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David and Sherry Douglas will be handing South Brockwells Farm to their daughters, Sarah and Chrissy, photo by www.sussexruralimages.co.uk
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Now in his 80th year, a farm shopkeeper is retiring but will keep the business in the family.
David Douglas moved into South Brockwells Farm during the very hot summer of 1976 with his wife, Sherry, and their young daughters, Sarah and Chrissy.
Sarah and Chrissy will take over the running of the shop in a new partnership.
"We have exciting plans for the future, with the return of our popular Lambing Live days and a new Bluebell Walk planned for the spring," Chrissy said.
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Located just south of Uckfield on the A26, the rural farm is near a bus route and often hosts a variety of charity and farm events, such as its annual charity horse show and game tasting for farm shop customers.
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Q: Dictionary of custom objects, how best to sort and display in a SwiftUI view using List and ForEach? I have a customObject which I store in Firebase's realtime database:
struct CustomObject: Codable {
    var id: UUID?
    var name: String?
    var status: String?
}

The customObjects are stored in a Dictionary with UUID being the key:

I am able to load the data into a [String: CustomObject] Dictionary in my iOS application, but I am unsure if my approach to sort and display the customObjects using  a List() ForEach(...) {  is a best practice.
my current solution is to build an Array when the Dictionary is loaded
I use didSet everytime the database updates to recreate an Array which I can use on the list():
class AppManager: ObservableObject {

   @Published var customObjectArray: [CustomObject] = []

   @Published var customObjectDictionary: [String:CustomObject]? {
      didSet {
         if customObjectDictionary != nil {
            customObjectArray = []

            for (key, value) in customObjectDictionary! {
               var tempObject: CustomObject = value
               tempObject.id = UUID(uuidString: key)
               customObjectArray.append(tempObject)
            }

            customObjectArraySort()
         }
      }
   }
}

This is my View:
struct MainView: View {
    @EnvironmentObject var app: AppManager

    var body: some View {
        List {
            ForEach(app.customObjectArray.indices, id: \.self) { index in
                HStack{
                    Text(app.customObjectArray[index].name ?? "")
                    Spacer()
                    Text(app.customObjectArray[index].status ?? "")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

I am aware that a Dictionary is a unordered collection and that attempting to sort based on customObject.name in a list with a Dictionary is unsuitable.
According to Apple's documentation

A dictionary stores associations between keys of the same type and
values of the same type in a collection with no defined ordering. Each
value is associated with a unique key, which acts as an identifier for
that value within the dictionary. Unlike items in an array, items in a
dictionary do not have a specified order. You use a dictionary when
you need to look up values based on their identifier, in much the same
way that a real-world dictionary is used to look up the definition for
a particular word.

Is using didSet and making an Array from the Dictionary of customObjects considered a best practice?
Is there a better approach for sorting and listing customObjects from a Dictionary?

A: Turning a Dictionary into a RandomAccessCollection, to which an Array conforms,  is necessary if your want to run it through a ForEach, so this is fine.
Regardless of whether you have a Dictionary that you convert to an Array as your data source, you shouldn't use .indices in this way, especially for something that is easily made Identifiable.
struct MainView: View {
    @EnvironmentObject var app: AppManager

    var body: some View {
        List {
            ForEach(app.customObjectArray) { object in
                HStack{
                    Text(object.name ?? "")
                    Spacer()
                    Text(object.status ?? "")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

struct CustomObject: Codable, Identifiable {
    var id: UUID // Make this non-optional
    var name: String?
    var status: String?
}

The way you set it up, if any element is added to, or removed from, the array, you can cause a crash. This means you can't use .onDelete, etc. Also, .onMove won't work properly either.

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Асен Іґнатов (; 9 квітня 1935, Шумен — 12 серпня 2003, Хюрт, Німеччина) — один з видатних болгарських академічних філософів, антикомуністичний та політичний емігрант.

Біографія

Народився 9 квітня 1935 року в місті Шумен. Вивчав філософію у Софійському державному університеті. З середини 60-х років працював асистентом в Софійському університеті Святого Климента Охридського. Філософська антропологія є об'єктом його особистих інтересів та діяльності.

У 1968 році опублікував книжку з популярними нарисами «Тъга и порив по епохата», яка спровокувала політичний скандал. Невдовзі його звинуватили у «ревізіонізмі».

Деякий час працював науковим співробітником у Католицькому університеті міста Левен. Потім оселився в Німеччині. У 1979 року захистив докторську дисертацію на тему «Хайдегер та філософська антропологія». З 1980 по 1988 роках проживав у місті Кельн, де деякий час пропрацював редактором в болгарському відділенні радіо «Deutsche Welle».

З 1988 року — науковий співробітник Федерального інституту східноєвропейських досліджень в Кельні, читав лекції як доцент католицького університету «Академія Густава Зібера» в Баден-Вюртемберзі.

Автор понад 150 публікацій та 9 книг, більшість з яких видана німецькою мовою.

Помер 12 серпня 2003 року.

Нагороди
 Орден «Стара Планина»

Бібліографія

Книги
 Тъга и порив на епохата, София: Български писател, 1968.
 Heidegger und die philosophische Anthropologie. Eine Untersuchung über die anthropologische Dimension des Heideggerschen Denkens (Хайдегер и философската антропология. Изследване на антропологическото измерение на Хайдегеровото мислене). (Monographien zur philosophischen Forschung, Band 174). Forum Academicum/Anton Hain, 1979, 325 S.
 Aporien der marxistischen Ideologielehre. Zur Kritik der Auffassung der Kultur als «Ideologie in letzter Instanz» (Апории на марксическото учение за идеологията). 1984, 176 S.
 Psychologie des Kommunismus: Studien zur Mentalität der herrschenden Schicht im kommunistischen Machtbereich. Johanes Bergmans Verlag, Muenchen, 1985, 181 S.
 Психология на комунизма: Студии за манталитета на господстващия слой в комунистическия свят. Преводач Елена Никлева. София: Аргес, 1991, 183 с.
 Психология на комунизма. София: Нов български университет, 2012. ISBN 978-954-535-724-4
 Anthropologische Geschichtsphilosophie: Für eine Philosophie der Geschichte in der Zeit der Postmoderne. Academia Richarz, 1993, 221 S.
 Антропологическа философия на историята. София: Факел, 1998, 283 с. ISBN 954-411-047-X
 Selbstauflösung des Humanismus: die philosophisch-anthropologischen Voraussetzungen für den Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus (Самоотмяната на хуманизма). Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996, 156 S.

Примітки

Джерела
 Биографична бележка за Асен Игнатов в Литернет
 Биографична бележка за Асен Игнатов на сайта Omda.bg
 Интервю за радио Свободна Европа, 2002
 «Психологията на комунизма или българския принос за опознаването на комунистическия манталитет» (Христо Христов представя книгата «Психология на комунизма» на Асен Игнатов, изд. Нов български университет, 2013 г.)
 «Абсолютното безсилие пред всемогъщия режим» (откъс от книгата «Психология на комунизма») , «Епохални времена», 19.07.2009.
 За книгата на Асен Игнатов «Психология на комунизма»  на сайта Портал за култура, изкуство и общество, 13 март 2013 г.
 Михаил Неделчев, «Асен Игнатов», сп. «Демократически преглед», 2001, кн. 2.
 Жерминал Чивиков, «Епитафия за Асен Игнатов (1935—2003)», в. «Култура», бр. 33, 12 септември 2003 г.
 Димитър Бочев, «Памет за Асен Игнатов», в. «Дневник», 21 август 2003 г.
 Димитър Бочев, «Намек за щастие. Асен Игнатов шокираше закоравелите догматици на сталинската гвардия», в. «Стандарт», 17 април 2006 г.
 Димитър Бочев, «Асен Игнатов реабилитира философията като наука» , в. «24 часа», 14 август 2013 г.

Болгарські філософи
Філософи XX століття
Науковці Софійського університету
Кавалери ордена «Стара Планина»
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package carbon.recycler;

import android.util.SparseArray;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import carbon.component.Component;
import carbon.component.ItemTransformer;
import carbon.view.SelectionMode;

public class RowListAdapter<Type> extends ListAdapter<RowViewHolder<Type>, Type> {
    private SparseArray<RowDescriptor<? extends Type, ? extends Type>> factories = new SparseArray<>();
    private Map<Class<? extends Type>, Integer> types = new HashMap<>();

    public RowListAdapter() {
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type> RowListAdapter(@NonNull Class<ItemType> type, @NonNull RowFactory<ItemType> factory) {
        putFactory(type, factory);
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type> RowListAdapter(@NonNull List<ItemType> items, @NonNull RowFactory<ItemType> factory) {
        super(new ArrayList<>(items));
        putFactory((Class<ItemType>) items.get(0).getClass(), factory);
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type, FactoryType extends Type> RowListAdapter(@NonNull Class<ItemType> type, @NonNull ItemTransformer<ItemType, FactoryType> transformer, @NonNull RowFactory<FactoryType> factory) {
        putFactory(type, transformer, factory);
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type, FactoryType extends Type> RowListAdapter(@NonNull List<ItemType> items, @NonNull ItemTransformer<ItemType, FactoryType> transformer, @NonNull RowFactory<FactoryType> factory) {
        super(new ArrayList<>(items));
        putFactory((Class<ItemType>) items.get(0).getClass(), transformer, factory);
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type> void putFactory(@NonNull Class<ItemType> type, @NonNull RowFactory<ItemType> factory) {
        putFactory(type, ItemTransformer.EMPTY, factory);
    }

    public <ItemType extends Type, FactoryType extends Type> void putFactory(@NonNull Class<ItemType> type, @NonNull ItemTransformer<ItemType, FactoryType> transformer, @NonNull RowFactory<FactoryType> factory) {
        int viewType = types.containsKey(type) ? types.get(type) : types.size();
        factories.put(viewType, new RowDescriptor<>(transformer, factory));
        types.put(type, viewType);
    }

    @Override
    public RowViewHolder<Type> onCreateViewHolder(@NotNull ViewGroup viewGroup, int viewType) {
        Component<Type> component = (Component<Type>) factories.get(viewType).factory.create(viewGroup);
        return new RowViewHolder<>(component);
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NotNull final RowViewHolder<Type> holder, final int position) {
        super.onBindViewHolder(holder, position);
        Type data = getItem(position);
        Component<Type> component = holder.getComponent();
        ItemTransformer transformer = factories.get(getItemViewType(position)).transformer;
        component.setData((Type) transformer.transform(data));
        if (getSelectionMode() != SelectionMode.NONE)
            component.getView().setSelected(getSelectedIndices().contains(position));
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull RowViewHolder<Type> holder, int position, @NonNull List<Object> payloads) {
        super.onBindViewHolder(holder, position);
        Type data = getItem(position);
        Component<Type> component = holder.getComponent();
        ItemTransformer transformer = factories.get(getItemViewType(position)).transformer;
        component.setData((Type) transformer.transform(data));
        if (getSelectionMode() != SelectionMode.NONE)
            component.getView().setSelected(getSelectedIndices().contains(position));
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemViewType(int position) {
        return types.get(getItem(position).getClass());
    }
}

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package edu.ur.ir.researcher;

import edu.ur.ir.FileSystem;
import edu.ur.ir.FileSystemType;
import edu.ur.ir.file.IrFile;
import edu.ur.persistent.BasePersistent;

/**
 * Links a researcher folder, ir file and the owning researcher together
 * If the researcher folder is null this indicates the file is at the root
 * or held by the researcher
 *
 * @author Sharmila Ranganathan
 *
 */
public class ResearcherFile extends BasePersistent implements FileSystem{

	/** Eclipse generated id. */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -3975113539620871421L;

	/** Ir file to link to. */
	private IrFile irFile;

	/**  Parent Researcher folder for this file information */
	private ResearcherFolder parentFolder;

	/** The file system type  */
	private FileSystemType fileSystemType = FileSystemType.RESEARCHER_FILE;

	/** Researcher the file belongs to. */
	private Researcher researcher;

	/** Version number of IrFile */
	private int versionNumber;

	/**
	 * Default constructor
	 */
	ResearcherFile(){}

	/**
	 * Create a researcher file.
	 *
	 * @param researcher - researcher uploading the file.
	 * @param irFile - ir file.
	 */
	ResearcherFile(Researcher researcher, IrFile irFile)
	{
		setResearcher(researcher);
		setIrFile(irFile);
	}

	/**
	 * Create a researcher file with the specified ir file and folder.
	 *
	 * @param researcher - researcher uploading the file
	 * @param irFile - ir file
	 * @param parentFolder - researcher folder that owns the researcher file
	 */
	ResearcherFile(Researcher researcher, IrFile irFile, ResearcherFolder parentFolder)
	{
		setResearcher(researcher);
		setIrFile(irFile);
		setParentFolder(parentFolder);
	}

	/**
	 * Hashcode method.
	 *
	 * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
	 */
	public int hashCode()
	{
		int hashCode = 0;
		hashCode += getNameWithExtension() == null ? 0 : getNameWithExtension().hashCode();
		hashCode += researcher == null ? 0 : researcher.hashCode();
		hashCode += parentFolder == null ? 0 : parentFolder.hashCode();
		return hashCode;
	}

	/**
	 * Equals object.
	 *
	 * @see java.lang.Object#equals(java.lang.Object)
	 */
	public boolean equals(Object o)
	{
		if( this == o ) return true;

		if( !(o instanceof ResearcherFile ) ) return false;
		final ResearcherFile other = (ResearcherFile)o;

		if( (other.getNameWithExtension() != null && !other.getNameWithExtension().equals(getNameWithExtension())) ||
			(other.getNameWithExtension() == null && getNameWithExtension() != null )	) return false;

		if( (other.getParentFolder() != null && !other.getParentFolder().equals(getParentFolder())) ||
			(other.getParentFolder() == null && getParentFolder() != null )	) return false;

		if( (other.getResearcher() != null && !other.getResearcher().equals(getResearcher())) ||
			(other.getResearcher() == null && getResearcher() != null )	) return false;

		return true;

	}

	/**
	 * To string method for researcher file.
	 *
	 * @see java.lang.Object#toString()
	 */
	public String toString()
	{
		StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("[ id = ");
		sb.append(id);
		sb.append(" version = ");
		sb.append(version);
		sb.append("Ir file = " + irFile);
		sb.append(" researcher folder = " + parentFolder);
		sb.append(" path = ");
		sb.append(getPath());
		sb.append("]");
		return sb.toString();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the path for this researcher file this does
	 * not include the path name.
	 *
	 * @see edu.ur.ir.FileSystem#getPath()
	 */
	public String getPath() {
		String path = null;
		if(parentFolder == null)
		{
			path = PATH_SEPERATOR;
		}
		else
		{
			path = parentFolder.getFullPath();
		}

		return path;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the full path for the irFile.
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getFullPath()
	{
		if( irFile == null )
		{
			throw new IllegalStateException(toString());
		}
		return getPath() + getNameWithExtension();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the file system type for this object.
	 *
	 * @see edu.ur.ir.FileSystem#getFileSystemType()
	 */
	public FileSystemType getFileSystemType() {
		return fileSystemType;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the description for this researcher file.
	 *
	 * @see edu.ur.simple.type.DescriptionAware#getDescription()
	 */
	public String getDescription() {
		return irFile.getDescription();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the name for this researcher file.
	 *
	 * @see edu.ur.simple.type.NameAware#getName()
	 */
	public String getName() {
		return irFile.getName();
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the name with the extension.  If there
	 * is no extension only the name is returned.
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getNameWithExtension()
	{
		String nameWithExtension = irFile.getName();
		String extension = irFile.getFileInfo().getExtension();

		if( extension != null &&
				!extension.trim().equals(""))
		{
			nameWithExtension = irFile.getName() + "." + extension;
		}

		return nameWithExtension;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the file
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public IrFile getIrFile() {
		return irFile;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the file
	 *
	 * @param irFile
	 */
	public void setIrFile(IrFile irFile) {
		this.irFile = irFile;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the parent researcher folder for this file.
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public ResearcherFolder getParentFolder() {
		return parentFolder;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the parent researcher folder.
	 *
	 * @param parentFolder
	 */
	void setParentFolder(ResearcherFolder parentFolder) {
		this.parentFolder = parentFolder;
	}

	/**
	 * Get researcher the file belongs to
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	public Researcher getResearcher() {
		return researcher;
	}

	/**
	 * Set researcher the file belongs to
	 *
	 * @param researcher
	 */
	void setResearcher(Researcher researcher) {
		this.researcher = researcher;
	}

	public int getVersionNumber() {
		return versionNumber;
	}

	public void setVersionNumber(int versionNumber) {
		this.versionNumber = versionNumber;
	}

}


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Acrobasopsis is een geslacht van vlinders van de familie snuitmotten (Pyralidae), uit de onderfamilie Phycitinae.

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AASLD President T. Jake Liang, MD, will host a press conference on the first full day of presentations at The Liver Meeting®, the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Dr. Liang will highlight individual studies and themes from the 2300 abstracts to be presented at this year's meeting from the leading researchers in the field. He has selected to review 10 abstracts in advance of their actual presentation in scientific sessions for the benefit of the media:
The Growing Burden of Mortality Associated with Viral Hepatitis in the United States, 1999-2007
Scott Holmberg, et al. Tuesday, Nov. 08 – 10:45 AM Room: 2011
The Cost-Effectiveness of a Telaprevir-Inclusive Regimen as Initial Therapy for Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Infection in Individuals with the CC IL-28B Polymorphism
Ziad Gellad, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Oral Silymarin (Milk Thistle) for Chronic Hepatitis C: Final Results of the SYNCH Multicenter Study
Michael Fried, et al. Tuesday, Nov. 08 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
Diagnosis and Clinical Consequences of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Orthotopic Heart Transplant Recipients
Robert de Man, et al. Sunday, Nov. 06 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
Reactivation of Hepatitis B Infection Among Patients with Cancer
Jessica Hwang, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 3:00 PM Room 2002-2004
The Mediterranean Diet: Improvement in Hepatic Steatosis and Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals with NAFLD
Marno Ryan, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 4:45 PM Room 2005-2007-2009
The First Monotherapy Therapeutic PBC Study in a Decade? An International Study Evaluating the Farnesoid X Receptor Agonist Obeticholic Acid in PBC
Kris Kowdley, et al. Tuesday, Nov. 07 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
Towards Cell Biased Therapy for Alpha 1-antitrypsin Through Targeted Bi-Allelic Gene Correction in Human iPS Cells
S. Tamir Rashid, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 11:00 AM Room 3000-3012
Enoxaparin Prevents Portal Vein Thrombosis (PVT) and Decompensation in Advanced Cirrhotic Patients: Final Report of a Prospective Randomized Controlled Study
Eric Villa, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
A Randomized Controlled Study of Radiofrequency Ablation and Surgical Resection for Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinomas Less Than 4 cm in Diameter
Ma Kuansheng, et al. Monday, Nov. 07 – 8:00 AM Room 3000-3012
About Dr. Liang
Dr. Liang is a tenured senior investigator and the Chief of Liver Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1980 and received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1984. He completed his internal medicine residency training in New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, and fellowship training in gastroenterology and hepatology in Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a faculty member and assistant professor of medicine in Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 1996, he moved to the intramural program of NIDDK as the Chief of Liver Diseases Section and later was promoted to the Chief of Liver Diseases Branch.
Dr. Liang conducted pioneering research in the field of viral hepatitis that includes identifying and characterizing various HBV variants, defining a novel genetic element of hepatitis B virus, elucidating the biological functions of HBV X gene, developing in vitro systems to generate HCV-like particles for vaccine development, establishing culture systems for production of infectious HCV virus, creating transgenic mouse models to study hepatitis C, identifying important genetic markers in the outcome of HCV infection and treatment response, and discerning key steps in the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. He has published over 200 scientific papers and edited numerous books.
Dr. Liang has been an Associate Editor for the two leading journals in the GI specialty, Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and to the Association of American Physicians, which are the honorific organizations of America's academic medicine. He was the recipient of the British Liver Scholar Award, the Leon Schiff Lectureship, the Edward W. Morrow Lectureship, the Bruce Witte Distinguished Lecture Award, the NIDDK Nancy Nossal Scientific Mentorship Award, and NIDDK Director's Award.
AASLD is the leading medical organization for advancing the science and practice of hepatology. Founded by physicians in 1950, AASLD's vision is to prevent and cure liver diseases. This year's Liver Meeting®, held in San Francisco, California, November 4 – 8, will bring together more than 8,000 researchers from 55 countries.
A pressroom will be available from November 5 at the Annual Meeting. For copies of abstracts and press releases, or to arrange researcher interviews, contact Gregory Bologna at 703-299-9766.
Press releases and all abstracts are available online at www.aasld.org.
SOURCE American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
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Lektor (von lateinisch lector "Leser, Vorleser") oder weiblich Lektorin steht für:

 Lektor, kurz für Verlagslektor
 Lektor (Universität), Dozent an Hochschulen
 Lektor (evangelisch), Vorleser im Gottesdienst
 Lektor (römischer Ritus), Vorleser im Gottesdienst
 Lektor oder lector, Lehrer in Klöstern, siehe Lesemeister

Siehe auch:
 Lektorat (Berufsbild)


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Film director Pedro Almodovar said about it on Dua Lipa's podcast than its average length A strange way of life (strange way of life) The Western, shot in Almería and starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival. As Variety notes.
The director called the half-hour film "Western". strangeBecause it is about "two men who love each other". He also revealed that Pascal and Hawke's characters see the situation "oppositely". Almodovar added that the film deals with "masculinity in a very deep sense" because the Western is a masculine genre.
He also said that while it has traditional elements of Western movies, such as guns, a ranch or a sheriff, his film has dialogue between two men that Westerns don't usually show. "And I think I've already told you too much," the singing Man from La Mancha finished.
The medium-length film is shot in English and, as previously announced, stars Jason Fernandez, Manu Rios, Pedro Casablanca and Sara Salamo.
"A man walks into the wilderness that separates him from Bitter Creek. He comes to Sheriff Jake. Twenty-five years earlier, both the sheriff and Silva, the rancher who goes to meet him, worked together as hired guns. Silva comes under the pretext of joining his childhood friend and they do celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Sheriff Jake tells him that the reason for his trip is not to remember their old friendship," reads the first synopsis. Short film offered by his production company El Deseo.
Poetic title A strange way of life Alludes to the famous fado of Amalia Rodríguez, "whose lyrics suggest that there is no existence more strange than that of the one who lives with his back to his own desires."
Costume design for Saint Laurent will be handled by Anthony Vaccarello, who will not only be responsible for this aspect, but will also be an associate producer on the project.
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Project acronym Cat-In-hAT
Project Catastrophic Interactions of Binary Stars and the Associated Transients
Researcher (PI) Ondrej PEJCHA
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERZITA KARLOVA
Summary "One of the crucial formation channels of compact object binaries, including sources of gravitational waves, critically depends on catastrophic binary interactions accompanied by the loss of mass, angular momentum, and energy (""common envelope"" evolution - CEE). Despite its importance, CEE is perhaps the least understood major phase of binary star evolution and progress in this area is urgently needed to interpret observations from the new facilities (gravitational wave detectors, time-domain surveys). Recently, the dynamical phase of the CEE has been associated with a class of transient brightenings exhibiting slow expansion velocities and copious formation of dust and molecules (red transients - RT). A number of RT features, especially the long timescale of mass loss, challenge the existing CEE paradigm. Motivated by RT, I will use a new variant of magnetohydrodynamics to comprehensively examine the 3D evolution of CEE from the moment when the mass loss commences to the remnant phase. I expect to resolve the long timescales observed in RT, characterize binary stability in 3D with detailed microphysics, illuminate the fundamental problem of how is orbital energy used to unbind the common envelope in a regime that was inaccessible before, and break new ground on the amplification of magnetic fields during CEE. I will establish RT as an entirely new probe of the CEE physics by comparing my detailed theoretical predictions of light curves from different viewing angles, spectra, line profiles, and polarimetric signatures with observations of RT. I will accomplish this by coupling multi-dimensional moving mesh hydrodynamics with radiation, dust formation, and chemical reactions. Finally, I will examine the physical processes in RT remnants on timescales of years to centuries after the outburst to connect RT with the proposed merger products and to identify them in time-domain surveys. "
"One of the crucial formation channels of compact object binaries, including sources of gravitational waves, critically depends on catastrophic binary interactions accompanied by the loss of mass, angular momentum, and energy (""common envelope"" evolution - CEE). Despite its importance, CEE is perhaps the least understood major phase of binary star evolution and progress in this area is urgently needed to interpret observations from the new facilities (gravitational wave detectors, time-domain surveys). Recently, the dynamical phase of the CEE has been associated with a class of transient brightenings exhibiting slow expansion velocities and copious formation of dust and molecules (red transients - RT). A number of RT features, especially the long timescale of mass loss, challenge the existing CEE paradigm. Motivated by RT, I will use a new variant of magnetohydrodynamics to comprehensively examine the 3D evolution of CEE from the moment when the mass loss commences to the remnant phase. I expect to resolve the long timescales observed in RT, characterize binary stability in 3D with detailed microphysics, illuminate the fundamental problem of how is orbital energy used to unbind the common envelope in a regime that was inaccessible before, and break new ground on the amplification of magnetic fields during CEE. I will establish RT as an entirely new probe of the CEE physics by comparing my detailed theoretical predictions of light curves from different viewing angles, spectra, line profiles, and polarimetric signatures with observations of RT. I will accomplish this by coupling multi-dimensional moving mesh hydrodynamics with radiation, dust formation, and chemical reactions. Finally, I will examine the physical processes in RT remnants on timescales of years to centuries after the outburst to connect RT with the proposed merger products and to identify them in time-domain surveys. "
Project acronym SUNMAG
Project SUNMAG: Understanding magnetic-field-regulated heating and explosive events in the solar chromosphere
Researcher (PI) Jaime DE LA CRUZ RODRIGUEZ
Summary This project represents a new powerful approach to a fundamental problem in solar physics: the heating of the solar chromosphere. The aim of SUNMAG is to identify the mechanisms that heat the chromosphere and characterize the energy flux that is being released into the outer layers of the Sun in active regions and flares. By investigating how the chromosphere regulates the energy and mass transport we can also contribute to an understanding of the heating of the corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. These goals are finally within reach thanks to the recent developments of numerical simulations and analysis codes for observations and, observationally, thanks to the very recent development of a new powerful instrument for imaging spectroscopy (CHROMIS) that allows to study the upper chromosphere at the highest possible spatial resolution. Chromospheric observations show that energy must be released at very small spatial scales (smaller than 100 km), and therefore, the intricate fine structuring of the magnetized chromosphere is the key to understand the heating and the mass loading of the outer atmosphere. The CHROMIS instrument at the Swedish 1m Solar Telescope (SST) is the only instrument in the world that allows observing the upper chromosphere at this spatial resolution, and rich spectral resolution. SUNMAG shall use observations from this instrument and a space-borne solar telescope (NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, IRIS) to reconstruct time-dependent 3D empirical models of the solar chromosphere. I will use these models to characterize the spatio-temporal distribution of heating in the chromosphere of active regions and flares, and to investigate to what extent this heating can be related to the observed (changes in) the physical parameters. These results will be confronted with predictions from the foremost theoretical models to propose what physical mechanisms are most likely providing the required energy deposition.
This project represents a new powerful approach to a fundamental problem in solar physics: the heating of the solar chromosphere. The aim of SUNMAG is to identify the mechanisms that heat the chromosphere and characterize the energy flux that is being released into the outer layers of the Sun in active regions and flares. By investigating how the chromosphere regulates the energy and mass transport we can also contribute to an understanding of the heating of the corona and the acceleration of the solar wind. These goals are finally within reach thanks to the recent developments of numerical simulations and analysis codes for observations and, observationally, thanks to the very recent development of a new powerful instrument for imaging spectroscopy (CHROMIS) that allows to study the upper chromosphere at the highest possible spatial resolution. Chromospheric observations show that energy must be released at very small spatial scales (smaller than 100 km), and therefore, the intricate fine structuring of the magnetized chromosphere is the key to understand the heating and the mass loading of the outer atmosphere. The CHROMIS instrument at the Swedish 1m Solar Telescope (SST) is the only instrument in the world that allows observing the upper chromosphere at this spatial resolution, and rich spectral resolution. SUNMAG shall use observations from this instrument and a space-borne solar telescope (NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, IRIS) to reconstruct time-dependent 3D empirical models of the solar chromosphere. I will use these models to characterize the spatio-temporal distribution of heating in the chromosphere of active regions and flares, and to investigate to what extent this heating can be related to the observed (changes in) the physical parameters. These results will be confronted with predictions from the foremost theoretical models to propose what physical mechanisms are most likely providing the required energy deposition.
Project acronym SUPERSPEC
Project Three-dimensional spectral modelling of astrophysical transients : unravelling the nucleosynthetic content of supernovae and kilonovae
Researcher (PI) Anders JERKSTRAND
Summary Determining the origin of the elements is a fundamental quest in physics and astronomy. Most of the elements in the periodic table are believed to be produced by supernovae and kilonovae. However, this has for decades been little more than a prediction from theory. Now, with a dramatically changing observational situation and new modelling capabilities, it is within our reach to determine the nucleosynthesis production and structure in these transients. To really see what supernovae and kilonovae contain, we must study their spectra in the later so called nebular phase when the inner regions become visible. This project is aimed at establishing the first picture of the origin of elements by determining the yields from supernovae and kilonovae using such analysis. To do this, new spectral synthesis methods need to be developed considering the necessary microphysical (ejecta chemistry, r-process physics, time-dependent gas state) and macrophysical (3D radiation transport) processes to obtain sufficient accuracy. These tools will then be applied to the first 3D explosion simulations of these transients now becoming available. When applied to the growing library of data emerging from automated surveys and follow-up programs, as well to the recent first kilonova observations, this will provide a breakthrough in our understanding of these transients. This development will not only allow a determination of cosmic element production, but also allow tests of theories for stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, and explosion processes. This will in turn have fundamental impact on several fields of astrophysics such as population synthesis, galactic chemical evolution modelling, and understanding of mass transfer in the progenitor systems. It has a strong connection to recent detections of stellar-mass black holes and merging neutron stars by gravitational waves.
Determining the origin of the elements is a fundamental quest in physics and astronomy. Most of the elements in the periodic table are believed to be produced by supernovae and kilonovae. However, this has for decades been little more than a prediction from theory. Now, with a dramatically changing observational situation and new modelling capabilities, it is within our reach to determine the nucleosynthesis production and structure in these transients. To really see what supernovae and kilonovae contain, we must study their spectra in the later so called nebular phase when the inner regions become visible. This project is aimed at establishing the first picture of the origin of elements by determining the yields from supernovae and kilonovae using such analysis. To do this, new spectral synthesis methods need to be developed considering the necessary microphysical (ejecta chemistry, r-process physics, time-dependent gas state) and macrophysical (3D radiation transport) processes to obtain sufficient accuracy. These tools will then be applied to the first 3D explosion simulations of these transients now becoming available. When applied to the growing library of data emerging from automated surveys and follow-up programs, as well to the recent first kilonova observations, this will provide a breakthrough in our understanding of these transients. This development will not only allow a determination of cosmic element production, but also allow tests of theories for stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis, and explosion processes. This will in turn have fundamental impact on several fields of astrophysics such as population synthesis, galactic chemical evolution modelling, and understanding of mass transfer in the progenitor systems. It has a strong connection to recent detections of stellar-mass black holes and merging neutron stars by gravitational waves.


It is with great sadness that we must announce the death of Michael Jones on January 29th, after a short illness. Michael was a long standing member of SWC and contributed hugely in time and effort on the committee in a variety of roles including host to the speakers and latterly as chairman. He will be greatly missed by us all. Our condolences go to all of his friends and especially, his two children: Simon and Nicola.


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Clustra Offers Five-Nines Reliability
In today's online world, customer loyalty is hard to find. In this climate, five minutes of downtime could mean the loss of a customer forever. Clustra Systems Inc. believes it has an answer to that problem: a database solution that averages only two minutes of downtime per year.
Clustra recently debuted a packaged data management solution called Clustra Parallel Data Server 3.0. While it offers high availability and scalability, Clustra officials say the relational database management system's (RDBMS) biggest selling point is its ability to offer the five nines of reliability.
Five nines is a term used to denote 99.999 percent uptime with database services or online applications. When it comes to managing high availability and downtime, the database is one of the main problem points in a system.
Clustra's solution to this problem is ensuring the database doesn't go down. "What you need to do is build high availability and scalability into the system," says Gary Ebersole, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Clustra (www.clustra.com).
Clustra ensures its five nines policy by dividing data into fragments that are stored in eight nodes and two units. The two units can run side-by-side or, preferably, each one in a separate location. The units are linked via a redundant communication network. A copy of each node is made so a company's entire database has an exact replica of the original. The original data is stored in "primary" fragments, while the replicated data is saved in "standby" fragments. The primary and standby fragments are then stored in a node. Each node contains a primary and standby fragment.
If one node or one fragment goes down, the replicated node kicks in seamlessly so that downtime is less than a few seconds, which is unnoticeable to the user. If an entire node goes down, Parallel Database makes a copy of the whole node and moves it to one of the two spare nodes that are reserved for such an instance.
"The solution also has built in self-repair. It can handle a failure, keep running, and repair the database while running nonstop," Ebersole says.
If you need to add nodes, the system scales linearly. A user can add pairs of nodes when needed and can do so without shutting the database down. "You never have to shut the database down to do an upgrade, and once you tell the cluster you are going to take it down, the applications running have no idea," Ebersole says. As long as you tell the cluster you are going to take it down or add nodes, it will tell the database to refragment itself across the nodes.
Clustra Parallel Database Server usually runs in lieu of other database systems, such as SQL Server 7.0 or Oracle8i, but it can run alongside other databases, since a company rarely employs a single database for all its needs.
Potential users may wonder if any additional security issues are incurred because the system holds two copies of the data. "We don't see any incremental security issues, since these databases are normally behind a firewall in a secure environment. It's no less secure than any other database system," Ebersole says.


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Q: Creating a blank/dummy SilverStripe 3.0 Page How can I add blank or dummy pages to SS 3.0? I have been trying to create a dropdown list that would also include, supposed to be, blank pages or pages with no links as a placeholder to level out the navigation. Kindly check out the image provided for clarity.

Will this be possible in silverstripe?

A: If I understand you correctly, you're wanted to insert a placeholder inside of a loop within your template. For example, when you're making a menu, you loop through $Level(1).
So if you were wanting to place a blank element in a certain spot during that loop, I would recommend using a conditional. SilverStripe conditionals aren't incredibly powerful, but they are very easy to understand.
Review SilverStripe's template documentation. You can find loops here too.
As an example, you could do this:

$MenuTitle

<% if $Pos == 5 %>

<% end_if %>

<% end_loop %>

This will place an
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package main

import (
  "os"
  "log"
  "bytes"
  "strings"
  "io/ioutil"
  "crypto/sha1"
  "path/filepath"
  "text/template"
  dockerapi "github.com/fsouza/go-dockerclient"
  flags "github.com/jessevdk/go-flags"
)

type Upstream struct {
  Name string
  Type string
  Host string
  Port string
}

type Options struct {
  Verbose bool `short:"v" long:"verbose" description:"verbose"`
  Follow bool `short:"f" long:"follow" description:"follow"`
  Label string `short:"l" long:"label" description:"label for filtering the containers" default:"org.vafer.upstream"`
  Docker string `short:"d" long:"docker" description:"connection to docker" default:"unix:///var/run/docker.sock"`
  Reload []string `long:"reload" description:"reload container on config change"`
  Restart []string `long:"restart" description:"restart container on config change"`
  Template flags.Filename `short:"t" long:"template" description:"template for config" required:"true"`
  Output flags.Filename `short:"o" long:"output" description:"filename for output" required:"true"`
}

var options Options
var config_hash_old []byte

func upstream_ports(list string) []string {
  ports := strings.Split(list, ",")
  for i, s := range ports { ports[i] = s + "/tcp" }
  return ports
}

func signal_container(client *dockerapi.Client, container *dockerapi.Container, signal dockerapi.Signal) {

  killOpts := dockerapi.KillContainerOptions{
    ID: container.ID,
    Signal: signal,
  }

  err := client.KillContainer(killOpts)
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("fatal: error sending signal to container: %s", err)
  }
}

func write_output_from_template(templatePath string, upstreams []*Upstream, output *bytes.Buffer) {

  tmpl, err := template.New(filepath.Base(templatePath)).Funcs(template.FuncMap{
    "groupBy": groupBy,
    }).ParseFiles(templatePath)
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("fatal: unable to parse template", err)
  }
  err = tmpl.ExecuteTemplate(output, filepath.Base(templatePath), upstreams)
  if err != nil {
    log.Fatal("fatal: unable to apply template", err)
  }
}

func update(client *dockerapi.Client) {

  upstreams := []*Upstream{}

  items, err := client.ListContainers(dockerapi.ListContainersOptions{})
  assert(err)

  containers_to_reload := []*dockerapi.Container{}
  containers_to_restart := []*dockerapi.Container{}

  for _, item := range items {

    container, err := client.InspectContainer(item.ID)
    if err != nil {
      log.Fatal("fatal: unable to inspect container:", item.ID[:12], err)
    }

    name := strings.TrimPrefix(container.Name, "/")

    if matches(name, options.Reload) {
      containers_to_reload = append(containers_to_reload, container)
    }

    if matches(name, options.Restart) {
      containers_to_restart = append(containers_to_restart, container)
    }

    if container.State.Running {
      // running container

      label := container.Config.Labels[options.Label]

      if label != "" {
        // upstream label found, extract ports

        if options.Verbose {
          log.Println("container: ", name, " has label:", label)
        }

        ports := upstream_ports(label)

        for port,bindings := range container.NetworkSettings.Ports {
          if matches(string(port), ports) {

            // port matches, create upstream
            for _, binding := range bindings {

              if options.Verbose {
                log.Println("upstream: ", binding.HostIP, "/", binding.HostPort)
              }

              upstreams = append(upstreams, &Upstream{
                Name: name,
                Type: filepath.Base(container.Config.Image),
                Host: binding.HostIP,
                Port: binding.HostPort,
              })
            }

          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  output := bytes.Buffer{}

  write_output_from_template(string(options.Template), upstreams, &output)

  config_hash_new := sha1.Sum(output.Bytes())

  if !bytes.Equal(config_hash_old, config_hash_new[:]) {
    config_hash_old = config_hash_new[:]

    if options.Verbose {
      log.Println("info: new configuration file")
    }

    err = ioutil.WriteFile(string(options.Output), output.Bytes(), 0644)
    if err != nil {
      log.Fatal("fatal: failed to save output", err)
    }

    for _, container := range containers_to_reload {
      log.Println("info: reloading ", container.Name)
      signal_container(client, container, dockerapi.SIGHUP)
    }

    for _, container := range containers_to_restart {
      log.Println("info: restarting ", container.Name)
      // TODO: SIGINT, waiting, SIGTERM, waiting, SIGKILL
      signal_container(client, container, dockerapi.SIGKILL)
    }

  }
}

func main() {

  parser := flags.NewParser(&options, flags.HelpFlag|flags.Default)

  _, err := parser.Parse()
  if err != nil {
    os.Exit(1)
  }

  docker, err := dockerapi.NewClient(options.Docker)
  assert(err)

  if options.Verbose {
    log.Println("info: looking for container with label:", options.Label)
  }

  update(docker)

  if options.Follow {

    events := make(chan *dockerapi.APIEvents)
    assert(docker.AddEventListener(events))

    if options.Verbose {
      log.Println("info: listening for docker events...")
    }

    for event := range events {
      _ = event
      go update(docker)
    }

    log.Fatal("fatal: docker event loop closed")
  }
}


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HLS Team Wins International Negotiation Competition
By PON Staff — on April 14th, 2007 / News
The Harvard Law School team of Kimathi Kueneya (LLM), Grace Chien (2L) and Frederic Bourdais (LLM) won The Negotiation Challenge in Leipzig, Germany on April 14.
Their team, the Leibnizians: Unity in Diversity, was undefeated against the other eigth teams from the United States, Europe and India.
The Negotiation Challenge (TNC) brings together students from leading universities from all over the world to compete in negotiation situations. TNC is the first international negotiation competition in Europe and one of the few international negotiation competitions in the world.
The Harvard Negotiators were a sponsor of TNC and Clinical Professor and director of the Harvard Negotiation Clinical Program Robet Bordone helped organize the event.
Read more about the team's win at HLS News.
Program on Negotiation Welcomes Visiting Scholar Stefanos Mouzas
2012 Great Negotiator Award event will honor former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III on March 29th
PON offices to move to Lewis Hall next week
Daniel Shapiro receives award for his innovative work on identity-based conflict
"Let's All Feel Superior," Max H. Bazerman quoted in The New York Times
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My sons were young teens at the time my dad underwent brain surgery that backfired, leaving him with dementia – overnight. Dad remained loving, but he did get frustrated and was perpetually confused. To see this caring, intelligent man so markedly and irreparably changed nearly tore out the hearts of adult family members. For the grandchildren, the effect was multiplied by their lack of experience in life's tragedies.
Our family's introduction to dementia was different than the typical case. Most people with dementia will decline slowly, giving loved ones time to adjust. However, no time frame makes accepting dementia easy.
Whether the grandparents live with the family, in their own home or in a nursing home, the grandchildren are bound to be affected by the changes they see. Children often feel guilty for bad things happening in the family, even when there is no logic to their thinking. They will notice your pain and may also feel guilty for that, as well.
Children can be frightened by the changes in the grandparent who was once gentle and loving, but could now have become cranky and occasionally downright mean and abusive. How we, as parents, handle the changes in our own parents can affect how well our children handle the changes. But each child is different and each set of circumstances is different. So where to you start when it's time to explain?
Most children understand that when searching for a radio station within range, we experience static when a signal can't be picked up clearly. Correlating the image of this static with the confusion in a grandparent's mind may help a child understand why the grandparent acts confused and frustrated. Brain signals get muddled.
If Alzheimer's or other dementia has turned Grandpa into an irritable or abusive person, make sure the child understands that he or she didn't cause this behavior. Nor is it Grandpa's choice to act mean. Grandpa's behavior is caused by his disease.
Find age appropriate books to help the child feel less alone. A quick search in your local book store or online should bring up a number of excellent children's books on Alzheimer's.
If there is no support group in your community for children with grandparents who have dementia, talk to their school counselor or give your local Alzheimer's organization a call to see if a group can be started. In this way children are no different than adults. They need to know they aren't alone in coping with this disturbing turn of events.
Your child will likely feel embarrassed by the grandparent's behavior, especially if their friends are around. Face it. You may have some embarrassment issues yourself. This is an opportunity to help your child know that you are all still learning how to cope.


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by Christy Smith
Simpson College has a rich history, but until 1985, no one really knew what it was.
During Simpson's 125th Anniversary, the president of the college at the time, Robert E. McBride, asked Joe Walt, now professor emeritus of history, to research and write the history of the college before the next fall semester began.
"Two people before me had already tried to write the history. One gave up and the other passed away," Walt said. "At the time, I was heavily involved in the State Historical Society of Iowa, and I was able to get to the archives to find out about Simpson in the past."
The end product was "Beneath the Whispering Maples: The History of Simpson College".
According to Walt, the title came from the last line of the second verse in the school song.
Walt found most of his information in Iowa's newspaper archives.
"I knew Iowa had the best collection of newspapers, but I didn't know they had the old Indianola papers, and if there would be anything on Simpson beginning in 1850.
They did, and so my research began," Walt said.
One of those newspapers included an interesting front-page story about Simpson.
"On the front of the newspaper there was a story about a group of people who had gotten together at the United Methodist Church to form an institution," Walt said.
In order for Walt to write the history of the college he had to read thousands of newspapers over a time period of seven to eight years. Students also helped him with his research.
"I thought it was going to take me six months to research," Walt said. "But it took me years."
The book, according to Walt, is 699 pages and is much longer than he intended it to be.
One of the most interesting facts about Simpson, according to Walt, is the fact that before Simpson became an established college it was a secondary school.
"When the school was founded there was not one public high school in the state of Iowa," Walt said. "In the beginning the school was called Indianola Male and Female Seminary. In 1867 the school pushed up into a college, and it adopted the name Simpson.
Although the book took an extraordinary amount of work, Walt still found time to teach.
"I didn't write much in the winter because I was teaching. This became more of a summer project for me," Walt said.
The book is out of print at the current moment, according to Walt, but he plans to have another work published, which has also required a great deal of historical reading.
A book about Liechtenstein, a small country in Europe will be Walt's next project.
"I am partly done with my newspaper research. I just finished reading 250 boxes of newspapers," Walt said.
Marty Bell announced as Simpson's new director of athletics
Intramurals end year successfully despite COVID-19 challenges
Simpson basketball ready to storm the courts in January
NFL Fantasy Football 2020 rollercoaster season
Nash looks to net another stellar season
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Advanced Disposal Files to Go Public
Allan Gerlat | Aug 25, 2015
Advanced Disposal and its parent firm, ADS Waste Holdings Inc., is going public, as it has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) of common stock.
(This article has been updated from its original with additional information.)
Ponte Vedra, Fla.-based Advanced said in a news release that the company hasn't determined the number of shares to be offered or the price range. Mary O'Brien, chief marketing officer for Advanced Disposal, said in an e-mail that the company could not comment further on the offering.
Renaissance Capital said on its website that the IPO could raise up to $100 million.
In its filing with the SEC, ADS said it intends to use the proceeds from the sale of common stock to repay debt.
ADS Waste said that it will apply for the stock ticker "ADSW" which would indicate that NASDAQ stock exchange.
The company said the registration statement hasn't become effective so no offers can be accepted yet.
Moody's Investors Service characterized the move as a partial IPO, with Highstar Capital remaining the majority shareholder. Moody's said its intention to pay down debt with the proceeds "could favorably impact the company's credit profile but does not impact the company's ratings at this time."
The offering will be made only through a prospectus. Deutsche Bank Securities, Credit Suisse and Barclays are acting as lead book-running managers in the proposed offering. Additional book-running managers are BofA Merrill Lynch, Macquarie Capital, Morgan Stanley and UBS Investment Bank. Wells Fargo Securities and First Analysis Securities Corp. are acting as co-managers in the proposed offering.
In an exclusive interview with Waste360 last September, CEO Richard Burke was asked about the prospect of Advanced Disposal going public. He said it was a decision for the board more than the management team. "We're owned by equity, so at some point they'll want to exit the investment. But right now the management team is focused on value creation; those guys (the board) will decide whether we stay private a long time or go public."
ADS Waste recorded a net loss of $8.5 million for its second quarter, compared with a net loss a year ago of $15.4 million. Revenue for the company slipped 1.3 percent to $355.2 million.
Investment firm Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc. said the results "need to be viewed through a prism and focus on the good and be cautious about the negative." Core price was good, but volumes dipped.
Advanced Disposal announced three hauler acquisitions in June, bringing the total to seven for the year.
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1.2: Photon science .
1.3: Particle physics .
1.4: Astroparticle physics .
1.5: Facilities & Projects .
1.5.1: PETRA III .
1.5.2: PETRA IV .
1.5.3: FLASH .
1.5.4: FLASH2020+ .
1.5.5: European XFEL .
1.5.6: LHC .
Standort: 1.5.7: IceCube .
1.5.8: Belle & Belle II .
1.5.9: ALPS .
1.5.10: PITZ .
1.5.11: REGAE .
1.5.12: DESY .
1.5.13: Tier-2 .
1.5.14: NAF .
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Neutrino telescope IceCube
What happens near black holes? How does a supernova explode? And what is the origin of the inconceivably energetic particles that shower down on the Earth as cosmic radiation? Physicists hope to get answers to these questions from an unusual telescope in a spectacular location: buried deeply within the ice of the South Pole, the sensors of the IceCube detector are waiting for neutrinos from outer space – ghostly elementary particles produced by cataclysmic events in the far reaches of the universe. Physicists from the DESY location in Zeuthen are playing a major role in the construction and operation of the world's largest particle detector.
Neutrinos are extremely light particles that pass through everything in their path almost unhindered. This makes them ideal cosmic messengers. That's because neutrinos reach the Earth on a direct path, coming for example from the centres of distant galaxies, millions or even billions of light-years away. Light beams or gamma radiation from these galaxies easily get caught in nebulae on their way to Earth. Charged particles are deflected by cosmic magnetic fields, so that their actual source can no longer be determined. Neutrinos are affected by neither nebulae nor magnetic fields – which is why they can provide us with information from regions of space from where almost no other signal reaches the Earth.
What makes neutrinos ideal cosmic messengers, is also their drawback: they fly through matter so easily that every second, billions of neutrinos pass through every square centimetre of the Earth without leaving a trace. Only very rarely does a neutrino collide with a matter particle. Therefore, gigantic detectors are needed to occasionally observe such a neutrino event.
Particle tracks in the eternal ice
The IceCube neutrino telescope is frozen into the eternal ice of Antarctica – with an enclosed volume of one cubic kilometre, it is the largest particle detector in the world. At a depth of up to 2.5 kilometres, 86 steel cables with more than 5000 light-sensitive detector modules are embedded in the ice. These optical modules observe the tiny blue flashes of light that occur when neutrinos react with the crystal clear ice and thereby produce showers of charged particles. Based on these flashes of light, the flight direction of the neutrinos can be determined. From this, the physicists can in turn reconstruct which regions of space the elusive particles are coming from and where they originated.
As the second largest partner after the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), DESY is one of the major players in the international IceCube consortium. A quarter of the IceCube detector modules was produced at DESY in Zeuthen, and the Zeuthen researchers are also heavily involved in the data analysis.
Insight into cataclysmic cosmic events
Most neutrinos that hit the Earth arise in the sun or the Earth's atmosphere. Far less common are neutrinos that come from outside our solar system. Such extraterrestrial neutrinos are of particular interest to physicists because they provide insight into the vast cosmic objects from which they originate: gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, pulsars or the giant particle jets emitted by the supermassive black holes at the heart of active galaxies.
One scenario of interest might involve signals of a supernova exploding somewhere in our own galaxy. A celestial fireworks display of this kind would release an extremely large number of neutrinos that would doubtlessly be discernible with IceCube. Experts presume that a star would not be able to explode at all were it not for the neutrinos forcing the shell of the star outward with tremendous pressure. With IceCube, they hope to verify this theory and understand in detail how a star explodes.
First neutrinos from outer space
The IceCube collaboration announced its first major breakthrough in 2012. In their measurement data, the researchers identified two events with a tremendous energy of 1000 tera-electronvolts (TeV) – which is significantly more than what is expected for atmospheric neutrinos. Several more high-energy events were spotted in 2013. All the tracks differed so markedly from the atmospheric variant that the implication was clear: IceCube had tracked the first high-energy neutrinos from the depths of space.
The gigantic telescope at the South Pole thus opens a whole new branch of astronomy. With increasing numbers of events, the scientists hope to identify spatial or temporal accumulations that will allow them to identify individual sources of high-energy neutrinos in the cosmos.
Astroparticle Physics
Astroparticle physics at DESY
Neutrino telescope in the South Pole ice, complemented by a detector field at the ice surface (IceTop)
Completion: December 2010
Volume: one cubic kilometre
Depth in the ice: between 1450 and 2450 metres
86 strings with 60 optical modules each
5600 optical modules in total


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from __future__ import unicode_literals

import logging

from django.db import migrations
import imagekit.models.fields

def apply_change(apps, schema_editor):
    Person = apps.get_model("refugeedata", "Person")
    if Person.objects.count() > 1000:
        logging.warn("There are too many people in your database for this migration to run. Please run manage.py rotate_and_scale_images instead.")
        return
    for person in Person.objects.all():
        if person.photo:
            person.photo.save(person.photo.name, person.photo.file)

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('refugeedata', '0008_auto_20160203_1331'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='person',
            name='photo',
            field=imagekit.models.fields.ProcessedImageField(upload_to=b'user_images/%m%d%H%M%S/', null=True, verbose_name='Photo', blank=True),
        ),
        migrations.RunPython(apply_change, reverse_code=migrations.RunPython.noop),
    ]


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Rauner calls on Senate to send school funding bill; plans to amendatory veto
MT ZION – Monday, Governor Bruce Rauner called on members of the Illinois Senate to send him Senate Bill 1, the education funding bill - and told them to expect an amendatory veto that the governor's office says would result in higher state funding for almost every school district in Illinois.
SB 1 includes a bailout of Chicago's teacher pension system, something the governor wants to be distributed to students statewide.
"We have a chance to make history and adopt a new school funding plan that, for the first time, ensures all school districts in Illinois are equitably and adequately funded. Unfortunately, Democrats want to turn this historic opportunity into a bailout for the CPS pension system," said Governor Rauner. "The point of this school reform bill is to help low income students across the state, including those in Chicago, get the education they deserve – not to bailout CPS's mismanaged teacher pension system."
The governor's office says the amendatory veto will adjust the bill so that it is more closely aligned with the to the original ideals proposed by the governor's School Funding Reform Commission – which has bipartisan support. These reforms include mandating that the majority of all money in SB 1 will go to statewide school districts serving a majority of students from families with low income. This, his office says, marks a historic change that will, over time, fix education inequity in Illinois.
As written, SB 1 is a bailout for the decades of financial mismanagement at CPS, Rauner's office said. The bill directs millions of dollars to CPS and away from other deserving districts. Under SB 1 as it is currently written, the other 851 school districts in Illinois will receive less FY18 budget money while CPS receives credit for a $506 million historical pension payment. The CPS hold harmless includes both the $250 million block grant credit and $221 million for normal pension costs and retiree health care credit.
"The General Assembly under Speaker Madigan have failed to adequately or equitably fund our schools for decades. It has hurt generations of Illinois children who live in low income communities," said Governor Rauner. "It's not right to give CPS more than its equitable share at the expense of other struggling school districts. That's not reform. It is the same old rigged politics that created this disgraceful system we are trying to fix. "
A new webpage launched by the governor shows how much more money each school district will receive after the governor issues his amendatory veto: https://www.illinois.gov/gov/SitePages/SchoolDistrictFunding.aspx
Monday, July 17, 2017 at 04:15 PM | Permalink
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Jesus was surrounded by crowds at every turn in his story. The crowds gathered from as far as 120 miles to the south and 50 miles to the north. They continually pressed against Him. People wanted to see Jesus, touch Jesus, be healed Jesus, rebuke Jesus, and even some wanted Him dead.
Today we look at the "house party" in Mark 3, and learn that being close in proximity does not mean being close in relationship. Check out what we learn about hearing the voice of God while being amongst a sea of people.
The Crowds, had gathered from as far as 120 miles to the south and 50 miles to the north, had continually pressed against Jesus, and Jesus had just gone up a mountain, and unlike Moses he didn't come down with 10 commandments but 12 apostles.
Our closest relationships will either build us or bury us.
22 But the teachers of religious law who had arrived from Jerusalem said, "He's possessed by Satan, the prince of demons. That's where he gets the power to cast out demons."23 Jesus called them over and responded with an illustration. "How can Satan cast out Satan?" he asked. 24 "A kingdom divided by civil war will collapse.
25 Similarly, a family splintered by feuding will fall apart. 26 And if Satan is divided and fights against himself, how can he stand? He would never survive. 27 Let me illustrate this further. Who is powerful enough to enter the house of a strong man and plunder his goods? Only someone even stronger—someone who could tie him up and then plunder his house.
2 Voices: God's voice and His echo; Satan's voice and His echo.
Jesus' Family: Well-meaning, protective, but ultimately there thought is he is crazy.
Chaperone's: Vengeful, hateful, and call him Satan.
How do you know if something is the voice of life or death?
Who gets a voice in your life?
Our lives are the echo of the voices we listen to.


I recently attended a conference where HRs were having a heated conversation on the globally changing work culture that have pushed the boundaries of the HR to think beyond the old school methods of retaining employees and engaging them. While I personally believe that it is not just the monetary benefit that keeps employees stick to an organization, it is now more on empowering them to be the owner of their work, providing a better work-life balance, work hour flexibility, onsite work opportunity, agility, nimbleness and others, my thoughts were seconded by the HRs in the conference.
While there is a craze of joining startups by youngsters/freshers just out of the college, we see a lot of them handling critical positions within a short span of time. This is because of the kind of extensive training and on-the-job experience that most of the employees do not gain in multi-national corporates. While one of the HR stated that it was freedom to take ownership of the project and decision for the same that ruled the chart, I was astonished to note what another HR uttered - the philanthropic and CSR activities by the organization are also playing an eminent role in grabbing best minds that wants not just to work but also to bring a positive dent within the society.
We also notice a huge shift in the way companies treat women employees. Today, female employees are given equal chances (if not better) to grow within the organization and are recognized as well. And bringing this shift is no big organization but startups. Maternity leaves have been increased from three months to six months along with extended leaves or work from home option.
But these are just the upper surface of the pyramid. When scratched, we will see more innovative ways of dealing with employees from the startups that will change the course of looking at work. I believe biggies will follow their footsteps to retain their experienced people who are now packing their bags to make a shift to startups.


Okay, someone get us a direct line to Jennifer Hudson, stat. The singer has been looking so good lately, we've got to figure out what she's doing right. Her latest display of beauty? The cover of V magazine. The spread was shot by Terry Richardson and has Hudson looking all kinds of fierce. She models everything from moto jackets to a black leather leotard. She also changed up her beauty look a bit for the shoot, sporting wet locks and dewy makeup.


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MATA at 20
The MATA Festival's founders Lisa Bielawa, Eleonor Sandresky, and Philip Glass share their reflections on the Festival on its 20th anniversary along with 29 other composers featured over the years.
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30 Fellows Selected for Inaugural Blackbird Creative Lab
Thirty early-career musicians have been chosen to receive fellowships to the Blackbird Creative Lab, a newly launched two-week summer training program taking place Ojai, California, this June.
April 13 2017 / Headlines
2017 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards Announced
The ASCAP Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2017 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. The recipients, who receive cash awards, range in age from 15 to 30, and...
February 17 2017 / Headlines
Daugherty's Tales Of Hemingway Dominates New Music Grammy's
Michael Daugherty's Tales Of Hemingway was the big new music winner at the 59th annual Grammy Awards celebration. Third Coast Percussion playing Steve Reich and John Corigliano's The Ghosts Of...
And the 89th Academy Award Composer Nominees Are…
The nominees for the 89th Academy Awards have been announced, including nods in the category of best original score to composers Mica Levi, Justin Hurwitz, Nicholas Britell, Thomas Newman, and...
January 24 2017 / Headlines
Matthew Browne Wins ASCAP Foundation Nissim Prize
Matthew Browne has been named the recipient of the 37th annual ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for his composition Cabinet of Curiosities (2015-16), an approximately 23-minute work for saxophone quartet...
American Composers Orchestra Appoints Edward Yim as President
The American Composers Orchestra has announced the appointment of Edward Yim as president, effective February 21, 2017, succeeding Michael Geller who held the position from 1996 to 2016.
Andrew Norman Wins $100K Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
Andrew Norman's Play has received the 2017 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition. The $100K international prize is granted for a work premiered during the five-year period prior...
November 28 2016 / Headlines
Chicago: What Makes It Great?
To further showcase the spirit of the community Ear Taxi is organized to celebrate, we asked a diverse roster of local creators to highlight stand out (but quite possibly under-the-radar)...
October 7 2016 / Articles
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