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For the ACSI’s 2021 American Customer Satisfaction Telecommunications Study, researchers interviewed 37,907 streaming customers chosen at random, who were contacted via email between April 1, 2020, and March 29, 2021. Customers were asked to describe their experiences with major streaming services based on 15 different factors: quality of the mobile app, reliability of the mobile app, website satisfaction, ease of understanding bill, ease of using on-screen menus and programming guides, overall performance and reliability, call center satisfaction, quality of original programming, variety of TV shows by category, availability of TV shows’ previous seasons, number of movies, number of TV shows, variety of movies by category, availability of current season’s TV shows, and availability of new movie titles....

A new personality survey conducted by YouGov asked 2,242 U.S. adults a number of questions about their personality and self-image, including what they dislike most about themselves. Out of 13 potential responses, 25 percent of respondents said their most undesirable trait was not on the list provided, 11 percent said they didn’t dislike anything about themselves, and seven percent couldn’t pinpoint a specific undesirable characteristic. Read on to discover how the rest responded and find out what the largest portion of respondents said they dislike about themselves....

The recent surge in COVID-19 infections in a number of southern and western states that reopened their economies earlier was the context of the conversation. When asked if schools would open in the fall, Gottlieb replied: “I think the schools in the south are going to get delayed. I don’t think they are going to be able to restart the school year. Now, they could take an interim step right now and just delay it for a week or a month....

According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), high emissions of methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide are the main culprits behind the stench. Using the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, we calculated the methane emissions per capita, as well as the percentage of each state that’s covered in landfills, from the EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program. We then factored in the natural gas plant liquid production for each state, with data provided by the U....

*Per capita equates to “per 100,000 residents” throughout this ranking. RELATED: If Your Nails Look Like This, Get Your Heart Checked Immediately. Heart disease deaths per capita: 116.7 Heart disease deaths per capita: 120.3 Heart disease deaths per capita: 127.2 Heart disease deaths per capita: 127.7 Heart disease deaths per capita: 129.7 Heart disease deaths per capita: 131.0 Heart disease deaths per capita: 134.0 Heart disease deaths per capita: 134....

The October study, published by the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, found that it’s not only important to say thank you, it matters how you frame it. The researchers behind the study set out to find out which form of expressing gratitude would have the biggest positive effect on a relationship. What they found was that conveying that the kind action your partner did met your needs (referred to technically as responsive-highlighting) produced positive feelings about the expression of gratitude and the relationship....

READ THIS NEXT: I’m a Pharmacist, and This Is the Medication I Always Warn Patients About. Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD, Urgent Care Medical Director and Physician at Carbon Health and Saint Mary’s Hospital, shared with Best Life, “As an urgent care and family medicine physician, I often recommend a short course of ibuprofen to my patients because it can help alleviate symptoms such as fever, headache, and/or body aches. However, taking the drug for a prolonged time can cause you to develop serious complications....

RELATED: These 2 Vaccines Are Effective Against the New India Variant, Study Finds. The CDC does not recommend that you use antibody testing to “assess for immunity” to COVID following vaccination. According to the agency, most antibody tests currently available for COVID look for antibodies that are different from the ones produced by the available COVID vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson. Antibody tests that do not detect the specific antibodies induced by these vaccines “will be negative in persons without history of previous natural infection,” even if they received one of the three vaccines....

RELATED: This Is the Most Dangerous Place to Be on a Cruise, Experts Say. Travel advisor Judy Tudor with the agency Fora underscores that cruise ships can be largely safe places. But one everyday hazard that poses danger to travelers is “overindulging on food and drink,” she says. “On every cruise, multiple people get very sick from eating rich foods that they don’t normally eat, eating too much, or drinking too much....

Fortunately, Thomas Russo, MD, chief of the division of infectious disease at the University at Buffalo, says that, seeing as pools should be chlorinated and chlorine deactivates the virus, pools themselves should be COVID-free. But of course, that doesn’t mean the same can be said for the pool-going experience as a whole. “The pool itself isn’t a risk—it’s the people around the pool and the interactions around the pool,” Russo says....

READ THIS NEXT: This Popular Retailer Is Closing 81 Stores Due to “Extensive Disruption”. Food and beverage operators are no stranger to opening and closing locations as the flow of business changes over time. But a few major chains have recently decided to pull their operations out of certain markets entirely and shutter their spaces there. On May 23, Starbucks announced that it would close all 130 locations in Russia and “no longer have a brand presence in the market” due to the country’s ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine, CNBC reported....

RELATED: If You Can’t Remember These 4 Things, It Could Be an Early Alzheimer’s Sign. Despite only recently being diagnosed, Willis’s difficult decision to step away from his career appears to have come after the condition became more apparent while working over the past few years. One of the first reported instances came from the set of the M. Night Shylaman film Glass in 2017 and 2018, during which two production sources said the actor appeared “slightly off,” according to Page Six....

RELATED: This Was the First Sign of Parkinson’s That Michael J. Fox Noticed. Six years ago, when Alda was 79, he read a New York Times (NYT) article by personal health columnist Jane E. Brody that explained that acting out dreams can be an early sign of Parkinson’s, a disease of the progressive nervous system that causes damage in the brain and impacts movement. It struck a chord with Alda, who remembered recently doing so....

RELATED: This Is the Zodiac Sign Most Likely to Cheat, Data Shows. While Aries might not personally be drama queens and kings, they get caught up in other people’s issues. Psychic reader and spiritual healer Emily Newman says that it’s the sign that “enjoys other people’s drama the most.” Forensic astrologer Valerie Evans adds that Aries is known for being extremely passionate. So watch out, because “they get energy from battle” and love a “heated conversation....

RELATED: Unvaccinated People Will Be Barred From This, Starting Dec. 27.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb On Dec. 13, Philadelphia health officials announced that proof of vaccination will be required for all indoor dining, starting on Jan. 3, per local ABC affiliate WPVI-TV. For the first two weeks of the new policy, unvaccinated people will be able to provide a negative COVID test instead, but as of Jan. 17, proof of vaccination—along with a government ID—will be the only way to eat inside at restaurants and other food establishments....

RELATED: USPS Will No Longer Let You Do This, Effective Immediately. The White House is gearing up to mail at-home COVID tests to people across the U.S. for no charge through the USPS, in accordance with a new plan from President Joe Biden. The government is allowing people to sign up for kits through a sign-up page on the Postal Service’s website—which is now up and running as of Jan....

READ THIS NEXT: USPS Is Making These Major Changes to Your Deliveries, Starting Jan. 22. Over the past month, mail complaints have piled up, with many upset over delivery delays during one of the most important shipping seasons. “There are extreme delays every day,” Mark Seitz, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 92, which represents about 700 postal workers in southern Maine, told the Portland Press Herald....

1 Woman With Baby Accosted in Restaurant Parking Lot According to a Facebook post by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, on Sept. 14, a woman was taking her baby out of her car in the Chick-fil-A parking lot when a man accosted her and tried to grab her keys. William Branch, 43, yelled at the woman, demanded her keys, then grabbed them from the waistband of her pants, the sheriff’s office said....

1 In Backseat of Police Car, Things Escalated Quickly According to local station KOKH, Rachel Zion Clay was being detained for erratic behavior. Deputies did not intend to arrest her. Clay was put in handcuffs and placed in the back of a patrol car. Then things went off the rails, and the gunfire followed. 2 Suspect Got Free of Handcuffs, Police Say Grady County Undersheriff Gary Boggess told KOKH what happened next....

1 Plane, Traveling Fast, Came to Rest in Lake The UK Independent reports the West Atlantic Boeing 737 took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and landed at Montpellier around 3 a.m. on Saturday. Upon landing, it slid off the runway and came to a stop with its nose skimming a lake. Rescue crews evacuated three people from the plane. The airport was closed on Saturday and an investigation was launched, officials said....