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"""
General system related utilities
"""

import sys, os, re, shutil, subprocess, string, time, errno, multiprocessing
import os.path as P

def die(msg, code=-1):
    print >>sys.stderr, msg
    sys.exit(code)

def get_prog_version(prog):
    try:
        p = subprocess.Popen([prog,"--version"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        out, err = p.communicate()
    except:
        raise Exception("Could not find: " + prog)
    if p.returncode != 0:
        raise Exception("Checking " + prog + " version caused errors")

    m = re.match("^.*? ([\d\.]+)", out)
    if not m:
        raise Exception("Could not find " + prog + " version")
    return m.group(1)

def get_num_cpus():
    """Return the number of CPUs on the current machine."""

    import sys
    if sys.version_info < (2, 6, 0):
        num_cpus = 8
    else:
        from multiprocessing import cpu_count
        num_cpus = cpu_count()

    return num_cpus

def checkIfToolExists(toolName):
    """Returns true if the system knows about the utility with this name (it is on the PATH)"""

    # Look for the tool using the 'which' command
    cmd = ['which', toolName]
    p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    translateOut, err = p.communicate()

    # Check if that command failed to find the file
    failString = 'no ' + toolName + ' in ('
    if translateOut.find(failString) >= 0:
        raise Exception('Missing required executable "' + toolName + '", please add it to your PATH.')
    else:
        return True

def getNumNodesInList(nodesListPath):
    """Get number of Pleiades nodes listed in a file"""

    if nodesListPath is None:
        return 1 # local machine

    # Count the number of nodes without repetition
    # (need this for Pleiades).
    nodes     = {}
    num_nodes = 0
    try:
        fileHandle = open(nodesListPath, "r")
        for line in fileHandle:
            if re.match('^\s*$', line): continue # skip empty lines
            matches = re.match('^\s*([^\s]*)', line)
            if matches:
                nodes[matches.group(1)] = 1

        num_nodes = len(nodes)
    except Exception, e: # Fail on exception
        die(e)
    if num_nodes == 0:
        raise Exception('The list of computing nodes is empty')

    return num_nodes

def check_parallel_version():
    # This error will never be reached for users of our packaged final
    # product as that one bundles 'parallel' with it.
    ver = get_prog_version('parallel')
    if ver < '2013':
        die("Expecting a version of GNU parallel from at least 2013.")

def runInGnuParallel(numParallelProcesses, commandString, argumentFilePath, parallelArgs=[], nodeListPath=None, verbose=False):
    """Use GNU Parallel to spread task across multiple computers and processes"""

    # Make sure GNU parallel is installed
    if not checkIfToolExists('parallel'):
        raise Exception('Need GNU Parallel to distribute the jobs.')

    # Ensure our 'parallel' is not out of date
    check_parallel_version()

    # Use GNU parallel with given number of processes.
    # Let output be interspersed, read input series from file
    # Start in the same directory on remote machines. Ensure
    # that vital env variables are copied over.
    cmd = ['parallel',  '--workdir', os.getcwd(), '-u',
           '--env', 'PATH', '--env', 'PYTHONPATH', '--env', 'ISISROOT',
           '--env', 'ISIS3DATA', '-a', argumentFilePath]

    # Add number of processes if specified (default is one job per CPU core)
    if numParallelProcesses is not None:
        cmd += ['-P', str(numParallelProcesses)]

    # Add list of nodes as argument to the parallel tool if it is available
    if nodeListPath is not None:
        cmd += ['--sshloginfile', nodeListPath]

    # Append any additional arguments to parallel
    cmd += parallelArgs

    # Append the actual command we want to call to the GNU Parallel call
    cmd += [commandString]

    if verbose: # Echo the command line call we are about to make
        print(" ".join(cmd))

    returnCode = subprocess.call(cmd)
    return returnCode

# When user-exposed ASP executables are installed, they are in
# 'bin'. Otherwise, in dev mode, they are in the same dir as __file__.
# We prefer absolute paths below, in case some intermediate directories
# do not exist.
def bin_path(prog, **kw):
    currpath = kw.get('path', P.dirname(P.abspath(__file__)))
    binpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, '..', 'bin', prog))
    if not P.isfile(binpath):
        binpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, '..', 'Tools', prog))
    if not P.isfile(binpath):
        binpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, prog))
    return binpath

# When hidden ASP executables are installed, they are in
# 'libexec'. Otherwise, in dev mode, they are in the same dir as
# __file__.
def libexec_path(prog, **kw):
    currpath = kw.get('path', P.dirname(P.abspath(__file__)))
    libexecpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, '..', 'libexec', prog))
    if not P.isfile(libexecpath):
        libexecpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, '..', 'Tools', prog))
    if not P.isfile(libexecpath):
        libexecpath = os.path.abspath(P.join(currpath, prog))

    if not P.isfile(libexecpath):
        # Could not find prog in libexec either. We will come
        # here only for executables like gdalinfo that will
        # be packages in the release, but are not yet
        # in dev mode. Just print a warning and hope
        # this tool is somewhere in user's path.
        print("Could not find: " + libexecpath)
        libexecpath = which(prog)
        print("Using instead: " + libexecpath)

    return libexecpath

# Find if a program is in the path
def which(program):
    def is_exe(fpath):
        return os.path.isfile(fpath) and os.access(fpath, os.X_OK)

    fpath, fname = os.path.split(program)
    if fpath:
        if is_exe(program):
            return program
    else:
        for path in os.environ["PATH"].split(os.pathsep):
            path = path.strip('"')
            exe_file = os.path.join(path, program)
            if is_exe(exe_file):
                return exe_file

    return None

# mkdir without throw
def mkdir_p(path):
    try:
        os.makedirs(path)
    except OSError:
        pass

# Execute a given command stored in the libexec directory and parse
# its output. The output format is expected to be lines of
# comma-separated values.  The first value on each line becomes the
# output variable name, the other values are read into the array of
# variable values.
def run_and_parse_output(cmd, args, sep, verbose, **kw ):
    libexecpath = libexec_path(cmd)
    call = [libexecpath]
    call.extend(args)

    if verbose:
        print(" ".join(call))

    try:
        p = subprocess.Popen(call, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    except OSError, e:
        raise Exception('%s: %s' % (libexecpath, e))
    (stdout, stderr) = p.communicate()

    p.wait()
    if p.returncode != 0:
        print(stdout)
        print(stderr)
        raise Exception('Failed executing: ' + " ".join(call))
    data = {}
    if verbose:
        if stdout is not None: print(stdout)
        if stderr is not None: print(stderr)

    for line in stdout.split('\n'):

        # Print warning messages to stdout
        if re.match("^Warning", line): print(line)

        if sep in line:
            keywords = line.split(sep)
            for index, item in enumerate(keywords):
                # Strip whitespace from ends
                keywords[index] = item.strip(' \t\n\r')
            data[keywords[0]] = keywords[1:]

    return data


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Last week Mrs. Clyde's 6th grade social studies class used Canvas to take an assessment. Mrs. Clyde is in our district Education Technology Endorsement program and needed to use Canvas to complete one of her assignments. Things went so smoothly and her students liked using Canvas so much, Mrs. Clyde has decided to continue to use it with her classes this year. It is great to see teachers and students embracing new technology and using it effectively improve instruction.
At our opening department retreat this year each of us was asked to present a 3 minute presentation on something we were passionate about. However odd this may seem, I chose to present on productivity, and more specifically, email.
Most of the world's email traffic is work or business related. In 2012, the number of businesses emails sent and received per day total 89 billion. This figure is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 13% over the next four years, reaching over 143 billion by year-end 2016 (radicati.com).
No wonder I often feel like my email is out of control! One thing I have learned is while technology is wonderful, and can help us improve productivity, it can also be counter productive, if not used effectively. Email for example, can be far more efficient than snail mail.
One way I have found to help me increase productivity is Inbox Zero. Someone shared the idea with me of having an "Action" folder for items that require my attention, but will take more than a minute or two to address. If an email comes, and I can take care of it in less than two minutes, I do it right then. If it requires more focused attention I place it in my "Action" folder. I set aside time either after lunch, or the end of the day to address those messages. This has helped me be more organized and to respond in a timely matter. This strategy has helped me achieve Inbox Zero.
After my presentation to the department, some of my colleagues were inspired and have applied this same technique. Dustin Worm took the challenge and said, "Two words, productivity increase! While I am new to the idea of Inbox Zero, I have a small sense of accomplishment at the end of the day. Not to mention I answer every email within 24 hours which makes my peers happy."
With the rapid growth in use of technology, and huge amounts of data we deal with every day, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Give Inbox Zero a try...I think you will be pleasantly surprised at what a difference it makes!


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Raised Without Genderby Roxy-Publishingon Saturday, October 20th, 2018 .Raised Without GenderWith recent victories for the trans rights movement and more young people defining as something other than "male" or "female" than ever before, VICE host Amelia Abraham goes to Sweden – the world's most forward thinking country when it comes to questioning gender – to find out what it's like to grow up without the […]
With recent victories for the trans rights movement and more young people defining as something other than "male" or "female" than ever before, VICE host Amelia Abraham goes to Sweden – the world's most forward thinking country when it comes to questioning gender – to find out what it's like to grow up without the gender binary.
In Sweden, the gender neutral pronoun "hen" has been in the national dictionary since 2015 and is now commonly used by most Swedes, the Swedish government's school plan has since 1998 forbidden enforcing gender stereotypes, and government funded gender neutral kindergartens with gender aware teachers has made it possible for families to raise their children without a set gender identity, something that often sparks controversy in the foreign press.
Amelia spends time with one of these gender non-conforming families, mapa (mom and dad) Del LaGrace Volcano who was born intersex (both male and female), the children Mika (5) and Nico (3) and their grandma Margareta. She visits Mika and Nico's gender aware kindergarten to find out what the teachers and the other kids make of Mika's gender expression.She also meets the founder of Sweden's gender-neutral kindergartens, Lotta Rajalin, to learn how they go about deleting gender norms from education, as well as psychiatrist Dr Eberhard who is against Sweden's attitude to gender in kindergartens.
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In Montepulciano, our "Trattoria di Cagnano" brand offers a variety of quality facilities for visitors: in addition to the restaurant of the same name, we manage some holiday apartments with garden in the town centre, as well as two B&Bs: Meublé Evoè, and Meublé La Dimora del Corso.
Montepulciano id often called "the Pearl of the 1500s" for its wealth of art treasures by the leading architects and artists of the Renaissance, dating from the golden days of the Medici rule. The town preserves the enchanted beauty of its historic centre and showcases an endless series of palaces and churches attesting to the strategic, economic and cultural prominence of this Florentine outpost in Sienese territory.
Overlooking the splendid Piazza Grande – which has served again and again as a backdrop for movies and tv adverts – are the late 16th C. Cathedral and the Town Hall, clearly inspired by the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence; all around the square, is an array of elegant Renaissance palaces.


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Q: Upgrade from 1.9.2.4 to 1.9.3.1 results in no results on search Collection.php issue I'm using the default Collection.php for search.
With the new 1.9.3.1 the search bar for typing the search shows the search terms so it is clear it has results but then the results page says "Your search returns no results."
I replaced the /app/code/core/Mage/CatalogSearch/Model/Resource/Fulltext/Collection.php file with the old 1.9.2.4 and now I get results.
Yes, this works but this is not a good solution.
Since others are not having this issue, what might be wrong with my configuration causing the new version to fail.
Did not include the code since it should be standard:
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Notice the big difference in file length between the new version and the old. Assume some major changes and one of them must have a conflict with some other setting or maybe customization I'm not aware of.

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Time sure flies. It's been 8 years since Super 7 opened their doors and inviting us into another realm of collectibles. I never thought about Godzilla and Japanese monsters as collectibles. S7 has brought over a whole new genre of collecting.
For those that attended the party were given the chance to purchase Lucky Bags filled with toys. There were 2 sizes with prices of $125 and $250. If you were really lucky you would've scored 1 of 20 Mummy Boy handpainted figures by Kiyoka and Leecifer. Other figures that you could get were unpainted Le Merde Hollis, clear red Gorilla Biscuits, black ice cream cone, 1 of 3 different Zombie figures (Imp, Ooze bat, Zag) and of course 1 prototype figure (escaregot, hooded zombie, stomp, squirm, zombeard etc...).
Events of the night were a game of ring toss. Even if you sucked and didn't even get one you would get a t-shirt as a constellation prize. Very nice of S7! They also had a custom made Mummy Boy Pinata filled with tons of Candy. The pinata was so strong. It took a real hard beating before it finally broke.
Later that night cake and cupcakes were served as well as beverages throughout the party. Later that night they had a raffle to win some spectacular toys.
Congrats to the raffle winners and of course a Huge Congratulations and Thanks to Super 7 for 8 wonderful years!
Thanks again to Super 7 for 8 Awesome Year! Looking forward to watching them grow in the years to come. Please check out a few pictures here.


Why We Must Be Pro Abundant Life by Roland C. Warren, president and CEO of Care Net, lays out Care Net's vision for how "pro-life ministry" must be done, consistent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God's design for marriage and family.
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Per project. Viewers, from £1000 for a one-off project, £2000 annually for trackers. Unlimited users, includes Espri data analysis tool. Consoles: from £20,000.
Simplicity is the hallmark of good design, whether it is for a mobile phone, a website or a piece of software. It is something we are surprisingly haphazard at achieving in market research. Compared to other kinds of corporate data, survey data tends to be complex, and the analysis and reports that come out of the other end all too often reinforce rather than reduce complexity by stripping it back to the essential. For New-Zealand based MR software provider Infotools, the aim of a new range of data reporting tools, which they call simply Viewers, is to pare back on clutter, and bring radical simplicity to data analysis.
In this initial release, there are four different Viewers to choose from, InfoPlot, InfoSwitch, InfoTrend and InfoWorld. Each follows the same principles and uses a single chart, accompanied by a small amount of tabular data, to present a related series of measures. These would typically be brands or product categories. Each Viewer is aimed at presenting particular kinds of data. InfoSwitch, for example, presents brand switching behaviour. They are all minimalist Web 2.0 products – users are hardly aware they are using software. Instead, they interact with a single webpage containing a chart, sometimes a few figures too and some lists of hyperlinks to other items.
The clean design approach means there are no legends with the charts. Each bar, line or pie slice always has its own label, and the software determines that the labels are always visible, even on quite crowded charts. For instance, in the InfoTrend viewer, mouse over a trend line, and it will highlight it, and the others will shade out. Click on the trend line, and it will split it at that point, and redraw the chart to show trends before and after that point.
All across the range of tools, the charts respond intuitively to pointing, clicking and dragging, in ways that avoid the need for any kinds of explicit controls. There are no lists of properties, no menu of options, no clutter: all the control is ceded to the actual data being viewed. Other items are listed on screen to allow you to vary the view. These are organised into are measures and demographics. Measures could be from the same survey, e.g. brand awareness, affinity or association, but very powerfully, they could be from other sources: marketing spend, retail performance and so on, all scaled to the same axis. You just pick the ones you want to see together.
Other viewers offer different views. InfoWorld presents data plotted over a world map, and maps covering other geographic regions are also feasible. InfoPlot brings to live two-dimensional plots or perceptual maps, with the same highly intuitive approach to encourage experimentation.
Brand managers could get very interested in InfoSwitch – if data are available on brand loyalty, previous brands or alternative brands used. This shows each brand as a sphere orbiting other brands, and the strength of the links between them, with all the Viewer possibilities of moving items around, filtering them and focusing on subgroups, to really understand the interplay of brands, as consumers divide or shift their loyalties.
The Viewers offer great flexibility in deployment. You could build them into an intranet, publish them on a website or you could email links to recipients for them to download a package they can run locally on their laptop without for a permanent internet connection. The technology is built on Microsoft's excellent Silverlight technology ¬– something we are going to be seeing much more of, in software applications for MR. It will run on any browser and any platform.
Infotools also offer what they call Consoles, which are bespoke data delivery portals based on one or more customised Viewers – they are deliberately avoiding calling these dashboards, though the result is definitely dashboard-like in its approach.
Is there a catch? Well, there are potentially two. For many, a deterrent is that both Viewers and Consoles are not offered as standalone software – they are tied into Infotools' service offer. Only Infotools can build the underlying database and populate your Viewer with your data. However, the database is in the same structure as for its full-blown Espri cross-tab and analysis tool. They will throw in a copy of this for free if you are using a Viewer. This has the advantage that the numbers in published data and any subsequent ad hoc requests are likely to agree, as they come from the same data source.
The other catch is the constraint imposed by the interface on the number of variables or dimensions you can include. There is space for around 70 items, but as this includes all measures and all the categories of any demographics, you could struggle to accommodate all you need from a sizeable tracker. However, even here, this discipline could be an advantage, as it forces you to focus on the essential. After all, some do say that less is more.
The Coca-Cola Export Corporation, North & West Africa Business Unit has implemented an Infotools Console based around the new Viewer technology. Knowledge & Insights Manager Othman El Ouazzani, based in Casablanca, Morocco, worked closely with Infotools during the implementation, and introduced the new console to around 25 regional marketing managers and national sales managers.
The console brings together data from a wide range of sources, merging sales data, retail audit data and consumer tracking data from different fieldwork suppliers, media data and even data on weather and temperature.
The Console was designed to meet the needs of different users within the company – providing high-level views for the marketing unit, as well as individual country views for the different national managers.
"The success we have had lies in the fact that we are able to integrate all of this information within one interface. We can chart sales data with retail data, brand equity data plus media data. You can see all of them, all at once, on the same chart. This makes it very easy to navigate your way through all of this information and intuitively drill down if you wished so.
"It does not require any training – it is so self-evident. If you are an Internet user, it is exactly like using the Internet, except that it does not take you to a new page each time, it just displays everything on the same page".
Othman advises anyone considering this approach to "make it simple for the users from day one – don't try to complicate it. You have to be very picky on what dimensions to include in each matrix. Recognise you cannot satisfy everyone's needs with one tool. The user eventually finds that all most important information is there, and they can refer to the databases directly if they need more.
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OrthAlign, Inc., a privately held medical device company announced the much-anticipated U.S. commercial launch of its ORTHALIGN PLUS® system, a palm-sized, single-use navigation device for Total Hip Arthroplasty (cup placement, leg length, and joint offset) surgeries.
"OrthAlign has done it yet again. A simple and easy to use navigation system for hip replacement that provides the surgeon real quantitative feedback without the cumbersome hassle of expensive big box navigation devices," said William Bugbee, MD.
OrthAlign Plus provides measurement accuracy of ±3°, with at least 95% confidence when measuring the angle of the shell impactor, relative to the frame of reference defined by the registered landmarks. The device has been tested and validated to achieve 1) acetabular shell navigation accuracy for both inclination and anteversion, 2) measurement accuracy for changes in the femoral position in the superior-inferior direction, and 3) measurement accuracy for changes in the femoral position in the medial-lateral direction.
"OrthAlign has done it yet again. A simple and easy to use navigation system for hip replacement that provides the surgeon real quantitative feedback without the cumbersome hassle of expensive big box navigation devices. It's all right there in the palm of my hand," said William Bugbee, MD (Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA).
"Surgeon training will be a vital component of the OrthAlign Plus launch. This technology will allow surgeons to approach Total Hip Arthroplasty surgeries in a new and different way. We will emphasize extensive training through every step of the surgery to drive surgeon success and promote better patient outcomes using OrthAlign's precision technology," said James Young Kim, OrthAlign's Vice President of Marketing.
Additionally, OrthAlign's award-winning KNEEALIGN® technology will be fully integrated into the OrthAlign Plus system, continuing to provide a reliable and efficient alternative to expensive Computer Assisted Surgery (CAS) systems, logistically arduous patient-specific cutting blocks, and invasive conventional methods used with an intramedullary rod, for Total Knee Arthroplasty surgeries. To date, KneeAlign has successfully been used in over 30,000 Total Knee Arthroplasty cases, throughout the world.
In a recent study (conducted as a randomized control trial, consisting of five different surgeons) by Denis Nam, MD (Washington University, St. Louis, MO), it was found that KneeAlign decreases the incidence of outliers for tibial component alignment in both the coronal and sagittal planes, and improves the surgeon's ability to achieve a specific, intraoperative goal, compared to conventional, tibial extramedullary (EM) alignment guides in TKA. In the KneeAlign cohort, 95.7% of tibial components were within 2° of perpendicular to the tibial mechanical axis and 95% of tibial components were within 2° of a 3° posterior slope (compared to 68.1% and 72.1% in the EM cohort, respectively).
Dr. Nam also found significant differences favoring the use of KneeAlign vs. CAS with regard to the accuracy of femoral component alignment, with 94.9% of patients in the KneeAlign cohort having an alignment within 2° of neutral vs. 92.5% in the CAS cohort. There was a significant difference in overall mechanical alignment of the limb, with 92.5% of patients within 3° of a neutral mechanical axis in the KneeAlign cohort vs. 86.3% in the CAS cohort.


Italy's interior minister Matteo Salvini said referee Paolo Mazzoleni was right not to suspend Inter Milan's 1-0 win over Napoli on Boxing Day after monkey chants were aimed at Kalidou Koulibaly.
Napoli coach Carlo Ancelotti said he had tried three times to halt the game and threatened he'd take his team off the field the next time such an incident happens, but Salvini said that is not the answer to combatting racism, ESPN reported.
"Suspending a game in the event of racist chants is very risky," he said after a meeting with representatives of Italian clubs, fan groups, the Olympic Committee, the Italian FA, Lega Serie A and government officials on Monday.
"You risk putting the destiny of many people in the hands of just a few. It's very hard to find objective criteria for such a decision.
"I shared the decision not to suspend Inter-Napoli, not because I approve [of] the whistles or the monkey chants, but because we risk there being greater problems outside the ground than those inside.
"I remember I was at the stadium for AC Milan-Juve and the constant, continued boos in that game were for [Leonardo] Bonucci, who is very white, very good and very beautiful, and who had changed clubs two or three times – so who decides whether that is discrimination? Who decides whether that is vulgar?
"Violence should not exist and I'll do all I can to uproot it, inside and outside stadiums, but we need objective criteria, and I think this is hard to interpret in this case."
The death of an Inter ultra in clashes outside the San Siro prompted Salvini to call Monday's meeting and Italian FA president Gabriele Gravina said trouble makers need to be "suffocated" to ensure true football fans can continue to enjoy the game.
"We want to eradicate all forms of violence and bad behavior at all levels, inside and outside stadiums," he said.


The Chair welcomed Susan Gillen, Brighter Living Partnership Co-ordinator.
Susan outlined the background to the Brighter Living Partnership (BLP), which had originally been known as the Healthy Living Partnership. The BLP comprises 60+ partner organisations working together to develop and support initiatives and projects aimed at improving the quality of life for people in Southport and Formby and promoting social inclusion. Initiatives had been identified following a series of consultation events held some 3 yearsw ago involving voluntary groups and organisations and the public.
Projects currently funded from the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund (NRF) include reducing fuel poverty for vulnerable people, developing a quality mark for partner organisations and developing an accredited course for mentors to help vulnerable and excluded groups access services and information.
In addition, Health Action Zone (HAZ) funds are supporting the development of a club for older people in Crossens, a club for young people in Woodvale and a club for parents and families in High Park.
The BLP is also involved in discussions around the proposed re-development of Church Street with a view to siting a drop in facility and information point.
In conclusion, the Chairman thanked Susan for a most informative and enlightening presentation.
The minutes of the previous meeting held on 18th February 2003, having been previously circulated, were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
The Chief Officer updated members on this item. The South African team, funded by the Department of Health as part of a national initiative to increase capacity and reduce waiting time targets, is scheduled to commence operations at Southport DGH on the 6th July for a 12-week programme. Of the 450 orthopaedic cases to be seen, 66 will be local patients. All of the patients will be those classified as �low risk�. Follow up will take place at 6 weeks and 12 months. The newly built modular ward and theatre will be retained by the Trust for further use once this project is completed.
AGREED that the verbal report be accepted.
AGREED that the report be accepted.
the Chief Officer reported that Patient Forums will not now be established until 2004. invitations for �Expressions of Interest� in contracting for providing patient forums are currently with voluntary and community organisations. The PCT Patient Forum also has remit of promoting public involvement. Each local Patient Forum will have some 15-20 lay members and will monitor the day to day management of health services in its area, including the private sector and GP practices, with a reporting mechanism to the Overview and Security Committee (OSC), Commission for Patient and Public Involvement (CPPI) and host trust. The Chief Officer reminded members that Regional Office is looking to provide training for those members interested in moving into Patient Forums.
Overview and Scrutiny Committees (OSCs) will take over the scrutiny and monitoring role. Locally, protocols have been drafted and a separate Health Scrutiny Committee is to be formed with funding for a support officer. The Chief Officer has been asked to comment on a draft Code of Practice for the local OSC. This committee will be established after the local elections in May 2003.
71 cases have been logged, of these, 13 cases have been closed and 20 cases are currently progressing through the NHS Complaints Procedure. Whilst 2:1 complaints relate to hospital treatment, there has been an increase in the number of complaints around GP services. Funding has been extended until the end of August. �Expressions of Interest� in developing ICAS services have been invited from voluntary organisations, such as CABs. An ICAS will be available as from the 1st September but it is not clear at this stage what form this will take.
the CHC office continues to function. Staff are involved in personal development plans and being encouraged to take advantage of training. Sheila Claydon, previous Chief Officer, is part of the team which will oversee the wind down of CHCs in the North West.
Arising from the CHC member�s report on the Access Advisory Group, it had been noted that there was a lack of �resting places� at the front of the entrance of Southport Hospital. The Chief Officer proposed that it would be an appropriate gesture for the CHC to present a bench, with a commemorative plaque. This was unanimously agreed.
The Chief Officer reported that it was planned to holod a church service in commemoration of the work of the CHC, followed by a lunch, to which previous CHC members and other colleagues would be invited. Discussion took place on the appropriateness of the church service and a vote was taken.
AGREED (i) that the Chief Officer progress the donation of a bench to Southport Hospital.
(ii) that the Chief Officer progress arrangements for a church service, followed by lunch.
AGREED that the following reports be accepted.
02/03.57 Date of Next Meeting:- 17th June 2003 at 7.15pm at the Community Health Council office, 53 Houghton Street, Southport.


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New Sensors Will Scoop Up "Big Data" On Chicago
Posted by News Fetcher on June 23 '14 at 07:30 AM
By samzenpus from Slashdot's count-them-up department:
Graculus writes with news about a plan to install sensors to collect environmental data and count people in Chicago. Chicago plans to install sensors in light poles to observe air quality, light intensity, sound volume, heat, precipitation, and wind. The sensors will also count people by observing cell phone traffic. The curled metal fixtures set to go up on a handful of Michigan Avenue light poles later this summer may look like delicate pieces of sculpture, but researchers say they'll provide a big step forward in the way Chicago understands itself by observing the city's people and surroundings. Some experts caution that efforts like the one launching here to collect data from people and their surroundings pose concerns of a Big Brother intrusion into personal privacy. In particular, sensors collecting cell phone data make privacy proponents nervous. But computer scientist Charlie Catlett said the planners have taken precautions to design their sensors to observe mobile devices and count contact with the signal rather than record the digital address of every device.
Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality
By samzenpus from Slashdot's it-was-never-fair department:
ygslash writes "Robert McMillen of Wired claims that we have gotten Net Neutrality all wrong. While we are all busy arguing about whether there should be regulations preventing large content providers from getting preferential bandwidth, McMillen says that not only have the large content providers already had preferential bandwidth for ten years, but that by now this has become an inherent part of the structure of the Internet and in practice cannot be changed. Instead, he says, the Net Neutrality discussion should be about ensuring a free and open competitive market for bandwidth, so that anyone who wants bandwidth can purchase it at a fair price.
Fresh Evidence Supports Higgs Boson Discovery
By samzenpus from Slashdot's look-what-we-found department:
An anonymous reader writes Researchers at CERN have discovered the first evidence for the direct decay of the Higgs boson into fermions, a strong indication that the particle found two years ago is the Higgs boson. From the article: "Assistant professor of physics at MIT and leader of the international effort, Markus Klute, said that his team was trying to establish if the particle that was discovered in 2012 was really consistent with the Higgs boson that was found in the Standard Model, and not one of many Higgs bosons, or an a particle that looks like it but has a different origin."Their researchers also found that the bosons also decay to fermions (fermions include all quarks and leptons) in a way that is consistent with the Standard Model Higgs. 'We have now established the main characteristics of this new particle, in its coupling to fermions and to bosons, and its spin-parity structure; all of these things are consistent with the Standard Model,' Klute says." CERN has also announced the LHC restart schedule.
Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip
By samzenpus from Slashdot's we-need-another-core department:
rtoz writes The more cores — or processing units — a computer chip has, the bigger the problem of communication between cores becomes. For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets, where each core has an associated router, and data travels between cores in packets of fixed size. This week, at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Peh's group unveiled a 36-core chip that features just such a "network-on-chip." In addition to implementing many of the group's earlier ideas, it also solves one of the problems that has bedeviled previous attempts to design networks-on-chip: maintaining cache coherence, or ensuring that cores' locally stored copies of globally accessible data remain up to date.
China Leads In Graphene Patent Applications
By samzenpus from Slashdot's how-many-do-you-got? department:
hackingbear writes According to British patent consultancy CambridgeIP, China has filed for more than 2,200 graphene patents, the most of any country, followed by the U.S. with more than 1,700 patents, and South Korea with just under 1,200 patents. In terms of institutions, Samsung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and IBM lead the way of number of patent filing on this futurist materials with seemingly unlimited potentials, followed by Qinghua University of China. As China's moving its economy to be more innovation based and strengthening its IP laws, American companies will perhaps soon be at the receiving ends of patent law suits.
Great White Sharks Making Comeback Off Atlantic Coast
By samzenpus from Slashdot's just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-go-back-in-the-water department:
An anonymous reader writes "A report that scientists are calling one of the most comprehensive studies of great white sharks finds their numbers are surging in the ocean off the Eastern U.S. and Canada after decades of decline — bad news if you're a seal, but something experts say shouldn't instill fear. The scientists behind the study attribute the resurgence to conservation efforts, such as a federal 1997 act that prevented hunting of great whites, and greater availability of prey. The species is listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature."
Prisoners Freed After Cops Struggle With New Records Software
Posted by News Fetcher on June 22 '14 at 10:15 PM
By samzenpus from Slashdot's get-out-of-jail-free department:
itwbennett writes Police in Dallas are scrambling after difficulties using a new records management system caused more than 20 jail inmates, including a number of people charged with violent crimes, to be set free. The prisoners were able to get out of jail because police officers struggling to learn the new system didn't file cases on them within three days, as required by law.
China Builds Artificial Islands In South China Sea
By samzenpus from Slashdot's mine-now-I-take-it department:
An anonymous reader writes about a Chinese building project designed to cement claims to a disputed region of the South China Sea. Sand, cement, wood, and steel are China's weapons of choice as it asserts its claim over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. China, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Brunei have sparred for decades over ownership of the 100 islands and reefs, which measure less than 1,300 acres in total but stretch across an area about the size of Iraq. In recent months, vessels belonging to the People's Republic have been spotted ferrying construction materials to build new islands in the sea. Pasi Abdulpata, a Filipino fishing contractor who in October was plying the waters near Parola Island in the northern Spratlys, says he came across "this huge Chinese ship sucking sand and rocks from one end of the ocean and blasting it to the other using a tube."
Artificial islands could help China anchor its claim to waters that host some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The South China Sea may hold as much as 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, according to a 2013 report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. China has considered the Spratlys—which it calls Nansha—part of its territory since the 1940s and on occasion has used its military might to enforce its claim. In 1988 a Chinese naval attack at Johnson South Reef, in the northern portion of the archipelago, killed 64 Vietnamese border guards.
SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Launch To Tuesday
By samzenpus from Slashdot's maybe-some-other-time department:
An anonymous reader writes "SpaceX has cancelled the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket after identifying a potential concern during preflight testing. This is the third straight day technical issues or weather have caused a delay. "Today's Orbcomm launch attempt has been scrubbed to address a potential concern identified during pre-flight checks," a SpaceX spokesperson said in a statement. "The vehicle and payload are in good condition, and engineering teams will take the extra time to ensure the highest possible level of mission assurance prior to flight," the statement said. The rocket is now scheduled for a Tuesday launch."
Workplace Surveillance Becoming More Common
By samzenpus from Slashdot's I-see-you department:
An anonymous reader writes For better or worse, surveillance technology is becoming more common in the workplace. These tools are being used to measure and monitor employees, with the promise changing how people work. "Through these new means, companies have found, for example, that workers are more productive if they have more social interaction. So a bank's call center introduced a shared 15-minute coffee break, and a pharmaceutical company replaced coffee makers used by a few marketing workers with a larger cafe area. The result? Increased sales and less turnover." Of course, this kind of monitoring raises privacy concerns. "Whether this kind of monitoring is effective or not, it's a concern," said Lee Tien, a senior staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco.
How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President
By samzenpus from Slashdot's clockwork-people department:
An anonymous reader writes with this interesting look at how Disney created realistic animatronic figures in a time before programming languages and systems on a chip. Animatronics have powered some of sci-fi and fantasy cinema's most imposing creatures and characters: The alien queen in Aliens, the Terminator in The Terminator, and Jaws of Jaws (the key to getting top billing in Hollywood: be a robot). Even beloved little E.T.—of E.T.: the Extra-Terrestrial—was a pile of aluminum, steel, and foam rubber capable of 150 robotic actions, including wrinkling its nose. But although animatronics is a treasured component of some of culture's farthest-reaching movies, it originated in much more mundane circumstances. According to the Disney archives, it began with a bird.
Among the things Walt Disney was renowned for was bringing animatronics (or what he termed at the time Audio-Animatronics) to big stages at his company and elsewhere. But Disney didn't discover or invent animatronics for entertainment use; rather, he found it in a store. In a video on Disney's site, Disney archivist Dave Smith tells a story of how one day in the early 1950s, while out shopping in New Orleans antique shop, Disney took note of a tiny cage with a tinier mechanical bird, bobbing its tail and wings while tweeting tunelessly. He bought the trinket and brought it back to his studio, where his technicians took the bird apart to see how it worked.
Climate Change Prompts Emperor Penguins To Find New Breeding Grounds
By samzenpus from Slashdot's moving-to-better-quarters-on-campus department:
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have discovered that emperor penguins may not be faithful to their previous nesting locations, as previously thought. Scientists have long thought that emperor penguins were philopatric, returning to the same location to nest each year. However, a new research study showed that the penguins may be behaving in ways that allow them to adapt to their changing environment. Lead author Michelle LaRue said,"Our research showing that colonies seem to appear and disappear throughout the years challenges behaviors we thought we understood about emperor penguins. If we assume that these birds come back to the same locations every year, without fail, these new colonies we see on satellite images wouldn't make any sense. These birds didn't just appear out of thin air—they had to have come from somewhere else. This suggests that emperor penguins move among colonies. That means we need to revisit how we interpret population changes and the causes of those changes.""
Over 300,000 Servers Remain Vulnerable To Heartbleed
By samzenpus from Slashdot's protect-ya-neck department:
An anonymous reader writes "Even though it's been a couple months since the Heartbleed bug was discovered, many servers remain unpatched and vulnerable. "Two months ago, security experts and web users panicked when a Google engineer discovered a major bug — known as Heartbleed — that put over a million web servers at risk. The bug doesn't make the news much anymore, but that doesn't mean the problem's solved. Security researcher Robert David Graham has found that at least 309,197 servers are still vulnerable to the exploit. Immediately after the announcement, Graham found some 600,000 servers were exposed by Heartbleed. One month after the bug was announced, that number dropped down to 318,239. In the past month, however, only 9,042 of those servers have been patched to block Heartbleed. That's cause for concern, because it means that smaller sites aren't making the effort to implement a fix.""
The Revolutionary American Weapons of War That Never Happened
By samzenpus from Slashdot's pipe-dreams department:
An anonymous reader writes There have been many US military machines of war that seemed to be revolutionary, but never make it out of the prototype stage. As Robert Farley explains: "Sometimes they die because they were a bad idea in the first place. For the same reasons, bad defense systems can often survive the most inept management if they fill a particular niche well enough." A weapon can seem like an amazing invention, but it still has to adapt to all sorts of conditions--budgetary, politics, and people's plain bias. Here's a look at a few of the best weapons of war that couldn't win under these "battlefield" conditions.
WikiLeaks Publishes Secret International Trade Agreement
By samzenpus from Slashdot's like-minds department:
schwit1 (797399) writes "The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks as the transparency group's editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Fifty countries around the globe have already signed on to the Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA, including the United States, Australia and the European Union. Despite vast international ties, however, details about the deal have been negotiated behind closed-doors and largely ignored by the press. In a statement published by the group alongside the leaked draft this week, WikiLeaks said "proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets," and have participated in "a significant anti-transparency maneuver" by working secretly on a deal that covers more than 68 percent of world trade in services, according to the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research.
EFF To Unveil Open Wireless Router For Open Wireless Movement
By samzenpus from Slashdot's router-to-the-people department:
hypnosec writes A new movement dubbed the Open Wireless Movement is asking users to open up their private Wi-Fi networks to total strangers – a random act of kindness – with an aim of better securing networks and facilitating better use of finite broadband resources. The movement is supported by non-profit and pro-internet rights organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Mozilla, Open Rights Group, and Free Press among others. The EFF is planning to unveil one such innovation – Open Wireless Router – at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE X) conference to be held next month on New York. This firmware will allow individuals to share their private Wi-Fi to total strangers to anyone without a password.
Red Hat Assistant General Counsel Analyses Supreme Court's Patent Ruling
By samzenpus from Slashdot's break-it-down department:
ectoman (594315) writes The U.S. Supreme Court issued a groundbreaking decision concerning software patents, claiming that abstract ideas are not by themselves patentable. The ruling was a cause for celebration among those opposed to software patent abuse, like Red Hat's Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Rob Tiller. Here, Tiller analyzes and offers some context for the Court's ruling, which "uses the traditional common law methodology of comparing one case to previous similar cases and harmonizing with those most similar."
US Government Introduces Pollinator Action Plan To Save Honey Bees
By samzenpus from Slashdot's won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-bees? department:
An anonymous reader writes The White House has announced a federal strategy to reverse a decline in the number of honeybees and other pollinators in the United States. Obama has directed federal agencies to use research, land management, education and public/private partnerships to advance honeybee and other pollinator health and habitats. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department will lead a multi-agency task force to develop a pollinator health strategy and action plan within six months. As part of the plan, the USDA announced $8 million in funding for farmers and ranchers in five states who establish new habitats for honeybee populations.
Big Bang Breakthrough Team Back-Pedals On Major Result
By samzenpus from Slashdot's no-bang department:
An anonymous reader writes A few months ago researchers announced they had discovered proof of the big bang. Now they're not so sure. Further research suggests cosmic dust might have skewed the results. "Back in March, the BICEP2 team reported a twisted pattern in the sky, which they attributed to primordial gravitational waves, wrinkles in the fabric of the universe that could have been produced when the baby universe went through an enormous growth spurt. If correct, this would confirm the theory of inflation, which says that the universe expanded exponentially in the first slivers of a second after the big bang – many believe that it continues to expand into an ever-growing multiverse. Doubts about the announcement soon emerged. The BICEP2 team identified the waves based on how they twisted, or polarised, the photons in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the earliest light emitted in the universe around 380,000 years after the big bang. Other objects, such as the ashes of exploding stars or dust within our galaxy, can polarise light as well."
Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics?
By Soulskill from Slashdot's literally-everyone-should-take-statistics department:
theodp writes: "What if learning to code weren't actually the most important thing?" asks Mother Jones' Tasneem Raja. "Rather than increasing the number of kids who can crank out thousands of lines of JavaScript, we first need to boost the number who understand what code can do." Computational thinking, Raja explains, is what really matters. So, while Google is spending another $50 million (on top of an earlier $40 million) and pulling out all the stops in an effort to convince girls that code and AP Computer Science is a big deal, could AP Statistics actually be a better way to teach computational thinking to college credit-seeking high school students? Not only did AP Statistics enrollment surge as AP CS flat-lined, it was embraced equally by girls and boys. Statistics also offers plenty of coding opportunities to boot. And it teaches one how to correctly analyze AP CS enrollment data!


Getting a mastectomy is a life- and body-changing event for breast cancer survivors. In today's always-online world, it's natural that survivors who have endured a mastectomy would like to share their "battle scars" with friends and family on social media.
Facebook is very clear that they do, in fact, allow post-mastectomy photos. Their Help Center states, "We agree that undergoing a mastectomy is a life-changing experience and that sharing photos can help raise awareness about breast cancer and support the men and women facing a diagnosis, undergoing treatment or living with the scars of cancer. The vast majority of these kinds of photos are compliant with our policies."
But in practice, many breast cancer survivors have experienced the shame and outrage of having posted a post-mastectomy photo only to have it flagged as inappropriate content.
Facebook allows users to flag images for offensive content, and the website's algorithm usually removes the image without considering context. Cancer survivors have to go through the hassle of disputing the automatic removal of their image, despite the fact that Facebook's Terms of Service is very clear that post-mastectomy images are allowed on the site.
It has come to my attention that many breast cancer survivors are feeling persecuted and silenced after they attempt to share post-mastectomy pictures on your website. Facebook's policy on this is clear. The Help Center states, "We agree that undergoing a mastectomy is a life-changing experience and that sharing photos can help raise awareness about breast cancer and support the men and women facing a diagnosis, undergoing treatment or living with the scars of cancer. The vast majority of these kinds of photos are compliant with our policies."
Breast cancer survivors, however, are often not having experiences that align with this stated policy. Too many survivors have shared post-mastectomy photos only to have the images be flagged and removed by Facebook's algorithm. To get their images back online, survivors have to go through a tedious customer support system. This is not something they should have to do. Furthermore, no survivor should have to go through the pain and anguish of having a banned image imply that their body is somehow inadequate or unacceptable. Cancer is hard enough. Post-mastectomy pictures are a way for survivors to bring awareness to the disease, and also bring to light the strength and indomitable spirit needed to endure it.
Mr. Zuckerberg, please spearhead a revision of Facebook's system for banning images. Flagged images should have a human making judgement calls before they are removed from the site. Doing so would save many breast cancer survivors countless hours of stress and shame that Facebook agrees they should not have experienced in the first place.
That's 10,408 signatures! Let's keep the ball rolling.


A Baby Bird Update: Our 6 uninvited residents, a week later, are very noisy, indeed deafening almost. So bossy. I took a teeny update video - and in the week between visits, they have grown frankly all enormous for such a little shared space. The day after I took this, the noise abruptly stopped, and the babies it seems, are all grown up, having quite literally flown the (post box) nest.
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August 5, 2013 by Katya Shipster.


Well that's The Top & Blue Sunshine on the playlist for tomorrow.
I saw from Pete Wylie on twitter.
Just saw the latest news. How sad. We had a few conversations and he was such a nice bloke.
It's too hard for me to celebrate the joy of life in the face of death. I believe though that positive thinking and acceptance is very helpful in the time of darkness. Goodbye Andy Anderson.


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MEDFORD - Junior forward Joe Braun scored twice as third-ranked Tufts men's soccer coasted to a 3-1 victory over Williams College in a NESCAC match on Seniors Day at Bello Field Saturday in front of an electric crowd.
Junior midfielder Brett Rojas booted a corner kick into the middle of the field where the ball found the foot of Braun who put it into the back of the net past Williams's goaltender Aaron Schein in the 11th minute to give the Jumbos an early 1-0 lead. Tufts never looked back.
The Jumbos (12-0-2, 7-0-2 NESCAC) earned head coach Josh Shapiro his 100th career victory with today's win against Williams (8-4-2, 4-3-2 NESCAC). The ninth-year head coach now has a stellar 100-35-23 record at Tufts for a .706 winning percentage.
The Ephs collected the first shot of the game when senior midfielder Eric Hirsch had the ball on the right side and fired it at Tufts senior goalie Conner Mieth who recorded a save in the first minute of action. Rojas had a great chance in the eighth minute that Schein came out and made a play on.
The Braun goal in the 11th minute was his sixth of the season and Rojas tallied his sixth assist to give the 1-0 edge to Tufts.
The Jumbos continued to keep up their aggressive play as Braun put another quality attempt on net that was saved. Tufts junior midfielder Zach Lane had a shot off his right foot hit the crossbar off a beautiful pass from Rojas in the 14th minute. Braun came back down the field a minute later with a shot on goal that was corralled by Schein.
For the next 10 minutes, Williams did a nice job of slowing the pace down and they generated a corner kick in the 25th minute. Junior midfielder Chris Fleischer took the corner for the Ephs which found junior defenseman Liam Bardong's foot, but his shot went just right of the goal. The Ephs created their best chance of the half in the 29th minute as senior defenseman Scatt Macdonald had his shot denied by Mieth. Tufts sophomore midfielder Mati Cano registered the only other shot attempt of the half in the 36th minute.
In the first half, the Jumbos outshot the Ephs eight (four on goal) to four (two on goal). Schein led the half with three saves while Mieth recorded two. Tufts generated two corner kicks to Williams' one. Both defenses played well in the first 45 minutes of action as goals were hard to come by.
The Ephs came out pushing the ball early in the second half as freshman midfielder Justin Adams came down the left side of the field in the 49th minute and put a shot on net that was stopped by a diving Mieth to keep the score at 1-0.
Tufts countered and doubled their lead to 2-0 in the 56th minute as Rojas sent a ball down the right side of the field that junior midfielder Gavin Tasker ran onto. He made a few moves to his left and then dished it over to Braun who buried it into the top of the net. The goal was Braun's seventh of the season and Tasker collected his second assist.
In the 69th minute, Eph sophomore forward Eli Petrik had a shot attempt go right of Mieth as they looked to cut the lead in half. Tufts looked to push the ball as Cano ran down the field two minutes later and received a pass from freshman midfielder Zachary Seigelstein, but Schein made a phenomenal play on the ball to keep it out of the goal.
Cano collected a pass from junior midfielder Zach Trevorrow in the 75th minute on the right side of the field and was able to get the ball across the goal line to extend the lead to 3-0. The goal was Cano's third of the season and Trevorrow picked up his first assist this year.
Williams didn't take long to respond as three minutes later Adams booted one from the right side that got past Mieth after the Ephs were aggressive in the Jumbos end of the field. Adams recorded his second goal of the season.
Tufts controlled the majority of possession the rest of the way as the Ephs mustered only one shot in the final 12 minutes of action. The Jumbo defense wasn't giving up any looks led by senior backs Sterling Weatherbie and Jackson Najjar.
For the game, Tufts outshot Williams 13 (seven on goal) to eight (four on goal). Schein recorded a game-high five saves and Mieth stopped three shots. The brown and blue generated five corners to the Ephs' two. Braun led the game with four shots on goal. There were 20 Jumbos who participated in Saturday's contest.
Tufts will next play on Tuesday when they travel to Bowdoin for a NESCAC match at 2:30 pm which will be the final regular-season contest. Williams will next be in action on Tuesday as well for a NESCAC game when they host Middlebury at 3 pm.


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Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (1876–1938)
Dorothy Rogers
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Chief Joseph (1840–1904)
William D. Guthrie
...Chief Joseph Chief Joseph was born In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder Rolling in the Mountains) in early 1840 near Joseph Creek in the Wallowa Valley of Oregon Territory (now in Wallowa County in north-eastern Oregon). He was baptized on 12...
Standing Bear, Luther (c.1868–1939)
...Standing Bear, Luther Luther Standing Bear was born as Ota K'te, or "Plenty Kill," during the winter of 1868–9 in the Pine Ridge Reservation of southwestern South Dakota, the son of Chief Standing Bear and Pretty Face. He was raised...
De Laguna, Grace Mead Andrus (1878–1978)
Gary S. Calore
...Grace Mead Andrus was born on 28 September 1878 in East Berlin, Connecticut, the daughter of Wallace R. and Annis Mead Andrus. She received her BA from Cornell University in 1903, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and her PhD in philosophy from...
Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879–1916)
Frank Flanagan
...Pearse, Patrick Henry Patrick Henry Pearse was born of an English father and an Irish mother in Dublin on 10 November 1879; he died on 3 May 1916. He was taught by the Christian Brothers at Westland Row and graduated from University...
Northrop, Filmer Stuart Cuckow (1893–1992)
Fred Seddon
...F. S. C. Northrop was born on 27 November 1893 in Janesville, Wisconsin. After receiving a BA from Beloit College in 1915 and an MA from Yale University in 1919, he went to Harvard University, where he earned another MA in 1922 and a PhD...
Levesque, Claude (1927–2012)
...Lévesque, Claude Claude Lévesque was born on 3 March 1927 on the Plateau Mont-Royal in the eastern section of Montréal, Canada. He was the fifth child of a family of eight; his mother was a musician, both in temperament and formation...
Twain, Mark (1835–1910)
Jason G. Horn
...Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who would become known by his pen name Mark Twain, was born on 30 November 1835 in Florida, Missouri. His family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839, where he began his schooling in 1840. Given the frontier nature...
Strong, Josiah (1847–1916)
Charles George Fry
...Josiah Strong was born on 19 January 1847 in Naperville, Illinois, the son of Josiah and Elizabeth Clough (Webster) Strong. Like many Congregationalist leaders of his generation, he was part of America's "New England Diaspora" and claimed...
Blumer, Herbert George (1900–87)
Jack Weller
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This CD was everything I expected and more. I love every single song on it.
Wow, I'd have to call this release Switchfoot's masterpiece. I've been a fan for years, but Hello Hurricane is hands down their best ever. Listen to "Red Eyes", "Free", Your Love is a Song", "Yet" & "Enough to Let me Go" and you'll truly know what I mean.
"Hello Hurricane, Switchfoot's first studio album since 2006's Oh! Gravity, which debuted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200, acknowledges life's storms while managing to find an element of hope in them. The band tracked more than 80 songs at its self-built home studio before narrowing it down to the 12 that appear on the new album. Hello Hurricane is the group's seventh full-length album and its first on Atlantic Records. Switchfoot is comprised of Jon Foreman (vocals/guitar), Tim Foreman (bass), Chad Butler (drums), Jerome Fontamillas (keys/guitar) and Drew Shirley (guitar).
The album grabbed my attention right from the opening notes of "Needle and Haystack Life", which will thrill long-time Switchfoot fans, and probably win them new fans with the U2-esque epic feel and extremely catchy music and lyrics. This is one of those albums that is meant to be experienced in the order it is arranged as lead single "Mess of Me" switches gears musically and brings a new grunge-type sound with the passionate lyrics "I wanna spend the rest of my life alive!". My favorite new Switchfoot song is next, "Your Love Is A Song" in the style of "On Fire" from The Beautiful Letdown. I've enjoyed this band since New Way To Be Human released in 1999 and Hello Hurricane truly brings a great mixture sonically and stylistically that fans of rock anthems, alt-rock and grunge-rock will enjoy. "The Sound" will also have you shouting along with Jon, whose vocals have never sounded better and musically this song reminded me of "Stars" and "We Are One Tonight" from Nothing Is Sound, my previous favorite Switchfoot album. There is little that reminds me of Oh! Gravity, other than maybe the up tempo but more refined sounding rock songs that perfect the sound introduced with the title track and "Awakening".
Some other highlights for me come towards the end of the album, which cools down with "Always", a truly inspirational song in the style of "Twenty-Four" with this great bridge: "Hallelujah!, I'm caving in, Hallelujah! I'm in love again, Hallelujah!, I'm a wretched man, Hallelujah!, every breath is a second chance". "Always" transitions beautifully to "Bullet Soul", another Switchfoot anthem which will have you moving with a great guitar riff and a call to action "are you ready to go?". As if the album didn't have enough hooks, my next favorite track comes next with the ballad "Yet" a gorgeous contemplative song with a sincere chorus: "I'll sing until my heart caves in, no, you haven't lost me yet".
I find myself singing at the top of my lungs with each song and "Your Love Is A Song" is one of my top 20 songs of the year. For me, Hello Hurricane is now the best overall album by Switchfoot and is one of my top 5 albums of 2009. The standout songs are "Needle and Haystack Life", "Mess of Me", "Your Love Is A Song", "The Sound", "Always", "Bullet Soul" and "Yet"."
"Ever since Switchfoot announced late last year that they would be working on their seventh full-length album, the hype has been slowly building. More recently they've been featured on YouTube's homepage and even a Blackberry commercial. But the road to where they are today wasn't easy. With nearly a hundred songs to choose from for an album that would join a catalogue of a few highly impressive past albums, the pressure was on. That's just one of the hurricanes that hit them during the making of the album. But Switchfoot survived to tell the world that love is a fortress that can survive any hurricane, which is the theme of the newest effort from the band, aptly titled Hello Hurricane.
Before I get started with this review, there's something that Jon Foreman--the lead vocalist of Switchfoot, also known for his solo project and work in Fiction Family--said about Hello Hurricane that I really agree with. This album is not one that you can listen to and enjoy and not know a single thing about the story behind the music. Each individual song has a unique message about love and hope that has really touched me. That's one great thing about this album. Rarely do you find music with this much meaning put into it. Looking through the tracklist, I can't think of a single song that--while reading Foreman's commentary on--I didn't have a "wow" moment during, whether I said it in my head or out loud. This album has made an impact on me like none this year. And so that you can experience this album the same way that I did, head over to Jesus Freak Hideout's song lyrics database and look up Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane to read the commentaries provided by Jon Foreman. Sure it's a lot of reading material, but it is well worth your time.
Having nearly a hundred songs to work with for Hello Hurricane might have seemed a bit overwhelming for the band, but you can bet they had plenty of good ones to choose from. Some bands go into the studio and do all of their writing at that time--Switchfoot is obviously not one of those bands. So to be able to work with and experiment to see which of these tracks would be the absolute best for the album, the guys in Switchfoot built their own studio so that they could take their time picking through each song. I can tell you now that all of their work payed off. With the exception of the final track, "Red Eyes," which didn't really catch on for me, there is not a single track that I would be able to overlook when listening to the entire album.
The song-writing, as usual, is strong. Without a doubt strong enough to withstand a hurricane. Jon Foreman is a master of song-writing, made evident most recently by the work put into his solo projects. Switchfoot's lyrics separate them from the mediocre song-writing that is found so often in our day and age. Songs like "Your Love Is A Song," "Enough to Let Me Go," "Always," and "Sing it Out," are some of the best. For those looking for the fun rock style of Switchfoot's biggest hits, I think the phenomenal lyrical content of this album might make up for what it lack in heaviness. Of course, you do have tracks like "Mess of Me," "The Sound (John M. Perkin's Blues)," "Hello Hurricane," and "Bullet Soul," that you can still have a great time listening to. And that isn't to say that all of the slower-paced tracks don't sound any good. Quite the opposite--they sound fantastic. Switchfoot is not your average group of guys--to go with the great song-writing, their musical genius is without a doubt some of the best in the industry. Switchfoot could take on any genre, and I'm positive it would sound great. The perfect combination of exceptional lyricism and music makes Switchfoot such an exceptional band.
From the chorus of "Needle and Haystack Life," you know you're in for something good. Foreman sings, "In this needle and haystack life/I've found miracles there in your eyes/It's no accident we're here tonight/We are once in a lifetime." The lead single off the album "Mess of Me" has really distorted electric guitars that create a unique sound. The same sound is used again in a few latter tracks, giving them a fun style that isn't like every other rock song on the radio. "Your Love is a Song" is a beautiful song, one of the strongest on the album. It's a great metaphor of God's love and a fantastic worship song. Foreman's vocals sound almost perfect on this track, and the instrumentals are moving. "The Sound" breaks the calm that was set by the previous track. From the start, you know it's destined to gain popularity. Already, millions of people have heard it through the newest Blackberry Storm 2 commercial. It's great that a Christian band can display their music to such a wide audience. And Hello Hurricane is not overly oblique about God being a huge part of these guys' lives, so I'm sure they're planting a seed in plenty of people's hearts. "Enough to Let Me Go" is a song that, again, talks about love, but this time talks about how it is not selfish. The acoustic sound that the song carries is great. "Free" is a darker song that asks God to free us from ourselves, kind of like the same idea as "Mess of Me."
There are a lot of recurring themes throughout Hello Hurricane. Sometimes that could be a bad thing. For example, there are albums that have songs again and again that talk about some breakup or bad relationship. But the topic of God's love and asking to be saved from the hurricanes that plague our lives can never get old. And, frankly, I don't think it's a topic that's talked about enough. We hear about worldly love all the time, but God's love is just so much more powerful.
The title track is another fun one, singing "Hello hurricane, you're not enough/Hello hurricane, you can't silence my love/I've got doors and windows boarded up/All your dead end fury is not enough/You can't silence my love." "Always" is another beautiful song, following in the steps of "Your Love is a Song." Another highlight that uses great metaphors to describe God's love for his children. It compares a father's love for his newborn son to God's love for us: "I am always yours." "Bullet Soul" is an instant classic, using the same distorted guitars in "Mess of Me." It's one that you'll find yourself singing along to involuntarily. It would definitely be something to look forward to at a Switchfoot concert. "Yet" is another awesome ballad, about looking for hope. "Sing It Out" is one of the best on the album--one more worship track. The bridge sings, "I'm holding on/I'm holding on to you/My world is wrong/My world is a lie that's come true/And I fall in love with those that run me through/When all I need is You." The music that accompanies the already amazing lyrics has some deep meaning behind it. According to Foreman, "The song is singing about itself--struggling for melody, for life, for meaning. Singing about rebirth, the song spends most of its time in the grave and comes to a bright, glorious finish, held out until the very end. To match the lyric we saved almost every instrument for the end of the song." I think that's pretty cool. The only song on the album that I couldn't really connect with was the finale, "Red Eyes." It ends with a reprise of "Needle and Haystack Life" which is kind of interesting to hear at the beginning and end of the album. But still there wasn't much for me to like about it. But that doesn't in any way change the album as a whole.
Hello Hurricane is one of the most brilliant, well-written albums to come along this year. Foreman and crew have managed another beautiful effort to add to their other successful albums. It's great that people will be hearing about God through their music. There's so much to learn from Hello Hurricane about how God's love can defeat any hurricane that comes against us. Expert song-writing and unbelievable instrumentals make this seventh album an epic one, ready to be loved by all who enjoy Christian rock."
"Switchfoot's Hello Hurricane, like most of their albums, takes multiple listens to truly enjoy. Up front, the music sounds good, but once you dive deeper into the lyrics and the melodies you realize how amazing and honest the album actually is. Whether it's edgy and aggressive, or soft and contemplative, all of the songs fit well with each other. There are subtle hints of spirituality in the lyrics, especially on Free and Always. This album offers a message of hope in difficult times. If I had any gripe about this record, it would be ending the album on a somewhat somber tone. Yet and Sing It Out are both beautifully executed ballads, and Red Eyes slightly picks up the tempo to close out the album, but I am ultimately left wanting some more songs with the same aggressiveness as Mess of Me or The Sound. Having wrote 80 songs, and recorded 40 of them, I don't think it would have been too much a problem to pick another rocker to fit in with this album. Either way, this is an overall solid effort from a great band."
"As a big fan of Switchfoot, I had a lot of expectations when Hello Hurricane was released. Almost 3 months later, I can safely say that the album does not disappoint. In fact, Switchfoot proves that they are masters of all sorts of styles, from heart-wrenching ballads like Yet and Always to crowd-pumping tunes like Bullet Soul and Mess of me, to everything in between. Again, almost 3 months after its release (with a lot of heavy listening), this record just hasn't gotten old. In fact, songs that I wasn't crazy about at first like Enough to Let Me Go have really grown on me. Other songs just keep seeming better and better, like the epic, driving Free. I still can't choose a favorite track on this album- each one is top-quality.
Even if you're not a Switchfoot fan, or you stopped listening to them after The Beautiful Letdown, or you're just curious and looking for new music- this album is a must-have for your music collection. It's a whole new sound for an already amazing band, and it will not disappoint."


It's been a while since one of the gods tried something like this. Lightsong isn't the first, of course, to wonder at his old life and realize that some of his skills and abilities came with him to his new one. But he's the first of this generation of gods who has taken any interest in it.
His father was actually a potter, if you're interested in knowing. As for why he knows nautical terms and mathematics, I'm afraid you'll have to wait on that. They come up eventually.
The juggling, though . . . well, that'll just have to remain a mystery.
I wanted to show some Returned of different ages; I think it's important for people to realize that you can be any age when you Return. There are children, babies, grandmothers, and people in their middle years who Return.
Some of Blushweaver's sparring here should give you a hint that she's far from the shallow egotist she pretends to be. In a lot of ways, she and Lightsong are perfectly matched, and I imagine this being the reason they ended up spending so much time together. They both have an extreme persona that is almost a parody of the other gods, and for both of them, that persona is but a sliver of who they really are. Blushweaver is more conniving, Lightsong more noble, when you strip everything else away. But they understand each other in a way that I think few people do.