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The villages of Hatley St George and East Hatley, Cambridgeshire
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school in the hatleys
– and memories of going there
By Ishbel Beatty
Hatley school – front-elevation. It opened in 1874 and closed in 1965.
At the side of the road between Croydon and Hatley St George, half a mile from East Hatley, stand what are today two private dwellings, with gables, high windows, and a stretch of front garden.
Look at them closely and you will see lines of coloured brickwork and the tall entrance doors of a public building.
This double fronted edifice was once the village school for the two Hatleys. Standing alone in the fields, for nearly 100 years it served the educational needs of the local children.
In 1872 the Board School Management Committee was formed of gentlemen who reflected local society: the Rectors of East Hatley and Hatley St George; two important landowners – Major Vernon of Hatley Park and Mr James Wagstaff of Potton; the Bursar of Downing College who farmed and hunted on the Downing estate; and two local farmers, Charles Mott and John Hart. The school's pupils would be the children of their cottagers and farm labourers.
These gentlemen decided that a church school should be set up in contrast with the growing move to secular education following the Education Act of 1870. This was to be a voluntary-aided school rather than rate-aided, because in the thinking of the Rev H W P Stevens, Rector of Tadlow and East Hatley, religious education should be ensured and the danger of ratepayers ever favouring the cheapest option should be avoided.
The school opened in 1874, with room for 88 pupils, and the building plans show a modest house for the school teacher with three bedrooms, parlour and kitchen; a school room 30′ x 18′ and, at the back, the mistress's yard and the girls' yard, with outside privies.
Where did the boys go out to play? Perhaps they were thought not to need the protection of a fenced space.
Most of the yearly cost came from subscriptions, but fees were charged – at 2d a week for the first child, 1½d for the second child in the family, and 1d each for third and subsequent children.
Hatley school – section.
There were 12 pupils enrolled when the school opened, only one of whom could already read and write, and most were girls. Within a few months, 25 names were on the register.
Miss Annie Morris was the first teacher, newly certificated, and she wrote down some of her memories of the school at the request of the Rector in 1922.
She found the pupils a testing group, but she persevered and remained in post until 1877, returning again in 1886 and serving another 14 years. At age 22, Miss Morris was paid £50 a year and given a furnished house.
In the school log book she records varying attendance with excuses of poor weather – full-time attendance to the age of ten was not compulsory until 1880.
Many of the children had to trudge the field tracks through mud and rain from remote farms like Hart's Old Farm and Hatley Wilds and parents did not all see the use of education.
Miss Morris did not at first understand the children's names because of their unclear speech and local accents. In addition to her paid duties, she recalls she started a night school for the boys already working on the farms, some of them as young as seven or eight.
Hatley school – side-elevation.
"But, in a wonderfully short time, I got used to them, and they to me. They came tired to death… often with soiled garments and with grimy hands. Oh! but they were so weary it was little I could do with them… but I kept on regularly…"
Miss Morris was also required, though she expressed reluctance, to take over the Sunday School and the discipline of the choir, who had not hitherto behaved in an orderly manner going in and out of church.
This she did by 'the power of the eye'. "When I resigned, solely to please my mother, these dear lads bought me out of their meagre wages quite a handsome photo album. I left with great regret."
Four different teachers covered the next nine years, with a falling-off in acquirements and discipline noted by the managers in the time of the last mistress. Miss Morris was re-appointed in 1886, and returned to live in the school house with her blind elderly and widowed mother. In 1898 the Government Inspector's report described the school as 'substantially well disciplined, but a gentler and quieter mode of teaching would be more efficient.'
After Miss Morris's resignation in 1900, there were some more unsatisfactory years: one teacher resigned after being noted not quite sober on more than one occasion. The post was advertised as follows in 1902: '28 on books. Nice type of children. Would suit 2 sisters or two friends.' 114 applications were received, perhaps attracted partly by the furnished house offered, but the married couple appointed left in a year or two after the wife was 'offensively rude' to the curate, who had remonstrated with her. In 1915 'there have been 3 head teachers in the past 12 months.'
A new enthusiastic young teacher, Miss Mabel Tant, did rather better in the next two years. She resigned to marry, but failed to realise her hope to bring her first baby to be christened by the East Hatley Rector before she and her husband left England for South Africa. This daughter recently wrote for information as to the background of her mother's life here. She is writing her family history and recalls her mother's happy memories of the beginning of her teaching career.
Records of the school after this period are scanty – only the Punishment Book of 1907 to 1951 remains. Church schools became council schools administered by an Education Committee. The school's new title was Hatley Junior Mixed. Pupil numbers of around 55 before 1900 fell, with the diminishing population, to little over 20. There were 35 children enrolled before 1922, when those of secondary age were transferred to Gamlingay.
Fewer and fewer of the village inhabitants had connections with the agriculture, which was once its reason for existence. With only about 15 pupils, the Junior School remained in the old Victorian building until 1965. since when children of all ages have bussed to Gamlingay and elsewhere, and the school house and classroom have taken on a new use, while the green fields still remain an enduring backdrop.
Gamlingay Gazette, December/January 1998
Memories of Hatley Church School
By Tommy Hood, writing in 1998
I first attended Hatley Church School in October 1932. My parents, my sister and I had moved to Holbein's Farm, and as my sister was eleven years old, she attended Gamlingay School.
I can still remember my first day at the school. Holbein's Farm was the last delivery point for our postman, Mr Sidney Cole. He took on the responsibility of taking me to school sitting on the carrier of his postman's bicycle. He took me into school to tell the teacher who I was and told the other pupils to look after me. Sidney was the father of Fred Cole.
The teacher, Mrs Watts, lived in the school house. She had two daughters, living away from home, but I do not recall ever seeing Mr Watts.
I was reasonably happy at the school under Mrs Watts, but was aggrieved that, on one occasion, I was punished for bringing candles and matches to school and lighting them in the boys' toilet. About six other boys were involved, two brothers having brought the candles and matches, but mine was the only name mentioned in the punishment book. My memory tells me I had to write out a hundred lines after school.
The School Inspector used to visit the school about once a term and sit in on the lesson. On discovering my name was Thomas Hood, he asked if I was related to the poet of that name. As I had never heard of him, I said I did not think so. He then said I was to find the poem The Tail of the Shirt, learn it by heart and recite to himself and the class on his next visit. Fortunately he had forgotten about it when he next visited the school.
Moving to Gamlingay School at eleven, getting my first job and then being called into the army, I lost touch with the school for about ten years. During this period my cousin, Mrs Joyce Dixon, was the first pupil to gain a scholarship from the Hatley School. (This was the equivalent to passing the 11+ examination. Ed.)
My involvement with the school was renewed when I was elected to serve as school manager representing the Hatley Parish. This was in about 1955. The managers consisted of the Vicar as chairman, Councillor Charles Careless, representing the Education Committee, a representative from Downing College and one other Parish Representative. Downing College always seemed to be interested in the welfare of the school, and gave financial help to its upkeep.
Early in my term, we had to appoint a new teacher. There were two applicants, a Mrs Cook, the wife of the Vicar of Orwell, and Mrs Sybil Marshall, the authoress. We asked Sybil if she would be willing to teach religious education. She told us in no uncertain terms that she didn't consider that it would be her job and, if religion was to be taught in the school, the vicar would have to do it.
She told us that her main hobby was keeping and breeding pigs. "What would you do if one school morning you found a pig farrowing or found it to be ill?" she was asked. "I would see to the sow first and the children would have to wait" she said. As she was living at Kingston (Cambridgeshire) at the time (the school house was no longer used for the teacher) we didn't think it a good idea for the children to wait outside until she arrived. We appointed Mrs Cook, who did an excellent job for many years.
During the interval from my being a pupil to becoming a manager, the children must have been well behaved. The 1930s punishment book was still available to the managers and on more than one occasion it was pointed out to me that it contained the name of Thomas Hood.
Another appointment as teacher before the closure of the school was Mrs Phyllis Johnson of Castle Farm, Gamlingay.
Serving as a manager of the village school qualified me to become a founder governor of Gamlingay Village College serving as representative of the Hatleys for 25 years.
Gamlingay Gazette, May 1998
Do you have memories of your school days in the Hatleys in the 20th century? Please do contact Kim Wilde at parishclerk@hatley.info and let us know.
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Q: How can I insert a record and lock that row simultaneously? I'm inserting a row using an Oracle stored procedure which is configured to use an autonomous transaction.  I'd like to insert this record, commit that transaction, and then lock the newly-inserted record so that nobody else can modify it except my current session (in another transaction, obviously, since the one that inserted it is autonomous).
How can I ensure that nobody else gets a lock on this new record before I have a chance to SELECT...FOR UPDATE it?
Using Oracle 10g.

A: My first preference would be to remove the COMMIT until the data is ready for use by other sessions.
Alternatively, you could design your application in such a way as to make sure the new row only gets locked by that transaction.

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*Add a flag to the table, e.g. VISIBLE, default 'N'.

*When you insert a row, insert it with the default value.

*After the commit, select it for update, and update the flag to 'Y' (so that when your code commits the second time, it will update the flag as well).

*Modify your application so that other sessions will ignore rows where VISIBLE='N'.

A: No, you can never maintain a lock between transactions.  The question you should be asking yourself is why you need to issue the commit between the insert and the select ... for update.  The row is locked by the insert; if you finish whatever it is that you're doing with that row before you commit, then you don't have to worry about re-locking the row.

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LVMH in the recession
The substance of style
The world's biggest luxury-goods group is benefiting from a flight to quality, but the recession is also prompting questions about the company's breadth and balance
BriefingSep 19th 2009 edition
"THERE are four main elements to our business model—product, distribution, communication and price," explains an executive at LVMH, the world's largest luxury-goods group. "Our job is to do such a fantastic job on the first three that people forget all about the fourth." For decades LVMH's formula has worked like a spell: seduced by beautiful status-symbols, perfect shops and clever advertising, millions of people have swooned forgetfully towards the firm's cash registers. At Louis Vuitton, LVMH's star company, the model's pricing power has yielded consistent profit margins of around 40-45%, the highest of any luxury-goods brand.
These days customers are finding it far harder to forget about price. The seriously rich, of course, are still spending freely. But much of the industry's rapid growth in the past decade came from middle-class people, often buying on credit or on the back of rising house prices. According to Luca Solca of Bernstein Research, 60% of the luxury market is now based on demand from "aspirational" customers rather than from the wealthy elite. The recession has quickly reversed the trend to trade up, and people are delaying expensive purchases. Bain & Company, a consulting firm, expects the industry's sales to fall by a tenth in 2009, to €153 billion ($225 billion).
Some executives even expect a lasting shift in customers' preferences, towards discretion and value. Bernard Arnault, chairman and chief executive of LVMH, believes that the whole industry needs to rebrand itself. "The word luxury suggests triviality and showing off, and the time for all that has gone," he says. Brands which sold "blingy" easy-to-sell products, milking old names, he says, will fare particularly badly in the new environment. LVMH, by contrast, has never taken such an approach, he says, instead emphasising quality, innovation and creativity.
To underline these values, the group is going back to basics in its daily operations. "Before the crisis, we were putting a lot of energy into beautiful stores, but now we care a bit less about expanding our network and even more about design and price," says an executive. A few years ago, for instance, at the height of the boom, one LVMH brand was putting diamonds all over its watches, so that it was almost difficult to tell the time. "Now we are getting back to what really matters, which is nice movements and design," he says.
For some luxury firms, the recession's effects have already been brutal. Private-equity firms and other outside investors which rushed into the industry at its peak have suffered most. "At the top of the market this industry was perceived as easy by outsiders," says Mr Arnault. "You borrowed 80% of a target's asking price and hired a good designer, but the strategy has not been successful in several cases."
Lenders to Valentino, an Italian fashion house, are reportedly trying to renegotiate its debt. Permira, a private-equity group, bought the firm in 2007 in a deal valuing it at €5.3 billion. Permira has since written down its equity investment of about €900m by more than half. Prada Holding, through which Miuccia Prada and her husband control Prada Group, another Italian house, recently restructured its loans in order to defer payment to banks. Prada Group has denied that there are talks to bring in a minority shareholder. Two particularly weak firms, Christian Lacroix, a Paris-based ready-to-wear and haute couture label which used to be part of LVMH, and Escada, a German maker of luxury womenswear, filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
Amid this turmoil, LVMH is performing relatively well (see chart 1). It has benefited from an established pattern in the luxury industry: when people have less, they spend what they do have on the best quality. Shoppers are going for fewer, classic items—one Burberry raincoat, rather than three designer dresses, or a single Kelly bag by Hermès, a French luxury-goods group, instead of four bags from various lesser designers. For this reason, says Yves Carcelle, chief executive of Louis Vuitton and president of fashion and leather goods for LVMH, "Vuitton always gains market share in crises."
As reliable and sturdy as one of its own handbags, therefore, Vuitton is carrying LVMH fairly comfortably through the recession. In the first half of 2009 the group's revenues were about the same as a year before, though profits were 12% lower. Two divisions—wine and spirits, and watches and jewellery—were the worst affected: their revenues each fell by 17% and their profits by 41% and 73% respectively (see chart 2). Rapid de-stocking by retailers exacerbated the effect of falling demand. But the falls were offset by Vuitton, where revenue rose by a double-digit percentage, registering gains in every market. "It is incredible that in a downturn the consumer still buys so many Louis Vuitton bags, but she or he does," says Melanie Flouquet, luxury-goods analyst at JPMorgan in Paris.
Vuitton's performance, and the overall robustness of LVMH, a global conglomerate with more than 50 brands and revenues of €17.2 billion in 2008, should allow it to take advantage of its competitors' weakness in the recession. "In the next few years we expect several failures in the industry and good opportunities to acquire assets at attractive prices," says Mr Arnault. Shareholders in the firm are particularly preoccupied by what he might buy and sell in the next few years.
What explains Vuitton's resilience? Beneath the gloss of advertising campaigns, catwalk shows and each season's fleeting trends, Vuitton brings a machine-like discipline to the selling of fancy leather goods and fashion. It is the only leather-goods firm, for instance, which never puts its products on sale at a discount. It destroys stock instead, keeping a close eye on the proportion it ends up scrapping (which it calls the "destruction margin"). In 2005, when Maurizio Borletti, owner of several prominent department stores in Italy and France, was preparing for the opening of a refurbished La Rinascente department store in Milan, he recalls, the Vuitton people built a scale model of the building in their offices to understand customer flows and get the best positioning. "In this they're the most professional in the industry," he says.
Unlike most other luxury marques, Vuitton never gives licences to outside firms, to avoid brand degradation. Its factories use techniques from other industries, notably carmaking, to push costs down ruthlessly and to allow teams of workers to be switched from one product to another as demand dictates. It has adopted methods of quality control, too: one quality supervisor came from Valeo, a French auto-parts supplier. The result is long-lasting utility, beyond show, which is valuable in difficult times.
Owning shops gives Vuitton control over levels of stock, presentation and pricing. It was not therefore affected by the panicked price-slashing of up to 80% by American luxury department stores in the run-up to Christmas last year—a "catastrophe" for others in the industry, according to Mr Arnault. Although other LVMH divisions have been hit by outside retailers de-stocking during the crisis, Vuitton has managed its own inventory, with no competition for space from other brands. With a global network, says Mr Carcelle, the firm can move poorly selling stock to shops where it has performed better.
The luxury of diversity
Vuitton's ability to offset the steep falls in other divisions shows the value of the diversified conglomerate model in luxury goods. Richemont, the industry's second-largest company, has a less varied portfolio and greater exposure to watches and jewellery, demand for which has been especially weak. According to a recent trading statement, its sales fell by 16% in the five months to the end of August.
A group structure also yields savings when negotiating deals for advertising space, property and credit-card fees. It helps to have a specialist beauty retailer, Sephora, and a chain of airport shops, DFS, to sell perfumes and cosmetics. When Vuitton develops watches, say, it can call on the talents of TAG Heuer. But LVMH's breadth also comes in for criticism. Although there is undoubtedly value in some diversification, some people ask whether 50-odd brands under one roof are too many. Vuitton, for instance, would doubtless like to see disposals of weaker brands as a result of the crisis, and a greater concentration of resources on the group's key businesses.
The group's executives devote the bulk of their attention to the most important of these: Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy in drinks, TAG Heuer in watches, Christian Dior in perfumes and cosmetics, Sephora and DFS. The group has many smaller businesses, and these get much less attention in such a big group. LVMH does not disclose financial figures for individual brands, but at its presentation of first-half results the group's finance director replied to an analyst asking about fashion and leather-goods that a "handful" had lost money "somewhere". There is speculation that Celine, a ready-to-wear clothing and accessories label, Kenzo, a fashion brand which analysts have long suggested LVMH dispose of, or Loewe, a Spanish leather-goods brand which has so far failed to win much of a following outside Spain and Japan, are among the less profitable.
Nevertheless, the group can use the might of Vuitton to support its smaller, upcoming brands. A department store, for instance, may be asked to take Loewe or Celine in order to get Vuitton. That often frustrates people at Vuitton, however, who would prefer to use the power of the brand for its own benefit, says a person who knows the company well. "They've never heard of another of LVMH's brands saying, 'Either give this to Vuitton or I won't come'," he says. Apart from the synergy in watch design, Vuitton does not find that it benefits much from the rest of the group.
The reason why LVMH has many small brands which aren't quite making it, says another person familiar with the company, is that Mr Arnault is an optimist who believes that every property can at some point be turned around. That can pay off: some years ago Mr Arnault halted the imminent sale of a make-up line. Thanks to the distribution muscle of Sephora, it has since turned into a bestseller in America. Investors, however, are nevertheless wary of what they see as Mr Arnault's tendency to collect brands.
The crisis has also underlined the fact that Vuitton dominates the group's results. Were it not for Vuitton, estimates one analyst, LVMH's sales would have fallen by 3% in the first half of 2009 and profits would have plunged by 40%. In normal times Vuitton contributes about half of the group's profits, and most of the rest comes from Moët Hennessy. In the first half of this year, however, Vuitton contributed an estimated 70% of profit. That leads some people to question whether LVMH is overly dependent on the leather-goods firm.
"You can argue that there's nothing as good as Vuitton in LVMH's portfolio," says Pierre Mallevays of Savigny Partners, who was formerly director of acquisitions at LVMH, "but that simply states the fact that LV's business model is the gold standard of luxury brands; no other brand in the world compares to it." The biggest risk to LVMH is Vuitton, argues Ms Flouquet, since it accounts for such a big proportion of profits; the company depends on it, she says. The risk to Vuitton, in turn, is that it could fall out of fashion or lose its exclusivity in the eyes of consumers.
So far there is no sign of fatigue with the brand. LVMH's senior managers have devised ways to refresh it. In the late 1990s, for example, Mr Arnault saw that there was a risk that as a maker of leather goods alone, Vuitton could be perceived as boring. In 1997 he hired Marc Jacobs, then a relatively unknown designer, to design a fashion line. The aim was to generate seasonal buzz and press coverage. Vuitton's senior executives at the time were against the idea, fearing that adding fashion could undermine a timeless image, but Mr Arnault's move proved successful.
To avoid overexposure of its signature "Monogram" print, Vuitton has taken care to develop a wide range of products and other patterns. "We increase the number of product lines and we are careful to have several different colours and shapes," says Mr Arnault. Thus Vuitton sells reasonably priced handbags—the smallest Speedy Bag costs €430 in Paris—but also wildly expensive custom-made luggage, reinforcing its exclusive image. Another effective tactic is to make limited-edition handbags which are hard to get hold of.
Five or so years ago Vuitton depended to a large degree on one market, Japan. Most Japanese women owned at least one Vuitton product—and hence provided a large proportion of Vuitton's profits, which worried analysts at the time. Yet the Japanese market for luxury goods was souring. Spending on such items in Japan has fallen sharply since the end of 2005, according to a recent report by McKinsey, a consulting firm. Young women are more individualistic than their mothers, and are seeking out lesser-known brands. "You used to see thousands of Vuitton bags coming at you in the Ginza shopping district but far fewer now," says Radha Chadha, author of a book, "The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair with Luxury".
That reliance on one country is no longer so marked (see chart 3). Fortunately, Vuitton has since rapidly established a strong position in what it hopes will become another Japan: China. "The Chinese consumer is in a love affair with the Vuitton brand," says Ms Flouquet. According to LVMH, in the first half of 2009 sales to Chinese people (at home and travelling) made up 18% of Vuitton's revenue. Despite widespread concerns about counterfeiting in the country, the Chinese are now Vuitton's biggest customer base after the Japanese. The key to the firm's success, says Mr Arnault, has been approaching the market exactly as if it were a developed market. "We treat the Chinese customer as being very sophisticated." Many competitors, by contrast, have at times lowered their standards for shops in China, he says, using inferior furniture or positioning their stores poorly.
Going into new markets and developing new product lines will enable Vuitton to continue producing double-digit growth for years to come, says Mr Carcelle. On every trip to mainland China—he makes five or six a year—he tries to discover a new city and meet its mayor. Mr Carcelle is also tackling other new frontiers: in October he will open a shop in Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator. "Already if you go to an upmarket disco in Ulan Bator you will see a significant number of our bags," he says.
Vuitton's expansion into China, Mongolia and new product lines such as watches and shoes, suggest that the leather-goods firm will continue to be LVMH's main source of growth. However, it also means that the group may become more rather than less reliant on Vuitton. In theory, the answer could lie in strengthening some of LVMH's smaller names, such as Fendi, a fashion and leather-goods brand. But buying a big, established, global brand with potential for growth could be both a quicker and a surer route.
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A new collection?
Analysts and bankers are convinced that Mr Arnault wants to buy the Hermès Group, a producer of leather goods and fashion which matches Vuitton for quality and design. Because Hermès is run so conservatively, says an investment banker who knows LVMH well, it is only a quarter of the size that it could be. "Mr Arnault would grow it while preserving its values," he says. Earlier this year, there were rumours that LVMH would sell Moët Hennessy to Diageo, the world's biggest spirits group, which already owns 34% of the business. Such a sale could raise money to buy Hermès. Mr Arnault, however, refuses to be drawn into commenting.
For the moment, such an acquisition is impossible, since the family which controls Hermès does not want to sell, and the firm is strongly defended against takeover. Nevertheless, says the banker, the family which controls it has several branches, all with different views. "It's a pressure cooker and some day it will blow up," he says. Chanel, another closely held global luxury brand, could also make a desirable target for LVMH. Some people recommend a merger with Richemont, which, Mr Solca argues, would address LVMH's relative weakness in watches and jewellery.
Any such deals, or selling Moët Hennessy, would radically change the balance of the group. "I would be surprised if LVMH sold Moët Hennessy. The business has high margins, high cashflow and it is well managed," says Ms Flouquet. "They would probably only sell it if they had a large deal ahead." Shareholders are nervous that LVMH will pay too high a price for a large acquisition. For this reason the group's valuation may not fully reflect its performance during the crisis. Such concerns are not likely to deter Mr Arnault, who has demonstrated his confidence in LVMH's prospects in luxury by raising his stake in the group over time: he owns 47%. If LVMH does go shopping, it will probably behave like one of its best customers: with price in mind, but willing to spend on enduring prestige.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline "The substance of style"
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Pinterest is every social media marketer's dream come true. Still, it's something of a misunderstood tool, not to mention that there are few resources available to brands to help with their campaigns. Today Curalate, a social media monitoring and analytics service for image-based marketing, is solving that pain point with the launch of "Promote." Brands can now take the guess work out of hosting contests and promotions on Pinterest, while tracking how well the campaigns are doing.
The inherent problem with creating an analytics platform to track the virality of pins on Pinterest is due to the image-based nature of the network. What brands want to know is, "What's my most popular product on Pinterest, and in what color is it popular?" But the answer to that isn't as simple as it seems. "That's a very difficult question to answer for a brand today," says Curalate CEO and co-founder Apu Gupta.
Tracking the comments and text accompanying a pin is unreliable. When a Pinterest user talks about an image that they've pinned, Gupta explains, most won't say "I love this sweater from JCrew." They'll say "I love this sweater." And you might think that URLs are a way for a brand to track pins, but you'd more often be wrong than right. If a user has pinned a scarf from a catalog page feating a cornucopia of scarves in 10 colors, it wouldn't be possible to figure out algorithmically what color scarf has been pinned from that page.
This is where Curalate comes in, and it gets interesting. Curalate tracks where the images are being shared on the visual social network from pins to repins. Its robust analytics platform is powered by a sophisticated algorithm that examines every pixel in a pinned image, and matches that image to a database of images to determine what type of product was pinned by a Pinterest user. "We look at several million images daily and compare that to billions of images that we already know about," says Gupta.
Promote is a new product feature launched today by Curalate. The product combines Curalate's analytics technology with Promote to offer brands a frictionless way for creating and running promotional contests using Pinterest. Without a service like Curalate, Pinterest contests are a complicated ordeal; Gupta says they are broken. "The way that brands try to run these contests places a lot of burden on the consumers." The contest process even for us, when Gupta described the process was overwhelming. To submit an entry for a Pinterest contest, participants may be asked to name their board in a specific way, hashtag pins, and pin multiple pins. Once that's done, participants typically are required to email the brands with the location of their pins. It's a logistical nightmare for both contest participants and the brand hosting the contest.
Gupta pointed us to a case study that represented Curalate's capabilities during the beta testing phase with its client, Carnival Cruise. During an 11-day entry period, Carnival Cruise saw a fourfold increase in followers, 700 percent boost in traffic to its site, and 18,000 email opt-ins (45 percent of entrants).
Pinterest, compared to Facebook and Twitter, is still a fledgling social network with just an estimated 12 million users (as of May 2012). But a recent study by BizRate Insights sheds light on the power that it packs as a key driver for commerce. It's the fourth largest driver of traffic, and 70 percent of users are on Pinterest to figure out what to purchase. Just 17 percent of Facebook users could state that as a reason for using Facebook. And 43 percent use Pinterest to keep up with brands and retailers, compared to just 24 percent of Facebook users. For this reason Pinterest is an enticing marketing platform for brands looking to sell their services or products.
Giving the interest in photo-sharing lately (Instagram is quickly becoming a hub for marketers) Gupta reveals to us that Pinterest is just one platform that the company is working with at the moment, and hopes to expand its service to other visual social media marketing channels in the near future.


Charles Novia Doesn't Believe This Man Trekked From Lagos To Abuja In 19 Days - TSB.com.ng!
According to Daily Post ,the journey man said when he first embarked on the journey, many persons discouraged him, especially family members but he never gave up. He told journalists that in Ilorin, people accompanied him for several miles until he stopped at Oloru, where he received much hospitality in Jebba. He said unlike other villages, he met people who had heard of him.He further explained that about 20 people set off with him from Jebba and after some miles, 18 turned back, but the other two were more strong-minded and followed him.
The Traveller narrated how they encountered armed robbers close to Mokwa, but that, fortunately, he had already met one of them in Jebba and the would-be robber ended up giving him N200 for 'pure' (sachet) water. Hashimu said he continued his trip from Mokwa to Kudu, then from Kutigi to Bida, and then to Suleja, after which arrived in Abuja yesterday.
Upon his arrival in Abuja on Monday, many residents were already waiting to receive him.When residents of FCT saw him, the chorus of Sai Buhari rented the air. Unconfirmed report said a top politician had already paid for a room in Transcorp Hilton where he would lodge.


This was the one that belonged to my Meemaw but there were three. There was one for her and my grandfather and my MOTHER! She was born in 1939 so she was very little but still had her own ration book. It was very cool!
This is what the stamps looked like and they were numbered and had different values to cover cost of different priced items.
So, this sent me on a mission and I looked a few things up. Here are some links and info on rations in the USA.... they were also happening in the UK and other countries, too.
What Were Some of the Items Rationed?
This is a great page with reasons why rationing was used and products that were chosen for rationing.
I dare say that rationing changed the way Americans began to eat and still affects our diets today. I grew up on many caned, bottled, frozen and box mix items like many that were introduced during that time. It is what many of our parents and/or grandparents grew up with and what they passed on to us.
There are skills, though, that many Americans don't have anymore. Canning, sewing, yarn arts, using dried items or root cellars to store food up for the leaner times... all seem like something foreign to many in our nation today. They are lost arts in some regard but they don't have to stay that way. I was delighted to find that there are resources available for learning many of these things now that our parents did not have. I have had to teach myself using videos on YouTube and by reading articles and books about many of these things. I have recently been part of a group of ladies learning some of these skills. (See my recent article on Canning Pickled Veggies) I much prefer the circle of women to a cold impersonal internet, though. Wouldn't it be cool if every community had such an opportunity to bring people together to learn these skills. You could start one in your community if you know several people that have skills they can share with a crowd. Maybe we should be teaching our children these things, too.
Do you have a group of people you meet with to learn skills like this?
Do you have a favorite video or book on these frugal skills that you would be willing to share with us?
Leave us a comment below and share with us!
A few cool videos you food history buffs might love!
I still want to learn to can, or get a small freezer for the basement and flash-freeze veggies. Quilting is one of those "frugal skills", though not the way many modern quilters do it, LOL. No piece of fabric is too small to go into a scrap quilt, to get new life keeping the family warm.
I try to stay away from boxed and canned stuff as much as possible. Always having dried milk on hand makes it easy to make my own "cream" of whatever soup to use in recipes. On the rare occasions I bake, I do so from scratch.
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This raised bed is made with galvanised steel tubing and welded frame for strength and durability. Comes with a fitted flea free mat which is made from a strong UV stabilized treated stitched material. The woven material makes it hard for fleas to inhabit the fabric making these beds flea free, breathable and easy to clean.?Raised approximately 20cm off the ground, the beds ensure cold air flows under rather than through your pet. The durable, flexible covers help prevent pressure sores & relieve many hip complaints & arthritis.


I am new to MindManager, so I don't know if the problem I am having is due to inexperience, or something else.
My OS is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
I am attempting to make a database connection to an Excel file. When I test the connection I get "Could not connect". I have not been able to find any information that might help me debug the issue. I also created a folder, put a CSV file in it and tried that, with the same result.
Does the Excel file need to have only one worksheet/table within it? What about with CSV?
Excel file with multiple worksheet is supported inside MindManager 2016.
Make sure you are running same bit rate version of Microsoft Excel as well as MindManager 2016.
Make sure you have same MS office is installed locally as well as at same location where MindManager is installed.
If you still seeing an issue then I would recommend opening a ticket with support team.
This bit rate version is different. Sigh.
Thank you for the information. This might be a good note to put in the Database Connection section of the User Guide.
Thanks Brian for your feedback.I will forward it to appropriate department to update the User Guide with above information.


This webinar is a started guide intended for professionals working with students who are blind, visually impaired, and/or deaf-blind, who want to learn the basics of the Sendero Group´s Seeing Eye GPS App. This webinar will cover the benefits and frequently asked questions of accessible GPS. It will also include basic app functions, accuracy, and maps. In addition, it will introduce participants to the app´s screen layout, function buttons, and use of important functions such as: Location, LookAround Mode, Point of Interest (POI), and Routes. Finally, this webinar will demonstrate how to create various routes, save POIs, and provide helpful tips for using the app.


The Mono Accessibility project "enables many Windows applications to be fully accessible on Linux. " Oh, they're looking for people to help write code, documentation, or bug swatting. Consider joining their team.
Talking about the Mono Accessibility project brings us to "Moonlight". Moonlight was an open source implementation of Silverlight!! Intrigued? Read more in this article about Moonlight.
Here is a list of several European initiatives concerning gaming and people with disabilities.
The Game On Project – A European initiative on "using Game Based Learning to develop basic, personal and work sustainability skills in prisoners, those at risk of offending and ex-offenders, including those with disabilities."
The GOET project "will support people with learning disabilities in getting and keeping a job by helping them to learn, via games-based learning, more independent living skills that will help them in their working day." PDF version of the full paper.
RECALL is a slight variation on a gaming project. It "combines location based services with games based learning approaches." RECALL "has been developed to meet a need identified from years of research in working with user groups of people with learning disabilities and their teachers/trainers. This research has shown that on leaving compulsory education, people with learning disabilities, who have previously been provided with transport to allow them to access community activity, suddenly become excluded from lifelong learning and community activity because of their lack of independent travel skills." RECALL is still in its early stages, but it is definitely worth monitoring.
Sandi Wassmer shares her thoughts on Inclusivity may be taking over, but it isn't leaving accessibility behind. Inclusivity versus accessibility–is there a difference? The article includes a link to her presentation at the London Web Standards in February.
"Accessibility isn't just about disabilities, it's about varying degrees of ability to access content." That's a great quote from the article "Moving forward is holding us back". Computer monitors might be getting bigger, but what about those teeny tiny mobile devices?
Don't ever assume that the entire world using the emergency number that you use in your country. Wikipedia lists emergency telephone numbers from around the world; only Australia and New Zealand make reference to TTY phone numbers (devices used by deaf people). Apparently, emergency numbers for deaf people are often special numbers. The three-digit national emergency numbers are generally not usable by deaf people, which means they need to know and memorize a different number.
The page for the deaf and hard of hearing from the West Yorkshire Police (UK) site lists an 11-digit number where you can send a text message – but all messages must be prefixed with "999". That's a lot to remember in an emergency! The Australian emergency call service lets you dial 106, but that is from a TTY device or a computer, not a mobile phone. Dial Triple Zero (000) for police, fire or ambulance in a life or property threatening time critical emergency situation. 000 can be called from any fixed or mobile phone and certain VoIP services.
Now, New Zealand is making the headlines because they are the first country in the world where deaf people can send a text to the national emergency number, 111. When you think about it, it is rather amazing that we haven't gotten much farther in the year 2010.
"Talk" is a great video to watch, but if you are in a hurry, try this 35-second video showing "able-bodied people trying to live in a world made for those with disabilities".
@vavroom compared some advertising from the late 90s to current ads by the Canadian Paralympics Committee. His blog post about Awesome Ads Presenting "The Disabled" In A Different Light is a must-read. The captions for the ads means those who cannot see the pictures can still follow the story – an example for others to follow (hint, hint). Download presentation slides for accessibility presentation At LCA2010 Business Miniconf: "Accessibility and FOSS"".
Merinda Epstein uses cartoons to present issues around mental health services in a "humorous, satirical or ironical manner". These are not captioned, but I am sure a volunteer would be welcome to offer their captioning services.
Accessibility is not about "being nice to the blind." It's about avoiding restrictions that arbitrarily exclude people.
@mattmay sent a great comment from the current South-by-Southwest gathering in Austin, Texas. It was too long to re-tweet, but I had to share it.


People in ABC are highly adaptable individuals and quick learners capable of swift understanding for needs of our clients.
All members of the ABC team are guided by our core values, the first of which is results orientation: focusing on delivering results to you our clients. This is what consider to be the primary duty of each and every consultant in ABC.
We understand the need to develop and grow to tackle more complex and difficult tasks on your behalf, to cross disciplinary boundaries and understand the ways in which our projects affects our clients. Therefore, each of our consultant has their own development targets set and strictly followed.
Here are some of the key people whom you may meet when cooperating with ABC.


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Kevin Hayes's *George Washington: A Life in Books* Wins the 2018 George Washington Book Prize
April 30, 2018 / johnfea
Congrats to Kevin Hayes. Click here for our Author's Corner interview with Hayes.
Here is the Mount Vernon press release:
MOUNT VERNON, VA – Author and historian Kevin J. Hayes has won the coveted George Washington Prize, including an award of $50,000, for his new book, George Washington: A Life in Books (Oxford University Press). One of the nation's largest and most prestigious literary awards, now in its 13th year, the George Washington Prize honors its namesake by recognizing the year's best new books on the nation's founding era, especially those that engage a broad public audience. Conferred by George Washington's Mount Vernon, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and Washington College, the award will be presented to Hayes on May 23 at a black-tie gala at Mount Vernon.
In George Washington: A Life in Books, Hayes presents an intellectual biography of Washington that should permanentlydispel popular misconceptions of America's leading Founding Father as a man of all action and no ideas. Washington scholars have long known that he owned an impressive library of more than thirteen hundred volumes. Hayes has gone further by meticulously paging through Washington's surviving books held at the Boston Athenæum, the Washington Library at Mount Vernon, and other collections, as well as nearly nine hundred pages of Washington's notes on his reading, to create a portrait of him as a reader. By closely examining Washington's notes, Hayes has uncovered an intellectual curiosity that dozens of previous biographers have missed. As a young man, Washington read popular serials such as The Gentleman's Magazine and The Spectator, which helps to bridge the long-imagined gap between him and his learned contemporaries like Franklin, Jefferson, and Adams.
"Kevin Hayes shattered myths and calumnies against George Washington and has done much more," said Douglas Bradburn, President and CEO of Mount Vernon. "He's added to the depth of the man helping to reveal why Washington is such an effective leader."
Established in 2005, the George Washington Prize has honored a dozen leading writers on the Revolutionary era including Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit musical Hamilton. For this year's prize, a distinguished jury comprised of notable historians Denver Brunsman, Flora Fraser, and Peter Onuf selected the seven finalists from a field of more than 50 books.
Mount Vernon's event on May 23 will also honor the six finalists for the 2017 prize:
Max Edelson, The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence (Harvard University Press)
Eric Hinderaker, Boston's Massacre (Harvard University Press)
Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty (Simon & Schuster)
James E. Lewis, Jr., The Burr Conspiracy: Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis (Princeton University Press)
Jennifer Van Horn, The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
Douglas L. Winiarski, Darkness Falls on the Land of Light: Experiencing Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture)
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Register of Beneficial Ownership of UK Land and Property - Stuart Foster
The UK government recently closed a consultation during which it took views as to how a new public register of the beneficial ownership of UK land and real estate property may be introduced. This new register of property ownership, that is expected to include all overseas companies, has been proposed for some time now and it seems only a matter of time before it is brought into force. The question for us to consider is how the introduction of such a register will affect clients of Peregrine.
It is proposed that the new register will be managed by Companies House in the UK who have recently introduced a similar register for Persons with Significant Control ("PSC") in Companies incorporated in the UK.
How to identify those to be disclosed and the detail required about beneficial owners of property are expected to follow very similar rules to those imposed by Companies House in respect of the PSC Register for companies – a summary of how to identify a PSC is provided below:
An individual who holds more than 25% of shares in the company;
An individual who holds more than 25% of voting rights in the company;
An individual who holds the right to appoint or remove the majority of the board of directors of the company;
An individual who has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, significant influence or control over the company;
Where a trust or firm would satisfy one of the first four conditions if it were an individual. Any individual holding the right to exercise, or actually exercising, significant influence or control over the activities of that trust or firm.
The personal information to be disclosed and available publicly is expected to include name, nationality, country of residence, service address and details as to how they control the property-owning entity.
As this legislation is likely to affect all overseas entities that own UK property, it will have an impact on Isle of Man companies administered by Peregrine that have invested in UK property. Beneficial owners, or more accurately, PSC's of UK property holding entities registered in the Isle of Man should be aware that their personal information and their links to UK property may become public knowledge.
The UK Government believes this will provide greater transparency (a commonly used word in recent legislative changes affecting overseas territories and crown dependencies!), clearer information about landlords for tenants, greater efficiency in the property market as owners of vacant properties will be easier to identify, and owners of neighbouring properties will know who is responsible for works affecting them.
The opposite side of the 'transparency coin' is that for all the apparent benefits of making this information public, there are issues of privacy and commerciality that may be far from beneficial for those investors named publicly by these new proposals.
The loss of confidentiality proposed by this legislation together with the introduction of Inheritance Tax to residential property and the proposed extension of Capital Gains Tax to commercial property (announced in the recent budget) gives the impression that the UK Government has great confidence that its property market is sufficiently resilient to cope with ever increasing regulatory and taxation burdens. For the sake of investors, it must be hoped that they are right.
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Do you remember the film Total Recall, when Arnie jumps into a taxi driven by a robot called Johnny? Or how about the flying-through-time DeLorean from the Back to the Future movies?
Well, although time travel isn't (yet?) one of Innovate UK's priority areas of focus, we're working hard to ensure the UK stays ahead of the curve in the automotive and mobility industry landscape that's developing at an astonishing pace.
Right now, technology developments and social change are bringing about a transformation in the transport industry not seen since the invention of the combustion engine. The key trends are connected, automated, shared and ultra low emission. Breakthroughs in connectivity, automation, propulsion and our willingness to share are fundamentally changing our relationship with cars.
The opportunities for successful innovation through market success are immense. But, with opportunities come challenges, such as shifting consumer demands, political and regulatory reform and, of course, the constantly changing face of cyber-threats.
Innovate UK is the cornerstone of the UK's innovation ecosystem. We work with colleagues in the Office for Low Emission Vehicles (OLEV), the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CCAV), the Automotive Council, the Intelligent Mobility Planning Action and Coordination Team (IM-Pact), the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), the Catapults, and we widely engage across industry and academic. Our aim is simple – to make the UK a centre of automotive excellence, both in R&D, manufacturing and future mobility business models.
We've just launched a new funding competition, in partnership with CCAV, inviting businesses and research organisations to apply for a share of up to £55 million to create the world's most effective CAV testing ecosystem. This is the first part of a £100 million fund to invest in CAV test bed infrastructure.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy recently announced the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which includes the batteries challenge investment of pretty much £1/4 billion over 4 years, stretching right the way from fundamental research and innovation to the manufacturing scale-up, to ensure the UK seizes this global opportunity from the transition to a low carbon economy. The UK is going to lead the world in the design, development and manufacture of batteries for the electrification of connected, shared and automated vehicles.
Our role, though, is not just about innovation funding but also as a connector service. Encouraging and enabling networking and knowledge exchange is an important part of our work and helps drive invention to become successful innovation, i.e. a market success!
Disruptive technology can have a massive impact on traditional business models and the car industry is well versed in disrupting itself. In recent years, car manufacturers have broken free of perceived industry boundaries to pool resources with a diverse range of technology companies.
Key recommendations in the House of Lords' Science and Technology Select Committee report Connected and autonomous vehicles: the future? are for the government to continue supporting urban and interurban testing of road vehicles. There is also a recommendation for an increased focus on marine, HGV, public transport and agri-autonomous vehicles as these are where benefits for the economy are likely to be realised first.
With an active portfolio of marine and agri-autonomous systems, drones and public transport inspection projects, we have already made a good start on this. This testing recommendation is exactly where we and CCAV targeted our CAV2 funding stream and now we have some great moon shot projects aiming at SAE Level 4 automation. These projects provide real-world benefits to users, are able to work as part of a wider transport system and of course show clear commercial benefits as each project we fund leverages significant private investment.
The negative impacts of poor air quality are becoming clearer and vehicle emission reductions, especially in high-density areas, have a significant role to play in improving the nation's health.
Innovate UK has been supporting the Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles (ULEV) sector through the Low Carbon Vehicles Innovation Platform since 2007 and this has helped the industry to speed up the ongoing transition that will see nearly every new vehicle become zero emission by 2050.
UK businesses are well placed to take advantage of the growing global demand for low emission and energy efficient vehicles. In 2014, one in four electric vehicles bought in Europe was built in the UK, yet these new technologies can take time and money to develop and even longer to reach the market.
The sector is moving from the internal combustion engine to hybrid and fully electrified powertrains. We need to develop further UK capability to be world leading in mobile energy storage, all the way from application-inspired research, through product innovation and business scale-up with high-volume manufacturing.
We're bringing together the energy and transport sectors to help ensure that charging for electric vehicles is built into future energy infrastructures, both in our homes and in industry. Our work in developing supply chains will enable future electric vehicles to be fully assembled in the UK, reducing time and cost. And developing flexible manufacturing processes will mean that future battery chemistry and cell thermal management breakthroughs from our science base can be adopted and taken to market by UK OEMs.
On 10th May 2017, automotive industry professionals will come together at the FT Future of the Car Summit in London. Representatives from top car manufacturers and other key stakeholders from across the industry will explore the challenges and opportunities in developing the cars of tomorrow.
The line-up of speakers will include OEMs, suppliers, government and academia. They'll look at the industry's transformation in terms of electrification, autonomous driving and shared mobility. There's also be a focus on how new competitors and tech start-ups are changing the landscape of the automotive business.
A panel on 'breaking barriers in user experience' will explore how human-machine interfaces are evolving and what can be done to improve self-driving features and how they respond to worst case scenarios. There'll be discussions on the most exciting developments in connectivity and the evolution of cyber-security threats.
And, yes, they'll also be reassessing whether the flying car could be re-imagined in a way that's safe and sustainable, in the light of climate change, population growth and urban expansion.
I look forward to gaining to new insights from the wealth of knowledge and vision that'll be in the room that day.


TRUCK TRAILER MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, 48th annual meeting, May 4-9. Boca Raton Resort and Club, Boca Raton, Fla. Contact: TTMA, (703) 549-3010.
ADVANCED TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT SEMINAR, May 7-18. Transportation Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. Contact: Executive Programs Office, (708) 491-4040.INTERNATIONAL INTERMODAL EXPO, seventh annual exhibition, May 8-10. World Congress Center, Atlanta. Contact: Eleanor Lewis, Georgia Freight Bureau, (404) 524-7777. Fax: (404) 524-7776.
EFT/EDI CONFERENCE, third annual meeting, May 9-11. Hyatt Regency Hote, Chicago. Contact: EFT/EDI, (708) 848-0135.
FREIGHT USERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK, 20th annual meeting, May 10. Villa Victor, Syosset, N.Y. Contact: Roseann West, (516) 427-0100.
JOURNAL OF COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION TABLE, May 11. National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Speaker to be announced Contact: India Luck, JofC, (202) 383-6100.
COUNCIL OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, information technology in logistics, May 11.
Sixty East Club, New York. Lloyd Birkeland, (212) 546-3605.
RAILROAD PUBLIC RELATIONS ASSOCIATION, annual meeting, May 13-16. Mariner's Inn, Hilton Head, S.C. Contact: Carol B. Perkins, (202) 639-2552.
WORLD EXPRESS 1990, air express and courier conference and exhibition, May 14-17. World Trade Center and Vista International Hotel, New York. Contact: Jan Hillman, Triangle Communication Ltd., U.K. (011) 44 494-450054. Fax: (011) 44 494-450836.
NEW JERSEY INDUSTRIAL TRAFFIC LEAGUE, outsourcing transportation services, May 15. Ramada Inn, Edison, N.J. Contact: Fred M. Brody, (201) 589-5045; Rob Walthers, (201) 725-4343; or Nancy Miller, (201) 443-2984.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS, executive seminar on integrated logistics, May 15-16. Hyatt-O'Hare, Chicago. Contact: ASTL, (502) 451-8150.
RO-RO 90, 10th annual international conference and exhibition on transport using roll-on roll-off, May 15-17. Stazione Marittima, Trieste, Italy. Contact: Secretariat, (011) 44 923-776363. Fax: (011) 44 923-777206.
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, Ontario round table luncheon on support for distribution logistics, May 16. Valhalla Inn, Etobicoke, Ontario. Contact: CALM, (416) 626-6390.
COUNCIL OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, San Francisco round table, May 17. Casa De la Vista or Admiral Nimitz Officer's Club, Treasure Island. Contact: Rick Dawe, (415) 541-2841 or Kristie Stallman, (415) 433-4090.
NATIONAL DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION, symposium, May 18. Transpo '90 - Transportation in an Emergency, Lessons Learned: Quake '89. Oakland, Calif. Oakland Army Base. Contact: (415) 466-2578 or 2383.
435-7044; or Vernon Patton, (214) 630-3056.
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT, Ontario round table, seminar on finance for non-financial logistics professionals, May 23. Delta Hotel, Montreal. Contact: Albert Goodhue, (514) 695-1162.
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS, two-day workshop on operation and maintenance of freighttrain brake systems, May 23-24. University of Illinois, Champaign. Contact: Ralph Groskopf, AAR's Chicago Technical Center, (312) 567-3608.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT AND SEAPORT POLICE, annual conference, May 27-June 1. Tacoma (Wash.)Sheraton Hotel. Contact: Roland Nease, conference coordinator. (206) 884-2025.


I have only recently taken card making up again after a long spell of being ill.
I am just making any kind of cards that I can, to get me back into the 'swing' of things again. I have forgotten so much, but hopefully this will be the start of better things to come.
My first card is Baby Card which has dies by Sue Wilson - New Arrival - Stuffed Animals. I have used the Elephant, Giraffe, Lion and Pitter Patter.
The other stamp, I cannot remember where I got this one from, but I liked it to put onto the card.
The card is a 6 x 6 and I have used pink, white glitter and a multi coloured paper. I coloured in parts of the die cut animals to make them stand out a bit more.
Hi Jennifer how good to see you back again and I don't think it will take you long to get back into the swing of things.
A very quick card, DL size, dark purple and light purple card, with ribbon put round the bottom of the card and 4 pearls at the corners.
The die that I used was a Die-Versions alphabet die, 'A Hint of Lime' font. I used the letters to spell out Happy Birthday on the bunting.
I put a small purple butterfly on the right hand corner of the card.
Another lovely card and this is so simple and elegant and I love the colours you have used.
I am in the process of making a variety of different cards, so this is another Happy Birthday one that I have finished.
This is a 7 x 7 card.
Dies used: Chrysanthemum by Sue Wilson, Happy Birthday die was a free gift from one of my magazines. I also used the Dotty Clouds embossing folder, which is really nice as it is not heavily embossed.
I used Silver Mirri card first, then the layer with the Dotty Clouds embossing, I then cut out 3 smaller squares in Silver and White and mounted the Happy Birthday die onto the last piece of card.
I die cut the Chrysanthemum die and used two of the sizes available to create the flower, Imade the centres of the flowers with silver and yellow. In order to make the most of these flowers, I would really have to make a box to put the card in as when it goes into an envelope it 'squashes' the petals, which is a shame as it is really pretty.
I also put pearls at each of the corners of the card.
I think these were the very first cards I made on my journey back to card making.
The cards were all 10.5 x 15cm and I layered them first with a coloured piece of card and then used various dies on the front.
I may mention some dies which do not show on the cards, but I had made quite a few Easter cards.
Dies used: Springtime Floral Egg - Memory Box, Happy Easter Egg - Memory Box, I used both the Anya and Catarina Faberge Eggs with the Decorative Stand. I didn't really use a lot of embellishment on these cards, only a couple of flowers a piece of ribbon, some glitter and really not much more.
I hope that you like these little cards.
This is the first time I have ever made a Sympathy card, and I don't think it is one that anyone would ever get used to making.
I was asked to make a few of these as the lady said to me, 'I never know when I will need one, so I better have a few just in case', each to their own I suppose, but it is not cards I would like to have a few of.
I started off by using a 7 x 7 white card and then layered it with black and cream card, I tied a white ribbon round the bottom of the card and used the Pierced Rectangles (6th & 7th smallest dies) to produce the frames in cream and black. I used the insert from the 5th die to die cut a black cut out to which I attached the flower, cut in cream and green.
The verse inside the card reads: 'Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer'.
The first card, I layered with pink, white and a pink and white chequered card.
I then used the New Arrival - Stuffed Animals dies from Sue Wilson, I used a Pink Glitter pen to colour in the little bits on each of the animals.
I attached them to the pink & white chequered card, I then attached 3 pearls to each side. I then used the Signature Collection by Sara Davies, Little Angel, Baby Accessories.
I used the Rattle, Dummy and Baby Bottle and again used the Pink Glitter pen to colour in some little bits on each of them.
I finished off the card with a little white ribbon and another couple of pearls.
The next card I layered with yellow card and yellow chequered card, I used a stitched border for the pink card.
The dies that were used were New Arrival - Stork and Baby by Sue Wilson.
I hope you like both of these cards, but comments are always welcome.
This was a card I made for my Mum's friend of 50 years, she had a 'stint' in hospital, thankfully she is back home again where she should be and feeling much better.
Anyway, this was a 7 x 7 white card, which I then layered with a piece of white card, embossed with Clouds. I used the Get Well Soon die from Die'sire - Crafters Companion.
I then attached a little butterfly on the left hand side of the card, 3 pearls on each side. I also used the Chrysanthemum die from Sue Wilson, which is an absolutely beautiful die, however, if you want to 'fix' the petals properly you will have to use a box to put your card in, because as soon as you put it into the envelope the petals are 'squashed'.
This card was created with using the Banner Parade - Memory Box Dies.
I then cut out the 'flag bunting' and cut out an alphabet using a Die-Versions - Alphabet die - A Hint of Lime font. I then attached the alphabet by carefully using my tweezers and glue.
Once the letters were attached and dried, I then attached a blue and pink swirl with a couple of hearts and stars.
To finish it off I tied 3 pieces of pink, blue and yellow ribbon together.
This was a Birthday card that I made for my son who was 28 on the 19th April, I had a few voucher gifts to give him and I had already bought a Birthday card for him, but decided to give this one a go.
Colouring in is definitely not my strong point, I have a long way to go with this, but, for this card I think it looked ok.
I got the stamps as a free gift from one of my many magazines that I buy, I stamped the images and coloured them in and then fussy cut them out and placed them onto the card.
Apologies, I had forgotten about the box. I used the Top Score multiboard by Crafters Companion to create my box.
I used Creative Expressions Craft Dies by Sue Wilson - Finishing Touches - Chrysanthemum. I die cut them from Vellum, I put some Glossy Accents over the petals and then I attached a bow to reflect her age.
These cards were made using the same Happy Birthday die, which I got from one of my magazines.
It is a really useful die, as you can use it as a complete die or cut it up and use the other parts in different parts of the card. Both of these cards show that.
I hope that I have got them the right way round when explaining them.
The first card, I die cut the side of the card with a ribbon die (one of the many that I have), once I had done this I put another piece of pink card inside the white card, (prior to securing the pink to white, I attached a piece of pink ribbon) so that the inside was pink.
I then cut out 3 separate pieces of card in pink, yellow and white and layered them up. I die cut the Happy Birthday in pink and put yellow behind the roses on the die cut.
I then attached a couple of roses and leafs and a couple of other flowers.
I only used a small amount of glitter on the card.
The other card, I die cut a circle in the centre of the card then I embossed the card. I then used a piece of dark pink and used part of the die, Happy Birthday and glued it onto the pink card.
Once this was done, I put the embossed piece of card over the top of the Happy Birthday and secured it with sticky fixers.
To finish off the card, I used the other parts of the die that I had cut off, the Roses, leafs and little bird.
It just shows how we can use dies in different ways and that we don't have to use them exactly as they are given to us.


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Colin Kaepernick completes workout with Las Vegas Raiders, source tells ESPN
ByAdam Schefter
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Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels before the start of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, Dec. 18, 2016 in Atlanta.
Colin Kaepernick, who last played professional football in 2016 -- the year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice -- worked out Wednesday for the Las Vegas Raiders, a league source told ESPN.
It marked Kaepernick's first workout with an NFL team since being exiled, and it was the first time the former star quarterback visited with a team since he flew to Seattle to meet with the Seahawks in May 2017, before they passed on the opportunity to sign him.
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Kaepernick played at the University of Nevada, Reno, the only school to offer him a scholarship. Currently, the pro team in Nevada is the only one in the NFL that has given the civil rights activist another opportunity.
Raiders owner Mark Davis is following in the spirit of his late father, Al Davis, who provided many opportunities, such as hiring the NFL's first Black head coach (Art Shell) and its first woman chief executive (Amy Trask) in the modern era. The elder Davis also was the first team owner to draft a Black quarterback in the first round and the second team owner to hire a Hispanic head coach, Tom Flores.
The NFL had said it encouraged teams to take a look at Kaepernick. But not only has Kaepernick not signed a contract with any team, he also hasn't received a workout until the one he had Wednesday.
Mark Davis told ESPN's Paul Gutierrez in June 2020 that he would give his "blessing" if the Raiders' front office or coaches wanted to add Kaepernick.
Derek Carris the starting quarterback for the Raiders, who also traded for backup Jarrett Stidham earlier this month in a deal with the New England Patriots. Las Vegas also has quarterback Nick Mullens, who signed with the Raiders this offseason.
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Kaepernick, 34, recently threw to undrafted receivers for NFL scouts at halftime of Michigan's spring game, at the invitation of Jim Harbaugh, his former coach with the San Francisco 49ers.
Another potential link to Kaepernick is Raiders offensive coordinator Mick Lombardi, who was a 49ers assistant from 2013 to 2016.
In an interview with the "I Am Athlete" podcast in April, Kaepernick noted that both of his former Niners coaches, Harbaugh and Chip Kelly, said he "made the locker room better," contrasting a narrative that he would be a distraction for any team that signs him.
"That 2016 season, my last year, my teammates voted me most courageous and inspirational player," Kaepernick said. "So, when you're talking about the people that are in the building, that has never come out that I've been a distraction. That's never come out that I've been an issue for the people I've played with."
Kaepernick also said in the interview that today's NFL should be more "in alignment" with his social views, given the league's stance on other matters pertaining to race relations in the United States.
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"You have 'End Racism' in the back of your end zone. You have 'Black Lives Matter' on your helmet. Everything I've said should be in alignment with what you're saying publicly," he said. "It's a $16 billion business. When I first took a knee, my jersey went to No. 1. When I did the deal with Nike, their value increased by $6 billion. Six billion. With a B.
"So if you're talking about the business side, it shows it's beneficial. If you're talking about the playing side, come in, let me compete. You can evaluate me from there. The NFL's supposed to be a meritocracy. Come in, let me compete. If I'm not good enough, get rid of me. But let me come in and show you."
Kaepernick said he ultimately wants to win a championship after coming close with the 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, during which San Francisco fell one play short in a 34-31 loss to the Baltimore Ravensin February 2013.
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Glorantha has been my favourite fantasy world since I encountered it through RuneQuest in 1982. Here are my Glorantha related files and links.
Glorantha, Hero Wars and HeroQuest are the Trademarks of Issaries, Inc., and are used with their permission. Issaries, Inc. is the Trademark of Issaries, Inc..
I wanted to learn Java for career reasons and chose to implement the Hero Wars rules in a networked game as a self-teaching project. I have succeeded well beyond my initial goals (see endorsement from Issaries/Greg Stafford) and now find I am close to completion. The program is written in Java 2 version 1.3 and is released under the GPL, so the source code is available if you are interested.
I use Yahoo! Groups as the the main forum for the discussion of the HeroWarsProgram. The program files, installation instructions, change log etc. are all held in the HeroWarsProgram files area. There are a few XML format files that cannot be stored on Yahoo! Groups files as they seem to get mangled into an HTML format. I store these files here.
karath.xml - the XML stored form of Karath Sweetvoice for the Hero Wars Program.
karath.html - the html output of Karath from the Hero Wars Program.
karath-stats.html - the html output of the statistics of Karath from the Hero Wars Program.
heortling_keywords.xml - the XML stored form of the Heortling keywords © 2000, 2001 Issaries, Inc. for the Hero Wars Program. Many thanks to Wulf Corbett for creating this file and to Greg Stafford/Issaries Inc. for granting permission to place this copyrighted material on this site. This file can be used to cut out the boring piece of creating a character using keywords.
Benedict Adamson started a Hero Wars campaign in the Fire Bull clan of the Sambari Tribe in Sartar during the summer of 2000.
After some turnover in players, there are seven of us (Bruce Ferrie, Ian Cooper, Jim Hawkins, Mark Adri-Soejoko and Guy Jobbins are the others). We take irregular turns in running episodes in the campaign so we each get a chance to play and to narrate. Initially, we played in a clan based campaign. More recently, we chose to have the characters outlawed and now are in the Wintertop and Bush Range region and are developing contacts in the lower ranks of the Sartar resistance.
Benedict has compiled an extensive set of Sambari and Fire Bull background setting notes at his web site.
Karath Sweetvoice is my character in the campaign - see the character sheet to get some sense of the progress of the campaign (though I am afraid I have not been updating the story since May 2001).
We meet on Thursday evenings at the Finchley Games Club, Old Finchleians Sports Club, Southover, North Finchley, London N12 (near Woodside Park tube station). Contact us at LondonHeroWars to see if there is room for another player.


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Q: Clifford's theorem in Representation theory Let $V$ be an irreducible representation of a finite group $G$ over the field $\mathbb{C}$ (we can take any field in fact).
Let $H$ be a normal subgroup of $G$.
Look at $V$ as representation of $H$; it may not be irreducible, so take an $H$-irreducible subspace $W$ of $V$.
Next, consider subspaces $gW$.
It can be shown that $H$ acts on $gW$ (due to normality) irreducibly.
Now, take $\sum_{g\in G} gW$. Clearly, This is $G$-invariant subspace of $V$.
Since $V$ is irreducible, so $\sum_{g\in G} gW=V$.
Question: Can we say that $V$ is equal to direct sum of certain subspaces in $\sum_{g\in G} gW$?


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Mispel (Mespilus germanica) er et lille, løvfældende træ med en malerisk, kroget vækst. Både stamme og grene er meget krogede. Mispel har karakteristiske frugter, der ligner stenhårde, brune tjørnebær i overstørrelse.

Beskrivelse
Barken er først grågrøn og filthåret. Senere bliver den grå med forskellige toninger i brunt og med svagt farvede, lysebrune korkporer. Bladarrene er smalle og seglformede. Til sidst er barken gråbrun og opsprækkende. Frøplanter er tornede. Knopperne er spredte, ovale og brune med mørkebrune, hårede skælrande (meget lig æbleknopper).

Bladene er aflangt ægformede eller elliptiske med hel (ganske fint takket), lidt bølget rand og forsænkede ribber. Oversiden er græsgrøn med ganske få hår, mens undersiden er lysegrøn med tæt hårklædning. Høstfarven er gulbrun. Blomstringen sker i maj, hvor de store hvide blomster ses enkeltvis i bladhjørnerne. Frugterne ligner stenhårde, brune tjørnebær i overstørrelse. "Blomsten" er blivende, som hos Tjørn og Æble, men arret er meget åbent og viser de 5 stenhårde kerners øverste ende. Frugterne modner ikke ordentligt i Danmark, og frøene er som regel tomme.

Træet forhandles i Danmark som podede planter på grundstammer af Hvidtjørn. Roden er altså lig med denne plantes rod.

Højde x bredde og årlig tilvækst: 4 x 5 m (30 x 40 cm/år).

Hjemsted
Mispel er udbredt i de blandede løvskove fra Balkanlandene over Lilleasien til Kaukasus og Iran. Typiske ledsageplanter er f.eks. Valnød, Ægte Kastanje, Avnbøg, Humlebøg, Frynse-Eg, Tarmvrid-Røn, Aksel-Røn og Sølv-Lind.

Anvendelse
Frugten er først spiselig i november, når den begynder at blive lidt blød og at dufte af portvin. Hvis ikke den modner, pluk ved første frost og opbevar et køligt sted i to uger. Så snart de modner skal de bruges inden for et par dage. Frugterne kan anvendes fx til syltetøj, gele eller sirupsagtig sovs til desserter m.m.. Smagen er et sted mellem dadler og bagt æble. De siges at kunne spises rå efter, at de har fået frost, men smagen er meget besk og snerpende.

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Træer
Nytteplanter
Hvide blomster
Flerfoldsfrugter


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Q: How do we know if a multivariable function is invertible? A question about multivariable functions.
How do we know if a multivariable function(or transform) is invertible?
I mean just like we know y=2x is reversible and has an invert but y=x^2 is not invertible.
What about multivariable functions? I've already known that we can determine if a matrix is reversible according to its determinant, but what about a nonlinear transform, and is it has anything to do with Jacobian matrix?
Thanks!

A: The word you are looking for is "invertible." There is a relationship between invertibility and the Jacobian, and it is the inverse function theorem.


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Why public health should be the cornerstone of agriculture policy
Lindy Sharpe
The UK is about to get its most significant piece of agricultural legislation since 1947. Reacting to wartime shortages, the 1947 Agriculture Act prioritised food production and ushered in the era of intensive farming. After 1973, when the UK joined what was then the European Economic Community, Britain's farm policy was moved into alignment with the Common Agricultural Policy, made and shared by all Member States. Now, as the UK leaves the EU, it must set a new legal framework for farming, which will determine how farm land is used, what is produced, and in what ways.
In 2018, in preparation for the new Act, Defra produced a consultation document on agricultural policy. Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a green Brexit asserts that in future the principle of 'public money for public goods' will be the 'cornerstone' of farm policy. It includes examples of the public goods that may be supported: improved soil quality, public access to nature, 'enhanced beauty', bee health. Human health is not mentioned except as an indirect benefit of clean air and water, access to green space and controlled use of farm antibiotics and pesticides. It is not recognised, much less celebrated, as an attribute of food.
This seems a serious omission, given that for many people the self-evident primary purpose of agriculture is to provide the food necessary to support healthy people. Without doubt, agricultural policy has enormous potential either to boost or to undermine public health, with significant related benefits or costs to the economy. For example, by providing subsidies, other incentives or via research support, or by removing 'perverse incentives' (which have the opposite effect to what is intended), agricultural policy can encourage the production of the crops we are recommended to eat more of (such as pulses, vegetables and fruit). It can discourage production of the things we are recommended to eat less of (such as red meat, sugar and highly processed foods dependent on cheap commodity ingredients). And it can provide clear signalling to favour production methods shown to be least damaging to public health, for example by limiting the use of harmful chemicals.
The term 'public goods' rings alarm bells. It does not simply mean 'something that is good for the public'. It has a specific, useful but narrow meaning in economics, where a 'public good' is something that is 'non-excludable' and 'non-rivalrous', which means no one can be excluded from its use and the use by one person does not diminish the availability of the good to others. Public goods are thus things that cannot be provided by markets (because no-one can make a profit from selling them), hence the need for pubic subsidy. Economists argue that public health does not easily fit these criteria (but then, neither does public access to private land, so the Government's own interpretation of the term is clearly flexible). It is also argued that public health is hard to trace back to agriculture: there are too many intervening processes that can render agricultural products more or less healthy, so specifying health as a desired outcome or criterion for incentives would be complicated.
Whatever the reason for omission, it was widely observed that beyond the title, Health and Harmony made almost no reference to human health. But there is a real risk here that if public health is not explicitly recognised as a valid criterion for deciding which purposes agricultural policy should support, it may be 'defined out' of future debate. Decision makers will find it harder to recognise public health benefits as important criteria when devising policy or allocating funding; and individual farmers who try to 'farm for health' will find it harder to justify their practices or find a market for their products. This will inevitably jeopardise efforts to achieve more coherent farming, food and health policy that leads to more sustainable agriculture and land use.
As agricultural policy develops over the coming months, the FRC Brexit Workstream will be following its progress to assess how (or whether) it supports and prioritises public health. Our argument is that public health should be the cornerstone of integrated agriculture and food policy.
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