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RealityMine, in partnership with Ipsos MediaCT, revealed today data from TouchPoints Canada 2015 — the most comprehensive analysis of Canadian media consumption ever launched — which provides brands with a unique look at the Canadian media consumer.
Key findings include:
- Out-of-Home and Radio consumption ranks the highest media usage throughout daytime;
- 47% of digital newspaper consumption is taking place from a tablet and 36% via computer;
- TV is the dominant media device used in Canada, accounting for 31% of all time spent weekly. Computer usage ranks a close second at 30% of all time spent. Mobile or smartphone usage was third at 16.5% of all time spent;
- Netflix, DVD-Blu Ray and YouTube consumption follows the same pattern as television in their surge of evening consumption. Not surprisingly, search and app usage were most prevalent during working hours;
- On an average day, social media is used by 35-39% of the population, with the oldest segments of the population being the less likely to use social media and the youngest the most likely;
- Social media is consumed similarly in locations and with accompanying media in French and English Canada. TV is more commonly used in English Canada, while newspaper has a higher daily usage with social media in French Canada;
- Almost half of mobile usage occurs primarily in the home, with work, stores and food service locations being the next primary locations for mobile usage in that order.
TouchPoints, which has the ability to survey emotional state as well as media consumption behaviour, found that overwhelmingly Canadians feel contented or happy throughout the day when consuming media. French Canada reported emotional contentment through 55.7% of its media time, compared to 48.5% of English Canada and just 44.5% of those in the United States.
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Introduction: Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become the gold standard for
treatment of symptomatic gallstones. However, in the early days, acute cholecystitis was
a contraindication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The aim of this study was to
compare the intra-operative and postoperative outcomes of early versus delayed
laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis.
Materials and Methods: A randomized clinical study was conducted by the Department
of General Surgery, Narayan Medial College & Hospital, Jamuhar, Bihar from May
2020 to February 2021. A total of 100 patients whose physical, laboratory, and
ultrasound findings suggested acute cholecystitis, and who were operated on by
laparoscopy, was included in the study. Acute cholecystitis diagnosis was based on a
combination of clinical and radiologic criteria. . Each patient gave written informed
consent before participation in the study. Approval for this study was obtained from the
Institutional Ethics Committee. The statistical analyses were performed using
commercially available software (Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16.0,
SPSS Inc, Chicago, Illinois).
Results: The study groups, which underwent early or delayed laparoscopic
cholecystectomy, had 50 patients each. Both groups revealed similar findings on
physical examination: all patients had tenderness and defense in the abdominal area.
On ultrasonography, calculi in the gallbladder were detected in all of the patients, and
thickness of the anterior gallbladder wall was increased in majority of the patients of
both the groups. There was no significant difference between the early and the delayed
laparoscopic cholecystectomy groups in terms of operation time and rates for
conversion to open cholecystectomy.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California is following the advice of the FDA and the CDC to stop administering the single-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Of 6.8 million patients who received the shot, six women developed a rare blood clot disorder.
Many women who recently received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are now worried about their health.
"A little concerned just because blood clots are really concerning especially as a woman," said 28-year-old Los Angeles resident, Ariana Woods.
She just got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine six days ago.
RELATED: California orders pause of Johnson & Johnson vaccine on US recommendation
"You hear all these medical advisors saying it's safe, take whatever one you can, and then having news come out of nowhere is a little concerning," said Woods.
Federal health agencies paused the J&J vaccine Tuesday after six women, aged 18 to 48, developed a rare blood clot disorder six to 13 days after receiving the shot. One patient died.
"I feel like if I were going to have any negative effects, I would have had them already," said 33-year-old Oakland resident, Samantha Floyd, who got the J&J vaccine almost a month ago with her parents and two sisters.
The FDA says most reactions happen within the first three weeks.
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"I know six people had these adverse reactions, but I personally am feeling fine, my family is feeling fine. I'm not worried about me, my health right now," said Floyd.
"It's really younger women that seem to be at highest risk and there are other risks in that age group. For example, that's when autoimmune diseases start to appear, that's when birth control pills are being used, so there may be other factors involved," said Stanford's Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, who is a liaison for the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
The ACIP is holding an emergency meeting Wednesday to go over the J&J data.
"We need to be very open and transparent about the investigation, and make sure there's no specific link to the vaccine," said Maldonado.
RELATED: AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson: Breaking down the differences between coronavirus vaccines
Dr. Maldonado says there are several possible outcomes from the ACIP meeting.
"Tomorrow the ACIP will decide whether or not to continue to use the Johnson and Johnson vaccine for everybody, or to continue to use the Johnson and Johnson vaccine for certain people that is excluding people who might be at high risk, or whether they think the vaccine should not be used at all," said Maldonado.
"Clearly the benefits far outweigh the risk. We're talking about a one out of a million chance of getting a rare side effect," said Dr. Philip Grant, who was the principal investigator for Stanford's phase three Johnson & Johnson trial.
None of his volunteers had an adverse reaction. But he says taking a few days to pause and investigate shows the monitoring system is working.
"The number one priority is to have is to have the public having confidence in the process," said Grant.
For Woods, she's more grateful than concerned that she got the vaccine. "Chances are low, hopefully people stay safe and then it can be rolled out again soon," he said.
The AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has not been FDA authorized in the United States. AstraZeneca rollout has been paused in many countries around the world after clotting issues were discovered in vaccine recipients.
Dr. Grant points out that according to European data one in 200,000 people who received the AZ vaccine, later had a clotting disorder. Whereas U.S. data shows that one in a million people who received the J&J vaccine ended up had a clotting disorder.
RELATED: Canada pauses AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for people under 55
"People have speculated that maybe the immune response to the vaccine makes a platelet slightly more sticky," said Dr. Grant, who does not believe the problem is with the AstraZeneca and J&J platforms, which are similar. "Because your body's reacting to the spike protein. So it just may be the part of the spike protein that's being targeted in these different vaccines that may lead to slightly different clotting risks. But it's also true that getting Coronavirus increases your risk of clotting substantially."
And while the clotting disorder is rare, the FDA says people who recently received the J&J vaccine can look out for severe headaches, abdominal pain, leg pain and/or shortness of breath. Doctors say to seek medical treatment if you have any of those symptoms and that's it's important to tell your provider that you were recently vaccinated, because that changes the treatment options.
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Frank A. Miller
Frank A. Miller, president of the Marine Beneficial Association No. 1, for 1896, is a son of Joseph Miller, who is by trade a coppersmith and tinsmith, and his wife, Melvina (Cook) Miller, a native of Germany. The father, though of German descent, is a native of Buffalo, where he has lived all his life; for twelve years he was an engineer in the employ of the Western Transit Company. He now resides at No. 558 Fourth street.
Frank A. Miller was born April 17, 1858, and received his education in the Public School No. 1 of Buffalo, leaving school when about fourteen years of age. He learned his trade at Pratt's Rolling Mill, and started sailing in 1877 as oiler on the steamer Potomac. After two seasons in that service he was oiler on the Vanderbilt for half a season, during 1879, and then became her second engineer, so continuing on her to the close of the season of 1883. For the seasons of 1884-85-86-87 he was chief engineer of the same vessel, and in the spring of 1888 he was made chief of the propeller Chicago, which position he held steadily until the close of the season of 1896. For the season of 1897 and until August 1, 1898, was engineer of the Boston, when he was then transferred to the position of chief engineer of the Harlem, thus being engaged during his entire experience on the water in the employ of the Western Transit Company. Mr. Miller was a charter member of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association No. 1, was elected president thereof in December, 1895, and re-elected in December, 1896. He has been a member of the Parish Lodge No. 292, F. & A. M., for nine years, of Buffalo Chapter No. 71, R. A. M., three years, of the Royal Templars, fourteen years, and was a charter member of the Keystone Lodge No. 50, Stationary Engineers.
On December 25, 1883, Mr. Miller was married at Buffalo, to Elizabeth C. Blair, and they have one daughter, Margaret, born May 6, 1886. He resides at 220 Maryland street, Buffalo, New York.
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10 Ways Siri Should Become A Better Assistant In 2019, Artificial intelligence and machine learning now touch our lives in more ways than we can possibly imagine, but if there's one particularly tangible, a ubiquitous example of these technologies, it's the digital assistant that lives in your smartphone, smart speakers, tablet, and computer. Whether you say "Hey Google," "Hey Siri," or "Alexa," you're conjuring up an advanced collection of AI and ML tools designed to listen to you, understand you, and do things you ask.
None of these digital assistants is perfect, and even after years of interaction with people, they all have some non-trivial issues to address this year. This week, three VentureBeat writers are spotlighting 10 important issues with the digital assistant they use most. On Wednesday, we focused on Google's Assistant, with Siri following today and Amazon's Alexa tomorrow. We hope you enjoy all three articles.
Apple's digital assistant Siri had a rough 2018 across almost every possible metric. It was the signature but weakest feature of the HomePod smart speaker, suffered through internal Apple leadership shuffles and exits, and became even more unreliable at performing some of its most basic features. When Apple said it was hiring someone to help executives understand Siri's problems so the issues could be fixed, my initial thoughts were "Only now? Seriously?" and "Thank god!"
Superficially, Siri is such a train wreck right now that I could write this entire article with one sentence: Throw it out and completely replace it with something else. It doesn't live up to Apple's it "just works" standards of performance, and if it was a brand new product on the cusp of being announced, it would clearly call for more time in the oven.
But Apple's not going to shut Siri down and swap it with something else. Siri's an actively used service that's tied into virtually all of Apple's operating systems and devices. Instead, the assistant's going to be patched, repaired, and augmented until it works better — a process that already began last year with Siri Shortcuts and that will no doubt continue with additional tweaks this year.
Here's my list of 10 ways Apple should improve Siri this year, even if I'm not holding my breath for any of them to happen.
1. 99% response accuracy
Last July, Loup Ventures published a "digital assistant IQ test," claiming — through seemingly rigorous testing — that Siri on a smartphone understood user inquiries 99% of the time and correctly answered them 78.5% of the time. That was below Google Assistant (85.5% correct answers), but better than Amazon's Alexa (61.4%) and Microsoft's Cortana (52.4%). The numbers were similar in a December test of Siri on HomePod: 99.6% understanding and 74.6% correct answers.
Even if Loup's numbers were generally accurate across real-world Siri usage, the assistant would provide incorrect answers one-fourth of the time. That's terrible in a world that typically expects Apple (and most non-Apple) devices to work all of the time. After over eight years of development, if Siri understands something, it should be able to answer at least partially, if not fully, and correctly. Counting partial answers as correct, a 99% correct response rate — one incorrect answer in 100 responses — should be achievable.
In my experience, Siri has actually gone in the opposite direction over the past year. Common queries it used to be able to handle are now frequently returning hugely incorrect results, which makes using the "digital assistant" pointless. Take one look at Reddit's SiriFail discussion group and you'll know why this is the biggest area Apple needs to address, and right away.
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Generational analysis, when done poorly, is half-a-notch above astrology: All the people born at this time are like this!
Of course there's plenty of good generational research and analysis by demographers and other social scientists. However, most people don't delve into that stuff. Most people simply absorb generational analysis from popular culture. That's unfortunate, because you can often get more penetrating insights from a Chinese restaurant paper place mat.
Worse yet, a lot of pop culture generational analysis is passively racist and classist. You know who we're really talking about when we say "Baby Boomers," right? It's hardly every American born between 1946-1964. Black people? Latinos? Most immigrants? The deeply impoverished? Pushaw. For the most part, we're just talking about the white MCAU (middle class and up), and whoever can pass through their circles. And we're not even talking about them smartly. By and large, we just rehash dumb stereotypes. This generation sacrificed. That generation navel gazed. Bla bla bla.
For example, when I Googled "Baby Boomers are," the auto complete came up:
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When I Googled "Millennials are," the auto complete came up:
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Indeed, pop culture generational analysis is often so shallow, haphazard, and/or commercialized, that it typically only blathers about every other generation. There's an accordion discourse, which fixates on alternating generations (Greatest, Boomers, Millennials) while largely ignoring the generations between them (Silent, X, Z). As a result, Baby Boomers dominated popular discourse for a long time.
However, Baby Boomers have recently been knocked off their demographic perch. There are now more Millennials than boomers in the U.S. population, and these relative youngens are increasingly the subject of America's generational fascination. As such, they catch a lot of flak, much of it head smackingly stupid. I recently came across a stunning example of this vapid chatter while drinking a blueberry beer in a Lake Placid tavern.
Yes, that Lake Placid, two-time Winter Olympic town and scene of the 1980 Miracle on Ice. And yes, blueberry beer. It was actually quite good, thank you very much, Judgy McJudgerson.
As I sat at the bar sipping and waiting for my lunch companions, ESPN played on the TV with subtitles and no sound. I haven't had cable since 2003, so ESPN, even on mute, is kind of novel to me.
The show's topic was American professional sports leagues' struggle to attract Millennial viewers. The NFL, NHL, NBA, and Major League Baseball are apparently all pulling their hair trying to figure out how to lure younger fans.
Turns out the average baseball fan is 55 years old.
Fifty-five? Shit, that's not even Generation X. That's straight up Boom. Clearly not a signpost of long term fiscal health. What's a business to do?
A caption on the screen noted that some of the leagues are experimenting with making free WiFi available within the stadiums so that . . . wait for it . . . they could appeal to Millennials' short attention spans.
First off, maybe try not insulting the potential customers you're aiming to entice. Seriously. No wonder your business is nose diving.
But beyond that, really? Millennials aren't going to sporting events because they have short attentions spans?
Well guess what? They're not going to McDonald's either, and I'm pretty sure nobody slings a burger and fries faster than a goddamned McDonald's.
I don't know. Could it possibly be that sports leagues and fast food chains are losing Millennial customers for the exact same reason: they're both serving up a shitty product?
Maybe a lot of Millennials don't like burgers that taste like sawdust, and maybe they also don't like watching games that take over three hours, are chock full of commercials and time outs, and frequently showcase players just standing around. Maybe personality defects are not the reason why Millennials show less interest in American spectator sports than Gen Xers and Boomers. Maybe it's just because the games are mediocre entertainment products, and here in the 21st century there are a whole lotta better ways to spend one's time.
Could it simply be that most Millennials are more discerning consumers than most members of prior generations, at least in some regards? Could it be that they've come of age during an era of unparalleled consumer choice? That they've had the chance to decide between more than just Coke and Pepsi, Bud and Miller, Camel and Marlborough, Mickey Dee and the BK Lounge, between 3 car companies, 3 TV networks, and 3 brands of jeans?
Millennials, it seems, have more discriminating palates than prior generations. But oddly enough, instead of getting a pat on the back, they actually get blamed for not buying all kinds of garbage. So much so, that a fairly silly Harvard study concluded that Millennials hate capitalism.
Honestly, I honestly can't imagine anything sillier. And of course it almost goes without saying that the poll was highly flawed. For example, it didn't bother to define "capitalism" or "socialism" for a pool of respondents who grew up after the Cold War. Respondents also included younger people who are actually Generation Z, not Millennials.
But shortcomings be damned, we have a headline!
News coverage of the flawed Harvard poll was quick to point fingers. How dare they not buy enough stuff!
[Insert head slapping sound here]
Did anyone stop to note that Millennials are carrying more debt than any generation before them? Because that fact alone emphatically refutes the hair brained notion that they're not buying stuff. They're just buying different stuff. And that's what seems to really upset some critics, who in turn then blame Millennials for sticking the shiv of parsimony into a host of sacred 20th century cows.
The popular culture's instinct to blame Millennials for all sorts of things is really quite amazing. One of the first five auto completes I got searching just the word "Millennials" was "are killing."
Put a space after "Millennials are killing," and your autocomplete choices are:
Tens of millions of 20- and 30-somethings spitefully refusing to eat lunch is quite the image. It made me curious about what else they might be blamed for. From the above possibilities, I went with "Millennials are killing the," added a space, and the autocomplete offered up:
Food Industry
Dinner Date
Golf Industry
Yiff Industry (Apparently, To Yiff is the verb for what furries do.)
Clearly, there's a theme. And it doesn't involve an oversized marmot suit. Society is changing, and Millennials are not as prone to purchase certain cultural products as prior generations were. Heaven forbid, they're less likely to drop gobs of cash on diamond rings, Sandals resorts, golf outings, and other things that suck or are a waste of time. The nerve of these tattooed whippersnappers!
Funny thing though, I thought that's how markets actually work.
I have spent decades listening to economists and various apologists for capitalism extol the virtues of rational actor theory and self-correcting markets that respond to consumer choice. Well, so what then if a new generation of consumers has different tastes and priorities; isn't that how it's supposed to work?
As a tweet I recently saw, quipped: I love it when capitalists blame capitalism for the decline of capitalism.
Witty jests aside, it's just lazy, dumb, and ludicrous to suggest that Millennial consumer choices are killing capitalism (as if anyone's ever figured out how to do that), or to bemoan and moralize about their consumer choices, especially in areas as subjective and unimportant as entertainment or Do you want fries with that.
After all, it's not like Millennials are hoarding cash as part of their evil Spectre scheme to undermine the global market economy. As none other than Goldman-Sachs has pointed out, they actually spend plenty. So why all the pop culture condemnations?
I have no children, so my own interactions with Millennials are quite narrow. First and foremost, I have taught them at state universities in Nebraska, Arizona, and Maryland. I began in 1999, just as Millennials were finding their way to college campuses.
The Millennial generation is often cited as beginning in 1980, but there's no clear, agreed upon endpoint for their births (it's somewhere between 1995-2000). Either way, the youngest Millennials are just now, or shortly will be moving past traditional college age. In the near future, my classrooms will be dominated by their successors: Generation Z, one of those in between demographies that don't get talked about much.
During my nearly two decades of college teaching, I have taught mostly (but not exclusively) Millennials. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Generation Xers and Baby Boomers trying to grasp the nature of this cresting wave have often asked me if and how Millennial students are different from prior generations. After all, parents of Millennials know their own children intimately, and have some familiarity with their kids' friends, but that's a very small, insular sample size. I don't know many of them intimately, but I have taught thousands of them.
In that capacity, I have noticed some differences between Millennials and prior generations, although none of them nearly so profound as the divisions I typically see springing from ethnicity, immigration, economic class, gender, and geography.
In general, compared to the late Gen Xers I taught, as well as the Gen Xers and Baby Boomers I went to school with for many years, I have found Millennials to be both, a little better and a little worse as students. On the positive side, they tend to be less rigid, judgmental, and presumptuous, more intellectually open and flexible. They are not fixated on labels and dichotomies. They are not so obsessed, as is my generation and especially the Boomers, with the idea that there's always a right and a wrong. Without any real memories of the Cold War (many of them were actually born after it ended), they are less dogmatic, less reactionary, and less prone to jam round pegs into square holes. They seem to be more post-modern in that way, accepting people and situations as they are and on their own terms instead of instinctively and immediately seeking to categorize everything.
A lot of good comes out of that. In my experience, Millennials as a group are less racist and sexist than prior generations, and less homophobic by multiple degrees. They also seem to have more finely attuned Bull Shit Detectors. They seem less impervious to advertising, less prone to blind loyalty, and leerier of hucksters. Only about a third of them voted for Donald Trump.
At the same time, however, I have found Millennials to be a bit lacking in initiative, which is not to be confused with motivation or desire. They're not jaded slackers. Supposedly that's my generation. Rather, as a group they seem to need or desire more instruction, direction, and guidance.
Put plainly, more of them struggle when I give basic instructions like: "Go write a paper on such-and-such topic" or "Study for an essay exam on these lectures and readings." They have wanted more details and more assurance that they were doing things properly.
I hesitate to say Millennials have required more hand-holding to get things done, because that implies a psychological or emotional fragility, which is not the case. Rather, it's simply that for whatever reason, a higher rate of them seemed either to not know how, or were reticent, to do for themselves at times. They didn't need to be pushed so much as they needed to have the path laid out for them before they began the journey. I suspect that they often knew what I meant but didn't trust themselves to just go do it on their own, and worried about being on the right track.
The common explanation for this is their supposedly sheltered, over scheduled suburban upbringing of play dates and helicopter parents. Maybe that's facile; maybe there's something to it. Either way, in the context of education, we might also be seeing the effects of a greater emphasis on high pressure standardized testing.
One odd (for my generation) outgrowth of this is that many of them actually want more exams, papers, and so forth, not fewer. They want to be pointed in the right direction, and then get more opportunities to prove they are performing well. Instead of just the two big exams and and a term paper that many middle aged people might remember their college courses revolving around, Millenials often wanted more assignments with less pressure riding on each of them.
But of course these observations certainly doesn't apply to all of Millennials in my experience, or even a majority. It's merely a larger percentage than what I experienced with older generations.
There's no need to stereotype. Plenty of Millennials I encountered did have initiative and/or were happy to have just a few, big assignments. And, sadly, a third of them really did get conned into voting for Trump. Although even 40% of those who did have quickly come around and figured out that Trump's little more than a silly little con man.
Perhaps the simplest and truest lesson is that trying to generalize about Millennials, or any other bloc of 77 million people, is probably worse than fruitless. Inevitably, the strokes become so broad that they can no longer paint a representational picture, and instead merely serve to obscure. Which is why my own perceptions, based on passing interactions with several thousand Millennials, mostly white, middle class suburbanites, are actually worth little.
However, whatever useful insights I did gain from those experiences have left me very suspicious of the stereotypical critiques that often get dumped on Millennials. Because if we're going to go down that path, then a lot of it just sounds like Boomers complaining about no longer being the center of attention, and Xers being snide.
Yes, as a group, Millennials have probably dedicated too much of their time and effort to texting, Pokemon, and irony. And I shudder every time one of them very unironically uses the word "literally" as its own antonym. But overall, I'm glad they're present and at the vanguard, and so far as I can tell, American society will be in better shape when they're running the show.
Did I mention about half of my generation voted for Trump? And don't get me started on the Boomers.
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An empty amusement park has a certain type of creepiness that one couldn't explain.
It was the type he liked. No one would describe him as creepy. Then again, no one would describe him as the type of person who liked amusement parks. Because he didn't. At least, he didn't like it when people were there. He liked it when it was empty and there was no one else there to get in his way. It meant he could enjoy the rides. It meant he could take his time.
Of course, there had to be one other person there. "This is only because I promised. As far as anyone else is concerned, I'm just doing checks on the rides."
He nodded. He wasn't going to get her in trouble. That wouldn't be nice. Thank you, he signed.
It took her a moment. She was still learning. He repeated the motions, though she looked away halfway through. "Yeah, yeah. Go. Go where you want. I'll make sure the ride's going."
He gave her a thumbs up. She snorted. Then he ran off to enjoy the creepiness of the empty park.


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(CN) – Thousands of legislative fruits of labor born from bargaining and negotiating between lawmakers and lobbyists go into effect across the nation Jan. 1. As usual, significant new 2018 laws addressing topics such as recreational marijuana, immigration and election reform are matched by odd and perhaps trivial bills.
In 2018, the Golden State officially goes green. California voters approved Proposition 64, allowing adults over 21 to buy up to an ounce of recreational pot from permitted, legal retailers. Officials predict a regulated weed industry will pad the state's coffers and reduce drug arrests. While many cities and counties have banned or are still mulling guidelines for local sales, retailers in cities such as Oakland, San Diego and San Jose will be open in January. California regulators are still considering how to provide banking services for cash-heavy cannabis businesses that will be shunned by most banks.
Nevada and Massachusetts also approved recreational marijuana, while Maine Gov. Paul LePage vetoed a legalization measure that was narrowly passed by voters.
With the future of a federal program that protects nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation in limbo, California lawmakers passed a series of new immigration laws in 2017. Senate Bill 54, known as the sanctuary state bill, was enacted to counter Trump's controversial immigration orders. The legislation – called a "threat to public safety" by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions – limits local and state law enforcement agencies' cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Separate legislation prevents landlords from outing or reporting undocumented renters, prohibits employers from cooperating with immigration raids without a warrant and creates safe zones near schools, courts and hospitals.
California will shine light on who is paying for political advertisements in 2018 under Assembly Bill 249. Digital content will include the text "Who funded this ad?" and will link to a website disclosing the true donors. California is also piloting a program that will eliminate local polling places in five counties and instead send ballots to registered voters through the mail. Voters will be able to drop off their ballots at designated locations up to four weeks before election day.
Texas is moving forward with a new voter ID law that critics claim is likely to disenfranchise many minority voters. Senate Bill 5 requires voters to show a government-issued photo ID or sign an affidavit citing a "reasonable impediment" as to why they could not get an ID in time to vote. A federal judge struck down the law in August but the order was later stayed by the Fifth Circuit. Oral arguments were heard in December and the Trump administration supports the updated voter ID bill.
Low-wage earners in populous states like New York and California will see raises in 2018. The statewide minimum wage in areas outside of New York City will increase to $10.40 per hour, while California businesses with over 26 employees will begin paying their workers $11 per hour.
Most Empire State workers will also qualify for eight weeks of paid family leave. The law, which will increase to 12 weeks of leave by 2021, makes employees eligible to receive 50 percent of their average weekly leave while caring for sick relatives or a newborn.
Beginning in 2018, California employers will not be able ask applicants how much they made at prior jobs and small businesses will also have to guarantee up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to employees.
Also Ahead for Californians in 2018
In a move applauded by the LGBTQ community, California will join Oregon as the only states to allow residents to be identified by a nonbinary gender marker on their driver's license and becomes the first to allow a third option on birth certificates. The measure also changes state law to allow people to apply for gender changes without providing judges with proof of undergoing gender transition treatment.
Californians may now cross the street in a crosswalk with a flashing red hand signal without fear of a jaywalking ticket under Assembly Bill 390.
Drivers will see a new $25 to $175 fee on their vehicle registrations depending on the value of their vehicle. The fee was included in a contentious $5.2 billion transportation tax increase approved by the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown in April. Opponents are circulating a petition to repeal the so-called gas tax via statewide vote.
Uber and Lyft drivers must observe the same heightened standards on drunken driving as other commercial drivers, and will be subjected to a blood alcohol limit of .04 percent.
The nation's most populous state will adopt an official dinosaur in 2018. Brown approved a bill naming Augustynolophus morrisi, an herbivore whose remains have only found in California, as the state dinosaur. Lawmakers also declared the walnut, almond, pistachio and pecan as official state nuts.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Fresh New Voice of YA- Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
"If you had to choose between Heaven and Hell, which would it be?
Are you sure about that...?
Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a wicked streak. She's spent years keeping everyone at a distance--even her closest friends--and it seems her senior year will be more of the same...until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can't seem to stay away from him. What she doesn't know is that Luc works in Acquisitions--for Hell--and she possesses a unique skill set that has the king of Hell tingling with anticipation. All Luc has to do is get her to sin, and he's as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn't stand a chance.
Unfortunately for Luc, Heaven has other plans, and the angel, Gabe, is going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Luc doesn't get what he came for. And it isn't long before they find themselves fighting for more than just her soul.
But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay...for all of them."- summary from Amazon
First off, isn't the cover just amazing? All covers should have hot guys on them. WE NEED MORE HOT GUYS! PREFERABLY SHIRTLESS!
Ahem. Anyway, moving on, I really liked this book. It stumbled a bit for me in the beginning and I actually wasn't sure if I would even continue it. This rarely happens to me (in fact, I've only done it with one other book this year), but I soldiered on and it got much better.
I'm always a fan of multiple perspectives and this one is no exception. I was a bit surprised to see no POV from Gabe, the angel, but if you read my interview with Lisa Desrochers from Monday, you'll see why that is. I did enjoy seeing the story from both Frannie and Luc's perspectives and the story definitely warranted it. It was executed very well and switched at just the right moments.
The romance is of course very steamy but was also pretty sweet too. I would love to have two hot guys fight over me, but I wouldn't want to be in Frannie's EXACT position because it was very dangerous. I'll just take the two guys, thanks. But it was fun seeing the different interactions between Frannie and the two guys. Desrochers did a really great job with that.
I went through the book pretty quickly once I got past that beginning; it was hard to put the book down. The ending for me was very unexpected and took some twists that I didn't see coming. I was wondering all throughout the book how the story would keep going. This book is by no means short, clocking in at 350 pages, so how could the story continue past this? Well, she made it work and I'm excited to read the next book.
FTC: Received from Around the World tours. Link above is an Amazon link; any profit goes toward funding contests.
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Great review :) I cannot wait to read this book! (I also like you opinion on the guys on the cover )ReplyDelete
Thanks for the review! I will definitely be on the lookout for this book - sounds interesting, and who doesn't love a good love triangle!ReplyDelete
New follower here... very interested in more paranormal reads, and seeing as how you're willing to shapeshift for reads... I think this might be a good place to come :)ReplyDelete
I fully agree with your cover request for more hot guys (preferably shirtless). :) Glad to hear that you liked Personal Demons and that it has some great twists and an ending that you didn't see coming. Sounds like a fun book!ReplyDelete
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Effect And Ethos Of Music In Greek And Roman Authors
American Abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline was born on May 23rd 1910 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. A photographic series by Parisian photo journalist Aida Tawil documenting the color of Mozambique with its colonial history and current laid-back pace. As a photojournalist, Ms. Tawil travels to distant places, speaks the local languages, and documents daily challenges. Presented are three series of images: Crossing the Zambezi, Pangane, and Ilha de Moçambique. The focus of the first series is the Zambezi River, which runs 3,540 Km and empties into the Indian Ocean. The second series documents the fishermen village of Pangane, a remote village at the Northern edge of the country on the Indian Ocean. Ilha de Moçambique, the old capital, is the subject of the third series of photographs. Global DanceFest JourneysAFRICA is proud to host the first U.S. exhibit by Aida Tawil, a visual journey complimenting the dance performers from Maputo, Mozambique, at North Fourth Art Center. Women Take the Floor seeks to acknowledge and remedy the systemic gender discrimination found in museums, galleries, the academy and the marketplace, including the MFA's inconsistent history in supporting women artists. The exhibition also explores art and suffrage—emphasizing that both could give women a voice in their community and the world. At the same time, it recognizes that past feminist movements, including the campaign for the right to vote, were not inclusive or immune from systemic racism. By looking at 20th-century American art through the lens of modern-day feminism—which advocates for equity and intersectionality (the way an individual's race, class, gender and other identities combine and overlap)—MFA curators hope to broaden the stories that are told during the yearlong commemoration of women's suffrage in 2020. Theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses , to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture , speech , song, music , and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality , presence and immediacy of the experience. Nguyen, T.N., Nilsson, S., Hellstrom, A.L., & Bengtson, A. (2010). Music therapy to reduce pain and anxiety in children with cancer undergoing lumbar puncture: A randomized clinical trial. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 27(3), 146-155. Gimeno, M. (2010). The effect of music and imagery to induce relaxation and reduce nausea and emesis in patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy treatment. Music and Medicine, 2(3), 174-181.
Results: While the sample size is small and generalizations of quantitative results are premature, patient participants in the educational music therapy condition tended to have lower mean stress scores and higher satisifaction with life scores. Caregiver participants in the educational music therapy condition tended to have lower mean stress scores and higher satisfaction with life and perceptions of helpfulness. Emerging themes from qualitative analysis of therapist treatment notes included: 1) complexity of treatment; 2) action-oriented future dialogue; 3) structure; 4) treatment eagerness; 5) problem-solving techniques; 6) flexibility, and 7) enjoyment and appreciation. Alan King creates images which are visually compelling and which form a bond with the viewer. Many of the images and titles used for Alan's paintings have their source in literature and poetry. Many of his contemporary paintings start with a title which may have been taken from Dante or Sorley Maclean a Scottish poet. This leads to ideas which are developed with life models and a miniature theatre which Alan King builds. The mannequins and backgrounds in King's paintings are positioned and photographed with different lighting effects. Gladding, S. (2008). The lyrics of hurting and healing: Finding words that are revealing. Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 3(3), 212-219. Derrington, P. (2012). 'Yeah I'll Do Music!' Working with Secondary-aged Students Who Have Complex Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties. In J. Tomlinson, P. Derrington & A. Oldfield (Eds.), Music Therapy in Schools: Working with Children of All Ages in Mainstream and Special Education (pp. 195-211). London: Jessica Kingsley. I believe the methods the Fossatis used in the restoration doomed the very mosaics they thought they were saving. After exposing and recording them they hastily recovered the mosaics with plaster and then painted a heavy thick layer of oil paint on top of it. This layer of oil paint sealed the moisture in behind, it could not breathe. Soon the paint layer began to peel everywhere, all over Hagia Sophia. The back-up of moisture detached the layers of Byzantine plaster and mosaic from the brick walls; when the earthquake of 1894 hit, this must have all come down. Perhaps the damage of 1894 caused the mosque authorities to scrape anything that looked like it couldn't be saved. All of the mosaics in the vaults of the South Gallery were lost. They simply vanished. Was it laziness? Was it was easier just to pull them down rather than save them? Was there some salvage value in the glass? Recent exploration in the dome has shown the extensive restoration of mosaic there after 1894. Discovering the fate of them won't bring these lost mosaics back, but it would help us repeat a mistake like this in the future.
J. Millard Tawes Fine Arts Center, University of Maryland Art Department and Art Gallery, College Park. The Drawings of Arshile Gorky. 20 March – 27 April 1969. Catalogue with texts by Brooks Joyner, George Levitine, and William H. Gerdts. Baker, F., & Roth, E. (2004). Neuroplasticity and functional recovery: Training models and compensatory strategies in music therapy. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 13(1), 20-32. Rosenblum, Robert. Between Apocalypses: Art After 1945." A Century of Modern Sculpture – The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection. Exh. cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; and Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1987: 99-132. Birrell lectured in art, design and photography from 1985 – 1998. Since then George has taken part in regular joint and group art exhibitions at many Scottish galleries particularly: Edinburgh Art Galleries , Glasgow Art Galleries , and Fife Art Galleries He has also exhibited his art abroad. Thornley, J., Hirjee, H., & Vasudev, A. (2016). Music therapy in patients with dementia and behavioral disturbance on an inpatient psychiatry unit: Results from a pilot randomized controlled study. International Psychogeriatrics, 28(5), 869-871. Stewart, K. (2009). PATTERNS – A model for evaluating trauma in NICU music therapy: Part 1-Theory and design. Music and Medicine, 1(1), 29-40. Gallagher, L.M., Huston, M.J., Nelson, K.A., Walsh, D., & Steele, A.L. (2001). Music therapy in palliative medicine. Supportive Care in Cancer, 9, 156-161. Munro, S., & Mount, B. (1978). Music therapy in palliative care. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 119(9), 1029-1034. Spaulding, Karen Lee, ed. 125 Masterpieces from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Entry Hans Hofmann" by Ethel Moore and Robert Evren, p. 184. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987. Piet Mondrian had adopted 'Neo-Plasticism' or also called 'The Style' (Dutch: De Stijl), where a harmony was achieved among the geometric shapes an artist laid down on a canvas. In this form of painting, Mondrian always tried to stick to the bare minimum to portray his viewpoint with the means of only few primary colors, such as red, blue, yellow, black and white. He would draw only straight vertical brushstrokes and focused on the infinite spaces lying between two parallel lines. Among the many masterpieces that Mondrian created, his final completed painting titled "Broadway Boogie Woogie" fetched him much adulation and fame, landing him at the pinnacle of success. Fig. 5b. Angel (left), detail of apse painting in east wall of Room 6, Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit, 6th-7th century, wall painting. Coptic Museum, Cairo, inv. 7118. Artwork in the public domain; photograph © Heather Badamo, by permission of the American Research Center in Egypt.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott. 100 Works by Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Museum. Introduction by Thomas M. Messer. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Music is a Foreign Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German or French; and the notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. Music is the most complete and universal language Music education also does major work on the language-processing parts of our brains. To learn to read, children need to have " good working memory , the ability to disambiguate speech sounds and make quick sound-to-meaning connection. Heath, B., & Lings, J. (2012). Creative songwriting in therapy at the end of life and in bereavement. Mortality, 17(2), 106-118. At first, I could barely hear myself play. But after a few minutes, the sound of singing began to rise above the noise, then dominate it. As I watched, even the silent patients turned their gaze to me. It was too remarkable a change to assign only to the allure of an old familiar song. People who had seemed unable to focus became attentive. Residents whom I knew to have limited cognitive skills had recognized the melody; their voices found the right words. Some with seemingly uncontrollable repetitive movements now kept steady time with their hands and feet. Bowers, T.A., & Wetsel, M.A. (2014). Utilization of music therapy in palliative and hospice care: An integrative review. Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 16(4), 231-239. Tuchman, Maurice, Susan C. Larsen et al. Los Angeles Painting in the Sixties: A Tradition in Transition." Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981: 21,138, 143, 158. Another famous ancient Chinese horse painter was the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty scholar, calligrapher, painter, and rightful Song prince Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322). His paintings of horses were very colorful and striking, and depicted the horse in its natural environment with the person or people who rode it. Zhao's paintings were beloved by both the ordinary Chinese citizens and the Mongol elite who ruled over China during the time. Heiderscheit, A. (2015). Forever Loss: Processing Unresolved Childhood Traumatic Grief and Loss Through the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music. In S. L. Brooke & D. A. Miraglia (Eds.), Using the Creative Therapies to Cope with Grief and Loss (pp. 157): Charles C Thomas Publisher. Participants were defined as young," if their mean age was below or equal to 30 years (≤30). Young individuals did show minimal better (i.e., higher) depression score improvements (DSI) (mean difference between the pre-test and post-test results was calculated in percent), if they attended group (mean DSIGr = 53.83{665e5bb4999eb4b63bc5cf86855959e213eef9597fcb7384ae9a16de7fc2db97}) 9 , rather than individual (DSIInd = 40.47{665e5bb4999eb4b63bc5cf86855959e213eef9597fcb7384ae9a16de7fc2db97}) music intervention sessions. These results may be due to the beneficial consequences of social interactions within groups, and thus confirm previous study results ( Garber et al., 2009 ; Tartakovsky, 2015 ).


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On Saturday, after a relaxing morning of taking her ACT exam, Molly will head over to St. Thomas More Church to be confirmed.
She celebrated this Catholic rite of passage by firing off a letter to our pope, encouraging him to consider a more active promotion of gender equity within the global, Catholic community.
I asked her to hold off on mailing the missive until after Saturday as it might prove unseemly to be excommunicated before being officially confirmed, though we're both encouraged by Pope Francis' mission to build a more inclusive church.
For her confirmation name, Molly chose Judith, a Biblical heroine who dramatically saved her people and lived to be 105. Treat yourself to the book of Judith sometime; it's a real page turner.
For her confirmation sponsor, Molly chose her Uncle Steve, with whom she shares a dry wit, a keen intellect, and an admiration for Jane Austen. Neither suffers fools gladly, and both appreciate an earnest debate. In her uncle, Molly found a kindred spirit, a phrase she picked up several years ago after a summer spent reading the entire Anne of Green Gables series, thanks to Steve's challenge to do so.
Steve taught Molly to put her faith in context, which has been enormously helpful as she wrestles with age-old religious tenets in a rapidly changing world.
Molly's grade school teacher once told her class that we all live in the same church, we just look out through different windows. We both love that image, and our pope seems to agree.
"This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas," he said. "The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good."
Guided by an able mentor, inspired by a kick ass saint, and encouraged by a humble pope, Molly can step confidently through the crisscrossed roads of her life, and enjoy a steady expansion of the circle of her ideas.


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August bank holiday weekend, day 12, no change! Anyway, it's been the first reasonably nice day since I got back from Devon. So Bob and I decided that a ride out up the coast would be a good thing to do. But first I had to find all my stuff for the bike, this wouldn't have been a problem if I hadn't hung things up in differing places to dry from the last time I wore them. The cover came off Bob and he saw sunlight for the first time in ages. some time at me dads after a bit of shopping, reminisced a floating holiday for him through photos I had been sent via the inter web. (For decency sake, I cannot show these photos as they may be incriminating for the persons involved in them)
ASDA beckoned as I had ran out of a variety of stuff, some pointless, some necessary, and one an impulse buy. Needless to say I'll not run out of sugar for a while a pot of tea and a piece of fruit loaf (I'm becoming addicted to afternoon tea…….. In the morning) sorted me out as I forgot to make breakfast! I must admit, sitting in the cafe area if our local store, you get to see the plethora of life around here. From the onsied bedecked pikey, to the gang of young kids drinking or eating good from the shop itself, then putting the empty containers amongst the shelves! I never did it meself, but if the store security ain't watching, then that's their fault!
After an age chatting to the old man, I had to go and check on me sister (she looked a bit peaky yesterday and apparently was worse for wear today) so off I rode! What a load of shit I was told!!!! She was fine, making lunch and being positively chipper, well, sort of chipperish, well to be honest she still didn't look good, so I declined the offer of food instead opting for a cup O coffee. (Without the sneeze) while there, she dragged me to her little vegetable garden to show me what her green fingers had achieved (not snotty) she took pride in her cucumbers, (which were rather nice to taste) and then offered me a yellow thing that she maintains, still is a cucumber (we will see)
Satiated with the scent of home grown produce! I made my way out of Ashington (not before being confused by a little old couple who decided not to use indicators or brakes, or any other warning to other road users (and pedestrians)) the driver decided he didn't want to use the road to his left, he just rode up the curb ignoring the two women walking along, and parked on the grass!!!! I duly gave him my regards, with an extended index finger then did one along the spine road to Whitley bay. Passing by many open top cars and motorbikes (still the nod to each other) it really was a day f fun. Tourists were out in force, couples in love, families with friends, couples with dogs, old folk with chips, every person was out with someone else along the sea front. I couldn't really stop the bike and take photos (well I could have, but I didn't want to drink extortionately priced coffee). The day ended at KFC, (I was hungry) and the last thing I needed to see in the car park was a pest control van, but as the "Fully Loaded" box lured me in I wasn't to be deterred.
So now it waits for me to put this to press and hope for another beautiful day tomorrow, the camera will be out, the bike will be revved up, and the sun will be smiling (happy positive thoughts) I'm sure I'll find fairies in the woods around Creswell. If not, I know where one lives. So if you have magic in your life, use it for good, if you have light in your life, let it shine on everyone, if you have a song in your heart, sing it loud and if you have a spring in your step, you've got a thorn in your shoe X


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The heat wave that prompted my rant a few weeks ago produced some wonderful results in our garden. While we normally get our last tomato in October, it's not normally mid-month. This one still has a buddy on the vine, and our cherry tomato plant has tons of blossoms and tomatoes. The weather is confusing… Continue reading Winter Garden
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With all the enthusiasm of Steve Martin's character in The Jerk when the new phone book arrived, I did a little happy dance when I saw the Territorial Seed Catalog in my mailbox! My current work schedule makes it a rare event when I get to be the one to tend our garden. That, however,… Continue reading Gardening Nerd


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Want to find inspiration to start living healthy?
You are in the right place as we have collected the best fitness influencers in one place for you to get your daily dose of motivation.
These people have shown that anything is possible, as they have transformed and changed their lifestyle and bodies through hard work and dedication.
Here you will get to know 20 of the coolest fitness influencers worth following. I am more than sure that each of them will help you kickstart your new life and create your dream body.
Sommer Ray
If you're looking for a motivation to start working on your dream body, there's no better inspiration than Sommer Ray This amazing 24-year-old fitness influencer has built a strong community on social media, with 25.8M followers only on Instagram. She's also got a personal shop of the coolest fitness outfits.
Follow Sommer to get your workout inspiration!
Yanet Garcia
Yanet Garcia—dubbed the "World's Hottest Weather Girl"—is a Mexican TV host, actress, and fitness girl. With over 13.6 million followers on Instagram, she eagerly shares her fitness secrets with everyone. Besides, she is also a trainer at @fitplan_app. Follow her to learn everything about disciplined and effective workouts.
Michelle Lewin
Michelle Lewin is one of the biggest stars in the fitness industry. This part fitness influencer, part bodybuilder, and part bikini babe became more popular after moving to America in 2012. Having 13.4M followers on Instagram, she has her own fitness plan and helps people to shape their bodies. Want to train with her? Get started here!
Jen Selter
Jen Selter is an American Internet celebrity and fitness model, as well as a very popular fitness influencer with more than 12M followers. On her Instagram account you can find not only her workouts but also healthy recipes she shares with her followers. With Jen, your motivation to lead a healthy lifestyle is always guaranteed.
Kayla Itsines is an Australian trainer, author, and entrepreneur. In 2016, she was recognized by Times as one of the 30 most influential people on the Internet. Her well-known app— Sweat with Kayla— generated more revenue than any other fitness app in 2016. As of now she already has 11.8M followers with whom she shares content about workouts and a healthy lifestyle. Kayla also has her own website, where you can sweat with her, as well as a personal blog full of useful information about everything fitness.
Anllela Sagra
When it comes to fitness models, Anllela Sagra's Instagram page is one of the most attractive ones. With more than 12.5M followers on Instagram, she constantly exposes her shredded physique in different sexy outfits and bikinis. Follow Anllela, and she'll help you get where you desire and show the best way to accomplish your goals. The model also has her own shop and fitness transformation programs which you can find on her website.
Ulisses is another popular online fitness coach and influencer. On his social media, he shares his knowledge built up over his career, as well as workouts and pieces of training to motivate people. He has his own fitness programs for everyone—men, women, beginners, and advanced ones. With Ulisses you will definitely smash your goals.
Issa Vegas
Issa Vegas is one of the trending fashion models of Argentina. This cool fitness girl enjoys sharing her jaw-dropping pics and workouts on Instagram, where she has garnered 7.7M followers. Issa also has a website where she shares exclusive content with her community and builds a strong relationship with her fans. Follow her to get your daily motivation.
Kai Greene
Kai Greene is an American retired professional bodybuilder, personal trainer, artist, and actor. He has been ISSA certified for over 20 years. On his Instagram account, Kai shares the secrets of his workouts with his community. What's more, he has his own ebook about bodybuilding, where you can learn how to build a complete physique.
Simeon Panda is a world-renowned fitness professional. Featured on Forbes as one of the world's top ten influencers for fitness, he has helped well over a hundred thousand men and women transform their bodies. On Instagram, he shares his daily workouts, combining them with a highly positive and motivational approach. You can choose one of his many training programs that fit your goals here, and start creating your dream body with Simeon.
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Eva Andressa
Eva Andressa is a Brazilian fitness model based in Miami, USA. Eva has the biggest fitness fan page in the world, with more than 3,5 million likes. Besides, she shares her workouts, diets, and tips about fit life on her Instagram, where she has over 6M followers. You can also visit her website for different trainings to get the body you seek to have.
Lauren Drain Kagan
Lauren is a fitness model and celebrity trainer. After more than 8 years of working as a registered nurse, she decided to take control of her life, started training, and went from 135+ lbs to about 122 lb. Having transformed her own body, she now motivates people to do the same and achieve their dreams. Lauren has many fitness and meal programs for everyone. You can find the one that fits you most here.
Bella Falconi
Bella is a Brazilian fitness influencer, Instagram celebrity, and life coach. Once leading an unhealthy lifestyle, she completely transformed her body and has now turned into a big source of inspiration for fitness enthusiasts. This amazing fitness girl constantly posts fitness and nutrition videos to her 4M Instagram followers. You can find her productive workouts, healthy recipes, and other stuff on her account.
With Bella, nothing is indeed impossible.
Jeff Seid
Jeff Seid is a 27-year-old bodybuilder who has dedicated 14 years to bodybuilding. He promotes a healthy lifestyle and inspires people to build perfect aesthetic physique. Jef has more than 4M followers on Instagram and 1.3M subscribers on YouTube with whom he shares his motivational content. One of his principles is that 'getting and staying in shape requires a program tailored to your goals and lifestyle, along with support every step of the way.' You can start training with Jeff here.
Bradley Martyn
Bradley is one of the first Instagram fitness influencers. He constantly shares his training and coaching videos with his 3.7M followers on Instagram and almost 3m subscribers on YouTube. You can learn lots of useful and fun stuff from this cool guy.
Joe Wicks
Joe, also known as The Body Coach, is a British fitness coach, TV presenter, and author. The peculiarity of his training is the method—High-Intensity Interval Training workouts. Joe started off by posting 15-second recipe videos on social media and today he's a fitness influencer with 4M followers on Instagram. In fact, in March 2020 Wicks launched a live stream on YouTube, which brought him over 950K views and a Guinness World Record Award for "most viewers for a fitness workout live stream on YouTube". If you want to be part of his unique workouts and learn about healthy food recipes, you definitely need to follow him.
Massy Arias
Massy Arias is a health coach and certified personal trainer. Her approach to fitness goes beyond exercises and foods, focusing on mental health through affirmations, yoga flow, etc. She helps millions around the world to find their true self, live happily, and become a better version of themselves mentally, physically, and spiritually. You can find her programs here.
Emily Skye
Emily Sky is a personal trainer and mother of two. On her social media, she shares lots of motivational content for millions of women to inspire them on the journey to becoming strong and empowered. Emily thinks the best thing you can be is strong and happy. You can train with her here to achieve your goals with expert advice.
Whitney Simmons
Whitney Simmons is a Gymshark Athlete and a cool fitness girl. She constantly posts interesting content on her fitness journey and regime on Instagram, where she has 3.2M followers. Her content is mostly about workouts and a healthy lifestyle. Whitney thinks that life is about balance and as she mentions she still enjoys the good stuff 🙂 You can train with Whitney via her @alivebywhitney program.
Ashleigh Jordan
Ashleigh is one of the most popular fitness sensations on Instagram. On her account you can find workout techniques for each part of the body, as well as diet plans and beautiful portraits of herself. . She always wears cool fitness outfits, which you can get on her personal store here.
These were the best fitness influencers we have collected for you this time. Our list will continuously be updated as we always follow the best of the best and share the latest updates with you.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for more cool stuff from the world of fitness. And remember: Dream big, work hard and never give up on your goals.


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A. The penalties for major offenses are the following:
PROBATION for such and under such conditions as the Committee may determine. This includes automatic suspension for such time as the Committee may determine if any of the conditions of the probation is violated and the condition that the student should undergo counseling sessions by the Guidance Services Center.
SUSPENSION for such and under such conditions as the Committee may determine. Suspension is a penalty in which the school is allowed to deny or deprive an erring student of attendance in classes for a period not exceeding twenty percent (20%) of the prescribed class days for the school year or term.
There are two kinds of suspension:
1. Punitive Suspension refers to the school's prevention of a student from attending class and thus from taking examinations, quizzes and graded recitations given during the specified period. Since he is not excused from the graded work, he shall be given a failing mark for having not taken them, nor will he be given special examinations to make-up for them later, as that would grant him an advantage over his more scrupulous classmates.
2. Preventive Suspension is not a penalty but a deterrent to the disruption of normal school operations (or threat to lives and property) that may be caused by the continued presence of a student-offender on campus. A student may be immediately placed under preventive suspension during the pendency of the disciplinary proceedings against him. This must be done to maintain an atmosphere conducive to education in the school, preserve decorum in the classroom, and uphold respect for administrators and teachers. Unlike the punitive suspension, preventive suspension may be imposed without first complying with academic due process in student disciplinary cases.
EXCLUSION – Exclusion is a penalty involving the removal of an undesirable student from school rolls.
EXPULSION – Expulsion is an extreme administrative sanction debarring offending students from all public schools in the Philippines. Expulsion may be meted as a punishment for the following serious offenses:
a. gross misconduct
b. dishonesty
c. hazing
d. carrying a deadly weapon
e. immorality
f. selling and/or possession of prohibited drugs
g. drug dependency
h. drunkenness
i. hooliganism
j. vandalism
k. assaulting a pupil or student or school personnel
l. instigating or leading illegal strikes or similar concerted activities resulting in stoppage of classes
m. preventing or threatening any pupil or student or school personnel from entering the school premises or attending classes or discharging their duties
n. forging or tampering with school records or school forms, and
o. securing or using forged school records, forms and documents
(Source: Manual of Regulations for Private Schools)
B. The penalties for minor offenses are the following:
For the first offense, warning and admonition by the Dean of the College or Principal of the Department with written apology addressed to the offended party, if the act is personal in nature.
In case of the second offense, a written reprimand or stern warning from the Dean of the College or Principal of the Department. By copy, the parents or guardian shall be informed and invited to see the Dean or the Principal to discuss the record of the student.
In case of the third offense, a student is charged with a major offense. For purposes of this Implementing Rules and Regulations, the sanctions provided for in Memo No. 64, S. 2002 issued by the Office of the President on wearing of ID inside the campus is hereby adopted:
1st Offense – to be reported to the Dean/Principal who summons the student to his/her office
2nd Offense – 3 days suspension after being reported to the Dean/Principal and after due process
3rd Offense – the parent (s) and the students will be called for a conference Continuous violation may result to dismissal.
C. Other Penalties. Other penalties such as, but not limited to, cancellation of the name of the erring student from the list of graduating students, withholding of diploma, or annotation of the offense in transcript of record of said student, may be imposed, depending upon the gravity of the offense, alone or in addition to the foregoing penalties. Other penalties which the University Administration, upon careful consideration of the case, may deem necessary to achieve the purpose may also be imposed.
D. Fines. In all cases, whether major or minor offense, the payment of fine can be imposed by the University upon an erring student when damage has been done upon a material thing or person. The purpose of this is to reprove the student.


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Emily and Justin are super sizzling in this gorgeous Pittsburgh engagement shoot. Can we talk about how pretty Emily looks in her vibrant gown and heels? Of course, Justin is handsome too — one stunning couple! If you want to increase the number of people that visit your company social media one of the best marketing trends are the story marketing in Instagram and Facebook.
From green, lush parks to city backdrops, these two were picture perfect. Emily's choice of dress really added a pop of color to every location.
These two had so much love and fun together — made for a magical day of shooting engagement photos throughout Pittsburgh. Follow Andrew Defrancesco if you need tips on how to make photography your hobby.
The golden sunlight added even more beauty to these shots — from the pretty greenery to the iron and industrial textures, Pittsburgh has endless locations for wedding and engagement shoot!
Such an iconic spot! So happy with how gorgeous these shots came out. If you need help with finding the perfect location in or around Pittsburgh to take your engagement photos, reach out and I'll be thrilled to help!


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ITHACA, N.Y. — An Ithaca man pleaded guilty Monday to robbing two Tompkins County banks within about a month of each other.
Chaio Slater, 32, admitted to robbing the Tompkins Trust Company, located at 775 S. Meadow St. in Ithaca, on Dec. 5. He also said he robbed a CFCU Community Credit Union, located at 99 Sheraton Drive in Lansing, on Jan. 17.
In both robberies, security camera footage shows that Slater demanded money from a bank teller and displayed what appeared to be a handgun. He fled both of the scenes on foot.
An investigation led to Slater's arrest on Jan. 26, when police and the Ithaca SWAT team issued a planned traffic stop to take him into custody while he was driving on North Route 13. Officers were later able to determine that Slater robbed the banks with a pellet gun he bought on Dec. 5.
Slater was initially charged with two counts of felony first-degree robbery, which was reduced to felony second-degree robbery because he did not use a real gun during the crimes.
District Attorney Matt Van Houten said in a news release, "Based upon the overwhelming evidence that Chaio Slater was the individual who robbed both banks, combined with the expectation that the defendant would be able to establish that he did not display a real, loaded firearm, this resolution represents the best possible outcome that we could have expected from a trial."
Slater is scheduled to be sentenced on July 13 in front of Judge John Rowley.


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Incline Village, Nevada sits on the north side of Lake Tahoe. Living in the Sierra Nevadas we have a choice of what route to take over the passes. Laurie drove Ken, Doug and I up over Highway 88, which she considers the most scenic. Normally at this time of year, snow covered 88 would require chains and could have closures. Lakes were covered with thin ice, and dabs of snow looked painted on the mountain fissures.
Kris came up from Las Vegas. Virginia and Cedric took Highway 80 which is a fast four lane thoroughfare and serves the bigger populations from the Bay Area.
Highway 4 and 108 are my other two favs, but 88 is prettiest.
The first night, we played and noshed.
A little wine, games, and plenty of snacks.
Kris made the observation that Ken has lived at one time or another with all of his siblings. He is currently sharing an apartment with his youngest sister. Both are away from their respective homes for their jobs. Ken is extremely neat and Virginia likes to leave dishes in the sink and clothes hanging over the backs of chairs-til later. Hmmm!
Virginia taught us this loud, raucous game she learned from her Italian brother-in-law. Fast moving, arms waving, card auctioning, gambling card game, a matter of luck, so the kids of any age have an equal chance of winning one of four pots. Everyone could put in a dollar, two dollars, a per-determined equal amount. Kris, Theo, Myself, and Austin each won a pot. But the laughter was wonderful.
Laurie brought a pot of chili from home so we had and easy dinner and lots of time to catch up with each other. This was our family Christmas since we couldn't all get together this past December.
On Saturday morning, everyone geared up for skiing, except Doug, Kristanne, Laurie and I. Kristanne is "Lodge Fluff." I'm the photographer and Doug and Laurie stayed behind and played cards and rested. Ken hadn't skiied in 13 years and all but Virginia and Ced had lesson packages that give a price break for skiing.
Laurie and I were thinking we might do cross country, or maybe snowshoe since neither of us like downhill. There really wasn't enough snow.
Owen gets fitted for his boots.
Virginia, Cedric, Theo and Owen all go at their own pace on different runs. Owen is boarding. Theo is skiing. Skis are shorter and rounder than any I'd ever seen.
Austin, who had never skiied wanted to snowboard because he likes his skate boarding.
The kids lessons were at station one. That bit about falling?
The instructor just came up to him and knocked him over numerous times. Taught him HOW to fall so he wouldn't put his hands out and break a wrist. He had a two-hour morning lesson and a one hour afternoon private lesson. The instructor said Austin was the best student he ever worked with at that age. Kudos!
The "bunny hill" of station one has a tramway up the hill where everyone, kids and adults can practice their newly learned skills.
Ken decided he didn't want to go back to work with a broken anything and Virginia went with him on the bunny slope.
She coached him for a few runs on cutting and stopping and turning before they headed for the lifts.
We all met around lunch time and then everyone went all out on the slopes. Kris and I kept track of spare gear as everyone shed jackets or pants, or whatever. Virginia referred to us as the "mules." The weather was amazingly warm.
Back at our condo, which sleeps 16 people, Cedric made the pies.
Laurie made a beautiful salad. She said she was always salad queen as a child at home.
Ken made kabobs.
I roasted a turkey breast and we toasted our good fortune and grand gathering.
Kris surprised Doug with a basket of goodies, as in Ben Gay, Anti Diarrheal meds, vitamin container, gas relief, all that over-the-hill stuff because his next birthday will be his 50th.
And we all decided Cedric should give up his science PHD and become a pie chef. I didn't get a picture of his apple pie. Life is not only good but delicious.


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Back in October, 2007, I was messing around with Google's then-new 'My Maps' feature. I made a map of all my favourite spots on Gozo (here's the related blog post), the Maltese island where we lived for nine months. I added a bunch of Flickr photos and a couple of links to this site.
Today I was making a quick map using the same feature, and browsed through some of my older maps. I was surprised to discover that my Gozo memory map has received 13984 views. That seems like a lot. I just made it on a lark on a slow day in Malta.
I wasn't sure where all those map views were coming from. I looked around, and wasn't able to find a way to search all of Google's publicly-accessible custom maps. Assuming they're including them in Google Maps search results, I searched Google Maps for 'Gozo' (and variations), and noticed that my map is the only one listed under 'User-Created Maps'.
I suppose, under certain circumstances, this would be a useful SEO strategy. You could embed links in placemark descriptions and, assuming they looked useful, Google Maps users might click them. I might add some relevant links to some more markers to test if it drives any traffic.
Browsing through my other custom maps, I see that our Sahara trip map has about 6000 views, and our zone-we-want-to-live-in map has about 4700 views. It's not obvious what differentiates a popular map from an unpopular one. Any ideas?


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The average price of a gallon of self-serve, regular gasoline shot up nearly 13 cents over the past two weeks, to a record $2.10, a national survey said Sunday.
The price exceeds the previous high of $2.07, which was set last May 21, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey.
Over the past month, crude oil prices rose 20 cents per gallon, versus a 19-cent rise at the pump, she said.
"Gas has now caught up with that month of oil price hikes," she said.
Even if the price of crude does not rise further, prices at the pump may continue to climb, because of required seasonal reformulations, she said.
March was the deadline for providing gas with a lower sulfur content at the retail level, which adds to the cost of gas.
"The seasonal regulations become tighter and more costly as we move toward summer, and our demand, of course, will be climbing, as it always does," she said.
"Short-term, we'll probably see some further increases at the pump," she said.
OPEC countries are slated to meet June 7 to discuss a possible increase in production.
Adjusted for inflation, the current gas price is not a record. That occurred in March 1981, when the Iranian revolution set off skyrocketing prices on the spot-oil market.
At $1.91 per gallon, the lowest price is in Newark, N.J., even though the state does not allow self-service pumps, Lundberg said. At $2.34 per gallon, Honolulu drivers paid the most.
Here are some other cities: Houston: $1.98; Atlanta: $2.01 Denver: $2.04; Boston: $2.04; Chicago: $2.22; San Francisco: $2.31.
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A scarcity of quack and compiling this after only getting a few hours of sleep means your Tuesday fix is quick hitting. Please add anything I may have overlooked into the comments. Enjoy
- Rob Moseley writes on the Ducks playing in their fourth straight BCS bowl game. Oregon's streak is the longest current streak and is matched by only Miami (4), USC (7) and Ohio State (6). And, Moseley also notes that those three programs have all sufferred sanctions for NCAA violations that occurred during the streaks.
- Kevin Gemmell thinks that the parity and depth in the Pac-12 is a good thing. Ted Miller also has a summary of how some coaches cast their votes in the latest poll.
- Ken Goe has a story on former Oregon assistant Robin Pflugrad who was dismissed in March as the head coach of Montana amidst sexual assault allegations against some of his players.
- In his weekly look around the conference, Bob Clark examines some transfers who have made an early impact. Clark also Oregon third in his conference rankings.
And, that's it. Go Ducks!