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History	| November 11, 2020, 6:00 AM
November 11th in History
November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end of the year.
Christian Feast Day:
Bartholomew of Grottaferrata (Roman Catholic Church)
Martin of Tours (Roman Catholic Church)
St. Martin's Day
Søren Kierkegaard (Lutheran Church)
Theodore the Studite
November 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
End of World War I related observances:
Armistice Day (New Zealand, France, Belgium and Serbia)
Independence Day, commemorates the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 (Poland)
Remembrance Day (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations, including Australia and Canada)
Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans. (United States)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975.
Lāčplēsis Day (Latvia)
Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching"), on 11-11, at 11:11. (Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries)
Pocky Day and Pretz Day (Japan)
Pepero Day (South Korea)
Republic Day (Maldives)
Singles Day (China)
Women's Day (Belgium)
In 308, At Carnuntum, Emperor emeritus Diocletian confers with Galerius, Augustus of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former Augustus of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.
In 1100, Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland
In 1215, The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
In 1500, Treaty of Granada – Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon agree to divide the Kingdom of Naples between them.
In 1620, The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
In 1634, Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.
In 1673, Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.
In 1675, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
In 1724, Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.
In 1750, Riots break out in Lhasa after the murder of the Tibetan regent.
In 1750, The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
In 1778, Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.
In 1805, Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force.
In 1813, War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
In 1831, In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.
In 1839, The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
In 1862, James Madison Porter, American lawyer and politician, 18th United States Secretary of War (b. 1793) dies. He a Pennsylvanian, was the 18th United States Secretary of War and a founder of Lafayette College.
Porter was born near Norristown, Pennsylvania on January 6, 1793 to General Andrew Porter of the Revolutionary War. As a child he was home schooled, but he later attended Norristown Academy. In 1809 he had begun to study law in an office in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later join his brother, Judge Robert Porter, to study in Reading, Pennsylvania. He moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to become a clerk in the prothonotary's office in 1812. He helped raise and manage a volunteer militia company to garrison at Fort Mifflin and advanced to the rank of colonel. In 1813 he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law. He was appointed attorney general for Northampton County, Pennsylvania and married his wife Eliza Michler (1803–1866) in 1821. Porter was instrumental in the founding of Lafayette College and was president of its board of trustees from 1826 to 1852 and professor of jurisprudence and political economy 1837 to 1852. In 1839 he was appointed to the vacancy as president judge of the twelfth judicial district. In 1843 President John Tyler appointed him to be Secretary of War serving for about eleven months. The years that followed after his time as Secretary of War, Porter was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1849, served as chairman of the judiciary committee and served as president judge of the twenty-second judicial district from 1853 to 1855. Porter was president of two railroad companies for some time, the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company from 1847 to 1856 as well as the Belvidere Delaware Railroad.
In 1864, American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
In 1865, Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
In 1869, The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
In 1880, Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol. He was an Australian bushranger of Irish descent. He was born in the British colony of Victoria as the third of eight children to an Irish convict from County Tipperary and an Australian mother with Irish parentage. His father died after a six-month stint in prison, leaving Kelly, then aged 12, as the eldest male of the household. The Kellys were a poor selector family who saw themselves as downtrodden by the Squattocracy and as victims of police persecution. Arrested in 1870 for associating with bushranger Harry Power, Kelly was eventually convicted of stealing horses and imprisoned for three years. He fled to the bush in 1878 after being indicted for the attempted murder of a police officer at the Kelly family's home. After he, his brother Dan, and two associates fatally shot three policemen, the Government of Victoria proclaimed them outlaws.
George S. Patton
In 1885, Birth of George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945) to a privileged family with an extensive military background, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute, and later the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He participated in the 1912 Olympic pentathlon, and was instrumental in designing the M1913 "Patton Saber". Patton first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition, in one of the earliest instances of mechanized combat. He later joined the newly formed United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Force and saw action in World War I, first commanding the U.S. tank school in France before being wounded near the end of the war. In the interwar period, Patton remained a central figure in the development of armored warfare doctrine in the U.S. Army, serving on numerous staff positions throughout the country. Rising through the ranks, he commanded the U.S. 2nd Armored Division at the time of the U.S. entry into World War II.
In 1887, Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.
In 1887, Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.
In 1889, The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd State of the United States.
In 1911, Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
In 1918, World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at 11:00 a.m., (the eleventh hour in the eleventh month on the eleventh day) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence. The war officially ends on the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28th June, 1919.
In 1918, Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
In 1918, Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
In 1919, The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.
In 1919, Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
In 1921, The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 1926, The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.
In 1930, Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
In 1934, The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
In 1940, World War II: Battle of Taranto – The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto.
In 1940, The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.
In 1940, Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.
In 1942, World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.
In 1944, Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, is presented with the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.
In 1960, A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.
In 1961, Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force are massacred by a mob in the course of the Kindu atrocity.
In 1962, Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
In 1965, In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.
In 1966, NASA launches Gemini 12.
In 1967, Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
In 1968, Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
In 1968, A second republic is declared in the Maldives.
In 1972, Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.
In 1975, Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.
In 1975, Independence of Angola.
In 1981, Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
In 1992, The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
In 1993, A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
In 1999, The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
In 2000, Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
In 2001, Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.
In 2004, New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.
In 2004, The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.
In 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
In 2008, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.
In 2011, Bethesda Softworks releases The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to universal acclaim, becoming one of the fastest selling video games of all time.
In 2012, A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
In 2014, 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
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1 – What Is Sin?
Today it seems that one of the most taboo religious subjects is that of sin! The whole concept of sin has been trivialised, mocked, dismissed as old fashioned, and often rejected.
Because of this, there is a real lack of understanding as to what sin is!
How do you describe sin? What does it mean to you?
Do you see sin as a simple case of "stuffing up?" Or do you view sin only as those terrible and evil deeds that are carried in news bulletins - those awful events or actions that make your skin crawl. Do you believe that sin, no matter what kind, is something that you just do not do?
Of course this does not actually do away with the issue of sin.
So what is it? And why should you be concerned about it?
This goes some way towards enlightening us about the scope of sin.
Perhaps the simplest and most straightforward explanation for sin is found in the Bible.
So we see now that sin has something to do with a mark that must be hit, a rule that must be kept, and the transgression of the law.
What is the rule that must be kept? What is the mark that must be hit? What is the law that must not be transgressed?
Well, God has given a law or standard that must be kept perfectly always hitting the mark never missing, never transgressing in everything you do, in everything you say, and in everything you think.
Here we see that we have been given a teacher, (the Law) and that teacher brings us to the Lord Jesus Christ.
You may ask how can the Law be a teacher that brings us to Christ?
Remember God is holy - that is perfect completely without sin.
And He cannot stand sin.
Have you ever thought about sin like this before? That we break the law by doing what we should not do, and not doing what we should do. The Law is a teacher, and has asked you questions. And if you answer these questions honestly, they will show you how you actually stand before God – as someone who has missed the mark!
However this teacher does not only show what we have done, it also brings us to the One who did not sin the One who paid the penalty we deserved the One who died for sin on the cross at Calvary. We are brought to none other than the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sin has separated us from God. But through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, a way has been made for us to be saved from our sin and its consequences. Our responsibility is to accept His offer of mercy by faith, repenting of our sin.
You can know Him as your Saviour and have the sin issue dealt with.


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Canterbury District Green Party
Students at University of Kent hold protest in solidarity with Warwick Uni for #FreeEducation
On Wednesday 10th December at 1pm at the University of Kent's Canterbury Campus, students will be holding a peaceful protest in support of free education and in solidarity with the students at Warwick who were subject to police action last week.
The protest is being organised by members of the Young Green Party, and will take place outside the campus' 'Essentials' shop, before marching to outside the Registry building where the Vice Chancellors' Office is located.
An open debate on the funding of higher education is planned for after the march and all are welcome to attend.
Catherine Peckham, Chair of the Canterbury and UKC Young Green group and co-organiser of the event, said "I strongly believe in the right to free education. The actions of the police in reaction to a peaceful protest by students were unacceptable. Police repression, used to suppress forms of dissent, has no place on a university campus and we want to hold this protest today to show our solidarity with the students who were protesting."
Last week students at the University of Warwick were peacefully demonstrating on campus when the local police force intervened, allegedly using tasers and CS spray to disperse the peaceful crowd who were in occupation on their campus.
"We are standing in solidarity with those affected and we condone such strong force on a peaceful protest" said Dave Cocozza, co-organiser of the demonstration and Mature Students' Officer for Kent Union, the Students' Union at the University of Kent.
"Our education system is coming under attack from cuts, increased tuition fees and a new post-graduate loans system which is deeply unfair to mature students. Large corporations like Starbucks, Amazon, and Google avoid paying their taxes which amounts to billions of lost revenue which could be used to fund a sustainable higher education system, as well as supporting a publicly-owned NHS. Why should the future leaders in the UK be subject to paying the full price for their tax dodging?"
Support for the demo has included Stuart Jeffery, Green Party PPC for Canterbury and Whitstable, who said "There is emerging evidence that the tuition fees have reduced access to university education for young people from less well-off backgrounds. This assault on the less well-off has been a key theme of this government. We believe that we should support people through education and that tuition fees should be scrapped immediately. Further, the right to protest must be upheld, people must not be denied a voice."
The protest is part of a wider effort to scrap tuition fees and lobby the government for a fully funded higher education system that is not subject to government cuts. In November the National Union of Students (NUS) launched its "Roadmap to Free Education", which sets out a case for publicly funded education system and why it is not only achievable, but absolutely necessary in the current economic and political climate.
Action groups including the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC), Student Assembly Against Austerity and Young Greens marched in London at a national demo for free education attended by around 10,000 people. Campus protests have been happening UK-wide in support of the movement, of which Kent is part of.
Students have similarly undertaken action on the campus in 2010, when the Vice-Chancellor of the University signed a published letter endorsing a rise in tuition fees. The occupation of the Senate building was the longest UK occupation on a university campus at the time and lasted over the Christmas period.
"The University have been informed of our intentions to demonstrate, and we are calling upon UCU, Unison and Unite, as well as the action groups such as NCAFC to show their support in solidarity with us" said Catherine and Dave.
For more information, please go to the Facebook event for the protest: https://www.facebook.com/events/1511634882454556/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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This site is dedicated to people on the autistic spectrum (autism, Asperger syndrome, PDD) in Israel. In my experience (as well as the experiences of many ACs), reading the writings of other ACs helps a person on the autistic spectrum in many ways. This site is intended to contribute to the plethora of AC creations on the web, most of which is inaccessible to Hebrew readers. The autistic community in Isreal finally has its own website which includes stuff from other Israeli ACs, so here is my personal web page, which mainly includes my writings and links to other sites related to my special interests.


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Q: Can an AD DS user be replicated/synched to AD LDS into a different container/organisational unit? Have some data in the form of attributes to be shared on the directory attached to users and groups containers/OU or group policy.
The current AD DS has OU and container groupings of users which doesn't match the way this data should be applied, so we want to apply a different grouping without using Group Policy and groups.
It has been decided by others (we are yet to persuade otherwise) that the data should also not be on the main AD DS.
So hope is to create AD LDS with a subset of users from AD DS and maintain them in a different OU/container structure.
Is this possible?
Edit: Background
Some administrators don't like to change their AD schema to add new attributes, or just want to manage certain application data as separate entity from the main directory.
These same admin had an LDAP datastore separate to AD, not synched containing the app data.
In the LDAP datastpre they had a per department (multiple departments) structure of
Department
Department/Testers
Department/Admin
So that Admin and Testers got the default attributes applied to all users + some extra settings or overridden settings.
In the AD DS this structure isn't present.
They now wish to remove this LDAP datastore (reasons unexplainable) and use ADAM or ADLDS instead.  They don't seem to know ADAM/ADLDS and want to know how to migrate with as little effort as possible the data on containers/OU and users from the LDAP to the AD AM/LDS keeping the same settings for each user.  I have no idea on what tools they have available already or what they might use to make this replicate/synch nicely.

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Q: I would like to horizontally center the text in a table but also align it to the left [HTML/CSS] I have a couple of tables on my site and I'm looking of ways to improve the appearance of them.
This is currently what my table looks like (http://prntscr.com/gpa4w6)
I'm trying to achieve this look (http://prntscr.com/gpa52q)
As you can see in the above picture, the text is centered in the column but also aligned to the left. How would I go around doing that?
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A: That looks like it could be achieved if you add a left padding while keeping your alignment left.

A: Your table must have thead, tbody and tfoot. Then format thead th elements with align center, and tbody tr elements with align left.

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And your CSS makes the magic:
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ooooh, you KNOW your calls are always welcome my sweet K...i may not always pick up, but i LOVE hearing your voice.
and plus....YOU understand (and accept) my weird ways.
i'd walk through a sea of ringing phones to get to you!!!!!


Stories, oh my the stories, from our late teen years and how they shape our beliefs and paths. I look back at my own days in high school for stories, only to be disappointed in either my memory or that my stories from those years do not revolve around the school. The people that I remember best attended other schools or were not students at the time. My stories tell a different experience than the people who will gather and recollect and retell and embellish. I only came up with a single story of Yorktown High School in Northern Virginia.
My first experience with Yorktown taught me that I had no ability what so ever to hit a baseball and with that the valuable life lesson that I was happier sitting in the shade with a popsicle than getting hit by a baseball. Of course, the school was an elementary school at the time and the baseball field was where the current football stadium does its northern Virginia imitation of Friday night lights. Arlington was growing, and growing fast, in the late 1950's and early 60's which meant that I had the chance to take a little life lesson from a list of schools. Start with Taylor, then John Marshall, followed by a brief visit to John Marshall Annex and finish up at James Madison. My older brother and sister both went to Stratford, but the rest of the family attended Williamsburg Junior High School. The older members of my family felt the changes in the school construction and redistricting acutely. We seemed to be the dividing line for many of the changes.
Nottingham and Tuckahoe replaced Yorktown as elementary schools so that a new high school could grow from the remains of the elementary school on Yorktown Boulevard. When it opened, the school could not have a graduation class until it had been a high school for a least a year. My sister chose to finish her remaining two years at Washington and Lee instead of attending the new high school. My brother did not have a choice and became a member of the second graduating class of Yorktown. I lived in the ideal set up for instant school rivalry; members of one family attending both schools simultaneously. My sister delighted in pointing out the superiority of blue and gray generals to baby blue fluer de lits. My brother had little offer in response except to point out the peaceful nature of Yorktown contained a courtyard dominated by a locust tree with the curious name of Elihu Fribble.
By the time the fifth graduating class entered Yorktown, boomers had already filled it to capacity and more expansion for the count's three high schools was on the way. The design would fill the courtyard causing the removal of poor Ms. Fribble. I am not sure if there were any football, basketball or baseball victories to celebrate, but I do remember the sentiment attached to that thorny tree in the school's center. Our claim to fame and rebuttal to the steel of the civil war had a date with a bulldozer. Details get lost in 50 years of far more important memories, but it was the 60's and we did take the opportunity to create a bulletin board in protest.
"Woodsman, spare they axe" proclaimed for all of the school to see and rally around our fribblous symbol. The spirit of the 60's had not reached administrators at Arlington's public schools and their response meant that we removed the message of angst something less provocative. My second life lesson at Yorktown summarized as "keep your opinions to yourself".
I would love to say that my high school years featured good times and growth shared with classmates, but those three years were marked by the rancor of the 60's and the knowledge that the school did not want to entertain divergent opinions. For those who remember high school fondly, I am in some ways envious but know that the richness of my life came much later in an environment that fostered questions and diversity. My high school experience made me an expert in avoidance while I waited to begin searching for broader answers.
At my father's funeral a few years ago, a man introduced himself as one of my former teachers from Yorktown. I did not catch his name and can only assume that he remembered correctly. He, like high school in general, have been unable to break through to the major threads of my life.


See how sweetly this island's garden grows at Maui Tropical Plantation – mangos and papayas, coffee and sugarcane, kalo (Hawaiian taro), coconuts and mac nuts – a feast for your camera and samples galore. Iao Needle, the straight up pinnacle at the heart of the Valley Island's western range, is equally picture perfect. After venturing to two of the island's most popular attractions, extend the adventure down to the sea at Maui Ocean Center – Zagat Survey's top ranked family attraction featuring The Living Reef, Turtle Lagoon, Hammerhead Harbor and open ocean wonders abound.
Don't forget your camera. Excursions offered in a port may not be available for every cruise ship. Children aged 2 and older require a ticket to participate.


Few sights are as breathtaking as the sudden appearance of Gunung Rinjani's main crater at the end of the first day of this walk. Add in the even more astounding view from the volcano's summit and the serene beauty of being in the crater itself, and you've got a world-class trek that I can't recommend enough.
When I walked into Rinjani back in 1997 the local tourist industry was fairly basic, but things were obviously getting more and more sophisticated; I'm sure things are a lot more advanced now. I rented camping gear in the small village of Senaru and made my way into Rinjani on my own with nothing but a hand-drawn map for company, but even then some enterprising companies were offering all-inclusive packages complete with food, porters and transport. It all depends on what you want to pay for, but one thing's for sure: whatever you pay, the views will be exactly the same.
This isn't an easy walk, especially the last stretch up to the summit; the scree is exhausting to walk on and if you want to catch the incredible sunset from the top you have to start walking in the middle of the night. The summit is optional, but if you can manage it, you won't regret it.
There are two things to bear in mind when walking in Rinjani. The first is to make sure you carry out everything that you carry in, because when I was there the volcano was suffering badly from discarded non-biodegradable rubbish; only by keeping all your bits and bobs can Rinjani survive in its natural state. The other thing to bear in mind is that this Rinjani is in a remote part of Lombok, so take a decent first aid kit in case you cut yourself or get attacked by a monkey (hey, it happened to me!). Most people seem to forget things like plasters and antiseptic cream, but if you've ever grazed your knee on volcanic scree, you'll know what I mean.
Don't let me put you off, though. This is an incredible walk, and once you've seen that view from the crater rim, you'll see why. Enjoy!


Wow! - Nekaro & Co.
I'm writing a little post bragging on myself. I know this is probably very narcissist of me, but I'm excited! Last night we had some pretty severe weather move through our area. Fortunately we were lucky and only got some winds and heavy, heavy rain. If you are a "friend" on FaceBook then you've seen the photos of before and after. I have found myself more and more interested in the weather. When I was a kid, I was terrified of storms, like most kids I guess, but the older I've gotten the more I just like to watch the clouds. When I know there are some storms coming, I usually head outside with my camera. Ready and waiting. This time around the storms weren't actually coming our way or so I thought.
I could hear thunder and see the occasional distant flash, but it was fairly calm. Barely any wind at all.
As I stood there looking, I noticed a cloud that seemed to be coming toward me. I watched and it got closer, closer. It was so low I would have sworn I could touch it if I'd just had a ladder handy.
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package uk.bl.dpt.qa;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.FutureTask;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.tika.io.CloseShieldInputStream;
import org.apache.tika.io.IOUtils;
import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;

import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;

import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVFormat;
import org.apache.commons.csv.CSVRecord;
import org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.WebClient;

/**
 * Run a tika-server instance and use it to parse files
 * This method has been chosen as Tika parsers can potentially stop or crash and we don't
 * want this to take out the whole JVM
 * @author wpalmer
 */
public class ProcessIsolatedTika {

	private Logger gLogger = Logger.getLogger(ProcessIsolatedTika.class);

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Constants
	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	private static final int TIMEOUT_SECS = 10;
	private static final String TIKA_VER_KEY = "tika-version";// must match pom
	private static final String MANIFEST = "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF";

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Global variables
	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	// Initialise in case of running from Eclipse
	private String TIKA_VERSION = "1.5";
	private String TIKA_JAR;
	private File gLocalJar = null;
	private ToolRunner gRunner;
	private boolean gRunning = false;
	private Response gResponse;

	private int TIKA_SERVER_PORT = 9998;
	private final String TIKA_LOCAL_HOST = "127.0.0.1";

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Constructor
	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	/**
	 * Create and start a new tika-server instance
	 */
	public ProcessIsolatedTika() {
		init();
		// Prefer IPv4 over IPv6
		System.setProperty("java.net.preferIPv4Stack" , "true");
		start();
	}

	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	// Methods
	///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

	/**
	 * Extract the tika-server jar and prepare for execution
	 */
	private void init() {

		if(gLocalJar!=null) return;

		// get tika version from manifest file
		InputStream manifest = ProcessIsolatedTika.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(MANIFEST);
		if(manifest!=null) {
			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(manifest));
			String line = "";
			try {
				while(reader.ready()) {
					line = reader.readLine();
					if(line.startsWith(TIKA_VER_KEY)) {
						TIKA_VERSION = line.substring(TIKA_VER_KEY.length()+2).trim();
						break;
					}
				}
			} catch (IOException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			} finally {
				if(reader!=null) {
					try {
						reader.close();
					} catch (IOException e) {
						// TODO Auto-generated catch block
						e.printStackTrace();
					}
				}
				if(manifest!=null) {
					try {
						manifest.close();
					} catch (IOException e) {
						// TODO Auto-generated catch block
						e.printStackTrace();
					}
				}
			}
		}

		TIKA_JAR = "tika-server-"+TIKA_VERSION+".jar";

		// copy jar from resources folder to temporary space
		try {
			gLocalJar = File.createTempFile("tika-server-", ".jar");
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		boolean found = false;
		InputStream jar = ProcessIsolatedTika.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(TIKA_JAR);
		if(jar!=null) {
			gLogger.info("Found server jar: /");
			//Tools.copyStreamToFile(jar, gLocalJar);
			found = true;
		}
		if(!found) {
			jar = ProcessIsolatedTika.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("lib/"+TIKA_JAR);
			if(jar!=null) {
				gLogger.info("Found server jar: lib/");
				//Tools.copyStreamToFile(jar, gLocalJar);
				found = true;
			}
		}
		if(!found) {
			final String JARFILE = "target/resources/"+TIKA_JAR;
			try {
				jar = new FileInputStream(JARFILE);
				gLogger.info("Found jar in filesystem");
			} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				gLogger.info("Cannot find jar");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
			//IOUtils.copy(new FileInputStream(new File(JARFILE)), new FileOutputStream(gLocalJar));
			found = true;
		}

		try {
			FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(gLocalJar);
			IOUtils.copy(jar, fos);
			fos.close();
			jar.close();
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		gLocalJar.deleteOnExit();

		gLogger.info("Temp jar: "+gLocalJar.getAbsolutePath()+", size: "+gLocalJar.length());

	}

	/**
	 * Start the server
	 */
	private void start(int pPort) {

		ArrayList<String> commandLine = new ArrayList<String>();
		for(String s: new String[] { "java", "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true", "-jar", gLocalJar.getAbsolutePath(), "-p", Integer.toString(pPort) }) {
			commandLine.add(s);
		}

		gLogger.info("Starting: "+commandLine);

		gRunner = new ToolRunner();
		try {
			gRunner.start(commandLine);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		// Allow time for Tika to get started otherwise we get into a mess
		blockUntilStarted();

		gRunning = true;

	}

	// keep checking until we receive the version number from Tika
	private void blockUntilStarted() {
		final String TIKA_PATH = "/version";
		final String END_POINT = "http://"+TIKA_LOCAL_HOST+":"+TIKA_SERVER_PORT;

		gLogger.trace("Waiting for tika-server to initialise ("+END_POINT+TIKA_PATH+")");

		boolean ready = false;
		final long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
		final int timeStepMS = 100;

		while(!ready) {
			try {
				Response response = WebClient.create(END_POINT+TIKA_PATH)
						.type(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
						.accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
						.get();

				if(response.getStatus()==Response.Status.OK.getStatusCode()) {
					// if we got a good response then we should be up and running
					ready = true;
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {

			}
			try {
				Thread.sleep(timeStepMS);
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				//e.printStackTrace();
			}

			if((System.currentTimeMillis()-startTime)>120*1000) {
				gLogger.error("tika-server failed to start");
				break;
			}

		}

		// One more second, for good luck
		try {
			Thread.sleep(timeStepMS);
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			//e.printStackTrace();
		}

		gLogger.info("Server up and running in "+(System.currentTimeMillis()-startTime)+"ms");

	}

	private void start() {

		if(gRunning) return;

		TIKA_SERVER_PORT = Tools.getFreePort(TIKA_SERVER_PORT);

		start(TIKA_SERVER_PORT);

	}

	/**
	 * Stop the tika-server
	 */
	public void stop() {

		if(!gRunning) return;

		gLogger.info("Stopping...");
		gRunner.stop();

		gRunning = false;

	}

	/**
	 * Restart the Tika server
	 */
	private void restart() {
		stop();
		start();
	}

	/**
	 * Parse an inputstream and populate a Metadata object
	 * @param pInputStream stream to analyse
	 * @param pMetadata metadata object to populate
	 * @param pOutputStream output to write data to
	 * @return true if processed ok, false if execution was terminated
	 */
	public boolean parse(final InputStream pInputStream, final Metadata pMetadata) {

		boolean ret = true;

		if(!gRunner.isRunning()) {
			gLogger.error("Tika-Server is not running");
			return false;
		}

		final String TIKA_PATH = "/meta";
		final String END_POINT = "http://"+TIKA_LOCAL_HOST+":"+TIKA_SERVER_PORT;

		gLogger.trace("Server: "+END_POINT+TIKA_PATH);

		final String detectedType = pMetadata.get(Metadata.CONTENT_TYPE);

		FutureTask<Integer> task = new FutureTask<Integer>(new Callable<Integer>() {
			@Override
			public Integer call() throws Exception {

				gResponse = WebClient.create(END_POINT+TIKA_PATH)
						.accept("text/csv")
						// give the parsers a hint
						.type(detectedType)
						// protect the stream from being closed
						.put(new CloseShieldInputStream(pInputStream));

				return null;
			}});

		Thread thread = new Thread(task);
		thread.start();

		try {
			task.get(TIMEOUT_SECS*1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			gLogger.info("InterruptedException: "+e);
			ret = false;
			restart();
		} catch (ExecutionException e) {
			gLogger.info("ExecutionException: "+e);
			ret = false;
			restart();
		} catch (TimeoutException e) {
			gLogger.info("TimeoutException: "+e);
			ret = false;
			restart();
		}

		if(gResponse!=null) {
			if(gResponse.getStatus()==Status.UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE.getStatusCode()) {
				// the server may return HTTP 415 (unsupported) if it won't accept the mimetype
				// handle this issue here
				// add some text to the output
				// FIXME: maybe change mimetype for a more visible error?
				pMetadata.add("parseFailure415", "true");
				gLogger.error("Parse Failure: HTTP 415 (format unsupported for parsing)");
			} else {
				if(gResponse.getEntity() instanceof InputStream) {
					InputStream is = (InputStream)gResponse.getEntity();
					BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
					try {
						Iterable<CSVRecord> records = CSVFormat.DEFAULT.parse(reader);
						for(CSVRecord record:records) {
							pMetadata.add(record.get(0), record.get(1));
						}
					} catch (IOException e1) {
						// TODO Auto-generated catch block
						e1.printStackTrace();
						ret = false;
					} finally {
						if(reader!=null) {
							try {
								reader.close();
							} catch (IOException e) {
								// TODO Auto-generated catch block
								e.printStackTrace();
							}
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}

		gLogger.info("Metadata entries: "+pMetadata.names().length);

		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Parse a file and populate a Metadata object
	 * @param pFile file to analyse
	 * @param pMetadata metadata object to populate
	 * @param pOutputStream output to write data to
	 * @return true if processed ok, false if execution was terminated
	 */
	public boolean parse(final File pFile, Metadata pMetadata) {

		if(!pFile.exists()) return false;

		gLogger.info("Processing: "+pFile);

		if(pMetadata.get(Metadata.RESOURCE_NAME_KEY)!=null) {
			pMetadata.set(Metadata.RESOURCE_NAME_KEY, pFile.getAbsolutePath());
		}

		try {
			return parse(new FileInputStream(pFile), pMetadata);
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Test main method
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		ProcessIsolatedTika pit = new ProcessIsolatedTika();
		pit.parse(new File("doc.doc"), new Metadata());
		pit.parse(new File("corrupt.mp3"), new Metadata());
		pit.parse(new File("v1.pdf"), new Metadata());
		try {
			System.out.println("Press any key to exit");
			System.in.read();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		pit.stop();
	}

}

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Infomax is an optimization principle for artificial neural networks and other information processing systems.  It prescribes that a function that maps a set of input values I to a set of output values O should be chosen or learned so as to maximize the average Shannon mutual information between I and O, subject to a set of specified constraints and/or noise processes.  Infomax algorithms are learning algorithms that perform this optimization process. The principle was described by Linsker in 1988.

Infomax, in its zero-noise limit, is related to the principle of redundancy reduction proposed for biological sensory processing by Horace Barlow in 1961, and applied quantitatively to retinal processing by Atick and Redlich.

One of the applications of infomax has been to an independent component analysis algorithm that finds independent signals by maximizing entropy.  Infomax-based ICA was described by Bell and Sejnowski, and Nadal and Parga in 1995.

See also
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References

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Telenor Q1 profit misses forecast as costs rise
Adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for January-March fell 4.5% year-on-year to 11.66 billion Norwegian crowns ($1.24 billion), while analysts in a poll on average had expected 12 billion.
OSLO: Norway's Telenor posted on Tuesday weaker-than-expected first-quarter profits and said growth in earnings was expected to lag revenue development by a few quarters as costs rose.
"Growth was held back by the Norwegian fixed line business and intensified competition in Thailand," Chief Executive Officer Sigve Brekke said in a statement, adding that high energy prices and project costs also hit Telenor's business.
"These factors are expected to continue into the next quarter. Actions taken are expected to mitigate negative elements, particularly in the second half of the year," the company said.
The Telenor group, which has 173 million subscribers, gets about half its revenue from Asia and the rest from the Nordic region.
Telenor has said expansion will come from cloud and 5G technology, dubbed "beyond connectivity", and from planned tie-ups in South-East Asia where its operators in Thailand and Malaysia are each involved in separate consolidation processes.
Revenues however declined 3% in Thailand and 2% in Malaysia in the quarter.
"We expect a gradual recovery of the Thai market but acknowledge the increased global uncertainty," the company said.
The COVID-19 pandemic is still impacting the business environment in Asia, although it receded in the first quarter Telenor said.
Telenor's share price has declined by 3.9% year-to-date, underperforming the European telecoms index which is up 1.3%. ($1 = 9.4278 Norwegian crowns)
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Work together as a team? Chimps get it, too
Chimpanzes are able to understand the benefits of cooperating and working together, according to a recent study by scientists at Georgia State University.Getty Images
Feb. 8, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC / Source: Discovery Channel
By By Marianne English
While making decisions, we generally try to maximize outcomes, even if it means cooperating and sharing a reward with another person. But does this ability set humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom?
A recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that humans' closest living relatives — non-human primates — are also capable of this kind of organization. Though more research is needed, the findings contribute to scientists' understanding of the evolutionary origins of cooperation and weighing decisions in humans.
The researchers, led by scientists at Georgia State University, tested the "Assurance Game" in pairs of college students, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys. Each subject tested next to a member of the same species and was given two tokens — one labeled "Stag," and the other "Hare" (more on that here).
In every trial, each subject had to return one of the tokens to the experimenter without knowing what the other subject planned to do. If the subjects turned in the same token, they received a reward — money for humans and fruit for non-human primates.
When both subjects gave back the "Stag" token, they received a larger reward than any other combination. A "Hare-Hare" match-up yielded a reward, but not as much as the "Stag-Stag" combo. Subjects were not rewarded when their tokens didn't match up.
To maximize the reward, participants had to cooperate and learn quickly which combinations yielded the largest reward.
None of the human subjects received instructions for the game. The researchers focused on ways to make experimental conditions as similar as possible so one species didn't have an advantage.
After analyzing the results from each species, the scientists found that five of the 26 pairs of humans maximized their rewards by playing "Stag-Stag" 75 percent or more of the time. Humans cooperated and optimized their rewards more than chimpanzees and capuchins, but still did not perform as well as the researchers expected.
Eight of the chimp pairs cooperated to receive rewards but none of these groups chose "Stag-Stag" or "Hare-Hare" more than the other. Only one of the six capuchin pairs, however, chose the most fruitful combination ("Stag-Stag") as a non-random behavior, as opposed to just by chance.
In all species, subjects cooperated for a reward. Surprisingly, some non-human primate pairs cooperated more than some human pairs, although humans were generally better at maximizing rewards.
Based on these findings, it appears that chimpanzees, capuchins and other primates are able to understand the benefits of working together.
By Marianne English


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La Goldene Kamera o Golden Camera (Telecamera d'Oro) è un premio televisivo-cinematografico tedesco che viene assegnato annualmente dalla rivista televisiva HÖRZU dal 1965, per categorie non fisse.

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L'assegnazione del riconoscimento non è limitata a film e programmi televisivi, anche se questi sono i cardini del premio. È l'unico premio che prevede del denaro, attualmente 20.000 euro. Il premio, che fu creato dall'artista berlinese Wolfram Beck, è un modellino di telecamera, alto circa 25 centimetri, pesante 600 grammi e fatto di argento dorato.

Inizialmente il premio veniva assegnato in un ambito piuttosto ristretto; ora viene invece consegnato nell'ambito di un grande gala televisivo, anche attraverso i voti dei lettori di HÖRZU.

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Writing Scientific Papers: Is There More To This Story?
Posted on February 3, 2017 January 25, 2023 by Nicole Sandler
The tactic of "telling a good story" is nothing new within the business of selling, marketing and even educating about science. The word itself, "storytelling," achieved buzzword status a few years ago in the corporate world, so it's no surprise that it now touches industry scientists. But the importance of telling a good story within the realm of peer-reviewed scientific papers? That is something new, and it may impact how scientists write up their results from this point forward.
In a provocative scientific study published in PLOS ONE in December 2016, researchers from the University of Washington showed that "Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science." Perhaps the results they report are unique to climate change science—an area of science especially susceptible to public perception. But then again, perhaps not. This paper may be worth considering no matter what field of science you call your own.
The authors—Ann Hillier, Ryan Kelly, and Terrie Klinger—used metrics to test their hypothesis that a more narrative style of writing in climate change research papers is more likely to be influential, and they used citation frequency as their measure of influence. A sample of 732 abstracts culled from the climate change literature and published between 2009 and 2010 was analyzed for specific writing parameters. The authors concluded that writing in a more narrative style increases the uptake and influence of articles in this field of science and perhaps in scientific literature across the board.
But first, what does narrative style mean? As the authors explain in their study, "narrative writing tells a story through related events, whereas expository writing relates facts without much social context." There's no arguing that professional science writing intended for peer-reviewed publication tends to be more expository, whereas narrative writing is commonly used in popular science writing.
The authors' experimental method included an evaluation of six elements of narrativity they identified from well-established studies on narrative comprehension and theory, as well as psychology literature. The six elements were: setting, narrative perspective, sensory language, conjunctions, connectivity and appeal. To assess the narrativity of each abstract and collect their data, they turned to crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular means of conducting science. Online contributors evaluated abstracts by reading instructions and answering a series of six questions regarding the six selected indicators of narrativity. In addition to the crowdsourced assessments of narrative elements, the authors collected information on factors known to influence citation rate such as journal identity, journal impact factor, abstract length and number of authors.
Their conclusions? Those abstracts featuring a more narrative writing style were more influential than those told in a drier, more expository style. And, this effect was found to be independent of factors such as year of publication, number of authors or abstract length. Of the particular narrative elements they assessed, the use of sensory language, conjugations, and connectivity between sentences all positively and significantly influenced citation frequency.
The authors explain their results by pointing out that their findings are consistent with the prevailing understanding that audiences tend to grasp and recall narratives, or stories, far better than information received in other ways. Yet their results are surprising with respect to peer-reviewed research papers which are traditionally written in an expository style. And maybe even more unexpected was their discovery that the highest-rated climate science journals tend to feature articles that have more narrative content.
The authors conclude their discussion with this thoughtful statement:
"Peer reviewed scientific discourse is often viewed as a special form of communication, exempt from the qualities of narratives that humans inherently relate to. However, our findings support an alternative interpretation: scientists can engage readers and increase uptake by incorporating narrative attributes to their writing styles… By incorporating such attributes into their writing, scientists can more closely mirror the way we as humans experience and understand the world."
While this work represents just one study, and the study examined abstracts within just one area of science, it's good food for thought. We'll have to wait to see if related studies are conducted and if those results support what these authors reported regarding scientific papers. In the meantime, research scientists might consider tweaking their writing style for scientific papers to appeal to our inner appetite for more narrative explanations.
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Nicole enjoys being a member of the Promega Connections blog team. A former molecular biologist, she earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania but realized that writing about science was a more fulfilling way to apply her knowledge and passion for the field. She's excited that her longtime writing career has now landed her at Promega, a company she once relied on for restriction enzymes and buffers as a research scientist.
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Prodidomus lampei is een spinnensoort in de taxonomische indeling van de Prodidomidae.

Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Prodidomus. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1915 door Embrik Strand.

Prodidomidae


(Martha) It's a new comprehension, a new revelation of it that I didn't have back in that one. And I was so excited about it.
(Carole) I am going to have to listen to this over and over again. I had, really, I have to confess I really had zero comprehension of Melchizedek. Really. I have to kind of go over him very quickly, because honestly, he is a mystery. He has been a very great mystery to me. So, this teaching is so powerful and brings such clarity to Christ as priest, and Christ as priest in us, and what He has called us, the privilege of what He's called us to.
(John) And you made it my reality.
(John) So, I realize how Melchizedek is connected to me, how that reality is connect to me.
(Martha) Well, I'll have to tell this to Sue Casey's credit. She, for years now, she would, from time to time would say to me, "You're Melchizedek and the priest. You're the priest." And I would kind of say, "No, no. I'm not Melchizedek," because I didn't stop to ask the Lord about that. I just said, "No, no, no," in all modesty, you know, "I'm not Melchizedek." But the Lord has so revealed it that I realize the significance of Melchizedek and that everyone who lets Christ be Priest is in essence like entering Melchizedek order. It's called an order, the order of Melchizedek. It's an order for us all, like religious orders. He's our religious order.
(John) Well, I was sitting there, and I was just getting all this revelation, and I was just writing it in. And actually this is kind of cool. It's going to be in the Logos Bible software, so you can go to those notes and those verses and my little note will be in there.
(Martha) Can't you read your little note?
(John) I had one that I was really, I really liked. Hang on one second.
(Martha) There was no opposition.
(Carole) and there was absolutely no opposition, and it was clear, and it was something else. But I just have the vision now that is growing. I'm just at the beginning of the vision. The door is open. I see light on the other side, and it's drawing me in, of what it is and what that priest's purpose and, I don't want to say job, but I can't think of another word right this minute. His very purpose of being and what we're called to is just so clear. And people perish without a vision. "Without a vision, the people perish." And Martha's given a vision through this teaching this morning that just ignites the desire to move into that place that He's absolutely called us to be in.
(J) I don't really want to read this note because you literally opened up, you didn't just connect me to Melchizedek, you…. I don't know, it's really cool. When you teach the Spirit will come in, and He'll weave in your message, He'll weave His own revelation through it to me. So, I'll literally be hearing it, and I'll be saying, "Oh, my gosh," and I'll literally fly off way over here, and then He'll bring me back, and then I'll be with you again. And then it's pshhhhhhhew. So, it's like a meandering river kind of coming through. And I mean, He connected the rest and peace and the King of Salem. He connected all these things to me, and like connected the dots. So, I was seeing it throughout the Scripture and how all of that was connected to the Melchizedek priesthood, the order of Melchizedek. All of a sudden I was like going, "Oh, my gosh, and that one's connected, and this one's connected, and this Scripture's connected, and that's how that's connected. And that's why you said that." That's what I got out of that. So, I'm gonna, I'm gonna reserve the right, but you can go back to the Scriptures, and you can read the notes about the inclusiveness and the… See, you got the word, "exclusive," and I got the word, "exclusive and inclusive" at the same time. So, any way you were going to leave it, and I'll read the other one about the will of God.
(Martha) Well, it happens that Carole and John and I are out of town to a meeting. And when I was with the Lord this morning, He spoke to me very clearly, "Mark 3:33." "Ok, I'll go to Mark 3:33, Lord." It couldn't be clearer than that. "Answering them," the crowd, the crowd said, "Your mother and brothers are outside." Verse 33 said, "Answering them, He said, Who are my mother and my brothers?" That's the question; Who are they? "And looking around at those who were sitting around Him, He said, 'Behold My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of God, He is my brother and sister and mother." And I just started writing about that, because I saw that the will of God is the binding of the Body of Christ, and there is no other bond but the will of God to the Body of Christ. And I've known for a long time that you can only be in relationship through the will of God. And so, I called John and Carole to come and, "Let's have a come to Jesus meeting." And I was telling them that our utter commitment, our passion, our one quest and our one request, our only agenda must me the will of God. And you have that out of relationship. It's not that you put the will of God before relationship. The will of God comes out of the relationship. But that is fellowship. That's true fellowship and relationship. That's our only connection that we can stay connected to Jesus is the will of God. And we don't have any Body life apart from the will of God for every individual. And it is the individual's responsibility to seek, to live in and commit to the will of God. For years now I've tried to tell people, "Ok, if you'll just commit to the will of God, then everything will be fine, and you'll know exactly everything you need to know. It's the will of God you need." Well, but I didn't understand that that comes out of the deepest love relationship, and that you can't be committed to the will of God unless you're committed to the Son of God, unless you're committed to God, Himself. And you can't separate the will of God from relationship. Relationship becomes your motivation to do the will of God. You want to be close to the Lord, and so, you have to be, you have to do His will to be close to Him. When I step out of His will, I step out of relationship. I step out of His pleasure, and I lose His favor. And I told about it. Coming back into His will is not just your restoration to Him. It's your restoration to yourself, to your identity in Christ. And I told about losing my place, kind of, when Kenneth was diagnosed. And that's what I meant. I wasn't in His will, and I didn't know where to touch His will. I knew that there lay ahead of me a great, huge responsibility, but I wasn't connected. And when He took me to the priesthood, then I was in the will of God, so I was connected to God, and the flow of God began. And the flow of God was to provide everything we needed, everything individual, every direction, every provision flowed in the will of God. See, I used to say, "God lives on 'My Will Street,' and we go down 'Happy Avenue,' and we are totally outside, we have no connection, because He's not going to come to 'Happy Street' on your terms. He is going to be on 'My Will Street' only. So, you've got to come to His place to be in harmony with Him. So, I'm going to say the will of God is the mandate and the solution to everything. And I told about that in the last podcast. But I wasn't deliberately out of His will. It was just that His will had changed with the circumstances, and I had to find His will anew. And that happens all the time.
(J) I was going to say, don't you see that the will literally is moment by moment changing and you have to follow where He goes, when He goes, and it can one moment be one place and it could be another place? And you have to be flexible.
(Martha) Absolutely. That's the word.
(J) So, it's like your "Trees or Wheat," you know, the teaching that you did, "Trees or Wheat." Remember that one?
(J) That if you're wheat, you can be harvested, cut, but if you're a tree, you're stuck. You're planted in the ground, in the earth. And we literally have to be like wheat that we literally can be harvested at any point; "Be fruitful," in and out. And so, literally your direction can change in a moment. You can't say, "Oh, I always do this on Sunday. I always do this on…" you know. You have to be able to be flexible at any moment to be able to turn. And your entire world changed. Your entire life changed. And if you had become rigid, and if you had become legalistic and said this is how it's gonna be, it would have hurt. You would have broken. Like a tree in the wind, you would have broken, rather than flowed back and forth like the breeze on the wheat. It can move. But a tree, you know, is stiff, and the hard breeze… You had a hard gale that came against your life with Kenneth and everything that went through there. This wasn't a light, light breeze in the spring. You know what I mean?
(Martha) It wasn't just a turn on the road, it was an entirely new world.
(J) Absolutely. And it has changed everything for you. And so, your flexibility to say, "What do You want." And for Him to open up your world and say, "I want you to be a priest with Me." Martha, if you had plugged your ears and said, "I know what I need to do." If you had an "I know" in that, oh, my gosh..
(Martha) I would have ruined the whole thing.
(John) The ramifications, that's exactly it.
(Carole) The ramifications would have been deadly.
(Carole) It would have been death, not only to you, but to those that He had called you to be a… I'm not going to say that right. He called you to be a priest to Him, and it would have absolutely hindered what He wanted to do through you as the priest.
(Martha) And I'm still not really free; too private, too sacred. I'm not free to tell a number of things that did happen, because I was out of the way, because I was doing God's will alone, not Kenneth's need. I was not focused on Kenneth's need, and his need was constant. But when I watched and waited, I was ready.
(J) But if you were inflexible, Martha, if you were inflexible and you couldn't go with His flow and where He said, "My will is taking a turn on this street." You can go to Functionality Avenue or whatever.
(Martha) Yes, I would have functioned.
(J) Yeah, but you would have missed Him, and you would have missed bringing His Life in that situation. Whew..
(Martha) Right. He did give me a place to function in it. He did give me, well, just by shear prayer by the things that happened, and the things that He said, I was in my place. And I can just say, I didn't go to my human love, my good humanity and just 'do the right thing,' and "I'm here for you," and all that you would naturally do. It was a divine hour.
(J) How many years were you married?
I love your simplcity, brothers. I love His simplicity in you.
Once again I am amazed at the fact that reality is not what we see around us, but that which we don't see… Truely.
The terrible situations are what we SEE, but they are IN FACT Jesus' inviting us!
It's the Wind blowing on us! Inviting us to be wheat!
And so we enter the dance! He blows! We move!
Martha! Peter wasn't the only person who walked on water!!
Amen Sandy, where the wind blows. Sons of God are led be the Spirit of God.


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CAD is used throughout the engineering process from conceptual design and layout of products, through strength and dynamic analysis of assemblies, to the definition of manufacturing methods be fore the manufacturing acrtually starts. This allows to both interactively and automatically analyze design variants, to find the optimal design for manufacturing while minimizing the use of physical prototypes. The use of CAD allows for lower product development costs, increased productivity, improved product quality and faster time-to-market.
Today, products are complex systems, operating with pre-installed or cloud software solutions. These solutions allow for adjusting product propertieswhile in operation, adopting them with maximum precision to the end user's requirements.
Digital visualization allows for the inspection of a product, examination of the assembly and disassembly sequence, analyses of internal components and to assessment of external appearance prior to launching production. The client has the advantage to closely inspect future products and propose changes and amendments at the development stage.
Digital twin - a three dimensional virtual copy of a physical product. Following the input of new data, the twin reflects in real-time how the object changes physically, and under what kind of conditions it is performing. This allows the designers to have a clearer understanding of the modifications required to the design, manufacturing, operations and maintenance of the product.
The use of digital technologies enables the testing of various designs and engineering solutions prior to prototyping and production in a digital (as opposed to physical) environment.
Digital technologies ensure precise calculations of production and operating costs at the development stage, and help avoiding increase of production costs in the production process.
Smart manufacturing technologies allow for efficient management of supply chains and distribution networks in real time, adjusting production volumes based on demand and supply optimization.
После этапа проектирования необходимо спланировать производственный процесс. Технологии умного производства позволяют автоматизировать планирование, оптимизировать производственный процесс до его начала, оптимально распределить производственные мощности.
New generation of composites can respond to temperature, mechanical or barometric impact and other effects, which completely eliminates the need to install additional sensors.
Real-time performance monitoring provides companies and users with the opportunity to track performance indicators, cut costs, and reduce downtime.
Smart manufacturing technologies allow for optimal use of industrial facilities and downtime minimization.
Internet enables companies to unify supply chains that spread worldwide.
Smart technologies boost production and promote rational use of materials, energy, and equipment. Data flows allow for performance optimization of smart devices and their operations in all links of value chain.
Robotization improves operating cost efficiency, ensures consistently high quality of production, streamlines production operations making them more flexible and reduces capital expenditures.
New production method when material is added layer upon layer. Unlike traditional technologies where details are cut from blanks resulting in some material being discarded, 3D printing involves computer prototyping and printing the object from plastic, metal orcomposites, which streamlines the production process and renders it more precise and efficient.
New technologies are changing the general idea of maintenance: though before the problem was solved as it occurred, nowadays, on the contrary, prevention along with urred, nowadays, on the contrary, prevention along with on-condition repair and remote monitoring are at the forefront. Smart product controls its own work and transmits the data about its current condition to the producer, what reduces costs on service, makes it quicker and makes the use of the product cheaper and more effective.
Software installed on a tablet, smartphone or special glasses interacts with special marks on a product or production line, identifies options or parts, detects defects, displays detailed information on the type of defect, and provides troubleshooting instructions, which streamlines detection and repairs and saves on repairs performed by special service teams.
Digital spare parts supply chain control ensures timely order processing and delivery, minimizing production interruptions and downtimes and maximizing production equipment efficiency.


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To tackle our research questions, we are using different methods.
Our team consists of researchers, engineers and students. Together we are working at different research topics.
Some information about recent and finished projects, as well as dissertations, master- and bachelor thesis can be found here.
Several field expedition are conducted every year in our test sites for our field measurements.
Depending on our partners and the research project our group is working at different places in the Arctic.
Since many years we are responsible for research stations on Svalbard, Norway and in the Lena Delta, Sibiria.
The exact location, pictures and more information about the sites can be found here.
Our team is actively involved in many education and outreach activities, to make the research results transparent and easy to understand for everybody.
During the winter term Julia Boike is giving the lecture "Polar Geography" at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Therfore we go at schools or supporting the 'Kinderuniversität'.
Other examples are the participation in the fairplanet discussion about frozen ground, the contribution to the article: 'Siberia's melting permafrost fuels climate change' or the publication of the article 'In the Far North. When the Climate Desert Thaws' by Inga Beck in the research magazine Ruperto Carola of the University of Heidelberg.
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Home/Current Issues, Emotional Intelligence, Science & Research/Is AI Ready To Understand Human Behaviours?
One point is that, change, even when it isn't as drastic as AI replacing human jobs, is stressful on human behaviour enough, isn't it? Despite one of the reasons for AI being how erratic/dynamic human behaviour is, which our history shows that we can already presuppose resistance to this change, human beings are the overwhelming majority. Acceptance was not an easily solved problem when machines and robots took over manufacturing jobs. In fact, it's still not an entirely solved problem. Whether or not it is implemented ethically and professionally well, that's a different discussion. It is however, something that you may want to consider in terms of the consequences of certain decisions.
The other important point about AI is that there are of course a lot things still needed to advance the collection of data as well as its reliability and accuracy to make this a reality. Because frankly, we are very much still in the infancy of such futuristic developments and there hasn't been enough brave people willing to take the risk and adopt the change. Let's face it, the whole point of entrusting AI with the job is that it does a better job, is more reliable, and is more accurate. Because if it isn't, there's not much point to organizations being OVER-reliant on it so early in its implementation at this point.
And truthfully, what human behaviour can be accurately interpreted by numbers at this point? Could you take statistical data of the past 2 years of traffic jams and understand where traffic jams come from to predict or solve it? Or how build a prediction model to accurately pinpoint when people will from country A will travel to country B, and how much they will spend? Isn't that information relayed to human beings to act on? The reality is that the day when computers and AI is able to take over human cognition is still quite some ways off. To do the what we want computer systems to do, we need to understand what are doing, wouldn't we? And frankly, neither psychology nor the visionaries are where they can definitively say they are there yet.
What that means is that basically, there is still a lot of things we don't understand about basic human behaviour to even program AI to be useful as we want or expect it to be. What we do know is that data or statistics isn't enough to understand the intricacies of human behaviour. So in a very short word, the answer is "No". Or rather, not quite yet. Until the work has been put in to properly understand the dynamic and constantly changing nature of human behaviour, human beings are still the best form of observation and reasoning capable to deal with of human behaviour.
Behavioural science has advanced a great deal in modern times thanks to a lot of great work by Dr. Ekman and many of his peers in helping us understand our emotions and what triggers them. In Dr. Ekman's case, he's even tested and applied it into observe the way emotions behave when we lie. Which when you think about it, even in a world where AI provided human beings with information to act on, this would be a new task or skill required of human beings to check if it is genuine or falsified. And many of us aren't simply don't understand our own emotions let alone others, or are trained to do the work of evaluating truth and credibility.
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Guttigera is a genus of moths in the family Gracillariidae.

Species
Guttigera albicaput Diakonoff, 1955
Guttigera rhythmica Diakonoff, 1955
Guttigera schefflerella Kobayashi, Huang & Hirowatari, 2013

External links
Global Taxonomic Database of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera)

Phyllocnistinae
Gracillarioidea genera


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Janella Salvador is Valentina in 'Darna: The TV Series'
Posted on November 19, 2021 by ABS-CBN // 0 Comments
Darna has found her villain. ABS-CBN named Janella Salvador as the actress who will play the role of serpent queen and supervillain Valentina in the upcoming "Darna: The TV Series."
#TheValentinaReveal, which streamed live on ABS-CBN Entertainment YouTube channel and Facebook page on Friday (November 19), introduced Janella as the lawyer-vlogger Regina/ Valentina, who is cursed with venomous snakes for hair and will become the archenemy of Pinoy superheroine Darna played by Jane De Leon.
The series' director, Chito S. Roño, handpicked Janella from the talented artists who auditioned for the sought-after role.
"Darna" is the big TV comeback of Janella who was last seen in the hit series "The Killer Bride," which paved the way for her to be hailed as Princess of Philippines Television in the 2020 Box Office Entertainment Awards.
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Janella joined the "Darna" cast and crew, who started filming for the much-awaited series this week in the ABS-CBN Soundstage and nearby areas. Aside from Jane and Janella, the show will also star Iza Calzado, Joshua Garcia, Zaijian Jaranilla, Rio Locsin, Kiko Estrada, and many others. It is one of ABS-CBN's biggest offerings for 2022.
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An imaging spectroscopy with new principle is presented in this paper. We call this imaging spectroscopy as LASIS (large aperture static imaging spectroscopy). The LASIS possesses the advantages of lighter weight and higher sensitivity. It can be widely used for the mitigation of natural disasters such as forest fire, earthquake and flood, for the general survey of crops distribution, insect pests and estimation the yield of crops. First, a brief depiction of Imaging Spectroscopy and its application is introduced in this paper. Second, Principle of LASIS is presented along with its main innovations and characteristics. Third, an instrument designed for testing its principle is introduced, which have 85 millimeters focal length, 4.2 degrees field of view, 1:8F number. At last, the experimental results with 100 numbers of spectral bands are given. We can conclude form the results that the LASIS can solve the energy problem of Dispersive imaging spectroscopy because it really have the advantages of high throughput and high sensitivity.


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