal experiences are part of deals at hotels this fall.
In Santa Fe, N.M. the Sunrise Springs Spa Resort is offering a Savor the Harvest all-inclusive package for $420 per night (package value is $735 per night). In addition to three meals daily with ingredients sourced from local farms, guests can join harvest-inspired activities such as cooking classes, including one where participants learn how to make their own fruit leather and preserves, and another that offers tips on how to preserve the season's fruit and vegetables for the winter.
To make wine grapes must be crushed, and many workers still do this the old fashioned way: with their feet. (Don't worry, the fermentation process kills the germs.) The exercise is grueling, and some vineyard workers make it more fun by dancing and drinking while they complete the task.
The port company, The Fladgate Partnership invites visitors to crush grapes at two of its estates in the Douro Valley: Quinta da Roêda and Quinta do Panascal. The company also invites select guests to an old port house in Vargellas, where workers tread grapes up to their knees in granite tanks.
Guests at the 11-acre Vista Collina Resort in Napa, Calif., can step into the shoes of a vintner with the Crush Camp package for $284 per night (compared to $359 per night). The rate includes a two-hour vintner experience that features evaluating grapes, de-stemming, learning about fermentation and a guided tasting of wines at different levels of maturity.
The Hudson Valley Getaway promotion at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, New York offers up to 20 percent discount on midweek stays ($584 per night based on double occupancy compared to $730 per night). The rate includes three farm-to-table meals per day, fitness classes and lake activities such as paddleboarding. The hotel recently launched a collection of Hudson Valley Excursions ($65 per person) providing round-trip transportation to places like DuBois Farms to pick your own apples and snack on apple cider doughnuts, or a visit to Whitecliff Vineyard for a behind the scenes tour and tasting.
At the Kentucky Grand Hotel and Spa in Bowling Green, Kentucky, discounts are available on suites through November 30th. A one-night suite stay includes a couple's massage and bottle of champagne for $400 (package value is $560). Nearby Jackson's Orchard offers autumnal activities including apple picking ($2 per pound), pumpkin patches and hay rides ($4 per person, free for children under 3). The hotel can arrange transfers for the 10-minute drive to the orchard.
In response to this growing interest, she launched a lunch series this year which takes place select Sundays from now until October 21. For $125, guests are guided around the vineyard by a winemaker and shown what goes into harvesting grapes. "You will get an idea of how hard it is to make wine," Ms. Ponzi said. Then guests sit down for an extravagant lunch, complete with wine pairing, in the heart of the vineyard.


Two recent New York Times articles highlight the "Mystery of Missing Women in Science" (Angier 2013) and ask the question, "Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?" (Pollack 2013). The underrepresentation of women is an issue that scientists, educators, and policy makers continue to tackle. While there have been large gains toward equality over the past decades, there is also hard evidence of continued disparities. Gender inequalities occur in hiring, funding, collaborations, academic patents, job satisfaction, and citation rates. There are more male senior scientists and thus fewer female role models at upper levels, and there is a striking wage gap between men and women in leadership positions. This situation does not only reflect a gender gap in the upper tiers of science leadership; in many countries, minority and international scientists are also missing (e.g., NSF 2013). Such disparities can feed a subtle but inherent bias about the value and contributions of women, minorities, and international scientists. There are obviously many factors that might be associated with these trends. The question is, what can we do about it?


You may know this already, but your son is a doll baby. He is so full of life and his sweet smile is so infectious, I think I smiled the whole way through editing these. My hope is that one day, we as parents, can show our children how much we truly love them. I see it… feel it.. mama, in these pictures. But can our kids? My mother used to tell me that I will never know how much she loves me until I have children of my own. I understand that now.
Your husband also had a very calming demeanor that just showed through these images. His fun, yet sweet nature truly rubbed off on your sweet baby. How much of an honor I had documenting your family that day. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. It was a true joy to work with you and your precious family.
We took to my downtown Tampa Photography studio for this session. It was fitting to do a lifestyle session there with this perfect family. This family chose to be super casual with whites and blues and was so beautiful with the neutral colors of my studio. Be sure to keep scrolling below to see highlights from this perfect Tampa Family Photography Studio!
Alison Winterroth is a Tampa, FL professional photographer, specializing in modern newborn, maternity , intimate maternity and family photography. She photographs families out of a gorgeous natural light studio in Tampa and does on location outdoor sessions. Her style has been described as light, airy and organic. She has a very natural style that fits today's modern family. Her sessions concentrate on natural family interactions and love.
Alison serves the Tampa Bay area as well as St. Petersburg, Clearwater, South Tampa, New Tampa, Lakeland, Brandon, Sarasota, and surrounding areas.


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Q: How to export equal as string (laravel-Excel) I want to export equal sign as string, not formula, at Laravel-Excel.
I use Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel.
$output = [[1,2,3],["===",5,6],[7,8,9]];
//example

      Excel::create('outputs', function($excel) use($output) {
          $excel->sheet('Sheet 1', function($sheet) use($output) {
              $sheet->fromArray($output,NULL,'A1',true,false);
          });
      })->export('xls');

error message:
PHPExcel_Calculation_Exception
Sheet 1!A2 -> Formula Error: An unexpected error occured


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Q: Huffman minimum variance coding it is well known that Huffman code with minimum variance is preferable.
I've digged through entire Polish/English internet and this is what I found:
to build Huffman code with minimum variance you need to break ties with one of the following methods (of course probability of node is the most important):

*

*Select node that represents shortest tree

*Select node that was created earliest (consider leafs as created at start).

the problem is, that I couldn't find any proof of correctness of any of these methods.
Can someone proof any of these?
I will gladly clarify anything.


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Even if you run a scalable Internet business, you should still look beyond online channels for product validation and sales strategy support. Cold calling potential customers, which may seem antiquated, is an invaluable way to not only jumpstart your outreach but also grow your name recognition and develop valuable product feedback and validation through conversations that you otherwise would not be able to have.
At my online travel planning startup Travefy, we've leveraged cold calling since the very beginning. We've reached out to potential users -- like travel agents or sports leagues -- and partners. From those conversations, we've gained a clear understanding of product needs, price sensitivities, talking points and more. These discussions have not only propelled our product but also our scalable online distribution strategy.
Based on our experiences, here are several tips for a successful cold calling strategy.
Before you start drafting your talking points or even think about making that first phone call, it is vital that you set clear goals for cold calling. By clearly understanding what outcome is valuable to you, you can set well-defined success metrics and tailor your outreach to reach that goal.
Depending on your company and stage, your desired outcome could vary wildly. For some, the goal might be product validation – to understand if the target customers you're calling would want a product like yours, what features are important to them, or what they are willing to pay. For others, the goal might literally be to close a sale and further your own understanding of what talking points resonate for online ads and other sales channels.
2. Identify your targets for outreach.
Once you know your goal or desired outcome, it is much easier to identify who you actually want to connect with. Additionally, with clear goals you should not only understand your target market in general, but also who within each organization is the right person to connect with.
As an example, when you're looking to validate your product, you want to speak to an end-user, someone typically far down the decision-making chain. Conversely, when trying to close a sale, you always want to target someone who can actually say, "yes".
With that knowledge in hand, you can scour the Internet for the right targets to call.
With often under a minute to get someone on the phone, explain who you are, and convince the contact to continue the conversation, planning and practice are essential.
A great way to prepare is to simply write a script and prepare answers for typical questions and paths the conversation may take. Remember, this is not just about you sharing information, but also learning from those you're calling, so also spend time thinking through and drafting what questions you want to ask.
Lastly, know yourself and avoid sounding like a machine! When writing a script, some people thrive with fully written sentence to read and adapt, while others require only bullet points to adapt for authentic sounding talking points.
4. Listen, be nimble, and take cues.
Now you're ready to go! Remember that the key to any successful conversation – and especially when cold calling – is to be real. So don't just read a script.
Truly listen to what the other person is saying and be flexible regarding where they want to take the conversation. You'll be surprised the amazing things you'll learn and the questions you would've never thought to ask.
5. Put your results to work.
With clear goals identified at the outset, you can now evaluate all of the information garnered from your calls and develop a strategic roadmap. As you evaluate, you should try to identify any trends to develop key takeaways and an actionable plan as they related to your goals (e.g., what customers want or what talking points led to sales, etc.).
Overall, no matter what your business is, cold calling potential customers or partners is an invaluable way to develop insights and knowledge beyond data from online ads and other channels.


I arrived at the conference hotel yesterday afternoon. It is called Hanaholmen/Hanasaari (Swedish and Finnish names for the same place) which is a cultural and conference centre and hotel which has been recently refurbished. It is not actually Helsinki as I though but in a town called Espoo, and when I say in a town, it is in a wooded small peninsula just off a motorway with nothing around for miles. But I am not complaining as the setting is beautiful - although the frozen sea could be a field, a park or anything else covered by a layer of snow and ice - well there are some reeds poking out which is a giveaway to its lakeside nature.
I was travelling with my friend and colleague Lia Ghilardi and went for a walk around the hotel. It is cold and snowy but strangely, not as cold as it was last week in Norfolk. The hotel is cosy anyway and we had a brief glimpse of a very red sky - I was hopeful that we might get a showing of the Northern Lights but it was so quick I guess it was just a sunset.
The conference is organised by an organisation called Metropolis/Kopenhagens Internationale Theatre who are based in Copenhagen and run an annual festival amongst other activities. They are artists who work in the urban space, with interventions of art and performance, often on a grand scale, always exciting and original ideas. Their director Trevor Davies is English originally but has worked in Denmark since is early twenties. There are several of his team members here and it is really nice to meet them as they are also part of the In SITU network so we have some friends in common via Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
There are around 100 delegates here and actually almost as many speakers. The programme gives a number of keynote speeches to a plenary audience and then a choice of 4 types of workshop on the themes of: Policies, Strategies and Mapping; Participation, engagement and Activism; Artistic practice and Urban Transformation; Temporary and Instant Urbanism. They are about an hour long so that's three in an afternoon - a lot of choice for each theme. You can see the workshop summaries here.
I am celebrating this evening as have finished the new Music in Norwich booklet and got it off to print so that it will be back and around the town in hard copy form before the Easter holiday and also as I head off to a cultural planning* conference in Finland for a few days. It is called Nordic Urban Lab 2018 and is the third of series of Labs run by Metropolis - an organisation based in Copenhagen headed by Trevor Davies who was worked in Norwich for a couple of years and also contributed to our Capital of Culture bid in 2003 - he also led Copenhagen 1996 and part of last year's Aarhus Capital of Culture year in Denmark . He has worked in Denmark for most of his career apart from a few years back in the UK. Franco Bianchini and Lia Ghilardi have also helped to shape Norwich cultural policy through Capital and City of Culture bids in 2003 and 2010, and Charles Landry, author of The Creative City and many other influential publications who making on of the keynote speeches is also an old-time friend of Norwich. So although I am starting this at the beginning of my travels, by the time you read this, I will probably sitting in a hotel room in Finland.
If you are interested in knowing more about cultural planning and the Nordic Urban Lab, download the programme here and follow my blog here as I will be sharing as much of the experience as I can as I hope that there will be some useful lessons and case studies for us here in the UK. It's quite an investment of time and money to go, and I can think of a few people I would love to take along with me so the more people that can benefit from my trip the better. If you are specially interested, get in touch and I will happily share materials and insights in more detail. It is especially relevant to city planners, artists, activists, architects and anyone interested in how we can creatively make our cities, towns and communities more liveable and better places to be and more inclusive especially. The early part of the 21st century the UK was moving quickly in this direction but when the Labour government was replaced by the Coalition government and austerity kicked in, many of the initiatives have closed down over the ensuing years. We need to bring the human being and social equality back into planning and development and and think about how artists and creatives can influence quality of life and community cohesion. I am hoping that I will be able to share some of Norwich's great projects and also learn from the places around the Nordic countries.
Many of you will know that Festival director William Galinsky left Norwich last year and we now have a new director Daniel Brine, formerly from the Junction in Cambridge who arrived in Norwich in January. On Tuesday 3rd April, 6.30pm at Norwich Arts Centre is an opportunity to meet him at an informal presentation at Norwich Arts Centre. Tickets are free but need to be booked - find out more here and take your chance to meet the new man. Also with him will be Liz Hughes, the new executive director. Liz used to spend a lot of time in Norwich when she worked for the Arts Council so it is good to see her back here - welcome Liz!
Incidentally, Festival tickets are now on sale for all events - sadly the launch had to be cancelled because of the snow so we didn't get the full excitement of the presentation but there are lots of wonderful performances of all kinds and one thing that will please lots of people is the return of the outdoor spectacular opening event on Friday 11 May in the Cathedral Close. Explore the programme, there are lots of brochures around the city and at last, the marketing team have devised some Festival 'journeys' to help you find your way.
Other highlights this weekend are the opening of SUPERSTRUCTURES : The new architecture 1960-1990 , a new exhibition at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and an exhibition of work by Damien Hirst at Houghton Hall, plus Norfolk by Design also at Houghton in the Stables - a showcase of Norfolk designers, artists and makers.
Stop Press: I believe that the Superstructures opening at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts has been postponed until 7 April but don't forget that you still have time to catch the Roger Law exhibition until 3 April which includes his massive ceramic vases, influenced by his collaborations with Chinese ceramic craftspeople as well as a history of his days as an illustrator and animator. It's a fascinating exhibition.
Various exhibitions are running - Katarzyna Coleman at Mandell's Gallery, Elm Hill- Katarzyna will be in the gallery on Saturday 24 March from 12-4pm which is a great opportunity to see her work and also talk to her about it. She works mostly in monochrome, paint or drawing, of industrial areas of Great Yarmouth which is where her studio is. It's a brilliant exhibition of work.
Colin Self and Jim Moir aka Vic Reeve at Fairhurst Gallery, Anteros Arts Foundation in Fye Bridge Street keeps developing new activities and extending its programme - I am not even going to try and summarise it but here is a link so that you can explore their programme yourself. They are running concerts, gigs, art classes, poetry sessions and much more.
Immersive showcases students work from term 2 of the Artpocket Post Graduate Programme in Creative Practice, and is the result of personal themes, concepts and concerns translated into processes, made solid by the art making using different mediums.
Michael will explain how his work often contains contradictory aims and influences battling it out in search of some sort of resolution–a battle between a rarefied idealised world and an actual, often disordered one.
His later work draws together strands from earlier abstract painting and combines it with elements from the natural world and the mood of the area in which he now lives, North Norfolk, giving a sense of place and continuity in the tradition of English landscape painting.
Michael has exhibited widely, including the V&A, Kettles Yard, Wolterton Hall and Düsseldorf.
And at The Assembly House today (Thursday 22 March) at 1pm the ALBION QUARTET lunchtime concert .
As predicted, this email took longer to write than expected and I am now in the Hanaholmen Cultural Centre just west of Helsinki in a lovely hotel room surrounded by snow (don't believe the pictures which were obviously taken in summer. I am hoping to get a glimpse of the Northern Lights tonight - apparently it is possible that they will show - I'll let you know how it goes!
Each year Norfolk & Norwich Festival delivers a world class international arts festival. Our work thrives on the artistic freedom to present work across multiple art forms and across a breadth of indoor, outdoor, urban and rural settings. We have a reputation for innovative and inspiring programming and commissioning and we couldn't do it without the help of a team of over a hundred volunteers.
Norfolk & Norwich Festival is now accepting applications to volunteer this May! This year the Festival runs from 11 – 27 May.
Volunteering is a fantastic opportunity to get a great insight into how a major arts festival is run, allows volunteers to gain useful skills and is also a wonderful way to meet people and make new friends. Norfolk & Norwich Festival welcomes applications from all over-18s, with any (or no!) level of experience. We are keen to do our best to fulfil any access requirements for our volunteers.
We are looking for enthusiastic, reliable and flexible volunteers, with a passion for the arts, who have some spare time in April and throughout May. If this sounds like you, please visit our website for more information and to download an application form nnfestival.org.uk/take-part/volunteer/.
Alternatively, you can contact Amy or Melinda, the NNF18 Volunteer Coordinators, at volunteer@nnfestival.org.uk or 01603 877756 for any questions that aren't covered online. All applications must be received by 9.30am Monday 12 March.


A lot of health buff spends an awful lot of time and money on finding the right treadmill. Once one grabs hold of that perfect exercise equipment, he or she would do everything to make sure it is well taken care of.
Good news to all the health buffs who struggles in ensuring the welfare of their exercise equipment; the latest treadmill exercise equipment have been upgraded with features that allows owners to maintain it easily. Such exercise equipment only requires a couple of minutes per month to clean it up and keep it looking brand new. Here's how clean-up is presently done on treadmills.
Little do we know, any liquid that touch our exercise equipment can be a little hazardous. Take perspiration for example. Every time you are done with an exercise routine, you should always make sure that your equipment is wiped dry from sweat. Sweat actually has corrosive properties which can damage your machine. In this case, the belt of the treadmill would also end up sticky in case this clean-up is not done immediately. This makes exercise a lot difficult and dangerous for you if proper maintenance is ignored.
Other factors that can affect your treadmill exercise equipment are dirt and dust. When dust and dirt starts clinging on your machine, it will greatly damage its electronic board. This affects its belt's movement.
You can clean your equipment by either using a duster or a clean dry cloth. For cleaning the electronic board, use a simple moist cloth. Just remember to refrain from using furniture wax and other chemicals in cleaning your treadmill exercise equipment.
Aside from regular dusting in maintaining the condition of your machine, remember to also remove the machine's hood every two to three months. This is to check into the internal condition of the treadmill exercise equipment.
The Belt Should be taken care of!
Treadmill machine owners can do a lot for the longevity of their equipment's good condition. A monthly check up of the belt should be done to make sure it is perfectly aligned: still in place and snugly fit. A loosened belt tends to be dysfunctional sooner or later. You need to make sure the screws at the back of the machine are tight enough. Just make sure not to over-tighten it since it can cause friction which is also a problem for the treadmill exercise equipment.
Other than tightening the screws you also have to make sure that the belt is well lubricated. Manufacturers recommend this very much. Treadmills usually come with instructions on how to do this.
It is actually fairly easy to take care of your treadmill exercise equipment. All you need is to make time every month in cleaning and checking that all parts are in place.


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Q: Is every antisymmetric k-linear transformation alternate?
Definition 1. Let $V$ and $W$ be linear spaces over field $\mathbb{F}$. A function $f:V^k\to W$ is $k$-linear if it is linear over each entry separately.
Definition 2: A $k$-linear function $f$ is said to be alternate if
  $$
f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_j,\dots,v_k) = 0
$$
  if $v_i = v_j$ for some $1\le i<j\le k$.
Definition 3: A $k$-linear function $f$ is said to be antisymmetric if
  $$
f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_j,\dots,v_k) = -f(v_1,\dots,v_j,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)
$$
  for every $1\le i<j\le k$.

I have proved that if a $f$ satisfies (2) then it satisfies (3). I want to prove or disprove the reverse. I tried to find one myself and also searched the web and found no counterexamples so I wonder if it is true, but I tried to show it and I'm stuck. Any ideas?

A: They are equivalent if the field does not have characteristic $2$.
Over a field of characteristic $2$, antisymmetry is equivalent to symmetry:
alternation is a strictly stronger property. As a trivial example, let $V=k$
where $k$ has characteristic $2$. Then there is no nonzero alternating
form on $V\times V$. Yet $(a,b)\mapsto ab$ is (anti)symmetric on $V\times V$.

A: Here's my attempt, can someone check my arguments please?
Assume $f$ satisfing (3). Let $1\le i<j\le k$ for some $i,j$. Then
$$
f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k) = -f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)
$$
then
$$
f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)+f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k) = 0
$$
and if $char(\mathbb{F})\ne 2$ then this implies that $f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)=0$ so $f$ is alternate. If $char(\mathbb{F})=2$ then we may have $f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)+f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k) = 0$ with $f(v_1,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_i,\dots,v_k)\ne 0$.
Is this correct?


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Fric-Frac is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara, starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon. It tells the story of Marcel, an assistant to a jeweller, who befriends a couple of criminals who want to use him as an accomplice to rob his boss. The film is based on a 1936 play by Édouard Bourdet. Filming took place in March and April 1939 at the Laboratoires et Studios Eclair in Épinay-sur-Seine. The film was released in France on 15 June 1939.

Cast
 Fernandel as Marcel
 Arletty as Loulou
 Michel Simon as Jo
 Hélène Robert as Renée
 Marcel Vallée as Mercadier, the jeweller
 Jacques Varennes as Tintin
 Andrex as Petit Louis
 René Génin as Blin
 Georges Lannes as Fernand
 Génia Vaury as La Grande Marie

Production
According to Arletty, Claude Autant-Lara did all the direction and Maurice Lehmann was mainly the producer.

References

1939 comedy films
1939 films
French films based on plays
Films directed by Claude Autant-Lara
French comedy films
1930s French-language films
French black-and-white films
Films scored by Casimir Oberfeld
1930s French films

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In his new middle grade novel that debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, James Patterson introduces his hilarious new heroine, Jacky Ha-Ha, a class clown who makes people laugh with her so they can't laugh at her. With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when she really, really shouldn't--twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who's hardly ever home. But no matter how much fun Jacky has, she can't seem to escape her worries. So one starlit night, she makes a promise to keep her family together...even if she has to give up the one thing that makes her happy. But can she stop being Jacky Ha-Ha, if that's who she really is?
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Apple Founder Steve Jobs Considered Buying Yahoo
A new book details the remarkable kinship between the late Apple founder and the head of Disney. Here's an exclusive excerpt:
Steve Jobs (L) greets Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger. Photo taken on Sept. 12 2006 [Photo: Dino Vournas, Reuters, Corbis]
By Chris Gayomali 1 minute Read
Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli and co-author Brent Schlender's new book, Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution Of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary World, comes out on March 24th. You can pre-order the book here.
The highly anticipated new biography Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution Of A Reckless Upstart Into A Visionary Leader by longtime Steve Jobs and Apple reporter Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor Rick Tetzeli is due in bookstore on March 24th–and we've already had an exclusive look at this close examination of Steve Jobs's life.
The book is chock-full of revealing stories about the late Apple cofounder–details which paint a vivid picture of both Jobs the businessman and Jobs the human being, a person who cultivated some very special friendships throughout his life and career.
The Steve You Didn't Know
The Evolution Of Steve Jobs
Apple CEO Tim Cook Tried To Give Steve Jobs His Liver—But Jobs Refused
Steve Jobs: "I Just Don't Like Television. Apple Will Never Make A TV Again"
For example, the Becoming Steve Jobs illustrates the close friendship between the Apple cofounder and The Walt Disney Company's Bob Iger toward the end of Steve Jobs's all-too-short life. Before Jobs's liver transplant in 2009, the two would talk "three or four times a week"–and their decisions together have had lasting ramifications in Silicon Valley today.
His relationship with Iger had become so strong that Steve had wanted Iger to join the Apple board, which Iger couldn't do for fiduciary reasons. In fact, because of their friendship, Iger also turned down an invitation from Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt to be on Google's board. "He told me he'd get jealous," says Iger.
A preview of our forthcoming April cover, out next week.
Although Iger didn't join the Apple board until after Jobs's death in 2011, he paid him frequent visits in Cupertino. In fact, whenever he was in town, Iger was one of the few people on the planet granted access into Jony Ive's top secret design lab.
"We would stand at a whiteboard brainstorming," recalls Iger. "We talked about buying companies. We talked about buying Yahoo together."
Stay tuned to Fast Company online and in our forthcoming April issue for exclusive coverage and excerpts from Becoming Steve Jobs you won't find anywhere else in the days to come.
Interview with Rick Tetzeli, author of Becoming Steve Jobs:
Chris is a staff writer at Fast Company, where he covers business and tech. He has also written for The Week, TIME, Men's Journal, The Atlantic, and more
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Resembling the mercurial, black beauty mark used as an ornamental concealment of syphilitic sores, Jane Austen's comedy of manners likewise acted as a superficial cosmetic device that concealed the ubiquity of venereal disease and prostitution hidden within. Through her characters, Austen used veiled narrative to highlight the reality of venereal disease and prostitution in eighteenth-century England. This thesis uncovers the hidden narrative in Jane Austen's novels, as a means of better understanding the impact venereal disease and prostitution had on sexual issues with women and the female body during the eighteenth century. Beginning with an almost comic reference to venereal disease in "Emma" and ending with a tragic seduction in "Sense and Sensibility," Austen successfully exposed the publicity of venereal disease and prostitution of eighteenth-century England and the severe effects it had on women in her society.
Osborn, Melanie Erin, "The Bitter Relicks of My Flame: The Embodiment of Venereal Disease and Prostitution in the Novels of Jane Austen" (2012). Master of Liberal Studies Theses. 29.


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STRIIM BLOG
Barriers Are Down: For NonStop, Striim Joins the Worlds of Stream Processing and Transaction Processing!
Richard Buckle
February 21, 2016 · 4 minute read
The spotlight is shining even more brightly on Big Data, with no evidence that the illumination is lessening in any way. Business is beginning to understand the value proposition of Big Data, and increasingly, it's not just the process of saving everything an enterprise encounters as it pursues its business interests, but rather the impact processing the data in real time that matters most. Stream processing is adding the "special sauce" enterprises have been looking for to better assist them in identifying trends and patterns that develop and to integrate the knowledge about these trends and patterns into customer-facing solutions to be able to respond rapidly to changes in customers' behavior.
While this is well understood by IT in general, among the NonStop community progress towards embracing stream processing has been slow and mirrors the overall rate of change occurring among the NonStop user community as a whole. The good news is that NonStop users rarely leave the platform, but it's also very apparent that due to the nature of the applications NonStop supports, the highly important-customer facing solutions, change happens at what seems to be a glacial speed. Occupying highly visible positions within an enterprise results in a level of risk aversion that sometimes gets in the way of greater integration of NonStop with the rest of the enterprise, but that's all about to change.
But first, what is stream processing and why is it being separated from the bigger story surrounding Big Data? According to a report published by InfoQ, an electronic publication aimed at facilitating "the spread of knowledge and innovation in professional software development," stream processing and today's real time transaction processing are joined at the hip. "Stream processing is designed to analyze and act on real-time streaming data, using 'continuous queries' (i.e. SQL-type queries that operate over time and buffer windows). Essential to stream processing is Streaming Analytics, or the ability to continuously calculate mathematical or statistical analytics on the fly within the stream. Stream processing solutions are designed to handle high volume in real time with a scalable, highly available and fault tolerant architecture. This enables analysis of data in motion."
Just as importantly for the NonStop community, the explanation of stream processing goes even further, according to InfoQ in this post of Sep 10, 2014, Real-Time Stream Processing as Game Changer in a Big Data World with Hadoop and Data Warehouse. "In contrast to the traditional database model where data is first stored and indexed and then subsequently processed by queries, stream processing takes the inbound data while it is in flight, as it streams through the server. Stream processing also connects to external data sources, enabling applications to incorporate selected data into the application flow, or to update an external database with processed information." It is this concept of "enabling applications to incorporate selected data into the application flow" that makes embracing stream processing attractive to all enterprises, even those exploiting the real time transaction processing capabilities of NonStop systems.
There are often discussions within the NonStop community about the relevance of Big Data and, by implication, stream processing. Oftentimes, Big Data is being confused with really big SQL databases – a label that might have its place at some enterprises, but in general, trivializes much of the value proposition of stream processing and indeed, Big Data. I see little evidence across the community of support for running Big Data directly on NonStop. What I do see is the first trembling footsteps being taken to pull data from out of Big Data platforms even as the arrival of stream processing attracts more vendors from among the real time transaction processing solutions community.
At a time when Martin Fink, EVP & HPE CTO, talks openly of the mainstreaming of NonStop he also talks about strategy when it comes to what's next for NonStop. "The mainstream world today tends to revolve around 4 things: Linux, Virtualization, Open Source (and) Clouds." Furthermore, according to Fink, "I also believe that we can start to make NonStop available as a service. The mixed-mode NonStop SQL/MX engine could be offered as a service that delivers a database engine that's currently unmatched in performance capabilities, scalability and resilience." What's missing? There's no reference by Fink whatsoever to including Big Data in discussions about the mainstreaming of NonStop within HPE.
There are no barriers for applications running on NonStop to consider integration with Big Data – Big Data platforms, such as any popular HADOOP distribution, run external to NonStop. All it takes is a pipe and a process – think back to the days when the all-important consideration for the NonStop community was how to network with IBM mainframes via SNA. It required implementing SNA on NonStop and adding networking connectivity hardware so that connections could be established and data could be exchanged. Think of much the same need for stream processing, only this time with the energy HPE NonStop development is putting into the support of hybrid infrastructure, including the Yuma project with its APIs in support of InfiniBand, and the inclusion of stream processing becomes a lot less risky proposition than deploying SNA all those years ago.
Striim, is a stream processing platform coming from a development team very familiar with NonStop. Many of the members of this team were the same folks that brought GoldenGate to market, so pulling information from log files, via change-data-capture (CDC), isn't a difficult concept to grasp – think of stream processing much as we used to think of intermediary capture with trail file processing. There are new process names, certainly, but the capture side is something the NonStop community should be very familiar with – detecting changes in behavior, after all, is simply a matter of correlation of changes coming from many sources to determine commonality. Patterns and trends, essentially!
NonStop will not be immune to stream processing just as it's highly unlikely that any Big Data platform will find its way onto NonStop. It's not necessary, given today's IT transformation to hybrid architectures. Furthermore, IT will not be immune to feeding the results of stream processing to applications running on NonStop – advanced system and network monitoring, fraud detection, SLA compliance, database replication synchronization all come to mind. And for the team at Striim, we have access to folks who know as much about NonStop as anyone belonging to the NonStop community. Whatever barriers we thought were present, preventing us from further consideration of integrating the worlds of stream processing with transaction processing, all in real time, are definitely down and for that, the NonStop community wins yet again.
The Tipping Point – Data Stream Analytics Meets NonStop Transaction Processing in Real Time
Striim Highlights Change Data Capture (CDC) and IoT at HP Nonstop Boot Camp
Drinking From the Stream – NonStop Users Look to Striims in Real Time for Anomalies in Business-critical Processing!
HP NonStop
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Everybody loves robots! (Well, except for Sarah Connor.) They come in all shapes and sizes: from small to large; simple to complex. As hobbyists, we're often drawn to more complex robots, but sometimes a simple design is more fun.
The HUB-ee Buggy robot is a simple two-wheel, object-avoiding robot based on the HUB-ee wheel system. HUB-ee wheels make it possible to build a wheeled robot chassis in a snap by combining the wheel, motor, and driver into a single package. Just bolt a pair of HUB-ee wheels onto a microcontroller, and you've basically made yourself a little robot. That's essentially what we're doing here.
This is an awesome project for starting out with robotics, because it's easy to go from a pile of parts to a rolling robot which can easily be expanded with more sensors, wheels, or complex control code as you learn and progress.
Here are some topics you'll need to be familiar with to make your Hub-ee Buggy.


Vin Scully is a former American sportscaster and play-by-play announcer of Los Angeles Dodgers. This biography provides detailed information about his childhood, family life, facts, career, achievements and timeline.
Born in: The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Vin Scully was born on November 29, 1927 in The Bronx in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. His father was employed as a silk salesman while his mother was a homemaker.
Since an early age, he took up menial jobs to make ends meet. He delivered beer and mails, pushed garment racks and cleaned silver in the basement of the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York City.
Hhe completed his preliminary education from Fordham Preparatory School in Bronx.
Interestingly, he was captivated when he listened to the football broadcast on radio and aspired to become a sports broadcaster.
Completing his education, he joined the United States Navy which lasted for two years.
Released from his duties in the navy, he realized his childhood dream of serving as a broadcaster. He then took up the profile of a student broadcaster and journalist at the Fordham University.
While at the university, he multi-tasked. Not only did he earn a degree for himself, he helped found its FM radio station WFUV and served as the assistant sports editor for Volume 28 of The Fordham Ram.
Simultaneously, he also played centre field for the Fordham Rams baseball team and called radio broadcast for Rams baseball, football and basketball teams. Having gained experience in sports broadcasting, he applied at about every radio station along the Eastern seaboard.
He finally got an opportunity to broadcast a match for the CBS Radio Network by Red Barber in November 1949. Fuelled by his passion, he excellently performed at the do and impressed his employer at the first go itself.
No sooner than in 1950, he joined hands with Barber and Cornelius Desmond as one of the announcers for Brooklyn Dodgers' radio and television booths. A rift on salary issue between Barber and 1953 World Series sponsors, Gillette turned profitable for him as Barber left the team.
He filled up for Barber as the announcer for the team, thereby becoming the youngest man ever to broadcast a World Series game, a record that stands till date.
His impressive style, remarkable knowledge of the game and excellence over the mic earned him the place of the principal announcer in the team. In 1957, he announced the Dodger game in Brooklyn before the club moved to Los Angeles.
He accompanied Brooklyn Dodgers in Los Angeles and remained as their chief broadcaster. He announced the first game of the 1958 season for the club which was renamed to Los Angeles Dodgers.
Interestingly, his on-air play-by-play description of action was not only listened to by those who missed the chance to watch the game live, but by fans in the field as well due to the colossal grounds and inability to follow the game.
The rising popularity and fan following earned him an offer of the lead play-by-play announcer for New York Yankees. However, he chose to remain with the Dodgers and rejected the proposition.
During the 1980s and 1990s, he called the entire radio broadcast except for the 3rd and 7th inning, thus giving other Dodger announcers an opportunity. His broadcast partners were Jerry Doggett and Ross Porter.
While his career was at its peak, he tried his hand at football as well. From 1975 to 1982, he announced the televised National Football League games for CBS Sports. What is noteworthy is that he proved his credentials even in football.
Furthermore, baseball and football apart, he even served as the announcer for CBS's tennis and golf tournaments. It was his increasing involvement with other games that led him to dedicate less time for Dodgers.
In 1977, he called baseball for CBS Radio, which continued until 1982 for the All-Star Game. He, along with Sparky Anderson, was the official announcer for the World Series from 1979 to 1982.
For the 1981 NFL season, while John Madden was chosen by CBS as their star color commentator, the spot of play-by-play commentator became a matter of contention between top two CBS commentators, Pat Summerall and Scully. Eventually, both filled up for each other's absence due to other engagements.
After Summerall was chosen over him as the main announcer alongside Madden for Super Bowl XVI, he became the official announcer for NFC Championship Game along with Stram.
The increasing tiff between him and CBS led him to leave CBS for NBC in 1983. He instead took up the post of NBC's lead television broadcaster from 1983 until 1989. During his tenure at the NBC, he did not just call for the Saturday Game of the Week, but also three World Series, four National League Championship Series and four All Star Games. He also witnessed several historic moments while at NBC.
During his time with NBC, he did not let go off his association with Dodgers. He instead broadcast home games on radio androad games for Dodgers television network.
His career somewhat had a minor downhill slide during the 1989 season. He first suffered from laryngitis which prevented him from taking up the mic. Later in the year, NBC lost the television rights to cover Major League to CBS.
His contract with NBC ended the same year after the National League Championship, leaving him to focus all his energies with the Dodgers. He once again served as the national radio announcer for the CBS Radio. In the new capacity, his first assignment was the 1990 World Series.
He continued at the position in CBS for seven years. Meanwhile, from 1991 to 1996, he broadcast the annual Skins Game for ABC. From 1992 to 2000, he called the Senior Skins Game for ABC as well as various golf events for TBS.
In 1999, he served as the Master of Ceremonies for MasterCard's Major League Baseball All-Century Team.
In 2006, the Dodger management reinstated his contract with the club through the 2008 baseball season. Presently, he calls about 100 games per season for both flagship radio station KLAC and television outlets KCAL-TV and Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket.
On August 23, 2013, the Dodgers announced that Scully would return to the booth in 2014 for his 65th season as team's broadcaster.
October 2, 2016 marked the final game of Vin Scully's iconic 67-year broadcasting career for the Dodgers and he ended his career the only way it should -- calling a Dodgers-Giants game.
In 1976, he was voted as the 'most memorable personality' in the history of the franchise by the Dodgers fans.
In 1982, he was the proud recipient of the Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
He received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award for Sportscasting.
He has been inducted in the Hall of Fame by American Sportscasters Association, National Radio Hall of Fame, NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2009, he was conferred with the Ambassador Award of Excellence by the LA Sports & Entertainment Commission. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6675 Hollywood Blvd.
He went into the wedlock with Joan Crawford in 1957. However, the relationship lasted for 15 years due to the tragic death of his wife from accidental medical overdose in 1972.
The following year, i.e. in 1973, he tied the nuptials yet again with Sandra Schaefer who already had two children from her previous marriage. The couple was blessed with a son who passed away at the age of 33 in a helicopter crash.


The theme this past quarter for Epic Film Project was: Light Leaks. And oh my was it magical and fun! I tried light leaks a few times and loved them. Now I'm adding them to many of my rolls because I love the look and I love the unpredictability to them.
There are a few ways to add intentional light leaks to a roll of film. My favorite way is to randomly open the back of the camera as I'm rewinding the film. Technically, any amount of light to film can "ruin" it. But I always open it in daylight. Indoors or outdoors, but I only crack the door open slightly. The brighter the light and the longer/wider you keep the door open, the more light leaks you'll get.
When you're done shooting the film, rewind and remove from the camera as you normally would. Before you tape it shut, hold it tight in one hand, and with the other, twist it the opposite direction in which it's closed. This will give little puckers in between the paper of the roll. Then, tighten it back up again and seal it. Again, how much light you do this in will depend on how severe the light leaks are.


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