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Q: Monitoring a file until a string is found I am using tail -f to monitor a log file that is being actively written to. When a certain string is written to the log file, I want to quit the monitoring, and continue with the rest of my script.
Currently I am using:
tail -f logfile.log | grep -m 1 "Server Started"

When the string is found, grep quits as expected, but I need to find a way to make the tail quit too so that the script can continue.

A: Here is a simple one-liner. It doesn't need bash-specific or non-POSIX tricks, or even a named pipe. All you really need is to decouple the termination of tail from grep. That way, once grep ends, the script can continue even if tail hasn't ended yet. So this simple method will get you there:
( tail -f -n0 logfile.log & ) | grep -q "Server Started"

grep will block until it has found the string, whereupon it will exit. By making tail run from it's own sub-shell, we can place it in the background so it runs independently. Meanwhile, the main shell is free to continue execution of the script as soon as grep exits. tail will linger in its sub-shell until the next line has been written to the logfile, and then exit (possibly even after the main script has terminated). The main point is that the pipeline no longer waits for tail to terminate, so the pipeline exits as soon as grep exits.
Some minor tweaks:

*

*The option -n0 to tail makes it start reading from the current last line of logfile, in case the string exists earlier in the logfile.

*You might want to give tail -F rather than -f. It is not POSIX, but it allows tail to work even if the log is rotated while waiting.

*Option -q rather than -m1 makes grep quit after the first occurrence, but without printing out the trigger line. Also it is POSIX, which -m1 isn't.

A: Currently, as given, all of the tail -f solutions here run the risk of picking up a previously logged "Server Started" line (which may or may not be a problem in your specific case, depending on the number of lines logged and log file rotation/truncation).
Rather than over-complicate things, just use a smarter tail, as bmike showed with a perl snippit. The simplest solution is this retail which has integrated regex support with start and stop condition patterns:
retail -f -u "Server Started" server.log > /dev/null

This will follow the file like a normal tail -f until the first new instance of that string appears, then exit. (The -u option does not trigger on existing lines in the last 10 lines of the file when in normal "follow" mode.)

If you use GNU tail (from coreutils), the next simplest option is to use --pid and a FIFO (named pipe):
mkfifo ${FIFO:=serverlog.fifo.$$}
grep -q -m 1 "Server Started" ${FIFO}  &
tail -n 0 -f server.log  --pid $! >> ${FIFO}
rm ${FIFO}

A FIFO is used because the processes must be started separately in order to obtain and pass a PID. A FIFO still suffers from the same problem of hanging around for a timely write to cause tail to receive a SIGPIPE, use the --pid option so that tail exits when it notices that grep has terminated (conventionally used to monitor the writer process rather than the reader, but tail doesn't really care). Option -n 0 is used with tail so that old lines don't trigger a match.

Finally, you could use a stateful tail, this will store the current file offset so subsequent invocations only show new lines (it also handles file rotation). This example uses the old FWTK retail*:
retail "${LOGFILE:=server.log}" > /dev/null   # skip over current content
while true; do
    [ "${LOGFILE}" -nt ".${LOGFILE}.off" ] &&
       retail "${LOGFILE}" | grep -q "Server Started" && break
    sleep 2
done

* Note, same name, different program to the previous option.
Rather than have CPU-hogging loop, compare the timestamp of the file with the state file (.${LOGFILE}.off), and sleep. Use "-T" to specify the location of the state file if required, the above assumes the current directory. Feel free to skip that condition, or on Linux you could use the more efficient inotifywait instead:
retail "${LOGFILE:=server.log}" > /dev/null
while true; do
    inotifywait -qq "${LOGFILE}" &&
       retail "${LOGFILE}" | grep -q "Server Started" && break
done

A: The accepted answer isn't working for me, plus it's confusing and it changes the log file.
I'm using something like this:
tail -f logfile.log | while read LOGLINE
do
   [[ "${LOGLINE}" == *"Server Started"* ]] && pkill -P $$ tail
done

If the log line matches the pattern, kill the tail started by this script.
Note: if you want to also view the output on the screen, either | tee /dev/tty or echo the line before testing in the while loop.

A: So after doing some testing, I found a quick 1-line way to make this work. It appears tail -f will quit when grep quits, but there's a catch. It appears to only be triggered if the file is opened and closed. I've accomplished this by appending the empty string to the file when grep finds the match.
tail -f logfile |grep -m 1 "Server Started" | xargs echo "" >> logfile \;

I'm not sure why the open/close of the file triggers tail to realize that the pipe is closed, so I wouldn't rely on this behavior. but it seems to work for now.
Reason it closes, look at the -F flag, versus the -f flag.

A: This will be a bit tricky since you will have to get into process control and signaling. More kludgey would be a two script solution using PID tracking. Better would be using named pipes like this.
What shell script are you using?
For a quick and dirty, one script solution - I would make a perl script using File:Tail
use File::Tail;
$file=File::Tail->new(name=>$name, maxinterval=>300, adjustafter=>7);
while (defined($line=$file->read)) {
    last if $line =~ /Server started/;
}

So rather than printing inside the while loop, you could filter for the string match and break out of the while loop to let your script continue.
Either of these should involve just a little learning to implement the watching flow control you are seeking.

A: Read them all. tldr: decouple the termination of tail from grep.
The two forms most convenient are
( tail -f logfile.log & ) | grep -q "Server Started"

and if you have bash
grep -m 1 "Server Started" <(tail -f logfile.log)

But if that tail sitting in the background bothers you, there is nicer way than a fifo or any other answer here. Requires bash.
coproc grep -m 1 "Server Started"
tail -F /tmp/x --pid $COPROC_PID >&${COPROC[1]}

Or if it isn't tail which is outputing things,
coproc command that outputs
grep -m 1 "Server Started" <&${COPROC[0]}
kill $COPROC_PID

In bash, you can also get rid of the job control output by wrapping in ():
(coproc command that outputs; grep -m 1 "Server Started" ${COPROC[0]}; kill $COPROC_PID)

A: If you're using Bash (at least, but it seems it's not defined by POSIX, so it may be missing in some shells), you can use the syntax
grep -m 1 "Server Started" <(tail -f logfile.log)

It works pretty much like the FIFO solutions already mentioned, but much simpler to write.

A: wait for file to appear
while [ ! -f /path/to/the.file ]
do sleep 2; done

wait for string to apper in file
while ! grep "the line you're searching for" /path/to/the.file
do sleep 10; done

https://superuser.com/a/743693/129669

A: I can't imagine a cleaner solution than this one:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# file : untail.sh
# usage: untail.sh logfile.log "Server Started"
(echo $BASHPID; tail -f $1) | while read LINE ; do
    if [ -z $TPID ]; then
        TPID=$LINE # the first line is used to store the previous subshell PID
    else
        echo "$LINE"; [[ "$LINE" == *"${*:2}"* ]] && kill -3 $TPID && break
    fi
done

ok, maybe the name can be subject to improvements...
Advantages:

*

*it doesn't use any special utilities

*it doesn't write to disk

*it gracefully quits tail and closes the pipe

*it is pretty short and easy to understand

A: You don't necessary need tail to do that. I think the watch command is what you're looking for.
The watch command monitors the output of a file and can be terminated with the -g option when the output changed.
watch -g grep -m 1 "Server Started" logfile.log && Yournextaction

A: The tail command can be backgrounded and its pid echoed to the grep subshell. In the grep subshell a trap handler on EXIT can kill the tail command.
( (sleep 1; exec tail -f logfile.log) & echo $! ; wait ) |
     (trap 'kill "$pid"' EXIT; pid="$(head -1)"; grep -m 1 "Server Started")

A: There are a few ways to get tail to exit:
Poor Approach:  Force tail to write another line
You can force tail to write another line of output immediately after grep has found a match and exited.  This will cause tail to get a SIGPIPE, causing it to exit.  One way to do this is to modify the file being monitored by tail after grep exits.
Here is some example code:
tail -f logfile.log | grep -m 1 "Server Started" | { cat; echo >>logfile.log; }

In this example, cat won't exit until grep has closed its stdout, so tail is not likely to be able to write to the pipe before grep has had a chance to close its stdin.  cat is used to propagate the standard output of grep unmodified.
This approach is relatively simple, but there are several downsides:

*

*If grep closes stdout before closing stdin, there will always be a race condition:  grep closes stdout, triggering cat to exit, triggering echo, triggering tail to output a line.  If this line is sent to grep before grep has had a chance to close stdin, tail won't get the SIGPIPE until it writes another line.

*It requires write access to the log file.

*You must be OK with modifying the log file.

*You may corrupt the log file if you happen to write at the same time as another process (the writes may be interleaved, causing a newline to appear in the middle of a log message).

*This approach is specific to tail—it won't work with other programs.

*The third pipeline stage makes it hard to get access to the return code of the second pipeline stage (unless you're using a POSIX extension such as bash's PIPESTATUS array).  This is not a big deal in this case because grep will always return 0, but in general the middle stage might be replaced with a different command whose return code you care about (e.g., something that returns 0 when "server started" is detected, 1 when "server failed to start" is detected).

The next approaches avoid these limitations.
A Better Approach:  Avoid Pipelines
You can use a FIFO to avoid the pipeline altogether, allowing execution to continue once grep returns.  For example:
fifo=/tmp/tmpfifo.$$
mkfifo "${fifo}" || exit 1
tail -f logfile.log >${fifo} &
tailpid=$! # optional
grep -m 1 "Server Started" "${fifo}"
kill "${tailpid}" # optional
rm "${fifo}"

The lines marked with the comment # optional can be removed and the program will still work; tail will just linger until it reads another line of input or is killed by some other process.
The advantages to this approach are:

*

*you don't need to modify the log file

*the approach works for other utilities besides tail

*it does not suffer from a race condition

*you can easily get the return value of grep (or whatever alternative command you're using)

The downside to this approach is complexity, especially managing the FIFO:  You'll need to securely generate a temporary file name, and you'll need to ensure that the temporary FIFO is deleted even if the user hits Ctrl-C in the middle of the script.  This can be done using a trap.
Alternative Approach:  Send a Message to Kill tail
You can get the tail pipeline stage to exit by sending it a signal like SIGTERM.  The challenge is reliably knowing two things in the same place in code:  tail's PID and whether grep has exited.
With a pipeline like tail -f ... | grep ..., it's easy to modify the first pipeline stage to save tail's PID in a variable by backgrounding tail and reading $!.  It's also easy to modify the second pipeline stage to run kill when grep exits.  The problem is that the two stages of the pipeline run in separate "execution environments" (in the terminology of the POSIX standard) so the second pipeline stage can't read any variables set by the first pipeline stage.  Without using shell variables, either the second stage must somehow figure out tail's PID so that it can kill tail when grep returns, or the first stage must somehow be notified when grep returns.
The second stage could use pgrep to get tail's PID, but that would be unreliable (you might match the wrong process) and non-portable (pgrep is not specified by the POSIX standard).
The first stage could send the PID to the second stage via the pipe by echoing the PID, but this string will get mixed with tail's output.  Demultiplexing the two may require a complex escaping scheme, depending on the output of tail.
You can use a FIFO to have the second pipeline stage notify the first pipeline stage when grep exits.  Then the first stage can kill tail.  Here is some example code:
fifo=/tmp/notifyfifo.$$
mkfifo "${fifo}" || exit 1
{
    # run tail in the background so that the shell can
    # kill tail when notified that grep has exited
    tail -f logfile.log &
    # remember tail's PID
    tailpid=$!
    # wait for notification that grep has exited
    read foo <${fifo}
    # grep has exited, time to go
    kill "${tailpid}"
} | {
    grep -m 1 "Server Started"
    # notify the first pipeline stage that grep is done
    echo >${fifo}
}
# clean up
rm "${fifo}"

This approach has all the pros and cons of the previous approach, except it's more complicated.
A Warning About Buffering
POSIX allows the stdin and stdout streams to be fully buffered, which means that tail's output might not be processed by grep for an arbitrarily long time.  There shouldn't be any problems on GNU systems:  GNU grep uses read(), which avoids all buffering, and GNU tail -f makes regular calls to fflush() when writing to stdout.  Non-GNU systems may have to do something special to disable or regularly flush buffers.

A: Let me expand on @00prometheus answer (which is the best one).
Maybe you should use a timeout instead of waiting indefinitely.
The bash function below will block until the given search term appears or a given timeout is reached.
The exit status will be 0 if the string is found within the timeout.
wait_str() {
  local file="$1"; shift
  local search_term="$1"; shift
  local wait_time="${1:-5m}"; shift # 5 minutes as default timeout

  (timeout $wait_time tail -F -n0 "$file" &) | grep -q "$search_term" && return 0

  echo "Timeout of $wait_time reached. Unable to find '$search_term' in '$file'"
  return 1
}

Perhaps the log file doesn't exist yet just after launching your server. In that case, you should wait for it to appear before searching for the string:
wait_server() {
  echo "Waiting for server..."
  local server_log="$1"; shift
  local wait_time="$1"; shift

  wait_file "$server_log" 10 || { echo "Server log file missing: '$server_log'"; return 1; }

  wait_str "$server_log" "Server Started" "$wait_time"
}

wait_file() {
  local file="$1"; shift
  local wait_seconds="${1:-10}"; shift # 10 seconds as default timeout

  until test $((wait_seconds--)) -eq 0 -o -f "$file" ; do sleep 1; done

  ((++wait_seconds))
}

Here's how you can use it:
wait_server "/var/log/server.log" 5m && \
echo -e "\n-------------------------- Server READY --------------------------\n"

A: Alex i think this one will help you lot.
tail -f logfile |grep -m 1 "Server Started" | xargs echo "" >> /dev/null ;

this command will never give an entry on the logfile but will grep silently...

A: Here is a much better solution that does not require you to write to the logfile, which is very dangerous or even impossible in some cases.
sh -c 'tail -n +0 -f /tmp/foo | { sed "/EOF/ q" && kill $$ ;}'

Currently it has only one side effect, the tail process will remain in background until the next line is written to the log.

A: The other solutions here have several issues:

*

*if the logging process is already down or goes down during the loop they will run indefinitely

*editing a log that should only be viewed

*unnecessarily writing an additional file

*not allowing for additional logic

Here is what I came up with using tomcat as an example (remove the hashes if you want to see the log while its starting):
function startTomcat {
    loggingProcessStartCommand="${CATALINA_HOME}/bin/startup.sh"
    loggingProcessOwner="root"
    loggingProcessCommandLinePattern="${JAVA_HOME}"
    logSearchString="org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Server startup"
    logFile="${CATALINA_BASE}/log/catalina.out"

    lineNumber="$(( $(wc -l "${logFile}" | awk '{print $1}') + 1 ))"
    ${loggingProcessStartCommand}
    while [[ -z "$(sed -n "${lineNumber}p" "${logFile}" | grep "${logSearchString}")" ]]; do
        [[ -z "$(ps -ef | grep "^${loggingProcessOwner} .* ${loggingProcessCommandLinePattern}" | grep -v grep)" ]] && { echo "[ERROR] Tomcat failed to start"; return 1; }
        [[ $(wc -l "${logFile}" | awk '{print $1}') -lt ${lineNumber} ]] && continue
        #sed -n "${lineNumber}p" "${logFile}"
        let lineNumber++
    done
    #sed -n "${lineNumber}p" "${logFile}"
    echo "[INFO] Tomcat has started"
}

A: Try to use inotify (inotifywait)
You set up inotifywait for any file change, then check the file with grep, if not found just rerun inotifywait, if found exit the loop... Smth like that

A: You want to leave as soon as the line is written, but you also want to leave after a timeout:
if (timeout 15s tail -F -n0 "stdout.log" &) | grep -q "The string that says the startup is successful" ; then
    echo "Application started with success."
else
    echo "Startup failed."
    tail stderr.log stdout.log
    exit 1
fi

A: I needed to write a line in log file after the line appeared in auth.log
got inspired by the answer above
tail -f logfile.log | while read LOGLINE
do
[[ "${LOGLINE}" == *"Server Started"* ]] && pkill -P $$ tail
done

for me worked next
tail -f -n0 /var/log/auth.log | while read LOGLINE;
do [[ "${LOGLINE}" == *"Removed session"* ]] && pkill -P $$ tail;
echo "$(date "+%d-%m-%Y_%H:%M:%S") $(whoami) Screen_Locked poweroff" >>
/var/log/lock-unlock-user.log;
done

A: One liner
tail -f myfile.log | while read LINE; do echo $LINE; echo "$LINE" | grep -Fq 'Listening on 0.0.0.0' && pkill -P $$; done

Notes

*

*Based on the excellent answer by Rob https://superuser.com/a/449307/33705

*Doesn't use bash only double brackets [[]]

*This uses GNU grep to do the line matching.

*I did not see any tail processes running after this ends, but I might have missed it, correct me if I'm wrong.

Explanation
tail -f myfile.log | while read LINE;

will loop line by line from myfile.log and send it to the while which will store it in a variable $LINE.
echo $LINE;

Will print/echo the the line so that we can monitor it, I imagine this will lose any color information.
echo "$LINE" | grep -Fq 'Listening on 0.0.0.0' && pkill -P $$;

echo the LINE as a "string" and send the output to grep.
grep will then look for the string "Listening on 0.0.0.0" and when it matches, kill the current process.

*

*$$ is a special variable that returns the current process id.

*grep -F means "do plaintext matching", this skips doing regex and makes it faster.

*grep -q silences output and quits once there is a single match, returning a true or false that you can chain with &&
After that the shell will continue running commands as usual.
The cool thing about this approach is that we can use it for anything, even to monitor a docker container until a string is found.
docker logs container_name -f | while read LINE; do echo ${LINE}; echo "${LINE}" | grep -Fq 'Listening on 0.0.0.0' && pkill -P $$; done; echo "hello"

A: Inspired on the answer from Phio https://superuser.com/a/1052328/102262, I wrote this version on a function and that works both on Linux and MacOSX
wait_for_pattern() {
    local file="$1"
    local pattern="$2"
    # Two parts:
    # 1. tail follow the file in background, printing the PID and waiting for it
    # 2. add a trap to kill the tail PID on exit, read PID from first line, sed to match the first occurrence
    (
        (sleep 1; exec tail -n 1000 -f "${file}") & echo $! ; wait
    ) | (
        trap 'kill "$pid"' EXIT; pid="$(head -1)";
        sed -n "/${pattern}/{p;q;}"
    )
}

wait_for_pattern /tmp/foo Lib

Explanation:

*

*starts a subprocess running in background

*Subproccess sleep 1 to wait for the next piped process to read the pid

*then execs into tail

*print the PID of the background process

*we add a wait to wait for tail in background to finish

*The piped subprocess would setup a trap to kill the PID.

*read the PID from first line

*sed will match the pattern and exit on first occurrence. This sed syntax is compatible with macosx

A: how about this:
while true;
do
if [ ! -z $(grep "myRegEx" myLog.log) ];
then break;
fi ;
done


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The government has taken measures to improve food safety and reliability. Food that is safe can be eaten without any ill effects.
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In recent years there have been a number of food scandals in the Netherlands. Notably, horsemeat was sold as beef. There was another scare when hundreds of people became ill after eating salmon contaminated with salmonella. These incidents have undermined public confidence in the food industry.
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Many people eat meat every day. On average, they eat around 40 kg of meat per year. Livestock always carry some bacteria and germs. Laws guarantee the quality and safety of foods of animal origin.
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We recently had the pleasure of attending the video shoot for "California Classic", the debut single from the upcoming album, "King of G-Funk" by the one and only Kokane. The video was shot in Los Angeles and this exclusive behind-the-scenes footage was captured by our host, Chago Williams. We chops …


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Two army soldiers injured in gunfight with militants trapped in Shopian encounter
By Raashid Hassan on 12:37 am January 27, 2022 No Comment
Shopian: A fierce gunfight is underway at Cheki-Nowgam village in Vehil area of south Kashmir's Shopian district. Two army soldiers have sustained injuries during the initial exchange of fire with the militants.
A cordon and search operation in the village was launched by a joint team of government forces including 44 Rashtriya Rifles of army, 14th battalion of Central Reserve Police Force and Jammu and Kashmir Police in the village on Wednesday after inputs about the presence of militants in the area.
The joint search party, according to police sources, came under fire from the hiding militants, which was retaliated and ensued into an encounter. Two army soldiers, according to police sources, were injured in the initial exchange of fire.
This encounter is the second such operation in the district in the first month of 2022.
Police sources said that two militants are believed to be trapped in the encounter while exchange of fire is going on. They said that lights have been installed around the site to stop any movement of militants.
A police source said that reinforcements have been also called in for the operation, which is difficult because of heavy snow and cold conditions in the area.
Two army soldiers injured in gunfight with militants trapped in Shopian encounter added by Raashid Hassan on 12:37 am January 27, 2022


Today is a day to focus on the Cross. We are used to seeing crosses everywhere worn as adornments such as earrings and necklaces. It is hard to know how much of the true meaning of crosses and crucifixes filters through to the people who wear them. Sometimes the symbolism of the cross is hard to miss. For many people this was the case during the past week as images emerged of the interior of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after the fire which caused so much damage. Above a heap of charred wood and rubble in front of the altar hung a cross which seemed to shine out amid the sadness and gloom. It seemed to bear the message that through death and destruction there is a life and a hope that can never be vanquished.
This is a day which even church worshippers can approach with some reluctance or even avoid altogether. It can be experienced as "too sad" and perhaps people might question why, as believers in the Resurrection, we need to revisit the scene of Jesus's suffering and death. Surely this is no longer a necessary part of the Christian experience? Well, it is true that Jesus in his death on the Cross has broken the ultimate power that sin and death might have held over us. This does not mean that suffering and death are things of the past though. In this world we still experience grief, betrayal, failure and in the end also death. What we can be sure of though, is that this need not be the end of our story.
Today we pause and focus for a while on the Cross. The sufferings of Jesus mean that he identifies closely with us in our own trials and losses. Our faith is not a fairy tale which comes to a happy ending, but it is deeply grounded in human experience – an experience which we share. Jesus did not pass lightly over the experiences of suffering and death but felt these things as keenly as anyone else would. We know that we cannot make light of human suffering. There is no point telling someone with depression to "snap out of it". We cannot expect the bereaved to "just get over it". We have to go through these experiences when they happen, but as Christians we know that we can go through them with hope. Through the Cross comes life-giving grace.
Today as we venerate the Cross and kiss the feet of Jesus, we are reminded that he is with us in our trials. From our faith in him we draw from an ever-present source of life and hope. As I think of the image of the cross glowing in the darkness and destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral I am reminded that no matter how messy and sad life might at times seem, through Jesus we always have cause for hope and the promise of new life. Today, let us approach the Cross with the assurance that through the death of Christ our sins are forgiven and our life restored.
Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at God's right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed - and he is your life - you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.
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Information Conference Details Technical Program Call for Papers Program Committee Event Chairs Invited Speakers Keynote Lectures Satellite Events Workshops Special Sessions Tutorials Demos Panels Doctoral Consortium European Project Space Industrial Track Partners Academic Partners Industrial Partners Institutional Partners Media Partners Partner Events Publication Partners Previous Conferences Abstracts Awards
The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Coordination of Health Care
Bernard P.Zeigler, University of Arizona, United States
Framing the Foundations of Computing using Computer Simulation
Paul Fishwick, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Modelling as a Way in Design of Novel Algorithms in Computational Intelligence
Helena Szczerbicka, Universität Hannover, Germany
Bernard P.Zeigler
Bernard P Zeigler is Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona and Adjunct Research Professor in the C4I Center at George Mason University. He is internationally known for his seminal contributions in modeling and simulation theory and has published several books including "Theory of Modeling and Simulation" and "Modeling & Simulation-based Data Engineering: Introducing Pragmatics into Ontologies for Net-Centric Information Exchange". He was named Fellow of the IEEE for the Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS) formalism that he invented in 1976. Among numerous positions held with the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS) he served as President and was inducted into its Hall of Fame. He is currently Chief Scientist with RTSync Corp., a developer of the MS4 modeling and simulation software based on DEVS. Zeigler's research has been funded by a variety of sponsors including National Science Foundation (NSF), Defense Advanced Reseach Projects Agency, US Air Force Research Laboratory among others. . Currently, Zeigler is leading a project for the NSF and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the developing a simulation model for the national healthcare system. For more information see the Wikipedia entry on Bernard P Zeigler.
US healthcare, the most expensive in the world, has been diagnosed as an assemblage of uncoordinated component subsystems embedded in a market economy that promotes independent pricing with few points of global control over delivered quality of care and cost. In this talk, we report on a project to develop a modeling and simulation methodology and tools to capture the existing state of, and re-engineer, such a system of systems to increase quality of care and reduce cost. A useful abstraction comprehends the system as an interaction of individual patients, a variety of care providers, a set of payers, and a billing system that records patient-provider transactions and enables payer-provider fee-for-service transactions. Stimulated by the Affordable Care Act and other initiatives, efforts are underway to increase the level of information technology (IT) to improve patient record keeping and portability as well as the move to price services based on performance rather than amount provided. Yet such an IT infrastructure by itself will not provide significantly greater coordination since it does not provide transparency into the threads of transactions that represent patient treatments, their outcomes, and total costs.
In this talk, we discuss the Pathways Care Coordination model, a construct that enforces threaded distributed tracking of individual patients experiencing certain pathways of intervention, thereby supporting coordination of care and fee for performance based on end-to-end outcomes. As an essential byproduct, the Pathway concept also opens up possibilities for system level metrics that enable more coherent visualization of behavior than previously possible, therefore greater process control and improvement re-engineering, We discuss the associated concepts, their implementation in the MS4 Modeling and Simulation Environment, and the application to a successful implementation of Pathways model in a local scale. We close with comments on how the environment and tools can play a role in the evolution of the Pathways model as it is scaled up to state and national levels.
Paul Fishwick
Paul Fishwick is Distinguished Chair of Arts and Technology and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He began employment working at Newport News Shipbuilding and at NASA Langley Research Center. Fishwick obtained the PhD in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by three academic appointments in Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Fishwick has authored and edited books on modeling and simulation and aesthetic computing, and has over 200 technical publications. He serves on all editorial boards of simulation-related journals such as ACM Transactions on Modeling and Simulation, where he started as a founding area editor of modeling methodology in 1990. He chaired the Winter Simulation Conference in 2000, and currently serves as Chair of ACM SIGSIM. He directs the Creative Automata Laboratory, where his most recent research is human-model interaction for education and communication.
Modeling is an enterprise that is present in all academic disciplines, and it is a topic native to the simulation field in cases where the model captures the dynamical essence of phenomena. Computing is a large field, where practitioners write programs to process data, and integrate information. We propose an approach to learning computing through, not only the execution of a simulation, but also through the design of simulation models. These models serve as machines which operate to yield results identical to those of written programs. Model constructions arise from an interdisciplinary connection between systems thinking, computing, and design as practiced in the arts. The result of this collaboration is a set of creative models that engage and inspire students to learn computing. I will illustrate this practice with several examples, and cover challenges with this pedagogical approach.
Helena Szczerbicka
Dr. Helena Szczerbicka is a full professor in computer science at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. Her research interests are in the area of simulation, modeling with stochastic Petri Nets, nature based computational methods, co-simulation and sensor networks. She is a co-author of over 100 papers. In 2010 she was a vice President of the Society of Computer Simulation International (SCS) and since 2012 belongs to the Board of Directors of the SCS. In 2011 she was awarded with the Outstandig and 2018 with the Distinguished Service Award from the SCS. She served several times as the general chair of the SPECTS conferences. In 2014 she was a keynote speaker of the Simultech conference.
There has been a growing interest in recent years in development of computational intelligence methodologies that relate to nature-inspired computational methodologies and approaches to address complex real-world problems to which traditional approaches, are ineffective or infeasible. The essential to development of novel algorithms is modeling the phenomena of the nature in that way that they can be applied to solving technical problems Artificial Immune Systems are one of the recent methodologies in computational intelligence. AIS can be defined as computational systems inspired by theoretical immunology, observed immune functions, principles and mechanisms in order to solve problems. In the talk I will give an overview about the role of Modelling in Artificial Immune Systems and how we are using them for anomaly detection and protecting ad-hoc networks from attacks.


Just wanted to say hello, and introduce myself.
My name is Erik, and I'm a middle aged, married man who only recently, after much study, came to Christ and accepted him as my savior.
Without going into a lot of detail, I came across Ray's site soon after I had fully accepted Christ. I feel it was a real blessing to have done so; Ray's writings gave scriptural voice to much of what I'd suspected, and really allowed me to see more of the Good in Good News.
I came across these forums as a result of my intent to write him, and the discovery that he had passed less than a fortnight before my attempt to contact him. I was deeply saddened, and also, touched by the support you all gave him during his and his wife's painful trials.
Welcome to the forum, Erik. I hope you continue to grow in truth and understanding.
Hi Erik. It's good to meet you.
This is a place that we have been so blessed to have for fellowship and discussion of the truths that we are learning. Join in the discussion are ask your own questions as you like.
Here are links to the different boards that you can look into to help find all the stuff we have here.
Hi Eric, welcome to the forum!
I hope to read some of your questions in life and hope to learn from the answers of our brethren here.
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Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse:
 Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder English title: Esoterogeny and the creation of difference: Religion and identity making, in the Pacific and elsewhere
Taking its cue from Marx' and Weber's grand theorizing, a key narrative in Western modernity has been the inevitable dissolution of pre-modern identities. This thesis has informed both policy making and notions of global agency, and in effect caused a particular worldview in which everyone will become more or less the same – what I refer to as the Star Trek-vision of globalized culture and values. In this article, I borrow the linguistic concept of 'esoterogeny', the creation of the obscure, to address whether difference, far from being coincidental, serves a more fundamental experiential purpose and consequently is actively maintained. The empirical point of departure are church fissions and denominational dynamics in the Pacific island state of Vanuatu. I argue that in an age characterized by identity politics, in which recognition and attention are scarce resources, all keen observers of social systems should expect the outcome of ever more global interaction to lead to an increase in articulations of social and cultural difference.
Kolshus, T. (2019). Esoterogeni og aktiv forskjellsdannelse:
 Religion og identitetsskapning, i Stillehavet og andre steder: English title: Esoterogeny and the creation of difference: Religion and identity making, in the Pacific and elsewhere. FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice, 6(1), 24–39. https://doi.org/10.7577/fleks.3308


Lets face it... we're a Mötley Crüe, but it works right. We're all family just trying to figure out this exercise thing.
Well know you can Rep your Crew in our newest and maybe favoritest (yeah) design ever.
This one is for The Doers, Drifters, Lifters & Punks out there.


How are your Fourth of July picnic plans shaping up? If you're still toiling over which desserts to pair with your annual barbecue, we're here to help.
We've collected pins from the brilliant minds behind some of Pinterest's most popular and beautiful Independence Day desserts.
Whether you and your guests have an insatiable sweet tooth or you're just looking for a lighter dessert to accompany your grill, we have some gorgeous red, white and blue options for you.
When you see an image that strikes your fancy, just click through the embedded pin to the original source on Pinterest. Hopefully they can provide you with the culinary guidance, just as we provided you with the eye-catching, taste bud-popping list.
What are you planning to serve this Fourth of July? Let us know in the comments if Pinterest's best doesn't compare to your favorite patriotic traditions.


While Santa might be real, the Food Safety Information Council says there are a lot of food safety Christmas myths out there including the need to wash the turkey before cooking it.
According to Rachelle Williams, Council Chair, 68% of people in the Council's most recent national survey washed their turkey before cooking it.
'Turkey is an important part of our Christmas tradition and still popular, with half of the people surveyed reported cooking a whole turkey, but it can be a source of food poisoning if not handled correctly.
'The last thing your turkey needs is a bath before being cooked as cooking the turkey correctly to 75 °C in its thickest part is the best way to kill any bacteria present. Washing the raw turkey, or any other poultry, can spread food poisoning bacteria around your kitchen where it can contaminate your sink area and other food, utensils and your hands.
'It is disappointing to see many Christmas recipes and chefs still recommending washing poultry and advising that poultry is cooked when the juices run clear – the only safe way to ensure it is the correct temperature of 75 °C is to use a meat thermometer.
'The Council is a health promotion charity and, as we gather with family and friends this Christmas, we are encouraging people to make a donation in lieu of a gift with one of our easily downloadable Christmas gift cards,' Ms Williams concluded.
No one goes hungry at a family celebration – don't over cater and buy too much food that won't fit in your fridge and leave you with too many leftovers.
The fridge isn't just for beer – make room in your fridge for perishable food by putting drinks on ice, this also means the fridge won't constantly be opened by your guests.
Christmas ham won't last forever – check the storage instructions and best before or use by date before removing the ham from its plastic wrap, cover it with clean cloth soaked in water and vinegar so it doesn't dry out, and store it in the fridge below 5°C. Reduced salt hams are now becoming popular but will not last as long as conventional hams so think how much you are going to use in the next week or so and freeze some for later.
Leaving food out in the sun for hours isn't on – don't leave dips and other perishable foods like patés, cold meats, poultry and salads out for more than two hours, put out small amounts and replace from the fridge.
Leftovers should be cooled to room temperature before refrigerating – with the Christmas leftovers its important not to leave them unrefrigerated and there is no need to cool to room temperature. So as soon as the cooked food has stopped steaming, divide leftovers into into small containers so they will cool quickly and refrigerate or freeze immediately. Use up refrigerated leftovers within 3 days and make sure your fridge is running at 5°C or below. Always reheat leftovers to 75°C in the centre of the item or the thickest part to kill any food poisoning bugs.


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Latest > $1 million shoot out comes to the Belfry
$1 million shoot out comes to the Belfry
As nine amateurs from across the UK qualify
Nine amateur golfers from across the UK are just one shot away from landing $1million after they qualified for the hole–in–one challenge final, run in partnership by Million Dollar Hole In One (MDHIO) and American Golf.
The finalists will line up at the Belfry on Thursday, September 7, where they will get the chance to shoot for an ace on a specially designed 150–yard par–three 18th hole at the iconic Brabazon course. And GolfPunk will be there on the day, and following the action as it happens live.
Telford duo Chris Gilbert, 32, James Showell, 31, Mick Barnes, 48, from Stoke, Steve Rowe, 60, from Epping, Richard Hannam, 70, from Prudhoe, Jonathan McKee, 39, from Buckley, near Chester, Billy Turner, 26, from West Malling, Chris Johns, 31, from Dunblane and Georgina Wrixon, 18, from Horton near Wimborne will all battle it out after taking part in the MDHIO competition at American Golf stores across the UK.
As part of the American Golf Industry Day, there will also be eight contenders from the golf industry, whose names will be drawn out of the hat in a lucky prize draw, as well as two from On Course Foundation (OCF), a charity that supports the recovery of wounded, injured and sick service personnel and veterans through golf.
They will all be playing in the hope of bagging a hole–in–one and scooping $1million for the OCF.
Ian Bishop, 36, from Southampton served in the Royal Marines until he lost both legs above the knee when stepping on an IED in Afghanistan in 2009. Just a year after the explosion he gave up his wheelchair and became only the second person in the UK with a double amputation above the knees to walk unaided.
"Bish", who took up golf with OCF as part of his recovery and now has a handicap of nine after just six years, will represent the UK in the Simpson Cup, which is a competition against wounded US veterans at Royal Birkdale later this month. It will be his sixth appearance in the tournament.
Rob Hansen, 41, who also plays off six, lives in Gloucestershire and is a member at Puckrup Hall. He was serving in the Royal Signals when he suffered a catastrophic failure of his knee in June 2012, which resulted in medical discharge from service. Hansen, who played golf prior to injury, became involved with OCF during his recovery, will play in the Simpson Cup for the fourth time.
More than 5,000 golfers took part in the MDHIO and American Golf competition across the UK and Ireland, with the top 10 who were nearest the pin making it into the Belfry showdown where the entrants will also enjoy a complimentary night's stay and lavish gala dinner, when the possible $1million winner will be presented with their cheque.
MDHIO director Martin Tyrrell said: "We have been running this hugely popular competition across the country in partnership with American Golf and the response from the public has been absolutely phenomenal.
The Belfry is a great course known around the world, and to get the chance to shoot for $1million makes it even more thrilling. We have our qualifiers, while some lucky people from the golf industry will get the chance to play.
"There are some very good golfers taking part, but this is a unique sport and even those with higher handicaps have experienced the buzz of claiming a hole–in–one in the past – as our qualifying sessions at American Golf stores over the past few weeks have shown.
"However, unlike if somebody manages it in normal circumstances, when they traditionally will be out of pocket with a round at the bar, anyone who does it at the Belfry next week will be celebrating winning a life–changing amount of cash. It will be a thoroughly exciting day."
MDHIO is also running a parallel competition to win another $1m with this year's final at the stunning mountain setting of the Golf & Spa Grand Tirolia Kitzbühel, Austria, on September 11.
PXG sign Paige Spiranac –she's a million dollars!
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Ah, Idaho: home of the famous (or infamous) Idaho stop law which has caused no small amount of confusion, frustration, and swearing between cyclists and drivers and making it an oddball state to ride your bike in.
Still, as long as you keep your wits about you, show some empathy, and keep some laws in mind, you'll be able to enjoy riding all over the state with no problem.
After all, aside from the oddball stop law, there's not much that makes Idaho different from much of the rest of the United States. What should you know about when biking in Idaho?
This deserves its own section because Idaho is the only state with a law like this in the whole of the country, making it very easy to forget about until you see someone doing it and then you just feel confused. Here's how it works.
A bicycle, when it's in its lane or on the road, may pull up to a stop sign, but the rider can then proceed without stopping. Bikes do have to yield, which means that they must slow down, and they can go through safely. Riders must yield that right of way to anyone already stopped there or close enough to be hazardous.
A red light means the bike must stop, but only long enough to yield to other traffic. If it's safe to go through, then go through. And if you're turning, you also don't have to stop!
The Idaho stop law may not seem fair to drivers, but it is effective because it keeps the smaller traffic moving and out of the way of the cars.
The Idaho stop law only applies to bikes riding on the road though; if you are riding on the sidewalk, then you are subject to the same laws as pedestrians, meaning full stops at the stop light (as well as things like warning pedestrians you pass that you are coming).
Other states are starting to look at implementing something similar, but so far nothing has come of it other than some debate.
Bikes always occupy a weird space and in Idaho, it's no different. If there's a bike lane, cyclists are generally encouraged to use it (and in some places, must use it). They must always ride with traffic, not against it, and while on the roadway, have the same rights and duties as cars.
Bikes must be ridden as far too the right as possible, unless passing another bike or vehicle going in the same direction, when getting ready to do a left turn into an intersection, private road, or driveway, when avoiding something dangerous, or when on a one-way road with two or more lanes.
In bike lanes, bikes have their own rights, for things like riding two abreast and the Idaho stop law. Bikes can also ride on sidewalks where they are treated as pedestrians for the purposes of things like stopping, crossing crosswalks, and riding carefully and slowly. The Idaho stop law does not come into effect when riding on a sidewalk: you are a pedestrian and are treated as such.
Bikes can only be ridden two abreast except on bike paths that are exclusively meant for bikes and then you can ride more than two abreast but be careful of people coming from the opposite direction!
Bike riders under the age of eighteen are required to wear a bike helmet while riding and people over the age don't have to, but it's still a good idea. Bikes also must be the proper size for riders and have working brakes with handlebars that are lower than the rider's shoulders.
All bikes must also have reflectors on the front, back and side for riding at night and night riders must also use a white light in order to stay visible to drivers.
Idaho also does not have any defined "vulnerable road user" laws, but Idaho does require that drivers of vehicles are paying attention to where they drive to prevent collisions and accidents with cyclists and pedestrians. Idaho also doesn't have any sort of local regulation of bikes, but you should still check in your community as authorities do have the power to regulate how bikes operate if they choose to in other ways.
Electric bikes have some attention paid to them in Idaho but not a lot. Electric bikes are defined as a vehicle equipped with two/three wheels, foot pedals, a motor that won't exceed 500w and a speed that does not exceed 30mph.
There is no need for licensing or registration, though helmets must be worn by riders under the age of eighteen. Electric bikes are also allowed on bike paths and they should be ridden to the right as much as possible. Otherwise, there's not much else on them, so it's safest to treat them as a vehicle and ride them carefully.
Other than the truly unique law about the Idaho stop, cycling in Idaho is mostly a matter of common sense. There's not too much needed in terms of things like safety equipment and the codes are kept relatedly straightforward and to the point.
The main thing to keep in mind is that bikes are cars when on the road, bikes in the bike lanes, and pedestrians on the sidewalk, so far as the law is concerned. And that Idaho stop takes some getting used to! Otherwise, be safe and sensible and you will be able to ride in an enjoyable and legal manner in Idaho.


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Q: The definition of a function series I have the function series $f_n(x)$ defined as:
$$ f_n(x) = \frac{xe^{-nx}}{\ln(n)} $$
where $ x\in \mathbb{R}~~ \& ~~ \forall n \geq 2 $.
The question askes for two things:
$1.$ to specify the domain where the series $ \sum_{n \geq 2} f_n(x)$ is defined (domain of definition).
$2.$ to study if the function is continues over the interval $]0, \infty[$.
I already solved the second question with no problem, but I don't know how to solve the first one! I would appreciate your help a lot.

A: If $x=0$, then you always have $f_n(x)=0$, and therefore the sequence converges.
If $x>0$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty}e^{-nx}=0$, and therefore $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{xe^{-nx}}{\log n}=0$ too.
Finally, if $x<0$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{e^{-nx}}{\log n}=\infty$, and therefore $\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{xe^{-nx}}{\log n}=-\infty$; in particular, your sequence diverges.

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Why Deep Learning May Not Be So 'Deep' After All
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Deep learning has given us tremendous new powers to spot patterns hidden in great globs of data. For some challenges, neural networks can even outperform top human experts. However, despite all the progress the new approach represents and the hope that it will lead us to actual artificial intelligence, there are big limits on the practical application of deep learning.
Deep learning has emerged as the latest "easy button" for big data analytics. The thinking seems to go like this: Got a lot of data to analyze? Don't worry – just fire up a neural network using TensorFlow, Keras, or some other deep learning library, and presto! You'll have the right answer in no time.
While deep learning has excited the data science and computer science communities with its capabilities, the reality is that it's neither as automatic nor as powerful as many people think. And in many cases, experts say data scientists are often better off using well-established machine learning techniques than working with the latest deep learning library.
One of the biggest misconceptions about deep learning approaches is that it eliminates the need for a practitioner to do a lot of manual feature selection and tuning. That's only partially true, says Michael Xiao, who's a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a veteran of Kaggle data science competitions.
"A lot of people think if you start using neural networks, you really don't need to do anything. That's absolutely not true," he says. "You still need to do a lot of pre-processing."
Flipping the DL Script
Xiao, whose day job is leading a data science team for a Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance group, was recently involved in a Kaggle competition that sought to find better ways of classifying images of cervixes for the purpose of improving automated detection of cervical cancer. He discovered several tricks that helped boost the accuracy of his convolutional neural network (CNN).
Flipping images of cervixes can boost the classification accuracy of convolutional neural networks (Courtesy National Cancer Institute)
For example, Xiao found that flipping the images of the cervixes provided more sample pictures that his CNN could train on, which led to a 1% improvement in accuracy. The flipped image is just another example of what a cervix can look like, even though it wouldn't fool a human into believing that it's a second cervix, he says.
"If I'm just flipping the image, it's probably the same as the other image," he says. "But the model doesn't actually generalize to that extent without you giving it that data. Neural networks aren't to the point where they can inherently understand."
He also found that using other machine learning methods to detect which part of the picture contained the cervix also helped. So did scaling down the resolution of the large image files into something more manageable for his computer. These are "common sense" techniques that data scientists can use to improve the effectiveness of their neural network.
So while it's true that neural networks handle the feature selection component of deep learning automatically, there is still plenty of work in deep learning to keep a data scientist busy. It's far from "set it and forget it," Xiao says. "Even though you don't have to do feature selection, you still have to process the images," he says.
DL Not a Silver Bullet
There's no denying that there's a lot hype surrounding deep learning. In 2017, progress in applications of neural networks has fueled a widespread belief that AI breakthroughs are just around the corner.
While deep learning approaches have given us better results in some applications, the technology is not being used outside of two primary use cases: image recognition (i.e. computer vision) and text recognition (such as natural language processing). For most data science use cases that don't involve manipulating images or text, traditional machine learning models are hard to beat.
"I would say right now there's actually no proof that [neural networks] can perform better," Xiao says. "If you have data sets that are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands in number and you have a traditional regression problem and you're trying to predict the probability that someone is going to click on an ad, for example, neural networks — at least the existing structures — just don't perform as well as other methods."
That probably comes as a surprise to many in the industry who figured deep learning was going to drive data science into the AI future. "I don't think that's the answer that most people want to hear," Xiao says "People like to throw around the term AI, but we're not quite to that level yet."
That line of thinking is backed up by some of the most prominent names in the machine learning community. Francois Chollet, an AI researcher at Google and the inventor of Keras, says that while deep learning was supposed to emulate the human brain, it's really just a more powerful form of statistical inference.
Deep neural networks do not actually replicate the functioning of the human brain (Life science of anatomy/Shutterstock)
"The most important problem for A.I today is abstraction and reasoning," Chollet said at the recent AI By the Bay conference, according to a March blog post by TopBots CTO Mariya Yao. "Current supervised perception and reinforcement learning algorithms require lots of data, are terrible at planning, and are only doing straightforward pattern recognition."
That view is also backed by Geoffrey Hinton, the Canadian computer scientist and Google researcher who's been called the "father of deep learning." While neural networks are decades old, it was Hinton who advocated for back propagation of data in a multi-layered approach to better simulate the complexity of information processing in the human brain.
Now Hinton is exploring a new computational theory that utilizes column-like collections of data, or "capsules," to go along with the horizontal layers in a neural network. Such a construct could help alleviate some of deep learning's current limitations, and provide another "bridge between computer science and biology," he says in the MIT Technology Review.
Hinton was even more adamant about the need for a new approach in a discussion with Axios this fall — particularly when it came to supervised learning and the back-propagation approach that he's famous for. "My view is throw it all away and start again," he told Axios. "I don't think it's how the brain works," he said. "We clearly don't need all the labeled data."
Getting a better model of how the brain actually works would be a good place to start when it comes to building true AI. That's the path that neuroscientist and Starmind founder Pascal Kaufmann is following, but as of yet, there haven't been any breakthroughs that would lead us past the "brute force statistics" approach that is embodied in deep learning.
"We are lagging in basic understanding of how the brain works," Kaufmann told Datanami earlier this year. "If we crack the brain code, I think we can build an artificial brain."
Xiao and other data scientists are waiting for that inspiration to lead to better models of human intelligence that could eventually lead us to real AI. Because deep learning certainly isn't going to lead us there.
"Jeff Hinton, who's pretty famous and well known in the industry, basically said we've kind of hit a roadblock where back propagation doesn't really simulate the human brain," Xiao says. "We need someone to make a breakthrough and actually come up with a computational method that's more similar to how the brain operates."
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OSO — Roughly two months before a civil trial is set to start over whether anyone should be held responsible for the deadly 2014 Oso mudslide, a flurry of legal motions hint at just how bruising is the battle that lies ahead.
The pleadings filed in King County Superior Court show stark disagreement among the parties on the theories they plan to offer to explain the disaster's origins.
Lawyers also are firing off accusations that their cases may be compromised by conflicting legal strategies, surprise witnesses and allegedly withheld evidence.
Snohomish County, the state and the Grandy Lake Forest Associates timber company all are named as defendants in the case, which is believed to be the largest wrongful death action brought in Washington's history.
As the autumn trial approaches, no punches are being pulled.
Perhaps the most explosive claim comes from lawyers representing people harmed in the disaster. They now are accusing Snohomish County officials of trying to limit damage claims by deliberately not gathering up detailed, forensic evidence about each of the 43 people who died when a wall of mud and trees swept across the North Fork Stillaguamish River Valley.
Autopsies were performed on six of the dead. The team of medical examiners who engaged in the grisly work of identifying the human remains recovered from the slide say that was appropriate because the devastating injuries left no doubt all of the victims succumbed swiftly to blunt-force trauma, court papers show.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs have a forensic expert who will testify the medical examiners' methods were shoddy and the decision inappropriate. Moreover, the attorneys contend county officials hoped to make it impossible to demonstrate the sequence of the victims' injuries and thus potentially limit any damages that could be awarded based on conscious pain and suffering.
"Snohomish County found only what they set out to find through a cursory examination of the decedents," the attorneys said in court papers.
The county's legal team is expected to file a formal response before the court hears the motion Aug. 5.
In recent weeks, they've been urging Judge Roger Rogoff to act on his June 27 ruling that reduced the ability of people to claim Snohomish County officials failed to adequately warn of the risks connected to the Steelhead Haven neighborhood, where most of the slide victims made their homes.
Rogoff ruled such claims only can be brought by people who attended, or "who relied on the substance" of information shared by the county in a March 2006 meeting after an earlier slide blocked the river.
Exactly what was said at the meeting is in dispute. Plaintiffs' lawyers contend the county provided a misleading warning about landslide risks. The county says people at the meeting were told the government no longer would provide them with protection from likely future flooding, and that landslide activity was unpredictable.
The county asked Rogoff to enforce his ruling by dismissing dozens of claims brought by those representing people who weren't at the meeting. Lawyers for those people contend that they ought to get to make their case that they relied on information shared at the meeting.
Meanwhile, the county, state and the timber company have asked the judge to structure the trial so jurors must decide liability questions prior to hearing testimony about the damages sustained by people when the hill fell.
The liability issues will focus on geology, forestry, hydrology, engineering and a complicated history of human interaction with the hill. "The testimony the parties will present on damages also will be complex, and it will be emotionally wrenching," the lawyers wrote.
The county, state and timber company worry jurors' decisions may be unduly influenced if they first listen to dozens of people testify about lost family and shattered lives. "It is a natural reaction for any juror to conclude that 'someone' must be to blame for the tragic deaths of 43 people," they wrote.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs say splitting the trial as proposed is unnecessary and would force people who lost family in the mudslide to testify twice. They also accused the defendants of "an attempt to sanitize the magnitude" of what was at risk before the hill fell in 2014.
The trial in the case had been scheduled for this summer, but was reset to allow more time to consider the work of state experts who have conducted drilling and analysis of how groundwater moves through the hill.
The work over the past year has challenged some widely held theories about the geologic makeup of the hillside and the allegation that logging over the years made it dangerously soggy and prone to collapse. Scientific examinations of the area since 2014 also show similar giant slides have occurred repeatedly in that valley since the Ice Age.
State experts haven't yet concluded what they think caused the 2014 slide, but they are prepared to testify that evidence shows logging wasn't a significant factor, and that rain that soaked into the hillside wasn't directed into the slide, court papers show.
They asked the judge to schedule a separate trial for clients represented by attorney Karen Willie, whose theory of the case focuses on "additions of humanly created water" and the role it played in the slide and devastation it caused.
Those seeking a separate trial argued the differing plaintiffs' theories could confuse jurors. If a single trial was ordered, the lawyers asked that they not be required to sit near Willie to make clear their differing positions.
Willie also asked for separate trials, citing "irreconcilable differences" with the other plaintiffs' attorneys.
"Lawsuits have landscapes that constantly change," she wrote.
In a written order, Rogoff last week told all of the attorneys to prepare a single trial, as scheduled.
Scott North: 425-339-3431; north@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @snorthnews.
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"I just think if you live in a place, you should get involved," Arlington's Mary Jean Kraski says.
Katherine Cunningham's family released a statement after the body of Jacob Gonzales was identified.
The man initially told authorities he burped the boy too hard. The baby suffered a brain bleed.
Lanni Johnson had urged elected leaders to embrace removing dams on Snake River as one solution.
The Progressive Animal Welfare Society hopes to move to Cathcart from its long-time home in Lynnwood.
A judge raised Dakota Reed's bail to $500,000. The FBI found more anti-Semitic memes on Facebook.
The new program allows residents and renters to buy into solar energy for as little as $120.
The event coincides with "420" day — an annual celebration of marijuana use.
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Der Jackson Lake ist mit einer Fläche von 103,4 km² der größte See innerhalb des Grand-Teton-Nationalparks im Westen des US-Bundesstaates Wyoming. Er liegt auf einer Höhe von 2064 m am Fuße der westlich vom See aufragenden Teton Range im nördlichen Teil von Jackson Hole. Der natürliche See wurde 1911 durch den Bau des Jackson Lake Dam im Rahmen des Minidoka-Projekts vergrößert.

Der See ist durch große Gletscher aus der benachbarten Teton Range im Westen und dem Yellowstone Plateau im Norden entstanden. Westlich des Sees ragen die hohen Gipfel der nördlichen Teton Range bis zu 1600 m über den See. Zusammen mit den tief eingeschnittenen Schluchten bilden sie eine spektakuläre Bergkulisse.

Südlich des Jackson Lake liegen mit Leigh Lake, String Lake und Jenny Lake weitere beliebte Seen im Nationalpark. Der See wird vom Snake River durchflossen, der von Norden in den See mündet und ihn am Jackson Lake Dam verlässt. Der Jackson Lake ist einer der größten Gebirgsseen der Vereinigten Staaten. Der See ist bis zu 25 km lang, 11,25 km breit und 134 m tief, das Wasser des Sees liegt im Durchschnitt unter 16 °C, auch im Sommer. Bewohnt wird der See von Bachforellen, Amerikanischen Seesaiblingen, Hechten und Lachsen. Im See liegen mehr als 15 zumeist sehr kleine Inseln, unter anderem Elk Island, Donoho Point und Badger Island.

Wenige Kilometer nördlich des Jackson Lake schließt der John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway an, der den Grand-Teton-Nationalpark mit dem Yellowstone-Nationalpark verbindet. Der von dort kommende U.S. Highway 191 führt am Ufer des Sees entlang und bietet Zugang zum Bootfahren und Angeln. Es gibt mehrere Yachthäfen und Lodges entlang der Ostküste des Jackson Lake, beispielsweise Leeks Marina, Colter Bay Village oder Signal Mountain Lodge. Das westliche Ufer des Jackson Lake ist nicht erschlossen und nur über längere Wanderwege erreichbar.

Der See ist benannt nach David E. Jackson, einem Trapper der 1820er-Jahre, der mehrfach im Tal um den See überwintert hat.

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Nahe Moran befindet sich die Jackson Lake Lodge, in der seit 1982 eine jährliche Tagung der Präsidenten der Zentralbanken aus aller Welt stattfindet. Die 1955 gebaute Lodge ist seit 2003 ein National Historic Landmark (NHL) und ist Teil des National Register of Historic Places.

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The small island of Patmos, the northernmost island of the Dodecanese group, is reputed to be where St John the Theologian composed two of the most sacred Christian works, his Gospel and the Apocalypse. The Monastery of Hagios Ioannis Theologos (St John the Theologian), dedicated to the 'Beloved Disciple', was founded in the late 11th century. The monastic complex together with the associated medieval settlement of Chora and the Cave of the Apocalypse constitute an exceptional example of a traditional Greek Orthodox pilgrimage centre of outstanding architectural interest. The town of Chora is one of the few settlements in Greece that have evolved uninterruptedly since the 12th century. There are few other places in the world where religious ceremonies that date back to the early Christian times are still being practised unchanged.
Ancient Patmos was colonized first by Dorian and then Ionian Greeks. When it was absorbed into the Roman Empire it was used, like other Aegean islands, as a place of exile for political prisoners. Among them was the Evangelist St John the Theologian (also known as St John the Divine), who was brought to the island in AD 95 during the reign of Domitian.
Like so many of the Aegean islands Patmos was devastated by Saracen raiders in the 7th century, and it was virtually uninhabited for the next two centuries. In 1088 Hosios Christodoulos, a Bithynian abbot who had already founded monasteries on Leros and Kos, obtained permission from the Byzantine Emperor Alexis I Comnenus to found a monastery on the island dedicated to St John. This was at a time when the imperial state was encouraging resettlement on the islands and shores of the Aegean, a policy that included the establishment of fortified monasteries; for instance, during the same period were founded Nea Moni on the island of Chios and the monasteries of Mount Athos.
It was around this time that the oldest settlement on Patmos was founded, that of Chora, when married lay brothers and other people working for the monastic community settled around the monastery. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453 about 100 families were resettled in Chora, in dispersed houses essentially rural in nature. Patmos came under Turkish control in the early 16th century. Paradoxically, this marked the beginning of a period of prosperity for the islanders, who were granted certain tax privileges in exchange for their submission. The inhabitants of Chora took advantage of these to engage in shipping and trade, and this is reflected in the fine houses built by wealthy merchants in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a number of which survive to the present day.
This prosperity ended when the island was sacked by the Venetians under Francesco Morosini in 1659. Following the fall of Candia (contemporary Heraklio) to the Turks in 1669, Venetians refugees were settled on the island. They created a new residential area, known as Kretika (the Cretan quarters). The urban tissue began to change, the new properties being much smaller and densely packed. It was slowly to recover its former mercantile role, but in the later 18th century and throughout the 19th century Patmos was once again a major trading centre. From the mid-18th century the town expanded, many of the old houses were rehabilitated and new mansions were built.


Have You Seen The Shipwreck That Surfaced On Short Sands?
That Nor'easter was NO joke this past weekend -- I've seen pics of parts of the Seacoast STILL under water, and we're supposed to get a good chunk of snow tomorrow (8-14"). But it came with its cool parts, too -- a good reason to binge watch everything on Netflix all weekend, and even cooler -- an old shipwreck surfacing.
It's the skeleton of an 18th century war ship that washed up on Short Sands Beach in York Beach, Maine -- and it's HUGE. Looks small in the pics, but if you browse through the pics below, you'll see its size compared to the size of a grown human.


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Managing legal issues which arise as a healthcare provider can be overwhelming. Mr. Griffin understands this, and with nearly two decades of experience representing hospitals, physicians, advanced practice providers and other healthcare professionals, he partners with his clients to find practical solutions to these complex problems. He has assisted his clients with credentialing and privileging, drafting medical staff bylaws, internal investigations, representation before licensing boards and peer review panels, billing and compliance issues, risk management and all aspects of hospital operations. He has also defended clients in healthcare liability matters in both federal and state court. Mr. Griffin is recognized by Best Lawyers of America in the fields of Healthcare Litigation and Medical Malpractice Defense. He is also a member of the American Healthcare Lawyers Association as well as the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and the National Association of Medical Staff Services.
Beyond health care, Mr. Griffin represents small and mid-sized businesses and their owners in disputes both within their business, as well as with third parties. These matters include non-compete and non-solicitation enforcement, insurance claims and coverage disputes, breach of contract disputes, and debt collection.
When he is not battling for his clients, you will often find him at a ballgame with his children and his wife Heather. He is also a founding Board Member of TEN45 and has previously served on the Board and as an officer of JIFF as its Board Secretary. He is a proud graduate of the University of Tennessee School of Law and is also a member of the Tennessee, Mississippi and Memphis Bar Association.
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Americans are voting early for next Tuesday's presidential election in unprecedented numbers, a product of strong feelings for or against the two main candidates and a desire to avoid large crowds at Election Day polling stations amid the coronavirus pandemic. More than 71 million people have already voted six days ahead of the official election day, totaling more than half of the overall 2016 vote count, which was 138.8 million. FILE – Returned ballots are shown at elections management center at the Salt Lake County Government Center Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Salt Lake City.About two-thirds of the early voters have mailed in their ballots, and the rest voted in person at polling places throughout the country. Voting experts say voter turnout for the contest between Republican President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden could be the highest since 1908, when 65% of the country's eligible voters cast ballots. President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign rally at Eppley Airfield, Oct. 27, 2020, in Omaha, Neb.Trump, Biden and their respective running mates — Vice President Mike Pence and California Senator Kamala Harris — are continuing to make their closing arguments to voters on Wednesday. Focus on Arizona Both Trump and Harris are campaigning in Arizona, the southwestern state along the Mexican border that Trump won in 2016 against Democrat Hillary Clinton en route to a four-year term in the White House. But polls in the state, where no Democratic presidential candidate has won since 1996, now show Biden narrowly ahead. The state has 11 of the 270 electoral votes that either Trump or Biden will need to claim the presidency and be inaugurated on January 20. U.S. presidential elections are decided in an indirect form of democracy in the 538-member Electoral College, not the national popular vote. Typically, all of a state's Electoral College votes go to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in each of the 50 states, with the most populous states holding the most sway. Trump is holding two afternoon rallies in Arizona, in Bullhead City and Goodyear. Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at a campaign event, Oct. 27, 2020, in Las Vegas.Harris is meeting with Latina business owners in the morning in Tucson and later in the day with a group of Black leaders in the state's biggest city, Phoenix. She is finishing her day with a speech at a rally where pop singer Alicia Keys is performing. Biden briefed on virus Biden, who has cast blame on Trump for the country's world-leading coronavirus death toll of more than 226,000, is being briefed by public health experts on the pandemic and then delivering remarks on his plans to curb the spread of the virus. Later, he is attending a virtual campaign fund-raising event. Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the coronavirus and health care at The Queen theater, Oct. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del.Trump this week has continued to assert the country has "rounded the corner" in dealing with the virus, even as the number of U.S. infections is surging. Pence is holding rallies in two key Midwest states, Wisconsin and then Michigan, that Trump captured in 2016 but where he now trails Biden. Vice President Miek Pence speaks to hundreds of supporters during a rally at an airplane hangar on Oct. 27, 2020, in Greenville, S.C.National polls typically show Biden with a 7- or 8-percentage point lead over Trump, but with about half that margin in key battleground states that are likely to determine the outcome in the Electoral College. Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can
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Sir Robin Knox-Johnston has paid tribute to Derek Hatfield, the first Canadian to race solo around the world twice. The Nova Scotia sailor died suddenly at the age of 63.
The brother of Andrew Ashman, the first sailor to ever die in the Clipper Round the World Race, will be on board IchorCoal on Saturday when the fleet returns to London.
Company owner Sarah Young, 40, lost her life during the race. She's the second British fatality of the Clipper Round The World Yacht Race.
The Hollywood filmmaker was contracted by the UK government for an initiative aimed at increasing international exports. Watch the Clipper Round The World Race ad here.


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Elon Musk adopted a Shiba Inu puppy named Floki in 2021. Musk's new puppy had a major impact on the world of cryptocurrency, and as soon as the billionaire shared a photo of his Shiba Inu, the value of Dogecoin went up almost instantly. A crypto token has also been named 'Floki', after Musk's new dog.
Elon Musk, born June 28, 1971, is an entrepreneur and business magnate. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; early-stage investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. A centibillionaire with a net worth of around US$288 billion as of November 2021, Musk is the richest person in the world.
Musk has been the subject of criticism due to unorthodox or unscientific stances and highly publicized controversies. In 2018, he was sued for defamation by a British caver who advised in the Tham Luang cave rescue; a California jury ruled in favor of Musk. In the same year, he was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for falsely tweeting that he had secured funding for a private takeover of Tesla. He settled with the SEC, temporarily stepping down from his chairmanship and agreed to limitations on his Twitter usage. Musk has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and has received criticism from experts for his other views on such matters as artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and public transport.
In May 2018, Musk and Canadian musician Grimes revealed that they were dating. Grimes gave birth to their son in May 2020. According to Musk and Grimes, his name was "X Æ A-12"; however, the name would have violated California regulations as it contained characters that are not in the modern English alphabet, and was then changed to "X Æ A-Xii". This drew more confusion, as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet. The child was eventually named "X AE A-XII" Musk, with "X" as a first name, "AE A-XII" as a middle name, and "Musk" as surname. Musk confirmed reports that the couple are "semi-separated" in September 2021; in an interview with Time in December 2021, he said he was single.
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As Digital Demand Surges, Service Providers See Their Revenue Leapfrog
Narayan Ammachchi
Global outsourcing activity declined 5% in the fourth quarter of 2019, but service providers saw their revenue increase because of the growing demand for digital services, according to consultancy firm Everest Group.
According to the report, the traditional outsourcing services are fast losing the luster, but digital services, such as cloud, are gaining traction like never before.
"We continue to see that the majority of outsourcing deals include digital services, as opposed to traditional services only," said H. Karthik, partner at Everest Group.
The surge in revenue was mainly due to the increased demand for services such as robotic automation, artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, mobility, and cybersecurity.
"Less commonly included but certainly worth noting were other digital services such as IoT, social media, blockchain, and digital interactive components," Karthik added.
Also, service providers are increasingly moving their operations to smaller cities in a bid to cut costs. The consultancy says that during the three months, many new delivery centers sprang up in tier 2 and 3 cities.
Low-cost locations in Africa and the Middle East were their favorite hunting grounds. In countries including India, Ireland, and Poland, services providers were seen exploring smaller cities for scaling up their operations.
The expansion in the manufacturing sector was the main reason for service providers to expand their global in-house centers, the report noted.
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News Editor for Nearshore Americas, Narayan Ammachchi is a career journalist with a decade of experience in politics and international business. He works out of his base in the Indian Silicon City of Bangalore.
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