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Forgot your password? March 16, 2013 at 9:04 PM Anonymous said... Your solution (with a reboot) fixed me as well!! Add the PATH to the ODBC driver client DLLs.
Open the properties for the Client_X directory, and you will see that "Authenticated Users" should have Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read. I have Admin rights and ive only encountered this problem since installing oracle 10.1 client and ODBC. - Ive checked the permissions in the regisrtry Ive checked the permissions of the Thanks a lot. All rights reserved.
We had the same problem but we were connecting via Citrix Server n made de suggested changes and it worked!!!!!!Thanks a lot August 12, 2008 at 3:57 AM Anonymous said... Thanks for contributing to a 12+ year old thread involving obsoleted & unsupported Oracle versions that are no longer available. You can not post a blank message. Or only after installing the Oracle 10g client?
What does the image on the back of the LotR discs represent? I've followed the described steps and once I remembered to use my apps user ID and PW, instead of my VPN user, it worked perfectly. Reply With Quote 08-13-07,12:30 #3 kusky View Profile View Forum Posts Registered User Join Date Jul 2007 Posts 7 i can connect to the db using SQL plus and any other These components are supplied by Oracle corp.
It fixed my problem. Interviewee offered code samples from current employer -- should I accept? Reply With Quote 08-13-07,13:47 #6 MCrowley View Profile View Forum Posts Registered User Join Date Jan 2003 Location Massachusetts Posts 5,794 Provided Answers: 11 Originally Posted by kusky i can connect I add the 3 groups as you said.
Report message to a moderator Re: Unable to connect SQLState=IM004 Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed [message #640681 is a reply to message #640662] Mon, 03 August 2015 09:09 Report message to a moderator Re: Unable to connect SQLState=IM004 Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV f [message #101556 is a reply to message #101255] Wed, 08 December 2004 05:01 As an administrator, I get no errors. If you install the 32 bit drivers, the Windows ODBC manager you see is the 64 bit version and won't work.
Can any other client s/w connect to this Oracle DB? can u plz give a solution for this.... These report where created using ODBC/MS Query. I am using XP and 10g.
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YOU'RE HTE MAN!!! My issue was after upgrading to Windows 10 Pro from Windows 7 64-bit i was not able to connect 1. Thanks a ton for your solution Man!!! In the case of 10G the path is C:Oracleproduct10.1.0Client_1.
Thanks. I have updated permissions on the oracle, odbc, and the software interface, giving the user group admin rights. No luck. Ive checked the registry and made sure the oracle home bit is pointing to 10g folders.
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Here are the two different connect strings: Thanks! Oracle ODBC : Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDL... Top This thread has been closed due to inactivity. This is not a server but only on my machine.
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Things To DoDestinationsParks, Forests & Wildlife AreasThe Oregon HooDoos
The Oregon HooDoos
Grant McOmie, Author
September 9, 2016 (Updated July 27, 2017)
What is it about Oregon's rivers? There is nothing like a cool, restful moment along the shady shoreline of a Oregon river. That sentiment is shared for an exciting outdoor adventure, fishing or paddling along one of our prized waterways.
All this is especially true near Camp Sherman, where the Metolius River bubbles from the ground to curl and wind along an 8,600-acre river corridor. It's so special that the Metolius has been protected as one of America's Wild and Scenic Rivers since 1988.
Jeff Perin, local fishing guide and owner of The Fly Fishers Place in nearby Sisters, likes it that way.
Perin often goes to the Metolius River near Wizard Falls, a rough and tumble stretch broken by moments of calm water. He says, "You don't have spring creeks like this in too many places where the water just bubbles out of the ground at 50 degrees and here we are on a 90-degree day and we're fishing in cold, clean water. It is such a special place."
Since 1947, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has operated the nearby Wizard Falls Hatchery.
Steve Hamburger, a retired ODFW hatchery manager, said the 45-degree water is perfect for raising trout.
More than 4 million baby trout are raised at Wizard Falls Hatchery to later be released into dozens of lakes and ponds across Oregon.
Visitors come from all over the state to stroll the 35-acre hatchery grounds that are more akin to a park land than a fish hatchery.
Nearby campgrounds make the living easy too. There are 10 U.S. Forest Service Campgrounds along the Metolius River that offer a place to stay and relax, like Allen Springs.
There are no hook-ups, phones or television at these campgrounds. It's self-contained camping without fancy conveniences, but Hamburger says that's just fine for the returning campers, "They came here when they were kids and now they have kids so bringing their youngsters out and it carries on from generation to generation. They really do enjoy that and the kids love it."
Perin adds, "It's so beautiful here and we have so much great water — at any given time in Central Oregon, there's always some place to go."
In September 2003, two major forest fires merged into a catastrophic blaze called the B&B Complex Fires. More than 2,300 fire fighters battled the B&B for 34 days at a cost pegged at $38 million. The huge blaze burned more than 90,00 acres along the crest of the Cascades near Mt. Jefferson.
Today, you can travel the back roads, where pavement turns to gravel, and explore the scorched landscape above the Metolius arm of Lake Billy Chinook. Here, the B&B burned everything down to bare soil, but it also revealed something unusual most folks had never seen: Oregon HooDoos, also known as balancing rocks and ghost rocks.
This nest of unique rock pedestals — some 30 of them — are hardened capstones of an ancient lava flow. As the softer material erodes beneath the basalt rock, the pillars that support the caps can grow up to 25 feet tall.
In 1855, a Pacific Railroad survey crew, searching for a faster route between California and the Columbia River, stumbled upon the strange formation. Then Lt. Henry Larcom Abbot coined the name, "the Oregon HooDoos."
Geologists say the HooDoo formation process takes up to 20,000 years. Sadly, several HooDoos have tumbled down to ground since the 19th century discovery.
It's a lonesome land where Oregon's HooDoos stand guard — but it is worth your time for a visit to see one of Oregon's stranger scenic areas.
Directions: Drive 2.5 hours from Portland to Madras, then another 15 minutes to Culver. Continue west through Cove Palisades State Park, as though bound for Perry South campground in the Deschutes National Forest. Look for the Oregon HooDoos parking area and trailhead 12.2 miles west of the Deschutes River arm bridge (this is 0.3 mile beyond where the road switches from pavement to gravel.)
Grant McOmie
Grant McOmie is a Pacific Northwest broadcast journalist, teacher and author who writes and produces stories and special programs about the people, places, outdoor activities and environmental issues of the Pacific Northwest. A fifth generation Oregon native, Grant's roots run deepest in the central Oregon region near Prineville and Redmond where his family continues to live.
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Home » Transparency» Science Mag axes Michael Balter after 25 years, Denies it was over Sexual Misconduct story
Science Mag axes Michael Balter after 25 years, Denies it was over Sexual Misconduct story
by Sydney Smith April 30, 2016 05:00 AM EST
Tags: Michael Balter, Science, Transparency, U.S.
(Credit: Photo via Michael Balter, Image by London Allen)
Journalist Michael Balter was fired last month from Science magazine after 25 years with the publication.
Balter blogged to announce the firing, saying Science's news editor Tim Appenzeller called him March 10 and "spoke briefly of a 'breakdown of trust' between me and Science's editors," and that his contract would end in 30 days. "My 30 days notice of termination from Science ends about April 9 but I have stopped writing for them and other publications are picking up my projects," Balter told iMediaEthics in March.
Despite Balter's claims following the firing that it may have been related to his coverage of sexual misconduct allegations against Brian Richmond, AAAS told iMediaEthics by e-mail in a statement that wasn't the case. The statement from AAAS reads:
"AAAS is saddened by Michael Balter's recent statements, but will not comment on matters related to anyone who has worked for AAAS, whether they were on staff or working under a freelance contract, as in Mr. Balter's case. However, contrary to a public narrative that has been set forth by others, the ending of Mr. Balter's association with AAAS is not related in any way to the content of the news story published in Science on allegations of sexual misconduct against Brian Richmond. Our commitment to the published story, and to covering the extremely important topic of sexual harassment in science, remains unwavering."
In the time since his firing, Balter has suggested his firing was related to his Feb. 9 story for Science on the Richmond story. Balter's Feb. 9 story reported that an American Museum of Natural History research assistant accused her boss, paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond, of sexually assaulting her in Florence, Italy after a meeting. Richmond denies the allegations and claims the two had a consensual encounter.
I will be writing about it soon, but basically fallout from my sexual misconduct story last month. https://t.co/lHJjRmGfFZ
— Michael Balter (@mbalter) March 10, 2016
According to Balter's blogpost, "A tense, sometimes bruising behind-the-scenes conflict with my editors over the Brian Richmond story that eventually forced me to threaten to pull it from Science and publish it elsewhere, as my contract allows if agreement on a text cannot be reached." Balter said he thought Science didn't want to publish the story "for fear of a lawsuit."
Balter also reminded that in 2014 he took "a public leave of absence to protest the firing of four women at Science," which he acknowledged was "controversial" and could be related to the firing. He also noted that previously "one of my editors asked" for him to unpublish a blogpost critical of Science editor Marcia McNutt, which he didn't do and is still published here.
On March 11, AAAS issued a brief statement on its firing of Balter.
"Michael Balter was provided notice on March 10, 2016 that his contract as a freelance writer for Science magazine was being discontinued. Mr. Balter has written many stories for Science's news section, including one published February 9, 2016 on a sexual misconduct case.
"Science editors stand by the February 9, 2016 story as published. The goal of editing was to ensure that the story was both powerful and fair.
"AAAS remains committed to providing leadership on stopping sexual harassment in science and empowering women in STEM fields."
In response, Balter said he wanted AAAS to tell what happened. "I waived my rights to privacy in this matter so that AAAS can feel entirely free to tell its side of the story and respond to repeated queries from the scientific community (social media posts amounting to many thousands of individual posts)," he wrote.
iMediaEthics has written to the American Museum of Natural History for comment. Multiples e-mails to Richmond haven't been returned.
Full Disclosure: Michael Balter has covered iMediaEthics' (formerly StinkyJournalism) investigation into Jared Diamond's New Yorker story. Balter's story was "Science and the Media: 'Vengeance' Bites Back at Jared Diamond," May 15, 2009. Stephen Jay Gould, the co-founder of iMediaEthics' publisher Art Science Research Laboratory, was the president of AAAS in 2000 and was the Frederick P. Rose Honorary Curator in the Museum's Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History.
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This city's structural design reflects the nurturing aspects of nature in alignment with the conservationist values of its population. It also celebrates indigenous art, taking inspiration from mandalas, vibrant color, and fractal recursion. The coast has been reshaped in the spirit of the Dutch, in response to rising sea levels and more severe storms. Large artificial islands allow for common gathering places for culture and commerce, some permanently anchored and others transient. Solar energy is taken in part from large artificial trees above dense structures, which also function as docks for swarms of autonomous courier drones. Vertical farming and aquaponics are applied where possible, minimizing distance transportation and enabling local solidarity.
The client for this project was the Futures Studies department at OCAD University. I was given a lot of creative freedom for it, so it was a really fun project. It was essentially a personal piece, and has reverted to being subsumed into the Synthara universe.
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You might think that saying refers to the disaster movie's exorbitant estimated $120M-$140M budget, or its three-year production cycle, or even its horrendous domestic box office start of $13.3M.
However, when it came to bringing this troubled Dean Devlin-directed feature to the market, Warner Bros., Skydance Media and Jerry Bruckheimer Films did everything in their power to harness and correct what was initially an "unwatchable" disaster movie, per one source, before Geostorm went into $15M of re-shoots last December.
The recent headlines about natural disasters in Houston, Florida, and Puerto Rico come as a handy excuse for Geostorm's studio partners when explaining what went wrong. However, this disaster pic's problems were quite clear before it opened. Geostorm is a sub-genre that moviegoers have seen before all too often, and it's from a blockbuster producer-turned-first-time-director who largely went unsupervised during production.
If anything, time hasn't been on Geostorm's side, and if there's one takeaway here, it's that production delays and an extensive lengthy time between greenlight and release –in this case, three years – can spell doom for an intended event film. Audiences' tastes in the social era can turn at the drop of a hat, and if there's one genre that's been a casualty of this recently, it's been broad raunchy comedies like Rough Night, Neighbors 2, and The House. Geostorm was originally scheduled to open on March 25, 2016. That release date would get pushed three more times to Oct. 21, 2016, then the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend of Jan. 13, and finally Oct. 20.
So putting the notion of 'time' in perspective, when Warner Bros. welcomed the Skydance pitch for Geostorm after Paramount passed, with Devlin directing and global Olympus Has Fallen star Gerard Butler attached, it was because the Burbank, CA. lot wanted to make a B-disaster film that had the potential to stoke a global audience. Geostorm centered around an international space station that is tasked with stopping a weather satellite meltdown as it causes deathly weather patterns around the globe (deserts freeze, tidal waves take out cities). At the time Warner Bros. agreed to Geostorm in the fall of 2014, it was moments before Devlin and Roland Emmerich agreed to make the sequel Independence Day: Resurgence at Fox, and it was roughly eight months prior to the release of New Line's San Andreas, which turned out to be a notable success, with a $474M global B.O. and an $88M profit. The town's mindset was that disaster films weren't necessarily dead yet.
.Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman is the 2nd highest film at the 2017 domestic B.O. with $412.5M.
Typically, the easy go-to excuse for any studio is to blame a current bomb on a former studio chief. Despite the fact that Geostorm occurred under WB President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production Greg Silverman's watch, truth be told, greenlight decisions at Warner Bros. aren't made in a vacuum by one almighty lord. It takes a village, and there's a number of departments who have their say. Silverman, together with Skydance chief and Geostorm producer David Ellison, aimed to resuscitate Geostorm by calling in Jerry Bruckheimer for re-shoots. After the $175M costly King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, Geostorm is Warner's second disaster this year. However, the studio is absolutely fine, as it leads all majors at the domestic B.O. with over $1.7 billion (+9% over the same Jan.-October 2016 period). In all fairness, Silverman can also share in the studio's annual B.O. success, as he was involved in Warner's blockbusters like Wonder Woman and Dunkirk, as well as its misses.
Dean Devlin, far right, directing on Geostorm.
Riding herd over Devlin wasn't in the cards for Warner Bros. during production. Given that Skydance walked Geostorm in the door and had equity in the project, it was more appropriate to have them oversee Devlin. In sum, the general thinking among several executives at the time: Why even babysit Devlin? As a producer, he had an excellent track record delivering disaster genre films and event pictures directed by Roland Emmerich. Ellison and Devlin go way back: Devlin first cast Ellison a notable break as Eddie Beagle in the 2006 World War I pilot film Flyboys. Now Ellison in turn was producing Devlin's latest VFX spectacle. During Geostorm's production, Skydance was also busy with other projects like Terminator: Genisys and Star Trek Beyond. But even the best directors need sounding boards, and some sources tell us that Devlin was in over his head. It's akin to another story we heard on why Universal's The Mummy went sideways, which was a case of blockbuster screenwriter Alex Kurtzman getting bogged down with the directing reins on his first $100M-plus budgeted event film. In the case of Geostorm's unbuckling, we hear that Devlin was rushing to meet a deadline so the film could hit its first release date of March 25, 2016. There are others who contend that in the end, putting the onus on Devlin is completely uncalled for: It wasn't his movie in the end, rather a mess conjured up by too many cooks in the kitchen. Devlin did not have control over the characters who were cut out, those who were put in.
Sources tell Deadline that the first cut shown to Warner Bros. studio executives was "unwatchable." Geostorm spent 61 weeks in post, went through two composers, and was previewed three-to-four times before Silverman and Ellison phoned up Bruckheimer for help. Before Bruckheimer's team stepped in to clear up Geostorm, they reportedly wanted to make sure that Devlin was OK with their participation, given their respect for him. Devlin was scheduled to continue on to his next directorial, the thriller Bad Samaritan. Devlin welcomed Bruckheimer's help, and was privy to all the changes being made, including Danny Cannon's direction and Laeta Kalogridis' rewrites.
So what changed during Geostorm's reshoots? Dropping out expensive VFX scenes or adding them in wasn't on the table. Geostorm's problems were generally about storyline clarity, plot credibility, and characters' motivations. These were script problems that were hard to spot initially for Devlin's team, as they were in the weeds editing according to some. During the final edit, some characters dropped out. In earlier cuts prior to Bruckheimer, there would be situations where there was a dramatic scene in the film, but it was spoiled by a comedic score playing underneath. In addition to re-shoots and correcting music, Bruckheimer's team assisted in setting the film's color tone and finishing the VFX. Test scores shot up 15-20 points across various demos in the final edit. Silverman had already left Warner Bros. before the final cut was ready.
Our finance experts believe that WB curbed on its global P&A spend with Geostorm, shelling out less than the typical $140M to launch an event film (San Andreas cost an estimated $110M in theatrical P&A). Our sources believe cash break-even for Geostorm is around $360M worldwide B.O., but insiders say it's less than $300M. With a $36.4M overseas weekend in 50 territories, and close to $64M worldwide to date, Geostorm won't profit and is bound to lose in excess of $100M, per our finance sources. Even if Geostorm rallies in China (Independence Day: Resurgence made $75M there), only 25% of the B.O. is coming to the states. Geostorm's red ink will be spread around to Skydance, WB and RatPac. The last time Skydance was in this financial and production pickle was with Paramount's World War Z, but they were able to save that movie, and get it to a half billion worldwide and near breakeven.
Geostorm over-indexed in the Southwest, which includes the Texas market, but under-indexed in the Southeast region, which includes Florida. In regard to under-indexed business in Houston — keep in mind that the Astros won the ALCS last night in a fierce game 7 against the New York Yankees, and are now on their way to the World Series. The west coast and Canada were Geostorm's best places of performance. It's funny, but the evidence was already out there for 14 years that Geostorm wouldn't click with audiences. In 2003, Paramount had the disaster movie The Core, starring Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, and Aaron Eckhart, with an uncredible plot that sounds a lot like Geostorm's. In the movie, an earthquake weapon device built by the U.S. government malfunctions and starts taking out cities. The earth's core stops spinning, thus causing radiation, and the only way to save it is for a team to drill down and restart the center of the earth with 1,000 megatons of nuclear weapons.
The Core opened during the final weekend of March that year to $12M — and there weren't any major natural disasters in the headlines.


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Passed down through the generations: Young man's truckie dream
By: Cobey Bartels
For Joshua, trucking is the dream job and one he's fighting for, a true passion passed down through the generations.
Joshua when he was a bit younger, standing proudly beside the Mack his uncle drives for Stawell Freighters.
"Truck driving should be an apprenticeship," says 18-year-old Joshua Pyke, as he talks about how tough it's been to break into the industry after finishing school in Western Victoria.
Josh's heart pumps diesel, thanks to a life around trucks and a genuine appreciation for his relatives and role models who introduced him to the industry.
"I come from a family which has based its name around trucks.
"My Pop was a truck driver who drove for over 50 years and raised his family around them.
"The love for trucks has flowed through the generations with Pop, two of his sons Michael and Stephen and then to me.
"Michael has been driving for over 20 years now, and Steven was in trucks even earlier but sadly passed away behind the wheel.
Joshua's passion stems from fond memories in his uncle's truck, learning what he could and getting a feel for the lifestyle.
"I have been travelling interstate and locally with my uncle for eight years observing and learning the basics of the truck driving lifestyle and it's grown on me quite a bit.
"I have realised it is a career I would love to pursue as I enjoy it and it's a passion of mine.
The stark reality for Joshua, is that after finishing year 12, he's realise it's very difficult to catch a break as a truckie when you're young.
Despite receiving a promising university offer Joshua decided truck driving is a dream worth fighting for, prompting him to defer and take on a labouring job while he saves for his HR licence.
"I have looked around and have seen ads for companies needing drivers and one thing they all have in common is they want drivers with 2 or more years' experience minimum behind the wheel.
"I do agree in a way with how difficult the job is, but how are we meant to accommodate for a shortage of truck drivers?
"How are we going to introduce people into the driving sector of the transport industry?"
Joshua thinks the solution might be an apprenticeship for aspiring truckies, and it's a sentiment commonly uttered throughout the industry.
"Drivers need to learn how to operate the truck in different situations, operate forklifts, learn how to load and learn different restraints needed for variety freight - this takes years of experience and practice.
"What does this mean for a person like me who want to drive trucks?
"I think this would be much easier through apprenticeships or traineeships, because it would have more structure for people wanting to learn and work in the transport industry, and could possibly be more appealing to young people like me wanting to enter this industry.
Get in contact with Owner Driver through the Facebook page if you would be interested in giving Joshua a truckin' go.


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Album Review: The London Sessions by Mary J. Blige
By Mario on December 3, 2014
Mary J. Blige's new album, her 13th, is out this week in the US.
The London Sessions is a record many have been anticipating since the summer began, when Mary gave news she had gone to the UK to work with new producers and make a fresh album, mixing her American roots and influences with the talent of this new British generation of artists.
The album was leaked on the internet a month prior to its actual release, but Mary had already introduced a few of the tracks via promotional releases on iTunes. The record begins with the Sam Smith-penned "Therapy," which is a true exercise in Soul and a promising opening: the hums and doo-wop beat are right up Mary's alley and fit perfectly among her more soulful moments. A couple of piano ballads immediately follow, with "Doubt" being the better one if only for its melody and vocal arrangements. "When You're Gone" is where the soul is really lost: there is nothing that can make a guitar-based acoustic ballad and Mary J. Blige work.
From that moment on, the album abandons R&B to become full on Pop: "Right Now," produced by Disclosure, feels like an updated and more mainstream version of her 2005 single "Enough Cryin" with the same amount of energy and sass. "My Loving" is a nod to 90s House courtesy of Rodney Jerkins, while "Long Hard Look" is a self-esteem booster with arguably the freshest production work of the album.
"Whole Damn Year" is definitely the best ballad and a great addition to Mary's collection of pain-filled tracks. The track was co-written by Emeli Sandé and produced by Naughty Boy and captures the essence of what has made Mary the Queen of Hip-Hop/Soul: the somber melody, the overall sad tone and the vocal filled with emotion chronicling an abusive relationship all take us back to the glorious days of her classic records from the 90s.
The rest of the album is made up of a few more uptempo numbers, of which the most interesting is the Naughty Boy-produced "Pick Me Up," which features a clarinet loop that would have also worked well on a midtempo R&B track. The piano ballad "Worth My Time" then closes the album.
The London Sessions gives the impression of a sort of divisive record: some may consider it a fresher approach for the now veteran Blige, with the possibility that the pairing with hot and fresh producers on the come up will open up her audience to new fans, especially internationally; other fans, the more hardcore or conservative ones, will probably deem it too pandering to Top 40 sounds and even a bit jarring, probably preferring the Think Like a Man Too soundtrack she released earlier this year to it.
You be the judge, if you want you can pick it up starting this week.
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New arrival at the ISTO!
Jörg Claussen has joined the ISTO and ORG team as a professor this February.
Before his move to LMU, he was an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). Jörg Claussen worked as a research and teaching assistant at the ISTO and Postdoc at the ifo Institute for Economic Research prior to his time at CBS. After obtaining a Master of Business Research at the Munich School of Management, he was awarded a doctoral degree by the Munich School of Management for his thesis on "Product and Organization Design for Dynamic Environments" in 2011. Jörg's research interests lie in the field of strategy, organization and applied industrial organization. His large-scale empirical studies focus on creative and high-tech industries. Jörg's research has been published in leading journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Research Policy and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
We are very pleased to have Jörg in our team and wish him a good fresh start at the ISTO and the LMU!


NEW YORK – An expedition supported by INFINITI Motor Company won one of the most prestigious honors in global exploration at the 115th Explorers Club Annual Dinner in New York.
The award recognized the scientific breakthrough of an expedition to the Gobi desert in 2018 that, for the first time, applied NASA imaging technology to improve the science of finding dinosaur fossils. The expedition, dubbed The Roy Chapman Andrews Centennial Expedition, was organized by the Club's Hong Kong Chapter and was awarded the Club's prestigious Citation of Merit in recognition of an outstanding feat of exploration.
The expedition yielded historic results, including the discovery of many important fossils and new fossil locations, as well as potentially three or more new species of dinosaur.
Roy Chapman Andrews famously found dinosaur eggs at the Flaming Cliffs in the Gobi approximately 100 years ago and was the first explorer to use "motor cars" to vastly increase the efficiency of the expedition. A century later, INFINITI provided a fleet of state-of-the-art luxury SUVs and underwriting to support the expedition, reinforcing the ethos of using new technology to empower exploration.


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TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - September 07, 2017) - The Walrus Foundation is pleased to announce the promotion of Jessica Johnson to the new combined role of Executive Editor and Creative Director of The Walrus.
In her previous lives, Jessica distinguished herself at roles as varied as Senior Editor at Azure, Copy Director at Hudson's Bay, Books Editor at Saturday Night magazine and The National Post, Deputy Editor at Fashion Quarterly, and Chase Producer at CBC TV. Jessica has won a Gold National magazine award and her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Lucky, Elle, Reader's Digest, the Journey Prize Anthology and, yes, The Walrus.
In this new role, Jessica will oversee art and editorial content on all platforms, and will join the senior management team. Jessica will continue to work collaboratively with the outstanding existing senior editorial and art team, headed up by Deputy Editor Carmine Starnino, Managing Editor Samia Madwar and Design Director Paul Kim, and ably supported by Senior Editor Hamutal Dotan, Editors Harley Rustad, Daniel Viola, Vivianne Fairbank, Lauren McKeon, Senior Designer Meredith Holigroski, and all Walrus staff and Fellows.
"We've retired the role of editor-in-chief and have created a new role -- Executive Editor and Creative Director -- to reflect what the organization needs now," said Shelley Ambrose, executive director of The Walrus Foundation and publisher of The Walrus. "As we approach the 15th anniversary of The Walrus in 2018, we are so lucky to have Jessica -- a seasoned editor with 18 years of broad experience in managing resources and people -- already in our midst. Jessica has been and will continue to be a passionate steward for The Walrus brand as a whole while continuing to push this unusual animal in Canadian publishing to try new things, do more, do it better, to spark conversation, to provoke thought, to embrace what is complicated, and to ensure The Walrus remains best in class on all platforms."
"At an important time in Canada's history, when our conversations have never been more rich and varied, I am honoured to lead the country's strongest presence in independent journalism," said Jessica Johnson. "I look forward to strengthening our relationships with readers and writers, and to increasing the range of diversity among our contributors -- all with a highly committed, professional team."
The Walrus is a registered charitable non-profit foundation (No. 861851624-RR0001) with an educational mandate to create forums for conversations on matters vital to Canadians. The Walrus is dedicated to supporting writers, artists, ideas, and thought-provoking conversation. We achieve these goals by publishing The Walrus magazine -- which focuses on Canada and its place in the world -- ten times a year; producing the national series of The Walrus Talks; posting original, high-quality content daily at thewalrus.ca; and training young professionals in media, publishing, and non-profit development.


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Q: php CURL not working with dynamic URLs I can't work out why this URL is not being found by CURL. The CURL engine is simply taken to a 400 error page.
My code is very simple and works fantastically with non-dynamic URLs.
I am hoping it's something easy to spot, for example, a missing CURL option.
I have tried using $url = urlencode($url) but that didn't work either.
Here's the code:
$url = 'http://www.destinations-uk.com/accommodations.php?link=accommodations&country=england&category=Reviews&id=1';
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curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,         true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_NOBODY,         true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
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$r = explode("\n", $r);
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A: Perhaps, this is something on the server-side done to prevent automated requests.

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Post-Hurricane Irma: Antigua is open for tourism!
by Will Bradley | Updated 14 November 2017 | Posted in News and Press, General
In September of this year, Hurricane Irma ripped through Barbuda, wreaking devastation across the island. Now, Antiguans are on a mission to fund the rebuild of Barbuda by broadcasting a key message across the world; Antigua is open for tourism!
Antigua and Barbuda, one sovereign state of two islands, was widely tipped by the media to be the first country hit by Hurricane Irma. Remarkably, the hurricane shifted north at the very last minute. The result: Barbuda felt the full force of the most powerful hurricane to ever hit the Atlantic, while Antigua was spared. One country split by two very different fates. Many assumed Antigua was also a victim of the hurricane because of their shared sovereignty, a misconception that is now badly damaging Antigua's tourism trade. Tourists mistakenly cancelled their holidays and future bookings have dropped dramatically. In reality, only one hotel has closed.
Barbuda, on the other hand, lost almost everything instantly. The idyllic island of multi-coloured architecture, once frequented by the late Princess Diana, was reduced to a pile of rubble within days. Over 90% of the island's buildings were hit, including homes, schools and the island's only hospital. With their homes in tatters and another hurricane on the way, the 1,800 residents fled to neighbouring Antigua, where they were welcomed in an overwhelming display of community spirit.
Mercifully, hurricane José never hit. However, citizens are painfully aware that living in Antigua is only a temporary solution. They know they must now rebuild Barbuda from scratch. But with the expense of rebuilding houses alone likely to exceed £50m, it will be no mean feat. Donations from the international community have been anaemic compared to those received by other countries hit by Irma. Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, described them as "minimal", and has called on developed nations to recognise the severity of their plight. The situation is aggravated by the land tenure system on the island, which means residents don't have home insurance pay-outs to mitigate their losses.
It has therefore fallen the on the people and government of Antigua and Barbuda to solve the crisis, which is why they are now embarking on an intense campaign to promote tourism in Antigua. This is what brought Jean-Marc Flambert, Antigua's UK and Europe vice-president, sales and marketing, to WTM London, an international travel trade show.
"We are working with the trade to make sure they understand that yes, we have fantastic beaches, but also to make sure they know there is so much to see and do – so tell clients, 'bring your wallet with you'," said Flambert.
The tourism board is keen to emphasise that there is a lot more to Antigua than the world-famous beaches. The new campaign focuses on the region's excellent sailing facilities, including an all-women sailing school, as well as the imminent completion of new spas and resorts. It also emphasises the abundance of water sports opportunities. Crucially, these attractions will bring life-changing revenue to people who desperately need it, and provide some hope that normality will one day be restored.
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Q: Acumatica API PO insert errors I've been having many problems inserting a Purchase Order using the API because it often responds with errors which are vague or don't identify the cause correctly. We have quite a few customizations for the site involved, so to narrow down the issue, I created a new clean Acumatica ERP installation (v17.210.0034) to work with, with no endpoint extensions, and installed the SalesDemo data in both.
Even with clean installation sites like this, I'm still getting vague errors when trying to insert a PO. For example, I followed the steps below, using Postman to call the API:

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*Login:  POST to url = "http://localhost/Acu172100034/entity/auth/login, with JSON credentials in the body. Response = success.

*GET a PO:  url = http://localhost/Acu172100034/entity/Default/17.200.001/PurchaseOrder/RO/PO000696?$expand=Details,ShippingInstructions. Response = JSON data for the PO

*I copied the JSON in the GET response above and pasted it into a new PUT request body. I removed all "id", "rowNumber", "custom" and "files" fields. I removed the "OrderNbr" field in the header and detail rows since it is an auto-number field for a PO.

*I attempt to insert a new PO using the modified JSON with a PUT:  url = http://localhost/Acu172100034/entity/Default/17.200.001/PurchaseOrder,

The error response includes:  "PX.Data.PXException: Error: 'Branch' cannot be empty.\r\nError: 'Ship To' cannot be empty.\r\nError: 'Location' cannot be found in the system.\r\n ---> PX.Data.PXOuterException: Error: Inserting  'Purchase Order' record raised at least one error. Please review the errors."
There is a BranchID specified on the PO Line, there is a Location specified on the PO header, and there is a ShipTo specified on  the ShippingInstructions. The Location does exist. This error is obviously vague and misleading.  Only by trial and error did I determine that I needed to change Hold from true to false to get past this error.  I assume this is because there's some validation or rule which disallows an insert or update while on hold? After changing Hold to false and attempting an insert with a PUT again, I then get an error:  "PX.Data.PXException: Error: An error occurred during processing of the field InventoryID: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object." and the call stack includes POOrderEntry.POLine_ExpenseAcctID_FieldDefaulting and POOrderEntry.POLine_LineType_FieldUpdated event handlers.
There is an InventoryID on the PO Line, and the inventory item exists, so it looks like these event handlers are throwing errors for some reason when LineType is being set, but I'm guessing. Any ideas how to get this simple API insert to work?
Update (2/23/19): I modified the JSON for insert a bit more by changing the detail item Completed to "false", and the PO header Hold to "true", and the Status to "On Hold". The error mentioned above now changes to "Error: 'UOM' cannot be empty.\r\nError: 'Account' cannot be empty.\r\nError: 'Sub.' cannot be empty.". The UOM is not empty, Account is empty, and SubAccount is empty; but Account and SubAccount are not required fields for a PO Line.

A: After more trial and error, I was able to insert a PO by additionally changing the JSON being inserted by removing the two fields "QtyOnReceipts" and "ReceivedAmount".  Can you see why the errors I'm receiving in the response in no way helps to find the cause of the error?  I still don't even know why removing these fields resolved the error. The most reliable way to perform an API insert is probably -- as KRichardson suggested -- always insert first with only the minimum required fields, then perform an update with the rest. Or, perform a LOT of testing with trial and error to determine what fields and values allow for a successful insert. If I were to change or add field values in the JSON, or use JSON from a different record, I have no real confidence that the changes I made to get it to work will always work.


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Regulators Explore Policies and Models That Encourage Grid Innovation
Alison Silverstein, California, Hawaii, innovation, Letha Tawney, New York, OPUC, Oregon, Regulators
By Linda Barney and Lauren Bhaskar
Many regulators understand that innovation is increasingly important but candid discussion of new, sometimes disruptive, approaches is not simple. The Grid Forward launch event, Accelerating Grid Innovation Summit, provided a rare opportunity to address how energy policies and regulations might lead to grid innovations, with panelists Letha Tawney, Commissioner with the Oregon Public Utilities Commission (OPUC), and Alison Silverstein of Alison Silverstein Consulting, who has served as a state and federal electric regulator.
Alison Silverstein and Letha Tawney address the Grid Forward launch event.
The Challenge of Creating Innovative Energy Policies based in Safety and Equity
Given their mandate to ensure public safety, utilities often find their cautious nature at odds with the need to innovate. "Public safety is a core part of the electricity sector and utility cultures. It's a part of what contributes to the sense that utilities and commissions don't move very quickly. We have to find a way within our safety culture to adopt an innovation mindset," stated OPUC Commissioner Tawney.
As the U.S. encounters more frequent and severe flooding and wildfires which affect utility assets and harm customers directly and through their energy service, this adherence to safety culture must form a bridge to new energy policies and business practices. Silverstein asserted that utilities must create innovative business and service delivery models that respond to extreme weather and climate change events. Tawney continued, "The way I personally am trying to approach the issues is to consider how fast can we learn? How fast can we put dialogue together where folks are feeling that it's safe to share failures and successes, opportunities, and what they're learning about how to ensure public safety and reliability? That leads to the question of how do you think about what's reasonable to do and who should bear what risks?"
How fast can we put dialogue together where folks are feeling that it's safe to share failures and successes, opportunities, and what they're learning about how to ensure public safety and reliability?
Letha Tawney – OPUC
Tawney said that it is the responsibility of the utility to consider how their policies and solutions impact their customers. In Oregon, approximately 20 percent of customers struggle to pay their electric or gas bills—this vulnerable population does not have up-front money to spend on solar panels, battery storage, or generators. Tawney concluded, "As the regulator, those folks are my responsibility too. How do we drive energy and grid innovation to keep those customers front and center both in what's going to show up in their bills and what's going to be available in their homes?"
Utilities can look to other markets for ideas on how to innovate with an eye toward equity. Silverstein notes that Hawaii, New York and California (to a lesser degree), are the leaders in taking different approaches to equitable access to clean energy and grid innovation. These states have taken novel approaches in areas such as community PV. Looking forward, Silverstein suggested, "States might address equity issues by requiring developers receiving government funding for solar systems to build more solar and storage for low-income communities, or requiring development of community centers for heating, cooling and feeding to help rural or poor populations survive extended outages and disasters."
Models and Policies for Energy Innovation
Silverstein and Tawney discussed various models and incentives that regulators and policy-makers might implement to encourage greater energy and grid innovation.
Tax policy depreciation rules: These rules affect decisions like whether utility regulation allows performance-based rate making, to create incentives, balance accounts or to encourage construction work in progress for innovative technologies and investments.
Inverter adoption and interconnection rules: Do interconnection requirements need modern inverters with communications and curtailment capability and the ability to operate under islanded conditions? Is it feasible, cost-effective and appropriate to have the utility completely replace every old PV inverter with a smart inverter to get better grid performance fast? Are distributed generation (DG) interconnection rules out of date?
Performance-based rate making: Silverstein indicated that innovation can be aided by having clear utility performance-based rate rules. Guidelines need to state the goal, the metric (such as the amount of energy efficiency or dispatchable storage achieved) and the reward. Tawney noted that "the actual mechanics of it [performance-based ratemaking] are not as straightforward as the vision of it;" Regulators and stakeholders must consider how to set the baseline and effectively measure performance.
Pilot and smart grid projects: Utilities have traditionally used energy pilot projects to foster innovation. Tawney stated, "At the Oregon PUC, I think we've leaned in on the pilot approach, and we're asking ourselves now, when do pilots scale up and when are they not pilots anymore?"
"States might address equity issues by requiring developers receiving government funding for solar systems to build more solar and storage for low-income communities, or requiring development of community centers for heating, cooling and feeding to help rural or poor populations survive extended outages and disasters."
Alison Silverstein, Alison Silverstein Consulting
OPUC Smart Grid Report
OPUC published a legislative report on the changing electricity sector (SB978) in September, 2018. That report highlighted the PUC's commitment to "enable customer and competitive options to be fully and accurately valued". Tawney said, "This year's Smart Grid Reports, written by each utility, have evolved to provide a holistic overview of the utilities' vision for smart grid with several implementing projects underneath that umbrella. In parallel, the OPUC has launched a distribution system planning investigation (docket UM2005) in recognition that the 'Smart Grid' is becoming a real locus of growth and activity, and is ready for a deeper level of planning attention. A goal of these efforts and others at the PUC is to create a platform that helps developers, companies and providers figure out how their use case might build on what both customers want and the grid needs."
### Linda Barney is the founder and owner of Barney and Associates, a technical/marketing writing, training and web design firm in Beaverton, OR. Lauren Bhaskar is a member of Grid Forward and an engineer on the distribution modernization team at Burns & McDonnell.


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By Jennifer Pelly, 20
I love fashion, so of course I admire Donna Karan. In the '80s, she redefined the way women dressed with "Seven Easy Pieces" for every body type. And today, Donna Karan International is worth millions. But despite being a legend in the material world, Donna's power goes much deeper than clothes. She has big designs for making our lives better — like Spirituality for Kids, a program she created to teach kids compassion for every race, religion, and culture. Here's how you can take the spiritual road to success.
1. RISE TO THE CHALLENGE.
"I was always the worst student. I had to go to summer school for fashion! Then I got fired from my first job. People said I'd never make it as a designer. But what looks like a negative is a blessing: If you look at it as a challenge, it'll take you to the next level."
2. DON'T FOLLOW THE PACK.
"With the amount of people in this world, not everybody is going to find your ideas great. Like, I'll put on these pants and think they're the coolest things, and you might not. But individuality and uniqueness are my driving force. I never wanted to be 'one of everybody.'"
3. DON'T BLAME, ACT!
"In my life, I have all of the material things I could want. But there are problems out there in the world, and I feel it's my responsibility to help fix them. It's all of our responsibilities. Don't just look and say, 'It's their fault.' Because if you point your finger at someone else, you'll realize there are three fingers pointing back at you."
4. BE COMPASSIONATE.
"When I say I created something, I laugh — because the souls of a lot of people went into it. The knitwear people, the yarn people, the dyers, the printers, the sewing people — think of all of the people that worked on the dress you're wearing! Everything comes down to the human touch and kindness."
5. TRUST IN TOMORROW. "Instead of holding on to stuff, let it go. Because nothing is forever — tomorrow happens. There's a snowstorm, and then there's sunshine. We go through pain and suffering, and we go through joy and happiness. Those are the rules of life!"
If you had to describe yourself in one word, what would it be?
What's something you haven't done yet that you would like to do?
Take some time off and travel the world on a boat with a loved one.
What's the best compliment you could ever receive?
That I'm a good mother to my daughter — and to the world.
What is your greatest weakness?
Not being able to say no.
What's your mantra?
Let go.
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COVID-19 surge forces Meadville hospital to use trailer as ER waiting area
Crawford County's second surge of COVID-19 cases has filled Meadville Medical Center with so many patients that the hospital has brought in a construction trailer to use as an auxiliary ER waiting room.
The Meadville hospital is also expanding its emergency department and intensive care unit to accommodate patients, said Kevin Kraeling, D.O., Meadville Medical's chief medical officer. It has also postponed some elective surgeries.
"I have worked in the emergency department since 2006 and I have never seen it like this," Kraeling said.
Nearly every hospital in northwestern Pennsylvania has seen a spike in patients, COVID and non-COVID, during this second surge. But Meadville Medical might be under the most stress.
The main reason is that more Crawford County residents have been hospitalized for COVID-19 over the past 14 days — an average of 44.1 a day — than at any other time during the pandemic, including the initial surge, the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported.
Here is a look at the current and all-time high 14-day moving averages of daily COVID-19 hospitalizations for other counties in northwestern Pennsylvania:
Erie County — 78.9, 122.6 on Dec. 18
Warren County — 7.3, 28.6 on Jan. 13
Venango County — 27.1, 28.1 on Jan. 1
In addition, Chautauqua County, New York, reported 21 COVID-19 hospitalizations the week of Oct. 17-23. Ashtabula County, Ohio, reported six COVID-19 hospitalizations the week of Oct. 22-28.
One reason for Crawford County's increase could be its relatively low COVID-19 vaccination rate, Kraeling said. Only 42.3% of all residents are fully vaccinated, compared to 51.5% of Erie County residents and 60.22% of Pennsylvania residents.
"I also think our community, as a whole, perhaps doesn't mask as well as some others might," Kraeling said. "That might play a factor."
Flu arrival:Erie County reports first flu cases of 2021-22 season as COVID-19 pandemic continues
Meadville Medical is also seeing more non-COVID patients than it did during the pandemic's initial surge.
Patients who were afraid to visit the hospital for minor medical issues or health screenings in the first months of the pandemic are now arriving with more serious problems like strokes and heart attacks, Kraeling said.
To accomodate this influx of patients, Meadville Medical is opening the trailer and making two additional changes:
Transforming five beds in the hospital's post-anesthesia care unit into ER beds.
Expanding the intensive care unit, which is currently at 97% capacity, into the hospital's old telemetry unit.
Boosters available:COVID-19 booster shots available in Erie: What you need to know
The trailer will open as an auxiliary waiting room in the next couple of weeks, Kraeling said. It will accommodate up to 15 patients who have already been triaged in the ER, are medically stable and are awaiting test results.
A health-care provider and nurse will also be stationed in the trailer when it is open.
"It's better to have these all in place and not need them, than to need them and not have them," Kraeling said.


Issue #37 of Enlightened Journey is ready and covers a topic that I've found many overlook yet is SO VITAL in getting more of what you want, whatever that might be.
I actually meant to get this edition of Enlightened Journey out to you MUCH sooner and to wish you a Happy New Year but I wound up taking an extended break away from the computer and electronics and am just getting fully back into the swing of things.
It's good to be back. Actually I had to come off of my break to get some rest.
Before we get into this edition of Enlightened Journey, I do have one really quick and important thing to share with you that you may find beneficial.
If not...no problems just scroll down, click the link about 3/4s of the way down and you'll gain instant access to the newsletter.
First a riddle - sort of.
Do you know what people LOVE to take when they're tired of taking what they've been taking?
It's a vacation. Even better an Exotic Vacation.
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If you're the kind of person that LOVES to travel and saving up to 80% on luxury vacations and retreats at the most exotic, luxurious and desirable destinations in the world including cruises, condos or any other travel related expense, you'll want to pay very close attention and act quickly because the price is subject to increase any day.
Enlightened Journey recently teamed up with Primo Vacations to provide you with yet another "tool" to assist those of you interested in what I believe to be an essential part of creating and experiencing REAL abundance and happiness in your life.
Namely, having fun and making the quality of your years as fulfilling as they can be.
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\section{Introduction}

Our goal is to present an isomorphism between two categories, which arose in simplified form in the course of constructing certain homogeneous (Definition \ref{def:homog}) structures in \cite{Lat}.

The first category has objects consisting of a set equipped with a family of equivalence relations forming a lattice $\Lambda$, or substructures thereof. However, we initially define its objects as structures consisting of
of a set equipped with a family of equivalence relations,
closed under taking meets in the lattice of all equivalence
relations on the set, and labeled by the elements
of a fixed lattice $\Lambda$ in such a way that
the map from $\Lambda$ to the lattice of equivalence relations is a homomorphism.

The objects of the second category are lattice-valued
metric spaces (also known as generalized ultrametric spaces) with metric valued in a certain
complete lattice $\Phi(\Lambda)$ containing $\Lambda$.

 In \cite{Lat}, the structures of interest were the families of equivalence relations, but the metric spaces were technically easier to work with. As $\Lambda$ was assumed to be finite, almost everything trivializes; in particular $\Phi(\Lambda) = \Lambda$. The correspondence is then roughly as follows. Starting with a structure equipped with a suitable family of equivalence relations, one defines $d(x, y)$ to be the finest equivalence relation that holds between $x$ and $y$. From this distance, one can easily recover all the equivalence relation information.

The general correspondence is largely a matter of taking care in
setting up the correct categories and in the choice of the map $\Phi$---we want the lattice of filters on $\Lambda$, rather than the usual Dedekind-MacNeille completion.

Generalized ultrametric spaces were first investigated by Priesse-Crampe and Ribenboim \cite{GUM}, who seem primarily interested in applications to valued fields. In \cite{PCR} and \cite{GUM}, the correspondence with certain structures of equivalence relations is developed to some extent, but not to the point where passing to $\Phi(\Lambda)$ becomes necessary. The correspondence also appears in restricted contexts in \cite[\S 6.2]{Berg} and \cite{PT}, in order to produce embeddings of a given lattice into the lattice of all equivalence relations on a given set.

The paper is divided into three further sections.
First, we present some preliminary material on the filter lattice $\Phi(\Lambda)$, along with an example motivating the passage to it. As this lattice has appeared several times before, these results are likely standard. The next section presents the isomorphism of categories that is our main result. Finally, we close by mentioning the motivating model-theoretic context and some related open questions.

\section{The filter lattice}

\begin{definition}
For $\Lambda$ a lattice, let $\Phi(\Lambda)$
denote the \emph{filter lattice}, defined as follows.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Elements are filters in $\Lambda$
(i.e., nonempty subsets, closed under meet and closed upwards).
\item The partial order on $\Phi(\Lambda)$
is defined as reverse inclusion.
\end{enumerate}

For any $L \subset \Lambda$, we write
$\<L\>$ for the filter generated by $L$,
which is the upward closure of the set of elements
of the form
$\Wedge L_0$
for $L_0 \subset L$ finite.

For $\lambda\in \Lambda$, let $\widehat \lambda$
denote the principal filter $\<\lambda\>=\set{x\in \Lambda\suchthat x\ge \lambda}$.
\end{definition}

The following example shows how the correspondence may fail without the passage to $\Phi(\Lambda)$.

\begin{example}
Let $\Lambda$ be the interval $[0,1]$ in $\mathbb{R}$ with
the usual ordering. Suppose we have a structure equipped with a suitable family of equivalence relations labeled by elements of $\Lambda$. If  $xE_\lambda y$ for $\lambda \in (0,1]$, then there is no finest equivalence relation that holds between $x$ and $y$, so we cannot assign a distance as in the case where $\Lambda$ is finite.

For the given $\Lambda$, $\Phi(\Lambda)$ is isomorphic
to
\[
([0,1]\times \{0,1\})\setminus \{(1,1)\}
\]
with the
lexicographic ordering, with $\widehat\lambda$ corresponding to $(\lambda,0)$
and with $\ \widehat\lambda\setminus \{\lambda\}$ corresponding to $(\lambda,1)$.
As we do not allow empty filters, we leave off $(1,1)$.

For the $x, y$ given in the first paragraph, we can now assign $d(x, y) = (0,1) \in \Phi(\Lambda)$.
\end{example}

\begin{lemma}
Let $\Lambda$ be a bounded lattice. Then the following hold.

\begin{enumerate}
\item $\Phi(\Lambda)$ is a complete lattice with
join given by intersection, and meet by taking the
filter generated by the union of a given set of filters.

\item The map
$\phi \colon \Lambda\to \Phi(\Lambda)$ defined by
\[
\lambda\mapsto \widehat \lambda
\]
is an isomorphic embedding with respect
to the lattice operations.

\item If $\lambda\in\Lambda$, $L\includedin \Lambda$,
and $\widehat \lambda=\Wedge \set{\widehat \ell | \ell \in L}$ in $\Phi(\Lambda)$,
then $\lambda$ is the meet of some finite subset of $L$, in $\Lambda$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
(1) The order is reverse inclusion, so the rules for
join and meet are clear. For completeness, the only point to check is that the intersection of arbitrarily many filters is always non-empty. As $\Lambda$ has a maximum element, this holds.

(2) It suffices to check that the map $\phi$
preserves
meet and join, or in other words
\begin{align*}
\widehat \lambda_1\vee \widehat \lambda_2&=\widehat{\lambda_1\vee \lambda_2}\\
\widehat \lambda_1\wedge \widehat \lambda_2&=\widehat{\lambda_1\wedge \lambda_2}
\end{align*}

More explicitly, this reads as follows.
\begin{align*}
x\ge \lambda_1,\lambda_2&\iff x\ge \lambda_1\vee \lambda_2\\
x\in \< \widehat \lambda_1,\widehat \lambda_2\>&
\iff x\ge \lambda_1\wedge \lambda_2
\end{align*}

Both points are clear.

(3) If $\widehat \lambda=\Wedge \set{\widehat \ell | \ell \in L}$ then $\lambda\in \< L\>$ and therefore $\lambda\in \< L_0\>$ for some finite set $L_0$. The claim follows.
\end{proof}

The third point in the lemma above seems to capture the key abstract property of the construction. However, it is not directly used in what follows, as we prefer to work with the explicit definition of $\Phi(\Lambda)$.

\section{The correspondence}

\begin{definition}
Suppose $\Lambda$ is a bounded lattice with minimal element $\bbzero$ and maximal element $\bbone$.
\begin{enumerate}
\item
Let $\EQ_\Lambda$ denote the
category whose objects are the models in the language
\[
\set{E_\lambda\suchthat \lambda \in \Lambda}
\]
for which the following hold.
\begin{itemize}
\item All $E_\lambda$ are equivalence relations.
\item The map from $\lambda\to E_\lambda$
preserves meets; in particular, the set of relations
$\set{E_\lambda\suchthat \lambda\in \Lambda}$
is closed under intersection.
\item $E_{\bbzero}$ is equality, and $E_{\bbone}$ is the trivial relation.
\end{itemize}
We take embeddings as morphisms.

\item
A {\it $\Lambda$-ultrametric space}
is a structure of the form
$(X,d)$ for which
\begin{itemize}
\item $d \colon X^2\to \Lambda$ is a symmetric function.
\item $d(x,y)=0$ iff $x=y$.
\item
$d(x,y)\le d(x,z)\vee d(y,z)$ for all $x,y,z$
(Triangle Inequality).
\end{itemize}

\item Let $\UM_{\Lambda}$ be the category of
$\Lambda$-ultrametric spaces,
with isometric embeddings as morphisms.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}

In the model-theoretic context, we are primarily concerned with $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations. While these form a lattice in an $\omega$-categorical structure (Definition \ref{def:omcateg}), in general they only need form a lower semi-lattice. It would thus seem natural to define the category $\EQ_\Lambda$
for any lower semi-lattice $\Lambda$
and to define the category $\UM_\Lambda$
for any upper semi-lattice $\Lambda$.
But it is not clear what could replace the correspondence that we aim at below.

\begin{example}
If $\Lambda$ is a chain, then $\Lambda$-ultrametric spaces are ultrametric spaces in the usual sense.
\end{example}

\begin{example}
Let $\Lambda$ be a lattice and
let $A$ be a set with at least two elements.
Define $E_\lambda$ to be equality for $\lambda\in \Lambda\setminus \{\bbone\}$, and let
$E_\bbone$ be trivial. Then $(A,\set{E_\lambda\suchthat \lambda\in \Lambda})$ belongs
to $\EQ_\Lambda$. The map sending
$\lambda$ to $E_\lambda$ is a semi-lattice
homomorphism, but will not be a lattice
homomorphism unless $\bbone$ is
join-irreducible.

This example arises naturally as a substructure
of any structure in $\EQ_\lambda$ having
a pair of elements that are not related by
any of the relations $E_\lambda$ for $\lambda<\bbone$. For example, there is a natural representation of the Boolean algebra with $n$
atoms by equivalence relations on the set $\{0,1\}^n$, in which the co-atoms correspond to the relations
$E_i(x,y)\iff x_i=y_i$. Intersections of co-atoms in the Boolean algebra correspond to intersections of these relations, and so specify agreement in multiple coordinates. We may then consider
the substructure induced on the constant sequences, in which two elements will be related by a relation other than $E_\bbone$ only if they agree in some coordinate and thus must be equal, i.e. $E_\bbzero$-related.
\end{example}

Now the main point is to consider the
relationship between the categories
$\EQ_\Lambda$ and $\UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$.
The former is the category that interests us, while
the latter is easier to work with in the context
of the \fraisse theory of amalgamation classes.

\begin{theorem}\label{Prop:Equivalence}
Let $\Lambda$ be a bounded lattice.
Then the categories
$\EQ_\Lambda$
and
$\UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$
are canonically isomorphic.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Given
$\AA
=(A,\set{E_\lambda\suchthat \lambda\in \Lambda})$ in $\EQ_\Lambda$,
let
$m(\AA)$ be
$(A,d)$, where
\[
d \colon A\times A\to \Phi(\Lambda)
\]
is defined by
\[
d(x,y)=\bigwedge \set{\widehat \lambda
\suchthat \mbox{$\lambda\in \Lambda$ and $E_\lambda(x,y)$ in $\AA$}}
\]

In the reverse direction,
for $\MM=(M,d)$ a $\Phi(\Lambda)$-ultrametric space,
let $e(\MM)=(M,\set{E_\lambda\suchthat \lambda\in \Lambda})$ where $E_\lambda$ is defined by
\[
E_{\lambda}(x,y)\iff \lambda \in d(x,y)
\]

We will show that $m$ and $e$
give a pair of mutually
inverse bijections between the objects, and
that these bijections
give rise to an isomorphism between
the categories.

There are a number of points to be checked. Let
us begin by listing them all.

\begin{enumerate}
\item $m \colon \EQ_\Lambda\to \UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$
\item $e\colon \UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}\to \EQ_\Lambda$
\item At the level of objects, the maps $m,e$
are mutually inverse.
\item If $f\colon A\to B$ is a morphism in one category,
then $f\colon A'\to B'$ is also a morphism between
the corresponding objects in the other category.
\end{enumerate}

\begin{claim}
If $\AA\in \EQ_\Lambda$, then
$m(\AA)\in \UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$.
\end{claim}

\begin{claimproof}
As $\Phi(\Lambda)$ is complete, the definition
of $d(x,y)$ makes sense, and
\[
d\colon A\times A\to \Phi(\Lambda)
\]

We first make the definition of $d$ more explicit.
Note that for $x,y\in A$ the set $\set{\lambda\in \Lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,y)}$ is a filter,
since the map from $\lambda$ to $E_\lambda$
preserves meets.
We have
\[
d(x,y)=
\Wedge \set{\widehat \lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,y)}
=\set{\lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,y)}
\]

Symmetry of $d$ is clear.

For the triangle inequality, take $x,y,z\in A$
and note that
\begin{align*}
d(x,z)\vee d(y,z)&=
d(x,z)\intersect d(y,z)
=\set{\lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,z),
E_\lambda(y,z)}
\\
&\includedin \set{\lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,y)}
=d(x,y)
\end{align*}

Our last point is that $d(x,y)=\bbzero$ iff $x=y$.

For $x\in A$ we have $E_\lambda(x,x)=\Lambda=\widehat \bbzero=\bbzero$.

For the converse,
if $d(x,y)=\bbzero$ in $\Phi(\Lambda)$ this
means
\begin{align*}
\set{\lambda\suchthat E_\lambda(x,y)}&=\Lambda
\end{align*}
and thus $E_{\bbzero}(x,y)$ holds. As we assume $E_{\bbzero}$ is equality, we find $x=y$.
\end{claimproof}

\begin{claim}
If $\MM\in \UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$ then
$e(\MM)\in \EQ_\Lambda$.
\end{claim}

\begin{claimproof}
We check first that the
relations $E_\lambda$ are equivalence relations.

\begin{itemize}
\item Reflexivity: In $\Phi(\Lambda)$,
$\bbzero=\Lambda$.
\item Symmetry: $d$ is symmetric.
\item Transitivity:  The triangle inequality
may be written more explicitly in the following form.
\begin{align*}
d(x,y)&\includes d(x,z)\intersect d(y,z)
\end{align*}
It is then clear that each relation $E_\lambda$
is transitive.
\end{itemize}

The second point to be checked is preservation of meets:
\begin{align*}
E_{\lambda\wedge \lambda'}&=E_\lambda \intersect E_{\lambda'}
\end{align*}

Now
\begin{align*}
E_{\lambda\wedge \lambda'}(x,y)&\iff \lambda\wedge \lambda'\in d(x,y)\\
&\iff \lambda,\lambda'\in d(x,y)
\end{align*}
since $d(x,y)$ is a filter in $\Lambda$.

The last point is that $E_\bbzero$ and $E_\bbone$
are as intended.

It is easy to see that $E_\bbzero(x,y)$ holds
iff $d(x,y)=\bbzero$ (in $\Phi(\Lambda)$), and
this is equivalent to $x=y$.

And $E_\bbone(x,y)$ holds iff $\bbone \in d(x,y)$
which is always the case.
\end{claimproof}

\begin{claim}
For $\AA\in \EQ_\Lambda$ and $\MM\in \UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$, we have
\begin{align*}
e(m(\AA))&=\AA\\
m(e(\MM))&=\MM
\end{align*}
\end{claim}

\begin{claimproof}
We know
\begin{align*}
\lambda \in d(x,y)&\iff E_\lambda(x,y) \mbox{ when $\MM=m(\AA)$ and $x,y\in A$}\\
E_\lambda(x,y)&\iff \lambda\in d(x,y) \mbox{ when $\AA=e(\MM)$ and $x,y,\in M$}
\end{align*}

Two applications of these rules will clearly bring us back where we started.

\begin{claim}
If $\MM_i=e(\AA_i)$ for $i=1,2$, then
a map $f\colon A_1\to A_2$ will be an embedding
if and only if it is a $\Phi(\Lambda)$-isometry.
\end{claim}

Let us compare the two properties.

\begin{align*}
E_\lambda(x,y)&\iff E_\lambda(f(x),f(y))
\mbox{ for $x,y\in A_1$ and $\lambda\in \Lambda$}\\
d(x,y)&=d(f(x),f(y))
\end{align*}

Recalling that $\lambda\in d(x,y)$ iff
$E_\lambda(x,y)$ holds, and the same for
$f(x),f(y)$, the claim follows.
\end{claimproof}
\end{proof}

\section{Model-theoretic context}
In this section, we outline the model-theoretic context, namely homogeneous structures in the sense of \fraisse theory, in which this correspondence arose, and mention some related open problems.

\begin{definition} \label{def:homog}
A countable structure $M$ is \emph{homogeneous} if every partial isomorphism between finitely-generated substructures extends to an automorphism of $M$.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition} \label{def:omcateg}
A countable structure $M$ is $\omega$-\emph{categorical} if it is the unique countable model of its first-order theory, or equivalently if Aut$(M)$ has only finitely many orbits in its diagonal action on $M^n$ for each $n \in \mathbb{N}$.
\end{definition}

Under the assumption of a finite relational language, homogeneity implies $\omega$-categoricity. Lying at the intersection of fields such as model theory, permutation groups, and combinatorics, these properties interact with a wide range of subjects. For example, in constraint satisfaction problems, they are crucial in allowing the universal algebraic approach from finite domains to be generalized to infinite domains \cite{Bod}.

The correspondence was used in the course of constructing homogeneous structures from $\EQ_\Lambda$, which would serve as the lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations for the homogeneous structures of interest. This proceeds via combinatorial analysis of the finite substructures, and as the passage to substructures is simpler in $\UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$, it was preferable to work in that category.

The next corollaries could be proven directly, but are immediate with the correspondence in hand.

\begin{corollary}
The categories $\EQ_\Lambda$ and
$\UM_{\Lambda}$ are closed under passage
to substructures.
\end{corollary}
\begin{proof}
This is clear in the case of $\UM_\Lambda$,
and if we apply it to $\UM_{\Phi(\Lambda)}$
and use Claim 4 of Theorem \ref{Prop:Equivalence},
in the case of inclusion maps, the claim follows.
\end{proof}

\begin{corollary}
Let $\AA\in \EQ_\Lambda$ and $\MM=m(\AA)$.
Then $\AA$ is a homogeneous structure iff
$\MM$ is a homogeneous $\Phi(\Lambda)$-ultrametric
space.
\end{corollary}
\begin{proof}
Substructure and isomorphism
correspond between these classes by Theorem \ref{Prop:Equivalence}.

Suppose $\AA$ is homogeneous. Let $X, Y \subset \MM$ be finite such that $X \cong Y$. Then $e(X), e(Y) \subset \AA$ are finite and isomorphic, and as $\AA$ is homogeneous, there is an automorphism $\sigma$ of $\AA$ sending $e(X)$ to $e(Y)$. Then $m \circ \sigma \circ e$ is an automorphism of $\MM$ sending $X$ to $Y$.

The proof of the other direction is essentially the same, swapping the roles of $e$ and $m$.
\end{proof}

We now turn to open questions, prompted by the following result of \cite{Lat}.

\begin{proposition}
Let $\Lambda$ be a finite distributive lattice. Then there is a homogeneous $\Lambda$-ultrametric space with lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations isomorphic to $\Lambda$.
\end{proposition}

\begin{question}
What finite lattices are realizable as the lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations of some homogeneous (resp. $\omega$-categorical) structure?
\end{question}

\iffalse
\begin{question}
For which finite $\Lambda$ is there a homogeneous $\Lambda$-ultrametric space? (Such a structure will have lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations isomorphic to $\Lambda$.)
\end{question}
\fi

\begin{question}
Classify the homogeneous $\Lambda$-ultrametric spaces, for finite $\Lambda$.
\end{question}

In \cite{Lat}, it was also shown that distributivity is necessary under additional hypotheses.

\begin{definition}
Let $\Lambda$ be the lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations on $M$. Then $\Lambda$ has the \emph{infinite index property} if whenever $E < F$, each $F$-class splits into infinitely many $E$-classes.
\end{definition}

\begin{proposition}
Let $M$ be a homogeneous structure with finite lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations $\Lambda$. Suppose $\Lambda$ has the infinite index property and the reduct of $M$ to the language of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations is homogeneous. Then $\Lambda$ is distributive.
\end{proposition}

However, \cite[\S 5.2]{thesis} contains an example without the infinite index property whose lattice of $\emptyset$-definable equivalence relations is the non-distributive lattice $M_3$. This example may be viewed as taking the equivalence relations to be parallel classes of lines in the affine plane over $\mathbb{F}_2$.

\subsection*{Acknowledgment}

I thank Gregory Cherlin for helpful discussions. The final publication is available at springerlink.com. \\ \url{link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00012-019-0606-4}

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