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Day: October 28, 2017

If you want to keep your home tidy all the time just follow up
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Life Style

If you want to keep your home tidy all the time just follow up

    The whirlwind of life gets the better of even a tidy person myself included. Despite my well-intentioned cleanliness, I sometimes find myself coming home to piles of clothes (the aftermath of never being able to decide what to wear in the morning) and a general state of domestic disarray. Being faced with such a mess can be an intimidating task, so when tackling it, your first step should be a reality check: Don’t expect yourself to clean your house from top to bottom Mary Poppins style in one go. (Sure, Marie Kondo recommends an all-in-one cleaning marathon, which might be good in theory, but who has time for that?) Like anything that seems like a mammoth effort at first, cleaning becomes far less daunting when you break it down into small, manageable chunks. And if you g...
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The awful truth of donating a dead body to science
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

The awful truth of donating a dead body to science

    Donating a loved one’s body to science is for many people a comforting and altruistic act that makes meaning of a personal loss. For the many families unable to afford the cost of a funeral or cremation, it’s also a practical one, as the businesses that accept and arrange such donations typically offer to pay for cremation. Yet loose regulation in the for-profit body-donation industry means that the final destination for many of these remains are far different than the legitimate research many donors imagine, as a Reuters investigation this week and a Quartz investigation earlier this year found. A Reuters journalist was able to purchase the spine of a disabled young man whose impoverished parents believed that they were only donating small tissue samples from their deceas...
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Most popular social media WhatsApp Delete for Everyone feature lets you unsend embarrassing messages
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Technology

Most popular social media WhatsApp Delete for Everyone feature lets you unsend embarrassing messages

    It’s been in development for months, but has now started rolling out to users. The feature, which is officially called Delete for Everyone has also been widely referred to as Recall and Revoke. It lets you unsend messages, making them completely disappear from a conversation. They'll be hidden from both yourself and the other people in the chat. However, both you and your recipient need to be using the latest version of WhatsApp, and it only works for messages you’ve sent within the last seven minutes. Once that period of time has passed, your message is there to stay. Delete for Everyone work on all types of messages, including text, images, videos, GIFs and documents. To unsend a message, simply highlight it by tapping and holding the line of text, select Delete from the...
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Theresa May could go back to the negotiating table and seek new terms
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Theresa May could go back to the negotiating table and seek new terms

    May’s head and seek their own Brexit talks with the European Union, the Evening Standard has learned. A group of rebels wants an independent line of communication to check whether the Prime Minister is genuinely offering the best terms available. The plan emerged after Brexit Secretary David Davis made clear that the Government intends to engineer a take it or leave it vote on the deal Mrs May negotiates. That would leave MPs under massive pressure to cave in to her terms or risk the chaos of a no-deal Brexit. A former minister told the Evening Standard: By talking directly to Europe we can assess whether Parliament has other options available, including the option to instruct the Prime Minister to go back to the negotiating table and seek new terms. A key question to be a...
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6 year old trans girl banned from School who hugging other kids
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, ENGLISH

6 year old trans girl banned from School who hugging other kids

    Although the US state of North Carolina's anti-trans bathroom bill has been replaced with a less restrictive version which itself is currently under attack from a federal lawsuit its effects continue to be felt throughout the state, and many people's personal prejudices are imposing additional restrictions on trans people's behaviour. Emma Smith, a six-year-old trans girl in North Carolina, for instance, was banned not only from using the girls' bathroom at her school but also from hugging other students, The Daily Mail reports. She was told at first that she'd have to use the boys' bathroom, but because she was dressed as a girl, she worried about getting picked on or teased so a couple of times, she wet herself instead, her mum Amy Smith told The Daily Mail. She was even...
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