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Lemon Perfect: Tastefully Disrupting The Enhanced-Water Beverage Market
Some businesses start out with a dollar and a dream. Yanni Hufnagel's started with a dream of disrupting the way that the US drinks beverages and . . . lemons. In 2016, when the founder and CEO of the Atlanta-based Lemon Perfect Company was coaching basketball at the University of Nevada in Reno, he began a ketogenic diet routine that called for starting every day by drinking organic lemon water.
Although aggravated by having to squeeze his own lemons each morning, he found drinking the fresh lemon water made him feel great, so he stuck with it. One day, he noticed that all of the players and coaches in the locker room were drinking a popular anti-oxidant infused water, and a lemon-shaped light bulb went off in his brain: How about pairing great flavor with something that's good for you? Something that might even make the US a healthier place? And so, Lemon Perfect was born.
Sweetening the deal
Hufnagel says that for him, "Sugar is the root cause of so much of the destruction of (the) health of the American consumer, and it's a lot harder to eat five hamburgers than it is to drink five sodas. The truth is that so much of the dislocation of health in America, especially in the most underserved communities, is by what people drink, not by what people eat." This, he says, gave his company the chance to, "remove millions of pounds of sugar from the American diet."
Much of the US population lives in food deserts and communities with too few healthy options available, leading to rampant diabetes and other negative outcomes, including poverty.
Because our beverage ecosystem is still dominated by high-calorie, high-sugar options, however, Hufnagel knew he had to "deliver sweet to the market." "Otherwise," he says, "people aren't going to keep coming back." So, he set out to create a brand that delivers the flavor profile of many of those mainstream beverages but with an innovative and healthful twist — a drink squeezed from real, organic fruit.
Wanting to stay as far away from anything artificial as possible, he focused on using natural sweeteners. While its main competitors use synthetic versions of erythritol and stevia leaf extract, Lemon Perfect sources organic, non-GMO versions of those sweeteners for its certified organic, keto, vegan, kosher, and gluten-free beverages.
And its flavor profile has clearly won over consumers. Since its 2017 launch, Lemon Perfect has captured the seventh largest market share in the multibillion-dollar enhanced water category, in June 2022 becoming the fastest-growing brand in that category for the past year. The company aims to scale to more than 40,000 points of distribution by the end of 2022, and will shift its focus to convenience retail and food service channels in 2023 and 2024.
Healthy body, healthy planet
But America's sweetened-beverage addiction has not only harmed its people; it also contributes to the declining health of the planet. Here, too, Lemon Perfect is leading the way. In addition to being carbon neutral and making its bottles from recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic sourced from previously recycled plastic bottles, the company plans to become "plastic neutral" by October 2022.
This is particularly important to him, Hufnagel explains. "Whether you're using 100 percent recycled material or 100 percent virgin material, you're still producing a form of PET that's going into the marketplace."
He wanted Lemon Perfect to go a step further, he says. "So we're now going to remove the equivalent amount of plastic from the environment, one for one." Going plastic neutral is an endeavor that will cost millions of dollars, but will be very important to the company as it scales its business, Hufnagel says: It will make Lemon Perfect the first plastic-neutral brand in the enhanced water category.
"We want to continue to be at the forefront of positive change," says Hufnagel. "Anytime that we have a chance to lead the way and to be an innovator, we want to jump through that circle."
No "lemons" here
Having spent 10 years as an assistant men's Division One college basketball coach, Hufnagel knows a little something about teams. The most important thing, he says, is to surround yourself with great people and believe in what you're doing and what, collectively, your team can build.
Lemon Perfect is "building something that people put in their bodies every day that gives them a chance to live a healthier lifestyle," Hufnagel says. And at the same time, "we get to create a business that can have an enterprise value of a billion dollars, and then in between all that, we've got these amazing people," he says. The team of 72 he has assembled all believe strongly in the brand.
Hufnagel has tried to keep the hierarchy to a minimum so that folks are able to interact more as teammates. The key to this dynamic is that everyone in the company owns shares, which he believes is an important motivator. It makes Lemon Perfect's team members feel, he says, "like they're truly building something that's their own."
Says Hufnagel, "We're building a great business and we're building a business that can at the same time do real social good."
If you'd like to dive deeper with more purpose-led companies like Lemon Perfect check out the Lead with We podcast here, so that you too can build a company that transforms consumer behavior and our future.
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After a stretch in prison, a career in professional kickboxing appears to be a way out for Majid. But organized crime continues to hold a grip on the talented young fighter.
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Coming after Rabat (2011), it represents the flipside to Taihuttu's debut feature about three friends of North-African descent. What happens to those for whom life doesn't work out quite so well? WOLF is not a film about friendship, but betrayal. Rabat was in color, WOLF is in black and white. In Rabat the main character is attracted by two cultures, in WOLF, they tear him apart. It's a common mindstate among a lot of young men: they are rejected by society and therefore they reject it.
The backstory to Majid's escalating criminal activities is in his relation with his disapproving parents, his admiring young brother and his terminally ill older brother (played Nasrdin Dchar, co-star of Rabat). With a remarkable performance by Marwan, who started his physical training a year ahead of shooting, WOLF is a powerful, thoroughly engrossing film with an emotional core that sheds an uncompromising light on society's unwanted underclass.
WOLF is a gritty, black and white crime thriller that offers a human perspective on the gangster stories that continue to show up in the daily news. Marwan Kenzari plays a volatile young man who struggles to stay on the straight and narrow after he is released from prison. His father lands him an honest job at a flower auction, as the street life keeps pulling at him. After a trainer with an eye for talent (veteran actor Raymond Thiry) starts to put Majid on the path to a career in professional kickboxing, a crime boss sees potential of another kind in the unpolished fighter.
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Mustafa Duygulu
Jacob Derwig
Nasrdin Dchar
Mohammed El Mimouni
Baya Belal
Abdelkrim Bahloul
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Marco Pique
Vincent Linthorst
Werner Kolf
Mohammed Azaay
Mourade Zeguendi
Mimoun Ait Hamou
Leon Voorberg
Michael Knaap
Lodi Remmen
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Genres: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
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At Evolve, our aim is to create a social shift derived from the needs of our young people.
In today's society, as parents and educators there is real need to equip our children, teenagers and young adults with the emotional wellbeing to maximise their potential.
At Evolve we have the tools, expertise, experience and approach to address this problem. With a united vision for the greater good of young people maximising their potential and contributing to a brighter future for all.
By actively listening to the needs of our young people, Evolve 's mission is to:
• Create and deliver unique content, training and strategies to inspire and develop new practice in wellbeing and developmental education for parents, educators and institutions.
• Offer innovative bespoke programmes and tool kits to support the emotional and educational development of children, teenagers and young adults.
• Provide a diverse range of experiences and expertise in education, human development, wellbeing, psychology, mentoring and coaching,
• Provide young people with the skills, resources and experiences to fulfil their potential and develop as global citizens.
Communication & Courage
This builds a supportive community where young people feel safe.
Trust & Confidentiality
Promotes collaboration and results
Active Listening & Compassion
Considers each student's unique situation & needs
Connection & Relationships
Leads to trust, autonomy & influence
Research shows that children, teenagers and young adults are facing significant social and mental health challenges in the current PSHE environment.
1 in 8 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder, that's approximately three children in every classroom.
1 in 6 young people aged 16-24 has symptoms of a common mental disorder such as depression or an anxiety disorder.
Half of all mental health problems manifest by the age of 14, with 75% by the age of 24.
Nearly half of 17-19 year olds with a diagnosable mental health disorder has self-harmed or attempted suicide at some point, rising to 52.7% for young women.
In 2017, suicide was the most common cause of death for both boys (16.2% of all deaths) and girls (13.3%) aged between 5 and 19, and a report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows a 15% increase in the number of teenagers taking their own lives in the last year alone, and 67% since 2010.
(Sources : Youngminds.org, ONS & NHS Digital)
Along with understanding the neuroscience and development of the teenage brain, it is a tricky time for parents, educators and students to listen or be heard and for children, teenagers and young people to feel the freedom to speak openly and freely.
What we do know is that teenagers and young adults are drawn to a herd mentality and peer admiration culture.
Mental wellbeing is at the forefront of our focus, especially at a time when we are so disconnected and lonely - whilst being more connected than ever in the history of human evolution.
Children as young as 7 are being written off by the system as 'un manageable'. From a mental health aspect, the lack of expertise and provision for children with special needs, behavioural issues or under 16's in general, which are on the increase - is putting our children and the system in crisis.
1 in 5 children have dyslexia, that's 20% of an average classroom .
Experts and parents are seeing children with huge potential and value, falling through the holes of a system which is failing them at such a young age...'Imagine' a world without John Lennon, Churchill Einstein, Branson or Picasso, all of whom were dyslexic.
GP's are inundated with cases and at bursting point due to a lack of support for this age group. The repercussions of these failings are catastrophic.
In a YoungMinds survey, three-quarters (76%) of parents said that their child's mental health had deteriorated while waiting for support from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
In total, less than 1% of the total NHS budget is spent on children and young people's mental health services and the number of A&E attendances by young people aged 18 or under with a recorded diagnosis of a psychiatric condition has almost tripled since 2010. (Youngminds.org)
Department of Education figures show that almost 25,000 children aged seven or under were temporarily excluded from primary school in 2015/16.
More than 15,000 fixed-period exclusions in primary school were for physical assault against an adult. The average length of a fixed suspension was 2.2 days.
(DofE -. 2017)
Research shows that we are losing a huge amount of gifted children who are are 'curious of life' and once on the teenage social circuit ,explore the boundaries on many levels.
57.2% of kids have tried vaping although only 3.4% class themselves as current vapers- most don't realise it contains nicotine.
6% of 11 yr olds have tried drugs
A recent NHS report surveyed 14,000 11-15 year olds. 13% of children from affluent areas had drunk in the week before being surveyed. 1 in 4 of those from high affluence had ever taken drugs. (August 2019)
50% of 14,000 11-15 year olds who had recently drunk, smoked or taken drugs were unhappy.(August 2019)
555 of 15 yr olds were offered drugs in the last year - 37% tried them.
According to a Global Drugs Survey - Nors is one of the most popular recreational drugs - carrying a 7 yr prison sentence and is an illegal psychoative substance. 14-24 yrs are main users.
Class A drug use among 16 to 24 year olds has been increasing since 2011/12.
56% of Uni Students have tried Drugs . (NHS PHE Survey Data, NHS Digital & MORI)
If we look at recent reports around teenagers vaping, smoking, drug and alcohol usage at festivals, social gatherings, parties and during school time - this can have a detrimental effect on their education.
In some instances, once caught - many schools fear dealing with, or admitting to - having pupils under their school banner, as having an issue and often would prefer for it to go away quietly - by asking a pupil to leave - or not admitting an incident ever happened.
However, acting from a place of fear or choosing not to admit there is an issue - by making it someone else's problem (ie the parents or passing them onto another school) - punishment or expulsion, isn't the answer.
The Department of Education figures show a 15% rise in the numbers of pupils expelled from state schools between 2015 -2017. That's 40 pupils expelled per day, with 83% of exclusions occurred in secondary schools.
Children with a recognised special educational need account for around half of all expulsions. In the state sector Head Teachers blame cuts to mental health and behaviour programmes.
'Punishment teaches kids how to avoid getting caught and is not the answer'
Dr Steve Peters. Author of The Chimp Paradox
What does work in most cases is striking an internal, emotional chord with teenagers. This has more impact than turning them away or expelling them at a time when they need support the most.
There is a way of being the authority, without being the authoritarian.
We strive to achieve an equilibrium and mutual respect all round between engaging the students, schools and parents by all working together.
University life these days exposes our young adults to drugs & alcohol, rape scandals, loneliness, suicides and debt. These all contribute to health & mental well being issues which now affects many young adults.
Data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed a 210% increase in the number of students who left university as a result of mental health issues between 2010 and 2015.
A 2018 study by the Office for National Statistics found that young people aged 16-24 felt lonely more often than any other age group of adults.
The health impacts of loneliness have also been under scrutiny – studies have shown that people who are lonely are 50% more likely to die before their time, with research suggesting loneliness is as dangerous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and more hazardous than being obese.(OSN)
Whilst academic intelligence is a requirement for gaining places at Universities - more and more cases are proving that there is a lack of emotional intelligence and life skills in young adults at University level.
We are here to assist and equip young adults with social and emotional development - moral strength and a tool kit for life, to enable them to enter their careers being the very best versions of themselves - therefore growing tomorrow's resilient global citizens.
Inspirational leadership and moral fibre is lacking in today's society. Our political system, justice system and education systems are broken. Corporate cultures, ethics and ethos appear to be all about statistics and not the people.
If Governments, corporates and institutions focused on and invested in the people - the statistics would improve, however, by focussing on and not investing in people- we lose the people; their commitment, focus, inspiration, creativity and energy for life.
Our environment is damaged and the disconnect in society is unravelling at such speed that as parents and educators it is hard to keep up - especially with social media and the unrealistic world of celebrity influencing our children.
How can we expect our teenagers and young people to keep up with the pressures put upon them today?
So, who do our teenagers and young people have to look up to - to make them feel valued or give them a voice? This is the basis for our Peer Lead Programmes.
Sir David Attenborough said 'Few people will protect the natural world - if they don't first love and understand it.'
We need to create an unprecedented global understanding, community and awareness, based on the very same ethos of love, understanding and support.
1in 3 adult mental health conditions relate directly to adverse childhood experiences, and adults who experienced four or more adversities in their childhood are four times more likely to have low levels of mental wellbeing and life satisfaction. (Youngminds.org)
At Evolve we are determined to tap into everyone's potential and help support every individual's purpose and vision for their life journey.
'To be whole first - allow yourself to be broken' Lao tzu
At Evolve we have a great team of industry experts and a wider network of CEO's , Corporates, Educationalists, Philanthropists, Community Leaders and Professional Facilitators - all whom share our vision for supporting our young people and moving humanity on.
'If the solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself...We are running out of time'. Greta Thunberg.
Evolve is creating a platform for Teenage empowerment.
2006 - 04/03/2019,
Harry Storey hanged himself at home after finding out from a WhatsApp group chat that the girl he had a secret crush on had a boyfriend, and had started dating another boy,.
Harry 's friends thought he was joking when he commented to them on WhatsApp that he had thoughts about suicide after learning he had a love rival.
Harry's father, Andrew, walked into the house after finishing work and saw Harry on the stairs out of the corner of his eye.
At first Harry's father thought his son was standing on the stairs looking down at his phone, before he realised what had happened.
The discovery of the schoolboy came as a complete shock to his devastated family who never had any worries about him and regarded him as a regular, happy boy with no previous mental health issues.
Andrew Storey said:
'I could not comprehend what I was seeing.'
Mr Storey told an inquest that he started CPR on his son when his wife Sue walked in he shouted that Harry had hanged himself and to call for help.
'Harry was a charismatic, charming, caring boy and sport was a huge part of his life, playing rugby, cricket and tennis. He would talk to anyone with ease and he had a natural ability to strike up a conversation which I admired him for.
He was an 'outgoing, adventurous' normal teenager who had 'high expectations' for himself and 'did not always see how successful he was'.
It came as a complete shock to me,' said Harry's Father.
Harry's friends thought of him as bubbly, but had heard him mention suicide before in a sarcastic manner.
In a series of WhatsApp messages, Harry had found out his close friend who he had a 'crush' on - had a boyfriend and he mentioned suicide but carried on the conversation normally afterwards,
Harry was rushed by road ambulance from his home to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on March 1 after he was discovered by his father and remained in the paediatric intensive care unit until his tragic death three days later.
Pathologist Dr Deirdre O'Shea confirmed the cause of death was hypoxic ischemic brain injury due to asphyxiation by suspension.
An inquest judge said: 'Harry did the action himself and had made comments about suicide. However teenagers do say things of that nature. Harry's death was an extremely sad case which could not have been predicted or prevented by his family or friends'.
The conclusion is one of Harry's death was misadventure.
1997 -20/01/2014
Dan was the younger son of Fiona and Tim Spargo-Mabbs. They, along, with Dan's older brother, Jacob, live in Croydon. He was in the lower sixth form of Archbishop Tenison CE High School in Croydon, where he'd attended since Year 7.
He was bright, articulate, funny, chatty, popular and talented. He was a big, engaging, much loved character. He'd been voted prom king at the end of year 11. He'd played in the band for the school show just before Christmas in year 12.
He'd recently signed up as a bone marrow donor. Dan had a daily paper round, but on top of his round, he used to run free errands for the elderly people to whom he delivered papers.
The family are regular members of their church, Emmanuel South Croydon, where Dan was involved with the youth work, and had signed up for their first youth Alpha course, starting in January 2014. He helped out church members with gardening and other odd jobs.
On the evening of Friday 17th January 2014, Dan persuaded his mum to let him go to a party, with a group of friends. As Dan was usually responsible, Fiona agreed that he could go.
Dan and his friends went to an illegal rave in Hillingdon instead of the party. It was the first time he'd been to a rave.
At the rave Dan took MDMA, along with four of the others. He had no way of knowing that there was a lethal amount of MDMA in the bag he had.
The other four were fine, but whichever of them had had that bag would have died. It happened to be Dan.
Dan's body temperature soared to 42 degrees centigrade and above. At this temperature, the body's organs can't cope and they shut down.
For a couple of hours his friends couldn't find him, and when they did he was propped up outside the building in the rain with paramedics. Dan was rushed to A&E at 0430 on Saturday 18th January.
At 0530, the police knocked on Fiona and Tim's front door and gave them the shocking news that Dan was unconscious in intensive care and fighting for his life. Because his legs were swelling, he needed an operation to cut them open to relieve the pressure.
He was on life support, his body unable to cope with the effects of the drug.
During 18th January, Dan was transferred to King's College Hospital Liver Unit, one of the most specialised units in Europe. There, machines did the work of his heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and circulatory system.
The staff did everything they could to save Dan's life, but at 1250 on Monday 20th January, Dan died, surrounded by his family.
Dan was just 16 when he died. He was one of the very last people anyone would have expected to come to harm from drugs, but he did.
Tim, Fiona and Jacob felt if this could happen to someone like Dan, it could happen to anyone, and they wanted to do all they could to prevent this. Dan's death is a tragedy that needn't have happened.
1989 - 21/09/17
The heartbreaking story of Lexi, written by her mother, Susan:
This is my daughter, Alexa. From the moment she was born to the moment she left this earth, she was adored by all those who's path she crossed. She was intelligent, well educated, well spoken, inquisitive, playful, kind and loving with a smile that lit up any room and warmed hearts. She loved books about spirituality, holistic living, books to help her understand the injustices in the world, and ways that she could find herself. Alexa kept journals throughout her life with pages full of raw emotion, poetry, and delicate sketches. She was deeply sensitive and felt life intensely.
In the beginning of her college years Alexa excelled. Sometime later, still in college, she met a 'friend'; a young man who gave Alexa her first dose of heroin. "Just give it a try". "What harm can it do"?
It was that first use, our daughter became physically and mentally addicted to this drug. She fought desperately and admiringly to overcome the tremendous grip heroin had on her life. Every single day was a battle for Alexa as well as those of us who loved her and had to watch her suffer. We did everything we could; would have given our lives for her. Despite the love and guidance bestowed upon her, the rehabs and detoxes, her perseverance, heroin inevitably took her in and suffocated every dream and aspiration she ever had.
Alexa died of an overdose on September 21st, 2017. She had periods of time where she was free from heroin. During these times she begged God to keep her sober, sought counselling, used holistic practices, and tried to keep her focus on holistic living, organics, and exercise. But the darkness would eventually settle in again and she would turn to the very drug that caused her so much pain, desperate to escape for a time from her tortuous thoughts of guilt and shame she felt - hurting the family she loved so.
Alexa described heroin as a "very lonely drug that takes you away from every part of your life and leaves you hanging on the brink of death".
She was given every opportunity a child should have. We are hard working parents who have raised our children with morals and values. We are not addicts. We are normal people who have always given the best to our children. Alexa was not a 'street junkie'. She worked from the age of 16 and supported herself up until a few months before her death.
She was somebody. She was our beloved daughter. And we will forever wonder if there was anything we could have done differently.
If this can happen to Alexa then it can happen to anyone. It only takes one time to become addicted to heroin.
ONE TIME is what it was for Alexa. She took heroin having no idea the power it would have over her. Alexa used for the first time on her college campus while she was drinking and her judgement was weakened. Your loved one could be offered heroin, just like Alexa. He/she might take it and think they won't get addicted, just like Alexa. You can be assured that if my precious daughter, who had the world at her feet, could become addicted to heroin and die from an overdose, it can just as easily happen to your child or loved one as well.
Thank you,
Susan Frost Lamoureux .
2003 - 17/2/17
Breck Bednar was a 14 year old boy, from Caterham, Surrey, who loved technology and online gaming.
He was groomed via the internet and stabbed to death on February 17th 2014 by someone he met online.
2005 - 15/07/19
Sam Connor was a lovely 14 yr old with a sense of humour - his devastated family described him as a shy 'sensitive little soul'.
The tragic 14-year-old, was struck by a train in front of 50 of his horrified classmates after he lay down on the tracks of an on coming train.
Sam was being bullied - at school. according to friends.
He was also anxious about his Year 9 Grades.
The school say they had no record of bullying in school.
Sam left his backpack and mobile phone - along with it's passcode with a friend moments before he lost his life.
1991 - 12/02/2016
Rose Polge was a beautiful, caring and capable junior doctor in her first year at Torbay Hospital. As with all junior doctors, she worked long shifts and antisocial hours.
Aged 25, Rose took her own life by walking into the sea.
Rose's mother linked her daughter's suicide directly to her conditions of work, stating ; "Exhaustion because of long hours, work related anxiety, and despair at her future in medicine'.
Her sister, Hazel, also a doctor, said "Often she would go without a break, getting home long after her shift had officially finished, ensuring everything was done to the best standard possible.
In caring so well for everyone else, she didn't care enough for herself.'
In a family statement read at the inquest, It said many doctors worked "under terrific pressure" and coped with "fatigue and heavy workloads" which could "generate massive levels of anxiety".
It continued: "Doctors can feel a dreadful sense of personal failure and inadequacy if they struggle to keep working. Sometimes, the despair can be sudden and overwhelming."
Describing the last time he saw his girlfriend alive, Alasdair Hawley told the court: "I remember her asking me if she left medicine would I still love her."
Rose's body was found several weeks later at Portland Bill Headland.
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Kangana Ranaut takes a dig at Deepika Padukone as probe into drug angle in Sushant Singh Rajput case intensifies
Kangana Ranaut took to Twitter to take a dig at Deepika Padukone and her 'repeat after me' posts. Deepika shared multiple posts on mental health awareness after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput in June.
Actor Kangana Ranaut is taking potshots at Deepika Padukone on Twitter after new developments in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case. Kangana ridiculed Deepika's depression awareness campaign, hinting it's a consequence of 'drug abuse'.
Sharing a news clip on Twitter, Kangana wrote, "Repeat after me, depression is a consequence of drug abuse. So called high society rich star children who claim to be classy and have a good upbringing ask their manager ," MAAL HAI KYA?" #boycottBollywoodDruggies #DeepikaPadukone." After Sushant's death by suicide in June, Deepika took to social media to spread awareness about mental health using the phrase 'repeat after me'.
The drug probe into Sushant's death by the Narcotic Control Bureau is getting more intense every week. On Monday, it was reported that Sara Ali Khan, Rakul Preet Singh and Simone Khambatta will be summoned by the NCB after they were named by actor Rhea Chakraborty. NCB's deputy director KPS Malhotra said, "Sara, Rakul, and Simone will be summoned this week."
A few news channels have also found WhatsApp chats between Sushant's former manager Jaya Saha, a 'K' and a 'D', discussing drug supplies. As per a Republic report, the chat messages are from October 2017 and show 'D' asking for "maal" from 'K' who replies that she has it, but it is at home. 'D' also then clarifies that she needs "hash" and not "weed" as they plan to meet up at a restaurant.
Investigations into the drug angle has led the NCB to Amritsar and Pakistan with organisations supplying cocaine and other hard drugs to Mumbai, and to Bollywood. "We have a fair idea as to who is involved in the Bollywood drug scene and (who the) Mumbai suppliers (are). The evidence is being collected before the consumers of hard drugs including heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine and their suppliers are charged," said a senior NCB official who is familiar with the investigations in the case. The official spoke on the condition that he is not named.
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The first times is always important to our lives, including the first charging time.
I read a lot of questions such as "do lithium-ion batteries need to be fully charged before first use?"
Or "how long should I charge a new phone before the first use?" and much more.
To resolve those questions, I invite you to read this article and find out the best way to charge new devices or new lithium-ion batteries correctly:
18650 Li-Ion Battery vs. Ni-Cd or Ni-MH batteries
We have seen the advancement in battery technology recently. A long time ago, we got nickel-cadmium (Ni-Cd), next nickel-metal-hydride (Ni-MH), then came lithium-ion (li-ion) and a reasonably short-lived stint on lithium polymer (Li-Ph).
The big difference between the Ni type and Li type is the memory effect. It means that if users don't discharge the Ni type fully before using, it will become harder to charge in the next times. Li type doesn't have that effect.
Someone may suggest you charging your new devices over 12 hours before it's used in the first time. That advice is outdated. It's only true to devices with Ni-CD or Ni-MH batteries.
Nowadays, manufacturers tend to use 18650 li-ion cells instead. And a best 18650 batteries don't ask you to charge for such a long time. It's not only necessary but also harmful to the batteries due to being overcharged.
The Li-ion cells are activated before being carried out of the factory. Lithium-ion batteries have maximum capacity available from the beginning, and the 1st charge is similar to the 10th charge.
Hence, you don't need to discharge or charge new devices or new 18650 batteries fully. You can freely use the device right after you bring it out of the store. Youcan reading more about the 18650 battery review here.
There're some important things you have to remember to do a correct charge:
1. Use the original charger
Every device is sold with the charger. You should use that original charger to charge your device. If you lost it or it's broken, don't use any charger around you but a good one from a prestigious manufacturer.
Because manufacturers tune the BMS (Battery Management System) in the cell to best work with the configuration of the charger provided by them.
A low-quality charger may shorten run times, cause premature battery failure. There're reports of fire or explosion because of a bag charger.
2. Do partial charge rather than a full charge
I'm sure that a lot of us made this mistake. Our guts tell us that we should leave our devices charged to the 100 % batter level, not interrupt the charging cycle. We're so confident of our charging habit.
It turns out we're doing not a good thing. Though charging fully makes us using most of battery's capacity, but we may overstress and lay a burden on the cells unintentionally. It's absolutely harmful to your battery's health, leading to the reduction of battery life.
However, a partial charge can guarantee that your batteries are not overcharged and you have to accept that you can't have a full battery's capacity.
So, unplug the devices if they get 85% or a little higher of battery level. If you forget to disconnect your devices sometimes, don't worry too much. Sometimes" is not a big deal.
3. Discharge the batteries fully once a month
If we talk about charging, we also need to talk about discharging. Because discharging leads to charging, right? A partial charge as recommendations should accompany with a partial discharge. It's the slogan of li-ion batteries "don't discharge to 0% as well as don't charge to 100%".
Occasionally we don't apply this slogan; we need to leave the batteries drained out of power to 0%. In modern devices, we have a smart battery which can inform us how many remaining minutes to use. We should do partial charges, but continuously partial charges will cause the "digital memory", decreasing the precision of the device power gouge.
To prevent that, after about 30 charging times, you let your devices run out of battery completely. According to battery experts, this practice will help to re-calibrate the smart battery.
4. Charge or discharge at the appropriate temperature
All battery manufacturers recommend us to store or use batteries in the proper temperature: from 20 to 25 degrees of Celsius. If we keep the cells in lower or higher temperature than the recommendation, it will cause a reduction in efficiency.
Scientifically, every 10 degrees deviation leads to a 20-30 mAh loss. Higher deviation, bigger loss, faster degradation.
I know we have winter seasons when the temperature goes down to the freeze. Don't charge the batteries under this harsh condition. The number of cells life will drop dramatically and quickly.
Opposite to the coldness is the heat. In the same way, you shouldn't leave or charge your batteries in hot places, for example in a car, near the oven in the kitchen…Heat is always the biggest factor that reduces lithium-ion battery life.
Also, when you are using or charging your device, and it is getting hot, simply stop using or charging. Getting hot means the battery is over-stressed. Don't let it exceed 60 degrees or else you have to buy a new one soon.
In conclusion
I've already shown you how to charge li-ion batteries for the first time correctly. Li-ion batteries have set us free from many things to be remembered.
Thanks to the improvement of technology. I hope this article helpful to you. Share it to your friends, your relatives, your colleagues that everyone will know how to treat our batteries right.


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Following the election (27th January, 2011), Martin, while issuing his first challenge as head of the organization, in entreating his team of professionals said, "We as business people [must] redouble our efforts to ensure that we can progress the economy of Nevis."
Mr. Martin's "short but sweet" triumph speech as described by Division Coordinator Ms. S. Patricia Claxton, encouraged the group's members to use "what had been happening on the international scene" to motivate them to be more successful.
"I believe that the Nevis division of the Chamber has a significant role to play in the business community in St. Kitts and Nevis and primarily in Nevis of course. I would ask for your support as we seek to carry out the mandate of the Nevis Division of the chamber," Mr. Martin said, just moments before he recorded his interest in "working with the St. Kitts Division of the chamber as well."
"I look forward to a very productive year as we move forward," he added.
The meeting, which was held upstairs the RAMS Shopping Complex at Stoney Grove, attracted the participation of representatives from various business places on the island including General Manager of the Nevis branch of the St. Kitts Nevis and Anguilla Trading and Development Company Limited [TDC] Mr. Ernie France and immediate past chairman of the Nevis division of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Mr. Mark Theron.
In addition to electing a new chairman to serve for the 2011-2012 term, four businessmen: Mr. Warren Moving of TDC, Mr. Ken Evelyn of Superfoods Supermarket, Mr. Mark Theron of Cool comfortable Caribbean Lifestyles [CCCL] and Mr. France were elected to serve as council members.
The St. Kitts-Nevis Chamber of Industry and Commerce seeks to "improve the standard and quality of life of all people of St. Kitts and Nevis."


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While I don't personally believe that writers must write every day to be successful (as I often hear), I do understand that some writers need that strict of a habit to keep them focused on their work. And you have to do whatever works for you. If think writing every single day is what you need, then this challenge is for you.
The goal is simple: write every day over the course of a month. I've included a free downloadable tracker below that you can use to track dates, what you wrote each day, and either how long you wrote or what word count you reached each day. If you succeed one month and want to stick with it, you can print and use as many copies of the monthly tracker as you'd like.
As always, you can create your own threads in this section of the forum to share your challenge progress, ask questions, or request tips from other community members.
Good luck!


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International Relations
- 27 May 2019
- 2 min read
China has started pushing for a free trade pact between ASEAN + 3 (which includes the ten-member ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea) at the East Asia Summit. This would effectively mean that the, among the 16 countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), all except India, Australia and New Zealand would get included in the proposed pact.
- RCEP is a proposed free trade agreement among 16 nations (ten-member ASEAN and Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand).
- The ASEAN+3 proposal is intended to put pressure on India to give China concessions similar to those given by other countries at the RCEP negotiations.
- Also, such a proposal is a message to India that China is ready to ignore India if India remains non-flexible at the RCEP negotiations.
- The move may also result in Australia and New Zealand putting more pressure on India to be more flexible in the RCEP negotiations, as they would not want to be excluded from the proposed pact.
- Earlier, it was Japan which was insistent on India's participation in the negotiations for a regional bloc as it believed that the country could act as a balancing factor and block China's efforts to increase its influence over the region. However, if China reaches some kind of understanding with Japan on the matter, it could be a rough road ahead for India.
- RCEP members have proposed that over 90% traded items should have zero tariffs but India is hesitant about falling in line. India is especially apprehensive about Chinese goods swamping its market, forcing domestic producers to cut production or shut down.
- If finalised, the RCEP will result in the largest free trade bloc in the world accounting for 25% of global GDP and 30% of world trade.


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For every man, there comes a time when he must take matters into his own hands, and staying healthy is no exception. While a website will never substitute for an actual visit to the doctor, seeking help online is a great first step toward betterment. However, navigating the internet at times can be like wading through a wasteland of unorganized chaos; finding the help you need can be difficult.So we thought we'd lend a hand. Here's a list of some of the top self-help health websites across various domains of health. Each is designed to make your self-diagnosis easier, and to help you stay in good health without a trip to the waiting room.
WebMD (www.webmd.com)
Focus: General health portalDon't miss: Personal health record
- Symptom checker
- Pharmacy center and pill identifier
- Doctor/Hospital locator (U.S. only)
- Health topics A-Z
- Articles and blogs
- Calculators and quizzes
Similar site: MayoClinic (www.mayoclinic.com)
MedHelp (www.medhelp.org)
Focus: Community and health information sharingDon't miss: Ask a doctor forum
- Searchable community forums (including pet forums)
- Member journals
- Health tracker
- Health topics A-Z
Similar site: DailyStrength (www.dailystrength.com)
eDiets (www.ediets.com)
Focus: DietDon't miss: Customized diet plans
- Diet, fitness and health news and blogs
- Recipe club
- Recipe and fitness videos
- Meal delivery plans
- Large community support
- Talk with a nutritionist
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About one week ago, there was a thread on the Garage Journal forums asking about how one would bury their tools if faced with an unforeseen disaster. Without a doubt, I would definitely use Plano's waterproof containers for the task if I had enough on hand.
These Plano containers are water resistant, durable, and fairly inexpensive. These features make them a good choice over costlier Pelican and Otterbox cases for applications when you don't need heavier duty water resistance or protection. Certain models come with handy pull-out trays.
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Who snags the final top spot in our 2020-21 Power Ranking?
Photo: Alika Jenner Getty Images
Article by WestCoastCFB
1. Washington
The Washington Huskies won the Pac-12 North but were unable to play in the Conference Title due to Covid issues within the program. With only 4 games played, it's difficult to fully judge the UW season but the final record of 3-1 was relatively impressive and gives UW the top spot in our final Pac-12 Power Ranking of the season. The Huskies are currently set to return 20/22 starters next season and will likely be the conference favorites in 2021-22.
The Trojans finish off another season on a disappointing note, seeing the Ducks celebrating on their home field. This might not be what USC fans want to hear, but this was a semi-successful year for USC. The Trojans have had 5 players announce they will be leaving early which isn't ideal but the Trojans should be strong again in 2021.
3. Oregon
The Ducks suffered a disappointing 34-17 loss to Iowa State and their season at 4-3. Oregon ends 2020 as Pac-12 champions but losses to Cal and Oregon state combined with a 17 point loss to Iowa State make it impossible to give them the top spot in the Pac-12 Power Rankings when they didn't win their own division within the Pac-12.
4. Stanford
The Cardinal had the most difficult year of any team in the country and they ended on a four game winning streak with each of the games on the road. David Shaw deserves credit for an amazing coaching job.
Arizona State may have been the most impressive Pac-12 program over the final 2 games of the season with dominant wins over Arizona and Oregon State. ASU was just a play away from beating both USC and UCLA and could find themselves at the top of conference in 2021. ASU finished the regular season #1 in both scoring offense and defense in the Pac-12.
6. Utah
Kyle Whittingham had his team playing their best football of the season in December. Expect the Utes to contend for the South once again in 2021. The Utes will always be a tough out for anyone with Whittingham leading the program.
7. Colorado
Colorado ends their season with back to back blow out losses after falling to Utah by 17 and then Texas by 32. Those losses drop Colorado to 7th in our rankings but it was still a successful first season for the Buffs under Dorrell.
Even with the 3-4 final record, UCLA is in a great spot to be a real contender in 2021 as they have great QB play and are building up their lines of scrimmage well to compete with anyone in the conference.
A 2-5 season for OSU didn't live up to expectations for a resurgent program but the Beavers lost close games and should turn those close losses into wins in 2021. Jonathan Smith continues to do an outstanding job landing 4 star transfers to bolster his roster.
A 1-3 record for WSU was disappointing but they laid the groundwork for 2021 while getting experience for their freshman QB.
11. Cal
Even though Cal didn't come close to expectations of competing for the Pac-12 North, the 2020 season was so unique that there wasn't much that can be taken away from it for a team that was affected by the virus as much as Cal was. 2021 is still looking bright in Berkeley.
12. Arizona
The Jedd Fisch era begins in Tucson and Arizona fans will need to be patient during a rebuild. Fisch comes with plenty of experience working with some of the best coaches in football. The offensive side of the ball should be solid under Fisch so nailing the DC hire will be key to success.


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Turning Thoughts into Words
BU prof tries to unlock "locked-in syndrome"
Before an accident in 1999, Erik Ramsey was "a typical teenager," according to his dad, Eddie Ramsey. He liked to draw and skateboard. He liked sport sand girls. But on that November night, everything typical about Erik Ramsey's life ended. A car crash caused a brain-stem stroke that left him with "locked-in syndrome" — completely paralyzed, but with total cognitive and sensory awareness. Ramsey, now 24, has almost nonvoluntary control over his body, except for his eyes, which he uses to answer questions — by looking up for yes or down for no. Now, thanks to a collaboration between Neural Signals, Inc., a company in the Ramseys' home state of Georgia, and Frank Guenther, a College of Arts and Sciences professor of cognitive andneural systems, Ramsey may one day regain his ability to speak. With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers are creating a "speech prosthesis" that combines a wireless electrode and transmitter from Neural Signals, Inc., implanted in Ramsey's brain, with a voice synthesizer run by software based on a computer model of the brain's language centers developed by Guenther's lab. Together, they aim to turn Ramsey's thoughts into words.
The collaboration is about two years old, but since 1992 Guenther and his lab team have been working on a computational model of how the brain controls speech. Their model mimics the neural networks involvedin producing words — from moving the jaw, lips, and tongue to babbling to processing "auditory targets" stored in the brain of how a word is supposed to sound. Continually refined with data from functional magnetic resonance imaging of people's brains performing speech tasks, the model learns to control a computer-simulated vocal tract and translate neural signals into words.
In summer 2006, Guenther was contacted by Philip Kennedy,founder of Neural Signals, Inc., who had implanted an electrode aboutsix millimeters long into Ramsey's brain, in the area that controls thetongue, jaw, and lips. The electrode could wirelessly transmit thepulses of about 40 neurons surrounding it. Kennedy's team had collectedextensive data from the electrodes, gathered when researchers askedRamsey to imagine speaking specific words. But they couldn't decode it.Up to a billion neurons are activated when we speak, says Guenther, soto glean much from just 40, "you need to have extremely sensitivetechniques."
Guenther's lab used its neuralmodel of speech to guide the design of decoder software that learned toread Ramsey's mind as he imagined saying vowel sounds. In a clinicaltrial last year, the researchers were able to predict what vowel sound Ramsey wasthinking of with 80 percent accuracy, but not in real time. InFebruary, they used an improved decoder and a new training protocol inwhich Ramsey imagined "singing along" to a series of vowel sounds thatmoved, for example, from oooh to ahhh. Once the decoder had been"trained" to recognize Ramsey's signal patterns, it was able to drive asynthesized voice that produced the vowel sounds as soon as Ramseythought them.
"Everybody was just ecstatic that day," says Eddie Ramsey — includingErik, who can still laugh, and did. The next step is consonants, whichare more complex, because they involve the closing of the vocal tract.Meanwhile, Neural Signals, Inc., has FDA approval to implant electrodesin four more patients, which would accelerate the development andrefinement of the decoder software.
As for Ramsey'schances of being able to speak again, his father has no doubt it willhappen. "It's kind of equivalent to watching your baby learn to walk,"he says. "He's got the first steps out of the way, and as soon as he'sgot his footing under him, he'll be off."
This story was originally published in Research at Boston University 2008 magazine. Click here to read more.
Chris Berdik can be reached at email@example.com.


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What is the "best" assembly for the popular model organisms:
- human (GRCh37 and GRCh38 are obvious, I'd pick whatever bwakit uses)
- mouse (GRCm37/GRCm38, OK)
but what about non-human/mouse ones?
- fruit fly
- zebrafish
- E. coli
- any other idea?
What is the "best" assembly for the popular model organisms:
but what about non-human/mouse ones?
I will answer one of the points – E.coli.
TL;DR Bacteria, and in particular E.coli, are highly variable and there is usually no single best assembly. Large scale WGS studies should come with multiple assemblies for individual monophyletic clusters.
Long answer: Whereas a single reference sequence can make sense for human or mice (to a certain extent), bacteria are not the case. The variability between them even within a single species can be enormous and various lineages can contain very different genes. This is the reason why biologists usually distinguish a core genome consisting of the genes shared among a vast majority (typically 95%) of individuals within a given phylogenetic clade, (i.e., of those genes which are essential for this clade – imagine a CPU and RAM in a computer), and an accessory genome consisting of the other, unnecessary, genes – imagine a joystick in our analogy). The size of the accessory genome can vary a lot for different bacteria. For instance, Escherichia coli is said to have an open accessory genome (i.e., much bigger than the core genome; imagine a Raspberry-PI and all the extension kits) whereas Chlamydia trachomatis has a closed accessory genome (i.e., small compared to the core genome; imagine an ATM).
For species having a small accessory genome, a single reference might be sufficient. However, if a core genome is large, we can use either pan-genomes, or multiple references. The word pan-genome tends to be used for different things: the computational biologists usually use it as a representation of all genomic content in a certain phylogenetic clade (which can be mathematically modeled using finite automata, hence as graphs) whereas some biologists define it as a concatenation of all (core and accessory) genes from the clade (without considering SNPs, etc.). Unfortunately, methods for graph references (especially for read mapping) are still not sufficiently developed, therefore, researchers still have to resort to reference sequence-based methods and use either concatenated genes or multiple reference sequences.
When particular bacterial species are studied using massive whole-genome sequencing of many isolates, researchers usually cluster the isolates to monophyletic sequence clusters and infer a special reference sequence for each of these clusters (see, e.g., this example for the pneumococcus). All of the inferred references should be then published together with the paper or in a separate data paper (see, e.g., the sequences from the previous example).
Disclaimer: I am not a biologist. If anything in this post is too simplified or incorrect, please, leave me a comment and I will try to fix it. I tried to make this text accessible for my younger self.
If the programs you are using allow for it, take the most recent available genome, as it will be most likely to have the fewest errors.
Many of the well-known model organisms have an official release site (e.g. flybase for drosophila, wormbase for nematodes) from which genomes are fairly promptly propagated through to larger public databases, of which the most well-known are probably Ensembl and RefSeq Genome. There's usually enough cross-talk between the large data repositories that it doesn't matter all that much where the source is, as long as it is at least a few months since the last genome release.
The "best" assembly depends on the species. For more common species, Ensembl/UCSC/NCBI has their own version that corresponds to the most popular assembly. Usually the actual genetic sequence is identical across all of them, but the chromosome names and gene annotations will vary. If those three sources agree for a species, there is a "standard" reference.
For fruit fly specifically, FlyBase Consortium/Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project is the gold standard. Other species have their own organizations.


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So we've apparently (fingers crossed) come to an agreement on a house at 315 N. Grove. Paying more for a house than we'd originally planned to, but quite a bit less than the sellers were asking, so probably reasonably fair all around. The interior of the house is notably prettier than it looks in the photos. Also, I plan to add some stained glass. :-) Some of the things we like about the house:
- has a small playroom / tv room in the finished basement (hooray for getting at least some of the toys out of sight!)
- lots of nice hardwood original trim, especially on the first floor
- wood frames over the first floor radiators -- it's a small detail, but pretty, and more importantly, good protection for crawling babes
- includes a little mudroom in back with storage for boots and the like -- should be a big help in keeping muddy dog and kids under control in winter
- has good sized kitchen and breakfast area -- a priority for us
- has a dedicated guest bedroom with its own bath (which we may use as a second office much of the time)
- has an open library space on the second floor that can function as another alternate office, especially when kids aren't home or are sleeping or are down in the basement playroom
- has a third floor office for Kevin and I to share, off the master bedroom (which is big enough that I can have a canopy bed, yay!)
- has master bath (about a third of the houses we looked at didn't have this, and while it wasn't a deal-breaker for us, an attached bath should be a nice element)
- has two fireplaces (one wood-burning in living room, one gas/wood combo in master bedroom)
- just tons of built-in storage added by current owners (admittedly, we wish they'd used nicer wood for the fronts of many of the cupboards, but still, the functionality is good)
- just a few blocks from Daniel and Anne's house, and also the same school district -- Kavi can't give up her playmates! :-)
- is in a truly fabulous location -- easy walk to one of the best primary schools in the area, two short blocks to the gorgeous public library and Oak Park's downtown, while still being on a quiet tree-lined street, and just 4 very walkable blocks (.4 miles) to the Oak Park Green Line station (which lets us take the subway in to work, if we don't mind a slightly convoluted route through downtown Chicago)
- has very little we'd want to renovate right away -- painting some rooms, redoing the tile on one fireplace; basically, it's move-in ready
The Grove house is a really livable house, and if all goes well in the next few weeks, I think we'll be really happy here.
I am somewhat tempted to repaint the front exterior at some point. E.E. Roberts was a pretty well-known architect of his time (one of Frank Lloyd Wright's rivals in Oak Park, although not nearly as talented or famous :-), and I'm normally all in favor of maintaining the history of the house. But I'm just not a big fan of the Mock Tudor or Tudorbethan look. (Gods, Tudorbethan's even an ugly word -- Tudor Revival is somewhat more dignified at least.) Yes, it's hobbity, I admit, and I do love hobbits, but perhaps it's a bit much in a house? Much as I adore Merrie Olde England, if it's not the real thing, I don't know that there's so much point in a rustic cottage look. Especially since the shape of the house isn't even Tudor, I think -- the interior rooms are fairly open and airy, rather than low and musty.
Would you consider it a travesty if I painted over those those fake half-timbers on the front facade? I don't think they're even wood -- just paint! Although I won't swear to that yet. Would the neighbors get mad?
Next step: inspection. Tentative closing: 9/15/09. Baby due: 10/10/09. So as long as he doesn't show up early...


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In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America was proud to partner with the Embassy of Israel and the National Cancer Institute to offer a panel presentation, "Innovations in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment."
The October 27 panel featured Dr. Shani Paluch-Shimon, director of the Breast Oncology Program at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, and Dr. Barbara Dunn, medical officer, Community Oncology and Prevention Trials Research Group in the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention. Moderating the panel was Embassy of Israel Minister of Public Diplomacy Tammy Ben-Haim.
"Conversations like these save lives," Hadassah National President Rhoda Smolow told participants in her introductory remarks, where she emphasized breast cancer awareness as a keystone of Hadassah's women's health advocacy mission.
As in all medical science, perspectives often change as new data emerges. Among the paradigm shifts in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment is the "awareness that breast cancer is not one illness," Dr. Paluch-Shimon related. With this recognition, she explained, comes the imperative to understand the specific biology of an individual patient's tumor and to tailor treatment more precisely. In addition, Dr. Paluch-Shimon said, "sometimes, less is more. We have to get treatment right and not over-treat our patients."
Dr. Dunn focuses on the other end of the spectrum: prevention of cancer. She and her colleagues identify a woman's risk factors for the different types of breast cancer and then explore steps to mitigate those risks. Dr. Dunn related that the strongest risk factor is a "pathogenic mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes." That being said, she noted that except among certain groups, such as Ashkenazi Jewish women where the risk is one in 40, BRCA mutations are rare.
Speaking about Ashkenazi Jewish women, Dr. Paluch-Shimon said, "I strongly suggest that women of Ashkenazi descent get tested irrespective of family history." She noted that the BRCA mutation can be inherited from either a woman or a man. At the same time, she said, some cancers, though they appear several times in the same family, cannot yet be linked to an inherited gene. It could be that the cause is polygenic, involving more than one gene.
Other risk factors that Dr. Dunn is investigating include obesity and a sedentary lifestyle, as well as the lesser-known risks of weight change and radiation exposure. In addition, Dr. Dunn revealed that women who menstruate earlier or have late menopause have a longer period of exposure to estrogen and, therefore, a higher risk for breast cancer.
Dr. Paluch-Shimon highlighted another risk factor which, she said, is not talked about, but we have the ability to modify through our lifestyle: alcohol. "We don't need to avoid alcohol altogether," she emphasized, "but we should be very cautious about how much we drink."
The oncology specialists also discussed the incidence of breast cancer among various ethnic groups. Initially, researchers were finding that the incidence of breast cancer in the US was lower among Black women than white women. But, Dr. Dunn reported, the prevalence among Black women is "edging up." Moreover, she said, mortality among Black women is higher, explaining that there are at play "social determinants of health," such as poorer access to health care, causing later diagnosis, and the inability to afford healthy foods. Also, Black women tend to contract triple-negative breast cancer, which cannot be treated with anti-hormonal therapy like many other forms of breast cancer. The necessary treatment is aggressive and not as successful.
Both Dr. Dunn and Dr. Paluch-Shimon are investigating ways to eliminate health disparities and enhance access to health care for all populations. In Israel, it is among the Arabs and ultra-Orthodox that health disparities are prevalent.
For all breast cancer patients, the physicians emphasized, quality of life during treatment is key. Dr. Paluch-Shimon noted that "quality of life is part of all assessments of treatment. There are no clinical trials that don't consider it." And, she qualifies, it is quality of life as defined by the patient, not the physician, technically known as "patient-recorded outcomes."
At Hadassah's breast oncology center, Dr. Paluch-Shimon reported, the approach is integrated and holistic, including a dedicated team of psychologists for breast cancer patients. There is also a "patient navigator," who helps the women navigate their complex treatment protocol.
Dr. Paluch-Shimon also heads up a special oncology service dedicated to young women, created 10 years ago in acknowledgment of the fact that breast cancer is particularly challenging for young women who are dealing with not only a life-threatening disease but also the potential loss of their fertility. At Hadassah, alerting these women to the opportunity for fertility preservation is always a priority.
The key takeaway from both physicians was clearly that awareness of one's risk factors and options, followed up with action, will save lives.


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Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival IV
7 Sep 2017
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
- Unit 2 Boothby Rd
- Archway
- London
England - N19 4AJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses from central London: 4, 17, 43, 134
- Archway (Northern Line) / Holloway Rd (Overground)
The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival IV is the fourth in a series of international festivals championing artists' moving image.
Screening single channel video works from within the fields of artists' moving image and media art, short narrative films, documentaries, experimental and essay films, animation and video collage.The Bomb Factory Art Foundation champions works made by emerging and early career artists. Our festival programme is chosen exclusively via a democratic open call.
James Lowne - Electrify (Radio Version)
Oscar Guermouche - You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry
Felipe Castelblanco - Driftless
Márcia Beatriz Granero - Minada
Hannah Blissett - Welcome Home Kevin
Flora Bradwell - I Have A Penis
Marta Krześlak - Space Composition
IndustrialMax Building Supplies - Chandelier Falls Season Premiere
Samantha Harvey - We Exist Between Layers of the Surface
Christian Noelle Charles - CC TIME-THE BINGE IS REAL
Irineu Destourelles - Blurred Images of Two People Constrained by Time Fluctuating Between Acceptance and Rejection
Phoenix-Blu Coyle - VUITTONIA
Guy Oliver - What Do You Have To Do To Get A Drink Around Here?
Hazel Brill - Workplace
Jean-Philippe Dordolo - Gartenparty


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The Linskill Book Fair 2019 was simply the best ever for lots of reasons: the support from our community with donated books was phenomenal, the project involved the largest number of volunteers to date and the attendance figures were the highest ever . . . . more importantly the proceeds from the book sales over the three days totalled an amazing £6,246! It was an amazing community effort from start to finish with a lot of hard work and endeavour from our team of fabulous volunteers.
You can see there was a real community vibe at the Book Fair and it attracted a wide range of people, from book enthusiasts to toddlers, all taking the opportunity to stock up on reading materials or add to their book collections. There is still money coming in from the online sale of collectable books, so hopefully the amount raised for the Linskill Centre will creep up to the £7,000 mark – a fitting reward for the endeavours of our Linskill volunteers and support staff.
As we approach National Volunteers Week this project encapsulates the ethos of volunteering and the contribution and impact it can make within the community.


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Washington, DC - Idaho Senator Mike Crapo is now one of seven Senators to serve on the Senate Philanthropy Caucus. The Caucus, with a partner effort in the U.S. House of Representatives, was formed to inform fellow Senators and Representatives about the important role that foundations play across the country. The Caucus also serves to identify issues of mutual interest to the philanthropic sector and lawmakers. The group is also charged with raising awareness about legislation and issue facing foundations.
Crapo agreed to join the Caucus after meetings with Daniel Kemmis, President of the Northwest Area Foundation and Megan McNally of Philanthropy Northwest. He will represent the sole western state senator on the Senate Philanthropy Caucus.
"Idaho and America's non-profit groups play a huge role in our society, and they often do not receive the credit and appreciation they deserve," Crapo said. "It is essential that those making the laws here in Washington stay in close touch with the folks that make many programs work in our communities for Idahoans and Americans."
Crapo originally met Kemmis, the former mayor of Missoula, Montana, to discuss the process of collaboration, a process he utilized to help pass the Owyhee Initiative land management legislation signed by President Obama this past week. Their latest meeting came the same day the Public Lands bill containing the Owyhee Initiative received final passage in Congress.
The Senate Philanthropy Caucus is co-chaired by Senators Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Richard Burr (R-North Carolina). Other Caucus members include Senators Carl Levin (D-Michigan), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan).


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Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of high-spatial resolution magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of the renal arteries at 3.0 T. Material and Methods: Twelve healthy volunteers (mean age, 38.8 years) underwent renal MRA at 3.0 T. The application of parallel imaging with an acceleration factor of 3 allowed obtaining MR angiographic data with a voxel size of 0.9 × 0.8 × 0.9 mm in scan time of only 16 s. A dose of 0.2 mmol/kg body weight of 0.5-molar gadodiamide was administered at a flow rate of 2 ml/s. For image analysis, image quality, presence of artifacts, venous contamination and level of noise were rated by two radiologists in consensus. Results: All examinations were of diagnostic quality. The image quality was rated good or very good in 91 % (11/12) of cases. Due to the high parallel imaging factor the level of noise was slightly increased without diagnostic impairment. Mild venous enhancement was found in 75 % (9/12) of the examinations. Conclusion: Renal MRA at 3.0 T is feasible with high spatial resolution and a short acquisition time.
Original language | English (US) |
Pages (from-to) | 800-804 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren |
Volume | 177 |
Issue number | 6 |
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State | Published - Jun 2005 |
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- MR, high field strength imaging
- MR, high resolution
- MR, kidney
- MR-angiography
- Renal angiography
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- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging


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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
Journal publication date | 09/2014 |
Journal | Transportation Research Part B: Methodological |
Volume | 67 |
Number of pages | 33 |
Pages (from-to) | 35-67 |
Publication Status | Published |
Early online date | 4/06/14 |
Original language | English |
This paper proposes a new scheduled-based transit assignment model. Unlike other schedule-based models in the literature, we consider supply uncertainties and assume that users adopt strategies to travel from their origins to their destinations. We present an analytical formulation to ensure that on-board passengers continuing to the next stop have priority and waiting passengers are loaded on a first-come-first-serve basis. We propose an analytical model that captures the stochastic nature of the transit schedules and in-vehicle travel times due to road conditions, incidents, or adverse weather. We adopt a mean variance approach that can consider the covariance of travel time between links in a space time graph but still lead to a robust transit network loading procedure when optimal strategies are adopted. The proposed model is formulated as a user equilibrium problem and solved by an MSA-type algorithm. Numerical results are reported to show the effects of supply uncertainties on the travel strategies and departure times of passengers. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


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Trump Announces 2nd Farm Bailout Totaling $16 Billion After Trade War With China
On Thursday, President Donald Trump's administration announced a second round of bailout payments totaling $16 billion for farmers affected by the tariff hikes in the ongoing trade war between the United States and China.
The bailouts are $4 billion more than last year's allotment. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said the latest round allocates $14.5 billion in direct payments to producers, $1.4 billion in food purchases and the rest to agricultural trade promotion.
The department also said it will determine future bailout payments by calculating trade damage for crops like soy and corn and using the number of acres planted. Farmers who grow speciality crops like meat products and cranberries will be paid on a fixed basis. The bailout will be paid over three different seasons throughout the next year: one payment this summer, one in the fall and one in the winter.
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China retaliated against the U.S. earlier this month by imposing its own tariffs on $60 billion worth of imports like beer and wine, clothing and natural gas.
According to The New Food Economy, Trump's administration has vowed $26 billion in bailouts to farmers without congressional approval.
Trump reads prepares remarks saying farm income and exports are up as he announces $16-B bailout for farmers. then he looks up and says, "they didn't tell me that"
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) May 23, 2019
Several prominent liberal politicians and media figures have warned that this bailout program could exacerbate the deficit and only benefit wealthier farmers, while others have said that American ranchers won't be helped at all by these payments and called this solution a "band-aid" because it is a short term plan that doesn't full resolve the issue.
Lindsey doesn't need to worry about me. He should worry about the $22 Trillion debt, the biggest deficits ever, a $16 billion farm bailout, massive tariffs, protectionism, bloated pentagon budgets, and a conservative challenger.
He sold out. (See: 1994) https://t.co/No9NBzudzm— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) May 28, 2019
Look at this latest $16-billion-dollar farm bailout. There are allowances for crops, dairy and hogs but NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH for American cattle ranchers. https://t.co/Mj9Vxxfcca
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) May 29, 2019
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When he turned 50, Steven Jackson decided it was time for a complete physical. But instead of going to his usual doctor, he spent $2,000 for a daylong assessment at a cushy health center loaded with amenities.
Jackson said that despite the cost, the concept offered at the Baylor Tom Landry Health & Wellness Center in Dallas appealed to him: having the tests done while spending a day in a luxurious setting.
"They did everything — started at 7 a.m., ended at 4 p.m.," said Jackson, an Albuquerque, N.M., real estate developer who is waiting to find out if his insurance will pay for part of the September exam. "I could sit and watch the TV while they came in and prodded me. I thought it was well worth it for me."
Those in charge of such programs say patients are drawn to them because they can spend an extended amount of time with a doctor, want to focus on preventive medicine and enjoy the convenience.
But some experts question spending a lot of money for the workup, which is generally not covered by insurance.
Baylor's program, which opened in August, joined similar programs nationwide offering daylong fitness and health assessments to those willing to pay upward of $2,000 for the service.
The Baylor assessment, called Personal Edge, includes body fat analysis, a fitness consultation, a treadmill test, a chest X-ray, a bone density exam, a cholesterol profile, and hearing and vision tests. Participants can also indulge in extras like a massage, personal training session or golf swing analysis.
Dr. Larry Gibbons, medical director and president of the Dallas' Cooper Clinic, which focuses on preventive medicine, said he's seen such offerings increase over the years.
"Most of our patients are people who really have a desire to get a careful physical," Gibbons said. "They want the comprehensive exam which they feel they can't get in today's medical system, and they want someone to talk to them."
But some experts say routine physicals by primary-care physicians should suffice.
"More is not always better when it comes to health-care technologies," said Dr. Ann O'Malley, a researcher in preventive medicine at the Center for Studying Health System Change in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Edward Hill, president of the American Medical Association, agreed.
"Most physicians follow recommendations that give you what should be done for every sex and age; they're all evidence-based," he said
One-on-one time worth it
Most insurance plans allow for an annual physical with your regular doctor, said Mohit Ghose, spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group whose members insure more than 200 million people.
"If your treating physician recommends other testing off your physical, that's going to be covered," Ghose said. "That's why working with your physician is key to having the right tests done at the right time."
Nevertheless, patients say the extended one-on-one time with a doctor is worth it.
"I bet I spent at least an hour with the doctor or more," Jackson said.
Richard Buckley, 47, of the Dallas suburb Flower Mound, also was impressed with the time he got to spend with a doctor at Baylor.
"She's asking you, 'Anything else?' and you start to realize, this is great. A doctor is talking to me," said Buckley, who, like many who undergo such assessments, was sent as a perk from his company.
Patients praise the efficiency of getting a variety of exams in a day. Jackson figures it would've taken at least a month to get all of the tests done.
"In the managed-care model that most of us live in, you're lucky to spend 20 minutes with your doctor," said Dr. Paul Sokal, medical director of Personal Edge.
At the University of Chicago Hospitals, the impetus for an executive health program started six years ago came from a doctor and board members who were interested in preventive medicine, said program director Shara Storandt.
"We do it all for you," Storandt said. "Instead of it taking you weeks to do all of these things separately, you're doing it all in one day and people are paying for that convenience."


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Consumer Protection: Its the Name of the Game! For National Consumer Protection Week 2006
Agencies in U.S. and Canada Promote Education, Awareness, and Partnerships
February 6, 2006, The Federal Trade Commission has launched the eighth annual National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), February 5-11, 2006, in cooperation with federal, state, and local agencies, and national advocacy organizations committed to consumer protection and education. At the Canadian Embassy today, the FTC, with the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the Postal Services Consumer Advocate, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, PhoneBusters, and Canadas Competition Bureau announced their commitment to combat cross-border fraud as part of NCPW. The FTC also unveiled the Grand Scam Challenge, online, interactive games that teach consumers about topics such as identity theft, the National Do Not Call Registry, and spam.
The Grand Scam Challenge is an innovative, entertaining way for consumers to learn about common scams and get valuable information playing three new, online games. The games allow consumers to interact with the information and test their knowledge about common scams, such as worthless weight-loss products, bad business opportunities, and fake foreign lotteries. The Grand Scam Challenge can be found as part of the NCPW Web site at http://www.consumer.gov/ncpw.
The games provide a new way of learning that is fun and accessible, as well as easy to share with others, said Maneesha Mithal, acting associate director of the FTCs International Consumer Protection Division. After all, when your moneys at stake, you want to hit a grand slam, not a grand scam.
In Welcome to Bargainville, players answer multiple choice questions from the Discount Dynamo, the Giveaway Guru, and the Identity Idol about protecting their personal
information and about scams that confront consumers. For Fact or Fiction, the playersmust choose whether each statement is true or false. And in Spot that Scam!, there are 10 multiple choice questions about common scams reported to the FTC. In the games, players are directed to the FTCs Web site at http://www.ftc.gov for more information about the topics, including:
* Scholarship Scams
* Bankruptcy
* Identity Theft
* Credit
* Weight Loss Scams
* Business Opportunities
* Phishing
* Travel Fraud
* Internet Auctions
* Government Jobs
* Car Auctions
* Debt Collection
* Contact Lens Rule
* Dietary Supplements
* Advance Fee Loan Scams
* Foreign Lotteries
* Food Advertisements
* Do Not Call Registry
* Spam
Other organizations, especially those that provide help and advice for consumers, are encouraged to include links to the games on their Web sites. Organizations interested in promoting NCPW can click on the Outreach Toolkit, which contains downloadable materials a poster, flyer, sample press materials, public service announcements, Web-ready logos, banner ads, and buttons.
NCPW is sponsored by the FTC, the Federal Citizen Information Center, the Federal Communications Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the U.S. Postal Service, the USPIS, the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators, the National Consumers League, AARP, the Better Business Bureau, the Consumer Federation of America, and the National Association of Attorneys General. Canadas Fraud Prevention Month in March is hosted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, PhoneBusters, and Canadas Competition Bureau.
The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish (bilingual counselors are available to take complaints), or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.
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Interpreters, Limited English Speakers, Emergency department, recidivism, Humility, cultural competency, cultural awareness.
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Background and Review of Literature: Patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) are a vulnerable population with greater risk for poor health outcomes due to provider-to-patient communication barriers. Emergency Department (ED) health providers are routinely confronted with problems of ineffective communication thereby, leading to lack of patients' knowledge of their diagnoses and medications, and subsequently lead to medication-related adverse events and ED readmissions. Purpose: The purpose of this DNP quality improvement (QI) project is to evaluate the standards of care and examine factors that contribute to underutilization of interpretive services for patients with LEP who seek care at the ED to reduce ED Recidivism, improve discharge instructions, and increase patient satisfaction. Methods: The DNP student and ED providers collaborated to implement a QI project using the QI Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) cycles model. The ED providers were presented with an evidence-based educational intervention (Power-point presentation) along with a pretest and post-test survey questionnaire. Implementation Plan/Procedure: The overall mean improvement in knowledge was 64%%, and the post-test showed that 83% of the ED providers gained the knowledge regarding the importance of increasing the utilization of interpretive services for patients with LEP. Implications/Conclusion: The project is an exemplar of how DNPs may design and facilitate efforts to optimize health care among vulnerable populations and apply health care delivery methods designed to improve language disparities that are optimal for minority populations. QI project confirmed the intervention was effective in increasing and facilitating interpretive services access. Completion of the QI project had a significant positive impact on both the Baystate Medical Center Emergency Department (BMC-ED) and on Interpreter Services.
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