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To tweet or not to tweet: your digital fingerprint in the workplace
Unless you're planning on hosting the Oscars, you're probably not going through your back catalogue of tweets and social media musings, worrying if there are any skeletons lurking in your digital closet.
But, maybe you should. Here's how to make sure your social media presence doesn't affect your career.
It's nigh on impossible not to leave a digital trail during your daily life. Some 95% of the British population uses the internet, where everything from your browsing cookies to your purchases, location and social media activity are not only visible but designed to be so, either publicly or for the businesses you share it with.
We do have one fundamental control on the digital picture we build of ourselves, and this is social media. In 2019, 45 million people were active social media users in the UK. That's 67% of the population and an increase of one million people in just 12 months. Meanwhile, 96% of British internet users have used a social network or messaging platform in the past month. Facebook and Instagram are the most popular, closely followed by Twitter, which is used by just over four in 10 adults. That's a lot of people churning out and commenting on content every second.
Social media usage raises the fundamental issue of what you consider private and personal communication and if that aligns with your employer. But first…
Do we have any legal right to online privacy?
While Article 8 of the 1998 Human Rights Act gives the "right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence", employment appeals tribunals have favoured companies in cases where personal use has referenced a company or a co-worker.
In a 2017 case, Plant v API Microelectronics Ltd, an employee of API Microelectronics claimed that she was wrongfully dismissed for her personal social media presence. She had been working at the company for 17 years with a clean record but one Facebook post changed that. Her post harmed the reputation of her company and went against its social media policy. The Norwich employment tribunal did not find her dismissal unjustified in this case.
More recently, in 2019, the BBC fired veteran broadcaster Danny Baker after he tweeted an image of a couple holding hands with a chimpanzee dressed in clothes with the caption: "Royal Baby leaves hospital." The BBC 5 Live presenter was accused of mocking the Duchess of Sussex's racial heritage and despite 61-year-old Baker dismissing the tweet as "a stupid unthinking gag", he was fired for what the BBC termed a "serious error of judgment".
But do employers really look at our social media profiles?
Inevitably, the boundaries have become blurred and increasingly employers are expecting a worker's non-work social media activity to meet their corporate guidelines on behavioural standards. In its advice to employers, ACAS, the UK arbitration body, warns, "Social media can affect communications among managers, employees and job applicants; how organisations promote and control their reputation; and how colleagues treat one another. It can also distort what boundaries there are between home and work."
In 2015, a woman lost her new job before she had even started her first day after complaining to a friend on Twitter that it was "f** a* job". Her soon-to-be ex boss sacked her—on Twitter—after the tweet was discovered, posting, "@Cella_ And…no. You don't start that new FA job today! I just fired you! Good luck with your no money, no job life."
Think before you post
Many professionals now view social media as an extension of their work email and the structures that apply there, with some using private social media behind strict privacy settings or closed groups. Nonetheless, even there, a screenshot can wreak untold damage.
Mariah Obiedzinski, senior director of content services at Stamats, said, "As far as company control over tweets, I'm all for holding people accountable for posting racist, sexist, or other hate-speech infused content. You wouldn't keep someone employed who stood on your sidewalk shouting racial slurs. Social media posts are a digital equivalent, but can be much farther reaching."
As we enter a new decade, it seems inconceivable that we would either share or initiate racist, homophobic or sexist material, for example. But what about strong political views? What about supporting, for example, in Ireland, a referendum on abortion or same sex marriage? How would this play with employers, current or future? A social media post is more than just a private rant at the water cooler or in the pub. It is global from the moment it is sent. So keep these tips in mind while posting:
How to stay in control of your online presence
So what's the best way to avoid a meeting with HR after a wild night out tweeting with abandon?
1.If your company has a Social Media Policy, read it. Usually these expand on your existing email policy but will include reputational risk clauses from social media use. Check with HR on any grey areas and get THEM to tell YOU, in writing or via email, just in case you have to argue it in court.
2.If in doubt, don't put it out there in the first place. "Delete" means nothing in an age of screengrabs. Just ask Danny Baker.
3.Have separate devices for separate accounts. If you need to maintain your company's social media accounts, make sure to use a different device for your own personal handles. This will help you avoid any mix-ups.
4.Consider going private. Or, at the very least, use one platform for friends and family and lock it in with privacy settings. This won't stop a screen grab of something controversial getting into the public domain, but who you let into your inner circle is down to you. If you have to use your own social channels for work—which those in marketing are usually required to do—bland never got anyone fired.
Posts that can get me into trouble?
It is important to read your company's social media policy, to make sure you don't engage in any online activity that violates the rules. Here is a non-exhaustive list of content you're usually not allowed to post:
Negative opinions about your company
Private or sensitive information about your company, employer or colleagues
Comments that constitute hate speech
Remarks that reflect badly on your company's reputation
Perhaps the last word is that of Mark Zuckerberg, who always warned of this from the inception of Facebook, a warning many of us chose to ignore. "The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?' It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"
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• Baraka, Amiri // A How To on installing dog doors for walls leading to the outdoors. If you have a pet that needs walking or to be let outside to do it's business or just to run about in an enclosed area, this was a great article for the handy man who prefers to do the job by himself. Actually, doggie doors for walls offer energy efficiency and more options for choosing a spot for installation in the home as opposed to installing an animal entrance / exit through a house door. His advice was timely and appropriate. His final thought was: If you are handy, then installation should not be an issue, BUT if you'd rather hire a handy-person-for-hire in your area, there definitely should have no trouble at all installing a wall dog door!
• Life, Dr. Jeffry: founder of Cenegenics and author of:The Life Plan: Dr. Life's Guide For Men To Great Health, Better….
that includes gambling which is available today. Gambling use to have an unsavory reputation, but no more. Every day you can see people playing online slots and other casino games on their mobile devices while waiting for their flights at the airport, sitting on the bus traveling from point A to point B, waiting in a doctor's office, well, you get the point. Pretty amazing if you think about it. But for our kids, it's no big deal. Online games abound for everyone. Anyone with a Facebook account has seen Words with Friends and Candy Crush. Talk about addicting games! Since Dorn's writing was mostly socially and politically oriented, he would probably have a field day with the impact the internet continues have on us.


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Q: Flutter setState() method calling As I am a new dev in Flutter it's very confusing me to when should I call setState() ?, If I call this entire application is reloading (redrawing view) in build(). I want to update one TextView widget value in tree widgets structure

A: Here is example. On click on fab you recreate only _MyTextWidget
StreamController<int> _controller = StreamController<int>.broadcast();
int _seconds = 1;

Widget build(BuildContext context) {
  return Scaffold(
    body: Container(
              color: Colors.cyan.withOpacity(0.3),
              width: 300.0,
              height: 200.0,
              child: _MyTextWidget(_controller.stream)),
            ),
    floatingActionButton: FloatingActionButton(
      onPressed: () {
        _controller.add(_seconds++);
      },
      child: Icon(Icons.add),
    ),
  );
}
...

class _MyTextWidget extends StatefulWidget {
  _MyTextWidget(this.stream);

  final Stream<int> stream;

  @override
  State<StatefulWidget> createState() => _MyTextWidgetState();
}

class _MyTextWidgetState extends State<_MyTextWidget> {
  int secondsToDisplay = 0;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return StreamBuilder(
        stream: widget.stream,
        builder: (BuildContext context, AsyncSnapshot<int> snapshot) {
          return snapshot.hasData ? Text(snapshot.data.toString()) : Text('nodata');
        });
  }
}

A: To make it simple, SetState() {} invalidates the widget in which it is called and forces the widget to rebuild itself by calling build(). That means that every child widgets are being rebuilt.
There are other methods you can use to pass data to a widget down a tree and make it rebuilt itself (and all its chidlren) than using SetState () {}. Those are really helpfull, especially if the  widget you want to rebuilt is far away from yours in the widget tree.
One of them is the example provided by @andrey-turkovsky that uses a combination of StreamBuilder and a Stream. The StreamBuidler is a widget that rebuilt itself when there is an interaction in a Stream. Based on that, the idea is to wrap your TextView in a StreamBuilder, and use the stream to sent the data you want your TextView to display.

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John P. Wann, Richard M. Wilkie; Retinal flow and visual direction information in the control of steering. Journal of Vision 2002;2(7):432. doi: 10.1167/2.7.432.
There has been an ongoing debate as to whether optic flow is sufficient to judge heading or whether extra-retinal information is required. A more recent debate has been whether human locomotion can be controlled purely on the basis of egocentric visual direction without reference to optic flow (Rushton et al, 1998 ; Warren et al, 2001). We created a driving simulation where retinal flow (RF) and visual direction (VD) information could be manipulated independent of one another. Observers sat in a projection booth with a 90 by 64deg FoV, with a simulation of locomotion at 8m/s across a textured ground plane, and used a force-feedback wheel to steer toward target gates. We systematically manipulated the information from optic flow or other directional cues in a balanced design so we could predict over-steer or under-steer if that particular cue was being used. The results supported the role of both RF and VD information in controlling steering with significant under/over-steer in the predicted direction when either information source was biased (p <.01). The weighting attached to either source of information appeared to be approximately equal for the conditions we created and reinforces the argument of Warren et al (2001), that if retinal flow is salient, it will be used in active locomotion. A further experiment manipulated extra-retinal (ER) information and supported a model where all 3 sources (RF, VD, ER) are combined in an additive manner to provide robust locomotor control. Research supported by the UK EPSRC GR/R14644.


This Friday the 25th, is not only another of the ever popular "3 buck nights" we will also be welcoming crews from Royal Victoria, Turkey Head, and Sydney North Saanich Yacht Clubs. There are 15 Canadian boats planning on joining the 20 boats signed up for the Girts Rekevics Foul Weather Race starting Saturday morning @ 0930. The doors open @ 1730 Friday, let's welcome these foreigners and show them some good 'ol AYC hospitality!


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HEALTH INSURANCE may take a cue from employee-guided retirement plans.
Many employers now specify how much they will contribute to a worker's retirement plan, but leave the picking and choosing of investments to workers. Such a model can make sense for health benefits, too, says consultant Booz-Allen & Hamilton. It says that down the road, employees with such defined-contribution plans may shop among many health plans, deal directly with plan administrators, and opt to pay more pretax dollars for expanded benefits.


The LAB C03 is an evolution of its predecessor, the C02, with the transmission has seen a bit of a make-over to become easier to work on. Several redesigned areas reduce the overall number of parts for improved reliability and reduced maintenance time. Also new on the drivetrain are redesigned tensioners for all three belts and the ability to run high or low front and rear axles. A redesigned chassis makes for improved weight distribution and constant flex control for more steering and traction. Another new chassis part is the completely redesigned radio plate which uses a traditional position for the throttle servo and a floating, ball-raced front mount for the FSS front flex system. Other new features include new shocks, a redesigned engine mount and alternative link position for the rear upper links providing better traction in low grip conditions.


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Don't Store It, Freeze It
Renewable energy solutions come with their own problems, and managing the trade-offs will determine the success of a technology. Especially, with a desire to maintain and expand our modern standards of living. The diffuse, intermittent, and unpredictable nature of wind and solar energy has led to research and development in how to store the electrical energy generated. However, a partial solution to the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is to transition our more modern refrigeration systems back to ice boxes.
Storing electrical energy, in cars or wall batteries, could be a partial solution to the intermittent and unpredictable nature of wind and solar energy. The battery storage solution comes with its own set of problems, to include ...
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Drone Missile Launcher
This magnetic lifter drone robotic aircraft.
This Small drone aircraft is based on WW2 designs used by the German Military that were recovered during The 1947 project Operation High Jump . In that time period computer science was not available as it is today which was the Reason the German militrary had limited sucess with as it was very difficult for the pilots to manually fly these devices which were driven by a series of Gyroscopes causing Ionic lift not unlike what is currently in use by the B 2 Bomber AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL military aircraft which also use jet engines to assist in the propulsion system . A computer conrtolled Drone using this propulsion system could be used ...
Paul Carlozzi
Drone Riding Tornado
This drone has 4 new parts that can increase the load capacity and maneuverability many times:
• Turbopropellers are propellers with turbo expander in the center.
• Lifting body, which increases the load capacity by about 30%
• Vertical flaps that turn the resistance of the motor holders into useful work.
• Reactive cuts on the wings, which increase the load capacity and speed.
1. As is known, 1/4 central part of the propeller located above the motor does not perform work. Turboexpander makes this part work very efficiently. They can be of two types:
The first version is intended only for small drones and it has only central blades. They push air out of the middle and create ...
Jacob Bizehr
Drone Targeted Mortar Rounds
An autonomous and or manually controlled mortar which is wirelessly synced/paired to a drone. The drones GPS positioning and 360 camera displays and mapping functions are used to manually and or Autonomously target/fire mortar rounds. The drones built in active GPS antenna acts as a accurate on site targeting relay fish and reciever system to directly target a enemy. The active GPS has saved topography of specifically uploaded territory/terrains. The active GPS pairs to the manual fish lense cameras 360 function which enables the user to set lock a mortar round on a target using a screen/monitor. The manual targeting system is equipped with a monitor display shot connection target analysis which is a marker "x" reticle or a ...
Kenneth Mailloux
Dual Fastener Manipulation Device– Patented Invention (US 10,239,191 B2)
A DUAL FASTENER MANIPULATION DEVICE can be used to manipulate two fasteners with the same axis of rotation and to manipulate the fasteners of the same axis of rotation separated by the intermediate material, and the spacing distance can be freely adjusted according to the size of the separated object.
In order to successfully join the two fasteners together, one of the fasteners must be rotated in the first direction and the other fastener must be prevented from rotating or rotating in the second direction at the same time. Typically, the process is accomplished using two separate wrenches or other fastener engagement tools, where one or more users attempt to manipulate a single fastener engagement tool to achieve the ...
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Dual-Adaptive Camouflage and Dual-Holodeck Properties: The Two Symmetries
Dual-Adaptive Camouflage, or DAC
Adaptive camouflage merely to an environment's background scenery is only half of the property of true invisibility.
It require a dual-adaptive camouflage; one adaptable to the outside of the suit ( usually the case) itself, and it's background scenery taking both as one complete outside environment, and another part of it adaptable to the interior moving parts of the puppet Light-Interface of the object, or suit ( usually the case).
I say " usually the case" in this instance because it may not be a suit, but the dual-adaptive camouflage invisibility would still exist in a potential state even if it were a fixed Light-Interface System, simply owing to the concept of the Light-Interface form ...
Keith Carlock
Dual-Adaptive Camouflage Invisibility
Adaptable not only to the environment, but to itself as well.
The full diversity of my Light-Interface System concept can be demonstrated with my model of an invisible suit.
My 3-D Pixel Unit concept already exists, in part, as an angle sensitive pixel, but without the counterpart 3-D pixels and the length of connection between them.
The spherical symmetry of an angle sensitive pixel, adapted to other spherically symmetric 3-D Pixel Units across a Light-Interface System is what allows it to capture the full intersecting angles of the web-of-light thru the concentrated shape of the object in the Light-Interface.
Due to the full wrap-around symmetry of the light-web intersection, replicated in a concentration, by fully wrap-around 3-D Pixels Units on a body, the ...
Dual-Automatic and Manual V-Shaped Ladder
A V-shaped ladder is one of the most widely used home and work tools all over the world. But this tool has its limitations like it is difficult for elderly peoples to go up and down easily. It is sort of hard for physically disabled people to go up and down carrying bulky and heavy materials for anyone and so on.
This project is about building a dual functioning v-shaped ladder that has manual stepping and automatic vertical moving mechanism for elderly persons, for disabled peoples and people who occasionally carry heavy materials at home or workplaces. As seen in the figure, the mechanism is very simple. The shape is a standard V-shaped ladder. On one side there is ...
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Dual-Holodeck Properties: Exterior 3-D Scenery and Internal Hologram Casting
External 3-Dimensional Holodeck Scenery
In it's simplest form, invisibility is depicted outside of the Light-Interface System, while an intersection ( holodeck) of the outside light is displayed, painted all along the interior walls in the Light-Interface, itself.
External Holodeck Scenery
The external world is transmitted thru the Light-Interface System, and part is diverted into continuing it's path thru the space that the Light-Interface System rests in, while a seperate holodeck reality can be painted all along the interior walls of the Light-Interface.
Internal Hologram Casting
If not a computer-generated internal hologram, such as a person or other furniture of the background scenery, it must first be projected from another " input receiving" Light-Interface, before it can be flipped around and transmitted back out the ...
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The human crave for technological development is a never-ending process and so does the pollution. So, being an intelligent species on the planet we can at least adopt technologies which will help reduce the effect of pollution on the planet to a certain extent.
There is a tremendous amount of efforts being taken for developing Electric Vehicles. However, one of the biggest challenges is to turn people's mind to buy EV's, because of limited mile range (250-350) and longer charging time (50-70 min) per one full ...
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For more abput eggplant, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant.
Eggplant, Olive, and Parmesan Sandwich for Election Night November 4, 2008 when Barack Obama won!
This dish, adapted from The Shun Lee Cookbook by Michael Tong, is served cold, and makes a wonderful summer appetizer or side dish for grilled fish or steak.
1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil, and keep it at a low boil.
2. Using a sharp knife, lightly score the skin of the eggplants in a crosshatch pattern, with the lines about 1 inch apart. Halve or quarter the eggplants lengthwise to make sticks about 1/2-inch wide. Cut the sticks into 2-inch lengths.
3. Heat a large wok over the high heat. Add enough oil to come about 1 1/2 inches up the sides of the wok, and heat it to 350°F. Working in batches without crowding, fry the eggplant, turning it occasionally, until tender, about 45 seconds. Do not overcook it or it will lose its shape. Using a wide wire-mesh skimmer, quickly remove the fried eggplant from the oil, dip it briefly in the boiling water and then transfer it to paper towels to drain. Repeat with the remaining eggplant, drying the skimmer after each use.
4. To make the sauce, heat 1 tablespoon oil in a small skillet over medium-low heat. Add the garlic and stir-fry until fragrant, about 10 seconds. Add the scallions and black pepper, and stir-fry until the scallions are wilted, about 20 seconds. Add the sesame oil, and transfer the mixture to a bowl. Add the vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, rice wine, hot bean paste, and hot chili oil, and mix well.
5. Place the eggplant on a serving platter and pour the sauce over it. Serve at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 350.Drizzle some olive oil at the bottom of an 8*11 baking dish. Make a layer of sliced eggplant, seasoning generously with salt and pepper. Add a layer of sliced potatoes.
Add another of sliced parsnip rounds. With a spoon, add as much diced tomato as you'd like. Sprinkle with slices of garlic and torn up bits of basil.
Now repeat.Cover casserole with slices of fresh mozzarella, and bake for 40 minutes, or until cheese is browned and the sides of your dish are bubbling. Let stand for 5 minutes, slice and serve with crusty bread.
1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. On an oiled baking pan, roast the eggplant cut side down for 20 minutes, until the eggplant is very soft and tender. Scoop out the pulp. Place in a large bowl and mash with a large fork or spoon.
2. In a medium bowl, mix the tahini, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste; add water for creamier consistency. Stir into the mashed eggplant. If a smoother consistency is desired, you can blend the ingredients in a food processor.
3. Garnish with tomato slices or sliced cucumber. Serve with a dash of olive oil on warm pita bread.
Heat the oil in a large pot. Stir in the onion and jalapeño, and season with curry powder, cayenne, and salt.
Cook and stir until onion and jalapeño are tender. Stir in zucchini, and cook until tender.
Pour in the chicken stock. Bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 20 minutes.
If you want, add some potato, however do not use blender. With potato, it is best to put through a purée mill.
This recipe was one of the five zucchini dishes that Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef/owner of Prune in New York City (and Melissas beloved sister) prepared during her battle against Iron Chef Bobby Flay on that popular television program. Gabrielle managed to slay Flay in that episode, and you'll see why once you taste this sensuous dish. Harissa, the deep red spicy North African chile paste, was her secret weapon.
Toast the caraway seeds in a small heavy skillet over medium heat just until they are fragrant, 1 - 2 minutes. Put the toasted seeds in a mortar and crush them with the pestle. Add the garlic and a good pinch of salt and crush the mixture into a paste. Stir in the lemon juice, harissa, and oil. Season with salt.
Bring a pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Add the zucchini and cook until very tender and soft but definitely not falling apart, about 5 minutes. Drain well, then put the zucchini into a wide bowl and gently toss with the harrisa vinaigrette while still warm.
Dress the zucchini with the olives, feta, parsley, and preserved lemons, finishing the dish with a good drizzle of olive oil.


First let's define a couple of terms. Current Inventory is the number of homes listed for sale in the MLS (multiple listing service) on a specific day. For our purposes we will be using the 16th of each month since today is May 16th. Average DOM is the average number of days that a home was listed for sale before it was sold. Months Inventory is the number of months it will take to sell out of the current inventory at the current rate of sale. This is found by dividing current inventory by monthly sales. Monthly Sales is the number of homes that were sold from the 16th of one month to the 16th of the next month. As always, I am talking about single family residences. Condos are not included in my numbers.
Looking back in time, on this day in 2010 there were 152 homes for sale in the Highlands. In 2011 there were 148 homes for sale in the Highlands. In 2012 there were 130 homes for sale, and today there are 126 homes for sale in the Highlands. You may be thinking that the difference in 152 and 126 is not very much, but the difference comes with the rate of sale. The highest number of monthly sales for the entire year of 2010 was 49 sales, which was during the month between April 16th and May 16th. In 2011, the high was 54 sales, which was between May and June. Last year the high was 63 home sales, which was between July and August (and it was also a HUGE jump in monthly sales from anything previous). Between April 16th (last month) and today there have been 75 homes sold in the Highlands. At that rate we would sell out of homes in 51 days. These numbers are staggering!
People know that money is cheap right now. Interest rates are incredibly low and home prices are still below the peak back before the market crashed. There are also a lot of new loan programs that are offering low down payment options, some even have the possibility of zero down payment. This creates a very large pool of buyers. However, as you can see above, the market is less saturated and there are a lot fewer sellers. The real estate market is currently a win-win. Buyers are getting a deal in the way of financing, and sellers are starting to realize profit from sales instead of losses. Buyers can also take comfort in knowing that the property they buy today is most likely moving upward with the market.
You have to be prepared. To those of you thinking of selling your home this year: Get your home ready for market today. Do not waste time, do not put it off. Just because the real estate market is turning doesn't mean your home can look like a disaster, it needs to be ready. To those of you thinking about buying a home this year: Get your finances in order and get pre-approved. Homes that are priced correctly and look nice are sold in 3 days or less right now, which gives you little time to dilly dally. You need all your "ducks in a row" to buy a home.
If you want suggestions on how to make you home ready to sell, ask me. If you want me to run numbers for your neighborhood like the ones above, ask me. If you don't know who to call to get pre-approved to buy a home, I work with good local bankers every day, ask me.


Daphne Gray-Grant grew up in the newspaper business.
Her father owned a struggling weekly paper in Vancouver, Canada.
she worked there until she graduated and for a few more years.
a large metropolitan daily where she worked for about eight years.
and decided she still didn't have nearly enough work.
She wanted to be self-employed.
So, the Publication Coach was born.
and didn't address the problem until she started her own business.
Eight and a Half Steps to Writing Faster, Better.
she offers the weekly newsletter power writing.
It's weekly, brief, and best of all, it's free.
and I encourage you to sign up as well.
Meanwhile, it's my great pleasure to welcome Daphne here today.
Daphne, you're a professional writing coach.
Tell me about your own past struggles with writer's block.
even when I was a professional reporter at a daily newspaper.
Now, you might think how can someone who works at a daily newspaper have writer's block.
Didn't you have to write every day?
I did a little bit of writing and mostly editing.
I loved editing, I've always loved editing.
I found it very stressful and extremely difficult.
to make writing faster, easier, and better.
how did you teach your triplets to write?
Did you use some of those tricks?
Well, I taught my triplets to do many things.
and they're all at university, which is great.
They're so different you'd barely know they were siblings, never mind triplets.
and they too have found them very helpful.
Well, let's hone in on one of those tricks.
and when it comes to writing?
I call that the creative or writing mode.
The focus mode, I call the editing brain.
is they try to write with their editing brain.
and now put them in a car.
Only one person can drive.
and that's not what anyone wants when they're writing.
to be the one that's driving when you're writing.
people engage their diffused brain, is mind mapping.
its a little bit different from concept mapping.
and that's really really important.
I can go off in any direction.
not to outline before writing.
what many grade ten English teachers will counsel you to do.
outlining engages your focused brain.
and alphabetical order in this sort of very specific tasks.
and that's where you really need the diffused brain.
then draw a circle around it.
then, just write whatever springs into your brain.
but I say it's kind of like vomiting onto the page.
and I did it on the first day of school.
I don't mean I wrote the mind map on the first day of school.
I wrote the mind map about the first day of school.
was because it breaks very neatly into some obvious marking points.
one is high school, one is university.
So, you can have different first days of school tied to those events.
and you'll see I've marked them with little cross hatches.
when you look at the mind map you can see this easily.
I've written the words, bee sting.
Now, what does a bee sting have to do with the first day of grade one?
and I got stung on the lip by a bee.
I will never ever forget that moment.
linked with being stung by a bee right there on the lip.
bee sting, and everything comes back to me.
the exact spot in the playground where I was standing.
"What are you making such a big deal about?
So, it's almost like a movie.
just based on those two words.
but, what does it have to do with non-fiction.
my writing life and I have never written any fiction ever.
So, I use it entirely for non-fiction.
I guarantee your brain will remember.
because it's less likely you're going to be interviewing a bunch of people.
books but the same principle applies.
most important are going to float to the top of your memory.
So, you will remember them and then you can mind map about them.
to really understand what was going on at an anatomical level.
his microscope and then he would turn and he would try to draw them.
the microscope versus when he was trying to draw them on the page.
your mind through using the mind-mapping technique.
That's a really really good way of putting it.
It interests me in terms of education these days.
I think we are down playing a bit the value of memory.
I don't know about you, but I have all my phone numbers entered into my iPhone.
my life and people don't memorize poetry anymore.
the regular day to day life and regular school life that aren't there so much anymore.
you're going to remember it.
At least you're going to remember well enough to mind map it.
of course you have to look it up.
you need to check it word for word.
you're just needing the inspiration.
That's what mind mapping is so valuable for.
I couldn't agree more and I also couldn't agree more about the importance of memory.
if you're just sitting there memorizing things without understanding them.
we've said memorization is always bad and that's actually not true.
to understand the underlying meaning much more deeply."
that underlies the equation and that's often the lost.
a little bit metaphorically because we haven't truly analyzed what's going on.
the best thing to do is to cover up your screen with a towel or something like that.
edit what you just wrote and just get it out onto the page.
Absolutely, you know that is the number one mistake that most students.
You don't have to be a student to make this mistake.
say that that's kind of like trying to clear the table while you're still eating dinner.
It just doesn't work very well.
this habit is that they turn off their monitor while they're writing.
So, of course you need to be a touch typist to be able to do that.
then just hang a towel over it and write without looking at what you're reading.
I edited constantly while I wrote and that was so dysfunctional and so bad for me.
It slowed me down so much and made writing so difficult and traumatic.
That I finally made the decision that I had to break that habit.
So, I started turning off my monitor.
I tried some other things as well that also really helped.
There's a great app on the Internet called write or die.
but something like start and then you get a blank screen and you start to write.
stop and we look off and stare into space while we're trying to plan what to write next.
then the screen starts to pinken and I like to compare it to a blush.
Because the screen's embarrassed for you.
It gets pinker and pinker and pinker the longer you go without writing.
remember exactly the time limit it gives you.
Let's say it's 20 seconds.
then you get a loud punishing noise.
a car alarm, or '70s disco music.
for teaching you to break the habit of editing while you write.
I've used Write or Die myself and I think it does work very, very well.
I love this approach of separating your editing from your actual writing.
something and I'm about to put it down and then I think, that's terrible.
I have got to get that out.
it's going to come out on the page terrible.
That actually wasn't as terrible as I thought.
In fact, it got me started and it's pretty good.
Yes. That happens to so many people.
I have to tell you, I have taught writing for so many years now.
we all have that voice and it says the same thing to all of us.
this is boring, this is really really bad.
That voice says really negative essentially unhelpful things to all of us.
could you shut up for a minute?
I will talk to you when I'm editing but I'm writing right now.
with that is just recognizing that it's happening.
Recognizing that it happens to everyone and taking some steps to deal with it.
Well, I thank you so much Daphne.
This was very useful and a fantastic reminder even for me.
for Daphne's free newsletter which is at www.publicationcoach.com.
Better or Daphne's email course which is called Extreme Writing Makeover.
So, thank you so much again Daphne and we'll see you on the flip-side.
Thanks Barb, nice talking to you.


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Police Launch Major Investigation Of Pork Left In Mailbox Of Islamic Centre
Pamela Geller December 27, 2017 2.3k Views
The enforcement of Islamic law on Western nations is both absurd and frightening.
A Florida man was sentenced to 15 years for leaving bacon on a doorstep of mosque.
A UK man and woman were sentenced for the same crime.
It is madness.
What's next for us amputations and beheadings?
This is not an attack. 9/11 was an attack.
This is sharia. If it's an attack, it's an attack on our very freedoms.
POLICE INVESTIGATE PORK ATTACK ON BELFAST ISLAMIC CENTRE
Local MP condemns attack in which pork was forced through letterbox of Islamic Centre in south Belfast
POLICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND ARE TREATING AS A HATE CRIME AN INCIDENT IN WHICH PORK WAS FORCED THROUGH THE LETTERBOX OF AN ISLAMIC CENTRE ON CHRISTMAS EVE.
Raied al-Wazzan, the treasurer of the Islamic Centre in south Belfast, described those responsible as "ignorant people". He said: "We believe these people do not represent the vast majority of Northern Ireland. We have received many messages of support. They will not succeed. We have a very good relationship with all communities in Northern Ireland and we work hard with our outreach."
His colleague Anwar Macady said that it was the first time the centre had been attacked in such a way, and it was sad that it had happened on Christmas Eve.
"They're supposed to be celebrating mercy and forgiveness. I think this man is only representing himself, and a handful of people who may support him," Macady said. "We know that this person doesn't represent the wider society of Northern Ireland and we are very thankful for the people who sent us messages to tell us the message of support."
Emma Little-Pengelly, the DUP MP for south Belfast, condemned those responsible. "Attacking our small Muslim community in south Belfast is completely wrong, achieves nothing and is entirely misdirected," she said.
"Attacking?" San Bernardino, Chattanooga, New York City. London, Nice, Berlin, Orlando – these are attacks. This is sharia, an attack on our very way of life.
Article posted with permission from Pamela Geller
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's tax returns will never be handed over to Democratic lawmakers, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday, defying an effort in Congress to learn more about the real estate mogul's personal finances.
He dismissed an effort to obtain the returns, launched on Wednesday by U.S. House of Representatives tax committee Chairman Richard Neal, as a political ploy from Democrats who will never stop attacking Trump.
One of many investigations targeting Trump on Capitol Hill and in the U.S. court system, the House Democrats' probe into the president's tax returns could pull back the curtain on his business empire and his reputation as a dealmaker.
The losing party could appeal, ultimately to the U.S. Supreme Court. If litigation extends into 2021, a judge could also force a newly elected Congress to start the process over, said Ross Garber, an attorney who specializes in political investigations.


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use App\Exceptions\InvalidArgumentException;
use App\Security\AccessToken;
use Tester\Assert;
use App\Exceptions\InvalidAccessTokenException;

/**
 * @testCase
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class TestAccessToken extends Tester\TestCase
{

    public function testNoUserId()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::exception(
            function () use ($token) {
                $token->getUserId();
            },
            InvalidAccessTokenException::class
        );
    }

    public function testGetUserId()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->sub = 123;
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::same("123", $token->getUserId());
    }

    public function testEmptyScope()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::false($token->isInScope("bla bla"));
    }

    public function testWrongScope()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->scopes = ["alb alb"];
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::false($token->isInScope("bla bla"));
    }

    public function testCorrectScope()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->scopes = ["bla bla"];
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::true($token->isInScope("bla bla"));
    }

    public function testEmptyEffectiveRole()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::null($token->getEffectiveRole());
    }

    public function testEffectiveRole()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->effrole = "role-eff";
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::equal("role-eff", $token->getEffectiveRole());
    }

    public function testCustomClaim()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->xyz = 123;
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::same(123, $token->getPayload("xyz"));
    }

    public function testMissingCustomClaim()
    {
        $payload = new stdClass();
        $payload->abc = 123;
        $token = new AccessToken($payload);
        Assert::throws(
            function () use ($token) {
                $token->getPayload("xyz");
            },
            InvalidArgumentException::class
        );
    }
}

$testCase = new TestAccessToken();
$testCase->run();

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The Center for the Advanced Study of Communities and Information (CASCI) is a multidisciplinary research network, based at the University of Maryland.
The CLIP Laboratory at the University of Maryland is engaged in designing algorithms and methods that allow computers to effectively and efficiently perform human language-related tasks.
The DCIC is an iSchool research center that explores how to integrate archived information with new data and how to better access these records to foster historical research engagement.
The Human-Computer Interaction Lab has a long, rich history of transforming the experience people have with new technologies.
The Trace Research & Development Center has been a pioneer in the field of technology and disability, known for high-impact research and development.


As we launch our list of the best UK wedding photographers in 2018, we decided to ask a number of them the common questions they receive, what type of questions people should be asking and how you can decipher whether you've found someone who is top quality. I've collated all this information in the following questions below which I'd recommend asking to any potential wedding photographer before paying up.
Do you have or will you need an assistant?
If you have an assistant, how much extra will this cost me?
Will you be handling the photography? If not, can I meet the person beforehand?
Would you be able to incorporate my ideas into your shots?
How long have you been doing this job for? Do you have any testimonials?
Have you done photography for weddings before?
Have you ever been to and shot at this venue before?
How many weddings or events will you be doing over the same weekend?
Do you have insurance in place?
How would you, or others, describe your style of photography?
In regards to our wedding plans, have you done many with the same theme / style etc?
What happens if you are ill on the day? Do you have a replacement?
What if the camera breaks on the day? Do you have a spare?
How much would it cost me if I wanted you to stay for longer?
How many photos should I expect back from you?
How long will I have to wait after the wedding before getting the final shots?
How will you be sending me the images?
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Do you tend to opt for colour or black/white?
If the venue is 'X' miles away, will you charge extra for transport?
How long beforehand will you turn up?
If you have set packages, can I customise the package at all to suit what I'm after?
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What happens if it rains or we have bad weather? Do you tend to have a plan B if this happens?
What would you need from me before the wedding? How long beforehand will you require them?
Have you ever worked with anyone else involved in my wedding? Think florist, planner, videographer etc.
Is it ok for other people to take photos while you are, or would you prefer them not to? Will the flash being on make a difference in this?
What is your policy regarding either cancellation or refunds?
When will you be sending me the contract? This one is essential, if they don't send you a contract then don't use them.
Following asking them all these questions, you need to ask yourself whether you felt this was the right person to handle the photography on such an important day. Did they turn up to your meeting on time? Are their examples close to what you are after or are they quite different? How many example reviews and former customers do they have? Have they listened, accepted and worked on each question you have asked, or have they battled them? These are all hugely important questions to consider before making a commitment.
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You might also want to consider getting a photographer for your hen do. Certainly this isn't cheap, but it is an increasingly popular consideration when booking the hen weekend.


As we celebrate 30 years of dedicated medical research into childhood cancer, we are very excited to be at the forefront of a new era in childhood cancer treatment: personalised medicine.
You may have heard the term a lot recently, but what does personalised medicine actually mean?
Personalised medicine refers to treatment that is tailored to the genetic make-up of the patient. It is particularly promising in the area of childhood cancer, as very young children who undergo current treatments have a high risk of long-term side effects such as learning disorders, hearing impairment and future cancers.
A 'one size fits all' approach to treating children with cancer does not work, especially for those unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with the most aggressive cancers.
Most people don't realise that childhood cancer is different from adult cancer — it has different causes, occurs in different tissues and behaves differently, and therefore requires differently tailored treatments. This means personalised medicine is the key to improving survival rates for children with cancer and giving them the best possible quality of life.
Children's Cancer Institute is ideally positioned to accelerate its Personalised Medicine Program, which will allow our researchers to identify treatments that will be tailored to each child's individual characteristics and biology. This will pinpoint drugs for each child's treatment that will have the greatest likelihood of success.


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Hi, Red Diamond, thanks for taking the time to talk with us today. For those who don't know you, introduce your self. Who is Red Diamond?
Hello, Red Diamond, is a fan and creator of music....MR.3-D, The New Freshmen of music, but much familiar...Writer, composer and mixer. Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Founder and resident of Interstellar Records, Inc. Breakfast is served.
What are you currently working on at this present moment? Any albums or EPs to expect soon? Tell us about it!
I have 2 complete EP albums online, "The Sacrifice" and "Off The Scale" by Red Diamond.
A New Prelude Mixtape, entitled..."Meet Me @ 12" Coming Top of the Year! ...A fusion of Hip-Hop, R&B, and Classicals... I call it... The #HipHopClassical... I'm doing music videos for each song!
New Track, "Catch This Money", Coming Soon.
My New Album, "Viral", Coming Soon!
Where are you from? How did you get your start in the music industry?
From Memphis, Tennessee...I am fortunate enough to have developed my talent of writing and engineering. President and CEO of Independent music label, Interstellar Records, Inc...
Describe your style!
Red Diamond, MR. 3-D, Giving you a various amount of choice. Hip Hop, EDM, and even some soulful R&B...
I have a blazing new EDM track, called "We Like To Party" by "Red Diamond And Red Monkey"... The Global Trio. America and Korea, Music collabroration. The Music video was filmed in my hometown, Memphis!
What makes you unique as an artist?
Great question...Well, I write, record and mix my own songs...With the help of my independent producers. No Ghostwriters Aboard!
If you could do a feature with any indie artist, who would you see yourself working with and why?
Possibly a collabo with Master P...He is one of the forerunners.
Your single Switching Gears, who did the production on that song?
Enter My Zone...Huey, an independent producer. Support the new talent.
What was it like, when you were in the studio recording the single? Any special moments you remember from that studio session?
Like a painter in front of a canvas...
The new year is approaching! What can we expect from Red Diamond in the new year?
More Music-Visuals, Performances, and Acknowledgements of my New EP's....Red Diamond (MR. 3-D ) Presents..."The Sacrifice" and "Off The Scale"...Now on the world wide web! Support B&B Marketing/Management
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wg0ncFiOjoI
Official Album itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-sacrifice/id976422567
Magazine Article: http://rudeboymag.com/red-diamond/
Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/reddiamond4real
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Holy See Reminds UN of Parents' Right to Teach Sexuality
NEW YORK, JULY 28, 2011 (Zenit.org).- U.N. policies on youth should respect parents' right to educate their children, including in the realm of human sexuality and "reproductive health," says the Holy See.
Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, the permanent observer of the Holy See at the United Nations, affirmed this today when he addressed the U.N. high-level meeting on youth.
"Each and every young person should be able to be brought up in an environment in which he or she is able to grow and learn, that is, in a community and society characterized by peace and harmony, free from all violence and discord. Each and every child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding," the archbishop affirmed.
The Holy See representative said that such an environment "will promote good and responsible citizenship that is essential to the common good of humanity."
Moral responsibility and respect for others are learned in a family, Archbishop Chullikatt continued.
"The family has an important role to play in educating children to develop all their faculties and in training them to acquire ethical and spiritual values and to be deeply attached to peace, liberty and the dignity and equality of all men and women," he stated. "The family, founded on the marriage between one man and one woman, is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and must be guaranteed protection by society and the state."
The 58-year-old prelate reminded the United Nations that "parents -- mother and father together -- have the primary responsibility for the upbringing and development of their children to help them become virtuous citizens and leaders."
"Parents cannot withdraw from this essential role," he said.
And states, the prelate added, "are called, in conformity with international instruments, to respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents in this regard."
"Youth policies, programs, action plans and commitments approved by member states must respect fully the role of parents regarding their children's wellbeing and their education," the Holy See representative said, "including in the area of human sexuality and so-called 'sexual and reproductive health,' [which] should not include abortion."
On ZENIT's Web page:
Full text: www.zenit.org/article-33172?l=english
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Die Landtagswahl im Burgenland 1987 wurde am 4. Oktober 1987 durchgeführt und war die 15. Landtagswahl im österreichischen Bundesland Burgenland. Bei der Wahl verlor die Sozialistische Partei Österreichs nach 19 Jahren ihre absolute Mehrheit und erreichte mit einem Minus von 5,9 % einen Stimmenanteil von 47,3 %. Dies bedeutete für die SPÖ einen Verlust von 3 Mandaten, womit die SPÖ nur noch 17 von 36 Landtagsabgeordneten stellte. Auch die Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP) verlor Stimmenanteile und verbuchte mit einem Verlust von 1,5 % zum siebenten Mal in Folge einen Verlust. Mit 41,5 % konnte sie jedoch ihre 16 Mandate halten. Von den Verlusten der Großparteien profitierte insbesondere die Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ), der nach den Ausscheiden aus dem Landtag 1977 mit 7,3 % der Wiedereinzug in den Landtag mit 3 Mandaten gelang. Am Einzug scheiterten hingegen die 1986 in den Nationalrat eingezogene Partei Grüne Alternative, die unter dem Listennamen Die Grünen – Die grüne Alternative – Zelene Alternativa – Zöld Alternativistika antrat und 2,2 % erreichte. Am Einzug scheiterten zudem die Burgenland-Initiative mit Matysek (BI), die 1,1 % erreichte und die Kommunistische Partei Österreichs (KPÖ), die 0,6 % Stimmenanteil verbuchen konnte.

Der Landtag der XV. Gesetzgebungsperiode konstituierte sich in der Folge am 30. Oktober 1987 und wählte an diesem Tag die Landesregierung Sipötz.

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Literatur
 Verbindungsstelle der Bundesländer beim Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung: Wahlstatistik. Die Wahlen in den Bundesländern seit 1945. Nationalrat und Landtage. 8. Auflage, Wien 1994

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Burgenland Landtag
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Today, I asked if my friend wanted to come meet my dog and give him a treat. We were walking to my back yard, her holding 3 hot dogs, when she said, "I think your dog is dead!" I said, "No, he's just old and sleeps all the time and won't wake up until you pet him because he's deaf." He was dead. FML
By anonomys - Canada
Today, my husband compared me to his parents' dog. Why? Because when I sleep, I fart and scare myself awake. Just like his parents' dog. FML
By Carrie - United States - Los Angeles
Today, my water broke while my boyfriend was breaking up with me. FML
By raynbowsend - Malaysia
Today, I had an appraisal meeting with the Boss. She raved and gushed and told me what a great job I was doing. Then she said "Well done, Eric". Eric is not my name. She froze, opened a new file and told me my actual appraisal, which was the complete opposite of everything she had just said. FML
By Mac - France
Today, I was called by my son's school. They said he'd been forging my signature and comments in his reading book. He didn't forge them. I don't know what's worse: my handwriting looking like a 6 year old's, or being too cowardly to admit it. He has a week of lunch detention, but I still have my dignity. FML
By yeahthatsme - United States
Today, I placed a personal ad advertising myself as an overweight woman wanting sex. I sent pictures of me in lingerie to men who replied and was pleased that almost all were still interested. Then I sent face pics. As it turns out, being fat is not my problem. Apparently I'm ugly. FML
By fuckyoudeadgunnuts - United States - San Francisco
Today, I met my Canadian friend at the airport. As we were heading into the city, I told him not to worry about all the US stereotypes and that gun crime in my city is rare. A few hours later, we witnessed a guy get shot in the street in broad daylight. Now he's too scared to leave the house. FML
By implantme
Give Me Novacaine
Today, I learnt that my tooth is cracking due to a crown that was put in this past October to prevent the previous crown from doing that. Cheers to an implant at 25 years old. FML
By Ihatemyfamily - United States - Euless
Today, my brother's high school was having a soccer game against mine, and as a sign of good luck, I told him to "break a leg". He broke mine. FML
By vbscb - Australia
Today, I was babysitting my niece when we decided to play hide and seek. I went in the shed, and waited. After waiting a while, I went to go back inside to see what was happening. I saw my niece had locked all the doors and was eating cookies on the kitchen bench. FML
By abi_vet_student - United Kingdom
Today, it was my first day working at a milking parlor. As I crouched behind a cow to put on an udder cluster, I looked up and gasped just in time for the cow to crap on my face. FML
Today, my boss announced that instead of holiday bonuses being on the cards, the company is going under and we'll all be out of a job next year. FML
By beavis - United States
Today, my brother and I were standing at the baggage claim, waiting for our luggage to come out. We were commenting on all the bags that appeared, and when two large hiking packs came out I exclaimed "What kind of cunts go backpacking in New York?" The old couple standing next to us, apparently. FML
By Anonymous - 19/9/2020 05:02 - United Kingdom - Swindon
Can you hear me, Dave?
Today, my dad started Skype-ing with his long-distance friend. They're both almost 90, barely have their hearing, and can't stop shouting. FML
By M - United Kingdom - Clevedon
Today, during a work meeting, my boss leaned over to me and whispered, "I suggest we fuck". FML
By Anonymous - Romania - Bucharest
Today, I saw an elderly gentleman in the street wearing a shirt with a big QR code on it. Amused, I used an app on my phone to decode it. It gave me a shortened web address, which I followed, only to be faced with a picture of the same gentleman naked, grinning, and giving a thumbs up. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Colorado Springs
Today, my "best friend" stole almost $1,000 worth of electronics and video games from my roommates and me, just so he could pawn them off and buy himself a new car stereo. FML
By RoxahTheGreat - United States
Today, I was unloading things into a hotel. As I went to get a bag out in the hallway, the room door closed and I had no key. When I knocked and asked my family to let me back in, no one answered. The doors are clearly not soundproof. I could hear them debating whether or not to let me back in. FML
In all my days…
Today, I had somewhat of a nervous breakdown, and poured my heart out to a doctor, who seemed to be well over 60. She looked at me, flabbergasted and said, "I never met anyone with that many problems!" Gee, thanks. FML
Today, I called my mom from Australia. I have been abroad for two months and hadn't talked to her in a long time. A few minutes into the conversation my moms stops me and says this call must cost a fortune and hangs up on me. A few bucks in more important to her then me. FML
By her0x3her0ine617 - United States
Today, I received my camera in the mail. I had sent it back to the company because it wouldn't turn on. As I was reading the note they put in, it said, "Battery was put in backwards. No other problems found." FML
Today, I went to the restroom to pee. A loud fart exploded out of my ass and echoed in the toilet bowl. I could practically feel my face on fire when I saw the horrified look on a little girl's face as I walked out. FML
Today, I walked in on my parents discussing how to kill our cat, and how to make it look like an accident. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Pittsburgh
Today, my wife of 10 years bought me a bottle of wine, a wine rack and wine accessory kit for my birthday. She knows I don't like wine. FML
Today, my boyfriend emotionally proposed over dinner, and I said yes. Soon after he left, he tweeted "I just fucked up...." and a few minutes later called me and claimed the proposal was a prank. FML
By giantsfan2010 - United States
Today, after working and saving up money for an entire year, I bought a 2001 VW Cabrio. I showed it to my friends, they all laughed at me and told me it was a girl's car. FML
By A.Summers - United Kingdom - Glasgow
Today, my parents surprised me by redecorating my room. I think they were more surprised by the box of naughty toys under my bed. FML
By Diffy - United States - Woburn
Today, as I was crossing an intersection, a car ran a red light and almost hit me. This kind of thing happens a lot in my town so I'm used to almost being run-down, except this time it was a small boy on his father's lap steering. The dad was laughing. FML
By spiderinmylips - United States
Today, I was laying out in my backyard trying to get some color, when I felt a little tickle on my lips. I rubbed them together to satisfy the itch, when I felt a sort of crunchish popping between them. I had crushed a spider between my lips and its legs were still moving. FML
By botheredgf - New Zealand
Today, my boyfriend drunkenly decided to let his friends cut his hair into a mullet. He won't change it. I'm supposed to introduce him to my family. FML
By hitlerfish
Today, while meeting my boyfriend's family for the first time, the first comment I received was, "Well, at least this one is white." FML
By Goodtimes
Today, I had to dump my girlfriend because of tons of trust issues that kept reappearing. Shortly afterwards, my credit card disappeared and I got to experience my first identity theft. All within 24 hours. FML
Today, my mother, my aunt, and my two sisters are all on their periods. I can't even brush my teeth in my own house without being treated like a criminal. FML
By bigjohn106 - United States
Today, in front of family and friends, as I got down on one knee, my girlfriend fainted. Her father, a lawyer, rushed over and said, "Anything she says for the next 72 hours is not legally binding" and whisked her away. FML
Today, my mother still refuses to acknowledge my son as her grandson, all because I had a C-section, which she says is unnatural and against God's will. I only had the C-section in the first place for health reasons. FML
Phew, glad it wasn't me
By mybad7 - Australia
Today, I finally decided to sleep with my boyfriend. It was my first time and I was really nervous so when he was being all romantic with candles and wine I went a bit overboard and drank too much. I passed out. I woke up a few hours later, still a virgin and in a puddle of my own wee. FML
By AfraidOfToxicity - 21/7/2020 02:02
Today, I had a friend quit every friend group we shared, all because I refused to show him favouritism in my D&D campaign, after I changed the rules to reduce favouritism between everyone, because he'd complained. FML
By airdude25 | 18
#6720545 - Friday 9 December 2016 9:23
Some days I think my generation has no brains...
By Njaaa | 0
"High"school. :D
By Miss_Whipped | 43
Sniffing Sharpies just ain't what it used to be.
By StormfrontX33_fml | 24
To be fair, cow bone sounds like the latest fad drug. Then again, Elmer would be turning over in his grave.
Lalala579121 | 27
#6720573 - Friday 9 December 2016 10:54
Same. They just happen to coincide with the days I visit FML.
Armeniangirl_fml | 15
By Nina825 | 21
This made me smile ...
By MetalxSoldier | 26
Am I the only one who has seen this fml before?
Tripartita | 44
I thought the same thing, but if you do a search for "eating glue," the closest (and only) result is from earlier this year:
"Today, at my job as a teacher, I saw a student cut another student's hair, I stopped a group of students from eating glue, and I had to tell a student to put away the toy cars he was playing with. I teach high school math. FML"
They're similar, but not by as much as I thought they'd be.
By URBeingLied2 | 23
I had a friend who liked chewing on the glue sticks for a hot glue gun for some reason. I never figured out how that habit came about actually.
By Silentes | 13
Sounds like a sticky situation...
By CoconutCharlotte | 0
I starting to like this generation, whoops
By KrDizzy | 16
Just let them. Natural selection.


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Q: IE9: childNodes not updated after splitText? On Internet Explorer 9, calling splitText on a text node doesn't update the childNodes of its parent. On Chrome and Firefox it does, as expected per https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Text.splitText .
However IE9 does behave properly when console.dir is called on the text node parent (?)
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="utf-8">

Senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.

IE9 outputs:
LOG: 1
LOG: 1

Chrome and Firefox both correctly output:
2
2

When uncommenting console.dir(e), now IE9 outputs:
LOG: 1
LOG: [object HTMLParagraphElement] {}
LOG: 2

Is this a bug? If so, is there any workaround to "refresh" and reflect the actual state of childNodes, besides console.dir?
Update What appears to work at the moment is adding/removing a node, like:
var t = document.createTextNode("");
e.appendChild(t);
e.removeChild(t);

A: You could use a workaround instead of splitText():
function insertAfter(node, precedingNode) {
    var nextNode = precedingNode.nextSibling, parent = precedingNode.parentNode;
    if (nextNode) {
        parent.insertBefore(node, nextNode);
    } else {
        parent.appendChild(node);
    }
    return node;
}

// Note that we cannot use splitText() because it is bugridden in IE 9.
function splitDataNode(node, index) {
    var newNode = node.cloneNode(false);
    newNode.deleteData(0, index);
    node.deleteData(index, node.length - index);
    insertAfter(newNode, node);
    return newNode;
}


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Bernie Madoff Victims' Fund Breaches $10.6 Billion After Feeder Firm Settlement
Bernard Madoff exits the Manhattan federal court house in New York in this Jan. 14, 2009, file photo
Brendan McDermid—Reuters
By TIME Staff
Victims of the biggest investment scam in U.S. history, run by disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, have gained an additional $93 million from a "feeder fund" settlement, bringing the total recovered to $10.6 billion.
Irving Picard, the trustee charged with recovering money for those duped by Madoff, said that Defender Ltd., which used to send money to the swindler's firm, will receive $520 million from the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's Investment Securities LLC, owing to significant overpayment.
The first $93 million of this will got to Madoff's victims, while Defender Ltd. will recoup its share from future payouts, reports Reuters.
Picard has regained around 60% of the estimated $17.5 billion total loss perpetrated by Madoff's Ponzi scheme, which lures investors by promising unusually high returns.
In 2009, Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for fraud, the maximum term possible.
[Reuters]


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HomeNewsBurundian refugee incarcerated in Uganda: Is it another case of illegal police aided repatriations?
Burundian refugee incarcerated in Uganda: Is it another case of illegal police aided repatriations?
August 13, 2018 News, Opinions 1
Valid refugee card that Maronko Marcel holds
Kampala, Uganda | By Michael Wandati | Two plain clothes security operatives on 9th August, 2018 illegally picked up and detained Mr. Maronko Marcel, a 42-year old Burundian refugee national living in Uganda.
Mr. Maronko was picked from his Mengo based Hope of Glory Ministries, a church where he is a pastor, and remains detained incommunicado till today.
Despite Ugandan laws stating that a suspect cannot be detained for more than 48 hours before being formally charged in the courts of law, Maronko remains under detention without even access to legal counsel.
He continues to be held illegally with no relative, friend or consular official accessing him at Jinja Police Station — his last known place of detention following his arrest.
At the time of his arrest, witnesses say the security operatives told him that he was wanted by the National Central Bureau of Interpol, Kampala and an International arrest warrant was already issued by Burundi Interpol to have him handed over to the authorities.
According to police, Mr. Maronko is accused of bank fraud; a claim that his family members refutes, claiming it's just a concoction by the Burundi government officials so that they can have him repatriated to answer trumped-up charges.
It is a pattern in the form of a self-fulfilling prophecy: an innocent person is kidnapped, held incommunicado and tortured, and is made to confess to false accusations, then is brought to the public where authorities are able to "confirm" that the suspect "admits" to the accusations being brought against them.
Maronko applied for refugee status in Uganda in 2016 and successfully obtained a refugee identity card on 19/01/2018. His wife told this publication that since his arrest, they are in fear, and spend sleepless nights in hiding with their five children together with other four they take care of.
Before the family secured refugee status in Uganda, their elder son was allegedly shot in the head by government officials and Maronko survived narrowly, his wife reveals to this publication.
Mr. Maronko Marcel, a 42-year old Burundian refugee national living in Uganda who is currently detained incommunicado
She is calling for help and intervention from Ugandan authorities and Human Rights bodies to quickly intervene and save the life of her illegally detained husband.
"We are extremely worried about his condition," a close relative of Maronko told this reporter. "We are in fears that he might be undergoing extreme conditions of torture to induce false confessions from him."
Highly placed reliable sources that have preferred anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, have disclosed that over the years, several refugees living in Uganda have mysteriously disappeared and others killed following such arrests.
The website, SoftPower, early this year published a story titled "Investigation: Rwanda propaganda against Uganda diversionary from police aided illegal repatriation."
Media reports through what they called 'highly confidential source' alleged that Uganda had negotiated and signed an extradition treaty to repatriate Rwanda dissidents and refugees living in the country.
Other reports revealed that Ugandan police officers allegedly collaborated with Rwandan intelligence to kidnap and illegally repatriate Rwandan nationals seeking asylum in Uganda — allegations that Ugandan government has vehemently denied to ratify, calling it a mere propaganda.
They may have fled abuses in their country, but several refugees this publication have talked to on condition of anonymity, say they now live in fear for their safety and do not feel beyond the reach of either their country of origin or the Ugandan government for protection.
Many have expressed concerns over their safety because some are targeted as members of political opposition, civil society or pressure group leaders/members/activists back home.
Several have narrated of being followed and photographed, or receiving regular threatening text messages or phone calls from unknown numbers from what they believe to be security agents, or had men banging at their door in the middle of the night.
Since the political crisis that erupted in Burundi in April 2015, many Burundians fled the country after a failed coup that led to increased violence, threats, torture, killings and enforced disappearances of their family members and other abuses, therefore they sought protection in Uganda and other neighbouring countries.
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, last year stated that some refugees they interviewed outside Burundi, including Uganda, said they had recognised intelligence agents in their country of exile.
Other groups have documented an alleged assassination attempt on several refugees in Uganda and a pattern of threatening phone calls, repatriations and mysterious killings of refugees.
Illegal detention and repatriation of any documented or undocumented refugee seeking refuge or asylum violates international law, in this case Mr. Maronko Marcel, a Burundian refugee who fled to Uganda together with his family for safety.
On which legal ground is Mr. Maronko being held incommunicado and most probably as we speak, he may be in the process to be dragged back to Burundi, a country where him, and his family feel insecure? Is it not a crime to repatriate refugees without going through courts of law?
Last year, there was aggressive campaign by Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's government to encourage more than 350,000 refugees in neighbouring countries to return home.
Many analysts suspected that the real reason for the pressure put on the refugees to return home was that the government was afraid that political opposition could be gaining strength in the camps, far away from the prying eyes of President Nkurunziza's government.
Bornwell Kantande, the UN refugee agency — UNHCR Resident Coordinator is on record stating that refugees can only go back to their countries when they are assured of their safety and security.
Uganda is an important mediator in Burundi's peace process which has reached an impasse and openly contradicting President Nkurunziza's government would not help.
Since the emergence of political and ethnic-based civil war conflicts in the war-torn Burundi, there has been uncertainty among Burundian refugees if they should decide to go back home, and this has led the Ugandan government to clarify that it will stand by international law and that, at this point, no refugee will be repatriated against his or her will.
Killings, torture and other inhumane abuses are still happening on a daily basis in Burundi. So people have a right to flee. Refugees will know when peace returns to their country. Nobody wants to live outside their home country.
Uganda must do more to uphold its responsibility under international law to protect refugees on its territory, especially at this time when its security organs have been linked to alleged kidnap and illegal repatriation of refugees in the country.
Uganda Police Force during the leadership of the already detained former Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gen. Kale Kayihura, was embroiled in a number of allegations that nearly dented diplomatic relations between Uganda and Rwanda with damning claims linking senior police officers, collaborating with Rwanda's Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) and Rwanda Patriotic Army agents to kidnap and illegally repatriate Rwandan refugees living in Uganda at the orders and instructions of former IGP Kayihura, of which some refugees are said to have mysteriously disappeared, and others ended up killed.
Nine officers were arrested by Uganda's Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) for charges that include conspiracy with Rwanda to illegally repatriate Lt Joel Mutabazi, a former bodyguard of Rwandan President Paul Kagame and others. Mr. Mutabazi was in 2013 reportedly kidnapped and handed over to Rwandan security operatives at a secluded location near Rwanda border.
Over the years, there have been repeated allegations by several intelligence agencies that Rwanda has managed to facilitate a network within police establishment using its diplomatic channels to enable her to have its critics and opponents unlawfully picked up from Uganda and elsewhere.
In April this year, Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame rekindled their friendship which had been on the rocks over brewing security tensions between Kampala and Kigali, and this led the two leaders to hold a meeting at State House Entebbe.
In a diplomatic note, Rwanda last year said its "most concerning" issue is the "facilitation of recruitment and travel in the region of Rwandans in possession of Ugandan travel documents, of whom are mostly from refugee camps in Uganda, for the benefit of the terrorist group known as Rwanda National Congress (RNC)."
Rwanda further added: "Information in our possession has revealed that this network has intentions to cross from Uganda into Tanzania and eventually end up in DRC in the RNC camps."
In the protest letter, Kigali also denounced what it described as "Multiple unjustified arrests, failure to notify the Diplomatic representation of Rwanda in Uganda and mistreatment of Rwandan citizens in Uganda in the last several months."
Uganda is on record claiming it maintains its cracking down on suspected Rwandan spies harassing Rwandan refugees and threatening national security.
Some of the suspected Rwandans have been deported by Ugandan armed forces while those facing serious charges have been tried before courts of law.
There was an incident November last year at Nakivale settlement refugee camp in Isingiro district, in Uganda where a refugee was attacked by unknown attackers, they shot him in the chest and took off.
Police later reported the attack as a robbery mission saying; "the assailants wanted to rob Shs. 38 million from the deceased," a claim critiques said it lacked credibility as such a poor refugee would not possess such amounts of money in the refugee camp.
In the early morning hours of November 30, 2011, a Rwandan journalist Charles Ingabire, was shot and killed in cold blood at a bar along Martin Road in Old Kampala. Ingabire was the Editor of a Kinyarwanda-language online newspaper, Inyenyeri News, and was known critic of President Paul Kagame. He had been in exile in Uganda since 2007.
Several refugee Rwandan and Burundian victims living in Uganda have disclosed to this publication that their relatives, spouses and loved ones have been taken away with people who only identified themselves as security operatives, and never to be seen again. Some recount armed people kidnapping their closed ones.
Early this year, a group of disgruntled victims (Rwandan descent) petitioned the Speaker of Parliament of Uganda, raising fears over possible kidnap by the government of Rwanda with the help of elements in Uganda's Police Force.
"We the undersigned representatives of Rwandan Asylum seekers and Refugees in Uganda have decided to petition you and through the Parliament of Uganda, about continuous repressive activities by some security agents from Rwanda acting in liaison with some of their security colleagues from within Uganda," a petition lodged by six victims on November 29th to Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah reads in part.
In the petition, they said refugees have been targets of abortive and successful assassinations, abductions, disappearances in many countries including Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
A trend is emerging that is increasingly making refugees who sought refuge in Uganda, feeling unsafe in the country.
Ugandan authorities, United Nations Refugees Agency (UNHCR) and humanitarian organisations responsible for protection of refugees in Uganda must do more to increase the perception by refugees that adequate protection is being provided and that reported security issues are followed by timely and adequate action.
Ugandan government should urgently raise awareness about the protection system in place and how to access it, as well as regularly follow-up on any complaints with those concerned.
Only if this is improved, will refugees living in Uganda feel secure in the country where they fled to after escaping insecurity and human rights abuses in their country of origin.
Kale Kayihura
Refugees in Uganda
Uganda's Policy on Refugees
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The yet-to-open Central O'ahu Regional Park (CORP) tennis complex in Waipi'o will be the main site for the 2003 United States Tennis Association National Open for 16- and 18-year-old males and females.
The major junior event, with draws that call for 256 singles and 256 doubles players, will move from Maui to O'ahu next year. Punahou director of tennis Bernard Gusman is tournament director. Entry is restricted to those who qualify through a national selection process.
"The mentality of how we ran the Dillingham (tournament) is the same as how I'd like to bring this junior event in," Gusman said. "It will be an annual event. We'll build it. Maybe it can become like the Orange Bowl (junior tennis tournament). It can not only help our kids, but help the Hawai'i community and bring all our kids together."
The tournament will be Feb. 14-19 and utilize 49 courts at Punahou, Ala Moana, Ke'ehi Lagoon, BYU-Hawai'i and the CORP complex, which will be home to the finals.
Originally, CORP's first 20-court phase was to be open this May. The project started Nov. 1, 2001. By June, delays had pushed the estimate to the summer and now the hope is that it will open before the end of the year. All but three courts are surfaced.
The 2003 state high school championship also is scheduled to be played at CORP.
Maui's Beth Arnoult helped lead the U.S. women's team to the finals of the Invacare World Team Cup Championships last month in Tremosine, Italy. The Invacare World Team Cup is considered the Davis Cup or Fed Cup of wheelchair tennis.
After a strong week of competition, the U.S. team was finally stopped in the finals by the strong Dutch team, which took home its 15th consecutive title.
"This is the best our entire team has done in several years — all three (adult) teams playing in the finals," said USA Wheelchair Tennis chairwoman Tina Dale. "The players are disappointed they lost in the finals, but the coaches — as well as myself — are more than pleased with our results."
The United States, birthplace of wheelchair tennis in 1976, enjoyed one of its best overall results in the Invacare World Team Cup. The U.S. men's, women's and quad teams finished second in the week-long event and the juniors third.
Kaua'i's Sinclair Bill was a member of the United States' 2002 Alice Marble Cup team last month at the Tennis Club Rot Weiss, Bad Hofgastein, Austria.
The U.S. team finished in second place behind France, which was led by retired professional player Francoise Durr.
The Alice Marble Cup is an international team competition for women in the 60-year age group.


We're excited to announce the release of ImageFramer version 3.2. The updated version has a lot of changes but most of them are under the hood. User-visible changes include some improvements to the workflow to save you time performing common tasks. We also released two new sets of vector frames in our Holiday collection, namely Easter and Love. See below for some examples.
ImageFramer remembers the last drop shadow enabled state of moulding frames. Newly added moulding frames will have the same state of shadow. This replaces the previous default of shadows being on.
When replacing a layer with a new one (Option-double click on a frame), ImageFramer will apply old one's settings to the new one. This allows to quickly see which frame fits better without manually adjusting frame width and similar settings every time.
We have new vector frames in the Holiday and Celebration collection, available to all licensed customers. The new sets are Easter and Love. Here's are several examples made with these new frames. Overall, there are almost 60 new frame designs you can play with.
Mac App Store customers should update ImageFramer in the Mac App Store.
Direct customers should choose "Check for new version" in their "ImageFramer" menu or download ImageFramer from our website.
You can also manually force ImageFramer to check for new frames from its "ImageFramer" menu, but we suggest you keep the preference to keep it check for new frames automatically checked.