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When Your Imagination Goes Wild
Guess what you see on these pictures. A tip: these are amazing optical illusions, and what your imagination draws to you is not what these photographs really show.
Using Plugins on Your WordPress Website
A plugin is a tool that you can use to extend the functionality of your website. Think of it as similar to an app that you can download onto your phone to give it additional features.
WordPress, the program that is used to create your website, is designed in a way to allow for maximum customization, and this is accomplished through the use of plugins. The basic WordPress program contains everything you need to be able to create pages and blog posts, and you can add all of the additional features you want by installing the appropriate plugins. Most WordPress plugins are free.
If you can think of a feature you want on your website, chances are a plugin has already been created for it. You can find plugins in a couple different ways. One way is to log in to your website content management system at domain.com/wp-admin. On your dashboard expand the “plugins” menu in the column on the left-hand side of the page. Click on “add new.” A search box will pop up that will allow you to search for plugins based on search terms, author, or tag.
For example, if you want a plugin that will allow you to add “Follow me on Twitter” links to your website, you could search for the term “Twitter” in the search box. When you enter your search terms and click the “Search Plugins” button a list of related plugins will appear. Scroll through the list and find the plugin you want.
When you find one you are interested in, you can click on either “details” or “install now.” Clicking on “details” will bring up a screen that will give you more information on what the plugin does, and FAQ, how many times it’s been downloaded, and so on.
If you click on “Install Now” the plugin will be installed on your website. You will then be given the options to “activate plugin” or “return to plugin installer.” Returning to the plugin installer will take you back to the search box that you used to find plugins. Activating the plugin will make the plugin active on your website.
You can view your installed plugins by expanding the plugins menu in the column on the left-hand side of your dashboard and then clicking on “plugins.” This will show you a list of all of your plugins. Under each plugin you will be given the options to “activate” (if the plugin has not yet been activated), “edit,” or “delete” the plugin. If there is a new version of one of your plugins available, a message will appear on this screen along with a link that will allow you to upgrade your version of the plugin.
Another way you can find plugins is to again click on the “add new” link under plugins on the left-hand column of your dashboard. This time, click on the link “WordPress Plugin Directory” on the top of the page. This will take you to a new webpage where you can browse plugins by most popular, newest, recently updates, and a number of other ways. You can also search for plugins based on keywords here and filter your results by most popular, highest rated, newest, and so on.
Legal Facts Every Blogger Should Know
When it comes to legal issues, most bloggers are either unaware or misinformed about the laws that they operate under. Unless you studied to be a journalist, publisher or a lawyer, you most likely didn’t get an overview of mass media law. That’s unfortunate because now, with blogging and social media, everyone is a journalist and/or a publisher, at least from a legal perspective.
With that in mind, there is simply way too much to ever cover in one article. However, here is a brief overview of some of the facts that you need to know in order to stay safe online. Obviously, this won’t be in-depth and, if you want more information you should consult an attorney (or at least do further research).
But this should give you an idea of what you should be looking for and what questions you should be asking.
Also, it’s worth noting that these facts are based on U.S. law, if you are outside the country, obviously the situation is going to change.
On that note, here’s a look at 20 legal facts every blogger needs to know:
General
- The Web is world-wide. As such, your content will reach virtually every country and every jurisdiction in the world. As mentioned above, the facts below are based on U.S. law but you always have to remember that what is legal in one area may not be legal in another. That can, in some situations, bite you.
- As a blogger, you are posting works to a public forum. Even if only a few people read your site, the law treats it largely the same as if you had screamed everything in a crowded square or printed it on the cover of your local newspaper.
- As a blogger, you are responsible legally for what you post and, posting anonymous or pseudonymously is not a guarantee against legal consequences. Such steps can help avoid other consequences, such as professional ones, but generally not legal ones.
Copyright
- Copyright protects works of creative authorship and is a collection of rights over those works. Those rights include the right to make copies, the right publicly display/perform the work and the right to make derivative works. Doing any of those things to a copyrighted work without permission is an infringement.
- Copyright is given either to the author of the work, or their employer if they they are creating the work for their job (Note: Contract work does not always transfer copyright), the moment that work is fixed into a tangible medium of expression. No further action is required for a work to be protected, though copyright registration is required to sue and has other benefits.
- By default, copyright blocks uses of a work. If you want to give broad permission to use a particular work use a Creative Commons License to let others know the terms they can use it under. Likewise, if you are looking for a work that you can use, seek out one with a CC license or otherwise made available for reuse.
- The current term for copyright in the U.S. is for the life of the author plus 70 years for individuals or 95 years for works of corporate authorship. Once that term expires, the work lapses into the public domain, where it has no copyright protection.
- Fair use is an exemption to copyright that allows others to use copyrighted works without permission for certain limited purposes. However, there are no bright line rules when it comes to fair use. Instead, fair use is decided on a four-factor test that looks at each case in context. The only way to know for certain if a use is fair or not is through the courts.
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it relatively easy to get any infringing copies of your work removed from sites hosted in the U.S. Similar laws also work in the EU, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries.
Defamation
- Defamation is the communication of any statement, presented or implied to be true, that is false and puts a person, business or other entity in a negative light, falsely harming their reputation.
- Slander is any defamation presented in a transitory medium, usually spoken word. Libel is anything that is printed, published or otherwise put into a fixed form. Most defamation online is libel, not slander unless it is not not being saved as it is being said.
- For the purpose of defamation, it doesn’t matter if it is communicated to one party or a million. Both meet the criteria as long as someone’s reputation is falsely hurt.
- Truth is an absolute defense against a defamation claim but it must be a verifiable fact. Likewise, opinions are not libelous but they must be actual opinions, not statements falsely labeled as opinions.
- Libel law is largely set on the state level, meaning that what is libelous in one area might not be in another as there are many inconsistencies.
Trademark
- A trademark is a word, symbol, phrase, sound or almost anything used to identify a business or their goods/services. Trademarks do not have to be registered to be protected, but registration can and does help. As such, if you use your site for business, you likely have some level of trademark protection in your name.
- Trademark law is designed to prevent confusion in the marketplace. This means using a mark in a way that implies you have a relationship with the business that doesn’t exist is likely trademark infringing. The same goes for using a confusingly similar mark.
- Though trademark protects things copyright can’t, such as names and phrases, that protection is limited to uses that cause confusion. You’re free to talk about a business.
Privacy
- There are four different types of privacy torts: Intrusion upon seclusion, misappropriation of image, publication of private facts and false light, the latter of which is similar to defamation.
- Once a fact has been made public, it’s considered in the public domain and repeating it is not the same as making it public. As such, any information you put on your blog, Facebook, etc. is considered public and can be repeated by others.
- Privacy laws, as with defamation, vary from state to state, be sure to look up your local laws.
Obviously, this list barely skims the surface of these topics and, if you have a legal question about any of these areas you need to either consult with an attorney or, at the very least, do a lot more research on your own.
The goal of this is more about telling you the types of things you should know and relaying some of the key pieces of legal information that every blogger absolutely must know in order to be safe online.
In short, though there’s much more to learn, these are some of the key facts you have to know and they should serve as a great place to start for learning more.
iHuman The Latest Product from That Fruit?
iHuman or is this more like an iHead (enough) or iShame?
iHuman The Latest Product from That Fruit?
yaba(crazy medicine, pronounced yar bah)
Drug addiction has been a common aspect for the youth of this generation. This drug addiction is gradually destroying the future of the youth. Today, this is an open secret to everybody but there is no strong initiatives taken to prevent people from taking illegal drugs which are harming them. The most recent form of addiction towards drugs is that of Yaba. And suddenly it got popular among the young generation without people from other age groups not having any knowledge about this. It initially spread among higher class and higher middle class people. Now the youth generation, instead of building their future, is destroying it with a poisonous drug called Yaba.
The use of Yaba had been sweeping through the youth populace in the Dhaka city’s posh neighborhoods until the recent hauls. It began to spread at an alarming pace since the launch of a massive clampdown on heroin and Phensidyle dealers about a few years ago. More and more youths in areas like Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara and Dhanmondi switched to the deadly pills with heroin and Phensidyle becoming less available.
Yaba is said to have been originally used by Hitler who gave it to his soldiers to combat against fatigue, heighten endurance and elevate the mood. This Nazi lineage has given the drug street credibility like nothing before it. While most of the ingredients to make it can be purchased legally, and produced within a couple of hours in a casserole dish, there are no such known drug labs in Bangladesh. Yaba is a mixture of methamphetamine, caffeine and at times heroin. Some people claim it is the ultimate upper, the inevitable crash after the high is the darkest side of the drug. It had been linked to lung and kidney disorders, hallucinations, increased and irregular heartbeat along with a host of other psychological effects. Users of Yaba run the risk of rapid heart rate, increased blood pressure and damage to the small vessels in the brain that can lead to a stroke. Chronic use of the drug can result in inflammation of the heart lining. Overdoses can cause hyperthermia (elevated body temperature), convulsions, and death. Yaba users also may have episodes of violent behaviour, paranoia, anxiety, confusion and insomnia. Those coming off the drug are also susceptible to severe depression and suicidal urges. It is basically a non-stop adrenaline rush, followed by exactly the opposite feeling.
There are umpteen drugs being used in Bangladesh, Heroin, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Yaba, Phensydil, Crystal Meth, and many more. The problem is that the number of users is rising at a frightening rate. Worse, these drugs have found mass appeal in almost all age groups. From people in their early teens to the fifties, a major portion of society has got aboard the drug train, a train that runs not on oil or coal, but the newest drug in town, Yaba.
Case Study:
Farah (not her real name) is 18 years old and has been using drugs since the age of 14. Her story like many others started out with Marijuana. It was through the simple use of Marijuana that she opened the doors to a much wider use of drugs. After experimenting with drugs for a bit, she soon realised that she was addicted to heroin. She says it was purely accidental, and soon enough got over the addiction. Farah suffered from severe withdrawal but eventually when she kicked the habit she knew that she could never go back to it. But after hearing about a new drug called Yaba, she decided to try it. She started using it after she entered a circle of friends who were completely immersed into it. In her opinion that is not the only reason she started hard drugs again: “Everybody is doing it because there is nothing better to do in this town”.
The route to Bangladesh is fairly simple; the little pink pills are produced in Burma and smuggled into Bangladesh mainly through Teknaf. The Burma news agency claims that when the drug crosses the border it is sold at approximately Tk 13 per pill. By the time the pills reach Dhaka and have gone through various middle men, they are sold for between Tk 50 and Tk 60. The real money is made when the dealers in Dhaka get a hold of it, they mark it up almost 500% and the average pill sells for between Tk 350 and Tk 400.
There are varying degrees of good pills and bad pills. The Chita, for instance, is considered the lower grade of Yaba, it is distinguished by small marks on the pill. Then there is the Golap Jol or Rose Water family of pills which are generally considered the highest grade of Yaba. While the Chita gives the user a relatively smaller buzz, the Golap Jol” gives a pure rush, something like a burst of adrenaline. The pills themselves also come under much scrutiny, they have the letters WY inscribed on them, when the Y is elongated and the colour of the pill is pure pink then it is apparently good Yaba. The information regarding this one drug is immense and what is even more startling is that a pair of 18-year-olds provided us with all the above-mentioned information.
While Yaba may be all the rage now, it still competes with Heroin as the most consumed drug in Bangladesh. Heroin has found a niche in the Bangladeshi drug culture; it is relatively cheap and is widely available. Yaba may be the drug of choice for a higher income bracket but Heroin has always had a steady customer base, from the desperately poor to the rich. Most of the Heroin available here is actually Heroin “dust”, not the real deal. As usual we can blame Burma as one of the prime sources of supply, but the main problem is the fact that there is a high demand from our local markets. Heroin is also smuggled in from our Indian borders and that Heroin usually comes from the poppy fields of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Rony (not his real name) is a 28-year-old boy who took the time to talk to us about his Heroin addiction. He says the root of all drugs lies in the taking up of cigarettes. From there the natural step is to try Marijuana and so on. That is how he started, from Marijuana he first tried Phensidyl, he soon got addicted to downers and soon Phensidyl was not hard enough as a downer. He elevated it next to Heroin, the almost hypnotic effect of Heroin had him from the first time he tried it. The following three years were the worst in his life, “There were times when I would spend Tk 2000 a day on the double downers of Phensidyl and Smack (Heroin), and even after that I was not satisfied,” He said. “I was so into the “pinik” (feeling) it gave, we even started having Yaba and Heroin together, one upper and one downer, it was the ultimate speedball effect”. It started affecting his health quite badly, on top of which, he also started Crystal Meth or “Ice” as its known. He tried to quit it a few times but could never quite make it, “The first 72 hours are the toughest, once you can make it past that, you are set,” he said. But he could never gather the will power to leave. He says the friends he was hanging out with then were probably the biggest reason he failed to quit. “If everybody is having it, you just have to as well”. He finally had enough when the depression and anger had become too much, he wanted to quit but needed help. “My family supported me through thick and thin, without them I could never have quit, support is what one needs to overcome the lure of Heroin” he told me. This story represents both the best and worst that drugs can offer but how can the problem be tackled?
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