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New Paper
03-06-2025
- Health
- New Paper
Rejuvenate your hair with natural ingredients
Ever wanted to freshen up your look? The right shampoo may be the key to making you feel good inside and out. I've always struggled with dry scalp and sensitive skin, and using various haircare products has always left my scalp feeling irritated or overly dry. When I saw how Rausch Cosmetics focusses on gentle formulas targeted at sensitive skin and a variety of hair and scalp problems, I had to give it a try. Within a week, the products left my hair feeling more repaired and healthy, boosting moisture without making my scalp greasy. Every wash feels like a mini salon treatment - luxurious and rejuvenating, and my hair feels soft, healthy and nourished. One of the brand's bestsellers is the Caffeine Shampoo with Ginseng, which rejuvenates hair roots and combats hair loss. Giving off a light herbal scent, it provides a refreshing and revitalising cleanse for your hair with one wash. The Original Hair Tincture, with its ingredients like burdock root and pea extract, has a gently cooling effect on the scalp, while being deeply nourishing at the same time. For those struggling with dry and frizzy hair, the Caffeine Conditioner with Ginseng makes great addition to your shower routine. Its creamy consistency allows the product to glide effortlessly through one's hair, strengthening hair roots and leaves hair feeling supple and easy to comb. If you're looking for a more concentrated version of the above products, that provides both intensive, focused care, while remaining gentle and nourishing, try Rausch's Caffeine Intensive Scalp Fluid with Ginseng. Packaged in an elegant bottle with a convenient dropper to dispense the right amount of product, just a few drops massaged into your scalp immediately gives it the boost it needs, visibly counteracting hair loss and increasing blood circulation. Infused with natural ingredients, Rausch Shampoo gently cleanses while nourishing your scalp and hair. PHOTO: RAUSCH COSMETICS Rausch Cosmetics offers a wide range of hair care products, designed to improve the health of your hair and scalp using natural, gentle ingredients. Incorporating 87 herbs and plant-based ingredients into the formulations, Rausch Cosmetics prioritises organic quality and wild herb gathering, making its products both sustainable and ethical. Win a shampoo-conditioner set In a collaboration between The New Paper and Rausch Cosmetics, we are giving away three sets of shampoo and conditioner valued at $77.80 each. For a chance to win a set,
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Houston FBI Analyst Arrested For Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material
A Houston-based FBI analyst has been arrested in Cypress, Texas, following an investigation that uncovered disturbing evidence of child sexual abuse material in his possession. Brian Vincent Rausch, an analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was taken into custody on May 27 by detectives from the Precinct 3 Constable's Office in Montgomery County, according to a recent statement from the department. The arrest followed an investigation by the office's Internet Crimes Against Children unit into Rausch, which reportedly found multiple videos depicting sexual abuse of children. A warrant was issued to search Rausch's home, where investigators seized a collection of digital evidence believed to contain explicit material involving minors. The investigation resulted in Rausch facing a total of seven felony charges: five state charges of possession of child pornography, including three first-degree and two second-degree felony counts, along with two additional federal charges. Rausch is currently booked into Harris County Jail, where he waits to see a judge for the multiple felony charges he racked up during his time at the FBI. The FBI has not publicly addressed his employment with the bureau or Rausch's potential access to confidential data during his employment at this time. Precinct 3 Constable Ryan Gable, in the public statement following the arrest, spoke on the importance of collaboration between different law enforcement agencies in targeting anyone who exploits children – even guys like Rausch – who may have thought his job placed him above the law. The case has obviously sent shockwaves through the law enforcement community, not only because of the nature of the charges but also because of Rausch's position within a federal agency entrusted with investigating crimes, including the same types of crimes he was charged with. No further details about the specific content discovered have been released as of publication, likely due to the sensitive nature of the evidence and the ongoing investigation. Authorities have also not clarified whether any additional suspects or victims have been identified or connected to the former FBI analyst's arrest as of Thursday morning.
New Paper
21-05-2025
- Health
- New Paper
Rejuvenate your hair natural ingredients
Ever wanted to freshen up your look? The right shampoo may be the key to making you feel good inside and out. I've always struggled with dry scalp and sensitive skin, and using various haircare products has always left my scalp feeling irritated or overly dry. When I saw how Rausch Cosmetics focusses on gentle formulas targeted at sensitive skin and a variety of hair and scalp problems, I had to give it a try. Within a week, the products left my hair feeling more repaired and healthy, boosting moisture without making my scalp greasy. Every wash feels like a mini salon treatment - luxurious and rejuvenating, and my hair feels soft, healthy and nourished. One of the brand's bestsellers is the Caffeine Shampoo with Ginseng, which rejuvenates hair roots and combats hair loss. Giving off a light herbal scent, it provides a refreshing and revitalising cleanse for your hair with one wash. The Original Hair Tincture, with its ingredients like burdock root and pea extract, has a gently cooling effect on the scalp, while being deeply nourishing at the same time. For those struggling with dry and frizzy hair, the Caffeine Conditioner with Ginseng makes great addition to your shower routine. Its creamy consistency allows the product to glide effortlessly through one's hair, strengthening hair roots and leaves hair feeling supple and easy to comb. If you're looking for a more concentrated version of the above products, that provides both intensive, focused care, while remaining gentle and nourishing, try Rausch's Caffeine Intensive Scalp Fluid with Ginseng. Packaged in an elegant bottle with a convenient dropper to dispense the right amount of product, just a few drops massaged into your scalp immediately gives it the boost it needs, visibly counteracting hair loss and increasing blood circulation. Infused with natural ingredients, Rausch Shampoo gently cleanses while nourishing your scalp and hair. PHOTO: RAUSCH COSMETICS Rausch Cosmetics offers a wide range of hair care products, designed to improve the health of your hair and scalp using natural, gentle ingredients. Incorporating 87 herbs and plant-based ingredients into the formulations, Rausch Cosmetics prioritises organic quality and wild herb gathering, making its products both sustainable and ethical. Win a shampoo-conditioner set In a collaboration between The New Paper and Rausch Cosmetics, we are giving away three sets of shampoo and conditioner valued at $77.80 each. For a chance to win a set,
New York Times
27-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Duke basketball's March Madness secret weapon isn't Cooper Flagg, it's vulnerability
DURHAM, N.C. — Nine months ago, long before Duke clinched its Sweet 16 berth, Jon Scheyer gathered all his players and coaches in the team's film room for what they thought would be an ordinary meeting. At that point in June 2024, most of the Blue Devils — including star freshman Cooper Flagg, whom Scheyer built his roster around — had been on campus only a few days. Scheyer knew he needed them to jell, quickly, if his program was realistically going to have a shot at winning its sixth national championship. But as players and staff sank into their blue-cushioned chairs, the third-year coach quickly ceded the front of the room to a visitor, who posed two pointed questions that quickly caught the room's attention. Advertisement The first, to Duke's players: Would you rather play 10 years in the NBA, but go .500 this season … or never play a second in the NBA, but win three national championships in college? Then the second, to Scheyer and the rest of Duke's coaches: Would you rather win a string of championships but never send a player to the NBA … or send a ton to the NBA, but never win a ring in college? The results? Most of Duke's players, meekly at first, picked the 10-year NBA career. Duke's staff, on the other hand, chose to win multiple championships. Talk about awkward … 'It's always the elephant in the room,' assistant coach Emanuel Dildy said. Sweet 16 up next‼️ 🍬🍭🍫🍩🍭🍫🍬🍫🍭🍩🍪🍩🍫🍩🍬🍪🕺😈 — Duke Men's Basketball (@DukeMBB) March 23, 2025 But that's why Russ Rausch, who Scheyer had hired a month earlier as Duke's mental skills coach, asked those questions in the first place. He wanted to address the elephant directly — meaning those contrasting answers were actually exactly what he hoped to hear. It's been part of the process that has fortified the Blue Devils' mindsets, one of the reasons Duke is the betting favorite to win the NCAA Tournament. 'The point of all that was, ultimately, we're all going to do what's best for ourselves,' Rausch said. 'There's an element of shame, and I'm trying to get rid of that. … If we don't acknowledge that difference of motive, and we just shame players all the time — you're not a team guy, whatever — then that doesn't get results.' Rausch's advice to Scheyer and his staff was not to give in to every player's desires, but to acknowledge it's OK for them to feel the way they did. To tell the Blue Devils, basically, not to suppress their emotions. 'What I'm getting them to see is, you care most about yourself, that's fine. But what's the best path for you? Everything your coach wants — because that's everything an NBA exec wants,' Rausch added. 'If you're not good enough to start right now, it isn't because the coach doesn't like you; it's because you need to do some work.' Advertisement That was, admittedly, not the easiest thing for a bunch of teenagers and twenty-somethings to hear, especially not during their first week on campus. But Scheyer's young Blue Devils heard Rausch's message loud and clear. By publicly airing all their respective perspectives, Duke's players and coaches were forced to reckon with uncomfortable realities right from the jump, which, ultimately, got everyone on the same page. As freshman center Khaman Maluach said, 'That brought us closer.' With Duke two wins away from its next milestone — making its first Final Four under Scheyer — it's become apparent that mental coaching behind-the-scenes has been one of this talented team's secret weapons. 'He makes you put everything on the table, which allows the guys to kind of drop their defense mechanisms and allows the vulnerability to come out,' Dildy said. 'This team is vulnerable, which has also made them more connected, because you don't have anybody in there pretending. It's all out there.' After Duke's Elite Eight loss to NC State in last season's tournament, Scheyer sought out someone to help him 'think the game.' Specifically? Scheyer wanted another voice to help him walk the fine line between instructional coaching and running kids off. 'A lot of coaches feel this way,' Rausch said. 'How do you work with today's athlete, who is maybe a little less open to hard coaching? And they'll leave you if you coach them too hard.' Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy, one of Scheyer's closest friends in the business, had previously worked with Rausch and passed his name along to Scheyer. But what began as Rausch working with Scheyer specifically quickly became an entire staff effort, and eventually Duke's whole team. Rausch has done weekly video calls with Duke's coaches ever since, and visits campus at least once a month for work with the team at large. He also gave out his cell phone number so players and coaches could reach him at any time, and has even traveled to several of Duke's biggest games, including a loss against Kansas in Las Vegas around Thanksgiving. Advertisement The dividends of all that banked time? 'He's challenged the norms of coaching for me,' Scheyer said, 'and he's also challenged the norms of the stuff you should think about as a player.' Rausch's unconventional thinking, at least partially, is the result of his unconventional path. He is not a clinically trained sports psychologist. Rather, he's a former hedge fund executive from Chicago. But after 15 years of being worn down by the grind, Rausch started researching the science of unhappiness. He stumbled upon two TED Talks — one being 'My Stroke of Insight,' by Dr. Jill Taylor — that rewired his worldview. Taylor, a Harvard-educated neuroanatomist, explains in her speech how she recovered from a stroke she suffered in 1996, when a blood vessel burst in her brain and shut off her left hemisphere: the half responsible for our perceptions of the past and expectations for the future. With that part of Taylor's brain suddenly offline, she could no longer fixate on old mistakes or stress about upcoming problems. Instead, she was forced to live in the present moment. 'That really spoke to me because you think about, 'I'm overthinking, I'm beating myself up, I'm pissed off about stuff, and I don't handle things very well,'' Rausch said. As Rausch dove deeper into his research, he focused on training that part of his brain to better serve him. Before long, he'd quit his job and founded Vision Pursue, which has a mission to 'dramatically improve the way people experience life by improving their mindset with mental training, mindfulness and meditation.' Rausch eventually found his way into the sports world after connecting with Dan Quinn, then the Seattle Seahawks' defensive coordinator, in 2014. One of Rausch's teachings that Quinn immediately took to was the importance of specificity: providing players with exact instructions and information, instead of speaking in generalities. Advertisement Rather than telling athletes to 'play tough,' for example, how could they play tough? Rausch learned from studying UCLA legend John Wooden, who still holds the NCAA record with 10 national championships. Psychologists who studied Wooden found that offering specific instructions, even ones as simple as grabbing rebounds with both hands, led to performance increases. That was exactly the sort of instructional coaching Scheyer was hoping to lean further into. In one of Rausch's first meetings with Duke's players, he asked them to do some simple math. Say they took 15 shots in a game. How long does it take to shoot? Two seconds, maybe? So even with 15 shots in a game, that was only 30 seconds accounted for. Out of a 40-minute contest. 'So 98 percent of the game is not that,' said forward Neal Begovich, whose former Stanford teammates worked with Rausch last season. 'You can control the other 98 percent, so that's how you should gauge whether you're playing well or not — and for our guys, that really resonated.' As the 7-foot-2 Maluach put it: 'He will really help you clear your mind, and set you in the right position to be able to do the 98 percent.' Maluach was born in South Sudan, grew up in Uganda, and played at the NBA Academy Africa before joining Duke. When he first arrived, Scheyer specifically asked Rausch to work with the five-star recruit as he adjusted to American basketball and life. Maluach had worked with a mental coach at the NBA Academy, so he was familiar with the concept, but 'Russ was like the next level,' he said. Considering how hectic Maluach's summer was, highlighted by playing for South Sudan in the Paris Olympics, Rausch was a resource for the 18-year-old as much as anyone on Duke's roster. 'I knew I was going to need it,' Maluach said, 'especially coming in as an international freshman with a lot to learn and a lot of stuff happening.' Advertisement Maluach still speaks to Rausch almost every game day. 'Going into games when I'm nervous or maybe scared, and he's telling me those emotions are helping me,' Maluach said. 'Trying to teach your mind to tell you that you're not tired. Stuff like that.' Maluach is also one of many Blue Devils who uses Rausch's 'Vision Pursue' app on their phones, although everyone uses it differently. Maluach, for instance, has different hype videos with his highlights loaded into it, which he can watch pregame to get psyched up. He's also downloaded guided meditations, which he'll sometimes use late at night to help fall asleep. Dildy has it, too, and says the morning routine Rausch taught him, which includes breathwork, has 'helped a lot with managing stress, energy and anxiety.' Even Flagg has the app, saying he most values the breathing techniques Rausch has programmed. 'I've never worked with somebody like that before, so it's been a really cool experience the whole year,' Flagg said. 'He laid out a good roadmap for us of what he's trying to do.' Before Duke played at rival North Carolina in its regular-season finale, Rausch set up a video call between Duke's staff and Quinn, now the head coach of the Washington Commanders, who were fresh off an NFC Championship Game appearance against one of their rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles. With Duke set to enter a hostile environment that weekend, and in the postseason thereafter, Rausch figured Quinn and his experiences could be a helpful resource. Just as he'd suggested that Joe Mazzulla, head coach of the NBA champion Boston Celtics, speak to Quinn's Commanders before the NFC title game. Rausch serves as a consultant for Mazzulla, Quinn's Commanders, Hardy's Jazz, the Miami Dolphins and more. And with Duke entering the penultimate weekend of the season, anything that might give the Blue Devils any advantage is more than worth trying. Advertisement 'Scheyer's willingness to go all into it,' Begovich said, '(means) you kind of have to, if that makes sense. You can't go half in on it.' And Duke hasn't. With Blue Devils tackling tough emotions and circumstances head-on — then the team's chosen motto this season should come as no surprise: The obstacle is the way. (Photo of Cooper Flagg, Tyrese Proctor and Khaman Maluach: Jared C. Tilton / Getty Images)
Boston Globe
12-03-2025
- Health
- Boston Globe
All vaccine policy is local, and Massachusetts has fallen behind
That's where state and local officials can and must step in. The measles outbreak in Texas, which has claimed at least one child's life, is a perfect example of what can happen when Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up But such outcomes could also happen in other communities, including those in Massachusetts, despite the Commonwealth's status as a national leader in medical research and innovation. While the state Department of Public Health does respond to crises — including the COVID pandemic of 2020 and the Mpox outbreak of 2022 — by declaring public health emergencies and ramping up resources and information about vaccinations and treatment, there are still cracks in the Bay State's public health infrastructure. And those gaps are widening, fueled by a small but vocal anti-vaccination movement that has made it harder for the Legislature to pass even the most common-sense legislation to protect schoolchildren and their families. 'The anti-vax movement may be small in number, but they are very loud in volume,' state Senator Becca Rausch, a Democrat from Needham, told me. Rausch was speaking of the public hearings held in recent years over legislation aimed at giving school, local, and state officials better tools for keeping communities safe from outbreaks like measles — the once-rare, highly contagious, and sometimes deadly illness that is making an unwanted comeback. Those included measures like Advertisement Rausch has refiled the bill and hopes that she and other lawmakers hear from a broader, more representative group of Bay Staters who want to keep schools, day-care centers, and communities safe. Otherwise, 'a minority of voices within that anti-vax movement become the majority in those hearings,' Rausch said. If you think that dips in vaccination rates can't happen in places like Massachusetts, think again. Though data collection is incomplete — due to a lack of mandatory reporting requirements in the state — the data that state officials have collected are alarming. For example, according to a That is despite the fact that the measles vaccine is The fault does not lie with individual schools or districts, particularly given the burdensome process of vetting vaccine exemption claims. It is with the state for its lack of immunization rules that results in the piecemeal process that overburdens educators, who should be focused on curricula. Advertisement There is a tiny minority of Americans who have closely held religious beliefs or medical conditions that keep them from being vaccinated. But those are the people who need heard immunity the most and are put at greatest risk when their neighbors and families of classmates opt to skip out on recommended immunizations. Federal officials are making it hard for the public to weigh in and demand that vaccines remain safe, available, and affordable. After citing the need for additional public comment, the CDC postponed the annual meeting to select next year's flu vaccine formula. But the website Don't let state and local officials do the same. Let your Beacon Hill representative know the majority of Bay Staters want to keep their communities safe, and let your local health officials know that accurate and timely reporting of immunization rates is crucial. Don't let to fringe speak for you. There is too much at stake. Kimberly Atkins Stohr is a columnist for the Globe. She may be reached at
