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Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection
SPRINT-2 Investigators
2192 Scopus citations
Background: Peginterferon-ribavirin therapy is the current standard of care for chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV). The rate of sustained virologic response has been below 50% in cases of HCV genotype 1 infection. Boceprevir, a potent oral HCV-protease inhibitor, has been evaluated as an additional treatment in phase 1 and phase 2 studies. Methods: We conducted a double-blind study in which previously untreated adults with HCV genotype 1 infection were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In all three groups, peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin were administered for 4 weeks (the leadin period). Subsequently, group 1 (the control group) received placebo plus peginterferon-ribavirin for 44 weeks; group 2 received boceprevir plus peginterferon-ribavirin for 24 weeks, and those with a detectable HCV RNA level between weeks 8 and 24 received placebo plus peginterferon-ribavirin for an additional 20 weeks; and group 3 received boceprevir plus peginterferon- ribavirin for 44 weeks. Nonblack patients and black patients were enrolled and analyzed separately. Results: A total of 938 nonblack and 159 black patients were treated. In the nonblack cohort, a sustained virologic response was achieved in 125 of the 311 patients (40%) in group 1, in 211 of the 316 patients (67%) in group 2 (P
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SPRINT-2 Investigators (2011). Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. New England Journal of Medicine, 364(13), 1195-1206. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1010494
Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. / SPRINT-2 Investigators.
In: New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 364, No. 13, 31.03.2011, p. 1195-1206.
SPRINT-2 Investigators 2011, 'Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection', New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 364, no. 13, pp. 1195-1206. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1010494
SPRINT-2 Investigators. Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. New England Journal of Medicine. 2011 Mar 31;364(13):1195-1206. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1010494
SPRINT-2 Investigators. / Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. In: New England Journal of Medicine. 2011 ; Vol. 364, No. 13. pp. 1195-1206.
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Q: Which Layout should be used? I'm kind of new to the whole "how to arrange your components" thing in JAVA and I couldn't figure out how to realise the following JFrame (I can't post images so I just put the link)

I tried to be as precise as possible about what I already did.
I would like your advice about how to arrange the green part.
Thanks!
EDIT: as some people rightfully said, I didn't put the code of what I did. Here it is:
public Frame(){
        this.setTitle("Small application");
        this.setSize(445, 500);
        this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setVisible(true);
        this.setResizable(false);

        JPanel container = new JPanel();
        container.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

        //Title
        JLabel title = new JLabel("Welcome to this application");
        title.setHorizontalAlignment(JLabel.CENTER);
        title.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200,50));
        title.setFont(new Font("Courrier",Font.BOLD,20));
        container.add(title, BorderLayout.NORTH);

        //Center part
        JPanel centerPart = new JPanel();
        JLabel cell1 = new JLabel("Enter all measurements:");
        cell1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(150,20));
        JLabel cell2 = new JLabel("Please, select the files...");
        cell2.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(150,20));
        cell2.setBackground(Color.white);
        cell2.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black));
        cell2.setOpaque(true);
        JButton cell3 = new JButton("Browse");
        cell3.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(100,20));
        centerPart.add(cell1);
        centerPart.add(cell2);
        centerPart.add(cell3);
        container.add(centerPart, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        /*
         * I need your help here :)
         * I can't figure out how to put the image and the text next to it
         */

        //Bottom part
        JPanel bottom = new JPanel();
        JButton graph = new JButton("Graph");
        JButton exit = new JButton("Exit");
        bottom.add(graph);
        bottom.add(exit);
        container.add(bottom, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        this.setContentPane(container);
    }

A: For most practical cases, you use multiple, nested containers, with a LayoutManager suited to the layout within each container.
Each LayoutManager does one specific job, in practice you often want differnt regions of a UI layouted in different ways. So for each region use a separate Container (e.g. JPanel) and set a LayoutManager that suits your layout requirements.
The big hurdle for beginners seems to be to get the point that LayoutManagers can (and often must) be used with nested containers.

A: Try using a JPanel

*

*Create the JPanel

*Place your JPanel into your JFrame

*Position the labels, button, textfield onto the newly created JPanel.

It should do the trick. and it is pretty basic. You should be able to do the code on your own!

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Spyros Rigos (born October 4,1963 in Athens) is a 5th dan Greek judoka who represented Greece in international competition, and was the head coach of the national judo team from 1998 to 2000. Rigos shares with Yiannis Tsaparas the record of having the greatest number of Greek national titles in his weight division.

Athletic career
Rigos started judo at Panellinios G.S. in 1975 and transferred to Ethnikos G.S. Athens in 1993. In 1980, Rigas visited Japan for the first time and obtained his first Dan from the Kodokan Judo Institute, making him the youngest person of Greek descent to do so, and winning all five of his fights by ippon. It was at this time that he placed himself under the guidance of Hiroyuki Hasegawa, 9th Dan and former all-Japan champion. During extended periods of stay in Japan, Rigos practiced judo at Tsukuba University, the Kodokan Ιnstitute, Tokai University, Saitama University and the Saitama Kidotai Police Centre. He later returned to these institutions as an assistant judo instructor. Rigos rose through the ranks at the Κodokan Institute, reaching the rank of 6th dan in 2011, making him a Kodokan shihan. His international career includes representing Greece at the Balkan Athletics Championships, the Mediterranean Games and the World Masters Championships. Rigos won 9 gold medals in the Greek championships, and 6 gold medals in the Greek Interclub Championships. Rigos is the holder of the greatest number of Greek national titles in his weight division, with consecutive wins in the 86 kg weight class from 1984 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1990.

Coaching career
Since 1984, Rigos has been the technical director and principal coach of Ethnikos G.S. During his term as head coach of the Greek national squad from 1998 to 2000, Rigos introduced innovative training methods in an attempt to recover the "lost ground." Already as an active contestant he had identified "the lack of combative opponents" as a fundamental problem in Greek contest judo. He also associated himself with the Judo Club of the University of Athens. Rigos is a founding member and is currently serving as vice-chair of the Greek Judo Veterans Association. In an article published in the Japanese newspaper Tokyo Shimbun, Rigos registered a major aspect of his training philosophy: "The soul of judo is only now coming to the fore. Victory or defeat is not that important." In a 2017 interview for Kathimerini newspaper, Rigos emphasized the general applicability of the two major judo principles of the correct use of energy and prosperity, reasoning that the "Japanese have attained a high level of education and culture through these principles."

References

1963 births
Living people
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Greek male judoka
Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games competitors for Greece

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I know a few other people who have expressed similar exasperation with the phrase. I agree with you – in most contexts it would be a meaningless phrase. When dealing with counseling psychology, however, it is a pretty powerful statement. It's like the serenity prayer but summed up in fewer words. It means making peace with the things that you cannot change by accepting them for what they are. It's a reminder that some things are out of our control because, silly as it sounds, we forget that sometimes.
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Q: How to use addEventListener() , querySelectorAll and getElementsByClassName for popup box I would like to put a popup box on my website which have same ID. Those pop up boxes should be display after I clicked button. Those buttons have same Id.
my script code is

My HTML code is below I mentioned This code using derived the data from database.
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A: The problem is here:
var modal = document.querySelectorAll('.simpleModal');
modal is a NodeList, not an element. If you want to select the single .simpleModal then use querySelector instead of querySelectorAll.
Define modal like this:
var modal = document.querySelector('.simpleModal');
(you can also do the same thing for closeBtn - avoid querySelectorAll when you only want to select a single element, use plain querySelector instead)

A: Something like this should work.
When you click on the button it gets the nextElementSibling which is the modal in your case and displays that.
When you click on close it gets the modal by traversing the parents, and hides it.
When you click on the window it checks if the click is from inside the modal and if not hides.

var modalBtn = document.querySelectorAll('.modalBtn');
var closeBtn = document.querySelectorAll('.closeBtn');

for (var i = 0; i < modalBtn.length; i++) {
  modalBtn[i].addEventListener('click', openModal);
  // Listen for close click
  closeBtn[i].addEventListener('click', closeModal);
  window.addEventListener('click', outsideClick);
}

function getModal(child) {
  var modal = child.parentNode;

  while (modal && modal.className && !modal.className.includes("simpleModal")) {
    modal = modal.parentNode;
  }
  return modal;
}

function openModal() {
  var modal = this.nextElementSibling;

  if (modal && modal.className.includes("simpleModal")) {
    modal.style.display = 'block';
  }
}

// Function to close modal
function closeModal() {
  var modal = getModal(this);
  if (modal)
    modal.style.display = 'none';
}

// Function to close modal if outside click
function outsideClick(e) {
  if (e.target && !e.target.className.includes("simpleModal") &&
    !getModal(e.target)) {
    e.target.style.display = 'none';
  }
}
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  display: none;
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Deaf Interpreting Service for Siouxland is excited to offer a private and confidential location for on-site appointments and conversational sign language classes. The new office is fully equipped with video conferencing software and internet access.
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Q: How can I work around "Xcode could not locate source file" I'm working with the ID3 framework in Xcode (which has since disappeared off the face of the web - including google cache!).
I'm testing out an import mp3 feature which allows them to edit the tags as they import them. One of the test cases is a corrupt or invalid mp3 with no proper id3 header. The problem I'm having is that when updating the tags of the invalid mp3 (updateFile:), the ID3 framework attempts to use id3V1Tag.m (I assume it falls back to this if it can't find the v2 tag) and this is where I get the Xcode error (whilst running the program, not building):
Xcode could not locate source file: id3V1Tag.m (line: 299)
Even in a release build this crashes the program, so it's not something I can really ignore.
I've tried putting a try/catch block around it but it's not treated as an exception so doesn't get caught. The function to load the tag data for the file returns a BOOL but it appears this only returns false if the given file doesn't exist, so this doesn't help either.
Current code:
[tagData release];
tagData = [[TagAPI alloc] initWithGenreList:nil];
tagsLoaded = [tagData examineFile:exportPath];
if(tagsLoaded) {
    [tagData setTitle:title];
    [tagData setArtist:artist];
    [tagData setComments:comments];
    @try {
        [tagData updateFile];
    }
    @catch (id e){
        NSLog(@"h");
    }
}

A: The error you're getting is that Xcode is trying to locate your source file id3V1Tag.m in order to show it during debugging.  No code you write will affect this.
If you don't have the id3V1Tag.m source file in your framework distro, there's nothing you can do about this, and there's little to do but ignore it (other than seeing if you can avoid causing it to be requested, like not setting a breakpoint in it, not stepping into it, and not crashing in it).
If you do have it, and are building it, then perhaps you're not building with the right debug information, so you'll have to tell us more about your build setup.

A: So the problem you're having is that your program is crashing when you attempt to compile id3V1Tag.m or while running the program.  I'm a bit confused on that.
If its crashing while running maybe this is an issues with a code file missing from a library?   How are you reading the ID3 tag information exactly?  Is it through your own code or through a 3rd party library/class.


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It took more than two years for all of the pieces to come together for Remember Sports' third album, Slow Buzz. In the time that has elapsed, Carmen Perry (vocals, guitar), Jack Washburn (guitar), and Catherine Dwyer (bass) relocated from the tiny Midwestern college town of Gambier, OH to Philadelphia, PA, adding new drummer Connor Perry and retiring their original nom de plume, SPORTS, along the way. Slow Buzz (Father/Daughter Records) is the latest evolution of a band known for its dedication to friendship and ability to carve out revelatory scuzz fueled tunes that make you want to grab your closest buds and dance your cares away.
Slow Buzz centers around a break up and comes at a crossroads for the band. The record is the first official release under Remember Sports, a moniker that functions as both a question and a command, which foreshadows all of the deeply personal emotions Carmen experiences at the painful end of a good relationship. Carmen's writing is diaristic and intimate; hearing this record is a strange amalgam of both melancholy and joy. Brazen and energetic as ever, Slow Buzz is a record that is a paradox. It celebrates both the sanctity and joy of friendship in the same heartbeat as the grief attached to moving on from something difficult and nostalgic.
Recorded in Valatie, NY by Evan M. Marré (Russel the Leaf), Slow Buzz is the band's first release as a solidified group, and fittingly the first record on which they had the luxury to experiment and expand upon their live sound. The result is an album that is expertly layered in its sonics: Slow Buzz focuses intently on all of the nuances of arrangement and production that Remember Sports has fine tuned over five years of playing together is their most ambitious record to date. Come for the high energy dynamism, stay to have your heart broken.


CEDAR RAPIDS — Grocery chain Aldi will open its newest Cedar Rapids store next Thursday, March 28, in the space formerly occupied by Fresh Market, at 180 Collins Road NE.
The 24,000-square-foot store in the Collins Crossing shopping center, across the road from Lindale Mall, is part of a $3.4 billion investment by Aldi to expand to 2,500 stores nationwide by the end of 2022.
Essen, Germany-based Aldi has more than 1,800 stores in 35 states, including a store less than four miles away, at 5425 Blairs Forest Blvd. NE.
The company will operate three stores in Cedar Rapids and one store each in Marion, Coralville and Iowa City.
Aldi has remodeled the Cedar Rapids and Marion stores within the past two years.
The Collins Road Aldi store layout will provide an improved in-store experience, the company said in a news release, and feature additional refrigeration space to accommodate more fresh products. Twenty percent of the product selection will be new items when compared with last year.
The new Aldi will be open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Fresh Market, a Greensboro, N.C.-based specialty grocery chain, opened a store in Collins Crossing on Oct. 1, 2014. The company closed its Cedar Rapids and West Des Moines locations in May 2016 along with 11 other stores in three states, citing the completion of an organizational analysis.
The Cedar Rapids Fresh Market employed about 90 people when it opened.


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package com.mozu.api.clients.commerce.admin;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.mozu.api.MozuClient;
import com.mozu.api.MozuClientFactory;
import com.mozu.api.MozuUrl;
import com.mozu.api.Headers;
import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import com.mozu.api.security.AuthTicket;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

/**
 * Use the Location Types resource to manage the types of locations your tenant maintains, such as warehouses, physical storefronts, and kiosks.
 *
 */
public class LocationTypeClient {

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<List<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>> mozuClient=GetLocationTypesClient();
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <List<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<List<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>> getLocationTypesClient() throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.admin.LocationTypeUrl.getLocationTypesUrl();
		String verb = "GET";
		Class<?> clz = new ArrayList<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>(){}.getClass();
		MozuClient<List<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>> mozuClient = (MozuClient<List<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=GetLocationTypeClient( locationTypeCode);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param locationTypeCode The user-defined code that identifies the location type.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> getLocationTypeClient(String locationTypeCode) throws Exception
	{
		return getLocationTypeClient( locationTypeCode,  null);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=GetLocationTypeClient( locationTypeCode,  responseFields);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param locationTypeCode The user-defined code that identifies the location type.
	 * @param responseFields Filtering syntax appended to an API call to increase or decrease the amount of data returned inside a JSON object. This parameter should only be used to retrieve data. Attempting to update data using this parameter may cause data loss.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> getLocationTypeClient(String locationTypeCode, String responseFields) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.admin.LocationTypeUrl.getLocationTypeUrl(locationTypeCode, responseFields);
		String verb = "GET";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=AddLocationTypeClient( locationType);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param locationType Properties of a type of physical location, such as warehouse or kiosk. Location types enable tenants to group similar locations for filtering and location usage type definition.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> addLocationTypeClient(com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType locationType) throws Exception
	{
		return addLocationTypeClient( locationType,  null);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=AddLocationTypeClient( locationType,  responseFields);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param responseFields Filtering syntax appended to an API call to increase or decrease the amount of data returned inside a JSON object. This parameter should only be used to retrieve data. Attempting to update data using this parameter may cause data loss.
	 * @param locationType Properties of a type of physical location, such as warehouse or kiosk. Location types enable tenants to group similar locations for filtering and location usage type definition.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> addLocationTypeClient(com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType locationType, String responseFields) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.admin.LocationTypeUrl.addLocationTypeUrl(responseFields);
		String verb = "POST";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		mozuClient.setBody(locationType);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=UpdateLocationTypeClient( locationType,  locationTypeCode);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param locationTypeCode The user-defined code that identifies the location type.
	 * @param locationType Properties of a type of physical location, such as warehouse or kiosk. Location types enable tenants to group similar locations for filtering and location usage type definition.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> updateLocationTypeClient(com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType locationType, String locationTypeCode) throws Exception
	{
		return updateLocationTypeClient( locationType,  locationTypeCode,  null);
	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient=UpdateLocationTypeClient( locationType,  locationTypeCode,  responseFields);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 * LocationType locationType = client.Result();
	 *

	 * @param locationTypeCode The user-defined code that identifies the location type.
	 * @param responseFields Filtering syntax appended to an API call to increase or decrease the amount of data returned inside a JSON object. This parameter should only be used to retrieve data. Attempting to update data using this parameter may cause data loss.
	 * @param locationType Properties of a type of physical location, such as warehouse or kiosk. Location types enable tenants to group similar locations for filtering and location usage type definition.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient <com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 * @see com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType
	 */
	public static MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> updateLocationTypeClient(com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType locationType, String locationTypeCode, String responseFields) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.admin.LocationTypeUrl.updateLocationTypeUrl(locationTypeCode, responseFields);
		String verb = "PUT";
		Class<?> clz = com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType.class;
		MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType> mozuClient = (MozuClient<com.mozu.api.contracts.location.LocationType>) MozuClientFactory.getInstance(clz);
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		mozuClient.setBody(locationType);
		return mozuClient;

	}

	/**
	 *
	 *

	 * MozuClient mozuClient=DeleteLocationTypeClient( locationTypeCode);
	 * client.setBaseAddress(url);
	 * client.executeRequest();
	 *

	 * @param locationTypeCode The user-defined code that identifies the location type.
	 * @return Mozu.Api.MozuClient
	 */
	public static MozuClient deleteLocationTypeClient(String locationTypeCode) throws Exception
	{
		MozuUrl url = com.mozu.api.urls.commerce.admin.LocationTypeUrl.deleteLocationTypeUrl(locationTypeCode);
		String verb = "DELETE";
				MozuClient mozuClient = (MozuClient) MozuClientFactory.getInstance();
		mozuClient.setVerb(verb);
		mozuClient.setResourceUrl(url);
		return mozuClient;

	}

}

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Sadly, only the Powerful have the Power to accumulate more Power. When we went to our local paper serving Edmonds regarding the bullying that we endured at the hands of administration, the reporter was eager to look into it. Three days later she called back, apologized and told us they couldn't pursue the story. No reason was given. We did figure out that the editor and the superintendent went to the same Rotary.
Keep up the good work Laurie!
@Richard - I'm in Olympia and our Superintendent also has good ties to the paper so almost everything written about the district is positive (most of it is just regurgitated press releases from the district). Want to publish the truth about district practices in a Letter to the Editor? It won't get published.
1) As of May 1, 2012, Washington State Senator Lisa Brown, the sponsor of the restrictive legislation mentioned by Ms. Rogers, is history. She announced that she will not run for re-election.
3) Of course the business, style, and philosophy of the District 81 is influenced by now former Spokane Assistant City Attorney (fired after the hiring of a new City Attorney by the new mayor), the notorious Rocky Trepieddi. Trepieddi is notorious in part for his vindictive counter-suits against citizens who threaten to the sue the city. Other actions to deter public access to information and to challenge their government, such as restrictions on people's access to school district records, would fit perfectly well with that approach. During Treppiedi's tenure with the city of Spokane, the city and the police (which he so staunchly defended regardless of its offenses) were involved in numerous scandals involving the failure to release records, withholding evidence, etc.
The Inlander reported in an article entitled "Between Rocky and a hard spot: (quote) Treppiedi — who did not return multiple calls seeking comment for this article, and said recently he would not go on the record with anyone reporting for The Inlander — has defended the Spokane Police Department for more than 20 years, and in those decades has earned a reputation for being intimidating and creating an environment that encourages police misconduct. (end quote). This pattern of intimidation is no doubt found in Treppiedi's advice to the district. A March 3, 2007 Spokesman Review article spells out the history of Treppiedi's poor legal advise to the city and what it has cost taxpayers.
As I have long advocated, get rid of Treppiedi, get rid of many problems. The city did it. Now the people need to do it at the next school board election.
Laurie--thank you for fighting the good fight! Nothing will change until we start listening and reading and interacting with the power structures that be, and then taking action! Thank you so much for the Malcolm X quote, and the article. Keep it up!
"The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?"


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DDoS Attacks Still a Significant Threat
on March 10, 2014 |
DDoS Attack Specialist DDoS Attacks DDoS Defense DDoS Protection Specialist
It's an attack vector that's been around ever since the Internet became a valuable business tool. Distributed Denial of Service, of DDoS, attacks are still one of the most prevalent threats facing businesses today.
There are reports suggesting that DDoS attacks are on the rise and that the Internet's DNS infrastructure – critical for the operation of the Internet – remains vulnerable and a significant target.
Jag Bains, the CTO at DOSarrest Internet Security, spoke to us about DDoS attacks and what can be done to mitigate their impact.
When we spoke with Michael McKinnon from AVG at the Tech Leaders forum in Queensland earlier this year, he said "So much damage is being done, for example, through spoof traffic. If most major network providers were responsible enough to stop traffic from leaving their networks that they knew were coming from IP addresses they weren't responsible for then we would have spoof traffic on the Internet and cut down networks responsible for this kind of damage".
I asked Bains what could be done to prevent DDoS attacks from being a viable attack vector and whether there was a benefit for network operators to not block the attacks.
"They're not doing it from a revenue opportunity. One guy's server is compromised for a few days and it flips out a huge bill. But, it's too much of a headache [for telcos] to make it a revenue stream'" said Bains.
"The big guns behind some of these attacks are occurring out of data centres that have compromised servers or hosting networks with compromised servers," he added.
Although it is possible to block spoof packets coming from a network, this would not be as straightforward as it sounds. Bains suggested that there would be significant cost.
"It comes at a CPU cost to your routers. You're dealing with high traffic volumes that might create a different type of bottleneck," said Bains.
I challenged Bains on this, noting that Moore's Law will take this year's bottleneck and make it insignificant in a short time. In fact, if we'd taken action like this against DDoS attacks a decade ago there would be little need to suffer these attacks.
"Let's say we did that and it might help to stem these tidal wave attacks. But that doesn't mean DDoS would have been thwarted. One of the most interesting things in the DDoS arena is the rise of application attacks coming from legitimate sources," he said.
As well as their use to cripple companies and use as a form of ransomware – it's not unknown for gambling operators in unregulated markets to use DDoS attacks to either cripple or ransom their competition – they can be used to manipulate financial markets.
According to Bains the recent Mount Gox attack, that resulted in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars of Bitcoin, was at least partly a DDoS attack.
"Hammering the exchange affected stability. Prices lowered and couldn't come back up and they were using it to influence the peaks and troughs," he said.
"It's a tool that's crude in its intentions but highly effective".
Bains' company, DOSarrest claims to have a solution. Their software can shift the traffic from a DDoS attack to a server environment that is specifically designed to deal with the attack.
"All users have to do is change their DNS record to point to one of our IPs. We're able to take the DOS attack out of hosting the network, bring it to a topology or infrastructure that is groomed specifically for that only".
What's clear is that DDoS attacks are here to stay and that there is no silver bullet that will prevent their occurrence. However, it is possible to mitigate the damage they can do.
Source: http://www.cso.com.au/article/540163/ddos_attacks_still_significant_threat/?fp=4&fpid=959105

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AUBURN CA – North Auburn's Gold Country RV Park has turned to solar to power visitors' air-conditioning and microwaves.
Electric bills have been a drain on the park's resources as visitors pay a flat rate that comes with unlimited energy to keep their appliances running.
With that in mind, park owner John Grant secured financing through Placer County's mPOWER loan program bolstered by a federal grant.
MPOWER Placer program specialist Rick Julian said that the 450 panels will save an estimated $2 million for the park over 25 years.
The project was priced at about $500,000, with $350,000 coming from a 6 percent loan from the mPOWER program. Grant also received a federal grant covering $150,000 of the project costs.
MPOWER received the Gold Country RV application in December and approved funding from the $33 million it has available for businesses Feb. 16.
The 66-site park, located on K.O.A. Way off Highway 49 in North Auburn, just completed the work.
Grant said he'll receive additional tax and depreciation savings as a result of installing the solar-power system, which covers 1.5 acres and can be seen from the highway.
"We're able to achieve carbon-pollution offsets because the power we consume with the solar system doesn't have to be generated elsewhere," Grant said.
For park visitor James Roller of Sioux Falls, S.D., the solar installation at Gold Country is a sign of the times. Roller said he's seen solar panels on motor homes like his that help ease the power load.
The California Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, headquartered in Auburn, is part of the movement toward sustainable practices.
Debbie Sipe, the association's executive director, said that the organization is continually searching for economical and sustainable practices that its affiliated parks can implement.
And it shares the information through educational seminars and industry newsletters, she said.
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Eagles practice report: Dallas Goedert, Davion Taylor updates; Landon Dickerson, Jordan Mailata go appliance shopping
Philadelphia Eagles practice at the NovaCare Complex, Nov. 18, 2021
By Chris Franklin | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
PHILADELPHIA – Eagles tight ends coach Jason Michael was overseeing a blocking drill during Thursday's practice at the NovaCare Complex, holding a black bag with a number on the front of it. Michael, a former college quarterback turned tight ends coach, reached back to his playing days by calling a cadence, barking out the quick sound to alert tight ends Jack Stoll and Tyree Jackson to begin blocking.
Things were different once again for Michael. Unlike Wednesday where Dallas Goedert was not taking part in practice, he was holding the pad for Goedert to make contact and push him back before ending the block.
Goedert, who was in the concussion protocol, returned to practice Thursday. Goedert took a knee to the head in the first quarter of Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos and did not return. However, on Thursday, Goedert took part in a ball security drill and caught some passes during special teams practice.
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One person who knows how Goedert is doing is his roommate, cornerback Avonte Maddox. Before practice, Maddox said that Goedert was in good spirits considering he suffered a head injury.
"He's good," Maddox said. "Dallas is always good. I live with him, so when he comes back home, he's always smiling. I'm always looking forward to Dallas being out on the field. If he can get back out there soon, I'll definitely be happy."
With only one practice to go, Goedert's availability in question for Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints. If he is able to play, quarterback Jalen Hurts will have one of his main targets back against a Saints team that is ranked 26th in pass defense (264.9 yards a game).
If Goedert does not play, the Eagles may have to make a couple of changes to their suddenly surging offense. Stoll or Jackson would see more playing time if Goedert is ruled out of the game. It could also mean that J.J. Arcega-Whiteside could see more snaps to help with some blocking responsibilities. The other possibility is that the Eagles elevate Richard Rodgers, the seven-year veteran, from the practice squad. Rodgers is familiar with the offense and could step in and contribute.
Davion Taylor is "ready to go" despite bone bruise
Linebacker Davion Taylor was a surprise listing on Wednesday's injury report, not participating in Wednesday's walk-through because of a knee injury. On Thursday, Taylor said that he is recovering and should play against the Saints.
"It's pretty good," Taylor said. "I had something like a bone bruise, but I was able to play for the rest of the game. I think it was a good sign. I shouldn't miss any significant time or anything. I'm just doing my rehab. I'm feeling better every day, and it should be ready to go come Sunday."
Taylor has played well of late since seeing an increase in his defensive snaps. Taylor has 23 tackles, a tackle for loss, and two forced fumbles in the last four games. Taylor's ability to read plays is improving, allowing his physical skills to take over and create stops.
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"The Fridge and the Freezer"
The Eagles have a lot of size on the left side of their offensive line. Left tackle Jordan Mailata is 6-feet, 8-inches tall, and weighs 365 pounds. The person next to Mailata, rookie left guard Landon Dickerson, is 6-feet, 5 inches tall, and weighs 333 pounds. The two were working together again at Wednesday's practice, working on some combination blocks under the direction of offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland.
During yesterday's media availability, Mailata jokingly calling Dickerson an "athletic fridge," referring the the offensive lineman's size. After hearing the comment, Dickerson embraced the comment and made his own retort Thursday, calling describing Mailata as another household appliance.
"It feels alright," Dickerson said. "If I'm fridge, he is a walk-in freezer. It's the fridge and freezer combo I guess. You can't go wrong with that."
Besides this combination being an appliance stores' dream scenario to sponsor, the two have worked well together in the run game. According to Sharp Football Analysis, in the least three weeks, the Eagles have run the ball 61 times in the area between the left tackle and the center. The offense has had seven explosive runs in that time, meaning rushing plays that have gone for 10 yards or more.
Their combined size makes it good to run behind. No wonder they describe each other the way they have.
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Chris Franklin may be reached at cfranklin@njadvancemedia.com.


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30 Harry Potter Spells and Word Origins
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Do you know the meaning behind Harry Potter spells like Expelliarmus and Wingardium Leviosa? In this episode of The List Show, Erin (@erincmccarthy) breaks down the origins of 30 Harry Potter terms.
You'll learn where Dumbledore's name comes from and how the etymology of "horcrux" has been debated. Users of the three Unforgivable Curses and and Emma Watson super-fans will want to watch.
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Did you know that the word muggle means foolish or stupid?
Well...sort of. I'm Erin McCarthy, editor-in-chief of MentalFloss.com and Gryffindor who is still waiting for her Hogwarts letter.
Seriously: where is it? J. K.
Rowling borrowed the term "mug" to create a word for a person who's not a witch or wizard. She once explained, quote, "I was looking for a word that suggested both foolishness and lovability. The word 'mug' came to mind for somebody gullible and then I softened it.
I think 'muggle' sounds quite cuddly. I didn't know that the word muggle had been used as drug slang at that point. Ah well." And that's just the first of many Harry Potter etymologies that I'm going to share with you today.
In the Harry Potter universe another non-magical being is a squib, a person who has magical parents but isn't a witch or wizard themselves. I'm talking Arabella Figg, Argus Filch, Marius Black, Angus Buchanan...two of those were also cat people, and if you know which ones you are a certified fan and you've come to the right place. The word squib has been around since the 16th century, when it referred to something like a firecracker.
Eventually damp squib came to mean a disappointment, which is likely where Rowling got the term. Speaking of disappointment, nothing is more disappointing than realizing the Mirror of Erised is just showing you what you want to see most. Erised is just desire, backwards.
There's also an inscription around the edge of the mirror that, when read backwards, says "I show not your face but your heart's desire." The French school Beauxbatons visits Hogwarts for the Triwizard Tournament. In French, Beaux means beautiful and Batons means sticks. According to fan interpretation, Rowling was probably going for "beautiful wands." Many of the spells in this series are derived from Latin words.
According to Pottermore this was because Wizards are, quote, "old-fashioned in nature" so "it's not surprising that so many of their spells are rooted in a more archaic language." Of course, it didn't hurt that Rowling had a background in classics. To disarm someone a witch or wizard says expelliarmus. In Latin, expellere means "to drive out" and arma means "weapon." By the way, I'm trying my best but I don't speak Latin, and as much as it pains me to say it I'm not a witch, so please go easy on me.
Lumos is an easy one. This is the spell that characters use to light up their wands and lumen means "light" in Latin. It's pretty clear that this connection was intentional because to stop the light wizards say nox, which means "night." To levitate an object the spell is Wingardium Leviosa, which I can't say without hearing Emma Watson's voice ringing in my ears.
This one is less self-explanatory, but Rowling likely got Leviosa from a Latin word: either "levo" for lift or "levitas" for lightness. Then there's arduus, Latin for steep or high. "Wing," with its connection to flight, was probably just borrowed from English. Thanks to Wenzelsays for the suggestion.
Rowling leaned on other languages, too. Alohomora is the spell that unlocks doors. In Magic Words, A Dictionary, author Craig Conley explains that the term comes from Sikidy, a type of divination from Madagascar.
In Sikidy, an alohomer is often associated with the diviner. Rowling combined Latin and Greek words to create Petrificus Totalus, which Hermione uses to temporarily paralyze Nevil Longbottom. Pottermore explains that petra comes from the Greek term for rock.
The suffix -ficus and totalis are Latin. They mean "to make" and "total," respectively. Together we get "to make rock totally." And if we're going to talk spells we have to go over the commands for the three.
Unforgivable Curses. Crucio is an easy one. It's the Latin word for "I torture." Imperio forces a victim to do anything that the spellcaster wants.
In Latin "impero" translates to "I command" or "I order." Then there's Avada Kedavra, which instantly kills someone. According to Rowling it's the original Aramaic version of abracadabra, meaning "let the thing be destroyed," though that's a historical interpretation that may not be totally true. The Oxford English Dictionary explains quote, "No documentation has been found to support any of the various conjectures which have been put forward... a large group of etymological suggestions tries to derive the word from Hebrew or Aramaic in various ways, involving, for example, an alteration of an unknown Aramaic name of a demon or a connection with Hebrew... but again, supporting evidence is lacking." Sectumsempra, the spell that young Severus Snape came up with, isn't an unforgivable curse but it might as well be with how it continuously slashes its victim.
And it turns out that's exactly what it means. Seco is Latin for sever and semper is "continuously," which Pottermore points out is pretty close to sempra. Fun fact: in 2015, college student Katherine Kline discovered an ancient lizard with sharp teeth that self-sharpened.
So based on the Latin meaning and the spell Kline named the reptile clevosaurus sectumsempra. The potion Veritaserum is also likely from Latin. It makes someone tell the truth and in Latin, veritas means truth.
Rowling embedded deeper meaning into some of her character names, too. Take Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore was a 19th century English word that meant "bumblebee." Rowling described the connection this way.
Quote, "Because Albus Dumbledore is very fond of music, I always imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot." A less pleasant name is Mundungus Fletcher, who is a thief and a member of the Order of the Phoenix. According to Merriam-Webster the word mundungus has been around since 1641, when it referred to a foul-smelling tobacco. For the Dursleys, Rowling relied less on old-timey words and more on personal preference.
On the website Pottermore she wrote, quote, "'Vernon' is simply a name I never much cared for. 'Petunia' is the name that I always gave unpleasant female characters and games of make-believe I played with my sister died when we were very young." And Dursley is a town in Gloucestershire, near Rowling's hometown—though she quickly adds that she never visited and just liked the name. Rowling once claimed on Twitter that she doesn't pronounce the T in Voldemort, which makes sense considering that's the proper French pronunciation. The name is made up of French words that together mean "flight of death," though Rowling has stated that it's an invented name without indicating a deeper meaning.
In 2009, while accepting the Légion d'honneur in France, Rowling said "I want to thank my French readers for not resenting my choice of a French name for my evil character. I can assure you that no anti-French feeling was at the origin of this choice." Speaking of Voldemort, excuse me *extremely French voice* vol de mort, his snake sidekick Nagini also has a significant name. The prequel film The Crimes of Grindelwald revealed that Nagini was once a human woman, and in a Blu-ray extra Rowling explained that this was a plan long in the making, as evidenced by Nagini's name.
There are stories of the Nagas in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In all three, Nagas are frequently snake people. In Sanskrit a Nagini is a female Naga.
The Harry Potter stories also includes some fun, already-existing terms like "apparate,"which is the quick way that magical beings move from place to place. Apparition has been a word since at least the sixteenth century, and throughout its history it has often been used to describe the unexpected appearance of anything, but particularly magical beings. The word derived from the Latin apparare, meaning "to appear." And in this series the animal that's a combination of a horse and eagle is a Hippogriff.
Hippos is "horse" in Greek. The "griff" part is ultimately from the Latin "gryphus," a creature that's half eagle and half lion. Let's speed up.
Expecto Patronum protects against Dementors with the help of a spectral animal, also known as a Patronus, though it's also possible to create an incorporeal Patronus if you want to disguise the form of your Patronus. In Latin, patronus refers to a protector. Expecto patronum means "I await a protector." Accio Firebolt helps Harry when he's fighting a dragon and needs his broom.
ASAP. Accio is also Latin; it means "to summon." Accio Sorting Hat! And incendio, the Latin word for "from fire," is another spell.
It...lights a fire. An animagus can turn into an animal, like Sirius Black becomes Padfoot the dog. The animal in animagus is fairly self-explanatory.
Magus is a term for priests in ancient Persia that eventually got associated with the occult. The potion Felix Felicis gives the drinker good luck. Makes sense, given that both felix and felicis mean "lucky" in Latin.
It can sort of be translated to "luck of luck." In a post on Pottermore, J. K. Rowling said that the word Azkaban, as in Azkaban prison, where magical criminals are kept, is a combination of the real-life prison Alcatraz and the Hebrew word abaddon, meaning place of destruction or depths of hell.
Rowling has also explained pensieve, which is a device that preserves memories. In her words, it's a homonym of pensive but she also wanted to include "sieve" because a pensieve also acts as a sorter of memories, just as a sieve sorts wanted and unwanted materials. Finally, I want to settle a Harry Potter etymology debate for you.
There has been much talk of the meaning of Horcrux. Some claim it came from
Latin: horrore, meaning "to shudder" and crux for "destruction." Others look to
French: d'hors, meaning "outside," and adding crux meaning "essence." But Rowling has claimed that she just wrote syllables until she landed on a word she liked, and she made the decision to keep Horcrux after googling it and seeing that there were no results. Our next episode is about ASMR. Leave your favorite fact about this quiet internet phenomenon in the comments for a chance to be featured in that episode. That will go up on October 2nd. make sure to subscribe here so you don't miss it.
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Child care center owners: Delaware not fulfilling commitment to kids
Jessica Bies
Unless the state invests more in early childhood education, child care providers say they may soon drop out of a program intended to increase access to early childhood education for low-income kids.
That could spell trouble for Delaware Stars for Early Success, which offers training for early child care providers and rates them on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. Centers that improve can get reassessed and secure more funding through a tiered reimbursement plan tied to a program that helps working, low-income families pay for preschool.
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Or at least that's how it is supposed to work.
This year, thanks to a $400 million budget shortfall, early child care centers will be stuck at their current reimbursement levels, regardless of how much time, energy and money they've put into improving the quality of education they provide.
Kimberly Krzanowski, director of the state's early learning office, told child care providers in an email last week that during the most recent legislative session, the General Assembly set aside $5 million to support Delaware Stars and $20 million to support tiered reimbursements.
That isn't enough money to expand the program, Krzanowski said, and as a result, early child care centers will not be allowed to apply for larger reimbursements.
Initially, the child care centers would have also been barred from applying for a higher star rating, but late Thursday, the state reversed course and announced they would be able to apply for better ratings even though they won't get any more money for moving up.
Andria Keating, owner/operator of Babes on the Square, Too, in Brandywine, said the news about the reimbursements freeze didn't catch her completely off guard but stung nonetheless.
"For centers that are looking to advance, it was a loss," she said. "And it's going to be a significant loss to me."
Keating recently spent $6,000 to $7,000 in fees and improvements to pursue accreditation through the National Association for the Education of Young Children, which would have bumped her facility's rating from four stars to five.
At five stars, she'd be reimbursed at a higher rate for her 55 low-income students. They make up more than 30 percent of her business.
Four-star facilities are reimbursed at about 93 percent of the market rate, while five-star facilities receive about 102 percent, according to the Delaware Stars site.
Three-star facilities get reimbursed at about 80 percent. The reimbursement rates are based on 2011 market rates and leave even five-star centers slightly underpaid for their services.
"I was looking at about $50,000 (more a year)," Keating said.
She planned on using the money to give her employees bigger quarterly bonuses. On average, child care workers in Delaware make $9.95 an hour, or $20,690 a year.
"I can't-do that now," she said, adding that her staff was fully aware of her efforts to bring in more money to the business.
But that's not the biggest loss, she said.
More than anything, Keating is disappointed at the lackluster support Delaware and the General Assembly have given early childhood education. Stars is an involved and laborious program, she said, and many child care centers participate only in it to get better reimbursements for serving low-income kids.
Without more funding, she can see a lot of centers dropping out of the Stars program and the quality of early childhood education declining.
"If they're not getting tiered reimbursements, why are they putting the effort into it?" she said. "We'd like to think that everyone's in it for the children, but for some people, it's just business."
State Rep. Quinn Johnson, D-Middletown, who is an early child care provider himself, empathized.
He said even five-star programs like his, Tender Loving Kare Childcare & Learning Center, are having a hard time keeping up with the higher standards built into Delaware Stars because of how low reimbursements are.
It's not about greed or profits — it's about keeping the doors open, he said.
It takes a lot of money to be a five-star facility and to retain good quality staff — if reimbursements continue to lag behind current market rates, soon, for many businesses, it just won't be feasible to be a part of the program anymore.
"If we don't stay up with (funding Delaware Stars), programs will decide: 'I can no longer afford to accept the lower-income kids,'" Johnson said. "And then we'll regress back to where they are no longer in high-quality programs."
"It would just be a huge step backward in all the advancements we've made in early childhood education and leveling the playing field."
Less interest in training
As it is, fewer early child care centers are seeking help from Delaware Stars' "technical assistants," said Leslie Newman of Children and Families First. She is also a member of the Delaware Early Childhood Council.
Through a contract with Delaware Stars, her staff offers onsite training and guidance for centers that want to improve their ratings.
"What we do is we work with programs that are in the Stars system, and we target the areas that will help them to approve," Newman said. "I think the unintended consequence of this is that (early child care centers) have lost the incentive to take full advantage of the technical assistants to move up and improve their quality."
Not only that, but childcare providers are busy, said Michelle Shaivitz, director of the advocacy group, Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children.
If they know there's no financial gain, why would they work overtime to earn another star?
"You're losing money on every single child," she said. "How does that make sense?"
Early child care providers are increasingly unhappy with Delaware Stars, Shaivitz said, and while the state says it has "maintained" funding levels for the program, many don't see it that way because reimbursement rates haven't been adjusted for inflation.
Mike Jackson, director of Delaware's Office of Management Budget, said that would be a several-million-dollar investment in of itself.
"We have gotten quite a few phone calls from people that say they aren't even going to participate in Stars if this is the way it's going to be," Shaivitz said. "What they're saying to us and what we're hearing a lot of is: 'Why am I working so hard to be a part of something that the government can just shut down or freeze?'"
Delaware's Secretary of Education Susan Bunting says providers should hold tight.
"There is no reason to think that this may not be funded in the future," she said, adding that "there are many programs that survived this year, but had to live with budget cuts."
If the program is eventually expanded, child care centers that have stuck with Stars could be in the position to immediately apply for the next level of reimbursements, Bunting said. That's especially true now that DOE has decided to allow providers to apply for more stars in the interim.
Not that the money should be early child care providers' primary concern, she added.
"If there had never been reimbursements, I think I still would have made a strong effort to get that five-star quality," she said, putting herself in the role of a child care provider. "I would want to be the best that I can be, whether or not I'd be reimbursed for that."
Keating said that yes, she wants credit for her work. Just being a five-star facility has some cachet. But she also said the community-at-large isn't familiar with Delaware Stars and that being rated higher won't necessarily attract more business or help tide her over financially until the reimbursements come.
Bunting, earlier this week, said she was hesitant to give centers higher ratings for fear they would see it as a promise that funding would be restored in the next legislative session.
People can't work for free, Shaivitz said.
She has a feeling the topic of tiered reimbursements will be a hot one at a Nov. 21 public hearing on the Department of Education's budget.
"This is a really important issue, and it's going to get much larger," she said. "You better believe that people are going to be at those budget meetings."
Atnre Alleyne, director of the nonprofit advocacy group DelawareCAN: The Delaware Campaign for Achievement Now, said "Delaware is lying to its babies and toddlers" by failing to invest in Delaware Stars and early childhood education, while at the same time pushing for higher achievement and proficiency rates for students.
In a blog post, he said that "ultimately, this disinvestment means more of our earliest learners will not have access to the high-quality education they deserve, and we will continue to see the impact of this in our third-grade reading levels and high school readiness."
"It also means that Delaware has been lying to its babies and toddlers," he said. "Our state is lying to our babies and toddlers when it tells them they are of the highest importance to us — but then it makes decisions that undercut their early development.
"Delaware is lying to our babies and toddlers when it teaches them it's important to share — then cannot find the $4 million needed to support our earliest learners from a budget of $4 billion."
Contact Jessica Bies at (302) 324-2881 or jbies@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter @jessicajbies. Looking for more education news? Visit delawareonline.com/education.
What: Public hearing on Department of Education budget
When: 2-4 p.m., Nov. 21
Where: Senate chambers, Legislative Hall, Dover


Utica, New York – Upstate Cerebral Palsy is pleased to announce it has received a $3,975 grant from the Women's Fund of Herkimer and Oneida Counties for a social group for young women with disabilities. The "Girls' Night Out" program, funded in part by The Women's Fund of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, is designed to foster relationships, build self-esteem and confidence, and promote self-advocacy to a group of 12 women with disabilities in rural Oneida County.
The Upstate Cerebral Palsy program provides young women ages 18-30 with autism, intellectual disabilities, and/or Down syndrome in Boonville and the surrounding area with an opportunity to meet once a month. "Girls' Night Out" provides these women the opportunity for personal growth in a safe and supportive space. This program serves as an educational, social, and health and wellness program, as the participants do not typically have the connections and opportunities that their peers may have. Funding will be used to cover many group activities that take place over the next year.
"Women and girls connecting with one another creates such a powerful network of support, camaraderie and fun! The Women's Fund is truly pleased and honored to give a boost to Upstate Cerebral Palsy's "Girl's Night Out!" This program is certain to enhance wonderful new opportunities for younger girls within the Boonville area," commented Patrice J. King, Women's Fund Board of Directors President.


ASP.NET's forms-based authentication system in tandem with the Membership API and Login Web controls make it a cinch to create a user store, create user accounts, and allow visitors to log into the site. What's more, with little effort it's possible to define roles, associate user accounts with roles, and determine what functionality is available based on the currently logged in user's role (see Part 2). Many ASP.NET sites that use Membership have an Admin role, and users in that role are granted certain functionality not available to non-Admin users. Consider an online store - Admin users might be able to manage inventory, whereas the only way normal members could interact with the inventory was by adding items to their shopping cart.
I was recently working with a client who had an interesting request: he needed the ability for Admin users to be able to log into the site as another user, and perform actions as if that other person had logged in herself. Returning to the online store example, imagine that some customers periodically phone in their order, or mail or fax in an order form. An Admin, receiving this order, could then log into the site as that customer and place the order on the customer's behalf.
This article shows how to allow an Admin user to log into a Membership-based website as another user, and includes a complete working demo available for download at the end of the article. Read on to learn more!
The ASP.NET Login control provides the user interface and logic for logging into a Membership-enabled website. The Login control presents two textboxes, one for the Username and one for the Password, along with a Login button. Clicking the Login button causes a postback during which the Login control attempts to validate the supplied credentials (the username and password) against the Membership system. If the credentials are valid, the user is logged into the system by means of a forms authentication ticket, which is a cookie that is saved to the user's browser that serves as the identity for the request. This cookie is sent from the browser to the website on subsequent requests and is the means by which a user remains "logged on" as they visit different pages on the site.
For certain websites it may make sense to allow Admin users to log into the site as another user in the system. (See "The Pros and Cons of Logging In As Another User" sidebar for a discussion that weighs the benefits of such a service against the potential harms.) If the Admin user knew the password of the user he wanted to log in as, then logging in as another user would be straightforward - the Admin user would simply enter the name and password of the user to log in as in the appropriate textboxes in the login page. However, it is usually the case that the Admin user does not know, and cannot find out, another user's password. By default, passwords in the SQL Server-based Membership system store the passwords in a hashed format. Because it is impossible to translate from the hashed format back to the original password, the Admin user cannot determine a user's password (unless the user divulges that information).
If all of these checks pass then the page creates a forms authentication ticket for the username of the user to log in as. The net effect is that an Admin user can visit the page, enter his credentials, type in another user's username, and then log in as that user.
You can build the above user interface by hand. A quicker way, though, is to add a Login control to the page and then turn it into a template (one of the options from the control's smart tag when viewed in the Designer). Doing so generates an HTML <table> within the Login control's declarative syntax. I then deleted the Login control tags (<asp:Login> and </asp:Login>), leaving the markup. Finally, I added a new table row for the "Log In As User Name" UI and removed the "Remember Me" CheckBox row (because I do not want to allow an Admin user to log on as another user and have that remembered across browser restarts).
Here's a snippet of the HTML and Web controls used for the user interface. Here you see the HTML <table> and the first row that contains the TextBox for the Admin user's username.
ControlToValidate="AdminUserName" ErrorMessage="The Admin User Name is required."
'Yes, this username/password is good, but is this user in the Admin role?
'Great, this user is in the Admin role! Now, is the username to login as a valid user?
'Yes, this user is valid! Great, let's log in as that user!
FailureText.Text = "Only Admins can log into the site as another user. To login as yourself, please visit the standard Login page."
FailureText.Text = "Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again."
The code starts by calling the Membership.Validate(username, password) method, which returns True if the supplied credentials are valid, False otherwise. The username and password entered into the Admin username and password TextBox controls are passed in as the username and password parameters to this method. If this returns True then we next use the Roles API to ensure that the user is a member of the Admin role. If it returns False, the message "Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again" is displayed.
To determine if the Admin user credentials supplied belong to a user in the Admin role, the Roles API is used. A call to Roles.IsUserInRole(username, role) returns a Boolean value indiciating whether username exists in the role role. If the user is indeed an Admin then the last step is to check whether the username of the user to log in as is indeed valid. If the user is not in the Admin role then the message "Only Admins can log into the site as another user. To login as yourself, please visit the standard Login page" is displayed.
To determine if the username of the user to log in as is valid we call the Membership.GetUser(username), which returns a MembershipUser object if the username is valid. If the user is not found then it returns Nothing (null in C#). If the user account exist we log in as that user by creating a forms authentication ticket with that user's identity. The FormsAuthentication class contains methods for creating and managing forms authentication tickets. The RedirectFromLoginPage(username, persistentCookie) method creates a forms authentication ticket for user username, adds it to the visitor's Cookies collection, and then redirects the user to the appropriate page (the URL specified in the ReturnUrl querystring value, if present; Default.aspx otherwise).
If the user to log in as is not found in the system the message "The user username does not exist in the Membership database" is displayed.
That's all there is to it! With this code in place an Admin user can visit the site, enter his credentials and the name of another user on the site, and then log in as that user. The following screen shots show this interaction. In the first screen shot, Admin user Scott enters his credentials and the name of another user, Sam. Clicking the Login button causes a postback and Scott is signed in as Sam and redirected to the homepage.
As you can see, Scott has logged in as Sam. For all intents and purposes, Scott is Sam. Scott will have the same user experience as Sam would have, if she was logged on. Also, any actions performed by Scott will be as if they were performed by Sam.
I've helped several small businesses move their paper-based business processes to a more modern electronic-based system, many of which have resulted in websites that have used the ASP.NET Membership system. Many of these businesses have requested the ability for Admin users to be able to log on as other users, and each have their own reasons. As noted in the Introduction, one business still had customers that faxed in orders, so they wanted to be able to place orders through the online system as that user who faxed in the order. Another client of mine had users who spent most of their day on a jobsite and recorded hours and other information into the system at the end of the day. If there was a data entry error or some missing piece of information, it was convenient for the secretary to be able to go in and fix the problem or add the data immediately than to wait for the user to return to the home office.
Allowing Admin users to log in as any other user has the advantage that the Admin users can very easily enter the system and make changes to another user's data or information. There's no need to coorindate with the user (who may be on a jobsite, for instance). Of course, this approach is a bit hamfisted. In a perfect world, there would be a set of administrative pages that would enable Admin users to make these changes as needed. But when you're working with a client on a tight budget and their choice is, "Allow users to log in as any other user to make changes," or, "Spend several days creating administration pages," the first choice is more attractive. It also has the benefit that it makes it easier for an Admin to diagnose a bug that is happening for a specific user because of user-specific data. That is, the Admin can log in as that user who is getting the error and is able to replicate it and test later to ensure that it's been fixed properly.
The downside to letting Admin users log in as other users is that while the Admin is logged in as another user, they can accidentally (or purposefully) wreck havoc. The Admin might forget that she's logged in as another user, and go and enter data specific to her, not realizing that she's entering that data for the user she is logged on as. Another problem is that there is no auditing capabilities, at least not how the feature has been implemented thus far. Imagine that a user asks, "Why does my order contain XYZ? I didn't order XYZ." You look in the database and see that the customer did indeed order XYZ and refuse a refund. But wait, did the customer really order that or was an Admin user logged on as that customer and placed that order? There's no way to tell!
If you are going to allow Admin users to log on as any other user I would, at minimum, encourage you to place very strict limits as to what users are Admins (or what users can use this "log on as" feature). I would also encourage you to extend the functionality we discussed above to remember the Admin user when he logs in as another user. The final section of this article discusses how to do this!
The FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage method automatically creates a forms authentication ticket and adds it to the visitor's Cookies collection. The FormsAuthentication class also contains a GetAuthCookie(username, persistCookie) method that creates the forms authentication ticket and returns it, but does not add it to the Cookies collection, nor does it redirect the user to the appropriate page.
The above code starts by calling FormsAuthentication.GetAuthCookie to create the forms authentication cookie for the user who the Admin user wants to log in as. This cookie is actually encrypted so as to protect its contents as the cookie travels over the wire from the visitor's browser to the web server. Therefore, we need to descrypt it before we can work with it; this is accomplished by using the FormsAuthentication.Decrypt method. Next, we create a new forms authentication ticket, this time indicating that the Admin user's username should be included in the ticket's contents. This new authentication ticket is encrypted and added to the Cookies collection. Finally, the user is redirected to the homepage (Default.aspx).
For more information on how to programmatically add and retrieve user data to a forms authentication ticket, see Forms Authentication Configuration and Advanced Topics.
I've updated the master page (~/MasterPage.master) to include a Panel that displays a prominent message if an Admin user is currently logged in as another user. This message is shown only if an Admin user is logged on as another user; if a user logs on as himself, this message is not displayed.
Forms-based authentication, the Membership system, and ASP.NET's Login controls make it easy to build a web application that supports user accounts. Unfortunately, there are no built-in tools to allow administrative users to log into the site as another user in the system. The good news is that such functionality can be implemented with a couple dozen lines of code, as evidenced in this article. Be sure to download the demo application to see this functionality in action.


Maple has a close grain that gives it a soft, even texture. While the grain is generally straight, it can also appear curly, wavy, or striped. Sometimes there is pronounced color variation when maple is exposed to intense light, although a UV protector applied during the manufacture of flooring limits this variation.
Maple sapwood is generally white with a slight reddish-brown tint: the heartwood is reddish brown and sometimes quite dark.
There are 13 species of maple in North America, 10 of which grow in Canada. Hard Maple is found in the eastern United States and Canada. Maple syrup is produced from the sap. Hard Maple can reach a height of 120 ft. (37 m) and a diameter of 3 ft. (1 m). In the forest, maples can have a clear trunk, free of branches for up to 60 ft. (18 m).
Hard Maple and Black Maple are hardwoods. Other species, such as Silver and Red Maple are considered softwoods. Some manufacturers offer maple floors without specifying that they are using soft species. These floors are much less impact-resistant.
Marks, scratches, or imperfections are more noticeable because of the close, even grain and pale color. The more open grain of oak and ash hides marks better. A matte finish will help make marks less noticeable.
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Sound Bites: The week's best TV quotes
TV's funniest lines from September 19 to September 25, 1997
By EW Staff
September 26, 1997 at 04:00 AM EDT
"Chelsea's going to college. It's surprising, because most of us thought the member of the Clinton family going away for four years would be Hillary."
DAVID LETTERMAN on Late Show
"The Beatles were No. 5 on Forbes' richest-entertainers list, and they haven't worked together for 30 years. Meanwhile, Hammer put out an album last year, and the brother called me collect."
CHRIS ROCK on The Chris Rock Show
"Elton John said he thought of singing a version of 'Candle in the Wind' [for Mother Teresa], but he can't think of a rhyme for 'leprosy."'
BILL MAHER on Politically Incorrect
"My doctor gave me the news…. I started to cry…. I said, 'There's another one. Real soon, I feel it coming…. And I pray it's not me.' Then Mother Teresa came."
MICHAEL JACKSON discussing Princess Diana's death with Barbara Walters on 20/20
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See Zoe Kravitz's Big Little Lies costars and more celebrating her wedding weekend
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A luxury palace is the meeting point for four young artists.
The concerns and questions that arise from the tradition of landscape painting and landscape design, starting with the gardens of the Baroque to the current public green spaces, are the triggers for the creation of these works.
The axes around which these artworks move, deal with the contrast of luxury and paltry, the doubts about European morals and cultural heritage as well as memory functions.
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the audio ?? traffic in the back ground, the banging about and fumbling, muffled voices and such like..
it's clearly an FM transmitter with audio stuck in TX.
but there's two, the other is on 500, so rules out UK-G, telemetry and RC models.
hence why asking if anyone has stumbled across them ??
only found these by scanning the UK-G channels and stopped on this carrier then when i was checking up and down the band i came across the other..
This is what I get here currently on 454MHz using 12.5 steps.
458.000 - Constant carrier. Sounds FM and has a pip every second. This is bleeding over though from 457.9875 which is a stronger signal.
i get quite a few data burst's and such..
i'll see if they appear tomorrow, i'm out most the day but if they rock up before i go out i'll post it up that they're on..
these are just placed on top of the water pump in the ground, pavement or road and used to monitor the flow.
i only knew it was close as my 446 and 433 mhz radios both got a load of crackles and splatter, i was monitoring 800 and it was full signal, Baofeng, no antenna fully quietning so looked outside and saw him 20ft outside my house playing down a hole..
so i went out and had a chat where he shown me the other unit and we did a couple of test's to prove it was them..
he says the range is about 200mtrs, i said i'd received them at up to 2 miles..!!!!


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