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Companies can still use training repayment agreements to financially trap workers into paying for on-the-job training.A nurse intubates a patient at a hospital in McAllen, Texas, on July 20, 2020.Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Jessica Van Briggle was excited to begin her career as a nurse when she applied to work at Centinela Hospital in southern California.

LGBTQ Soireé

A time-honored rite of passage has stuck with me long past high school graduation.Growing up, my closet had a glass door - everyone knew I was gay.I stayed inside it anyway.It was the 2000s.I lived in a Republican household, and although California is a progressive haven for so many, being a queer teen was not cute.

The Boston Globe "She is one of the absolute few people I think was truly just good," Sam Forman said.To Sam Forman,there are few people who represent "pure goodness," who can fill a friend's day with light and positivity even in the midst of their own struggles.Vanessa Mark, a student at Brandeis University who was killed in a shuttle bus crash on Saturday, was one of them, he recalled Monday.

PITAKA are a leading brand when it comes to accessories for your favourite electronics, and I got the chance to test out one of their most popular iPad products - the PITAKA MagEZ Magnetic iPad Charging Stand and Case Pro.This nifty bit of kit acts as both a stand and charging point for your iPad and MagEZ-compatible accessories.

Missouri lawmakers passed two bills Wednesday that would bar transgender athletes from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender and ban gender-affirming care for minors, the latest state to advance such legislation as transgender rights have become a marquee issue for the Republican Party.

In our Solar System, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation.Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all orbit in the same direction.This invariable plane, as it's known, also has an orientation within a few degrees of the Sun's rotational plane.Most planetary systems have a similar arrangement, where planetary orbits and stellar rotation are roughly aligned.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover paused to capture this vista on Nov. 21 as it explores an ancient crater that might contain traces of past life.(NASA/JPL-Caltech)On the floor of a shallow crater on Mars, the NASA rover Perseverance has hit what scientists are hoping is pay dirt.Martian rocks excavated by the rover show signs of a watery past and are loaded with the kind of organic molecules that are the foundation for life as we know it.

(Image credit: Xencelabs)
With the reveal of the new Xencelabs Pen Display 24 Studio Series artists, designers and creatives finally have a real alternative to Wacom.This new drawing display features some unique real-world design decisions that will give digital artists a real choice when it comes to a new large-screen pen display.

Backgrounds are essential to any webpage, and can make or break your website design.There are thousands of generators online to help you create aesthetically pleasing backgrounds to use in your website design, but some generators can be overly complicated, so it's good to research which generator to use based on your preferred design.

CSS Trigonometric functions are supported in the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Chrome.We also discuss animation via @property, which is supported in the latest Safari, Edge, and Chrome (as of this writing).The CSS Shapes specification enabled a lot to make interesting shapes on the web today, via clip-path, shape-outside, and more.

CSS Media queries - @media - allow you to style multiple versions of a single site depending on the type of device on which the layout/site is being viewed.In other words, they are constructs that allow you to specify, based on certain conditions, which styles should be used on a web page and which should not.

Indian studio Matharoo Associates has created Cut Bend Fold Play, a concrete home in Chennai with internal courtyards and layered spaces that bring a feeling of spaciousness to its compact urban site.Drawing on the courtyard typology typical to the area, the house has an outwardly austere "hollow shell" of board-marked concrete that opens up internally around a bright living area and garden courtyard.

Architecture studio BCW Collective designed an aluminum-clad hikers' cabin overlooking the Italian Alpine Valley.Called Bivacco Brédy, the bivouac shelter is located in the Aosta Valley and was conceptualized by the family of Claudio Brédy, a local politician and Alpinist who died in 2017 during a mountain excursion.

After years of bucking the European trend, an organised anti-refugee backlash has finally hit Ireland.Recent protests involved threats to burn down a hotel housing refugees and, in a separate incident, there was a vigilante attack on a homeless migrant camp.These ugly scenes followed months of protests led by the far right and simmering community tensions over the provision of local accommodation to refugees.

A Christian school in New Zealand will close its doors rather than give up a conversion therapy program.Kaitaia Abundant Life School says a new law passed last year banning the practice means they can no longer operate according to their Christian faith."Experiencing unwanted feelings towards the same sex" is not usual, a spokesperson for the school, Ivy Tan, told 1News in New Zealand.

On Tuesday, while the U.S. House of Representatives was in disarray due to Republican infighting, a lawmaker in Texas introduced his version of a " don't say gay " law.State Rep. Jared Patterson's bill, HB 1155, requires schools to disclose all information related to students' mental health information to parents, which exposes children to being forced out of the closet by school officials and adds language to the state's education code that would restrict the instruction of topics on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Explicitly teaching character in college?It's not a new idea, but it's not widespread.For that reason (among others), Wake Forest University's Program for Leadership and Character has attracted interest from other institutions since its founding in 2017.Building a Network
Now the Lilly Endowment is giving the program $31 million over five years to expand-including by helping build a network of character education programs across academe.

For a significant number of students, the first year of higher education serves as a wake-up call about study habits."Most students have not received any guidance on how to learn," says Shaun Vecera, a University of Iowa professor of psychological and brain sciences and the director of the University Honors Program.

The NFL offseason started a little over two weeks ago, but its first important date has already arrived.It's time for the 2023 Scouting Combine.As has been the case for more than 30 years, the league's "Underwear Olympics" will take place in Indianapolis; the Colts ' Lucas Oil Stadium will once again host the event which will officially begin on Tuesday, February 28, and run through March 6, when the last position group leaves town again.

Last week, an 18-year-old was charged with fatally shooting a Chicago police officer following an exchange of gunfire in the city's Gage Park neighborhood.On Thursday, funeral services are scheduled at St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel for that fallen officer, 32-year-old Andrés Mauricio Vásquez Lasso.

Image: Theo O'Neill and the Milkyway3d.orgteam You may not realize it in your day-to-day life, but we are all enveloped by a giant superbubble that was blown into space by the explosive deaths of a dozen-odd stars.Known as the Local Bubble, this structure extends for about 1,000 light years around the solar system, and is one of countless similar bubbles in our galaxy that are produced by the fallout of supernovas.

For Emily Zurek Small, college did what it's supposed to do.Growing up in a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania, she had career and intellectual ambitions for which college is the clearest pathway.I just kind of always wanted to learn, she told me recently.I wanted to be able to have intelligent conversations with people and know about the world.

Portland's Central Library will close March 11 for the second time in less than a year as Multnomah County begins the second phase of the library's two-part "refresh."Multnomah County Library (MCL) spokesperson Shawn Cunningham told the Mercury the building will remain closed for a projected eight to nine months, "reopening probably in December of 2023."

The global in-game advertising platform, Anzu.io, has been granted a patent for its ad tracking technology which measures viewability in 3D environments.The ground-breaking technology works across multiple gaming platforms, including consoles, of which Anzu is the only ad tracking engine to monitor ad campaigns.

For more than a decade, the ad tech industry has tried to replace the term "fingerprinting" with euphemisms, like probabilistic modeling.But too bad for ad tech, because the term stuck.All of the major browsers and mobile operating system makers - mainly Google and Apple, with a little Mozilla and Microsoft in the mix - now explicitly cite "fingerprinting" as impermissible.

Although a pretty large vehicle, the REE XBW has immense control, can navigate narrow areas and make sharp turns with ease, and can instantly parallel park without any effort.The secret?Its unique independent-wheel-drive build that allows all four wheels to operate independently, turning and rotating on their own to help the electric bus easily maneuver across a variety of challenging paths.

Tracked by a string of top clubs, including Manchester United, the 23-year-old forward has scored 21 goals and provided 25 assists in 41 Eredivisie games since the start of the 2020-21 season.Predominantly a left-sided player, who can also play centrally, Gakpo's stock rose even further with three goals at the World Cup in Qatar for the Netherlands.

The horrors of Monday night sparked plenty of prayers for a man who very well could have died right before our eyes.Damar Hamlin, a young safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsing to the turf in cardiac arrest after a routine hit.Medical workers trying to revive him for 10 minutes.Teammates in tears.

EBBA Architects has completed a house extension in east London that combines brutalist-style materials with details inspired by a classic Roman villa.The project, called Cast House, is a rear extension to a Victorian terraced house, creating an enlarged room incorporating a kitchen, a dining space and a conservatory.

Name a product that Tesla never thought of making, and out of the blue there it is.That's the case with this new creation by the Elon Musk-owned company, never willing to show the white flag.After the shenanigans of Apple's scrapped AirPower charging mat back in 2017, and a few knock-offs in the local markets, Tesla has decided to offer one of its own.

Vertical, short-form, mobile - these three words describe the video format popularized by TikTok that every social platform is looking to co-opt, and YouTube is no different.Although the platform is known for its longer-form video content, it added a new feature in September 2020: YouTube Shorts.This addition should come as no surprise, as YouTube is all about video, and increasingly, users prefer short videos to any other format when consuming content.

NYC-based firm Garrison Architects has completed an animal shelter in Staten Island, which is wrapped in full-height glass walls that provide even lighting conditions throughout the day.The Staten Island Animal Rescue Center is located in Charleston, a neighbourhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island.

Promotion: online art and furniture shop Singulart helps art enthusiasts choose work from over 12,000 designers in over 110 countries, while allowing them to search via a "myriad of specifications".
Singulart is a creative platform that enables users to easily search and buy art they're looking for, and includes a range of mediums, including drawings, photography, sculpture, painting or "miscellaneous".
The site also sells furniture, including lighting, tables and seating.

A Los Angeles resident claims that he was harassed by an employee for kissing another man while dining at the Echo Park location of El Compadre this week, and the incident has since spread quickly across social media.Comedian and actor Drew Droege first shared his account of the incident on Tuesday via Instagram, saying that he was out on a date that turned sour unexpectedly, with a rather "sad, hateful moment in the middle."

A cyclist heading north on Telegraph in the under-construction bike lanes.Photos: Streetsblog/Rudick
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CSS Container Queries are still gaining traction and many of us are getting our hands wet with them, even if it's for little experiments or whatnot.They've got great, but not quite full, browser support - enough to justify using them in some projects, but maybe not to the extent where we might be tempted to start replacing media queries from past projects with shiny new container size queries.

What it is, where to find it, and reasons why designers should use it
Illustration by Tommasso D'Angelosante  Chrome developer tools are essential for building websites and apps on the web.These tools help developers troubleshoot all kinds of issues.However, DevTools are jam-packed with useful features for designers as well.

Italian designer Andrea Ponti created a collection of furniture designs called 'Shadows in the Windows.Comprising of eight colorful and clean variations, the collection captures and represents Hong Kong's urban landscape through two symbolic elements - a window, and a seat.The intriguing collection was displayed at Superstudio Più during Milan Design Week 2017.

Riverside police allege that Austin Lee Edwards, 28 - a law enforcement officer from North Chesterfield, Va. - catfished a teenage girl online, came to her suburban Riverside neighborhood and killed three of her family members Friday before leaving with her in his vehicle.Hours later, Edwards was killed by police.

Pre-Dojo


     Worked as a Geek Squad member at Best Buy
     Motivated to help people, but missed IT support after leaving Best Buy
     Tried to find a career that matched her interests and landed on cybersecurity


After Dojo


     Technical Product Support Engineer II at F5
     Excited to continue learning cybersecurity and move through her company's career track


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Trends come and go, and some designs even return with a vengeance.That applies not only in the fashion world but in other industries as well, including interior and even office designs.In the not-so-distant past, cubicles were torn down to give way to open floor plans.That more social and more democratic design, however, also came with costs to focus and productivity, which has resulted in some offices bringing back those boxes that try to give you a small sanctuary in a storm of distractions.

Architect Odile Decq has completed a house in France with walls of translucent glass, to create the optimal lighting conditions for a client with vision impairment.Decq designed Maison de Verre for an owner who suffers from an irreversible and progressive condition that means he can only make out vague shapes, so needed his home to offer consistent, diffused lighting.

Flutter InAppWebView 6 is out right now with a lot of new cool features and a fresh new website built using Docusaurus 2.0! 🎉
Let's start diving into it!Version 6.x.x now requires the minimum Flutter version to be 3.0.0,Android minSdkVersion to be 19 ( android/app/build.gradle), and the minimum iOS version to be 9.0 ( ios/Podfile) with XCode version >= 14.

Timber interiors and larch cladding reference the surrounding Bohemian Forest at this pared-back cabin in the Czech Republic, designed by French practice Les Archinautes in collaboration with local practice 3AE.Overlooking Lipno lake close to the Czech Republic's border with Germany and Austria, the cross-laminated timber (CLT) cabin was designed to provide a rest stop for people who come to ski and hike in the nearby mountain ranges.