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Q: Thread-safe way to keep track of what gridview row is active I have a page with a gridview containing some stuff loaded from a text file. I have made it possible to edit specific rows in the Gridview. Once a user clicks a button next to the row, a webusercontrol UC:Edit becomes visible and the user can edit the row-item.
My problem starts when I wish to save the edit to both the gridview and the txt-file.
I have to keep track of which row was edited (I dont have any unique IDs and ALL columns can be altered).
The code below shows my current sollution (I'm not sure it's good though). As of now, I save the rowIndex once an edit-button is pressed and pass it to my WebUserControl. There it's saved as a private static int (Had to be static, otherwise it was allways default).
The sollution has to be thread-safe. Does anyone have a better sollution than mine? And also, is my sollution thread-safe?

(alot of variable names have been changed to make it more readable)
ASP
<asp:GridView ID="gvList" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="false"
OnRowCommand="gvList_RowCommand">
<!-- gridviewstuff -->
</asp:GridView>
<UC:Edit id="ctlEdit" runat="server" OnSave="ctlEdit_Save" Visible="false" />

CodeBehind
protected void gvList_RowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e)
{
    if(e.CommandName == "wEdit")
    {
        int rowIndex = -1;
        for (int i = 0; i < gvList.Rows.Count; i++)
        {
            if(gvList.Rows[i].Cells[2].Text == (string)e.CommandArgument)
            {
                rowIndex = i;
            }
        }
        try
        {
            if(rowIndex != -1)
            {
                ctlEdit.LoadEdit(/*Some info as a string*/, rowIndex);
            }
            else
            //The rest is irrelevant.
        }
    }
}
protected void ctlEdit_Save(object sender, myNamespace.ControlNamespace.WorkEndedEventArgs e)
{
    List<string> lines = new List<string>();
    //Reading a full text file. Each string in 'lines' contains one row.

    if(e.rowIndex != -1)
    {
        lines[e.rowIndex] = e.workItem;
    }
    //Override the text file with the new list.
}

Edit.ascx.cs
namespace myNamespace.ControlNamespace
{
    public class WorkEndedEventArgs : EventArgs
    {
        public int rowIndex { get; set; }
        public string workItem { get; set; }
    }

    public partial class Edit : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
        private static int _rowIndex;
        /*stuff*/
        public void LoadEdit(string someinput, int rowIndex)
        {
            _rowIndex = rowIndex;
            /*stuff*/
        }

        /*stuff*/
        protected void btnSave_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            /*stuff*/
            OnSave(new WorkEndedEventArgs() { workItem = someString, rowIndex = _rowIndex });
        }
        //The rest of the save-things are done as usual (delegates and stuff).
    }
}

A: You shouldn't use the static variable because it is ''visible'' within whole application and  it can be changed when any other user will enter the same web page (see also this question). What you are looking for is how to persist data between ASP.NET postbacks (you can also google for ASP.NET State Management). There are many ways to do so for example: Session, ViewState etc. They are described in many places so I'll not repeat the description here. For example see this article.

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I watched "The Incredibles" on dvd a few nights back. Seemed like everybody, and all the reviews, and articles both printed and on-line, raved about how hilarious it was. Personally, I found it only mildly amusing in parts, with one or two good laughs. Visually it looked cool, but, was it really all that great? So Edna was based on Hollywood costume designer Edith Head? I'm supposed to be impressed by this heavy-handed caricature? Did you notice Edna's house up there on the hill was based on Mies Van de Rohe's Glass House?
Most significantly: they "borrowed" their robot monster design from an old "Jonny Quest" episode. That wasn't a "based on" or "inspired by" thing. That was a rip off. If I were Hannah-Barbera, I'd be looking for remuneration on that one.
Mostly, though, it was just disappointing because it wasn't nearly as funny as everybody says it was. Two or three laughs do not a funny movie make. People set their sights so low these days.


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Q: a few good men english question Sorry, what does "Would it be so that it never sees the inside of a courtroom" in this context? I don't understand what it means. Please tell me. thank you.
-- excerpt from the movie --
  Why does a junior grade with six
                         months experience and a track record
                         for plea bargaining get assigned a
                         murder case?
                              (beat)
                         Would it be so that it never sees
                         the inside of a courtroom?

A:
Would it be so that it never sees the inside of a courtroom

could be said, in more words:

Would it be so the case is never brought to trial , but settled before the trial?

The writers of this motion picture script seem to be assuming that most viewers will understand that a defendant may negotiate by offering a guilty plea in return for less severe punishment,  prior to trial.
Such an arrangement is often referred to as "plea bargaining"  Wikipedia


School volunteers may be parents/guardians, community members, senior citizens or upper grade students whose participation supports a PTA or school program, activity or event.
How much time and commitment is involved depends on a volunteer's availability. And, it can range from one time only assignments to monthly, weekly or daily volunteer activities to meet the goals, needs and priorities of a PTA or school to help ensure student success.
Preparation – Find out more about what volunteer opportunities are offered on campus by checking PTA and school newsletters, websites and social media. Sign up for volunteer assignments that fit well with your interests, availability and skill sets.
Attend Training – Learn more about your role and school policies related to volunteers and parent involvement by attending a volunteer orientation meeting organized by the PTA Volunteer Coordinator at your school.
Before a volunteer assignment – Add the day and time of your volunteer assignment to your calendar. If you are unable to participate as planned, remember to contact the organizer in good time so that another volunteer can be recruited.
Plan to arrive early for your assignment so you can sign in at the school office before heading to the activity or event.
During a volunteer assignment – Take time to review what the volunteer job entails with the organizer and ask questions to clarify the assignment including who does what, how breaks are handled and what is expected. To ensure the success of larger events, be prepared to be flexible and assist where needed.
After a volunteer assignment – Provide feedback on the volunteer survey so that organizers can tweak the program, activity or event to make it even better. Attend the volunteer recognition event and sign up for other volunteer opportunities to stay connected at your school to support student success.


Forget about Disney World — he just wanted to be closer to his dad...literally!
Soon after Kellan Tilton's birth, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor on his spine and in his abdomen. So they started chemotherapy on the 2-day-old, which made him cancer-free, but the tumor left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Fast forward three years and now Kellan is happy, bubbly little boy despite his circumstances. At only 18 months, he was driving a wheelchair "better than anybody can drive a car now," his dad said. But there are still things the 3-year-old wishes he could do.
So when Kellan was approached by Make-A-Wish foundation this spring, he didn't want a vacation to Disney World or a celebrity encounter. He just asked for the ability to spend time with his dad in his own backyard. "He could have taken a trip anywhere," Make-A-Wish Marketing Director Sonya Purington told CBS News."For him, what was most important was to be able to go outside and — as he said — 'wheel myself from my house down to the barn.'"
Currently, he can't join his father, Karl Tilton, when he works in the barn on their property, or play with his seven siblings when they roam the grass. To fix that, the nonprofit is paving a walkway through their Detroit, Maine, yard. "I have to carry him," Tilton told the network. "Now he has freedom — he has this gorgeous path from the house."
Ten workers from local companies have volunteered to build the 200-foot walkway — and they plan to reveal the finished project this Sunday. "He's been buzzing up and down that path all week long," Tilton said of his son. "Every morning and every night, it's the first thing he wants to do when he wakes up and last thing he wants to do before he goes to bed."


Query expressions are used in ArcGIS to select a subset of features and table records. Query expressions in ArcGIS adhere to standard SQL expressions. For example, you use this syntax using the Select By Attributes tool or with the Query Builder dialog box to set a layer definition query.
This topic describes how to build basic WHERE clause expressions and is useful if you are just getting started with SQL. For a more detailed reference, see SQL reference for query expressions used in ArcGIS.
SELECT * FROM forms the first part of the SQL expression and is automatically supplied for you.
Query expressions use the general form that follows a Select * From <Layer or dataset> Where clause (for example, the part of the SQL expression that comes after SELECT * FROM <Layer_name> WHERE).
Optionally, parentheses () can be used for defining the order of operations in compound queries.
Because you are selecting columns as a whole, you cannot restrict the SELECT to return only some of the columns in the corresponding table because the SELECT * syntax is hard-coded. For this reason, keywords, such as DISTINCT, ORDER BY, and GROUP BY, cannot be used in an SQL query in ArcGIS except when using subqueries. See SQL reference for query expressions used in ArcGIS for information on subqueries.
This would select the features containing "Alabama" in a field named STATE_NAME.
The SQL syntax you use differs depending on the data source. Each DBMS has its own SQL dialect.
To query file-based data, including file geodatabases, coverages, shapefiles, INFO tables, dBASE tables, and CAD and VPF data, you use the ArcGIS SQL dialect that supports a subset of SQL capabilities. To query personal geodatabases, you use the Microsoft Access syntax. To query an ArcSDE geodatabase, you use the SQL syntax of the underlying DBMS (that is, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, or PostgreSQL).
ArcGIS dialog boxes in which you create SQL WHERE clauses will help you use the correct syntax for the database you're querying. They list the proper field names and values with the appropriate delimiters. They also select the relevant SQL keywords and operators for you.
Strings in expressions are case sensitive except when you're querying personal geodatabase feature classes and tables. To make a case-insensitive search in other data formats, you can use a SQL function to convert all values to the same case. For file-based data sources like file geodatabases or shapefiles, use either the UPPER or LOWER function.
Other data sources have similar functions. Personal geodatabases, for example, have functions named UCASE and LCASE that perform the same operation.
% means that anything is acceptable in its place: one character, a hundred characters, or no character. Alternatively, if you want to search with a wildcard that represents one character, use _.
The wildcards above work for any file-based data or ArcSDE geodatabase. The wildcards you use to query personal geodatabases are * for any number of characters and ? for one character.
Wildcard characters appear as buttons on the Select by Attributes and Query Builder dialog boxes. You can click the button to enter the wildcard into the expression you're building. Only the wildcard characters that are appropriate to the data source of the layer or table you are querying are displayed.
If you use a wildcard character in a string with the = operator, the character is treated as part of the string, not as a wildcard.
The not equal (<>) operator can also be used when querying strings.
You can use the NULL keyword to select features and records that have null values for the specified field. The NULL keyword is always preceded by IS or IS NOT.
You can query numbers using the equal (=), not equal (<>), greater than (>), less than (<), greater than or equal (>=), less than or equal (<=), and BETWEEN operators.
Numeric values are always listed using the point as the decimal delimiter regardless of your regional settings. The comma cannot be used as a decimal or thousands delimiter in an expression.
Calculations can be included in expressions using the arithmetic operators +, -, *, and /.
Calculations can be between fields and numbers.
Calculations can also be performed between fields.
Expressions are evaluated according to standard operator precedence rules. For example, the part of an expression enclosed in parentheses is evaluated before the part that isn't enclosed.
You can either click to add parentheses and type the expression you want to enclose or highlight the existing expression that you want to enclose, then click the Parentheses button to enclose it.
Complex expressions can be built by combining expressions with the AND and OR operators.
When you use the OR operator, at least one side of the expression of the two separated by the OR operator must be true for the record to be selected.
Use the NOT operator at the beginning of an expression to find features or records that don't match the specified expression.
NOT expressions can be combined with AND and OR.
For more information, see SQL reference for query expressions used in ArcGIS.
ArcGIS dialog boxes in which you create SQL WHERE clauses will help you use the correct data syntax for the database you're querying. Most of the time, you will only need to click the field, the operator, and the value to generate the proper syntax.


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Q: What determines which platter/sector a HDD writes to? How does a HDD determine which platter/sector to use? Is there a controller built into the drive itself? Or is it the motherboard? The OS?
What kind of algorithm chooses this? Surely it can't be random nor can it be sequential.
Similarly, how do the same questions apply to an SSD?

A: What determines which platter/sector a HDD writes to?
The individual algorithms and instructions contained in the hard drive controlled determines the location of most data sent to HDDs.
With spinning HDDs the OS can access all possible addresses on the drive and CAN specify a specific location to read or write.
With SSDs the controller virtualizes the actual addresses in order to support some of the advanced features SSDs offer, such as over-provisioning and the ability to find and mark bad bits and black-list them without actually shrinking, as well as caching and other things, so the OS does not typically know the real possible addresses in an SSD.

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How does a HDD determine which platter/sector to use?

What kind of algorithm chooses this? Surely it can't be random nor can it be sequential.

That is proprietary information that you'd be unlikely to find. A "trade secret" or "secret sauce" if you will...
There is no "shallow" reason for it to not be random or sequential... but I suspect disk manufacturers will optimise data throughput by placing data across all platters. There will very likely be a "deep" reason for placing the data where they do (modern hard disks are approaching the realms of magic, with huge technical knowledge required to understand most of what's going on).
Historically it was open and well understood (see CHS, below).

Is there a controller built into the drive itself?

Yes - a modern hard disk will present a SATA or SAS interface to the host machine... This communication link runs between the motherboard and the hard disk's onboard controller.
The controller is subsequently responsible for managing the spindle speed, head position, processing between read/write instructions and the precisely timed analog signals to/from the read/write heads, etc...

Or is it the motherboard? The OS?

Historically, the hard disk presented as a very raw device - a stepper motor or voice coil was driven directly from the motherboard to manage the head positions, and the analog signals were crudely cleaned before being transmitted to the motherboard.
See this video teardown of a Fujitsu 337 MB 8inch hard disk for the gory details. Skip to ~2:04 for a run down of the interfaces (Storage Module Device). Even so, as you can see, there is considerable support circuitry for interfacing.
Hard disks were addressed using CHS (Cylinder - Head - Sector), but more recently they are addressed using LBA (Logical Block Addressing).
I think that with the introduction of LBA, we also started seeing disks that managed their own bad sectors - relocating them into provisioned "spare" space when they were detected to be bad. So we no longer have direct control of where the heads are positioned, which head is used, and which sector is accessed.
Before disks managed their own bad sectors, you'd see labels with a list of bad sectors from the factory, that you had to feed into the system while creating the filesystem. Alternatively you'd use a tool like badblocks to scan for issues. For example:

Similarly, how do the same questions apply to an SSD?

With an SSD the entire flash storage is mapped from the physical to virtual address space. This allows for wear-levelling to be implemented transparently without any knowledge from the host machine.


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Watch Antonio Pierce Reveal What Happened the Night Plaxico Burress Accidentally Shot Himself in 2008
ByChris Yuscavage
News Editor. @cyuscavage
Media via ESPN
Everyone knows that Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg back in 2008. How could you possibly forget it? But you probably don't know about many of the circumstances surrounding the shooting, because Burress hasn't talked much about them. Neither has Antonio Pierce, who was out with Burress that night.
Part of that is because, according to Pierce, he doesn't remember much of what happened. Or rather, it all happened so quickly that his memories of that night are a blur. But earlier this afternoon, Pierce made an appearance on ESPN's Russillo & Kanell and did his best to shed some light on what happened the night Burress altered the course of his career—and to a much larger degree, his life—forever by carrying a gun into a New York City nightclub and accidentally firing it into his leg.
What really happened the night Plaxico Burress shot himself in the leg? Antonio Pierce was there.
WATCH: https://t.co/ifm5TKtc7O
— Russillo and Kanell (@RussilloKanell) March 25, 2016
Unfortunately, Pierce doesn't tell the whole story here. At the end of it, he mentions that there are some details he didn't share. But it's the most in-depth version of the story that we've heard. Interestingly, Pierce also mentions that, if the Giants hadn't been scheduled to play the Redskins the week that the shooting took place (the team considered Washington to be an easy W), there's a good chance that the players wouldn't have even been out that night.
Check out the clip above to hear Pierce tell his story.
Send all complaints, compliments, and tips to sportstips@complex.com.
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This sterling .925 silver pendant is a sleek and sophisticated version of the classic dog tag. It is Approximately 1 1/4" x 3/4." This is a great jewelry gift for a man, but looks cool on women too!
Pendant measures about 1 1/4" x 3/4"


The Message, produced in 1976, documents the life of the last Prophet of God, Muhammad (peace be upon him). To this day, it remains as one of the best to have been made on the life of the Prophet. The movie, to a large extent, recollects a common historical narrative of the life of the Holy Prophet according to the different Muslim sects, with few points of difference. It depicts the early animosity the Meccans held towards the Prophet and the various forms of persecution he, his family and supporters were subjected to during the Meccan period. A highlight of the movie is the scene that recounts the famous dialogue between the Christian King of Abysinnia and the head of the Prophet's envoy, Ja'far son of Abu Talib (a), who travelled along with fellow companions to seek refuge from the injustices of the Meccans by the order of the Prophet (s).
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Once again, I remind you that the information contained on this page and on this site is what I believe is true based on a decade of research. You are free to believe otherwise.
Scammer firms often illegally hire their reps as "independent contractors," which in essence means that those reps are (unwittingly) running their own businesses -- paying for their own training, advertising, marketing, insurance, all business expenses, taxes, etc. Note how I emphasized taxes? The inexperienced rep (and most are, remember) may not realize the real cost of "owning his own business" until he suddenly owes a hefty chunk of his meager first-year income to the IRS!
But is it really his own business?
NO, it is not. Scammers attempt to mislead the "independent contractor" into believing he's working for (or has even bought) a franchise.
In a franchise, someone else has taken the risks to launch a new product/service and establish a customer base. If you buy a Gas-mart (yeah, I made that up), you are going to sell their products and accept Gas-mart's limitations on your business. However, you are buying the franchise because it is an established name that has an immediate, viable market. The owner of a franchise will certainly want to develop his local clientele, but a basic clientele already exists. That's part of what the franchise owner paid for.
Independent contracting can be very rewarding, but anybody choosing to become an independent contractor (IC, for short) should research carefully and understand the risks as well as the rewards. An IC is starting a business from scratch and thus assumes all the risks. An IC takes these risks because he does not want a franchise's restrictions on product line, income, etc. An IC's earnings and clients belong solely to him; a franchise owner's clients belong to the franchise and cannot be taken with him should he decide to leave. An IC's income belongs solely to him; a franchise owner's income is impacted by sharing profits with the franchise (managers above him earn overrides). An IC chooses his product line from the open market; a franchise owner must sell the franchise's product line. An IC performs his work for as many clients as he wishes; a franchise owner performs his work for only his franchise. An IC funds expansion to meet demand; a franchise owner's expansion is limited to the franchise's funding.
As an "independent contractor" with a scammer firm, you may now own a "franchise" with no established name or immediate, viable market! The proof is in the statistics: franchise owners enjoy a success rate of over 80%. Instead, you now own a "business" whose average failure rate is 80-95%. Remember, the scammer's objective is to minimize or eliminate its own employment and advertising costs by forcing you to shoulder them. I'll get into the marketing issues in the upcoming "Prospecting" section, but here you need to realize why they didn't hire you as an employee.
An employee enjoys certain privileges as well as limitations. Privileges include stability and security. An employee receives a salary or wage, taxes are paid by the employer, and firms with a certain number of employees are required to give employees certain benefits such as health insurance, sick leave, vacation pay, and the like. Limitations are obviously that the employee may perform his services for only that firm and accepts the income limitation inherent in that choice. A firm that hires employees shoulders the costs of employment. Scammers may aim to keep costs down or eliminate them altogether by misclassifying employees as ICs, who cost the firm no overhead and lessen the firm's legal liability.
Note that the firm doesn't ultimately determine your classification; different government regulatory agencies do, including:
the Internal Revenue Service
state unemployment compensation insurance agencies
state workers' compensation insurance agencies
state tax departments
the United States Labor Department
the National Labor Relations Board
the Federal Trade Commission
Each agency has its own guidelines. The IRS guidelines on determining whether a rep is an employee or independent contractor are listed below (Source #1, Source #2, Source #3). You are more than likely an employee if:
You don't have a business license.
The firm provides your training. (Contractors typically do not receive training by the hiring firm; they start "fully hatched".)
The firm's success or continuation depends on the service you provide. (Contractors should not perform work that determines the success or continuation of the hiring firm.)
The firm maintains a continued relation with you and does not hire you on a per-project basis. (Contractors are hired per project and bill for their services.)
The firm requires you to provide reports of your performance. (Contractors are hired to produce a final result, and therefore should not be required to submit interim reports.)
The firm requires you to perform your services for only itself and not other firms. (Contractors should not be restricted from seeking and performing other gainful work, even within the same industry.)
The firm exercises control over you through the threat of dismissal, which causes you to obey the employer's instructions. (An independent contractor cannot be fired so long as the independent contractor produces a result that meets the contract specifications.)
The firm exercises control over how your work gets done (insists you use THEIR system for generating leads or income such as the "friends & family" list) and supplies tools (phones, desks, marketing materials, etc.) for the performance of your work. (Contractors are responsible for the completed job but have full control over the means.)
Condensed down, the IRS's general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if you, the person for whom the services are performed, have the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not the means and methods of accomplishing the result.
If you think you've been misclassified as an IC to your disadvantage, contest it. See the "Links" page on this site for a list of avenues you should pursue for recovery, including taxes, wages, and unemployment benefits.
A Word on Taxes
If a firm is up front about hiring reps as independent contractors, it may promote "fantastic" benefits of business ownership such as tax write-offs, independence, and dreams of wealth while slurring traditional brick-and-mortar businesses. For the record, the IRS says you can't generally operate an unprofitable "business" out of your home with the "hopes" that it will pay off, and then deduct the cost and operation of a personal residence/home office; pay your family as employee write-offs; write off the family car; deduct travel, meals, and entertainment under the guise that everyone is a potential client; etc. See here and here. Note that if your "business" doesn't show a NET profit in 3 out of 5 years, you may risk the IRS labeling your "business" a not-for-profit or HOBBY.
It's entirely possible that your firm is classifying you as a direct seller but is mistakenly calling you an independent contractor. The IRS has specific guidelines for "direct sellers", the category into which most MLM (multi-level marketing organization) distributors fall and which is essentially just an independent contractor. It's a rather gray area of tax law that MLMs and those operating similar to MLMs exploit. Internal Revenue Code Section 3508 (IRC §3508) is the particularly odious bit of legislation that lobbyists snuck through in 1982 that allowed this (mis-) classification of direct sellers. Its classifications directly conflict with the IRS's own criteria for independent contractors; it is just plain bad law, and your firm may be taking advantage of it to your detriment. Keep in mind some direct sellers and independent contractors have successfully sued their companies and been found to be employees anyway. For more on how IRC §3508 has impacted the industries it purports to "protect", click here.
See IRS Publication 911 for details on direct sellers. Also see Publication 15-A: Direct sellers are statutory non-employees; like independent contractors, they are treated as self-employed. Note that prizes (bonuses, trips, etc.), awards, and gifts are taxable if you are classified by the IRS as a direct seller.
Here is one such decision* against a firm that misclassified its employees as independent contractors:
"The court found that persons who are controlled or subject to control are employees... [...] In looking at the direct evidence of control or direction, or the right to control the worker, there is a considerable amount of control over the worker. The registration and licensing of the sales representative needs the approval of [XXXX]. Once licensed, the worker can only provide these services to [XXXX]. The worker is required to record and report their weekly activities to a [XXXX] Upline Leader. The worker is prohibited from performing services for other Security Brokers/Dealers. Training is provided by [XXXX]. An independent contractor normally has the knowledge, skills and experience to perform contract services. An independent contractor would not need to follow policies and procedures outlined in a manual specific to the services they perform. [...] The written sales agreement stated the 'independent sales representative was an 'independent contractor' and responsible for her own taxes.' This is not conclusive of being an independent contractor. As to the 'right to fire' there would be no liability on the part of [the plaintiff]. She could terminate her services with no liability to the company. She would lose business transactions under the control of [XXXX]. There would be no loss to [XXXX], as they would retain the business brought in by [the plaintiff]."
The last and perhaps most important reason for misclassifying employees as ICs involves legal liability. Many firms simply feign ignorance of a "rogue" rep's "misconduct" when a consumer brings a lawsuit or a regulatory agency brings an action, even when they explicitly (but verbally!) encouraged the often-ignorant rep to break the law. The FTC has this to say about independent contractors involved in direct sales organizations:
If you decide to become a [salesperson], remember that you're legally responsible for the claims you make about the company, its product and the business opportunities it offers. [...] When you promote the qualities of a product or service, you're obligated to present those claims truthfully and to ensure there's enough solid evidence to back them up. The Federal Trade Commission advises you to verify the research behind any claims about a product's performance before repeating those claims to a potential customer. Likewise, if you decide to solicit new [salespeople], be aware that you're responsible for any claims you make about a [salesperson]'s earnings potential. [...] If those promises fall through, remember that you could be held liable.
Did you get that? As an independent contractor, you are responsible for doing the firm's homework and ensuring that its claims about the itself and its products, services, and opportunities are true! An independent contractor's own ignorance in simply repeating what he's been told could earn him fines and jail or prison time while the firm pleads ignorance of his "unapproved illegal activities" and gets off with a slap on the wrist, if that.
In a nutshell, if your "business" does not exist apart from its relationship with your firm, then you don't have a business and are not an independent contractor. You're an employee of the firm and are entitled to all benefits that entails. The employment contract you signed does NOT determine your relationship with the firm and is only useful if it's obeyed. It will be useless if you act and are treated like an employee.
The inexperienced work force sought out by scammers is most often totally ignorant of the above, so they'll accept the position without understanding the consequences. If you can pay the "licensing / background check" fees (and don't have a felony), you're hired!
And there's a good chance you're being lied to again about the cost of basic licensing and background checks, which may include hidden training class fees... so on to the training program and its part in the scam!
* Case found in public records. Also for the record, the same company, which I have avoided naming for legal reasons, is a member of the Direct Sellers Association (DSA), whose "Code of Ethics" includes an intriguing bit of double-speak entitled "Prompt Investigation and No Independent Contractor Defense" which states:
"For the purposes of this Code, in the interest of fostering consumer protection, companies shall voluntarily not raise the independent contractor status of salespersons distributing their products or services under its trademark or trade name as a defense against Code violation allegations and such action shall not be construed to be a waiver of the companies' right to raise such defense under any other circumstance."
See this site's opinion article on MLMs for information on just what the DSA is doing for its members.


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Stadio Druso () is an arena in Bolzano, Italy.  It is primarily used for football, and is the home to F.C. Südtirol and (until 2015) to F.C. Bolzano 1996.

History
The stadium opened in 1930 with a single grandstand in rationalist style. In 1960 a second grandstand was built on a project of Michele Lettieri. Over the years, the stadium deteriorated, so much so that the main stand was closed for safety reasons during the 1990s.

In 2000, F.C. Südtirol was promoted to Serie C2, and moved from Bressanone to Bolzano: on that occasion, the stands were both roughly restructured in order to reach 3000 seats. In 2002 the municipality of Bolzano dedicated the main grandstand to Christian Zanvettor and the second stand to Albano Canazza.

In 2019, work began on a major renovation of the stadium: both grandstands will be redone and enlarged, and the rationalist facade will be preserved and incorporated into the new facade. The completion of the work, originally scheduled for 2021, has been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and is now expected in mid-2022. Once completed, the stadium has around 5500 seats.

Gallery

References

Football venues in Italy
Buildings and structures in Bolzano

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Personal property used by businesses has been subject to taxation in Michigan. Starting with the 2014 assessment year, an exemption was created for the personal property owned by businesses if the true cash value of the personal property owned, leased, or possessed by the business or a related party is less than $80,000 within the assessment jurisdiction. This exemption has become known informally as the "small taxpayer" exemption. The exemption is only for commercial and industrial personal property.
To claim this exemption, the business must annually file Form 5076 ,Small Business Property Tax Exemption Claim Under MCL 211.9o (PDF) with the Assessing Department no later than February 20th of each year. Property owners who file this affidavit are not required to file a Personal Property Statement. Taxpayers are required to maintain books and records for four years after filing an affidavit claiming the exemption; penalties apply for fraudulent exemption claims.
Beginning December 31, 2015 (for the 2016 assessment year), the Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property Exemption was created. To claim this exemption, a fully completed Form 5278, Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property Tax Exemption Claim, Personal Property Statement and Report of Fair Market Value of Qualified New and Previously Existing Personal Property (PDF), must be received by the Assessor of the local unit of government where the qualified personal property is located.
Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property (EMPP) means all personal property located on occupied real property if that personal property is predominantly used in industrial processing or direct integrated support. For personal property that is construction in progress and part of a new facility not in operation, EMPP means all personal property that is part of that new facility if that personal property will be predominantly used in industrial processing when the facility becomes operational. Personal property that is not owned, leased or used by the person who owns or leases occupied real property where the personal property is located is not EMPP unless the personal property is located on the occupied real property to carry on a current on-site business activity. Personal property that is placed solely on occupied real property to qualify personal property for an exemption under 9m or 9n is not EMPP. For additional information regarding EMPP, please refer to MCL 211.9m and 211.9n and State Tax Commission Bulletin 7 of 2015 (PDF).
Do not complete this affidavit and statement unless the personal property meets the definition of Eligible Manufacturing Personal Property (EMPP).
Refer to Commission Bulletin 7 of 2015 (PDF) and Michigan Department of Treasury for reference guides, topics and definitions.
Please read the forms and instructions in their entirety to determine eligibility. Personal property that does not meet the definition of either exemption listed above should be reported on Form 632 Personal Property Statement. A separate affidavit/statement must be filed for each personal property parcel.
Please feel free to contact the Chesterfield Township Assessors office at 586-949-0400, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 pm, or by email if you have any questions regarding this matter.


Flipkart which has been experimenting with its own private label is launching its own phone called Billion Capture+, a smartphone with powerful dual cameras.
The phone will be available from Nov 15th onwards and will run on Android Nougat and will come with dual camera. Plus, the phone will be packed with unlimited cloud storage (safe to assume that this is result of Onedrive/Microsoft partnership?).
What Flipkart brings to the table is the number of service centers : 130 across 125 cities, which will surely help the buying decision.
Expected price of the Billion Capture+ phone? Flipkart hasn't announced, but expect it to be in Rs. 10K-14K range.
Will you buy this, given the branded alternatives like Xiaomi/Nokia/Lenovo/Sony etc? Does Flipkart brand stand for great hardware / service quality and such attributes?
Will Flipkart phone cannibalise partner sales?
The highest selling category for any ecommerce player is smartphones and with Flipkart launching its own brand and giving prominence to the same on all of its properties, will it cannibalise its own business?
If you are a Motorola/Lenovo/Xiaomi, why would you sign an exclusive deal with Flipkart when you know that the company is going to promote its own phones over yours?


"Ransomware" is a type of malware that gets installed on a computer system through downloads or malicious links and then it proceeds to encrypt all the files and sensitive data. Once the data is encrypted, the victims are asked to cough up a ransom to the malware operators to decrypt it.
The ransom is mostly through Bitcoin- a virtual currency- which is largely being used by Hawala operators.
While initially popular in Russia, Ransomware scams have grown internationally. Surprisingly in 2016, according to Quick Heal, the number of detection of Ransomware samples have reached nearly 450,000 in just 7 weeks.
Neeraj Aarora, a former Delhi Police official and cyber crime expert, told Millennium Post that no law enforcement agency has any structure to protect victims from this menace. "Law enforcement or security agencies have no solution for this category of cyber attacks. Only some preventive measures can be exercised at the user's end," he said. Aarora further explained that it is not only a concern for Indian agencies but also for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI has already cautioned that anyone caught up in such a situation should just 'pay the ransom'.
Explaining the modus- operandi, Aarora said that Ransomware scams were being operated through a software called 'Tor' - which makes it difficult for internet activity to be traced back to the user. "Tor is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom to conduct confidential communication by keeping their internet activities from being monitored," he said.
At a time when people are getting affected by the Ransomware scam, the Delhi Police have informed that they have not received any complaint related to this. To which Aarora responded by saying that it could be possible that victims are not trusting the police's capability to help them in crisis. "Agencies are not fully equipped," he said.


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Q: load a simple image (bitmap from drawable directory) into opengl renderer I am fairly new to OpenglES, trying to load a simple bitmap. I found this in a tutorial but, what do I write in onSurfaceCreated(), and onDrawFrame().
private void initImage(GL10 gl) {
        int[] textures = new int[1];
        gl.glGenTextures(1, textures, 0);
        gl.glBindTexture(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, textures[0]);
        gl.glTexParameterf(
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D,
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER,
            GL10.GL_NEAREST);
        gl.glTexParameterf(
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D,
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER,
            GL10.GL_LINEAR);
        gl.glTexParameterf(
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D,
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S,
            GL10.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
        gl.glTexParameterf(
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D,
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T,
            GL10.GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
        gl.glTexEnvf(
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_ENV,
            GL10.GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE,
            GL10.GL_REPLACE);
        InputStream in = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
        Bitmap image;
        try { image = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(in); }
        finally {
            try { in.close(); } catch(IOException e) { }
        }
        GLUtils.texImage2D(GL10.GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, image, 0);
        image.recycle();
    }

A: I have used the decodeResource method from BitmapFactory for this purpose in the past. With your naming, the call would look like this:
Bitmap image = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(), R.drawable.ic_launcher);

What you have should probably work as well, but the above seems simpler.
You should put this in onSurfaceCreated(). You may want to store the texture id in a class member, so that you can bind it again in onDrawFrame(). This is not strictly necessary if you use only a single texture, because you can just keep it bound in that case. But it's cleaner, and will scale if you use multiple textures in the future.


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China has promised to follow the Phase One trade deal reached with the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday, despite a delay in talks to review progress on the deal.
"The Chinese have done some of the work they need to do on the purchasing they committed to continuing to fulfill that obligation. But you have to remember there's a lot of obligations that go far beyond just purchasing American products," Pompeo said in an interview with CNBC.


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Kevin Schwantz - Journal Entry: Second Test, Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup
At the state of the art Barber Motorsports Park it was a much different test than our fist test at Laguna because all the kids had been to Barber which was where we had the selection test last September.
We started with the kids in two-groups until after lunch when we put them all out together. Our thought is that they will all be racing together out there so we should get them all out there together and get accustomed to it. In the two afternoon sessions, both Mark Cernicky and Steve Atlas rode my bike. In the first afternoon session we had more scratched-up motorcycles and scuffed-up leathers than we had in our previous two and a half days of testing. After that there were a lot of long stares at their coach so I sat them down and gave them a quick speech.. Even when the bikes aren't exactly right, you have to be able to compensate whether it's tires or suspension. Great racers are the guys who can overcome adversity. After this quick discussion the last session of the day ran without incident.
I continue to ask the kids to make the best notes they possibly can about their testing, lap-by-lap-by-lap or at the end of the day make sure to write down everything that sticks in their head.
Day two started off at 7am with a meeting with the riders and their parents and this was also where I informed them of their sponsorship opportunity to wear a Kevin Schwantz School patch on their leathers and a schwantzschool.com decal on their visor for $1,000.00 for the season. Hopefully this will offset some of their expenses throughout the season. After that, at 7:30am, we did a track walk. It was 25 degrees that morning, for a low so the first half of the track walk was very cold! Having said that, the track walk was a great opportunity for the kids who don't speak English to have their translators ask questions. I try and make it a point to ask all the kids if they have any other questions but I think the language barrier makes it difficult for the foreign speaking kids. We started riding at 9:30am. I rode with the kids the first session and then turned my bike over to Mark Gardiner for the second session. In the last two sessions of the day we just practiced.. the sighting lap and warm-up lap and starts, which we did three-times in one session. In the last session we did a simulated race. They pulled out from the truck and did a sighting lap and warm-up lap and came around to stage. We then did a 15-lap race. All the kids did an amazing job, we had three pull into pit lane to have their mechanics remove tape from the radiator because the temperature had gone above the recommended 65 degrees. To be that excited about racing for the first time, even though it was only mock-race, the maturity the kids showed was just amazing.
All in all the test went exceptionally well. The spread in timing from top to bottom is getting closer and closer all the time. If their coach has his way about things, the spread will be in the three second range.
Good job kids…From your new sponsor!
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