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Douglas Rain, 90. A Canadian actor who played some of Shakespeare’s most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the rogue computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Nov. 11.

November Wellness Walk: A Season of Thanks; 11/16; noon-1 p.m. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we are dedicating this walk to all those who are less fortunate. Please bring any of the non-perishable food items listed below:

Houston — US prices for cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized sheet prices continued to drop Monday amid more year-end buying and wide offer ranges.

The Quakers will fly from Newark, New Jersey, to Beijing on March 2 before traveling to Shanghai on March 7 and returning to the United States on March 10. While in China, the Quakers will hold multiple spring practices, hold clinics for youths and young adults and sightsee before the Penn-China Global Ambassadors Bowl.

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The event consists of food station samplings set up throughout the ballroom with creations from each school’s culinary team, as well as raffles. The winner will be determined by a people’s choice vote. The event also includes an Iron Chef competition featuring Richard Semonian, executive chef/owner Novel Restaurant; Darian Bryan, executive chef, The Plating Society; and Stephen Forman, executive chef at KeyBank Center. Three students will serve as their sous chefs.

The global Aluminizing Galvanized Steel research report presents data collected from various regulatory organizations to assess the growth of every segment. In addition, the study also assesses the global Aluminizing Galvanized Steel market on the basis of the geography. It analyzes the macro- and microeconomic factors influencing the market growth in each region. The global Aluminizing Galvanized Steel market is further bifurcated on the basis of the regions Latin America, Asia Pacific, North America, Europe, and Middle East & Africa too.

Pennar Engineering Services, a division of Pennar Engineered Building Systems (PEBS Pennar), sees big opportunities in engineering design outsourcing services. Pennar’s engineering services outsourcing has already made inroads in the US market and has undertaken significant work for multiple clients. Started in FY 2015, the engineering services division has already registered a revenue of INR 60 crore. PEBS Pennar expects this division to grow at a CAGR of 30% over the next 5 years.Structural steel detailing is an important and mandatory process in all types of manufacturing and construction activities, such as erection of residential and commercial buildings, factories and institutes, as well as shipbuilding. The process of steel detailing is a vital ‘communications link’ that connects key professionals such as engineers, architects, contractors, fabricators and others – all of whom are individually and collectively responsible for the highest levels of accuracy at each stage. Structural steel detailing is a critical process of structural engineering and demands near-100% accuracy. Even a tiny error can lead to a loss of valuable time and money. India is rapidly capturing large market share in engineering design outsourcing and set to increase its market share from 20% in 2009 to 25-30% by 2020. (SOURCE: India brand equity foundation/Engineering design and development)Over the past 3 years, PEBS Pennar’s engineering design division has catered to multiple US based clients, for Designing & Detailing industrial, residential, commercial, retail and institutional structures effectively. It has a long standing technical collaboration with NCI Inc., USA; Total S.A, France and Tech Universal Ltd, UK.Mr. K M Sunil, Vice President – Corporate Strategy, PEBS Pennar said, "Pre-engineered building (PEB) is a major segment where engineering design plays a critical role. Being one of the market leaders in PEB segment, our structural design team is capable of analysing complex design issues and arriving at solutions that have a significant positive impact on projects. Their knowledge, expertise and experience across diverse domains such as architecture, civil engineering, structural engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical/plumbing design, and in various construction materials such as steel and concrete, provide us the necessary competitive edge.""Given the high volumes of engineering service business, we have planned to expand our team size and increase the export revenues. Currently we have 300 design engineering working in this division and by FY21, we intend to increase the number of designers to 500 plus. Also, keeping in view of the huge export potential, we have planned to set-up IT & Engineering office in other parts of country. Going forward, this business is expected to contribute significantly to our operating profits." Added Mr. Sunil.

I think Socrates would have appreciated Harold Orr and his Conservation house. And speaking of Socrates, you really need to change your handle, it doesn’t suit you at all.

The only difference is that, as self-organizing biological systems go, the human brain is inordinately complex: It soaks in information from billions of sense receptors, and it needs to organize that information efficiently into an accurate model of the world. “It’s literally a fantastic organ in the sense that it generates hypotheses or fantasies that are appropriate for trying to explain these myriad patterns, this flux of sensory information that it is in receipt of,” Friston says. In seeking to predict what the next wave of sensations is going to tell it—and the next, and the next—the brain is constantly making inferences and updating its beliefs based on what the senses relay back, and trying to minimize prediction-error signals.