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Age Doesn't Matter, Learning a Second Language Benefits Your Brain
March 5, 2020 in Educational Games tagged Bilingual / Bilingual Games by Daniel Mondaca
Sometimes we limit ourselves and don't try to learn new things because of the fear of failure, the lack of time, or just because "we are too old for that." Those are limiting beliefs that become barriers to our development as individuals.
At 7 Generation Games we make bilingual educational games and that is why, this time, we want to share with you the benefits of learning a second language for your brain. That way you won't have any excuses when it comes to learning Spanish or who knows, trying something new.
The process of acquiring a second language transforms the human brain, improving its structure and functioning. Learning generates anatomical changes in brain structures, regardless of the age at which the process begins.
Professor Ping Li, who led a study published in the Journal of Neurolinguistics, said in this regard, that learning and practicing any activity, such as obtaining a second language, strengthens the brain. Similarly to physical exercise, the more certain areas of the brain are used, the more it will lead to those parts of the brain becoming stronger.
https://www.actualidadenpsicologia.com/aprender-segunda-lengua-cerebro-edad/
The schemes above correspond to the neural networks before and after, the thickness of the line indicates the strength of the neural link: a) Is the connectivity corresponding to a successful student, b) the connectivity of a learner with less success and c) it is the connectivity of the controls (non-learners).
Credits: Li Lab, Penn State
From the study presented above, and in case you still have doubts, 10 benefits of learning a second language were concluded:
1. BRAIN GROWTH
2. PREVENTS DEMENTIA
3. IMPROVES LISTENING CAPACITY
4. HELPS BE MORE SENSITIVE TO IDIOMATIC DIFFERENCES
5. IMPROVES MEMORY
6. BILINGUAL PEOPLE ARE MORE FLEXIBLE
7. INCREASES FOCUS
8. DOUBLES COGNITIVE ACTIVITY
9. CHANGES THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD
10. IMPROVES THE MASTERY OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE
So now you know, learning a second language has multiple benefits! We recommend you venture into the world of bilingual learning with our educational games, such as:
Play in English or Spanish (see how much you remember from high school.)
Math: Multiplication and Division
History: Ojibwe (Chippewa) , Plains Indians
In Spanish and English
Click to buy for $1.99
Whether you are teaching English language learners or want a fun app to expand your Spanish vocabulary, Making Camp Bilingual fits the bill. Packed with videos and activities, players practice multiplication and division skills while learning math problem-solving strategies. They'll also be introduced to Native American history. Earn points by solving math problems and answering social studies questions in the village-building simulation game.
Counting by Two Languages – Bring numbers to life!
Our only app for the Pre-K to 2 grades. Press on the language button to hear the numbers read aloud in English or Spanish. Teaches counting in English and Spanish. Kids love seeing virtual numbers pop up in their real world.
Download the cards and find the links to the iPhone, iPad and Android apps here.
Math: The Universal Language NT
Watch as commonly confused multiplication problems solve themselves! Simply hold the app over the game cards (provided via a free link), and see the numbers and problem solutions appear as 3D images. Press on the language button to hear the numbers and multiplication problems said and solved aloud in English or Spanish.
Download Math: The Universal Language NT cards and find the links to the iPhone, iPad and Android apps here
Math: The Universal Language Lakota
Tradition meets tech in this engaging new way to learn. Numbers spring to life in English and Lakota using this augmented reality app to practice multiplication and learn numbers in two languages! Press on the language button to hear the numbers and multiplication problems said and solved aloud in English or Lakota.
Download Math: The Universal Language Lakota cards and find the links to the iPhone, iPad and Android apps here
Math: The Universal Language Dakota
Tradition meets tech in this engaging new way to learn. Numbers spring to life in English and Dakota using this augmented reality app to practice multiplication and learn numbers in two languages!
The app is the first ever AR app to combine math and the Dakota language. Available for iOS (iPad & iPhone).
← You Never Know
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Q: Error while converting text to speech in python from gtts import gTTS
import os
Text= "hello world"
Lang= "en"
SPEECH=gTTS(Text,Lang,slow=False)
SPEECH.save("hello.mp3")
os.system("start hello.mp3)
It raise an error
failed to connect
Probable cause: Unknown
Please guide how to resolve it

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Q: MSMQ Design Question There's a requirement to persist messages that are generated between a WCF client and a WSE 2.0 web service. Since the web service is hosted by a third-party, could i implement a solution where the WCF client persists messages to msmq and have the windows service poll the queue intermittently for requests to be sent on the WSE 2.0 webservice? In the event of an unsuccessful request the message would remain on the queue.
Thanks in advance.

A: It should work.
The part that can be a bit tricky is when you read the data out of the MSMQ and send it to WSE 2.0 service.

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*Start a transaction

*read the item out of MSMQ

*Send it to WSE service

*If WSE service returned OK, commit the transaction

A: by default MSMQ will not retain messages in queue if MSMQ service is restarted. if you want the messages to remain in MSMQ even if machine restarts etc.. you need to create queue as transactional(that is true if you use express messages which is default in .NET, thanks to Igal for correcting this).


CPAO is is process of implementing e-PPO project whereby digitally signed authorities would be received in CPAO from the PAOs of the Ministry/Department both in fresh pension cases as well as revision cases. For signing the e-authorities, PAOs would be required type-II digital signature key. In this regard, necessary instructions were issued by the PFMS Cell, Office of CGA, M/o Finance vide OM No.C-13015(370)/MF.CGA/PFMS/Meeting/2015-16/1757 dated 08/12/2015 (Copy enclosed) to all the Pr.CCAs/CCAs/CAs (with independent charge) to arrange the digital signature for their pension processing PAOs (as per list attached).
In view of implementation of 7th CPC recommendations related to pension, around 11 Lakhs pension cases would need to be revised by CPAO. Manual processing of such huge number of cases would be time taking which may lead to delay in payment to the Pensioners. Therefore, for speedy revision, it is desired to process these cases in e-mode by the PAOs and send them electronically under their digital signatures to CPAO. For this purpose, Digital Signatures of Pension Processing PAOs would be required.
It is, therefore, requested to urgently arrange the digital signature for all the pension processing PAOs of your Ministry/Departments latest by 8th January, 2016 and a confirmation report may be sentt to CPAO.


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Q: PostgreSQL data missing from view Because PostgreSQL doesn't support dynamically calculated columns of a table, one possible way to overcome this limitation is to use views as it pointed in the answer to this question. I tried to implement such view in the following way:
CREATE VIEW user_info_view AS
  SELECT *,
         calculate_bonus_points_for_period(user_info.id) AS bonus_points_period,
         calculate_user_level(user_info.id) AS level
  FROM user_info;

Where user_info table is the following:
CREATE TABLE user_info
(
  id                  serial     PRIMARY KEY,
  card_id             text       NOT NULL UNIQUE,
  name                text       NOT NULL,
  address             text       NOT NULL,
  phone               text       NOT NULL,
  bank_credit         bigint     NOT NULL,
  deposit             bigint     NOT NULL,
  bonus_points        bigint     NOT NULL
);

And the 2 functions used to calculate view columns are the following:
CREATE TYPE user_level AS ENUM ('bronze', 'gold', 'platinum');

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CREATE FUNCTION calculate_bonus_points_for_period(user_id integer)
  RETURNS bigint AS
$BODY$
  DECLARE
    bonus_period smallint;
    result       bigint;
  BEGIN
    SELECT settings.bonus_period INTO bonus_period FROM settings;

    SELECT sum(bonus_points_earned) INTO result FROM game_pledges
    WHERE game_pledges.user_id = calculate_bonus_points_for_period.user_id AND
          ts > current_date - interval '1 day' * bonus_period;

    RETURN COALESCE(result, 0);
  END;
$BODY$
  LANGUAGE plpgsql;

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CREATE FUNCTION calculate_user_level(user_id integer)
  RETURNS user_level AS
$BODY$
  DECLARE
    bonus_points_period    bigint;
    bronze_gold_boundery   bigint;
    gold_platinum_boundery bigint;
  BEGIN
    SELECT user_info_view.bonus_points_period
    INTO   bonus_points_period
    FROM   user_info_view
    WHERE  user_id = id;

    SELECT settings.bronze_gold_boundery   INTO bronze_gold_boundery   FROM settings;
    SELECT settings.gold_platinum_boundery INTO gold_platinum_boundery FROM settings;

    IF    bonus_points_period >= gold_platinum_boundery THEN
      RETURN 'platinum';
    ELSIF bonus_points_period >= bronze_gold_boundery   THEN
      RETURN 'gold';
    ELSE
      RETURN 'bronze';
    END IF;
  END;
$BODY$
  LANGUAGE plpgsql;

I have data in user_info table but the view is empty when I opened it with pgAdmin. In the beginning I have no data in game_pledges table and I expected the sum to be 0. Can someone explain why the view is empty? I'm expecting there to be the same number of rows as in the user_info table.
Afterwords:
When I executed SELECT count(*) FROM user_info_view; I found that I have a few ambiguities in my functions. I corrected the code above with resolved ambiguities, but now I have another error:
ERROR:  stack depth limit exceeded
HINT:  Increase the configuration parameter "max_stack_depth" (currently 2048kB), after ensuring the platform's stack depth limit is adequate.
CONTEXT:  SQL statement "SELECT sum(bonus_points_earned)             FROM game_pledges
    WHERE game_pledges.user_id = calculate_bonus_points_for_period.user_id AND
          ts > current_date - interval '1 day' * bonus_period"


I offer my professional lipreading services to the media, the law sector, and for private commissions such as archive work.
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He mouths the words: "I am going to ask you something now. Are you? Yes I am." Intertitle reads: "Ready? Here's the joke - it's about a Scotsman. (The Manager knows it!)" Closer shot of Con. He says: "Have you heard the story about the Scotsman." He looks off to the side and says: "That's right" as if talking to someone in the audience who has called out. "Who gave the zoo five pounds? Have you? No? Neither have I!" He smiles as if this is a very funny joke! Intertitle reads: "Same joke, as Con Ingham heard it from a lady." Con does an impersonation of a gossipy woman telling the joke with lots of "So I said to him and he said to me" type ad-libbing. He laughs at his own telling of the joke.
Closer, a major French weekly celebrity magazine, asked us to lipread the royal wedding in France.
Marie, one of our forensic lipreaders, went to France to watch the wedding of Prince Albert of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock for our client. Marie is French so she really enjoyed the opportunity to go home and meet up with old friends as well.
The wedding was (of course) very European, very bling, very glamorous. There were lots of big names in attendance so Marie enjoyed some celebrity-spotting too.
Who said lipreading was boring?


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Las Piñas / News
City of Las Piñas to construct city-run college campus
by AlabangBulletin · January 22, 2019
LAS PIÑAS CITY Mayor Imelda Aguilar announced that the city-run Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar College of Las Piñas (DFCAMCLP) will soon have a new and bigger campus with more course offerings.
Mayor Aguilar said the proposed main campus to be constructed in Barangay Pamplona shall house the new College of Engineering, particularly the agricultural and industrial engineering, to give the growing number of city scholars the opportunity to enroll in other courses other than the College of Accountancy.
She said the city will soon start the works in the future site of DFCAMCLP main campus within the 4,833-square-meter property owned by the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PHILFIDA) in Las Piñas City.
"We are fortunate to be allowed the use of the area where we can construct a bigger campus to accommodate more city scholars and offer more courses to those who want to explore other discipline," Mayor Aguilar said.
The mayor earlier submitted a proposal to the Department of Agriculture (DA) to use part of PHILFIDA's property for the city college's campus.
A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed last week between Mayor Aguilar, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol and PHILFIDA Executive Director Kennedy Costales for the City of Las Piñas to use the property for the expansion of city's public tertiary education program.
Under the MOA, Las Piñas commits to develop the property for the DFCAMCLP main campus and construct a building for the use of PHILFIDA, which is an agency under the DA.
The city-run DFCAMCLP, which opened in 1998 during the first term of Mayor Vergel A. Aguilar, now has 1,535 enrolees from the colleges of Accountancy, Financial Management, Human Resource Management and Marketing Management. It has produced 192 certified public accountants, some of whom landed in the top 10 board passers.
Las Piñas also offers free-tuition Information Technology (IT) courses at the Dr. Filemon C. Aguilar Information Technology and Training Institute for those who want to pursue the field other than the four-year course.
Muntinlupa to increase fines on people not wearing face masks in public
by AlabangBulletin · Published July 23, 2020
Las Piñas City gov't starts P2k cash distribution to scholars
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package com.spotify.crunch.lib;

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.*;
import org.apache.crunch.MapFn;
import org.apache.crunch.PTable;
import org.apache.crunch.Pair;
import org.apache.crunch.lib.SecondarySort;
import org.apache.crunch.types.PType;
import org.apache.crunch.types.PTypeFamily;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.util.*;

public class Percentiles {

  /**
   * Calculate a set of percentiles for each key in a numerically-valued table.
   *
   * Percentiles are calculated on a per-key basis by counting, joining and sorting. This is highly scalable, but takes
   * 2 more map-reduce cycles than if you can guarantee that the value set will fit into memory. Use inMemory
   * if you have less than the order of 10M values per key.
   *
   * The percentile definition that we use here is the "nearest rank" defined here:
   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile#Definition
   *
   * @param table numerically-valued PTable
   * @param p1 First percentile (in the range 0.0 - 1.0)
   * @param pn More percentiles (in the range 0.0 - 1.0)
   * @param <K> Key type of the table
   * @param <V> Value type of the table (must extends java.lang.Number)
   * @return PTable of each key with a collection of pairs of the percentile provided and it's result.
   */
  public static <K, V extends Number> PTable<K, Result<V>> distributed(PTable<K, V> table,
          double p1, double... pn) {
    final List<Double> percentileList = createListFromVarargs(p1, pn);

    PTypeFamily ptf = table.getTypeFamily();
    PTable<K, Long> totalCounts = table.keys().count();
    PTable<K, Pair<Long, V>> countValuePairs = totalCounts.join(table);
    PTable<K, Pair<V, Long>> valueCountPairs =
            countValuePairs.mapValues(new SwapPairComponents<Long, V>(), ptf.pairs(table.getValueType(), ptf.longs()));

    return SecondarySort.sortAndApply(
            valueCountPairs,
            new DistributedPercentiles<K, V>(percentileList),
            ptf.tableOf(table.getKeyType(), Result.pType(table.getValueType())));
  }

  /**
   * Calculate a set of percentiles for each key in a numerically-valued table.
   *
   * Percentiles are calculated on a per-key basis by grouping, reading the data into memory, then sorting and
   * and calculating. This is much faster than the distributed option, but if you get into the order of 10M+ per key, then
   * performance might start to degrade or even cause OOMs.
   *
   * The percentile definition that we use here is the "nearest rank" defined here:
   * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile#Definition
   *
   * @param table numerically-valued PTable
   * @param p1 First percentile (in the range 0.0 - 1.0)
   * @param pn More percentiles (in the range 0.0 - 1.0)
   * @param <K> Key type of the table
   * @param <V> Value type of the table (must extends java.lang.Number)
   * @return PTable of each key with a collection of pairs of the percentile provided and it's result.
   */
  public static <K, V extends Comparable> PTable<K, Result<V>> inMemory(PTable<K, V> table,
          double p1, double... pn) {
    final List<Double> percentileList = createListFromVarargs(p1, pn);

    PTypeFamily ptf = table.getTypeFamily();

    return table
            .groupByKey()
            .parallelDo(new InMemoryPercentiles<K, V>(percentileList),
                        ptf.tableOf(table.getKeyType(), Result.pType(table.getValueType())));
  }

  private static List<Double> createListFromVarargs(double p1, double[] pn) {
    final List<Double> percentileList = Lists.newArrayList(p1);
    for (double p: pn) {
      percentileList.add(p);
    }
    return percentileList;
  }

  private static class SwapPairComponents<T1, T2> extends MapFn<Pair<T1, T2>, Pair<T2, T1>> {
    @Override
    public Pair<T2, T1> map(Pair<T1, T2> input) {
      return Pair.of(input.second(), input.first());
    }
  }

  private static <V> Collection<Pair<Double, V>> findPercentiles(Iterator<V> sortedCollectionIterator,
          long collectionSize, List<Double> percentiles) {
    Collection<Pair<Double, V>> output = Lists.newArrayList();
    Multimap<Long, Double> percentileIndices = ArrayListMultimap.create();

    for (double percentile: percentiles) {
      long idx = Math.max((int) Math.ceil(percentile * collectionSize) - 1, 0);
      percentileIndices.put(idx, percentile);
    }

    long index = 0;
    while (sortedCollectionIterator.hasNext()) {
      V value = sortedCollectionIterator.next();
      if (percentileIndices.containsKey(index)) {
        for (double percentile: percentileIndices.get(index)) {
          output.add(Pair.of(percentile, value));
        }
      }
      index++;
    }
    return output;
  }

  private static class InMemoryPercentiles<K, V extends Comparable> extends
          MapFn<Pair<K, Iterable<V>>, Pair<K, Result<V>>> {
    private final List<Double> percentileList;

    public InMemoryPercentiles(List<Double> percentiles) {
      this.percentileList = percentiles;
    }

    @Override
    public Pair<K, Result<V>> map(Pair<K, Iterable<V>> input) {
      List<V> values = Lists.newArrayList(input.second().iterator());
      Collections.sort(values);
      return Pair.of(input.first(), new Result<V>(values.size(), findPercentiles(values.iterator(), values.size(), percentileList)));
    }
  }

  private static class DistributedPercentiles<K, V> extends
          MapFn<Pair<K, Iterable<Pair<V, Long>>>, Pair<K, Result<V>>> {
    private final List<Double> percentileList;

    public DistributedPercentiles(List<Double> percentileList) {
      this.percentileList = percentileList;
    }

    @Override
    public Pair<K, Result<V>> map(Pair<K, Iterable<Pair<V, Long>>> input) {

      PeekingIterator<Pair<V, Long>> iterator = Iterators.peekingIterator(input.second().iterator());
      long count = iterator.peek().second();

      Iterator<V> valueIterator = Iterators.transform(iterator, new Function<Pair<V, Long>, V>() {
        @Override
        public V apply(@Nullable Pair<V, Long> input) {
          return input.first();
        }
      });

      Collection<Pair<Double, V>> output = findPercentiles(valueIterator, count, percentileList);
      return Pair.of(input.first(), new Result<V>(count, output));
    }
  }

  /**
   * Output type for storing the results of a Percentiles computation
   * @param <V> Percentile value type
   */
  public static class Result<V> {
    public final long count;
    public final Map<Double, V> percentiles = Maps.newTreeMap();

    public Result(long count, Iterable<Pair<Double, V>> percentiles) {
      this.count = count;
      for (Pair<Double,V> percentile: percentiles) {
        this.percentiles.put(percentile.first(), percentile.second());
      }
    }

    /**
     * Create a PType for the result type, to be stored as a derived type from Crunch primitives
     * @param valuePType PType for the V type, whose family will also be used to create the derived type
     * @param <V> Value type
     * @return PType for serializing Result<V>
     */
    public static <V> PType<Result<V>> pType(PType<V> valuePType) {
      PTypeFamily ptf = valuePType.getFamily();

      @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
      Class<Result<V>> prClass = (Class<Result<V>>)(Class)Result.class;

      return ptf.derivedImmutable(prClass, new MapFn<Pair<Collection<Pair<Double, V>>, Long>, Result<V>>() {
        @Override
        public Result<V> map(Pair<Collection<Pair<Double, V>>, Long> input) {
          return new Result<V>(input.second(), input.first());
        }
      }, new MapFn<Result<V>, Pair<Collection<Pair<Double, V>>, Long>>() {
        @Override
        public Pair<Collection<Pair<Double, V>>, Long> map(Result<V> input) {
          return Pair.of(asCollection(input.percentiles), input.count);
        }
      }, ptf.pairs(ptf.collections(ptf.pairs(ptf.doubles(), valuePType)), ptf.longs()));
    }

    private static <K, V> Collection<Pair<K, V>> asCollection(Map<K, V> map) {
      Collection<Pair<K, V>> collection = Lists.newArrayList();
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      if (this == o) return true;
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      Result result = (Result) o;

      if (count != result.count) return false;
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      return true;
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    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      int result = (int) (count ^ (count >>> 32));
      result = 31 * result + percentiles.hashCode();
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Concert Across America comes to Ruthie's in Montclair
Lisa Marie Segarra
The Montclair Times
As news of national violence returns, this time closer to home, a nationwide event looks to unite for change.
Concert Across America will launch music events throughout the nation on Sunday, Sept. 25, in an effort to end gun violence.
As the event unfolds from coast to coast, Montclairites can participate by going to Ruthie's Bar-B-Q & Pizza, 64½ Chestnut St., for an afternoon of music.
"This the first time they're doing Concert Across America," said Ruth Perretti, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Eric Kaplan. "But my hope is that this will ignite a centralized movement because it's happening on one day across America, a multitude of venues, small and large. This might galvanize some kind of centralized support."
Perretti told The Montclair Times that this is an issue she feels strongly about and hopes this event can create a unified front rather than having multiple smaller organizations spread out.
Perretti noted that local musician, Jim Fenhagen, approached her about hosting the concert.
Fenhagen was working with Amy Putnam and Aimee Brooks to bring Concert Across America to Montclair. Putnam's role involves gaining strategic partners, finding sponsors, and eliciting grassroots support. Brooks has been finding performers and a venue, which is Ruthie's.
"I'm a musician [in the band Big Mamou.] My friend Amy Putnam, who is part of the Concert Across America organization, told me about this event," Fenhagen said. "She's a fan of ours and asked us to perform.
"When I found out it was about ending gun violence across America, I reached out to the rest of the band and they said yes. Then I reached out to Ruthie to get involved as well."
The concerts throughout the U.S. will be connected, not only by message but also by media. All of the concerts will be streamed on Facebook Live so everyone can experience Concert Across America.
Concert Across America Co-Chair Donna Dees told The Montclair Times that people can connect online with the hashtags "#ConcertAcrossAmerica" and "#EndGunViolence."
According to Dees, some celebrities have shown their support by using the hashtags, including Chelsea Handler, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor, Eddie Vedder and Jackson Browne.
Dees, who founded Concert Across America, said that she has been involved in the movement to end gun violence for 17 years and wanted to create this event as a grassroots effort.
"Change only happens when you mobilize people, and there is no better mobilizer of people than music," Dees said.
The Ruthie's lineup includes Big Mamou, Julie's Party, Black Lace Blues, Jazz House Kids, Passing Notes, and Samad Savage.
All of the artists are local, made up entirely or partially by Montclair residents. Between sets, there will be organization members speaking on the issue of gun violence in America.
The groups include BlueWaveNJ, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and Start Out Fresh Intervention Advocates.
The concert will take place outside Ruthie's in block-party style. Part of the street will be cordoned off and there will be food available from Ruthie's Bar-B-Q's kitchen.
"We're so excited to able to hold this," Perretti said. "This is more than a restaurant. We get so many families, and kids, and their dogs, and all different ages come here on Friday nights. They all come together here. So I love the fact that Concert Across America is going to be here."
Email: segarra@northjersey.com


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René-Jean-Louis Desvernay , né le  à Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay et mort le  à Villefranche, fut curé de Notre-Dame-des-Marais (Villefranche-sur-Saône) et député du clergé de la Sénéchaussée de Villefranche dans le Rhône aux États généraux de 1789.

Biographie

Dans la nuit du , il déclara son intention de remettre les bénéfices et privilèges dont il jouissait et proposa de s'en tenir à sa cure.

Titres et fonctions
 Curé de Notre-Dame-des-Marais.
 Député du clergé de la Sénéchaussée de Villefranche.
 Docteur de la Maison et de la Société de la Sorbonne.

Bibliographie

 Notices et portraits des députés de 1789, Édité sur demande de l'Assemblée Nationale,  1989, .

Article connexe
 Familles subsistantes de la noblesse française

Notes et références

Liens externes

Député français du clergé en 1789-1791
Naissance en septembre 1750
Décès en avril 1819
Décès à 68 ans

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Varan smaragdový ( Varanus prasinus) je středně velký stromový ještěr, který žije na Nové Guineji a v severní části australského státu Queensland, zejména na poloostrově Cape York.

Popis
Obývá převážně tropické deštné lesy, porosty mangrovů a tamější plantáže. Dorůstá délky až 75 až 100 cm a živí se menšími obratlovci a hmyzem, ale nepohrdne, ani rozličnými plody. Je totiž všežravec.

Díky své štíhlé tělesné konstrukci, ovíjivému ocasu a dlouhým prstům s ostrými drápy se varan smaragdový dokáže velice obratně pohybovat po stromech, na nichž loví. Má dokonalé krycí zbarvení, jež zahrnuje celou řadu různých odstínů zelené s malými černými a žlutými skvrnkami a příčnými tmavými proužky. Díky svému zbarvení je velmi ceněným exemplářem soukromých sbírek i zoologických zahrad.

Samice varana smaragdového klade několikrát ročně 1–5 vajec, která zahrabe do termitiště, kde mají zajištěnu stálou teplotu 27–29 °C. Po 175–190 dnech se z nich začínají líhnout mláďata.

Varan smaragdový je denní živočich.

Chov v zoo
Varan smaragdový je chován přibližně ve čtyřech desítkách evropských zoo. V rámci Česka se jedná o Zoo Liberec, Zoo Praha, expozici AkvaTera při Zoo Plzeň a Zooparku Stěžery u Hradce Králové. Evropský prvoodchov se podařil v roce 1996 v Zoo Praha. Odchovy jsou dosud výjimečné.

Chov v Zoo Praha
První zvířata tohoto druhu přišla do Zoo Praha v roce 1994. V roce 1996 se zde podařil odchov, který se stal prvním úspěšným v celé Evropě. Následovaly v letech 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015. Dosud se narodilo přes 30 mláďat, většina byla úspěšně odchována. Dnes se jedná již o odchovy ve čtvrté generaci, do nichž se kromě v Praze narozených zvířat zapojují taktéž jedinci z dalších chovů.

Dvě mláďata vylíhlá v roce 2015 byla slavnostně pokřtěna 29. září toho roku za přítomnosti kurátora plazů Petra Velenského, ředitele Zoo Praha Miroslava Bobka a někdejšího českého velvyslance v Indii Miloslava Staška.

Ke konci roku 2017 byl chován jeden samec a dvě samice.

Varan smaragdový je k vidění ve spodní části zoo v pavilonu šelem a terárií.

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Externí odkazy

 Varan smaragdový na stránkách ZOO Dvůr Králové nad Labem
 Varan smaragdový na stránkách Renaty Jindrové

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Trade news > 'Awfully high' risks of a global recession in the next 12-18 months, Moody's chief economist says
'Awfully high' risks of a global recession in the next 12-18 months, Moody's chief economist says
Yen Nee Lee | CNBC
Avoiding a recession requires many factors to "stick to script" at the same time, says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics.
That includes U.S. President Donald Trump not escalating the tariff war with China, the U.K. finding a resolution to Brexit and central banks continuing their monetary stimulus, he says.
The International Monetary Fund, in its World Economic Outlook report released on Tuesday, cut its forecast for global growth once again.
There's an "uncomfortably high" chance that a recession could hit the global economy in the next 12-18 months — and policymakers may not be able to reverse that course, an economist said on Wednesday.
"I think risks are awfully high that if something doesn't stick to script then we do have a recession," said Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics. "I'll say this also: Even if we don't have a recession over the next 12-18 months, I think it's pretty clear that we're going to have a much weaker economy."
Avoiding a slowdown in economic activity requires many factors to "stick to script" at the same time, he said. That includes U.S. President Donald Trump not escalating the tariff war with China, the U.K. finding a resolution to Brexit and central banks continuing their monetary stimulus, Zandi explained.
"I think high, uncomfortably high," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" when asked about the chances of a global economic recession.
Other economists appeared less worried about a recession, but shared Zandi's sentiment that growth would continue to weaken.
Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University, said consumer spending has helped support growth in several economies — even as momentum falters in other sectors. But that's not sustainable, he added.
"Consumers and households cannot be counted on to keep growth going. So, really, the key is to come up with a set of policies that are going to spur a revival of business and consumer confidence, and end up boosting investments," he told CNBC's "Street Signs Asia" on Wednesday.
Monetary and fiscal support
On Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund made a downward revision to global growth.
In its World Economic Outlook report, the IMF forecast that the global economy will grow 3% this year and 3.4% in 2020. That's lower than the 3.2% and 3.5% — for 2019 and 2020, respectively — that the fund projected in July.
The fund blamed the "subdued growth" partly on rising trade barriers and heightened geopolitical tensions, and called for a "balanced" way to fend off those risks.
"Monetary policy cannot be the only game in town and should be coupled with fiscal support where fiscal space is available and where policy is not already too expansionary," the IMF said.
Zandi agreed that governments should increase spending to support the economy, but said many major economies would not go down that route.
He explained that with the two major political factions in the U.S. battling an impeachment inquiry into Trump, it doesn't seem likely that Congress would pass any plans to cut taxes. In Europe, Germany may have fiscal space to spend but the government could find it hard to do so legislatively, he said.
"This doesn't lend confidence. The central banks are running out of room, we need fiscal policymakers to step up but I don't think, at this point, it's clear where the political will for doing that is going to come from," he said.
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Q: TypeError: ('Not a Keras tensor:', Elemwise{add,no_inplace}.0) I am using keras to run attention layer with GRU to do sentiment analysis in python, however, python gives me this error message:

TypeError: ('Not a Keras tensor:', Elemwise{add,no_inplace}.0).

I searched on website however this problem still can't be solved. Here is my code:
os.environ['KERAS_BACKEND']='theano'

#Attention GRU network
class AttLayer(Layer):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.init = initializers.get('normal')
        # self.input_spec = [InputSpec(ndim=3)]
        super(AttLayer, self).__init__(**kwargs)

    def build(self, input_shape):
        assert len(input_shape) == 3
        # self.W = self.init((input_shape[-1],1))
        self.W = self.init((input_shape[-1],))
        # self.input_spec = [InputSpec(shape=input_shape)]
        self.trainable_weights = [self.W]
        super(AttLayer, self).build(input_shape)  # be sure you call this somewhere!

    def call(self, x, mask=None):
        eij = K.tanh(K.dot(x, self.W))

        ai = K.exp(eij)
        weights = ai / K.sum(ai, axis=1).dimshuffle(0, 'x')

        weighted_input = x * weights.dimshuffle(0, 1, 'x')
        return weighted_input.sum(axis=1)

    def compute_output_shape(self, input_shape):
        return input_shape[0], input_shape[-1]

def get_idx_from_sent(sent, word_idx_map, max_l=1187, filter_h=3):
    """
    Transforms sentence into a list of indices. Pad with zeroes.
    """
    x = []
    pad = filter_h - 1
    for i in range(pad):
        x.append(0)
    words = sent.split()
    for word in words:
        if word in word_idx_map:
            x.append(word_idx_map[word])
    while len(x) < max_l + 2 * pad:
        x.append(0)
    return x

def make_idx_data_cv(revs, word_idx_map, max_l=1187, k=300, filter_h=3):
    """
    Transforms sentences into a 2-d matrix.
    """
    data = []
    for rev in revs:
        sent = get_idx_from_sent(rev["text"], word_idx_map, max_l, filter_h)
        sent.append(rev["y"])
        data.append(sent)

    x = np.array(data, dtype="int")[:,:-1]
    data_y= np.array(data, dtype="int")[:,-1]
    return x, data_y

#load data
x = pk.load(open("mr_allSentiment.p", "rb"))
revs, W, W2, word_idx_map, vocab = x[0], x[1], x[2], x[3], x[4]
X,Y = make_idx_data_cv(revs, word_idx_map, max_l=1187, k=300,filter_h=3)
x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test =train_test_split(X,Y,test_size=0.1)

#keras layers
embedding_layer = Embedding(len(vocab) + 1,
                            300,
                            weights=[W],
                            input_length=1191,
                            trainable=True)

sequence_input = Input(shape=(1191,), dtype='int32')
embedded_sequences = embedding_layer(sequence_input)
l_gru = Bidirectional(GRU(100, return_sequences=True))(embedded_sequences)
l_att = AttLayer()(l_gru)
preds = Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')(l_att)
model = Model(sequence_input, preds)
model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy',
              optimizer='adam',
              metrics=['acc'])

#estimate model
print("model fitting - attention GRU network")
model.summary()
model.fit(x_train, y_train, validation_data=(x_test, y_test),
          nb_epoch=10, batch_size=50)

However, it gets stuck and here is the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/ruowe/PycharmProjects/resnet/test1.py", line 101, in <module>
    nb_epoch=10, batch_size=50)
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\engine\training.py", line 1575, in fit
    self._make_train_function()
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\engine\training.py", line 960, in _make_train_function
    loss=self.total_loss)
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\legacy\interfaces.py", line 87, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\optimizers.py", line 427, in get_updates
    ms = [K.zeros(K.int_shape(p), dtype=K.dtype(p)) for p in params]
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\optimizers.py", line 427, in <listcomp>
    ms = [K.zeros(K.int_shape(p), dtype=K.dtype(p)) for p in params]
  File "C:\Users\ruowe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\keras\backend\theano_backend.py", line 275, in int_shape
    raise TypeError('Not a Keras tensor:', x)
TypeError: ('Not a Keras tensor:', Elemwise{add,no_inplace}.0)

A: Had the same issue, found the answer here:
https://www.cpume.com/question/fsnnffzn-why-the-keras-code-get-error-messages-when-changing-from-keras-1-2-2-to-keras-2.html
Short answer - this is a change in Keras ver. 2
Change the build function to:
def build(self, input_shape):
    assert len(input_shape)==3
    self.W = self.add_weight(name='kernel',
                                  shape=(input_shape[-1],),
                                  initializer='normal',
                                  trainable=True)
    super(AttLayer, self).build(input_shape)


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Q: Unix networked printer prints multiple copies We have a networked printer that is connected to a HP-UX Unix server. We switched identical printers and setup the new one with the same IP as the old. Users can print from Windows fine to the printer. When a user tries printing from Unix to the printer, they get six copies of the same file. Any ideas?

A: Turned out to be a strange setting that makes the printer print multiple copies.

A: Mismatch between printer firmware version and Unix driver?


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VIDEO: Norway to launch world's first self-sailing electric cargo ship next year
by Dawood Rehman | Published on May 10, 2017 (Edited May 11, 2017) 
OSLO – Zero emissions, zero ballast – and zero crew. This is what Norway is planning for. Fertiliser company Yara International has teamed up with industrial group Kongsberg to build the world's first autonomous and fully electric cargo ship next
OSLO – Zero emissions, zero ballast – and zero crew. This is what Norway is planning for.
Fertiliser company Yara International has teamed up with industrial group Kongsberg to build the world's first autonomous and fully electric cargo ship next year that will save 40,000 truck journeys per year.
To be named Yara Birkeland, after Yara's founder, scientist and innovator Kristian Birkeland, the zero emission container feeder vessel is planned to enter service in the latter half of 2018, shipping products from Yara's Porsgrunn production plant to Brevik and Larvik in Norway.
With a range of more than 65 nautical miles, the ship will be able to haul roughly 100 containers at a speed of 12 to 15 knots, according to the project's director, Bjorn Tore Orvik.
Yara Birkeland will initially operate as a manned vessel, moving to remote operation in 2019 and to fully autonomous operations from 2020. The new zero-emission vessel is seen as a game-changer for global maritime transport contributing to meeting UN sustainability goals.
No word yet on the ship's dimensions, what shipyard it will be built in, what it will cost, or the technology that will be used to achieve zero ballast operation.
But the switch is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 678 tonnes per year, according to Yara, with the electricity used to charge the ship's batteries coming almost exclusively from hydro plants.
While Norway is a major oil producer it has been a leader in the adoption of electric cars thanks to generous tax incentives and has experimented with electric-powered ferries to cross its famous fjords.
E-Bikes in Oslo
Earlier this year, authorities in the capital city of Oslo offered the residents $1,200 to buy an e-bike in a bid to push a general modal shift away from cars.
The goal is to help residents – rich and poor alike – find a new reason to leave the car at home.
The city will pay up to 25 percent of the bike's cost, capping the grant at 10,000 kroner.
Electric cargo bikes currently cost between 20,000 and 50,000 kroner ($2,400 to $6,000), meaning that buyers will still have to rustle up between $1,800 and $4,800 from their own funds.
Norway to build world's first sea tunnel for ships
Norway to become the first country to kill FM radio
Norway named world's best place to live
Gun control: Norway's police only fired two bullets in 2014
One Belt One Road: China's first cargo train to reach Afghanistan on Sept 9
Russia successfully launches unmanned cargo spacecraft
China's first cargo spacecraft docks with orbiting space lab
Iceland becomes first country to introduce equal pay law
Two paying passengers to make first tourist trip around the MOON in 2018


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Interpreting the path of the future is made easier by understanding the past. In light of this adage, Capitalizing Knowledge examines the history of Canadian business faculties in their search for professional legitimacy. As the title suggests, this volume is an overview of the development of business schools in Canadian universities. Business faculties have different characteristics; some are noted for generating management research, while others generate interaction with the business community. Some programs are famous for their MBA graduates, others for their undergraduate students. This collection of essays describes the critical events that have defined the character of these faculties and societies of business education in Canada over the course of the twentieth century. Eight universities are profiled, including Queen's, York, and the University of Toronto. In addition, the development of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) is traced.
The first book of its kind, Capitalizing Knowledge contains original research by some of the leading Canadian business school academics, who describe how these programs have evolved. The contributors all note the particular importance of organization culture and values in moulding the actions of faculty members. They also highlight the difficulties associated with establishing a body of knowledge in business management and transforming that knowledge to suit ever-changing business organizations and industry at large.
Barbara Austin is a professor at Brock University. She has taught university management courses for twenty years.


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tv Bulls Bears FOX Business March 11, 2018 6:00am-6:30am EDT
jamie@strangeinheritance.com. thanks so much for watching. and remember -- you can't take it with you. ♪ >> a man who can have anything... >> he'd lay awake nights trying to think of a way to make a dollar. >> ...throws nothing away. >> you must have said to grandpa, "this can go, can't it?" >> yes. and we told him that a million times. >> one strange inheritance. >> wow, and it's packed! >> one heavy burden. >> how much do you have? >> oh, about 3 million pounds. >> one heck of a yard sale. >> this has got to be the largest i've ever seen in my life. i said, "if you can organize it, we can inventory it, and we can sell it." >> [ auctioneer calling ] [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ]
>> i'm jamie colby. and today, i'm in tulsa, oklahoma. i'm here to meet the son of a remarkably successful businessman and epic hoarder. file this under 80 years of grit and true metal and 40 acres of scrap metal. >> my name is john hemphill. in february 2016, my father passed away. he left me a thriving company that's a testament to his business acumen. he also left me a 3 million-pound headache that says a lot about my dad, too. >> i meet john in the lobby of hemphill corporation. and this was your dad. >> yeah, this is dad. he started the business back in the '50s. and i'm running it now. come on. i'll show you. >> as john drives me around the company, i come to understand the
"jekyll and hyde" nature of his strange inheritance. these look like cell towers. >> yeah, these are guide towers for wireless communication. and that's our main business now. >> but his dad built that business while indulging his industrial-strength urge for collecting. big stuff -- iron, scrap metal, machinery... things you can't squirrel away in a closet. take, john says, these assembly-line carts, please. did he really need this many? >> oh, my goodness. no. and he didn't need the ones that are out in the yard. we have dozens and dozens. >> it all starts with this serious little guy, elmer hemphill, born in 1935 on a farm near tryon, oklahoma, to parents elsie and marvel. >> he learned his work ethic from my grandparents because they believed in work. >> the hemphills, like other oklahomans,
are hit by drought and dust storms during the great depression. many of their neighbors flee to california. but they stay put. when elmer is just a kid, a stranger shows up at the farm to buy some hay. and the boy jumps at the chance to make a sale. >> i see you got four bales of hay there. >> my grandma looked outside, and he was talking to a guy that had shown up. >> how much you want for all four? >> for all four? >> she went out and asked if, uh, she could help him. and he said, "this young man's already taken care of it." turns out he did make a fair deal, probably better than grandpa would've made. but, uh... >> how old was he? >> she said he was 5 at the time. >> so he was a pint-sized deal maker. >> yes. >> at age 13, elmer convinces the town banker to give him a business loan. what is a 13-year-old borrowing money for? >> well, he was gonna use the money to buy registered sheep and raise 'em and sell 'em. and he made some good money. >> he had a mind
like a steel trap. >> earl hart grew up with elmer, and they became friends for life. >> elmer'd lay awake nights trying to think of a way to make a dollar. he was just determined to succeed. >> in 1953, the teenage entrepreneur heads to the big city, tulsa, with 600 bucks and a simple philosophy. >> it was "you never know how far a toad'll jump until you punch it." what it really meant was "you can't just sit back and hope things happen. you gotta go after it." and he was definitely one to punch the toad. >> like when he starts his own drilling company, then goes on to manufacture machine parts for aerospace and military applications. along the way, elmer gets married and starts a family. as soon as he's old enough, son john joins him in the business. signs of his dad's obsession are everywhere. john just doesn't yet see them. >> my first job was cutting weeds.
and i remember a lot of the stuff that's still here back in the '70s. having grown up with all this stuff, i really never thought of it as being as crazy as it was. >> no kidding. after all, business is booming. by the late 1970s, elmer's company has 150 employees. and his family's growing, too. four kids and then a brood of grandkids, including john's daughter, kristen, a chip off the ol' block, who learns about business and life from her papaw. sometimes he failed. >> and sometimes he really succeeded. but either way, he kept a good attitude. >> he also keeps that stubborn dust bowl "waste not, want not" mentality that increasingly baffles john. >> he would keep a piece of pipe that was, you know, 1 foot long. >> bigger stuff, too, like this defunct drilling rig purchased for 25k for a railroad project
in west virginia back in 1967. or this contraption that dates back to the '80s. >> he actually invented this drilling rig for a special project for the tulsa expo to lash on to a pier to help secure the foundation. >> the tulsa exposition center endures as a city symbol. the big rig just gathers dust. but john doesn't complain. no questions asked of dad? >> no questions asked, no. when he looks at something, he doesn't see what a lot of us see. he sees potential. >> in the mid-'80s, when the price of crude oil plummets, elmer punches another one of those toads and ends up in the business of building transmission towers for those newfangled cellphones. >> we started building cell tower sites, and we've been building 'em ever since. probably built about 5,000 of 'em. >> but with each new endeavor, elmer's stockpile of retired
equipment gets taller and wider and, john knows, increasingly irrelevant to the business at hand. what will hemphill ever do with these extra-large hydraulic rigs or thousands of feet of fencing? and is anyone saying at that point, "oh, my god, we gotta unload some of this stuff"? >> no. it was pretty much known that we just needed to put it where he wanted it put [laughs] and live with it. >> but living with it is about to become geometrically harder, for elmer's no longer content with stockpiling scrap and equipment left over from hemphill's own jobs. now he starts actually gobbling up other companies' junk just because. >> i don't care what it was. and if it was cheap enough, he'd buy it. and he said, "someday, it'll be worth something." >> that's next.
>> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. radioshack, samsung or motorola? the answer after the break. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management.
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>> so, what company made the world's first mobile phone call in 1973? it's "c," motorola. from a manhattan street corner, exec martin cooper called the headquarters of rival at&t to claim bragging rights. >> oklahoma business mogul elmer hemphill spends decades amassing a ginormous stash of industrial machinery, spare parts, and scrap metal that nobody, least of all his thriving company, really needs. having worked with his dad for years, elmer's son, john, is tiring of watching it all pile up. did he tell you what he was planning to do with it? >> he would always talk about how we could use it to build overhead bridge cranes and build fencing. >> but elmer's just a magnet that never lets anything go. eventually, he's drawn to other companies' scrap, like this plate-rolling system that elmer buys for $75,000,
then puts out to pasture. >> if it was a piece of metal, he'd take it. i don't care what it was. and if it was cheap enough, he'd buy it. and he said, "someday, it'll be worth something." >> "if only it were just metals," says his son, john. >> he used to say that if a, uh, trainload of pencils was cheap enough, he'd buy it. >> that pencil train never arrives. instead, elmer catches the ones full of tractor seats, file cabinets, and office chairs. i assume i've seen it all? >> oh, no. no, there's -- there's a whole bunch more. >> bolts, bricks, drill bits, chains, springs, trucks, trailers, you name it. it all seems so random. >> it definitely is. >> it looks like junk. but, to him, was it treasure? >> oh, it was definitely treasure. >> if there's a day when john realizes his shrewd businessman
dad is also, let's just say it, a hoarder on the industrial scale, it may be when this shipment arrives. what do we have here? >> these are, uh, machining tables from mcdonnell douglas. and they helped win the cold war. >> in what way? >> they were used to build the instruments and the parts for, uh, military aircraft. >> the cold war ends in 1991. but elmer's biggest hoarding years are still ahead of him. he grows his scrap collection to fill multiple warehouses and litter 40 acres of land surrounding his company headquarters. >> so, jamie, here's an interesting piece. and it's been sitting here for over 10 years. >> worth anything? >> it's really just scrap today. >> by this time, elmer's granddaughter, kristen, is trying to coax him to let go. >> something like this, you must've said to grandpa, "this can go, can't it?" >> yes. and we told him
that a million times. >> but that old tulsa drilling rig stays, like everything else, including elmer, into his 80s. he's always been an iron man. but now there's rust on his fenders and creaks in his hinges. >> and, uh, one day, i said, "elmer, why don't you retire?" "oh, i don't wanna retire." he said, "when i die, i wanna be walking across this shop floor." >> in february 2016, elmer l. hemphill passes away surrounded by friends and family at the age of 80. >> it was the night of the super bowl. my stepmom, audrey, was right beside him. but we knew that it was time for him to go. >> son john inherits the business and all that heavy metal his dad hoarded while running it. >> all this steel -- how much do you have? >> oh, i'd estimate probably about 3 million pounds. >> millions? that's amazing. >> it just grew and --
and grew and grew and, you know, we just need to get rid of it. >> and he's going to leave that job to his heir, daughter kristen. >> my grandfather could be rolling in his grave right now. >> up next, getting on top of this heap. >> i've appraised everything in america that's ethical, moral, or legal. and when i saw hemphill's collection, i was overwhelmed. >> here's another quiz question for you. the st. louis gateway arch, the george washington bridge, or the beijing national stadium? the answer when we return. are finding themselves morin a chevroletple
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>> so which architectural marvel is the largest steel structure in the world? it's the beijing national stadium. dubbed the bird's nest, it was built for the 2008 olympics with 110,000 tons of steel. >> when elmer hemphill dies, he leaves his son john his oklahoma business empire. but the strange part of this inheritance is a stockpile of cast-off equipment, machine parts, steel, and scrap. it's a 3 million-pound headache. so john figures he'll leave that to his daughter, kristen, and son-in-law, jim. >> i told jim and kristen that if it's a project they wanted to tackle, that i'd love for them to see if they had ideas. >> i'm always interested in taking on new projects. so dad asked us. and we were crazy enough to do it. i really felt like i needed to step up and help my dad out and help the family.
>> but you can't just call goodwill to pick it all up. so, where to begin? did grandpa keep notes on all this stuff? >> he did, actually. in the back room, there is a library full of notes that papaw took about each project. >> so do they give values? were there bills of sale? >> no, there wasn't values. >> thank goodness for ebay. with a couple of mouse clicks, kristen finds out these antique carts, built to roll on railroad tracks, can fetch 1,500 bucks apiece. elmer has hundreds of 'em. and parts of the steel yard that look like scrap could be worth tens of thousands to individual buyers. kristen's thinking, "maybe grandpa elmer was right." and if she finds the right buyer, she'll turn his scrap iron into gold. but her husband, jim, weighs in with a reality check. there's 3 million pounds of this stuff!
>> i don't wanna spend two or three years doing this. >> so he and kristen approach kristen's dad with a proposal. how about a massive auction, on-site at hemphill and across the world on the internet? >> they said, "well, what would you think about auctioning it?" and i thought, "boy, i don't know if dad would want that." and then i went home that night and i'm thinking, "well, i don't know why i didn't think of that earlier." >> so kristen and jim call in various auction houses. the immediate response -- "you're nuts." >> most of the auctioneers that jim and kristen talked to basically said, "we can't handle this. this is way too much for us." >> when i saw hemphill's collection, i was overwhelmed. this has got to be the largest collection that i've ever seen in my life. >> louis dakil of dakil auctions in oklahoma city, however, is up for the challenge. >> i've appraised everything in america that's ethical, moral, or legal.
and i said, "if you can organize it, we can inventory it, and we can sell it." there's one saying we have in our industry -- you can't outlive iron. >> i have told 'em if we make some big money on it, great. and if we don't, it's okay. i think success is it being outta here. >> sounds like it's time to let the bidding begin. >> some things that i thought were, you know, potentially going in the trash are treasures to some people. >> that's next. what's your "strange inheritance" story? we'd love to tell it. send me an e-mail or go to our website, strangeinheritance.com. oh, manatees. aka "the sea cow"" oh! there's one. manatees in novelty ts?
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>> now back to "strange inheritance." >> in 2016, members of the hemphill family -- john, his daughter, kristen, and her husband, jim -- join forces to auction off 40 acres of cast-off
machinery and equipment. it's a strange inheritance left to john by his dad, an oklahoma businessman with a love for all things iron and steel. louis dakil of dakil auctions says most of the bidding will take place online. and the plan is everything sells, no matter the price. >> this auction is an absolute auction. no minimums. everything that goes on the block will be sold. >> it takes kristen and jim three months to itemize and catalog grandpa's gargantuan inventory of heavy metal. finally, in august 2016, the big moment is here. how many lots are we talking? >> 1,186 lots. >> one of the first items up for bid, this antique trailer, fetches 300 bucks. these 100-foot monopole towers
left over from elmer's early days in the cell tower business go for $230 each. things are selling fast, but cheap. >> i've been watching all morning, since 9:00. some things that i thought were gonna go for more are actually selling for less. >> [ auctioneer calling ] >> like these antique railroad carts, similar to one she saw on ebay for $1,000. hundreds sell, but for only 17 bucks apiece. >> [ auctioneer calling ] >> then there's that old railroad drilling rig, purchased in 1967 for 25k. it sells, but for only $4,000. and the gigantic plate-rolling system elmer bought in an old shipyard in south carolina for 75 grand sells for just 1,000. >> my grandfather could potentially be rolling in his grave right now. >> but kristen's delighted
when this hydraulic plate shearer, designed to cut metal and alloy, goes for $2,025. and that rig elmer designed for the tulsa expo building, it goes for 4k. >> i had no idea how much that was gonna sell for, so that was a surprise. >> over the next 48 hours, the hammer falls on thousands of items. >> we sold some things for $4,000. we sold some things for 50 cents. so the price range was pretty large. >> so are you guys exhilarated or exhausted? >> both. i would say both. [ laughs ] >> the grand total -- 175,000 bucks. not exactly petty cash. but considering the time, effort, and money elmer invested, they have to admit, this was one toad that didn't jump so far. >> they love their grandfather. they love their father. but basically, his perfect storm
was buying and storing, but never getting rid of anything. >> that's why, for john hemphill, the bottom line is all good. his strange inheritance is out the door. >> it's kind of, uh, oh, bittersweet because i know dad would wanna hang on to it. but i know it needs to be released. and ultimately, it's -- it's a good thing. >> back in 2013 when the hemphill corporation was renovating the office, elmer's kids surprised him with a gift befitting a successful entrepreneur -- a fancy desk, a big comfy chair and a flat-screen tv. elmer never touched it. instead, he took his ratty old desk, bought this second-hand trailer, put the desk inside, and drove around in it to every job site so he could be close to the action. and that's where you'd find him till the end of his days.
i'm jamie colby. thanks so much for watching "strange inheritance." and remember -- you can't take it with you. >> his dream? big as a t-rex. >> when everybody else told him he was crazy, he just said, "no, i'm gonna build dinosaurs." >> his creation? a land before time. >> he was almost an engineer when it came to dinosaurs. >> can it survive without him? >> a lot of attractions that were the vision of a single person, all of a sudden they're gone, demolished. >> depends on his daughter... >> when you have an absolute passion, you think that other people feel the same way you do. >> his granddaughter... >> are you living on the edge, kiki, to make this all happen? >> a little bit. >> and his great-granddaughter. >> has your mom ever said, "we need to talk about the future of the park"? >> never. [ door creaks ]
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Vega de Alatorre är en ort i Mexiko.  Den är administrativ huvudort i kommunen Vega de Alatorre och ligger i delstaten Veracruz, i den sydöstra delen av landet,  km öster om huvudstaden Mexico City. Vega de Alatorre ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Vega de Alatorre är platt åt nordost, men åt sydväst är den kuperad. Havet är nära Vega de Alatorre åt nordost. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km väster om Vega de Alatorre. Runt Vega de Alatorre är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Vega de Alatorre är det största samhället i trakten. Omgivningarna runt Vega de Alatorre är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet.

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Report: Love of Luxury Remains Strong Among Shanghainese Women – But Conscious Consumerism Here To Stay
The latest report from Shanghai-based Gusto Intelligence (the consulting and research arm of Gusto Luxe) and New York City-based insights agency Spark Ideas LLC highlights six key trends amongst Shanghainese women in a Post-COVID-19 China.
The report discovered that whilst love of luxury remains strong, it's the younger women who are revenge shopping, with those over 30 years old remaining more cautious. Conscious consumption is strong: they would rather invest in an expensive item which will withstand the test of time, rather than buying something for one season.
"It's fascinating to understand the deep impact of the pandemic on Chinese luxury consumers. This report has unveiled great detail and insights into how Shanghainese women are refocusing their time and spend. This has clear implications for how brands should position and communicate. It also offers opportunities for brands to further explore how Chinese luxury consumers expect a specific category and brand to engage in this new environment.", said Lee Folland, Research Director, Gusto Intelligence.
"The U.S. and other markets can learn a lot from what has and has not worked in China during the past few months as the country has re-opened. What does fashion even mean when socializing has fundamentally changed? From livestreaming to the future of private events to how to leverage relationships with SAs, this study unveiled great clues into what luxury buyers truly desire, as seismic shifts are occurring in the luxury retail landscape.", said Malinda Sanna, founder & CEO of Spark Ideas, LLC.
The six key trends are:
1. Honing in on Home: Cooking classes, interior decoration, home improvements (even home fragrance!) are top of mind.
2. Digital First: What was already an incredibly connected society, just got even more digital. Most brands have now embraced livestreaming and new platforms to connect with China's digital savvy consumers. However, women in this study pointed to a desire for more experimentation with this that involves personalization.
3. Health is still Wealth: Wellness, beauty and vitality have become more important than ever. Beauty consumption will continue to grow.
4. Sustainability is the New Luxury: Connection to nature is stronger than ever. Concern for the environment and themselves is key. There is a heightened interest and concern in what brands are doing to minimise environmental and social impact.
5. Pride in Chinese Brands: There is a tangible pride in Chinese brands and a real interest in purchasing them, whether beauty, fashion, art or porcelain. Many of the respondents indicated how proud they were of how China had tackled and controlled the pandemic.
6. Outbound Travel is off the Radar: Whilst they long to travel to far off destinations (and shop to enjoy tax-free prices), in the short- and medium-term they are planning trips in China.
The research was carried out at the end of June 2020. Twenty women in Shanghai took part aged 20 to 55 years old. All are qualified luxury buyers and have spent at least 5,000USD on jewellery in the last year of over 2,000USD of a single luxury good in the last 12 months. We interviewed these women via LookLook Mobile Ethnography, a product of Spark Ideas LLC.
For a copy of the report or to conduct a proprietary ethnographic study, please contact research@gusto-luxe.com.


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A Late Roman ceramic production from Pompeii
The Via Lepanto site is one of the best examples showing how the Vesuvian region was partially reconstructed and earlier re-occupied after Vesuvius's eruption in the year 79 AD. The large amount of ceramic finds illustrates the typology in use in this area during the IV and V century AD. Analyses were focused on table and cooking ware productions. Archaeometric data were obtained using chemical and minero-petrographical methods (OM, XRD, XRF and SEM). Grain size measurements using Image Analyses on thin sections and a geochemical comparison with clayey deposits outcropping in the Campania region permitted the identification of the raw materials used for these pottery productions. XRD and SEM completed the data set, establishing the protocols used for pottery production in the Pompeii area during Late Roman period. The Via Lepanto site was part of an exchange network of markets with a periodic frequency, where locally produced and imported pottery was sold, indicating a flourishing network of exchanges spanning short, medium and long distances.
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Abstract: The Via Lepanto site is one of the best examples showing how the Vesuvian region was partially reconstructed and earlier re-occupied after Vesuvius's eruption in the year 79 AD. The large amount of ceramic finds illustrates the typology in use in this area during the IV and V century AD. Analyses were focused on table and cooking ware productions. Archaeometric data were obtained using chemical and minero-petrographical methods (OM, XRD, XRF and SEM). Grain size measurements using Image Analyses on thin sections and a geochemical comparison with clayey deposits outcropping in the Campania region permitted the identification of the raw materials used for these pottery productions. XRD and SEM completed the data set, establishing the protocols used for pottery production in the Pompeii area during Late Roman period. The Via Lepanto site was part of an exchange network of markets with a periodic frequency, where locally produced and imported pottery was sold, indicating a flourishing network of exchanges spanning short, medium and long distances.
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Donnelly es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de Valley en el estado estadounidense de Idaho. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 152 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 217,14 personas por km².

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Donnelly se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo, la localidad tiene un área total de , de la cual  es tierra y  (0.0%) es agua.

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En el 2000 la renta per cápita promedia del hogar era de $29,583, y el ingreso promedio para una familia era de $31,500. En 2000 los hombres tenían un ingreso per cápita de $22,083 contra $15,625 para las mujeres. El ingreso per cápita para la localidad era de $11,142. Alrededor del 31.4% de la población estaba bajo el umbral de pobreza nacional.

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Working gas in storage was 3,475 Bcf as of Friday, January 8, 2016, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net decline of 168 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 587 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 474 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,001 Bcf. At 3,475 Bcf, total working gas is above the five-year historical range.


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How Deutsche Telekom teaches its employees to be ambidextrous leaders
December 2017 - Liz Mellon and Marieluise Maiwald
Ambidextrous leadership has become a requirement in any industry experiencing disruption. Learn how Deutsche Telekom trains its employees to thrive in this new environment.
Deutsche Telekom AG (DT) operates in one of the world's most dynamic industries today: telecommunications. Naturally, the telecommunications field is also one of the most vulnerable to disruption from an ever-changing range of new digital competitors. DT, which offers services ranging from a full range of fixed-line telephone services, internet access, mobile communications services, and integrated information technology and telecommunications solutions for businesses, quickly recognized that their wide range of offerings made them especially open to digital disruption in the industry. Like many other companies, DT needs to constantly and agilely adapt to emerging technologies, or else risk becoming obsolete. Recognizing their unique needs in the current marketplace, DT found a solution in ambidexterity: the capability to balance the need to exploit current business (blue) with the equal necessity to explore new opportunities and business models (green). Blue business models are easy to measure with indicators, including efficiency metrics or even the extent to which they provide money for investments in new green business areas. Green opportunities, while more abstract, can also be measured with performance indicators, such as the number of ideas generated.
Actually, Gandhi said something more akin to, if we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change, but the sentiment is clear. The HR function in DT decided that it needed to establish more effective ways of dealing with complexity and ambiguity. As Christina Schulte-Kutsch, VP leadership development and culture at DT, says: "Current business models change dramatically. We at DT want to shape digitization and the business world of the future. Our leaders are in the driving seat of shaping our digital future and we want to support them in building the leadership capabilities needed."
Hence, LevelUP! was born. The LevelUP! programme has three streams delivered over ten months. The first stream is Educate, the mandatory component. Delivered virtually, it takes one day per term (four days total) to complete and is the programme foundation. It is primarily designed to inform participants about ambidexterity and to make the concept come alive through current and ongoing industry case studies or future scenarios. The second stream is Inspire, intended to foster innovative thinking and can be delivered virtually or face-to-face, using mechanisms such as 'Leaders in Cars', interviews with DT leaders while on the move (based on the 'Carpool Karaoke' YouTube videos). The third stream is Transfer, again with a variety of different delivery mechanisms and intended to enable the learning to transfer to daily practice at work. As we all know, this is the critical and most challenging phase in the learning cycle – importing new ideas and practices into the workplace. The transfer stage deploys a variety of methods, including reverse mentoring, design-thinking workshops and team consulting on ambidexterity.
How is LevelUP! different?
The first difference is that no-one was nominated to, or sent on, the programme – it was advertised internally to the top 2,500 executives in the business. Some 700 places were offered on a first come, first served basis; all participants register themselves. The slots were filled in three days, with an immediate waiting list of 300 people. Already this programme distinguishes itself from more standard HR offerings. More usual qualifying processes would include nomination by a line manager; or talent identified by HR; or mandatory programmes upon promotion; or transfer to a new geography.
The second difference is that participation and completion of assignments are not tracked centrally. Just as registration is delegated to the participants, task completion is certified by a buddy. Participants work in pods of eight, with four buddy pairs and an external mentor. Each pod creates its own rulebook for how the pairs, the pod and the mentor interact.
Britta Posner is the founder and chief executive of Berlin-based Collaboration Practice consultancy and, as one of the external mentors, has seen the participants change as they go through the experience. "Deutsche Telekom is a large organization where seemingly hierarchy and following rules can sometimes prevent things from getting done," she says. "This was a common observation from participants. But while at first this felt like an insurmountable barrier, the programme helped participants to reflect, leading to a change of perspective and questions, such as: I understand ambidexterity, so surely this means we have to work together differently? The Educate programme has allowed participants to go on an individual journey, finding their own questions and reflecting deeply on key topics such as identity, vision and their personal contribution.
"Those who fully engage with the process own the challenges and the remedies; they share the ideas with their teams and put them into practice. They define targets to track outcomes, for example defining a specific collaboration target, or changing the way they work with their peers from other functions. This experience fosters true ownership and accountability in a way that really feels new."
The third difference is that participants, with the exception of the year-long Educate stream, design their own learning pathways – each participant is empowered to pursue exactly the learning they find most relevant.
As they work in their pods and encourage each other to explore, they also experiment. For example, one participant was inspired by Neil Harbisson (the first person in the world with an antenna planted in his skull and officially recognized as a cyborg by a government) to have a chip implanted under the skin to pay for goods. How many times does that happen on a standard training programme?
What do the participants say?
However different this experience may appear from outside, it's what the customers themselves say that is most important. Soenke Thun joined T-Mobile Deutschland GmbH in 2004 after 12 years in the German Navy. He works in finance on major theoretical projects such as defining DT's key performance indicators. It is often challenging for executives who 'run the numbers' to see the relevance of fluffy subjects like collaboration. Not so here.
"Every step along the programme I came to understand my CEO better," he says. "Obviously I understood why we do things from a business perspective, but now I have a deeper understanding of why all the steps in the process are necessary. Understanding the why, the reasons behind our decisions, helps me contribute better towards this on a daily basis, rather than just understanding what we are supposed to do.
"I use the same technique with my team so that they too can understand how their daily work contributes. I also understand now why we separated out the innovative part of our company – building the business and changing the business are very different activities and need to be handled differently. I like the programme – it's new, refreshing and fun."
Vladan Pekovic is in charge of technology and IT in the Montenegrin affiliate, Crnogorski Telekom. He joined DT in 2009 and has almost 20 years of telecommunications' experience in Latin America, the US, Africa and Eastern Europe (for Ericsson, Glotel, America Movil and T-Mobile). "I have attended a lot of training programmes, inside and outside DT, but this is the first with a real twist. It's not intended to make us all the same, executives in one mould. We also look at industry broadly and its need to digitize overall, not just at our own industry. It's refreshing. I also have experience of Harvard online, but this programme combines academic input, real DT stories, case studies and online.
"Discussion and reflection in our pods has created a real sense of urgency to change; for example, a colleague from Compliance said that the rules should be more flexible if we are to be able to grow! The content is not so new, but it's not academic and leads easily to application. For example, explore (new ideas) and exploit (create add-on products or services) is obvious and we've done it for years. But now there's a new imperative to explore more – how long can we (and Apple with the iPhone) keep exploiting old ideas? With my team now, I am explicit that we can experiment and fail without blame as we try new ideas and products. I see it as my job to change me, and also to influence others to adapt to this new spirit of leadership, along with the entire class doing the same."
This process is clearly working. Lest it sound too idyllic, both participants and the external mentor noted that not everyone is active – there are free riders in every pod who drift along without taking much action. However, that has always been true in group work, so while it's disappointing, it is not at all unusual.
Ambidexterity forms the umbrella theme for this year's programme content, with DT's Three Leadership Principles: 'Collaborate', 'Innovate' and 'Empower to Perform' acting as the underlying drivers. HR itself lives these principles through strong collaboration with its external training provider, Duke Corporate Education (DCE), and an innovative design (self-registration, imaginative case studies based on real industry challenges, buddy certification). And participants are empowered to create their own learning pathways – the ultimate in mass customization, literally self-customized by each individual.
But in what ways does designing and delivering training in ambidexterity transform HR into an ambidextrous function itself? HR lives the same principles of ambidexterity, innovating fast for LevelUP!
There was a lot of work required by the highly collaborative DT-DCE team to translate this into a viable and engaging educational experience. They had to identify the most appropriate and useful theoretical underpinnings – tools, concepts and theories – for each term. Learning materials, such as videos, articles, cases and examples, had to be selected and in some cases created from scratch, at speed, before being uploaded to the Educate Promote platform.
The whole offering had to fit together to form a coherent and compelling holistic experience. As Marieluise Maiwald from the Duke team says: "We knew that to keep participants engaged in a purely virtual environment over a year-long programme, we needed different ideas and very different approaches for each term, from simulated future scenarios to personal, innovative experiments."
The delivery team needed to run the programme efficiently (making sure the materials and experiences were where they needed to be, when they needed to be) as well as offering high levels of innovation, such as the Quest activity, which involves weekly challenges.
"The pressure of producing a new, high-quality educational-experience fast requires intense collaboration – team calls twice a week were common – as well as robust project management using world-class tools like Trello," says Duke programme lead Dr Ian Turner. "The team was designing on-the-go, often only six to eight weeks ahead of the programme, to meet each need as it arose. You can't teach ambidexterity without being ambidextrous yourself."
— Liz Mellon is chair of the Dialogue editorial board. Marieluise Maiwald is project director at Duke CE.