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'She didn't actually quit': CEO fires assistant after she spends $2k on fake farewell party with company funds

There's something universally awkward about office parties—whether it's the forced mingling, the questionable food choices, or that one coworker who takes "open bar" a little too literally. Most of us just try to blend into the crowd, avoid making eye contact with our managers, and hope the night ends without too many cringe-worthy moments. But for one unfortunate team, a party to celebrate an employee's resignation was nothing more than a "social experiment."

It's one thing to make a grand exit when you're moving on to bigger things, but this employee decided to throw herself a farewell bash complete with company-funded catering, decorations, and a custom cake... all while the CEO was on out of the office. The CEO returned from a conference to find her assistant had announced her departure in a company-wide email and threw a party on the company's dime, just to admit she was never really leaving in the first place. 




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'Did they think they were gonna make money from their wedding?': Newlyweds "devastated" after only gaining $3k from wedding instead of the $10k they expected

This newly-married couple is going to be in a world of debt after throwing a lavish wedding that didn't exactly pay off. 

Weddings these days are a bit different than they were 50 years ago. Besides the obvious changes in decorum and decoration, there's a whole new tradition around gift-giving. Many couples choose to live together before marriage these days, which can be quite beneficial. You can learn if you are compatible with someone before legally declaring it forever. However, if you live with someone for a few years before marriage, you'll have to buy everything for your house in the meantime. In the past, couples were just starting out, and would move in together after marrying. Their gifts would often include cookware, baby items, furniture, or other presents designed to start a new couple off in their home. 

Nowadays, you may as well give the newlyweds some cash. They probably have a lot of furniture and pots and pans already. But they might be going severely into debt to pull off their dream wedding, just like the couple here. It's an eye-opening read, as shared by @kaylajohnsonatl. Commenters debated the state of gift-giving these days–check it all out below. 

After that, this interviewer lamented that "[It] is just really tacky" after noticing that a job candidate did something that gave him pause. 




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It Was QUITE The Carriage Ride...

Roco entertained the young newlyweds, by discussing his myriad venereal diseases.




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"Engrossing And Bursting ..."

never before seen pictures from the war on marriage




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My Barkeep calls this drink a "Hurricane Sandy" But it tastes like a watered-down Manhattan




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Tông xe 'trả thù đời': Những câu hỏi về xã hội Trung Quốc

Một vụ tấn công bằng xe hơi khiến 35 người thiệt mạng ở Trung Quốc đã dấy lên những câu hỏi về các vấn đề sâu xa trong xã hội nước này.




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Captain Kane unhappy at England squad withdrawals

Captain Harry Kane is unhappy with the number of players who have withdrawn from the latest England squad, insisting "England comes before club".




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Disqus Comments (for Joomla)

Disqus Comments (for Joomla) integrates the Disqus comments system & service into any Joomla based website. Disqus (pronounced 'discuss') is a service and tool for web comments and discussions - currently the most popular comments-as-a-service provider worldwide. It makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

In short, the most important features of the service are realtime comments, inline media embedding, mobile commenting, social integration with Twitter, Facebook & other services and great moderation & anti-spam tools.

You can learn more about all Disqus features here.

Signup for a free account at https://disqus.com.

 

USING DISQUS ON YOUR JOOMLA! WEBSITE

After you signup for an account and add your website or blog at the Disqus dashboard, all you have to do to integrate Disqus in your Joomla website is copy your subdomain name (shortname) over to the (content) plugin's related field.

 

FEATURES

- Options for comments counter/anchor link for listing and article pages
- Choose to integrate Disqus comments in specific categories and/or menu items
- Neutral design for easy integration on any template design
- Fully MVC skinnable. Just copy the /plugins/content/jw_disqus/tmpl folder (in Joomla 1.5) or /plugins/content/jw_disqus/jw_disqus/tmpl (in Joomla 2.5 or newer) inside your Joomla template's /html folder, rename to /html/jw_disqus and start tweaking the HTML and CSS!
- Scrolling effects for anchor links
- Option for testing Disqus comments plugin locally before going live.

 

COMPATIBILITY

Disqus Comments (for Joomla) is compatible with Joomla versions 1.5, 2.5 & 3.x on servers running PHP versions 5, 7 and 8.

A version for Joomla 4 will also be released soon.

 

LICENSE

Disqus Comments (for Joomla) is a Joomla plugin developed by JoomlaWorks, released under the GNU General Public License.




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Quick Menu (for Joomla 4)

Quick Menu (by JoomlaWorks) is a Joomla 4 administrator module which adds a handy quick menu to the Joomla 4 backend to restore UX sanity!

FEATURES

  • Less clicks to important content management and admin tasks in the Joomla 4 backend... duh!
  • Neatly organize the menu in 2 columns (for admins), one to access common content management tasks and one to access common admin tasks. Keep in mind that not everything is included and for good reason: keep things simple.
  • Respects configured backend access permissions for your user groups. In other words, plain content managers will see menu options for what they can only access, whereas Super Admins will see menu options for everything.

PREVIEW

HOW TO USE

  • Install the module.
  • After installation, locate the module in Administrator Modules and click to edit it.
  • Assign the "status" module position & publish.
  • Done!

Updating is easy as future releases will show up in the extension updates page in Joomla.

COMPATIBILITY

Quick Menu is compatible with Joomla version 4.x on servers running PHP 7 or 8.

LICENSE

Quick Menu is a Joomla module developed by JoomlaWorks, released under the GNU General Public License.

DISCUSS - SHARE IDEAS/FEATURES

Discuss or share ideas/features about this extension in our forum:

https://www.joomlaworks.net/forum/other-free-extensions




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MapQuest Unveils 10 Top Destinations of 2013

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Alamy
Las Vegas, Nashville and Orlando were the top three searched for cities on MapQuest in 2013. The results are a compilation of destinations searched for on both MapQuest's website and its recently updated-and critically acclaimed-iPhone and Android apps. [Full disclosure: AOL owns both MapQuest and Gadling.]

Texas was the only state with two cities in MapQuest's top 10 list: Houston was eighth and Dallas was ninth. Feel free to criticize these travelers for not going to Austin instead in the comments.

Continue reading MapQuest Unveils 10 Top Destinations of 2013

MapQuest Unveils 10 Top Destinations of 2013 originally appeared on Gadling on Mon, 23 Dec 2013 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Skift Acquires Gadling Travel From AOL

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The Skift team -- now the Gadling team, too -- in Iceland this May.
It's been quiet here for a while, but that's about to change.

I'm happy to announce that Gadling is becoming part of the Skift family.

You may have read about us in this Gadling interview when we launched nearly two years ago. Since then, Skift has become the largest travel industry news and information site in the world. Over the short two years of our existence, our brand has become the lingo in travel.

As AOL has decided to focus on MapQuest as the center of its travel strategy, it wanted to find a good home for Gadling.

That's us.

Additionally, we're excited to announce a partnership with MapQuest, leveraging their global mapping platform and collaborating on relevant content. MapQuest serves 40 million multi-platform users every month, providing directions, local search and discovery, and mapping solutions for everyday needs.

"We love what Skift is doing and believe their work leads the market. We look forward to working with Skift to bring great travel content and services to consumers and the travel industry," said Brian McMahon, general manager of MapQuest.

We will take over Gadling's extensive online presence, from the website to its popular social media feeds, and continue to build it as an inspiration and news-you-can-use companion to the business-focused Skift site. We've long been fans of Gadling's style of travel and writing and we're happy to be stepping in now. Gadling will stay as is for a short bit while we tinker behind the scenes.

Stay tuned, we're just getting started.

Share your email, and we'll let you know when Gadling relaunches.

  • Skift Updates

Skift Acquires Gadling Travel From AOL originally appeared on Gadling on Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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30 low-key acquisitions who could pay off big

Fans and analysts spend the entire offseason speculating where the top free agents could go, but sometimes an under-the-radar pickup can end up making a world of difference. As positional competitions begin to heat up at Spring Training camps this month, MLB.com's beat writers were asked to identify one potentially overlooked acquisition for each of the 30 clubs. Here's who they came up with.




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Cancer Drugs Fund requires further reform




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30 low-key acquisitions who could pay off big

Fans and analysts spend the entire offseason speculating where the top free agents could go, but sometimes an under-the-radar pickup can end up making a world of difference. As positional competitions begin to heat up at Spring Training camps this month, MLB.com's beat writers were asked to identify one potentially overlooked acquisition for each of the 30 clubs. Here's who they came up with.




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Famous dads no big deal for Blue Jays quartet

It's not rare to see former Major League sons in Major League uniforms, but is it unusual to find four in one clubhouse?




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A Prefrontal->Periaqueductal Gray Pathway Differentially Engages Autonomic, Hormonal, and Behavioral Features of the Stress-Coping Response

The activation of autonomic and hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) systems occurs interdependently with behavioral adjustments under varying environmental demands. Nevertheless, laboratory rodent studies examining the neural bases of stress responses have generally attributed increments in these systems to be monolithic, regardless of whether an active or passive coping strategy is employed. Using the shock probe defensive burying test (SPDB) to measure stress-coping features naturalistically in male and female rats, we identify a neural pathway whereby activity changes may promote distinctive response patterns of hemodynamic and HPA indices typifying active and passive coping phenotypes. Optogenetic excitation of the rostral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) input to the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG) decreased passive behavior (immobility), attenuated the glucocorticoid hormone response, but did not prevent arterial pressure and heart rate increases associated with rats’ active behavioral (defensive burying) engagement during the SPDB. In contrast, inhibition of the same pathway increased behavioral immobility and attenuated hemodynamic output but did not affect glucocorticoid increases. Further analyses confirmed that hemodynamic increments occurred preferentially during active behaviors and decrements during immobility epochs, whereas pathway manipulations, regardless of the directionality of effect, weakened these correlational relationships. Finally, neuroanatomical evidence indicated that the influence of the rostral mPFC->vlPAG pathway on coping response patterns is mediated predominantly through GABAergic neurons within vlPAG. These data highlight the importance of this prefrontal->midbrain connection in organizing stress-coping responses and in coordinating bodily systems with behavioral output for adaptation to aversive experiences.




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Quilting to Christ

Russian OMer Alexandra Bykova begins a Quilting Club to bring women closer to each other and to faith in Christ.




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“I am not worth it to believe in Jesus."

A Dutch team member shares her mission trip experience praying with a man in Siberia.




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Floods and earthquakes shake up a nation

Although a flash flood inundated most of Metro Manila, Central and North Luzon in the Philippines, recent earthquakes have shaken up the nation even more.




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Immediate relief to earthquake-affected area

OM Philippines partners with the local church to provide water and food in areas hit by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake on 15 October.




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Surigao City earthquake victims need trauma counselling

OM Philippines send staff to assess the earthquake damages in Surigao City and provide needed disaster relief training.




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Transforming lives in Mozambique

God is working to transform lives in Mozambique through the efforts of the local OM team.




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Miraculous healing in Mozambique

Limardes Domingo, an OM worker in Mecula, Mozambique, has seen church growth over two years through God's faithful answers to prayer.




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Modern "Acts"

A family in Turkey is impacted by the gospel through contacts with the Bible Correspondence Course.




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BBQ in Ward End

When an OM Lifehope team, partnering with On the Move International, held their annual community barbeque, they did something a little different.




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Discipled, equipped and transformed

A young woman's life is transformed by the love of Jesus shared and displayed through Tabitha Skills Training in Zambia.




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Surprising danger, quick reaction, God's protection

Faith is strengthened when OMers learn how the Lord watches over them, not allowing harm to come to the people or the ministry.




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North Africans prepare to go to Iraq

The OM Near East Field church planting school prepares students to cross cultural and religious boundaries.




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Equipping Arabs to reach the least reached

OM Near East launches a one-year Arab internship programme to equip local believers for long-term ministry among the least reached.




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Visit to mosque improves mutual perceptions

A group from the Sharing Lives Course visits a mosque in Lausanne, Switzerland, and learns that greater awareness can lead to greater sensitivity.




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OM team brings the Saviour to people in Perquín

A team of 38 from El Salvador and Guatemala visited the Salvadoran city of Perquín to spread the message of the Saviour.




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"Glad you are here to talk with us"

OM Ecuador team members work with people living with HIV and AIDS in a children's hospital in Guayaquil.




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"What Rohit And Virat Have Done...": Ex-Selector Gives 'Lean Patch' Verdict

Indian cricket team star batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma faced a lot of criticism from fans as well as experts following their poor show in the Test series against New Zealand.




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Yashasvi's Brother Quit Mumbai, Couldn't Afford Food; Now He Is Ranji Star

Tejasvi Jaiswal, elder brother of star India batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, was in the news recently, having scored his maiden First-Class half-century in Ranji Trophy.




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Sanju Samson's Father's Rant Goes Viral: "4 People Wasted My Son's Career"

Samson Viswanath, father of India cricketer Sanju Samson, has made a shocking claim regarding his son's international career.




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R Ashwin Confident He Has "Figured Out" Smith, Shares Tactical Insight

Ravichandran Ashwin and Steve Smith will face off during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting November 22 in Perth.




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Why is Omnichannel Still a Question?

Marketers have a lot on their plate these days. Omnichannel shouldn't be an issue anymore




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Cruise liner passengers fall by 7% in third quarter of 2024, but cruise liner calls increase

Figures published by the National Statistics Office show that Malta has welcomed 672,276 cruise passengers in 2024




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Inquiry expert tells court she could not find Malta Enterprise due diligence report for Vitals concession

Vitals inquiry expert Miroslava Milenović faces heated scrutiny over qualifications and methods for her role in uncovering complex financial links




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Italian Court fully acquits Palumbo Shipyards of waste dumping conviction

Antonio Palumbo, owner of Palumbo Shipyards, fully acquitted by Messina Court of Appeal, which ruled his actions in alleged illegal dumping did not constitute a crime




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No public practice this time for Gilas before Fiba qualifiers

MANILA, Philippines—Unlike in previous Gilas Pilipinas’ preparations under coach Tim Cone, the squad won’t be holding open practices to the public this time. Cone said the national team is pressed for time in its preparations for the second window of 2025 Fiba Asia Cup Qualifiers, so opening the doors to fans is out of the question. “I don’t know if we’ll have the time to do something like we have in the past in Philsports in front of the fans because we only have five days of preparation this time,” said Cone in a presser on Wednesday. READ: Kouame back […]...

Keep on reading: No public practice this time for Gilas before Fiba qualifiers




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QC cops nab suspect for grave threat, assault; seize hand grenade

MANILA, Philippines — A 27-year-old individual was arrested for threatening a victim at gunpoint, assaulting officers during his arrest and possessing a hand grenade, the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) announced on Wednesday. According to the QCPD’s report, the victim was walking along Villareal Street in Barangay Gulod in Novaliches at 3 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11, when the suspect appeared and threatened him with a handgun. The victim escaped and ran to the Novaliches Police Station. Officers at the station proceeded to arrest the suspect, but he resisted by kicking the cops until he was subdued. The Novaliches Police […]...

Keep on reading: QC cops nab suspect for grave threat, assault; seize hand grenade




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Chinese man shot in Parañaque; suspects with P1.2-M in drugs nabbed

MANILA, Philippines — Parañaque City police arrested three foreign nationals for shooting a Chinese man and for possessing drugs worth P1.2 million during their arrest on Wednesday, Nov. 13. The victim was identified as “Li”, a 35-year-old Chinese national who works as a money changer employee in Parañaque City. He was shot at a residential complex in Barangay Don Galo on Wednesday morning and was taken to Juan De Dios Hospital in Pasay City for treatment. According to the Southern Police District’s (SPD) report, alias “Syncell”, a 32-year-old Filipino online agent who also lives in the complex, witnessed the incident. […]...

Keep on reading: Chinese man shot in Parañaque; suspects with P1.2-M in drugs nabbed




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DITO to launch equity offering on November 20

DITO CME Holdings Corp. is set to finally launch its follow-on offering of up to P4.2 billion next week, after one month of delay as it stepped back to assess the market. In a disclosure on Wednesday, the parent company of DITO Telecommunity (DITO Tel) announced that the offer would run on Nov. 20 to […]...

Keep on reading: DITO to launch equity offering on November 20




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Israel questions ICC judge's impartiality in Netanyahu arrest case


The request requires the approval of ICC judges, but their decision has been delayed, partly because of several rounds of legal filings by Israel that have challenged the court's jurisdiction.




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Students occupy defense firm Leonardo's Turin headquarters to protest over Gaza


The students, who unfurled a flag of the Palestinian territories from the roof of Leonardo's offices, said the company was supporting Israel.




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Car ramming lightly wounds two in Dayr Qadis near Modi’in Illit, terrorist flees scene


Numerous security forces surrounded Dayr Qadis and are currently searching the area for the terrorist, the military announced. 




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India To Play Intra Squad Match At WACA Ahead Of Australia Tests, Public Not Allowed: Report - News18

  1. India To Play Intra Squad Match At WACA Ahead Of Australia Tests, Public Not Allowed: Report  News18
  2. Black veil of secrecy: India begin training in privacy in Perth  ESPNcricinfo
  3. 'No request' from BCCI but Australian media report claims India wanted...  The Times of India
  4. Of Coffee Date And Fam-Jam: Anushka Sharma And Virat Kohli's Perth Diaries  NDTV Movies
  5. Batting time: India begin preparations in lockdown mode  Hindustan Times