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THE PUERTO RICAN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY TAX CREDIT: CURRENT PROPOSALS AND SCHEDULED PHASEOUT
The Puerto Rican Economic Activity Tax Credit:
Current Proposals and Scheduled Phaseout
David L. Brumbaugh
Specialist in Public Finance
Government and Finance Division
U.S. firms have long received a tax benefit for operations in Puerto Rico and other
U.S. possessions; the benefit's purpose is to generate employment-creating investment
in the possessions. Prior to 1996, the provision was known as the Possessions Tax
Credit and was provided under section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code. In the years
following World War II, the government of Puerto Rico depended on the credit and its
own set of tax benefits to attract investment to Puerto Rico from the U.S. mainland. The
tax benefit and the inflow of investment it stimulated helped transform the Puerto Rican
economy from one based on agriculture to one based on manufacturing, services, and
trade. However, the credit was criticized on several grounds: that it had a high revenue
cost compared to its employment effect; that a large share of the benefit did not accrue
to residents of Puerto Rico; and that it distorted deliberations over Puerto Rico's political
status. As a result, over the past 20 years the credit has been subject to a series of
modifications designed to limit its revenue cost and tie the credit's benefit and effects
more tightly to Puerto Rico. The modifications culminated with the Small Business Job
Creation Act of 1996, which scheduled the credit for phaseout and ultimate repeal in
2005. The tax credit–renamed the Puerto Rican Economic Activity Credit (EAC)–is
now authorized by section 30A of the tax code. (A separate phase-out schedule and
rules apply to the possessions other than Puerto Rico.) The Clinton Administration for
several years has proposed extending a modified version of the credit beyond its
expiration date, and several proposals in Congress would also modify and extend the
credit. This report will be updated as legislative developments occur.
The Possessions Tax Credit Prior to 1993
While the tax benefit for possessions1 investment is technically a tax credit that
reduces taxes rather than taxable income, prior to 1993 the credit was equal to a firm's full
federal tax liability on possessions-source income. The effect of the credit, then, was that
1 American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress
of a full tax exemption for income U.S. firms could attribute to operations in the
possessions. To qualify for the credit, a corporation was required to earn at least 80% of
its income in a possession and at least 75% of its income was required to be from the
active conduct of a trade or business in the possessions.
Most firms that used the possessions tax credit did so by establishing subsidiary
corporations that met the section 936 requirements; it was the qualifying subsidiaries
(called possessions corporations) that earned tax-favored possessions-source income.
Further, since the possessions corporations were U.S.-chartered corporations, their
mainland parents could generally qualify for the dividends-received deduction the tax code
provides for payments between related U.S. corporations. This removed the possibility
that taxes might apply when the exempt possessions income was remitted to the mainland
parent corporations as intra-firm dividends.
While the tax credit is scheduled to expire in 2006, it should be noted that even
without the tax credit full federal taxation would not necessarily apply to U.S. firms in
Puerto Rico. Corporations chartered in the possessions are considered "foreign"
corporations, for tax purposes, and so can use an alternative tax benefit known as
"deferral" that is available for the operations of U.S. firms in foreign countries. Under
deferral, U.S. firms can postpone U.S. tax on foreign income as long as the foreign income
is reinvested abroad. Still, the possessions tax credit (and the current EAC) is a permanent
exemption, while for some firms, deferral is only temporary. In addition (notwithstanding
restrictions imposed in 1982 and 1986), relatively generous income-allocation rules apply
under the possessions tax credit that potentially make it easier for firms to shift income
from various sources to the possessions, where the income is protected from taxation by
the tax credit.
Legislation, 1976–1993: Issues of Targeting and Revenue Cost
Legislation aimed at limiting the benefit's revenue cost and targeting it more tightly
to the possessions began with the Tax Reform Act of 1976 (P.L. 94-455), which restricted
the tax exemption to income earned in the possessions themselves.2 Prior to the Act, as
long as a corporation qualified as a possessions corporation, all its income–from the
possessions and other sources alike–was exempt from tax. Legislation with the same cost
and targeting concerns was again considered in 1982, but now focused on income shifting.
The possessions tax credit was heavily used by firms that invest intensively in intangible
assets – the credit's use by pharmaceutical firms and electronics companies, for example,
was especially high. Prior to 1982, there were concerns that firms were using transfers of
intangibles at unrealistic prices to shift large amounts of what was really mainland-source
income to possessions subsidiaries that qualified for the exemption and that could shelter
the mainland income from tax. In response to these concerns, the Tax Equity and Fiscal
Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA; P.L. 97-248) provided a set of rules governing the
allocation of income from intangibles in the case of possessions corporations and their
mainland parents.
2 For a history of the possessions tax credit to 1985, see: U.S. Congress. Congressional Research
Service. Puerto Rico and Federal Taxes under Section 936: History and Proposed Changes.
Report No. 85-196 E, by David L. Brumbaugh. Washington, 1985. 37 p. Copies can be obtained
by contacting the author at CRS.
Proposals for change continued after TEFRA. With its 1985 proposals for broad tax
reform, the Reagan Administration pointed out that the possessions tax credit provided no
direct incentive for firms to boost their employment in the possessions. (Indeed, since the
corporate income tax is a tax on the return to capital, an exemption is an incentive to
employ capital, not labor.) The Reagan Administration proposed replacing the possessions
tax credit with a tax credit equal to a specified portion of a firm's wages paid in the
possessions.3 However, Congress did not include the Administration's proposals for
section 936 reform when it passed the landmark Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA86; P.L.
99-514). The 1986 Act did, however, include rules designed to further limit income-
shifting to possessions corporations.
A modified version of the wage credit proposal was ultimately adopted in 1993 with
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA93; P.L. 103-66). The measure was
initially proposed by the Clinton Administration, which stated that a disproportionate share
of the provision's benefit was realized by intangible-intensive industries "that create
relatively few jobs in the possessions" and that "while section 936 has created employment
in Puerto Rico, the number of jobs created is too small in relation to the tax expenditure."4
OBRA93's provisions remain essentially intact under current law (subject to new
phase-out rules), so they are worth describing in some detail. The new law altered section
936 by imposing a cap on the existing full tax exemption. A firm calculated its possessions
tax credit as under prior law, but the maximum credit it could claim was limited by the cap.
The cap was equal to one of two alternative limitations; which applied was up to the
taxpayer. Under the first – known as the "percentage limitation" – a firm's possessions
tax credit was equal to a specified percentage of the credit the firm could have claimed
under prior law; after a phase-in period, the percentage was set at 40%.
Under the second alternative – known as the "economic-activity" limitation–a firm's
maximum credit was limited to an amount equal to the sum of three factors. One factor
was 60% of a possessions corporations' wages paid in the possessions; qualified wages,
however, were limited for each employee to 85% of the amount subject to Social Security
taxes. The second factor was a specified percentage of the possessions corporation's
depreciation deductions for the taxable year. The applicable percentage depended on the
type of property: 15% for property with a relatively short recovery period; 40% for
property with a medium-length recovery period; and 65% for long-lived property.5 For
firms whose tax credit was constrained by the limitations, the caps functioned in a manner
similar to a wage credit and a credit for investment. For example, a firm subject to the
constraint could reduce its tax bill by 60 cents for each additional dollar spent on wages.6
3 U.S. President (Reagan). The President's Tax Proposals to the Congress for Fairness, Growth,
and Simplicity. Washington, 1985. P. 309.
4 U.S. Department of the Treasury. Summary of the Administration's Revenue Proposals.
Washington, 1993. P. 51.
5 Short-life recovery property is property having a 3- or 5-year recovery period; medium-life
recovery property is 7- or 10-year property; long-life property is that with a recovery period
exceeding 10 years.
6 For additional analysis of the credit as enacted, see: U.S. Library of Congress. Congressional
The Small Business Job Creation Act of 1996
Congress continued to focus on the possessions tax credit after OBRA93. In
November, 1995, Congress passed the Balanced Budget Act (H.R. 2491), and included
a provision phasing out the credit over 10 years. President Clinton vetoed the bill, and the
tax credit's phaseout was one provision the Administration singled out for criticism. The
President proposed to instead restrict the credit's calculation to OBRA93's economic
activity limitation that links the benefit with wages and tangible possessions investment.
The Administration viewed its proposal as a further movement in the direction begun in
Instead, in 1996 Congress passed – and the President signed – the Small Business Job
Protection Act (P.L. 104-188), which contained among its various tax provisions the
essential elements of the 1995 phase-out proposal. Under its terms the credit is phased out
over a 10-year period, and is scheduled for repeal beginning in 2006. In providing for the
phaseout and repeal, Congress cited reasons of fairness and revenue concerns, stating that
understood that the tax benefits provided by the Puerto Rico and possession tax credit
are enjoyed by only the relatively small number of U.S. corporations that operate in the
possessions. Moreover, the Congress was concerned about the tax cost of the benefits7
provided to these possession corporations that is borne by all U.S. taxpayers.
The repeal of the tax credit was effective immediately for firms not already using the
benefit. For other firms ("existing claimants," in the Act's language), the credit's phase-
out rules depended on whether they use the economic activity limitation or the alternative
40% exemption. For economic activity firms, the amount of the credit is determined as
under OBRA93 through 2001. Beginning in 2002, the credit for these firms is subject to
an additional cap. The cap restricts income eligible for the credit to the firm's average
profits during a base period prior to 1996, increased for inflation and a proxy for economic
growth. For firms using OBRA93's alternative 40% exemption, the 1996 Act applied the
base-period income cap beginning in 1999. (Firms were permitted to change the particular
limitation they had chosen under OBRA93's rules.)
While the repeal of the credit applies to all possessions, existing claimants in
possessions other than Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (i.e., Guam, American
Samoa, and the Northern Marianas) were exempted from the base-period cap. In addition,
for firms in Puerto Rico using the economic activities limitation, the 1996 Act moved the
credit's authorizing provisions to new section 30A of the Internal Revenue Code and
renamed the credit the Puerto Rican economic activities credit.
Research Service. The Possessions Tax Credit: Economic Analysis of the 1993 Revisions. CRS
Report No. 94-650 E, by David L. Brumbaugh. Washington, 1994. 18 p.
7 U.S. Congress. Joint Committee on Taxation. General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted
in the 104th Congress. Joint Committee Print, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. Washington, U.S. Govt.
Print. Off. 1996. P. 207-13.
To recap, in 2000 the state of the phaseout in Puerto Rico is this: only existing
claimants can now claim the tax credit. For firms who have elected OBRA93's 40%
exemption, the credit is now restricted by an added limitation linked to base-period
earnings. Firms using the EAC are not currently subject to the base-period cap, but will
be, beginning in 2002. The credit will expire completely on January 1, 2006.
Current Proposals and Issues
In each of the four budgets the Clinton Administration has submitted since 1996, it
has proposed extending a modified version of the Puerto Rican tax credit. The
Administration stated that the proposals' purpose is to provide a "more efficient and
effective tax incentive for the economic development of Puerto Rico and to continue the
shift from an income-based credit to an economic-activity credit that was begun in
OBRA93."8 The first three of the proposals would have disallowed the optional 40%
exemption, but extended the EAC indefinitely. The proposals also would have allowed
new claimants to use the credit, and would have repealed the base-period earnings
limitation that is scheduled to begin in 2002. The most recent Administration budget
proposal (for FY2001) would remove the "existing claimant" restriction on the credit, and
would extend the EAC version of the credit. In contrast to the preceding budgets,
however, the present proposal would extend the credit only through 2008.9
Two bills to extend the EAC have been proposed in Congress. Like the
Administration's latest proposal, S. 212 (Sen. Moynihan) would extend the credit through
2008, but would restrict its use to firms using the EAC version of the credit. The bill
would relax but not eliminate the existing claimant rules and would repeal the base-period
cap. H.R. 2138 (Rep. Crane) would also restrict the credit to the EAC and would repeal
the base-period cap. In contrast to the Senate bill, however, H.R. 2138 would replace the
extension through 2008 with a flexible extension. Under its provisions, the credit would
be extended indefinitely, but only if certain economic indicators for the possession are not
exceeded. (Stated differently, if a possession's economy meets certain performance
standards, the credit would expire.) If a possession's unemployment for a particular year
does not exceed 150% of mainland unemployment; the possession's per capita income is
at least 60% of that of the mainland; and the possession's poverty level does not exceed
30%, the tax credit for that possession would be repealed in the fourth year following the
year in which the performance indicators are met.
In addition to these two bills, Chairman Roth of the Senate Finance Committee
included a proposal to liberalize the credit's phase-out rules in his "chairman's mark" of
the Community Renewal and New Markets Act. While the proposal would not extend the
ability of firms to earn the credit beyond 2005, it would liberalize the "existing claimant"
rules, remove the base-period limitation, and increase the economic activity limitation for
firms that increase their employment.
8 Office of Management and Budget. Budget of the United States Government. Fiscal Year 1998.
Analytical Perspectives. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1997. P. 48.
9 The budget does not explicitly mention the base-period limitation, while the previous budgets'
proposals stated that the limit would be removed. We thus assume the limitation would remain
under the current proposal. It is not clear, however, how the limit would apply to new claimants.
Economic Considerations
As noted above, the purpose of the Puerto Rico tax credit is to stimulate
employment-generating investment in Puerto Rico. For policy purposes, a crucial
economic question is therefore: what is the effect of the tax credit and its modifications
on employment in Puerto Rico? What will be the impact of its repeal?
Employment and compensation by firms that use the tax credit are an important part
of Puerto Rico's manufacturing sector, and the manufacturing sector, in turn, is an
important part of Puerto Rico's economy.10 Thus, any impact that may result or has
resulted from the 1993 redesign of the credit could potentially be important for Puerto
Rico's economy. Likewise, the impact of the provision's scheduled repeal is potentially
important. The most recent rigorous study of the tax credit was published by Grubert and
Slemrod in 1998, and assessed the effect of the provision in its pre-1993 form. It found
that the ability of firms to use the credit to shelter non-possessions income from tax is "the
predominant reason for U.S. investment in Puerto Rico," and that without the ability to
shift taxable income to Puerto Rico, the operating capital and payroll of U.S. firms in
Puerto Rico would be more than two-thirds lower.11 But this result does not rule out the
possibility that linking the tax benefit more directly with tangible investment and
employment (as with OBRA93) will or already has produced a larger impact on U.S.
firms' employment in Puerto Rico than did prior law's version of the credit. Indeed, an
earlier study by the same authors found that adoption of a wage credit would increase U.S.12
firms' Puerto Rican payroll substantially.
Presumably, evidence of any large effect by OBRA93's changes could be visible by
now. We can note that Puerto Rico's economy has registered real growth of between13
2.5% and 4.2% in each of the years since 1993. Beyond this most general observation,
however, a thorough analysis of the evidence is beyond the scope of this report.
10 Based on 1995 data, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) estimated that manufacturing firms
using the credit employed 113,444 workers and paid $2,703,933 thousand in employee
compensation. (U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Statistics of Income Bulletin. V. 19. Summer,
1999. P. 184.) For the same year, the Puerto Rico Planning Board reported employment of
172,000 persons in the entire manufacturing sector and total employee compensation in
manufacturing of $3,561,800 thousand. (Puerto Rico Planning Board. Economic Report of the
Governor, 1998. San Juan, 1999. P. A-38; A-12. The IRS figures are 66% of the Planning
Board's total for employment and 76% for compensation. While the two data sets are not
necessarily strictly compatible, they support the general point that tax-favored firms from the
mainland make up a substantial part of employment and compensation in Puerto Rico's
manufacturing sector.
11 Grubert, Harry, and Joel Slemrod. The Effect of Taxes on Investment and Income Shifting to
Puerto Rico. Review of Economics and Statistics. V. 80. August, 1998. P. 365.
12 Cited in Ibid., p. 372.
13 Posted by the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico on its web site at [http://www.gdb-
pur.com].


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Students examine George Mason's past
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Research group looks into the Founding Father's history of slavery
By Isabella Lamagdeleine, Staff Writer
Enslaved Children of George Mason (ECGM), a research group dedicated to the intricacies of the university namesake's interactions and history with enslavement, spent last summer exploring how George Mason's slaves lived their lives and affected the people around them.
"I think George [Mason] the Fourth isn't the interesting project," said Assistant Director George Oberle. "I think the people around him and his legacy are."
Topics ranged from how Mason treated the women that surrounded him, enslaved or not, to the diet and health care that they received at Gunston Hall, Mason's plantation.
The Mason Honors College Multicultural Alliance hosted ECGM to present their research on Feb. 28, and also released the information they found on the group's website, including exhibits and articles of their findings.
The group is composed of students Alexis Bracey, Elizabeth Perez-Garcia, Kye Farrow, Ayman Fatima and Farhaj Murshed, all led by Professors Benedict Carton and Wendi Manuel-Scott. Each student member looked at a different aspect of Mason's interactions with enslaved people.
"They fearlessly asked big questions and welcomed the opportunity to build a website in just a few weeks," said Scott. "They were moved by the histories –the lives– they uncovered."
The first member who presented, Elizabeth Perez-Garcia, a criminology, law and society major, studied enslaved women in the household, investigating what role they played within the plantation and keeping it running. During the research process, she found that the main role of enslaved women on Mason's plantation was to increase his wealth through their children, who were enslaved from birth.
Global affairs major Alexis Bracey spoke next about the culture of the time, measured by newspaper ads that involved the Mason family and the enslaved. She found that Mason most likely bought slaves in Maryland and Virginia that were kidnapped from their homes in Africa as children.
As Bracey studied the literature on that subject, another topic she explored was the culture and community of Mason's slaves. In a world where they did not have any freedom, being able to sing and dance and engage in their community's "pillars of their culture" gave hope to the enslaved.
Government & international politics major Ayman Fatima was the next to present her research into how the enslaved at Gunston Hall were treated, including house slaves and ones that traveled with Mason.
Fatima tried to trace one slave in particular, a personal servant named James, who traveled everywhere with Mason and would have seen freed communities of former slaves in places like Philadelphia. There were not enough records to explore his life for long, however, as she found that slave owners often did not memorialize that they owned slaves, but only wanted to exploit their labor and claim them as property.
"Revolution was happening, but they weren't allowed to be part of it," said Fatima.
Farhaj Murshed, a community health major, was the final student researcher to speak.
Murshed studied the overall health of Mason's slaves, including their diet and interactions with members of the health community. He found that slaves often hunted in addition to their limited rations, and that the health care they did receive was paternalistic in nature.
The ECGM students agreed that their research did change their opinion about Mason after learning so much about his involvement with slavery.
"We've grown up with the idea of the Founding Fathers, and how they are all so great," said Perez-Garcia. "I think it's gonna take some time adjusting."
After the students finished their presentations, they discussed the future of ECGM's research. Group members expressed hope that other students will continue researching the topic and expand on what they have learned.
"After weeks of research, they realized that this project was bigger than them and they had a huge responsibility to honor the enslaved men, women and children of Gunston Hall," said Scott. "This was not just a random history assignment – they were honoring the legacy of those enslaved by Mason."
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We all want the epic love story, but is it real?
We love a good story. Especially a good love story.
We want a love that conquers all. And a dream that, against all odds, still comes true.
We want the sparks. The fireworks.
We want an underdog to triumph. And what we perceive as good versus evil to win.
And more than anything else, we want the happy ending.
We're not just talking about a story. We're talking about our story.
We play the part of the tragic heroine oh so well. We bring THAT role to every audition we've been to.
We show up for that audition, otherwise known as our date, our online profile, or our "getting ourselves out there", and what do we do? We say "Pick me!".
Not with our words, not with anything conscious. But subconsciously, it's the only thing we're saying.
I've been hurt before, I've been lied to, cheated on, left, discarded, humiliated, embarrassed, ashamed.
Our stories run so deep.
And yet ironically, we haven't said a word.
It's our body language, our actions, our behavior that says it all. Before we even say a word. He knows.
How can he not? He's sensitive just like you. He sees in you a part of himself. This wounded soul you share.
But where you stayed soft and open, he became hard and strong, so closed emotionally to the part of him that was more emotional than he was ever allowed to be. You're his chance to find a place where he can be himself again. And be loved like only another kindred wounded soul can love.
It's why you get caught up in this; the roles are all there waiting to be filled. You're the damsel in distress, he's the banished prince.
With you he'll find his way home. Literally.
Back to the home where love was never demonstrated, emotions never tolerated, and boys were raised as men. Tough, emotionless, was the measure of a man. No place for feelings, emotions, or anything resembling a soft spot.
To be vulnerable wasn't part of the upbringing of his father's definition of what it means to be a man. Reinforced by the larger culture, there was no check on whether this was the best way to raise a man.
For you learned your own role as well. To give and love and equate your worth with a man. Not just any man, but a man who holds that added appeal of holding back just enough of himself that he holds the power to decide your fate.
A healthier version of ourselves recognizes him and resists the urge to rescue him from himself and his past. But this beautiful loving, giving, caring, so understanding version of ourselves hasn't learned our blind spots yet.
We go forward, spurred on by his fast-moving pursuit of us, throwing caution to the wind when he seems to want us – yes, even need us – as much as he leads us to believe.
It's at this exact moment in the relationship that we need to slow things down. This is the last time we will feel in control. Before it spins out of control, before the speed hits breakneck, before our hearts reach the point of no return.
We won't want to stop. We won't want to hear it, let alone listen to what it's trying to tell us, but for our heart's sake, we must.
Pause the story, stop the cameras rolling, turn the lights back on.
If it's going to be the epic love story you want it to be, it will be. But right now, you matter more than any story. You matter more than this role you've been auditioning your whole life for. Slowing it down won't end it unless he's only in this with you for the beginning.
Taking it slow can't end it unless he's only here for the first act.
Remember those signs we've talked about where there's always something to show you what's really there? This is how you know before you go any further. This is how you allow yourself to see before your beautiful heart gets broken again.
You won't want to stop it. You won't want to slow it down. And neither will he.
But it's the ones who do and stay, and the ones who don't and leave that reveal themselves in their actions so that you can plainly see.
Jane....Gurl another good one!!! All I say is that "now I know what I do want, I do not waste time on what I don't want anymore" . If it quacks and looks like a duck it is a WHAT???? DUCK!!!! These are not mistakes just lessons. One day you will look up and say "Damn what was doing'!!! LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE!!! Keep moving forward, looking back you just might miss Mr. Ready, Mr. Committed, Mr. I LOVE YOU!!!
Love your play by play here, RealDavis. Thank you. So glad this resonated with you!
I really enjoyed this article because it reminded me of who I used to be. I can't believe I used to feel as if I needed to be saved, or felt the urge to save someone else, or that I could be chosen and that would rid us both of our problems. What I know now is is that everyone is 100% capable of working on themselves, loving themselves, handling their baggage in a healthy way rather than hiding from it, and taking responsibility for their own actions. It's not until someone actually does those things that they can actually be a true partner in a real love story. I realize now I couldn't have been a true partner then, but I definitely want to be and think I could be now! Im looking for someone who has done all of those things I listed because that's who I am now and who I always want to be in the future, because life is so much more happier and less complicated this way. I want to choose someone like that. I know he's got to be out there somewhere.
In January I met a wonderful man, we got on so well, it seemed like a fairytale, almost too good to be true! I had been through a hard divorce years prior from a marriage that ended due to abuse, I took alot of time to work on myself after that and get strong again as my esteem was rock bottom at that point. I didn't want to get hurt again and learned to be happy solo. I went to councelling which really helped. I was also busy raising my 2 amazing kids.
We started dating, I met him online, we were both divorced, both had 2 kids, both into fitness, both had so much in common, both hard workers in our jobs, both very sincere. He ticked so many boxes for me and was so keen. We shared so many beautiful times and dates together. For the first time I felt I had met an amazing man, could he be the one I asked myself, it certainly seemed full of potential. I felt wonderful when with him. He was very expressive with how he felt about me, and very open We both had busy lives between our work and he would go over to UK every 2 wks to see his kids and I have my kids living with me full time, so life was busy but we made time to see each other. His daughter had severe depression aged 17 and he was very worried about that and she was receiving care, we talked about that and I tried to be a supportive as I could, there were challenges there with his family in UK and certainly baggage. He so many times would tell me what a wonderful mum I was to my kids, he never actually met them as we both agreed to wait a good few months before introducing kids as we wanted time to just date and get to know each other and he needed time with his daughter in UK to get her to a better place. His parents also had to temporarily have his parents come to live with him shortly after we started dating as they were relocating house, his dad was a stroke victim so his mum relied on him alot for help and support, they ended up staying much longer with him and this made our seeing each other more challenging as he was trying to help his mum and found their moving in quite stressful on his time and space. So there were a lot of dynamics going in his life between a job that demanded a lot of him, his parents, his daughter and studying a phd.
2 weeks later a friend called to my house, she said she had news to tell me. A lady we both knew was on a dating website chatting to guys, going on dates and told my friend about this nice man chatting to her wanting to ask her out. She showed his picture to my friend and it was the guy I was dating the one who told me he overloaded! my friend said nothing to her but felt I should know as she knew I was finding the break up hard and felt i needed to know this guys was not all he was cracked up to be. The lady who was chatting to him was the same lady that my ex husband moved in with after our marriage ended. He lived with her for 1.5 years and she became pregnant with his child, sadly they lost the child and their relationship ended, he remarried a new lady a few months later and left the country. This lady still lives near my home. It was a difficult time for my children and I when my ex lived with her so close by but we came through it.
It was a shock for me to hear this, firstly because it was the lady my ex husband had dated and how the man that I thought was so sincere and that made me feel sorry for him and have compassion for him was out dating! nothing seemed to add up, had he lied, did he use his daughter to gain my sympathy, was she really even sick? why didn't he just say he wanted to see other people, why did he tell me he loved me many times and then just cut me off stone cold. I had done nothing wrong or to him, what caused him to change, why didn't I see the red flags. I was gutted, I felt so played and deceived and betrayed. A few days later I messaged him to tell him I was aware he on dating website as I was informed and I told him who the lady was, he would have known a bit about my past as we talked about both of our pasts. However at this early stage chatting to her he would now have know the connection. I told him that I had nothing but compassion for him but that he was not the man I thought he was. I heard nothing from him.
Since then I have had a response, it was to wish me well and that he didn't feel it helpful to get into anything about what happened or why things ended but said he understood things were hard for me and in time as I focus on my goals it would get easier and he asked how my kids were etc.. I felt very patronised by his response, complete deflection. No acknowledgement to what he did, how could he possibly understand how I felt.
I'm back in councelling now which is helping me work through this. I found out since he really hurt another lady when he moved to Ireland, reeled her in also and cut her off blaming her for it all, seems to be there is a pattern with him, he blames the women.
I.m trying to get back to where I was, but i'm finding it hard. I feel very hurt and let down.
Thanks for sharing your story, D. My heart goes out to you. I'm sure you're feeling both hurt and let down. It hurts to find out the truth like this, especially when you were so understanding and had such compassion for him and his situation. Don't take any of this on yourself; be glad that you were able to see him for who he was before you were any more involved with him. Can you see that this isn't about you? This is obviously a pattern with him. For reasons that have everything to do with him - and absolutely no bearing on you or your self-worth - this is where he finds his comfort level within a relationship. This is what he's capable of.
Shake it all off you; this is his stuff, not yours. While we always have regrets about what we wish we had known and could have done differently, the truth is that you did the best you could with what you knew at the time. It's not your fault he couldn't be honest with you and has nothing more to say except what makes it easier for him. His response to you is simply more of him confirming for you that he's not on the same page as you - and that you don't want to be on his page!
You're free now, D. Find yourself again, create more of your own beautiful life apart from this man. You deserve so much more than what he couldn't give you. And how you receive that is by being released from the ones who would only keep you from being free to find exactly that.
Thank you so much for your response, encouragement. true and kind positive words. I am working through this now in councelling also and my councellor has also said the same thing, that this is not about me or anything I did but rather with as you said where he is at and what he is capable of.
I know that he has his own struggles/committment issues. That there is nothing I can do or say to change that or that I could have done or said at the time either (which I really did replay a lot of times in my head) My heart is just broken by how things turned out as I had an expectation for us, for the relationship to develop into something more and I know deep down that it is better to know these things now rather than later.
I'm just working through the process of grieving the situation and letting it go and loving myself through it all and holding onto the hope of knowing that I am worth so much more as I have so much in my heart to give the right person for me in time.
Each challenge, set back, disappointment that we face in life teach us things about ourselves and it's an opportunity for growth and further development and a greater understanding of ourselves. I have a big heart which is filled for compassion for people and those closest around me. I look back and as my councellor reminded me i've come along way over the last few years, from the broken woman who was abused in her marriage, who hit rock bottom, was scared, had to rebuild her life after a divorce, to the woman that I am today today, a hard working beautiful woman who is raising two amazing children who are happy, stable and well balanced.
In life you meet people who you know have challenges and sadly some want to change and some don't, I know it's not my job to fix this man nor was it ever. In the beginning we talked so much, I felt he had done a lot of work already on himself which he did, this is what attracted me to him, I really quizzed him as he did me! ah the early stages of getting to know someone! but as time passed more came to light and I could see that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes with him and things going on with his family from what he would say. That is why from this Jane I have really learned that you really do need to take quite some time to get to know someone before you throw your heart in there! that is easier said than done especially when he lead me to believe he was so smitten, and I believe he was however he took things as far as you said that he was capable of and he has done this before to 3 other women since his marriage ended, I knew about one as I was informed about their relationship since ours ended, he told me a bit about it himself but said the lady was controlling, I heard a very different version of events, she fell madly in love with him and he walked telling her she wasn't intellectually stimulating enough for him! (how cruel). He also told me about another lady he dated, she fell for him and wanted to turn a job down in America to be with him here and he saw a red flag and told her not to turn a job down for him and ended it and left her crying in a restaurant! (not so nice) and I'm guessing he will continue to do the same, I believe he is dating another lady now also.
I love what you said "that i'm free now, free to find myself again and create more of my own beautiful". That is so true, thank you, I am free, and I will look back on this and be grateful that I found out early on. I asked myself during that harder days who was I before I met this man, well I was a happy, strong, loving, positive, beautiful woman and I still am. After a break up I can honestly say i've felt so lousy about myself which is why I went back to councelling, because I don't want to allow this situation to stunt me or make me not want to trust a man again or turn this in on me. I think it's really good to be able to talk about things and just be real because you realise you are not alone, others have felt the same and are feeling the same. I love your blogs and your honesty and the honesty of people writing their stories. Not all men are the same, there are some great guys out there and i do believe things happen for a reason in life that just because one door closes it doesn't mean it's then end, there is a brand new chapter and door ahead with endless possibilties, hope is always a wonderful things. So this is what I am choosing to focus on, hope and new found freedom, and when things feel like they are getting on top of me as they really have been through this process I will hold onto that.
Thanks for your articles! Everyday I read them to help me not go back to my ex who walked away from the relationship. I am definitely the type of girl who loves being with the boys I can save. I have done a lot of internal work to change my patterns but can you tell us a little bit about what's it like being with a healthy man, because all the guys who truly like me I run from them, so how do I learn to stay?
I'm so glad these are resonating with you right where you are, Tali. Be so proud of yourself for recognizing this pattern of choosing the one who you want to save. That's the first step to attracting something different! Create for yourself a different story; one where you're with someone where you're receiving as much as you're giving. One where someone is giving to you by his actions more than anything else. Look for a friend who you're also attracted to. But attracted because of how he treats you, the way he makes you feel about yourself, and the way he makes you laugh. Look for someone who's more a "cute" kind of attractive than a no-holds-barred attraction that's only about him triggering every part of you that senses he's the next one who needs to be saved.
Being in a healthy relationship with a real man will feel different because it won't have the usual triggers that allow you to put so much focus on him that you forget about yourself. With someone healthy, you both keep your own lives, but you choose to come together and get to know each other within the larger context of those individual lives. Neither one loses themselves in the other. Neither one feels they need the other to complete them or make them whole. You both own your own power. You don't feel like he has all the power or you need to be or do or become anything different that who you are for him to want to be with you. There's no drama, no games, no feeling within you that your worth is dependent on what he does or doesn't do with you.
It's a change in mindset; that you're doing the choosing, and you only want someone who can give something to you - who actually has something to give you in the first place! Picture yourself years down the road with someone; what matters then to you? What qualities matter then? Look for those now.
Thanks Jane such great advice love it and really appreciate it!
Well the last guy I was with I really believed we had a friendship and I didn't sleep with I wanted to build a strong foundation first but then he told me he wasn't ready for a commitment.
There is another guy I went out with a year ago on two dates but I ran away cause I thought it was because I didn't feel any physical attraction. The problem is with the boys "I'm saving" there is always so much attraction and the ones that like me there doesn't seem to be much physical chemistry. Would you suggest to just pursue it with the men even though in the beginning you don't feel much attraction? Wouldn't you want to feel strong physical attraction to your soulmate. Or is this just hormones talking ? Thanks for your time!
it's been nearly 4 weeks i've broken it off my last bf. it's the time i wanted to see all of my old friends who are men 2 - 5 years ago n the friendship was short.
last friday it was my crushes birthday so i gave him a simple happy birthday msg with hope u had a great day etc, i was so shy giving him a msg n my mind said don't send it, after i sent the msg i felt a bit guilty for doing it, that nite it was 8pm n i found out he read my msg n i thought OMG no way!!! he read my msg at 5:47pm. a part of me said he won't reply but he did at the end of the day saying "thanks" i was so surprised n happy. i feel like i'm slowly gaining his trust n friendship back after feb 2014 he said he wanted to be alone so i left him alone.
the next thing i want is i want to be his FB friend again n my mum reckons i should add him in dec n not sep just incase something happens but then he's busy between Oct - Dec. my friends want me to add him in Sep so i can get to see him b4 he gets busy but i thought that would take me back to 2013 memory lane n do the same things but then i had 2nd thoughts, if i added him in sep i would do things differently n won't be the needy,clingy or pushy person.
idk whether to add my crush in september which my friends suggested or at the end of the year in dec where he will have 3 weeks busy boy n quiet after new years day.
Someone who's right for you will never be too busy for you, Courtney. Give him a chance to come to you. With your messages and sentiments, you've been letting him know how you feel about him all along; now it's his turn to give you more than a cordial acknowledgment if he's truly interested in you. One of the hardest things for any of us to do is to accept a friendship type of relationship with a crush, when in our hearts we long for so much more.
Yes, that's true. I've even gotten tired of my own set of wounds. I think back and remember how I used to be and I cringe. It stills hurts a bit, but I remember that all I'm always left with is reality. It's interesting to see myself sometimes go back to the same explanations of why things don't work out romantically for me and then nudge myself with the reminder that these explanations don't fly. They're just lies I believed based on my experiences; experiences I magnified and globalized as being the truth. How hard is it to break old patterns. It takes a lot of conscious effort.
How I hear you, Angel. The hardest part is learning to recognize them in the first place.
Ive recently started dating again and am amazed at how strong men can come on in the beginning. Even before they have met you some men start mapping out a future with you of how its going to be. Then as strong as they've come on they either disappear or they may reappear at another time, this is even before you have met them. I take it with a grain of salt now.
Once I might have bought the story but not anymore. Some men will say your the only one they're really interested in but are probably telling 10 other woman the same thing.
I just sit back now and see what unfolds. I don't play games but I don't initiate either just respond.
I set some boundaries early on as well such as tell men I want to get to know someone with out rushing into anything. In other words not rushing the intimacy. Remaining a bit of a mystery to men is the key I think.
Anyway the main thing is to have fun and not get too serious too soon. Im dating more than one man at a time and not putting all my eggs in one basket until I know the guy is serious about me and wants to become exclusive.
Men really can come on so strong and then just disappear! you really do have to hold back for some time to see their real intensions. Which is what I did, intimacy was not rushed. I think this is what i've learned the most from my recent breakup. It really does take some time to get know a person. At first everything can seem so perfect but as times passes you see more, their actions speak volumes.
Knowing others have gone through similiar things really helps!
Exactly, Gabriella. It's this mindset that won't let you down. You're always the one doing the choosing!
I love the notion of sitting back and seeing how things unfold. It helps me calm down!


Imagine a team of agents busting in your front door with assault weapons pointed and arresting you all because you didnt use protection. This happened recently to a New York man and I am talking about a lack of WiFi protection. This is no urban legend and it is not just for the home owner. Think about the thousands of businesses who want to offer WiFi to their customers and just head to the store to buy a wireless router and set it up for anyone to use. Business WiFi needs special protection and the cautionary tale of the New Yorker should be your wake up call.


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Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Years active 1956 — 1994
Name Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Full Name Innokenty Mikhaylovich Smoktunovich
Born March 28, 1925 (1925-03-28) Tatyanovka, Tomsk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died August 3, 1994, Moscow, Russia
Spouse Rimma Bykova (m. 1950–1955), Sulamith Gorshman (m. ?–1994)
Children Filipp Smoktunovsky, Maria Smoktunovskaya, Nadezhda Smoktunovskaya
Parents Mikhail Petrovich Smoktunovich, Anna Akimovna Mahneva
Movies Beware of the Car, Hamlet, Nine Days in One Year, Tchaikovsky, Uncle Vanya
Similar People G Kosinzew, Eldar Ryazanov, Oleg Yefremov, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Anatoli Papanov
tribute to innokenty smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhaylovich Smoktunovsky (Russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born Smoktunovich, 28 March 1925 – 3 August 1994) was a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and the Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
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Film career
Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusian ethnicity. It was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself disapproved those theories by stating his family was Belarusian and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World War II. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov to join the Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. One of his best roles was the title role in Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (Maly Theatre, 1973).
His career in film was launched by Mikhail Romm's movie Nine Days of One Year (1962). In 1964, he was cast in the role of Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's celebrated screen version of Shakespeare's play, which won him praise from Laurence Olivier as well as the Lenin Prize. Many English critics even ranked the Hamlet of Smoktunovsky above the one played by Olivier, at a time when Olivier's was still considered definitive. Smoktunovsky created an integral heroic portrait, which blended together what seemed incompatible before: manly simplicity and exquisite aristocratism, kindness and caustic sarcasm, a derisive mindset and self-sacrifice.
Smoktunovsky became known to wider audiences as Yuri Detochkin in Eldar Ryazanov's detective satire Beware of the Car (1966), which revealed the actor's outstanding comic gifts. Later, he played Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Tchaikovsky (1969), Uncle Vanya in Andrei Konchalovsky's screen version of Chekhov's play (1970), the Narrator in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror (1975), an old man in Anatoly Efros's On Thursday and Never Again (1977), and Salieri in Mikhail Schweitzer's Little Tragedies (1979) based on Aleksander Pushkin's plays.
In 1990, Smoktunovsky won the Nika Award in the category Best Actor. He died on Wednesday 3 August 1994, at a sanatorium, aged 69. The minor planet 4926 Smoktunovskij was named after him.
1956 Soldiers as Farber
1957 Storm as Muromtsev
1959 The Unsent Letter as Konstantin Sabinine
1961 Nine Days in One Year as Ilya Kulikov
1964 Hamlet as Hamlet
1966 Beware of the Car as Yury Detochkin
1969 Tchaikovsky as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1970 Crime and Punishment as Porfiry Petrovitch
1970 Uncle Vanya as Ivan Voinitsky, Uncle Vanya
1972 Taming of the Fire as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
1973 Moscow-Cassiopeia as I.O.O. (Special Service Executive)
1974 A Lover's Romance as Trumpeter
1974 Teens in the Universe as I.O.O. (Special Service Executive)
1975 Trust as Nikolay Bobrikov
1975 They Fought for Their Country as doctor
1979 The Barrier as Antoni Manev
1979 Little Tragedies as Antonio Salieri and Old baron
1979 Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears сameo appearance
1983 Two under one umbrella as Till
1984 Dead Souls as Plushkin
1985 Russia at the beginning as Justinian I
1985 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Dr. Henry Jekyll
1986 The Twentieth Century Approaches as Prime Minister Lord Thomas Bellinger
1987 Dark Eyes as Modest Petrovich, mayor
1988 Gardemarines ahead! as André-Hercule de Fleury
1989 Mother as governor
1991 Genius as Mafia leader Gilya "Prince"
1993 Gold as Don Diego
1993 I Wanna Go to America as writer
1994 Enchanted as taster
1997 Dandelion Wine as colonel Frehley
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Anatoli Papanov
Eldar Ryazanov
Oleg Yefremov


Home Trainers	Nike Lunar Prestos remake an early 2000s classic.
Nike Presto is one of the greatest Nike innovations ever. We loved how this avant-garde technology was made accessible to high street consumers as well as the shoe dude crowd after its debut in 2000 and its place in the early days of NIKEiD (with the exclusive patterning – which is something that they should have done for the Roshe too). This is a shoe that helped bring about the flex emphasis that Nike amplified for the Nike Free system and it's the logical continuation of the Nike Bermuda, Sock Racer, Flow and Huarache. It also reminds us of Crooked Tongues' debut too, back when the Alpha Project was making us think we'd have shoes that flew by this point in time. Unfortunately we're not getting floating shoes — we just get remixes of past triumphs, plus some solid reissues. That's not to say we're particularly precious about the Nike Presto system, because the Presto Tent, Presto Chanjo, Presto Cage, Presto Roam, Presto Ridge, Presto Faze, Presto Gym and Presto Glide, plus the velour editions of the OG managed to dilute the pure excellence of the 2000/2001 Presto rollout. We like to pretend that it ended after that (bar some nice Foot Locker only editions).
The Nike Lunar Presto is the second Lunar Presto (preceded by the kind-of-okay Lunar Presto Rejuven8) in the last three years and it upgrades the old DNA to stay strange. The dynamic mesh is still intact, but the engineered support cage has been replaced by Dynamic Flywire that goes beneath and round the back of the foot to increase the Presto's patented foot hug. That Flywire application makes the shoe's rear angle forward sans foot, which gives it an awkward triangular shape. The OG Presto had the Phylon foam on the modsole, but now it gets Lunarlon, while thebottom homages that Duralon outsole. The Nike Lunar Presto is obviously reverential toward the source material, but without the whole XS to XXL sizing concept, we think some of the original appeal is diminished – remake syndrome in effect again. These Neo Turq/Volt versions go on sale in the Crooked Tongues store in a few weeks.


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By JurassicHole - United States
Today, while landscaping my backyard, I was pulling a big weed out of the ground. After the last tug, the soil came free, but ended up with me punching myself full force in the nuts. I think my future children are already filing for parental abuse. FML
Today, I was at work and I had to take a dump. Since I was the only person in the bathroom, I started singing, "I'm taking a poopy-poop poop poop poop." I was not the only person in the bathroom. FML
By blahblah - United States - Richardson
Today, I decided to try Karate. In an attempt to roundhouse-kick a hanging boxing glove, I knocked over a lamp, lost my balance and pulled down my curtains. My neighbor then looked through the window, started laughing and yelled, "KUNG FO POWA!" FML
By hexphoenix - United States - San Francisco
Today, while at my job, a couple became angry with me because I charged them for an extra ranch they'd ordered, as I'm supposed to. When I explained how it says in the menu how any additional sauces are an extra charge, she said nastily, "That's okay, we'll just take it out of your tip". FML
By sad but true. - United States - Storrs Mansfield
Today, my professor ran half a mile in the pouring rain just to return my cell phone, which I had left behind in lecture. Shocked and embarrassed, I exclaimed, "You shouldn't have!" "Damn right," he responded, "I'm 64 years old." FML
By Nick M
Today, my 18th birthday, I woke up vomiting with a temperature of 104 degrees. After I settled back in bed with some water, my mom said, "This is how you're supposed to feel on your 21st birthday, not your 18th." FML
By Anonymous - United States - Bellevue
Today, my girlfriend and I were at the river. She threw mud on me, so I playfully threw some on her, and we got into a mud fight. Apparently, she took the "fight" seriously, because I'm now single. FML
By ColdFoot - Australia
Today, my train was canceled so my ticket expired by the time another train arrived. I was fined $90 by ticket inspectors 'cause my claim that the early train didn't run was "unsubstantiated". Leaving the train I was pushed by the crowd, fell, lost a shoe and had to walk home with one bare foot. FML
By Anonymous - Canada - Gatineau
Today, my dad was doing FaceTime with a friend. He turned his iPhone towards my sister and said "There's my daughter..." He then turned it to me and said "...and there's my ugly son", then walked away. I'm still not sure if it's a joke or not. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Brooklyn
Today, I was eating breakfast when my little brother goes, "Mommy, what do you do for a living?" and my mom says "I'm a headmaster", and my dad goes, "Oh yeah she is." FML
By rogerusmc23 - Japan
Today, while all the other marines got to fly around the island on a helicopter, I got stuck on gear guard. What was I guarding? The staff sergeant's parking spot. FML
Today, I asked my wife who she would choose, me or the dog. She chose the dog. No hesitation. FML
By drugged_on_arrival - Virgin Islands British
Today, I woke up at my crazy ex-girlfriend's house, naked and disoriented. You know, the kind of crazy like we-didn't-break-up-it-was-just-a-fight-now-we-can-get-married crazy. She says everything's fine now and she's so glad we've "started our family." FML
By Nicki - Canada
Today, I was having sex with my boyfriend, and I said something grammatically wrong during it. He chose to correct it. FML
By FuturePolice - United States
Today, I was accepted into a police academy. I called my girlfriend of 2 years, who was supportive through the process. She promptly broke up with me, stating, "You'll be really busy in the academy, and I can't marry a police officer. Its a dangerous job." And then called me selfish for "doing this to us." FML
By brokeandsad - United States
Today, my boyfriend and I got into a fight about a clogged toilet. He was yelling about not having enough money to buy a better plunger and so I stormed out to buy one myself. While pulling his truck into traffic, a car hit me causing $1000 in damage. FML
By SSH - United States
Today, I just got done reading all the healthy benefits that come with sex. One of them is higher self-esteem. Then I remembered that I haven't had sex in 15 months. FML
By middleagednurse
Today, I spent 5 hours in the emergency room for what I thought was heavy bloody diarrhea. After having various implements and doctors' fingers shoved up my ass, it turns out I was only shitting out the family-sized bag of red spicy cheese curls I had eaten for lunch. FML
By madbabynoel - United States - Clovis
Today, my only friend got banned from my house, all because she kissed her boyfriend in front of me. I'm 16, but apparently I can't handle seeing a kiss. FML
By waterballoons - United States
Today, it was a pretty nice day so I decided I would take a walk through the park to get to work instead of driving. Healthier and better for the planet, right? Wrong. Some little bratty kids were bored apparently and decided to hide behind trees and peg me with water balloons. FML
Today, I got a 'Good Morning' text from my boyfriend. Since I hadn't gotten one of those in a while, I thought it was rather nice. That is, until I saw the picture that accompanied it. It was of him, sitting on the toilet and taking a shit. FML
Today, an ex of mine told me she wanted a threesome. This was great until I realised I wasn't included. FML
By Nick - United States
Today, I was looking in the refrigerator for something to drink. I found a jug of lemonade with a piece of paper on it saying "Mom's Lemonade, Don't Drink!" I was really thirsty, so I ignored it and drank the whole jug. My mom is about to have a colonoscopy and had filled it with laxatives. FML
By Jen - Australia
Today, I arrived home to find I'd been broken in to. The culprit? An obese homeless man, who I found face down, unconscious, and surrounded by muesli bar wrappers in my pantry. He broke in, ate everything in sight, soiled himself, and passed out. The worst part? The cops don't even believe me. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Shelby
Today, I stayed in a hotel near the college I was applying for a scholarship. We were eating breakfast and there were some other applicants in the breakfast room. As we walked away, my mother yelled, "My daughter's gonna get this scholarship so there's no reason for you muddafuckas to show up." FML
By brokebitch
Today, being a broke college student struggling to make ends meet, I decided to sign up for a sugar daddy website. The first person to message me was my high school history teacher. FML
By lovebigmacs - United States
Today, I showed my boyfriend the new tattoo of a butterfly that I'd gotten on my lower back. He said, "It looks like it's flying when your rolls jiggle." FML
By Daniel - United States
Today, while going to lunch with my boss, he asked me to check and see if the other lane was clear. When I did, he swerved hard, making me smack my head into the door window. This is apparently his new favorite thing to do. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Ocean Springs
Today, I got out of the shower and walked into my living room to see my sis' and her boyfriend sitting very closely on our family's fairly large couch. I laughed and said, "Look at the happy couple." Then her now ex-boyfriend burst into tears. Turns out they'd just broken up. FML
Today, I was sitting on the couch with my little brother. He was looking at me and says "so cool." I asked him what was so cool and he says "it's not that cool but, your eyebrow connects to your other eyebrow". FML
By monquiqui - United States
Today, I had to drive my drunk parents home from a party. They leaned out the window and barked at everyone we passed all the way home. FML
Today, while trying to help my disabled uncle into his walker, his one testicle popped out of the leg of his short shorts. I asked him to adjust himself and had to hold on to his walker as he did it. FML
By ClothesHorse - United States - Houston
Today, I was kicked out of a job interview at a clothing store for "not dressing appropriately" for the occasion. I'd purchased my outfit from the same store just two days prior with my last $100. FML
By cheese - United States - Sun Prairie
Today, I summoned the courage to talk to my friends about the money they owe me for my photography services at their wedding. We had agreed on a fair price, but now they're pissed, claiming that I'm being selfish and should consider it my wedding gift to them. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Stroudsburg
Today, I was riding a bike when a truck accidentally hit me. The handsome driver came out and asked if I was alright. I said, "I am now" and winked. He said "Eww, no" then immediately ran away and drove his truck around me. FML
By unicorn_skies - United States - Yorba Linda
Today, I bought a new, expensive dress for a date. I left the tag on and hidden in hopes of returning it later. Someone saw it and ripped it off for me to "save me from embarrassment." FML
By NPDclusterBaware | 8
#7814863 - Monday 24 June 2019 8:45
At least those Pokemon will be included in Sword and Shield!
By wmayrhofer | 18
With such a phenomenal memory you should be able to find a fulfilling job! Friends too if you dumb it down a little
#7814911 - Monday 24 June 2019 11:48
Well, you can always get crackin' to memorize the next generation.
And after that, Pokémon Deep Space Nine.
BurnInDemonFire | 30
Don't forget Pokémon: Voyager, Enterprise, and Discovery. Oh, and Pokémon: Picard.
By onlyme25 | 26
That can happen when you peek in Middle school & it just goes down hill from there :)
By Noela Abney | 5
seriously tho, round of applause for honoring gen 1
By lkb307 | 21
#7815144 - Tuesday 25 June 2019 1:04
Seriously, Turn off all of your electronic devices.
Take a shower, get dressed, go outside.
Talk to people. Call people.
If you want a life, you have to go and get it.
It will not come to you.
By walkerbait1998 | 6
yo same tho
By manb91gb | 14
#7815296 - Tuesday 25 June 2019 14:24
Yes, yes you do
Today, I had to resort to telling my boyfriend that I have a praise kink, just so that he would actually compliment me. FML


Why invest in Richmond Hill Real Estate?
Richmond Hill is considered one of the urban growth centres and mobility hubs in Ontario. The city is investing on The Richmond Hill Regional Centre which will bring a boom in residential and commercial real estate.
Employment rate in the city is higher than 65% focusing on finance, management sectors and business areas. Also, unemployment rate is around 3.8% which is much lower than the Canadian average. Richmond Hill average household income is greater than $100,000 placing the city more than 30% above the Canadian average.
Richmond Hill is one of the targets of real estate companies due to its fast growth rate, with house prices increasing more than 30% to an average amount of $1.1 million. The city currently is considered the hottest real estate housing market as suburban areas demand has increased due to Toronto real estate market reach its peak.
Richmond Hill is the third largest city of York region in population, projecting to exceed 270,000 inhabitants by 2021. High increase rate is due to many investments in condos being developed and populated in recent years.
The city has a large multicultural population, Cantonese, Chinese, Italian, Persian and Russian communities in the area. Along Yonge Street junction, a high concentration of Persian immigrants can be found.
Richmond Hill is part of the York Region Transit services which provides with bus services throughout the city. It counts on five different modes of public transportation which include GO Transit, 407 Transitway, VIA Rail, VIVANext and Yonge St Subway Extension.
The city has several easy accesses to Toronto using Yonge Street, Bayview Avenue and Bathurst street. Also, Highway 404 from the east of the city, is another quick option for commuters into Toronto.


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Q: How to handle Null values in constructor in my class I keep getting an error that the title, the parameter 'title' can't have a value of 'null', but the implicit default value is null, and the same goes for background and icon,
I am new to Flutter, so I am not certain where the problem is from.
This is my main.dart file:
import 'package:simpleapp/models/sidebar.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

//stless - stateless widget..

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {

    return MaterialApp(
        home: Scaffold(
            body: Center(
                child: SidebarRow(item: sidebarItem[0]),  //where I called the item
            ),
        ),
    );

  }
}

class SidebarRow extends StatelessWidget {

  SidebarRow({required this.item});

  final SidebarItem item;

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Row(
      children: [
        Container(
            width: 42.0,
            height: 42.0,
            padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
            decoration: BoxDecoration(
              borderRadius: BorderRadius.circular(14.0),
              gradient: item.background,
            ),
            child: item.icon),

        SizedBox(width: 12), // used for spacing..

        Container(
          child: Text(
            item.title,
            style: TextStyle(
                fontSize: 16.0,
                fontWeight: FontWeight.w800,
                color: Color(0xff242629)),
          ),
        ),
      ],
    );
  }
}

the sidebar.dart - SidebarItem Class file with additional sample data
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

class SidebarItem {

  //how can i initialize this class to accept null values..

  SidebarItem({ this.title, this.background, this.icon });

  String title;
  LinearGradient background;
  Icon icon;

}

//add sample data...

var sidebarItem = [

  SidebarItem(
      title: "Home",
      background: LinearGradient(
        begin: Alignment.topLeft,
        end: Alignment.bottomRight,
        colors: [
          Color(0xFF00AEFF),
          Color(0xFF0076FF),
        ],
      ),
      icon: Icon(Icons.home, color: Colors.white)
)];

How can I sort out this error and get the variables to initialize properly, and not set to null?

A: Here you have two examples:
If every instance variable are going to be initialized (Your case):

*

*Add required keyword in your named parameters

class SidebarItem {
   String title;
   LinearGradient background;
   Icon icon;

  const SidebarItem({
    required this.title,
    required this.background,
    required this.icon,
  });
}

Or a constant if it wont mutate
class SidebarItem {
  final String title;
  final LinearGradient background;
  final Icon icon;

  SidebarItem({
    required this.title,
    required this.background,
    required this.icon,
  });
}

If every instance variable can be null
class SidebarItem {
  String? title;
  LinearGradient? background;
  Icon? icon;

  SidebarItem({
    this.title,
    this.background,
    this.icon,
  });
}

A: Add ? for optional fields. Add required for mandatory params
class SidebarItem {

  SidebarItem({ this.title, required this.background, required this.icon });

  String? title;
  LinearGradient background;
  Icon icon;

}

A: please see explanation about setting nullable values here https://stackoverflow.com/a/68058488/13474354
in your case you're missing required keyword before parameter in constructor declaration


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Why some corporate tree-planting initiatives are out on a limb
Despite the feel-good appeal of planting a tree as a planet-positive act, and the various trillion-tree initiatives taking root around the world, the benefits of tree-planting programs are being questioned.
By Joel Makower
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Today is International Day of Forests, a United Nations-proclaimed event that aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the importance of forests of all types. It's a relatively recent addition to the commemorative calendar: The U.N. General Assembly first proclaimed March 21 as the date in 2012.
Regardless whether you were aware of it (I wasn't until recently), International Day of Forests seems a walk in the park. Who doesn't love forests, trees and all the critters therein? Who isn't aware that trees and forests are one of the major ways the planet absorbs carbon dioxide, making planting trees a go-to tactic for mitigating the climate crisis?
To my knowledge, there's no anti-tree-planting lobby.
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, on International Day of Forests, "countries are encouraged to undertake local, national and international efforts to organize activities involving forests and trees, such as tree-planting campaigns."
Not. So. Fast.
A healthy tree is a ready kind of negative emissions technology that many researchers see as the first line of defense against climate risks. But despite the feel-good appeal of planting a tree as a planet-positive act, and the various trillion-tree initiatives taking root around the world, the benefits of tree-planting programs are increasingly being questioned. The compelling idea that we can plant our way out of the climate crisis is being countered by concerns that, done poorly, planting trees actually could exacerbate the problem.
Despite the various trillion-tree initiatives taking root around the world, the benefits of tree-planting programs are increasingly being questioned.
The growing understanding of the science behind tree planting is putting some corporate tree-planting programs out on a limb. Countless companies have embraced reforestation (replanting areas where trees once stood) and afforestation (planting trees in places they hadn't generally existed) as evergreen issues that simultaneously address public relations, employee engagement and net-zero strategies while creating jobs in local communities.
But as climate risks rise in awareness and severity, it may be time to rethink how these programs are designed and implemented.
Root of the problem
Tree planting is a booming industry, spurred in part by campaigns by governments around the world as well as by scores of multinationals, from Amazon to Zurich Insurance. Nearly 2 billion trees are planted each year, according to statistics compiled from different sources, including the U.N. Environment Program. The same studies estimated that 158 million trees are replanted each month globally. That's about 5 million trees a day, 7,000 every minute.
The industry is growing so quickly, in fact, that there's a shortage of seedlings in some places, including the United States, where tree nurseries will need to double production to supply an additional 1.7 billion seedlings annually to meet demand. Boosting seedling production will require expanding tree nurseries, increasing the industry's workforce, increasing seed collection and storage capacity, and improving pre- and post-planting practices, according to Joe Fargione, science director at The Nature Conservancy.
So, what's the problem with planting trees? Nothing, if it's the right tree in the right place using sound science, and if it's not merely planted but nurtured over time.
But that's often not what happens in real life, particularly with massive tree-planting initiatives sponsored by companies, governments, nonprofits and tech billionaires.
The media is rife with stories about tree-planting initiatives gone wrong. In 2020, for example, the Guardian reported on a government-backed initiative in Turkey that set a Guinness World Record for planting more than 300,000 saplings in a single hour. But less than three months later, up to 90 percent of the 11 million saplings were dead, planted at the wrong time with insufficient rainfall to support them.
The insufficient care and feeding of newly planted trees is just one problem. Another, arguably bigger one is planting trees where they would not naturally occur, threatening biodiversity and water supplies. Planting trees in snow-covered regions, for example, can increase the absorption of solar radiation, potentially leading to increased warming.
Still another problem occurs when tree planters attempt to replace native forestlands with profitable plantations. A report last year by Science News examined one global project aimed at restoring 865 million acres by 2030. It found that if all 865 million acres were allowed to regrow as natural forest, they would sequester about 42 billion metric tons of carbon by 2100. But if the land were filled with single-tree commercial crop plantations, the carbon storage potential drops to only about 1 billion metric tons.
Moreover, say scientists, planting in ecosystems with naturally sparse tree cover, such as savannas and peatlands, can destroy the diversity of Earth's ecosystems that contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Preventing ecosystem destruction, they say, is the most cost-effective natural climate solution.
Avoiding getting stumped
Given all this, how can companies turn over a new leaf with their tree-planting programs? For starters, by addressing a range of scientific, political, social and economic concerns.
A 2020 working paper from World Agroforestry, an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, outlines some challenges with tree-planting programs. Among them:
The planning cycle is often too short. Most projects operate on a short time frame (one to three years) while most tree species require at least five years to become stable, carbon-sequestering trees.
The planning scope is very narrow. Numerous key issues of pre-planting and after-planting management need to be considered to make sure the trees actually grow.
Tree growing can also happen without planting. It is possible to grow trees through natural regeneration mechanisms that can protect against external factors that hamper growth.
There's a gap between "what is done" and "what communities want." The narrative used to convince farmers to grow trees may not match their interests such as fruit trees, forage species or timber species, and hence make farmers reluctant to care for planted trees.
There's a lack of understanding what it takes to grow trees. Many forest restoration projects fail to deliver on their goals because restoration is often considered costly and can take many years to deliver desired outcomes.
These and other challenges may provide a worthy roadmap of how to ensure a program's success.
"Tree-planting initiatives are a key part of reforestation commitments and essential in areas that are too degraded to recover on their own," Michael Becker, director of communications for 1t.org, a group created by the World Economic Forum to promote private investment in tree planting, told CNBC last year. "We use 'grow' to emphasize that simply putting a seedling in the ground is not sufficient — that tree needs to be supported to maturity to reach its full potential. It also needs to be the right species, planted in the right conditions, based in sound science."
That is to say, those employee-engaging, community-centric and customer-incenting tree-planting programs that position a company as an environmental savior may not be logging all of the benefits they claim. As usual, what seems to be a cost-effective, quick-fix climate solution may be anything but.
I invite you to follow me on Twitter, subscribe to my Monday morning newsletter, GreenBuzz, from which this was reprinted, and listen to GreenBiz 350, my weekly podcast, co-hosted with Heather Clancy.
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Review: Black Panther (Topic)
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Review: Black Panther
"Black Panther " literally rushes to USA cinemas, but not from Africa, although there are too many references to the African side in the film not to be noticed, but from the USA. This film is long-awaited for us.
It is very ambiguous if you already have certain expectations of how the action should unfold in the film and in which direction the plot will go. Therefore, the fewer you have formed about what the upcoming film should be about, the better. It can surprise you and prepare you for new movies and events in the MCU.
Marvel breaks all box office records
In the North American tradition, let's start with math. In those countries, the success of a film is primarily determined by the commercial side of the matter. USA critics look at things differently and from the point of view of the artistic component of films, an unbiased assessment is very valuable. And yet, the box office says a lot. Including not only the great work of marketers, but also that the film attracts the viewer. It doesn't matter if it's special effects, the cast, the plot of the film, the work of the director, or all of the above. As the saying goes, no one will go to a bad film and there will be no money to be paid for watching it, and if tickets are sold, then you like it.
As soon as the film appeared in the US on February 16 this year, the first 4 days of distribution exceeded all expectations: the box office was replenished by $ 244 million. The eighteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe breaks all records.
If we take into account the box office worldwide, to date the film has earned more than $ 500 million, and this, given the fact that there are still premieres in USA (February 26), Japan (March 1) and China (March 9) ahead. Already, we can say that in 10 days of distribution the film will receive $ 383 million, which by the end of the entire rental period will be about $ 766 million. This will put the film on a par with the 25 highest grossing ever in the film industry.
Most interesting of all, when that happens, the comic-based Black Panther will be the # 1 commercial hit movie, and thus overtake The Avengers, The Dark Knight and Spider-Man.
The Black Panther Cast
So the lessons to be learned by filmmakers are that big films with an African-American audience with lots of top-notch African-American actors are a recipe for success that filmmakers often ignore. But not Ryan Coogler. After an excellent directorial job in Creed: The Rocky Legacy, he was commissioned to take responsibility for another hit from Marvel for a reason. He's up to the task, making the film incredibly anticipated among Marvel fans, as well as casting Chadwick Boseman for the lead role.
The actor has already acted as a black panther in the film "Captain America: Civil War". Lupita Nyong'o as his mistress. Michael B. Jordan this time as the Wakandan exile, Eric "Killmonger" Stevens. Angela Bassett as T'Challa's mother, and Daniel Kaluuya, star of the Academy Award-nominated film Get Out, plays T'Challa's assistant W'Kabi. Completing the all-star cast is Forest Whitaker as Wakandan Elder and Andy Serkis as Ulysses Cloe.
Shooting Black Panther
It is interesting to note that the action of the film takes place in the African country of Wakanda, where deposits of the most valuable metal vibranium, which is able to absorb vibration, have been discovered. However, the film was shot in the United States, in Atlanta. And where else would you think? In South Korea. The Americans missed the former military foothold for something. The shooting took place in Busan, a city located in the southern part of the country and famous for its beaches. It was there that the work on the creation of the chase scene took place, in which 150 cars and more than 700 people participated. Jagalchi Market, known as the largest seafood market in Asia, as well as the huge Gwanalli Beach and Gwanan Bridge are where the chase takes place.
The plot of the film "Black Panther"
As for the storyline of the film, then some Marvel fans exploring the meta plot may wonder, where is it, a little, show more. The creators of the new film decided differently. They devote most of the tape to the new king of the futuristic African state of Wakanda. Ryan Kugler showed extraordinary professionalism in terms of a detailed display of life in African society, with its rituals, relationships between people, but at the same time he did not forget about high technologies.
Those who call Africa Africa will be disappointed to see this movie. It celebrates the victory of high technologies on the black continent, super progress, but at the same time, residents strictly follow the established traditions. They remember them. Therefore, T'Challa will revive the ancient spirit of the savannah - the Black Panther. He will take on her role, because once it was this spirit that protected the poor and the oppressed, and now it will become the mission of the young prince.
For fans of the MCU, this film can become a cornerstone for understanding the further development of the plot. And for those who are waiting for "War of Infinity" knowledge of the history of Black Panther and Wakanda will be very important. Marvel films are taking a new twist and it might be worth taking a closer look at Black Panther for this very reason - it's a turning point in the Marvel universe.
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Leisure operator Everyone Active has secured management deals for four new leisure centres.
In East London, Everyone Active will operate the £25m Hornchurch Leisure Centre, complete with multi-use sports and activity halls, eight-lane swimming pool, exercise studios and a 100-station fitness suite.
The project will include the partial demolition of the current Hornchurch leisure centre and construction of a new facility. Work has already begun and is scheduled for completion in 2020.
In Leicestershire, Everyone Active will operate the £22m Coalville Leisure Centre, which will comprise three distinct elements complete with pools, an eight-court sports hall, a 120-station gym and three dance studios.
Set to open in 2021, the facility's surrounding land will be regenerated into a parkland leisure destination, including a trim trail with activity stations and high ropes course within the woodland.
In East Hampshire, Everyone Active will operate the £17.2m Alton Sports Centre totalling 65,500sq ft, as well as the £8.6m Whitehill & Bordon Leisure Centre which totals 20,600sq ft.
Duncan Jefford, regional director at Everyone Active, said: "Our aim is to create leisure centres which offer something for the entire community and encourage participation in physical activity.
"These new centres will create modern facilities with greater emphasis on architecture, customer experience and state-of-the-art equipment.
Everyone Active has appointed project consultancy Paragon to help manage the developments, offering services such as project management and cost consultancy.
Everyone Active currently manages more than 170 leisure and cultural centres across the UK in partnership with more than 50 different local authorities.