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The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
Durée: 11 h et 46 min
4,7 out of 5 stars 4,7 (58 évaluations)
The Professor and the Madman
Part history, part true-crime, and entirely entertaining, listen to the story of how the behemoth Oxford English Dictionary was made. You'll hang on every word as you discover that the dictionary's greatest contributor was also an insane murderer working from the confines of an asylum.
Proper Heavy
Écrit par Mentally Guitarded le 2020-04-23
Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues profoundly to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Spanning the ocean's story, from its geological origins to the age of exploration, from World War II battles to today's struggles with pollution and overfishing, Winchester's narrative is epic, intimate, and awe inspiring.
How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Auteur(s): Eric Schlosser
Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.
Écrit par grant le 2020-11-27
How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Auteur(s): Anthony McCarten
Narrateur(s): John Lee
May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to prime minister, and the horrors of Blitzkrieg witness one Western European democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away. It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour.
The Age of Wood
Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of Civilization
Auteur(s): Roland Ennos
Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
As the dominant species on Earth, humans have made astonishing progress since our ancestors came down from the trees. But how did the descendants of small primates manage to walk upright, become top predators, and populate the world? How were humans able to develop civilizations and produce a globalized economy? Now, in The Age of Wood, Roland Ennos shows for the first time that the key to our success has been our relationship with wood.
Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
Durée: 14 h et 2 min
Best-selling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature. Winchester's personal experience is vast and his storytelling second to none. And his historical understanding of the region is formidable, making Pacific a paean to this magnificent sea of beauty, myth, and imagination that is transforming our lives.
Écrit par Gerry le 2023-01-27
Skunk Works
A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
Auteur(s): Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies. Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of Cold War confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds.
A must for aviation buffs
Écrit par BH le 2018-04-25
Auteur(s): Ben R. Rich, Autres
Humble Pi
When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Auteur(s): Matt Parker
Narrateur(s): Matt Parker
Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotteries, the Roman Empire, and an Olympic team, Matt Parker uncovers the bizarre ways math trips us up, and what this reveals about its essential place in our world. Getting it wrong has never been more fun.
Missing something from the physical book
Écrit par A le 2020-02-01
Auteur(s): Ted Chiang
Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon, Autres
From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others - the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction. In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity's oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
Delightful collection of thought-provoking stories
Écrit par Hmmmm le 2020-02-03
The Map That Changed the World
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling discovery that was to turn the fledgling science of the history of the earth - and a central plank of established Christian religion - on its head. He noticed that the rocks he was excavating were arranged in layers; more important, he could see quite clearly that the fossils found in one layer were very different from those found in another. And out of that realization came an epiphany.
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
OED you know what they stand for now you'll totally get the picture!
Écrit par Ruth Rutledge le 2022-01-16
The revered New York Times best-selling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.
The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in 18th-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools - machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras - and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.
Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today's cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.
As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?
©2018 Simon Winchester (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Catégories: Histoire
Monde Histoire et culture Ingénierie
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Winchester's writing style is straightforward, which makes it effective in audio. He spices his narrative with numerous interesting facts and ironies, which make listening even more pleasurable. He defines technical and scientific terms in a way that makes it easy for general listeners to understand them. Winchester also does the narration, adopting a conversational tone that is highly suited to the work." (AudioFile)
Ce que les auditeurs disent de The Perfectionists
4.5 out of 5 stars 4,7 sur 5
Ed Chinaski
Best Listen of my Audible career to date
Of you enjoy wrenching, building, crafting, machining, metal fabrication
this is a must listen or read
Jeff S. Wiebe
Interesting and Informative
Enjoyed overall. I found the earlier and mid chapters more engrossing than last few, but no complaints.
Peter MacLeod
This in its way, gets it right, so to speak
Perfection is elusive in many ways unless you explain its drive in some to make what we produce and how we know how well we have done, as explained by Simon Winchester. The book is not an account of the obsessions of a few but how the drive for perfection has become such an integral part of our everyday lives. As technology continues to evolve so does our ability to make improvements in our lives in ways this book makes fascinatingly clear. There is a pleasant blend of "I never realized that!" to well, most of the cornerstones of our lives from production to the measurement of time. You will never see or speak of a Rolls the same way again, or a Ford for that matter. It makes enlightenment a pleasure.
Heidi Unrau
Compelling Listen, Great Narration
Loved the story and all of the facts. Narrator easy to listen to. I am going to listen to another book of his this month.
Derek Dwyer
Providing excitement to dry topics
#Audible1. As always, Mr. Winchester is able to take what would often be considered a dry subject, and weave a true story that both teaches and captivates.
enya keshet
Somewhat less than perfect
Being a Simon Winchester addict, I am thrilled with every new release from this wonderful author. But I found this book less captivating then his other books, though fantastically informative and revealing. I missed the personal stories that so helped to make other books more lively. Perhaps my lesser affinity with precision (as opposed to my significant interest in geology and geography, for example), also played a role.
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Chandler Bridges
Inspiring stories about genius engineers.
The book is 100% readable by non-engineering types such as myself. Reading about the geniuses overcoming particular problems was exciting. I bought both the Kindle and the Audible editions and finished the book in about two and a half days. The book will probably inspire some people to go into the field of engineering.
Lots of rehashed material but entertaining
Winchester repeats stories from his previous titles and from chapter to chapter in this book. It really could have used some stronger editing. You get the feeling that he is just churning these out. However, the story-telling is good. It was an entertaining read. I think that I want a more in depth history of the history of technology.
BigGnBigD
Well researched history of precision.
Like most of Simon Winchester's books, this story is well organized and entertaining. I suggest listening to or reading the Afterward first to fully appreciate the scope and influence of the many examples from the beginning of the book.
John Anthony McCulloch
A precise account of precision by a perfectionist
Simon Winchester's polished, yet sincere, unpretentious and, yes, precise narrative is a delight to listen to, which only adds to the experience of learning about the intricacies of the machinations of the world of engineering. The text is never boring, and is not only informative, but, crucially, formative, conducing the reader through the bootstrapping processes that led humanity to ever decreasing uncertainty about our physical world all the way to the unfathomable achievements of state of the art precision engineering. The author's delivery is impeccable, with minute attention to intonation, pace and register. A delight to notice very subtle changes in accent from Received Pronunciation to American or Australian pronunciation when Winchester is quoting and American and an Australian, respectively. Highly recommended entertainment and education.
Akrum
Utter joy!
As a mechanical design engineer this book has been an utter joy! The author expressed his passion for one of the most underrated professions these days. A lot can be said regarding the book from a literature point of view, but for me this going through this book has been on of the most satisfying experiences for me at least.
Lord Hampton
Constantly Educational
I am not an engineer, nor do I have a scientific mind, but Simon Winchester brings to life what could have been the driest topic and his narration is impeccable. Thank you Simon!
Excellent and interesting.
I have been a high precision machinist for 35 years. As a tool and Diemaker and Moldmaker,
I had learned some of the history of my trade. To have it put in context so eloquently was a great pleasure. Bravo!!!
Sincerely Habilis
Marvelous book from a master story teller.
Winchester never fails to deliver an entertaining, informative and engrossing story.
He weaves together innovators from times past to the present in a virtually seamless story.
He is a master story teller. You will love this book
Totality enjoyable and informative
The author covers a remarkable range of technologies and the impact that instituting precision had on their evolution and development. Great anecdotes add to the enjoyment of this book


A trucking firm makes the decision to invest in new tractors, excited by the upgrades in technology and efficiency and by the satisfaction that comes with investing in the business. Then comes the insurance bill.
Trucking companies of all sizes are generally experiencing increases in insurance pricing due to factors that range from workers' compensation costs to fleet issues to rising jury verdicts. The recent Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking for 2015 from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) identified an 11% year-over-year increase in truck insurance premiums when normalized on a per-mile basis from 2013 to 2014.
And in the fourth quarter of 2015, Marsh data showed rates for general liability, auto liability, excess casualty, and workers' compensation remaining flat or increasing — significantly in some coverage lines and for some transportation companies, depending on specific circumstances.
Fleet turnover: New tractors come with mandated stricter emissions controls, higher efficiency standards, and new technologies. These improvements increase the cost of a tractor, which in turn raises insurance costs. The higher rates for physical damage premiums will largely impact owner-operators and small- to mid-size fleets as opposed to large-fleet operators, which typically self-insure.
Workers' compensation: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has heightened inspections and enforcement, and the frequency and severity of injuries has risen due to an aging workforce and a chronic driver shortage.
Liability coverage: Trucking liability insurers have been under pressure since 2013 to raise rates. A dramatic acceleration of pricing began in the second quarter of 2015 and continued through the year. Rate increases correlate to poor underwriting results across the industry, driven by an increase in claim reserves. As losses increase, some insurers are retreating from the umbrella/excess marketplace and/or increasing their attachment points. Insurers are also quoting smaller limits to reduce their transportation exposures.
Lawsuits and loss experience: There's been a rise in the severity of jury awards against trucking companies, despite a drop in the frequency of preventable accidents. Adverse verdicts — many exceeding $100 million — have increased substantially, even where it is difficult to identify fault. With juries seen as sympathetic to plaintiffs, many insurers and motor carriers have settled claims that may previously have resulted in verdicts favoring the defense.
The road ahead for many fleet owners renewing their insurance programs is likely to be more challenging, time consuming, and costly, barring unforeseen changes in conditions. Fleet owners need to begin the renewal process early and should anticipate a higher level of underwriting scrutiny focusing on driver screening and recruitment, training, safety, claims management, and use of technology.
For more information about insurance and risk trends, see Marsh's US Insurance Market Report 2016.
Craig Dancer is the Transportation Industry Practice leader, responsible for directing a dedicated team of industry specialists and subject matter experts in transportation infrastructure construction and operations, trucking, logistics, livery, and rental.


A recent discussion by the Archive Curator and Liam Wylie of the RTE Archive project on Ryan Tubridy's Radio show regarding the closure of the Kodak Super 8mm processing plant in Lausanne Switzerland, led to deposit of a number of small gauge collections from amateur film makers eager to see their material preserved in our vaults. Most notable was a vast collection of film from Dr John Fleetwood, a retired geriatrician. This donation documents family life, travels throughout Europe and the USA, and public events such as the funeral of Eamon de Valera and the building of the Berlin Wall.
A collection of 16mm home and holiday movies made by Harold Douglas, a prominent Dublin businessman and Quaker, and son of Senator James G. Douglas, shot between the early1930s and late1960s in locations as diverse as Scandinavia, the Alps, the Mediterranean, the USA and the West of Ireland. The most striking piece in his collection was shot in 1935 in an eerily calm, almost chocolate-box Germany. Filmed in the year the Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws (which deprived German Jews of their citizenship and most of their rights), this footage shows civic life going on as normal under municipal buildings draped with Nazi flags, and includes images of boys and girls of the Hitler Youth marching in a city street.
The eclectic Guinness Film Collection was recently deposited by Guinness Ireland, and encompasses historical and manufacturing documentaries, as well as advertising campaigns for Guinness products. Charming 1970s advertisements for Baby-Cham, Woodpecker Cider and Martini appear distinctly bizarre by today's politically correct standards. Guinness and the Grand Canal explores the founding of the brewery by Arthur Guinness in 1759 and the assistance of canal transportation to his success. The Craft of the Cooper depicts the antiquated process by which old casks are hand-made by artisans like Jim Tyrell, Master Cooper. The collection's star is the charismatic Al Byrne, who started in Guinness as a boy of fourteen and continued to work for the company until he retired as a senior manager forty years later. He appears in a number of titles in the collection, frequently offering witty insights into how to pull "The Perfect Pint", while cautioning about the evils of a bad one.
Thirty reels shot in the 1940s and '50s by Billy Chapman, a cinema-owner from Strokestown, Co. Roscommon. These films, shot on 16mm, offer a fascinating glimpse into the life of a rural town in the mid-twentieth century – sports days, horse and agricultural fairs, turf-cutting, tree-felling, religious processions, FCA parades, the training of the local fire brigade, and a visit by John A. Costello and James Dillon for a political rally in 1949.
In 1888, the world's first passenger-carrying monorail opened for business in Co. Kerry. Designed by a French engineer, Charles Lartigue, it ran between Listowel and Ballybunion until it was scrapped in 1924. This film documents a transport system of bold and ambitious design. Originally on nitrate, this film was transferred onto safety stock at the British Film Institute, and the newly struck print is now stored in the Irish Film Archive's preservation vaults.
Last year, Louis Marcus, one of Ireland's most distinguished documentary filmmakers, donated prints and sound elements of many of his films, including his Academy-Award-nominated pieces, Conquest of Light (about Waterford Crystal) and Páistí ag Obair. Also in this deposit are some of his well-known films on Irish history and culture, among them Sunday After Sunday (a centenary history of the GAA) and Revival – Pearse's Concept of Ireland, as well as many of the informational films he made for Gael Linn, Bord Fáilte and the National Road Safety Association.
Salvaged from a skip on the day the factory closed, the Lemon's Sweets commercial collection was deposited last year by former employee, Albert Adams. This mouth-watering 35mm collection includes ads for Lemon's Gems, Lemon's Luxury and Romantic Selections, and Lemon's Nut Milk Toffees.


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16 June 21
Oil Up, Brent Records Fifth Consecutive Gain as Demand Outlook Stays Bright
Oil was up Wednesday morning in Asia as a larger-than-expected draw in U.S. crude oil supplies and the ever-brightening fuel demand outlook in some countries gave the black liquid a boost.
Brent oil futures rose 0.88% to $74.64 by 12:10 AM ET (4:10 AM GMT), gaining for a fifth consecutive session after rising 1.6% on Tuesday. WTI futures gained 0.83% to $72.72 after rising 1.7% during the previous session.
U.S. crude oil supply data from the American Petroleum Institute showed a draw of 8.537 million barrels for the week ending Jun. 11. The draw was much larger than both the 3-million-barrel draw in forecasts prepared by Investing.com and the previous week's 2.108-million-barrel draw.
Crude oil supply data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is due later in the day.
https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/oil-up-brent-records-fifth-consecutive-gain-as-demand-outlook-stays-bright-2533354
Dollar Slips from One-Month High Ahead of Fed Statement
The dollar edged marginally lower in early European trade Wednesday, but remained near a one-month high as traders warily await the latest communications from the Federal Reserve following the recent jump in U.S. inflation.
At 2:55 AM ET (0755 GMT), the Dollar Index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, was less than 0.1% lower at 90.468, having hit a one-month high of 90.677 on Tuesday.
USD/JPY was largely unchanged at 110.06, near its two-month high of 110.325 touched earlier this month, GBP/USD was up 0.1% at 1.4087, above Tuesday's one-month low of 1.4035, and EUR/USD was marginally higher at 1.2128. The risk-sensitive AUD/USD was up 0.2% at 0.7698.
The U.S. Federal Reserve concludes its latest two-day policy meeting later Wednesday. Although the two-day meeting is expected to culminate in an unchanged decision on interest rates and monthly bond purchases, the backdrop of sharply rising inflation as the country's economy makes a solid recovery appears to be keeping traders on edge.
https://www.investing.com/news/forex-news/dollar-slips-from-one-month-high-ahead-of-fed-statement-2533394
https://www.investing.com/currencies/eur-usd-chart
Gold Up, but Remains Near Four-Week Low Ahead of Fed Policy Decision
Gold was up on Wednesday morning in Asia but remained near its lowest level in four weeks. The dollar steadied ahead of a much-awaited U.S. Federal Reserve policy decision.
Gold futures inched up 0.10% to $1,858.30 by 11:35 PM ET (3:35 AM GMT).
The Fed will hand down its decision as it wraps up a two-day meeting later in the day, with investors on the lookout for clues as to when the central bank will start tapering assets. Despite the insistence from Fed officials to date that monetary policy will continue to remain dovish for some time, concerns about rising inflation triggered the yellow metal's retreat from an almost five-month high.
Fed officials could project interest-rate liftoff in 2023 but are not expected to signal asset tapering until August or September 2021.
https://www.investing.com/news/commodities-news/gold-up-but-remains-near-fourweek-low-ahead-of-fed-policy-decision-2533344

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oh….richard laforte moved to there from redding with his partner. very nice guy – and artist. look him up.
Yo Gini. I just cleared several hundred SPAM messages, among which I found you! Yikes, I need to pay attention to the maintenance. Blog is not up and running because I've been so damn busy with remodeling my Cape house. It's good to hear from you. My brother Felix now lives in Gualala, further up the CA coast. I was there last July. For a while I'll be traveling between ABQ and MA, settling on the Cape 2014 or thereabouts. Kids out of the nest? Have been in contact with Ron Mac. He's not working at MIT but has lab in basement of his house, doing robotics with dance objectives!? Take care.


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Weekend Warm-Up: Lhotse
Alex Myall
Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison are professional ski mountaineers who (as with all great tales) intertwine their escapades with a romantic side story. The couple have been together for three years, after first meeting on Everest. They're shown their combined strengths on numerous expeditions.
In 2017, they skied Denali. That same year, they tackled 6,451m Mt. Papsura, in India. But there is perhaps no greater accomplishment than being the first to ski Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world.
Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson, returning from their pioneering ski descent of Lhotse.
Lhotse is sometimes known as "the other Everest". Not quite as high, but more technical. To reach its summit is hard enough; to ski it is a whole different ballgame.
Hilaree Nelson also happens to be one of those women who juggle two jobs: busy mum and athlete. Clearly, she's accustomed to a hard grind, not just in the mountains.
After an alpine start, Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson continue as the darkness lifts.
Nelson was a late starter to ski mountaineering. At first, she wanted to become a marine biologist. At that time, Nelson lived on a Caribbean island. One day, she took a leisurely hike up a small mountain. There, the idea of being above the clouds, rather than beneath the ocean, couldn't escape her. It's clear that her real passion comes from exploring –- whether underwater or above earth –- and endurance.
Morrison, on the other hand, describes himself as a good planner. He brings the strength of logistics to their partnership.
Jim Morrison skiing down Lhotse. Photo: Nick Kalisz
One of the hardest elements of Lhotse is that upper zone where it impossible to recover from the hard work, even from the effort of breathing. Nelson describes how her endurance lets her keep her power versus her body's breakdown at an enviably even keel.
In the film, the pair recount their ascent, including the crossroads they faced just 300m from the top, when they had to dig deeper than ever before to keep going.
In the years before Nelson's success with Morrison on Papsura, she'd experienced several failures and carried with her that niggling feeling of defeat that she wanted to overcome. Morrison's motivation was entirely different. He learnt what true loss felt like when his wife and children were killed in an airplane crash.
So as the pair sank into snow up to their hips, they had to decide between reaching the summit without oxygen or skiing down. Their ambition was the ski element, so they chose to continue that final stretch with oxygen.
No doubt the script has not been written for this pair. But for now, September 30, 2018 marked the time that two humans first skied Lhotse.
A travel journalist born of her own mini adventures into far flung destinations. What began as a passion for guiding others to explore, evolved into journaling, blogging and booking. Find out more at https://chasingdreamstravel.co.nz/
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Ken Tubman Early Learning & Kinder Centre based in Maitland offers child care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years within the Maitland and surrounding areas. The centre was established just 2 years ago and yet is already in the running for an award at this years' Local Business Awards for Child Care Services. There are 23 staff that assist working families who require permanent full-time care for their children. Karina Niblock, Centre Director says, "The Local Business Awards acknowledge and support small businesses like ours in the local area. "We are very proud to be finalists again in the above category. "For us, being a finalist formally acknowledges and recognises the hard work and dedication that our small community-focused business does to provide a unique service for the local community. "The staff are extremely proud to be part of a local business that has received such a nomination. They go above and beyond in providing quality child care for local families so it's wonderful to be acknowledged in this way." "We would like to sincerely thank our loyal community and families and all those involved who have voted for us." She added.
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Local business Awards 2019 Finalists
Nurturing: The dedicated team at Ken Tubman Early Learning Centre are proud to be finalists yet again.
Ken Tubman Early Learning & Kinder Centre based in Maitland offers child care for children aged 6 weeks to 6 years within the Maitland and surrounding areas.
The centre was established just 2 years ago and yet is already in the running for an award at this years' Local Business Awards for Child Care Services.
There are 23 staff that assist working families who require permanent full-time care for their children.
Karina Niblock, Centre Director says,
"The Local Business Awards acknowledge and support small businesses like ours in the local area.
"We are very proud to be finalists again in the above category.
"For us, being a finalist formally acknowledges and recognises the hard work and dedication that our small community-focused business does to provide a unique service for the local community.
"The staff are extremely proud to be part of a local business that has received such a nomination. They go above and beyond in providing quality child care for local families so it's wonderful to be acknowledged in this way."
"We would like to sincerely thank our loyal community and families and all those involved who have voted for us." She added.
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May 28, 2019 – Washington Court of Appeals Ruling
Today, Division One of the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed a trial verdict just shy of $1,000,000 for our client, Marvin Leren, who unfortunately died from mesothelioma before his case was filed. The Court held in a published opinion that a distributor of asbestos is liable under the "product line" exception to successor nonliability. The defendant corporation, Elementis Chemicals, is the admitted successor to HCP. In 1977, HCP purchased 100% of the stock in Benson Chemical, a distributor of raw asbestos products. Within a few months of the stock purchase, Benson Chemical was dissolved. But rather than wind down the business and liquidate the assets, HCP continued operating Benson Chemical as a division of HCP long after the legal entity of Benson ceased to exist. HCP sold the same or similar products to the same customers, kept on the same employees, used the same office space, and continued to sell under the Benson name. One employee testified that he didn't even known Benson had been dissolved until he was told as much by the plaintiff's attorney decades later. Our client, Marvin Leren, worked at a Z-brick factory manufacturing brick facing products that used the raw asbestos fibers sold by Benson.
At trial, the jury answered special interrogatories finding six of the eight factors making up the various tests for exceptions to successor nonliability. The trial court found that HCP was liable under the "product line" exception, and on appeal Judge Verellen noted HCP's "intentional steps to take control of Benson, making the company's assets part of HCP and leveraging Benson's goodwill while extinguishing Leren's ability to hold Benson liable for injuries." In holding for the first time that the exception applies to distributors as well as manufacturers, Division One cited to the reasoning of a California case, Kaminski v. Western MacArthur Company, 175 Cal. App. 3d 445 (Cal. Ct. App. 1985). Not only did the "product line" exception arise from California originally, but Kaminski cited as support our own Supreme Court reasoning in Hall v. Armstrong Cork, Inc., 103 Wn.2d 258 (1984).
In addition to deciding the product line issue, the Court of Appeals held that Leren's step-daughter was a statutory beneficiary under Washington's wrongful death the law despite the fact that Leren and her mother had divorced. The appellate court also reaffirmed Washington's strong law on employer negligence, holding that the employer fault cannot be a superseding cause absent evidence of the employer's actual specific knowledge of the hazard.
The published holding represents a years-long effort to hold Elementis accountable in this and other cases. Special congratulations Matt Bergman and Justin Olson, who did the appellate work. Also thanks to the trial team of Craig Sims, Matthew Bergman, Colin Mieling, and Justin Olson who obtained the verdict.


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UNITY| HUMILITY| PASSION| RESPECT| TRADITION
St. Louis Scott Gallagher Soccer Club
SLSG Supports Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts
Here at World Wide Technology Soccer Park, we are no strangers to the devastation of floods. Given recent events in the greater southeastern region of Texas, St. Louis Scott Gallagher and Saint Louis FC have decided help in the relief efforts. During the month of September, all ticket sales made in Section 18 for STLFC home games will be donated. In addition, monetary donations will be accepted at all points of sale at the World Wide Technology Soccer Park during September to directly benefit those affected by Hurricane Harvey.
"Our hearts go out to people impacted by the devastating flooding in the South. As survivors of two historic floods in St. Louis, we know all too well how destructive and impactful it can be. Our recovery and subsequent success was due in large part to the generosity of others," said Patrick Barry, President. "We are committed to raising needed funds for the soccer community in Houston. We are proud to join the massive effort to help those affected by this tragic event."
"Our fans and club members have always responded to help those in need and positively impact our community. We look forward to more of the same in the coming weeks," said Barry.
© St. Louis Scott Gallagher. All rights reserved.


Transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) is a type of surgery performed using a cystoscope, which is a small thin surgical instrument inserted into the patient's bladder through the urethra. TURBT is commonly used as part of the initial process of diagnosing and staging a patient's bladder cancer. In patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, TURBT is often used to remove tumors and surrounding tissue from the lining of the bladder.
Many patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer may need to have radical cystectomy surgery, in which the surgeon removes the patient's entire bladder. The surgeon then typically performs reconstructive surgery to create a new way for the patient's body to store and pass urine. In partial cystectomy surgery, which is less common, the surgeon removes only a part of the patient's bladder. Lymph node dissection surgery is commonly performed at the same time as a cystectomy. During this surgery, the surgeon removes lymph nodes in the patient's pelvis.
Radiation therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high-energy X-rays or other types of radiation that are focused onto a patient's body to kill cancer cells inside the body.2 In patients with bladder cancer, radiation therapy is generally used in combination with other treatment(s), such as surgery.
What is BCG immunotherapy treatment?
Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy treatment is a type of intravesical immunotherapy that is delivered directly into the patient's bladder.3 BCG contains bacteria that help the body's own immune system to attack cancer cells in the bladder lining. It is often used to treat patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer who have had TURBT surgery to remove tumors from the lining of the bladder. BCG treatment can also be used as maintenance therapy for patients with certain types of bladder cancer that are more likely to recur, to attempt to prevent bladder cancer cells from growing back again after the patient's initial treatment.
After their initial round of treatment, patients with certain types of bladder cancer may be advised to have maintenance therapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy.3 The aim of maintenance therapy is to attempt to reduce the chance that bladder cancer will recur and start growing again after the initial treatment is completed. BCG immunotherapy is delivered directly into the patient's bladder. Depending on their healthcare provider's advice, patients may repeat BCG treatment every few months for one or more years.
What types of chemotherapy are used?
Chemotherapy treatment includes powerful medicines that attack cancer cells that are rapidly dividing in a patient's body.4,5 Two types of chemotherapy may be used to treat bladder cancer: intravesical chemotherapy and systemic chemotherapy. Intravesical chemotherapy is delivered directly into the patient's bladder through a catheter. This type of chemotherapy is generally used to treat patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer after they have had TURBT surgery, in order to help prevent the cancer cells from recurring in the bladder lining.
Patients with muscle-invasive, advanced, or metastatic bladder cancer may need to have treatment with systemic chemotherapy, which in bladder cancer is injected into the patient's muscle or vein. Systemic chemotherapy may be used before surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy), after surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy), or in combination with radiation therapy (chemoradiation therapy).
What types of immunotherapy are used?
What is laser ablation therapy?
In laser ablation therapy, a surgeon uses a thin, focused beam of powerful infrared light to burn away tiny areas of cells or tissue.7 In patients with early-stage non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, this therapy can be used to destroy cancer cells located in the bladder lining. In patients with advanced bladder cancer that has grown into or beyond the muscle of the bladder wall, laser ablation therapy can be used to help reduce tumor size and relieve symptoms. Laser ablation therapy is often combined with other types of treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) consists of products and practices that are not usually treatment options in the standard medical system, such as meditation, acupuncture, and massage therapy, for example.8 Some patients find CAM treatments can help relieve some symptoms or side effects of cancer and improve their quality of life. CAM treatments should only be used in addition to your medical cancer treatments, never instead of those treatments. It is important to speak with your healthcare providers before starting treatment with any sort of CAM, to make sure that it will not be harmful to you or interact badly with your cancer treatments.
Written by Anna Nicholson | Last review date: December 2018.
Bladder Cancer Surgery. American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer/treating/surgery.html. Accessed September 2017.
Radiation Therapy for Bladder Cancer. American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer/treating/radiation.html. Accessed September 2017.
Intravesical Therapy for Bladder Cancer. American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer/treating/intravesical-therapy.html. Accessed September 2017.
Diagnosing bladder cancer. Mayo Clinic. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/bladder-cancer/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20356109. Accessed September 2017.
Chemotherapy for Bladder Cancer. American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/cancer/bladder-cancer/treating/chemotherapy.html. Accessed September 2017.
Gupta S, Gill D, Poole A, Agarwal N. Systemic Immunotherapy for Urothelial Cancer: Current Trends and Future Directions. Golubovskaya V, ed. Cancers. 2017;9(2):15. doi:10.3390/cancers9020015.
Lasers in Urology Treatment & Management. Medscape. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/445722-treatment. Accessed September 2017.
What are Complementary and Alternative Methods? American Cancer Society. https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/complementary-and-alternative-medicine/complementary-and-alternative-methods-and-cancer/what-are-cam.html. Accessed September 2017.


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Nesta página estão listados os resultados dos concursos de escolas de samba, frevos carnavalescos, ranchos carnavalescos, sociedades carnavalescas e blocos de repartições públicas do carnaval do Rio de Janeiro do ano de 1952. Os desfiles foram realizados entre os dias 23 e 26 de fevereiro de 1952.

Após três anos de desfiles e resultados paralelos, as escolas de samba acordaram em realizar uma única disputa entre as "grandes agremiações". Devido à quantidade de escolas inscritas, foi decidido criar um segundo grupo, com agremiações menores. Pela primeira vez, as escolas seriam separadas por divisões. Era grande a expectativa pelo confronto entre Portela, Mangueira e Império Serrano, uma vez que as escolas não se enfrentavam diretamente desde 1948. Mas o duelo foi adiado para o ano seguinte. Devido a uma forte chuva que atingiu a cidade, a maioria dos julgadores abandonou o local do Supercampeonato sem avaliar diversas escolas, incluindo o Império Serrano. O próprio Império solicitou ao Departamento de Turismo e Certames que anulasse o concurso. Portela e Mangueira, que desfilaram antes da chuva e foram julgadas, protestaram contra o cancelamento da disputa. Ainda assim, os envelopes foram descartados sem sequer serem lidos. As escolas Florestas do Andaraí, Corações Unidos de Jacarepaguá, Aventureiros da Matriz e Índios do Acaú não desfilaram e foram rebaixadas para o segundo grupo.

O desfile de estreia da segunda divisão das escolas de samba (Campeonato) foi vencido pelos Unidos do Indaiá, que foi promovido à primeira divisão junto com Cada Ano Sai Melhor (vice-campeã) e Unidos do Cabuçu (terceira colocada).

Vassourinhas ganhou a disputa dos frevos. Decididos de Quintino foi o campeão dos ranchos. Clube dos Fenianos conquistou o título do concurso das grandes sociedades. O Bloco Arsenal da Marinha venceu o desfile de repartições públicas.

Escolas de samba

Com a nomeação de um novo prefeito para a cidade do Rio de Janeiro e a saída de Irênio Delgado do comando da Federação Brasileira das Escolas de Samba (FBES), as agremiações acordaram em realizar um único desfile com as "grandes escolas", mesmo estando filiadas à entidades representativas diferentes. Por causa do alto número de escolas inscritas, ficou decidida a criação de um segundo grupo, com escolas menores. Era grande a expectativa para o carnaval de 1952, especialmente pelo duelo entre as escolas de Madureira: Portela (a maior vencedora até então) e Império Serrano (campeão dos quatro anos anteriores). Desde 1948 que Portela, Império e Mangueira não participavam do mesmo desfile.

Supercampeonato
O desfile da primeira divisão, chamado de Supercampeonato, foi realizado no domingo, dia 24 de fevereiro de 1952, na Avenida Presidente Vargas. Foi organizado pela Confederação Brasileira das Escolas de Samba (CBES), União Geral das Escolas de Samba do Brasil (UGESB) e FBES. O Departamento de Turismo e Certames do Distrito Federal construiu um tablado de sessenta metros de comprimento, vinte metros de largura e um metro de altura para as escolas se exibirem.

O resultado do Supercampeonato de 1952 foi anulado sem sequer ser conhecido. No início do desfile do Império Serrano, a décima oitava escola a se apresentar, uma forte chuva atingiu a cidade. Dos cinco julgadores oficiais do concurso (Milton Amaral; Silvio Silva; Maestro Silva; José Moreira Bastos; e Dulce Louzada), apenas um permaneceu no palanque, que não tinha cobertura contra água. O desfile prosseguiu até o fim, mas tanto o Império quanto as escolas que desfilaram a seguir não foram avaliadas. Na quarta-feira de cinzas, dia da apuração do resultado oficial, representantes do Império foram até o Departamento de Turismo da cidade para solicitar a anulação do julgamento, alegando não só a ausências dos jurados como também as avarias causadas pela chuva em suas alegorias. O Departamento de Turismo acatou o pedido do Império, apesar dos protestos de Portela e Mangueira. Os envelopes com as notas foram descartados e o confronto entre as grandes escolas foi adiado para o ano seguinte. As escolas Florestas do Andaraí, Corações Unidos de Jacarepaguá, Aventureiros da Matriz, e Índios do Acaú não desfilaram, sendo rebaixadas para a segunda divisão.

Campeonato

O desfile de estreia da segunda divisão, chamado de Campeonato, foi realizado no domingo, dia 24 de fevereiro de 1952, na Praça Onze. O Campeonato foi organizado pela UGESB; FBES; e pelo Departamento de Turismo e Certames do Distrito Federal.

Classificação
Unidos do Indaiá foi o campeão, conquistando sua promoção à primeira divisão. Cada Ano Sai Melhor (vice-campeã) e Unidos do Cabuçu (terceira colocada) também foram promovidas à desfilar no primeiro grupo no ano seguinte.

Frevos carnavalescos
O desfile dos frevos foi realizado a partir das 16 horas do sábado, dia 23 de fevereiro de 1952, na Avenida Presidente Vargas.

Classificação
Vassourinhas foi o clube campeão.

Ranchos carnavalescos
O desfile dos ranchos foi realizado a partir das 20 horas da segunda-feira, dia 25 de fevereiro de 1952, na Avenida Presidente Vargas.

Classificação
Decididos de Quintino foi o campeão.

Sociedades carnavalescas
O desfile das grandes sociedades foi realizado a partir da noite da terça-feira de carnaval, dia 26 de fevereiro de 1952, na Avenida Rio Branco.

Classificação
O Clube dos Fenianos venceu a disputa.

Blocos de repartições públicas
O Bloco Arsenal da Marinha venceu a disputa de repartições públicas. O Bloco da Prefeitura ficou em segundo lugar.

Bibliografia

Ver também

 Carnaval do Rio de Janeiro
 Desfile das escolas de samba do Rio de Janeiro

1952
Rio de Janeiro
1952 no Rio de Janeiro

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In this chapter, Martin Bliemel, Saskia de Klerk, Ricardo Flores and Morgan Miles review the historic context in which an accelerators industry emerged in Australia in parallel with policy development to indirectly support start-ups. Their study spans over three decades of policies aimed at supporting innovative high-growth ventures. Early attempts at stimulating an incubator industry failed. The authors focus on the most recent years, during which accelerators initially emerged in Australia in the absence of policy tailored to the accelerator business model, followed by the design and implementation of a A$23 million national Incubator Support Programme.


In a move to protect the city against another economic downturn, the Irvine City Council this week voted unanimously to increase the amount in its budgetary reserve or rainy day fund from 15 percent to 20 percent of the overall $146-million general fund budget over the next three years.
"Increasing your reserves when you're as dependent as we are on sales taxes is wise," said City Manager Sean Joyce. Sales tax is the city's largest revenue source and accounts for approximately 36 percent of the general fund. Property tax is second at around 33 percent.
The health of the city's current reserve can be attributed to the "Bridge Plan" that the city implemented at the onset of the Great Recession. Its goal was to cut costs without laying off workers or significantly reducing city services.
The original projection was that the fund would be depleted when the 2011-12 fiscal year ended in June. But the city exceeded its own revenue expectations and was able to meet the target of 15 percent of the general fund, which amounts to more than $20 million.
If the city is able to add another 5 percent to the reserve, the fund will increase by $7 million, based on current budget projections, Joyce said.
Joyce said that transfers into the reserve fund will most likely come as the result of future year-end surpluses. The city ended fiscal year 2011-2012 with a surplus of $6.7 million but chose not to put any of that money into the reserve.
It was instead allocated for, among other things, the city's general plan update, the insurance fund and its infrastructure and rehabilitation fund.
Officials intend to allocate the remainder later to give the council flexibility in a tenant improvement project at the Irvine train station. The tenant space is expected to be occupied by Orange County Great Park staff.
The council unanimously approved the budget report along with the recommendation to increase the reserve.
Before Councilman Larry Agran cast his vote, he reminded his colleagues of a time when the council did not take such a wise course.
The investment pool went bust and led to the county's bankruptcy in 1994.
"Should tough times return, then we should in a disciplined way return to the rainy day reserves," Agran said.
After a nudge from Councilwoman Christina Shea, the committee that worked to locate a future veterans cemetery at the Great Park will reconvene to look at affordable housing for veterans.


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Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 9: Hunters Blues, A Mirror Darkly World Novel
Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 8: The Deep
Woodcutter's Grim Series, Volume II {Classic Tales of Horror Retold} (Books 4-7)
Woodcutter's Grim Series, Volume I {Classic Tales of Horror Retold} (Books 1-3 and The Final Chapter)
For the ten generations since the evil first came to Woodcutter's Grim, the Guardians have sworn an oath to protect the town from the childhood horrors that lurk in the black woods. Without them, the town would be defenseless...and the terrors would escape to the world at large. Woodcutter's Grim Series, Volume I (Classic Tales of Horror Retold) is a compilation of the first three novellas in the series and The Final Chapter. Including:
Uneasy Allies
Five disparate people drawn together in pursuit of one goal. Their mission was simple – to rescue Lally and Derri from the evil kaerlings. But catching up with the kaerlings proves to be anything but simple, and the five companions discover that they can't completely trust each other. This is the seventh volume in the epic saga that is The Kaerling.
A Beth-Hill Novel: Wild Hunt Series, Book 1: Heart's Desire
The Wild Hunt roamed the forest outside of Beth-Hill until the Council bound them for a hundred years. Nevertheless, a century of existence has made an indelible mark not easily forgotten for these ghostly myths that are no longer so ghostly or myth-like...
Catherine III (The Lost Tsar Trilogy Book III)
The time has come for the final showdown in the battle to see who rules all Russia. President Yuri Kostov is confident that Tsarina Stacey Godunov has accepted her fate in Oymyakon, when suddenly she disappears. She calls to tell him that she intends to come to Moscow and stage a coup on Christmas Day. Stacey has the power of the people. Yuri has the power of the government. Who will win? The time has come to find out.
The Terrorist's Game (Level 1)
In a complicated post Covid era filled with peaceful governments that are manipulated by separatist groups trying to dominate the world, Talia Anderson has a particularly difficult situation. As the Director of Security for the United Nations, she is responsible for protecting some of the most important people from all over the globe, but her personal life keeps getting in the way.
The Destiny Dream
Sandy goes on her first solo trip ever to visit her cousin in Connecticut. After seeing some sights, she starts to have a recurring dream about a man and a place that she visited while on that trip. This begins her odyssey, as she makes her way through several adventures, a marriage and the discovery that there might be a chance that her dream is a vision of her destiny. Years go by in this epic as she tries to ignore that her life is leading her to her dream.


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O Torneio Internacional de Toulon de 2015 foi a quadragésima terceira edição do torneio, que ocorreu de 27 de maio até 7 de junho. O evento foi sediado, em sua maioria, na região de Provença-Alpes-Costa Azul, França.

A Seleção Francesa conquistou pela décima segunda vez o título de campeão em cima do Marrocos com o placar de 3 a 1 e também conquistou o campeonato de forma invicta com 100% de aproveitamento.

Regulamento
O campeonato sera disputado por dez equipes em dois grupos de cinco equipes a equipe que terminar em primeiro lugar do seu grupo classifica para a final as duas segundas colocadas disputaram a vaga do terceiro lugar.

Participantes
 (país sede)

Estádios

Árbitro

Resultados

Grupo A

Grupo B

Terceiro Lugar

Final

Premiação

Ligações externas
Toulon Tournament

2015
2015 no futebol
Desporto na França em 2015


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Q: Rails - set default for nested model attribute I'm building a nested model form that will allow a client to register (client model) and create a login (user model) at the same time. However, for new registrants, I would like to set the user.role_code (say to "A" for admin), but I've been struggling with this. From a data model perspective, and client has multiple users, since after registration, the client can access the app to add other users. From that perpective, I don't think I can default user_role in the model, since for added users, their role_code may be different. I would like to set the default in the controller.
Also, after form submission, users are sent as an array, so I would like to ensure only ONE user array object is sent upon registration (clearly for vulnerability reasons).
Here's my code
#client registration form new.html
<%= form_for @client do |client_form| %>
.....
    <%= client_form.fields_for :users do |user_form| %>
        <div class="field">
            <%= user_form.label :first_name %>
            <%= user_form.text_field :first_name %>
        </div>
.....
#client Controller

  def create
    logger.info params.inspect
    @client = Client.new(params[:client])

    if @client.save
    ......

#client model
class Client < ActiveRecord::Base

  attr_accessible :business_name, ... #and more
  attr_accessible :users_attributes

  has_many :users
  has_many :items

  accepts_nested_attributes_for :users, allow_destroy: true

#logger.info params.inspect
"...users_attributes"=>{"0"=>{"first_name"=>..."

A: Found it!!! After much researching, Googling, pulling out my hair, and lastly coming across Get nested params, the answer is as follows:
@client.users.first.role_code = "A"

and to test the number of user array objects, use the following
if @client.users.size != 1
...
end

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Q: Using a do while loop in Linux to return certain values I am trying to create a script that essentially checks if a file is being updated. If the file is being updated at that moment then the script does nothing, but if the file has stopped updating, then the script needs to return some other statement.
So far I have the following script.
#!/bin/bash

DIR=/home/

cd $DIR

FILE=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mmin -1 -name 'test.log' | wc -l)

while [ ${FILE} -eq 1 ]
do
    echo "Now sleeping for 20 seconds"
    sleep 20
done
if [ ${FILE} -eq 0 ]
then
    echo "Job is finished"
fi

Basically I am looking in my home directory for a file called test.log that has been updated within 1 minute. I'm using wc -l to show that the file exists. I want to use the while loop to return the statement "Now sleeping for 20 seconds" if the test.log file exists. Once the file is no longer updated, I want the script to move on and return "Job is finished".
So far, when running the script when the test.log file does not exist, Job is finished is returned. However, when the test.log file is there and is only '1 minute old' or less, the script returns "Now sleeping for 20 seconds", and continues to return this even when the file is older than 1 minutes and is not updating anymore. The script never moves on to return "Job is finished"

A: You are not modifying the FILE variable inside the loop (so it stays constant), and so either finish immediately or enter an infinite loop.
Assuming your linux system has the stat command, try
while (( ( $(printf "%(%s)T") - $(stat -c"%Y" test.log) ) < 60 ))
  do    echo "Now sleeping for 20 seconds"
        sleep 20
  done

It makes use of bash 's features %()T and ((...)), and the stat epoch format for easy subtraction of the two time values. If the file changes within a minute, it keeps looping, until file is older than one min.

A: You can use a while-loop that loops forever and break the loop if the file is not found. You need to move the find command inside the loop for repeated checks:
#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    logfile=$(find /home -maxdepth 1 -type f -mmin -1 -name 'test.log')

    if [ -z "$logfile" ]; then
      break # no file found, break while-loop
    fi
    echo "Now sleeping for 20 seconds"
    sleep 20
done
echo "Job is finished"

A: FILE=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mmin -1 -name 'test.log' | wc -l)

The command substitution is expanded and find launched right here, when the assignment is made. You're not changing FILE anywhere else so it will keep the value it got at the start of the script. Move the command substitution and assignment inside the loop.

A: Distilling @Freddy's solution slightly:
#!/bin/bash

while find /home -maxdepth 1 -type f -mmin -1 -name 'test.log' | grep -q .
do
    echo "Now sleeping for 20 seconds"
    sleep 20
done
echo "Job is finished"

This solution uses grep's -q switch to suppress the usual output of grep, which simply tests the output of find for an empty/not empty condition.  The while loop will continue to loop so long as the find command outputs at least one line of text.  Once the test.log file is older than one minute, find no longer produces any output, and the grep command fails, causing the loop to terminate.


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Q: Cannot use echo after connection to database I'm using ajax to send a request to php with some text.
$.get("process.php", { finalQuery : finalQuery }, function(data) {

alert("Data Loaded: " + data);

});

I know this works because in php I can put
$val = $_GET['finalQuery']; echo $val;

And it outputs the correct data.
However, if I put
$db = pg_Connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=Blah user=postgres password=1888");

pg_close($db);

It stops echoing the results back to javascript. If I use a different port or name, and it doesn't connect, it then goes back to sending the data to javascript and outputting the correct data.
So basically, when I connect to the database, I cannot communicate my results back with echo. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT(update):
Here's the complete php code
    <?php
$val = $_GET['finalQuery'];
echo $val;

$db = pg_Connect("host=localhost port=5432 dbname=Blah user=postgres password=1888");
$result = pg_query($db, 'SELECT gid FROM "Perfect"');
while ($row = pg_fetch_row($result)) {
  echo "gid: $row[0]";
  echo "<br />\n";
}

pg_close($db);
?>

However, the problem still occurs as long as I use pg_connect. All the other lines can be removed and the problem persists. As long as I remove the pg_connect, the problem disappears and I can send the information back through echo
NEW EDIT(debugging) :
The connection to the database and the php code seems ok. After loading the php page with
error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

no errors are logged on the page, and the connection to the database is returning all the data properly on every page load.
The problem arises when I'm trying to connect to the php through javascript.
The page loads the data properly sometimes, but it's random, and most of the time nothing happens (not even php logged errors). If you there's no way the javascript-php connection isn't the problem then I'll keep debugging the code.

A: Here's the steps I'd take for debug:

*

*Begin by ensuring the DB is running and that you can send it a query
successfully via console window DB GUI Tool (Navicat is my gui of
choice for DB's)

*Load the PHP page directly.  Check for output of
expected code or fatal PHP Errors

*Check the browser console for errors.  Since it appears to be a PHP
only page, this should be entirely clear of problems.

*Check PHP logs

*Check Postgres logs

More than likely, something between Postgres and PHP is the problem.  Post any errors back on your question if you're still stuck after finding a clue.


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If the 2008 presidential campaign was a hot topic on talk radio in the first quarter of the year, it had much less of a presence on another radio platform—NPR's "Morning Edition." Not surprisingly, those two very different radio sectors had noticeably divergent news agendas for the first three months of 2007.
Public radio and the talk hosts both spent more time on the Iraq policy debate than any other story (15% on NPR compared with 19% in talk). But NPR spent a lot less time on the 2008 race for the White House (3% compared with 14% for the talkers) and considerably more time on events inside Iraq (7% versus 1% for talk).
In addition, several subjects that made "Morning Edition's" top-10 story list—such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (2%) and U.S. economic conditions (2%) —failed to get on the talkers' radar screen. Conversely, the president's State of the Union Address (2%) and domestic terrorism issues (1%) that were on the talkers' top-10 story list did not make the NPR roster.
Yet another kind of radio news, the syndicated ABC and CBS radio headlines, revealed its own set of news priorities. After the Iraq policy debate and events in Iraq, the third biggest story in those headlines were storms and severe weather (4%). And by consuming 3% of the headlines' newshole, the Anna Nicole Smith saga turned out to be the seventh biggest story.


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Inaer Spain has been awarded a one-year contract to transport personnel, goods and supplies to the Gaviota offshore underground gas storage platform, operated by Enagás. It will use an AW139 helicopter, which can accommodate 15 passengers, and will schedule flights for crew changes on the platform, which is located 8km from the Cabo Matxitxako in Bermeo, close to Bilbao.
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ASIA - Jesuit Refugee Service celebrates its 40th anniversary: In times of the pandemic, refugee work is particularly important
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The Federation of Asian Bishops launches online courses for pastoral communicators
The next frontier for human development: working "with" and not "against" nature
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Jesuit Refugee Service celebrates its 40th anniversary: In times of the pandemic, refugee work is particularly important
Dhaka (Agenzia Fides) - "Although much has changed in the last 40 years, our mission to accompany, serve and defend refugees and displaced persons remains the same and remains a necessary and precious service in Asia, where it all began": said Jesuit Father Pradeep Perez, who works in Bangladesh as a member of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) team, to Agenzia Fides, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in the work of accompanying refugees and migrants around the world.
JRS, which was born precisely as a response to an international crisis on the Asian continent and today works in Bangladesh with Rohingya refugees under the guidance and supervision of Fr. Jerry Gomes SJ and Fr. Francis Dores SJ. "JRS is dedicated to protecting the most vulnerable and advocates the rights of refugees in Bangladesh, in many other Asian countries and around the world", notes Father Perez. "We at JRS speak the language of social justice for the rights of refugees and recognize our vocation as people of faith in accompanying and serving them on the path of protecting and promoting their human dignity", said the priest.
"In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the various JRS teams in various Asian countries have stepped up their commitment and continue to stand on the side of refugees and accompany them through the process of humanitarian support and human advancement… This happens when there are humanitarian disasters or episodes of crisis, but also and above all when all the lights of international attention go off and these people are forgotten by the governments, as is the case for Rohingya Muslims, who fled from Myanamar to Bangladesh. In such situations we remain faithful to our mission", he adds.
As Fr. Perez emphasizes, JRS ensures that refugees have the opportunity to obtain a qualified education and learn to deal with their sources of income, to protect themselves from dangers and to receive material, psychological and spiritual support in order to be able to become independent citizens in the future to be integrated in different socio-economic contexts.
JRS was founded 40 years ago, on November 14, 1980, by Father Pedro Arrupe, former Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The Jesuit order in Asia wanted to give an answer to the humanitarian crisis of the Vietnamese boat refugees, which took shape with the foundation of the aid organization. Father Arrupe commissioned a first team of four to look after Vietnamese refugees.
Today, JRS, which is headquartered in Rome and serves 725,000 refugees around the world and is represented with its local teams in 56 countries around the world. (SD-PA) (Agenzia Fides, 16/11/2020)
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Kick-Ass 2: Interview with Mike Lambert (Fight Coreographer)
Carlo Coratelli / October 9, 2013
We take you behind the scenes of Kick-Ass 2, the sequel directed by Jeff Wadlow, with an interesting and detailed interview with Mike Lambert, fight coreographer, responsible for the action scenes and fighting present in the movie. Mike has a long career in film and television, having worked on numerous feature films and TV series, also in the role of stuntman. Among them we can mention Bulletproof Monk, The Gladiator, X-Men: The Last Stand, Casino Royale, Merlin and Game of Thrones.
Hi Mike. Just to start, can you please introduce yourself to our readers and tell us about your carreer?
Hi! Firstly thank you very much for wanting to interview me. My name is Mike Lambert, 42 years old and I like long walks on the beach and non alcoholic piña coladas, oh and I am a stuntman/fight coordinator which I have been lucky enough to be doing for the past 21 years.
Are there films or TV series that have particularly inspired you to become a stuntman and a fight coreographer? I read on your website that you used to watch A-Team…
Well I grew up watching Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan movies and all sorts of martial art films so yeah that really inspired me to get into learning martial arts and also ignited a spark to maybe one day work in the movie industry.
Also watching action films like raiders of the lost ark, and TV shows like the A Team got me thinking about becoming a stuntman…..
Then at age 21 I went and lived in Hong Kong for 6 years, learning the ropes as a stunt man/action actor, and it was a fantastic learning curve for me, working alongside some top HK martial art stars such as Jackie chan, jet li and Donnie yen and working with some of the best Chinese stunt guys out there!
You worked as a stuntman in Kick-Ass, while in the sequel you took the role of fight coreographer. What have been the main challenges you had to face during the filming?
I think the main challenges for any stunt/fight coordinator is getting the director/producers to like what you do. I like all my fight choreography haha, but the hard part is getting others to like my work, fortunately the director on kick ass 2, Mr Jeff Wadlow was fantastic, he has great vision and also a super nice guy to boot, and he played a major part in tweaking certain parts of the fight sequences to fit in with what he wanted from certain characters.
Also my boss was Mr Jimmy O'Dee who was the stunt coordinator on KA2, and as well as being a great friend he was amazing to work for, he knows what he wants and he is a very experienced martial artist himself, so he had all bases covered in both the fight areas and the action scenes.
Nowadays action movies show a lot of more or less original fighting scenes. Creatively speaking, how hard is it to set up a scene that can strike and impress the audience?
Nowadays it's very hard to be original re a fight scene, a punch is a punch and a kick is a kick, but how the performers interpret the move, or how it is filmed and edited is the way that we can try to be a little different in presenting a fight sequence to a movie audience.
Also when choreographing a fight I try to think what would I like to see if I was watching this particular movie, as a martial arts/action film fan myself i tend to put moves together, that would make me smile when watching or give that 'wow' factor.
Of course everyone is different and not everybody is gonna dig my fight scenes, but that's cool, you can't please everyone, but those that do like martial art fight scenes in general will hopefully like the sequences in kick ass 2.
In my opinion, the most striking fight scene in the movie is the combat between Hit Girl and Mother Russia. Can you describe in the details how it was realized, especially regarding the collaboration between the stunts and the actors Chloe Moretz and Olga Kurkulina?
In early rehearsals, we got in Chloe Bruce and Helen Bailey to work with Jimmy O'Dee, me and the rest of the stunt team, they were great in helping me shape an early build of the end fight, both these girls are awesome stunt performers and I would like to say a big thank you for their help.
The fight actually went through a few versions, till we got to something the stunt coordinator and the director/producers liked then we started rehearsing with the hit girl double Miss Talila Craig who is a fantastic stunt women, and always gave 110% in her performances, tbh Tee (her nickname) is not really a martial artist, but came from a gymnastic background, but because she moves so well, she picked up the choreography with ease and learnt a s**t load of martial art techniques in a very short time, she got that good that a lot of experienced martial artists thought she had been training for years after seeing her in action, she was that good!
In fact I would have Talila on my fight team any day of the week now, she earned her fight stripes on KA2.
When it came to came to rehearse with the actors, I had Tee playing hit girls part and another great stunt performer Mr Ashley Beck playing Mother Russia, we then break down the fight sequence in sections as this is the easiest way to let the actors digest the moves, then we slowly build up the speed and tempo, until we get a nice flow and see how the 2 artists gel with each other.
Miss Chloe Moretz was awesome, she is very hard working and a really nice kid as well, plus she moves great so it makes our life a lot easier!
This was Olga's first time working in front of a movie camera so a lot of pressure was on her, but she did a great job and was a soldier, never complained, she just dug in and got on with it.
The original fight between these 2 titans was over 4 mins long, but of course due to time limits this got cut down big time, but I am still very pleased with how the end fight sequence came out and the rest of the fight scenes in KA2.
How long does it takes to make the coreography of a fight scene in a film as Kick-Ass 2?
Again it all depends on many factors, how long do we have to rehearse? How complicated is the scene? I.e many people fighting, one vs one, weapons involved and also whether or not the stunt coordinator and director like version one of the fight, if not it could take weeks to get one version of a fight that everyone is happy with.
Are there particular moves and blows that have been used in the fight scenes? Can you tell us about them?
Well I don't wanna spoil anything for people that haven't seen it yet, but the nunchuku is back and re the end fight scene, glass springs to mind.
How has the collaboration with director Jeff Wadlow and the rest of cast been? Do you have any funny memory to tell us about?
Jeff and the rest of the cast were fantastic, re funny moments, no we are very professional and never joke around on set……….only joking, there was many funny memories, too many to mention, but for me the best part of a movie is the rehearsal stage where I get to work closely with the stunt team and do the 'pre viz' (which is kind of a visual storyboard, where I choreograph, shoot and edit a fight sequence, hopefully as near as damn what it will be like on the day)
This is normally lots of fun, lots of 'out takes' happen where people fluff their lines or forgot their fight moves, usually lots of great stuff for the blooper reel.
I have seen that you also worked in Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, a trailer of which has just appeared. Would you like to tell us about this movie and your future projects?
Yeah vamp academy was also back working for Jimmy O'Dee and again it was a great crew to work with! We got most of the same team back we had on KA2 so it once again like a close knit family unit.
Also we were again lucky to have some great cast members and they put a lot of effort into the stunt/fight rehearsals.
The fights were very martial arts focused with a nice variety of styles ranging from some taekwondo style kicking to some jeet Kune do style trapping to aikido (which Jimmy is a 6th Dan in) so hopefully the fights will turn out exciting and please movie fight fans.
Re the future, I don't know what I am doing next week lol, but we shall see what the future holds, what I would love to do one day is direct a full on, all out martial arts action flick, a kind of homage to Hong Kong action cinema, it might happen……. (Chocolate pain)
Lastly I would like to thank you for taking the time to interview me and I would like to say a massive THANK YOU to Mr Jimmy O 'Dee for getting me on the stunt team as fight coordinator and the rest of the performer.
Mr Buster Reeves, assistant stunt coordinator
Miss Talila Craig hit girl stunt double
Mr James Embree kick ass stunt double
Mr Ashley Beck, Mr Arran Topham, Mr Mark Kelly and the rest of the stunties that made this such a wonderful experience
Also a massive thanks to Mr Jeff Wadlow, (director) Mr David Reid, Mr Adam Bohling, Mr Tarquin Pack & Mr Matthew Vaughn (producers).
October 9, 2013 in Interview. Tags: Chloe Moretz, Jeff Wadlow, Kick-Ass 2, Mike Lambert
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Join American Jews in Condemning Gaza War
Richard Silverstein and I, along with Verso Books, the publishers of A Time to Speak Out, have prepared the following statement from American Jews condemning the Gaza assault and Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. We hope that you will sign it and encourage others you know to do so as well. Roane Carey of The Nation has expressed some interest in publishing it there, if we succeed in getting a significant number of signatories. We hope you will help start a viral campaign by promoting this statement as widely as you can via e mail, websites and general word of mouth.
To sign, please send your full name, title (if you wish), & affiliation (if you wish) to this address. It is only for signatures and not for regular correspondence. For that, please e mail Richard directly. Of course, you can leave comments on this blog.
"We Shall Not Be a Party to Their Counsel!"
As human beings, we are shocked and appalled at the mass destruction unleashed by the State of Israel against the people of Gaza in its current military operation, following years of Israeli occupation, siege, and deprivation.
As Americans, we protest the carte blanche given Israel by the US government to pursue a war of "national honor," "restoring deterrence," "destroying Hamas," and "searing Israel's military might into the consciousness of the Gazans."
As progressives, we reject the same justifications for the carnage that we heard ad nauseum from the supporters of the Second Iraq War: the so-called "war on terror," the "clash of civilizations," the "need to re-establish deterrence" – all of which served to justify a misguided and unnecessary war, with disastrous consequences for America and Iraq.
But as Jews of different religious persuasions, from Orthodox to secular atheist, we are especially horrified that a state that purports to speak in our name wages a military campaign that has killed over 1,000 people, a large percentage of them civilians, children, and non-combatants, with little or no consideration for human rights or the laws of war.
While the moral and legal issue concerning Israel's right to respond militarily in these circumstance can be debated, there is near-universal agreement that its conduct of the military operation has been unjust and even criminal – with only the usual apologists for the Jewish state disagreeing.
As Jews, we stand united with another Israel, the patriarch Jacob, who cursed his sons Simeon and Levi for massacring the people of Shechem in revenge for the rape of their sister Dinah. Like Jacob, "we shall not be a party to the counsel of zealots. We shall not be counted in their assembly. (See Genesis 34. 49: 5-7).
As Jews, we stand united with the Jewish sages who rejected the zealotry of the Jewish "terrorists" at Masada, those who masked ethnic tribalism in the cloak of "self-defense" and "national honor."
As Jews, we listen not only when the sage Hillel says, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" but also when he says, "If I am only for myself, what am I?" Hillel's closing words also ring true in this hour of decision when a ceasefire is demanded of both sides: "If not now, when?"
Finally, as American Jewish progressives, and as human beings, we condemn Hamas and Israel for violating the human rights of civilians on both sides, although we do not necessarily declare these violations to be morally or legally equivalent. We affirm the rights of both Israeli and the Palestinian peoples to self-determination and self-defense, as we affirm the rights of both Israelis and Palestinians to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It could have been a good statement. There are a few things i don't like but I could live with for the sake of unity. However, the last paragraph is a deal breaker.
Palestinians have a right to self defense. You have no moral standing to condemn them.
Jerry Haber said...
Evildoer, read the statement carefully. It claims that the Palestinians have no less a right to self-defense than the Israelis, and I have advocated for years that were the Palestinians to have a state, they would have no less right to a powerful army than the Israelis.
But even without a state they have a right to self-defense. There is nothing in the statement that denies the Palestinians the right to an armed struggle against the Israelis, coincident with the laws of war and international human rights.
Moreover, anybody reading carefully will see that I see no moral equivalence between lobbing rockets on a civilian population and accurately bombing and destroying civilians.
That said, we made a conscious decision to go with the human rights organizations against the defenders of the rockets.
Do you really think that sending rockets on civilians should be called "a right to self defense"? Why don't you apply the same morals to their side? Besides, instead of asking that the Palestiniens should have the right to have a powerful army as the israelis, would'nt it be a lot better to have the entire god.am region demilitarized?
I've read that one rabbi (from Safed) said that Hamas is Amalek. I suppose you don't agree. But then, who is Amalek? Is Hitler Amalek? Staline? Pol Pot? Bush? Ben Laden? Anybody? Nobody? What are the criteria to stand out as Amalek, these days?
Sorry about my awkward english
Mike you wrote:
"Do you really think that sending rockets on civilians should be called "a right to self defense"?
The answer is, "No,I do not, and that is why I distinguished between the two in the statement, condemning the former, affirming the latter.
"Besides, instead of asking that the Palestiniens should have the right to have a powerful army as the israelis, would'nt it be a lot better to have the entire god.am region demilitarized?"
Why not demilitarize the world while you are at it? It's not as if countries outside the region never had designs on the region. Who will protect the region from the countries outside it?
On the federation plan first proposed by Judah Magnes, and which I find appealing, the two sides would have one common federal army, one common federal economic policy, and one common foreign policy.
But until that date, a balance of fear a la India and Pakistan may be the best thing for the two peoples.
In this latest diastrous war, one side has had a cakewalk -- or turkey shoot -- against the other. For some reason, Israelis think that killing, maiming, and rubbing a people's face in the mud, will make them more amenable to peace.
Gert said...
Jerry, I'll be signing in minutes, as well as linking to this post.
Like Evildoer, there are parts I find difficult, specifically mixing in the U.S. invasion of Iraq and identifying ourselves as "progressives."
Of course the U.S. invasion of Iraq sort of disqualifies anyone in the U.S. to comment on business in Israel. We are no better.
But also I'd hope that all Jewish people could come to the realization that Israel is not central to Judaism. God is.
I prefer this statement:
http://jewishvoices.squarespace.com/ijv-statement/
It is concise and does not try too hard to create balance where none exists.
SIETE said...
Que dios bendiga el camino que han abierto a una paz, solo posible en la autodeterminación de los pueblos, y nunca posible en la hegemonía del capital sobre los seres humanos.
I will not be a party to this treason!
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