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Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
OAKLAND, California — Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first degree murder on Monday, concluding he killed his estranged wife in 2006. The verdict followed a nearly six-month trial and nearly three days of deliberation
The 44-year-old developer of the ReiserFS filesystem, sat quietly as a clerk for Alameda County Superior Court Judge Larry Goodman read the verdict. Reiser faces a mandatory sentence of 25 years to life in prison. Wearing the same dark coat he's worn for months, the defendant was immediately removed from the courtroom by one of four bailiffs watching over the courtroom. He asked out loud if he could speak with his attorney.
Hans Reiser, as Monday's guilty verdict is read. (Update: We've added video of the sentencing to the bottom of this post.)
Reiser and his attorney had argued that Nina Reiser was not dead, and had abandoned her children to sneak away to Russia, where the couple met in 1998, after he accused her of embezzling from his software company, Namesys.
In a murder case with no body, no crime scene, no reliable eyewitness and virtually no physical evidence, the prosecution began the trial last November with a daunting task ahead. By the time prosecutor Paul Hora rested his case February 14, he had called some 60 witnesses, but presented mostly circumstantial evidence demonstrating animus between Reiser and his wife, and suspicious behavior by the defendant following Nina's disappearance in September, 2006.
The turning point in the trial came when Reiser took the stand in his own defense March 3.
In his 11 days of testimony, Reiser offered lengthy and verbose explanations for every piece of circumstantial evidence. But Reiser's version of events often drew disbelieving head shakes from jurors — and occasional smirks from the trial judge.
In a characteristic exchange under cross-examination, Reiser tried to explain why he'd removed and discarded the passenger seat from his two-seater Honda CRX after Nina vanished. His explanation: He'd been sleeping in the vehicle, and wanted the extra room. Asked why he hosed down the inside of the car, leaving an inch of water on the floorboard, he explained that the interior was dirty, and he mistakenly believed the water would drain out.
At the prosecution's request on March 19, Hans Reiser demonstrates to the jury how he disposed of the passenger seat from his Honda CRX.
Courtroom sketch: Wired.com / Norman Quebedeau"I just assumed that every car engineer would put a hole in the car," he said.
"Don't you remember sleeping on a nice, soft, wet carpet?" Hora went on to ask.
Reiser replied, "I don't remember."
By the time he was done, Reiser had succeeded only in dispelling the cloud of ambiguity surrounding his actions in the case, replacing it with a storm of very specific explanations that each strained credulity. Jurors had to choose between Reiser's strained version of events and the plain conclusion that he was lying.
Nina Reiser, then 31, was last seen September 3, 2006, while dropping off the divorcing couple's two young children to stay with Hans for part of Labor Day weekend. Authorities believe she never left her estranged husband's house in the Oakland hills alive.
When Nina's best friend reported the woman missing two days later, the police launched an investigation that quickly focused on the husband. The couple had separated and were in the midst of an acrimonious divorce and custody battle.
Six days after she disappeared, police found Nina's minivan in the Oakland hills about two miles from Hans Reiser's house, and the same distance from her own apartment. The car contained Nina's purse and $144 in rotting groceries that she'd purchased before dropping off the children.
When police eventually located Hans Reiser's Honda CRX a few miles from his home, they found the interior waterlogged, the passenger seat missing, and two books on police murder investigations inside. They also found a sleeping-bag cover stained with a 6-inch wide blotch of Nina's dried blood. Reiser later testified that the couple had sex in the sleeping bag on a camping trip prior to their 2004 separation.
The only other physical evidence in the case was a trace of Nina Reiser's blood found on a pillar inside Hans' house.
Police arrested Reiser on October 10, 2006, and he was held without bail. "I just keep thinking that I'm stuck in George Orwell's 1984," he told Wired.com in a jailhouse interview. "The government has taken away my kids, invaded my house, held me in solitary confinement and caused me all sorts of financial problems."
Nina's boyfriend, Anthony Zografos, testifies the missing wife would never abandon her children, while jurors watch a 2006 home video of Nina playing with the kids at a birthday party.
Courtroom sketch: Wired.com / Norman QuebedeauSeeking to short-circuit Reiser's defense theory, prosecutor Hora called one witness after another to testify that Nina Reiser wouldn't abandon her children, a boy now 8 and girl now 6. Defense attorney William DuBois cross-examined the witnesses about Nina's extramarital affair with Reiser's former best friend, Sean Sturgeon. (The jury was not allowed to hear testimony that Sturgeon has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, in retaliation for child abuse.).
A battery of police detectives took the stand to testify that Reiser performed countersurveillance maneuvers following Nina's disappearance, and that when he was questioned early in the investigation he had about $9,000 in cash and his passport in his fanny pack.
One Oakland police officer, who'd previously observed Reiser with his wife, testified that he found Hans' behavior menacing. The officer said he once warned Nina Reiser, "You need to get yourself a gun."
Hora speculated that Reiser might have choked his wife, based on little evidence except that Reiser was a black belt in judo, a martial art where choking is a specialty.
As the prosecutor rested his case, it seemed far from clear that the circumstantial evidence would be enough for the jury of seven men and five women to find Reiser guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Throughout his cross examination of the prosecution witnesses, defense attorney William DuBois aptly painted a picture of Reiser as a misunderstood computer nerd, so inattentive to social cues, and so slavishly devoted to logic, that his innocent behavior could be easily misinterpreted as evidence of guilt.
From his seat at the defense table, Reiser seemed to offer supporting evidence for that so-called "geek defense" in the form of his own actions, frequently quarreling with his attorney, and interrupting DuBois' cross-examination. In January, Judge Goodman threatened to bar Reiser from his own trial. "I'm not sure whether you're doing this on purpose to screw up the process or it's just part of your nature," the judge said outside the presence of the jury. "I'm tired of you disrupting the courtroom."
DuBois made little effort to hide his frustration with his client. The biggest bone of contention was Reiser's insistence on taking the stand himself — a move that may have been Reiser's undoing.
On many of Reiser's 11 days on the stand, jurors were seen shaking their heads in disbelief, laughing to themselves and wearing skeptical looks.
Hans Reiser decries as "silly" the allegations accusing him of killing his wife, Nina, as the Linux programmer finishes his testimony April 14.
Courtroom sketch: Norman Quebedeau/ Wired.comReiser couldn't explain why, following his wife's disappearance, he suddenly drove through the Sierra Nevada mountain range to Reno, to sample casino buffets. And he admitted taking evasive maneuvers while walking and driving to determine if he was being followed by the police, something he attributed to his innate distrust of authority, amplified by the books he read when authorities began investigating him.
He bought those books about murder investigations, he said, because he wanted to know how police behaved. "I was under investigation by the police," he said. Reading up on their techniques was only logical, he testified.
"I have a compulsive tendency to say things that I know are true that people don't want to be true," Reiser said at one point.
As testimony wrapped up April 14, Reiser offered his assessment of the proceedings in front of the jury. "This whole thing is silly," he said from the stand.
"What do you mean, the 'whole thing'?" DuBois asked.
"The whole case."
After the jury left, judge Goodman summed up his opinion of Reiser.
"You are rude," he said. "You are arrogant. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the way you are."
But the jurors found a word on Monday: guilty.
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Mountain Top Baptist Assembly is owned by the Wyoming Southern Baptists and governed by the MTBA Board of Trustees. The daily operations of the camp are managed by their Executive Director, Lynda Roark(307-315-4759).
Mt. Top is located on top of Casper Mountain, 8100 ft above sea level. Campers arrive mid-June and the camp's gates are closed mid-September. During this time Mountain Top host an average of 1000 campers & volunteers at its 2 Youth Camps, 5 Children's Camps, 1 Hispanic Family Weekend Camp, and several retreats. Campers range from 7 years of age to great-grandparents depending on the camp that week.
Campers are encouraged to come with a church group which provides 1 sponsor for every 5 campers. This ensures personal care and over-site for each child or youth at Mountain Top. Since the camp can house up to 200 per week, each child can get to know and interact with other campers and staff easily during their organized activities and worship times. Each camp has its own Program Director that organizes and runs their camp. These volunteers seek to draw and reach individuals from Wyoming and surrounding states in an effort to introduce Christ to those seeking Him or help strengthen their walk.
Mountain Top is a rustic mountain-top camp. While we do not have a swimming pool or lake, we offer fun times at the B-B and archery range, basketball & volleyball courts, Frisbee golf, human foosball, gaga ball, nine-square and much more.


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Q: ActivityCompat.requestPermissions is pausing my Activity Targeting my App at SDK 23, I want to request permissions for location service,
inside my 'OnCreate' function i'm using this code:
    int hasPermission = ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION);
    if (hasPermission == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        Log.d("TEST", "GPS GRANTED");
    }
    else
    {
        ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this,
                new String[]{ Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION},
                0);

    }

When my Activity creating itself, instead of asking for the permissions while showing the activity view on the screen, it suddenly pausing the activity, taking android to home screen and then showing the permission request dialog.
What am I doing wrong ?

A: You have to use this code inside the onConnected() function.

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La plaza de toros Fermín Espinosa «Armillita» es una plaza de toros ubicada en Jalostotitlán en el Estado de Jalisco en México. En la plaza se celebra el Carnaval Taurino de Jalostotitlán.

Historia

La construcción se inició en 1972 por iniciativa de un grupo de aficionados liderados por Apolonio Casillas Soto. La plaza se inauguró el 4 de marzo de 1973. Es uno de los principales atractivos de la ciudad de Jalos y ha visto figuras de toreo de primer nivel, sobre todo durante el carnaval. Es la segunda en importancia en el estado y decimoprimera en todo el país.  Durante las fiestas del carnaval, Jalos acoge a las figuras más grandes a nivel nacional e internacional y encierros de ganaderías de primer nivel en el país.

Entre las últimas faenas reseñables se encuentran las puertas grandes de El Chihuahua (2011), Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza (2012) Luis David (2019), el tlaxcalteca Sergio Flores y Leo Valadez (2022),

Carnaval Taurino de Jalostotitlán
Los diez días anteriores al Miércoles de Ceniza se realiza el Carnaval  de Jalostotitlán. El último fin de semana (sábado a martes) se desarrollan corridas de toros con las mejores figuras del toreo. El Carnaval se trata de uno de los carnavales de mayor importancia en el estado de Jalisco. Dura diez días y comprende actuaciones de artistas de fama nacional e internacional en el teatro del pueblo, vuelo de globo aerostático y show aéreo de ultraligeros, así como otros eventos culturales. El último fin de semana del carnaval (viernes a martes), se colocan, en el centro histórico de la ciudad las terrazas que son locales con barra donde acude el público, especialmente los emigrantes que visitan de nuevo su tierra, principalmente procedentes de Estados Unidos, pero también de público asistente de todas partes de México.

Descripción
Cuenta con capacidad para 6.500 espectadores. Se trata de una plaza de toros de tercera categoría. Además de para los festejos taurinos también se usa para otros eventos culturales, deportivos y de ocio. En 1990 y 2000 se llevaron a cabo obras de mejora para añadir el portal interior del lado del sol y el balcón en la parte de los corrales, además de los jardines, los baños y las fachadas, tanto de la parte de sol como la de sombra, respectivamente.

Véase también

 Anexo:Ferias taurinas

Bibliografía/ Referencias

Gutiérrez Gtz., J. Antonio. /Jalostotitlan a través de los siglos. Acento Editores/UdeG/UAA.
Gutiérrez R., Alfredo. /Xalostotitlan en imágenes. Acento Editores.
Alejandra Flores Diosdado. /Ruta Jalostotitlán. Asterixco.
Fermín Espinosa «Armillita»
Edificios y estructuras del estado de Jalisco
Arquitectura de México de 1973
Instalaciones deportivas de México de los años 1970

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'use strict';

var fs            = require('fs');
var os            = require('os');
var path          = require('path');
var expect        = require('chai').expect;
var MockUI        = require('../../helpers/mock-ui');
var MockAnalytics = require('../../helpers/mock-analytics');
var Promise       = require('../../../lib/ext/promise');
var Project       = require('../../../lib/models/project');
var Task          = require('../../../lib/models/task');
var InitCommand   = require('../../../lib/commands/init');

describe('init command', function() {
  var ui, analytics, tasks, command;

  beforeEach(function() {
    ui = new MockUI();
    analytics = new MockAnalytics();
    tasks = {
      InstallBlueprint: Task.extend({}),
      NpmInstall: Task.extend({}),
      BowerInstall: Task.extend({})
    };
  });

  function buildCommand(projectOpts) {
    var options = {
      ui: ui,
      analytics: analytics,
      project: new Project(process.cwd(), projectOpts || { name: 'some-random-name' }),
      tasks: tasks,
      settings: {}
    };

    command = new InitCommand(options);
  }

  it('doesn\'t allow to create an application named `test`', function() {
    buildCommand({ name: 'test' });

    return command.validateAndRun([]).then(function() {
      expect(false, 'should have rejected with an application name of test');
    })
    .catch(function(error) {
      expect(error.message).to.equal('We currently do not support a name of `test`.');
    });
  });

  it('doesn\'t allow to create an application without project name', function() {
    buildCommand({ name: undefined });

    return command.validateAndRun([]).then(function() {
      expect(false, 'should have rejected with an application without project name');
    })
    .catch(function(error) {
      expect(error.message).to.equal('The `ember init` command requires a package.json in current folder with name attribute or a specified name via arguments. For more details, use `ember help`.');
    });
  });

  it('Uses the name of the closest project to when calling installBlueprint', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.rawName).to.equal('some-random-name');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun([])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('Uses the provided app name over the closest found project', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.rawName).to.equal('provided-name');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun(['--name=provided-name'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('Uses process.cwd if no package is found when calling installBlueprint', function() {
    // change the working dir so `process.cwd` can't be a invalid path for base directories
    // named `ember-cli`.

    var tmpDir = os.tmpdir();
    var workingDir = tmpDir + '/ember-cli-test-project';
    var currentWorkingDir = process.cwd();

    fs.mkdirSync(workingDir);
    process.chdir(workingDir);

    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.rawName).to.equal(path.basename(process.cwd()));
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand({ name: path.basename(process.cwd()) });

    return command.validateAndRun([])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      })
      .then(function() {
        process.chdir(currentWorkingDir);
        fs.rmdirSync(workingDir);
      });
  });

  it('doesn\'t use --dry-run or any other command option as the name', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.rawName).to.equal('some-random-name');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun(['--dry-run'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('doesn\'t use . as the name', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.rawName).to.equal('some-random-name');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun(['.'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('Uses the "app" blueprint by default', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.blueprint).to.equal('app');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun(['--name=provided-name'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('Uses arguments to select files to init', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.blueprint).to.equal('app');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand();

    return command.validateAndRun(['package.json', '--name=provided-name'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });

  it('Uses the "addon" blueprint for addons', function() {
    tasks.InstallBlueprint = Task.extend({
      run: function(blueprintOpts) {
        expect(blueprintOpts.blueprint).to.equal('addon');
        return Promise.reject('Called run');
      }
    });

    buildCommand({ keywords: ['ember-addon'], name: 'some-random-name' });

    return command.validateAndRun(['--name=provided-name'])
      .catch(function(reason) {
        expect(reason).to.equal('Called run');
      });
  });
});

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I'm currently working at the Melbourne Museum, as a curator involved with exhibition development in the fields of palaeontology, evolution and ornithology. (In other words, I'm working on the dinosaur and evolution exhibitions, and helping our ornithology curator, Les Christidis, with bird stuff occasionally.) However, the nature of my job is such that I'm finishing up at the end of the year, and going into teaching as a career change.
How did you enjoy your visit to the new museum? I haven't had a chance to catch up with anyone who has been yet, and I'm wondering what people's reactions have been. Do you think you would come back once the natural history exhibits open? (please say yes, it would make me feel so happy : ) ).
Currently, Museum Victoria collects very few bird specimens. As Wim Vader and Allan Morris have said, the vast majority of modern-day skins come from road-kills, window-kills (a surprisingly large amount, from most bird families), cat-kills and the like. When the museum does collect these days, it is with a specific purpose in mind, usually for a combination of taxonomic and genetic studies. All birds collected are done so under strict permit conditions from DNRE. These days, all birds that are brought into the museum's collection are tissue sampled for DNA studies, and then either turned into study skins, exhibition mounts (which are still valid for scientific study), or skeletons.
Museum Victoria is foremost a scientific institution, and an official repository for the state's natural heritage. One very important reason that we keep an extensive collection of dead animals is that they convey a record of the previous distribution of species, dating back to the 19th century. For instance, we have in our collection bustards, collected late last century at Flemington Racecourse, whereas nowadays you'd be lucky to see them south of the Murray River. Continuing collecting means that in another hundred years, this record still exists. Keeping physical remains of the birds, rather than a photographic or written record, is mostly so that studies can be done on population genetics and morphological or genetic changes over time (but as I said before, this type of collecting is now very rare at the museum).
The collection is also used for taxonomic work. While photographs can be useful in aiding identification, the vast majority of taxonomy has been, and continues to be done using museum specimens. Pretty much all of HANZAB - the plates, plumage descriptions and measurement data - was done using the various collections in Australia's museums; Christidis & Boles (1994) was based on genetic and morphological data gleaned from museum collections; Schodde & Mason's Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines was based almost entirely on birds in museum collections.
So I'm not sure what you should answer your daughter. The birds you saw were from the museum's collection, but were arranged as part of an art installation (unless she was asking about the InfoZone birds, in which case they were killed to help us understand and indentify differences between different bird species). Museums kill birds for reasons of research, which can satisfy scientific needs such as taxonomy and systematics, or can be used to aid conservation efforts by identifying at-risk populations effectively (ie. black-eared miners), or by highlighting changes in range and/or habitat. Stuffed birds are also put on display for the purposes of education. By itself, a mount of a bird educates about the identification of that species. Put within some the context of an exhibition, the bird can become a powerful symbol that educates about a particular issue or concept.
Ultimately, killing any animal for anything other than food (and even then), is a selfish act, which can be rationalised, but shouldn't be blindly accepted.
My family visited the new Melbourne Museum yesterday.
I just wondered if any birding-aus list members work there.
My daughter asked 'why did they have to kill all the birds'?
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The World's Largest Viking Ship Announces 2018 U.S. East Coast Tour
Draken Harald Harfagre, the world´s largest Viking ship sailing in modern times. Credit: Peder Jacobsson
Source : Viking Kings Inc.
Norwegian Viking ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre, officially announces today the commencement of the next leg of its North American tour, Expedition America: East Coast Tour 2018, slated to commence in summer of 2018.
In 2016, the Draken successfully crossed the North Atlantic Ocean, recreating one of the most epic, mythical explorations of all time in the wake of the Viking Explorer, Leif Ericsson. Visiting numerous ports and encountering thousands of people along her Trans-Atlantic journey, the Draken Harald Hårfagre emerged as a pillar of culture, education, and enrichment, bringing the illustrious Viking age of exploration to life in today's modern age.
Following the overwhelming response and great show of interest and support from the public, the next leg of the Draken Harald Hårfagre North American tour will consist of 16 stopovers across the U.S. East Coast states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia. The final tour schedule and all stopover ports are yet to be announced and will be made public in late-spring 2018.
"Each Draken stopover offers a unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for visitors to relive history in a way never before experienced, said Captain, Björn Ahlander. "We offer guests the opportunity to not only marvel at this stunning Viking ship on guided deck tours – but also to interact with the crew while they share their personal experiences of the thrill, fear, and exhilaration felt from having relived one of the world's most mythological sea voyages – the first transatlantic crossing and the Viking discovery of the New World, more than a thousand years ago."
After initially setting sail from Haugesund, Norway the world's largest Viking Ship sailing in modern times traveled via the Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, before its arrival to Newfoundland and subsequently the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes, followed by New York City. The ship then arrived in Mystic Seaport, CT., where she has been docked since the conclusion of Expedition 2016.
The crew on board Draken is a team of 35 people; men and women from all over the world, representing a diverse mix of age, gender, nationality, and background. The Draken is now inviting members of the public to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity by applying for professional and volunteer crew positions. To learn more, please visit: www.drakenhh.com/join-the-crew
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Q: simple jquery selector doesn't work in chrome So I have this script on (http://clubmoving-wp.punct.ro/):
$('#scheduleBox .selectCity select option').click(function() {
        var cityToShow = $(this).attr('value');
         switch(cityToShow) {
            case '0':
                $('.bucuresti, .cluj, .otopeni, .iasi').show();
                break;
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                $('.cluj, .otopeni, .iasi').hide();
                $('.bucuresti').show();
                break;
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                $('.cluj, .bucuresti, .iasi').hide();
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        };
    });

that needs to show or hide activity by city. it works just fine in ff but no chrome
the actual script is in the gears.js
thank you

A: $('#scheduleBox').on('change', '.selectCity', (function() {
        var cityToShow = $('option:selected', this).val();
         switch(cityToShow) {
            case '0':
                $('.bucuresti, .cluj, .otopeni, .iasi').show();
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                $('.bucuresti, .otopeni, .cluj').hide();
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        };
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Gina Krasley Death – Gina Krasley 600 lb cause of death – Explained
By Bilal Jhangda
This week, the news came out about Gina Krasley death. She was on the show My 600-Lb Life and died at 30. The reality show star had been in an episode of the 2020 show. In that show, Gina and her wife Beth struggled with Gina's health problems while living with her mom. As it turns out, Gina Krasley had sued the TLC show because of what happened to her on the show. She said the show worsened her mental health problems as she tried to lose weight.
Gina Krasley was one of ten former My 600-Lb Life stars or family members who were part of a lawsuit against the show's production company. The lawsuit was put together after another reality star on the TLC show, LB Bonner, killed himself. Bonner's family said the show's "gross negligence" led to Bonner's death.
After LB Bonner sued the company that made the show, Megalomedia, nine other people from the show also joined the case. This included Gina Krasley and other success stories from the show, like David Bolton, who came back in Season 6. Starcasm says that Jeanne Covey, Dottie Perkins, and Destinee Lashaee are also named in the lawsuit.
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Who is 600 LB Life Girl Gina Krasley?
Gina took her last breath at her home in Tuckerton, New Jersey, on August 1, 2021. But the main reason she died too soon hasn't been discovered yet. Doctors are looking into Gina's death, and soon we will know why she died. When she showed up in the eighth season of My 600-Lb Life, she had already died after a month. People diagnosed with obesity share their life stories and talk about their struggles in front of the world. Gina also went on the show hoping that Dr. Younan Nowzaradan could help her.
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Cause of Death of Gina Krasley
Gina Krasley death – Krasley appeared on the show in Season 8 to share her story and get the ball rolling on her weight loss goal. She revealed that her mental health was poor, and that she was afraid to be alone. Gina said she had spent her childhood "pushed under the rug." She had already lost a significant amount of weight by the time her episode ended, and she lost another 300 pounds before her untimely death, which she documented on YouTube. "She died at home with her loving family around her," the obituary reads.
What exactly led to her untimely demise remains a mystery at this point. On the other hand, there are clues. Upon experiencing a steep decline in health, Krasley documented those final days and hours on her YouTube account to benefit her admirers, friends, and distant relatives. The videos provide some insight into her final days.
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Gina Talks before her death
Gina Krasley talks proudly about her weight loss journey in dozens of videos on the Gina's Life YouTube channel, which was set up about five months ago. However, things started to get worse a little over three months ago. In a short video called "Hospital Bound," she tells people she had trouble eating and drinking. Which led to an infection that sent her to the hospital. The Mayo Clinic says that this infection turned out to be cellulitis, a bacterial infection that attacks skin and fat cells.
Gina Krasley death – In a few of the videos she posted in her last few months, the "My 600-lb Life" star talked about nerve pain and tried to make an appointment with a neurologist to test her for peripheral neuropathy. The condition, caused by damage to nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord, is usually felt first in the hands and feet, as Krasley's videos make clear.
Three weeks before she died, Krasley stopped putting videos on YouTube. In one of her last updates, she said that on July 29, she was going to see a neurologist. At the time this was written, that was about a week ago. Her cause of death is still unknown, but her family, friends, and fans will miss and love her.
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On March 15, 2014, a service was held to honor Leonard Knight, the artist famous for his work creating Salvation Mountain in Niland, CA. The monument stands near the entrance to Slab City and was erected using various items Knight found in the desert. He proceeded to cement the objects together and coated them in vivid colors, a stark contrast to the monochrome desert landscape it sits in. Leonard Knight's life was brighter than even the Mountain itself -- as evidenced by the hundreds of attendees who had come to honor the life of the Korean War veteran.
I headed out to Salvation Mountain to photograph the service with Yvette and Megan. It was an honor to be able to celebrate Knight's life among the hundreds of individuals who had arrived from across the United States. I love that this is the first post of my new blog.
After the service at Salvation Mountain, we explored. We ran into Dinosaurs, Megan got stung by a bee, Yvette and I fell into the Salton Sea... What a day.
And I'll end it with some shots from the phone.


TaskRabbit, a Boston, MA-based services marketplace, has raised $13m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Founders Fund, with participation from existing investors Shasta Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, Shervin Pishevar, and 500 Startups.
The company intends to use the new funds to expand its executive, engineering and product teams (http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/taskrabbit/list).
In conjunction with the funding, Founders Fund's Bruce Gibney will join TaskRabbit's Board of Directors, along with former eBay Vice President and current Trunk Club COO Rob Chesney.
Led by founder and CEO Leah Busque, TaskRabbit is an online and mobile marketplace that allows users to connect with reliable people right in their neighborhood to get things on daily their To-Do list done.
Currently it is active in Boston, SF Bay Area, San Antonio, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, LA & OC, and New York City.


Turning Pages Foundation: A non-profit organization in North Hollywood, Ca, connecting community resources with local schools to develop and support academic, enrichment, and leadership programs.
Turning Pages Foundation is a non-profit organization established in North Hollywood, California in 2010 by Gail Craven. Our mission is to bridge the resources within our community and local schools to develop and support academic, enrichment, and leadership programs.
All Turning Pages Foundation projects are conceived by and instituted by our youth leaders. Current programs include peer tutoring; composting and gardening; selling sprouted seeds at the Farmers' Market; volunteering at local homeless shelters, food banks, and urban farms; fifth grade community council; summer leadership; writers' coop; and the art room at Lankershim Elementary.
We hope you'll get involved! Everyone can participate in Turning Pages Foundation. Our dream is to inspire communities, local and far-reaching, to act with compassion in the world. Your participation makes a difference.
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As you may know I was in DC for the Fly-in for World Kidney Day 2014. We met with Senator Cornyn's office (Holly) and with Senator Cruz's staff, Representative Kenny Marchant's staffer, Representative Marc Veasey and his staff, and Representative Sam Johnson's staffer. It was a very productive day. Busy but productive. It was my first time with Representative Veasey. Nice fellow, very bright. Kenny Marchant's aide, Robert Vega, greeted me very graciously and said he was pleased to see me again. In fact, when he saw on his schedule that it was me again, he was excited and looking forward to my visit. I really appreciate that because, as you can imagine, he sees lots of people every week and for him to remember me and the purpose of my visit makes it especially rewarding.
The other two members of the group were Tonia and Erin. Tonia is a regional manager with Davita and Erin is the Legislative Affairs person for DavitaRX (the prescription group). Tonia was great and pushed my wheelchair for most of the day.
To reiterate the previous days' events… We had a great time! The first day was long. It started out at 4am. I didn't bother sleeping that night and had had insomnia the night before so I was running on about 3 hours sleep when I left for the airport. Parked the car… the two rows of Handicapped parking was completely full. Dragged my luggage to the waiting building where the airport buses were to pick me up, waited for the bus, and finally got to the Terminal. This time I flew JetBlue for the first time. It was very nice. Great seats, two-by-two in an Embraer Jet. The seats were 18.5 inch versus the usual 17-17.5. That extra inch or so makes a big difference. It's only a 100 passenger jet but comfortable in that configuration. If it was any other airline, they would have a three-two config and an even narrower aisle to carry about fifteen more people. They also had out a nice sized bag of snacks, not the pint-size bag with less than one serving. And, they will give you a couple or several if you ask. The pretzels I took were good. I tried the Blue Chips that are exclusive to Jet Blue (Get the connection?). They are "potato slices" (rather than potato chips) and they were as expected… potato slices. Very potato-y. I can't have them due to high potassium and sodium so I just tasted them. Good. The service was good to excellent. It was only less than excellent because for part of the trip, one of the flight attendants was sorta snooty. I don't know why.
The route was somewhat out-of-the-way. I flew from DFW to Boston, then to DC. I may have slept for a bit on the first leg of the trip. I really don't recall. I was extremely exhausted. In Boston, I had to change planes but onto another JetBlue Embraer jet. On this leg my seat partner was a Freshman from a boarding school in Virginia. It's in a league with boarding school I attended so we had a lot in common. It reminded me of my first year and all the plane travel I did in the first 15 years of my life. I felt for a moment like I was talking to myself from 40 years ago. I hope I had a similar impression on others as this kid had on me. He was extremely respectful, polite, and conversant. I learned as much from him as I hope he did from me. Anyway, it was a great conversation and made the trip much faster. I was too tired to sleep. Finally we got to DC at 2pm. Almost 12 hours after I began that day and there was much more to get done that day.
I got to the hotel with just a bit of time to relax before I had a telephone conference with the National Kidney Foundation about the mentoring program. Fortunately that got postponed to another time. I'm not sure I would have been conscious enough to take it all in. I needed to get ready for a black-tie dinner that evening. It was at 101 Constitution Ave on the roof terrace and, as fate would have it, it was an absolutely beautiful 70 degree evening with a nice red-yellow sunset that highlighted to US Capitol and we had that view in all it's spectacular wonder. It was stunning! I shot pics like a Japanese tourist as did everyone in the group. The dinner was spectacular with Surf and Turf. There's nothing like a perfectly prepared steak and lobster! The steak was so tender you could cut it with a fork! Okay, not that tender but almost. It was shockingly good. The company was good too. A younger couple, Christie and Paul were at my table. Lovebirds. They are recently engaged. She's not always in good health and amazingly was recently in a coma that the doctors figured she wouldn't recover from. Surprise! She did. I didn't think I would make it through the dinner but the excitement of the evening and the wonderful presentations made it possible.
My first day there was long as I wrote about previously. But the second day began with dialysis at 4am. The previous night ended late after the DPC Education Center Gala dinner party. Nancy Scott, the Chairperson, was previously the Chair of the Board for DPC but got a transplant so she had to step down. That's when she took up that position and is doing a great job of getting it off the ground. She's perfect for the job, a self-driven, determined person. Anyway, I didn't get much sleep that night before I had to be up for dialysis at four in the morning. The center we went to was an older place in the north part of DC. It sorta looked like a homeless shelter from the outside but warm and inviting once inside. Of course, they had trouble sticking me. I've gotten used to that fact. I told the tech she needed to use a long, 1.5 inch, needle for the upper part of my arm but she ignored me. After several failed attempts and tears were beginning to show in my eyes, she gave up and said, "You weren't lying. That really is deep." I thought, "Duh! Why would I lie?" That's when she confessed they didn't have any long needles. So she moved down on the arm and stuck me there. Once I got accustomed to the new surroundings, I was out like a light. It's the first time I've slept for all but about 30 minutes of a dialysis session. Suffice to say, it was the first time I had a chance to sleep since Monday night and this was Wednesday morning!
We got back to the hotel about 11am in time for lunch which was good because I didn't eat much in dialysis. Had lunch, then we went into our briefing session. As with previous years, it was very well done. Except before this fly-in, the big issue was a change to Medicare Drugs for Transplant patients. They didn't give us a chance and withdrew the proposed change a couple days before we arrived. So, we had a slight change of plans and worked on some other issues instead. This time it was some omnibus Kidney Legislation that will cure and fix some problems in the community. Also, we are trying to get Medicare to change its rule on dialysis patients being excluded from some Medicare Advantage plans. And, as always, we are encouraging legislators to visit our centers and join the Kidney Caucus in Congress. We didn't get much sleep that evening because we had to be up at 6am for the day on Capitol Hill.
Thursday was a blur of activity. It was officially World Kidney Day 2014 and the day we met with our members of Congress. The day started early with breakfast at 6am and onto the bus at 8am to head for the meetings in Capitol Hill. But first was the obligatory photo of the group with the Capitol in the background.
As we left the bus, we were met with an icy wind that was strong enough to move a horse. I anticipated some cold so I carried a heavy jacket with me. I learned from the last time, March 2013, when it was biting cold, too. However, I didn't have gloves and my fingers felt like they were going to drop off and shatter on the ground.
The rest of our last day was spent going from office to office in a mad rush and catching a quick lunch in the very busy cafeteria under the House office buildings. More about the particulars of the office visits in another post.
I had a late (8pm) flight out so I had some time to spare. I went back to the hotel for paperwork and reporting. Then I spent a couple hours at the airport. I was in a wheelchair so I got priority boarding. I was the second person on the plane. It was American Airlines so it was barely tolerable. If by "tolerable" you mean "waterboarding is a viable comparison". I bumped elbows with the poor soul that was stuck in the middle of the the three-and-three seating in an ancient MD-80 for 3.5 hours! I read a few years back that AA was replacing all those antiques with new planes. I guess not. Well, at least I got to fly JetBlue one-way to enjoy a little bit of what air travel should be.
It's been a few weeks now. I think I'm recovered.
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Alex and Brandon Jones, brothers from Monument, had launched a crowdfunding campaign to jumpstart the development of their invention: a touchscreen router designed to control all automation and networking technologies within a home.
On the last Thursday of April, Lee Mayer, 32, sat slightly hidden behind her laptop at a conference table inside Galvanize, a tech startup common work space. She was updating back-end code for her e-commerce company's website.
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/ Actresses Perfect for American Horror Story
Actresses Perfect for American Horror Story
Co-creator Ryan Murphy has the habit of using the same cast for all of the seasons of American Horror Story. But every now and then we see a fresh face, for example, Michael Chiklis is confirmed to join the hit FX show for the fourth season. In Asylum, one of the standout actors was Zachary Quinto (Adam Levine was okay), and in Coven, we saw legendary actresses Kathy Bates and Angela Bassett give exemplary performances.
It's true that we see familiar faces every season, however it's inevitable that sooner or later they will leave the show and pursue other projects. We will not see Taissa Farmiga and Lily Rabe next season, plus it has been reported that Freak Show will be Jessica Lange's last season. There is still a possibility that they will come back, but it doesn't hurt to imagine perfect actresses to replace them when they are away or just be awesome additions to the already remarkable cast.
Say anything you want against Cher's crazy costumes and unending fight to look youthful but the woman can act. She also looks something like Morticia from the Addams family so creepy look is a big check. Youngsters may not know this but aside from being known as an excellent singer, Cher also won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Plus the fact that she is a great singer will be very appealing to Murphy who has been known to cast singers on his show.
Tatiana Maslaney
If by chance you don't know who Tatiana Maslaney is, she's the lead star of Orphan Black, an underappreciated BBC America show about a girl who finds out that she there are other people who look exactly like her, down to the last DNA strand. Yes, it's a show about clones, and what's impressive about Maslaney is that she plays a lot of characters with different personalities and accents. Her performance is a must watch, trust me. She will be perfect for an AHS character that has multiple personalities, or she can be anyone because she's very, very talented.
Margo Martindale
I love Margo Martindale. She's famous for being 'that' actress in Meryl Streep movies, but she holds her own, oh, she holds her own. Martindale is an Emmy award winning actress for her stint in Justified. She was also nominated for her frequent guestings in the critically acclaimed, ratings deprived FX series The Americans. Currently she has a sitcom, The Millers on CBS. She can be funny, dramatic, and be perfect for anything because that's just what she is, perfect.
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If you've been following House of Cards, you know how great an actress Kate Mara is, plus, she's also sizzling hot. You also know that her character, Zoe Barnes, was killed on the show's second season premiere. She's perfect when Lily Rabe is away doing movies and TV shows. Mara may not share the same hair color as Rabe but their acting chops are both magnificent.
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BRIDGEWATER, Va. – Randolph-Macon scored three straight goals in critical moments of the third and fourth quarters, winning 10-7 in Old Dominion Athletic Conference play Friday afternoon against Bridgewater College at Jopson Field. Senior Alex Camilliere (Huntingtown, MD / Huntingtown) scored three goals and sophomore Colin DiSesa (Ashland, Va. / Hanover) scored a goal and a pair of assists for Randolph-Macon (7-6, 2-3 ODAC) in the defeat of the Eagles (8-4, 2-3 ODAC).
After Bridgewater scored the first two goals of the game, Camilliere got the Yellow Jackets on the board with 5:59 to go in the first as he shot from the left side and the ball trickled in.
Randolph-Macon evened the score about four minutes later as junior Matt Surock (Baltimore, MD / Loch Raven) scored his first goal of the season, hitting the cage as the Yellow Jackets were in transition from a BC turnover.
Then, just thirty seconds later and following a save by junior Chris Cerrina (Ridgewood, NJ / Ridgewood), DiSesa scored in transition as well, taking a pass from sophomore Tyler Flora (Mechanicsville, Va. / Hanover) and sending it into the cage to give R-MC its first lead of the game.
Randolph-Macon continued to take advantage of the transition offense. Tiffey took a pass from freshman Jack Silvernale (Warrenton, Va. / Highland School), who won the quarter-opening faceoff, getting R-MC onto the board again moments into the second quarter.
Senior Kyle Keepers (Roswell, GA / Roswell) was next to score for R-MC. He took a pass from fellow senior Coleman Adams (Mechanicsville, VA / St. Christopher's) into the cage with 12:50 to go in the second, giving the Yellow Jackets the 5-2 lead.
The Eagles ended R-MC's 5-0 run at 10:50 to go in the second as BC's Blake Mann scored twice in a row over the course of the middle of the second quarter. The scores cut the R-MC lead to just one.
Camilliere cut the Bridgewater run with a goal of his own, coming as he worked around an Eagle defender on the left side of the goal with 5:18 to go in the second quarter.
The Eagles encroached on the Yellow Jacket's lead about three minutes later, scoring their fifth goal of the afternoon. The goal would send the teams into the halftime break with the advantage on Randolph-Macon's side, 6-5.
Bridgewater tied the game coming out of the break, scoring a goal with 9:24 to go in the third quarter. Sophomore Brendan Markovic (Westminster, Md. / Winters Mill) gave the lead back to Randolph-Macon, scoring a goal with 6:20 left in the period.
It was the first of a 3-0 run by R-MC. Camilliere scored next for the Yellow Jackets, taking a pass from Tiffey into the cage just two minutes after Markovic's goal.
The run spanned into the fourth quarter. Tiffey got another Yellow Jacket score on the board as he took a pass from DiSesa into the net with 14:03 left in the final period.
Bridgewater was able to tally another goal with 6:54 to go, but R-MC answered right back. Moments after a BC penalty, which was charged after senior Miles Muncie (Midlothian, VA / Midlothian) became the recipient of an Eagle push, Muncie made Bridgewater pay. He scored from the right side of the cage, shooting the ball between the keep's legs after grabbing the pass from DiSesa in a man-up situation, finalizing the score in favor of the Yellow Jackets 10-7.
R-MC outshot the Eagles 38-25 on the day, with 22 coming on goal. Camilliere and Keepers were the team leaders for shots, each taking seven.
Cerrina made six saves on the day, gaining his seventh win of the season in the cage.
Also leading the charge for R-MC defensively were senior Andrew Venezia (Rockville, MD / Good Counsel) and junior Austin Evans (Glen Allen, VA / Glen Allen), who each caused two turnovers. Flora led the team with six ground balls with Tiffey picking up four as well. R-MC picked up 30 ground balls compared to BC's 18.
R-MC held the 11-9 advantage in faceoffs, with sophomore Joe Maranto (Joppa, Md. / Fallston) leading R-MC, winning 6-of-9 faceoffs. Silvernale was 2-of-3 in his opportunities.
Randolph-Macon will face Roanoke next Saturday at 2:00 PM at Kerr Stadium in Salem.


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Consider Nespresso. They sell in distinctive pods, which provide the right amount of coffee for a cup. Because they're sold in that unit we compare their price to other places selling by the cup, such as Costa or Caffe Nero. When compared to the £2.50 Costa charge, Nespresso pods, costing 30p-37p, feel like a bargain.
But stop for a second and remember back to when they launched. If Nespresso had sold their coffee in standard packaging the natural comparison set would have other brands of roast and ground coffee, like Taylor's or illy. Their price would have been judged against the norm for other coffees — roughly £4.00 for 227g. Even with tens of millions of pounds of advertising they could never have persuaded consumers to pay £34 for a 454g bag. But that £34 figure equates to 7p per gram, exactly what they're charging now.


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Rates of cannabis use are highest during emerging adulthood (age 18–25), with the prevalence of near daily and daily increasing among this age group. Emerging adults are clinically challenging in terms of harmful cannabis use due to perceptions of high rates of peer use, social acceptance, and low risk of harm. Brief interventions to increase awareness and promote motivation to change are therefore particularly important for this age group. There is existing evidence on the effectiveness of brief interventions for alcohol in emerging adults, but it is not clear if comparable evidence is present for cannabis. The objective of this systematic review is to summarize and critically appraise the existing literature of brief interventions for cannabis use both narratively, to describe the content and delivery of existing interventions, and meta-analytically, to determine the aggregated efficacy of these interventions on cannabis use and other outcomes (e.g., other substance use, mental health, help-seeking behaviors, and academic and occupational outcomes).
A systematic search of randomized controlled trials, quasi-experimental trials, and pre-post designs will be conducted in the following electronic databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Allied and Complementary Medicine, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PsycINFO. Ongoing trials will be identified using the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Current Controlled Trials. Unpublished trials will be identified using Proquest Dissertations, OpenGrey, Google Scholar, and brief interventions on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration webpage. Two authors will independently screen and extract data from articles using a predetermined screening and extraction forms (which will include risk of bias assessments). Calibration exercises will be performed prior to full screening and extraction. Disagreements will be resolved through discussion or consultation with a third reviewer. All studies will be reported narratively, and if appropriate, we will perform random effects meta-analyses with subgroup analyses and meta-regression.
Results of this review are expected to provide guidance on the content, delivery methods, and effectiveness of brief interventions for cannabis use to assist post-secondary institutions in identifying brief intervention strategies to implement prior to or in response to legalization.
Cannabis is one of the most commonly used psychoactive substances in the world, with use most prevalent among emerging adults (15–24 year olds) [1–5]. Cannabis use has been associated with negative physical and mental health effects in a dose-response fashion, where near daily or daily use is associated with worse outcomes . Harmful levels of use have been increasing among emerging adults in Canada [7, 8] and the United States . Risks of cannabis-related harm are more pervasive for individuals who begin using cannabis during adolescence, with earlier age of first use potentially resulting in long lasting consequences . Given the high prevalence of use and potential for significant impairment, efficacious interventions for high-risk individuals in this age group are a pressing clinical priority.
Emerging adults are neurodevelopmentally vulnerable to the effects of cannabis, as cannabis acts on areas of the brain integral to brain development. The brain is not completely matured until approximately 25 years of age . Chronic, regular cannabis use during adolescence has shown to negatively affect memory, attention, and psychomotor skills [10–12], potentially causing irreversible cognitive impairment  resulting in an increased likelihood of fatal car accidents , poor academic performance [15–17], and dropping out of school  . Additionally, weekly cannabis use or a cannabis use disorder is almost 10 times as likely in people with other mental illness as compared to those without other mental illness ; frequent use has been associated with psychotic disorders [14, 19], bipolar disorder , personality disorders , depression [20–22], anxiety , and suicidal ideation and attempts . Overall, cannabis use during emerging adulthood is particularly concerning due to its potential to disrupt neurological, social, emotional, and cognitive development.
Despite the associations between cannabis use and negative health consequences, the perceived risk of using cannabis, both occasionally and regularly, is decreasing among adolescents and emerging adults [25–28] and, subsequently, there has been an increase in social acceptance of cannabis use . This is further compounded by the perception of high-frequency peer use; in North America, emerging adults perceive that about 86% of their peers are using cannabis at least monthly when only about 20% of students actually report using monthly [7, 30]. Additionally, for general mental health concerns, less than half of emerging adults in need receive professional help  with common reported barriers to treatment including stigma, embarrassment, problems recognizing symptoms, self-reliance, and importantly, not enough time [32, 33]. These barriers to seeking general mental health services may be magnified for substance use concerns due to the perception of normalcy of problematic behaviors. Therefore, the perception of low-risk, high peer use, and social acceptance make emerging adults a clinically challenging population, which is further compounded by low motivation for change.
Existing literature on interventions targeting post-secondary substance users acknowledges the challenges to engaging this population and, therefore, has focused on brief interventions (BI) or brief motivational interventions (BMIs). There are many different existing definitions for brief interventions but all contain typical ingredients. BIs typically are short in duration [34, 35] and include provision of personalized feedback . Most BIs adopt a motivational interviewing (MI) approach with the primary goal of the BI being to motivate participants to change their behavior, teach behavioral change skills, and connect to services [35, 37–39]. Often, BIs follow the FRAMES model in which the participant receives personalized feedback, reinforcement of personal responsibility, objective advice given non-judgmentally, a menu of options, an empathetic and accepting listener, and encouragement of self-efficacy and confidence [38–40].
Emerging adulthood is a distinct developmental period characterized by instability and exploration, often referred to as extended adolescence, in which individuals typically experience reduced parental monitoring but are not yet fully engaged in the responsibilities and expectations of adulthood . Emerging adults straddle adolescence and young adulthood, sharing some similarities with both developmental periods. A scoping search was performed to identify the general breadth of existing brief intervention literature to inform the specifics of this review. Existing literature on BIs for cannabis use is already limited, and is particularly scarce when focused on emerging adults. Thus, BIs for adolescents and young adults should also be explored to provide a comprehensive picture and clinical relevance of the existing BI literature.
We identified three reviews on BIs for adolescent substance use. Jensen (2011) looked specifically at MI approaches (including BIs and longer duration interventions, 1 to 9 sessions) for adolescent (12–20 years of age) substance use, finding evidence that suggests MI approaches are helpful to reduce general substance use in the short and longer term (significance retained at follow-up) . Barnett (2012) conducted a systematic review on MI interventions for adolescent substance use (mean age < 18.5). Although they did not perform a meta-analysis, they indicate that 67% of the studies result in reductions in some form of substance use outcomes, including marijuana use . A Cochrane review by Carney (2016) found six randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of face-to-face school-based BIs for adolescents (under 19 years of age) who experience negative behavioral consequences from subclinical levels of substance use . Moderate-quality evidence suggests that effects of BIs on cannabis frequency and dependence are not significantly different compared to information provision (health promotion materials and harm reduction information). However, when comparing BIs to assessment only (evaluated on substance use but received no intervention), BIs appear to reduce cannabis frequency (SMD − 0.54 [− 0.77, − 0.31]), although this is based on low-quality evidence and only includes results from two RCTs (n = 338).
For emerging adults, we identified one relevant literature review by Dennhardt and colleagues (2013) . This review found one observational study and five RCTs on BIs and examined their effect on substance use outcomes, including cannabis use. They did not perform a systematic search and did not combine results meta-analytically, but concluded that brief motivational interventions demonstrated the most promising results for college students, apart from parent-based interventions, and requires further investigation.
For adults, there is a Cochrane review by Gates et al. (2016) on psychosocial interventions for cannabis use . This study found 23 RCTs of psychosocial interventions (which include CBT, MI, mindfulness, counseling or education contingency management, relapse prevention) for adults with cannabis abuse or dependence or near daily users of cannabis who were seeking treatment for their cannabis use or other adults seeking treatment for cannabis use. Results suggest moderate-quality evidence that individuals who receive a psychosocial intervention use cannabis on fewer days compared to inactive control; low-quality evidence that those receiving an intervention were more likely to report point-prevalence abstinence, fewer symptoms of dependence, and fewer cannabis-related problems compared to inactive control; and very low-quality evidence that individuals receiving interventions use fewer joints per day compared with inactive control. Additionally, interventions longer than four sessions for more than a month appear to demonstrate better outcomes and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) appears to produce the largest effects followed by motivational approaches.
There are several methodological and conceptual limitations of existing reviews. Methodologically, one study did not including a systematic search , two did not include unpublished literature [42, 43], and two only included RCTs [44, 46]. In regards to the interventions, most did not look at BIs (1–2 sessions) neither as a whole or within a subgroup analysis [42, 43, 46], most were not cannabis specific [42–45], and there were common restrictions based on the delivery location of interventions (i.e., only in secondary school , only in person [44, 46], no inpatient , only outpatient community ). In the two most comprehensive Cochrane reviews, there were participant restrictions based on baseline substance use; Gates required participants to have a minimum amount of cannabis use at baseline and excluded individuals who regularly used or had a substance dependence on a substance other than marijuana or nicotine  while Carney excluded any individuals who had any substance dependence . Also, only one review covered a youth population (12–25) and is fraught with other methodologically and conceptual limitations including being outdated . Additionally, the lack of gold standard BI approach for cannabis use means that there is significant variability in the content and delivery methods of existing BIs. This variability increases heterogeneity and limits our ability to determine the salient components of a successful BI.
This review seeks to address these gaps by (1) focusing primarily on cannabis related outcomes, (2) conducting an up-to-date systematic search of all BIs for cannabis, inclusive of all youth populations and study designs, (3) providing comprehensive descriptions of the contents and delivery methods of existing BIs, and (4) performing multiple subgroup analyses based on content and delivery methods to try to determine the most important and effective components of a BI.
We will include all RCT designs including parallel-group, crossover, cluster-randomized and factorial design trials, and observational studies including pre-post designs and quasi-randomized trials.
The target population is emerging adults (i.e., 15–24 years of age) . This will include individuals both in and outside of school. We will code studies based on context (e.g., secondary school, university, college, treatment, correctional, etc.). Acknowledging the paucity of literature, we will expand our search to any samples that overlap with our pre-identified emerging adult age group (e.g., adolescents age 13–19 or adults 18+). Studies with samples with a maximum age less than 15 and the minimum age greater than 24 will be excluded. This review will not place restrictions on samples based on nature of participation (i.e., voluntary, mandated), presence or absence of other mental health concerns, student status, study origin, ethnicity, or sexuality.
Brief interventions will be operationalized as 1–2 sessions focused on cannabis use. BIs including FRAMES interventions are commonly defined as a single session. Including a second session constitutes a reasonable expansion of this definition and allows for scenarios in which an individual provides information at one session and receives feedback at a second session. Interventions comprising 3+ sessions will be excluded for falling outside the scope of being BIs. We will include BIs exclusively focused on cannabis use. BIs focused on cannabis use in combination with alcohol use, tobacco use, or general substance use will be excluded. We will include interventions that conduct an additional preliminary or follow-up session for the purpose of data collection and/or behavioral analysis. We will not place restrictions on method of delivery (i.e., in person, online, over the phone).
Comparison groups can include within-participant pre-post data, wait list control, treatment as usual, or active controls. This will allow for the inclusion of single-arm, two-arm, or multi-armed randomized or observational trials.
No gold standard instrument currently exists for the screening and assessment of cannabis use. Although there are 25 screening and assessment instruments available with adequate psychometric properties, evidence for the effectiveness of these tools is limited . With this in mind, any instrument capturing aspects of cannabis use (e.g., frequency, problems, dependence, motivation to change) will be included in this systematic review for cannabis use outcomes. We will also collect data on secondary outcomes including all other substance use outcomes, help-seeking behaviors (e.g., accessing services), mental health (both self-report and diagnostic outcomes), and any academic or occupational related outcomes. Data will be collected for all follow-up time points available.
We will search OVID MEDLINE In-Process (1946 to present), EMBASE (1974 to present), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Allied and Complementary Medicine (AMED 1985 to present), CINAHL, and PsychInfo (1806 to present). Ongoing trials will be identified using the World Health Organization (WHO) International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Clinical Trials.gov, and Current Controlled Trials (http://www.controlled-trials.com/). Unpublished trials will be identified using Proquest Dissertations, OpenGrey (up to February 2017), Google Scholar (1st 50 hits for each search), and brief interventions on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (http://nrepp.samhsa.gov/). No restrictions will be placed on language or publication status. We will check abstracts and reference lists of included articles and existing systematic reviews and contact authors for further information and data when appropriate (two attempts will be made). See Additional file 1 for full search strategy in each database and initial hits for each search (will re-run search to ensure up to date).
Articles will be uploaded to Covidence, an online systematic review management software. Two review authors will use Covidence to screen titles and abstracts of identified studies for possible inclusion based on screening forms (see Additional file 2). We will perform a calibration exercise to maximize consistency ensuring good inter-rater reliability operationalized as a Cohen's kappa of 0.8. After title and abstract screening, all studies that are selected for full-text review (without regard for agreement between screeners) will be screened. Again, two reviewers will independently assess full-texts for inclusion and disagreements will be resolved through discussion or consultation with a third reviewer. Following completion of full-text screening, final inter-rater reliability will be calculated.
One review author will independently extract data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet including study ID, study design, demographic data, risk of bias assessment, intervention description, comparison description, outcomes and measurement tools, summary of author's findings, and other comments (see Additional file 3 for full extraction content). A second review author will verify the extraction. A calibration exercise will be performed to maximize consistency. Discrepancies will be resolved through discussion or consultation with a third reviewer.
Risk of bias (RoB) of included RCTs will be assessed using the Cochrane RoB tool at the study level . Each domain will be judged as "low" or "high" RoB and reviewers will avoid judging bias as "unclear." Observational studies will be assessed with the RoB in non-randomized studies of interventions (ROBINS-I) tool . We will also include the presence of intervention fidelity checks in our RoB assessments under "other" in Cochrane RoB for RCTs and under "bias due to deviations from intended interventions" in ROBINS-I tool for observational studies. Two review authors will independently conduct RoB assessments. Discrepancies in judgments will be discussed and, if a consensus is not met, a third reviewer will resolve the remaining discrepancies.
We will be collecting continuous and dichotomous outcomes, regardless of the measurement tool. We will use mean differences when continuous outcomes are measured similarly (e.g., frequency of cannabis use, motivation to change, academic grades). Standardized mean differences (SMDs) will be used to combine continuous outcomes of similar constructs measured with different instruments (e.g., measures of substance use or mental health symptoms severity). SMDs will be calculated using the inverse variance method in a random effects model to create a uniform measurement scale and allow pooling of effects across studies. Review Manager 5 (RevMan) software will be used to calculate SMDs and 95% confidence intervals (CI), which uses the Hedges' adjusted g formula . SMDs (Hedges' g) of 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8 are interpreted as small, medium, and large effects respectively [48, 50]. We will adjust for factorial designs if a particular group (i.e., control) needs to be entered into the same meta-analysis twice by dividing the sample size of the duplicate group in half, keeping means and standard deviations unchanged . For cluster-randomized studies, the data will be adjusted for the clustering effect by using either the reported adjusted post-score means or the intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) to calculate the associated design effect (DE) and effective sample size .
For dichotomous outcomes (e.g., presence or absence of substance or other mental disorder, access of follow-up services, employment or student status), relative risks (RR) and odds ratios (OR) will be combined using the inverse variance method in a random effects model and reported as either a pooled RR or OR (depending on what is more commonly available in the existing literature) with subgroup analyses comparing ORs and RRs to ensure it is appropriate to pool measures . If pooling results is not possible due to insufficient studies (i.e., less than 2), results will be presented narratively.
When there is missing data, trialists will be contacted to obtain missing information (two attempts will be made). If we do not hear from trialists, we will calculate or impute missing values. Missing standard deviations (SDs) will be algebraically calculated using standard error, 95% confidence intervals, or p values. If missing SDs cannot be calculated algebraically, and baseline and final SDs are known, SDs will be imputed using a correlation coefficient or a conservative estimate of 0.5. We will also perform a sensitivity analysis for studies that only provide complete case data compared to studies that follow intention-to-treat principles. For dichotomous data, if events are missing, we will perform sensitivity analyses considering worst case scenario (i.e., assuming all participants experienced the "bad" outcome) and best case scenario (i.e., assuming all participants experienced the "good" outcome).
Heterogeneity between trials pooled for meta-analyses will be assessed by (1) visual inspection of the forest plot, (2) X2 test for statistically significance (P < 0.1), and (3) I2statistic to examine the proportion of between trial differences not due to chance . The I2 statistic will be used to determine the proportion of differences that was not due to chance, where values were assessed as 'might not be important' (0%–40%), "moderate" (30%–60%), "substantial" (50%–90%), or "high" (75% to 100%) . Due to the overlap in classification of I2 categories, a moderate I2 in our study will be operationalized as 40% due to the fact that some degree of heterogeneity would be expected between behavioral interventions. Where subgroup analyses have a minimum of 10 studies in the smaller subgroup, we will carry out meta-regression to test subgroup analyses, and multiple meta-regressions (sample size permitting). All pre-specified subgroup analyses will be carried out regardless of heterogeneity.
Gates (2016) conducted a fairly comprehensive set of subgroup analyses for psychosocial interventions targeting cannabis use. We will include all subgroup analyses Gates performed with some additional tests: (1) length of the intervention; (2) method of delivery (i.e., in-person compared to online or over the phone interventions); (3) population characteristics including (a) proportion of males, (b) clinical characteristics (dependence, concurrent other psychiatric illness, concurrent non-cannabis substance use, healthy), (c) treatment-seeking compared to non-treatment-seeking participants (including voluntary compared to mandatory participation), (d) patterns of cannabis use history (e.g., duration or levels of use, number of days of use, number of uses per day, age of initiation, route of delivery); (4) content characteristics including (a) personalized feedback regarding frequency, (b) personalized feedback regarding other outcomes, (c) normative feedback, (d) pros and cons, (e) values exercises, (f) mental health screening and/or discussion, (g) decision balance and/or goal setting, (h) provision of additional resource, and (i) adjunctive therapy or booster sessions; (5) study quality (low and high RoB); (6) study design (RCT and observational studies); and for dichotomous outcomes, (7) RR compared to OR, and (8) measurement instrument used. Significant subgroup differences will be identified using a p value of < 0.1. All subgroup topics will also be reported descriptively. If enough studies are present, univariate and multivariate meta-regression analyses will be performed. If possible, all analyses will be performed on the total sample of available studies as well as stratified by developmental age (e.g., adolescents, emerging adults, adults).
The Grading or Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach will be used to assess the quality of the evidence for each outcome to help infer confidence in the review findings and guide future research . Pooled SMD estimates or pooled RR/ORs, along with the GRADE assessment, will be presented in a Summary of Findings table. This protocol follows procedures outlined in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) statement (see Additional file 4).
We will additionally create an evidence map using a cross-tabular format of BIs for cannabis use across age groups (e.g., adolescents, emerging adults, and adults) to organize the evidence. Miake-Lye et al. (2016) identified cross-tabular formats as the most common way to present evidence "maps" . This evidence map will detail the number and quality of RCTs and observational studies, the combined sample size, the outcomes measured, and the content of interventions stratified by developmental age group.
Results of this systematic review will help to guide the development and refinement of brief interventions targeting cannabis use in the emerging adult population. Identifying the components of effective interventions is critical to inform brief interventions, which can engage youth and promote further help-seeking and behavior change. Given the potential for long-lasting negative effects of cannabis use during emerging adulthood, and current and impending changes in decriminalization and legalization of recreational cannabis in North America, this is an important step in reducing cannabis use and harms. Brief interventions may hold significant potential in terms of providing cost-effective, time-effective, and youth-friendly interventions. This review is essential to help inform effective BI practices that warrant implementation into practice will guide informed future investigations.
Mr. Justin Scherer, Ms. Vanessa Linton, Mr. Alex Lee, and Mr. Harman Sandhu will be involved in screening and data extraction moving forward.
Funding comes from the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research, of which Dr. MacKillop is a co-director. Dr. MacKillop's contributions are supported in part by the Peter Boris Chair in Addictions Research.
JH contributed to concept development, protocol development, and was the lead author of the manuscript. TP contributed to protocol development and manuscript writing. AF contributed to protocol development and manuscript writing. CM contributed to concept development, protocol development, and manuscript writing. JM contributed to concept development, protocol development, and manuscript writing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
JH is a registered nurse and graduate student in McMaster's Health Research Methodology Program in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. JH is a research assistant in the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. TP is a graduate student in the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. AF is a research coordinator at the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research and Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. CM is the lead psychiatrist at the McMaster University Student Wellness Centre, co-lead of the McMaster Student Mental Health and Well-being Strategy and an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry. JM is the Peter Boris chair in Addictions Research, the director of the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, the co-director of the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Medicinal Cannabis Research, and a professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences at McMaster University.
Dr. MacKillop is a principal in BEAM Diagnostics, Inc. The authors have no other competing interests to declare.
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