If you live overseas and have not reported Foreign Bank Accounts and/or Foreign Income, or Reported Foreign Assets, there may be an option for you to get into tax compliance – without any penalty.
Currently, the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Treasury have authorized taxpayers who qualify as "foreign residents" to enter the Streamlined Offshore Disclosure Program (aka Streamlined Domestic Filing Procedures Or Streamlined Foreign Filing Procedures) and have their penalty waived (individuals who do not qualify as foreign residents must pay a 5% penalty).
In order to qualify for foreign residence, an individual must qualify for the 330-day. This is not the same as the 330-day rule used to qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion. Rather, under the streamlined disclosure foreign residence test, a person must live overseas for at least 330-days in any given tax year, for one of the last three tax years.
*For the foreign earned income exclusion, it is 330 days in any 365 day period, but for streamlined disclosure is 330 days in any tax year. Streamlined disclosure is limited to individuals, so if you own a business that has a fiscal tax year it would be inapplicable.
In addition to qualifying for the foreign residence requirement, a person must also be non-willful in their failure to comply with US Tax Law. The following is a summary of frequently asked questions we receive at Golding & Golding involving the Streamlined Program.


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Q: Is it possible to create multiple page layouts for a custom object based on data received? I am working to integrate SFDC with a Field Service Management/Scheduling solution and we have integrated custom "on-site forms" to capture information while a technician is on-site (imagine a field technician filling out a form detailing what happened during the job).
These forms have been integrated and mapped to a custom object named "Execution Forms" in SFDC. In order to do this, I have created custom fields & relationships to map to all of the possible properties/fields on the "on-site forms". However, one of our customers has several forms and currently all of their properties are mapped in the same page layout and only the fields which are relevant to that form are mapped while the rest are left blank. They may have 100 different properties on 10 different forms, but the first form may only have 10 properties. When viewing in SFDC, they wish to only see the 10 custom fields rather than all 100 with a majority of them being blank.
Is it possible to create unique page layouts (or via another method) to only display the fields which are populated per "on-site form"?

A: Record Types
One way you would be able to do this is using RecordTypes with Page Layouts.
What you would need to do is some "preprocessing" that determines if the form filled in is an "on-site form".
For example, if you have 6 fields: a, b, c, x, y, z; in your preprocessing you can check if only x, y and z are filled in. On Insert, you would then set the RecordType of the record.
For example:
Object__c obj = new Object__c(
  a_field__c = a;
  a_field__c = b;
  a_field__c = c;
  x_field__c = x;
  y_field__c = y;
  z_field__c = z;
);

if (a == null && b == null && c == null) {
    obj.RecordTypeId = [SELECT Id FROM RecordType WHERE Name = 'On Site Record Type' AND SObjectType = 'Object__c' LIMIT 1].Id;
}

INSERT obj;

Once this is done and you access the record in Salesforce, the Page Layout associated with the RecordType.
You would need to create the RecordType first, then the Page Layout. You'll eventually get prompted to Associate the Page Layout with a RecordType.
Provided you don't have too many variations, this would be a good way of achieving your requirement.
Visualforce
You could of course, create a custom Visualforce Page that only rendered fields if the field isn't null. That could also work:
<apex:inputField value="{!a}" rendered="{!NOT(ISNULL(a))}" />
<apex:inputField value="{!b}" rendered="{!NOT(ISNULL(b))}" />
<apex:inputField value="{!c}" rendered="{!NOT(ISNULL(c))}" />
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This is a spot-on account of my worst date ever.
When analyzing a dating disaster, it is important to think back to the beginning and figure out who made the first mistake. In this case, it was me.
The first mistake was that I broke my cardinal rule about dating guys from the internet whom I've never met before. I gave the guy my home address.
The second mistake was allowing myself to be summoned by a car horn.


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REPORT: ARMED FORCES DAY YORK 2017
On Saturday 24 June 2017, Veterans For Peace UK were in the city of York for Armed Forces Day. Members from across the country attended.
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1000-1700 at the Quaker Meeting House, YO1 9RL
Stalls, films and speakers.
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1900-2300 at the New York Woking Men's Club, YO24 1AJ
Music, poetry, food and drink.
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Kevin O'Gara says:
20th May 2017 at 10:24
Hello I would like to come up and show my support for what I believe to be an important organisation. My Facebook profile does not show my service record but I was in 21 Eng regt where I served in the first gulf war and I finished my service at 59 ind cdo sqn RE
I have a number of reasons for not having my service profile on my page but namely being my Irish connections and that I have in the past been involved in teaching skiing to Irish catholic children from Belfast
I have been involved in the past in anti war and George bush demonstrations and did an interview on BBC radio Devon as an ex serviceman who was against the war ( I sucked at that as I tend to freeze a bit when it comes to public speaking) I am still in contact with a number of ex servicemen colleagues who hold similar views to various levels and was recommended to your site by Kieth Morris.
Please could I order a t shirt and or a sweatshirt.
If it is ok to come do you have any literature which states the organisations core values for if we are questioned.
Kev (Oggy)
Ben Griffin says:
21st May 2017 at 13:28
Hi Kev
Join us http://www.vfpuk.org/join
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Every person in the class was a newbie, not just me! More surprising still, a couple people had no experience with Pilates whatsoever! In other classes, there was usually an even balance of people who had been coming for a while, and those who were fresh to it.
Course Design: What's a Practicum?


Create a query to list owners born between any two dates, saving this query as parameterOwnersBetweenDates.
Create another query to list owners of a particular celebrity status born before a particular date, saving this query as parameterOwnersOfCelebrityBeforeDate.
Create another query to list owners of a particular celebrity status with pets of a particular colour, saving this query as parameterOwnersOfCelebrityWithPetsOfColour.


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Q: How to make edeliver write pid of started phoenix server? I deploy phoenix application with edeliver to my server. In case of sudden server restart I want my phoenix-app to be revived automatically and monitored. It seems that systemd tool can help me, but it requires phoenix pid file to be stored somewhere.
Is there a way to make edeliver save phoenix pid file right after deploy?
Maybe there is a better way than systemd to revive and monitor the application after server restart?
note: I'm most of all interested in monitoring pid.

A: I finally managed to find the solution. There are actually after deploy hooks in edeliver.
In .deliver/config:
post_start_deployed_release() {
  if [ "$TARGET_MIX_ENV" = "prod" ]; then
    echo ${PRODUCTION_HOSTS};
    arr=(echo ${PRODUCTION_HOSTS});
    for host in ${arr[@]}; do
      ssh pepe@${host} "mkdir -p ~/pepe_project/var/run && /usr/sbin/lsof -i:4000 | grep beam.smp | awk '{print $2}' > ~/pepe_project
  /var/run/phoenix.pid";
    done
  fi
}


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Da'Monte Williams: Like Father, Like Son?
Soon-to-be sophomore due for potentially huge leap
By Kyle Huisinga Mar 28, 2018, 8:05am CDT
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There's a lot of upside in the game of Da'Monte Williams.
Will he reach that ceiling is another issue that I think most fans of Illinois would love the answer to. Now, this is not an article about comparing Williams to his famous Illini legend father. There are striking similarities that need to be addressed, however. And major differences.
Let's start by breaking down that ceiling we referred to.
Best Case Scenario:
Da'Monte Williams throws his father's shadow to the side and becomes his own player: the 3 and D guy. This is what everyone envisioned for Aaron Jordan.
However, I feel as though Williams was perfectly tailored for this role. He proved early on in the season that he can defend, earning the praise of Brad Underwood for his tenacity and dog mentality throughout practice and early in the non-conference schedule. He also showed a knack for knocking down the three early on.
Now, as the season progressed, his minutes slowly dissipated due to typical freshman struggles, but the talent is there to be exactly what Underwood wants in a combo guard/reserve role.
Worst Case Scenario:
He disappears and never truly finds his niche within the parameters of the spread offense, a la early season Te'Jon Lucas. Now Lucas found his footing later on in the season, but boy was he invisible throughout the early season stint.
Da'Monte doesn't play the same position, of course, but one can argue that guard play within this system is interchangeable. Illinois simply can't afford players to disappear when they're on the court. Even small contributions, a pass here, or a tip-drill rebound there can make a colossal difference in a tight game. Da'Monte has all the talent in the world, but he needs to keep that motor running, as it was early on in this past season.
Overall, I feel Williams could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of this offense, and he could be due for a huge leap in production given the current roster disposition. It's all on him to reach that ceiling.
Throw off Dad's shadow, Da'Monte. Let's see what you can do.
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Typical requests. Perfectly sensible. All good reasons to kick-off a home remodeling project. However, if you're going to go through the construction and remodeling process anyway, it's a great time to consider adding in some smart features that make everyday living in your home easier and maybe even a little luxurious. Perhaps best of all, the rate of return on these kind of improvements is almost universally excellent!
Behold the central vacuuming system. The main power unit for this subtly life-changing add-on is installed in either the basement or garage and is linked to inlets in each room. No more dustpans. No more dragging a heavy appliance from room to room. You simply attach a power hose to an inlet or sweep up a mess directly into the suction at floor level. Did we mention it's nearly silent?
The last thing any homeowner wants to think about is pest control, and that's exactly why pest tubing is such a valuable addition to your home. The tubing is installed in interior and exterior wall studs and is accessible through an exterior injection port. Pest tubing delivers pest control material directly in walls and hollow areas, right where unwelcome guests nest, hide and breed. No more toxic spray on your floor and baseboards. You don't even need to leave the house while a treatment is applied!
You can't beat the beauty of hardwood floors. That goes double for stone tiles in kitchens and bathrooms. However, almost every homeowner can relate to the change of heart that stepping out of bed onto a sub-zero floor in January can inspire. Radiant heating makes it possible to have the best of both worlds! If you're replacing the floor anyway, we'd highly recommend making room in your budget for heated floors. You won't regret it!
Who couldn't use more storage space? It's almost always on our clients' wish lists. If you don't have room (and aren't planning to make any) for additional closet space, there are all kinds of additional areas of your home you can squeeze a little more space out of without sacrificing square feet. Unused space under the stairs is an excellent option. As are built-ins, platforms or even baseboard drawers. The possibilities are endless!
Laundry chutes used to be a pretty standard feature in most homes but mysteriously fell out of favor in more modern designs. However, if your washer/dryer is on a separate floor than your bedrooms or bathrooms, there's no better way to help keep your home clear and clutter-free. There's a reason folks who grew up with a laundry chute in their house almost universally refuse to live in a home without one. Let yourself in on the secret!
If we've got you thinking about finally kick-starting that home remodeling project you've been thinking about, give us a call. There's definitely more where these suggestions came from!


Interstate highways and scores of transportation services make getting to the area easy. You can come by plane, train, bus or automobile. In fact, more than half of the United States' population lives within a day's drive or a two-hour flight of Greater Raleigh, N.C.
If arriving by air, RDU International Airport has been consistently judged to be the favorite airport in North America among business travelers, as well as consistently ranking as the most efficient small/medium airport in North America. RDU is also centrally located, making it a 15-mile drive to downtown Raleigh and downtown Cary.
Choosing to drive here is just as convenient. Located centrally on the East Coast, Greater Raleigh is halfway between Florida and New York City. I-40, which connects the East and West U.S. Coasts, runs through the destination. The area's first-rate system of state highways, the I-540 Outer Loop and the I-440 Beltline provide easy access to the city. I-95 and I-85 pass within about 40 miles of downtown Raleigh.
Regardless of how you choose to arrive in Greater Raleigh, getting around once you're here couldn't be easier. Downtown Raleigh is a walkable place with restaurants and shopping at your fingertips, or take a readily available R-LINE downtown circulator bus, rickshaw, cab, shuttle or private car to the destination of your choice. Cary's downtown area is growing quite a bit, too, with an award-winning brewery and local-favorite pubs, a top-notch pizza spot and other delicious food options, a historic theater and more.
Check out our Greater Raleigh transportation info and details on RDU!


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Hello! My name is Ryan Keplinger. I have received my Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Purdue University. My concentration was painting and illustration with a minor in graphic design. I love everything artistic and tattooing has become the art form I obsess over since 2008. I started tattooing in a shop in Lafayette, IN called Operation Ink, which is where I currently call home.
In 2007, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of cancer in the lymph nodes. So once I was in recession, I got my first tattoo to commemorate my appreciation for the second chance. Ever since, I've wanted to give other people that sense of happiness I had when I got my first tattoo. It was a life changing experience, since it opened up my future in the art world.
I'm still finding my way in terms of style but I would say most everything I do is heavily Asian influenced. I really enjoy the idea of "contrast" in pieces. Not only in aesthetics but also moods and different emotions a piece of art can convey.


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Chrysler recalling 350,000 cars with ignition problems
by Chris Isidore @CNNMoney September 25, 2014: 2:11 PM ET
The 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee is among the several models recalled by Chrysler.
Chrysler Group is recalling about 350,000 cars -- including some Jeep and Dodge brand vehicles -- for an ignition key problem similar to the one that plagued General Motors.
But Chrysler said it knows of only one minor accident associated with the issue and that it is not aware of any injuries. By contrast, at least 21 deaths and many more serious injuries have been tied to the ignition switch flaw that impacted 2.6 million GM (GM) cars.
Chrysler said its ignition switch problem can cause a key to not return to the "on" position after the driver turns it to the "start" position when starting the car. If that happens, the windshield defroster and wiper may not work.
Related: 10 years of guilt over GM crash that killed her boyfriend
But it said it is also possible, but less likely, that when the key is not properly in the "on" position, it can move inadvertently move past the "on" position to the "accessory" or "off" positions, similar to what happened with the GM cars. In that case, the cars can lose power, power steering and some safety features including the air bags.
After recall crisis, GM CEO is 'impatient'
Chrysler said it will repair the ignition switch, but until the repairs are made, drivers should make sure the key properly moves into the "on" position after starting the vehicle.
The Chrysler cars being recalled are all 2008 models and include three popular models -- the Dodge Charger, the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Chrysler 300 -- as well as the Dodge Magnum station wagon and the Jeep Commander.
CNNMoney (New York) First published September 25, 2014: 2:11 PM ET


FRIENDS of Jo want a national two-minute silence in her memory on January 31 at 6pm.
… and thought 'eh? Really?' I tried Googling and there are a couple of results but no links directly to the campiagn and the relevant results seem to be articles published today that have a variation of the above quote and a bit of a filler explaining who Jo Yeates is. Or was.
One result mentioned it is a Facebook campaign and after having a search on Facebook came up with nothing aswell. OK, I didn't try very hard but I'd have thought putting 'jo yeates 2 minutes silence campaign' would've brought *something* up.
But anyway, 2 minutes silence. A national 2 minutes silence. Why?
I don't meant to disrespect Jo, but why should there be a national 2 minutes silence for her? National silences are usually reserved for remembering stuff and people that has involved or had an effect on the nation. Like wars. Not for a single murder victim that no body had heard of before becoming famous in a such a tragic fashion.
Think I'm being harsh? Well, no I'm not.
We used to have one minute silences when I was a lad, and then, probably after Diana, Princess of Wales (to give her her proper title), I think, I crept up to 2 minutes and in the last couple of years 3 and 5 minutes have been bandied about. I think two minutes silence for Diana was two minutes too long, and she was the mother of our future king. She has had a little bit of an influence on Actually, probably not.
So, friends of Jo Yeates, if it is a real campaign, two things, 1) you're probably better off usuing your energy on helping the police find Jos' killer and 2) if you want to be slightly less disappointed with how may people observe a national two minutes silence in memory of Jo, you want to make your campaign a little easier to find. If it's a Facebook campaign and I can't even find it on Facebook, it's just gonna be you guys silent on in a couple of Mondays time.
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The following material illustrates the process of outlining and test taking.
In using this material, you should first study the negligence outline in Part 1. The outline is not intended to be a thorough summary of the law in the area of negligence. It is to be used in conjunction with the sample exam and sample answer to show the principles talked about in this book.
After studying the outline, read the question. Next, attempt to outline an answer. Then compare your outline with the one in Part 3. Finally, try writing an answer. A sample answer is contained in Part 4.
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Defendant had a duty of reasonable care.
The breach was the actual and proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries.
Some sort of damage occurred to the plaintiff or her property.
in the same or similar circumstances.
AND defendant's behavior was unreasonable.
But-for the defendant's behavior, the harm would not have occurred.
BUT no liability exists for unforeseeable harms even if directly caused by defendant.
Plaintiff contributed to the negligent act.
Plaintiff is subject to same standard as negligence.
THEN plaintiff will be denied recovery.
Allows defendant to lower standard of care because an emergency required them to act rashly in order to avoid a greater harm from occurring.
Custom can be used to show that behavior was in line with the behavior of everyone else., thus resulting in no breach.
E.g. Everyone drives at 50 MPH on that particular stretch of the highway even though it is posted at 30 MPH.
Person with poor vision must drive slower.
Children held to a lower standard than adults.
Held to standard of reasonable care for a child of same age, education, intelligence and experience.
UNLESS it is sudden and unexpected.
Doctor held to a standard of care of a reasonable doctor with same education and in same community.
Violation of law is proof of breach.
Inference of negligence because no other reasonable explanation exists for the harm caused.
Ask question: Would the same harm have resulted if defendant had not breached his duty?
IF yes THEN Direct Cause is not established since harm would have been caused regardless of defendant's action.
Risk Rule: Defendant cannot be held responsible for risks that were unforeseeable. There was no duty of reasonable care because harm was unforeseeable.
Wilson v. Silbert. Emergency doctrine: In a drive-through bank line, the car in front of defendant start backing up quickly, so defendant backs up as well without looking. Sudden emergency doctrine lowers standard of reasonable care. Should have looked but emergency avoided a harm to himself.
US v. Carroll Towing. Breach illustration. Judge Learned Hand. Barge breaks loose of its moorings without watchman on board. Barge sinks with cargo. Barge company is liable for cargo because the burden of taking precautions - having watchman on board - was negligible compared with probability of harm of a barge breaking loose of its moorings.
T.J. Hooper. Custom defense. Tugboat ran into a storm and lost its cargo. Tugboat didn't carry a radio on board so didn't get the weather reports. Tugboat owner is not liable for negligence in not carrying a radio because it's the 1930s and the custom was not yet established to always carry a radio on boat.
Palsgraf v. Long Island RR. Proximate Cause. Judge Cardoza. Railroad guard pushes man who drops package. Package contains hidden fireworks that explode and cause scales to fall harming plaintiff. Illustrates that harm was not foreseeable by guard as to plaintiff so no proximate cause.
1 Negligence is a much deeper topic than is covered in this sample outline. The outline here is meant to illustrate techniques of outlining rather than be a comprehensive overview of negligence.
2 Prima facie is Latin for "on the face of it." It means the conditions that will satisfy the rule unless other evidence contradicts the findings.
3 Res ipsa loquitur is Latin for "the thing speaks for itself."
The following example is meant to illustrate a typical question and suggest an approach on how you might outline the relevant issues and facts. Unless you have already taken torts, you probably won't immediately recognize why some of the facts are relevant. What's important to see here, however, is not the law, but to illustrate that once you know the law, you should note the relevant facts in order to spot the issues.
David is driving 25 MPH in 25 MPH zone down a four lane street where there are children playing. One nine-year-old child, Kevin, runs into the street chasing a soccer ball. David, without looking over his shoulder, swerves into the other lane to avoid Kevin and in the process he hits a car, driven by Peter, that was speeding past him in the left-hand lane going in the same direction.
Peter loses control of his car, hits a telephone pole and is seriously and permanently injured. The telephone pole, owned by the local phone company TeleCo, easily snaps into two pieces and hits Kevin, who is still in the street, knocking him unconscious and resulting in permanent injuries.
TeleCo never did any testing of its poles to establish how easily the poles broke. The only factor used in manufacturing the poles was cost. The poles were made of low quality trees and were not treated in any significant manner except for a coating of tar. No reinforcement was used on the poles.
What are the various liabilities and rights of the parties involved?
4 See Bernier v. Boston Edison Co. 403 N.E.2d 391 for a real world analog to this hypothetical. Notice how the court came out in those circumstances.
Who are the potential parties?
Under what legal theory can they bring an action?
What are the significant facts proving the theory or defense?
What are the damages if defendant is held liable?
Pro: Kids playing signals duty to slow down.
Con: David was driving speed limit.
Kid could have been killed.
Peter was going over speed limit.
Defense: Injury by phone pole was not foreseeable given attempt to avoid Kevin.
David should have looked before swerving.
Defense - Kevin: Contributory negligence by running into street.
Conclusion: Some liability since negligent per se.
Duty arose since foreseeable and no action to prevent harm.
The injured individuals can seek damages based on a theory of negligence. I will examine the potential liability of each party in turn. The prima facie case for negligence is established by showing a duty of reasonable care, breach of the duty, actual and proximate cause and damage.
Although David may have breached a duty in not looking when changing lanes, he has a defense in the emergency doctrine. To prove negligence, Peter has the burden to prove that David had a duty to drive more carefully. One theory would be that David should drive slower than the speed limit when kids were present. Evidence of breaking the law is automatically considered a breach of a duty, but not breaking the law doesn't necessarily establish that a breach didn't occur. All of the facts and circumstances must be considered. Since 25 MPH is a standard speed limit for residential areas where kids normally play, I don't think that David had a duty to drive slower.
David, however, probably breached a duty of care by not looking before he changed lanes. A reasonable and prudent person would naturally look before changing lanes. Here, however, David can claim two defenses. First, he can claim contributory negligence since Peter was speeding. (See below for an analysis of Peter's liability.) Second, David can claim the emergency doctrine. Since his swerving into the lane avoided an accident with Kevin, he was justified in making the split-second decision to swerve. I think that under the duty of reasonable care analysis, David acted with the care of an ordinary and prudent person under the circumstances of an emergency. Therefore, David will probably not be found negligent in regard to Peter's claim. Even if he is found negligent, David's liability is limited if Peter is found to be liable for contributory negligence.
As to Kevin's claim of negligence against David, it is arguable that David's action was the cause of the injury that occurred to Kevin. Under the "but-for" standard of review, if he hadn't swerved into the other lane, he would not have sent Peter's car crashing into the phone pole. However, Kevin's claim against David probably loses on the issue of proximate cause. Proximate cause limits the liability of David to those risks that were foreseeable. Here, I don't think that a telephone pole snapping in half and falling on top of a kid is a likely result from swerving into another lane in order to avoid the kid in the first place. It is as improbable a result as that in Palsgraf. David is probably not liable for negligence in regard to Kevin's injuries.
Both Kevin and David can state a claim against Peter for their damages as a result of Peter's negligence in driving over the speed limit. Peter is liable under the theory of negligence per se since he was over the speed limit. Breaking the law - such as posted speed limits - creates a rebuttable presumption of negligence and doesn't require further analysis. Peter can rebut the presumption of negligence by showing it was the custom to speed on that street; however, the fact that children were present would go to show that Peter had a duty of care to ignore the custom and slow down under those circumstances.
Peter can also argue contributory negligence against both David for swerving and Kevin for running into the street. While David was not judged to be negligent for, I don't think his claim for damages to his car will survive. Peter's claim of contributory negligence against David is valid since David had a duty to look before changing lanes. Although the emergency doctrine relieves David of liability, it does not confer liability on Peter. David, or his insurance company, will probably have to pay damages on David's car.
Kevin will be judged by the standard of what a reasonable and prudent nine year old would do when playing games in his own neighborhood. The neighborhood represents safety in Kevin's mind, thus an exuberant pre-teen might feel safe enough to run in the street. Even so, most kids are taught at an early age to look both ways before crossing the street. I think it is likely that Kevin, or his parents, will bear some responsibility for Kevin's injuries since he did not belong in the street.
Peter's strongest defense against Kevin's claim is to argue - as David did above - that the injuries arising form the telephone pole were not foreseeable and therefore the damage is too attenuated for Peter to be held liable. Here, it is less clear. The casual connection is closer than it was with David. I think that it is foreseeable that when someone is speeding they might lose control and damage would result from that loss of control. While the pole snapping was not foreseeable, the risk of some type of harm coming about was foreseeable. It is not necessary to show that a specific harm was foreseeable as it is that some harm was foreseeable. I think Peter will be liable for some measure of Kevin's damages.
Although it may not have been foreseeable for this accident to happen, I think that TeleCo is probably liable to Kevin for damages. Here, TeleCo was under a duty of reasonable care since it knew that its telephone poles would be placed along the sides of roads. It was foreseeable that a car might hit a pole with sufficient force as to knock the pole down. Since the poles are commonly placed in neighborhoods, it is reasonable to conclude that a pole might fall on someone.
Despite its duty to protect against potential harm, TeleCo did not do any testing to determine the danger involved in falling poles. Furthermore, it did nothing to mitigate the danger by seeking to reinforce the pole with metal strips, to sink poles deeper in the ground or buy a harder type of wood. The only factor that TeleCo thought was relevant was keeping its costs down. Consequently, I think that TeleCo's failure to seek alternatives was a breach of its duty of care.
Under a causation analysis, the breach was both a direct and proximate cause of Kevin's injuries. But-for TeleCo's breach, Kevin's injuries would not have occurred. Furthermore, it is foreseeable in a car accident where a pole falls, that an innocent bystander will get hurt. Since Kevin has shown damages, I think that TeleCo will probably be found negligent and liable for damages.
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After Using Promise Of Drone Memo Release To Push Its Appeals Court Nominee Through, Administration Returns To Dragging Its Feet
FCC Comment Page Buckles To Its Knees After John Oliver Asks Everyone To Comment
The Post-Snowden Surveillance World: Network Effects, Low Marginal Costs, And Technical Lock-in
from the only-connect dept
Tue, Jun 3rd 2014 12:37am — Glyn Moody
The concept of network effects, and the lock-in they produce, are both by now fairly well known. Most people understand why Microsoft retains its stranglehold on the desktop and word processing formats, despite the availability of equivalent free alternatives like GNU/Linux and LibreOffice, just as Facebook dominates the social networking sphere. A fascinating new paper by Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University, uses the idea of network effects and related areas to explore some of the deeper implications of Snowden's revelations about the modern world of surveillance (pdf).
Alongside network effects, Anderson notes two other factors, familiar from the world of technology, that are increasingly visible in the world of surveillance: low marginal costs and technical lock-in. First, the network effects:
The Snowden papers show that neutrals like Sweden and India are heavily involved in information sharing with the NSA, even though they have tried for years to pretend otherwise. A non-aligned country such as India used to be happy to buy warplanes from Russia; nowadays it still does, but it shares intelligence with the NSA rather then the FSB. If you have a choice of joining a big spy network like America's or a small one like Russia's then it's like choosing whether to write software for the PC or the Mac back in the 1990s. It may be partly an ideological choice, but the economics canoften be stronger than the ideology.
Here's how low marginal costs have revolutionized world politics:
Second, modern warfare, like the software industry, has seen the bulk of its costs turn from variable costs into fixed costs. In medieval times, warfare was almost entirely a matter of manpower, and society was organised appropriately; as well as rent or produce, tenants owed their feudal lord forty days' service in peacetime, and sixty days during a war. Barons held their land from the king in return for an oath of fealty, and a duty to provide a certain size of force on demand; priests and scholars paid a tax in lieu of service, so that a mercenary could be hired in their place. But advancing technology brought steady industrialisation. When the UK and the USA attacked Germany in 1944, we did not send millions of men to Europe, as in the first world war, but a combat force of a couple of hundred thousand troops -- though with thousands of tanks and backed by larger numbers of men in support roles in tens of thousands of aircraft and ships. Nowadays the transition from labour to capital has gone still further: to kill a foreign leader, we could get a drone fire a missile that costs $30,000. But that's backed by colossal investment -- the firms whose data are tapped by PRISM have a combined market capitalisation of over $1 trillion.
Finally, there's the technical lock-in:
First, there are lock-in effects in the underlying industries, where (for example) Cisco dominates the router market: those countries that have tried to build US-free information infrastructures (China) or even just government information infrastructures (Russia, Germany) find it's expensive. China went to the trouble of sponsoring an indigenous vendor, Huawei, but it's unclear how much separation that buys them because of the common code shared by router vendors: a vulnerability discovered in one firm's products may affect another. Thus the UK government lets BT buy Huawei routers for all but its network's most sensitive parts (the backbone and the lawful-intercept functions). Second, technical lock-in affects the equipment used by the intelligence agencies themselves, and is in fact promoted by the agencies via ETSI standards for functions such as lawful intercept.
The rest of the paper explores the implications of those factors. For example, Anderson notes that network effects lead to a surprising degree of technical integration between Western democracies and some of the less salubrious regimes around the world, notably through the export of spying technologies from the former to the latter. Another kind of integration is taking place between intelligence agencies and law enforcement:
It looks increasingly like law-enforcement and intelligence systems will merge into a single surveillance system, since the issue engages all of the three reasons that makes information markets different: there are strong network effects, there is technical lock-in growing from the fact that everyone's using the same technology platforms and presenting warrants to the same service firms for the same data; and the back-end systems needed to aggregate, index, and analyse the product have high capital costs and very low marginal ones. Institutional arrangements are starting to reflect this; in addition to the FBI acting as the NSA's funnel into Google and Microsoft, all UK police wiretaps are now done by the National Technical Assistance Centre, which is essentially a service window at GCHQ. There is indeed no point in making the taxpayer buy the same systems twice.
Despite these rather depressing observations and predictions, the paper does contain some upbeat thoughts. For example, Anderson emphasizes that network effects provide a good reason for the US to support a more principled kind of surveillance, in the knowledge that its current dominance will pass, and that it, too, will be subject to just the kind of spying that it currently inflicts on others:
If the barriers between nations that participate in the intelligence networks are not sustainable in the long term, and neither are the barriers between intelligence and law enforcement, then what's sauce for the goose will be sauce also for the gander. Policymakers should not delude themselves into believing that a temporary 'home field advantage', as NSA Director General Alexander put it, will last for ever, or even for the lifetime of most of us.
Anderson even manages to see hope that the experience of addressing the consequences of network effects in the world of surveillance may lead to broader gains in the future:
The regulation of surveillance might therefore be a useful early example of what governance could look like in a future networked world, and may in fact be one of the hardest such problems that we face. It contains elements of both fear and hope: fear that an apparatus of global surveillance might be captured by an oppressive successor empire, and hope that there might be no successor, but merely civilisation (whatever that means). This asymmetry may introduce the possibility of new approaches, and nudge realists from selfishness to more enlightened selfishness. As for liberal thinking, the lesson is that we don't just have to rely on international institutions; there are extremely powerful network effects in play, which will be a force for pacification and stability; we must work with them.
As that indicates, this is an extremely thoughtful and wide-ranging paper that draws together a number of big issues -- surveillance, privacy, governance, geopolitics etc. It's an important contribution to the debate initiated by the release of NSA and GCHQ documents by Edward Snowden, and anyone interested in what the longer-term implications of those revelations will be really ought to read it.
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Whatever, 3 Jun 2014 @ 2:04am
Good Until
It was good until this line:
the firms whose data are tapped by PRISM have a combined market capitalisation of over $1 trillion.
The capitalization of the firms "tapped" has little to do with the costs of operating the NSA or any other "spy" agency. The argument would be better made pointing out the costs of setting up and maintaining PRISM and related activities - except that much of it is again labor intensive, which moots the entire argument.
Also, technical lock in isn't something that breaks down borders, if anything it's motivation for countries to invest in their own internal industries to try to out perform - or at least perform as well. Cisco is good, but their market domination isn't for life.
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Michael, 3 Jun 2014 @ 3:18am
the fact that everyone�s using the same technology platforms and presenting warrants to the same service firms for the same data; and
someone is getting warrants?
Anonymous Coward, 3 Jun 2014 @ 6:04am
an issue that India has now because of dropping Russia in favor of USA is that there have been more cases concerning copyright infringement with the government doing more to stop it just because USA wants to please Hollywood etc. the other thing is the booting out of 'look-a-like drugs. that has meant a tremendous increase in the number of people who cant afford to get the drugs they need because, thanks to the USA and the drug companies, look-a-likes are basically banned. not a bad way to ensure they keep their sales figures and profits up, eh? stop the poor from being cured or treated, escalate the number of deaths and how much quicker it gets to that point, all in the name of PROFIT!!
Richard (profile), 3 Jun 2014 @ 8:20am
thanks to the USA and the drug companies, look-a-likes are basically banned. not a bad way to ensure they keep their sales figures and profits up, eh? stop the poor from being cured or treated, escalate the number of deaths
We have not moved on from the 19th century- have we?
"If they'd rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
- Ebenezer Scrooge
Hm - is bringing in Scrooge a bit like bringing in "the Nazis"?
Rekrul, 3 Jun 2014 @ 9:49am
Most people understand why Microsoft retains its stranglehold on the desktop and word processing formats, despite the availability of equivalent free alternatives like GNU/Linux and LibreOffice, just as Facebook dominates the social networking sphere.
Windows remains the OS of choice because it's the most supported by third party companies and because Linux is too complicated for the average person. If the Linux program you're looking for isn't something hugely popular and well known, chances are that it's a command-line only program requiring long strings of obscure parameters to do anything useful.
Anonymous Coward, 3 Jun 2014 @ 11:48am
I lol'd. Clearly you don't use linux.
Rekrul, 3 Jun 2014 @ 11:22pm
No, but often I'll go looking for a program for Windows, to accomplish a specific task, like converting something, and I almost always run across Linux programs in the search results. Sometimes I click on the site, not realizing that it's devoted to Linux, and most of the time, the program turns out to be a command line program.
John Fenderson (profile), 3 Jun 2014 @ 3:45pm
"Windows remains the OS of choice because it's the most supported by third party companies"
I don't actually think this is true. But I think you meant something different: that Windows is the most supported by the companies who made the software most people use.
"and because Linux is too complicated for the average person"
Linux is no more complicated than Windows is (and in many things, it's a lot LESS complicated). The actual problem is that people believe that Linux is more complicated, because that perception was cemented years ago, when it was actually true.
"If the Linux program you're looking for isn't something hugely popular and well known, chances are that it's a command-line only program requiring long strings of obscure parameters to do anything useful."
This is simply incorrect.
Is there a Linux version of Microsoft Word? Photoshop? Excel? Maybe it has a ton of game support, like Call of Duty? Dead Space? Mass Effect? The Tomb Raider series?
Did I miss the Linux section at Staples? Best Buy? Walmart? Gamestop?
Will Logitech support be able to help me when I need a Linux driver for my joystick?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
What's the most popular video encoding program on Linux? I don't know for certain, but I'd guess ffmpeg. How do you convert files with ffmpeg?
http://linuxers.org/tutorial/how-convert-video-files-various-other-video-formats-using-ffmpeg
How about using Mencoder which is included with Mplayer? Here's the example string I found on the net for converting a file to AVI format;
mencoder -sws 2 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vpass=1 -ffourcc XVID input.ext -o /nul
mencoder -sws 2 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1000:vhq:vpass=2 -ffourcc XVID input.ext -o "output.avi"
Apparently it can also create other formats, but then you have to read the manual for ffmpeg as well, and integrate its commands into the Mencoder command string.
How about Mupen64Plus, the cross-platform Nintendo 64 emulator? How do you configure the controls? It couldn't be easier! You just find the InputAutoCfg.ini file and manually edit it to set the controls, which the Wiki page says "...shouldn't be too hard to figure out...";
http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ControllerSetup
Yes, there are some front ends available for these programs, but the fact that they're not integrated into the program means that they almost never give you access to all the options available.
You'll probably tell me that I've cherry-picked some obscure examples, but I see this sort of thing virtually every time I look at Linux programs.
John Fenderson (profile), 4 Jun 2014 @ 9:03am
Re: Re: Re:
"Is there a Linux version of Microsoft Word? Photoshop? Excel?"
Not sure how this question supports your claim that "Windows remains the OS of choice because it's the most supported by third party companies". You've only named three third party companies. It really gets more to my point, that you're talking about the most popular software, not the most companies that make software.
BTW, there are Linux programs that accomplish the same thing as (and can exchange files with) those products.
"How do you convert files with ffmpeg?"
The most popular method is to use VLC, which is a GUI-based program. Remember that the Unix design philosophy is to intentionally make the GUI and the "engine" two different things. Behind the scenes, the work may be getting done by ffmpeg (or some similar tool), but you're only interacting with a GUI. Most of the people I know who use Linux but aren't Linux nerds never use the command line for anything, period. It's entirely unnecessary unless you are doing deeply technical, nerdy stuff (and even then, it's rarely mandatory, just easier).
BTW, there are several very good GUI front ends for Mencoder as well. You never have to use the mencoder command line directly.
"but the fact that they're not integrated into the program means that they almost never give you access to all the options available."
Also simply not true.
"You'll probably tell me that I've cherry-picked some obscure examples, but I see this sort of thing virtually every time I look at Linux programs."
If you've cherry picked, you did a bad job of it as your examples don't actually hold up. If that's all you see when you look at Linux programs, you're looking at the wrong things. Try including a window manager in your search term (if you use KDE, for example, search for "KDE video converter").
Or, if that's too obscure, just browse through your package manager's catalog.
Re: Re: Re: Re:
How many stores can you walk into and buy Linux software?
Yes, yes, I know, with Linux, you can download everything! The problem is that I see computer owners all the time who can't do anything unless they have a printed manual in front of them telling them exactly what to do. Even then, some of them can't figure it out and have to call the company for help. Half the people I know can't even figure out where their web browser saves the files when they download them!
How many of the large game companies like EA and Activision support Linux?
When they walk into Walmart and want to buy an HP printer, is it going to come with Linux drivers?
And if they need to use those specific programs at work, they're not going to want to learn a different program at home. I know people who get confused by the differences between Hotmail and gmail, even though they offer pretty much all the same functions. The fact that the buttons are in different places or named differently has them scratching their heads.
I have a friend whose main computer has gotten so slow, it's basically unusable. Even I don't know how to fix it without wiping it and re-installing everything from scratch. I did that to an old laptop that someone gave them and while it wasn't fast, it worked fine. I installed free, lightweight, antivirus and firewall software, made sure it would connect automatically to their WiFi, etc. I tested it on all the popular sites like YouTube, Hotmail, etc. It worked fine. Now they claim that they can't get on the internet and that it's popping up all kinds of warnings. They had another computer that someone gave them, which they had hooked up to their TV in the living room. They decided to disconnect the main one, which was too slow, and start using this one. Now they claim that they can't get on the net and that it's popping up warnings. I told them to call Comcast and ask why they can't connect to the net, but they didn't want to do that because they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to follow Comcast's instructions or answer their questions.
I'll be perfectly honest; I do a lot of things that would probably give most security experts nightmares. I turn off the AV real-time scanning when it starts slowing things down, I download and run programs from authors' personal web sites (although I do scan everything and I try to use common sense about what I download), I visit web sites that Google claims are a risk and I use an administrator account because my attempts at installing programs to use from a limited user account were a miserably failure. And yet, I don't have even a fraction of the problems that my friend has on a regular and on-going basis.
I'm not saying I'm invulnerable, I just find it strange that I do all the things I shouldn't and my system is working fine, while they have full-time AV protection and only use their computer for a fraction of what I do and they have nothing but problems.
The fact is that they really don't have a clue what they're doing. Want to tell them to take a screenshot of the error and send it in email? Not only do you have to describe how to create a screenshot, you have to describe how to save it, how to locate the file they just saved, how to start an email from scratch, how to attach the file...
I'd like to say that they're the exception, but this describes most of the computer owners I know. Most of them wouldn't know how to change their desktop resolution if their lives depended on it. "Ooh, nice wallpaper image!" "Thanks, I'll give you the program to install it."
The most popular method is to use VLC, which is a GUI-based program.
That doesn't surprise me. Maybe that's why I see so many screwed up videos on the net.
I actually didn't know that VLC had an option to convert videos, mainly because I've never liked VLC. I formed a very negative opinion of it when the first version I tried wouldn't play a single video. Then they released a version that played the video, but the audio was completely garbled. When they finally got it to play both video and audio correctly, it still used more CPU than any other video player and the fullscreen controls were a bad joke. Not to mention that I could easily crash it by just playing with the options. It always seemed like they were more concerned with adding obscure features than in making sure they had a stable player that worked properly.
In any case, I just tried converting a video with it. I fed it a 1280x544 MKV file and told it to convert it to an AVI file. It selected a video width of 720, but set the height at 576, which produced a 4:3 image, which is completely wrong. While I know how to calculate the correct image height, most people probably wouldn't and would just use the defaults. It also apparently only does single-pass encoding, which often doesn't produce the best results, especially with the default bitrate of 900.
Apparently none of those front ends exist for Windows, because I've tried all the ones I could find and they all pretty much suck. There's MeWIG, which doesn't allow you to change any of the audio settings, doesn't allow you to encode only a portion of the video for sample purposes and only encodes to AVI and OGM. Oh, did I mention that it doesn't even work? Despite having the location for Mplayer and Mencoder properly set, the progress bar instantly shoots across and it claims it's finished, even though nothing was written. Then there's Tencoder, which has more options, but still doesn't allow you to encode just a portion of the file. I've tried every Mencoder front end I could find and wasn't happy with any of them.
Front ends rarely have the same range of options as the program offers from the command line. In the examples above, I've yet to find a front end (for Windows) for Mencoder that offers the option to set the start and stop times for encoding, even though both are available from the command line (-ss xxx for seconds to start and -frames xxx how many frames to encode).
Check out Mednafen, a cross-platform (mostly on Linux OSs), multi-system emulator. There are a bunch of front ends for it, but I've yet to find one that gives you a GUI for remapping the controls. That still has to be done by pressing a hotkey and then following the instructions in the window, which forces you to remap about twice as many controls as needed for whatever system you're currently emulating. Most all the front ends I tried are purely there to allow you to select a game to play and then Mednafen takes over and all configuration is done through hotkeys or by editing a config file.
nasch (profile), 3 Jun 2014 @ 10:08am
Some of these observations seem overly optimistic.
"Policymakers should not delude themselves into believing that a temporary 'home field advantage', as NSA Director General Alexander put it, will last for ever, or even for the lifetime of most of us."
" It contains elements of both fear and hope: fear that an apparatus of global surveillance might be captured by an oppressive successor empire,"
The implication being that the current empire isn't oppressive?
beltorak (profile), 3 Jun 2014 @ 11:10am
> For example, Anderson emphasizes that network effects provide a good reason for the US to support a more principled kind of surveillance, in the knowledge that its current dominance will pass, and that it, too, will be subject to just the kind of spying that it currently inflicts on others....
You want the US to admit what!!?!
Uriel-238 (profile), 3 Jun 2014 @ 11:24am
re: Optimism
It contains elements of both fear and hope: fear that an apparatus of global surveillance might be captured by an oppressive successor empire.
I think that he's giving the benefit of the doubt, nasch. Also, the NSA leaks to the DoJ that we know of (important words those) are regarding the war on drugs and the war on terror. Once this particular information vector expands to include other functions (prosecuting, say, copyright violations and acts in conflict with specific religious moralities) then we will have attained a greater magnitude of oppression.
It's very likely that the NSA is also using their surveillance information to track hackers (no matter what kind of hat they wear, the NSA seems to think they're all bad). That's a degree of oppression that we shouldn't tolerate, granted, but the oppression can get certainly worse.
Re: re: Optimism
the oppression can get certainly worse.
No argument there.
Collect it all? Lets face it: we call it hoarding, Mr Clapper.
Jonno, 9 Jun 2014 @ 9:31pm
The reason free software hasn't taken off is simple: it's just not very good. I say that with a heavy heart, as I'd love if it wasn't the case, but it is. The only significant examples of free software taking off are backed by large companies (Ubuntu, Android, Red Hat, Mandriva, etc.), because these companies have a profit motive. I have been trying to get into linux for decades, and I still can't. I install it, it doesn't work. I search for why it doesn't work. Three hours later I'm compiling kernel extensions to get my mouse to work. Two days later I reformat the partition and get back to the stable world of Windows and Mac. When FOSS does work, it's ugly as sin, and more often than not hacked together using the computing equivalent of superglue. Things like vendor lock aren't a myth, but they are hugely less important than FOSS advocates like to think. It's simple economic rationalism. If I'm a company (or an individual over the age of twenty who has actual work to do on their computer), which am I going to with - the polished, functional, and well-supported Windows/Mac/MS Office/Photoshop? Or the hideous, out of date, cobbled-together monstrosities that are Linux/OpenOffice/GIMP? I'm sure I'll get very angry reactions to this post, which is misplaced emotion - I truly wish this weren't so, but I simply don't believe the economic reality is there to make non-corporate FOSS get ahead.
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While the financial incentives are more in domestic cricket now, Ganguly feels that something extra will motivate the players. After all, it may allow the unknowns to make a mark that will possibly see them on the international stage.


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Autobiography of a Yogi (Complete Edition)
By Paramahansa Yogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages. With engaging candor, eloquence, and wit, Paramahansa Yogananda tells the inspiring chronicle of his life: the experiences of his remarkable childhood, encounters with many saints and sages during his youthful search throughout India for an illumined teacher, ten years of training in the hermitage of a revered yoga master, and the thirty years that he lived and taught in America. Also recorded here are his meetings with Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Luther Burbank, the Catholic stigmatist Therese Neumann, and other celebrated spiritual personalities of East and West. The author clearly explains the subtle but definite laws behind both the ordinary events of everyday life and the extraordinary events commonly termed miracles. His absorbing life story becomes the background for a penetrating and unforgettable look at the ultimate mysteries of human existence.
Selected as "One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century", Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into more than 30 languages, and is regarded worldwide as a classic of religious literature. Several million copies have been sold, and it continues to appear on best-seller lists after more than sixty consecutive years in print. Self-Realization Fellowship's editions, and none others, include extensive material added by the author after the first edition was published, including a final chapter on the closing years of his life.
Inspired. Beautiful. A must.
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A must read for those seeking God
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The Yoga of Jesus
Scientific Healing Affirmations
God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita
Metaphysical Meditations
Man's Eternal Quest
How You Can Talk With God
Living Fearlessly
The Law of Success
The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness
Whispers From Eternity
The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita
Journey to Self-Realization
How to Cultivate Divine Love
The Science of Religion
Remolding Your Life
Focusing the Power of Attention for Success
Where Are Our Departed Loved Ones?
Harmonizing Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Methods of Healing
Healing by God's Unlimited Power
To be Victorious in Life
Answered Prayers
Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda
Why God Permits Evil and How to Rise Above It
How to Awaken and Direct It
Art of Super-Realization: Initiation
Wine of the Mystic
In the Sanctuary of the Soul
Songs of the Soul
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The Divine Romance
Two Frogs In Trouble
Where There is Light
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The festival's selection committee has a fairly broad definition of "adventure," and this year's entries range from straight-up sports flicks like Follow Me to environmental documentaries like Vanishing of the Bees. As an added bonus, some of the shorter films are available for free on Vimeo, so fans who can't make it can still get a taste of the fest.
Climbers Renan Ozturk and Cory Richards attempt a new line up Tawoche, a 21,320-foot peak in Nepal. As they go, they film their adventure and release it from the field in a series of video dispatches, editing and uploading it to Vimeo from a tent high in the Himalayas. Personally, I think it's brilliant.
While other climbers have dabbled in reporting from the field, very few besides Ozturk have turned out this kind of big-screen-worthy footage. As It Happens says something very interesting about the ways in which mobile media is changing the documentary process.
I've watched my fair share of bass fishing on ESPN, and I still think calling it a sport is a stretch at best. Compared to mountain biking, rock climbing, and skiing, fishing seems like a dull subject for a movie.
That said, I'll give Eastern Rises the benefit of the doubt. This documentary on a trout-fishing expedition to the Kamchatka Peninsula has a lot going for it. From the little I've seen, it seems to focus as much on its spectacular setting than on the angling itself. Felt Soul Media has a track record of putting out very soulful, place-based films too, so this one might be worth a watch.
Ever since I first heard of Andrew McAuley, I've been captivated by his story. McAuley, a kayaker and adventurer from Australia, disappeared in 2007 during an attempt to paddle solo from Tasmania to New Zealand. By that point, he had spent nearly a month alone on the ocean.
Solo uses interviews and video footage recovered from McAuley's kayak to attempt to reconstruct his final voyage. We get to hear much of the story directly from McAuley himself, in the form a video diary he kept throughout his trip. The recording of his distress call, played at the beginning of the trailer, made me physically shudder.
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What was the hurry in filing charge sheet without sanctions, asked Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sehrawat on Monday while pulling up the Delhi Police in connection with the JNU sedition case.
The Patiala House Court further sought a report of the case from Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and then slated the matter for further hearing on March 29.
During the course of hearing, Chief Public Prosecutor Vikas Singh informed the court that granting of sanctions can take two to three months. The court is also likely to view and consider the electronic evidence in the case, including a video of the incident.
On February 28, the Delhi Police informed the court that the file for grant of sanctions is still pending with Delhi government and that they have received no reply as yet.
The court had directed the Delhi Police to urge the Delhi government to expedite the sanction process to prosecute former JNU Student's Union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the case.
It also rapped the Delhi government, saying it cannot sit on a file for an indefinite time. Under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the court cannot take cognisance of the police charge sheet without sanction from the home department of the state concerned.
Delhi Police has claimed to have recovered communication between Kanhaiya Kumar and his associate Umar Khalid besides video footage to suggest "evidence" that they were part of a group of students who raised anti-national slogans during a protest event organised on the campus on February 9, 2016.
In the charge sheet filed in court in January, Delhi Police had said there were videos wherein Kumar could be seen "leading the students who were raising anti-national slogans" and that he had been identified by witnesses in the videos.
"The location of mobile phone at the place of occurrence" was also cited as evidence against Kumar in the 1200-page charge sheet.


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Sports & Energy Drink Consumption Linked to Unhealthy Teen Behaviors
By Rachael Rettner 2014-05-06T07:45:45Z
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Teens who drink sports and energy drinks may be more likely to also engage in other unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, drinking soda and playing video games for many hours, a new study finds.
Researchers surveyed about 2,800 teens in middle and high schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and asked them about how often they drank sport and energy drinks, as well as other behaviors.
About 38 percent said they consumed sports drinks at least once a week, and 15 percent said they consumed energy drinks at least once a week. [10 Ways to Promote Kids' Healthy Eating Habits]
On average, teens who consumed sports and energy drinks at least once a week played more hours of video games, drank more servings of sugar-sweetened beverages and were more likely to have ever smoked cigarettes, compared to those who consumed sports and energy drinks less than once a week.
For example, boys who consumed energy drinks at least once a week spent about four more hours per week playing video games, compared to those who consumed energy drinks less often.
And about 20 percent of boys and girls who frequently consumed energy drinks said they had smoked cigarettes, compared to about 8 percent of those who consumed energy drinks less often.
Boys who consumed sports drinks at least once a week also watched about an hour more TV per week than boys who consumed sports drinks less often.
The findings "are troubling because they may indicate a clustering of problem behaviors among some adolescents," the researchers, wrote in the May/June issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
However, the study was conducted at one point in time, so the researchers cannot say which came first, the sports and energy drink consumption, or the other unhealthy behaviors.
But the study does show that these behaviors tend to track together, said Dr. Jason Block, an assistant professor of population medicine at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the study.
"Based on this study, we can't blame the sports and energy drinks at all," for the higher levels of unhealthy behaviors, Block said. "It's just that adolescents who aren't focused on healthy behaviors are more likely to consume these beverages," Block said.
Block said he is not aware of any evidence suggesting that sports and energy drinks are a gateway to other unhealthy behaviors. Future studies that follow teens over time are needed to determine the reason for the link, the researchers said.
The researchers noted that teens' exposure to TV advertising for energy drinks increased 20 percent between 2009 and 2010.
"It is critical that adolescents and their parents are educated about the potential consequences associated with consuming sports and energy drinks, and that targeted advertising does not continue to encourage them to purchase these beverages," study researcher Nicole Larson, of the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health, told the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior in an interview.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says that sports drinks are unnecessary for the average young athlete, and that because the drinks contain sugar, they could contribute to weight gain and tooth decay. However, the AAP also says that drinking a small amount of sport drinks may be appropriate for young athletes who have been vigorously exercising for prolonged periods.
In the new study, teens' sports drink consumption was linked with higher levels of moderate-to-vigorous activity per week, and with a higher percentage of participation in sports, however "it is unlikely that consumption only followed vigorous, prolonged activity as recommended by the AAP," the researchers said.
"Water should instead be promoted as the best option for hydration following physical activity," Larson said.
The AAP does not recommend energy drinks for children or teens because the drinks contain stimulants, such as caffeine, that may have harmful health effects on the developing nervous and cardiovascular systems.
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Kim Ng's Hiring Could Be The Start Of Something Special In Miami
Nov. 16, 2020 , at 12:04 PM
By Neil Paine
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Kim Ng, the new general manager of the Miami Marlins, is the first female GM in any of the four major North American men's sports.
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Long-overdue baseball history was made late last week when the Miami Marlins announced they had hired Kim Ng as general manager. Ng is MLB's first female GM, as well as the sport's first Asian American GM, and she is also the first woman to serve as general manager in any major North American men's league. In breaking those barriers, Ng will undoubtedly influence a younger generation of girls to aim for jobs in the traditionally male-dominated world of baseball. In the interim, she'll also step into an intriguing situation in Miami — at the helm of what was baseball's most surprising team in 2020.
Ng's ascendance to the GM chair has been a long time coming. In fact, she might be one of the most qualified first-time GMs ever, based on her wealth of previous experience. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1990, Ng began her MLB path as an intern with the Chicago White Sox, quickly becoming a full-time analyst with the club and then its assistant director of baseball operations. There, she became the youngest person — and first woman — to present an arbitration case, ultimately winning Chicago its bid over pitcher Alex Fernandez's salary.
In 1998, Ng was named assistant GM of the New York Yankees under Brian Cashman, at the time becoming (at age 29) the youngest person in MLB to hold that post. She would go on to win three championships with the Yankees, part of a dynasty that also included current Marlins CEO Derek Jeter at shortstop. Ng spent the next decade as the Los Angeles Dodgers' vice president and assistant GM, and she had been with MLB's league office as its senior vice president of baseball operations since 2011.
Ng was seemingly on the short list for every GM opening in the past decade but was repeatedly passed over. According to ESPN's Stats & Information Group, Ng previously interviewed for GM jobs with the Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, San Diego Padres (twice) and Seattle Mariners. Now that she is finally getting her chance with the Marlins, though, it is likely that Ng is exceptionally well-prepared to succeed — for the same reason that members of other historically underrepresented groups tend to shine once they are finally given a fair opportunity.
Think of an earlier baseball trailblazer, Jackie Robinson, who instantly played like an MVP after breaking the color barrier — representing the tip of an iceberg of great Black players who had been unjustly denied entry to MLB. Or how Black NFL quarterbacks still tend to be better than their white counterparts, decades after Doug Williams and Warren Moon: Going into Week 10, the average Black starting QB this season carried an Elo rating 24 percent better than the average white QB. This is simply a selection effect at work: People who tear down barriers of prejudice have to be that much better in order to reach the same level of status as those who don't face discrimination.
So it would figure that Ng has more than enough ability and knowledge to be an outstanding GM. And the team she inherits contains a lot of interesting possibilities. Despite an early season COVID-19 crisis, the Marlins came out of nowhere last season to make the playoffs — and even swept a postseason series! — solidifying themselves as one of the big winners of 2020 pandemic-ball:
That said, they probably played above their heads to get there. According to our friend the Pythagorean expectation — which predicts a team's record based on its runs scored and allowed — Miami "should have" gone 26-34 instead of 31-29, which would have left it outside the postseason picture entirely. (That five-win difference between Miami's actual and expected records was the largest gap in baseball.) Along the way, the team found an unlikely best player in 31-year-old shortstop Miguel Rojas, whose 4.2 wins above replacement1 per 162 games towered above his previous career high of 1.8 (set in 2017). In its current state, a lot of this roster looks like what you'd expect from a team with the majors' third-lowest payroll.
But thanks to strong drafts and a series of trades for prospects, the Marlins had a top-five farm system by the end of the 2020 regular season, with young outfielders JJ Bleday and Jesús Sánchez and shortstop Jazz Chisholm ranked as their top-ranked position players. Miami had the fifth-youngest pitching staff in MLB last season,2 spearheaded by Sixto Sánchez (in his age-21 season), Pablo López (24), Sandy Alcántara (24) and Elieser Hernández (25). (And 21-year-old right-hander Max Meyer is also on the way within the next few seasons.) For a franchise still reeling from the death of ace José Fernández, the current Marlins' promising staff looks like a solid starting point for Ng to build from.
Of course, these are the Marlins, after all — a team synonymous with perennially low salaries, punctuated by the occasional championship fire sale. But Ng has said she wants to change the perception of the franchise.
"We are building for the long term in South Florida," she said in a statement after her hiring was announced. "When I got into this business, it seemed unlikely a woman would lead a Major League team, but I am dogged in the pursuit of my goals. My goal is now to bring championship baseball to Miami. I am both humbled and eager to continue building the winning culture our fans expect and deserve."
As Ng works toward her goals for her team, she'll be simultaneously bulldozing obstacles for a future generation of women who aspire to work at the highest levels of baseball.
Using our JEFFBAGWELL metric to blend WAR from Baseball-Reference.com and FanGraphs, for which you can download data on GitHub.
Weighted by leverage-adjusted innings pitched.
Neil Paine is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight. @Neil_Paine
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Master 2020/2021
Type: Compulsory course (Mathematics)
Area of studies: Mathematics
Delivered by: Department of Fundamental Mathematics
When: 1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies: offline
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Vyacheslav Grines
Master's programme: Mathematics
ECTS credits: 5
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The course is devoted to the description of the current state of the theory of dynamic systems from the point of view of topological classification of important classes of systems with regular and chaotic dynamics arising in the modeling of various processes of natural science.
To show the current state of research in the field of dynamic systems, the beginning of which dates back to the classical works of A. Poincare, A. M. Lyapunov, A. A. Andronov and his school of nonlinear oscillations, which determined many achievements of specialists in the direction of studying the stability and theory of bifurcations of dynamic systems for many years to come.
To explain the phenomenon of "hyperbolic revolution", begun in the works of D. V. Anosov and S. Smale, and the associated cascade of works in the field of topological classification of dynamic systems on manifolds with complex dynamics.
To give an idea of the methods of the qualitative theory of dynamic systems, closely related to the study of the topology of the phase spaces on which they are defined.
understanding of dynamics on the circle
Know calssification theorem for cascades on surfaces
Understanding of the interrelation between dynamics and topology of ambient manifold. T
Understanding resuluts on topological structure of multidimensional manifolds (dimensions greater than three) that admit Morse-Smale flows and cascades without heteroclinic intersections of saddle periodic points with Morse index 1 or n-1.
Theme 1. Dynamics of one-dimensional mappings.
Topological classification of homeomorphisms of a circle with a finite nonwandering set. Periodic circle mappings and their classification. Poincaré rotation number and classification of transitive homeomorphisms. The construction of circle homeomorphisms with a nowhere dense nonwandering set and their topological classification. Denjoy theorem. Endomorphisms of the circle, which are local homeomorphisms. Classification of expanding maps. The concept of chaotic dynamics. Three attributes of chaotic dynamics.
Theme 2. Classification of flows, foliations and cascades on surfaces with regular and chaotic dynamics.
Topological classification of two-dimensional manifolds. Vector fields on surfaces, equilibrium states and their index. The Euler-Poincaré-Hopf formula on the relationship between the indices of equilibrium states of a vector field and the Euler characteristic. Flows on a torus without equilibrium states. Asymptotic behavior of the preimages of the trajectories on the universal covering. Poincaré rotation number in the interpretation of A. Weil. Topological classification of flows without equilibrium states on a torus. Flows on surfaces of negative Euler characteristic. The role of the Lobachevsky plane in the description of flows and foliations on surfaces of negative curvature. Homotopy class of rotation (Aranson-Grines) and topological classification of transitive flows on surfaces. The concept of geodesic laminations and the representation of minimal sets of flows by geodesic laminations. Two-webs on surfaces and their topological classification. Morse-Smale flows on surfaces. Topological classification of structurally stable flows without closed trajectories by means of Peixoto graphs. Cascades of Morse-Smale. Topological classification of gradient-like cascades by means of flows without closed trajectories and periodic mappings. Diffeomorphisms of surfaces with a countable set of periodic points. The concept of a homoclinic trajectory. Classification of Anosov diffeomorphisms. Axiom A. S. Smale, and the classification of basiс sets.
Theme 3. The topology of three-dimensional manifolds and a description of structurally stable flows and cascades, the dynamic properties of which are most closely related to the topological characteristics of the carrier phase space.
Representation of three-dimensional manifolds in the form of a connected sum of simple manifolds (Milnor-Kneser theorem). Heegaard splitting of a three-dimensional manifold. The concept of the genus of Heegaard. The concept of heteroclinic trajectories of Morse-Smale flows on 3-manifolds. Representation of a manifold admitting a Morse-Smale flow without closed trajectories in the form of a connected sum of finitely many copies of the product of the two-dimensional sphere and the circle. A sufficient condition for the existence of heteroclinic flow trajectories, the concept of a separator in the theory of magnetic hydrodynamics. Representation of a manifold admitting a Morse-Smale flow without closed trajectories in the form of a Heegaard splitting with a Heegaard surface whose genus is determined by the number and type of equilibrium states of a given flow. A sufficient condition for the existence of a closed trajectory of an arbitrary Morse-Smale flow expressed in terms of the Heegaard genus of the supporting manifold. Morse-Smale diffeomorphisms of three-dimensional manifolds with invariant manifolds of saddle periodic points whose closures are wildly embedded in the ambient manifold. Topological invariants describing wild embeddings of separatrix closures. Knot invariant of Bonatti-Grines. Topological classification of diffeomorphisms from the Pexton class. Classification of three-dimensional manifolds which admit structurally stable diffeomorphisms whose nonwandering set has dimension three or consists of basic sets of dimension two.
Theme 4. Topological structure of multidimensional manifolds (dimensions greater than three) that admit Morse-Smale flows and cascades without heteroclinic intersections of saddle periodic points with Morse index 1 or n-1.
The topological structure of manifolds admitting rough flows with a nonwandering set consisting of three points. The concept of projective-like manifolds. The concept of a generalized Heegaard splitting of a manifold of dimension n> 3. The structure of the Heegaard hypersurface of a manifold admitting a Morse-Smale flow without closed trajectories, all saddle equilibrium states have a Morse index of 1 or n-1. The concept of embedding Morse-Smale diffeomorphism in a topological flow. Necessary Palis conditions and finding of sufficient conditions for embedding. Topological classification of Morse-Smale cascades on manifolds of dimension n> 3 under the assumption that the Morse index of periodic points belongs to the set {0,1, n, n-1} and the invariant manifolds of saddle periodic points do not intersect. A topological classification of structurally stable diffeomorphisms of the n-dimensional torus (n> 3), nonwandering sets of which contain basic sets of dimensions n and n-1.
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Recommended Core Bibliography
Grines V., Medvedev Timur, Pochinka O. Dynamical Systems on 2- and 3-Manifolds. Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Dynamical Systems on 2- and 3-Manifolds, XXVI, 295 p., Grines, V. Z., Medvedev, T. V., Pochinka, O. V., 2016
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