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(Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
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Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
(Editing by Alan Baldwin)
June 13 (Reuters) – Britain’s Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Formula One Grand Prix in a McLaren one-two with team mate Jenson Button on Sunday.
Hamilton’s second win in a row, from pole position in Montreal, sent him top of the championship standings after eight races. Spain’s Fernando Alonso finished third for Ferrari.
(Editing by Alan Baldwin; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
Washington, May 8(ANI): Top Italian cyclist Franco Pellizotti was banned from a cycle race in Italy when authorities detected irregular blood levels in his body, suggesting drug intake.
Pellizotti, who is a hot favourite, was banned from the Giro d”Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race, in Rome.
Each time a new drug test comes out, athletes and their doctors figure out a way to beat it. But now, researchers have come up with a “biological passport” that measures blood and body chemistry over time. The discovery may finally put a dent in sports doping.
“It”s another tool to find those who are doping and protect those who are clean,” Discovery News quoted David Howman, director of the World Anti-Doping Association in Montreal, as saying.
“Its a significant step for the fight against doping,” he added.
The drug looks for changes in a rider”s established baseline that might result from doping, even if the specific drug or tactic remains unknown.
The drug is especially successful considering there are some drugs on the market which can be detected only for a couple of days, but produce effects that last over a week. Such drugs can’t be detected by ordinary doping tests. One such example is erythropoitein (EPO), which was developed to help anaemia patients. (ANI)
New York, April 27 (ANI): A Canadian Facebook group, with 35,000 followers, is urging William Shatner to run for the office of Montreal”s governor.
Shatner, 79, is a native of Montreal.
“It”s time for Canada to boldly go where no country has gone before,” the New York Daily News quoted the group”s page, as saying. (ANI)
London, Mar 13(ANI): New pictures of John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, clicked during their famous Bed-in for Peace in Montreal in 1969, have surfaced.
The pictures, snapped by Life photographer Gerry Deiter, are being showcased in an exhibition in Coventry Cathedral, West Mids.
Deiter was the only photojournalist who was permitted to capture the couple for the full eight days of bed-in at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.
The pictures show the couple writing and recording their song ‘Give Peace a Chance’.
“Gerry Deiter was the only photojournalist there the entire eight days, with complete access,” the Telegraph quoted Nick Chevasse, the Cathedral”s tourist director, as saying.
He said: “He was on assignment for Life magazine, but his story was bumped in favour for one about Vietnam.
“The photos were never published, they never ran, so Deiter hid them away.
“This is why many of the images are not familiar, even to Lennon fans – they have never been seen before by anybody.
“He captured the celebrity visitors, the action and intimate, behind the scenes moments between John and Yoko.”
In one photograph, John strums his guitar, while Ono chats to 16-year-old Gail Reynard, who had scaled the hotel”s fire escape and pleaded with the couple to let her stay.
Gail was given the original handwritten lyrics for Lennon”s peace song, as she was present at the spot throughout the eight days.
She said: “When I first saw the images from the exhibition, I was carried straight back to that amazing time.
“They started to unlock details that I thought I had forgotten.” (ANI)
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New Delhi, Sep 16 (ANI): Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Wednesday that India has developed a comprehensive Road Map and Action Plan to phase-out of production and consumption of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in various sectors.
Addressing the gathering during the 15th International Ozone Day here Ramesh said: “The Government of India has taken a number of policy measures, fiscal and regulatory, to encourage the early adoption of alternative technologies in this area by existing and new enterprises.”
Ramesh hailed the Montreal Protocol as the most successful international treaty to ever achieve universal participation.
“At a time when the world is trying to solve the problem of climate change, the International Ozone Day provided a timely reminder of how international cooperation can help to solve major global environmental problems,” Ramesh added.
India is one of the first developing countries to join the Montreal Protocol and pledge its commitment to protect the Ozone Layer.
As a part of the accelerated phase-out of CFCs, India has completely phased out the production and consumption of CFCs as on 1 August 2008, 17 months prior to the agreed schedule.
Ramesh informed that over 97percent of controlled Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) have been phased out by the Montreal Protocol.
“The end of 2009 will mark another significant milestone in the history of its implementation, with the use of potent ODSs -CFCs, Carbon Tetra Chloride (CTC) and Halons, except pharmaceutical-grade CFCs used in the manufacture of Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) – being ceased completely,” he said
The CFCs required for manufacturing for MDIs used by Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients are still available in India, a national transition strategy to phase them out by 2013 is currently under implementation.
“The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the World Bank recently also launched the India: Chiller Energy Efficiency Project to accelerate the conversion of CFC-based chillers using new, more energy efficient technologies,” Ramesh said.
This year’s theme for the ozone day was ‘Universal participation – Ozone protection unifies the World.’ (ANI)
New York, Sep 11 (ANI): Irrespective of who wins or loses, India will triumph as two of its tennis stars-Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes-face each other in the US Open men’s doubles final on Friday evening.
Paes will partner Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic, while Bhupathi, will partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas.
This is the first time Paes and Bhupathi are facing each other in a Grand Slam title clash.
Both Bhupathi and Paes have been in good form throughout the year Paes won the French Open this season while Bhupathi won the doubles title at the Montreal Masters.
The duo have met thrice in a Grand Slam event, but never in a final. Paes has beaten Bhupathi twice. (ANI)
London, Sep.8 (ANI): New evidence put before a British jury during a retrial of three Brit Muslim convicts suggests that the men used code words to discuss their plans with an al-Qaeda fixer based in Pakistan.
The e-mails and conversations suggest that the plot was in its final stages, possibly days away from execution in 2006.
The seven daily flights highlighted by the three plotters were: 14.15 United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco; 15.00 Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto; 15.15 Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal; 15.40 United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago; 16.20 United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington; 16.35 American Airlines Flight 131 to New York; 16.50 American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago.
According to The Telegraph and the Daily Express, the batteries the gang planned to use as part of their detonators were bought in Pakistan.
An ingredient in the bomb mix was the orange soft drink Tang – sold in Pakistan – which had a high sugar content to aid the explosion.
A British intelligence source said: “The use of drink bottles sold in Pakistan and batteries sold in Pakistan underline the plot’s ties to that country. The foot soldiers were from Britain – but the organisers were in Pakistan.”
A security source said of the conspiracy: “It was very clever and the airport scanners would not have picked up the devices at all.”
Prosecutor Peter Wright told the Woolwich Crown Court in South East London how the would-be bombers were “a cell of home-grown terrorists activated and directed by a designated leader in Pakistan.”
That was confirmed by a government source in Pakistan, who said the plot was believed to have originated “with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.”
Seized e-mails showed the chain of terror stretched from there, across the lawless border to Pakistan, to London and to the woods of High Wycombe where explosives were buried.
The aim was to mirror the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed 259 passengers and 11 in the Scottish town.
Aliases exposed during the trial revealed the terror kingpin in Pakistan was dubbed “Paps” or “Papa”.
Ali called himself Imran and Chacha and also set up email accounts in the bogus names Tippu Khan and Jameel Masood.
His co-conspirators used aliases such as Fatty, Arro and Nigga.
Hydrogen peroxide was known as “aftershave”, police surveillance as “skin problems” and martyrdom videos were referred to as “wedding tapes”.
It is also thought that the bomb makers received training at an al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan.
A mystery Pakistani, thought to be a top al-Qaeda envoy, made contact with the three would-be suicide bombers during a flying visit to Britain in June 2006.
Experts who tested the explosive mix on the aircraft were horrified.
A witness said: “It was absolutely devastating.” (ANI)
Washington, September 2 (ANI): A study conducted in Canada has reinforced the correlation between being overweight, smoking and breast cancer.
Published in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology, the study is unique because it did not include subjects who were diagnosed for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which predispose women to breast cancer.
The study entirely focused on lifestyle factors like smoking, exercise, nutrition and weight.
All women analysed in the study were direct ancestors of the first French colonists.
“To our knowledge, this is the first study conducted on a sample of women without BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations, which are often found in French-Canadian women,” said lead researcher Vishnee Bissonauth, a graduate of the Universite de Montreal’s Department of Nutrition, and a researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center.
The study found that weight gains after the age of 20 increased the risk of breast cancer.
Where the weight gain was more than 15.5 kilos, the risk was found to increase by an average of 68 percent.
Risk increases depending on how late in life the weight gain occurs, according to the study.
Women who gained more than 10 kilos after age 30, or more than 5.5 kilos after age 40, were found to be almost twice as likely to suffer from breast cancer as a those whose weight was stable.
The study showed that the risk tripled if the body mass index was at its maximum after age 50.
Smoking a pack a day for nine years was also found to increase breast cancer risks by 59 percent.
Though the impact of smoking seemed to decrease for menopausal women, it remained at 50 percent.
Bissonauth stressed the need for more research into the correlation between smoking and breast cancer.
The researchers revealed that moderate physical activity appeared to decrease cancer risks by 52 percent for pre-menopausal and post-menopausal women.
The correlation was also observed for women who did intense physical activity, but the difference was not significant, said the lead researcher.
That finding, said Bissonauth, may be down to the fact that women who did moderate physical activity were more likely to do it regularly, while those who did intense physical activity were likely to quit after a few weeks.
“Cancer is a complex disease and can be latent for several years. Therefore, it is important to work on the factors we can control and to lead a healthy lifestyle, which means watching one’s weight, avoid smoking and doing regular exercise,” said Bissonauth. (ANI)
Washington, Aug 29 (ANI): Almost 15 pct of the preschoolers suffer from high levels of depression and anxiety, according to a Canadian study.
The five-year investigation showed that children with atypically high depression and anxiety levels are more likely to have mothers with a history of depression.
“As early as the first year of life, there are indications that some children have more risks than others to develop high levels of depression and anxiety,” said first author Sylvana M. Cote, a professor at the Universite de Montreal’s Department of Social and Preventive Medicine.
“Difficult temperament at five months was the most important predictor of depression and anxiety in the children,” Cote added.
During the study, the researchers examined 1,758 children born in Quebec.
“We found that lifetime maternal depression was the second most important predictor of atypically high depressive and anxiety problems during preschool years,” said Cote.
“Our study is the first to show that infant temperament and lifetime maternal depression can lead to a high trajectory of depressive and anxiety problems before school entry.
“It is critical that preventive interventions be experimented with infants who risk developing depressive and anxiety disorders.
“Health professionals should target such high risk children at infancy, as well as their parents, to have a long-term impact on their well-being,” Cote added.
The study is published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. (ANI)
Washington, August 27 (ANI): Astronomers have confirmed that an email promising a “Mars spectacular” event on August 27, when the Red Planet will look as large as the full moon, is nothing but a hoax.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the anonymous message from an unknown part of the globe says that the red planet “will look as large as the full moon” in the night sky, and that “no one alive today will ever see this again.”
The claim has been bombarding people’s inboxes worldwide every summer for five years.
Today, the Mars hoax has grown into a kind of cyber legend-one that astronomers are still struggling to debunk.
“The possibility of seeing Mars as large as the moon strikes the imagination,” said Marc Jobin, staff astronomer at the Montreal Planetarium in Quebec.
“The sad reality is that a lot of people have little comprehension of astronomy and are unable to call the hoax,” he added.
But, there is a thread of truth that inspired the prank several years ago.
Planets are not on perfectly circular orbits, and during their elliptical paths around the sun, planets can vary in their exact distances to each other over time.
On August 27, 2003, Mars made a historically tight approach to Earth, coming about 56 million kilometers away.
Such a near pass hadn’t happened in nearly 60,000 years, and it won’t happen again until August 28, 2287.
In 2003, planetariums had sent out notices alerting stargazers of the real astronomical event.
“At the time, through the telescope, Mars looked as large as the full moon would with the naked eye,” explained Geza Gyuk, astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois.
Through a backyard telescope with a high-power eyepiece, viewers could even make out many surface features on Mars’s disk.
With the naked eye, Mars still appeared as nothing more than a brilliant orange-colored star in the sky.
Still, an email hoax was born.
If the red planet actually did appear as huge as purported in the Mars hoax email, the planet would be just 750,000 kilometers from Earth, or about twice as far away as the moon.
According to Jobin, at that distance, life on Earth would likely be doomed.
Given the interplay of gravity between the planets and the sun, a much closer Mars “would have extreme consequences on the shape of the Earth’s orbit, with our planet swinging much closer and much farther away from the sun,” he said. (ANI)
London, Aug. 24 (ANI): Andy Murray is hoping to break his Grand Slam duck at next week’s US Open.
Murray, who won the Montreal Masters last week, will be seeded No 2 in New York – with Roger Federer taking top spot at the Billie Jean King Tennis Centre.
“I’ve won eight tournaments since last year’s US Open and had a good couple of weeks,” The Sun quoted him, as saying.
“I played every match in the heat of the day at Montreal – I’m in better shape for the US Open,” he added.
Meanwhile, Federer beat Novak Djokovic 6-1 7-5 on Sunday to win the Cincinnati Masters title. (ANI)
New Delhi, Aug.24 (ANI): Thirteen of Canada’s elite universities will be in India from August 23 to September 4 to hold information sessions on Canada as a destination for higher education.
The delegation is led by Ginette Sanfaçon of HEC Montréal (Business school affiliated with the Université de Montréal) and Michelle Beaton of Ryerson University in Toronto.
The tour is organized by the Canadian Higher Education Committee under the aegis of the Council of International Schools (CIS).
The Council’s fifth annual tour to India will begin in Mumbai and continue in Pune, Delhi and Bangalore.
According to a Canadian High Commission press release, the tour is of special interest to Standard XI and Standard XII students who exhibit strong academic standing, their school guidance counselors as well as to their parents. The schedule includes school visits, information fairs, and an indepth Canadian university admission workshop for guidance counselors.
“India is a key undergraduate student market for Canadian universities,” said Ginette Sanfaçon of HEC-Montréal and Tour Director. “Indian students are sought for their academic strength and their rich contribution to student life on Canadian university campuses. In turn, increasing numbers of Indian students are making Canada their first choice for study – as evidenced on this tour.
Indian students are drawn to our universities’ common attributes of international reputation for academic excellence, state of the art resources, and safe campuses in welcoming locations,” Sanfaçon said.
Each year, tour organizers strengthen existing relationships with secondary schools in cities they visit and also expand outreach to new regions. For example, guidance counselors from schools in Dehra Dun, Hyderabad, Chennai and Chandigarh as well as Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are receiving invitations to attend the Tour’s counselor workshop in Delhi.
List of participating universities:
The University of British Columbia; Carleton University; Dalhousie University; HEC MONTRÉAL (Business School affiliated with Université de Montréal); Memorial University of Newfoundland; University of Manitoba; University of New Brunswick; Ryerson University; University of Saskatchewan; University of Toronto; Vancouver Island University; University of Waterloo; York University.
Canadian universities are engaged internationally as leaders in education through teaching, research and partnerships. Undergraduate education in Canada is a hybrid of US and UK styles offering breadth of program options, flexibility in choice and a degree that is ultimately recognized world-wide.
Indian students choose Canada because a strong education and a positive international experience is the foundation for their exciting and successful futures. The quality, affordability and renowned research opportunities are key factors in this decision. University campuses across Canada offer multicultural environments, beautiful spaces and friendly people. As a leader in business, political diplomacy, arts and culture and technology – Canada’s education system is at the core of its success and its graduates are players on the world stage. (ANI)
Washington, August 21 (ANI): Studying hemozoin – a crystal-like by-product released during reproduction among parasites from the Plasmodium family – may help understand why malaria leads to devastating inflammation and fever, according to a Canadian study.
Lead researcher Dr. Martin Olivier, of McGill University in Montreal, points out that, inside the human body, the malaria parasite infects red blood cells where it survives and reproduces by feeding on the cells’ contents.
Eventually, says the researcher, the cells burst and release the parasites and hemozoin.
“Our results describe the mechanism by which the hemozoin activates the immune system, resulting in the production of inflammation mediators and in the high fever that we witness in malaria patients,” said study’s first-author Dr. Marina Tiemi Shio, of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC).
According to the researchers, hemozoin is first ingested by “cleaning” cells called macrophages, which leads to a chain reaction ending in the activation of the inflammasome: an important structure inside immune cells which lead to inflammation.
They say that the activation of the inflammasome leads to the production of the body’s fever mediator, interleukin beta (IL-beta).
“Our work is a milestone in that it is the first study that reveals the enzymes that act as intermediary between the hemozoin and inflammasome. Now our picture of the process that goes from infection to fever is more or less complete,” said Dr. Olivier.
“On the other hand, we also proved that malaria is too complex to be narrowed down to one single mechanism. In the absence of either IL-beta or a functional inflammsaome, the development of the disease is delayed but not completely stopped. Although the discovery of this relationship is important, there are other mechanisms at work,” he added.
Even though scientists have been familiar with the mechanisms that go from the activation of the inflammasome to the onset of the malaria symptoms, none of the previous studies has ever shown the beginning of the process.
“These results prove the primary role hemozoin plays in the development of malaria, and designates it as a favoured choice for future innovative treatments,” said Dr. Olivier.
The researchers believe it will be possible to familiarize the immune system to small quantities of hemozoin, and diminish the inflammatory response in the event of infection, according to a principle similar to that of vaccines.
The results of the study have been published in the journal PLoS Pathogens. (ANI)
Toronto, June 24 (ANI): While babies born at 37 or 38 weeks are though to be full term, scientists have now found that such tots have slightly lower IQs, and a modestly higher risk of death in early infancy, as compared to those born after closer to 40 weeks in the womb.
Michael Kramer, a McGill University epidemiologist, says that the finding attains significance as births these days are increasingly induced after 37 or 38 weeks of pregnancy.
He points out that it has been assumed for years that a few weeks in the final month of pregnancy do not matter much to babies, his team have now found evidence that those extra weeks can make a difference.
While making a presentation at a conference in California this week, Dr. Kramer’s research associate Seungmi Yang revealed that the IQs of babies born at 37 weeks had been found to be 1.7 points lower than those of infants born at 39 or 40 weeks during their study.
Those seeing the presentation heard that the study involved 18,000 children who underwent cognitive testing at the age of six and a half.
“There was an increase in IQ from 37 to 40 weeks. The IQ score was highest at 40 weeks of gestational age,” the Globe and Mail quoted Dr. Yang, who works at the Research Institute of Montreal Children’s Hospital and McGill University Health Centre, as saying.
He further revealed that a similar finding surfaced when he and his colleague Xun Zhang examined the mortality rate of more 12 million babies born in the US, with those delivered at 37 and 38 weeks having a small, but significantly higher chance of dying as newborns.
The researcher revealed that infant mortality rates were highest for babies born at 37 weeks – 0.66 per 1,000 in the neonatal period and 1.68 per 1,000 in the post-neonatal period.
The rates decreased between 37 and 39 weeks, and remained stable for babies born at 40 weeks, at 0.34 per 1,000 for newborns and 1.03 per 1,000 later.
They also had an increased chance of neonatal seizures or other problems shortly after birth.
“Despite a low absolute risk of infant death at these gestational ages, the risks were more than 50 per cent higher at 37 weeks than at 40 weeks,” the researchers say in a research article, published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Dr. Kramer conceded that those differences were relatively small, but insisted that they raised serious questions about whether inducing births at 37 and 38 weeks does more harm than good.
He stressed the need for a large clinical trial that would compare the outcomes of term births induced at different gestational ages for a variety of reasons and births that weren’t induced in similar circumstances. (ANI)
NEW DELHI: On the 24th anniversary of Air India Kanishka’s fateful flight from Montreal across the Atlantic, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday called for all-out efforts for a terror-free world.
Commemorating the air crash — caused by Khalistani militants — Singh said there was an urgent need to make every attempt to rid the world of the scourge of terrorism.
The weekly flight to Delhi via London crashed into the Atlantic off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 people on board.
“Today, on the eve of the 24th anniversary of that tragic event, as we honour the memory of the innocent victims of this grim tragedy, the best homage we can pay to them is to work earnestly to rid the world of the
London, June 22 (ANI): A collaborative team of researchers from VGTI Florida and the University of Montreal say that they have made certain findings that may provide a method to eradicate HIV infection in the human body.
They say that their study has even uncovered new information on how HIV persists in the body, even in patients receiving drug treatments, and how the virus continues to replicate itself in individuals undergoing treatment.
According to background information in a research article on their study, medical advancements in the past 20 years have significantly increased the survival rates of AIDS patients.
The report further states that about 90 percent of patients infected with AIDS can survive with the disease as long as they are treated with a complex series of antiretroviral drugs.
“Current medications allow us to control HIV and limit its progression in most cases,” Nature magazine quoted senior author Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sekaly, current scientific director for VGTI Florida, a former scientist at the University of Montreal, as saying.
“However, the medications do not eradicate the disease. Instead, the disease persists within the body – much like water in a reservoir – and is never fully destroyed. We believe our latest research may help scientists and physicians overcome this hurdle,” the researcher added.
The researchers say that their study enabled them to identify a possible new way of attacking HIV by first identifying the specific cells where HIV infection persists in patients currently undergoing treatment.
They have found that the disease is able to survive within two subsets of memory T-cells.
Memory T-cells are a portion of the body’s immune system and have the ability to learn, detect and attack certain types of infectious diseases.
The team say that HIV avoid antiviral treatments by infecting cells within the body’s own immune system, and that it uses the body’s own defence system as a hideout.
As to how the HIV-infected memory T-cells replenish themselves, the researchers found that when populating T-cells, HIV does not replicate itself as it does in other cell types on the body.
They say that HIV instead persists in memory T-cells through cell division, a finding that holds significant implications for possibly stopping the disease.
“Based on this research, we believe one possible method for eliminating HIV in the body is to use a combined approach. We propose the use of medications that target viral replication of HIV throughout the body, in combination with drugs that prevent infected memory T-cells from dividing. We believe that by attacking the disease in these distinct two ways at once for an extended period of time, we can eliminate the reservoirs of HIV that currently persist within the human body, leaving an individual disease-free,” said Dr. Sekaly.
The researchers say that they will next use animal models and newly developed therapies to test their proposed treatment method.
“While this is a preliminary finding, we are hopeful that this research discovery will guide us in eradicating HIV infection in the body,” said Dr. Sekaly.
The findings of the study have been reported in the online edition of the journal Nature Medicine. (ANI)
Washington, May 29 (ANI): A tipple three to four times per week can put youngsters at a greater risk of binge drinking, suggests a new study.
The research team from the Universite de Montreal and the University of Western Ontario showed that frequent alcohol consumption can lead to binge drinking among all gender and all age groups, particularly young men.
“The relationship between drinking frequency and consumption per occasion might be both cultural and biological,” said study coauthor Andree Demers, a Universite de Montreal sociology professor and director of the Research Group on the Social Aspects of Health and Prevention.
“Regular drinking builds up tolerance, therefore daily drinkers will need more than their usual drink or two to make a difference with everyday life and gain that festive feeling,” said lead author Catherine Paradis, a Universite de Montreal PhD candidate.
“That fosters drinking beyond healthy limits – at least sporadically and perhaps weekly – to five drinks or more per occasion. And five units is above the recommended limits of healthy drinking,” she added.
During the study, researchers examined the GENACIS Canada project data, approximately 11,000 respondents were asked to report on their alcohol consumption within the last 12 months.
The study is published in the journal Addiction. (ANI)
Washington, May 28 (ANI): Yoko Ono has been honoured with a key to Niagara Falls as part of the tribute to her and John Lennon’s honeymoon visit to the city 40 years ago.
The Lundy’s Lane Historical Museum in Ontario, Canada has come up with an exhibition to mark the city’s tie to the pair’s marriage after their post-wedding stop in 1969.
Ono, in a bid to express her gratitude, has donated never-before-seen footage of their Niagara Falls trip, featured in a video for Lennon’s version of Stand By Me, reports Contactmusic.
The Lennon-Ono honeymoon became famous for the “bed-in” in Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth hotel during which the couple spent a week in bed to protest the Vietnam war and recorded Give Peace a Chance. (ANI)
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