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Stratford business woman injects health into sweets and other sugary products
According to Jahanbanou, Louise Carr-Smith, who spent 15 years in the food manufacturing industry, spotted a gap in the candy industry. Using her expertise, she came up with a recipe for sugar-free lollipops that also contain no artificial sweeteners.
Thanks to her invention, the Stratford-based entrepreneur’s company Clever Sweets has won a £50,000 grant from government-backed body Innovate UK as part of its Women in Innovation scheme. Louise plans to use the cash to act upon her invention.
The result of her invention is“Lou’s Lou’s sweets“ which contain real fruit and come in two flavours – strawberry and watermelon. The driving force behind Louise’s efforts is what she describes as the “dire situation” of tooth decay among youngsters.
According to statistics from Public Health England, almost a quarter (23 per cent) of five-year-olds have had dental decay. She said: “I know how it feels to have a queue of people behind you and have your kids nagging you for sugary lollipops at the till. As a parent, you don’t want them to have them because they’re bad for their teeth but at the same time you feel trapped and just end up giving in.”
She added: “ I strongly feel responsible when children, who are very young are having to go under general anesthetic to have several rotten teeth extracted and removed. And so, I really wanted to try and make a difference and solve what is a huge problem.”
The sugar-free confectionery market is already worth more than £1bn a year and is expected to receive a boost after new rules come into force in October. These will ban shops from running promotions such as buy-on-get-one-free on high fat, sugar and salt foods and drinks and stop them showcasing these items at key areas such as checkouts, store entrances and aisle ends.
After graduating with a degree in food science and technology, Louise joined food giant Unilever. There, she was part of a team that helped develop and produce Magnum and Solero ice lollies and Viennetta ice-cream desert..
She said: “I would describe myself as having a foot in both camps – I am a scientist, but I also enjoy project management and I’m leveraging all that time and experience from Unilever.” Louise, whose children are now 19 and 17, believes the timing is perfect to launch healthier, low-sugar treats for everyone’s use.
An american model decides to donate to war ridden nations; she then gets attacked by social media users
According to Jahanbanou, Gigi Hadid a dutch-palestinian model, has pledged to donate her earnings from the Fall 2022 fashion shows “to aid those suffering from the war in Ukraine, as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine”. The 26-year-old model announced her decision on Sunday, March the 6th.
She wrote on social media : “Having a set Fashion Month schedule has meant that my colleagues and I often present new fashion collections during heartbreaking and traumatic times in history. We don’t have control over most of our work schedules, but we would like to walk ‘for’ something.”.
Vogue fashion magazine then dedicated an Instagram post on its official social media page to Hadid’s pledge quoting the model’s statement, including the reference to Palestine. Then some social media users started attacking Hadid saying that this is Anti-Semitism and vogue magazine shouldn’t fan the flames of anti-Semitism.
However, the following day other social media users noted that because of the attacking, the original photo caption on Vogue’s Instagram post had been edited to remove the reference to Palestine including the model’s declaration at the end of her statement, which read: “HANDS OFF UKRAINE. HANDS OFF PALESTINE. PEACE. PEACE. PEACE.”
Prominent figures and social media users condemned the move and its “involvement in the racism against and erasure of Palestinians from their home, culture, history, and heritage”. One of them wrote: “Not only is this totally spineless, it erases a woman’s identity and ALSO manages to be inaccurate reporting. Gigi is Palestinian!!! she donated her money to PALESTINE”.
Hadid’s sister Alana even commented on the edited Instagram post, writing: “WOW, you removed Palestine. She is supporting both the crisis in Ukraine and Palestine. It’s a sad time when you can be bullied out of factual reporting.”
Apart from Gigi Hadid, there have been a number of British actresses that have announced their support for Palestine and its nation’s resistance towards violation and oppression. About 2 months ago, Emma Watson, best known for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise, was accused of antisemitism after she posted an image on Instagram showing a photograph of a pro-Palestinian protest with the banner “solidarity is a verb” written across it.
Mariam Noor, the hope for heart disease treatments
Mariam Noor, a PhD student in medical engineering, has developed a medical device that will help the human heart improve blood flow. This device will probably eliminate the need for heart and other cardiovascular surgeries.
Noor said:” A prosthetic heart valve is an effective form of treatment, but it’s also a relatively complicated surgical procedure that brings with it a number of risks and complications in the long term. Now we have found a solution that can make it easier to treat patients This solution, is annulus shaped device which has been succefully tested by researchers, showing a historic promise and is hailed by cardiologists everywhere as revolutionary.
Mariam Noor added: ” I look at surgical issues through the lens of an engineer, because there’s a lot of physics and mathematics in our cardiovascular system. My approach has been to understand how the aorta works and then transfer this knowledge to design a ring that can recreate normal anatomical conditions in patients.”
We looked at the geometric pattern of the main artery in a pig with a ring and in a pig without it, and we could see that we can actually preserve the natural dynamics.
Mariam Noor added at the end:” After few years of testing, heart patients will see the benefits of the small ring that seems to be able to cure leaking heart valves.”
Somalis in the diaspora welcomed Mariam Noor’s historic achievement in this great invention.
An art exhibition focused on violence against Indigenous women, was held in the United States of America.
In 2016, the National Crime Information Center reported nearly 6,000 cases of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. Researchers say the numbers could be higher An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to put the issue in front of more people. It’s called: “No More Stolen Sisters”. The main artist of this exhibition, Valeria Tatera said: “These kind of events call attention to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.”
In an interview Tatera said: “The intention is to bring awareness to the crisis and hold space for the MMIWG2S and their families. I think it’s essential that we understand that the connection between the commodification and exploitation of Indigenous lands leads to the commodification and exploitation of Indigenous people,”
The show features Indigenous artists from across North America and U.S. territories and allies, and includes works made from metal, clay, mixed media and more. At th beginning of the hall,there are several acrylic paintings of faceless Indigenous women dressed in regalia. According to the artist, Harmony Hill, they’re intended to represent the grace, beauty and strength of native women beyond individual identities and tribal regions.
When you walk into the second floor, there is a prominent piece against the wall made of 500 individual pieces of red ribbon, each stamped with the word “justice.” It’s one of Tatera’s works. She says, each ribbon represents one of the missing.
Another art piece of Tatera is an installation in the corner of the same room called “When She Goes Missing”. In the painting, you can see three hands. One is grasping another hand that is red, and the watch says 10. Another is a hand over a face; the watch reads 11:30. And the last is a hand with the fingers crossed, blood dripping down to the watch, and the watch reads 1:00 a.m. Tatera added in the end that she wants the ones who come visit this exhibition to know that Indigenous women are not invisible and they have rights like any other human being.
More facilities are given to a Women Council in Canada
A new community space in Labrador West aims to provide people and community groups a place to gather and provide support for each other. Micheline Gray, executive director of the area’s Status of Women Council, which opened the space on Wednesday, said: “It’s essential for groups to have accessible, inclusive and free space to work in.”
She said : “I’m over the moon excited. This has been something I’ve been wishing for it since the beginning of my career. Being able to break barriers that women or people who need support urgently, is huge. And the more barriers you break down, the more of that equality we’ll have in our communities.”
The space will host the Status of Women Council’s occasions, awareness events on violence against women, the local teenage Inuit drumming group, art therapy classes, peer support groups and much more.
Gray added: “Plans fell into place when the space beside the council’s office became available. To get the space, the council raised the $65,000 needed through the community and local businesses, including a $25,000 grant from Rio Tinto and around $38,000 from the Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation to cover two years’ worth of rent.”
Pynn, a former tattoo artist, says: ” After fighting my addiction for years, its been four months that I have been sober; and I plan on sharing the experience that I had with this community center for my problem and how art therapy helped me to never give up on social media.”