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☆ I took Pilates classes for a year. I was the only man in a class full of women, but it's become my favorite workout.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-26 | by ( Ash Jurberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Because it's a low-impact workout, Pilates can also be great when dealing with pain or building lean muscle — which explains why professional athletes incorporate it into their fitness routines. AdvertisementRegular Pilates classes were completely worth it, and I love how they've impacted my body and mindDoing Pilates keeps my mind clear and my body in shape. Ash JurbergInvesting in Pilates classes was worth it because the sessions exercised my body and mind and kept me motivated. Concentrating on each Pilates exercise distracted me from thoughts about work or my to-do list. It took me 50 years to try Pilates, and I wish I had taken the classes earlier.

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☆ The Shame of Falling Down - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Dani Shapiro | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I felt for the bandage my husband had secured around my chin the night before. Disparate verses from one of my favorite poems, by Wislawa Szymborska, looped through my mind: It could have happened. The thing is, I wasn’t OK. Here’s what they don’t tell you about falls: You keep falling again and again. You are an astronaut, floating and flailing through space, while everyone surrounding you seems to be on terra firma.

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☆ My Haul From the WFMU Record Fair
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Dear listeners,Over the weekend, I spent some time at the WFMU Record and CD Fair — a New York institution returning in person for the first time since 2019. A fund-raiser for the great, listener-supported radio station, this year’s Record Fair featured over 100 dealers hawking vinyl and other musical sundries at the Knockdown Center in Queens. That lingering pang in my shoulder, though, meant I left with a pretty decent record haul — which I used to create today’s playlist. Some people go to record fairs ready to drop big bucks on rare finds and coveted collectibles. When I added a $3 copy of Waylon Jennings’s “Greatest Hits” to my pile, I thought I’d checked the condition of the LP.

Persons: pang, Ike, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Roberta Flack, Waylon Jennings’s, I’d, … Neil Diamond’s “ Locations: New York, Queens

☆ She fled Ukraine and found belonging with her Russian boxing coach in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Akimova found her footing in a boxing gym run by a Russian trainer who became a grounding force. A Ukrainian refugee named Anzelika Akimova enters her fighting stance at the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles. At the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles, Russians and Ukrainians alike come to train. Before their paths aligned at Eastern Block Boxing, Poddubnov fought as an amateur boxer in Russia. Salman Poddubnov opened the boxing gym after a stint in prison, where he trained fellow inmates.

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☆ Opinion | The Unspeakably Sad Reminder of the ‘Other Paris’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-24 | by ( Tim Kreider | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Listening to his moans and wails, I realized that, excruciating as my previous night had been, I’d gotten off comparatively easy. Ava, in the waiting room, saw the man’s adult daughter helplessly listening to her father’s agonies, her head in her hands, her face gray. And it’s just around the time your senescent parents die, releasing you from your last grim filial duties, that you start noticing signs of your own incipient decline. The world is arranged to discreetly conceal this side of life from us — the messy, ragged back of the tapestry. Then I was released back into the “real” Paris — the public, lovely one.

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CNN —Russian dissident journalist Elena Kostyuchenko has revealed how she was traveling to Berlin by train last autumn when she was abruptly taken ill, in a case that has led German authorities to investigate a suspected poisoning attempt. Kostyuchenko was living in exile at the time in the German capital after being warned of Russian plans to assassinate her. In March 2022, she said she was tipped off by a source in Ukrainian military reconnaissance about Russian plans to assassinate her. Kostyuchenko eventually fled to Germany, where she rented an apartment in Berlin and began working for Meduza on September 29. Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny also fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow in 2020.

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☆ Women's World Cup: Australia dared to dream of World Cup glory, then it all slipped away
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Sydney, Australia CNN —A long, emotional day for Australian soccer fans turned into an even longer trip home when severe delays stranded thousands on train platforms at Stadium Australia after the nation’s disappointing 3-1 loss to England in the World Cup semifinal. After the match, a downcast Sam Kerr – Australia’s talismanic superstar and captain – told reporters she was lost for words. I can’t blame it all on myself, but it’s hard not to feel bad right now,” she said. “I think they played incredibly,” Skye Marshall told CNN, as she stood outside Stadium Australia with her family after the match. The day before, the Matildas will look to salve the pain somewhat and take on Sweden for third place.

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☆ Patrol dogs are terrorizing and mauling prisoners inside the United States
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Hannah Beckler | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +64 min

But prison patrol dogs aren't deployed for chases; they are used inside the prison walls. Tri-State Canines training facility, Warren, OhioVirginia Department of Corrections patrol dogs are typically Belgian Malinois, Czech shepherds, or German shepherds. Department patrol dogs are trained to bite once and hold to minimize flesh tears and lacerations. Patrol dog kennels, Virginia Department of CorrectionsThe patrol dog kennels are even smaller, at 6 feet by 10. A veterinary technician who treated patrol dogs at a clinic in Lebanon, Virginia, said she was told not to touch the patrol dogs in her care without their handler present.

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☆ Opinion | Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +58 min

It’s like there’s no point in asking who started this because it’s a really, really old antagonism. I think that’s probably what’s most critical right now is that all of our entertainment, our news media, it’s all made in cities. And he’s really pretty horrible, and he doesn’t feed them enough, and that’s really sad. You’re going to have a flat tire, and the guy that pulls up to help you is going to tell your dad within minutes. It’s not like most books you’re going to see.

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☆ Seeking a Studio on the East Side of Manhattan for $600,000: These Were Her Options
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Debra Kamin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Her father, the first-generation American son of Puerto Rican parents, and her mother, an immigrant from Colombia, had always encouraged her to own property. “Growing up, I was always told, ‘If you can buy, then buy,’” said Ms. Gonzalez, 27, who works remotely as a digital communications strategy manager for a Mexico-based tequila brand. “The idea of buying in New York felt impossible, so I decided to get as close as I could,” she said. By the summer of 2022, she figured that selling her apartment would leave her with a budget of up to $600,000 to buy a new place. [Also in Real Estate: This 835-Year-Old Medieval English House Needs Some Modern Love — and a Buyer.]

☆ How Drew and Jonathan Scott Became the Property Brothers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-06 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

For Drew and Jonathan Scott, the twins better known as HGTV’s “Property Brothers,” real estate began as a side hustle. Drew ran up his credit cards while seeking work as an actor; Jonathan declared bankruptcy while working as a magician. Today, Scott Brothers Global is an entertainment and lifestyle empire, with branded lines of furniture, mattresses, rugs and other home goods available at Macy’s, Wayfair, Home Depot and elsewhere. Their production company is responsible for 15 unscripted series and TV specials, on subjects including real estate, food and cars, that air in over 160 countries. The eighth season of “Brother vs. Brother,” in which they compete to see who can renovate and sell a home at a bigger profit, starts Jan. 11 on HGTV and Discovery+.

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