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Biografia

Elezione a deputato
Nel 2010 è proclamato deputato della XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana nella circoscrizione Liguria per la Lega Nord in sostituzione di Edoardo Rixi.

Voci correlate
XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana
Lega Nord

Collegamenti esterni

Politici della Lega Nord
Deputati della XVI legislatura della Repubblica Italiana

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package org.apache.directory.server.dns.io.encoder;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.DnsMessage;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.MessageType;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.OpCode;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.QuestionRecord;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.RecordType;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.ResourceRecord;
import org.apache.directory.server.dns.messages.ResponseCode;
import org.apache.directory.server.i18n.I18n;
import org.apache.mina.core.buffer.IoBuffer;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/**
 * An encoder for DNS messages.  The primary usage of the DnsMessageEncoder is
 * to call the encode(ByteBuffer, DnsMessage) method which will
 * write the message to the outgoing ByteBuffer according to the DnsMessage
 * encoding in RFC-1035.
 *
 * @author Apache Directory Project
 */
public class DnsMessageEncoder
{
    /** the log for this class */
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( DnsMessageEncoder.class );

    /**
     * A Hashed Adapter mapping record types to their encoders.
     */
    private static final Map<RecordType, RecordEncoder> DEFAULT_ENCODERS;

    static
    {
        Map<RecordType, RecordEncoder> map = new HashMap<RecordType, RecordEncoder>();

        map.put( RecordType.SOA, new StartOfAuthorityRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.A, new AddressRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.NS, new NameServerRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.CNAME, new CanonicalNameRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.PTR, new PointerRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.MX, new MailExchangeRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.SRV, new ServerSelectionRecordEncoder() );
        map.put( RecordType.TXT, new TextRecordEncoder() );

        DEFAULT_ENCODERS = Collections.unmodifiableMap( map );
    }

    /**
     * Encodes the {@link DnsMessage} into the {@link IoBuffer}.
     *
     * @param byteBuffer
     * @param message
     */
    public void encode( IoBuffer byteBuffer, DnsMessage message )
    {
        byteBuffer.putShort( ( short ) message.getTransactionId() );

        byte header = ( byte ) 0x00;
        header |= encodeMessageType( message.getMessageType() );
        header |= encodeOpCode( message.getOpCode() );
        header |= encodeAuthoritativeAnswer( message.isAuthoritativeAnswer() );
        header |= encodeTruncated( message.isTruncated() );
        header |= encodeRecursionDesired( message.isRecursionDesired() );
        byteBuffer.put( header );

        header = ( byte ) 0x00;
        header |= encodeRecursionAvailable( message.isRecursionAvailable() );
        header |= encodeResponseCode( message.getResponseCode() );
        byteBuffer.put( header );

        byteBuffer
            .putShort( ( short ) ( message.getQuestionRecords() != null ? message.getQuestionRecords().size() : 0 ) );
        byteBuffer.putShort( ( short ) ( message.getAnswerRecords() != null ? message.getAnswerRecords().size() : 0 ) );
        byteBuffer.putShort( ( short ) ( message.getAuthorityRecords() != null ? message.getAuthorityRecords().size()
            : 0 ) );
        byteBuffer.putShort( ( short ) ( message.getAdditionalRecords() != null ? message.getAdditionalRecords().size()
            : 0 ) );

        putQuestionRecords( byteBuffer, message.getQuestionRecords() );
        putResourceRecords( byteBuffer, message.getAnswerRecords() );
        putResourceRecords( byteBuffer, message.getAuthorityRecords() );
        putResourceRecords( byteBuffer, message.getAdditionalRecords() );
    }

    private void putQuestionRecords( IoBuffer byteBuffer, List<QuestionRecord> questions )
    {
        if ( questions == null )
        {
            return;
        }

        QuestionRecordEncoder encoder = new QuestionRecordEncoder();

        Iterator<QuestionRecord> it = questions.iterator();

        while ( it.hasNext() )
        {
            QuestionRecord question = it.next();
            encoder.put( byteBuffer, question );
        }
    }

    private void putResourceRecords( IoBuffer byteBuffer, List<ResourceRecord> records )
    {
        if ( records == null )
        {
            return;
        }

        Iterator<ResourceRecord> it = records.iterator();

        while ( it.hasNext() )
        {
            ResourceRecord record = it.next();

            try
            {
                put( byteBuffer, record );
            }
            catch ( IOException ioe )
            {
                log.error( ioe.getLocalizedMessage(), ioe );
            }
        }
    }

    private void put( IoBuffer byteBuffer, ResourceRecord record ) throws IOException
    {
        RecordType type = record.getRecordType();

        RecordEncoder encoder = DEFAULT_ENCODERS.get( type );

        if ( encoder == null )
        {
            throw new IOException( I18n.err( I18n.ERR_597, type ) );
        }

        encoder.put( byteBuffer, record );
    }

    private byte encodeMessageType( MessageType messageType )
    {
        byte oneBit = ( byte ) ( messageType.convert() & 0x01 );
        return ( byte ) ( oneBit << 7 );
    }

    private byte encodeOpCode( OpCode opCode )
    {
        byte fourBits = ( byte ) ( opCode.convert() & 0x0F );
        return ( byte ) ( fourBits << 3 );
    }

    private byte encodeAuthoritativeAnswer( boolean authoritative )
    {
        if ( authoritative )
        {
            return ( byte ) ( ( byte ) 0x01 << 2 );
        }
        return ( byte ) 0;
    }

    private byte encodeTruncated( boolean truncated )
    {
        if ( truncated )
        {
            return ( byte ) ( ( byte ) 0x01 << 1 );
        }
        return 0;
    }

    private byte encodeRecursionDesired( boolean recursionDesired )
    {
        if ( recursionDesired )
        {
            return ( byte ) 0x01;
        }
        return 0;
    }

    private byte encodeRecursionAvailable( boolean recursionAvailable )
    {
        if ( recursionAvailable )
        {
            return ( byte ) ( ( byte ) 0x01 << 7 );
        }
        return 0;
    }

    private byte encodeResponseCode( ResponseCode responseCode )
    {
        return ( byte ) ( responseCode.convert() & 0x0F );
    }
}

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The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $46.3 billion in June, up $3.2 billion from $43.2 billion in May, revised.
June exports were $213.8 billion, $1.5 billion less than May exports. June imports were $260.2 billion, $1.6 billion more than May imports.
The June increase in the goods and services deficit reflected an increase in the goods deficit of $3.1 billion to $68.8 billion and a decrease in the services surplus of less than $0.1 billion to $22.5 billion.
The average goods and services deficit decreased $0.3 billion to $45.2 billion for the three months ending in June.
Average exports increased $1.0 billion to $213.5 billion in June.
Average imports increased $0.8 billion to $258.7 billion in June.
Year-over-year, the average goods and services deficit decreased $0.4 billion from the three months ending in June 2017.
Average exports increased $20.2 billion from June 2017.
Average imports increased $19.9 billion from June 2017.
Exports of goods decreased $1.7 billion to $143.2 billion in June.
Exports of goods on a Census basis decreased $1.7 billion.
Consumer goods decreased $1.4 billion.
Pharmaceutical preparations decreased $0.6 billion.
Capital goods decreased $0.9 billion.
Civilian aircraft engines decreased $0.4 billion.
Civilian aircraft decreased $0.2 billion.
Automotive vehicles, parts, and engines decreased $0.7 billion.
Passenger cars decreased $0.9 billion.
Industrial supplies and materials increased $2.0 billion.
Other petroleum products increased $0.5 billion.
Nonmonetary gold increased $0.5 billion.
Fuel oil increased $0.5 billion.
Exports of services increased $0.2 billion to $70.6 billion in June.
Imports of goods increased $1.4 billion to $212.0 billion in June.
Imports of goods on a Census basis increased $1.5 billion.
Industrial supplies and materials increased $0.9 billion.
Crude oil increased $1.2 billion.
Capital goods decreased $1.5 billion.
Telecommunications equipment decreased $0.5 billion.
Net balance of payments adjustments decreased $0.1 billion.
Imports of services increased $0.2 billion to $48.1 billion in June.
Charges for the use of intellectual property increased $0.3 billion. The increase reflects payments for the rights to broadcast the portion of the 2018 soccer World Cup that occurred in June.
The real goods deficit increased $3.8 billion to $79.3 billion in June.
Real exports of goods decreased $2.1 billion to $151.1 billion.
Real imports of goods increased $1.7 billion to $230.4 billion.
The June figures show surpluses, in billions of dollars, with South and Central America ($3.3), Hong Kong ($2.5), Brazil ($0.8), United Kingdom ($0.4), and Singapore (less than $0.1). Deficits were recorded, in billions of dollars, with China ($32.5), European Union ($12.8), Mexico ($6.7), Germany ($5.7), Japan ($5.6), Canada ($2.6), Italy ($2.2), OPEC ($1.8), India ($1.7), Taiwan ($1.4), South Korea ($1.3), Saudi Arabia ($0.8), and France ($0.7).
The deficit with members of OPEC increased $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion in June. Exports decreased $0.8 billion to $5.0 billion and imports increased $0.7 billion to $6.7 billion.
The deficit with the European Union increased $0.9 billion to $12.8 billion in June. Exports decreased $0.3 billion to $27.2 billion and imports increased $0.6 billion to $40.0 billion.
The deficit with Japan decreased $0.4 billion to $5.6 billion in June. Exports decreased $0.2 billion to $6.1 billion and imports decreased $0.7 billion to $11.7 billion.


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Boeing 747 Jet Engine-Based Gas Turbines from GE Power World's Fastest Ship
Jun 25, 2013 by Tomas Kellner
Builders at Australia's Incat shipyard say they've completed and tested the world's fastest ship, which is powered by two aircraft engine-based GE gas turbines driving a pair of water jets. The 325-foot passenger and vehicle ferry is a "wave-piercing catamaran" that can travel as fast as 58.1 knots, or 67 miles per hour. "This is certainly the fastest ship in the world," said Incat managing director Kim Clifford. "Of course there's a few speed boats that could surpass 58 knots, but nothing that could carry 1,000 passengers and 150 cars, and with an enormous duty-free shop on board."
The ferry, named Francisco after Pope Francis, will link the pontiff's native city of Buenos Aires in Argentina with Montevideo, Uruguay, 140 miles away across the River Plate estuary.
Speed is not the ship's only distinction. The Francisco is the world's first high-speed ferry that uses liquefied natural gas (LNG) as primary fuel. (It uses marine-grade oil only to start the engines, and as backup fuel.) An Incat announcement says that the ship is the "fastest, environmentally cleanest, and most efficient high-speed ferry in the world."
LNG will power two GE aeroderivative gas turbines from the company's ecomagination portfolio that have modified Boeing 747 aircraft engines at their core. Each of the turbines, which produce a combined 59,000 horse power, will turn a gearbox with a 7-to-1 reduction that drives an impeller generating a waterjet. "We had to redesign the fuel manifold and the fuel delivery system," says Ivan Bach, program manager with GE Power and Water. "But we have of a lot of experience in the marine environment. We've accumulated millions of hours powering ships, oil and gas rigs, and other equipment."
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Wind, Solar and Other Renewables Added 40 Percent of All New U.S. Power Capacity Last Year. Here's What Greased the Wheels
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Export requirements from Excel to Spira: Error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."
I tried to export requirements from an excel sheet to Spiratest. I filled the template with requirements from another excel worksheet.
The export failed with an error message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." at the end of each requirement. What's wrong?
Generally that error occurs if you're trying to insert new requirements and you accidentally populate the 'Requirement #' field. That should be left blank for new imports.
I also received this error. I do not have any requirements. I have left the default Requirements page as is.
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La Cabane de Moiry (2.825 ) è un rifugio alpino situato nelle Alpi Pennine nella Val d'Anniviers.

Caratteristiche
È collocata sul fianco del Ghiacciaio di Moiry e sopra il lago di Moiry.

Storia

Una prima capanna è stata costruita nel 1924.

Nel 2010 a fianco di quella storica è stato costruito un nuovo edificio e quello storico è stato completamente rinnovato.

Accesso
Il rifugio è raggiungibile in circa un'ora e mezza a partire dalla diga di Moiry.

Ascensioni
 Grand Cornier - 3.962 m
 Punta di Bricola - 3.658 m
 Pointes de Mourti - 3.564 m
 Pigne de la Lé - 3.396 m

Traversate
 Cabane du Grand Mountet - 2.886 m
 Cabane du Petit Mountet - 2.142 m

Voci correlate

 Rifugi delle Alpi

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

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Margaret & Diana & Elizabeth & Nancy
Netflix's The Crown and Showtime's The Reagans offer four different models of female power colliding with history, and with one another.
The scene comes early in the first episode of The Crown's fourth season: a drawing-room confab between two of the most powerful people in the world, a veteran ruler and an upstart newcomer. The year is 1979. The Queen (played once again by Olivia Colman) nervously adjusts a vase of flowers—the gesture of a woman subliminally preparing for the scrutiny of another woman's gaze. When Margaret Thatcher (played by Gillian Anderson) enters the room, she proffers a curtsy so low that her royal-blue skirt scrapes the floor. "Your Majesty," Anderson sighs, her gravelly baritone an approximation of the voice that the theater director Jonathan Miller described as "a perfumed fart," and that the journalist Clive James likened to "a cat sliding down a blackboard."
One moment, Thatcher is discussing her proposed cabinet of government ministers with the Queen and explaining that she finds women "too emotional" for high office. The next, she's at home with her husband, Denis (Stephen Boxer), recounting the events of the day while pressing pillowcases. (Insert your own "Iron Lady" joke here.) The head of the British government, for the first time, is also a housewife—a woman who dishes up kedgeree to her speechwriters at 4 a.m. and sternly tells a maid who tries to unpack Denis's weekend bag that such an intimate act is "a wife's job." In The Crown, as in real life, Thatcher wears her femininity and matriarchal identity like a flag: stiffly, patriotically, and to signal to her enemies that trouble is on the horizon.
For tabloid junkies and esteemed Windsorologists alike, the fourth season of The Crown is a major event. After spending 30 episodes sifting through events as somber as the Suez crisis and the Aberfan mine disaster, finally we get to the really juicy stuff: the troubled relationship between Thatcher and the Queen, the political turmoil in 1980s England, and, most crucial, the turbulent marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer. Diana, played with wan fragility by the newcomer Emma Corrin, threatens to overshadow the season, just as she upstaged the more homely royals during her lifetime. But Peter Morgan, who created The Crown and wrote or co-wrote all 10 new episodes, seems equally fascinated with Thatcher, and the way her relentless individualism collided with the Queen's well-worn sense of collective duty.
In The Crown, as in real life, Thatcher wears her femininity and matriarchal identity like a flag: stiffly, patriotically, and to signal to her enemies that trouble is on the horizon.
To watch The Crown alongside The Reagans, Showtime's new documentary series about America's own lustrous '80s-era dynasty, is to see four different models of female power colliding with history, and with one another. The Queen embodied privilege and notions of hierarchical responsibility that, in a decade defined by capitalist excess, were quickly becoming old hat. Thatcher was pure political power: an antifeminist committed to spreading the gospel of self-interest. Nancy Reagan, crowned the Iron Butterfly by her detractors, was the epitome of soft influence, whispering in her smiling husband's ear. And Diana, from whom nothing was expected but quiescence and children, became a model for seizing power as a populist. Marrying into a family that had long taken stoicism to the extreme, the "people's princess" demonstrated how potent public vulnerability could be.
A decade after her death in a car accident in 1997, Diana continued to divide Britons into two camps: those who saw her emotional transparency as vulgar and manipulative, and those who admired her for challenging the Victorian frigidity with which the House of Windsor had previously treated its own heirs. "The genuinely bizarre aspect of the all-consuming Dianamania that gripped Britain a decade ago this week is how slight a trace it has left behind," my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote in Slate in 2007, dissecting the idea propagated by columnists after Diana's death that she'd changed the monarchy—and the country—forever. But of the four 1980s women returning to the spotlight this month, Diana seemed to best predict what wielding power in the 21st century would look like, when ginning up perpetual chaos is easily accepted by an aggrieved populace that suddenly feels not only seen and heard, but cared for.
The Crown's Thatcher doesn't look like a radical: Played by Anderson, Morgan's partner, she's a late-'70s aesthetic horror show of hairspray, pussy-bow blouses, cobalt tailoring, and chin thrusts. The new prime minister is a steamroller in search of an uneven surface; less a traditional conservative than an extremist in Tory clothing, her desire, she explains, is to impose on her unwitting electorate "one of the boldest and most far-reaching programs of fiscal correction this country has ever known." As education secretary, she'd been nicknamed Maggie Thatcher the Milk Snatcher for cutting a program that gave free milk to middle-school students. Now leader of the country, she seems similarly inclined to wean it off welfare.
Yet she isn't exclusively unsympathetic, at least in her dramatized form. Morgan takes time to depict her as an underdog: She spends a long weekend with the Queen at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where a series of invisible tests sorts the upper-class wheat from the upwardly mobile chaff. Thatcher, a self-made workaholic, neglects to bring "outdoor shoes." "What are you doing?" Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) asks Thatcher, appalled, when she finds her working in a corner of the drawing room instead of accompanying the Queen outside. Thatcher begs Her Royal Highness's pardon. "Begging for anything is desperate," Margaret replies, witheringly. "Begging for pardon is common."
The Crown nods fleetingly to Thatcher's antifeminism—how she disdained women and girded herself against weakness even while insisting on maintaining her wifely standards. (No other prime minister, one imagines, has worn an apron while entertaining the heads of the armed forces.) But Morgan's portrait of Thatcher lacks the sexual dynamic that imbued many of her relationships with powerful men—one she used to full advantage. François Mitterrand once described her as having "the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe." Philip Larkin called her a "superb creature … right and beautiful." Anthony Burgess, writing for Vanity Fair, recalled being struck by the "powerful femininity" and "sexual aura" she exuded as a leader. "The masochist in all men," he wrote, "responds to the aggressive woman, and recognizes that her charm lies in the appearance of velvet and the reality of iron. Political power will never be sustained by the woman who is a frump." For a generation of Englishmen who were ignored by their mothers and raised by exceedingly stern nannies, Thatcher's scolding manner must have seemed reassuringly familiar. The satirical puppet show Spitting Image often portrayed her smacking members of her cabinet like schoolboys.
In the U.S., Nancy Reagan conjured a similar nostalgia, but one channeled in a different direction. The myth of Ronald and Nancy, Joan Didion once argued, was that the '60s had never happened. Men were swaggering and square-jawed and generously compensated for doing not much at all. Wives were doting and manicured and delicately clad in floral silk. In a scathing profile for The Saturday Evening Post titled "Pretty Nancy," Didion described the then–California governor's wife as having "the smile of a woman who seems to be playing out some middle-class American woman's daydream, circa 1948."
Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the 1950s in The Reagans
The Reagans argues that Nancy was the real power in the marriage, and the guiding force behind the couple's mythmaking. "She was like the studio head," the journalist Lesley Stahl tells the camera. "She was the consigliere." If Ronald Reagan was the sunny public face of the pair's power, Nancy was the force propelling them upward. The couple met, the series explains, when Nancy, a working actor, finagled a meeting with Ronald, a divorcé who was then president of the Screen Actors Guild, and quickly began taking care of him. Nancy could be pragmatic: Although she wanted to quit acting, she took a job on a low-budget B movie, Donovan's Brain, after their marriage in 1953, because the couple needed money.
Across the Atlantic, Thatcher was forging a path dedicated to downsizing government. But the force motivating the Reagans was much simpler. Nancy, who grew up poor before her thespian mother remarried a doctor, was anxious about money and fond of luxury. Both she and Reagan were actors accustomed to being tended to, who saw nothing particularly strange about others picking up the bills, whether it was General Electric outfitting their dream house in a "living advertisement for corporate America," as one talking head puts it, or Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet" of donors paying to refurbish the White House to Nancy's exacting standards. And if the Reagans managed to get rich, the theory went, nobody else had an excuse not to. "You can increase your own prosperity for the good of others" was Thatcher's pretzel logic. As The Reagans interprets it, Nancy's economic insecurity was a means through which wealthy donors could become benefactors, leaning on the president to cut taxes in the process.
In public, Nancy was an adoring and passive wife, known for the gaze she'd fix intently on her husband. "I agree with everything he said; I always do," she once told an interviewer. But behind the scenes, aides came to see the breadth of her power. She religiously consulted an astrologer for matters as trivial as scheduling and as significant as the compatibility of Ronnie and Mikhail Gorbachev. Her "Just Say No" antidrug campaign, the series suggests, was the epitome of Reaganite self-sufficiency extended into public policy, blind to shades of circumstance and obstinately stuck on the idea of individual choice. Late in the Reagan presidency, most people assumed that Nancy was influencing her increasingly fuzzy husband, who was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
History expects women to be moderating influences on men. It requires of women a capacity for care that it doesn't demand from male leaders. And it rarely favors women like Thatcher and Nancy Reagan, who appear to be interested above all in their own ability to thrive. The Crown never suggests that the forces motivating Princess Diana were entirely selfless and altruistic, but it conveys how attuned she could be to the public mood, and how deftly she was able to respond. In the fourth season, Diana Spencer arrives at Balmoral for what amounts to an audition before the Queen. Every test that Thatcher failed, Diana aces. As Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) recounts to his girlfriend, Camilla (Emerald Fennell), the performance garners her "rave reviews from the whole ghastly politburo." Diana is demure. She's discreet. Her weekend luggage contains nothing but outdoor shoes. Her entire life, she's been raised and trained for exactly this moment, a prize calf in a pie-frill collar and pearls.
Yet, as the third episode of The Crown's new season, "Fairytale," depicts in horror-story style, Diana's induction into the royal family slowly breaks her down. In the weeks leading up to her marriage to Prince Charles, when her newfound celebrity makes living in her Earls Court flat untenable, Diana is moved quietly into Buckingham Palace, and then abandoned. Her fiancé departs for several weeks and refuses to take her calls. The Queen ignores her entreaties for a meeting. Hundreds of letters and bouquets are brought to her room each day, a ghastly foreshadowing of the public outpouring of grief after her death, when many London florists ran out of stock. Left alone, Diana binges in the palace kitchens and purges in her room. She roller-skates through staterooms. At Charles's suggestion, she has lunch with Camilla Parker-Bowles, during which it becomes clear that not only is her husband still in love with another woman but Diana barely knows him at all.
The Crown conveys how attuned Princess Diana (Emma Corrin) could be to the public mood, and how deftly she was able to respond.
In the show, the Firm—as insiders call the royals—puts Diana through a hazing process intended to keep her pliable, dutiful, and in her place. But in depriving a woman barely out of her teens of company, activity, and affection, the Crown miscalculates. Diana becomes depressed, and develops an eating disorder. She also becomes more receptive to the adulation of strangers. Morgan depicts a just-engaged Diana walking to work at a preschool one morning surrounded by photographers, a ghost of a smile on her face. Later, while she's on a royal tour of Australia with her husband and baby son, crowds start gathering for a glimpse of a woman who unabashedly presents herself as a mother first and a princess second. In public, she chats and notices people's outfits and takes photos and smiles and smiles and smiles. "She's amazing," onlookers gush. "She's just like us."
If Diana's accessibility cemented her stardom, it also doomed her marriage. Noting that crowds sometimes audibly complained when Prince Charles walked down their side of the street, his wife on the other, the journalist Alex Witchel observed in 1992 that "princes don't like to be groaned at, especially Charles, who's spent his entire life being obscured by his mother, only to be upstaged by his wife." The more Diana connected with ordinary people and touted her bona fides as a hands-on mother, the more she showed up the royals for their stiff upper lip and starched repression. Nor was Diana's influence purely self-serving. The Crown recreates the moment in 1989 when the princess spontaneously hugged a child with AIDS in a Harlem hospital, dominating headlines and humanizing a crisis.
Although Nancy Reagan and Diana both understood the power of optics, Diana was able to harness empathy to devastating effect. Where the Queen presented herself as a serenely detached and almost divine mother to a nation, Diana intuited that what people wanted from their benign—if fundamentally undemocratic—sovereign was connection. Thatcher wielded power with such an oppressive hand that few complained when her own party deposed her. But the age of royals on Instagram, of celebrity presidents, of crying openly on camera, was something only Diana's peculiar fame anticipated.


The second annual First Responders Charity Dodgeball Tournament on Saturday night hosted by the Crown Point Volunteer Fire Department Inc., proved that March Madness is not the only current sports tournament. It was all smiles from the Heroes of the Region as they hurled rubber balls for a great cause.
The event brought together more than 200 first responders from the Region to support the Northwest Indiana Cancer Kids Foundations. The NICK Foundation provides financial and emotional support to families of children diagnosed with cancer. This year, the tournament included 32 adult teams (up from 26 last year) with 3 youth teams and the NICK Foundation has high hopes of topping their $10,000 total from last year.
The tournament was started last year by Dale Holsti and Mark Reed, both firefighters for the Crown Point Volunteer Fire Department. "We kind of forced ourselves to learn how to run a dodgeball tournament to raise money for NICK," joked Holsti. The City of Crown Point was happy to host the event alongside the volunteer fire department and other business sponsors, such as Oak Partners, Inc. The Sparta Dome donated the use of the facility.
The winners last year, the Throwbocops from the Hobart Police Department, attended again to defend their title. They accompanied just a few of the many kids that NICK has helped as the opening ceremony began.This year, they did just that and won again!
D'Andre Spears from the Throwbocops was proud to be back at the event supporting the cause. "It means a lot to be here. It's for the kids and everyone is having a great time," Spears said. "Honestly, it comes from the heart when you're out here playing dodgeball for the kids with cancer.
Of the 32 teams participating, three were composed of kids. The Drew Crew was the champion of the children's tournament.
The event also included a silent auction with sports memorabilia, jewelry, and many other donated items. A 50/50 raffle also made its way around the event. Kauffman Chiropractic offered free muscle screenings for those who may or may not have thrown the ball a little too hard.
Artificial Intelligence Driving the Future: Hold on!


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#import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h>
#import "CSRotationSensor.h"
#import "CSAccelerometerSensor.h"

@implementation CSRotationSensor

- (NSString*) name {return kCSSENSOR_ROTATION;}
- (NSString*) deviceType {return [self name];}
//TODO: check for availability
+ (BOOL) isAvailable {
	//rotation can only be calculated when there is a gyro
	CMMotionManager* motionManager = [[CMMotionManager alloc] init];
	BOOL available = motionManager.gyroAvailable;
	return available;
}

- (NSDictionary*) sensorDescription {
	//create description for data format. programmer: make SURE it matches the format used to send data
	NSDictionary* format = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
							//acceleration
							@"float", CSaccelerationXKey,
							@"float", CSaccelerationYKey,
							@"float", CSaccelerationZKey,
							nil];
	//make string, as per spec
    NSError* error = nil;
    NSData* jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:format options:0 error:&error];
	NSString* json = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

	return [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
			[self name], @"name",
			[self deviceType], @"device_type",
			@"", @"pager_type",
			@"json", @"data_type",
			json, @"data_structure",
			nil];
}

- (id) init {
	self = [super init];
	if (self) {
	}

	return self;
}

- (BOOL) isEnabled {return isEnabled;}

- (void) setIsEnabled:(BOOL) enable {
	NSLog(@"%@ %@ sensor (id=%@).", enable ? @"Enabling":@"Disabling", [self class], self.sensorId);
	isEnabled = enable;
}

- (void) dealloc {
	self.isEnabled = NO;
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
}

@end


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package org.foxbpm.engine.impl.util;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.image.PNGTranscoder;
import org.foxbpm.engine.exception.FoxBPMException;

/**
 * svg 转换操作工具类
 *
 * @author yangguangftlp
 * @date 2014年7月17日
 */
public class SVGConverterUtil {

	/** 实例 */
	private static SVGConverterUtil instance;

	private SVGConverterUtil() {
	}

	/**
	 * 获取实例
	 *
	 * @return 返回实例
	 */
	public static SVGConverterUtil getInstance() {
		if (null == instance) {
			synchronized (SVGConverterUtil.class) {
				if (null == instance) {
					instance = new SVGConverterUtil();
				}
			}
		}
		return instance;
	}

	/**
	 * 将svg转换成png svgCode参数不能为空
	 *
	 * @param svgCode
	 *            svg 内容
	 * @throws FoxBPMException
	 * @return 返回转换后的png 字节数据
	 */
	public byte[] convertToPng(String svgCode) {
		// 创建内存输入流
		ByteArrayInputStream in = null;
		// 创建内存输出流
		ByteArrayOutputStream out = null;
		try {
			if (StringUtil.isEmpty(svgCode)) {
				throw ExceptionUtil.getException("转换png内容为空");
			}
			PNGTranscoder transcoder = new PNGTranscoder();
			in = new ByteArrayInputStream(svgCode.getBytes("utf-8"));
			out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
			transcoder.transcode(new TranscoderInput(in), new TranscoderOutput(out));
			out.flush();
			return out.toByteArray();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw ExceptionUtil.getException("png转换失败",e);
		} finally {
			if (null != in) {
				try {
					in.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw ExceptionUtil.getException("png输入流关闭失败",e);
				}
			}
			if (null != out) {
				try {
					out.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
					throw ExceptionUtil.getException("png输出流关闭失败",e);
				}
			}
		}
	}
}


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June 1, 2009 by anotherworldcitizen
Magnolia — Overcoming the Sins of the Father
Magnolia, 1999
Starring Tom Cruise, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Philip Baker Hall, and Alfred Molina.
Synopsis (from IMDB):
24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize men about to die: both are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad. Earl Partridge's son is a charismatic misogynist; Jimmy Gator's daughter is a cokehead and waif. A mild and caring nurse intercedes for Earl, reaching the son; a prayerful and upright beat cop meets the daughter, is attracted to her, and leads her toward a new calm. Meanwhile, guilt consumes Earl's young wife, while two whiz kids, one grown and a loser and the other young and pressured, face their situations. The weather, too, is quirky. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}
This film is dark, and sad, and clever. Through out it one of the themes I picked up on was how "sins of the father" affect the children. Various characters suffered abuse, abandonment, and molestation at the hands of their fathers leaving them angry, depressed, and struggling. The film even quoted scripture regarding it.
"And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God" 1 Kings 15:3
I remember watching this film when it first came out and really hating it. I realize now that what I disliked was the tragedy caused by the actions of the fathers in this film. The film reveals how much pain and suffering there is, and how so much of it we put onto each other. Frank T.J. Mackey, abandoned by his father, and left to take care of his dying mother, rewrote his own history. Ironically, he became a misogynist and used women just as badly if not worse than his father did. Jimmy Gator left his daughter a neurotic, self-loathing, drug abuser by the worst sin of a father, sexual molestation.
"If love and agreement are manifest in a single family, that family will advance, become illumined and spiritual; but if enmity and hatred exist within it destruction and dispersal are inevitable" ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá
We see evidence in this film of family disunity and how destructive it can be. Often the rift starts between the married party and then effect the children. Several characters had committed infidelity. In one scene Linda Partridge (Julianne Moore) broke down in tears lamenting how she did not love her husband when she married him, and just wanted his money, and so she had constantly been unfaithful. Now that they had been together for a while, and he was dying she realized she truly did love him and because of that could not possibly take a cent from the will. The lawyer told her that adultery was not illegal. That did not comfort her because either way it was wrong.
"Every other word of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Writings is a preachment on moral and ethical conduct; all else is the form, the chalice, into which the pure spirit must be poured; without the spirit and the action which must demonstrate it, it is a lifeless form. When we realize that Bahá'u'lláh says adultery retards the progress of the soul in the after life – so grievous is it – and that drinking destroys the mind, and not to so much as approach it, we see how clear are our teachings on these subjects." ~ From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi.
I think this scene was an incredibly potent one and points to how often the people who suffer most by committing a wrong against someone is not the victim but the perpetrator. God has given us spiritual guidance, whether it be the 10 commandments, or the Laws of Bahá'u'lláh, or the Middle Path of Buddhism, that is meant to protect us from ourselves. These laws actually free us from the pain we would suffer by not following them. This film shows that pain, whether it is through drug use, sexual impropriety, or not being a good parent.
It also shows how important honesty and truthfulness are. Many characters were both not honest with themselves or with others, but despite trying they could not hide from the truth for long. While most of the film was dark and forlorn, there was a glimmer of hope in two story lines, one of which touched upon the importance of kindness and the other of truth.
Stanley, a quiz kid genius has had a lot of pressure to deal with. While it is not explicitly stated, he lives in a single parent household with his father. His father is often on his case, and picks him up from school late. He brings him to the game show and is more excited about the prospect of Stanley winning a lot of money, than for his actual wellbeing. Stanley is a good kid. He is under a lot of pressure, and because he arrived late to the studio was not able to go to the bathroom before the show started. He is on a role answering every question, until his bladder fails him. Mortified he sits like a statue and no longer participates. He realized that everyone was really just using him. The show for ratings, his father for the potential payout, and he is left forlorn. It is hard to see a child experience disillusionment, but in the end Stanley stands up for himself telling his father that he has to be nicer to him. Stanley has the potential not to fall in the same trap Quiz Kid Donnie Smith (William H. Macy) did, and for this there is hope.
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." ~Mark Twain
The other hopeful story consists of an unlikely match. Officer Jim Kurring (John C. Reilly) and Claudia Partridge (Melora Walters) met through a disturbance call. He was a cop and she a drug-addled victim of abuse. She spent the beginning trying to hide the fact of her drug use from him. However, the cop liked her anyway and asked her on a date. He was a Christian and prayed to God regarding meeting this woman. In fact, they showed him in prayer more than once, and he was the only character in the film portrayed with any faith.
As they went on their date the woman asked if he ever lied on dates, because he was afraid the other person would not like the truth. Or even if he hadn't lied, maybe left important things out. He said that was natural, and tried to waylay her fears. She then said they shouldn't do that. They should be honest and tell their secrets.
"Truthfulness is the foundation of all the virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all of the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá
She clearly was trying to get up the courage to admit her addictions and seek help. She told him she thought he would hate her, because he was so together, and such a good person, and she was not. He then comforted her by admitting that he had lost his gun that day and was now the laughing stock of the entire police force. He too made mistakes. She then kissed him and ran off, chickening out. At the end of the film though, there is another scene with them together, and the cop is talking about how people have great capacity to forgive and to help each other through times of trouble, and she smiles.
She was onto something about honesty and he was onto something about help and forgiveness, and trying not to be judgmental. It is through these two characters, and the healing power of faith and listening to divine guidance that this film has a sliver of hope to it.
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December 13, 2008 by anotherworldcitizen
Dolores Claiborne — Prejudice, Justice, Truth, and Forgiveness
Dolores Claiborne, 1995
Starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly, and Judy Parfit.
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly woman's murder, Dolores' daughter Selena returns from New York, where she has become a big-shot reporter. In the course of working out the details of what has happened, as well as some shady questions from the past and Selina's troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their family's domestic strife. This is cleverly portrayed with present reality shot in cool blue tones blending seamlessly into flashbacks shot in vivid color. As small town justice relentlessly grinds forward, surprises lie in store for the viewers
My Thoughts (SPOILERS!!):
I had seen this movie when it first came out years ago, but just recently caught it again on HBO. Since that time I have doubled in age and gained some perspective. See this movie, if you haven't, because it's really quite good. Stephen King wrote the part with Kathy Bates in mind after her stunning performance in Misery (1990).
This film challenges our perceptions and our thoughts of what justice is. It opens on an event that we can only hear but not fully see. Two women are arguing and then we see one fall down the stairs (we'll discover later to be Vera), before the other soon runs after her (Dolores). She proceeds to run frantically to the kitchen in search of a weapon only to return with a rolling pin held high above her head. But she can't do it, she stands there mustering the strength, the will, but can't do it. Vera (Judy Parfit) passes on, and the door is opened by the mailman who spots Dolores (Kathy Bates).
This is the inciting incident, the incident that begins the inquest, the incident that colors our perception of who Dolores is and what she's done, and the incident that drags Dolores' daughter Selena (Jennifer Jason Leigh) back to Maine from New York City after 15 years away.
But is it the truth? Was it a crime?
Through out the film we will eventually find the answers to these questions, or at least a broader perspective in which to come to our own conclusions, but not before finding out a lot more about Dolores Claiborne and Selena St. George. And no, the name difference is not arbitrary, it is representative of the conflict between them that has kept them apart for so long.
"Is it possible for one member of a family to be subjected to the utmost misery and to abject poverty and for the rest of the family to be comfortable? It is impossible unless those members of the family be senseless, atrophied, inhospitable, unkind." ~'Abdu'l-Bahá
Nearly two decades before Dolores was involved in another incident, which was ruled an accident, though the chief investigator (Christopher Plummer) was sure was murder: the death of her husband (David Strathairn). Dolores husband was no prince. He was an abusive drunk. Selena, however, does not remember him that way. She remembers the good, and only that Dolores was somehow involved in his death and therefore responsible for destroying the family. Since then Selena has had a nervous breakdown and is on several medications, none of which seem to be keeping her fully stable.
But is this the truth? Was it Dolores who destroyed the family?
"In order to find truth we must give up our prejudices, our own small trivial notions; an open receptive mind is essential. If our chalice is full of self, there is no room in it for the water of life. The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity, and unity is essential if we would reach Truth, for Truth is one." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá
Dolores had worked hard for Vera Donovan for a long long time. She started at $40 a week and eventually was making $80 a week as a live-in maid/nurse. Yes, a whole whopping $0.20 an hour. It was hard labor and Vera was a demanding boss, so why did Dolores stay? Initially to make money to pay for Selena to go to college. Over time she had saved over $3,000.
She put up with Joe's abuse for a while, but soon it became too much and she fought back. Joe had been sneaky though, never abusing her in front of Selena, but Dolores, defensive not sly, was caught by Selena having hit back, Joe's face bloody. Selena, having only seen the end of the fight, thought Dolores was crazy, much like how the mailman must have in the first scene we saw.
Dolores became more crazy when Selena's grades started dropping and she was getting moody and depressed. Selena was going through puberty and there must have been a boy involved. Except it wasn't a boy, it was a man, it was Joe.
Dolores went straight to the bank to get the money she'd been saving so that she could take Selena and leave. Except the money was gone. Turns out Joe had found out about it and because it was a custodial account and he was the other parent, was able to access it.
Dolores: It's because I'm a woman ain't it? If it had been the other way around, if I had been the one passing out the ferry story, how I'd lost a passbook and asked for a new one… if I had been the one drawing out what took 11 years to put in… you would've called Joe.
This scene is indicative of the sexism in society, back then and now, just as the domestic abuse was and continues to be a problem not just in America but world wide.
"And among the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh is the equality of women and men. The world of humanity has two wings—one is women and the other men. Not until both wings are equally developed can the bird fly. Should one wing remain weak, flight is impossible." ~ Abdu'l-Bahá
It is in this context, broken and alone, fearing the safety of her daughter and without the means to protect her, that Dolores falls apart in Vera's living room. It is the first time her guard is let down in the entire movie and her vulnerability is exposed. It also is when her shift in personality from well-behaved and hard working, to bitchy and bitter takes shape. Vera councils her:
Vera Donovan: Husbands die every day, Dolores. Why… one is probably dying right now while you're sitting here weeping. They die… and leave their wives their money. I should know, shouldn't I? Sometimes they're driving home from their mistress' aparment and their brakes suddenly fail.
Vera Donovan: It's a depressingly masculine world, Dolores.
Vera Donovan: Sometimes you have to be a high-riding bitch to survive. Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.
So we see how Dolores could be driven to do what she did to her husband, but what exactly did she do? She supplied him with alcohol, but he was the one who chose to get drunk. She provoked him, but he was the one that chose violence. She led him to where the abandoned well was, but he fell in, she didn't push him. She did choose not to help him out though.
Is it a crime to choose not to save someones life? We see reporters do it all the time when they film atrocities but do not get involved, but this is not the same as that. Is it the same as murder? Is leading someone to their death knowing it the same as killing someone?
Maybe this is why Dolores stayed so long in that awful job afterwards. She committed this deed to protect her daughter who only then despised her for it. In fact Selena had repressed the memory of her father's sexual abuse so she also could not fathom what drove her mother to commit that act, an act nobody even had proof of but merely conjecture. There were no witnesses to her father's death and he was a known drunk so it logically could've been an accident.
Also, Vera understoon Dolores and her problems the way nobody else had. This is also why it becomes clear that Dolores would not have murdered her, despite the $1.6 Million she stood to inherit. In the end we see that it was Vera who had thrown herself down the stairs.
Dolores Claiborne: [sobbing] Why? Why'd you do this, Vera?
Vera Donovan: Because I hate the smell of being old.
Vera then asked Dolores to help her, which spawned the frantic search for the rolling pin, but in the end Dolores couldn't. There is a difference between passively setting up a scenario which could lead to a persons death and actively killing someone after all. And we are reminded that this is how the movie began, and this is the case the detective is prosecuting, not Joe St. George's death 18 years prior:
Selena St. George: Eighteen years ago, my father drank a bottle of scotch and fell down a well. Detective Mackey didn't think it was an accident, which is… why we're here today.
Det. John Mackey: And what do you think, Selena?
Selena St. George: I think I owe you an apology. I called you a son of a *****. You said you thought we were a lot alike, and you were right. We both spent the past 18 years prosecuting this woman. We came out here- I know I did- believing she was guilty. We forgot this case is about Vera Donovan. Not my father.
Det. John Mackey: And what if it wasn't an accident?
Det. John Mackey: Look. It's been 18 years. I don't know what this has done to you, but let me tell you, it's consumed me. I have lived with this every day of my life. Every day. I was wrong and I won't do it any more. And if I can say that, my God, can't you?
Selena came to terms with what had happened, both to her and her father. She was able to finally forgive her mother because she could understand the motivation. As for the current death, she knew her mother would not have been capable.
"Divine civilization, however, so traineth every member of society that no one, with the exception of a negligible few, will undertake to commit a crime. There is thus a great difference between the prevention of crime through measures that are violent and retaliatory, and so training the people, and enlightening them, and spiritualizing them, that without any fear of punishment or vengeance to come, they will shun all criminal acts. They will, indeed, look upon the very commission of a crime as a great disgrace and in itself the harshest of punishments." ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá
I feel like for Dolores this was the case. She did not want to do what she did, and she knew it was wrong, and it consumed not only her but her daughter for these 18 years. She punished herself through her bitterness and isolation. She serves as a warning that even crime committed for the most desperate and understandable of reasons is polluting to the spirit and soul. Maybe now with new found understanding between daughter and mother she can be forgiven and redeemed.
"O Lord! Have pity on these ignorant ones, and look upon them with the eye of forgiveness and pardon. Extinguish this fire, so that these dense clouds which obscure the horizon may be scattered, the Sun of Reality shine forth with the rays of conciliation, this intense gloom be dispelled and the resplendent light of peace shed its radiance upon all countries."
I find Dolores Claiborne to be an intriguing film that challenges us a lot. Dolores was treated with injustice and acted in desparation and I think that a lot of crime happens for this reason. What does this mean for our society? We must seek justice. Women need to be treated fairly. Children need to be protected. Joe St. George was a criminal who may never have been brought to justice, and while Dolores should not have taken the law into her own hands it is understandable as to how that impulse would arise.
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1. Apple disables Walkie Talkie app due to vulnerability that could allow iPhone eavesdropping
The Walkie Talkie app on Apple Watch allows two users who have accepted an invite from each other to receive audio chats via a "push to talk" interface reminiscent of the PTT buttons on older cell phones.
Apple has apologized for the bug and for the inconvenience of being unable to use the feature while a fix is made.
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The company's stated goal is to "upskill" 100,000 of its U.S. employees for more in-demand jobs by 2025. That's one in three of Amazon's U.S. workers.
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The New York-based insurance giant disclosed the actions in its quarterly report, filed Aug. 3.
The moves might signal a shift in focus by the regulators to how firms pay brokers and agents, said one industry lawyer who has recently had conversations with state securities regulators about the issue.
The lawyer, who asked not to be identified, said the recent $7.4 million settlement of American Express Financial Advisors Inc. of Minneapolis with the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation in Concord has galvanized state regulators on the topic. That case may be dissimilar from the one involving MetLife in that the latter is likely to involve institutional sales.
e-mails pressuring reps with Minneapolis-based American Express Financial Advisors (now Ameriprise Financial) to sell proprietary funds, according to the lawyer.
"State regulators nationally have looked at the American Express settlement and are looking further at other firms and other issues," the lawyer said.
Of course, state regulators have been looking at issues such as incentives for brokers for years, stretching back to compensation for selling penny stocks back in the 1980s, industry observers said. The American Express Co. unit's settlement with New Hampshire is one of many cases involving the sale of mutual funds.
Referring to the North American Securities Administrators Association of Washington, the lawyer said: "NASAA is looking at the sale of proprietary products. Is it inappropriate?"
Rex A. Staples, general counsel of the organization for state and provincial securities regulators, did not return phone calls to comment.
NASD of Washington has not yet turned its full attention to that question, focusing more closely on issues such as sales contests, the lawyer said.
According to the lawyer, the question on state securities regulators' minds is: Does additional discovery need to be made? The local regulators are "using the New Hampshire settlement as a road map," the lawyer said.
A big concern to the states is whether firms are intimidating their sales forces to sell proprietary products, the lawyer said.
The Florida Department of Financial Services' Office of Insurance Regulation in Tallahassee has served MetLife with a subpoena for documents "concerning topics that include compensation paid to intermediaries," according to the MetLife filing with the SEC. The subpoena from the Florida attorney general's office was for copies of those documents, the filing states.
Oklahoma's insurance commissioner, meanwhile, is looking for "documents and information concerning the compensation of insurance producers for insurance covering Oklahoma entities and persons," according to MetLife's report.
MetLife has received similar subpoenas from the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The company is cooperating with all requests, it said in the report, and is "continuing to conduct an internal review of its commission payment practices."
The new subpoenas follow New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer's investigation into the insurance brokerage business. John Calagna, a MetLife spokesman, said that while he could not comment on the specifics of each subpoena, they did not usually involve retail brokers or advisers.
Still, at this stage, determining the specific type of salesperson targeted by the regulators is difficult.
For example, JoAnn Carrin, a spokeswoman for the Florida attorney general's office, said the term "intermediaries" includes, but is not limited to, wholesalers, consultants, brokers and agents.
Jessica Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma insurance commissioner's office, said that in the MetLife inquiry, the state investigation's impact on residents was potentially very small. "Not that many Oklahomans" may have been affected, she said, with the case focusing - as did Mr. Spitzer's probes of New York-based Marsh McLennan Cos. Inc. and others - on potential bid rigging by insurance producers.


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Mark opens with the words, 'The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ' (Mk 1:1 ). A modern reader would unhesitatingly see the writing that follows as the gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact the concept of 'gospel' is not without its problems. We shall begin with the name 'gospel' before going on to examine the use of the term.
The English word 'gospel' (originally 'godspell' or 'good tidings') is the translation of the Greek euaggelion, but it is not obvious that the writers of the four documents applied this term to their writings. Luke at any rate never uses the noun (except in Acts), though he frequently uses the corresponding verb for the activity of spreading the good news (e.g. 1:19; 4:18 ). He seems to consider his work rather in terms of a narrative (diēgēsis) or an orderly account ( 1:1–3 ). Both noun and verb are used frequently by Paul, who may rely on one or both of two backgrounds. In the religious cult of the emperors the term was used of a piece of imperial good news of salvation, such as a victory or the birth of an heir, which was flashed round the empire, and to which the various provinces, city-states, and other political units were expected to respond with congratulatory gifts. The elements of novelty, salvation, joy, and response, as well as the religious connotations, would have made the term a suitable one for Paul to use for 'my gospel' (Rom 16:25; Gal 1:11 ). Paul may also, however, be drawing on the use of the word in Isa 61:1 , 'the Lord has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted'. This usage may go back to the proclamation of Jesus himself; it certainly occurs on his lips in Mt 11:5 and Lk 4:18 (see Stuhlmacher 1983 ).
Neither Luke nor John uses the noun, and when it began to be used as a title of the four writings is disputed. Koester (1989: 380) holds that the term was 'always and everywhere understood as the proclamation of the saving message about Christ or the coming of the kingdom' until Marcion in the mid-second century applied it to the written works. In his six usages apart from the heading, Mark certainly uses the term for the proclamation of the saving message, so that in his first verse also it is reasonable to take it in this sense rather than as 'The beginning of the written record' (see MK 1:1–13 ). In Matthew the word is used twice for Jesus' own proclamation of the kingdom ( 4:23; 9:35 ) and twice with the addition of 'this gospel' ( 24:14; 26:13 ); in the former case the whole gospel message seems to be meant, and in the latter Matthew may possibly intend to restrict Mark's meaning to the particular incident of the gospel message, the anointing at Bethany. Stanton (1992a ), on the other hand, argues persuasively that usages of the term as early as the Didache, 8:2; 11:3; 15:3–4 , seem to refer to our written gospel texts, and argues further that as soon as more than one of them existed they must have been known as something!
Finally it is important to realize that none of the four gospels originally included an attribution to an author. All were anonymous, and it is only from the fragmentary and enigmatic and—according to Eusebius, from whom we derive the quotation—unreliable evidence of Papias in 120/130 CE that we can begin to piece together any external evidence about the names of their authors and their compilers. This evidence is so difficult to interpret that most modern scholars form their opinions from the content of the gospels themselves, and only then appeal selectively to the external evidence for confirmation of their findings.
As recently as 1970 the type of writing now called 'gospel' was considered to be without parallel in the ancient world. Norman Perrin (1970–1 :4) could write assertively that it was 'the unique literary creation of early Christianity. This is a statement I would make with confidence… If we are to come to terms with this genre we must concentrate our attention upon the Gospel of Mark'. Perrin sees a gospel as being a narrative of an event from the past, in which interest and concerns of the past, present, and future have flowed together, since the events of Jesus' ministry are interpreted in the light of the writer's own time and of things expected of Jesus' future coming.
In 1987 Christopher Tuckett could, with misgivings, still give as the majority opinion the view that there was no close parallel to the genre of the gospels. In the last decade, however, it has become clear that the literary genre of 'gospel' can no longer be considered as completely unique. To enable a reader or listener to understand a document it must be possible to a certain extent to categorize it into a known type. Tuckett (1987: 75) wittily gives the example of 'Vicar gives directions to Queen? Just the opposite', to be understood as a newspaper headline or as a crossword puzzle clue for REV-ER-SE. The features of a particular genre of literature form a conventional set of expectations, a sort of implied contract with the reader that enables the reader to categorize the document. The expectations are not necessarily always identical in all respects with what the reader finds, but at least provide a family resemblance. Burridge (1992 ) has shown that the gospels fall within the varied and well-attested Graeco-Roman concept of biography. Of this genre there are many subdivisions, inevitably including cross-border borrowing with other genres, such as political propaganda, encomium, moralistic encouragement, and travelogue. Even religious biographies in the broad sense were not unknown. The respectful atmosphere found in the gospels, 'tinged with praise and worship' (ibid. 211) occurs also in such works as Tacitus' Agricola and Philo's De vita Mosis. What is, however, unique to the gospels, and constitutes them as an unprecedented subgroup, is the importance and salvific claim of their message, expressed most clearly by Jn 20:31 , 'these things are written that you may believe… and that believing you may have life'. It is not, then, an unprecedented type of writing, so much as the conviction of the writers that their subject and message had the power to change the world for those who accepted them, that is unique. But this does not exclude the gospels from the broad category of Graeco-Roman biography.
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If you use a contract factory in China to produce your goods, don't be surprised if high-quality fakes pop up online. That's the feeling of Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, who stands accused of effectively endorsing counterfeit goods while speaking at an investor event. The Wall Street Journal quotes the executive as saying that "the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names." It's a big issue for Alibaba, since its consumer-facing retail portals have something of a reputation for being the place to go when you want a knock-off device.
The paper explains that Alibaba has been under pressure to do something about its piracy problem for a while. An anti-counterfeiting group attempted to include Alibaba amongst its membership, prompting luxury brands like Tiffany, Michael Kors and Gucci America to kick up a stink. The company even received censure from China's industry regulator, which said that (retail portal) Taobao has "paid insufficient attention to the illegal business activities on Alibaba platforms." The company derided the claim, saying that the report was "biased" and "malicious," causing "serious damage" to Chinese businesses that operate online.
We've previously reported on the prevalence of Chinese companies that produce knock-off goods, especially in the technology space. Ma is, at least, correct that pirated devices are often made in the same factories and on the same lines, that the real gear uses. For instance, a third-party facility might have a contract to produce 30,000 sets of high-end headphones or microSD cards. But once the run is complete, it could be possible to rush out a further 10,000 with leftover parts and some cunning alterations to the name -- Boots by Drew or SpanDisc.
At the same event, Ma said that Alibaba isn't the villain here, describing his company as the "leading fighter of the counterfeits." He added that "every fake product we sell, we are losing five customers," but conceded that it was "human instinct" for people to look for cheaper products. Which means that the folks patrolling our borders for Fakebits and Fauxheisers won't get any downtime in the near future.
Update: This story has been corrected to reflect that Jack Ma is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, but is no longer acting CEO.
Source: WSJ
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by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Posted on 10/27/2008 by Augie De Blieck Jr.
Even when I'm out of time to write stuff for this blog, I'm still on Twitter. Follow me there, or wait for these sporadic compilations:
How to eat like a dad: quickly.
Passed by the stacks of Guitar Hero III at Best Buy today and wept a little. I wanna play! (This was Thursday; They were pre-order boxes, I guess.)
@JAFlanagan – Crap. "Jessie's Girl" as a $2 download for Guitar Hero? I need to find time to play this and buy this. Thanks!
I miss the good ol' crazy days of Amazon when a pre-ordered DVD would often arrive a day before its street date.
Just emptied the trash on my desktop and LOST hard drive space. Hunh?!?
Someone needs to take Cringely by the shoulders, shake vigorously, and assure him that Apple isn't a giant conspiracy against him.
Cringely still thinks Apple is holding out on him, that the latest announcements still hide Some Big Surprise. http://tinyurl.com/5axqwc
How has Jerry Yang not been sued by Yahoo stockholders for every penny he's worth yet? Yahoo has been an utter disaster this year.
Dammit, one of these lottery tickets has to come through for me eventually, right? I want OUT of the rat race.
From all the podcasts I listen to, I appear to be the only podcaster on the planet whose never had major Skype problems.
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Tom Galloway on 10/27/2008 at 5:44 am said:
Re: Yang and Yahoo. Well, other than taking Microsoft up on its offer pre-entire stock market crash, it's not clear to me what someone could do that'd be much better than Yang.
Occurred to me the thing about Yahoo right now is to ask the question "What could Yahoo be in five years?. They've basically lost to Google for the most part, and the trends are against them. What have they got that, in five years, they could be the leader in (and whatever it is has to be a substantial revenue generator, not just best of breed thing that brings in a few tens of millions)?
Augie De Blieck Jr. on 10/27/2008 at 6:06 am said:
Good point, Tom. The other thing that occurs to me now that I think about it, is that even if Yahoo had agreed to the deal earlier in the year, who's to say it would have gone through, anyway? The way the economy has been this year, who's to say Microsoft wouldn't have backed out during whatever period there would have been between buyout acceptance and actual merger?


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Q: Android studio layout editor not working I was following this guide on how to make a rounded button. work totally fine but somehow my layout editor stop working after I added the file. I can normally edit using the normal text but I cant drag around things in the editor.  I tried to restart android studio and things work fine again. But once I open the rounded button xml file in the drawable, the editor stop working again.
Any idea how to fix this problem?

A: I just invalidated and restarted the cache and it worked.

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