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'This is our land and we will defend it until the end,' soldier, volunteer in Ukraine say as war rages on
As the war in Ukraine rages on, our sister station WPBF is hearing directly from a soldier and volunteer on the ground.
"Our soldiers are really brave,” said Illia Yevlash, the press office for the Ukrainian Land Forces and a lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "We defend our culture and our history and this is our land. We don’t have any roads where we can go back. This is our land and we will defend it until the end.
"(The soldiers have) high morale. They’re ready for struggles and ready to die for motherland if it's needed."
Les Yakymchuk was attending graduate school at Ohio University two weeks ago and flew back to Ukraine to help in any way he could once the war started. His girlfriend joined him on the trip.
He's currently in Kyiv, where he was born and raised, securing needed supplies from other countries for troops and citizens in Ukraine.
"This war started and I decided to move back to Ukraine to help my people and my family and friends in this really hard situation," said Yakymchuk. "It was a really dangerous and hard road back, but we made it."
He described what it is like to live in Kyiv during the war.
"Any minute, I will need to jump to go to the shelter, because there can be an alarm or something and 10 days ago I would not have believed something like this could happen on my streets,” said Yakymchuk.
"It is really exhausting, especially at night, because you can’t properly sleep because you go to bed and try to sleep like one hour or two and then you have this alarm and you go to the shelter and spend like 10 or 15 minutes or something and then you go back to your bed and you try to sleep and then again, alarm, and again. It’s just not stopping. It's just unpredictable, ridiculous and insane."
Yakymchuk said he is hoping to be able to go back to the U.S. to continue his studies, but is ready to stay in Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Both Yakymchuk and Yevlash are calling on more military intervention from the U.S. and NATO.
You can help Yakymchuk with his volunteer efforts by reaching him at lesleleka@gmail.com.
You can also click here for more ways to help the Ukrainian people.
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South Carolina remained No. 1 in The Associated Press women's basketball poll Monday despite suffering its second loss of the season.
The Gamecocks (29-2) fell to Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference Tournament title game Sunday, but stayed atop the poll, edging No. 2 Stanford.
South Carolina received 17 first-place votes from the 30-member national media panel. Stanford, which won the Pac-12 tournament, got 11 first-place ballots. North Carolina State was No. 3 with two top votes. Baylor and Louisville rounded out the top five.
The Gamecocks' loss snapped an 18-game winning streak for the team, which has gone 11-0 against ranked opponents this season.
“We’ve put ourselves in a really good position. Going into the NCAA Tournament it doesn’t feel good, but we’ve got a lot of feel-goods throughout the season that we’ll draw on,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said after the loss Sunday. “The ultimate goal is still very much in front of us, and we’ll buckle down and try not to be the sad faces that are in the locker room today in the next couple of weeks.”
It's the second time this season that the Gamecocks still were No. 1 after losing a game.
Kentucky jumped into the poll at No. 16 after also beating then-No. 6 LSU and No. 18 Tennessee in the SEC tournament. Kentucky was ranked for the first 11 weeks of the season before falling out in the middle of January. The Wildcats have now won 10 straight games to get back in the AP Top 25.
UConn was sixth, with Texas, Iowa — jumping four spots from No. 12 — LSU and Iowa State rounding out the top 10. The Big 12 is the only Power Five conference yet to begin its tournament.
Central Florida earned its first ranking ever, coming into the poll at No. 25. UCF has won 10 straight games and is the top seed in the American Athletic Conference tournament that begins Tuesday.
Florida, Georgia and Georgia Tech all fell out of the Top 25.
The final poll of the season will be released next Monday, a day after the NCAA announces this season's field of 68 teams.
EYE OF THE TIGER
Princeton entered the Top 25 for the first time this season at No. 24 after going undefeated in the Ivy League regular season. The Tigers are 22-4 and have won 15 straight games. Princeton was last ranked for the final five weeks of the 2019-20 season. The Ivy League didn't play sports last year because of the pandemic.
“We’re very grateful to be playing this year and being back together,” Princeton coach Carla Berube said. “It was over 18 months we hadn’t been all together playing any kind of organized basketball. In November and December we were trying to figure things out and the team came to work every day and worked really, really hard.”
GAME OF THE WEEK
The Big 12 championship game will be played Sunday with Baylor looking to sweep the regular season and tournament crowns again this year.
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More AP women’s college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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PHOENIX (AP) — Grand Canyon junior center Dima Zdor has tried to maintain a routine, a mix of schoolwork, practice and games. His attention for all the other hours in the day is halfway across the world.
One of a handful of Ukrainians playing college basketball in the United States, Zdor can only watch from afar in Phoenix as Russian troops roll through his home country and hope his family and friends remain safe.
“I watch a lot of news from back home and it’s just upsetting how little villages and towns are getting destroyed and overtaken, just for the reason of politics," he said. "It’s sad. It’s scary. It’s uncomfortable to open Twitter or watch the news every day and be scared of what’s going on there that could affect my family, friends or team back home.”
Russia's invasion has taken a massive toll across Ukraine as bombs pound cities in the Eastern European country. More than 1 million people have fled the country as Russian forces advance, millions more are stuck in the crossfire, many hiding underground.
Watching it unfold from long distance is excruciating, a helplessness overtaking Ukrainian players as they watch the news, follow social media, try to communicate with family and friends back home.
“It is difficult mentally,” said Denys Bobchuk, a sophomore at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. “Personally, I feel guilt just because my people are going through some rough things right now. And I’m here, I’m safe and there’s not much I can help with.”
The tension started when it appeared Russia was going to invade Ukraine. It intensified tenfold when the bombs began to fall and the troops crossed the borders.
Communication with Ukraine has been spotty at times. Hours without contact with family members is agonizing, days even worse.
The endless anxiety also comes with an attempt to understand why their home country is being invaded.
“It’s not OK. We live in this time where we have medicine, science, all this stuff and we’re still having war," San Francisco center Volodymyr Markovetskyy said. “Why is that happening? I don’t understand, my family doesn’t understand, nobody does.”
Markovetskyy's mother and sister were able to escape to Lithuania, but his father, a police officer, had to stay in Ukraine.
Zdor's parents, sister and numerous other relatives are in Ukraine and Crimea, which was occupied by Russia in 2014.
George Maslennikov, a senior forward at Canisius, is from Odessa and had some nervous moments when neither he nor his father, who's in Spain, were able to reach his mother Tetyanna while the city is under siege.
“I’m trying to keep my mindset positive as much as I can, though it’s difficult even without things like that going on back home since I only see my family once a year,” he said.
The Ukrainian players here still try to do what they can from afar, raising awareness on social media and funds for the military effort.
Bobchuk is trying to create a fund to raise money for soldiers in Ukraine and has contacted American manufacturers to send bulletproof vests to military friends back home.
Maslennikov has donated on a bank app to send money to the Ukrainian military, encouraging others to do the same through social media.
“It just takes a lot of courage to do things like that and having this country as small as ours to fight against Russians,” he said. "People thought it was going to be easy, but it’s just not. I’m trying to support it as much as I can even though I’m so far from home and I’m worried about them, but I’m doing as much as I can.”
But there's only so much the Ukrainian players can do from so far away. Much of their time is spent watching, waiting, keeping tabs on everyone back home.
Sticking to a routine is a key, takes the mind off what's happening — at least for a little while.
“It just feels not right to me, but at the end of the day, I think it is important to understand that I’m here and the only thing I can do is to do my job, which is playing basketball right now at the highest level," Bobchuk said. "And that’s what I’m trying to do right now, just trying to focus on something that I’m involved in and just have my daily routine and following it.”
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AP Sports Writers Janie McCauley in San Francisco, Gary Graves in Louisville and John Zenor in Birmingham, Alabama, contributed to this story.
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More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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What happened in Russia's Ukraine invasion over the weekend
The human toll of the invasion of Ukraine mounted over the weekend as Russia upped its bombardment of civilian areas and infrastructure.
As conditions worsened in a number of key Ukrainian cities, the United Nations said more than 1.7 million refugees had fled the country so far.
Here's what you need to know about what happened over the weekend.
Key cities bombarded as plans for evacuation corridors fail
Western intelligence officials say Russia is increasing the pace and strength of strikes on key population centers, including the capital Kyiv, in an effort to bombard cities into submission.
A Russian military strike hit an evacuation crossing point in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin Sunday, killing eight people, including a family with two children and several other civilians trying to flee the Russian invasion. The harrowing scenes were captured by international media, including the New York Times, filming at the checkpoint. They reported a shell landed as a stream of civilians was coming through.
Heavy shelling has continued around Kyiv. The impact of explosions was heard over the weekend by CNN teams in the capital and in rural areas to the southwest. Amid the indiscriminate attacks, Kyiv appealed for international help on Sunday, saying thousands of people were isolated "because of direct hostilities, and in some places for 5-6 days they survive without electricity, water, food, medical help and means of subsistence. They are in direct danger," the Kyiv Regional Military Administration wrote.
For the past week, civilians in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, have witnessed Russia's bombardment of residential areas as its military hones in on civilian infrastructure such as schools, shops, hospitals, apartment blocks and churches.
This continued over the weekend as Kharkiv's TV tower was targeted in strikes, knocking out television and radio broadcasts, according to local authorities. Ukraine's Emergency Service said a "bombing" that took place on Sunday evening "completely or partially demolished" multi-story residential buildings, administrative buildings, medical institutions, educational institutions and dorms. There were also large-scale fires in 21 buildings in the central part of the city, it added in a statement.
Meanwhile, hopes of setting up evacuation corridors for civilians in the southern city of Mariupol were dashed multiple times over the weekend after Ukraine accused Russia of continuing its attacks on those routes.
Mariupol, a strategically important port city, has been under siege by Russian forces determined to tighten their grip on Ukraine's south. The city has been without power for days, and it's not clear how many of Mariupol's roughly 400,000 inhabitants have been able to evacuate. But on Sunday the International Committee of the Red Cross said attempts to evacuate some 200,000 people had failed.
Also on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was preparing to bomb the Black Sea port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, adding that the airport in Vynnytsia, in the west of the country, had been destroyed by a rocket strike.
Russia has fired a total of 600 missiles since the invasion of Ukraine began, a senior U.S. defense official told CNN on Sunday, and has committed approximately 95% of its amassed combat power inside Ukraine. CNN has not independently confirmed these figures.
Putin dials up threats against West — as protests mount in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday issued a series of threats against Ukraine and Western powers, in his first expansive remarks since the invasion began.
"The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they put under question the future of Ukrainian statehood," Putin said during a meeting with Russian flight crew members at an Aeroflot training center in Moscow. "And if that happens, it will be entirely on their conscience."
Putin also said Western sanctions were the "equivalent of a declaration of war," and warned he would consider countries imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine as "participants in a military conflict."
Zelensky has repeatedly called on the U.S. and NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but the U.S. and NATO said this was not an option currently being considered.
Meanwhile, anti-war rallies that have sprung up across Russia led to at least 4,640 people being detained on Sunday in connection with the protests, according to an independent human rights monitoring group tracking detentions.
The OVD-Info group said arrests had been made in 147 cities, and since the invasion began more than 13,000 people had been arrested in Russia over the demonstrations.
Harrowing insights into what Russian occupation looks like
The southern port city of Kherson was seized by Russian forces last week after days of heavy bombardment and shelling. The Ukrainian flag was still hoisted on government buildings, and the mayor of the city, Ihor Kolykhaiev, remained in his post.
Kolykhaiev said Saturday that Russian troops were everywhere and that the city of nearly 300,000 people was without power and water and in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
Speaking to CNN, residents of Kherson under Russian occupation describe days of terror confined to their apartments and houses, fearful to go outside for even basic necessities. Russian troops are shooting at anyone who attempts to leave, according to the residents. Grocery stores have been emptied and medicine is running out, residents and officials said.
Video: Russian invasion and misinformation
On Saturday, several hundred people gathered in the city's center, with one video of the demonstrations showing people walking into Kherson's main square despite volleys of gunfire. On Sunday, further demonstrations occurred in smaller numbers.
West moves to counter Russia
The multinational effort to get weapons into Ukraine has seen an undisclosed airfield near the Ukrainian border become a hub for shipping weapons, a senior Defense Department official said Sunday.
The airport's location remains a secret to protect the shipments of weapons, including anti-armor missiles, into Ukraine. The Russian military has not targeted these shipments once they enter Ukraine, the official said, but there is some concern Russia could begin targeting the deliveries as its assault advances.
U.S. European Command (EUCOM) is at the heart of the massive shipment operation, using its liaison network with allies and partners to coordinate "in real time" to send materials into Ukraine, a second Defense official said.
Meanwhile, an interview with CNN on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was "now talking to our European partners and allies to look in a coordinated way at the prospect of banning the import of Russian oil."
He also said Sunday that the U.S. has seen reports of Russian abuses in Ukraine that "would constitute a war crime" and that the Biden administration is committed to supporting investigations into the country's actions
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What is the US doing to help Ukraine refugees?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 1.7 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries — "the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II,” the head of the U.N. refugee agency tweeted on Sunday. Nearly all the refugees have gone to other countries in Europe, where they have generally encountered a warm welcome. But some may eventually need permanent resettlement in the United States if they are unable to return to Ukraine.
Here's look at the situation:
What has the US done to help refugees so far?
The U.S. has provided $54 million in food and other assistance to people inside Ukraine and has pledged to send more, according to Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development. That aid is critical because conditions in Ukraine are horrific and growing worse. Food is scarce as millions of displaced people inside the country try to escape the Russian attack.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would offer temporary protected status to Ukrainians already inside the United States. Members of Congress and advocates welcomed the announcement, but the effects are modest. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that about 75,000 people are eligible for the program and it’s only good for 18 months unless extended. Moreover, the program leaves people in immigration limbo because beneficiaries cannot necessarily convert their status into permanent legal residency or U.S. citizenship.
Will the US be taking in Ukrainian refugees for resettlement?
It might. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. would accept Ukrainian refugees. But the administration says that, for now at least, most of the refugees apparently want to stay in Europe. That's where many have families, they can work and then return home if that is possible at some point.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday: “The United States is committed to doing anything we can, first of all, to support the countries that are bearing the immediate burden of taking in Ukrainians. And then, as appropriate, if people seek refugee status in the United States, of course we will look at that and I’m sure act on that.”
The administration previously said it would accept up to 125,000 refugees in the 2022 budget year. That annual cap had been cut to a record low 15,000 under President Donald Trump. In setting the annual target for refugees, the Biden administration set aside 10,000 refugee visas for people from Europe, but it could expand that number to take in more Ukrainians if needed. The White House has said it will work with the United Nations and European countries to determine whether people who have fled Europe will need permanent resettlement in the U.S. or elsewhere.
The 125,000 does not include the 76,000 Afghans who came to the United States after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in August.
One thing the U.S. could do immediately to help Ukrainians would be to expedite the processing of several thousand members of religious minority groups, including Jews and evangelical Christians, who have family in the United States and have already applied to come under what’s known as the Lautenberg program.
Can the US refugee system absorb a new wave of refugees?
Yes, although it won't be easy, according to refugee resettlement experts.
The Trump administration cuts to the refugee program forced resettlement agencies to lay off staff and close offices. They have been struggling for months to help the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who came after their country fell to the Taliban, and a complex problem was made more so by high housing costs and the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite the difficulties, the U.S. could handle the arrival of more refugees, says Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, one of the nation’s nine resettlement agencies.
“There’s so much interest in helping these people that the resources would be there, the volunteers would be there,” Hetfield said. “It would be a challenge because we are all stretched too thin. But we would definitely make it work.”
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Wake Forest's Alondes Williams and coach Steve Forbes have earned the top individual honors from the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The league announced Williams as its player of the year and Forbes as its top coach on Monday. The Demon Deacons were picked 13th in the preseason but have enjoyed a 23-win season and hold the No. 5 seed at this week's ACC Tournament in New York.
It marks the first time the Demon Deacons have won both awards since 2003, when late coach Skip Prosser and Josh Howard were the picks.
The results came after voting by a 78-member panel that included the league’s head coaches and media members.
Duke freshman Paolo Banchero was voted rookie of the year, while teammate Mark Williams was chosen as defensive player of the year. North Carolina State's Dereon Seabron was most improved player, while Florida State's Matthew Cleveland was sixth man of the year.
Alondes Williams and Banchero joined North Carolina's Armando Bacot, Miami's Kameron McGusty and Syracuse's Buddy Boeheim on the all-ACC first team.
Seabron joined Virginia Tech's Keve Aluma, Duke's Wendell Moore Jr., Notre Dame's Blake Wesley and Wake Forest's Jake LaRavia on the second team.
Mark Williams joined Notre Dame's Dane Goodwin, Miami's Isaiah Wong, Virginia's Jayden Gardner and Georgia Tech's Michael Devoe on the third team.
The AP releases its ACC awards on Tuesday.
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More AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25
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There is no shortage of drama coming out of the Los Angeles Lakers this season, as their well chronicled struggles that see them fighting for play-in position in the West has led to all manner of leaks and rumors about who’s in power and who’s on their way out throughout the season.
At the center of everything, fairly or unfairly, is Russell Westbrook. The former MVP has had a rough first season in L.A., one that very well may be his last as there is reported “mutual interest” in finding him a new team this summer. For now, they have to make it work despite the effort to trade him at the deadline, and it is leading to some fascinating dynamics within the locker room, coaching staff, and front office. Westbrook has been defiant about any time his role is diminished by the coaching staff, particularly when he’s left on the bench in the fourth quarter, and the tensions between Westbrook and Frank Vogel have risen to the surface a few times this season.
Vogel’s future is likewise in doubt, as the team has simply not responded to him as any franchise would like. The talent issue, which is an indictment of the front office, is undisputed, but the effort level being as low as it has so often this season certainly tells the story of a team that’s tuned out the coach. Rob Pelinka is also under fire for his work putting this roster together, namely the Westbrook trade (which came under the urging of LeBron James and Anthony Davis) which put the team in the position of being extremely thin and much older. All of it has been so bad that Phil Jackson has grown intrigued by it all, with Sam Amick and Bill Oram of The Athletic reporting on Monday that he’s been offering advice to Jeanie Buss all season because he’s fascinated by the Westbrook drama.
Sources say Jackson, the Lakers legend and ex-fiancé of Buss, whose presence at Saturday’s win against Golden State was highlighted by the team’s Twitter account, has been in frequent contact with Buss about team matters all season long. The complicated and often uncomfortable dynamics surrounding the Westbrook situation, in particular, are known to have drawn his interest. As unofficial consultants go, they don’t get much more experienced or credible than Jackson.
It isn’t a surprise that Jackson still has the ear of Buss given everything we know about how Jeanie runs the Lakers and is fiercely (or stubbornly, depending on who you ask) loyal to those she trusts. Still, it’s pretty funny that the thing that is getting Phil Jackson back into the mix is that he can’t help but see a dysfunctional star relationship and help himself but to get involved. Basically, this is Phil.
The good news for Jackson is that the Lakers have no shortage of mess to clean up, and as such there’s plenty to keep him interested for the moment.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Organizations have requested a total of $141 million in Albany American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. However, only $25 million in funding is available.
Of the 147 proposals:
- $48.1 million was requested for housing, transportation, and community revitalization (total available: $8 million)
- $35.4 million was requested for education, workforce, and human services (total available: $7 million)
- $26.8 million was requested for supporting the public health response (total available: $4 million)
- $17.4 million was requested for small business support (total available: $3 million)
- $13.1 million was requested for travel, tourism, hospitality, and arts recovery (total available: $3 million)
According to the city, about 52% of applications were submitted by non-profit organizations, 16.5% were submitted by businesses, 23.8% were submitted by city departments, and 7.8% were submitted by others.
The pre-application deadline was March 1. However, the pre-application portal closes on Friday, March 11 at midnight. Applications received after March 1 will only be considered if funding is left over after the initial evaluation process.
The city said community and civic leaders will review the proposals and provide feedback to the city’s ARPA Leadership Team. The Leadership Team will review the proposals and feedback, and then invite select proposals to submit full applications for further review. Proposals will be scored on a variety of criteria, including equity, collaboration, and sustainability.
If you would like to submit a proposal or help with the evaluation process, you can visit the City of Albany website.
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LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – Over the weekend, 10 McGillis Public House put good food to good use, in order to raise money for a relief effort aiming to keep Ukrainian refugees and citizens fed at cities and border crossings, as the country’s invasion by Russia continues. As of Monday morning, the restaurant had raised around $1,700 for Central World Kitchen, and they have no intention of stopping there.
“We do not plan to stop until we reach a minimum of 5K,” said 10 McGillis co-owner Nicole Travis on Monday. “We are going to continue collecting donations through the month of March.”
On Saturday, 10 McGillis hosted a fundraiser as part of the national #ChefsForUkraine effort. Donations could be made at the restaurant, with 10 McGillis matching a portion of all proceeds. More money has been raised online. Now, some of the restaurant’s village neighbors are getting involved as well.
Lake George’s Pizza Jerks, Lagoon, and Gaslight restaurants are all taking up donation buckets inside their businesses, gathering more for the effort. United World Kitchen is feeding displaced citizens at eight locations along the Ukrainian border, as well as five cities in Ukraine, and occupation by Russian forces residents to move their entire lives in many cases.
10 McGillis is intending to keep the momentum going throughout the month of March. Currently, Travis is working on a basket raffle with prizes for patrons to win in exchange for helping the cause.
Like many businesses in Lake George, the staff at 10 McGillis have personally gotten to know students from Ukraine who would come and work over the summers through the national J-1 student work visa program, which brings over 1,000 students to the area annually. 10 McGillis has a former J-1 employee who is now married with children, and lives in America. She attended Saturday’s fundraiser.
The restaurant is still reaching out to more businesses in the village to see who else is willing to put a donation bucket at the counter, or create another way to send support to Ukraine. This summer, the village is expected to see its usual crowd of well over 1,000 J-1 visa workers, but is expected to be missing groups from Ukraine and Russia, as the occupation continues.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – More than $1.65 million in goods and services have been recovered by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for New Yorkers who received faulty or fraudulent service from auto dealers and repair shops. The DMV helped customers recover titles when dealerships abruptly closed, and in some cases, dealerships bought back vehicles to settle disputes.
The DMV’s Office of Vehicle Safety investigates complaints from consumers who believe they were misled or wronged by DMV-regulated businesses. In 2021, the agency recovered money for 540 customers totaling over $385,000. In other instances, the DMV looked into the quality of repairs done on people’s vehicles. DMV allowed those customers to get $78,000 in extra repair work done at no additional cost.
Some customers were sold cars by auto dealers who went out of business before issuing titles, meaning the customer was left with no proof of ownership. In many cases, those people were still on the hook for car payments. In some cases where the customer filed a complaint about the vehicle purchase, dealers offered to buy back cars- the value of which reached $503,000 in 2021.
When customers first make a complaint, the DMV discusses it with both the customer and the business to try and resolve the issue. About half of all complaints are settled directly. A DMV investigator looks into the complaint if the problem is not resolved. If the dealer or shop in question is found to have violated laws or regulations, DMV can impose fines and suspend or revoke business registrations.
To be certain you are using a state-licensed repair shop or dealer that repairs cars, look for a green and white “Registered State of New York Motor Vehicle Repair Shop” sign outside of the shop and a DMV registration certificate inside. For a dealership, the sign is red and white instead.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An Oklahoma City woman said she broke into the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare building to take back her dog Hazel, which was hours away from being euthanized for being dangerous.
Toya Stewart was arrested and is now accused of breaking into the animal shelter after taking off with the pit bull.
Stewart told KFOR on Friday she had just been released from jail after going to the shelter to take Hazel after officials deemed the dog to be dangerous.
“She doesn’t deserve it, and they knew that I loved her,” Stewart said. “Why would you kill somebody that somebody loved so much?”
Stewart said she got Hazel when the dog was two months old. It was her dog through what she said was an abusive relationship and when she was homeless.
“She helped me through a lot,” Stewart said. “She protected me through this relationship and protected me through life.”
However, Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Superintendent Jon Gary said Hazel had some issues.
“We originally impounded the dog due to dangerous charges being filed against the dog,” Gary said.
Stewart said Hazel had been involved in multiple biting incidents and one dog fight. However, Stewart said she never had any problems around their family.
“She was just real protective,” she said.
When the dog was put in the shelter and ordered to be euthanized by a judge who reviewed the incidents, Stewart decided to go after her.
“I couldn’t let her die like that,” Stewart said. “I had to let her know that I’ve tried everything for her.”
“We have a secure area that was broken into, and they were able to break a window and get into the building,” Gary said.
Stewart said after she broke in, she pried Hazel’s cage open and took off.
“We army crawled together under this fence to get out of there,” Stewart said. “We took off running through the woods.”
Stewart said she kept Hazel at her home for a few days until police tracked them down. Hazel was put back in the shelter while Stewart was taken to jail.
“She stayed beside me,” Stewart said. “She just doesn’t deserve that.”
No official charges have been filed yet. Stewart and Gary both told KFOR
that Hazel has since been euthanized as part of a judge’s orders.
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The official global death toll from Covid-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million – underscoring that the pandemic now entering its third year is far from over.
The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe.
The death toll compiled by Johns Hopkins University stood at 5,999,158 as of Monday midday.
Remote Pacific islands, whose isolation had protected them for more than two years are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fuelled by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Hong Kong which is seeing deaths soar is testing its entire population of 75 million, three times this month, as it clings to mainland Chinas zeroCOVID strategy
As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, the region has seen more than 1 million refugees arrive from war-torn Ukraine – a country with poor vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths.
And despite its wealth and vaccine availability, the United States is nearing 1 million reported deaths on its own.
“Death rates worldwide are still highest among people unvaccinated against the virus,” said Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and co-Chair of the Asia Pacific Immunisation Coalition.
“This is a disease of the unvaccinated – look what is happening in Hong Kong right now, the health system is being overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organisation.
“The large majority of the deaths and the severe cases are in the unvaccinated, vulnerable segment of the population.”
It took the world seven months to record its first million deaths from the virus after the pandemic began in early 2020.
Four months later another million people had died, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death toll hit 5 million at the end of October Now it has reached 6 million – more than the populations of Berlin and Brussels combined, or the entire state of Maryland.
But despite the enormity of the figure, the world undoubtedly hit its 6 millionth death some time ago.
Poor record-keeping and testing in many parts of the world has led to an undercount in coronavirus deaths, in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not from actual Covid-19 infections, like people who died from preventable causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.
Edouard Mathieu, head of data for the Our World in Data portal said that – when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied – as many as nearly four times the reported death toll have likely died because of the pandemic.
An analysis of excess deaths by a team at The Economist estimates that the number of Covid-19 deaths is between 14 million and 23.5 million.
“Confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID, mostly because of limited testing, and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death,” Mathieu told The Associated Press.
“In some, mostly rich, countries that fraction is high and the official tally can be considered to be fairly accurate, but in others it is highly underestimated.”
The United States has the biggest official death toll in the world, but the numbers have been trending downward over the last month.
Lonnie Bailey lost his 17-year-old nephew, Carlos Nunez Jr., who contracted COVID-19 last April — the same month Kentucky opened his age group to vaccinations.
The Louisville resident said the family is still suffering, including Carlos’ younger sibling, who had to be hospitalised himself and still has lingering symptoms.
The aggressive reopening of the country has been jarring for them to witness.
“For us it is hard to let our guard down; it’s going to take a while for us to adjust,” Bailey said.
The world has seen more than 445 million confirmed Covid-19 cases, and new weekly cases have been declining recently in all regions except for the Western Pacific, which includes China, Japan and South Korea, among others, the World Health Organisation reported this week.
Although the overall figures in the Pacific islands seeing their first outbreaks are small compared to larger countries, they are significant among their tiny populations and threaten to overwhelm fragile health care systems.
“Given what we know about COVID … it’s likely to hit them for the next year or so at least,” said Katie Greenwood, head of the Red Cross Pacific delegation.
Tonga reported its first outbreak after the virus arrived with international aid vessels following the Jan 15 eruption of a massive volcano, followed by a tsunami.
It now has several hundred cases, but — with 66% of its population fully vaccinated — it has so far reported people suffering mostly mild symptoms and no deaths.
The Solomon Islands saw the first outbreak in January and now has thousands of cases and more than 100 deaths.
The actual death toll is likely much higher, with the capital’s hospital overwhelmed and many dying at home, Greenwood said.
Only 12% of Solomon Islanders are fully vaccinated, though the outbreak has provided new impetus to the country’s vaccination campaign and 29% now have at least one shot.
Global vaccine disparity continues, with only 6.95% of people in low-income countries fully vaccinated, compared to more than 73% in high-income nations, according to Our World in Data.
In a good sign, at the end of last month Africa surpassed Europe in the number of doses administered daily, but only about 12.5% of its population has received two shots.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still pressing for more vaccines, though it has been a challenge. Some shipments arrive with little warning for countries’ health systems and others near the expiration date — forcing doses to be destroyed.
Eastern Europe has been particularly hard hit by the omicron variant, and with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new risk has emerged as hundreds of thousands of people flee to places like Poland on crowded trains.
Health officials there have been offering free vaccinations to all refugees, but have not been making them test upon arrival or quarantine.
“This is really tragic because great stress has a very negative effect on natural immunity and increases the risk of infections,” said Anna Boron-Kaczmarska, a Polish infectious disease specialist.
“They are in very high stress, being afraid for their lives, the lives of their children, they family members.”
Mexico has reported 300,000 deaths, but with little testing, a government analysis of death certificates puts the real number closer to 500,000. Still, four weeks of falling infection rates have left health officials optimistic.
In India, where the world was shocked by images of open-air pyres of bodies burned as crematoria were overwhelmed, the scars are fading as the number of new cases and deaths has slowed.
India has recorded more than 500,000 deaths, but experts believe its true toll is in the millions, primarily from the delta variant.
Migrants from India’s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic.
Shopping malls have customers, albeit still masked, while schools and universities are welcoming students after a months-long gap.
In Britain, infections have fallen since an omicron-driven surge in December, but remain high. England has now lifted all restrictions, including mask mandates and the requirement that all who test positive isolate at home.
With about 250,000 reported deaths, the African continent’s smaller death toll is thought to stem from underreporting, as well as a generally younger and less mobile population.
“Africa is a big question mark for me, because it has been relatively spared from the worst so far, but it could just be a time bomb,” Pang said, noting its low vaccination rates.
In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the deaths of two family members on the same day in January 2021 — a month before the country received its first vaccines.
It has been difficult, but “the family is coping,” she said. “We have accepted it because it has been happening to other families.”
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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Perfect weather shines on Annapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade
Perfect weather shines on Annapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade
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Perfect weather shines on Annapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade
There was perfect weather Sunday for the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Annapolis.The parade started on West Street and made its way to City Dock.More than 100 groups were involved, including Irish dancers, pipe bands and more.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
There was perfect weather Sunday for the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Annapolis.
The parade started on West Street and made its way to City Dock.
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More than 100 groups were involved, including Irish dancers, pipe bands and more.
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Boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants runs aground off the Florida Keys
A wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants in a suspected human smuggling operation ran aground in shallow water in the Florida Keys, where 163 people swam ashore and many needed medical attention, federal authorities said.
The boat teeming with people listed sharply to its side near Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, not far from where another boat carrying 176 Haitians was stopped in January.
Many of the migrants were in need of medical attention, according to a tweet sent by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Agent Walter N. Slosar on Sunday night.
The U.S. Coast Guard and other agencies rushed to help the group of migrants, which included women and children.
“Multiple agencies responded quickly & worked closely to protect a lot of lives today,” U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Jason Neiman tweeted Sunday night.
Video: Risky migrant crossings shared on social media
It was not immediately know how many people were taken to hospitals. Coast Guard images at the scene showed a large group of Haitians draped in towels on the shore.
Border Patrol officials said human smuggling is suspected and an investigation is continuing.
In the past week, the Coast Guard has stopped two other Haitian boats navigating near the Bahamas with dozens of migrants.
On Feb. 28, crews spotted a Haitian sailboat with 179 people aboard 30 miles off Andros Island, Bahamas. Last Friday, the Coast Guard stopped another Haitian sail vessel with 123 people, including 39 minors about 10 miles from Anguilla Cay, Bahamas.
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ENDED ITS ANNUAL WEEK-LONG SUMMIT THE 2022 HEALING CITY SUMMIT IS FOCUSED ON BUILDING COMMUNITY INCREASING TRUST AND INCREASING HEALING BOTH INDIVIALDULY AND COLLECTIVELY COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ORGANIZATIONS GATHERED AT COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY TO HIGHLIGHT DIFFERENT TESYP OF WELLNESS, INCLUDING NUTRITION DANCE HEERALS BARBERS AND BEAUTICIANS. THESE TYPES OF EVENTS ARE IMPOANRTT BECAUSE UNFORTUNATELY WE KNOW ABOUT THE UNRESOLVED TRAUMAS AND HOWHEY T MANIFEST IN THE CITY THEES DAYS AND REGARDS TO VIOLENCEND A OTHER THINGS SUBSTANCE ABUSE,UT B THESE TYPES OF EVENTS BRING PEOEPL TOGETHER AND ORGANIZATIONS TOGETHER TO GOVERN US THEIR EFFORTS TO HELP AND IN THE COMMUNITY TO HEAL THROUGH THESE PAINS AND TRAUMAS. THIS YEAR’S SUMTMI ENDED BUT HEALING CITY BALTIMORE HAS MANY EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. YOU CAN JOIN THE MOVEMENT ANYTIME ON TIRHE WEBSITE HEALING CITY BALTIMORE.COM
Healing City Summit hopes to encourage Baltimore's recovery from violence
Updated: 12:39 PM EST Mar 7, 2022
On Saturday, Healing City Baltimore ended its annual week-long summit. The 2022 Healing City Summit was focused on building community, increasing trust and increasing healing, both individually and collectively.Community members and organizations gathered at Coppin State University to highlight different types of wellness, including nutrition, dance, healers, barbers and beauticians."These types of events are important because unfortunately, we know about the unresolved traumas and how they manifest in the city these days, in regard to violence and other things (like) substance abuse. But these types of events bring people together, to galvanize their efforts to help and in the community to heal these pains and traumas this year," Mark Jews of Healing City Baltimore, said.Although this year's summit has ended, but Healing City Baltimore has many events throughout the year. You can join the movement anytime on their website.
BALTIMORE — On Saturday, Healing City Baltimore ended its annual week-long summit. The 2022 Healing City Summit was focused on building community, increasing trust and increasing healing, both individually and collectively.
Community members and organizations gathered at Coppin State University to highlight different types of wellness, including nutrition, dance, healers, barbers and beauticians.
"These types of events are important because unfortunately, we know about the unresolved traumas and how they manifest in the city these days, in regard to violence and other things (like) substance abuse. But these types of events bring people together, to galvanize their efforts to help and in the community to heal these pains and traumas this year," Mark Jews of Healing City Baltimore, said.
Although this year's summit has ended, but Healing City Baltimore has many events throughout the year. You can join the movement anytime on their website.
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Small plane skids off runway at Martin State Airport
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Small plane skids off runway at Martin State Airport
A small plane skidded off the runway Monday morning at Martin State Airport.No injuries were reported.
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A small plane skidded off the runway Monday morning at Martin State Airport.
No injuries were reported.
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Netflix, TikTok block services in Russia to avoid crackdown
Netflix and TikTok suspended most of their services in Russia on Sunday as the government cracks down on what people and media outlets can say about Russia's war in Ukraine.
Pulling the plug on online entertainment — and information — is likely to further isolate the country and its people after a growing number of multinational businesses have cut off Russia from vital financial services, technology and a variety of consumer products in response to Western economic sanctions and global outrage over the invasion of Ukraine.
U.S. credit card companies Visa, Mastercard and American Express all said over the weekend they would cut service in Russia. South Korea’s Samsung Electronics, a leading supplier of both smartphones and computer chips, said it would halt product shipments to the country, joining other big tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Intel and Dell.
And two of the so-called Big Four accounting firms said Sunday they were cutting ties to the country. KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers both would end their relationships with their Russia-based member firms, each of which employs thousands of people.
Ukraine's minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, called on U.S. technology companies to do more Sunday to hit back against Russia. He tweeted open letters asking Apple and Google to shut down their app stores in Russia and for Amazon and Microsoft to suspend their cloud computing services.
Providers of internet-based services and apps have been mostly reluctant to take actions that could deprive Russian citizens of social media services and other sources of information.
That changed Friday when Russian President Vladimir Putin intensified a crackdown on media outlets and individuals who fail to hew to the Kremlin line on the war, blocking Facebook and Twitter and signing into law a bill that criminalizes the intentional spreading of what Moscow deems to be “fake” reports.
Netflix didn't specify a reason for suspending services Sunday except to say it reflected “circumstances on the ground." The company had previously said it would refuse to air Russian state TV channels.
TikTok said Russian users of its popular social media app would no longer be able to post new videos or livestreams and they also wouldn’t be able to see videos shared from elsewhere in the world.
“In light of Russia’s new ‘fake news’ law, we have no choice but to suspend livestreaming and new content to our video service while we review the safety implications of this law,” TikTok said in a statement on Twitter. “Our in-app messaging service will not be affected.”
TikTok spokesperson Hilary McQuaide said the TikTok app in Russia now appears in “view-only” mode and won't let people post or see new videos or livestreams. They can still see older videos, but not if they came from outside the country, she said.
“The safety of employees is our top priority,” she said, adding that the video-sharing service — part of China-based tech company ByteDance — didn't want to put either its Russian employees or users at risk of severe criminal penalties. Some protesters who've taken to the streets in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities to decry the invasion of Ukraine have used social media platforms to broadcast their cause.
The new “fake news” legislation, quickly rubber-stamped by both houses of the Kremlin-controlled parliament and signed by Putin, imposes prison sentences of up to 15 years for those spreading information that goes against the Russian government’s narrative on the war.
Multiple news outlets have also said they would pause their work inside Russia to evaluate the situation. Russian authorities have repeatedly and falsely decried reports of Russian military setbacks or civilian deaths in Ukraine as “fake” news. State media outlets refer to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation” rather than a war or an invasion.
The law envisages sentences of up to three years or fines for spreading what authorities deem to be false news about the military, but the maximum punishment rises to 15 years for cases deemed to have led to “severe consequences.”
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Woman's Doctor: What are 'Braxton Hicks' contractions?
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Woman's Doctor: What are 'Braxton Hicks' contractions?
Non-labor contractions are easy to mistake for actual labor pains."Braxton Hicks" contractions happen when the womb contracts and relaxes intermittently during pregnancy.They're also sometimes called false labor, pre-labor or practice contractions because they're often mistaken for true labor contractions. Dr. Robert Atlas, who leads obstetrics and gynecology at Mercy Medical Center, said the difference is in how many are occurring and how long it lasts.
BALTIMORE —
Non-labor contractions are easy to mistake for actual labor pains.
"Braxton Hicks" contractions happen when the womb contracts and relaxes intermittently during pregnancy.
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They're also sometimes called false labor, pre-labor or practice contractions because they're often mistaken for true labor contractions.
Dr. Robert Atlas, who leads obstetrics and gynecology at Mercy Medical Center, said the difference is in how many are occurring and how long it lasts.
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Oh, it's on! Paper airplane competition takes flight
Oh, it's on! Paper airplane competition takes flight
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Oh, it's on! Paper airplane competition takes flight
The World's Largest Paper Plane Competition took flight Saturday at Power Plant Live.Towson University students were among those who competed to make a plain sheet of paper fly as far, as long or as artistically as possible.The planes are judged in three categories: distance, airtime and aerobatics.They will be invited to the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final in Austria, where the 2022 world champions will be crowned.
BALTIMORE —
The World's Largest Paper Plane Competition took flight Saturday at Power Plant Live.
Towson University students were among those who competed to make a plain sheet of paper fly as far, as long or as artistically as possible.
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The planes are judged in three categories: distance, airtime and aerobatics.
They will be invited to the Red Bull Paper Wings World Final in Austria, where the 2022 world champions will be crowned.
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CLICK HERE for Salt Lake Home and Garden Show Sweepstakes Rules
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'This is our land and we will defend it until the end,' soldier, volunteer in Ukraine say as war rages on
As the war in Ukraine rages on, our sister station WPBF is hearing directly from a soldier and volunteer on the ground.
"Our soldiers are really brave,” said Illia Yevlash, the press office for the Ukrainian Land Forces and a lieutenant in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "We defend our culture and our history and this is our land. We don’t have any roads where we can go back. This is our land and we will defend it until the end.
"(The soldiers have) high morale. They’re ready for struggles and ready to die for motherland if it's needed."
Les Yakymchuk was attending graduate school at Ohio University two weeks ago and flew back to Ukraine to help in any way he could once the war started. His girlfriend joined him on the trip.
He's currently in Kyiv, where he was born and raised, securing needed supplies from other countries for troops and citizens in Ukraine.
"This war started and I decided to move back to Ukraine to help my people and my family and friends in this really hard situation," said Yakymchuk. "It was a really dangerous and hard road back, but we made it."
He described what it is like to live in Kyiv during the war.
"Any minute, I will need to jump to go to the shelter, because there can be an alarm or something and 10 days ago I would not have believed something like this could happen on my streets,” said Yakymchuk.
"It is really exhausting, especially at night, because you can’t properly sleep because you go to bed and try to sleep like one hour or two and then you have this alarm and you go to the shelter and spend like 10 or 15 minutes or something and then you go back to your bed and you try to sleep and then again, alarm, and again. It’s just not stopping. It's just unpredictable, ridiculous and insane."
Yakymchuk said he is hoping to be able to go back to the U.S. to continue his studies, but is ready to stay in Ukraine for as long as it takes.
Both Yakymchuk and Yevlash are calling on more military intervention from the U.S. and NATO.
You can help Yakymchuk with his volunteer efforts by reaching him at lesleleka@gmail.com.
You can also click here for more ways to help the Ukrainian people.
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The third round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials lasted about three hours on Monday.
No major agreements about a truce or ceasefire were announced. However, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy reportedly said “there were some small positive shifts regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors.”
The Associated Press reported that the adviser did not elaborate on the "positive shifts."
Over the weekend, Ukraine accused Russia of not abiding by a ceasefire in areas where civilians were attempting to flee.
A family, which included two children, was killed outside of Kyiv.
Ukraine has also criticized Russia for humanitarian corridors that lead to Russia or Belarus.
"This is an unacceptable option for opening humanitarian corridors," Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said.
The Ukrainian government is proposing eight humanitarian corridors, including from the southern port of Mariupol, that would allow civilians to travel to the western regions of Ukraine, where there is no Russian shelling.
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Multiple student-athletes take home titles at the State Wrestling Finals
The final state wrestling meet wrapped up this past weekend in Upper Marlboro as 20 Baltimore-area high school grapplers claimed state crowns.
Here is a look at some of their journeys to a championship. It was the last chance to claim dominance to claim a state title, at the individual state wrestling championships
The hardest of work paying off for Randallstown's Ugochi Anunob, she's a winner at 155 pounds. The same for Arundel's Jada Chaves, passionately expressing what a title at 105 pounds means to her.
"Nobody could tell you differently. Like, you think it's going to be hard. That's-- that's part of life. Like, life is hard, but it's challenges. And when you overcome it, the best feeling ever," Chaves said.
Sparrows Point celebrated multiple titles for the boys, as Gage Carr hoisted Dom Ambrosino high into the air. It was a championship at 120 pounds for Ambrosino, and Carr earned a pin to win at 182 pounds.
"I've been working since I was three. So, it's been a long journey. I've been working all offseason and it feels good," Carr said.
Chesapeake High won multiple championships as well thanks to the Listori brothers Chase and Victor. South Carroll, likewise, had a great meet including finals wins from Michael Pizzuto, AJ Rodriguez, and Gage Owen.
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What happened in Russia's Ukraine invasion over the weekend
The human toll of the invasion of Ukraine mounted over the weekend as Russia upped its bombardment of civilian areas and infrastructure.
As conditions worsened in a number of key Ukrainian cities, the United Nations said more than 1.7 million refugees had fled the country so far.
Here's what you need to know about what happened over the weekend.
Key cities bombarded as plans for evacuation corridors fail
Western intelligence officials say Russia is increasing the pace and strength of strikes on key population centers, including the capital Kyiv, in an effort to bombard cities into submission.
A Russian military strike hit an evacuation crossing point in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin Sunday, killing eight people, including a family with two children and several other civilians trying to flee the Russian invasion. The harrowing scenes were captured by international media, including the New York Times, filming at the checkpoint. They reported a shell landed as a stream of civilians was coming through.
Heavy shelling has continued around Kyiv. The impact of explosions was heard over the weekend by CNN teams in the capital and in rural areas to the southwest. Amid the indiscriminate attacks, Kyiv appealed for international help on Sunday, saying thousands of people were isolated "because of direct hostilities, and in some places for 5-6 days they survive without electricity, water, food, medical help and means of subsistence. They are in direct danger," the Kyiv Regional Military Administration wrote.
For the past week, civilians in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, have witnessed Russia's bombardment of residential areas as its military hones in on civilian infrastructure such as schools, shops, hospitals, apartment blocks and churches.
This continued over the weekend as Kharkiv's TV tower was targeted in strikes, knocking out television and radio broadcasts, according to local authorities. Ukraine's Emergency Service said a "bombing" that took place on Sunday evening "completely or partially demolished" multi-story residential buildings, administrative buildings, medical institutions, educational institutions and dorms. There were also large-scale fires in 21 buildings in the central part of the city, it added in a statement.
Meanwhile, hopes of setting up evacuation corridors for civilians in the southern city of Mariupol were dashed multiple times over the weekend after Ukraine accused Russia of continuing its attacks on those routes.
Mariupol, a strategically important port city, has been under siege by Russian forces determined to tighten their grip on Ukraine's south. The city has been without power for days, and it's not clear how many of Mariupol's roughly 400,000 inhabitants have been able to evacuate. But on Sunday the International Committee of the Red Cross said attempts to evacuate some 200,000 people had failed.
Also on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was preparing to bomb the Black Sea port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, adding that the airport in Vynnytsia, in the west of the country, had been destroyed by a rocket strike.
Russia has fired a total of 600 missiles since the invasion of Ukraine began, a senior U.S. defense official told CNN on Sunday, and has committed approximately 95% of its amassed combat power inside Ukraine. CNN has not independently confirmed these figures.
Putin dials up threats against West — as protests mount in Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday issued a series of threats against Ukraine and Western powers, in his first expansive remarks since the invasion began.
"The current leadership needs to understand that if they continue doing what they are doing, they put under question the future of Ukrainian statehood," Putin said during a meeting with Russian flight crew members at an Aeroflot training center in Moscow. "And if that happens, it will be entirely on their conscience."
Putin also said Western sanctions were the "equivalent of a declaration of war," and warned he would consider countries imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine as "participants in a military conflict."
Zelensky has repeatedly called on the U.S. and NATO to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine, but the U.S. and NATO said this was not an option currently being considered.
Meanwhile, anti-war rallies that have sprung up across Russia led to at least 4,640 people being detained on Sunday in connection with the protests, according to an independent human rights monitoring group tracking detentions.
The OVD-Info group said arrests had been made in 147 cities, and since the invasion began more than 13,000 people had been arrested in Russia over the demonstrations.
Harrowing insights into what Russian occupation looks like
The southern port city of Kherson was seized by Russian forces last week after days of heavy bombardment and shelling. The Ukrainian flag was still hoisted on government buildings, and the mayor of the city, Ihor Kolykhaiev, remained in his post.
Kolykhaiev said Saturday that Russian troops were everywhere and that the city of nearly 300,000 people was without power and water and in desperate need of humanitarian aid.
Speaking to CNN, residents of Kherson under Russian occupation describe days of terror confined to their apartments and houses, fearful to go outside for even basic necessities. Russian troops are shooting at anyone who attempts to leave, according to the residents. Grocery stores have been emptied and medicine is running out, residents and officials said.
Video: Russian invasion and misinformation
On Saturday, several hundred people gathered in the city's center, with one video of the demonstrations showing people walking into Kherson's main square despite volleys of gunfire. On Sunday, further demonstrations occurred in smaller numbers.
West moves to counter Russia
The multinational effort to get weapons into Ukraine has seen an undisclosed airfield near the Ukrainian border become a hub for shipping weapons, a senior Defense Department official said Sunday.
The airport's location remains a secret to protect the shipments of weapons, including anti-armor missiles, into Ukraine. The Russian military has not targeted these shipments once they enter Ukraine, the official said, but there is some concern Russia could begin targeting the deliveries as its assault advances.
U.S. European Command (EUCOM) is at the heart of the massive shipment operation, using its liaison network with allies and partners to coordinate "in real time" to send materials into Ukraine, a second Defense official said.
Meanwhile, an interview with CNN on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Biden administration was "now talking to our European partners and allies to look in a coordinated way at the prospect of banning the import of Russian oil."
He also said Sunday that the U.S. has seen reports of Russian abuses in Ukraine that "would constitute a war crime" and that the Biden administration is committed to supporting investigations into the country's actions
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LONDON (AP) — British rapper Dizzee Rascal was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend, then smashed a press photographer’s camera outside the courthouse minutes after a jury found him guilty.
The 37-year-old musician, whose full name is Dylan Kwabena Mills, had denied headbutting Cassandra Jones at a home in south London in June.
Prosecutors said he pressed his forehead against hers and pushing her to the ground during a “chaotic” argument that began over custody arrangements for their two children.
When police, called by neighbors, arrived, Mills said “I’m the aggressor,” but later gave a prepared statement in a police interview, denying the allegations and claiming Jones had assaulted him.
After the guilty verdict, Mills left Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court, grabbed a camera from Press Association photographer James Manning and threw if across the street, before walking away.
Dizzee Rascal released his debut album, “Boy in Da Corner,” in 2003 and was among the first breakout stars from the distinctly British genre of hip-hop known as grime. His hits include “Bonkers” and “Dance Wiv Me.”
He is due to be sentenced for assault on April 8.
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What is the US doing to help Ukraine refugees?
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has set off the largest mass migration in Europe in decades, with more than 1.7 million people having crossed from Ukraine into neighboring countries — "the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II,” the head of the U.N. refugee agency tweeted on Sunday. Nearly all the refugees have gone to other countries in Europe, where they have generally encountered a warm welcome. But some may eventually need permanent resettlement in the United States if they are unable to return to Ukraine.
Here's look at the situation:
What has the US done to help refugees so far?
The U.S. has provided $54 million in food and other assistance to people inside Ukraine and has pledged to send more, according to Samantha Power, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development. That aid is critical because conditions in Ukraine are horrific and growing worse. Food is scarce as millions of displaced people inside the country try to escape the Russian attack.
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it would offer temporary protected status to Ukrainians already inside the United States. Members of Congress and advocates welcomed the announcement, but the effects are modest. The Department of Homeland Security estimates that about 75,000 people are eligible for the program and it’s only good for 18 months unless extended. Moreover, the program leaves people in immigration limbo because beneficiaries cannot necessarily convert their status into permanent legal residency or U.S. citizenship.
Will the US be taking in Ukrainian refugees for resettlement?
It might. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. would accept Ukrainian refugees. But the administration says that, for now at least, most of the refugees apparently want to stay in Europe. That's where many have families, they can work and then return home if that is possible at some point.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN's “State of the Union” on Sunday: “The United States is committed to doing anything we can, first of all, to support the countries that are bearing the immediate burden of taking in Ukrainians. And then, as appropriate, if people seek refugee status in the United States, of course we will look at that and I’m sure act on that.”
The administration previously said it would accept up to 125,000 refugees in the 2022 budget year. That annual cap had been cut to a record low 15,000 under President Donald Trump. In setting the annual target for refugees, the Biden administration set aside 10,000 refugee visas for people from Europe, but it could expand that number to take in more Ukrainians if needed. The White House has said it will work with the United Nations and European countries to determine whether people who have fled Europe will need permanent resettlement in the U.S. or elsewhere.
The 125,000 does not include the 76,000 Afghans who came to the United States after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in August.
One thing the U.S. could do immediately to help Ukrainians would be to expedite the processing of several thousand members of religious minority groups, including Jews and evangelical Christians, who have family in the United States and have already applied to come under what’s known as the Lautenberg program.
Can the US refugee system absorb a new wave of refugees?
Yes, although it won't be easy, according to refugee resettlement experts.
The Trump administration cuts to the refugee program forced resettlement agencies to lay off staff and close offices. They have been struggling for months to help the tens of thousands of Afghan refugees who came after their country fell to the Taliban, and a complex problem was made more so by high housing costs and the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite the difficulties, the U.S. could handle the arrival of more refugees, says Mark Hetfield, president and CEO of HIAS, one of the nation’s nine resettlement agencies.
“There’s so much interest in helping these people that the resources would be there, the volunteers would be there,” Hetfield said. “It would be a challenge because we are all stretched too thin. But we would definitely make it work.”
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DETROIT (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing stronger pollution regulations for new tractor-trailer rigs that would clean up smoky diesel engines and encourage new technologies during the next two decades.
The proposal released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency would require the industry to cut smog-and-soot-forming nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90% per truck over current standards by 2031. New rules would start in 2027 to limit the emissions, which can cause respiratory problems in humans.
Although truck manufacturers are working on battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell powertrains, the EPA says the proposal is not a zero-emissions truck requirement. Rather, the agency says there are pollution control devices in development that can keep diesels in use and still clean the air.
The EPA also is drawing up stronger limits for heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Current standards would be updated starting in 2027 and stronger new standards would begin in 2030. Requirements were last updated in 2001, with the next big step coming in 2024.
The stronger new standards would not apply to old trucks, limiting the impact of the new rules.
Environmental groups praised the EPA's action on truck emissions, but many urged the administration to move quickly on the proposal and then go farther toward requiring zero-emissions trucks.
“The administration must build on today’s proposal by driving a nationwide transition to zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles,” American Lung Association CEO Harold Wimmer said. “Future rules must achieve the goal of 100% zero-emission new heavy-duty vehicle sales.”
Truck engine makers and other industry groups said they favor cutting pollution, but raised concerns that the requirements may not be technically possible or could make trucks costly and unreliable.
“We look forward to working with EPA to ensure that the final version of today’s rule is practical, technically feasible, cost-effective, and will result in the necessary fleet turnover to achieve the nation’s environmental objectives,” Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association President Jed Mandel said in a statement.
EPA officials say the new requirements comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden to clean up transportation, which is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. Transportation emits 29% of the gases, and heavy-duty trucks account for 23% of that. Biden is trying to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 to battle the effects of climate change.
The new standards would bring widespread air quality improvements, particularly in areas already exposed to heavy truck traffic, officials say.
“Seventy-two million people are estimated to live near truck freight routes in America, and they are more likely to be people of color and those with lower incomes,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
The agency says it will offer several options to reduce heavy truck and bus pollution, and it will take public comments into account before developing final standards by the end of this year.
“The EPA has engaged with stakeholders and identified several options in the proposal that address the robustness of the standards, timing for phasing in the standards, options to incentivize early clean technology adoption and improvements to emissions warranties,” the agency said in a statement.
The EPA also would tighten requirements for school buses, transit buses, commercial delivery trucks and short-haul tractors, areas where the shift to zero-emissions vehicles is farther along.
Early versions of fully electric semis are now going on sale, and the industry is testing trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells that generate electricity.
The EPA says that new greenhouse gas standards could help hasten the transition to zero-emissions trucks and buses that weigh over 26,000 pounds.
Currently, battery electric trucks have limited travel ranges, and it takes a long time to recharge batteries. For hydrogen fuel cell trucks, there are few filling stations, and pollution is emitted when most hydrogen is made now from natural gas. But researchers are working on so-called “green hydrogen” that would be made using electricity from renewable sources such as wind or solar.
Under the pollution standards, manufacturers would be required to certify that their trucks meet the stricter requirements or face penalties. The EPA also wants them to lengthen the warranties on emissions controls, making them more cost effective for trucking companies to buy.
The new exhaust-treatment systems would come with a higher cost, as would the warranties, which likely would be passed along to truck and bus buyers. But the EPA says reduced pollution from the most stringent option would save the country up to $250 billion from 2027 through 2045, largely by preventing deaths and reducing health care costs.
The EPA said the stricter standards would prevent up to 2,100 premature deaths, cut hospital admissions and emergency room visits by 6,700 and prevent 18,000 cases of child asthma.
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PARIS (AP) — French forces in Mali have killed a long-time al-Qaida official active in Algeria and Libya, French military authorities said Monday.
France's army chief of staff said in a statement that Algerian Yahia Djouadi, who went by the name Abou Ammar al Jazairi, was killed north of Timbuktu Feb. 26 in a ground operation supported by a helicopter and two drones.
The operation took place about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Timbuktu in a zone known as a hideout for al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) and two other extremist groups, including the JNIM, a coalition of jihadi groups.
The operation was significant for France because it's in the process of withdrawing its forces from Mali to reposition them elsewhere in the region.
The decision to withdraw was announced last month amid increasing hostility toward the French armed presence in Mali. France moved into Mali in 2013 in an effort to stop a drive by Islamist extremists into Bamako, the capital.
Islamists have regrouped and continue to pose a major threat. On March 4, at least 27 Malian soldiers were killed while repulsing an attack by an armed group, leaving 47 of the attackers dead, according to Malian authorities. Two Malian soldiers were killed Monday.
The statement said that Djaoudi's killing demonstrates that French forces continue to mark battlefield successes despite the withdrawal.
Djaoudi got his start with the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria, which terrorized Algeria in the early 1990s at the start of the country's “black decade” that left an estimated 200,000 people, soldiers, civilians and extremists, dead.
The GIA was dissolved and Djaoudi eventually became military aide to Abdelmalek Droukdel, AQMI chief until French forces in Mali killed him in June 2020. Djaoudi also worked for the al-Qaida arm in Libya before relocating to Timbuktu, Mali in 2019, the French statement said. He coordinated supplies for AQMI and JNIM as well as assisting in financing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday narrowed the reach of a federal law that strengthens penalties for career criminals found to illegally have a gun.
The high court was ruling in the case of a man a lower court classified as a career criminal after counting the man's burglary of 10 different public storage units on a single evening as 10 separate offenses. The high court said unanimously Monday that was an error.
The man's 10 burglary convictions should have been treated as one event rather than separate crimes when considering whether he qualified for a stiffened sentence under the federal Armed Career Criminal Act, the justices concluded.
Without the stronger sentence, the man's recommended sentence would have been approximately two years, but he was instead sentenced to nearly 16.
“Convictions arising from a single criminal episode ... can count only once under ACCA,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote.
The decision could result in reduced sentences for other people subject to stronger sentences under the law. According to a U.S. Sentencing Commission report, however, people classified as armed career criminals have recently made up less than one percent of those sentenced every year for federal offenses.
The Armed Career Criminal Act requires a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone found to have a gun after three or more previous convictions for violent felonies or serious drug offenses. The law says that each of the offenses must have been “committed on occasions different from one another.”
Kagan wrote that a single “occasion” can include distinct activities, citing the example of multiple events occurring on a couple's wedding day.
“The occasion of a wedding, for example, often includes a ceremony, cocktail hour, dinner, and dancing. Those doings are proximate in time and place, and have a shared theme (celebrating the happy couple); their connections are, indeed, what makes them part of a single event. But they do not occur at the same moment,” she said. "The newlyweds would surely take offense if a guest organized a conga line in the middle of their vows. That is because an occasion may ... encompass a number of non-simultaneous activities."
The case before the justices involved William Dale Wooden. Wooden had a lengthy criminal history and was convicted in 2018 in Tennessee of being a felon in possession of a firearm. A judge concluded he should qualify for the Armed Career Criminal Act's sentencing “enhancement.” That conclusion was based on a 2005 burglary conviction and the fact that he had pleaded guilty in 1997 to 10 counts of burglary for joining in the burglary of 10 units at a ministorage facility in Dalton, Georgia.
Wooden argued the burglaries should count as one conviction, but lower courts disagreed.
“We’re delighted the Supreme Court agrees that Mr. Wooden is not an armed career criminal and never should have been subject to a fifteen-year mandatory-minimum sentence,” Wooden's attorney Allon Kedem wrote in an email.
Kedem said that the government had previously agreed that his recommended a sentence had he not qualified for a stronger sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act was about two years and he has already served much more than that. Kedem said that “once he is resentenced, we expect him to be sent back home to his family.”
The Armed Career Criminal Act has been the subject of frequent litigation before the Supreme Court.
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The high-octane state assembly elections in five states ended today with the final phase of polling in UP. With the results to be declared on March 10, exit polls are out predicting the winning parties, seat and vote share across states. In Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party appears to have sprung a big surprise.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is projected to make huge gains at 52-61 seats this time, as per the Zee News Exit Poll from the 117 constituencies across Punjab's three regions Majha, Doab and Malwa.
Clean sweep win
Exit Polls project a clean sweep for the AAP. The AAP is likely to get a clear win across 117 constituencies in Punjab by securing more seats than the majority share of 59 requires.
Here's a table of comparisons of vote share and seats won from 2017 assembly polls in Punjab and the projections from the exit polls.
How Punjab voted in 2017?
Vote Share (in percent):
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What do Zee News Exit Poll say?
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Russian and Ukrainian delegations resumed talks on Monday following failed attempts to begin evacuating civilians from besieged Ukrainian cities, including the port city of Mariupol.
After the first two attempts failed over the weekend, Russia announced yet another limited cease-fire that would allow desperate civilians to flee encircled cities through humanitarian corridors, though there was no word as of Monday night that shelling had stopped.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged his people to keep resisting the assault, which U.N. officials say has forced more than 1.7 million to flee Ukraine. Zelenskyy also called for a global boycott of all Russian products, including oil.
Here’s a look at key things to know about the war:
ANY PROGRESS ON SAFE EVACUATIONS?
After the weekend efforts to establish safe passage for civilians fell apart, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that civilians would be allowed to leave the capital Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkiv and Sumy.
Moscow proposed evacuation routes that would lead mostly to Russia and its ally Belarus, which Ukraine rejected as “unacceptable.”
The two sides held a third round of talks Monday, with Zelenskyy advisor Mykhailo Podolyay reporting that a little progress had been made on the matter of safe evacuations. Without elaborating, he said “there were some small positive shifts regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors.”
The countries’ foreign ministers are also scheduled to meet in Turkey on Thursday, according to that country’s top diplomat.
WHY HAVE EVACUATION EFFORTS FAILED THUS FAR?
Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko blamed Russian artillery fire for halting efforts to evacuate an estimated 200,000 civilians from Mariupol, where food, water and medicine are scarce. Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of sabotaging the effort.
Russia has sought to cut off Ukraine’s access to the Sea of Azov in the south. Capturing Mariupol could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.
WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND?
Ukrainian officials said Russia stepped up its shelling of several major cities on Sunday night, including Kyiv.
Russian forces launched hundreds of missiles and artillery attacks, dropping powerful bombs on residential areas of Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said. But a long Russian armored column threatening Kyiv remained stalled.
On Sunday evening, Mykolaiv in the south and Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, were also shelled.
Ukrainian forces were also defending Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port city, from Russian ships, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s foreign minister said more than 20,000 people from 52 countries have volunteered to fight in Ukraine’s new international legion.
ZELENSKYY PUSHES CALL FOR NO-FLY ZONE
Zelenskyy continued to call on foreign countries to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Establishing a no-fly zone would risk escalating the conflict by involving foreign militaries directly. Although the U.S. and many other Western countries have backed Ukraine with weapons shipments, they have not sent troops and have rejected the calls for a no-fly zone.
Zelenskyy said in a video address on Sunday that "the world is strong enough to close our skies," and over the weekend he urged U.S. officials help his country obtain warplanes to fight the invasion and retain control of its airspace.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Sunday that some Ukrainian warplanes had redeployed to Romania and other Ukraine neighbors he didn’t identify. He warned that an attack from planes operating out of those nations could be deemed an engagement by them in the conflict.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said Monday in Madrid, where she met with Spain's foreign minister, that getting military material to Ukrainians is set to become more difficult. She said the Biden administration is considering how to fulfill Zelenskyy’s request for warplanes, considering that Ukrainians would only be able to operate Soviet-era aircraft provided by Poland.
DIRECTLY WITNESSED OR CONFIRMED BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In Mariupol, Red Cross officials on Monday were waiting to find out whether a safe corridor had been established to evacuate civilians. Most of the shelling of the besieged city has remained on its outskirts, but shells have also fallen at random in all areas.
The situation has become increasingly desperate in the city, with shortages of food, water, and power, and some looting that police have ignored. There is no mobile phone service, so accurate news has become a valuable commodity and rumors abound.
Even hospitals have shortages of antibiotics and painkillers, and doctors have been performing some emergency procedures without them.
Police were advising people to remain in shelters until they hear official messages broadcast over loudspeakers telling them to evacuate.
In the northern city of Kharkiv, meanwhile, Dmitry Sedorenko described the desperate scramble after his apartment block was struck Monday amid heavy shelling.
“I think it struck the fourth floor under us,” Sedorenko said. “Immediately, everything started burning and falling apart. It became smoky and difficult to see and then the floor fell through. We crawled out of the third floor. There were dead people. We got lucky.”
In Kyiv, the central train station remained crowded with people desperate to leave, and frequent shelling could be heard from the city's center.
WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING WITH DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS?
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Lithuania and Latvia on Monday to calm any fears that they and Estonia, which he'll visit Tuesday, have about their security in the event Russia expands its military operations. The three Baltic countries, which endured decades of Soviet occupation before regaining their independence in 1991, are members of the EU and NATO.
Blinken stressed that the U.S. commitment to NATO’s mutual defense pact is “sacrosanct” and that NATO and the U.S. were discussing stationing troops in the Baltics permanently.
The New Zealand government, meanwhile, said it plans to fast track legislation that will allow it to impose economic sanctions against Russia.
China's foreign minister called Russia Beijing's "most important strategic partner" and has continued to refuse to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the few world leaders who has kept an open line of communication to Putin. In an interview Monday with French news broadcaster LCI, however, Macron criticized Moscow's offer to open humanitarian corridors to Russia for Ukrainian civilians. "This is cynicism" that is "unbearable," he said.
Meanwhile, Russian lawyers snubbed a hearing at the United Nations' top court about Ukraine's effort to halt the invasion.
THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
The death toll of the conflict has been difficult to measure. The U.N. human rights office said Monday that it had confirmed the deaths of 406 civilians and wounding of 801 others through the end of Sunday. However, it said it thinks the actual figures are considerably higher.
The World Health Organization said it verified at least six attacks that have killed six health care workers and injured 11 others.
Ukrainian refugees continue to pour into neighboring countries, including Poland, Romania and Moldova. Among them are an unknown number of people with U.S. citizenship, though some haven't been able to flee Ukraine yet.
The number of people who have left Ukraine since fighting began has reached 1.7 million, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
BUSINESS IN RUSSIA
A growing number of multinational businesses have cut Russia off from vital financial services, technology and a variety of consumer products in response to Western economic sanctions and global outrage over the war.
Two of the so-called big four accounting firms — KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers — said Sunday that they were pulling out of Russia, ending relationships with member firms based in the country.
TikTok said users won't be able to post new videos in Russia in response to the government's crackdown on what people can say on social media about the invasion, and American Express announced it was suspending all operations in Russia and Belarus.
Netflix also announced it was suspending its service in Russia.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Grand Canyon junior center Dima Zdor has tried to maintain a routine, a mix of schoolwork, practice and games. His attention for all the other hours in the day is halfway across the world.
One of a handful of Ukrainians playing college basketball in the United States, Zdor can only watch from afar in Phoenix as Russian troops roll through his home country and hope his family and friends remain safe.
“I watch a lot of news from back home and it’s just upsetting how little villages and towns are getting destroyed and overtaken, just for the reason of politics," he said. "It’s sad. It’s scary. It’s uncomfortable to open Twitter or watch the news every day and be scared of what’s going on there that could affect my family, friends or team back home.”
Russia's invasion has taken a massive toll across Ukraine as bombs pound cities in the Eastern European country. More than 1 million people have fled the country as Russian forces advance, millions more are stuck in the crossfire, many hiding underground.
Watching it unfold from long distance is excruciating, a helplessness overtaking Ukrainian players as they watch the news, follow social media, try to communicate with family and friends back home.
“It is difficult mentally,” said Denys Bobchuk, a sophomore at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. “Personally, I feel guilt just because my people are going through some rough things right now. And I’m here, I’m safe and there’s not much I can help with.”
The tension started when it appeared Russia was going to invade Ukraine. It intensified tenfold when the bombs began to fall and the troops crossed the borders.
Communication with Ukraine has been spotty at times. Hours without contact with family members is agonizing, days even worse.
The endless anxiety also comes with an attempt to understand why their home country is being invaded.
“It’s not OK. We live in this time where we have medicine, science, all this stuff and we’re still having war," San Francisco center Volodymyr Markovetskyy said. “Why is that happening? I don’t understand, my family doesn’t understand, nobody does.”
Markovetskyy's mother and sister were able to escape to Lithuania, but his father, a police officer, had to stay in Ukraine.
Zdor's parents, sister and numerous other relatives are in Ukraine and Crimea, which was occupied by Russia in 2014.
George Maslennikov, a senior forward at Canisius, is from Odessa and had some nervous moments when neither he nor his father, who's in Spain, were able to reach his mother Tetyanna while the city is under siege.
“I’m trying to keep my mindset positive as much as I can, though it’s difficult even without things like that going on back home since I only see my family once a year,” he said.
The Ukrainian players here still try to do what they can from afar, raising awareness on social media and funds for the military effort.
Bobchuk is trying to create a fund to raise money for soldiers in Ukraine and has contacted American manufacturers to send bulletproof vests to military friends back home.
Maslennikov has donated on a bank app to send money to the Ukrainian military, encouraging others to do the same through social media.
“It just takes a lot of courage to do things like that and having this country as small as ours to fight against Russians,” he said. "People thought it was going to be easy, but it’s just not. I’m trying to support it as much as I can even though I’m so far from home and I’m worried about them, but I’m doing as much as I can.”
But there's only so much the Ukrainian players can do from so far away. Much of their time is spent watching, waiting, keeping tabs on everyone back home.
Sticking to a routine is a key, takes the mind off what's happening — at least for a little while.
“It just feels not right to me, but at the end of the day, I think it is important to understand that I’m here and the only thing I can do is to do my job, which is playing basketball right now at the highest level," Bobchuk said. "And that’s what I’m trying to do right now, just trying to focus on something that I’m involved in and just have my daily routine and following it.”
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AP Sports Writers Janie McCauley in San Francisco, Gary Graves in Louisville and John Zenor in Birmingham, Alabama, contributed to this story.
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Gasoline prices are pushing even farther above $4 a gallon, the highest price that American motorists have faced since July 2008, as calls grow to ban imports of Russian oil.
Prices at the pump were rising long before Russia invaded Ukraine and have spiraled faster since the start of the war. The U.S. national average for a gallon of gasoline has soared 45 cents a gallon in the past week and topped $4.06 on Monday, according to auto club AAA.
The price of regular broke $4 a gallon on Sunday for the first time in nearly 14 years and is now up nearly 50% from a year ago.
The price for gasoline in Europe is even higher, averaging 1.75 euros per liter last week, according to the European Commission, the equivalent of $7.21 per gallon.
GasBuddy, which tracks prices down to the service-station level, said Monday that the U.S. was likely to break its record price of $4.10 a gallon, but that does not account for inflation. In today's terms, the record price would be equal to about $5.24 after accounting for inflation.
“Forget the $4 per gallon mark, the nation will soon set new all-time record highs and we could push closer to a national average of $4.50," said GasBuddy analyst Patrick De Haan. “We’ve never been in this situation before, with this level of uncertainty. ... Americans will be feeling the pain of the rise in prices for quite some time."
Oil prices soared early Monday before retreating. In midday trading, benchmark U.S. crude was up 2% to about $118 a barrel, and the international price gained 4% to around $123 a barrel. Major U.S. stock indexes were down about 2%.
The United States is the world's largest oil producer — ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia — but it is also the biggest oil consumer, and it can't meet that staggering demand with domestic crude alone.
The U.S. imported 245 million barrels of oil from Russia last year — about 8% of all U.S. oil imports — up from 198 million barrels in 2020. That's less than the U.S. gets from Canada or Mexico but more than it imported last year from Saudi Arabia.
The increasingly violent Russian attack on Ukraine has increased calls to cut off Russia from the money it gets from oil and natural gas exports. Europe is heavily dependent on Russian gas.
President Joe Biden has been reluctant to ban Russian oil, fearing it could further fuel inflation heading into the midterm elections this November.
Many Republicans and a growing number of Democrats in the House and Senate, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have endorsed banning Russian crude as a way to put more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The White House hasn't ruled out a ban.
Talk of a ban on Russian oil has led U.S. officials to consider other sources that are currently limited. In what was supposed to be a secret trip, senior U.S. officials traveled to Venezuela over the weekend to discuss the chance of easing oil sanctions on the major crude-exporting country.
Credit: Seth Wenig
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are tumbling on Wall Street Monday as another big leap for oil prices threatens to squeeze inflation’s grip on the global economy.
The S&P 500 fell 2.1% after a barrel of U.S. oil surged to $130 overnight on the possibility the U.S. could bar imports from Russia. Stocks around the world slid even more sharply earlier in the day, also taking their cue from oil's movements, though their losses moderated as crude receded toward $120 per barrel.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 573 points, or 1.7%, at 33,040, as of 1:26 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 2.5% lower. Stocks are on pace for their worst losses since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Gold and a measure of nervousness on Wall Street were also higher, though not by quite as much as when oil prices hit their peak. The price of gold briefly touched $2,007.50 per ounce before trading at $1,991.90, up 1.3%.
Oil prices have soared recently on worries that Russia's invasion of Ukraine will upend already tight supplies. Russia is one of the world's largest energy producers, and oil prices were already high before the attack because the global economy is demanding more fuel following its coronavirus-caused shutdown.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a letter to her colleagues on Sunday that “the House is currently exploring strong legislation” to further isolate Russia because of its attack on Ukraine. That could include a ban on imports of Russian oil and energy products, she said.
It’s a major step that the U.S. government has not yet taken, despite a long list of moves to punish Russia, as the White House has said it hopes to limit disruptions to oil markets. It wants to limit price jumps at the gasoline pump.
Reports also said U.S. officials may be considering easing sanctions against Venezuela. That potentially could free up more crude oil and ease concerns about reduced supplies from Russia.
A gallon of regular already costs an average of $4.065 across the country after breaching the $4 barrier on Sunday for the first time since 2008. A month ago, a gallon averaged $3.441, according to AAA.
A barrel of U.S. crude oil was trading at $120.74 per barrel, up 4.1%, after earlier touching $130.50. Brent crude, the international standard, was up 5.9% at $125.10 per barrel after earlier topping $139.
Markets worldwide have swung wildly recently on worries about how high prices for oil, wheat and other commodities produced in the region will go because of Russia’s invasion, inflaming the world’s already high inflation. In the United States, prices for consumers jumped last month from their year-ago level at the fastest rate in four decades.
The conflict in Ukraine also threatens the food supply in some regions, including Europe, Africa and Asia, which rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region, known as the "breadbasket of the world."
The war puts extra pressure on central banks around the world, with the Federal Reserve on course to raise interest rates later this month for the first time since 2018. Higher rates slow the economy, which hopefully will help rein in high inflation. But if the Fed raises rates too high, it risks forcing the economy into a recession.
“Their reaction to geopolitics can't really be measured, so there's uncertainty around that,” said Sameer Samana, senior global market strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
Some investors have seen the war in Ukraine as potentially pushing the Fed to go easier on rate increases. Investors love low rates because they tend to boost prices for stocks and all kinds of markets.
But that may not necessarily be the case this time, Goldman Sachs economists wrote in a report. With prices for oil, wheat and other commodities potentially rising even more, the threat is higher for a sustained, high inflation to settle on the economy. That could flip the Fed's traditional playbook.
“After several decades in which economic, financial, or political shocks invariably caused interest rates to fall, markets may have to re-learn that the opposite can also be true,” Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius wrote.
Beyond sanctions brought on Russia by governments because of its invasion of Ukraine, companies are also levying their own punishments. The list of companies exiting Russia has grown to include Mastercard, Visa and American Express, as well as Netflix.
The value of the Russian ruble continued to slide amid all the financial pressure, falling another nearly 20%. It dropped below 0.7 cents.
“The Ukraine-Russia conflict will continue to dominate market sentiments and no signs of conflict resolution thus far may likely put a cap on risk sentiments into the new week,” said Yeap Jun Rong, market strategist at IG in Singapore.
“It should be clear by now that economic sanctions will not deter any aggression from the Russians, but will serve more as a punitive measure at the expense of implication on global economic growth. Elevated oil prices may pose a threat to firms’ margins and consumer spending outlook,” Yeap said.
On Wall Street, shares of Bed Bath & Beyond soared after the investment firm of billionaire Ryan Cohen took a nearly 10% stake in the company and recommended big changes. Cohen is the co-founder of Chewy, and he's amassed somewhat of a cult following after he took a stake in GameStop, the struggling video game chain that eventually named him board chairman.
Shares of Bed Bath & Beyond jumped 27.2% to $20.58.
Treasury yields climbed, with the 10-year rising to 1.73% from 1.72% late Friday.
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AP Business Writers Damian J. Troise and Yuri Kageyama contributed.
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A band both of their time and before their time, Le Tigre blended art, punk, and politics with dancefloor electropop, all in service of reminding the world that it’s okay to be angry and joyful at the same time. The group also unknowingly provided a pretty solid model for the next 20-odd years of queer and feminist indie acts.
Founded in 1998 in New York, Le Tigre was initially composed of Johanna Fateman, visual artist Sadie Benning, and former Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, who’d just come off creating solo material for her pseudonymous project, Julie Ruin. Frustrated about her inability to perform solo cuts live, Hanna sought Fateman, who she’d once lived with in Portland, and Benning, who she’d made a music video with in Chicago. The trio began sharing tapes of demos through the mail (Benning was still in Chicago, while Fateman and Hanna were in New York), picked a band name, and Le Tigre was born.
When it was released in October of 1999, Le Tigre’s self-titled debut set the punk world on its ear. Using its tight 34-minute run time to do everything from calling Rudy Giuliani a “f*cking jerk” to schooling the world about dot-happy artist Yayoi Kusama long before her aesthetic became Instagram candy, Le Tigre acted as the perfect fusion of music and message for so many listeners.
Though social activism through music is hardly an unheard of concept, Le Tigre’s danceable quest for justice has throughlines to tons of recent bands like The Linda Lindas, who wore Bikini Kill shirts during their viral performance in an LA library, and Lil Nas X, who has been so wildly successful with tracks like “Montero” and “Industry Baby” that it’s easy to forget that his very presence in the rap scene could have been viewed as a novelty mere years before.
Much of Le Tigre also identified as queer, and its music was a reflection of that. Tracks like “Hot Topic” shouted out queer icons like Vaginal Creme Davis and Billie Jean King, while “Viz” was Samson’s ode to lesbian visibility. The group also took queer openers out on tour, like Seth Bogart’s then-band Panty Raid or old Portland buddies The Need. It can be hard for Gen Z to imagine, but at the turn of the 21st century, there were precious few spaces for outspoken queer art, or even just queer joy.
Le Tigre also inspired conversation. On “What’s Yr Take On Cassavetes,” Le Tigre uses lyrics to debate the issue of art vs. artist, wondering if notorious actor/director John Cassavetes is a misogynist or a genius, a messiah or an alcoholic. Though the song was recorded over 20 years ago and reflected a chat that had been happening in feminist circles and women’s studies classes for about as long, it foretold a discussion that, today, we find ourselves having almost daily as we struggle to reckon with our once enthusiastic love of Michael Jackson, Woody Allen, or the TV series Louie.
That’s not even considering the countless debates we’ve had and acted on involving less well-known performers and businesses. When SoCal punk label Burger Records faced accusations of sexual abuse by its artists and management, fans quickly turned their backs, saying they wouldn’t support a place where women were maligned, hurt, and discriminated against. Bands like SWMRS, The Growlers, and The Buttertones have all faced assault and abuse allegations themselves, leading to whole scenes of musicians banding together to call out creeps who will no longer get a pass, a record sale, or even a show (There’s even a TikTok movement). The music business is at least trying to move forward into a more righteous era like the one Le Tigre envisioned.
Le Tigre also moved punk and indie rock further into the art world. Though music and art have long been fairly cozy bedfellows, Le Tigre added dimension to what smaller club bands could do at live shows, often running quirky visuals behind them as they performed. Part of this push forward could have been due to technology — projectors, quality camcorders, and editing software were becoming more widely available at the time — but the band used art even before it could afford a video projector, enlisting then roadie Samson to project individual slides from the back of the room.
The group’s fusion of art and music didn’t come out of nowhere — Benning was and is still a very well-known artist, having exhibited at places like MOMA — but the group’s insistence that one could fuel the other or that both could fuel activism in tandem seemed like a novelty at the time. It’s the norm now, with acts as varied as Lady Gaga, Kanye West, and Childish Gambino relying on an intense fusion of art and music to promote their visions for the future. Even smaller artists have gotten in on the act, with groups like Crumb, George Clanton, and Wand using outlandish or otherworldly visuals to take their live tracks to another level.
When it was announced late last year that Le Tigre was reuniting for This Ain’t No Picnic, a Goldenvoice festival coming to the LA area later this summer, skeptical viewers could have seen that announcement as a cash grab. Though they never technically broke up, Le Tigre haven’t played together in over a decade. Seeing as how Bikini Kill’s reunion tour sold-out dates across the country in 2019, it’s easy to understand how Hanna and co. could look at an offer and see big dollar signs.
What that supposition misses, though, is that Le Tigre remain as vital now as they have ever been. It’s sad, but tracks about female oppression, bodily autonomy, and the everyday microaggressions experienced by queer people, women, and minorities are as vital now as they were then. Audiences need to hear their frustrations voiced, and they need reminders that there can be a brighter tomorrow if we all work together. Bands like Le Tigre have helped fuel that fire, and those who have learned from them will be the ones to keep it burning.
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Phoebe Bridgers is heading back on the road to extend last year’s Reunion Tour. The recent Billboard Trailblazer and radio show host has announced a massive run through the US, the UK, Europe, and Canada. Since her breakout album Punisher was released during the pandemic, her first tour on the album had to be virtual; now she’s trying to catch up on everywhere she hasn’t stepped foot. Bridgers is known for having special, meaningful live performances, so this is something to keep an eye on.
Check out the dates below and get more information on tickets here.
04/13 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Federal Theatre
04/15 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
04/22 — Indio, CA @ Coachella
05/13 — Las Vegas, NV @ The Amp at Craig Ranch
05/14 — Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party
05/17 — Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
05/19 — Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
05/20 — Austin, TX @ Moody Amphitheater at Waterloo Park
05/21 — Houston, TX @ The Lawn at White Oak Music Hall
05/22 — Gulf Shores, AL @ Hangout Fest
05/24 — Tampa, FL @ The Cuban Club
05/25 — St Augustine, FL @ St Augustine Amphitheatre
05/27 — Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
05/28 — Louisville, KY @ Forecastle Festival
05/31 — Kansas City, MO @ Starlight Theatre
06/01 — Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room Outdoors
06/03 — Milwaukee, WI @ BMO Harris Pavilion
06/04 — Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
06/07 — Toronto, ON @ RBC Echo Beach
06/08 — Montreal, QC @ MTelus
06/09 — Portland, ME @ Thompson’s Point
06/11 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
06/12 — Washington, DC @ The Anthem
06/13 — Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
06/15 — Brooklyn, NY @ BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival at Prospect Park Bandshell
06/20 — Dublin, IE @ Fairview Park
06/22 — Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
06/24-25 — Somerset, UK @ Glastonbury
06/26 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
06/30 — Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
07/02 — Werchter, BE @ Rock Werchter Festival
07/03 — Ewijk, NL @ Down The Rabbit Hole Festival
07/05 — Milan, IT @ Carroponte
07/07 — Bilbao, ES @ Bilbao BBK Festival
07/08 — Madrid, ES @ Mad Cool Festival
07/09 — Lisbon, PT @ NOS Alive Festival
07/14 — Ostrava, CZ @ Colours of Ostrava
07/17 — Paris, FR @ Lollapalooza Paris
07/22 — Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival
07/23 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Apollo
07/26 — London, UK @ O2 Academy Brixton
08/07 — Saint Charles, IA @ Hinterland
08/18 — Spokane, WA @ Spokane Pavilion
08/20 — Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum Theatre
08/23 — Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park
08/25 — Troudale, OR @ Edgefield Amphitheater
08/27 — Paso Robles, CA @ Vina Robles Amphitheatre
08/28 — Los Angeles, CA @ This Ain’t No Picnic
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Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.
This week saw Dominic Fike with a truncated version of his viral Euphoria tune and Justin Bieber continuing to get his footing in the afrobeats world. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.
For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.
Dominic Fike — “Elliot’s Song” Feat. Zendaya
Euphoria, being one of the biggest shows on TV right now, seems to go viral every week it airs. The same was true during the show’s final week and it was Fike who brought it to life thanks to the five minutes (an eternity in TV time) he spent performing a song on the show. Fike took the resulting memes in stride: “The internet remains undefeated,” he said. After that, he went ahead, pared the song down some, and shared a studio version of it.
Omah Lay and Justin Bieber — “Attention”
Justin Bieber has been more into making afrobeats music in recent times, and he did so last week by hopping on a new one from Omah Lay, “Attention.” Bieber’s pop-R&B sensibilities are nicely applied here as both artists find their times to shine on the rhythmic track.
Khalid — “Last Call”
Last week marked the fifth anniversary of Khalid’s star-making debut album, American Teen. Aside from sharing a retrospective virtual experience, he marked the occasion by releasing a new song, “Last Call,” which he said represents “the first few steps of another chapter for myself.”
Camila Cabello — “Bam Bam” Feat. Ed Sheeran
Camila Cabello packed a lot into her birthday last week: She confirmed the release date of her upcoming album Familia, stopped by The Late Late Show, and linked up with Ed Sheeran on “Bam Bam.” She told James Corden of the song, ““It’s something that my mom has always said to me. […] The song is about the cycles of falling in love, falling out of love; life has its ups and downs. You gotta roll with the punches, you gotta keep dancing.”
Charli XCX — “Baby”
After her recent planned appearance on Saturday Night Live was canceled due to COVID (save for playing a rock and roll bird in a sketch), Charli XCX actually got to perform on the show this past weekend. She had a new song in tow, too, as she had dropped “Baby” — a bright, funky, and catchy pop tune — earlier in the week.
Kurt Vile — “Hey Like A Child”
A couple weeks ago, Kurt Vile announced a new album, Watch My Moves, and dropped the lead single from the project, “Like Exploding Stones.” He returned with another advance look at the LP last week with “Hey Like A Child,” a languid rocker that’s right in Vile’s wheelhouse.
Machine Gun Kelly and Lil Wayne — “Ay”
Expert headline-maker Machine Gun Kelly debuted a very pink new look last week, which also made an appearance in the video for “Ay,” his collaboration with Lil Wayne. Kelly is obviously pursuing a more pop-punk-influenced direction these days, but “Ay” serves as a bit of a bridge between his current aesthetic and the hip-hop that made him famous.
Kevin Morby — “This Is A Photograph”
After delighting with his late-2020 album Sundowner, Kevin Morby is already gearing up for more. This Is A Photograph is set for May, and when he announced the LP last week, he also shared the title track, a progressively swelling tune that patiently unfolds. Uproxx’s Adrian Spinelli notes of the tune, “The lead title track single is a portrait of heartland nostalgia, featuring backing vocal harmonies by members of Memphis’ Stax Academy Of Music. The interplay of guitar and banjo speaks to Americana and highway rock and roll.”
Nilüfer Yanya — “The Dealer”
Nilüfer Yanya fans have eaten well over the past few years: After her beloved 2019 album Miss Universe, she dropped a couple 2020 EPs — Feeling Lucky? and Inside Out — and returned with a new album, Painless, last week. Before dropping that, she shared her final pre-album single, “The Dealer,” another rhythmic rocker that slots nicely into her oeuvre.
Nigo and Pusha T — “Hear Me Clearly”
DJ/fashion designer Nigo has an album, I Know Nigo, on the way, and he’s got some talented friends on board the project, as it’s set to feature Tyler The Creator, Lil Uzi Vert, ASAP Rocky, Kid Cudi, and others. That “others” also includes Pusha T, as he features on “Hear Me Clearly.” Uproxx’s Wongo Okon notes of the tune, “The track is driven by cut-throat raps from Pusha T, who uses the song’s haunting production to deliver a scathing lyrical attack.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
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DaBaby’s career may never fully recover from his controversial statements on the Rolling Loud stage in Miami last year, but apparently, that won’t stop him from continuing to defend himself from accusations of homophobia. During a recent appearance on New York’s The Breakfast Club, he once again addressed the backlash sparked by his awkwardly-worded call to action, pointing out how social media can warp perceptions, and refusing to make apologies for himself.
“I didn’t mean what you think I meant,” he said. “What you want me to do? Go look myself in the mirror and say, ‘You don’t like gay people?’ Nah. I’m not trippin’ on gay people at all. If I said what I said to get people to raise they cell phones and it was misinterpreted by people who watch a five-second clip at home. You not supposed to understand what’s going on. You could raise your cell phone if you wanted to. You ain’t supposed to be able to digest a clip that’s been altered and shortened with a narrative to go along with it, with enough people driving it, it gonna do what it do.”
However, he’s still failed to address how and why his comment was taken so poorly, or successfully explain what he really meant. During his set, as he hyped up the Rolling Loud crowd, he said, “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any of them deadly sexually transmitted diseases, that’ll make you die in two to three weeks, then put your cellphone lighter up… Fellas, if you ain’t sucking dick in the parking lot, put your cellphone lighter up.”
Since it’s easy to see how such a statement could be interpreted as homophobic — to say nothing of the misinformation about people living with HIV and/or AIDS — the least he could do is acknowledge as much while providing an alternative translation. And while he did issue two separate quasi-apologies on Instagram, he later deleted both and has since argued that the people who took offense were being too sensitive and twisting his words.
Watch the clip above.
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Last week, Kanye West’s video for “Eazy,” the new single with The Game in which Kanye expresses his wish to “beat Pete Davidson’s ass” for dating his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, ruffled a few feathers for its black-and-white narrative that ends with Davidson buried up to his neck and sprouting flowers — literally, pushing up daisies. Some looked at it as Kanye’s genuine wish to harm Davidson, as the video contains claymation sequences in which Eazy-E and the Game kidnap the comedian at Kanye’s direction. Over the weekend, however, West defended the video and denied that he literally wants to harm Davidson.
“Art is therapy just like this view,” he captioned an Instagram post containing a still from the video depicting a burning house — a motif that has run throughout his rollouts for Donda and Donda 2. “Art is protected as freedom of speech. Art inspires and simplifies the world. Art is not a proxy for any ill or harm. Any suggestion otherwise about my art is false and mal intended.” That would have seemed obvious from the title card that closes the video (and from the fact that it’d be kind of difficult to get Eazy-E to kidnap anyone for obvious reasons), but clearly, West felt that the backlash was worth responding to.
Kanye may not have any plans to take his grudge against Pete Davidson any further but he’s certainly been vocal about his disapproval of the comic’s association with Kardashian, apparently seeing Davidson as one of the obstacles to their eventual reconciliation. For her part, though, she’s repeatedly said she has no desire to reunite with Kanye, even pushing to have their divorce finalized as soon as possible.
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Although Kanye West’s macabre, stop-motion animation video for his and the Game’s new song “Eazy” has ruffled a lot of feathers on the internet, even prompting a response from the artist himself arguing for his right to express himself artistically, at least person — arguably, the person who should be most offended by it — reportedly found it pretty darn amusing.
Pete Davidson, whom Kanye targeted in the video with a claymation effigy that gets kidnapped, buried, and turned into a planter, found Kanye’s video “hysterical,” according to Entertainment Tonight Online. A source told ET that not is Pete “not threatened by Kanye in any way, shape or form,” but that he also “finds the fact that Kanye included a cartoon version of him in his music video hysterical. He is almost flattered by it all because it is so ridiculous to him.”
Kanye’s anger at the comedian stems from the fact that Davidson has been dating Kim Kardashian, Kanye’s ex-wife, for the past several months as the couple takes opposing views on their ongoing divorce. While West wants to reconcile, Kardashian has expressed repeatedly she has no desire to do so, even going so far as to request the court expedite the legal status of their split — which was granted last week, on the same day Kanye shared the “Eazy” video on Instagram.
Kanye’s since taken down the video, replacing it with his post denying that it was a legitimate threat to Davidson. Meanwhile, ETOnline reports that Pete and Kim have decided that the video is an obvious bid to cause friction between them but say it’s done just the opposite, bringing them closer together as Kanye keeps attacking both via social media.
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Post Malone wants a lawsuit against him over a songwriting credit on his hit song “Circles” dismissed, according to Rolling Stone. Post is being sued by Canadian musician Tyler Armes, who demands a share of the authorship on the song, saying he played a guitar tune that was eventually worked into the final composition. Armes says that Post’s management offered a five percent share of the publishing royalties but withdrew the offer when he tried to negotiate for a larger cut.
However, Post has countered with a new filing saying that Armes did not contribute anything significant or original to the recording or the composition of the song in the one recording session he was present for in August 2018. According to Post’s lawyers, Armes only played an “admittedly extremely commonplace guitar chord progression,” while also possibly singing a “fragment of guitar melody” that went unrecorded.
The documents filed in federal court split absolutely no hairs about it, reading, “Armes does not have a shred of affirmative evidence with which to meet his burden of proof that his alleged contribution to the guitar melody is original. Armes admitted that his contributions did not even rise to the level of originality, which is also required in addition to the fixation requirement. He either conceded that his ideas were commonplace musical devices or failed to meet his burden to demonstrate any originality otherwise. Armes thus cannot even establish the threshold requirement that he made a copyrightable contribution.”
Post and his co-producer/co-defendant Frank Dukes have requested that the case be summarily dismissed in an April 4 hearing. Meanwhile, Post’s manager has suggested that the singer’s follow-up album is being held back by his label.
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The investment firm of billionaire Ryan Cohen has taken a large stake in Bed Bath & Beyond and is recommending that the struggling retailer sell all or part of its business.
RC Ventures LLC has acquired a nearly 10% stake in Bed Bath & Beyond, according to a regulatory filing. RC stands for Ryan Cohen, a co-founder at Chewy, who was at heart of the GameStop meme saga last year.
Cohen built a huge following on Reddit and on social media in 2021 as smaller investors gobbled up GameStop and other meme stocks. Bed Bath & Beyond was among those companies and news of Cohen’s interest sent its shares, which have tumbled 15% this year, up more than 70% at the opening bell Monday.
In a letter sent to Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Cohen said that declining sales can no longer be blamed on the COVID-19 pandemic, noting that other national chains are seeing sales near or exceed pre-pandemic levels. Bed Bath & Beyond has lost money for three consecutive years.
Cohen suggests in the letter the possible sale of part or all of the Union, New Jersey, company. One part of the business that could be sold or spun off, according to Cohen, is the Buy Buy Baby chain. Any money obtained from a full or partial sale could be used to pay off debt, put cash on the balance sheet and lower debt, creating more shareholder value, Cohen said.
“The past 10 years have shown that Bed Bath faces a difficult existence in the public market. The market is not giving the company nearly enough credit for (Buy Buy Baby’s) value,” Cohen wrote. “A sale that can lock in a substantial premium for shareholders and provide Bed Bath the flexibility of the private market could be an ideal outcome for customers, employees and investors.”
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2020 was major year for The Weeknd’s foray into animation. First he got to appear in an episode of one of his favorite shows, American Dad, and just months later, he voiced some characters on Robot Chicken. Here in 2022, he’s getting back into the saddle, as he is set to make an appearance on the cartoon: The Simpsons.
According to The Futon Critic, The Weeknd is set to voice a couple characters, Orion Hughes and Darius Hughes, on the March 20 episode, titled “Bart The Cool Kid.” An episode synopsis reads, “When Bart befriends a famous kid influencer who owns an ultra-cool skate wear brand, Homer leads a rebellion of loser dads against them.” Michael Rapaport is also set to guest star as as Mike Wegman.
The Weeknd himself confirmed the news by shared a report from a fan account on Twitter and writing, “proud of this one.”
proud of this one 💛 https://t.co/8tdTSdd7Pl
— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) March 6, 2022
Shortly before the premiere of his American Dad episode, The Weeknd indicated that getting to appear on The Simpsons would be a dream come true, saying in a Variety interview, “American Dad was everything I wanted. It’s going to be hard to beat this in the TV cartoon world, but an obvious bucket list would be to work on The Simpsons. That would be a dream — and if they’re reading this, I actually have a pretty cool idea if they’re down.”
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https://uproxx.com/music/the-weeknd-simpsons/
| 2022-03-07T18:50:31
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DETROIT (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing stronger pollution regulations for new tractor-trailer rigs that would clean up smoky diesel engines and encourage new technologies during the next two decades.
The proposal released Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency would require the industry to cut smog-and-soot-forming nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90% per truck over current standards by 2031. New rules would start in 2027 to limit the emissions, which can cause respiratory problems in humans.
Although truck manufacturers are working on battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell powertrains, the EPA says the proposal is not a zero-emissions truck requirement. Rather, the agency says there are pollution control devices in development that can keep diesels in use and still clean the air.
The EPA also is drawing up stronger limits for heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Current standards would be updated starting in 2027 and stronger new standards would begin in 2030. Requirements were last updated in 2001, with the next big step coming in 2024.
The stronger new standards would not apply to old trucks, limiting the impact of the new rules.
Environmental groups praised the EPA’s action on truck emissions, but many urged the administration to move quickly on the proposal and then go farther toward requiring zero-emissions trucks.
“The administration must build on today’s proposal by driving a nationwide transition to zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles,” American Lung Association CEO Harold Wimmer said. “Future rules must achieve the goal of 100% zero-emission new heavy-duty vehicle sales.”
Truck engine makers and other industry groups said they favor cutting pollution, but raised concerns that the requirements may not be technically possible or could make trucks costly and unreliable.
“We look forward to working with EPA to ensure that the final version of today’s rule is practical, technically feasible, cost-effective, and will result in the necessary fleet turnover to achieve the nation’s environmental objectives,” Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association President Jed Mandel said in a statement.
EPA officials say the new requirements comply with an executive order from President Joe Biden to clean up transportation, which is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. Transportation emits 29% of the gases, and heavy-duty trucks account for 23% of that. Biden is trying to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 to battle the effects of climate change.
The new standards would bring widespread air quality improvements, particularly in areas already exposed to heavy truck traffic, officials say.
“Seventy-two million people are estimated to live near truck freight routes in America, and they are more likely to be people of color and those with lower incomes,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement.
The agency says it will offer several options to reduce heavy truck and bus pollution, and it will take public comments into account before developing final standards by the end of this year.
“The EPA has engaged with stakeholders and identified several options in the proposal that address the robustness of the standards, timing for phasing in the standards, options to incentivize early clean technology adoption and improvements to emissions warranties,” the agency said in a statement.
The EPA also would tighten requirements for school buses, transit buses, commercial delivery trucks and short-haul tractors, areas where the shift to zero-emissions vehicles is farther along.
Early versions of fully electric semis are now going on sale, and the industry is testing trucks powered by hydrogen fuel cells that generate electricity.
The EPA says that new greenhouse gas standards could help hasten the transition to zero-emissions trucks and buses that weigh over 26,000 pounds.
Currently, battery electric trucks have limited travel ranges, and it takes a long time to recharge batteries. For hydrogen fuel cell trucks, there are few filling stations, and pollution is emitted when most hydrogen is made now from natural gas. But researchers are working on so-called “green hydrogen” that would be made using electricity from renewable sources such as wind or solar.
Under the pollution standards, manufacturers would be required to certify that their trucks meet the stricter requirements or face penalties. The EPA also wants them to lengthen the warranties on emissions controls, making them more cost effective for trucking companies to buy.
The new exhaust-treatment systems would come with a higher cost, as would the warranties, which likely would be passed along to truck and bus buyers. But the EPA says reduced pollution from the most stringent option would save the country up to $250 billion from 2027 through 2045, largely by preventing deaths and reducing health care costs.
The EPA said the stricter standards would prevent up to 2,100 premature deaths, cut hospital admissions and emergency room visits by 6,700 and prevent 18,000 cases of child asthma.
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https://cw33.com/business/ap-business/biden-epa-proposes-stronger-heavy-truck-pollution-limits/
| 2022-03-07T18:50:33
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- EUR/USD now depends on where the price of oil goes next.
- The Fed and ECB divergence is priced in but the ECB will be a key event this week.
EUR/USD is down some 0.45% on the day but the euro is attempting to recover in an accumulation of the latest daily bearish sell-off. EUR/USD positioning inched higher in the week ending 1 March, despite mounting pressure on European currencies on the back of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. However, a long squeeze of those positions would be expected in the next report, underlying the potential longevity of weakness in the euro for the foreseeable future.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and questions about Europe’s energy security will be a key theme for the European Central Bank this week as the war in Ukraine has made the economic outlook for the eurozone extremely uncertain. No changes are to be expected at the meeting, although some would have expected them a few weeks ago.
The economic implications for the eurozone due to the war will require the ECB to maintain maximum flexibility for its road to normalisation. There may be mention that should everything goes well, net asset purchases can still end in the third quarter. With that being said, there is no telling what the road ahead will be like in what is a very fluid situation. The divergence between the ECB and Federal Reserve is favouring the greenback which leaves 1.0800 vulnerable.
The week is absent of Fed speakers due to the media embargo ahead of next week’s FOMC meeting, but the market is fully priced for a 25 bp hike on March 16 as the start of the tightening cycle. ''Looking ahead, 150 bp of tightening is priced in over the next 12 months, followed by another 25 bp in the following 12 months that would see the Fed Funds rate peak near 1.75%,'' analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman said.
''We continue to believe that the terminal rate will have to be much higher than this, but the Ukraine crisis has pushed Fed tightening expectations lower. January consumer credit is the only US data report today and is expected at $24.5 bln vs. $18.9 bln in December.''
Euro traders are glued to the price of oil
Meanwhile, markets are fixated on the price of oil which is a driver for risk in the forex space and the euro has been suffering for it given the eurozone dependency on Russian oil, coal & gas. However, the EU has agreed to phase out dependency on Russian energy according to an EU draft statement from a summit. The Biden administration is also willing to move ahead with a ban on Russian oil imports into the United States even without the participation of allies in Europe. US oil is currently trading at $120bbls.
The consensus is that the higher prices pose less threat to the Us than it does to the Eurozone. While Russian crude represents only 3% of domestic energy imports, for Europe, Russia is a key provider. Russia provides 25% of the EU's crude and 40% of its natural gas.
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EUR/USD resumes decline, hovers around 1.0850
The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
SafeMoon price action is in consolidation mode again after price punched below the low of last week over the weekend and now looks set to square the low of March.
AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
AMC stock is up by 2.4% on Monday premarket as investors take solace from the strong box office showing of the new Batman movie over the weekend. The stock is in need of a catalyst as reality hits for it this year.
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https://www.fxstreet.com/news/eur-usd-takes-a-respite-at-the-edge-of-108-the-figure-traders-are-watching-oil-prices-202203071808
| 2022-03-07T18:50:34
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- GBP/JPY’s difficult run as of late continued on Monday, with the pair extending recent losses towards the 151.00 level.
- There are no signs of near-term de-escalation to the Russo-Ukraine war, suggesting further risk-off conditions ahead is a reasonable bet.
- GBP/JPY bears will now likely be targeting a test of 149.00, a key area of support, in the weeks ahead.
GBP/JPY’s difficult run as of late continued on Monday, with the pair extending recent losses towards the 151.00 level as FX investors sold risk-sensitive sterling in exchange for the safe-haven yen as choppy, risk-off market conditions continued. At current levels in the 151.20s, the pair trades a further 0.4% lower on the day on Monday, taking its three-day run-off losses from last week’s highs above 155.00 to more than 2.5%. With no signs of near-term de-escalation to the Russo-Ukraine war and, subsequently, no respite for the ongoing “commodity crisis” insight, expected more risk-off conditions ahead seems like a reasonable bet.
GBP/JPY bears will now likely be targeting a test of 149.00, a key area of support, in the weeks ahead. 149.00 has acted as a floor to the price action going all the way back to last July when the pair hit 148.50. It remains far too early to call for a meaningful break below this area of key support – indeed, at current levels, the pair still trades about 1.5% above these levels. However, if the impact of the Russo-Ukraine war and related Western sanctions do prove as bad as feared (i.e. a European stagflationary recession that knocks BoE/ECB tightening plans into reverse) and break in the coming weeks/months is most certainly on the cards.
If GBP/JPY was to fall below 158.00, it would have cleared all major levels of support all the way to around 145.00. Of course, that would be a big call to make (a roughly 4.0% drop from current levels). In the more immediate future, aside from geopolitics, traders will have other risks to keep an eye on, the most important of which will be next week’s BoE and BoJ policy meetings.
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EUR/USD resumes decline, hovers around 1.0850
The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
SafeMoon price action is in consolidation mode again after price punched below the low of last week over the weekend and now looks set to square the low of March.
AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
AMC stock is up by 2.4% on Monday premarket as investors take solace from the strong box office showing of the new Batman movie over the weekend. The stock is in need of a catalyst as reality hits for it this year.
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https://www.fxstreet.com/news/gbp-jpy-extends-recent-decline-to-low-15100s-bears-eye-14900-support-zone-as-russo-ukraine-woes-continue-202203071828
| 2022-03-07T18:50:35
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- USD/JPY moved back towards 115.50 on Monday as US yields and commodity prices rose, favouring the buck over the yen.
- The pair remains well within recent ranges, with both currencies receiving a bid related to Ukraine war uncertainties.
- Aside from geopolitics, US inflation data on Thursday is one key risk event to keep an eye on.
As US yields rise to reflect the inflationary impulse of the recent commodity price rally and as FX markets continue to favour the currencies of countries that are net commodity exporters, the US dollar is ruling the roost. Though JPY is by no means one of the worse performing G10 currencies amid a safe-haven bid triggered by underperformance in global equities, its vulnerability as a net commodity/energy importer in the current environment means USD/JPY is advancing. The pair probed but was not able to break above, the 115.50 level on Monday, and at current levels in the 115.30s is about 0.5% higher on the day. That means most of Friday’s 0.6% drop from near 115.50 to as far as the 114.60s has been erased.
Traders won’t be reading too much into Monday’s intra-day price action for USD/JPY. Unlike other USD majors (like GBP/USD and EUR/USD), USD/JPY did not breach any key levels. Rather, the pair has remained well within the bounds of the 114.50-115.80ish range that has prevailed for the last slightly more than three weeks. Geopolitical developments and the readthrough of the commodities will this week likely remain the main driver in FX markets, suggesting further upside risk to the pair. US Consumer Price Inflation data for February will also be closely scrutinised just in case it comes in much hotter than expected and rebuilds the case for a 50bps Fed rate hike later in the month (not the market’s base case at the moment).
Ahead, as the war in Ukraine rumbles on and the risk that it escalates into a broader European conflict escalates, both USD and JPY are likely to remain in demand versus most G10 pairs. But the backdrop of elevated and potentially still rising commodity prices, plus a Fed that seems (for now) intent on raising rates at least back to neutral, suggests the dollar may be the more attractive safe-haven of the two. Perhaps that means that in the coming weeks, USD/JPY can move back to challenge annual highs in the 116.30s.
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EUR/USD resumes decline, hovers around 1.0850
The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
SafeMoon price action is in consolidation mode again after price punched below the low of last week over the weekend and now looks set to square the low of March.
AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
AMC stock is up by 2.4% on Monday premarket as investors take solace from the strong box office showing of the new Batman movie over the weekend. The stock is in need of a catalyst as reality hits for it this year.
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https://www.fxstreet.com/news/title-usd-jpy-pushes-higher-towards-11550-as-higher-us-yields-commodity-prices-favour-buck-over-yen-for-now-202203071732
| 2022-03-07T18:50:37
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Vince Staples runs into some trouble during a house party in his new video for “Magic.” The video opens with Vince buying a bag of frozen vegetables at the liquor store, only revealing that he’s in a bad state as he reaches the counter. When the clerk asks if everything is okay, Vince stoically (but vaguely) replies, “Party down the street. You should have seen me.”
That’s when the video cuts back to watching Vince entering the party in a clever callback to his entrance to the liquor store. Things go left for Vince when he bumps into the wrong guy while trying to have a good time, resulting in him leaving the party with a different set of souvenirs than the ones he came for. The song’s producer, Mustard, also makes a cameo, shaking his head at the overt displays of machismo that ultimately result in Vince’s injuries.
“Magic” is the first single from Vince’s upcoming album, Ramona Park Broke My Heart, which he first began teasing even before releasing its predecessor, the self-titled Vince Staples, last year. The single was first teased in a Beats By Dre commercial featuring Naomi Osaka. This year, he suggested that the album might finally be ready to go once he secured a beat from DJ Quik, which seemingly manifested the outcome he wanted; days later, he’d posted a photo from the studio with the iconic Compton producer. That would suggest (along with the tweet below) that Ramona Broke My Heart is complete and ready for release sometime this year.
The album done we just waiting on niggas to produce they paperwork but in the mean time stream Magic
— RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART 💔 (@vincestaples) March 5, 2022
Until then, enjoy the “Magic” video above.
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https://uproxx.com/music/vince-staples-magic-video/
| 2022-03-07T18:50:37
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Small positive developments were made between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations on the issue of humanitarian corridors, a Ukrainian negotiator was reported to have said on Monday following the conclusion of the third round of talks between the sides, reported Reuters. That is about as much as anyone had hoped for, and the negotiator said there had been no significant results on reaching a truce or ceasefire.
Given maximalist demands from the Russians for the demilitarisation and neutralisation of Ukraine, something which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out time and time again, no ceasefire is expected any time soon. The Ukrainian negotiator did state, however, that talks with Russia will continue. Market focus now turns to a round of talks between the Ukrainian and Russian Foreign Ministers in Turkey on Thursday.
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EUR/USD resumes decline, hovers around 1.0850
The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
SafeMoon price action is in consolidation mode again after price punched below the low of last week over the weekend and now looks set to square the low of March.
AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
AMC stock is up by 2.4% on Monday premarket as investors take solace from the strong box office showing of the new Batman movie over the weekend. The stock is in need of a catalyst as reality hits for it this year.
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https://www.fxstreet.com/news/ukraine-russia-talks-small-positive-developments-in-ukrainian-humanitarian-corridors-202203071755
| 2022-03-07T18:50:37
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The United States is to deploy a further 500 personnel into Europe, taking the total personnel it has stationed on the continent to about 100,000, reported Bloomberg. Separately, a US Defense Official told Reuters that Russia has now fired more than 600 missiles at Ukraine and assesses that Russia has now committed 100% of its pre-staged combat power into the country.
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The author and FXStreet are not registered investment advisors and nothing in this article is intended to be investment advice.
Latest Forex News
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EUR/USD resumes decline, hovers around 1.0850
The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
SafeMoon price action is in consolidation mode again after price punched below the low of last week over the weekend and now looks set to square the low of March.
AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
AMC stock is up by 2.4% on Monday premarket as investors take solace from the strong box office showing of the new Batman movie over the weekend. The stock is in need of a catalyst as reality hits for it this year.
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https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-to-deploy-a-further-500-personnel-in-europe-taking-total-to-about-100-000-202203071740
| 2022-03-07T18:50:37
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Moderna signed a memorandum of understanding with Kenya’s government on Monday for the drugmaker’s first mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Africa, the company said.
The goal is to produce up to 500 million doses of vaccines a year for the African continent, Moderna said in a statement. The focus is on drug substance manufacturing, it said, though the facility could be expanded to include fill-and-finish work.
“In parallel, Moderna is also working on plans to allow it to fill doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Africa as early as 2023, subject to demand,” the company said.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the huge need for vaccine manufacturing on the African continent, which remains the least-vaccinated region in the world against the coronavirus. The continent relies on imports for about 99% of its vaccine needs, the World Health Organization has said.
Frustrated by richer nations’ vaccine hoarding, African leaders joined together to pursue the goal of bringing more vaccine manufacturing to the continent of 1.3 billion people.
In October, Senegal and Rwanda signed an agreement with BioNTech for the construction of its first start-to-finish factories to make messenger RNA vaccines in Africa.
The novel mRNA process uses the genetic code for the spike protein of the coronavirus and is thought to trigger a better immune response than traditional vaccines. Scientists hope the technology, which is easier to scale up than traditional vaccine methods, might ultimately be used to make vaccines against other diseases, including malaria.
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International pop star and A Star Is Born celebrity Lady Gaga has just announced The Chromatica Ball, a 15-date summer stadium tour going through the US and Europe. It’s her first full run since 2017 following the release of her sixth studio album, Chromatica, which came out in 2020. It found her constructing an entire world of glittering, pathos-driven bangers; it was richer and more determined than Joanne or Artpop, both of which failed to live up to her previous material like the revolutionary albums The Fame or Born This Way. This tour is her return to extravagant, maximalist pop after focusing on jazz by collaborating with Tony Bennett for the album Love For Sale and doing a “Jazz & Piano” Las Vegas residency that’s taking place next month.
Check out her tour dates below and get more information here.
07/17 — Dusseldorf, DE @ Merkur Spiel Arena
07/21 — Stockholm, SE @ Friends Arena
07/24 — Paris, FR @ Stade De France
07/26 — Arnheim, NL @ Gelredome
07/29 — London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
07/30 — London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
08/06 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre
08/08 — Washington, DC @ Nationals Park
08/11 — New York, NY @ MetLife Stadium
08/15 — Chicago, IL @ Wrigley Field
08/19 — Boston, MA @ Fenway Park
08/23 — Dallas, TX @ Globe Life Field
08/26 — Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park
09/08 — San Francisco, CA @ Oracle Park
09/10 — Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As cities seek to fully reopen, public transit systems straining to win back riders after being crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic are getting a big funding boost to stay afloat and invest in new fleets of electric buses.
The Biden administration said Monday it was awarding $2.2 billion in coronavirus relief money from the American Rescue Plan to 35 financially strapped transit agencies in 18 states. The money would be used to prop up day-to-day operations, including staffing and payroll as well as cleaning and sanitization to limit the spread of illness in public transportation. A federal mask mandate for public transit remains in effect until at least March 18.
Another $1.5 billion in grants will be made available under President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law — a total of $7.5 billion over five years — for transit agencies to purchase low- or no-emission buses made by U.S. workers and to build bus facilities. That’s more than double the combined amount from the previous year.
The cash infusion comes as mask requirements and other COVID-19 restrictions are fading in much of the U.S. With many workers beginning a return to offices, the administration sees an opportunity to promote zero-emission transit as families reestablish new commuting routes to work and school.
“Our transportation sector has reached a turning point,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who has pushed the need for electric school buses and unveiled Monday’s actions at the White House.
“We can clean our air and protect the health of our children,” she said. “We can connect all of our communities with affordable, accessible and reliable public transportation. We can address the climate crisis and grow our economy at the same time.”
Harris was joined by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. They also announced proposed stronger pollution regulations for new tractor-trailer rigs that would clean up smoky diesel engines as well as $17 million in funding for school districts to buy electric zero-emission and low-emission school buses. The emissions can cause respiratory problems in humans.
Buttigieg said public transit is a key component to reducing air pollution, describing it as win-win because it is affordable for commuters and also reduces congestion on the roads. The administration has also been pushing electric vehicles to replace gas-powered cars. Transportation, mostly from car and truck tailpipe emissions, is the biggest U.S. contributor to global warming.
“We’re making the largest ever investment in this program for buses and bus facilities, helping to deliver better commutes and cleaner air to American communities,” Buttigieg said.
Transit agencies will have until May to apply for the Transportation Department’s grants, which will be awarded by fall. About 5% of the money must also be used for workforce training to help transit workers prepare for the technological change.
Transit systems have already begun moving in the direction of electric buses. California has committed to all-electric bus fleets by 2040, as well as New York City and Boston. Washington, D.C., has set a target of 2045.
The effort comes at a challenging time for public transit.
Only about 55% of transit riders nationwide have returned compared with pre-pandemic times, according to the American Public Transportation Association. The biggest losses have been in commuter rail systems serving white-collar suburbanites traveling to downtown workplaces.
As COVID-19 cases decline, Biden has urged Americans to shed remote work, describing a return to offices as necessary to boost economic growth.
“It’s time for America to get back to work and fill our great downtowns again with people,” Biden said in his State of the Union address.
Among the recipients of COVID-19 relief funds Monday were big-city transit systems that had been hit hard from revenue losses due to decreased ridership. New York City’s transit system, the nation’s largest, garnered $769 million to steady its operations, while San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit got $270 million to bolster service and safety protocols.
Others receiving grants were the Washington, D.C., metro system at $120 million as it anticipates a return of federal employees to offices and Houston’s public transit at $137 million, which has significantly added rapid transit bus lines.
“These funds are crucial to avoid drastic service cuts and layoffs that would damage the economy and public health,” said Nuria Fernandez, head of the Federal Transit Administration, which oversees the grants.
At the start of the pandemic, transit agencies cut payroll and slashed services. That came even as essential workers, who are disproportionately nonwhite and lower income, continued to rely on public transportation to get to work. But three rounds totaling nearly $70 billion in federal COVID-19 emergency assistance, including $30.5 billion that Biden signed into law last year, pulled transit agencies from the brink of financial collapse.
Paul P. Skoutelas, president of the American Public Transportation Association, praised the latest infusion of federal funds as vital to keeping workers connected to their offices. He said the money will allow transit systems “to re-evaluate routes and service plans, address equity issues and place more alternative fuels vehicles on the road to help address our global climate crisis.”
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AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Olivia Rodrigo fans can’t get enough new music, and it turns out fans will get some when Rodrigo releases her Driving Home 2 U documentary/concert film on March 25: In a new Rolling Stone interview, she says the movie’s end credits will feature a previously unreleased song.
Rodrigo says of the track, “I was listening to some of them and heard it and thought, ‘Oh, it’s kinda good!’ With the film, I wanted people to have a new bit of Sour content with it.” Rolling Stone describes the tune as “a scrapped and still in-progress iPhone demo that still doesn’t have a name.”
Elsewhere, she explained the philosophy behind the film, saying, “For a year, I filmed a show [High School Musical: The Musical: The Series] in Salt Lake City. So I started writing there and ended writing and producing [the album] in LA. You get to see the beautiful scenic drive.”
That drive includes spots like the Mojave Airplane Boneyard and the Red Rock Canyon State Park.
The feature also notes in the film, Rodrigo performs with an all-female band and that most of it should be joining her on her upcoming tour. Rodrigo said, “I think it’s so cool to watch women in rock, and I feel like there’s probably not enough of that shown in the media.”
Find the full interview here.
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LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended his government’s treatment of Ukrainians fleeing war, after France accused U.K. authorities of “inhumane” behavior towards the refugees.
Johnson said Britain was being “very, very generous,” but wouldn’t have “a system where people can come into the U.K. without any checks or any controls at all.”
Britain says it expects to take in as many as 200,000 Ukrainians displaced by Russia’s invasion, and has set no upper limit on the number it will accept.
But very few have managed to reach Britain so far. The Home Office said “around 50” visas had been granted by Sunday, though Johnson said Monday he wasn’t sure that number was correct.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Sunday that hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in the English Channel port of Calais had been turned away and told by British authorities that they must obtain visas at U.K. embassies in Paris or Brussels.
Calling that “a bit inhumane,” Darmanin urged Britain to “stop the technocratic nit-picking” and be more generous. He said he had urged Britain to set up a consulate in Calais to deal with applications.
Home Secretary Priti Patel denied Britain was turning anyone away, though the British government confirmed Monday that it didn’t have a visa center in Calais, meaning applications need to be made elsewhere.
Patel said Britain had set up a visa application center “en route to Calais” but not at the port, to avoid bottlenecks.
“It is wrong to say we’re just turning people back, we’re absolutely not, we’re supporting those that have been coming to Calais,” she said in the House of Commons.
European Union nations are allowing Ukrainians live and work for up to three years without having to go through a formal asylum-seeking process. The U.K., which left the bloc last year, isn’t waiving the paperwork, citing security reasons, though it is loosening its rules.
Ukrainians based in Britain can bring over family members, including spouses, parents and children. The government has also announced a separate route for groups in the U.K. to sponsor Ukrainian refugees, but details of that were still being worked out.
Patel said the U.K. was flying staff out to countries neighboring Ukraine “so we can fast-track and speed up applications.”
The United Nations says more than 1.7 million people have fled the war in Ukraine, in what it calls Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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- The USD/CHF surges near 1% during the New York session.
- A risk-off market mood keeps the US dollar as the most sought safe-haven asset, the DXY above 99.00.
- USD/CHF Technical Outlook: Approaches an eleven-month-old downslope trendline around 0.9275-0.9300.
USD/CHF reversed last week’s 1% losses so far on Monday’s North American session, bouncing of 0.9160s, lows reaching a daily high at 0.9272, to then settling at the time of writing, at 0.9256, for a 1% gain. Market player’s focus remains in Eastern Europe, as the third round of talks was underway. Late in the week, Foreign Ministers of Ukraine/Russia would meet in Turkey on Thursday.
In the meantime, Russia/Ukraine hostilities persist; the US Dollar Index, a gauge of the greenback’s value vs. its peers, reached a YTD high at 99.418, but at press time sits at 99.152 for a 0.66% gain.
During the overnight session for North American traders, the USD/CHF rallied once the Asian Pacific session began, followed by a consolidation around 0.9200, rallying afterward towards 0.9272, retreating to current levels.
USD/CHF Price Forecast: Technical outlook
The USD/CHF keeps neutral biased, but it is approaching an eleven-month-old downslope trendline around the 0.9275-0.9300. Nevertheless, the USD/CHF unsuccessfully tested the 0.9265-95 area on seven previous occasions, making it a problematic resistance level to overcome.
That said, the USD/CHF first resistance would be 0.9270-90 region. Breach of the latter would expose the abovementioned trendline. Once is cleared, the next resistance would be January 31 daily high at 0.9343, followed by November 24, 2021, high at 0.9373.
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The EUR/USD pair was unable to retain gains above 1.0900 and slowly but steadily approaches the multi-year low set at 1.0805. Persistent Russian attacks on Ukraine cooled hopes for a rapid solution of the conflict.
XAUUSD quick bounce supports a retest of the $2,000 level
One hour into the US session, XAUUSD has managed to recover some further ground after bottoming at $1,960.95 a troy ounce and trades around the 1,980 level. Financial markets remain in risk-off mode amid the continued attacks of Russia over Ukraine.
GBPUSD plummets to fresh multi-month lows, nears 1.3100
The GBP/USD pair resumed its decline after nearing 1.3200 and trades at its lowest since November 2020, now nearing the 1.3100 figure. Geopolitical tensions keep leading majors in the absence of first-tier data
SafeMoon price is on its way back to $0.0012 as support weakens
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AMC Entertainment flies like a bat, but is it actually a dead cat?
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What a freaking concept. Back in January 2019, Russian Doll kicked off a fantastic year on TV with a hefty (and much needed dose) of Natasha Lyonne, who executive produced alongside Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland. The first season (of Groundhog Day-esque universe f*ckery) was close to perfect, which (of course) presented quite a challenge: how to actually do justice to that debut while upping the stakes on Nadia and Charlie’s respective ongoing plights in a followup.
That’s a tall bill. The good news is that Russian Doll (hopefully) took the time to get the job done right, and Season 2 will will not only recruit Annie Murphy but also shows Nadia toasting the universe over its insistence upon sh*tting all over her. The YouTube revealed tagline — “The universe is back on its bulls@%t” — surfaces alongside this teaser, and oh boy, we’ve got subway stairs. Here’s the season synopsis from Netflix:
Set four years after Nadia (Natasha Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) escaped mortality’s time loop together, season two of Russian Doll will continue to explore existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens. Discovering a fate even worse than endless death, this season finds Nadia and Alan delving deeper into their pasts through an unexpected time portal located in one of Manhattan’s most notorious locations. At first they experience this as an ever-expanding, era-spanning, intergenerational adventure but they soon discover this extraordinary event might be more than they bargained for and, together, must search for a way out.
Charlie Barnett’s mustache is certainly a twist. I’m still waiting on that Oatmeal spinoff over here, but I can be patient.
Also important: Russian Doll will return on April 20.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s catastrophic war on Ukraine has produced footage that leaves TV viewers reeling, all while sitting U.S. senators potentially endanger Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by tweeting screencaps of Zoom meetings. Meanwhile, the Anonymous collective group of hackers quickly came together (while also apart, which is a key feature of their existence) to wage cyber war on Russia while taking down Russian state TV stations and government websites, where they breached and leaked database information from the Russian Ministry of Defence.
Over the weekend, Anonymous (they who customarily insert the “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. Expect us” mantra) claimed to have infiltrated Russian live TV channels (including Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24) and streaming services while inserting war footage. They then apparently posted a message against Putin’s war on Ukraine.
The hacking collective #Anonymous hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine [today] pic.twitter.com/hzqcXT1xRU
— Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) March 6, 2022
JUST IN: #Russian state TV channels have been hacked by #Anonymous to broadcast the truth about what happens in #Ukraine. #OpRussia #OpKremlin #FckPutin #StandWithUkriane pic.twitter.com/vBq8pQnjPc
— Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 (@YourAnonTV) February 26, 2022
Hacker collective Anonymous today hacked into streaming services and news channels in Russia to broadcast footage of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
I love these guys.
— Raj Keplerhume (@RajKeplerhume) March 7, 2022
The Kyiv Independent news outlet claims to have verified that this happened.
⚡️Hacking group Anonymous interrupts Russian state TV programs with footage of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and an anti-war message.
It claims to have accessed TV channels “Russia 24”, “Channel 1”, “Moscow 24”, & streaming services Wink and Ivi.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 7, 2022
It’s important to note that Anonymous, given their (obviously) anonymous nature, doesn’t operate through verified Twitter accounts, so fact-checking can be difficult. However (and via Mediaite), a purported Anonymous account tweeted a link to an article that translates the following message:
“We are ordinary citizens of Russia. We oppose the war on the territory of Ukraine. Russia and the Russians against the war! This war was waged by Putin’s criminal, authoritarian regime on behalf of ordinary Russian citizens. Russians, oppose the genocide in Ukraine, “the text reads.
Booyah, they did it! Anonymous said they'd hack the Russian TV broadcasts, and they bloody well did it. Brilliant. #Anonymous says #FuckPutin! https://t.co/drH2pgdarT
— case (@Case_Sys9) March 7, 2022
And while all of this is happening, Russian police detained another 4600+ civilians (most of whom are Russian citizens) during ongoing anti-war protests.
(Via Mediaite)
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LA VERGNE, Tennessee (AP) — Sometimes even Dolly Parton has a hard time keeping up with the legend of Dolly Parton.
“I often go into my museum in Dollywood, you know, because I’m in the mood to be there or we’re in there doing something or putting something new in. And I look at all that stuff and think ‘When, how did that happen?’” she says. “I shake my head when I see, like a documentary or something. I think how did I do all that, how did I get all that done?”
The singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist is speaking from another wing of her empire, one of two sound stages at a 7,200-square foot studio complex outside of Nashville, with assistants and technicians moving about and Parton herself in a characteristically cheerful mood on an otherwise overcast afternoon. Seated next to her — and wearing a dark tuxedo jacket touched with black and red to match the pattern of her dress — is a novelist as prolific in his field as she is in songwriting, James Patterson.
He is among the best selling authors in history and, like Parton, a champion of literacy programs. He is 74 and has written or co-written hundreds of books. She is 76 and has written thousands of songs. Until a couple of years ago, they were mutual admirers who had never met. Now, they have completed a novel that comes out this week, “Run, Rose, Run,” an Amazon.com bestseller even before publication and the rare work of fiction to arrive with an accompanying soundtrack.
“He’d give me ideas for the songs. I gave him ideas that he expanded on for the characters and incorporated in the book,” says Parton, whose “Run, Rose, Run” album includes 12 new songs. “So it really was a magical team.”
The collaboration began as just one of countless ideas for Patterson, who reliably turns out several books a year, from children’s stories to a biography of the Kennedys to two best-selling thrillers written with former President Bill Clinton. Patterson spent a lot of time in Nashville in the 1960s while attending Vanderbilt University and thought of an archetypal story — a young, promising and frightened country singer, AnnieLee Keyes, facing a “million to one odds,” and her bond with a retired country superstar, Ruthanna Ryder.
As Patterson and Parton both recall, Patterson contacted Parton’s team and the two soon spoke in Nashville.
“We liked each other right away. And we kind of made the deal right there — no lawyers. We didn’t want anybody in the way,” Patterson says.
“Run, Rose, Run” is a close look at the Nashville music scene, through the eyes of women. The narrative has music and romance and cheering crowds, and lyrics to Parton songs such as the mid-tempo rocker “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans.” On the darker side are unscrupulous executives, unwanted physical advances and the male-oriented ways of the market, defined by a radio consultant’s “salad” theory, in which men are the essential artists, “the lettuce,” the women more like tomatoes, “to be sprinkled into airplay now and again as garnish.”
Parton, who famously rose from a cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee to international acclaim, says her back story differs from AnnieLee’s. But she did endure “having bad managers and having to, you know, just squirm, trying to get out of situations.” AnnieLee’s struggles to take control of her career reminded Parton of her early work with Porter Waggoner, who helped her break through professionally in 1967 when he brought her on to his popular television show. They recorded and toured together for seven years, their battles well publicized, before she announced her departure. The end of their working partnership inspired her classic “I Will Always Love You.”
“Oh God, I used to fight all the time with Porter Waggoner,” she says of the late singer, who died in 2007. “We were known for, you know, for our disagreements. But he gave me a big hand up and I always appreciated that. But I (also) had always wanted to be my own star, and I said that at the start. I didn’t want to be just a girl singer in somebody else’s group.”
Parton’s life now is much closer to Ruthanna’s, “one of country music’s grandest queens.” But Parton is a bit gentler. When Ruthanna first meets AnnieLee, at a small table in the back of a bar, Ruthanna praises her talent as “something special” before advising her to “get the hell out of Nashville” and be spared ending up broke and on her own.
“I would never, ever tell somebody not to follow their dream,” Parton says. “I would just say, ‘If you’re dead serious about what you’re doing, you got to buckle up and take it. You’ve got to sacrifice as far as you can and compromise, but don’t ever sacrifice your soul and your principles and your values.’ That’s where Ruthanna and I differ. I would never tell a young person not to follow their dream because I would crush somebody. Even if they weren’t that talented, I wouldn’t tell them that.”
Ruthanna is out of the business and well pleased to be past the “desire to pour her heart out into a melody.” Parton is all in, writing so often she likes to tell Patterson that she could turn out a song while standing on her head. “Run, Rose, Red” is just one part of their 2022. His other books this year include the memoir “James Patterson: The Stories of My Life” and another “Michael Bennett” thriller. She was scheduled to host the Academy of Country Music Awardson the night her book comes out and, via livestream, will later this month appear for the first time at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
“Where would I go?” she says when asked if she would ever retire. “You can’t leave yourself behind. I would be doing my music, writing my songs if I had to sell them out of the trunk of my car. And I did that in the early days when I was young and trying to get things going. So I would do it no matter what, even if I had to take another job.”
“One of the similarities that Dolly and I have is we don’t work for a living,” Patterson adds. “We play for a living. You don’t stop doing that. Why would you stop playing if you can, if you can do it?”
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman has been aggressively calling out Republican politicians for their tacit, and not so tacit, support for Vladimir Putin as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine. On Sunday, Vindman, who testified against Donald Trump during his impeachment trial for withholding military aid from Ukraine unless President Volodymyr Zelensky announced an investigation into Joe Biden, got into it with Marjorie Taylor Greene, who tried to blame the situation in Ukraine on the current administration.
“Tragically, people are dying because of Biden’s poor decision making leading up to Putin declaring war on Ukraine,” Greene tweeted. “Biden’s weakness and failure as a leader not only has put America last but is a danger to the entire world.”
Vindman was not having it and blasted Greene for damaging U.S. efforts to help Ukraine. “Nope. It’s because you and your pro-Putin party encouraged Putin to invade, by cheerleading him,” Vindman tweeted. “Worse yet, you undermined @POTUS efforts to signal punishing costs… you undermined U.S. efforts deter the war. You have blood in your hands. The American people will not forget.”
Nope. It’s because you and your pro-Putin party encouraged Putin to invade, by cheerleading him. Worse yet, you undermined @POTUS efforts to signal punishing costs… you undermined U.S. efforts deter the war. You have blood in your hands. The American people will not forget. https://t.co/kxmkKJDmD0
— Alexander S. Vindman (@AVindman) March 6, 2022
On Monday morning, Greene fired back at Vindman, but in her response, she notably did not deny being pro-Putin. “This clown wants to drag Americans into war with Russia with his big tough tweets and his zoom interviews on CNN. Go ahead and go fight yourself since you’re from Ukraine,” Greene tweeted. “You are clueless about Americans being fed up with sending our sons and daughters to die in foreign lands.”
This clown wants to drag Americans into war with Russia with his big tough tweets and his zoom interviews on CNN.
Go ahead and go fight yourself since you’re from Ukraine.
You are clueless about Americans being fed up with sending our sons and daughters to die in foreign lands. https://t.co/hBB2vHUjtN
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) March 7, 2022
In what’s becoming a recurring theme, Greene’s rhetoric has not been going over well with her Republican colleagues. Before the dust-up with Vindman, she was already facing intense scrutiny after speaking at a white nationalist event, which even her biggest supporters in Congress called unacceptable. However, there seems to be little traction on removing her from the party. Via ABC News:
“This may be a chance to burn out the cancer of the Republican Party — those that are, you know, Putin sympathetic,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a former military pilot who broke with his party over the Trump presidency.
But he worries that McCarthy and other GOP leaders will stop short of kicking Greene out of the party. “He won’t because she has power, let’s be honest, but I’m embarrassed by it.”
To emphasize Kinzinger’s point, following her spat with Vindman, Greene retweeted Lou Dobbs, who accused Vindman and his twin brother, who’s also a lieutenant colonel, of weakening the Army. Don’t expect any lessons to be learned here.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday without comment that it would not review Bill Cosby’s sexual assault case, leaving him a free man and ending a two-decade legal drama that shifted the cultural landscape, destroyed the groundbreaking Black actor’s reputation, and sent him to prison for several years in his late 70s.
The high court — whose nine members include two men accused of sexual misconduct themselves — declined to review a stunning decision out of Pennsylvania that released Cosby from prison in June over the word of a former prosecutor who said he had made a secret promise with Cosby’s lawyers that he could never be charged.
A Cosby spokesperson expressed “sincere gratitude to the justices” on behalf of Cosby and his family for the announcement and said he was the victim of “a reprehensible bait and switch” by the prosecutor and trial judge in the case.
“This is truly a victory for Mr. Cosby, but it shows that cheating will never get you far in life, and the corruption that lies within Montgomery County District’s Attorney Office has been brought to the center stage of the world,” spokesperson Andrew Wyatt said.
The 84-year-old Cosby, according to Wyatt, remains in good health despite being legally blind. He said that “many people are calling for projects for him” and that he is considering a final standup tour.
Accuser Andrea Constand planned to issue a statement later in the day.
District Attorney Kevin Steele in suburban Philadelphia’s Montgomery County said in a statement that asking the high court to revive the case “was the right thing to do,” even if it was a long shot. He thanked Constand for her courage and wished her well.
“All crime victims deserve to be heard, treated with respect and be supported through their day in court,” Steele said.
Steele has said there’s no evidence that Cosby had a legally binding agreement that he could never be prosecuted.
His predecessor, Bruce L. Castor Jr., never put it in writing or told anyone in his office about it. He never mentioned it in public until new evidence emerged and the case was reopened a decade later.
“A secret agreement that permits a wealthy defendant to buy his way out of a criminal case isn’t right,” Steele argued in court in 2016 as he pressed to send the case to trial.
Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill found Castor’s testimony on the point not credible and sent the case to trial. However, the state Supreme Court later ruled that whether or not the supposed agreement was legally binding, Cosby relied on it when he gave eye-popping — and potentially incriminating — testimony in a lawsuit later filed by Constand.
“The principle of fundamental fairness that undergirds due process of law in our criminal justice system demands that the promise be enforced,” Justice David N. Wecht wrote last year.
During the deposition, a seemingly free-wheeling Cosby gave long, stream-of-consciousness answers to questions from Constand’s lawyers. He detailed his sexual involvement with a string of young women, a few still in their teens, over the years. And he recalled giving several of them, including Constand, alcohol or pills while he remained sober.
“I don’t hear her say anything. And I don’t feel her say anything. And so I continue and I go into the area that is somewhere between permission and rejection. I am not stopped,” Cosby said in the 2006 deposition, describing a sexual encounter that came after he gave her three pills for stress, which she said knocked her out.
He was arrested in the Constand case on Dec. 30, 2015, just days before the 12-year statute of limitations expired. Steele had reopened the case after The Associated Press went to federal court to unseal Cosby’s long-buried testimony in Constand’s lawsuit.
Cosby, after giving four days of testimony, had paid her $3.4 million to settle the case.
He went on trial in the criminal case in June 2017. The jury could not reach a verdict. Less than a year later — after media reports about media mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse of women galvanized the #MeToo movement — a second jury convicted Cosby of drugging and molesting Constand.
The AP does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission. Constand has done so.
Scores of women have come forward to say Cosby also sexually assaulted them, but Constand’s is the only one that led to an arrest. His insurer, against Cosby’s wishes, settled a Massachusetts lawsuit involving seven accusers for an undisclosed amount after the 2018 conviction. At least two otherlawsuits remain pending against the actor.
Castor, who said he made the deal with Cosby, later represented former President Donald Trump at his second impeachment trial, at which Trump was acquitted of inciting the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Castor said he declined to arrest Cosby in 2005 based in part on his belief that both parties “could be held in less than a flattering light.” Constand later sued Castor for defamation andwon a settlement from him. Castor countersued Constand, but the judge threw it out.
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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.
MOVIES
— “Turning Red,”the third straight Pixar movie to bypass theaters for a streaming debut, lands Friday on Disney+. Directed by Domee Shi, who made the Pixar short “Bao,” “Turning Red” is the first Pixar feature directed solely by a woman. It’s about Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian teenager with an over-protective mother (Sandra Oh), who begins turning into a giant, fluffy red panda when she feels a strong emotion. The film, featuring a pivotal BTS-like boy band, includes original songs from Billie Eilish and Finneas.
— In Netflix’s “The Adam Project,” Ryan Reynolds reunites with “Free Guy” director Shawn Levy to star as a time-traveling pilot who crash lands in his old backyard, where his younger self (Walker Scobell) and mother (Jennifer Garner) live. It’s a big-budget throwback that has some of the bouncy spirit of 1980s sci-fi adventures. And being a starry, expensive movie based on an original concept, it’s the kind of movie unlikely to be bankrolled by today’s studios for theaters. Instead, “The Adam Project,” which debuts Friday, is the latest in a string of Netflix releases for Reynolds, who starred in “Red Notice” and “6 Underground.” Mark Ruffalo co-stars.
— Many of the standouts of last year’s Cannes Film Festival have already made a major impression with moviegoers — films like “Drive My Car,” “The Worst Person in the World,” “Titane,” “A Hero” and many more. But don’t sleep on “Lingui, the Sacred Bonds.”Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s powerful drama is about a Chadian single mother (Achouackh Abakar Soulymane) seeking an abortion for her 15-year-old daughter (Rihane Khalil Alio) in a country where the procedure is all but outlawed. Yet having a child out of wedlock, too, could mean being socially ostracized. The film, which begins streaming Tuesday on MUBI, packs a brilliant mother-daughter story — and an important portrait of modern-day capital N’Djamena — into less than 90 minutes.
— AP Film Writer Jake Coyle
MUSIC
— Alabama-bred soulful rapper Mooski is ready to drop his debut album, “Melodic Therapy 4 The Broken.” Mooski has upped the interest with catchy songs like “Track Star,” which racked up more than 475 million views on TikTok and has been streamed almost 74 million times on Spotify. A “Track Star” TikTok challenge inspired videos from Keyshia Cole, Lala Anthony, Dream Doll and Halle Berry, among others. His new album, out Friday, is led by the luscious “Soul Bleed.” Mooski has had a different path to music stardom — he served as a sergeant during a four-year tenure in the Marine Corps.
— Bryan Adams’ pandemic-influenced “So Happy It Hurts” album arrives Friday. The title track — an arena-rocking celebration of driving — “is about freedom, autonomy, spontaneity and the thrill of the open road,” the Canadian musician says. It is a joyous album and one outstanding track is “Never Gonna Rain,” with the lyrics “I’m gonna smile like I never had a heartache/Laugh like I never had a care.” One unusual track is the lead single, “Kick Ass,” with a lengthy spoken word introduction from comedian John Cleese.
— Legendary Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim is still being celebrated and the latest tribute is theater icon Betty Buckley’s releases of a compilation album, “Betty Buckley Sings Stephen Sondheim.” The album collects various of the “Cats” Tony-winner’s previous interpretations of two dozen Sondheim’s songs, including “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Children Will Listen” and “Send in the Clowns.”
— AP Entertainment Writer Mark Kennedy
TELEVISION
— A small-town murder case gets big-star wattage in NBC’s “The Thing About Pam,” with Renée Zellweger in the title role. Pam Hupp’s links to several deaths have been recounted in multiple episodes of “Dateline NBC,” a podcast, books and now the series co-starring Josh Duhamel and Judy Greer. The 2011 killing of Betsy Faria (Katy Mixon) in Troy, Missouri, led to the conviction of her husband, Russ (Glenn Fleshler). He was exonerated in a second trial, but Betsy Faria’s death began the unraveling of “a diabolical scheme deeply involving” Hupp, as the network put it. The series debuts 10 p.m. EST Tuesday.
— Another film star, Samuel L. Jackson, headlines the six-part series “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” arriving Friday on Apple TV+. Based on the Walter Mosley novel, Jackson plays an forgotten man, one facing dementia, who becomes the caretaker for an orphaned teen (Dominique Fishback, “Judas and the Black Messiah”). The pair learns that Ptolemy’s memories might be restored by treatment, leading to difficult truths about the past, present and even the future. Cynthia Kaye McWilliams, Damon Gupton, and Walton Goggins are in the cast.
— Italian scenery, Italian food and Stanley Tucci make for a banquet in the return of CNN’s series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” a combination travelogue and drool-inducing food celebration with actor as engaging tour guide. He’s also our proxy taster, with the contrasting dishes of Umbria and Venice part of the menu in season two, debuting 9 p.m. EST Sunday, March 13, on the cable channel. Tucci wants us to do more than eat: His goal is to educate himself and viewers on Italy’s culture and history through its much-loved cuisine. Viewers will have time to digest what they’re learning, with the series’ second half arriving in the fall.
— AP Television Writer Lynn Elber
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NEW YORK (AP) — One of the planet’s biggest celebrities will play a woman desperately craving fame when Pamela Anderson makes her Broadway debut next month in the musical “Chicago,” The Associated Press has learned.
Anderson will play Roxie Hart from April 12-June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre, a remarkable union of one of the most recognizable sex icons of the last few decades with a show that skewers fame.
“From ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway. I am inspired by the unexpected,” Anderson told the AP in a Monday statement. “This is it, and I will not hold back anymore. I am letting go. I am ready to see what I’m capable of. For ‘Chicago,’ I’ll be putting all my cards on the table. I am doubling down — on me.”
Set in the 1920s, the musical is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals. It has Bob Fosse-inspired choreography, skimpy outfits and killer songs such as “All That Jazz” and “Cell Block Tango.”
“Chicago” tells the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to leave her. To avoid conviction, Roxie hires Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to help her dupe the public, media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by creating shocking headlines.
“Pam is a very moral person, extremely moral. She cares about animals. She cares about the planet. She cares about people,” said producer Barry Weissler. “The difference between her as Pam and Roxie is Roxie doesn’t care about anyone but herself, and she doesn’t give a damn about the outside world as long as she can be famous. So Pam comes with totally opposite attributes in life, but she fits because of her celebrity, what she’s gone through in life.”
Anderson had a breakout role on “Home Improvement” as a “Tool Time girl” before getting global attention for playing C.J. Parker on “Baywatch.” Her credits include “Barb Wire” and “Superhero Movie.”
There’s been renewed interest in Anderson’s life story thanks to the Hulu series “Pam & Tommy,” which stars Lily James as Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee and fictionalizes their whirlwind romance. Anderson also this month announced a new authorized documentary about her life upcoming from Netflix.
Weissler said he had approached Anderson about the Roxie part over a decade ago, but their schedules didn’t work.
“Now that we’re doing it, it’s even more opportune. It’s more timely. She’s really standing for something now — as a professional, as an activist, as a very talented lady. She can surprise a lot of people. The woman has acting chops. She certainly can dance, and her singing voice is quite good. So here we go.”
The celebrity-craving heroine at the heart of “Chicago” has been played by dozens of women since the show opened in 1996, including Melanie Griffith, Christie Brinkley, Marilu Henner, Brooke Shields, Lisa Rinna, Gretchen Mol, Ashlee Simpson, Brandy Norwood, Jennifer Nettles and Robin Givens.
The revival has managed to last a quarter of a century thanks to the savvy decision to cast celebrity replacements in all the lead spots — basically asking famous performers to join a musical about the venality of celebrities — and mold the show around their strengths.
Just some of the other stars who have done stints in the show include Sofia Vergara, Paige Davis, Rita Wilson, Usher, Huey Lewis, Michael C. Hall, Jerry Springer and Billy Zane. A 2002 film version starred Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere.
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BANGKOK (AP) — The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million on Monday — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.
The milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening around the globe.
Remote Pacific islands, whose isolation had protected them for more than two years, are just now grappling with their first outbreaks and deaths, fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Hong Kong, which is seeing deaths soar, is testing its entire population of 7.5 millionthree times this month as it clings to mainland China’s “zero-COVID” strategy.
As death rates remain high in Poland, Hungary, Romania and other Eastern European countries, the region has seen more than 1.5 million refugees arrive from war-torn Ukraine, a country with poor vaccination coverage and high rates of cases and deaths.
And despite its wealth and vaccine availability, the United States is nearing 1 million reported deaths on its own.
Death rates worldwide are still highest among people unvaccinated against the virus, said Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s medical school and co-chair of the Asia Pacific Immunization Coalition.
“This is a disease of the unvaccinated — look what is happening in Hong Kong right now, the health system is being overwhelmed,” said Pang, the former director of research policy and cooperation with the World Health Organization. “The large majority of the deaths and the severe cases are in the unvaccinated, vulnerable segment of the population.”
It took the world seven months to record its first million deaths from the virus after the pandemic began in early 2020. Four months later another million people had died, and 1 million have died every three months since, until the death toll hit 5 million at the end of October. Now it has reached 6 million — more than the populations of Berlin and Brussels combined, or the entire state of Maryland.
But despite the enormity of the figure, the world undoubtedly hit its 6 millionth death some time ago. Poor record-keeping and testing in many parts of the world has led to an undercount in coronavirus deaths, in addition to excess deaths related to the pandemic but not from actual COVID-19 infections, like people who died from preventable causes but could not receive treatment because hospitals were full.
Edouard Mathieu, head of data for the Our World in Data portal, said that — when countries’ excess mortality figures are studied — as many as nearly four times the reported death toll have likely died because of the pandemic.
An analysis of excess deaths by a team at The Economist estimates that the number of COVID-19 deaths is between 14.1 million and 23.8 million.
“Confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID, mostly because of limited testing, and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death,” Mathieu told The Associated Press. “In some, mostly rich, countries that fraction is high and the official tally can be considered to be fairly accurate, but in others it is highly underestimated.”
The United States has the biggest official death toll in the world, but the numbers have been trending downward over the last month.
Lonnie Bailey lost his 17-year-old nephew, Carlos Nunez Jr., who contracted COVID-19 last April — the same month Kentucky opened his age group to vaccinations. The Louisville resident said the family is still suffering, including Carlos’ younger sibling, who had to be hospitalized himself and still has lingering symptoms. The aggressive reopening of the country has been jarring for them to witness.
“For us it is hard to let our guard down; it’s going to take a while for us to adjust,” Bailey said.
The world has seen more than 445 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and new weekly cases have been declining recently in all regions except for the Western Pacific, which includes China, Japan and South Korea, among others, the World Health Organization reported this week.
Although the overall figures in the Pacific islands seeing their first outbreaks are small compared to larger countries, they are significant among their tiny populations and threaten to overwhelm fragile health care systems.
“Given what we know about COVID … it’s likely to hit them for the next year or so at least,” said Katie Greenwood, head of the Red Cross Pacific delegation.
Tonga reported its first outbreak after the virus arrived with international aid vessels following the Jan. 15 eruption of amassive volcano, followed by a tsunami. It now has several hundred cases, but — with 66% of its population fully vaccinated — it has so far reported people suffering mostly mild symptoms and no deaths.
TheSolomon Islands saw the first outbreak in January and now has thousands of cases and more than 100 deaths. The actual death toll is likely much higher, with the capital’s hospital overwhelmed and many dying at home, Greenwood said.
Only 12% of Solomon Islanders are fully vaccinated, though the outbreak has provided new impetus to the country’s vaccination campaign and 29% now have at least one shot.
Global vaccine disparity continues, with only 6.95% of people in low-income countries fully vaccinated, compared to more than 73% in high-income nations, according to Our World in Data.
In a good sign, at the end of last month Africa surpassed Europe in the number of doses administered daily, but only about 12.5% of its population has received two shots.
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still pressing for more vaccines, though it has been a challenge. Some shipments arrive with little warning for countries’ health systems and others near the expiration date — forcing doses to be destroyed.
Eastern Europe has been particularly hard hit by the omicron variant, and with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a new risk has emerged as hundreds of thousands of people flee to places like Poland on crowded trains. Health officials there have been offering free vaccinations to all refugees, but have not been making them test upon arrival or quarantine.
“This is really tragic because great stress has a very negative effect on natural immunity and increases the risk of infections,” said Anna Boron-Kaczmarska, a Polish infectious disease specialist. “They are in very high stress, being afraid for their lives, the lives of their children, they family members.”
Mexico has reported 300,000 deaths, but with little testing, a government analysis of death certificates puts the real number closer to 500,000. Still, four weeks of falling infection rates have left health officials optimistic.
In India, where the world was shocked by images of open-air pyres of bodies burned as crematoria were overwhelmed, the scars are fading as the number of new cases and deaths has slowed.
India has recorded more than 500,000 deaths, but experts believe its true toll is in the millions, primarily from the delta variant. Migrants from India’s vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic. Shopping malls have customers, albeit still masked, while schools and universities are welcoming students after a months-long gap.
In Britain, infections have fallen since an omicron-driven surge in December, but remain high. England has now lifted all restrictions, including mask mandates and the requirement that all who test positive isolate at home.
With about 250,000 reported deaths, the African continent’s smaller death toll is thought to stem from underreporting, as well as a generally younger and less mobile population.
“Africa is a big question mark for me, because it has been relatively spared from the worst so far, but it could just be a time bomb,” Pang said, noting its low vaccination rates.
In South Africa, Soweto resident Thoko Dube said she received news of the deaths of two family members on the same day in January 2021 — a month before the country received its first vaccines.
It has been difficult, but “the family is coping,” she said. “We have accepted it because it has been happening to other families.”
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AP journalists Jill Lawless in London, Aniruddha Ghosal in New Delhi, Cara Anna in Nairobi, Mogomotsi Magome in Johannesburg, Monika Scislowska in Warsaw, Fabiola Sanchez in Mexico City, and Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, contributed to this story.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo said Monday that the state will formally recommend against COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children.
Ladapo made the announcement at a roundtable event organized by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that featured a group of doctors who criticized coronavirus lockdowns and mandate policies. It was not immediately clear when the state would release its health guidance.
“The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,” Ladapo said at the end of the roundtable discussion.
“We’re kind of scraping at the bottom of the barrel, particularly with healthy kids, in terms of actually being able to quantify with any accuracy and any confidence the even potential of benefit,” he added.
Late last month, Ladapo and DeSantis announcednew virus policy recommendations that discouraged mask-wearing and directed physicians to exercise their own judgment when treating virus patients, including the use of emerging treatments and off-label medications.
The Florida state Senate confirmed Ladapo as surgeon general despite criticism that his virus health policy is too aligned with the anti-lockdown and mandate politics of DeSantis.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When her daughter was diagnosed with cancer, Tetiana Chatokhina didn’t hesitate to make the trip back to her native Ukraine to help her recover from surgery and care for her 14-year-old grandson.
But the 75-year-old disabled American citizen found herself trapped alongside her family in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, targeted by nightly shelling and bombs after Russia invaded a little more than a week ago.
The underground shelter wasn’t big enough for all three of them, so Chatokhina, her daughter Olena Iarova, and Iarova’s son stayed above ground despite the risk. Two lay beneath a table; Chatokhina, nearby, on the floor. They took turns sleeping and keep the lights off, and voices low, in the hopes the Russian military would think the home was abandoned and pass them by.
“Every time we go to bed, we don’t even sleep,” Chatokhina said in whispers over the phone before the family left the city and headed West toward Poland, hoping to make it across the border.
The family is one of many stranded in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, including American citizens caring for family members who are Ukrainian citizens. The closure of the U.S. embassy in Kyiv postponed many visa interviews and limited the services the country can provide to people seeking to leave Ukraine. Families have been contacting Congress and immigration lawyers in the U.S. pleading for help.
There’s no known estimate of how many Americans remain in Ukraine after weeks of warnings urging them to leave before the invasion.
The State Department has been “just completely unhelpful,” said U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a New York Republican whose office worked for several days to push forward the visa application of a Ukrainian woman whose husband lives in Malliotakis’ district. “I know some of my colleagues are facing that same experience, and it’s just really reminiscent of what occurred in Afghanistan when we were trying to evacuate families and help people get out of Afghanistan.”
The department has support teams near the Ukrainian border in four neighboring countries to assist U.S. citizens and opened a “welcome center” in Poland. But people seeking immigrant visas who are trying to transfer their case to another U.S. embassy have to contact that specific embassy for a list of requirements, the department said this week.
After several emails sent by Malliotakis’ office, the State Department agreed to transfer the woman’s case to Moldova and the couple has now reached that country.
Thousands of miles away, in a hilltop home in Los Angeles, Chatokhina’s son and daughter-in-law have been sleepless as well. They’ve called their congressional representative and the State Department, desperate to get the family out.
They want to get them to the border with Poland — a stretch for Chatokhina, who recently underwent surgery herself and needs walking assistance — and then to a U.S. consulate for a long-awaited interview for a green card for Iarova, for which she was sponsored years ago.
“I actually called the State Department and I was told that there’s nothing they can do until she’s in a EU country or any country outside of Ukraine,” said Galina Blank, Chatokhina’s daughter-in-law. ”The State Department can’t do anything. They’re not doing anything for United States citizens.”
“She’s old. She’s sick. She’s a citizen,” she said.
In 1990, then-21-year-old Edward Chatokhin left his hometown of Kharkiv in what was the Soviet Union to try to make a life in the United States. Years later, he married Blank, who had moved to Los Angeles as a Soviet refugee when she was a child.
After Chatokhin became an American citizen, he sponsored his mother for a green card and she went to live with them in California. Once she, too, became a U.S. citizen, she applied for Iarova to join them.
Although U.S. authorities have approved her application, Iarova still needs a consular interview to get a green card. Since the coronavirus pandemic, many of these interviews have been delayed, and Blank said she’s unsure how long it would have taken before the invasion. She said the State Department told her that if Iarova can get to another country they would expedite her interview.
The situation in Kharkiv is dire, the family said. They were running out of food. Their water was cut off. The weather is extremely cold.
When the invasion began, they thought the Russians were trying to scare them. But it only got worse, Iarova said.
“There is no mercy, not to anyone at all. We could imagine anything, but not that they would drop bombs on us,” she said. “I just want to save my child.”
In Los Angeles, Blank, a lawyer, and Chatokhin, an internet entrepreneur, have been working the phones, trying to find someone to help the family flee. Initially, a friend offered to drive them to the border, but a nearby bridge blew up and he couldn’t reach them, Blank said.
When his mother left Los Angeles about two months ago, Chatokhin said he didn’t have any worries about the situation in Kharkiv. Even as chatter surfaced about a possible attack, he said he and his friends saw it as no more than media bluster, adding that the two countries have a shared language, history and culture.
Last Wednesday, his nephew went to school, like always. A day later, there was war.
“We’re the same people. It just makes no sense,” Blank said. “That’s why nobody ever believed that anything like this could happen.”
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Merchant reported from Washington. AP Diplomatic Writer Matthew Lee and AP journalists Padmananda Rama and Lynn Berry in Washington contributed to this report.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — How high will it go?
That’s the question drivers are asking as they fill up at the pump, currently paying more for gas than they have at any time since 2014.
On Monday, gas in Travis County averaged $3.73 per gallon, according to AAA. Nationwide it’s $4.07.
However, Joshua Rhodes, a research associate at the University of Texas’ Webber Energy Group, said you can expect prices to keep climbing higher.
The following conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
How high could it climb?
Tom: How high do you potentially expect gas prices to climb?
Joshua: I think a lot of it depends on if we go into a full oil embargo on Russia itself. Russia supplies a significant amount of oil to the world markets, and if those markets get tighter than they already are then that’ll result in a higher oil price, which will result in a higher gasoline price.
Tom: Are we talking about a matter of 10, 20, 30 cents more, or could we be looking at dollars more in terms of what we’re paying?
Joshua: I mean I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re well over $4 by the time this is done. Potentially up to $4.50 which would be higher than I think we’ve seen, maybe ever.
What is causing higher prices?
Tom: What is the confluence of factors contributing to these higher prices?
Joshua: The ones making the headlines right now are the ones in Ukraine, but prices have been going up even before this conflict began because of the recovery from COVID. People are traveling more, people are wanting to get out more, and during that time when many of us were working from home and not traveling as much, demand for gasoline and things like that declined, so did investment in new oil fields or production capabilities. So, as that demand has come back into the market we’ve seen an increase in prices.
Tom: Is Texas situated better than other states because of how much oil we produce?
Joshua: I think Texas is better situated than most states. Prices are typically lower here than they are in other locations. We produce a lot of oil. We also refine a lot of oil and so those refined petroleum products, things like gasoline and diesel, don’t have to travel as far after they’ve left our refineries.
Tom: If the US does decide to block all oil imported from Russia, what potentially happens to prices?
Joshua: If the U.S. went at it alone, it wouldn’t impact prices that much. We only import, about four percent of our imports from Russia. It’s the rest of the world that’s the bigger issue. If the rest of the world also goes along with blocking Russian oil exports, then that would decrease the amount of oil that’s on the global market, and since we are tied to a global market, that would lead to higher prices here.
What will need to happen for prices to go back down?
Tom: What needs to happen for prices to eventually start going back down?
Joshua: For prices to come back down essentially we need to have supply and demand be in better balance. We either need to consume less oil, we need to be more efficient in the way that we use gasoline and petroleum products, or there needs to be an increase in oil production on the global market. So that could be either domestic production here in the U.S. or other countries, or if the Russia-Ukraine war would calm down such as that there wouldn’t be as big a fear that Russian oil will no longer be on the global market.
Tom: Some people have said, ‘why don’t we just produce more oil, pull more oil out of the ground.’ Is that easier said than done?
Joshua: It is a little bit easier said than done. We can actually increase oil production, crude oil production. But we don’t necessarily have the refining capacity to turn that into petroleum products. Refineries are actually very complex systems, and they’re made for a certain type of oil. So, if they’re made for a certain type of oil that say comes from Russia, or the Middle East, you can’t just take U.S. oil and put it in there. It would take money and upgrades and capital to make them such that they’re able to refine that oil into the finished products that we consume. So while we can produce more, it doesn’t necessarily mean that every barrel we pull out of the ground could translate into a barrel of gasoline.
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‘Me’ time may seem like a cliché, until you don’t have any that is. Living life at breakneck speed without taking a break to recharge or reflect leaves us drained and under par; starting the year refreshed is dependent on fulfilling time out, not punishing resolutions or a killer back-to-work schedule. Keep up your reserve, energy and happiness levels with these soothing suggestions from personal trainer Dan Roberts and wellbeing wonder Keah Lan .
Dan’s Roberts’ recommendations
1. Make fitness a social activity - run with friends, go indoor rock climbing or have a personal trainer come over to your house for a family workout.
2. Distance running is often described as moving meditation - I listen to audio books via Audible when going for my regular Sunday morning run in Richmond park.
3. Fitness is me time. If you only train because you feel like should then that's a shame in my opinion. Always be up for trying new exercise, sports and activities, be it crossfit, badminton, Krav Maga, netball, running, trampolining, yoga or something else a little outside of the box. Schedule in some exercises or classes that you know you’ll connect with and a few that you’re unsure about. Unless you try all the options, how do you know?
4. My Methodology X workout was originally designed for time-starved models pre and during fashion week- I made workouts very short and very intensive using super-maximal intensity training- a variation of HIIT training. The body weight circuits are only 30 mins long but very intensive so as to maximise weight loss and toning in the shortest amount of time possible. However, by making some of the movements quite complex you have to really concentrate- you are actually learning skills based on dance, martial arts and Spiers conditioning, and in this way you are exercising mindfully. The whole programme has an implicit mindful exercise theme running through it- focusing on the here and now and giving your full attention to an exercise is great for you and gives you me time.
How Keah Lan keeps cool
5. I give myself a five minute facial massage with my face cream before I leave the house, and a ten minute one after my bath or shower using facial oil. This not only makes me feel calmer but my skin looks a lot calmer too! Place your fingers on either side of your temples and massage slowly, use organic facial oil if you can. Gradually massage the whole face using circular movements, then place two fingers in the space between the eyebrows (the 3rd eye point) and press firmly in a circular motion. Continue to massage the face and gently press on the sinus points, then lightly circle around the eye area and work towards the ears, onto the scalp. Finish by rubbing the palms together until warm and hold your hands over closed eyes. You will feel instantly relaxed and rejuvenated.
6. I have a subscription to Yogaglo and I love their meditation podcasts. They run from five minutes to an hour and there are different levels and sessions to appeal to everyone. I usually do a 20-30 minute one during my busy day to keep me grounded and relaxed. When I’m at home I like to do a longer one either in the morning or afternoon. I recommend this to all of my clients as it allows you chill out on your own time and hence there is no need to rush off to the tube or try to relax when you’re not in the zone. They also have yoga podcasts which I do three times a week to keep relaxed and energised.
7. Keep a journal. It is impossible for an individual to overcome frequent anxiety if they do not understand why it is present. I normally spend a few minutes each day jotting down daily happenings: successes, failures, and everything in between. Not only does this help me to comprehend more about my daily routine, and myself, but it also helps me to target stressors.
8. Lastminute.com is a saviour for midweek spa deals- for £30 you can enjoy a wonderful spa in the middle of London. Taking some time in your day to relax in the steam room, sauna and swimming pool can make you feel miles better.
9. As a reflexologist I swear by foot massages as a way of staying grounded and relaxed. After a long day’s work I sometimes whip out my oils and give myself a 5-10 minute foot rub, pressing on all the points that will help me to relax such as the adrenals, solar plexus and head points. Find out more about reflexology or book a session with Keah here .
10. During breathing exercises during my commute helps me stay relaxed (especially at rush hour!). Close your eyes and breathe in and out through your nose. Then start to make the inhales as long as the exhales. Notice how the air travels into the nose and down the throat and into the lungs, and how it travels back out. Notice the warmth or coolness of your breathe on the upper lip. Do this five or ten times to put stress back in its box.
How do you make sure that your ‘me’ time happens? Do you have any tips of your own? Tell us on Twitter or upload an image to Instagram using the hashtag #StartBetter.
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“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes,” Mahatma Gandhi.
As relevant now as it was then, a positive mind could hold the key to a happier you. An essential daily ally to help increase self-esteem, confidence and decrease stress levels, its power cannot be underestimated. Better than any self-help book, put in the time to nurture your mindset and you’ll notice the effects flow into your words, actions and behaviour like nothing else before.
“Positive thinking and living is not just the experience you have when good things are happening in your life. It is the ability to stay motivated, hopeful and positive whatever is happening,” explains clinical hypnotherapist and Get The Gloss Expert Terrence the Teacher . “Even though feelings might vary, positive thinking can become a way of life.”
Ready to take some positive strides in 2015? Here are Terry’s top 5 tips for giving your outlook the ultimate boost to #StartBetter and think yourself happy...
1. Start on a good note
Start every day by reflecting on something good (positive) that happened to you the day before. Maybe even write it down. The word “gratitude” fits in this space. Being grateful for something you experienced the day before creates powerful emotions. Such reflection can enhance your mood almost immediately - a very positive way to start a new day. You could also repeat this exercise weekly and monthly. Compounding your gratitude will compound a positive outlook.
2. Keep up the body talk
A very important component of living a positive life is the nurturing and taking care of the physical body. Just as thoughts can affect us physically, the reverse is also true. For example, if you had a bad night’s rest, you might be tired and irritable. Without regular exercise and fresh air, your energy levels can drop and general motivation fade. The saying, “A healthy mind in a healthy body” holds so much truth. Taking steps towards better physical health will soon help towards a more positive way of living.
MORE GLOSS: 5 ways to overcome your exercise gremlins
3. Use buzz words
Next is the power of the spoken word. There is a Buddhist proverb that says, “To everyone is given the key to heaven, the same key opens the gate of hell.” I believe our words are that key.
Our language pattern affects every action and thought we have, either positively or negatively. As our words can affect people around us, the same is true for their effect on ourselves. Positive statements can create a positive mood and therefore a positive outcome. Choose your words wisely. Your subconscious is listening the whole time. It will respond accordingly.
Try the following exercise: say out loud, “I feel so sad.” Noticed what happened to you and your body? Did your shoulders drop? What happened to your mood? Now say the following, “My bright future excites me.” Did you notice the difference? It’s proof of the power that positive language has.
4. Jog your memory
Emotional stability and happiness play another big role in a positive life. Having positive emotions is vital for personal growth, development and health. They literally open our minds.
When we experience positive emotions (feelings), they get stored in our memory bank. Experiences like eating a great meal, listening to beautiful music, playing your favourite sport and even making love create those memories. They are powerful resources to draw positive feelings from to help us in the present. It is the beautiful circle of life - the happier we are, the more productive we become. We open ourselves to people more which in turn creates more confidence, creativity and even physical health.
MORE GLOSS: Food for thought - 5 ways to overcome emotional eating for good
5. To err is human
The last point I would love to make, is that I fully understand that it is not always possible to have positive thoughts or even act positively. That is just being human.
My advice then would be to act as if you were dealing with a fire. Fires eventually burn out, if you don't feed them. So if you are having a less positive moment, take some time, stand back and become the observer. Feelings and thoughts will pass. Once you feel ready and better, grab back the control with positive enthusiasm.
A positive life is something that everyone deserves. Sometimes it just takes a little determination.
What do you do to stay positive? Let us know below or tweet us using the handles @GetTheGloss and @Clinique_UK .
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Summer League can be a bit hit or miss when it comes to star power, as it’s not always a guarantee that top picks will participate, but this year’s rosters seem to house more potential rotation players than in seasons past — both incoming rookies and more established young players. So many players who could be future stars or factor in prominently to a team’s 2022-23 success seem like they’ll be gracing the hardwood in Nevada.
Analyzing the results of Summer League is always a precarious endeavor, yet the intrigue surrounding a handful of rosters is rather enticing. The vibes will always reign supreme during Sin City’s mid-summer tournament, of course. Nonetheless, let’s hit on some rosters that should be a delight to watch bound up and down the floors of Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion later this week.
Oklahoma City Thunder
The Thunder are an essential inclusion to this list. The No. 2 overall pick, Chet Holmgren, will suit up. Fellow top-20 picks of prior years in Josh Giddey and Aleskej Pokusevski are slated to appear in the Utah portion of Oklahoma City’s Summer League runs. Other alluring young dudes like Aaron Wiggins, Tre Mann and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl are on the roster.
Joining Holmgren as members of the Thunder’s 2022 Draft class are Jaylin Williams, Jalen Williams (cue the Spiderman meme) and Ousmane Dieng, who will take the court alongside the domineering 7-footer. Oklahoma City is entering Year 3 of its rebuild without much clarity of its core beyond Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giddey, and (almost assuredly) Holmgren.
Summer League won’t answer those questions necessarily, yet a smattering of contenders to entrench themselves in that core will be present in Vegas to try and lay the initial groundwork for that possibility. Plus, these dudes are just fun to watch hoop and joy is integral to the Vegas experience.
San Antonio Spurs
Over the past 11 months, San Antonio has dealt away DeMar DeRozan, Derrick White and Dejounte Murray, a trio of players whose contributions were essential to the Spurs making playoff and play-in appearances. Entering 2022-23, a true rebuilding season seems to be in the cards after two decades of competitiveness and championships.
Among those who the Spurs look to be leaning on to shepherd a new era of prosperity are Josh Primo, Jeremy Sochan, Malaki Branham, and Blake Wesley, a quartet of youngsters who were selected in the top 25 of the past two drafts. All of them will don the San Antonio black and silver at Summer League.
Primo, Branham, and Wesley are all shot creators, while Sochan is a defensive-minded forward with offensive questions. Getting a glimpse of how the 2022 draftees translate to an NBA-adjacent environment and seeing how Primo applies the lessons of his rookie season should be a treat. It’s rare to bank on prospects to hammer home the Spurs’ appeal, but that’s precisely the case for this next season and starts in Vegas.
Golden State Warriors
With the departures of Otto Porter Jr., Gary Payton II, Nemanja Bjelica, Juan Toscano-Anderson, and Damion Lee this summer, Golden State’s veteran depth suffered a substantial hit over the past week. While Lee and Toscano-Anderson were not mainstays in the playoff rotation, the other three all saw key minutes in the Finals (especially Porter and Payton) and helped propel the Warriors to their fourth title in eight seasons.
To replace those services, Golden State will likely lean on its trio of lottery picks in Moses Moody, James Wiseman, and Jonathan Kuminga. Moody and Kuminga saw spot minutes throughout the playoffs last year and their rookie seasons were fairly encouraging. Wiseman’s 2020-21 rookie year was tumultuous, though filled with flashes of promise to maintain the optimism of his proponents.
They are all scheduled to play together in Vegas and begin their efforts to make good on the faith the Warriors are extending them. For Wiseman, it’ll be his first NBA action since early April 2021. Golden State nabbed him second overall in 2020 and deems him a pillar of its future. Moody and Kuminga are reportedly thought fondly of within the organization as well. Watching them connect and aim to bring the Warriors their second title in as many months could be quite the show.
Detroit Pistons
So, I’m not sure if Detroit knows this is Summer League, not the regular season? The Pistons are sending virtually their entire core to Vegas. Cade Cunningham, Isaiah Stewart, Saddiq Bey, Killian Hayes, Saben Lee, Isaiah Livers, and Jaden Ivey are all on the roster. Once the trade that renders Jalen Duren a Piston finalizes, I’d imagine he’ll be there too.
To be clear: I don’t have any issue with Detroit bringing everyone to Sin City; the freedom Summer League grants players can be a worthwhile breeding ground for important experimentation. It’s merely funny for Cunningham, Stewart, and Bey to be there, given they’ve established some reasonable footing in the NBA, especially Cunningham, who was a Rookie of the Year finalist three months ago and is soon to be a star.
Their inclusion is our gain, though. Cunningham, Stewart, and Bey might resemble the ‘96 Bulls in Las Vegas. Ivey’s electric nature will light up the gym. Predicting the Summer League champions is a futile game, but Detroit hoisting that trophy would not be a surprise. Although, I’d be shocked if Cunningham plays more than a couple games. Even so, this roster is loaded.
Portland Trail Blazers
Portland’s quintet of Damian Lillard, Josh Hart, Anfernee Simons, Jerami Grant, and Jusuf Nurkic is pretty dang good. Its depth, however, raises eyebrows. Maybe, some combination of Nassir Little, Eric Bledsoe, and Justise Winslow offer consistency. The upside play rests in its youth, though.
Greg Brown III, Shaedon Sharpe, Keon Johnson, Brandon Williams, Jabari Walker, Trendon Watford, and Didi Louzada all carry some level of fascination that could help them wiggle into the Blazers’ nightly rotation and supplement their top five.
While the Lillard-Hart-Simons-Grant-Nurkic grouping is good, it’s certainly not enough to guarantee anything in a deep, daunting Western Conference. The chance of actualizing a playoff series victory necessitates a leap or surprise from these young dudes — Simons included. Everyone aside from Simons will take the court in Vegas and kick off their 2022-23 seasons, one that looms large for Portland.
Assuming Lillard is back to proper health, he could regain his superstar title. Pairing that talent with postseason success cannot stem from him alone. He needs reinforcements. Portland’s Summer League roster may not headline those reinforcements. Regardless, they undoubtedly have a chance to be part of them.
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When it comes to finding a bit of added fitness motivation for hitting the gym with, having the right gear to hand is certain to help fire up our enthusiasm. However, what should we really be spending our money on when it comes to updating our workout wardrobes?
We asked personal trainer and Get The Gloss Expert Dalton Wong of TwentyTwo Training for his top tips when it comes to ensuring we’re spending our pay checks wisely. From the trainers we should lace up to the weather-proof must-haves to get us up and out the house on the dreariest of Saturday mornings, here are the gym bag essentials we should invest in to help us #StartBetter this year.
Spend a little extra on...
For men
A proper Gore-tex/breathable jacket! This jacket should be versatile so that it can be worn out for a light jog in our typical English weather. It should also be functional so that it can be worn to and from the gym. To keep you dry and ready for your sessions, it’s best to have a fabric that is breathable, also for after your session too.
For women
A proper set of leggings that are functional and also look great. A common theme with leggings is that they look great and feel good when you first purchase them and then after a couple of washes, they lose their elasticity, become see through or the material seems to “bobble” and break down. The female team members at TwentyTwo Training are all kitted out with Lucas Hugh which is hard-wearing, functional and looks great!
Spend a little less on...
1. Trainers
Trainers are essential for the gym and are also becoming very fashionable. I would advise to have two pairs: one for the gym and one for casual wear so that the functionality and life of the shoe last. For the gym, know what your sport is. If you don’t run, then a good cross trainer or free shoe would be perfect. If you run, then make sure you find an expert who can help you purchase the correct shoe for your gait and miles run. You don’t need to spend £150+ for running shoes.
My favourite gym trainer: Adidas Adipure 360.2 Shoes , £85.
My favourite fashion trainer: Nike Free OG Superior A.P.C , £120.
2. Wearable technology
Know what you need the information for! A heart rate monitor tells you your heart rate, the more expensive ones have programs, zones and information that most average exercise people will never use or figure out how to program!
From experience, most clients just want to know their heart rate and that’s it, so all they need is a basic one. By all means, if you’re training for an Ironman or have an endurance coach who needs to know your heart rate zones and variability, then push the boat out and purchase an expensive model.
MORE GLOSS: 5 ways to overcome your exercise gremlins for good
Trial and error
It’s all about trying different brands and fits. With regards to shoes, I found the ones that fit the best for me and continually purchased those shoes. If it works, then I don’t change them! I have various gym clothes for different seasons - in the cold I have more long sleeve warm/breathable thermal tops (such as the Adidas Techfit Climahat Mock Tee , £40) and in the summer, lighter short-sleeve ones.
Get less bounce for your buck
Finding the perfect sports bra is essential in order to have the best workout possible. As your body changes from eating clean and training hard, it’s really important that you find the correct bra that fits. I would suggest ones that are suitable for running and ones that would be good for the gym or study-based activities. It’s well worth spending the extra time and money to get correctly measured!
Find out which sports bras are our favourites by checking out our tried and tested picks in our Gloss Report here .
What are the sportswear essentials you can’t live without? Send us a picture on Instagram of your get fit kit to @GetTheGloss and @CliniqueUK with the hashtag #StartBetter.
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Our 30 days of wellness may soon be wrapping up, but it’s not too late to #StartBetter. Whether your fitness, nutrition habits or state of mind need a boost (or all three), we have some quickfire advice from a trio of infectiously positive health hotshots to inspire you to see the light at the end of the January tunnel.
Fitness- Calgary Avansino
Calgary ’s a California girl at heart who has lived in London for 14 wonderful years. She was raised in a family that passionately valued positive eating and a healthy lifestyle so she grew up believing in the power of good food, exercise and life balance. Her website is soon to launch, encompassing videos, tips, recipes and everyday advice for healthy living. She recently launched a line of healthy vegetable juices with Itsu and is working on a range of delicious and nutritious snacks that will be unveiled later in 2015. In addition, she’s writing a lifestyle book that will be published in 2016. Oh, and she’s expecting a baby. Her ultimate fitness tips are as follows...
1. Don’t allow yourself to get stuck in an exercise rut. If you do the same routine day in and day out your muscles and brain get complacent (and bored!) - you’ll have a much harder time improving your fitness level and your body. Aim to mix it up, don’t do the same thing more than twice a week! Your physique will thank you.
2. Find a reliable exercise buddy who will motivate you to stick to your plans, work harder with a little competition and help you to have more fun along the way.
3.Treat yourself to some new kit: printed leggings, a perfectly fitted sports bra or a new pair of sneakers is one of the best incentives you can give yourself.
4. Never head out on a run or a trip to the gym without a kickass playlist charged and ready on your phone. Sometimes it’s all you need to go that extra mile.
5. Try to push yourself beyond what you are comfortable doing. A light jog is never a bad thing but improvement only really happens when you exert yourself way beyond your comfort zone. Work so hard that you don’t think you can do one more move - that’s where change happens!
Nutrition- Madeleine Shaw
Even without changing your diet, Madeleine’ s boundless energy will rub off on you. She’s passionate about living life to the full- that means moving, thinking and eating positively. A qualified nutritional health coach with a sideline in yoga, Madeleine helps her clients to become healthier and happier without diets or deprivation. Many celebrities can vouch for her glow-inducing approach, as can the league of food and wellness fans that devour her blog.
Madeleine’s monthly supper club (healthy pizza anyone?) goes down a storm, with demand for her wholesome, delicious recipes so high that she’s currently writing her first book, to be published in Spring 2015. In the meantime soak up her five healthy living hints…
1. Start the day with warm water and lemon- it’s incredibly cleansing and detoxifying.
2. Always dress your green veg with olive oil to make your salad tasty and to properly absorb all the fat soluble vitamins they contain.
3. Swap your 4pm chocolate bar for half an avocado with fresh lemon and chilli flakes, as this will curb your cravings and boost your energy.
4. Laugh everyday, a happy body is a healthy body!
5. Sleep between 10pm to 6am. I’ve found that the hours before midnight count double to those after.
Mind- Jacqueline Hurst
Jacqueline is a renowned life coach, speaker and teacher rapidly making her mark in the self-development world. She is a leader in her field of mind-management, coaching people on how to think more positively and productively to achieve their goals and lead great lives.
Jacqueline is passionate about helping people and she particularly specializes in emotional eating issues and body image problems. Jacqueline’s “Life Class”, which teaches people to become life coaches or take their own personal journey to manage their mind effectively, launched this month. We’re doing some serious forward thinking and booking a space stat- we all get stuck from time to time and Jacqueline is a whiz at helping you to move onwards and upwards. Reflect on her advice to shift any mental blocks...
1. Think better. Your thoughts are SO important - good thoughts generate GOOD feelings. Positive thoughts generate positive feelings. Mind management is key to starting better. Think good thoughts!
2 .Fall in love with your life. We only have now, so be grateful for every single day. Every day is a gift- use it wisely.
3. Choose to be kind to yourself. Treat yourself exactly as you would someone you really love.
4. Think bigger and better – dream big. If your dreams don’t scare you, you are not thinking big enough!
5. Remember that fear is four letter word, you have one life, so grab every opportunity, believe in yourself and go for it!
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Not a morning person? If you’re tempted to hit the Snooze button, try to resist the urge because there’s another way to make the most of that added 10 minutes. Wait a second though, what exactly could be better than a cheeky add-on to your night’s slumber you ask? A sequence of yoga poses designed to bolster both body and mind and provide an energy boost to give your alarm clock a run for its money.
“On cold mornings like these, we need to take extra care to keep our muscles and connective tissues moving and working, especially if we are going on to do other forms of activity such as running, cycling, or team sports,” says yoga specialist and Get The Gloss Expert Chris James . “The following sequence starts with a twist to stimulate digestion and peristalsis, perfect for first thing in the morning. A gentle cat stretch to release the spine after sleep, some hamstring stretches – so effective when done mindfully, something for the shoulders and then a twist, a balance, and an extension all in one - meet reverse Trikonasana!”
Feeling inspired to #StartBetter ? Chris shows us 6 must-try yoga at home moves for channelling our inner yogis...
Stretch 1: To stimulate digestion try this twist...
Step by Step
1. Step the right foot over the left leg and stand it on the floor outside your left hip. The right knee will point directly up at the ceiling.
2. Exhale and twist toward from the belly to your right hand side. With every inhalation lift a little more through the sternum. Press the right hand against the floor just behind your right buttock. Pull your front torso and inner right thigh together.
3. Be sure to distribute the twist evenly throughout the entire length of the spine; don't concentrate it in the lower back. Stay for 30 seconds to 1 minute, then release with an exhalation, return to the starting position, and repeat to the left for the same length of time.
Therapeutic Applications: Sciatica.
Benefits: Stimulates the liver and kidneys, stretches the shoulders, hips, and neck, energises the spine and stimulates digestion.
Stretch 2: To release the spine try this...
Step by Step
1. Start on your hands and knees with the spine flat. Make sure your knees are set directly below your hips.
2. As you exhale, roll your spine slowly upwards towards the ceiling, making sure to keep your shoulders and knees in position and tuck the chin in towards the chest. As you in inhale, roll the chest back down towards the floor and open the chest.
3. Do 12 inhalations and 12 exhalations.
Benefits
- Stretches the back torso and neck.
- Provides a gentle massage to the spine and belly organs.
MORE GLOSS: How to fix bad posture
Stretch 3: Tight Hamstrings, try this...
Here is my favourite hamstring opener. What I like about this stretch is that it is very simple and it focuses directly on the hamstrings.
Step by Step
1. Lie on your back with your knees drawn into your chest.
2. Place a strap around the heel of your right foot, holding the two sides of the strap with each of your hands. Keep the arms long.
3. Slowly, without forcing or straining, start to extend your right leg toward the ceiling. Don't worry if it doesn't go straight; just keep gently pressing into your heel and drawing the ends of the strap toward yourself with the exhalation. Give yourself enough length on the strap so that it remains taut but your shoulders and back of your head remain comfortable rather than hunching up towards your foot.
4. Do this stretch every evening for a couple of minutes on each side.
5. Practice 12 cycles of breath (1 cycle = 1 inhalation + 1 exhalation) on either leg.
Stretches 4 and 5: You can try these two further stretches for tight hammies...
4: Adho Mukha Svanasana = downward facing dog
Step by Step
1. Come onto all fours, hands, feet and knees shoulder-width apart. Fingers spread and pointing forwards.
2. Turn your toes under your feet and lift your knees back away from the floor. Lift the hips toward the ceiling.
3. Stay on the toes at first, keeping the knees slightly bent. Now engage the thigh muscles above the knees, press through the arms and attempt to straighten the legs.
4. Take the posture into the legs and sink the heels towards the floor. Relax shoulders.
5. Hold the posture for two minutes, working the heels onto or down towards the floor. Breathe evenly.
Anatomical Focus
- Aim to straighten your knees but be sure not to lock them.
- Make sure sides of feet are parallel.
- Soften the shoulders and open and keep the head relaxed.
MORE GLOSS: How to sleep your way to a more energetic you
5: Parsvottanasana forward stretch...
Step by Step
1. Stand with feet 3½ to 4 feet apart. Rest your hands on your hips. Turn your left foot in and your right foot out at 90 degrees. Align the right heel with the left heel. Firm your thighs.
2. Make sure that the right knee is in line with the centre of the chest.
3. Extend the torso forward from the groins over the right leg. Stop when the torso is parallel to the floor. Press your fingertips to the floor on either side of the right foot. If it isn’t possible, you can use blocks underneath the hands. Press the thighs back and lengthen the torso forward, lifting through the top of the sternum.
4. If you would like to add a stretch for the shoulders, you can interlace the fingers and draw the arms upwards towards the ceiling.
5. Hold your position for 15 to 30 seconds on either side, then come up with an inhalation by pressing actively through the back heel. Repeat on the left side.
Anatomical Focus
- Targets hamstrings, shoulders and spine.
Therapeutic Applications
- Flat feet.
Benefits
- Works the spine, hips, and hamstrings and strengthens the legs.
Stretch 6: Meet reverse Trikonasana - revolving three angle or triangle posture…
Step by Step
1. Feet 3½ to 4 feet apart. Turn your left foot in 45 to 60 degrees to the right and your right foot out to the right 90 degrees. Align the right heel with the left heel.
2. With an exhalation, turn your torso to the right and square your hip points as much as possible with the front edge of your sticky mat.
3. With an exhalation, turn your torso further to the right and extend forward over the front leg. Reach your left hand down, either to the floor (inside or outside the foot) or, if the floor is too far away, onto a block positioned against your inner right foot.
4. Stay in this pose anywhere from 30 seconds to one minute on either side.
Anatomical Focus: Ankles, legs, hips, groins, lower back, abdomen, shoulders and spine.
Therapeutic Applications: Digestive problems, Asthma, lower backache and Sciatica.
Benefits: Strengthens and stretches the legs, stretches the hips and spine, opens the chest to improve breathing, relieves mild back pain, stimulates the abdominal organs and improves sense of balance.
Have you tried yoga? If so, how has it benefitted your life? Tweet us a picture or tell us more on @GetTheGloss and @Clinique_UK .
This feature was written in partnership with Clinique . #StartBetter.
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Let’s be honest, it’s cold, it’s grey and it’s dark and so limbering up and lunging to the gym couldn’t be less appealing. However, if you’re looking to #StartBetter in 2015 and stay motivated from the get-go, finding ways to makeover your mindset and overcome your exercise gremlins could hold the key for reaching your long-term fitness goals.
To help provide some extra encouragement for swapping your slippers for a pair of trainers, we asked Get The Gloss Expert and top personal trainer Dalton Wong for his top weight loss tips for both body and mind for overcoming our mental stumbling blocks when it comes to incorporating exercise into our daily routines. No matter how busy or cold it gets, keep his recommendations at hand to keep you inspired this January and beyond.
Variety is key
“One of the best things in the New Year is that every gym or class offers new incentives for getting in shape - Barrecore , yoga, hardcore pilates and lots more offer deals and introductory offers so that you can go to various places and try a range of different exercises. One day you could do bikram, another Pilates and the next something else so you won’t get bored.”
Fine tune your fitness focus
“Figure out why you’re exercising. If you’re just doing it because it’s the start of the year, it will never work. If you’re under your duvet in bed and it’s cold outside, you’ll never want to get out unless there is an underlying concern for doing so. Is it a) to give you more energy to play with your kids? b) To get fit for the summer? (As summer bodies are made in winter) or c) To get heathier and fitter generally? You need a reason which will get out to the gym when you’re exhausted and feeling too tired for physical activity.”
Treat exercise like a meeting
“Be more concise about time. We never seem to find the time to exercise but we always find it for TV or less meaningful things. Plan your week with exercise being just as important as a meeting for work. Schedule it into your diary so there’s no way of getting out of it. Plan and have a strategic attack on how you approach it.”
“If you can only do it two times a week, don’t beat self up for it. You have to get out of that mindset. Two times is better than nothing.”
Pimp your sportswear
“If you’re exercising in the winter and you’re looking to run or cycle, make sure to have the proper training kit - I like Lucas Hugh leggings with a good pair of trainers, a hat and running coat, so you have no excuse to say it’s too cold. If you have the things you need and that make you feel good, you will do it. The Lucas Hugh leggings lift your bum too - the right clothes can really transform the way you’re feeling.
“Don’t wear a baggy tracksuit because you won’t feel like exercising. Find something that gets you excited about doing it - that’s key.”
MORE GLOSS: 3 sports leggings that work outside the gym
Hearty but healthy eating
“When the winter comes around, it’s much more difficult for body and mind to say ‘let’s have chicken and salad,’ which are traditionally summer foods- so eat seasonal foods instead. You can still eat clean and lean and healthily with stews and soups which are filling and hearty but won’t have a detrimental effect on the body.
“Try chilli with broccoli instead of rice or pasta, lots of warming broths - chicken, soup, vegetable and bone broth which are both nutritious and hearty. Eating seasonally makes your body feel better as you’re giving it what it needs - something warming and not rabbit food! Miso soup is also good too. All of these aren’t highly calorific but warming which hits the spot when it’s cold outside.”
What are your tricks for staying motivated to get and stay fit? Send us a picture of your gym bag essentials or tell us your plans to #StartBetter this year on Twitter or Instagram .
This feature was written in partnership with Clinique . #StartBetter.
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Finding the impetus to get off your couch and into your trainers can be a tricky one if you don’t have a particular goal in mind. So, rather than begrudge your expensive and untapped gym membership, why not step out of your comfort zone and sign up for a fitness challenge as a fun way to get you motivated and moving.
We reached out to GTG expert and Freedom2Train Personal Trainer, Steve Mellor , to get a round-up of the top races happening this year and why taking part will give your 2015 a true start better boost.
1. The Color Run
What is it: A 5km un-timed run in which thousands of participants are doused from head to toe in different colours at each kilometre.
When does it take place: From 7th June 2015 onwards in a host of major cities.
Why do it: As the shortest and most easygoing race, this 5km is definitely a great way to #startbetter . Known as the Happiest race on the Planet this is a totally unique experience that celebrates healthiness, happiness, individuality, and giving back to the community. Not to mention it also ends with with a gigantic ‘Color Festival’ at the finish line.
“This is an awesome race to get people started and enjoying exercise as there’s no pressure on time or how far you run or walk,”says personal trainer Steve Mellor. “Relaxed, fun and colourful, this is one for the whole family and a great option for those trying to encourage friends or family that exercise can be fun!”
2. Run To The Beat
What is it: A 10km run around Wembley park with music stations dotted throughout.
When does it take place: 13th September 2015.
Why do it: Because it’s London’s only music inspired race with DJ sets and big tunes played around the race as you run, as well as a headline act to finish. More importantly however, this race raises money for Leukaemia and Lymphoma research - a truly worthwhile cause indeed.
“With DJ’s and big beats helping you to power your way through this challenging 10km course, this race is really like no other,” says Steve. “A fun-filled and inspiring cause, this run will leave you with a huge euphoric feeling that will carry you into the after party where big acts including Jessie J, Tinie Tempah and Calvin Harris have all performed previously - this is a definite must-do.”
3. Tough Mudder
What is it: A race spanning 10-12 miles filled with extreme obstacles and challenging hurdles throughout.
When does it take place: Worldwide from 1st May onwards.
Why do it: Truly in a league of its own, this race is renowned for its hardcore route and upbeat camaraderie. A real test of physical strength, fitness and endurance this is an absolute must for anyone really looking to really get in shape and push themselves to the limit.
“The fastest growing race in the world right now, Tough Mudder is all about teamwork and challenging yourself to conquer fears and push past your boundaries,” says Steve Mellor. “By the time you’ve finished you’ll have navigated cliff jumps, taken the 'leap of faith', been electrocuted and run up vertical walls. It might sound intimidating but this is a great race for thrill seekers or someone who wants to try something a little different from the norm. If you’re nervous though they do provide a training schedule for those that think they can't do it, just follow the plan and you'll be ready!”
4. A half marathon
What is it: A 13.1 mile run
When does it take place: A whole host of half marathons take place throughout the UK during 2015 - see a full list here
Why do it: As a fairly serious distance, a half marathon is a real milestone challenge and one to tick off the bucket list. While it might require a more serious approach to training than other races, you’re likely to be stuck with the fitness bug after this one - it’s a potential game changer.
“Whether you're running for a particular time or just to finish, a half marathon delivers amazing post race euphoria,” says Steve. “With loads of races throughout the country in both the winter and spring months, there’s no reason whatsoever to not get yourself signed up and out there training. It’s also a fantastic option for the budget conscious as with no equipment required this is the cheapest way to get fit!”
5. The Blenheim Triathlon
What is it: A race around Blenheim palace that includes a 400m swim, 13.2km bike and a 3.1km run.
When does it take place: Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2015.
Why do it: Whether you want to smash a PB, complete your first triathlon or compete with friends in the team relay, you’re guaranteed to have an amazing time at the world's most picturesque triathlon.
“This is an increasingly popular race amongst a new wave of fitness fanatics,” says Steve. “To the more seasoned runner, cyclist or swimmer, this is the next big challenge to look towards. If you’re a beginner though, don’t worry, there are distances for everyone from children to old-age pensioners. As one of the fastest growing and widely accessible sports in the world the most daunting part for many is the swim, as the thought of being in a lake with lots of other people with no lane ropes to hang on to is particularly worrying. However, the race organisers at Blenheim have canoeists on hand all the way along the course to help those less confident swimmers and offer a little breather if required. This truly is a great race for beginners or experienced pros and best of all, is all set in the beautiful grounds of Blenheim Palace.”
Are you planning on taking part in any fitness challenges or goals this year? If so send us a picture or tell us your plans on Twitter or Instagram .
This feature was written in partnership with Clinique. #StartBetter.
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There’s no better time to blast away the fitness cobwebs than the present - as the old saying goes, if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Thinking about your gym routine differently and trying something new can reshape both your body and your mindset; whether it’s a few tweaks or a complete overhaul, ensure you #StartBetter this year with these genius yet grounded tips from expert trainer Dan Roberts .
Tackle the tough stuff first
If you're doing cardio first, then weights, then try doing it the other way around. Weights generally make more of a difference to the body than cardio. The rule of thumb in exercise programming is to do the hard stuff first when you're still fresh. For my female clients who want to lose weight and tone up, I recommend doing 3/4 weights and 1/4 (high intensity) cardio.
Squat like a sumo
Make sumo squats part of your routine. Do these rather than the open/close thigh machines that you find at the gym. Mainly when you use these you hope to God that you don't make eye contact with anyone as you flap your legs about- not so effective, especially seeing as you’re sat down.
Sumo squats work the same inner thigh muscles but in functional (real) movement way. so you're also working glute medius sides of your bottom and lower back and core. You'll get more tone, burn more fat and you'll be doing a proper exercise. I'm always a tad wary of exercises that involve you sitting down! and so should you - to get fit, you have to move
Do your deadlifts
Try saying no to pilates and yes to deadlifts. Deadlifts burn far more fat around the tummy, firm up bottom and tone the hamstrings as a bonus. To get a flatter stomach, deadlifts are the way to go. I like pilates a lot and I’m a qualified pilates trainer, but I'm also a certified strength and conditioning coach, and trust me it’s through strength work that you burn fat, not through core exercises. To burn fat quickly head to the weights section and do the basic exercises: squats, deadlifts, rows and presses. If you were to add in a commitment to cutting out 90% of the rubbish in your diet, you would see super-quick results.
Engage brain as well as glutes
Variety is key - exercise isn't just about toning up. Train for health, mobility, longevity, strength, endurance, coordination, flexibility, agility - reconnect with your natural inner athlete! To do all of this you need to train and move in a variety of ways, and at a range of speeds. Fitness is multi-dimensional. Ask yourself whether your workout is too.
Not a supermodel yet? Don’t sweat it...
A little extra (possibly controversial) tip: don't listen to celebrity trainers. If I train a supermodel it’s pretty impossible for her body to look bad, no matter how poorly I may train her, yet I will still get the credit for her looking great. There is a lot of nonsense flying around in the fitness industry, and my advice is to view self-styled celebrity trainers with a healthy dose of cynicism.
How you plan on working out this year? Do you have a particular goal or challenge in mind? Will you be trying Dan’s tips? Tweet or upload a picture to Instagram using the hashtag #StartBetter
This feature was written in partnership with Clinique #StartBetter
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“What did I come in here for again?” It’s happened to all of us - you stride into a room full of focus and determination to stop dead in your tracks seconds later, as you try to recall the very reason why you went in there in the first place.
Forgetfulness happens to everyone, but repetitive memory loss that progressively worsens over time could be a sign of the early stages of dementia. And with diagnosis of the disease on the rise, it’s becoming more important than ever for us to become better at spotting its symptoms. “The number of people with dementia is increasing,” explains Dr Rosa Sancho, Head of Research at Alzheimer’s Research UK . “Age is the biggest risk factor for dementia, and with the population as a whole ageing, more people are entering age brackets where the dementia risk is higher.”
A disease that affects not only those who have it, but also those closest to them, its prevalence is causing a significant strain on the nation’s resources too. “There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK and the cost of dementia to the economy is £26 billion a year - greater than the impact of heart disease and cancer combined,” comments Dr Sancho. “Despite this, dementia research is underfunded compared to other disease areas.”
With cases increasing year on year, what are the best ways to, a) identify if we might be at risk; b) to prevent it and c) treat it? From its symptoms to its treatment, recent research developments to understanding its causes, we found out how to spot the signs to help ensure better detection as early as possible.
What is dementia?
Essentially, dementia is the umbrella terms used to cover a variety of different signs associated with a decline in mental ability. “Dementia is a word that describes a collection of symptoms,” explains Dr Sancho. “Most people tend to think of memory loss, but it also includes others such as communication problems, personality changes, reasoning difficulties and the general loss of skills required to carry out day-to-day tasks.
“There are a number of different types of dementia, the most common being Alzheimer’s disease, but there is also vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, frontotemporal dementia as well as a number of rarer forms.”
What are the known causes?
“The different diseases that cause dementia are the result of different underlying biological processes,” explains Dr Sancho. “What they all have in common though, is that they cause progressive loss of nerve cells in the brain. Everything we do, say or think is the result of signals being sent between these cells, so when they become damaged, the impact on our lives can be profound. We still need to research exactly why some people develop these diseases while other people don’t, but evidence is telling us that a complex mix of lifestyle, genetics and age all combine to play a part.”
MORE GLOSS: Diabetes - are you at risk?
What are the symptoms of dementia?
The most well-known sign is memory loss. However, how do we know when sometimes forgetting where you left your keys crosses the line to something more serious? This indeed is the million dollar question. “It is common to experience some changes in our memory as we get older, so it can be difficult to recognise which changes are typical and which could be a sign of dementia,” says Dr Sancho. “While we all might occasionally forget what we went into a room to do, or draw a blank on someone’s name from time to time, repeated and worsening forgetfulness that interferes with daily life could be more of a cause for concern.
“If people are worried that they might be experiencing this kind of difficulty, it’s a good idea for them to speak to their GP. A GP will be able to determine whether there might be a need for further tests from specialists and rule out other conditions that could be causing these problems.”
repeated and worsening forgetfulness that interferes with daily life could be more of a cause for concern
Who’s most at risk?
Although genetics play an active role in terms of early-onset-dementia, these cases are more the exception rather than the rule. “There are a few very rare genetic mutations that, if people inherit, will almost always cause early-onset-dementia,” says Dr Sancho. “There are only a few hundred families worldwide who have these genes, so for most people, age is the biggest risk factor. People with Down’s syndrome are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and certain medical conditions like diabetes and depression are also associated with an increased risk.”
Although age and genetics are two risk factors that are out of our control, there are a number of lifestyle modifications that can help to maintain a healthy brain as we age. “The best current research suggests that not smoking, eating a balanced diet, keeping blood pressure and cholesterol in check, staying physically and mentally active and only drinking in moderation can all help to reduce the risk of dementia,” advises Dr Sancho.
MORE GLOSS: Am I just feeling down and am I depressed?
What are the best ways to treat it?
Although there isn’t a cure at this moment in time, there are options available to help slow down its development, ranging from medication to more holistic treatments.
“At the moment there are four drugs that may be prescribed to people with Alzheimer’s disease,” explains Dr Sancho. “These drugs work by boosting communication between nerve cells and can temporarily improve or slow the worsening of some symptoms in some people with the disease. Unfortunately, these treatments don’t slow down the underlying processes of the disease or protect nerve cells from damage. Developing a treatment that works in this way, called a ‘disease modifying treatment,’ is a key goal for Alzheimer’s Research UK and dementia researchers the world over.”
In terms of new developments, some exciting news has arisen in the States that makes for incredibly interesting reading around the subject - especially in terms of the importance of lifestyle and diet. “Professor Dale Bredesen, who is a neurologist at UCLA and founding President of the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing, presented a ground-breaking paper, ‘Reversal of Cognitive Decline: A Novel Therapeutic Programme’ in 2014,” comments nutritional therapist and Get The Gloss Expert Petronella Ravenshear . “In the paper , he documented the first ever successful reversal of Alzheimer’s disease. His paper is clear, easy to read and deeply exciting.
“According to Bredesen, a holistic and personalised approach needs to be taken not only to address dementia and Alzheimer’s, but to all chronic diseases.” She adds, “Using this programme, Bredesen has successfully reversed Alzheimer’s in a whopping 90% of the patients treated so far.
“Successful treatment means the programme takes not only genes into account but crucially focuses on nutrition and lifestyle. This means sticking to a nutrient dense and low glycaemic diet (no sugar, gluten or refined grains and more fish and vegetables) and:
• Sleep (7-8 hours a night);
• Exercise (at least 30 minutes 6 times a week);
• Intermittent fasting (at least a 12 hour overnight fast);
• Addressing stress with meditation and yoga as well as exercise to stimulate the brain;
• Detoxification – especially of heavy metals like mercury;
• Optimising oral hygiene – brushing and flossing and seeing the hygienist regularly;
• Optimising gut health – fibre and probiotics are key.
“Supplements in the programme include curcumin, ashwagandha, vitamins D and K, B vitamins to improve methylation, and CoQ10 and fish oil as well as antioxidants.
“In a nutshell, protecting ourselves against degenerative brain disease is all about including the things above, which we know to be vital for a healthy life. Eat your greens and eat a fibre-rich, nutrient-dense diet. And keep insulin levels down by avoiding grains and refined sugars and carbohydrates – there is a strong connection between high insulin and degenerative diseases of all kinds, including those that affect the brain.”
MORE GLOSS: Why am I always tired?
Is dementia inevitable as we age?
“Unfortunately there are many misconceptions surrounding dementia,” comments Dr Sancho. “One of the most prevalent seems to be that dementia is a normal or inevitable part of ageing and therefore, there is nothing we can or will be able to do about it. We know that this isn’t true.
"Most older people – even those over 90 – don’t develop dementia. Dementia is the result of physical disease processes that affect the brain and, with sustained investment in research, there’s no reason why scientists won’t be able to develop ways to intervene with these processes just as they have done in other diseases.” Here’s hoping a cure for all types of dementia is something we’ll be able to see within our lifetimes.
Alzheimer’s Research UK is working to energise a movement across society to support, fund and take part in dementia research. For more information please visit www.alzheimersresearchuk.org .
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Flexibility has never been a strength of mine. More yeti than I am yogi, my sense of balance, finesse and coordination is akin to a Thunderbird caught in a tornado. It isn’t pretty.
However despite my obvious shortcomings, I’ve always been drawn to trying yoga. An unlikely partner to my puppet-like limbs, my intrigue stems from hearing devotees’ almost evangelical accounts of how it’s benefitted both their bodies and minds. Having never been the best at dealing with anxiety, stress and sleeplessness in the past, I wondered whether this could prove to be the perfect fitness fix for me in terms of helping bridge the gap between soul, spirit and hopefully, a flat stomach.
So cue my yoga journal, a series of features where I’ll be chronicling my journey into the world of yoga. Each month, I’ll be trying out a different style and relaying my adventures - the good, the bad and the ugly.
This month I signed up for 30 days of vinyasa flow yoga at the aptly named, Stretch London . Launched by former DJ and Producer Carl Faure and the enviably lean and lovely Sophie Whippy, the studio proved to be the perfect place to start my transformation from timber to limber. With each class catering to a wide range of levels, its group of experienced teachers were incredible at providing an amazing level of attention to each and every student to make sure I never put a foot wrong. No matter how much I tried....
What exactly is vinyasa flow yoga?
This fluid, almost dance-like branch of yoga is all about connecting your breath with movement in a series of smooth flowing postures.
Is vinyasa flow yoga for me?
“Vinyasa flow is great for people that like to move and is great for busy minds and active bodies, as the movement brings us to a place of inner stillness and calm - perfect for Londoners!” says Stretch’s Carl Faure.
Carl’s top tips for anyone new to yoga
“If you're new to yoga practice, first off, take your time,” says Carl. “You won't master it in a day, a week, a month and arguably a lifetime, so why push yourself? Listen to your body - listen for when movement feels easy and there's space… back away from any pain, and just learn to breath. The rest will happen when it's ready. Find a teacher you trust and inspires joy in your practice.”
So what happened when this Thunderbird hit go? Having signed up for three classes a week over a four week period, I braced myself to wave my wooden-limbed woes goodbye...
Week 1: A Downward Duck out of water...
Ever been to a party where everyone’s doing a dance that you just don’t know how to do? That pretty much summed up my first ever yoga class. But boy was it a routine that I wanted to learn. ‘This is unlike any kind of exercise that I’ve ever done,’ I kept on thinking, unable to stop my head from buzzing while trying to move from High Plank to Downward Dog without toppling over and trying to hide my winter-worn pair of trotters that had been happily hibernating in my boots for the last few months.
This week was all about learning the basics and my biggest challenge arose strangely enough with regards to er, my breathing. Or more specifically, correctly linking it to the movements. Having gotten used to associating exhalation with exertion in other forms of exercise, acclimatising to inhalations to move to particular yoga postures was taking a little getting used to.
Perfecting the Ujjayi breath was proving especially difficult. ‘Ujjay-what,’ I hear you say? I’m glad you asked. In a nutshell, it’s a conscious type of deep breathing whereby you narrow the throat passage as you inhale and exhale. The result is a sound reminiscent of a rushing ocean. I however, sounded more like Darth Vader with a snoring problem.
With some practice under my belt, my snort is starting to smooth out and I’m beginning to see my breath as an aid rather than a hindrance. ‘Inhale into Upward Dog and exhale into Downward Dog’ is fast becoming my yoga mat mantra.
However, my inner perfectionist keeps making me acutely aware of my bent legs and inability to hold a posture for longer than three seconds. Feeling more Downward Duck than Dog, I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with myself. That being said, I haven't left a class feeling like I never want to come back. In fact, quite the contrary. This is something I want to get the knack of and I’m already seeing the effect that the mixture of meditation, yoga practice and breathing is having on my stress levels.
Inner monologue: ‘I reeeeaallly need a pedicure...’
Win: Following my introduction to headstands and shoulder stands, I managed to do a shoulder stand without tipping over and falling on my fellow practitioners like a drunk domino. #Winning.
Goals: To become better at blocking out my senses and being less self-conscious. Come my third class, it became clear that there was no judgement, with the emphasis heavily placed on developing ‘your yoga practice,’ no matter what your level of experience.
MORE GLOSS: 6 morning yoga poses guaranteed to transform your day
Week 2: Bridging the gap...
I’m started to like this. Really like this.
Seeing subtle but encouraging improvements to my postures, particularly with regards to my balance is proving extremely motivating. I’m able to hold a Tree Pose (balancing on one leg with the other bent and placed on the opposite leg’s inner thigh), with minimal leg-shaking and more ease than I realised. It’s my attitude that needs the biggest shift and I’m beginning to see the effect being more present and having a more positive outlook is having on my practice, (woah, did I just refer to myself having a practice?!)
Not only that, but I’m starting to develop a genuine fondness of certain postures. Warrior 1 Pose (a deep side lunge with your arms parallel to the floor) makes me feel like a superhero or Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. The sense of real empowerment I feel as I start to flow, rather than sweatily stumble through the sequences, is addictive.
I even managed to do a Full Wheel (a bridge) - a move I haven’t done since gym in Year 5. Although I still feel like quite the novice and can’t hold it for the full time, I am starting to push myself more and actually enjoy doing so. My legs are still as crooked as a corrupt politician when doing Forward Folds, but unlike last week, there is a greater level of acceptance of my flaws that I didn’t have before.
Inner monologue: ‘I am the Mockingjay!!’
Win: My bridge. This was a major achievement for me considering how stiff my back and quads were after too many hours in front of a computer screen. My stomach and thighs are starting to tone up just enough to make my jeans feel less snug and the meditation segments at the end of the classes are giving my evenings the perfect wind down to aid a much better night’s sleep.
Goals: To gain greater range of motion, especially through my thighs and lower back. To attempt the Crow Pose - a diabolical invention whereby you balance on your hands with your knees rested on your upper arms. This is what I imagine pure evil looks like...
Week 3: Patience is a virtue...
This week has been one of ups and downs.
I had my best session so far at the start, where I actually managed to do a Full Wheel and hold a Crow Pose for around four seconds in the same class. Yes, I may have lost my balance and KO’d on the floor like a fallen tree soon after, but hey, it’s not how you fall that matters but how you get up (although I must say, I did fall rather spectacularly...)
My enthusiasm soon dissolved the next night though, following my worst session so far. The class concentrated predominately on my most inflexible body parts - my quads and hamstrings.
To quote Shakira, ‘My hips don’t lie,’ and much like Pinocchio, they were rubbish at telling porkies and pretending to be more flexible than they were. I went too hard too fast and having not left enough time for my body to recover from the previous day, I tweaked my thigh early on in the session and was catching up for the rest. Although disheartened, my reaction was vastly different from the first week’s and taking inspiration from another pop ingénue, I decided to swiftly, ‘Shake it off,’ and view it as a learning experience.
My last session of the week saw me make my first attempt at a headstand. With a strange mixture of apprehension and excitement, Carl helped me get into position and use the wall as a base in order to get my bearings. One leg off....stomach tight....I couldn’t quite muster up the courage or strength to get both feet off, but I have to remind myself that I WAS UPSIDE DOWN and these things will take time.
Inner monologue: ‘I’m doing a Crow! I’m doing a Cr....OW’
Win: A full wheel and Crane Pose in one week.
Goals: To remember to give my body a proper break to fully recover between sessions.
MORE GLOSS: Pilates vs yoga - which one’s for you?
Week 4: Could I actually be looking forward to exercise?
I’ve got to the point now where I can’t wait for my yoga classes. I’m slowly but surely developing a familiarity with the poses which has given me much more confidence when attempting their more complicated variations and the increasing speed in which they are done. Although my legs aren’t completely straight when I bend down to touch the floor and I still need to sneak in the cheeky Child’s Pose when I’m finding it too much, the flow of movements makes me feel somewhat graceful and reaches muscles where I didn’t think I even had ones.
My High Planks are now much easier to hold and I find that I’m able to transition from vinyasa to Upward Dog to Downward Dog with greater purpose. I even had a bash at a three-legged variation without ending up in A&E, which has proven to be a great marker by which to measure my core strength by. I still find arm and leg balance poses still pretty tough though, always finding assistance in my trusty block in order to stabilise myself and to frankly, avoid breaking my bum.
I came one step closer to holding a headstand in my last class and the day I master it will be amazing. With Sophie’s help, I was able to alternate my legs as they came away from the wall. With her guidance and the skills I’ve learned so far, it made for the perfect setting to push my boundaries, safe in the knowledge that I wouldn’t get injured. I couldn’t ask for more really.
Inner monologue: ‘JUST BREATHE!’
Win: Going from a three-legged Downward Dog to three-legged Plank and pushing myself to take the more advanced options instead of playing it safe.
Goal: To do a headstand...one day!
The results...
When I started the month, my aims were to increase my flexibility, improve my posture and tone up when it came to my body and to become more present and calm when it came to my mind. On all counts, I can say it's been a success. My 30 days of vinyasa flow has led to me feeling taller, leaner and more stress-free, a mixture of results which is incomparable really to any type of exercise I've done in the past. What's more, it's sparked an ambition in me to get better - I actually look forward to exercise now and view it as essential 'me' time in the evenings.
As far as my flat stomach goes - there's still a little way to go, however I can certainly notice that it's going in the right direction. Stomach aside though, things are also particularly looking up when it comes to my, ahem, posterior. Having seemingly taken the lift from Basement to Level 1 since starting, I’m glad to report that it is currently acclimatising to its new altitude and much prefers its new location. If that’s not enough of an incentive to stay aboard the yoga train, I don’t know what is...
My yoga ‘It’ kit
These are the essentials that have helped me through the month...
Margaret Dabbs Sole Spa Medical Pedicure
£80. Buy online .
This is truly the best pedicure around. With a ‘no one size fits all’ approach, each step of this transformative beauty treatment is designed with your gait and specific foot problems in mind to ensure your feet are in tip top condition to hit your yoga mat.
Nike Leg-a-see Mishmash Allover Print leggings in Light Blue Lacquer
£33. Buy online .
There’s nothing worse or more mortifying for class full of yoga goers then when someone rocks up to a class in a thread-bare pair of leggings. This eye-catching pair from Nike though will make sure you garner looks for all the right reasons thanks to its sturdy design and extremely comfortable fit for transitioning from move to move with ease.
Sweaty Betty Victory Run Bra in Adonis Blue Beetle Blue
£40. Buy online .
Providing you with less bounce for your buck, this shock absorbent bra with padded cups is the perfect match for those of a modest bust size wanting to keep their cupcakes covered without turning them into pancakes.
Dailygreatness Yoga Journal
£34.95. Buy online .
This journal has acted as the perfect partner to my yoga adventures, providing a great way to keep focused and inspired throughout. Entering my thoughts before and after each of my classes during my train journeys to and from the studio helped to reset my mindset and keep track of what I needed to work on.
Bobble Water Bottle with Tether Cap in blue
From £8.99. Buy online .
The coolest-looking water bottle around, it even contains an electro-positive carbon filter inside to remove chlorine and tap water contaminants, leaving you with a pre or post-class tipple that beats your standard bottle of Evian.
Nike Pro Hypercool 2.0
£28. Buy online .
To aid movement and help you stay comfortable in the heat, look no further than this versatile tank top made of mesh and sweat-wicking fabric. It’s a gym bag staple that literally goes with anything.
Tune in next month to see how I fared after trying hot yoga for 30 days...
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The claim ‘high protein’ is seemingly fast becoming the new ‘low fat’, as a plethora of products on the supermarket shelves boast of ‘added’ protein, which apparently promotes increased satiety, lean muscle mass and greater vitality in general. While protein is indeed essential in our diets, the growth in protein ‘enriched’ food and drink may not be quite as healthy or beneficial as marketeers might have you believe. Given that everything from pasta to ice cream to frosting is available in ‘high protein’ form these days (for a considerable mark up), has the pro-protein endorsement gone a little too far? Let’s weigh it up…
There’s no doubt that the current wave of wellness that we’re riding has lead to an increased importance being levelled at protein as a macronutrient, and that’s not a bad thing in itself considering that protein is chock full of amino acids, the building blocks for muscle, as nutritional therapist Jenna Zoe explains:
“Protein is essentially long chains of amino acids. If you imagine the protein is a necklace, all the amino acids are little pearls. When we ingest protein, the body breaks down the necklace so that it can use the pearls for literally hundreds of amazing functions it needs to perform. Some of these include creating and maintaining healthy hair, skin and nails, making new cells, repairing muscles, and regulating hormone function, which in turn leads to a speedier metabolism."
The wide-ranging benefits linked to protein have been responsible for pushing it into the spotlight in the context of healthy eating
A lightening fast metabolism and lean, mean muscles are both particularly appealing if you’re looking to get into shape, and as such protein-heavy sports nutrition has transitioned from a bodybuilding and professional sporting sector to the wider market. According to Mintel research, 25% of us have consumed a protein shake/drink, bar, gel or similar in the last three months, and our spending in the sports nutrition sector is up by 27% since 2013 (it now stands at £66 million). The added protein effect is even more marked amongst the young and high earning, with 42% of those aged 16-24 having consumed a sports nutrition product within the last three months (64% of these exercise at least once a week) and 31% of those earning £50,000 or more buying into the sports nutrition market (63% of this group exercise at least once a week). Workouts aside, of those that buy protein enriched food and drinks, 47% report that they form a part of their everyday diet, which isn’t surprisingly given the wide array of option on the market; Mintel data indicates that the number of food and drink products launched in the UK with a high-protein claim rose by 97% between 2014 and 2015 and 498% between 2010 and 2015.
Emma Clifford, Senior Food and Drink Analyst at Mintel, thinks that shifting lifestyles and a wider availability of sports nutrition products are propelling the likes of protein shakes and bars to public consciousness, and by proxy, consumption :
“Used by one in four people, sports nutrition food and drink enjoys surprisingly widespread use, despite its specific function as supporting sports and fitness. As a result, sales are booming and at the heart of this strong performance is that the appeal of these products is expanding beyond the small pool of the most elite sportspeople and gym fans. The category is increasingly attracting ‘lifestyle’ users who see these products fitting in with a healthy, active lifestyle. Fuelling the shift towards the mainstream use is the growing availability and visibility of accessible snacks and drinks from sports nutrition brands."
“High-profile activity from big-hitting brands has also given the high-protein trend mainstream visibility in recent years. The wide-ranging benefits linked to protein have been responsible for pushing it into the spotlight in the context of healthy eating. These multiple positive associations mean that usage of high-protein products is not limited to consumers with a single dietary want or need.”
So what’s seducing us to pay a premium for ‘supplementary’ protein? Mintel stats reveal that, for those that buy high-protein products, 41% do so because they believe they’re not getting enough protein in their day to day diet, while 37% consume protein rich food and drink to complement a healthy lifestyle, and 36% want feel fuller for longer (recalling a certain ready meal range). As for other motivations, 25% of consumers believe that high protein products will help them to lose or maintain weight, which is understandable given protein’s health credentials and the ripped abs often displayed on many a shake bottle.
The intentions are virtuous, but it’s the quality of the protein that we consume, not the amount of it, that could hold the key to better health, as Jenna emphasises:
“The only protein chains the body can really use are the ones it’s programmed to break down, AKA, the ones found in nature. Most of the commercial protein-enriched products use cheap isolates (such as whey protein isolate and soy protein isolate) to boost the marketability of their goods, but these proteins are so highly processed and far removed from nature that the body works very hard to flush them out. As a result, they add to the toxic load of your body, which in turn compromises efficient metabolic function (not to mention anything with the word ‘isolate’ is a legal synonym for ‘contains MSG’).”
In the same way that everything ‘gluten-free’ does not provide a dietary holy grail, so high-protein doesn’t equate to healthy
Given that, in the UK, men are advised to consume 55g of protein a day, and women 45g, it is should be easy to hit our protein target by including two palm sized portions of high quality protein in our daily diet. What’s more, the National Diet and Nutrition Survey indicates that we generally exceed our daily recommended intake of protein in the UK by between 44-55%, so topping up with poor quality protein is unlikely to improve our endurance or accelerate weight loss, especially if the likes of protein ‘enhanced’ muffins, crisps and beer (seriously) pad out our regular meals with extra unnecessary calories. In the same way that everything ‘gluten-free’ does not provide a dietary holy grail , so high-protein doesn’t equate to healthy. That being said, a high quality protein supplement does have its place when combined with a balanced diet and regular exercise programme. As Jenna highlights, there are some gems out there that can restore your energy levels and help you to recover quickly if you’ve been training hard:
“Not all high protein products are bad for you. If you’re looking to supplement your protein intake, look for protein powders that are made of either pure whey, egg white or high-quality plant proteins such as rice, pea, or hemp. Stay away from anything that isn’t plain, vanilla, or chocolate flavour. That cookies and cream protein bar isn’t helping your cause.”
“ Neat Nutrition , Sunwarrior , and PurePharma all make great protein products. Most importantly, don’t overly worry about your protein intake. Amino acids are found in almost every plant, grain and animal food, so if you’re eating enough calories, you’re probably getting enough protein. Some people do thrive off of more protein than others, but don’t buy into the myth that you need a huge whack of protein in order to become skinny or ripped. Your healthiest, leanest body comes from eating as natural a diet as possible, with some fun stuff thrown in there too for sanity.”
“Having said that, if that sickly-sweet protein bar is your favourite treat on earth, keep it in your diet. But let’s get honest and call it what it is- a candy bar.”
In short, swapping out nourishing and natural protein sources for artificial, sugar laden ‘supplements’ is clearly not a shortcut to better health (healthy quick fixes rarely prove fixative it seems), but choosing vitamin and nutrient rich protein over processed, highly refined alternatives, for example, is a good idea.
This was nutritionist (dip) and model Danielle Copperman’s approach when pioneering her quinoa based cereal range, Qnola , which is soon to launch at Waitrose:
“Simply put, I was making Qnola for myself as a protein rich, gluten-free alternative to other breakfast cereals on the market that didn't suit my dietary requirements. Only when I began giving it to friends and family did discussions begin about how there was nothing genuinely as nutritious on the market.”
“I think that the issue, in some cases, is not limited to the bad things that traditional cereals can contain, but also the lack of healthy additions that would instantly make them more nutrient-dense. For instance quinoa is a fibrous seed naturally high in protein and full of amino acids, omega 3 and antioxidants. I started eating quinoa when I first began to work out a lot, as it provides you with plenty of long lasting energy, along with amino acids for muscle repair, rebuilding and growth. High in fibre, quinoa is easy to digest for most people, and aids digestion. It is ideal in the morning because the protein content gives you sustainable energy to see you through until at least lunch time, reducing cravings or premature hunger.”
“Qnola contains between 11g and 18g of protein per 100g, depending on the flavour. Other granolas like Jordan’s range between 9g -11g, Spoons Cereals about 9g-10g, Lizi's Granola around 10g and Dorset cereals, around 8g, so in general it’s naturally higher in protein than many alternatives on the shelves.”
Gradually increasing her intake of good quality protein, rather than relying solely on supplements or cheap cuts of meat, and not punishing her body to achieve strength have helped Danielle to feel better in herself, both mentally and physically:
“When I began working on my blog and Qnola, I was working out a lot and I would probably go as far as admitting that I was mildly on the verge of orthorexia . I was obsessed with working out, but I wasn't incredibly preoccupied with body image, I just wanted to feel great all the time. I believed that workouts and consuming a really high level of protein would do this, plus I used to eat a lot of animal protein, but I began to discover that, personally, it wasn't doing great things for my digestion. In the past year, I have become much more plant based but still eat a lot of nuts, seeds and plant proteins, as well as fish and occasionally white meat. I’ve noticed an improvement in my muscle strength and definition, which makes me feel stronger, more toned and consequently more confident. However, I don't feel that my overall health has suffered since lowering my animal protein content, as quality of meat these days can be terrible, whilst the content of fresh, organic vegetables is so nutritious and rich in a powerful variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants."
However you look at it, listening to your body, rather than taking an extreme approach, is always the way forward. If you know that you can’t squeeze in a protein rich meal within a few hours of a workout, by all means whizz up a high quality protein smoothie, but don’t forget the veggies, slow release carbs, good fats and other nutritious elements that constitute ‘real food’ in your quest for form and fitness. Woman cannot live on protein pumped bread alone, plus, if you fear that you might be protein deficient, it’s always best to check out what’s going on underneath the surface with your GP before bulking up.
Check out Peta Bee’s ultimate guide to protein sources here
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A lot of questions emerged from Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui’s remark that she didn’t reach her full potential in the Olympic 4x100m medley relay last week because she had her period. There was puzzlement in her homeland as to why the pool didn’t turn red (only around 2% of Chinese women use tampons) and how she was able (allowed?) to swim at all, which is reminiscent of the Georgian swimming pool that banned women from swimming during menstruation just a week earlier, on account of the potential for periods to ‘contaminate’ the water. The ignorance, and of course the struggle, is real when it comes to periods.
The thing is, and not to excuse the shame and stigmatisation attached to periods in many parts of the world, menstruation is a relatively unstudied subject, particularly in the sporting arena. According to a review by the British Journal of Sports Medicine of more than 1300 sports and exercise studies, research participants were on average 61% men and a measly 39% women, and it’s said that this degree of imbalance is an issue in medical research generally, which is deeply worrying where drugs trials in particular are concerned. Given that we’ve had periods since the dawn of time, and that menstruation is essentially responsible for the fruition of humankind (getting a bit melodramatic there but...true story), it’s simultaneously frustrating and frankly a bit dangerous that we’ve not been put under the microscopic more intensively.
Of the studies that have been published, findings from the Neuralplasticity Laboratory at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago indicate that menstruating women are more prone to leg injuries, as soaring oestrogen levels can slow down muscle reflexes, meaning that more women typically suffer the likes of ACL injuries than men (women are reportedly twice as likely as men to incur this type of injury at certain points in their menstrual cycle). Research suggests that fluctuating hormones can also affect our metabolism and body temperature, which could both have a bearing on our fitness levels, while iron deficiency is another little studied factor that can affect the physical performance of menstruating women. Irregular periods amongst athletes are also relatively unchartered waters in the sports research domain, while the wave of fitness apps and gadgets that initially launched didn’t account for hormonal shifts during the menstrual cycle at all, which is inconsiderate to say the least but not surprising when considering the significant gaps in data on the topic.
Tides are beginning to turn, with UCL and St Mary’s University conducting surveys amongst 789 female athletes, in addition to a group of London Marathon runners, on whether they feel that their menstrual cycles affect their performance. Tellingly, of a group of 1073 women in total, close to a third felt that their physical performance was affected, and 36% disclosed that they suffered from very heavy bleeding. Bleeding heavily can lead to iron deficiency aneamia, symptoms of which include fatigue, shortness of breath and heart palpitations, which would have obvious negative implications on sporting performance. Georgie Bruinvels of St Mary’s University is currently studying the effects of the menstrual cycle on iron deficiency in female athletes for her PhD project, with the help of crowdfunding.
With little decisive evidence either way as to how having our periods could affect a PB (after all, Paula Radcliffe broke a world record during the week of her period), we asked sporting, wellbeing and medical experts for their tips on how to ride out period week, but how you go about scheduling your workouts is of course personal to your own body, menstrual cycle and experiences.
The medical opinion
“Exercising during this time will not cause any harm, but don’t be too hard or tough on yourself. Always listen to your body, allow yourself adequate rest and you’ll feel re-energised for your next gym session.”
“Having said that, exercise naturally releases endorphins in your body. This can be so beneficial if your mood is on the lower side of ‘normal’ and you’re feeling more irritable both during the PMS stage and when your period actually arrives.”
“It’s worth noting that you may also feel bloated around the time of your period- this is due to raised levels of oestrogen which can lead to fluid retention, making your body, feet, hands and fingers feel swollen. As well as leaving you feeling sluggish, you could also find that you particularly crave sugary and carby foods. Try not to alter your diet too much during menstruation to keep energy levels steady- a treat is fine, but moderation is key.”
“Finally, I think education regarding the menstrual cycle should also be encouraged to help women understand their bodies and how to optimize their health and wellbeing. In particular if you tend to bleed heavily, it’s worthwhile to visit your GP for a full assessment and to check your full blood count to ensure that you’re not anaemic.”
The PT opinion
Katie Gray, Personal Trainer and founder of Train.Tone.Transform
“For me personally I continue to exercise as normal throughout my period as thankfully I don't suffer from crippling cramps, although I know that some others do. I tend to have some bloating with my cycle, but to be honest I'm used to this having suffered with IBS for years and so I know how to deal with this with exercise choices. When I experience bloating I find that sticking to cardio is more comfortable for me than resistance training, therefore I would pick either a spinning class, the stairmaster or interval sprints or an incline walk on the treadmill. I would also avoid ab exercises as trying to crunch or twist can be super uncomfortable!”
“Some tips I recommend to clients who continue to train during their period are as follows:
Take a magnesium supplement. Magnesium acts as a muscle relaxant and so can be super helpful in relieving painful cramps or lower back pain.
Increase your water intake. During our cycle we tend to hold on to an increasing amount of water, which in turn can make us feel heavy and bloated. Surprisingly increasing our water intake reduces water retention, so make sure you are drinking at least two litres a day.
Listen to your body. If you can't face your usual training that day, don't do it! Switch up your rest days, or do something more gentle such as a walk, yoga or pilates. You don't want to add unnecessary stress to the body by pushing yourself too hard or over training.
Go to bed early! Sometimes our period can zap the energy out of us meaning that we have none left to exercise. Combat this by going to bed earlier than usual to give you an extra boost in the morning.”
Esmée Gummer, personal trainer and 1Rebel instructor
“'When you feel tired and that you can't be bothered to exercise, surprisingly HIIT training could be your golden choice. High intensity interval training means expending short bursts of energy over a period of time. 20 seconds of your maximum effort with a short break will keep you engaged and your energy levels will go through the roof. Or for that extra release, try boxing - there is nothing better than beating a bag down and letting all your troubles melt away. Remember that your body temperature is higher than usual, so sweat out that heat and finish with a cool shower.''
If you don’t feel physically up to taking on a punch bag, Esmée has a few more gentle back ups:
“'Bloating is horrid when you are on your period, especially when you are exercising. It makes you feel a lot worse than you otherwise would. Swimming is a great way of exercising in a low impact way, and it’s a good way of naturally relaxing tension through motion.''
“Yoga is also beneficial for not only relaxing the body and mind but also to release muscle tension in the back. The downward facing dog in particular will loosen tense muscles.''
Which leads us to...
The yogi opinion
Libby Limon, Yoga Teacher and Nutritional Therapist
“I don’t personally practice during the first few days of my cycle, but that is more because it’s really not what I feel like doing and it gives my body and mind a natural break. I would say listen to your body and do what feels good. Traditional advice is to avoid inversions during menstruation, as this may be linked to endometriosis, although I have never seen any evidence of this, so it could well just be a yogic old wives tale…”
Whether you feel that your period affects your fitness levels or not, taking care of yourself by staying hydrated, getting enough sleep and eating a balanced diet will all serve you in the strength and stamina department. If there was ever a time for a bit of TLC, whether that’s taking a rest day or treating yourself to boutique fitness class, it’s now. No excuses.
PMS sufferer? For advice on treating it holistically, see our SOS page
Follow Katie on Instagram @katiegrayfit , Esmée @esmee_gummer , Libby @libbylimon and Anna @annyhunter
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