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Are you up to speed with the regulations for driving with children in the car? With so many car seat options on the market, we've put together some helpful hints to help you find and fit the right seat for your child.
At what age do your children need a car seat?
Children will need to sit in the appropriate child car seat until they reach 12 years of age or 135cm in height (whichever happens first). This applies whether they're travelling in the front or rear seats of a car, van or goods vehicle.
Once your child is over the age or height limit, they can use adult seat belts (as long as they're wearing them properly). Don't forget, you're responsible for making sure children under the age of 14 are properly strapped in.
New born babies through to children of around 15-months old must travel in a rear-facing baby seat. These car seats are better suited to protect their head, neck and spine than forward-facing seats. So you may want to keep them in a rear-facing seat for as long as possible.
Back seats or front seats?
You might assume it's safer for your child to sit in the front with you (so you can keep an eye on what they're up to). In fact, according to childcarseats.org.uk, children are safer travelling in the rear of the car where they're more protected in case of an accident.
Remember, it's illegal for a child to sit in a rear-facing car seat in the front passenger seat if the front passenger airbag is active. Either you or your car dealer must deactivate it.
Booster cushions have become less popular with parents as they don't provide any protection against side impacts. However, children under 5ft tall must use either a high-backed booster seat or a forward-facing seat.
If you already have booster cushions, you won't be breaking the law using them – the new rules apply to new products only. However, given the safety issues, you might want to think about replacing any backless booster seats you currently use.
Can you re-use your car seat for a younger child?
Yes. But it's worth bearing in mind that plastic can get brittle with age. Older seats may have weaknesses you can't see, especially if they've been stored in a cupboard for ages. Not only that, but older seats are less likely to be up to date in terms of safety standards.
Believe it or not, car seats have an expiry date. So if you can't find an expiry date sticker, it's best to avoid anything that could be over five or six years old.
You could do, but it might have been damaged. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents advises people not to buy a secondhand seat for the same reason – it could have damage that isn't visible to the naked eye.
Is there a right and wrong way to fit a car seat?
The short answer is yes. For your child's safety, the seat must be fitted in line with the manufacturer's instructions. That way, it'll be more efficient if you're involved in a car accident.
ISOFIX has been the international standard for all children's car seat manufacturers for many years. It makes sure there's a solid connection between the seat and the vehicle (some seats won't fit into older cars securely). If you're fitting an ISOFIX seat, you'll find that it anchors tightly to specific points in your car - usually on the outer seats in the back, in the gap between the seat and rear seat backrest.
If you're using a car seat that depends on a seat belt, make sure the belt's not twisted at all when you're doing it up. It's important because unless the seat belt can be pulled tight, the car seat can't protect your child properly.


The person I decided to spotlight on this blog post is my husband. We have been together since right after graduating High School in 2000 (almost 12 years now) and I'm so lucky to be married to my best friend! We've managed to stay together even though we were long distance for half of our college careers and 6 months of him working for the Angel's minor league baseball system in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, we've purchased and raised a dog together, gone through the wedding planning process, purchased our first home, but having a child together has been the most life changing experience ever. My son looks so much like my husband, and every time I look into his eyes I'm reminded of the love of my life and what an amazing gift we've been given. Being a parent is what unconditional love is all about. I've never had more love in my life than I do now with my little family. My husband is not the most romantic person in the world but he does support me and is always there to hold my hand when I need him. He did however surprise me today when he stopped by my work to deliver pink tulips, a card, and my favorite green smoothie from whole foods. I'm a lucky gal!


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Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, South Carolina Attendance: 83,140
At the Stadium
No. 3 Georgia turns road test into rout of No. 24 Gamecocks
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Georgia quarterback Jake Fromm knew the third-ranked Bulldogs were built to last after their run to last season's national title game. He believes the rest of the country found that out Saturday.
Fromm threw for 194 yards and a touchdown, all three of Georgia's latest running combo scored touchdowns and the Bulldogs turned an expected Southeastern Conference showdown into a 41-17 rout over No. 24 South Carolina on Saturday.
"We weren't going anywhere," Fromm said. "We've worked too hard to stay where we are."
That was evident at Williams-Brice Stadium, where Georgia (2-0, 1-0 SEC) used dominating offense and suffocating defense to win its fourth straight over the Gamecocks (1-1, 0-1).
"We thought if we were able to run the ball and pound it early, it would take its toll," coach Kirby Smart said.
Fromm was 15-of-18 passing, including a 34-yard TD pass to Mecole Hardman. D'Andre Swift, Elijah Holyfield and Brian Herrien looked every bit as effective as NFL runners Nick Chubb and Sony Michel did a year ago in leading Georgia to the College Football Playoff.
Holyfield led the way with 76 yards and a 5-yard score. Swift had a 17-yard TD run, and Herrien piled on with a 15-yard scoring burst in the third quarter as Georgia went up by 31 points. That's when many in the crowd of 83,140 began to file out in disappointment - a familiar ritual against the Bulldogs.
Cornerback Deandre Baker set the tone on defense early with an interception off a tipped ball in the opening minute that led to a quick, if unconventional, touchdown. Baker let the ball loose before crossing the goal line, but teammate Juwan Taylor picked it up and took it the final yard to complete the 56-yard play.
Baker did not initially realize he came up short. "I just hoped someone on my team picked it up," he said, smiling.
From there, Georgia's defense and run game took over - as they have so often against South Carolina. The Bulldogs outrushed South Carolina 271 yards to 54.
When South Carolina had a chance to tie it after Rashad Fenton's interception deep in Georgia territory, the Bulldogs allowed just a yard on the next four plays. They took over on downs after Bentley's fourth-down incompletion.
"That was big," Smart said. "We always talk about putting out the fire on defense after a turnover."
Georgia rarely let up. South Carolina drove 70 yards to the Bulldogs' 5 in the fourth quarter before safety J.R. Reed's end-zone interception.
South Carolina quarterback Jake Bentley threw for 269 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp was disappointed, especially at his team's third quarter when Georgia outscored South Carolina 21-0.
"We've got a lot of football ahead of us. The big thing you do, we've got to be technical. Starting with me," Muschamp said.
Georgia: With its first significant test complete, Georgia again looks like the class of the SEC East and a likely participant in the league's title game. The Bulldogs' most challenging league games are against West opponents - at LSU on Oct. 13 and against Auburn on Nov. 11.
South Carolina: The Gamecocks hoped a strong showing against Georgia would prove they belonged near the top of the SEC. South Carolina will try to regroup against Marshall at home before resuming SEC play.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Georgia strengthened its spot in the polls by easily putting away a ranked opponent. South Carolina's first stay in the polls since September of 2014 will be a short one.
KEY INJURY
South Carolina defensive end D.J. Wonnum did not play because of an ankle injury sustained against Coastal Carolina last week. Wonnum was in sweats and had his leg elevated on a scooter during pre-game warmups.
Georgia returns home to face Middle Tennessee next week.
South Carolina plays its third straight home game to start the season when Marshall comes to town next week.
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What happens when you know a group of guys who take holiday photos together every year?
You end up in Charger jerseys at Sky High Sports in San Diego.
It was a fun photo shoot with these guys. I can't wait to see what they have in store for next years photos!
Phoenix had a woodland themed 1st birthday party. It was such a cute theme that I had to do a post just for the decor and food by itself.
The next post will be of her party, But I was just impressed by the little details!
My sister's having a baby!
So what does that mean for me? I packed my stuff and I moved to New York so I can be near her and watch my little nephew grow up!
We had her baby shower in San Diego and took a few photos!
As you may have noticed, chrissykim.com hasn't been working for quite some time now.
Finally after a few months, it is up and running again!
I'm not the most computer/website saavy person and have been on the phone with web hosting support and what not for a while now. I thought I would be able to fix and upgrade the website myself, but I've learned- leave it to the professionals!
Anyways, you'll be noticing some changes around the site itself. And if you happen to come across something that doesn't quite seem right, please let me know!
I hope you enjoy the posts that are to come! I'll be catching up on some posts I wasnt able to post.
Oh, and I also moved to New York last week! So you'll be seeing some of my adventures in New York!
I did the Kapur Family photos a few years ago. It was great to see how much the kids have grown!


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import unittest
import os
import bottle
from bottle.ext import sqlite
import sqlite3

class SQLiteTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.app = bottle.Bottle(catchall=False)

    def test_with_keyword(self):
        self.plugin = self.app.install(sqlite.Plugin())

        @self.app.get('/')
        def test(db):
            self.assertEqual(type(db), type(sqlite3.connect(':memory:')))
        self.app({'PATH_INFO':'/', 'REQUEST_METHOD':'GET'}, lambda x, y: None)

    def test_without_keyword(self):
        self.plugin = self.app.install(sqlite.Plugin())

        @self.app.get('/')
        def test():
            pass
        self.app({'PATH_INFO':'/', 'REQUEST_METHOD':'GET'}, lambda x, y: None)

        @self.app.get('/2')
        def test(**kw):
            self.assertFalse('db' in kw)
        self.app({'PATH_INFO':'/2', 'REQUEST_METHOD':'GET'}, lambda x, y: None)

if __name__ == '__main__':
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Hospals, a medical tourism startup has now secured Rs. 10 crores from a funding round led by the Venture Catalysts and Spiral Ventures. The startup is going to use the fund for expanding its services across North Africa, India, and the Middle East.
Founded in the year 2018 by Ahmed Danish, along with Al Shifa Healthcare services founder, Junaid and Alok Kumar Singh, the COO of AI Shifa, Hospals provides end-to-end hospital services to medical tourists.
It provides services like recommending doctors and hospitals, appointments with doctors, visa assistance, post-treatment follow-ups, etc., to medical tourists. Hospals has been Incubated by the Technology 9 Labs, a startup studio funded by Spiral Ventures.
With more than 200 monthly medical tourists and more than 6,000 patients from more than 10 countries, the startup has been able to expand its services to some of the Commonwealth countries as well.


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title: Create a Method on an Object
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## Crear un método en un objeto

### Método:

Una función de objetos debe inicializarse dentro del propio objeto. Esto se demuestra en el siguiente código.

```javascript
let obj = {
  property1 = 1,

  function1: function() {
    //Code to be exectued
  }
 };
```

### Solución:

```javascript
let dog = {
  name: "Spot",
  numLegs: 4,
  sayLegs: function() {
    return "This dog has " + dog.numLegs + " legs.";
  }
 };

 dog.sayLegs();

```


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Thoughts on Flow – londonbusinessblog.com
A non-exhaustive list of why Marc Andreessen and Adam Neumann have misinterpreted America's housing problems
When Marc Andreessen announced that he was pouring $350 million in money from a16z investors into a new venture from WeWork co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann, many jaws dropped. First, there was the huge sum and equally huge appreciation for a company that owns a few thousand rental properties as of today.
Then there were the claims that Flow could help solve inequality, anxiety, loneliness and a number of other social ills. Neumann's ideas for Flow, Andreessen said, "have no lack of vision or ambition, but only projects with such lofty goals have a chance to change the world."
That's idealistic rhetoric, even by Silicon Valley standards.
Something didn't feel right to us. Yes, there was the Neumann factor. But there was more. Neumann and Andreessen tried to privatize the neighborhood. Here's why we don't think that's such a great idea.
There are some problems that venture capital can solve. For example, I think it's pretty awesome that I can get a ride home from a vetted stranger if I'm out alone late at night and don't feel comfortable walking to the subway and then transferring to a bus to to go home.
But therein lies the crux of the problem: what if public transport were just ordinary? better? What if I didn't have to decide between dropping $25 on an Uber and walking 15 minutes to the subway, standing alone underground, taking the subway, getting off, waiting outside for the bus alone, and then taking the bus home at midnight?
With the same idea, Adam Neumann's Flow aims to provide a solution to what investor Marc Andreessen calls a housing crisis.
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Sleep spindle and K-complex detection using tunable Q-factor wavelet transform and morphological component analysis
Lajnef, Tarek
Chaibi, Sahbi
Eichenlaub, Jean-Baptiste
Ruby, Perrine M.
Aguera, Pierre-Emmanuel
Samet, Mounir
Kachouri, Abdennaceur
Jerbi, Karim
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00414
Lajnef, Tarek, Sahbi Chaibi, Jean-Baptiste Eichenlaub, Perrine M. Ruby, Pierre-Emmanuel Aguera, Mounir Samet, Abdennaceur Kachouri, and Karim Jerbi. 2015. "Sleep spindle and K-complex detection using tunable Q-factor wavelet transform and morphological component analysis." Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9 (1): 414. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00414. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00414.
A novel framework for joint detection of sleep spindles and K-complex events, two hallmarks of sleep stage S2, is proposed. Sleep electroencephalography (EEG) signals are split into oscillatory (spindles) and transient (K-complex) components. This decomposition is conveniently achieved by applying morphological component analysis (MCA) to a sparse representation of EEG segments obtained by the recently introduced discrete tunable Q-factor wavelet transform (TQWT). Tuning the Q-factor provides a convenient and elegant tool to naturally decompose the signal into an oscillatory and a transient component. The actual detection step relies on thresholding (i) the transient component to reveal K-complexes and (ii) the time-frequency representation of the oscillatory component to identify sleep spindles. Optimal thresholds are derived from ROC-like curves (sensitivity vs. FDR) on training sets and the performance of the method is assessed on test data sets. We assessed the performance of our method using full-night sleep EEG data we collected from 14 participants. In comparison to visual scoring (Expert 1), the proposed method detected spindles with a sensitivity of 83.18% and false discovery rate (FDR) of 39%, while K-complexes were detected with a sensitivity of 81.57% and an FDR of 29.54%. Similar performances were obtained when using a second expert as benchmark. In addition, when the TQWT and MCA steps were excluded from the pipeline the detection sensitivities dropped down to 70% for spindles and to 76.97% for K-complexes, while the FDR rose up to 43.62 and 49.09%, respectively. Finally, we also evaluated the performance of the proposed method on a set of publicly available sleep EEG recordings. Overall, the results we obtained suggest that the TQWT-MCA method may be a valuable alternative to existing spindle and K-complex detection methods. Paths for improvements and further validations with large-scale standard open-access benchmarking data sets are discussed.


Today we had to close down operations at Drivr – a company I have been working on for almost six years.
It's sad but have been a fun ride. Built a lot of great tech and had a bunch of excellent colleagues.


How Do You Spell FROG?
Correct spelling for the English word "frog" is [f_ɹ_ˈɒ_ɡ], [fɹˈɒɡ], [fɹˈɒɡ]] (IPA phonetic alphabet).
Below is the list of 264 misspellings for the word "frog".
A small tailless animal that moves by leaping, usually found in damp or watery places; a tender horny substance growing in the middle of the sole of a horse's foot; a spindle-shaped button which fits into a loop, used for fastening military cloaks, ladies' mantles, etc.; a plate used on a railroad to guide the wheels where one track crosses another.
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Lone Pine Capital, managed by Stephen Mandel, has revealed a new position in Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE). According to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the fund holds 4.37 million shares of the common stock of Spirit Airlines. The position equates to 6.0% of the stock, and is passive by nature.
Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE) is an airline company that operates more than 270 daily flights to 55 destinations in the United States. The company has a market cap of $4.76 billion. Its stock traded up by 2.44% on Tuesday to $65.52. Analysts have the consensus average target price of $70.60 for the stock. The consensus average recommendation is 'Buy.' Last month, the company reported a 16.9% increase in traffic on a capacity increase of 15.4%, compared to June 2013.
For the first quarter of 2014, Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE) posted adjusted net income of $37.8 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, compared to $32.8 million, or $0.45 per diluted share, in the same quarter of 2013. GAAP net income for the first quarter was $37.7 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, compared to $30.6 million, $0.42 per diluted share, in the first quarter 2013, according to a press release.
Other largest shareholders of Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE) include Par Capital Management, managed by Paul Reeder and Edward Shapiro, which holds 1.25 million shares, and D. E. Shaw, which owns 1.23 million shares of the company. Another investor Roberto Mignone's Bridger Management disclosed ownership of 1.0 million shares of Spirit Airlines Incorporated (NASDAQ:SAVE).
Steve Mandel has $17 billion assets under management. He returned about 23% during the past 11 years, beating the S&P 500 index by more than 20 percentage points per year. As of the end of the first quarter of 2014, the value of the fund's equity portfolio was $23.0 billion. The largest holding is represented by Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ:CTSH), in which the fund disclosed owning 28.72 million shares. It is followed by Baidu Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:BIDU), in which the fund holds 7.81 million shares.


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UPEPA's Commercial Speech Exception Examined For The First Time In Boshears
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Classmates.com headquarters on Elliott Avenue in Seattle, Washington.
PeopleConnect, Inc., is a Washington company that operates the Classmates.com website, which makes money off a subscription service that allows folks to find and connect with former school classmates. PeopleConnect became the subject of a class-action lawsuit brought by Josh Boshears of Indiana, who did not subscribe to Classmates but who objected to Classmates using his image (found in some old yearbooks). Boshears made two legal claims against PeopleConnect: First, for a violation of the Indiana Right of Publicity Act (IRPA), and, second, for common law misappropriation of Boshears' name and likeness. The case landed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, and PeopleConnect filed a Motion to Dismiss that lead to the opinion which shall next be related.
As to the IRPA claim, the court found that Boshears had not adequately plead his claim, and ordered that it be dismissed, but subject to Boshears' opportunity to amend his Complaint to attempt to state a claim. However, the court found Boshears' common law claim for misappropriation of name and likeness to have been adequately plead, so it was not dismissed.
This now brings us to what is arguably the most interesting part of the court's ruling, which relates to the Washington Uniform Public Express Protection Act (UPEPA). The Evergreen State was the first to adopt the UPEPA (after its own Anti-SLAPP statute was held to be unconstitutional, and this is the first court opinion to consider the UPEPA anywhere.
The UPEPA operates to protect public expression, or free speech if you prefer. In a nutshell, a plaintiff's claim which infringes upon a defendant's constitutional right to free speech must be dismissed unless the plaintiff can show that it nonetheless can assert a viable case against the defendant, or else some exception to the scope of the UPEPA's protections can be discerned.
PeopleConnect argued here that its use of old yearbooks was a form of protected speech, and thus the UPEPA would require that Boshears' claim be dismissed. Boshears retorted that the so-called "commercial speech" exception of the UPEPA applies, which would exempt from UPEPA's scope "a person primarily engaged in the business of selling or leasing goods or services if the cause of action arises out of a communication related to the person's sale or lease of the goods or services." In other words, so-called "commercial speech" is not protected by the UPEPA, and so therefore PeopleConnect's UPEPA claim was invalid.
The court held that PeopleConnect's sale of its services resulted from the communication (reprinting Boshears' name and likeness) for commercial purposes, which was to promote its subscription service. Thus, PeopleConnect's speech fell within the exception to UPEPA's coverage and that company could not assert the UPEPA to force the dismissal of Boshears' claim. The court was careful to distinguish other online databases which featured names and likeness as being protected speech, where those online databases were not using those names and likenesses to promote a subscription service as PeopleConnect was doing.
The court also noted that Boshears had also asserted a viable claim against PeopleConnect under Indiana common law, so the UPEPA was not available to PeopleConnect for that reason as well.
PeopleConnect raised sundry other arguments in its defense, some of which are interesting but all of which were rejected by the court. Since the focus here is on the UPEPA issues which we have just covered, readers desiring more can visit the opinion at the link below. One should be aware, however, that the court did not find in favor of Boshears but rather simply overruled (mostly) PeopleConnect's motion to dismiss, and there is a lot of litigation ahead of these parties before some hard result is reached.
Last year, I wrote a lengthy article about the UPEPA's scope, and the exceptions to that scope, entitled: The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Scope And Applicability, which I shall spare you Dear Readers from rehashing here again. Suffice it to say that the UPEPA protect free speech by way of a motion for expedited relief brought at the outset of the litigation, but one of the stated exceptions to that protect is for so-called "commercial speech". But allow me some leeway in describing why the commercial speech exception exists.
While the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protects "the freedom of speech", like all protections that has its reasonable limits. For instance, free speech does not allow one to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre (the most commonly-cited exception), child pornography, one using speech to defraud another, or to defame another, etc. All these things may be speech, but they are not protected speech under the First Amendment.
Commercial speech has always been sort of an odd duck when it comes to First Amendment protections. The U.S. Supreme Court has itself at times struggled with whether commercial speech should be carved out from ordinary speech, and to the extent that commercial speech may be regulated. Eventually, that court settled on an approach to commercial speech that was once summarized as follows: "[W]e instead have afforded commercial speech a limited measure of protection, commensurate with its subordinate position in the scale of First Amendment values, while allowing modes of regulation that might be impermissible in the realm of noncommercial expression." Ohralik v. Ohio State Bar Ass'n, 436 U.S. 447, 456, 98 S. Ct. 1912, 1918, 56 L. Ed. 2d 444 (1978).
One may thus think about commercial speech as being something akin to "free speech lite", where a state may regulate such speech (as Indiana did with its IRPA), and generally having less protection than other forms of fully-protected speech. Because commercial speech has a lesser protection, a public policy decision was made in the UPEPA, as with many of the existing Anti-SLAPP acts which pre-dated the UPEPA, to not afford commercial speech with the right to have the special motion for expedited relief as would be available to fully-protected speech. Indeed, there may be instances where commercial speech might be of such a nature that it would not fall within the ambit of protected speech anyway.
The other consideration was that a lot of lawsuits relate to commercial activity, and thus at least tangentially involve commercial speech, and if commercial speech were included within the scope of the UPEPA it would cause (as actually happened in Texas before it amended its Anti-SLAPP act) a lot of special motions to be brought in contract cases and the like that fundamentally have little or nothing to do with the purpose to protect free speech, just so that a party could get an early motion to dismiss, stay in discovery, early appeal, and other tactical litigation advantages in just ordinary lawsuits.
Thus, commercial speech is excluded from the scope of the UPEPA for very good reason. This does not of course mean the defendant will ipso facto lose their case, but merely that they will have to proceed to litigate their case in the normal course.
There is an irony to be found in that the first case to interpret the UPEPA is not a state court, but instead is a U.S. District Court, considering that some of the federal circuits (including the 9th Circuit wherein Washington state is found) will apply state Anti-SLAPP laws to cases arising in diversity, but other federal circuits do not. It will probably take an Act of Congress to fix this, but that is for another day.
Anyway, this case will be remembered as the very first opinion involving UPEPA, which is starting to proliferate as the uniform Anti-SLAPP act throughout the states. That alone makes it newsworthy to at least some degree.
Boshears v. People Connect, Inc., 2022 WL 888300 (W.D.Wa., March 25, 2022).
AntislapplawsBoshears v. People Connect, Inc., 2022 WL 888300 (W.D.Wa., March 25, 2022).


His face is tattooed in black, he has a double-bladed light saber, but poor use of the Force. Darth Maul has always been a cold-blooded killer, a violent man of few words. Born to be a killing warrior, trained by Darth Sidious, he lives solely to destroy the Jedi knights.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... The number one star saga in the world is back! Grab your laser swords because there will be no truce. Who will save the Galaxy from the Dark Side? Sixteen USB flash drives divided into two groups - Light Side and Dark Side. Collect them all!


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The importance of multicultural centers on college campuses
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At their core, multicultural centers are made to provide a wide range of resources to specific groups of students. Most of the groups are historically marginalized or discriminated against: people of color, such as indigenous students, black students and asian students. Safe spaces can be either physical or symbolic, according to research from the University of Cincinnati. Regardless of type, these spaces allow students to build community and a collective identity.
By providing a space for students to express themselves openly without hostility or rejection, multicultural centers foster a community with resources for issues such as homesickness, international travel and immigration plans, and even discrimination on and off campus. More specifically, sometimes students of color make the deliberate choice to physically separate themselves from the main community on college campuses, or need specific resources for problems only they face.
The University of Maine benefits from the presence of the Office of Multicultural Student Life, and any funding that goes into the office is crucial to the events, programs and workshops it regularly sponsors, hosts and facilitates along with other UMaine community members and groups. When students of color experience feelings of isolation, for example, they turn to the multicultural office for engagement with other people of color and for participation in multicultural student organization.
Being a rural college campus, multicultural centers are also crucial for exposure and education of a predominantly white student body and staff. Multicultural student groups work with the multicultural office non-stop throughout the year to organize and promote culture events, such as the annual Multicultural Thanksgiving and a weekly International Coffee Hour. Multicultural and diversity groups often promote month-long event calendars, such as February featuring coordinated Black History Month events scheduled every day month-long. The 2010 U.S. Census reports that Maine is 94.8 percent white, and while the UMaine campus may be more diverse thanks to our flourishing international and out-of-state outreach programs, our campus still has much to gain from diversity and multicultural programs.
Events that celebrate culture and educate others on heritage help both white students and students of color to thrive despite a largely disproportional student body. Such events also invite community members, faculty and staff to broaden their perspectives and learn about others. The students involved in event coordination learn valuable leadership and communication skills and earn professional experience. Most importantly, multicultural events make students feel valued, welcomed in their communities and protected against feelings of isolation. The bonds formed within multicultural groups are often bonds for life.
Student retention is another key role of multicultural centers on college campuses. The programming and resources provided by multicultural centers, as well as the safe space they help students adjust to normal academic challenges. Access points, such as the Office of Multicultural Student Life, allows all students to develop deeper links with figures within the university and its community. Universities themselves are conduits for student disconnectedness. With larger class sizes, higher teacher-student ratios and the extensive use of online learning materials, UMaine must do everything in its power to fight for the needs of its students and provide access points for resources and counsel.
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This is so cool!!! is there a link to an explaination?
Thanks James. 🙂 I can't just reveal it's secrets "willy nilly"!
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Open-end winding three-phase drive topologies have been extensively investigated in the last two decades. In the majority of cases supply of the inverters at the two sides of the winding is provided from isolated dc sources. Recently, studies related to multiphase open-end winding drives have also been conducted, using isolated dc sources at the two winding sides. This paper investigates for the first time a five-phase open-end winding configuration, which is obtained by connecting a two-level five-phase inverter at each side of the stator winding, with both inverters supplied from a common dc source. In such a configuration it is essential to eliminate the common-mode voltage (CMV) that is inevitably created by usual PWM techniques. Based on the vector space decomposition (VSD), the switching states that create zero CMV are indentified and plotted. A space vector pattern with large redundancy of switching states is obtained. Suitable space vectors are then selected to realize the required voltage reference at the machine terminals with zero CMV. The large number of redundant states enables some freedom in the choice of switching states to impress these space vectors. Out of numerous possibilities, two particular switching sequences are chosen for further investigation. Both are implemented in an experimental setup, and the results are presented and discussed. © 2013 IEEE.


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EGYPS 2019 will take place from 11-13 February 2019 in Cairo at the Egypt International Exhibition Center with an expanded exhibition space attracting 20,000 attendees from local & international businesses to identify opportunities from Egypt and Mediterranean's future project requirements, strategic priorities and gain insights into the wider North African oil and gas sector. EGYPS is a key platform in the North African energy calendar bringing together government representatives, key project owners, NOCs, IOCs, International Service Providers & Engineering, Procurement & Construction Companies, EPC contractors, consultants and financiers to address the evolving opportunities in the North African and Mediterranean energy arena.
Description: Diversity in Energy Summit brings together the energy industry at a world class venue in London for a unique event shaped for companies that see diversity as critical to future success. Hear directly from key players, decision makers and experts in the fields as they tackle the thorny issues around diversity with the aim of highlighting what can be done to progress diversity within oil, gas & energy globally. In addition to an exhibition this event will also include the London Networking Reception in the evening hosted by the Africa Petroleum Club and open to all attendees of the Diversity in Energy Summit.
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China International Petroleum & Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition (cippe) is an annual gathering of petroleum and petrochemical industry. With 18 years' development, cippe has become one of the leading petroleum exhibitions in the world.
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Maacher Jhol - The fish curry is a 2D animated movie. The movie is about a son's LGBTQ issue coming out to his father, while he prepares his favourite dish - which is the Maacher Jhol (A traditional fish recipe in Bengal, India). The movie is directed by Abhishek Verma.

Awards
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 National Award for Best Animation in 2018 India

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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks > Billy Kahora: In Conversation
Billy Kahora: In Conversation
Billy Kahora
Thursday 13 November 2014, 18:00-19:00
Seminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.
Presented by the Centre of African Studies & University of Cambridge Eastern African Society
Billy Kahora is one of Kenya's current leading writers. His short story, 'The Gorilla's Apprentice', which engages with Kenya's 2007 post-election violence, was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2014. Billy was also a scriptwriter for the acclaimed film, Nairobi Half Life (2012). As Managing Editor of the Kwani Trust based in Nairobi, Billy is responsible for much of Kenya's recent literary output. Billy gave the plenary lecture at the African Studies Association UK's 2014 conference, and has been a frequent guest speaker at the Royal African Society's annual literary festival, Africa Writes.
The Centre of African Studies and the Eastern African Society are looking forward to welcoming Billy to Cambridge. The event will begin with a Q&A with Billy, led by Rachel Knighton, a PhD student in the Faculty of English. The audience will then have an opportunity to listen to Billy read from his work, followed by a chance for discussion.
Karibuni!
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It is difficult for me to say exactly what he did, but most likely, he sat up in his seat and moved much closer to the table. He was probably also paying attention to the action in an abnormal way. Anytime you see someone do something way out of the ordinary, they usually have a very strong or very weak hand. In this spot, it doesn't make sense for someone to bluff, so most likely, he had a very strong hand.


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Northumbria climbs into top 30 of UK university league table
Northumbria University is now ranked in the top 30 universities in the UK after a significant 20 place rise in The Guardian University Guide 2021.
The Guardian's University Guide was published this weekend and focuses on the issues which matter most to young people considering studying at university. It analyses how well they will be taught, how highly courses are rated by current students and which university provides the best chance of getting a good job.
Northumbria has climbed to 27th place overall and has the best score in the UK in the value-added measure, which looks at how a student's academic performance improves at university.
The University also saw improvements to its scores around how satisfied students are with the feedback they receive from academic staff and in graduate prospects.
Northumbria also features highly in a number of The Guardian's subject tables, appearing in the top 10 for Health Professions, Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Building, Town and Country Planning and in the top 20 for Nursing and Midwifery, Architecture, Design, Journalism and Law.
Professor Andrew Wathey, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University said: "In 2013 we set out our vision to rank in the top 30 in the UK. Since then we have invested in transforming Northumbria.
"Our focus on academic excellence, research quality, and graduate employability is producing demonstrable progress and clear impact on our relative standing.
"This achievement would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our staff in their work to improve the student experience, and in the achievements of our students and alumni who are excelling in both their studies and their graduate careers."
Northumbria's notable improvement in The Guardian's league table follows recent successes in international league tables. It is now the top-rated UK university in Times Higher Education's Young Universities Rankings 2020 which lists the best universities founded during the past half-century, and has maintained its position in the same publication's World University Rankings 2021 which were released last week.
Northumbria was also one of a handful of UK institutions to climb the QS World University Rankings, when most UK universities saw a drop in their position.
The University is in the top 15 in the UK for the number of graduates in highly skilled employment according to the latest Graduate Outcomes survey. It is renowned for the support it provides to students and graduates wanting to start their own businesses. Northumbria is ranked second in the UK for enterprise, based on the turnover of businesses start-ups. Over the last decade the University has supported the creation of around 300 businesses which now employ more than 1,000 people and turnover £84 million per year.
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Q: How can I install kerberised services on debian? I installed kerberos in my debian environment and made it work with SSH. I also would like to try it with other services but I could not install them on debian. I followed several tutorials e.g.

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*https://www.debian-administration.org/article/570/MIT_Kerberos_installation_on_Debian (paragraph Installing Kerberized Services)

*https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/kerberos/install_debian
When I tried to run commands
apt-get install krb5-rsh-server

OR
apt-get install krb5-telnetd

I encountered on this error:
user@pc# apt-get install krb5-rsh-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package krb5-rsh-server

I am running this version of Linux (Debian): Debian 3.16.3-2 (2014-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Do I need to install some other package to be able to install kerberized services?
Can anyone help me to solve this issue?

A: You can´t install the package as a user. Try
sudo apt-get install krb5-rsh-server

A: You might need to apt-get update to refresh your local list of packages.
Debian "wheezy" contains the kbr5-rsh-server package. The package does not exist in Debian "jessie", but rsh-redone-server might be the new name (I can't tell whether or not it includes Kerberised code).

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New telling of Anne starts with dynamic lead
By: Brad Oswald
There's a moment, very early on, when it seems that the producers of the latest TV adaptation of Anne of Green Gables might have stretched too far in their effort to create an updated Anne that distances itself from all the versions that precede it.
The series opens with a sweeping aerial shot that zooms in on a rider on horseback, engaged in a mad dash through the ebb-tide surf along a windswept coastline. There's a sense of great urgency to the moment, and then, suddenly, at the one-minute mark, the opening notes of the Tragically Hip's Ahead By a Century impose themselves over the moving picture.
It's a wonderful song with haunting lyrics that hold particular resonance for Canadians these days, but its presence here is discombobulating, the decidedly anachronistic placement of a 20th-century song in a period-piece 19th-century tale. It leaves the viewer wondering if what follows will be an overreaching attempt to somehow modernize Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved tale — which, few would argue, is both unnecessary and ill-considered.
The musical moment passes, however, and what follows is a newly adapted-for-TV retelling of the Green Gables saga that is unique, respectful, insightful, challenging and contemporary, but still somehow traditional, and very, very wonderful.
Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty) and Matthew Cuthbert (R.H. Thomson) share a moment on their journey to Green Gables in the new CBC series Anne.
Anne, an eight-hour series that opens with a movie-length (two-hour) première Sunday at 8 p.m. on CBC, is like any other screen adaptation of this oft-told tale in that its success or failure depends almost wholly on the casting of its red-headed heroine. And in Irish-Canadian actress Amybeth McNulty, this version's producers have come as close as anybody ever could to finding a perfect Anne.
As the headstrong and wildly imaginative young orphan, who comes to live with aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert (Geraldine James and R.H. Thomson), McNulty is a barely contained bundle of enthusiastic energy. Gangly, forceful and yet deftly nuanced in every onscreen moment, the teen delivers a performance that is fully up to the lofty standard set by her experienced and highly skilled co-stars.
The two-hour première focuses on the arrival of Anne at the Cuthberts' home, Green Gables; the unusual brother/sister tandem, having decided they need help on the farm in their advancing years, have sought to adopt an orphan boy who can ease the burden of their daily chores. What awaits Matthew at the train station, however — the result, perhaps, of a miscommunicated message or a bookkeeping error — is Anne, all red-haired and pigtailed and freckle-faced and obviously not a boy.
Matthew, painfully shy and almost physically rigid in his reserve, remains almost silent on the wagon ride back to Green Gables, where he's sure to catch an earful from Marilla for bringing home a girl.
His silence is filled, and then some, by Anne's enthusiastic pronouncements about everything she sees, hears and smells along the way. She expounds on the beauty of the countryside, renames every tree and pond in the most colourful of terms, and enthuses at length to Matthew — who seems quietly entertained by the young girl's ramblings — about the wonderful possibilities of this new life she's been offered.
And then, when the wagon arrives back at Green Gables, stone-faced Marilla punctures Anne's dreamy bubble with a three-word question: "Where's the boy?"
Amybeth McNulty as Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved character Anne Shirley.
What follows is the most delicate of negotiations, as Anne tries to convince Marilla — without much success — that she could be just as useful on the farm as a boy, and Matthew summons up a few barely audible words in support of the young girl's plea. There are several moments during the Cuthberts' days-long deliberation on Anne's fate in which something that happens — a sound, a word, a reflection in a teacup — prompts a flashback to the horrors she suffered in her past at the hands of abusive families that took her in as a servant or bullies at the orphanage between placements.
It's in these disturbing sequences that screenwriter Moira Walley-Beckett — an Emmy winner for her work on Breaking Bad — infuses Anne with a level of darkness not seen in earlier versions and, as a result, forces viewers to reconsider the foundations of the fantasy-inclined girl's unique personality.
This ambitious adaptation, which will be distributed globally by Netflix in May, is a considerable TV achievement. Even if you've read Montgomery's literary tales and seen all the various screen adaptations, this welcome new arrival might leave you feeling like you're meeting Anne for the very first time.
brad.oswald@freepress.mb.ca
Twitter: @BradOswald
Brad Oswald
Perspectives Editor
After three decades spent writing stories, columns and opinion pieces about television, comedy and other pop-culture topics in the paper's entertainment section, Brad Oswald shifted his focus to the deep-thoughts portion of the Free Press's daily operation.
Starring Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James and R.H. Thomson
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Melania Trump's Trying to Make Cyber Bullying Her Thing
Nov 4, 2016 @ 3:00 pm By Keely Quinlan
When a new First Lady takes office next to her husband, it is basically assumed that she will take up a few humanitarian causes to focus her energy and prominence on.
For example, Michelle Obama took up youth wellness as one of her causes. She helped to start initiatives for healthier lunches in schools, and programs to get kids more active. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt focused her efforts on civil rights for African Americans and the rights of American workers.
So, as the only possible First Lady involved in this election, of course Melania has started to consider what her causes might be. While giving her first speech since the horrendous occasion where she plagiarized Michelle Obama during her speech at the Republican National Convention, Melania seemingly has set her eyes on the prize: cyber-bullying.
Here's what Melania said yesterday in Pennsylvania:
"Technology has changed our universe. But like anything that is powerful it can have a bad side. We have seen this already. As adults, many of us are able to handle mean words — even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and forces them to hide and retreat."
"Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially for children and teenagers," she continued. Well, we have some suggestions for combating cyber-bullying for Melania if she were to become First Lady.
First of all, if she thinks our culture is "too mean," she should really look at her husband first to solve the problem.
Here are just a few of my fav Trump tweets that, if he weren't her husband, Melania might describe as "too mean".
Obama is, without question, the WORST EVER president. I predict he will now do something really bad and totally stupid to show manhood!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2014
.@katyperry Katy, what the hell were you thinking when you married loser Russell Brand. There is a guy who has got nothing going, a waste!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2014
.@ariannahuff is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man- he made a good decision.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2012
Amazing how the haters & losers keep tweeting the name "F**kface Von Clownstick" like they are so original & like no one else is doing it…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 3, 2013
"We have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other," Melania continued, hella hypocritically.
Another problem with Melania's speech is that she allegedly plagiarized again, but this time from one of Donald's exes, Marla Maples. Although she didn't plagiarize as much content as she did the first time, it still appears that she stole a line from one of Marla's interviews.
When she was talking about growing up in Slovenia during her speech, Melania said, "America meant, if you could dream it, you could become it."
During a 2011 interview, Marla Maples said of her own childhood, "I believed if you could dream it, you could become it…"
It was pointed out by Yoni Brander on Twitter, and he says that although the quote looks like just a variation of a popular euphemism written by William Arthur Ward, "If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it," he says it's still possible she plagiarized.
While there is not statement from Melania on the alleged plagiarism, we can't wait until next Tuesday to find out if she gets to lead an actual crusade against cyber-bullying!


"Only those who have experienced harsh winter know most the warmth of sun," said Saijor Zhoigar, the former vice president of the Tibet University, after comparing his life before and after the democratic reform of Tibet in 1961.
Even in the first half of the 20th century, Tibet remained a society of feudal serfdom under theocracy.
"An earthquake hit my hometown Biru County in 1953, with cattle buried and tents destroyed, which made our miserable lives even harder," recalled Zhoigar.
"But the Tibet local government continued to levy head tax, and they even snatched the only small piece of butter which my family stored for the Tibetan new year."
"In 1957 the north Tibet was swept by a snowstorm, I was 11 years old then. As the only labor force in my family, I had to herd for the serf owner and collect cow dung for heating, despite the snow half my height."
"My family worshipped living Buddha. Every time I was struggling to get myself out a snow pit, every time I was starving in freezing weather, I kept wondering where was the god and the living Buddha," said Zhoigar, tears on his face.
The 62-year-old man removed the tears, "a huge snowstorm hit the north Tibet in 1987, also left cattle dead. At the critical moment, the central government sent helicopters to drop food, fuel and other life necessities for residents there, what a sharp contrast," said Zhoigar.
Serfs made up more than 95 percent of the population in the old Tibet. Owners sold, mortgaged and bartered serfs as just one more kind of property.
"The People's Liberation Army (PLA), who helped Tibetan people to quell an armed rebellion with an attempt to separate Tibet from China in 1959, saved me and sent me to a school in Lhasa. I was later sent to study in a school in the inner land."
Like many children of former serfs, Zhoigar eventually entered a college and had a decent job upon graduation.
"A serf became a government official, and even a leader of modern university. It's like a dream. But it;s a real story of me.I often said to myself: how great is my country, and how great is the new Tibet," said Zhoigar.
Yangzom, a former serf of a Shannan District manor, has enjoyed life after his retirement from the regional transport bureau.
"I had thought being a serf was my destiny," said Yangzom, "Shannan was the base of armed rebellion in 1959, I saw armies of the Dalai Lama looting and setting fires everywhere. They were so cruel with people who supported the Communist Party. They gouged their eyes and cut off their noses."
"The Dalai Lama group are talking about human rights. No people knows better than us, who experienced both old and new Tibet. We will never allow them to reverse of the wheels of history."
Yanglag, who and her husband helped Han nationality people to hide from the mobs attack during the March 14 riot, said the dearest wish of her childhood was to have enough to eat.
"I herded for my owner at the age of eight, and never imaged that I would go to school. I was liberated from the serfdom in 1959 and was provided free education, and became a civil servant."
Now Yanglag, the former director of the Jiangda county women's association in Changdu prefecture, bought a house in Lhasa after her retirement. She enjoys her retired life and would go out for walks in the neighborhood every day as an exercise.
"I feel so happy with my life now. We can not allow those to sabotage the ethnic unity and ruin our happy life. They will lift stones only to hit their own feet," said Yanglag.
"The Dalai group wants to restore the old system, (because) that is the paradise for them. But for us it is the hell on earth."
Cangmolag, a former cadre of the Tibet University, said he and his sister both worked as servants in the house of a noble.
"My greatest wish then is to have a pair of shoes. That is the best life I can image," he said.
Cangmolag was sent to a school after the democratic reform and became a government official upon graduation from university.
"Without the democratic reform, I would have remained a servant of the lowest kind in the house of the noble," he said.
"The new Tibet forms a sharp contrast to the old one. No one can deny the facts in history," said Cangmolag, "we former serfs will never allow them to shade the sun from the sky of Tibet."