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On January 10th my 21 year old boyfriend of about seven years Jordan was in a terrible car accident on his way back to college in Erie Pa. He says there was about six inches of snow on the ground and the only other car on the road unfortunately didnt have enough time to react when his car spun out of control. He has a complete c6 and is considered "asia a." From what I have learned, he is pretty typical of most complete c6 quadriplegics. He can move his arms, shoulders, neck, and wrists. He has no feeling below his nipples, so he cant move his legs. His fusion surgery went well and now he is in a rehab facility in Philadelphia and I can visit him almost everyday.
He has a very good attitude, all of the nurses love him and he wants to succeed as much as possible, and hopes that he can at least get the use of his hands. Before coming to rehab, in the icu, he didn't think it would be this bad. His expectations were that he would at least gain movement in his fingers. Now, about a week into rehab, he feels like it wont come back unless a miracle in him happens or if a cure for SCI is found.
I love him so much and sometimes he tells me he can't live like this. He was very hopeful and I am scared that he is running out of hope and that my cheerleading isnt working anymore.
How likely do you think it will be that he will be able to use his hands again? Either due to a cure or his own body?


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Beware These Low-Quality Protein Sources
Beware These Low-Quality Protein Sources
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Most people tend to live by the mantra, "you get what you pay for." This is certainly the case when it comes to protein supplements, where a little bit of "caveat emptor" (buyer beware) is essential in ensuring you get real value for your money.
There is no doubt that high quality protein supplements cost more to produce than low-grade products. This translates to higher costs for the consumer and/or smaller profit margins for the manufacturers. But what if we told you that some of today's most trendy, expensive, and best selling "specialized" protein supplements were actually composed of inferior protein sources? In fact, the market is currently flooded with such products and they are flying off the shelf!
How do you make an inferior product and sell it at a high cost? Well, first you need to capitalize on the research of others, misinterpret it, use that misinterpretation to lower manufacturing costs, and then market the heck out of it. This is what is currently going on in the "blended" protein supplement market. These products include protein sources of varying absorption rates united under the philosophy that these blends will promote both the anabolic characteristics of fast digesting proteins and the anti-catabolic characteristics of slow-digesting proteins. Unfortunately, as we shall see, the "blended" protein movement has acted as a shield for unscrupulous manufacturers to hide poor-quality protein content in a lengthy laundry list of ingredients.
A Shaky Scientific Basis for Wide Spectrum Proteins
A recent study published in
The Journal of Nutrition
provides some of the first evidence supporting protein blends as muscle builders (J Nutr. 2013 Apr;143(4):410-6. doi: 10.3945/jn.112.168021). The researchers concluded that isolated soy protein blended with milk protein sustains amino acid levels and markers of protein synthesis after exercise better than whey protein isolate. However, the study used a questionable research design and a close look at the data suggests that the differences were modest at best. Regardless, this work marked a first step toward identifying blended protein supplements as muscle builders.
At this time there is no published evidence to show that any of the wide-spectrum protein formulas (which are generally proprietary) actually produce longer-lasting amino acid release into the bloodstream than basic micellar casein (the protein source with the slowest absorption). In fact, calling this class of products "sustained release" is a misnomer, where they seem to be more accurately described as "timed release" protein supplements (some companies have adopted this nomenclature).
Peer reviewed research directly comparing the anabolic efficacy of blended protein powders to more specifically targeted protein supplements is sparse. The concept of blending research assumed as a matter of course that high-quality muscle-building proteins would be used, in an effort to exploit their different absorption characteristics. However, currently, the biggest problem with blended protein powders is the lack of products that contain high quality protein sources. In fact, if you investigate the ingredients in this class of supplements, you will notice that most companies use the most inferior sources of protein--a cheap way for companies to boost protein content and increase profit. Remarkably, many companies use these inferior sources as the first ingredients in their blend!
The One-Size-Fits-All Approach
to Protein Supplementation
Generally speaking, blended protein supplements are popular because they offer something to everyone. You want fast-acting? They're fast-acting! You want extended release of aminos into the bloodstream? Hey, they do that, too. Unfortunately, even if these products contained only the highest-quality protein source content, this kind of all-round efficacy would be difficult to achieve in the 20-25 grams per serving of a typical protein supplement. And many of these products do not contain high-quality proteins.
Regardless of whether you prefer taking many different types of protein supplements throughout the day or if you are seeking a "jack of all trades" blended protein powder, we think that we should set the record straight on what constitutes a high quality protein supplement. In an effort to help you decide if a particular product is worth the money, we have created the following list with descriptions of the most common proteins used in all popular bodybuilding supplements today. We have categorized them based on the source and absorption speed and compared them based on cost/quality.
High Quality Protein Sources
Whey Protein Hydrolysate
Otherwise known as hydrolyzed whey protein, this ingredient is processed from whey protein isolate, whereby enzymes are used to "pre-digest" the protein so that it forms low molecular weight di- and tri-peptide fractions (short chains of amino acids). The remarkably greater rate of absorption of di- and tri-peptides compared to amino acid cocktails is a result of the body being a better transporter of small peptides than an amino acid carrier system, thus minimizing competition between substrates. Compared to all other protein sources, hydrolyzed whey is absorbed and cleared from the body the fastest, making it ideal as a post-workout protein source which promotes anabolism,
increased cell volumization
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The hydrolysis of whey protein is a very expensive process, making it the most expensive of the protein sources. In fact, WPH promotes the fastest surge of
amino acids
into the blood and the greatest anabolism, but shrinking profit margins deter many companies from including superior whey protein hydrolysate in their protein blends. The gold standard of fast-acting protein is
BioQuest's MyoZene
, which contains a rare and highly specialized hydrolysate technology that speeds aminos and other growth factors to muscles in as little as one hour. Little wonder, then, that MyoZene has been validated in product-specific clinical testing that featured a MyoZene-supplementing group of athletes experiences gains of 24% in strength/muscular endurance at the study mid-point, and 32% at the end of the study. Those are results that are worth every penny you spend!
Whey Protein Isolate
This is the purest source of protein on the market and, as such, contains approximately 90% protein and only about 0.5% fat and 0.5% lactose. Whey isolate is absorbed relatively fast, albeit not as rapidly as hydrolyzed whey protein. Several studies have illustrated the anabolic prowess of pure whey protein isolate in resistance-trained athletes. In fact, research has shown that whey protein isolate supplements promote greater lean mass and strength gains than supplementing with the same amount of casein protein (by virtue of its speed). Beyond lean mass gains, it has been shown that taking whey protein isolate decreases fat mass.
For years now, the NytroWhey brand has been synonymous with quality in the whey protein isolate category. In fact, the
original NytroWhey
revolutionized the category with its ultra-pure, crossflow-microfiltrated whey protein isolate processed in a superior fashion that preserved the growth factors (alphalactalbumin, lactoferrin, and glycomacropeptides) so essential to anabolism. Today,
NytroWhey Ultra Elite
has continued the advancement of protein technology with a protein blend that actually achieves what inferior products only pretend to attain.
NytroWhey Ultra Elite contains a growth-factor-rich crossflow microfiltration whey protein isolate that provides maximum bioavailability and combines it with an ultra-rapid action whey protein hydrolysate designed to flood aminos into the bloodstream immediately upon ingestion. NytroWhey Ultra Elite also contains a crossflow nanofiltration protein rich in a leucine-bound leucine peptide essential to switching on anabolism. Note that all three of these protein sources put the emphasis on speed and super-premium quality, making NytroWhey Ultra Elite that opposite of bargain basement proteins in every way possible.
Egg Protein (Albumin)
For years, eggs were the gold standard to which all other proteins were compared. Egg protein isolate supplements contain very little fat and cholesterol and maintain an abundance of amino acids from its native form. Egg protein isolate is well tolerated in moderation and digests completely, but it can cause bloating and gas if used in excess. Egg protein isolate is considered "medium speed," thus elevating amino acids at a moderate rate and maintaining them for about 2–3 hours.
Micellar Casein
A micelle is a large colloidal particle and micellar casein is the purest form casein protein. Its unique ability to form a gel in the stomach makes it a very efficient supplier of nutrients over an extended period of time. Like whey protein isolate, micellar casein is isolated using microfiltration and is therefore undenatured and retains its native structural properties. Casein is most noted for its anti-catabolic properties and its slow release of amino acids into blood circulation (for up to 7 hours). Micellar casein promotes a slight increase in anabolism and blunts catabolism by over 30%.
The key with micellar casein is that it should be used as an overnight protein source to support muscle growth over the long term. Mixing it with fast-acting protein content serves little purpose. And, of course, purchasing low-quality micellar casein serves no purpose at all. Unfortunately, that's often what you get in this category.
BioQuest's Ultimate Casein
is the industry's first elite-quality micellar casein product, with a superior amino acid profile that has also been enhanced with added BCAAs for even greater anabolism. As is the case with the-high quality whey isolate found in NytroWhey, specialized processing makes Ultimate Casein more expensive than other sources, but you get what you pay for.
Lower Quality Protein Sources
Whey Protein Concentrate
This is the cheapest form of whey protein, as it requires limited processing to manufacture the final product. Being the most affordable to produce, whey protein concentrate is also the most common first ingredient in blended protein supplements. This keeps profit margins high for the manufacturer, but protein quality low for the consumer.
WPC is absorbed slower than whey protein isolate, but whey protein concentrate is made from whey, the liquid "co-product" of cheese manufacturing and its gets separated from curd (casein) in the cheese production process. The liquid whey (not to be mistaken for pure whey protein) that's detached from curd is 0.8 to 0.9% protein and the remainder is mainly water, lactose, and a small percentage of vitamins. In an effort to concentrate the whey protein fraction, the liquid whey is subjected to spray drying (under low temperatures) or ultrafiltration. Depending on the quality of the product, whey protein concentrate can range from 35% to over 80% protein (on average about 75%) and contains varying amounts of lactose and fat.
Milk Protein Concentrate
Milk protein concentrate contains both whey and casein proteins. So, you could argue that milk protein isolate offers the additive contributions of amino acids from both milk protein sources. Milk protein concentrate has an absorption rate somewhere between that of whey protein isolate and micellar casein.
Because of limited processing, milk protein concentrate is cheaper to produce than isolated protein sources. Milk protein concentrate is a common ingredient in protein bars and meal-replacement powders because of the low cost to produce, decent amino acid profile, and creamier taste and texture compared to other proteins. The quality of milk protein concentrate can vary from product to product and so can the amounts of fat and lactose. As a consumer, you are paying for that variability and losing out on the protein content.
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Casein and Caseinates
Casein makes up the largest proportion of protein in cow's milk (about 80%) and is a very slow digesting protein. Casein in this form is very stable at high heat and is prepared either by rennet coagulation (a process that uses enzymes to coagulate milk in cheese production) or by isoelectric precipitation with an acid (also used in cheese production) to form calcium caseinate or sodium caseinate. These methods of purification are less expensive than microfiltration, but require heat and chemicals to yield product. As such, casein protein is less pure and less bioactive than micellar casein. The cost of producing this stuff is much less than micellar casein, thus you will commonly see this inferior protein source listed among the top ingredients in blended protein powders.
So, now it is up to you to decide which protein supplements are best for you. Our advice is to carefully read the ingredients to be certain that the product you choose uses the highest quality protein sources (as indicated in this article) in its formulation. It is common to see inferior proteins listed as the first ingredients in many blended protein supplements! Remember that blended ("sustained release" or "timed release") protein powders are generally priced similar to other protein powders, but gram for gram they tend to contain less total protein, so you want to be sure you are buying a product that uses only the best protein sources!
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Like all MATLAB toolboxes, Fuzzy Logic Toolbox can be customized. You can inspect algorithms, modify source code, and add your own membership functions or defuzzification techniques.
Fuzzy inference is a method that interprets the values in the input vector and, based on user-defined rules, assigns values to the output vector. Using the editors and viewers in the Fuzzy Logic Toolbox, you can build the rules set, define the membership functions, and analyze the behavior of a fuzzy inference system (FIS). The following editors and viewers are provided:
FIS Editor - Displays general information about a fuzzy inference system
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The Fuzzy Logic Toolbox provides support for fuzzy C-means and subtractive clustering, modeling techniques for data classification and modeling.
You can evaluate FIS performance by using the Fuzzy Logic Controller block in a Simulink model of your system. The Fuzzy Logic Controller block automatically generates a hierarchical block diagram representation for most fuzzy inference systems. This representation uses only built-in Simulink blocks, enabling efficient code generation (using Simulink Coder, available separately).
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I recently purchased a BenQ W600+ projector that I'd like to use with my ThinkPad T410 with Nvidia graphics running Ubuntu 12.10. The native resolution of the projector is 1280x720 (i.e. 720p), but I haven't been able to configure the Nvidia driver to actually use this resolution. The projector is connected to the VGA port. The driver is
nvidia-current (I think).
Here are the resolutions offered by the "Displays" system settings. Note that 1280x720 is not listed:
I followed the directions under "Adding undetected resolutions" at wiki.ubuntu.com, but they lead to an error:
xrandr --newmode "1280x720"x0.0 74.25 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 -hsync -vsync
xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1280x720x0.0
Here's the error message from the second
xrandr command:
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 18 (RRAddOutputMode)
Serial number of failed request: 39
Current serial number in output stream: 40
I also see this error message in
[ 2284.687] (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0
[ 2284.687] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for display
[ 2284.687] (**) NVIDIA(0): device CRT-0 (Using EDID frequencies has been enabled on
[ 2284.687] (**) NVIDIA(0): all display devices.)
I have another machine, a ThinkPad T510, with Intel graphics and running an earlier release of Ubuntu. On that machine the projector works fine, and the following appears in the Xorg logfile:
(II) intel(0): EDID vendor "BNQ", prod id 52737
(II) intel(0): Using hsync ranges from config file
(II) intel(0): Using vrefresh ranges from config file
(II) intel(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines:
(II) intel(0): Modeline "1280x720"x0.0 74.25 1280 1390 1430 1650 720 725 730 750 -hsync -vsync (45.0 kHz)
nvidia-settings program is similarly unhelpful. The "Acquire EDID" option is grayed out:
And it also doesn't offer the 1280x720 resolution:
I don't have any
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file. I did try running
nvidia-xconfig to create an xorg.conf file, but that seemed to make everything much worse: the projector came up only in 640x480, and the mouse cursor would get "stuck" on one of the displays. When X starts with this xorg.conf file, I also get this error message popup box:
How can I get the projector to work at 1280x720 on my T410?


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In 1971, LIFE magazine published a special double issue called, simply, "Children." In the issue, LIFE's editors sought to peer into what they characterized as "a secret world"—the world of childhood. One of the sweetest features in the entire issue was a series of pictures by Ralph Morse chronicling the goings-on at school bus stops near his home in northern New Jersey.
As LIFE put it to the magazine's readers, when introducing Morse's photographs:
On a certain morning in September, two dozen children stand waiting along a road in Rockaway, N.J., eyeing each other warily and going through their own private first-day-of-school crises, until at last the school bus comes. LIFE photographer Ralph Morse was at the bus stop that day and on many other mornings in the next two months. He watched the stiffness disappear and a bouncy little society emerge. Long before the first snow fell, he knew every member well: the cutups, the bullies, the loners, the flirts.
Here, LIFE.com fondly recalls Morse's photo essay, and the images that capture the intense, singular, "bouncy little society" of the suburban school bus stop, circa 1971.


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A few people have sent me the link to this article, which is supposedly about the differences between British and American women, but is really about what an insecure, clueless knob Tad Safran is. Wicked Child just mentioned it in comments on Fillyjonk's latest, and people seem keen to discuss, so I thought I'd move it up top.
Some choice quotes for your enjoyment (emphasis mine):
I am a massive fan of British women. UK girls, in my opinion, are the greatest natural beauties in the world . . . when they're 17 or 18 years old.
An informal poll of my US female friends revealed that they spend roughly $700 (£350) a month on what they consider standard obligatory beauty maintenance. That covers haircut, highlights, manicure, pedicure, waxing, tanning, make-up, facials, teeth whitening etc. They will spend a further $1,000 (£500) a month on physical conditioning such as military fitness, spinning sessions, vikram yoga, Pilates, deep-tissue sports massage, personal training etc. On top of that, add the occasional spa day, a week-long "bikini boot camp" in Mexico at the start of every summer and seasonal splurges on personal shoppers and clothing. I'm not sure any of my British female friends spends £700 during an entire year on her appearance. American women see these costs as a simple and sensible investment in their future.
As with many societal ills, I blame the parents. British mothers do not instruct their daughters the way American mothers do. In the US, beauty treatments appear to be a large part of their growing-up experience. A trip to the beauty salon is a group event for girls, an opportunity for a gossip and a catchup. This continues into adulthood.
Another part of the problem is that women in Britain do not help each other. American women have no qualms about telling their friends, in no uncertain terms, when they look like crap, or have put on weight, or are dressed like a bag-lady.
[L]adies, the only time a man will notice your shoes is if your feet are wedged on top of his shoulders bouncing either side of his head.
American women are generally more grasping than British women socially and financially so I suppose that it makes sense that they are more striving aesthetically, too. Their obsession with their looks, however, can be unattractive and can even turn unpleasant.
And right about there is where my head asploded.
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Three charged in beating of elderly Houston man
Three people have been arrested in the beating of an elderly Houston man.
One of the arrested, 17-year-old Justin Brown, has been charged with felony injury to an elderly individual.
The three are accused of attacking an 84-year-old man on Tuesday in his home at the Cuney Homes Apartments, in the 3200 block of Truxillo.
Witnesses told Precinct 6 deputy constables that the attackers went to the apartment to continue a fight between one of the juveniles later charged and a juvenile who also lived at the apartment.
The attackers broke an apartment window, damaged the floor and assaulted the elderly man, officials said. He was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital.
Brown is in the Harris County Jail with bail set at $50,000.
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Destroying Syria's chemical weapons still leaves questions unresolved
Looking back a year, to the early hours of Aug. 21, 2013, when a series of missiles with poison gas payloads landed in suburban Damascus, experts can't help but note that the results of an international reaction to use of the lethal chemicals can be seen as both success and failure.
During the year since the attack in Ghouta killed hundreds, tasks that many feared would be impossible actually were accomplished: Syria's known chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed, despite a bloody and complicated civil war. But after figuring out that the attacks were chemically based, little else has been determined about the attacks. And while the international effort to disarm Syria included a hope to end or de-escalate that civil war, the past year has seen it escalate and fracture into a conflict that spawned the Islamic State and has now drawn much of Iraq into the fight.
Experts insist, however, that it is a mistake to overlook the positives of the Syrian effort. It was an international effort that got 15 countries, including the United States and Russia, to work together. Syria's known stockpile of chemical weapons, which for more than a decade had been considered among the world's most dangerous collections of weapons of mass destruction, is gone. In its absence comes the security that it will never fall into the hands of terrorists.
About a week ago, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons noted that the last known precursor chemicals mixed to make Syria's deadly sarin gas had been destroyed. That destruction came aboard the U.S. Maritime Vessel Cape Ray, while it was afloat in the Mediterranean, and where it is still as it completes the destruction of the last of the mustard gas stockpile.
Ahmet Uzumcu, the chemical weapons organization's director-general, addressed what has happened thus far in a statement this week: "This ends a crucial stage in the complex international maritime operation to remove and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile."
That less than a year after the attack this statement is possible should not be undervalued.
Theodore Postol, a weapons and security expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, called it an amazing accomplishment. On the other hand, he noted, "As far as knowing what happened, our knowledge today is about where it was last September."
And, he noted, it's not simply a matter of assessing blame for a horrible attack. He said the administration of President Barack Obama had the United States on the edge of attacking another nation without much evidence.
"We could have attacked Syria in reprisal," he said. "We could have done very grave damage, not just to Syria but to our own security."
He noted that in the year since, far from calming down, the fighting in the region has intensified. The most worrying aspect of this fighting has been the strengthening of what is now called the Islamic State. The Islamic State today controls large patches of land in both Syria and Iraq, and it is notorious both for its brutality in executing captives but also for its intent on holding territory (something much different from terror organizations in the recent past).
"What we almost did matters, because what we almost did would have seriously weakened the Syrian regime," Postol said. "We have to ask where we would be today if Syria had been weakened. (President Bashar) Assad's Syria doesn't deserve any support, but (the Islamic State) is the bigger threat. The actions we were planning could have handed them Syria."
Such possibilities have actually rehabilitated Assad's reputation with some Europeans.
Beyond the big picture questions, though, even details such as the death toll remain a question. It is believed that between 600 and 1,400 Syrians died in the attack. Some experts have noted that there were too many injured for the number of dead to have been below 1,000. Others have countered that the higher estimates of injured and dead could not possibly have been handled by Syrian hospitals in the region. So the counts are suspicious.
While U.S. officials remain convinced, and frequently state, that the weapons were unleashed by the Syrian government, there is little public evidence that is the case. In fact, the case for laying the blame of this chemical weapons attack on Syria remains a basic logic puzzle: Sarin gas was used in rockets. Rebels groups are not known to possess sarin, but they might have. The Syrian government is known to possess these things. Syria, therefore, is most likely at fault.
There is more to the discussion, and quite a lot of talk about hexamine, which the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has determined the Syrians used in sarin production. Jean Pascal Zanders is a longtime chemical weapons policy expert with the European Union who now writes a blog called The Trench. He recently wrote that hexamine was most likely used because it both increases the purity of the gas, therefore increasing its lethality, and stabilizes sarin, meaning it can be loaded into weapons some time before use. As he wrote earlier this month: "The insight also raises fresh questions about the curious White House claim last August that the United States had observed Syrian preparations for three days prior to the Ghouta attacks."
But, as he added in an interview, "determining who was behind the attacks only comes at the termination of this civil war, and sadly disposing of the weapons had no effect on that."
The intensity of the reaction stemmed from the nature of the weapons themselves. Sarin is a neurotoxin considered so terrifying that it's only been used a few times in human history, most notably by Saddam Hussein beginning in the 1980s, first against Iran and then against Kurds in Iraq in 1988.
Still, as Ralf Trapp, an original member of the chemical weapons organization and a former secretary of the group's scientific advisory board, noted, destroying those weapons was still vital.
"Today it looks as if the world chose the right path after this horrible day," he said, though noting that there were costs. "It did re-legitimize the Syrian government. Still, targeted strikes wouldn't have changed anything, at least not for the better."


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TYO at Clinton Global Initiative 2009
TYO's second experience at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York was even more productive than the first! Not only did we have huge progress to report on our first commitment, we announced an exciting new commitment in cooperation with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. We are eager to share our experience with you - for a more complete overview of panels and working sessions, check out our Twitter feed from last week! In the meantime, here are some highlights. President Obama's made for a great opening, but the best part of the conference for us was the focus on Girls and Women, which began with dinner that evening. The speakers were great, as well as tablemates, including partner, Henriette Kolb (Director of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women), inspiring champion of businesswomen in Cameroon Kah Walla, and a Colombian champion of early childhood education.
After an evening on the town, we were up early on Wednesday for the plenary on Girls and Women during which Maria Eitel introduced our new commitment. See Henriette and TYO founder, Hani Masri, on stage live or just a snapshot! A great discussion followed - watch the whole video for the hope-inspiring consensus among these in-the-know folks that we may be on the verge of a tipping point regarding the treatment of and investment in girls and women, pointed out by Melanne Verveer.
CGI staff did an awesome job of organizing Action Networks throughout the conference in order to facilitate more concentrated discussion among members with shared interests. Both the Women's Empowerment and Investing in Girls sessions were enlightening and inspiring. Perhaps one of the most valuable aspects of participating in CGI is being exposed to the caliber of work that is being done in each field represented. One cannot help but come away energized and motivated to learn from the best.
Thursday was no less exciting for TYO. We met up with Cherie Blair and Henriette in time for a Human Capital panel about the twenty-first century workforce, after which, we were to sign the legal agreement to formalize our cooperation. The panel was expertly moderated by Gwen Ifill, and included notable speakers like Quincy Jones, Luis Moreno and John Hope Bryant. The panel embodied CGI's pervasive feeling of being among friends. Moreno, President of the Inter American Development Bank, knew of our Nablus project, which he cited in his comments. Ifill later cold-called Cherie Blair to talk a bit about our project, which reflects the meeting's focus on women and girls as well as the strategic Middle East region. Mrs. Blair presented an impressively eloquent overview of the project, her visit to Nablus last May, and her commitment to women's economic empowerment. We'll share the video here as soon as we get it from CGI's media office.
Thursday night's awards dinner was dynamic, authentic and truly heartwarming, from Usher to President Kagame to Ben Stiller to Dr. Rola Dashti to Quincy Jones to Ruchira Gupta!
Finally, the last day was no less exhilarating for TYO: the gorgeous video produced by Students of the World aired in two breakout sessions. And as well as wrapping up the week's events eloquently as ever, President Clinton commended the work that we are doing with the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, and quoted Cherie Blair:
access to finance should be viewed as a human right as much as education and health if you really want to elevate the status of women in the world.
What a week! Now, back to work - we have a lot to live up to!


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By day, I work for a large investment bank in a department that calculates and distributes 'Risk and PnL'. Simply put, for every transaction that is made by the bank a large amount of data needs to be re-computed periodically to help the bank understand its exposure to various things that can happen in the financial markets. Like many large organisations, banks produce large amounts of data files that must be processed. However, the data files are often so large that they're impossible to load into the memory of a single 64-bit JVM.
Processing files as a stream is a good strategy. It minimizes 'out of memory' errors by utilizing a plentiful supply of disk space. How do you process a large file as a stream in Clojure?
We start by breaking the file up into a lazy sequence of tokens. The Clojure core library contains a function called
line-seq that breaks a file into individual lines. Or you can use the
input-stream or
reader functions in the
clojure.java.io namespace to turn a file into a lazy sequence of bytes or characters if you need finer granularity to form your own tokens depending on the nature of the data you are reading.
(ns example
(:require ))
(line-seq (io/reader "bigfile"))
This is simplified for the purposes of this article. In real-world scenarios you may choose to improve performance by using NIO memory-mapped files. These techniques utilize main memory when it's available without breaking the system when it isn't.
Invaribly you will form a lazy sequence of tokens in some way. How should we go about processing these tokens? I've found that using a state machine is a useful approach. We first define some initial state. Our tokens are fed to a function (which we'll call
f) along with the existing state. The function returns a new state, possibly changed.
There are lots of other uses for this idea. Imagine we are asked to re-create the game of Pacman. We can list all the elements of the Pacman world :-
- Our hero, Pacman
- The positions of the ghosts
- The maze
- The pills
- The magic pills
- The existence of fruit
- Whether the ghosts are afraid of Pacman or not
- The player's score
- The number of lives the player has left
- The state of the player's joystick
We can store all this data in a single data-structure we call 'the state'. We define a function,
f, which is given the current world as an argument and which computes the new world we would expect to see on the screen one frame later. The job of programming the game of Pacman is then greatly simplified – we just call
f iteratively and letting the game run as a 'feedback loop'. All we have to do is implement the function f. (That job is left to the reader!)
How to apply the state-machine pattern in Clojure
There are a number of ways you can apply the state-machine method in Clojure. One simple way is to use the 'second form' of the
reduce function in the Clojure core library (that's the one that takes some initial state).
(reduce f {} coll)
This first calls the function f with two arguments- an initial state (we used an empty map here) and the first element of the collection. The result of this becomes the first argument of another invocation of the same function, while the second argument is the next element of the collection. This repeated function application continues until the collection is exhausted.
Let's pretend our tokens are 'H', 'A', 'L'. This would be the result of applying reduce :-
(f (f (f {} 'H') 'A') 'L')
reduce function is a good starting point but it usually the wrong choice of function for parsing token streams :-
- It is not possible to look-ahead to know what subsequent tokens will be
- The function must always consume each token and cannot push the token back onto the stream.
Many parsers need both these features. So we need a refinement.
There's also another subtler problem with
reduce that we'll come on to :-
- We can't inspect the operation of reduce while it is running, we have to wait for it to complete.
Fortunately the Clojure core library contains a more general method for the repetitive application of a function:
Here's how we can use
iterate to replace
(iterate f {:remaining coll})
Our state is initialized with the stream itself. The function has the responsibility for taking the first element and processing it. It returns a new state with a new entry representing the remaining elements. Usually the function will replace the
:remaining element with remaining elements of the collection once the first element has been processed. However, it can do anything it chooses with this element, including looking ahead for future tokens and pushing back old ones.
The function is repeatedly applied with the map. The map can contain any state that is necessary for the processing of the stream. Often this includes stacks (vectors) to retain state at each level of context.
For the purposes of the rest of this article we'll rewrite this using the
->> threading macro. We use this macro a lot when manpulating sequences.
(->> {:remaining coll}
(iterate f))
Preventing infinite application
The problem with
iterate is that it tends to go on forever. We can avoid this by adding an
:end into our map when we detect the end of the stream. We can then make the resulting sequence finite by using
(->> {:remaining coll}
(iterate f)
(take-while #(not (contains? % :end)))
iterate returns a sequence of states we can choose to inspect any single state
Often we want to parse a stream of tokens into a stream of something else, usually something more concrete and coarse-grained.
For example, huge XML files are often the result of repeated structures. In my case, this could be the calculated risk for every trade in a book. The structure itself for each trade isn't complicated, but a large number of trades can make the resulting file very large. We have an algorithm for turning a stream of XML events into a stream of 'virtual' XML documents, each representing the entire XML file as it would look like if it contained just a single trade. The 'stream' is made up of these virtual XML documents, one of each trade. This allows us to tame the size of the file and avoid reading the entire file into memory.
The way to solve this problem is to allow our function to 'yield' whenever it has enough information to return a new data structure. We use the key
:yield in the returned map to indicate this.
We use
filter to filter out interrim states.
(->> {:remaining coll}
(iterate f)
(take-while #(not (contains? % :end)))
(map :yield)
(filter #(not (nil? %))))
Factoring out the pattern
It's time to put all this together in its own function.
(defn parse [f coll]
(->> {:remaining coll}
(iterate f)
(take-while #(not (contains? % :end)))
(map :yield)
(filter #(not (nil? %)))))
We now discuss the function
f. Before we provide examples, let's explain the structure of these functions a little more. The function
f is given a map as its only parameter.
This example function does nothing except consume the first token. It does this by applying
next to the
:remaining entry in the map.
(fn [m]
{:remaining (next (:remaining m))})
This is less convenient than if we had named arguments for everything in the map, but we can use destructuring to get close to this.
So here's our function we some destructuring :-
(fn [{remaining :remaining}]
{:remaining (next remaining)})
But usually we want to do something with each token in the stream. Let's destructure a little more.
(fn [{[token & remaining :as stream] :remaining}]
{:remaining remaining})
This sets
token to the token in the stream we shall process,
remaining as the collection of tokens that remain in stream after the token and
stream as the collection of remaining tokens includinng the token. This last setting is achieved using the
:as keyword. This is useful when we want to return a new state but without consuming the token, equivalent to a pushback. There are certain cases where this is useful.
Notice also how destructuring allows us to balance the complexity of the function body with the function signature. Let's digress while we're discussing destructuring to show how far we can go.
Extreme destructuring
Jay Fields provides a good overview of the destructuring 'mini-language' inside Clojure. At the time of writing there aren't many other good web resources so I'll show how useful destructuring can be for our example.
[jf]: http://blog.jayfields.com/2010/07/clojure-destructuring.html "Jay Fields"
In a real-world situation our function will need to make use of other entries in the map. Let's assume our map also contains entries for
:indent and
:count. We can destructure these in one go using the
:keys keyword :-
(fn [{[token & remaining :as stream] :remaining
:keys [stack indent count]
:or {indent 0}}]
{:remaining remaining})
In the case of indent we have also indicated a default value of 0. Variables that do not have corresponding keys in the map argument and which do not have defaults get the value of
The pattern described involes a lot of map manipulation. Of course, thanks to Clojure's STM (Software Transactional Memory) we can mutate the map without worrying about where else we've referenced the map, since those values won't change. However, since we often want to change multiple values in the map it would be useful to have a helper function.
^{:doc "Apply functions to values in a map."}
[m & kfs]
(apply hash-map
(mapcat (fn [[k f]] [k (f (get m k))])
(partition 2 kfs))))
In some situations
mapply has certain advantages over
assoc. With
assoc we have to get the data value out of the map, apply a function to it and then put it back in the map. We have to be careful to use the same key for the access and overwrite operations. By contrast, with
mapply we send the function straight to the map entry.
mapply, keys that are not specified are removed from the map. This is usually the safest thing to do to prevent temporary entries from bleeding across multiple state transitions. But it is easy to retain existing values in the map by specifying the key with the value of
;; Increment :count and retain the value of :foo.
(mapply {:count 1 :foo "foo"} :count inc :foo identity)
mapply can insert a new value, just like
assoc does, by applying the
constantly function.
;; Remove :count and set the :foo to "bar".
(mapply {:count 1 :foo "foo"} :foo (constantly "bar"))


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I'm very new to python and have created a script for enabling a user to list file types in a workspace making use of the parameters function in ArcGIS so it's more user friendly. However I cannot get the script to work...I am struggling to finish the script off can anyone lend a hand?
Python reports the syntax error in line 36 "f.close()" there is no white space around it so am struggling to see whats wrong...can you? Or what am I missing?
Here's the code:
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
import os
env.workspace = ("C:\ArcGIS\Default.gdb")
ws = arcpy.GetParameter(0)
option = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(1)
outputFilePath = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(2)
dsList = []
if option == "List Feature Classes":
featureclasses = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(ws)
for table in tables:
elif option == "List Tables":
tables = arcpy.ListTables(ws)
for table in tables:
elif option == "List Rasters":
rasters = arcpy.ListRasters(ws)
for table in tables:
elif option == "List Workspaces":
workspaces = arcpy.ListWorkspaces(ws)
for table in tables:
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The Gauchos were defeated in both of their matches on Saturday, finishing off the University of San Diego Tournament with a 1-2 record. It was the first time this season that the Gauchos lost both matches on day-two of a tournament- they had split their Saturday matches in each of the previous three tournaments.
The Gauchos, whose record fell to 7-7 following the pair of defeats, are at a .500 winning percentage for the first time this season.
Following the tournament, freshman libero Taylor Formico was named to the All-Tournament team, the sole representative from UCSB. Formico scooped up 72 digs over the weekend, in the process tying Kristin Nelson for the most 30-dig matches in a single-season by a Gaucho in the rally-scoring era.
It was the third time that Formico has been named to an all-tournament team this season, tied with junior outside hitter Leah Sully for the most among the Gauchos.
In the morning match, the Gauchos fell in a see-saw match against the Fresno St. Bulldogs in five games.
Sully led the way for UCSB against the Bulldogs, leading the squad in both kills (14) and swings (60). Sully also picked up 17 digs to record her tenth double-double of the season.
Katey Thompson was a force as well for the Gauchos, finishing not far from a triple-double. Thompson had 11 kills on just 31 swings, while also recording 14 digs and a team-high eight blocks.
Redshirt freshman Elizabeth "ZZ" Meddaugh had three kills and seven blocks, both career-highs, in her most extensive playing time to date.
The Gauchos showed flashes of brilliance throughout the match, holding the Bulldogs to just 14 points in the fourth game and outblocking them as team 14.0 to 8.0, but were unable to consistently maintain pressure.
Game scores for the match went 20-25, 25-17, 25-18, 14-25, 15-11.
The night match against tournament host and seventeenth-ranked San Diego went less smoothly for the Gauchos, who were dispatched in four games.
Sully led the squad again in kills with 19, and Katey Thompson chipped in another 11 kills. However, the rest of the rest of the squad combined for just 13 kills and never hit over .171 in a game.
Freshman outside hitter Alex Barbeau picked up a pair of aces on just four attempts, and also hit a robust .417 on her five kills.
Sophomore setter Ali Santi and Katey Thompson each recorded a pair of aces as well.
Conference play begins next week for the Gauchos, who will start off their Big West schedule with a road trip south to visit UC Irvine on Friday night and Long Beach St. on Saturday night.
The Gauchos conference home opener will take place the following week on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
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A Third of U.S. Workers Suffer Chronic Stress
A new survey from the American Psychological Association reveals troubling findings about stress in the American workplace. WSJ's Lauren Weber and the American Psychological Association's David Ballard join Lunch Break to discuss. Photo: AP.
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... I ... the fact that it wants Peckham Wendy downs one ... one third of American workers suffer from chronic stress according ... to a new survey from the American psychological Association is particularly bad for women join me ... right now to talk about this WSJ's Lauren Weber and David ... Fowler he is with the American psychological Association which is about some of these numbers thank so much to both of you for being here like ... oh what star with you because ... you know when we controlled our these numbers in a bid ... to set the stage is why this chronic stress is here we swam no inherently can feel it ... up and lay out the factors for stroke and well in the survey which they will talk about more ... common to this on factors that people cite our that they're not thinking enough they don't have enough opportunities to advance ... their workloads are too heavy and ... I think it's really kind of the backdrop of this the volume of four has increased for most people in the velocity of forecast an increase in case ... the fact that we are carrying smartphones which I carry emails and I it's cutting into our time with our families ... all of these factors come in and add to the sense that you're never quite high enough or we can expect your jogging Endeavour on top of it and what companies ever did during the weekend and down downturn waltz positions ... in other non sincerely killing them so they're still has work to be done but they're being very cautious about his positions or bets that adds to the Premier IP pledging more classy and David let's get some of the headlines not numbers here because you describe this is very interesting terminology new Civic ... mean organizations have management practices straight at ... the industrial ... revolution I you know tells what you mean by that ... and let's get some of the top headline numbers out of their critically when it comes to women the survey ... the bank yet I think of the work is change we can get when you work in our something that we do rather than something that we we go to everyday ... while King of the change significantly organizations are still functioning at the same way they have for many decades ... training managers to effectively work with the remote work force are not in work for what they were the measures in place ... and are putting more demands on fewer people that you will for protection and employees are suffering approval ... and so the big numbers they've been struck me out of this survey we did said one third of people feel like they're suffering from chronic stress ... winning in particular seemed to be susceptible of this one and Number showing there ... I'm sure in terms of men and women while there are huge ... we are talking about different route that are having a negative problem on top of already that number ... feel like a level playing field for women ... I think they had a few less value than the forty eight percent of women to feel valued versus fifty four percent of men western half of them would win and they they get adequate monetary compensation for what they do compared to forty eight percent of them policemen ... and the awful thing they don't have enough opportunities for growth for example within the organization or to resort to ... manage ... I was of both sexes the little bit more by women Beastie stash MRI I was talk about the proper sound I he discusses on as another study of licensure ... this is that we really don't have a buffer zone anymore ... to get away from work we knew exactly what extent are found that seventy five percent of ... Americans report that they were sharing their pain ten month check vacations drinkers Monday is ... on the most common ... I think ... the thing that people do is check the email corset so easy to do when your item in your BlackBerry back out ... but I was really inching was up thirty percent of people said the paper to speak on conference calls and forty four percent said that they actually take days off in order to catch up on work because it's almost impossible you take a vacation ... you go away he'll take the know at some point during the vacation when you come back just because the critical mass of work we all had now ... when you have when even until it gets to twenty four hours just to catch back up from your vacation is actually a very windy backing a vacation from your vacation I'd I don't jump back over to you because act ... all but wonder you know we we cite all these numbers we hear them with red intuitively known in there but what else can impede the ultimate impact both on our bodies our health ... and also just have ... more places in general ... well that the human body and mind you build to manage through the short term ... but when it ... becomes chronic wheat to do to help troubled mental health problems that affect our ... job performance that affect our relationship ... that that that thing happened to them and turned over to Outperform and ... 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Schedule Includes 17 Home Games at Charlotte Sports Park
ST. PETERSBURG, FL—Both the schedule and ticket prices for the Tampa Bay Rays Grapefruit League games at Charlotte Sports Park were released today. The Rays will play 17 spring training home games at Charlotte Sports Park against major league opponents in 2013.
Pitchers and catchers will report on Tuesday, February 12 and the Rays will begin their home schedule on Saturday, February 23 with a split-squad game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Charlotte Sports Park. The home schedule at Charlotte Sports Park includes games against all four American League East opponents as well as the American League Champion Detroit Tigers (February 28) and the Philadelphia Phillies (March 8 and March 15).
The Rays will conclude the Grapefruit League slate on Saturday, March 30 at Tropicana Field against the Tigers, and will open the regular season at Tropicana Field on Tuesday, April 2 against the Baltimore Orioles.
Single-game spring training tickets for games at Charlotte Sports Park will go on sale in January with a specific date to be announced, and range in price from $10 to $27. Fixed seat prices in Field Box, Field Reserved and Baseline Reserved categories remain the same as those in 2012, while Berm/Boardwalk general admission tickets will be available starting at $10.
Spring training season ticket holders continue to enjoy discounted ticket prices for the 17-game spring schedule at Charlotte Sports Park, as well as opportunities for discounts on Rays merchandise and parking. Fans interested in placing a $50 deposit for spring training season tickets can do so by visiting raysbaseball.com/springtraining or by calling 888-FAN-RAYS. All individuals who have placed a deposit will be contacted in January to select their seats.
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Feb. 3, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara freshman Katie Stover was named the Big West Conference's Female Swimmer of the Week it was announced on Wednesday. Stover is the seventh Gaucho woman to take home the weekly honor this season.
Stover, who hails from Rocklin, Calif., helped the Gaucho women to dual wins over UC Davis and Pacific last weekend on the road. In the first meet of the week against the Aggies, Stover secured the top-finish in the 200 freestyle, touching the wall in 1:51.83. The freshman then took second in the 100 free with a mark of 52.58 before assisting the 400 free relay to first place in a time of 3:30.54.
She did not let up the following day; picking up three top finishes against Pacific. She got the meet rolling by helping the Gaucho 200 medley relay to first place with a time of 1:46.72. She then took first in the 50 free (24.16) and the 200 backstroke (2:03.00). Stover wrapped up the weekend by finishing second in the 200 free relay (3:34.59).
The Gaucho swim teams have completed 2009-10 dual meet action and are now preparing for the Big West Championships, which will be held Feb. 17-20 at Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, Calif.
UCSB Athletics is proud to introduce GKids - its new official kids club! GKids members will receive a free GKids t-shirt, free admittance to tons of Gaucho games, opportunities to be ball boys and girls at games, a special birthday greeting from Olie (the new GKids mascot) and much, much more! For more information on GKids, or to become a member, please click here.


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It was another awesome episode yesterday as far as The Walking Dead goes. I don't like making lessons on chibi figures unless I have tutorials or a tutorial on the actual character that I am trying to artistically portray already done. This is why I wanted to make this lesson on "how to draw T-Dog", step by step. This comic book version of T-Dog came out so awesome. He was born Theodore Douglas, but through out the series he was called T-Dog. It was a shame that they killed T-Dog, but then again it was a bigger shame that they killed off Shane. I really love the drawing style of this lesson, it made drawing T-Dog a delight. I think I will make more tutorials based on my favorite Walking Dead characters in this very same style. Adios people, have fun with this Walking Dead character.
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Go deep and stay awhile with Yin Yoga at Lumeria, a breathtaking retreat center in Makawao. Cultivate deep calm, vital energy, improved mobility, healthy connective tissues, organs and joints with sequences that stimulate Acupuncture meridians. In Yin Yoga we approach each posture mindfully to a soft limit, relax and stay for several minutes while focusing on the breath to allow the body to open gently to our natural energy flow. Balance with a slow flow muscular practice to strengthen and rejuvenate our whole being. All levels are welcome.
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Quick and Easy Appetizers and Salads for Holiday Guests
Appetizers and salads are a quick and easy way to add healthy vegetables to holiday meals. Many holiday tables are laden with starches like bread, potatoes, and stuffing but light on the vegetables. Healthy appetizers and salads are a great alternative.
Greet guests with appetizers
With a little practice, you can knock off any of these appetizers in a relatively short amount of time:
Hummus Dip: Whirl in a blender until smooth a 16-ounce can of drained chickpeas, 1 clove garlic, 1/4 cup sesame seeds, the juice and grated peel of 1 lemon, 1/2 cup water, and salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Serve on triangles of toasted pita or with assorted raw vegetables.Credit: ©iStockphoto.com/Elena Elisseeva
Sun-Dried Tomato Spread: Whirl sun-dried tomatoes, garlic, and onions in a food processor or blender with enough oil to moisten into a coarse spread. Season with white pepper and serve on Melba toast rounds.
Sweet Mustard Chicken Kebobs: Thread thin strips of boneless chicken and cherry tomatoes on skewers (if skewers are wooden, soak them first for 30 minutes in water). Grill or broil about 2 minutes a side or until done, brushing at the last minute with store-bought honey mustard. Serve hot.
Don't forget the salads!
Salads are often overlooked in the meal-planning process, but they set the tone for the entire meal, so don't forget to think about what kind of salad you want to serve. A basic mixed green salad goes well with any dish, but you can quickly create one of your own salads from these simple combinations:
Tomato, Red Onion, and Basil Salad: Slice ripe, red tomatoes 1/4-inch thick and layer on a platter with diced red onion and 4 or 5 large chopped fresh basil leaves. Drizzle with oil and vinegar and season with salt and pepper.
Red and Green Pepper Rice Salad: Combine about 3 cups cooked white rice with 1 cup cooked green peas and 2 cups seeded, cored, and chopped red, green, or yellow peppers (or any combination of colors). Toss with enough herb-vinaigrette dressing to moisten the ingredients sufficiently, add salt and pepper to taste, and chill before serving.
Cherry Tomato and Feta Cheese Salad: Toss 1 pint cherry tomatoes, rinsed and sliced in half, with 4 ounces crumbled feta cheese and 1/2 cup sliced, pitted black olives. Season with vinaigrette dressing to taste.


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The district court is the first court that you will come into contact with in criminal cases. The district court also determines contentious cases (civil law disputes) between private persons, for example family cases. The district court also deals with various kinds of matters, for example, adoptions.
There are 48 district courts spread out over the whole of Sweden, from Ystad in the south to Gällivare in the north. These vary in size from having several hundred to ten or so employees. The district courts have a local link - the cases that are considered by the district court come from those municipalities that fall within the district of the court (a geographical area that is included in the district court´s catchment area, usually a number of municipalities).
The officers serving at the district courts include judges - chief judges, senior judges, judges and assistant judges. They are employed as part of the court and prepare cases, make decisions and adjudicate in those matters that are dealt with by the court.
The chief judges are the heads of the district courts and are, together with the judges, the district court's permanent judges.
You may also come into contact with law clerks, assistant judges and associate judges at certain district courts. They are young, non-ordinary judges, who serve at the district court during their training. The court clerks often work with preparing cases and with keeping records, but they may also make decisions in matters and adjudicate in certain simple cases, for example, cases involving fines. Assistant judges and associate judges have the same functions as the ordinary judges. There are also administrative staff at the district court who work with, for example, finance and personnel issues.
In addition to this, there are more than 5,000 lay judges, who are also linked to the district courts. The lay judges are laymen, that is to say, they are not legally qualified but have other professions. They are elected politically and represent the people and are appointed by the municipal assembly. Their function is to participate in the work by adjudicating in various issues and they are appointed for four years at a time. Read more about lay judges.
Cases in the district court are divided into three categories; contentious cases, criminal cases and matters.
Many disputes relate to matters concerning various kinds of economic relations and may, for example, deal with demands for money, interpretation of a contract or some other financial commitment. Another large group of contentious cases are family law disputes, for example, cases concerning divorce or cases concerning the custody, residence, access and maintenance of a child. Read more about cases relating to the family under the menu 'Matters/Family'.
The district courts also deal with and adjudicate in criminal cases. A criminal case arises when a crime has been committed, that is to say when a penalty can be imposed under the Penal Code or other penal provisions. This may, for example, relate to crimes of violence and theft, narcotics offences, tax offences and traffic offences.
If it is suspected that a crime has been committed, the police are under a duty to investigate the suspicion through a so-called 'preliminary investigation'. The police or the prosecutor is responsible for the preliminary investigation, and will also decide on the issue of whether the case should be pursued further to court. Read more under the menu 'Legal proceedings/Criminal cases'.
Besides contentious cases and criminal cases, the district court also decides on matters such as, for example, adoption, division of marital property, administrators and special representatives.
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Windows logoff bug possible security vulnerability and exploit. Jan 17 2007 11:15AM
Rage Coder (ragecoder aim com) (1 replies)
Re: Windows logoff bug possible security vulnerability and exploit. Jan 17 2007 09:41PM
3APA3A (3APA3A SECURITY NNOV RU) (1 replies)
Re: Windows logoff bug possible security vulnerability and exploit. Jan 18 2007 11:59AM
Rage Coder (ragecoder aim com)
The problem only occurs at times. To reproduce the problem, I just use
the computer normally, and at each logon check the event viewer and
running processes to see if a profile unload failed. I don't have any
special terminal software or other logon software installed.
I find that if I wait for a little bit after logging off before logging
on again, no running programs from the previous logon are present, but
if I log on just after logging off, they will be if the profile unload
fails. That still shouldn't be the case. My brother frequently goes on
his account right after I go off; there shouldn't be a time limit to
wait in order to prevent this.
I noticed an interesting thing about XP and fast user switching which
would likely stop this problem. When logging on, the first logged on
user is given session ID 0, as shown in task manager, but if I 'switch'
to another user, the user is given a different session ID. It seems
that no two users are given the same session ID when using fast user
switching. But when logging off all users and then back on, it is back
to session 0. And if I just log on as a user, log off, and then on as
another user without using the 'switch user', they both are session ID 0.
The same thing happens when using classic logon and on 2003. All logons
are given session ID 0. I did some reading in the platform SDK and some
sites about stuff, and it seems that these sessions literally create an
isolation. Messages sent from a process in one session ID are not
visible to processes in another, windows created only appear on the
desktop associated with that session of the process that created the
window, etc.
Ideally, running classic logon always as session 0 'should' work because
ideally when logging of, the processes ran 'should' close, so the next
user to log on would have nothing to access. But this does not appear
to be the case at all times.
A few moments ago I logged in as administrator to do some minor changes,
and I ran EPIM to take some notes of things. When I logged of and back
on as a regular using, 'explorer.exe', 'essentialpim.exe',
'seamonkey.exe' were still running as Administrator, event viewer showed
the usual UserEnv messages, and EPIM appeared on the system tray. My
guess is something like this happens:
Logon Administrator : Session ID 0
Run EssentialPIM : Session ID 0
Do some stuff
Logoff Administrator : Profile unload fails, a few programs continue running
Logon Normal User : Session ID 0
Explorer runs, and at startup broadcasts 'TaskbarCreated' message
All processes in session 0 get this message, EPIM adds system tray icon
like it is supposed to
If each logon, even in classic mode, is given a separate session ID as
is done in fast user switching, this would not happen, even if the
profile unload fails and the programs continue to run waiting for the
profile to unload:
Logon Administrator : Session ID 0
Run EssentialPIM : Session ID 0
Do some stuff
Logoff Administrator : Profile unload fails, a few programs continue running
Logon Normal User : Session ID 1
Explorer runs, and at startup broadcasts 'TaskbarCreated' message
All processes in session 1 get this message
Programs that may continue to run in session 0 are isolated
If I log on as administrator again, it would be ok to reuse session 0,
but for a given boot, no two users should be assigned the same logon
session ID. I.E. if I log on as Normal User again, it would be session
1, etc.
This would not prevent a profile from failing to unload, and would not
prevent the processes from continuing to run, but it will prevent a user
from a later logon from accessing the processes in the current logon.
3APA3A (at) SECURITY.NNOV (dot) RU [email concealed] wrote:
> Dear Rage Coder,
> I've seen unloaded profiles for many times, but I never saw application
> still running after logoff. Profile itself doesn't create security
> vulnerability, since it can not be accessed by another user.
> What do you use to reproduce this vulnerability?
> Are you sure you do not use some different software which affects
> logon/logoff process, e.g. 3rd party terminal software or some security
> enhancement?
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Spartan Race, voted Outside Magazine's Best Obstacle Race in 2012, is the world's leading obstacle race series and the first of its kind to have global rankings. Spartan Race is a timed event series featuring races at three escalating distances in locations worldwide that culminate in a World Championship Finale with cash and prizes for the champions. While featuring competitive elite heats, Spartan Races are for athletes of all levels and abilities and are geared towards ripping people off their couches and into the outdoors.
Spartan Race has had a longstanding commitment to the Armed Forces. In 2012, a portion of all Spartan USA revenue is donated to Homes for Our Troops, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that assists severely injured servicemen and servicewomen and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and to coordinate the process of building a home that provides maximum freedom of movement and the ability to live more independently.
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Spartan also launched a Military series in Fort Carson, Colorado in May of 2012. The Military series was a huge success and it was coordinated through the Army Department of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (DFMWR), a comprehensive network of support and leisure services designed to enhance the lives of soldiers (active, reserve and guard), their families, civilian employees, military retirees and other eligible participants.
In keeping with the longstanding Spartan Race tradition of giving back, a portion of the proceeds from the Spartan Fort Carson event was donated to direct military nonprofits including the Green Beret Foundation. Future military series events will do the same and will donate to other organizations to help address the unique needs of each respective host installation.
In a recent Spartan event in Leesburg, VA Team X-T.R.E.M.E. took part in the event and they are set to be a part of the upcoming Spartan Beast in the Carolinas October 13th and 14th. The team is actually a non-profit organization with an ongoing mission to Honor, Empower and Motivate our nation's wounded heroes and it was started by Jeremy Soles, a United States Marine Corps and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran. Known for donning blacked out gas masks for endurance events that restrict 25 – 30% of oxygen intake, Team X-T.R.E.M.E. completed the brutalizing 10.5 mile course and all the obstacles on Saturday. With over 75 obstacles to speak of, it was no small task. The gas masks are worn as a symbol of encouragement and inspiration for their fellow wounded brethren and to honor the sacrifice of our nation's wounded veterans. The venue in Leesburg, VA is a unique location, normally reserved for horse racing, but it wasn't horses that were unleashed on the landscape this weekend, it was people who would ultimately hurdle, climb, crawl and run their way to the finish line.
The course was rugged and muddy, each obstacle posing a unique challenge to the team who took turns carrying Team X-T.R.E.M.E. member, USMC Cpl. Todd Love who weighs in around 100 pounds. Love was carried throughout the course but regularly completed obstacles solo including a heroic hill climb near the halfway point of the race, the cargo nets and rope climbs. It was an inspired finish by an incredible team. Go to www.spartanrace.com for more information, a schedule of events or to register for a Spartan Race. For videos, please visit www.spartanrace.tv. Their tagline touts, "You'll know at the finish line!"


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Ben Inker, the co-head of asset allocation at GMO, a giant American asset manager, said the US Federal Reserve's policy of low interest rates had boosted the value of almost all assets and that any expectation that rates would rise risked triggering a reversal.
When returns on cash are low, investors switch to other assets in the search for higher income. This increased demand pushes up prices.
"By pulling down both today's cash [interest] rate and the market expectation of future cash rates, the Fed has increased the relative attractiveness of pretty much all assets other than cash and, as a consequence, their prices have risen," Mr Inker wrote in a recent research note.
"Since 2009 it has been difficult to avoid making money in the financial markets. Conventional bonds, inflation-linked bonds, commodities, credit, equities, real estate – everything – has been bid up as a consequence of the very low expected returns of cash."
But he warned that this gave today's markets "a vulnerability that has not existed through most of history".
"Today's valuations only make sense in light of low expected cash rates. Remove that expectation, and pretty much every asset across the board is vulnerable to a fall in price, as the rising real discount rate plays no favourites," Mr Inker said.
He added: "We have known this for a while, but the trouble is that there is no easy way to resolve this problem. There is no asset class you can hold that would be expected to do well if the real discount rate rises from here."
Under normal circumstances, rising rates would follow rising inflation or stronger than expected growth, which a diversified portfolio of investments could usually cope with, he said.
But recent fears of rate rises came not because inflation was unexpectedly high, or because growth will be so strong as to lift earnings expectations for equities and other owners of real assets, but "because the Fed signalled that there was likely to be an end to financial repression in the next few years".
"Financial repression" means artificially low real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates imposed by governments as a means to reduce their own borrowing costs.
The effects of a change of direction are unlikely to be confined to America.
Mr Inker added: "Because financial repression has pushed up the prices of assets across the board and around the world, there is unlikely to be a safe harbour from the fallout, other than cash itself.
The new Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, is expected to outline his approach to guiding the market about future interest rate changes tomorrow. Money market rates are pricing in the possibility of the first move in the Bank Rate, currently 0.5pc, in three years.
What can investors do to protect themselves?
Mr Inker said their was no certain way of avoiding losses – holding cash would pay good returns if interest rates returned to normal quickly, say within two years, but would lose investors money to inflation if the process took longer, such as seven years.
He used a summer camp metaphor to explain his approach to dealing with the problem.
"We're in a canoe race to the other side of the lake. We know all of the canoes are old and a bit leaky in the best of times, and there's a storm coming. If we knew the storm were going to break now, we'd just stay in the cabin and laugh at everyone else as they were forced to turn around and trudge back to the cabin, sopping wet and half drowned.
"But we don't know when the storm will break or even if it might miss us altogether, so we've stuck an extra guy in the middle of our boat with a bucket instead of a paddle. We know it will slow us down, but it will go a long way to help ensure we don't sink along the way, even if we're resigned to the likelihood of a long slow paddle in the rain, sitting in water up to our ankles."


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Halo: Reach Xbox 360 Cheats
- Game: Halo: Reach
- Game Description: Halo: Reach follows a storyline of a Noble team, a group of heroic soldiers standing finally on the planet Reach, which is man's final defense between Covenant and planet Earth. Graphically perfected, the characters, events, and environments will catch your curiosity to have an encounter against Covenant.
Behind the Hangar Wall cheat for Halo: Reach on Xbox 360
You need two players for this cheat. Go to the back wall in the hangar.
Then go into forge mode. (make sure that you are touching the wall).
Create a spawn point inside the wall. Then delete all other spawn points on the map. Then kill yourself.
You will be inside the wall. Stay on the wall in the back, or the front.
Game Name: Halo: Reach
Cheat Name: Behind the Hangar Wall
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Everybody who's anybody has watched the newest episode of Top Gear 16 times in full already, even if that's not physically possible. But it doesn't matter, because it was much better than last week's episode, and that's what we in the business call "great news."
In today's program:
- Richard Hammond drives the Alfa Romeo 4C
- Jeremy Clarkson pilots an ATV that is bigger than a small city
- James May goes to Afghanistan
- The McLaren P1. That is all you need to know. Just, the. McLaren. P1.
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The Financial Planning Association hosted a townhall-style meeting at its 2011 Retreat in Bonita Springs, Fla., Thursday afternoon that included frank comments about the state of the organization, where it's been and where it's going.
It was near the end of the event that the organization's CEO and executive director, Marv Tuttle, mentioned the organization's controversial split with the broker-dealer members of FPA who would form the Financial Services Institute (FSI) in 2003.
"It was rumored we kicked people out of FPA," Tuttle said. "We never did that. We recognized we could not in good conscience serve two masters and have advocacy agendas for both financial planners and broker-dealers. Even though it was a hit to our budget, the board made the courageous decision to disassociate ourselves because it was the right thing to do."
Furthermore, Tuttle (left) reported that the "downward spiral" in the organization's membership had ceased. "We fell from 28,000 members to 23,500 members," he said. "It was a tumultuous time. We reduced our budget and our staff to do what we had to in order to get our message out and continue to serve members."
The session featured Tom Potts, FPA's 2011 chairman; President Martin Kurtz; and, President-Elect Paul Auslander. Participants delivered prepared remarks and took questions from the audience ranging from FPA's present health and stability to advocacy and political issues and a call for more women to be included in the organization's leadership.
Kurtz spoke first, noting that some organizations shy away from difficult discussions that affect their members, and pointed to the blue bracelets handed out at the retreat that read, "clients first."
"It's a small but symbolic step to put it out there," Kurtz said.
Kurtz (left) mentioned the importance of advocating for the implementation of the current SEC fiduciary standard proposals, and said he has been crisscrossing the country speaking with advisors and other interested parties about the issue. Kurtz (left) also noted an increase in the number of FPA-affiliated student groups on college campuses, and an increase in the number of international FPA-affiliated groups as well.
"The international groups want to actively market and promote FPA-USA," he said. "You might ask yourself why? It's because they like the level of our standard of care and see it as a model for what they are trying to achieve."
Kurtz also mentioned the Women and Finance community that the organization recently established, and explained that when the leadership invited all female FPA members to join, 400 immediately did so, and it is now the largest community group in the FPA organization. That fact received applause from audience members.
He finished his remarks by noting the success of the NextGen community, and passed the microphone to Auslander. The president-elect read from a laundry list of initiatives the organization was taking with politicians and regulators in the federal and state governments.
He mentioned that, through the organization's outreach efforts, FPA was seen as a non-partisan resource by politicians and regulators in many states, and was a growing trend in others.
"We're engaging with state and federal regulators," he said. "We advocating for the SEC to retain its authority to regulate broker-dealers and advisors and we're educating politicians and regulators about financial planners and the profession.
This has resulted in a voice at the table for rules harmonization, and we had a hand in repealing 1099 requirements for small businesses. We even were asked to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on this issue."
Potts (left) was next to speak, noting his time chairman of the board "has been a blur." He was particularly impressed with FPA members, but also with FPA staff, which he says graciously accepted more responsibility and burden as dwindling membership numbers forced budget cuts. He announced that the organization is gearing up to perform a review of staff and leadership to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness.
"Although the staff works very hard on your behalf, we can always do better," he said.
He mentioned the effectiveness of the Financial Planning Coalition (FPA, NAPFA and the CFP Board) in Washington.
"We went to Capitol Hill and said 'we want regulation,'" Potts related. "They looked at us and said 'What?' and we said 'We want appropriate regulation.' One reason people fail to seek financial advice is that they don't know whom to trust. We must reengage the public and give them confidence in our profession and in our economy. One way to do this is to encourage the SEC to implement its fiduciary standard. We asked you to sign a petition as part of that process, and we received 2,800 signatures in one week."
Tuttle wrapped the formal discussion by noting the organization is working to ensure that all those who seek access to financial planning services are able to receive it. He reviews core achievements in FPA's 11 year history, and said their support of the CFP designation from the beginning is now coming to fruition.
"Seeing President Obama at Ground Zero today made me think of what was happening with the organization in 2001," Tuttle (left) said. "We immediately got involved in helping after 9/11 with our pro-bono efforts. It was one of the proudest moments for FPA, and today we have 70 chapters involved with pro-bono work for military families, schools and others."