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Deepak Chopra Talks to Tony Robbins About the Power of the Mind-Body Connection
The Lesson: It’s estimated that we have 60,000 thoughts a day. The disconcerting thing is that for most people, 95% of the thoughts they have today are the same thoughts they had yesterday. We create conditioned reflexes and responses (like fear) when we let ourselves be triggered by people and circumstances —and those are the building blocks of biochemical outcomes in the body, which can turn into physical disease. If you tell yourself that something is fun, and feel those emotions, then your body will manufacture the chemicals, like interferons, that can be “powerful anti-cancer drugs”.
Notable Excerpt: “The superstition is that what I can see and touch and taste and smell is the way things only are. That is wrong… Begin to see things as they really are. The physicist will tell you that the body is a dynamic field of energy, information and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself every second, and you, in fact, make a new body once a year… 98% of all the atoms come and go in less than one year. You make a new skin once a month, a new skeleton every three months, a new stomach lining every five days. Even the brain cells that you think with… they weren’t there one year ago.”
The Speaker: Renowned for blending Eastern philosophy with Western medicine, Dr. Deepak Chopra was once the chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital, and is now an advocate of alternative medicine, as well as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Chopra also authored more than 80 books, which have been translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers, such as Ageless Body, Tireless Mind and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success; and Grow Younger, Live Longer.
The Host: Tony Robbins is a best-selling author, motivational speaker, life coach, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. The California-based strategist has become such an influential lecturer, over 4 million people have attended his live seminars. In addition to founding several different companies (and his own foundation), Robbins has worked with charities such as Feeding America, Spring Health, and Operation Underground Railroad.
Podcast: The Tony Robbins podcast is available for free on Spotify and iTunes. You can also find more of his longer motivational programs on his website.
Books: Robbins is the author of “Awaken the Giant Within,” “Unshakeable: Your Financial Freedom Playbook”, “Money: Master the Game”, and “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”.
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Scientists Create World’s First Zero-Emission Solar Fuel Reactor That Works at Night
This groundbreaking new facility in Germany is the future of alternative energy.
Researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL,: a solar reactor that is able to run on air and make solar fuel during the day and night.
Solar fuels, such as hydrogen, are fuels that are created without the climate-damaging carbon emissions that it takes to make hydrogen from natural gas today. This means that perfecting solar reactors is the key to a 100% clean energy future.
Instead of burning a fossil fuel for the heat needed to drive the thermal chemistry process of things like splitting H2 (hydrogen) from H2O, scientists have been testing various kinds of reactors that are heated by the thermal form of solar using mirrors to concentrate solar flux on a receiver.
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To attain zero-carbon heat for thermochemical reactions – which can operate at temperatures as high as 1,500º Celsius – experts view the direct heat of concentrated solar power (CSP) as a more efficient clean energy source than electricity from PV or wind.
There will be an unlimited supply of sunlight over the centuries, and no climate consequences when thermochemistry is driven by solar energy. The only disadvantage compared to burning fossil energy, is that the sun goes down at night.
Now, a group of scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have built and tested a new solar reactor design that includes storage so it can provide round-the-clock heat like the current fossil-fired method, but without the emissions.
Their paper, “Fabrication and testing of CONTISOL: A new receiver-reactor for day and night solar thermochemistry” was published in December 2017, at Applied Thermal Engineering.
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“Solar reactors in the past have had the problem of what you do at night when you don’t have sun, or even when clouds go by,” said the paper’s lead author, Justin Lapp, formerly of DLR, and now Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine.
Lapp explained that when the temperature drops, the reaction could need to be halted or the flow rate of the reactants slowed, reducing the amount of products that you get out. If the reactor shuts down at night it cools off, not just wasting residual heat, but starting over from nothing next morning.
“So the main idea of CONTISOL was to build two reactors together,” he said. “One where sunlight is directly doing chemical processing. The other side for storing energy. In the chemical channels the high temperatures of the material drive the chemical reaction and you get a change from reactants to products within those channels, and in the air channels cooler air goes in the front and hotter air comes out the back.”
By combining storage capabilities with a direct solar thermochemical reactor, they get the best of both worlds, stable temperatures round the clock but also the most efficient heat source to perform reactions because it’s direct, so “you don’t have as many losses with multiple steps between the sunlight and the chemistry that’s happening.”
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CONTISOL, which was tested in Cologne, Germany used air as the heat transfer medium because transferring the heat in air opens options for high efficiency storage systems like thermochemical storage or latent heat storage in copper or copper alloys which melt between 900 – 1100 C.
The advantages of air are that it is accessible, freely available and abundant. Air is not corrosive, and any leaks would be inconsequential, so it doesn’t need to be contained in a closed loop, he explained.
“It can pull air in just out of the atmosphere and then runs it through the heat exchanger to store the heat. And then it can vent that air out once it is cool.”
With other heat transfer materials, “you have to ensure the system is sealed everywhere and if you lose some you must buy more to make it up. With air you don’t have that problem.”
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Unlike many heat transfer media, which can change their molecular structure at high temperatures, air remains stable at high temperatures.
However, an air receiver would seem to rule out chemical reactions using liquids like water. Not so, said Lapp.
“There are very few liquids that stay liquid in the 600 to 800 degree range that we are interested in,” he explained. “Most of the chemical reactions we deal with are either with gases like methane or with solid materials like metal oxide reactions.
Even splitting water is done at so high a temperature that water is not liquid, but steam.
“Water coming in already as steam makes it a lot easier to design the receiver. You don’t have the problems of steam expansion while its boiling. Its easier to keep it tight for steam than liquid,” he said. So to ready water for splitting, it would first be boiled to steam right in the tower.
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New Eyedrops Could Repair Corneas, Make Glasses Unnecessary
A team of Israeli scientists have developed a kind of eyedrop that can heal damaged corneas and fix a patient’s nearsightedness or longsightedness.
The patented “nanodrops”, as they are called by the ophthalmologists at Bar-Ilan University, were successfully used to improve the vision of pigs. If shown to have the same results during clinical testing on humans later this year, the treatment could waive the need for eyeglasses.
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Additionally, the research team found that the nanodrops could be developed to create multifocal vision correction so they could see things at various distances similar to the effects of wearing bifocal eyeglasses.
According to The Jerusalem Post, the researchers are unsure of how long patients would need to apply the eyedrops before their vision was repaired – but if proven to be successful, the treatment would be a revolutionary method of improving eyesight.
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County Deputies Greet Returning Students With Handshakes, Hugs, and High Fives to Show Support
In a gesture of solidarity towards the students of this Maryland high school, the county deputies welcomed the returning teenagers to class on Tuesday with hugs, high fives, and handshakes.
The Charles County Sheriff’s department posted a video of their officers posted up outside of Westlake High School in Waldorf, Maryland, greeting students as they arrived.
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The sheriff’s department tweeted the video with a caption saying that they wanted to “show their support to students and let them know we care, especially after the tragic Florida shooting.”
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Our Traffic Ops officers wrapped up their surprise visit with students at Westlake HS this morning with a lot of high fives, handshakes and a few hugs. All to show their support to students and let them know we care, especially after the tragic Florida shooting. pic.twitter.com/4FPb0FCNAr
— Charles Co Sheriff (@CCSOMD) February 20, 2018
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Woman Surprised to Find Her Dog Comforting a Grieving Stranger in the Airport
This pup’s sweet gesture at the airport is a perfect example of how animals have a sixth sense for things unseen.
Cora the corgi and her owner Madison Palm were waiting to board a flight from Idaho to Alaska so they could visit Palm’s mother.
As they sat down in the boarding area, however, Cora suddenly trotted over to an older man for some attention.
“Before I could even call her she was already at his feet being loved on,” Palm told TODAY. “I asked him if she was bothering him,” Palm said. “And with a somber face and watery eyes he said, ‘No, no. I lost my dog last night.’”
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Cora stayed by the man as he petted her neck and whispered little compliments into her ear. Palm, on the other hand, was heartened by her dog’s compassionate instincts.
This is not the first time that the canine has been intuitive of people’s emotional needs; 23-year-old Palm is currently training Cora to become certified as a therapy dog so she can help with her human’s anxiety.
“I truly think she has a gift. She knows who is hurting and she knows who needs her,” she said. “Once he told me that his dog passed away I looked at Cora and I thought to myself, ‘You are so amazing. How did I get so lucky?’”
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Hear an Awesome ‘Girl Power’ Story About a Mom Who Turned $700 into $65 Million
This Friday morning, we heard another Good News Guru story broadcasting on the top-rated morning show in Los Angeles.
An inspiring mom would stop at nothing to MAKE IT WORK for her family, even when a powerful businessman told her she was “a stupid woman” and expected her to simply give up. An awesome story of girl power.
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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When Man Suddenly Collapses, People Line Up For 96-Minute CPR Marathon to Save Him
In what has been called the “longest, successful out-of-hospital resuscitation,” 20 different people all saved a man’s life by performing CPR for 96 minutes.
The miraculous incident took place in the tiny town of Goodhue, Minnesota back in 2011. Goodhue, which only has a population of about 1,000 people, doesn’t even have a traffic light. The emergency response team for the town is comprised of roughly 20 volunteers.
54-year-old Howard Snitzer received life-saving help from all of them when he was walking out of a grocery store and suddenly collapsed on the sidewalk from a massive heart attack.
As the grocery clerk called 911, the only other customer in the store rushed outside and started giving CPR. Several other people across the street overheard the commotion, and went to lend a hand.
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“He wasn’t breathing,” said Al Lodermeier, one of the good Samaritans. “He was in trouble and that’s when we started doing CPR.”
Al’s brother Roy also told ABC News: “We just lined up and when one guy had enough, the next guy jumped in. That’s how it went.”
It would take 96 minutes for a rescue helicopter from the Mayo Clinic to fly over and successfully resuscitate Snitzer – and over the course of that nerve-wracking hour and a half, 20 people all lined up in front of Snitzer so they could wait for their turn to take over the chest compressions.
10 days later, Snitzer had made a full recovery and was released from the hospital.
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Student Gives Her Ice Cream Money to Help Pay For Funeral of Teacher’s Father-in-Law
Yet another youngster has given an adult a valuable lesson in kindness.
Price Lawrence, who is a 6th-grade teacher at Highlands Elementary in Huntsville, Alabama, was in the middle of teaching one of his morning classes when his students noticed that he was acting a little strangely.
“This morning, during first period, my kids could tell that I was a little off,” Lawrence wrote on Facebook. “When they asked why I wasn’t acting normally, I explained to them that my wife’s father had passed away this weekend and that I was worried about her.”
The kids gave their condolences, and the class went on as per usual.
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At the very end of the period, however, the students were filing out of the classroom when one of the girls slipped something into Lawrence’s hand.
It was several coins enclosed with a note with well wishes for Ms. Lawrence.
The youngster then looked up at the teacher and said: “This is for your wife. I know it was real expensive when my daddy died and I don’t really want ice cream today anyways.”
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Needless to say, he was touched. He later took to Facebook to voice his gratitude and admiration for the student.
“I wish the world would pay more attention to children,” he said. “We could learn a lot from them.”
Since he posted a photo of the gift to social media earlier this week, it has already been shared a quarter million times.
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Man Leaves Boxes of Amusing “New” Girl Scout Flavors at Local Grocery Store
With Girl Scout cookie season coming up, everyone is getting ready to stock up on Thin Mints and Samoas (which are obviously the best flavors) for the long cookie-less months ahead.
At this particular grocery store that was infiltrated by comedian Jeff Wysasky, however, consumers were able to find more than the average array of Girl Scout treats.
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Wysasky is the mastermind behind Obvious Plant, a Facebook page dedicated to placing amusing fake signs and products in public. This week, the comedian placed some new Girl Scout cookie flavors on the shelves of his local grocery store.
Our favorite of the gag goodies? Probably the one entitled “Oops! All Raisins (We Messed Up)”.
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A Sneaky Corgi Taught Itself to Ride a Woman’s Pony – and the Video Has Gone Viral
A corgi and his trusty pony pal may become the next biggest circus act in America.
22-year-old Callie Schenker, who lives near Halfway in Bolivar, arrived home earlier this month to find her neighbor’s corgi riding her one-eyed pony Cricket.
Unable to contain her laughter, Schenker whipped out her phone and recorded a 15-second clip of the dynamic duo in action.
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Since it was published to social media, the video has gone viral.
Schenker wrote on Facebook: “I can’t make this stuff up!!! So we pull back in our driveway tonight and this is what we see. This is not our dog! But apparently him and Cricket the one eyed wonder pony are best friends. I’m stealing the dog, new circus act!”
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“Winning does not mean finding solutions immediately, but believing that the solution is possible.” – Patrizio Paoletti
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When Kindergartener Has Her Shirt on Backwards, Classmates Are a Heartwarming Example of Kindness
Instead of allowing one of their fellow students to continue feeling excluded, this kindergarten class became a shining example of what it means to be kind.
According to CBC News, substitute teacher Marie McGaugh was teaching a class at Souris Regional School when one of the students told one of the girls sitting next to her that her shirt was on backwards.
As the other youngsters started to laugh at the simple wardrobe malfunction, the little girl “put her head down and turned red with embarrassment.”
McGaugh saw the student shying away from the laughter and decided to give the class a mini lecture on how putting the spotlight on a student like that could make them feel humiliated or excluded.
As McGaugh was talking, however, the kids grew quiet in rapt attention. Not only that, but one of the girls quietly took her arms out of her sleeves and turned her own shirt around.
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Another student shortly followed suit. Soon enough, all of the students in the class had turned their shirts around back-to-front.
“I just thought it was so caring and just so pure-hearted, they didn’t want her to feel bad,” McGaugh told the CBC. “And not a word was spoken. It was their actions that were just so powerful.”
“It was just one of those golden moments where they taught me, I didn’t teach them, they taught me… I was blessed to witness it,” she added.
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Woman Catches Thief Then Takes Him Out For Coffee
Tess Aboughoushe was just leaving a chiropractor’s appointment last Wednesday when she suddenly found herself in the middle of what felt like a scene from a movie.
Aboughoushe had been returning to her office in downtown Edmonton when she heard a woman down the street yell that a man had stolen her wallet.
Sure enough, a man started running away from the scene of the crime – but not before Aboughoushe could take off after him.
After chasing him for two blocks, Aboughoushe rounded the corner into an alleyway and found that the burglar had stopped running and had started to cry instead.
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“He came out from behind the dumpster and says, in a conciliatory way, ‘Here is the wallet, I can’t do this anymore, I’m sorry, just take it, take it,’” she told CBC Radio’s Edmonton AM.
“So I took the wallet, and the woman caught up soon after. I gave it back to her and he stayed there, apologizing a lot.”
Recognizing that the man was distressed, Aboughoushe took him to a café down the street and bought him a large black coffee.
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The man explained that he had come to the city with his friend from Calgary, but they had ditched him in Edmonton without any money.
Aboughoushe did her best to console the man before showing him how to get to the public library where he could seek help from the social workers on staff. She says that she hopes that the man gets the help that he needs, and she has no regrets over her actions from that day.
“You kill more flies with honey than you do with vinegar,” she said. “I wanted to show him some compassion.”
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Dog Found Tied to Tree With a Note is Adopted: “She tried to find me a home but nobody would take me”
Zeus the dog was left tied up to a tree in the middle of the woods with a bag of dog food sitting nearby and a note attached to his collar.
The note read: “I am a very good dog, my owner just can’t afford me anymore. She tried to find me a home, but nobody would take me.”
“I am still very young and energetic. I am good with kids and cats, but I get scared when meeting new dogs. Please find me a good home to go to.”
The owner left a final sentence, saying that they she was heartbroken about having to leave Zeus behind, but she had “no other options for him” and she hated to do it, but she “just can not afford him anymore.”
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Zeus, who is a Husky/black lab mix, was eventually found by the Prince George County Animal Shelter in Virginia.
Heartbroken by the note, they posted photos of Zeus, and a picture of the letter, to Facebook begging for someone to adopt the sweet pup.
Thankfully, it was spotted by the right family and the canine was successfully adopted into a forever home – just in time for Valentine’s Day, too.
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The shelter posted about Zeus’s adoption to Facebook with a notice reading: “For anyone who may find themselves in need of rehoming a pet, please reach out to your local animal services. Many areas have resources to assist if they can not assist personally. We are not sure this owner lived in our county. If they did, please know you may call us. We are always here to assist whether it be with resources that can help financially, with feeding your pet, or even with surrendering him or her to us.”
Some readers have speculated that Zeus’s owner may have been a victim of domestic abuse. Not many women’s shelters in the United States are fitted to accommodate pets – although, that may soon be changing thanks to this organization.
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“Each person invented himself, for whatever reason through whatever circumstance… We are each a figment of our own imagination and some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.” – David Geffen
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Can Sound Wave Therapy Heal What Ails You?
The Lesson: Sound technology is the latest development in “frequency medicine” – a kind of technique that supposedly treats different psychological and physical conditions with varying degrees of vibrations. In this podcast, Larry Doochin, a self-proclaimed expert of sound wave therapy, explains the difference between a resonant frequency versus a normal frequency; how he believes stress can throw off the frequency in the body; and how spirituality and science can come together with healing frequencies.
Notable Excerpt: “We feel like the human voice is probably the most deeply assimilated by the body than an instrument, because human sound is organic to us. So you think about listening to a choir, you feel that energy running in your body. That’s the power of human sound, and there’s a reason that human sound has been used for millennia by native traditions and indigenous tribes for healing, because it’s that powerful. And sound is really fundamental to basically to all creation because all the spiritual traditions and religious traditions talking about sound as having created the universe. Sound is a very fundamental element in what we’re doing, and we think human sound, because we produce human sound, is really the basis of what we need to help us restore those frequencies.”
The Guest: Larry Doochin is the co-founder of UrielTones: a technology that allegedly uses sound, vibrations, and varying frequencies to treat ailments such as insomnia, anxiety, insufficient energy, and stress. He is also the author of “I Am Therefore I Am” and “To Everything There is a Season”, both of which are books on exploring spiritual comfort and guidance.
The Host: Dave Asprey, the CEO and Founder of Bulletproof, is a biohacker (changing his environment from the inside-out to have full control of his biology). For nearly two decades, he’s been questioning the status quo of nutrition and medicine so he could feel better—and have more energy in his 40s than he had in his 20s. Join more than 1 million biohackers who follow Bulletproof for leading-edge information on how to supercharge your body and upgrade your brain.
Books: Asprey is the author of “The Bulletproof Diet” – a guide on how to feel more energized and lose weight – and “Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks”.
Podcast: The Bulletproof podcast is available on PodcastOne, iTunes, Stitcher, and YouTube.
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Tabletop Robotic Arm Reduces Language Barrier, Turns Speech into Sign Language
These engineering students noticed a significant shortage of sign language interpreters in the world – which is why they created a robotic arm to lend a hand.
“Project Aslan” is a user-friendly and low-cost humanoid robot that translates speech into sign language.
Aslan, which is an acronym for “Antwerp’s Sign Language Actuating Node” was designed by three students at the University of Antwerp who wanted to “to reduce the communication barrier between the hearing and the deaf community.”
“Because of his innovative design, Aslan stays affordable, without losing durability,” says the students. “The use of 3D-printing technology makes it possible to cut the production costs, as well as carrying out modifications or repairs when necessary.”
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Robotics teacher Erwin Smet says: “A deaf person who needs to appear in court, a deaf person following a lesson in a classroom somewhere. These are all circumstances where a deaf person needs a sign language interpreter, but where often such an interpreter is not readily available. This is where a low-cost option, like Aslan can offer a solution.”
Since the parts are all 3D-printed, Project Aslan can be manufactured and assembled in over 140 countries that have access to the technology.
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The team is currently working on creating a second robotic arm to work with the first, as well as an expressive face that can help convey meaning. Additionally, the students are exploring the possibilities of connecting a webcam to Project Aslan so users can teach the robot new signs.
Once the project is finished, they plan on making the designs open-source for everyone.
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Watch Cop Who “Can’t Swim” Dive Into Freezing Waters to Save Drowning Man
Despite not being a very good swimmer, this police constable did not hesitate to risk his own life in order to save another.
A man was in danger of drowning when he fell off of a bridge and into the freezing fast-moving waters of River Irwell in Bury this Saturday.
Police Constable Mohammed Nadeem, who had already been on the scene, immediately made the 8-foot jump into the water so he could rescue the man. The student officer’s bodycam captured harrowing footage of the entire incident.
Even though he was weighed down by his gear, Nadeem says that he was able to grab the distressed man and haul him to the side of the river where they were later pulled out by his fellow officers of the Greater Manchester Police Department.
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Nadeem later told the BBC: “I can’t swim. I’m not a good swimmer at all and having all the extra body gear was very hard but somehow I got to him… and we got to the side and waited for help.
“It was very dangerous but I just had to go in… seeing this man drowning I just couldn’t wait.”
According to Nadeem’s superintendent, the young officer is now being called “The Hoff” by his cohorts as an affectionate homage to David Hasselhoff’s character on the “Baywatch” TV show.
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