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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia Police are looking for a suspect who allegedly burglarized Bob’s Hair Design and Verree Express Pizza in Fox Chase early Tuesday morning.

According to police, a surveillance video caught the suspect driving up to Bob’s Hair Design on 7900 block of Dungan Road in a black Hyundai Santa Fe SUV.  The suspect broke into the business by breaking the front door glass and taking the cash register drawer. Police say the suspect fled the area south behind the strip mall.

WATCH: Courtesy Philadelphia Police

Police say the man depicted in this surveillance video drove to the 7900 block of Verree Road and exited a black Hyundai Santa Fe SUV and walked to the rear of the store holding a cash register drawer. The suspect then walked to the front of the stores. A short time later the suspect was captured on surveillance video running back to his vehicle and fleeing the area. When responding officers arrived, they discovered the front door glass of Verree Express Pizza had been broken and the cash register had been tampered with.

Police are looking for a White male, 30 years-of age, 6’0”, wearing blue pants, blue sweatshirt, a baseball cap and tan boots.

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Cooper University Health Care

Deadly train derailment in Philadelphia on May 12, 2015. (credit: CBS)

WPHT’s Rich Zeoli Talks To Doctor About Medical Response To Train Derailment

Dr. Rick Hong, the Division Head of Disaster Medicine at Cooper University Health Care, spoke with Rich Zeoli on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT.

Zeoli Show Log 5.13.15

Rich covered the aftermath of the Amtrak train derailment and talked with Dr. Rick Hong from Cooper University Health Care and Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey.

Talk Radio 1210 WPHT–05/13/2015

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Preliminary Findings Pending on Fire Death of Cooper Health CEO and Wife

A spokesman for the Somerset County prosecutor’s office says they’ll have more to share when the state medical examiner releases preliminary findings on the deaths, expected Tuesday.

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Health: Dangerous Deals Undercover Investigations Leads To Man Running from CBS 3 Cameras Again

A follow up on our CBS-3 undercover investigation on Dangerous Deals, buying and selling prescription drugs without a doctor.

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Friday, April 15, 2011

Voyager 1 and Ed Stone

"A new frontier in quest to understand the cosmos"

With Voyager 1 poised to enter deep space, the possibilities are tantalizing, especially for one scientist who has devoted more than 30 years to the mission.

Kurt Streeter

April 14th, 2011

Los Angeles Times

In a small room at Caltech, space physicist Ed Stone and four of his colleagues puzzle over a trove of data that has just arrived from the bulbous edge of the solar system.

"What, exactly, are we looking at?" Stone asks.

The data form a map of invisible matter, a slush of atomic particles once part of stars that exploded around 10 million years ago. The information has come from Voyager 1, the spindly little spacecraft that rocketed from Florida more than 30 years before and is still traveling, farther from Earth than any human-made object ever has.

Stone and his associates are stumped. "What are we going to find?" Stone wonders. "Right now, I don't think anybody knows."

The godfather of the interstellar mission called Voyager is now 75. He is rail thin, and his shoulders have a faint slope. A crown of gray hair circles the top of his otherwise bald head. He is wearing his standard work attire: gray sport jacket, gray pants, gray shoes, gray socks — and a white shirt.

Despite his uncertainty, his voice is calm. "Eventually," he assures the others, "we're going to figure this out."

Stone is agnostic about God, but has a belief that knowing about the cosmos brings deeper understanding of Earth. Although he and the other scientists might not comprehend Voyager's observations right now, experience tells him their meanings will be divined.

He also believes they will learn much more. Voyager 1 is close to bursting out of the solar system. Once it makes it beyond the influence of the sun, the spacecraft will enter part of the universe that scientists have only been able speculate about: Deep space.

"We're very, very close," Stone says, after the meeting with his collaborators. "We can't say for sure how long it is going to take to get there. My best guess is four years, maybe five."

That would make him 79 or 80. Projections have fallen short at times during this mission. Deep space still might be a decade away.

"Will I be around when Voyager finally makes it?" Stone draws a breath. For a moment, he is silent.

Edward Carroll Stone was born in Iowa in 1936, when putting a man on the moon was the stuff of fiction and textbooks speculated about a jungle-covered Mars. He grew up in a humble house in Burlington, where his father ran a small construction business and his mother kept the company books. In grade school, he pored over Popular Science magazine, with its tales of the Atomic Age. He took apart his transistor radio and put it back together, just for kicks. Then he did it again.

Stone had a brilliant mind. In 1957, when he was a graduate student studying space physics at the University of Chicago, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik. "Just like that, because of the Cold War and our need to match Sputnik," he says, "a whole new realm absolutely opened up."

In 1961, the Air Force put a device measuring solar winds he had proposed for his doctoral dissertation on board one of its satellites. After that success, he joined the faculty at Caltech and created more space experiments, this time for NASA. For a long while, times were good. Government aid gushed to NASA, which basked in the warm glow of its moon shots. Movies like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars" spoke to the wonders of exploration.

Voyagers 1 and 2, twin unmanned NASA probes, shot skyward in 1977. Five years earlier, Stone had become their project scientist — the overseer of all the experiments and myriad measuring devices they would carry. It was meant to be a part-time job along with his ongoing role as a Caltech professor, but he worked 100 hours a week at times, guiding 11 investigative teams and managing 200 researchers.

The Voyagers captured national attention. Part of the fascination was the audacity of the goal: to make drive-by visits to the planets and then go beyond — way, way beyond. And there was Carl Sagan, the charismatic space physicist and storyteller who spoke of the mission in mythical terms.

It was Sagan's idea to affix each Voyager with what became a hallmark: a gold-plated record showing Earth's position among the stars that could also play songs and greetings. Sagan speculated the probes would be found by intelligent life, and the discs read, heard and understood.

Stone liked the idea — not because he believed the Voyagers would ever be found, but because having the ability to send spacecraft into deep space and adorn them with a sampling of earthly culture said something profound about how far humankind had come and where it was headed. "It was a wonderful notion," Stone says.

"At the time, though, just making it to Saturn was what I focused on."

Stone became the daily spokesman for the project. He was on the evening news, featured in People magazine. Today, on his office shelves, he keeps a row of 43 black and green notebooks detailing the Voyagers' trip. He thumbs through them every now and then.

1979. Jupiter, wracked with violent storms and circled by a moon, Io, which was pocked with active volcanoes, a revelation to scientists who had thought the only active volcanoes were on Earth.

1980. Saturn — at last— circled by complex, colorful rings made of icy shards as large as houses and a cluster of moons, including Titan, where it rains liquid gas.

1986. Uranus, with a tilting, off-center magnetic field that was previously unimaginable.

1989. Neptune, with winds kicking up to 1,400 mph and a moon, Triton, speckled with geysers spewing nitrogen.

"What a journey, what a thrill," Stone says, sitting at his spotless, unadorned desk. "It seemed like everywhere we looked, as we encountered those planets and their moons, we were surprised.

"We were finding things we never imagined, gaining a clearer understanding of the environment Earth was part of. I can close my eyes and still remember every part of it."

After Neptune there were no more planets. Voyager 1, farther along than its sister spaceship, pushed onward toward deep space. Stone, flush with the mission's success, became director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a job he held for 10 years. Even though it was a time of budget cuts, downsizing and decreased public expectations, his own star did not diminish.

Space science is stocked with extremely bright and highly competitive men and women. It is a world of outsized egos and, at times, great clashes of personality and ambition. Yet finding anyone who has a bad word to say about Stone is almost impossible.

What he lacks in zippy personality, his colleagues say, he makes up for by usually being the smartest — and most humble — person in the room. Few, if anyone, can recall him losing his cool or even being mildly dejected. "He is a leader regarded as above the fray," says science writer Timothy Ferris, who helped Sagan create the Voyager discs.

"Stone is pretty much universally admired, and that is very unusual for someone in his position."

In 2001, at age 65, Stone retired from JPL and returned to Caltech to teach physics. By then, much of the machinery on the Voyagers had been shuttered to save power for the final push. Their next important discoveries would come only as they began escaping the solar system.

Science has created models of deep space, but no one can say for sure what it is like — its temperatures, its composition or the speed of its interstellar wind. Most important, no one knows exactly how deep space relates to the formation of Earth.

Stone, still the lead scientist, oversees a slimmed-down Voyager team — about 20 researchers who must find time for the mission among their other projects. Some are at Caltech and JPL, others at universities and laboratories scattered across the country.

They follow the probes, especially Voyager 1, with mounting interest. Running on dwindling plutonium, using antiquated computers and recording data on eight-track tapes that get sent to Earth on faint radio waves, Voyager 2 races through space about 9 billion miles away and Voyager 1, 11 billion.

If it reaches deep space, scientists will ask Voyager 1 to perform one more great task before it runs out of power, to use a collection of measuring devices, including one known as a cosmic-ray spectrometer, which Stone helped design, to gather information and send it back to Earth. Humans then will have their first definitive look at the great beyond.

Stone is devoted to his wife of 48 years, Alice, their two grown daughters and two grandchildren. But he still often works seven days a week and cannot imagine retirement. In addition to teaching physics and managing the Voyager mission, he is helping to lead the construction of a massive telescope in Hawaii that will be among the world's most powerful.

Other than attending the symphony on occasion, he has nothing in the way of hobbies. "I don't mean this any way but the best sense," says fellow Caltech professor Andy Ingersoll, "but Ed Stone is in some ways like a machine. He has always been that way."

So Stone keeps pushing ahead for answers.

How large is the edge of the solar system? How long will it take Voyager 1 to pass through it, to reach that vast region where the sun's cosmic wind finally stops? What will it find there?

Will he be around when it happens?

The truth, he says, is that he can't afford to think about that very much. "There is too much to do."

He pauses.

"As far as what will happen to me, nature will have its way, I understand," Stone says. "Even if I am not there we will keep exploring, keep figuring out the science. I'm optimistic about this."

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Tom Paine and Revolutionary America

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Since its publication in 1976, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America has been recognized as a classic study of the career of the foremost political pamphleteer of the Age of Revolution, and a model of how to integrate the political, intellectual, and social history of the struggle for American independence. Foner skillfully brings together an account of Paine's remarkable career with a careful examination of the social worlds within which he operated, in Great Britain, France, and especially the United States. He explores Paine's political and social ideas and the way he popularized them by pioneering a new form of political writing, using simple, direct language and addressing himself to a reading public far broader than previous writers had commanded. He shows which of Paine's views remained essentially fixed throughout his career, while directing attention to the ways his stance on social questions evolved under the pressure of events. This enduring work makes clear the tremendous impact Paine's writing exerted on the American Revolution, and suggests why he failed to have a similar impact during his career in revolutionary France. And it offers new insights into the nature and internal tensions of the republican outlook that helped to shape the Revolution. In a new preface, Foner discusses the origins of this book and the influences of the 1960s and 1970s on its writing. He also looks at how Paine has been adopted by scholars and politicians of many stripes, and has even been called the patron saint of the Internet.
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Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Signposts

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The Immortality of the Soul and the Resurrection of the Body according to Giles of Rome

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About once a year I like to write a short little post about this subject because no matter how much time passes, I get lots of questions like this – Should I buy used gear?

The answer is a resounding yes – if the gear in question meets your needs. There’s little advantage in buying new most of the time. There are exceptions which I’ll cover in a minute, but for the most part, buying used is just a great way to save money and let someone else pay for the initial depreciation.

Whether or not you should buy used depends on three primary factors:

1. Is there a significant price difference between new and used and is that savings worth the risk of used gear?

2. Is the seller of the gear trustworthy? Do they have a solid reputation?

3. Is the gear in good working order and is it likely to remain that way?

If you have satisfactory answers to these three questions, it’s almost always safe to buy used. Here’s the exception. In my experience light meters, zoom lenses (particularly push – pull zooms and older zooms) touchy lenses like the Canon 85 f/1.2 and critical gear like scientific bellows should only be purchased new. Super telephoto lenses are also probably less safe to buy used unless the seller is well-known to you.

When you buy used, always try to get as detailed a description as possible. If possible buy gear that has a return policy in case it doesn’t ship as described. This is less significant if you really trust the seller.

Sticking with trusted sellers is always your safest bet. Starting with the big names – I trust Adorama Used, and KEH. Both are very reliable. You can count on them sticking with their promises and their descriptions are going to generally be very accurate. Buying from someone you know personally or who has a large audience is usually safe too. If you buy from a place like Ebay look at the seller’s longevity AND ratings. A perfect Ebay rating isn’t necessarily an endorsement you should trust if the seller has only been online for a few months. Likewise, a less than perfect score from someone with a very long track record might be acceptable given the fact that many times, buyers have unrealistic expectations.

In closing, try to find out what kind of photographer you’re buying your used gear from. An outdoor photographer who shoots lots of extreme sports may be a bit harder on gear than a photographer who exclusively works in a studio. And lastly, remember the old saying – let the buyer beware. If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
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Generic collections in PHP
Sep 19, 2008 @ 13:06:53

On the CodeUtopia blog Jani Hartikainen has posted some thoughts on generic collections in PHP and a class he's created to try to introduce them to the language.

Strictly typed languages usually use "generic" collection classes instead of arrays. They are kind of like PHP arrays which the programmer can tell which type of items to accept. This is of course only natural when you don't have dynamic typing, but it can also be useful for avoiding programming errors, so I thought I'd try making a basic generic collection class in PHP...

He shows how ti works with a simple code example - creating a new collection type (a string) and pushing the data into it. Calling the add() method on the string throws an exception because of the data type defined. You can grab the code from his svn repository.

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Obama to release cyber security report on Friday

May 26, 2009
"Cyber war!" flashes on the screen at an internet security conference. President Barack Obama is to release the results of a 60-day review of US cyber security policy on Friday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

President Barack Obama is to release the results of a 60-day review of US cyber security policy on Friday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.

"The report is an important first step towards securing our nation's cyber infrastructure," Gibbs told reporters.

"The administration recognizes the very serious threats public- and private-sector networks face from cyber crime and ," he said.

"Recognizing these threats, the president has elevated cyber security to a major administration priority."

The 60-day review of US cyber security policy was carried out by Melissa Hathaway, a former Bush administration official who has been serving as the interim White House cyber security adviser.

No single US agency is currently charged with ensuring government cyber security and lawmakers have called for creating a powerful national cyber security advisor reporting directly to the president.

Plans to reorganize the US government's approach to IT security come amid a growing threat of cyber spying and attacks, including reported breaches of the US electricity grid and the F-35 fighter jet program.

Cyber security was subject to fierce turf battles under the previous administration between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the super-secret (NSA).

A top DHS cyber security official quit in March, complaining that DHS had been sidelined and US cyber protection efforts were being dominated by the NSA.

Gibbs said the administration was "committed to establishing the proper structure within the government to ensure issues continue to receive top-level attention and enhanced coordination."

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Obama planned to create a post of "cyber czar" but "discussions were continuing as to what rank and title the adviser would have."

The cyber chief would be a senior official with "broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks," it said.

(c) 2009 AFP

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Female deer confirm bigger is not always better when choosing a mate

April 6, 2011

Female deer do not always choose the bigger and dominant males to mate with, scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and Hartpury College have found.

The research, which was undertaken in Dublin's Phoenix Park on a herd of , focussed on females who chose not to mate with the 'top' males.

The study, published today (6 April) in found that yearling females tended to mate with a higher proportion of younger, lower ranking males while older females actively avoided mating with them.

Alan McElligott, co-author on the study from Queen Mary, University of London said: "The findings of this study have important implications for assessing the effects of on evolution.

"In the past, studies very much focussed on the 'big' males in these types of species and why the vast majority of females mated with them. We focussed instead on matings from the female perspective."

Scientists demonstrated that yearling female fallow deer mate later in the breeding season than older females, with the first yearlings not mating until eight days after the start of the season.

"This difference in yearling female matings meant that a small but consistent proportion of them do not mate with the "big and dominant" males each year.

"This indirect could result from yearling females recognising the difficulty in carrying a 'big' male's offspring to term, but it could also be because those males are worn out by the time the yearlings are ready to mate.

"There are many possibilities as to why the yearlings display an indirect mate choice, and inexperience and their smaller body size compared to older females could also be factors.

"This interesting mate selection gives us a unique insight into evolution, providing an explanation as to why we're not seeing the male deer rapidly increase in size over time."

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More information: Assortative mating in fallow deer reduces the strength of sexual selection. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018533

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Human rights report card released

April 28, 2014 by Glynis Smalley

Real freedom, gender-based violence, terrorism laws, and asylum seekers' rights are all considered in a report released today on vital human rights issues in Australia and around the world.

The 2014 Castan Human Rights Report, by Monash University's Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, highlights the Centre's research and its relevance to some of the most important human rights issues facing society.

A key finding of the report is that freedom in Australia is being undermined.

Director of the Castan Centre Professor Sarah Joseph said the recent narrow debate on the "right to be a bigot" had camouflaged the real effects of changes to legislation.

"The 'bikie laws', police move-on powers, copyright laws, and even threats to remove government funding from artists are all reducing society's freedom," Professor Joseph said.

Senior law lecturer Dr Heli Askola said that the recent spate of cases of domestic violence shows that the existing laws are not going far enough to protect the most vulnerable in our society.

"Australia's 'National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women' has the potential to create change, however it must be backed up with sufficient funding and better implementation," Dr Askola said.

Current terrorism laws in Australia also need closer consideration, according to the Centre's Dr Patrick Emerton.

"ASIO's excessive powers to make 'predictive judgments' about potential terrorists – such as 'adverse assessments' of bona fide refugees – threaten human rights," Dr Emerton said.

"For this reason ASIO's powers must be brought into line with human rights norms."

The report takes up the issue of ' rights.

Dr Azadeh Dastyari has identified at least seven international laws breached by current asylum seeker and refugee policies and practices.

"Contrary to theAustralian government's oft-repeated assertion that it respects asylum seekers' rights, the current situation doesn't reflect this," Dr Dastyari said.

"Asylum seekers cannot have their detention reviewed by the courts. Conditions on Nauru and Manus Island breach the prohibition on cruel or degrading treatment and the detention of children on Nauru breaches Australia's international obligations to act in the best interests of the child.

"By treating those arriving by boat differently to other asylum seekers, Australia is violating its obligation not to punish refugees for their mode of arrival."

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These may be worthy left wing issues but violations of "human rights norms" they are not.

For Professor Sarah Joseph to talk about "threats to remove government funding from artists" reducing "freedom" is a joke--the Director of the Castan Centre may not know this but "government funding" is the other side of taxation.

To slight of mouth, "rights" with left wing politics risks the welfare of people whose only protection are their internationally recognized human rights.
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Real freedom, gender-based violence, terrorism laws, and asylum seekers' rights...

Real freedom? As opposed to unreal freedom? Sounds like newspeak...and yes this study is extremely political and extremely left leaning. So from THAT perspective and that perspective alone it's a good read.

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June 04, 2013
Although the school is clean and orderly, they were rigid and inflexible about our family's schedule needs. In addition, they are not warm and friendly overall. Their efforts at trying to make children independent often go too far, for example, one day my child had trouble with his outside gear and they wouldn't help him. Our child didn't get to go outside at all that day. There were also many days when the children were kept inside even when weather was reasonable to be out. They were also not helpful when we tried to touch base with them about our child's individual needs. They don't seem to have board of directors or anybody to whom they are accountable to for their attitude toward and treatment of individual families.

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June 09, 2012
I have had my 3.5 year old here since she was two and when my son turns two he hopefully will attend as well. I am constantly amazed by the staff and how they are able to handle each child with respect and patience and then how the children respond positively to being approached in that manner. The children can do the "work" that interests them and are taught independence but yet every child is expected to clean up after themselves and to respect others. They try and be as sustainable as possible, requiring that lunches have reusable containers (no baggies) and they do not used paper towels (they have wash cloths and towels in the bathrooms) which has in turn made us as a family more conscious about our carbon footprint. It is a wonderful school that blends life skills in with academic learning! (Oh, and regarding the first port, they do potty train and they are very picky about their hiring.)

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December 13, 2009
I would never send my child anywhere else. They have taught my child and my family great lessons about patience, respect and independence. They make me a better parent. They are now like family. A great group of people. Cannot recommend them highly enough.

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February 24, 2009
The first post is wrong they do potty training and don't have students as staff. My daughter started at 15 months and they did a majority of the potty training, very nice for me!! Wonderful program and teachers, students are always engaged in new age appropriate activities, they learn while they 'work'. This environment lets you go to work guilt free!!

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February 09, 2009
Puffin Heights Montessori is a wonderful Montessori school. It truly is a school, with a wonderful atmosphere for learning. My three year old started when she was 18 months, and has been in both the toddler and pre-primary classes. Student to teacher ratio is excellent, and the teachers are long-term with low turnover. Each truly cares about the students, and the caring shows. I believe the first reviewer must have confused Puffin Heights with another institution, their review is not applicable to PH at all.

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December 01, 2008
PHMS is a wonderful school with caring teachers and a structured curriculum. My daughter was at PHMS for 3 years, and during that time she flourished. The head teachers are Montessori certified, and the school embraces the Montessori philosophy of early education. I whole-heartedly disagree with the comments made by the first reviewer. PHMS was a gift for my daughter and me!

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October 03, 2008
We have had two children in Puffin Heights and are quite pleased. The teachers, including Willie, Montel, Amy and Ashley are quite professional and excellent with the kids. We've also appreciated the quality of the assistant teachers, whom we all know are difficult to maintain. As for students, there may be a couple folks who fit in that category, but I sure wouldn't hold it against them. Teachers have all been excellent. It's clear that the school really does care about the children. It's not perfect, but everyone is trying really, really hard.

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I would definitely recommend Puffin Heights. The teachers are wonderful, especially Willie and Montel, who are my daughter's teachers. My three year old daughter goes here and really enjoys herself. I'm really shocked by the first comment and don't know what the parent is talking about. I have known many families over the years that have enrolled their children at Puffin Heights. All of the families were the type to be involved in their children's educations and have loved the atmosphere.

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January 24, 2007
Our son started PH when he was about 18 months and had a great time with the teachers and teacher assistants. The community of parents, children and staff at the school is warm and welcoming. We enjoyed the encouragement of self direction and kind redirection of behavior that was unacceptable. The toddler program served our child very well until we moved away from Anchorage to be closer to family. I wholeheartedly recommend PH to anyone!

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February 02, 2006
This school is not an average Montessori. There were not enough teachers and they don't do potty training. Lots of students working there. Word not recommend this school to parents concerned about quality education.

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We're newly looking into OJS, and are interested in supporting authentication via our campus systems for local users, but also allowing account registration for anyone else. We've set up Shibboleth on our test instance of OJS, but there's no apparent way to configure the system to allow outside users to register or login. Are we missing something in the configuration?

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Hi James,

Note that LDAP will provide shared credentials but not single sign-on. It's not broadly used and is not thoroughly maintained. Basically, we need someone with a practical use case and some coding experience to provide feedback and possibly help us maintain it.

Shibboleth was a third-party contribution and we don't have a test environment here to validate it. It may also need some dusting off. But as you've noted, I don't think it's comprehensive enough in its scope to include all users, e.g. editorial back-end accounts.

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multiple conferences and workshops

Postby huu2008 » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:10 am

Hello all,
Iam customizing the OCS 2.1.1.Is it possible to customize it in such away that one installation can host multiple conferences and workshops?.How to do that?
Any idea appreciated
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Re: multiple conferences and workshops

Postby jmacgreg » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:06 pm

Hi Huu,

Yes, you can do that -- you will find instructions in OCS in an Hour, on the OCS documentation page: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs_documentation.

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Re: multiple conferences and workshops

Postby huu2008 » Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:04 am

Hi James,
Thank you got it and sorry for this
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Re: multiple conferences and workshops

Postby justin » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:53 pm

I have read through "OCS in an Hour" but it's still not clear to me how this works.

Ideally, I would like to use the OCS so that individuals or groups can manage their own conferences independently from others.
I imagine this might be done by creating multiple Conference Managers.
Eg CM1 looks after one range of conferences, CM2 looks after another and so on. and each is completely separate.

Any comments/suggestions appreciated.

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Re: multiple conferences and workshops

Postby jamief » Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:44 pm

That's the whole idea. OCS is a conference manager system.
Create the conferences you want under the application, create a conference admin for each one, and then each conference admin creates individual conferences from there.

What is your infrastructure beyond that? If you are trying to do something complicated, or really elaborate, then consider making a default installation and make as many copies as you need admins and let them run under separate domains. But OCS is designed to work as a server, not a conference web only.
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Sunday, 20 April 2014

Mexican Lasagna

As our adventure time here in Costa Rica is fast coming to a close (only 5 weeks left!), I'm attempting to take advantage of this place to the best of my ability. Waterfalls, beaches and fruit will be through-fully experienced and enjoyed.

Another thing that I am going to miss is freshly made tortillas, that are pre-made for you. Although I've learned to make them from scratch, they are a tad time consuming to make.

This dish is definitely rated in my top ten favorites on the blog so far. The layers of flavor of this Mexican inspired lasagna make me smile in delight when I take a bite. The spicyness level depends on a few things: how hot your jalapenos are and how many you use. As you can see, I went a little overboard...

Mexican lasagna is like a taco casserole, or a layered soft taco. You can change up the fillings layers to anything you want. As you know I do like keeping it pretty simple most of the time. Although I did whip up the sauce portion from scratch, it doesn't take much time to assemble and bake.

I really recommend going with the corn tortillas here though, they lend a flaky-ness that won't be present if you use anything else. That being said, it would still be delicious with a brown rice tortilla or anything you can find at your local grocer.

If you do decide to make a variation of this, please share it with me. You can link below in the comments, share with our Facebook page or our twitter account. I'll be starting on Instagram soon as well, just have to remember to take pics with the Ipad too...

Mexican Lasagna

- 10 corn tortillas
- 3 tomatoes, diced
- 1 medium onion, sliced
- 1 red pepper, sliced
- 1/4 cup + 1/4 cup jalapeno slices
- Oregano
- Red Pepper flakes
- S/P
- 1 avocado
- Hot sauce

Pre-heat oven to 350F.

In a large pan, water sauté the onions on medium/high heat until translucent, about 3 minutes. Mince 1/4 cup of the jalapeños. Add in the tomatoes, red pepper, minced jalapeño and spices.

In a casserole dish or oven safe plate, add a little sauce in the bottom then layer a tortilla, some beans and sauce and keep layering until none is left.

Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes. Top with jalapeños, avocado and hot sauce as desired.

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Albert B. Reagan "A story of the flood"

From "Some Additional Myths of the Hoh and Quileute Indians", Albert B. Reagan, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Vol. XI, 1934, pp. 17-37. Informants were Hal George, Luke Hobucket, Harold Johnson, Klakishkee, Bucket Mason, Elon Mason, M.B. Penn, Mrs. Jimmie Howe, Frank Bennett, Klekabuck, Kikabuthlup, Dixon Payne, Weberhard Jones, Arthur Howeattle, Eli Ward, Jack Ward, Beatrice Pullen, Mark Williams, and Carl Black and his wife, Sally Black.

Albert B. Reagan (1871-1936) worked for the U.S. Indian Field Service. He was initially trained as a geologist, then became interested in ethnology and received his Ph.D from Stanford in 1925. From 1905-1909, Regan was government official in charge of the Indian villages of Quileute (now called La Push) and Hoh.

"A story of the flood" (Reagan, 1934) is a Hoh/Quileute tale strikingly similar to the Swan account. In fact, all the story elements from the Swan account are present. However, this version of the story is clearly set in mythic time, not the historical past of the Swan account, and includes many story elements not present in Swan. "A story of the flood" attributes the tidal phenomena to a battle between two supernatural figures; Kwatee and the Thunderbird. After multiple episodes of battle, Kwatee kills the Thunderbird. This story also adds a unique physical detail - it describes sea animals stranded on dry land when the water recedes.

Kwatee, who figures in this story is also known as the Transformer or the trickster; he is a central figure in many northwest mythologies. Stories about the Transformer deal with how he improves the imperfect world, through "the theft of fire, the destruction of monsters, the making of waterfalls, and the teaching of useful arts to the Indians" (Judson, 1916, p. vii). The Transformer is most widely known as Coyote. This character is called Speelyai in the Columbia River Basin, and appears as Yehl, the Raven, in Alaska.

In the beginning Kwattee created the animals of the earth. Then by the union of some of these animals with a star which fell from heaven, came the first human beings. And from these sprang the various races of men.

Years came and went and all was good. Then Chief Thunderbird attempted to destroy all the good whales of the ocean. Kwattee then interfered, and a terrible drawn battle was fought between him and Thunderbird.

Enraged, that bird caused the waters of the great deep to rise. For four days the sea continued to rise. It rose till it covered the very tops of the mountains.

Again Kwattee joined his adversary in battle, and while the conflict was in progress, the waters receded. This engagement, too, was a drawn battle, and following it the waters again rose. The water of the Pacific flowed through what is now the swamp and prairie westward from Neah Bay on the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Pacific, making an island of Cape Flattery.

Again Kwattee and Thunderbird engaged in terrible conflict, and again the waters suddenly receded, leaving Neah Bay, the Strait of Fuca, and Puget Sound perfectly dry. For four days the water ebbed out, and numerous sea monsters and whales were left on dry land.

The battle was again indecisive. Then without any waves or breakers the waters again rose till they had submerged the whole country. Then Kwattee killed Chief Thunderbird. The waters were then four days receding. And since then there has been no great floods on the earth. Also each time that the waters rose, the people took to their canoes and floated off as the winds and currents wafted them, as there was neither sun nor land to guide them. Many canoes also came down in trees and were destroyed, and numerous lives were lost. And the survivors were scattered over the whole earth. One segregation of the Quileutes found themselves at Hoh, another at Chemakum (near the present Port Townsend), and a third succeeded in returning to their own home here on the Pacific.

You know Forks prairie, Quillayute prairie, Little prairie, Beaver prairie, Tyee prairie and all the other prairies of our country. Well, these are the places where the great, elder thunderbird had terrible battles with the killer whale of the deep.

This whale was a monster destroyer of the whales that furnished oil to the children of men. It slaughtered the oil producing whales till none could be obtained for meat and oil. What were the people to do? There was no oil to drink and dip their bread and dried berries in. What were they to do! Were they to starve!

Thunderbird saw their plight and soared from her nest in yonder dark hole in the mountains. She soared far out over the placid waters and there poised herself high up in the air and waited for the "killer" to come to the surface of the water as it chased its fleeing prey. It came and as quick as a flash, the powerful bird darted and seized it in her flinty talons. Then above the watery surface she lifted it and with great effort soared away toward the land areas.

Passing beyond the oceans with her ponderous load, she, tiring, was compelled to alight and rest her wings; and each and every time the bulky beast was allowed to reach solid land there was a terrible battle; for it was powerful and fought for its life with terrible energy. In addition, each time they fought in desperate encounter, they tore all the trees up by the roots and since that time no trees have grown upon these places to this day; they have been prairies ever since. Furthermore, the great thunderbird finally carried the weighty animal to its nest in the lofty mountains, and there was the final and terrible contest fought. Here in this death struggle, they uprooted all the trees for many miles around the nest and also pulled the rocks down the great Hoh valley. Since then there has been no timber on the up-country; and the heap of debris they pulled down that valley is known as the bench; (the last terminal moraine of the Olympic glacier). Thunderbird, however, finally triumphed. It killed the beast and tore its great and mighty body to pieces; and, then, finding that it was not good to eat, it hurled the pieces from its nest in all directions, where the respective pieces turned to stone under the curse of the enraged bird. You can see them there now. They are the projecting points and rocky ridges of that high region. Before that time that section was practically level. Now you know what a broken-up rocky place it is.

That is not all. Killer whale had a son, called Subbus. So after thunderbird had killed the parent whale, it set out to capture and destroy this beast also.

This young monster was much smaller than its father, smaller on account of its not being fully developed. Nevertheless, it was more agile and wary. Consequently it took days and days of hovering over the sea before the bird of the upper sky could drop down upon it and seize it in its talons. But the unfortunate day came to it also, as it had to the parent, "killer." It was chasing a school of sperm whales and was just in the act of making an onslaught on the largest fellow of the school when there was a rustling noise and then before it could dive to the lower depths of the watery ways, it felt itself being lifted into the air, as at the same time it felt the excruciating pain caused by the huge claws of the bird being sunk deep into its body. It fought, but it was no match for its adversary.

High into the air the bird carried it over the land, finally dropping it to the land surface at Beaver prairie. Then at this place there was another great battle. Subbus was at length killed and his body torn to pieces; Moreover, its huge body damned the original channel of the Soleduck river and caused it to make the big bend to the southwestward at that place. And the huge pieces of blubber, now stone, cover the ground in the direction of its longitudinal extension. (This is a lateral moraine of the Selkirk-Mt. Baker glacier that crosses the region here--Reagan.) You can see the line of rock (boulder train) there at any time.

My father (father of the medicine man who related this story to the writer) also told me that following the killing of this destroyer of the food-animals of mankind, there was a great storm and hail and flashes of lightning in the darkened, blackened sky and a great and crashing "thunder-noise" everywhere. He further stated that there were also a shaking, jumping up and trembling of the earth beneath, and a rolling up of the great waters.

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Friday, February 27, 2009

Farewell, Home Companion

Okay, I get that the economy is bad. Detroit is losing money; the GDP has plunged; Wall Street is manned by a bunch of wimps. But I was totally bummed that Mary Englebreit's Home Companion Magazine is no long being published.

I remember when it first came out--I gave my sister a subscription for her birthday. Eventually I gave myself a subscription since I like to support school fund-raisers (who am I fooling--I subscribed to brighten my life). I've renewed it for years and years. My magazine piles grew and grew. I finally began tearing out my favorite decorating articles, the monthly paper doll and Mary's artwork to whittle the pile down to manageable levels.

Re-reading the magazine was almost as fun as sitting down with it fresh from my mailbox. There are creative, individual homes that sometime strike a chord. Their owners created something unforgettable. Colors popped off the page. Holidays came alive with ingenuity. Inspiration struck in every issue.

I suspect I'm not alone in enjoying most the peeks into Mary's home(s) and art studio(s). The woman is a serial homemaker! Each home was wonderful and very Mary, and I thought each time they'd moved into their forever home. I loved dots painted on lampshades and rooms created for her grand-daughter. I loved black and white checks and cherry reds. I got acquainted with inglenooks perfect for curling up with Jane Austen. Watching Mary put her stamp on succeeding homes was like an intensive course in home decoration. I loved it.

Alas, plentiful subscribers couldn't make up for falling ad revenues. If you just took a six percent cut in pay or your company's downsizing and you don't know how secure your job is. Or if your house just lost thirty-one percent of its value compared to two years ago or your retirement fund shrunk. Well, then you don't exactly rush out to buy new furniture or renovate your kitchen or even pick up some new lamps on sale. The consumer doesn't buy, the advertisers' funds dry up, and the publisher decides to close up shop.

The good news? Well, ME and her company still own the magazine name and most probably it will be resurrected (like Victoria) sometime in the future.

Even worse than Home Companion closing shop? All those subscribers who still have time on their subscription are now finding Martha Stewart Living in their mailboxes. That's classic adding insult to injury. Those two magazines have nothing in common, nothing!

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  1. I can not believe what is falling prey to the bad economy. It seems every other day something is closing or ending. I just heard Sears may be closing up shop, they are at least closing a bunch of stores across the country. That company has been around since I think 1865!


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March 21st, 2008
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Poll of polls: Obama's lead narrows after tough week

The Wright controversy had an impact on Obama's poll numbers last week.
The Wright controversy had an impact on Obama's poll numbers last week.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - After tapes of inflammatory statements made by Sen. Barack Obama's pastor came out last weekend, it appears to have had some negative impact on the Illinois senator.

Nationally, Obama's lead over Sen. Hillary Clinton narrowed in a poll of polls - which included CBS News, USA Today and Gallup.

The polls, taken between March 14-18, show Obama with 49 percent to Clinton's 43 percent.

"I don't think there is any doubt that the [Rev.] Jeremiah Wright controversy played a role in the 10-point drop in his favorable ratings," said pollster Terry Madonna.

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  1. Sick of Democrats!

    I hate the media!
    I hate Obama! The man is a fake and I knew if from the beginning.

    This party is way too divided! I will vote Clinton even if it is a WRITE IN. The Democrats do not deserve my VOTE!

    March 23, 2008 06:02 pm at 6:02 pm |
  2. The World for Obama

    Obama 4-ever. The Wright thing is over. Nice try. Not this time. This is bigger than controversy. The world needs an Obama.

    March 23, 2008 06:03 pm at 6:03 pm |
  3. lisa

    Americans are so dumb, they are voting for Barack when he is clearly an Anti American. His wife told you, his pastor told you, and he said something about typical white person, dumb. Now I see why George Bush is the President, he's a representation of his people.

    March 23, 2008 06:05 pm at 6:05 pm |
  4. Dude

    Like most of the postings here, I agree that Obama can withstand this attack and prevail. He has shown the leadership quality needed to bring America back, after eight dreadful years of the bush administration.

    March 23, 2008 06:06 pm at 6:06 pm |
  5. jujub

    When is CNN going to stop this nonsense?

    Why don't you post all of Reverend Wright's sermons so that the idiots that listen to 30 second soundbites that ignore the entire scope and intent of his sermons can apologize to Barack Obama?

    March 23, 2008 06:07 pm at 6:07 pm |
  6. Danny

    The the only polls that matter now are in the final primary states...the fact is Senator Clinton cannot catch up. If the superdelegates vote for her, she's doomed. Can you imagine the outrage of Democrats who's candidate have an election stolen out from under them by their own party? They'll hate Senator Clinton as much as they hated President Bush for his beating Senator Kerry. It's time to fold the cards.

    March 23, 2008 06:09 pm at 6:09 pm |
  7. almost 40 year old

    It is a shame that all this did not come out before Super Tuesday! Obama would be dead and buried. Now loyal democrats like myself will have to stay home during the general election because there is no way I will ever be proud that Obama is the nominee nor will I support him for President. In fact I am so angry that someone like this is not made to drop out of the race, that I may vote for McCain just to spite Obama and the idiots who support this un-American, racist whining, no substance for President fool!

    March 23, 2008 06:10 pm at 6:10 pm |
  8. Andy Bergmann

    CNN can not be trusted any more.

    March 23, 2008 06:10 pm at 6:10 pm |
  9. Jessie

    Having Wright as his spiritual advisor for 20 years says something about Obama's character. What type of people would he surround himself with as President? He admitted he knew this man was spouting hateful things but kept him on the team as an advisor until the media reported it and he was forced to remove him.

    March 23, 2008 06:12 pm at 6:12 pm |
  10. mt

    I think most of these polls are underestimating how mad middle income white folks are at Obama's ubsurdity. He is a total fraud and he is going to turn loyal democrats into Republicans or at least independents.

    I will never let an un American man like Obama be helped into the White House with my vote!

    Hillary all the way!

    March 23, 2008 06:13 pm at 6:13 pm |
  11. maha

    The reason the speech helped Obama come somewhat out of this mess is the same reason he may be the nominee. People are idiots, they have believed his lies.

    NOBAMA is RIGHT!!!!!

    Go Hillary!

    March 23, 2008 06:15 pm at 6:15 pm |
  12. given

    Obama is done. Anyone who votes for him from this point on gets what they deserve. Clinton would never get away with saying they were a typical black person. If Obama gets the nomination 100 percent of the country will vote for McCain. Obama has hurt the dems chances beyond prepare. Nothing would make me happier to see Breaking News......OBAMA OUT

    March 23, 2008 06:15 pm at 6:15 pm |
  13. smart grrl in ls mo

    Democrats (superdelegates or not) are NOT going to nominate Obama thereby handing the Presidency to McCain. Obama is not as important as regaining the office.

    March 23, 2008 06:16 pm at 6:16 pm |
  14. mudhens75

    To Mrs. Obama, I am proud to be an American and always have been, how can anyone support someone who is still a member of a church which preaches hate, while being married to somone who until recently wasn't proud to be an American

    March 23, 2008 06:17 pm at 6:17 pm |
  15. D.

    I's so tired of Obma!

    Have you ever had someone in your life, who's always bragging good things but never has done any of them? That's Obama to me. Always words, never actions, or blame his own wrong doings on others!

    So tired of Obama!

    March 23, 2008 06:17 pm at 6:17 pm |
  16. Tameka

    I wish CNN would stay true to its brand and make a huge deal of all media outlets for taking Rev. Wright's words out of context.

    I saw a larger clip of Wright's sermon that stated "America's chickens are coming home to roost."

    Do something?

    March 23, 2008 06:19 pm at 6:19 pm |
  17. cross ambrose

    what journalism is this? obama is gaining after a bad week or cnn is pushing clinton agenda!

    March 23, 2008 06:19 pm at 6:19 pm |
  18. Charlene

    Obama's favorable rating has dropped because the public finally has a chance to gauge his character...not based on his words but based on his past actions. In this case, non-action.

    March 23, 2008 06:22 pm at 6:22 pm |
  19. Sam

    Obama is not the best candidate for President of the U.S. – has nothing to do with his skin color, but with his experience (or lack of). Get real America!

    March 23, 2008 06:24 pm at 6:24 pm |
  20. Anonymous

    If you want the more inexperienced candidate, vote Obama.

    If you want the more

    March 23, 2008 06:24 pm at 6:24 pm |
  21. Chris, Middletown, CT

    Anyone heard the whole context....even dopey HRC supporters would want the whole truth....(wait...what was I thinking...they seem to like being lied to..they are voting for it)

    March 23, 2008 06:27 pm at 6:27 pm |
  22. Dolly Weaver

    Hey, if you listen to something for 20 years, you agree with it. His wife showed that with her first time proud to be and american comment. If he were a white politician and his minister was spouting this kind of comments about african-americans, we can imagine what would happen. Once again americans prove how completely stupid they are.

    March 23, 2008 06:29 pm at 6:29 pm |
  23. Darla Jean

    Beneath the image is a man who wanted his moment in the sun too soon. Obama should have waited and put in some real time in the Senate, instead of racking up the 6th worst attendance record there in only three years. But, above all, he's a CAMPAIGNER. There is little evidence to show he can do the WORK required.

    March 23, 2008 06:30 pm at 6:30 pm |
  24. Lewis

    It is getting to the point in this campaing where Senator Edwards would have been a saving grace for this country...This campaing is becoming frustrating, and full of too much controversy. I really wish I could be supporting Edwards in the upcoming general election.

    March 23, 2008 06:30 pm at 6:30 pm |
  25. L X

    The force of speech.

    I didn't listen to Obama's speech on race, but I guess it sounds great due to some positive feedback here. My point is not about the content of speech. It is about the force of speech. An excellent speech can change many peoples' view on something.

    However, how many "speeches" Wright has delivered to people who go to the church. Do you think Wright's speeches have nothing impacting on those people in the church?

    March 23, 2008 06:31 pm at 6:31 pm |
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