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Facebook Seems To Improve The Well-Being Of Users

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Facebook comments could improve one’s well-being and make individuals feel better about themselves

Researchers recently said that comments on Facebook could improve one’s well-being and make individuals feel better about themselves. Moreover, they have compared the feeling of satisfaction in life given by a personalized comment on Facebook with the joy of getting married or having a baby.

The scientists at Carnegie Mellon University mentioned that if you enjoy spending time on Facebook and feel that the activity brings you satisfaction it could be because the app’s effects are similar to those of a significant life event.

The study proved that just reading political posts on Facebook or analyzing friend’s notes about their activities brings little satisfaction. Although users highly appreciate these activities, they pay no significant contributions to individual’s well-being.

A professor at Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Robert Kraut, along with a research scientist, Moira Burke, conducted the study. The findings showed that personalized interactions on Facebook like posting something on somebody’s wall, receiving comments or commenting on someone’s posts are an essential method of social engagement.

The authors noticed that while the socialization involves people who they care about, close friends, the online communication brings many benefits.

The interactions don’t have to be complicated; just a several words comment can remind the user of the significant relationships in their lives. It’s important that a close friend has taken few minutes from his time to personalize a comment.

These findings seem to run counter to all of the other research that stated time spend on Facebook, and social media are linked to a higher probability of depression and loneliness.

Kraut now wants to establish if social media is making people unhappy or if individuals utilizing the social media are unhappy.

The research recruited with Facebook ads 1,910 users from 91 countries. Experts did not examine the substance of the user’s communications. The app users allowed the researchers to differentiate between varieties of action like reading, posting, likes, and comments.

Moreover, they had to see if the interactions were with acquaintances or close friends. Kraut decided that when approaching more personal subjects with friends on Facebook, people tend to feel better which is similar to face-to-face interactions.

Furthermore, it seems to be true to sad individuals spend more time on social media but just because they know that the activity will make them feel better.

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Disney World Concerned About Visitors Gives Out Free Insect Repellent

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Disney World has started providing all cast members and guests free insect repellent

As the number of Zika virus diseases continues to rise in Florida, Disney World has begun to provide all cast members and guests free insect repellent. Disney declared in a section on its website where they usually answer park goers’ questions that this additional measure is being taken as a preventative action in an effort to keep the clients safe from the Zika virus.

Starting Sunday, they’re giving free EPA-approved insect repellent, but the only problem seems to be that the parkgoers that a local news reporter spoke to did not know of this measure.

The people that were surveyed said that they did not see anything that could indicate that the park owners are giving away free insect repellent. At the park entrance where one might expect to be informed of this measure, no signs were seen.

The Zika virus has frequently become a regional concern. A nontravel-related case was validated last week in Pinellas County. Forty-three such cases have been confirmed around the state.

Other Disney customers weren’t affected by getting Zika saying that while not pregnant they do not see the virus as a problem but acknowledged what Disney was doing.

Disney said it was carefully tracking Zika epidemics in the region and decided to give out free insect repellent in an effort to keep guests safe.

Until now, the Florida Department of Health has stated that there are no known cases of actual transmissions of the Zika virus in the countries surrounding Walt Disney Resort and the Orlando region.

Disney also gave recommendations to avoid mosquito bites based on CDC reports. Among those instructions, the company mentioned wearing long sleeves and pants that cover most of the skin. Moreover, the use of insect repellent according to the label instructions.

The solution mustn’t be applied on the skin under the clothes, but to bare skin and clothes. Reapplying the insect repellent is mandatory. If using sunscreen, it should be utilized before the insect repellent.

When it comes to instructions for babies, the repellent should not be used on children under two months old. Moreover, mosquito netting should surround the stroller, crib, or baby carrier.

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Gun Violence Kills More That the Flu

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Gun violence affects us all

Gun violence kills more than the flu; that’s why we have a lot to learn from how we treat a virus in fighting back gun violence. The flu is so similar to gun violence but with a big difference: when it comes to the flu, everybody fights back. We are very careful when we get sick, and we even judge people that send their children to school when they are sick or the ones that come to work with the flu.

Every time we have the flu, we try all sort of medicine, and if those don’t work, we try different remedies, and most important we consider it everybody’s responsibility. We search for ways to stay healthy and avoid getting the flu.

When it comes to the flu, we take care of each other, and we remind ourselves to have a good personal hygiene, to avoid going places if we are sick, and we recognize that it is a problem that affects us all and try to fix it.

Everybody remembers the H1N1 virus and how there were clinics all over the cities that made it easier for people to get vaccines. We were doing everything we could just to try and get cured or avoid getting infected. Everybody was thinking of ways to protect their loved ones even if there were rumors of people from other jurisdiction who benefited from “our” vaccines, at the end of the day everybody realized that we all needed to be protected.
Unfortunately, homicide is the leading cause of death for black people age 15 to 24 and the third leading cause of death for white people of the same age. Moreover, suicide is another primary cause of death that people don’t seem to take seriously. These murders and suicides are all “viruses” that people don’t appear to notice or try to stop.

Black Lives Matter activists and not only them, are trying to raise awareness, to put an end to this violence that is causing so much suffering and the lives of innocent people. We must admit that this is a real problem, causing so much damage to our country and stand united in the fight against this “virus.”

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Can the US Gun Problem Be Resolved?

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A new study devised by Australian researchers discovered that strict gun policies are efficient in preventing mass shootings or other such tragic incidents. The results of this study could help the American government solve the US gun problem. However, our constitution makes it harder for lawmakers to propose stricter regulations.

Twenty years ago Australia was faced with a tragedy. In 1996, Martin Bryant, a 28 years old Tasmanian entered a local café and shot and killed 35 individuals. An additional 23 people were injured during the shooting.

The Australian mass shooting took place a week after Scotland witnessed the horror that loose gun laws can produce. In Dunblane, a gun aficionado broke into an elementary school and murdered 16 children and their teachers.

Both incidents sparked a national debate on gun rights. Both nations decided to change their regulations, making gun access stricter, and most automatic weapons illegal.

Australia, for example, banned the use of rapid fire guns and implemented a forced buyback of approximately 660,000 weapons.

According to Simon Chapman, a professor at Sydney University and co-author of the study, before 1996, when gun legislation was loose in the country, 13 mass shootings occurred. After the 1996 café incident, no mass shootings were recorded.

Moreover, the researchers found that suicide rates also dropped. In lack of a quick way of taking their lives, the individuals renounced the idea without considering other suicide options. Chapman and his team discovered that stricter regulations were tied to a drop in the number of suicide and homicide victims.

The number of mass shootings and suicides in America is caused by the US gun problem. If access to such lethal weapons was restricted, the number of casualties could be considerably reduced.

However due to legal, cultural, and political issues, the United States will find it harder to modify their policies. Australia and Scotland had the approval of the majority of citizens, and they already had clear laws that allowed such modifications.

The US gun problem can be solved, but it will take a lot more effort. First, the majority of the citizens must agree with the changes. Then there’s the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment that allows individuals to own weapons. And ultimately, lawmakers must be determined to make a change.

What is your take on the US gun problem in the light of recent events? Leave us your opinion in the section below.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: gun laws, gun problem, gun regulations, mass shootings, US gun problem

Google Will Soon Make Adult Blogs On Its Blogger Platform Disappear

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Google will soon make disappear adult blogs on its Blogger platform that are not conform with its new anti-adult policies.

Every single one of the users behind and adult content writing blog, was announced on Monday by Google to delete the content that was sexually explicit otherwise their blog will be deleted from every form of access, exception making registered users.
So far, Google’s Blogger platform has allowed pictures that contained nudity or sexual behaviour and said that censoring that content was in contradiction with a service that was based on freedom of expression. But Monday, that concept changed, when Google “threatened” explicit content writers that their blogs will disappear if the adult images or videos will not be deleted.

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Google warned about starting to take actions on March 23, 2015, if bloggers will not obey and do as they were asked.
There is a large variety of users on Blogger’s, and many of them are facing routinely sexual censorship. It is very important to understand that, many of those blogs have been labeled as adult content by the bloggers themselves whether it deserved it or not.
Presently, Blogger blogs, labeled with adult, include LGBT and sexuality diaries, erotic writings, transgender activists, editors and reviewers of romance books, reviewers of sex toys, nude art photographers, artists like comic illustrators and painters, writers of sex news, LGBT sex activism, sexual education, feminist porn, fetish fashion and way more.

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The notice released by Google for Blogger users with adult content sounds something like this:

(…) In the coming weeks, we’ll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We’ll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or presented where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.”

Removing from search in every mean possible and allowing to access only by personal invitation or by registering is the closest thing Google could do to delete all the blogs together without being criticised for deleting a percentage of its user data base of Blogger.
We are not talking about illegal content, or that Christians don’t approve of Blogger, or malware danger, the actual Blogger community, or minor protection from porn, warning which already exists. Adult content has always been fighting for free speech and political dissent, thing which isn’t about to change very soon.

When Google forces its inappropriate Blogger blogs to lay low, it will affect more the internet than you can imagine. Many links that have been accessible on Blogger since its debut in 1999, will be broken all over the internet.

For example, with this new policy, a personal blog, dating from 2001, will cause the death of over 500 blogspot.com links. After the implementation of Google’s changes there will be impossible to find and discover adult content blogs on the Blogger platform.

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The only way to manage finding an adult content blog, or any other blog that is against Google’s rules, will be by receiving an invitation straight from the Blogger user who is writing the blog. Even so, to be able to read a post, the person invited will be required to use a Google account to identify themselves or choose to view the post as a guest.

Adults blogs on Blogger, have already been restricted for those who don’t want to see the explicit content, whether is due to local laws, community of cultural principles, work restrictions or simply by personal choice.
Blogger’s Content Warning, which is already in use for these blogs, pops up and demands for agreement before proceeding. It warns you that the content you are about to view may have a content suitable for adults and in general Google doesn’t review or approve the content of these types of blogs.

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Asian Camel crickets widespread in US basements

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The scientists have ignored the camel crickets since last several decades. Recently, a novel science project unveiled that the insects may have exceeded in quantity as compared to the humans in the United States.

The study revealed that in the beginning the species of camel crickets came from Asia. However, now they are more widespread in American basements as compared to their native region.

The other names of camel crickets are “sprickets”, spider crickets and cave crickets. The camel crickets which are found in North America have thick bodies and mottled brown color. Whereas, the normal ones have an arched back and long hind legs.

Diestrammena asynamora, an invasive species of camel cricket set up in the United States at the start of the 19th century. Scientists named  them as “greenhouse camel crickets” since it was hardly found outside the greenhouse. It has a pattern of stripes on its legs and is relatively smaller than the American ones.

Holly Menninger, co-author of the study with her colleagues of North Caroline State tried to ascertain how common this specie is.  They reckoned it out with the help of a survey which demonstrated that camel crickets are way more common as compared to the Ceuthophilus insects.

The researchers caught nearly 50 Diestrammena asynamora from a single yard in a short time period  of two days.

Mary Jane, the leader of the study stated that the scientist are still unaware about the influence of this species on local ecosystems.

The study is printed in the open access journal Peer J.

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Iceland’s Bardarbunga Volcano Gushes Lava 200 Feet High

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A lava eruption that started on Sunday near Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano has continued into Monday. The entire eruption was  approximately 600 m long.

The volcano eruption compels the Met Office in Iceland to raise ash warning aviation to red. Red is considered as the highest level of warning that bans the flying of plans within 6,000 feet of the volcano. Observers described this eruption as “calm and continuous”.

 

Afterwards the Met Office  lowered the alert from red to orange, which signifies that air travel is not endangered. The reason behind this is that the lava has stopped generating ashes.

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100 years passed since the death of the passenger pigeon

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The last living female passenger pigeon named as Martha died at the Cincinnati zoo in 1914.  Martha was the last creature left in its entire generation. The bird had ruled the sky of America for several years since it was once the most common species like wild turkey. The most fascinating thing of this wild blue dove is that it can flock in millions at a time.
People loved to eat  and shot them because of which they died more speedily. A number of authors have referred the passenger pigeons in their books and numerous artists have painted them.

Generally, passenger pigeons symbolize the American spirit of  struggle and self-determination. Whereas, most of the people consider it as the story of the people that took the land.

The passenger pigeon was quite dissimilar from the city pigeon. They had a blue smooth and shiny body along with wings of blue color. They used to fly together in billions, even if they are migrating from north to south.

Martha and two other dead pigeons will be displayed today at the Smithsonian. It is now centennial celebrations of the dead pigeons due to which the museum exhibited behind a glass wall. Few scientists and researchers are struggling to bring back passenger pigeons to life  through experimentation.

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Shortage of Food Killing Whales in Puget Sound

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The killer whale population continues to decline as the two new deaths were reported this year in Punget Sound.

According to the survey by the Center for Whale Research the number of whales in J,K and L pods have reduced to 78. The authorities have not recorded this level since 1985. The report brings out an extremely astonishing thing that the whales are breaking their pods which is their significant social group.

Ken Balcomb  of the research center has been examining the Puget Sound orcas since 1976. Every year Balcomb accumulates a census of the population and present it to the federal government.

Previously, in the summer season all three pods of orcas have come  together in the San Juan Islands.  In these months whales usually socialize in the much larger groups. However,the pods begin to split into smaller groups., staying together now and them.

 

Furthermore, Balcomb stated that researchers have observed a peculiar association pattern in two members of a pod with two members of the other pods. It exhibits that they frequently stay miles apart without any contact with their own group. Researchers are unable to give names to the pods since they are no longer connected with each other in the similar pattern.

The offspring of the killer whales likely to live with their mother for the entire life.

Balcomb proposed that the chief reason behind this population decline is shortage of food for the killer whale. The killer whales usually prey on Chinook salmon when they cross the San Juan Islands on their way back to Canda’s Fraser river. They also eat other species of salmon and fish.

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The entire community loves Arthur, 94 year old

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St. John is a 94 years old man who is one of the part time workers of the  Strathm Market Basket. He is now a senior employee due to the 22 years of services he had consecrated to that store.

On Thursday he went happily since it was his salary day, but he never expected the incident which happened to him. He received his salary check of only $7.166 which was quite surprising for him.

The store owner asked him not to come to the store next week due to the protest going on over the dismissal of Arthur T Demoulas, the chief executive. The combat going over the chief executive has disturbed his entire house.

An online fundraiser has been organized by Bonnie Gervais and his son Christian after they discovered the tragic story of St. John. People donated more than the expectation of Gervais and Christia and after some hours the bank account of that fund was filled with thousands of dollars.

Gervais is a part time worker of the same store he along with his son handed over the check to St. John. Though both of them work in Market Basket but it was the first time when Gervais met John. He cried twice in that meeting and told them that this money would help him in paying his bills.

Mostly, the regular customers of Market Basket were the people who donated money for John. They really appreciated the services of John.

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