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Steph and Steph dive into the survey results where the Swifties voted on their favorite, least favorite, and most underrated tracks on Midnights.  They also discuss some updates on the Eras Tour since the big Ticketmaster debacle and a few other current Swiftie events!   Episode Breakdown With Time Stamps: 7:32 Eras Tour Update 11:28 Taylor Swift as a Director 21:42 Survey Results: TOP 4 FAVORITE SONGS (according to the Swifties) 1:08:42 Survey Results: 4 LEAST FAVORITE SONGS (according to the Swifties 1:38:46 Survey Results: MOST UNDERRATED SONGS   Follow and/or contact us! Instagram: @Dropeverythingnowpodcast Tik Tok: @TheStephs13 Email: dropeverythingnowpodcast@gmail.com    

!Trigger warning! More vitamin C! We have more questions for science to answer, like "Does vitamin C work for melasma?", "How to make sure that our vitamin C product has absorbed?" and "What are the best products on the market according to science?". Apologies for some glitches in Natalie's sound, and be aware that there is some talk on sexual assault towards the end of the podcast at about the hour mark. Hope you enjoy! To find the references head to skincarewithfriends.com and connect with us on our Skincare with Friends Facebook group and Instagram. Please like and subscribe, it means a lot to us.

How do you get better prospecting results? What is the best and easiest way to bring in leads? How do prospecting and lead generation play valuable roles in the sales process? In this episode of Sales Reinvented, Chad Burmeister shares how he pairs innovative thinking with leading technology to get better prospecting results.  Chad Burmeister is the CEO of ScaleX AI which aims to solve salespeople’s pipeline problems. Chad’s goal is to empower sales professionals to become the best version of themselves by focusing on their mindset, skillset, and toolset. Don’t miss his valuable take on the lead generation and prospecting process.  Outline of This Episode [0:51] The difference between prospecting and lead generation [2:08] Why are they important? [3:21] Chad’s perfected prospecting process [5:26] Success relates directly to your level of EQ—not IQ [7:35] Get comfortable being “Iron Man” [8:38] Chad’s top 3 do’s and don’ts [10:48] Why you NEED to be different Why both prospecting and lead generation are valuable Chad sees prospecting as getting a list and making emails, phone calls, or social connections. It’s marketing outward. Lead generation is more along the lines of creating content—like a podcast episode—that you drop out on social channels, email, etc. Prospecting is a brute-force technique and lead generation is finessed.  Chad emphasizes that lead generation is hugely valuable. If you can become your own marketing department and create your own content, you can be a thought leader and expert in your space. You’ll get personal inbound leads to yourself—not just your business. It’s a combination of brute-force and flow of inbound leads.  Chad’s ScaleX prospecting process Chad’s company has perfected the prospecting process. They pull 1,000 leads a month. They then have a virtual assistant execute 3,000–5,000 emails against that list of people. Then they automate social outreach and do 50,000 impressions through paid ads against the same people. They just added the ability to send Vidyard or Loom videos to the top 100 prospects as well. It’s the brute-force prospecting that’s 80% automated and 20% human-driven.  For Chad, the lead generation process means jumping into a monthly meeting where he records video for an hour plus. That one video gets chopped into 60 to 90-second segments that get pushed out onto his social channels. That alone brings in 2–3 leads a day.  Success relates directly to your level of EQ—not IQ Chad points out that the level of success you have prospecting relates directly to your level of EQ—not IQ. When you’re selling to a certain part of the market, what are their triggers? What is their emotional process? It needs to be natural for your audience to understand. Park Howell teaches a simple process: You set the context, then you use “and” to raise the stakes, then “but”, and “therefore.” You can use this for anything you’re selling. It’s a simple approach to mapping your audience to your solution. You have to put out content that hits home and gets people to take a specific action. Chad shares a specific example—listen to hear him drive the point home. How do you get better results? Be different. At the beginning of the pandemic, one of Chad’s customers called him. One of the companies she did PR for was ordered to switch their apparel production over to mask production. So they printed 100 million masks and sold them all to Amazon in one week. She knew she could continue to do well from a commission perspective. So she asked Chad to help her come up with an approach for selling masks.  So they got together and recorded a 43-second voicemail. They then pulled a list of 1,200 heads of procurement from Fortune 2,000 companies and left them voicemails for 2 days straight. She got 3–5 returned calls per hour. 70% of the time they didn't even listen to the message but still called back. What Chad learned is that you have to get the right person on the phone. His client sold $10 million worth of masks in 6–8 weeks. There were hundreds of other companies out there selling masks that did emails, social outreach, and other traditional means. The moral of the story? You have to be different than everyone else or you’re going to get the same results. Resources & People Mentioned Vidyard Loom The Business of Story Cognism ZoomInfo SalesIntel Bella+Canvas Connect with Chad Burmeister ScaleX AI Connect With Paul Watts  LinkedIn Twitter Subscribe to SALES REINVENTED Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com

Background: Sensitization to common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) is associated with a variety of risk factors, which are incompletely defined. Our aim was to evaluate the association of a variety of clinical, geographical and demographical variables with ragweed sensitization and also to determine its frequency in southern Bavaria. Methods: In this cross-sectional multicentre study, we enrolled 977 patients with a documented or suspected atopic disease or food allergy. Data were collected on aeroallergen sensitization, age, sex, type and history of allergic disease, place of residence and potential local ragweed exposure. For this last variable, county ragweed cover was taken as a surrogate variable. Relative rates were calculated with multiple additive logistic regression models. Randomly selected patients with ragweed sensitization had a conjunctival provocation test. Results: According to skin prick tests, 190 patients (19.5%) were sensitized to ragweed. The frequency of this finding increased significantly with a rising number of additional sensitizations. Other less important predictors for a ragweed sensitization were male gender, mugwort sensitization, food allergy and a maximum of complaints in September or October. County of residence, extent of local ragweed cover or type of residential area were without relevance. Of 48 sensitized patients, 26 (54.2%) had a positive conjunctival provocation test. Discussion: Patients with multiple sensitizations may be more readily sensitized to a new aeroallergen. Local geographic or environmental conditions are presumably of minor importance for becoming sensitized to ragweed. The frequency of ragweed allergy among sensitized patients might be high. Copyright (C) 2012 S. Karger AG, Basel

Background: Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) shows a particularly bad prognosis with a median survival of less than 5 years. There is no generally established prognostic classification system for patients with MCL as the International Prognostic Index (IPI) and the Follicular Lymphoma International Prognostic Index (FLIPI) have been developed based on data of patients with diffuse large B-cell and follicular lymphoma, respectively. The data of 455 patients with advanced stage MCL treated within three randomized trials of German Low-Grade Lymphoma Study Group (GLSG) and European MCL Network were used to clarify the prognostic relevance of IPI, FLIPI and potential prognostic factors and, if needed, to develop a new prognostic index. Methods: The outcome parameter was overall survival, the time from trial registration to death from any cause. Potential prognostic factors were the clinical parameters documented after primary diagnosis before start of treatment. The prognostic relevance of IPI and FLIPI was evaluated with Kaplan-Meier estimates and the log rank test. Candidate prognostic factors were analyzed using univariate Cox regression. In multiple Cox regression, independent prognostic factors were identified with backward elimination and the prognostic score was determined. Prognostic groups were defined with optimal cutpoints for the prognostic score maximizing the log rank statistic. Internal validation was performed using the bootstrap method. Results: According to the IPI more than two thirds of patients were classified into the low intermediate or high intermediate risk groups whose survival curves were not clearly separated. According to the FLIPI, 6% of patients were classified into the low risk group, survival curves of low risk and intermediate risk patients were not separated, and the high risk group of almost two thirds of patients showed a relatively good survival. Of the candidate prognostic factors, age, ECOG performance status, B-symptoms, spleen involvement, tumor size, serum LDH activity, leukocyte, lymphocyte, granulocyte and monocyte count, hemoglobin, and beta2-microglobulin showed univariate prognostic relevance. In contrast, sex, Ann Arbor stage III vs. IV, bone marrow involvement, number of extranodal sites, number of involved nodal areas, platelet count, and albumin showed no prognostic relevance. Multiple Cox regression identified age, performance status, LDH and leukocyte count as independent prognostic factors. Using these four parameters, a new prognostic index, the mantle cell lymphoma international prognostic index (MIPI) defined three prognostic groups with significantly different overall survival. Bootstrap validation confirmed the separation of the prognostic groups and indicated superiority over IPI and FLIPI. Conclusions: In this work a new prognostic index for patients with advanced stage MCL was defined based on four easily available clinical prognostic factors. The modest prognostic relevance of IPI and FLIPI underlines the inappropriateness of transferring results from one lymphoma entity to another. The results of this work may be applied in clinical research for stratified randomization, risk-adjusted analyses, and as a reference to establish new biologic or molecular prognostic factors. Furthermore, the new prognostic index may facilitate risk-adapted treatment strategies to improve the prognosis of this severe disease.

Background: Asthma is a serious medical problem in pregnancy and is often associated with stress, anger and poor quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) on change in blood pressure, lung parameters, heart rate, anger and health-related quality of life in pregnant women with bronchial asthma. Methods: We treated a sample of 64 pregnant women with bronchial asthma from the local population in an 8-week randomized, prospective, controlled trial. Thirty-two were selected for PMR, and 32 received a placebo intervention. The systolic blood pressure, forced expiratory volume in the first second, peak expiratory flow and heart rate were tested, and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory and Health Survey (SF-36) were employed. Results: According to the intend-to-treat principle, a significant reduction in systolic blood pressure and a significant increase in both forced expiratory volume in the first second and peak expiratory flow were observed after PMR. The heart rate showed a significant increase in the coefficient of variation, root mean square of successive differences and high frequency ranges, in addition to a significant reduction in low and middle frequency ranges. A significant reduction on three of five State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory scales, and a significant increase on seven of eight SF-36 scales were observed. Conclusions: PMR appears to be an effective method to improve blood pressure, lung parameters and heart rate, and to decrease anger levels, thus enhancing health-related quality of life in pregnant women with bronchial asthma. Copyright (c) 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel.

Background: The increasing demand for complementary medicine indicates a change in attitudes regarding treatment understanding. Objectives: To investigate the role of attitudes in treatment motivation. (1) Can the study sample be subdivided into homogenous groups as regards attitudes toward complementary treatment? (2) How do these groups relate to motivational variables? Patients and Methods: Four questionnaires on motivation and attitudes were administered to 203 patients of two clinics for complementary medicine. Results were interpreted following Petry's motivational process model that distinguishes treatment disposition, preparedness for treatment and treatment activity. Results: According to a cluster analysis, 3 patient groups could be identified: `Not- convinced' patients (cluster 1, n = 24) demonstrated little conviction regarding any aspect of complementary treatment. `Convinced' patients (cluster 2, n = 103) showed a high degree of agreement on all three scales, being highest on `Role of patient'. `Partially- convinced' patients (cluster 3, n = 70) also evaluated `Role of patient' highest, but aspects of the `Physician- patient relationship' and the `Treatment method' were only partly regarded as important. In all clusters, the pragmatic motive of treatment acceptance was central for the treatment choice, but was highest in cluster 2. As compared to cluster 1, a complementary treatment understanding was higher in patients of clusters 2 and 3 ( highest in cluster 2). Discussion: Even if the pragmatic treatment motivation was high in all groups, the central role of treatment attitudes in the motivational process could be verified. Despite differing attitude structures, a majority of patients displayed a complementary treatment comprehension.

Aim: Despite the extensive experience with minimal invasive stone therapy, there are still different views on the ideal management of renal stones. Materials and Methods: Analysis of the literature includes more than 14,000 patients. We have compared these data with long-term results of two major stone centers in Germany. The results have been compared concerning the anatomical kidney situation, stone size, stone localization and observation time. Results: According to the importance of residual fragments following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), we have to distinguish between clinically insignificant residual fragments and clinically significant residual fragments (CIRF). 24 months following ESWL stone passage occurs as a continous process, and if there are no clinical symptoms, any endoscopic procedure should be considered as overtreatment. According to these results, stone-free rates of patients increase in longer follow-up periods. Newer ESWL technology has increased the percentage of CIRF. Conclusion: We consider ESWL in most patients with renal calculi as first-line treatment, except in patients with renal calculi bigger than 30 mm in diameter. Copyright (C) 2001 S. Karger AG, Basel.