Video shows tortoise turning over another after it got stuck upside-down. Credit: YouTube/AUDI YU
A tortoise has been filmed turning over another after it got stuck upside-down.
The tortoise was reportedly from Taipei Zoo, according to a Twitter posting by journalist Simon Ricketts.
The next big thing? Body weight training
Curious about what’s going to be hot in the wellness sphere next year? Well, you’ve come to the right place. We put our sneakers to the ground to find out what fitness trends could be making their way into your gym in 2015. Happy sweating.
According to an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) survey of more than 3,000 fitness professionals worldwide, body weight training is predicted to be the next big thing. “Expect to see it continue to expand in all movement experiences including both group and personal training,” says Carol Espel, Senior Director, Group Fitness and Pilates at Equinox. “Look for the comprehensive incorporation of gymnastics, adult jungle gyms, workout spaces that are uncluttered with weight machines and open for training, greater suspension training options, primal movements, and more programming that is less focused on standard weight lifting protocols.” In other words, those tried and true exercises that don’t require equipment—like lunges, squats, push-ups, and burpees—are here to stay, so embrace them.
OK, HIIT (think P90X) did take a hit over the past year dropping from the number one spot on the 2013 ACSM survey to number two this year. But we assure you that this technique, which alternatesintense bursts of exercise with short, sometimes active, recovery periods, isn’t going anywhere. The reason: It’s super effective. “People are exercising in shorter bursts and they are still seeing results,” notes Donna Cyrus, Senior Vice President of Programming at Crunch. This should be no surprise, though. After all, who wants to slave away at the gym for hours each day when you can blast fat in as little as 20 minutes? Exactly.
Boutique studios that specialize in one specific fitness genre—be it underwater cycling or trampoline workouts—will continue to rise in popularity. However, within this group fitness sector, indoor group running has been steadily gaining momentum. From big gym chains like Equinox and Crunch to smaller studios like Mile High Run Club, treadmill-based training is poised to become the new “it” workout. Yes, many view this piece of machinery as a torture device (I know I’ve called it a dreadmill on more than one occasion), but these classes are truly beneficial, helping to improve your running through speed, incline, and interval-based drills.
“There is a trend in fitness to return to simplicity, and running is the oldest form of exercise,” explains Andia Winslow, a fitness expert and coach at Mile High Running Club. “With indoor treadmill training, participants are in a controlled and yet challenging environment where they can, regardless of fitness level, keep up with class while running on industry elite commercial equipment. With less strain on bones, joints and tendons, runners can focus instead on form, specialized and programmed intensity and being wholly engaged with their runs.” Even better: You will never have to worry about it being too cold or raining too hard to log those miles.
Don’t you just love a super intense workout? The way it pushes you to your limits, leaving behind a reminder (read: sore muscles) of all the hard work you put in. Here’s the deal, though, too much intense training can throw your body out of whack, leaving it open for potential injuries, which is why recovery is essential. “A balanced body is key, which means all of your muscles are working correctly, not just some of them,” says David Reavy, PT, owner of React Physical Therapy and creator of the Reavy Method. “Weak muscles will fatigue quickly, and you over train muscles that are already strong. The compensation and overuse of muscles and not the work brings the need for recovery.” This is why “we will continue to see the rapid expansion of group formats that include self-care protocols for self myofascial release (SMR), such as foam rolling and therapy balls, core strengthening and dynamic stretching, full recovery days and clear focus on sleep as an integral part of one’s fitness regimen,” says Espel. “And of course restorative yoga formats will continue to become a much more prevalent part of programming.”
In our tech-obsessed world, this one seems like a no-brainer. Just take Nike, for example: I learned at their Women’s Summit last month that 9 million women have downloaded the Nike Running app and 16 million women have downloaded the Nike Training (NTC) app. And that’s just one company—think about all of the other fitness apps and cool trackers out there that put a wealth of health info at our fingertips. The reason we’re still obsessed with these modalities is because “they provide inspiration, guidance and coaching,” explained Stefan Olander, VP of Digital Sport for Nike at the summit. Not to mention the social factor. Adds Espel: “We will continue so see an even greater level of engagement of the use of multiple devices to track and log movement, nutrition, sleep and all aspects of activity,” she says. “The challenge for all will be determining what data is pertinent and then how providers and health care experts take the most relevant information and make it continually meaningful to users.”
An Latin American singer has claimed that her life is finally back on track after she turned her back on medication and hired a faith healer to exorcise demons.
Sabrina Sabrok, who currently lives in Mexico, said her life was falling apart earlier this year when she had checked in to a clinic in the capital to be treated for depression and panic attacks.
But the 38-year-old felt the medication she was put on while being treated in Mexico City were not really helping, and in desperation she turned to faith healer Zulema.
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Sabrina Sabrok, 38, who currently lives in Mexico, said her life was falling apart earlier this year when she had checked in to a clinic in the capital to be treated for depression and panic attacks
The Argentine blonde, who has appeared on several television shows including the Mexican version of Celebrity Big Brother, said Zulema had told her that she was 'possessed'.
So Sabrina hired the healer and her helpers to help her, and then carried out a dramatic exorcism in a local cemetery, which was captured on film.
The video shows her screaming, swearing and shouting, with many people suggesting the exorcism looked more like a low budget horror movie.
But Sabrina, who has also hosted her own television show on TeleHit, said she doesn't care what her critics think as the faith healer had helped her get her life back on track.
The video of the exorcism shows Sabrina screaming, swearing and shouting, with many people suggesting the exorcism looked more like a low budget horror movie
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Sabrina (center) hired a faith healer to help her exorcise her demons and mend her troubled ways
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Sabrina (left), who has also hosted her own television show on TeleHit, said she doesn't care what her critics think as the faith healer Zulema (right) had helped her get her life back on track
Zulema said: 'I am really pleased that the exorcism helped and drove the demons out of her.'
Things are now looking up for Sabrina - born as Lorena Fabiana Colotta - as she went on to perform with 37-year-old Mexican singer and actress Ivonne Soto.
Last week, the singer took to the stage in Cancun where she revealed she has a new boyfriend named Edson.
She said: 'You can't imagine how much pleasure he has brought me, my life is now really back on track.'
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Sabrina (right) singer took to the stage in Cancun where she revealed she has a new boyfriend Edson (left)
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Things are now looking up for Sabrina (left) - born as Lorena Fabiana Colotta - as she went on to perform with 37-year-old Mexican singer and actress Ivonne Soto (far right)
Airline executive’s behaviour has focused attention on overweening influence of powerful Korean family conglomerates
Cho Hyun-ah speaks to the media in Seoul.Photograph: Lee Jin-man/AP
A drama that started eight days ago in the cosseted seclusion of the first-class seats of a plane as it taxied to the runway in New York ended yesterday in public humiliation on the freezing streets of Seoul, when the-now-ex-Korean Air executive who halted a flight over a bag of nutsbowed in apology before a crowd of reporters.
Cho Hyun-ah, a scion of one of South Korea’s most powerful dynasties, knew how macadamia nuts should be presented, and showed she knew how contrition should be served up too: wearing black, clasping her hands before her, and hanging her head in a deep bow of shame.
Her father, chairman of Korean Air, announced she had not only been relieved of her job at the airline, but of all other executive posts in hisHanjin corporation.
Cho, whose roles included being head of cabin service at Korean Air,became enraged when a flight attendant on flight KE086 leaving John F Kennedy airport in New York for Incheon handed her macadamia nuts in a bag instead of first class’s customary bowl.
She summoned the senior crew member in charge and demanded an explanation for the mistake. When his answer dissatisfied her, she ordered him off the plane, forcing it to return to the gate so that the offending crew member could be ejected from the aircraft.
At first, the company tried to excuse the incident. They said that the jet had only just left the gate at JFK; and also claimed that as Cho was the executive in charge of cabin service it was only “natural” for her to discipline cabin crew who were not giving proper service.
The South Korean public was not convinced. Bloggers and the Korean press lambasted Cho for her arrogance, and took to social media to mock her for going “nuts”. But the response wasn’t just limited to jokes – it also gave voice to deep-rooted anger in South Korea.
While global interest was sparked by such trivial air rage, the story has focused attention once more on one of the most painful sores in the flesh of South Korean society: the overweening influence and brazen behaviour of a small number of “chaebol” – vast and powerful family conglomerates that dominate the Korean economy, from airlines to famous electronics manufacturing brands and most things in between.
While Korean Air is part of international airline alliance SkyTeam, within the company, the family members exercise enormous control. In theory, no aeroplane captain should be ordered by a company executive to change course once the plane had taxied away from the gate, but the chaebol system helps explain the genuflection and servile deference shown by the steward, and the aircraft’s captain – employees who could not risk any defiance.
The South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on Thursday that it was summoning Cho for questioning over the incident. She may also face criminal charges for forcing the plane to return to the gate after a complaint was filed on Wednesday by the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, an influential South Korean pressure group.
But much more humiliating still for Cho, her father – her boss at Korean Air and the patriarch of the chaebol – publicly apologised for his daughter’s behaviour, bowing deeply, calling it foolish, and going so far as to say that he regretted not having raised her better.
Cho resigned – or was forced to resign – in ignominy from her position at the airline. But the damage was already done.
Even before she became known as the macadamia queen, or macadamia princess, following the “nut rage” incident, Cho was already a symbol for public dislike of the chaebol system. In 2013 she travelled to Hawaii to give birth, so that her children – twin boys – would have automatic US citizenship and avoid South Korea’s two-year compulsory military service.
In 2005, her brother Won-Tae Cho, who is another executive vice-president of the airline and several of the chaebol’s subsidiaries, was reportedly investigated by police for shoving an elderly woman who confronted him about his reckless driving; and in 2000 Cho’s father was convicted, along with her grandfather and uncle, of tax evasion.
In 2012, when the chaebol moved into chains of small neighbourhood stores, ordinary Koreans complained that even the smallest corners of commerce were choked off from independent business. The resulting outcry saw the likes of Samsung, and Hyundai Motor Groups decide to sell off their nascent chains of bakery stores.
“Nutgate” may have caused uproar, but it is unlikely to be the tipping point for the chaebol grip on power in the long term. In the meantime, however, there has been an unexpected consequence: daily sales of macadamia nuts have hit record highs
Gaby Scanlon drank two shots of Jagermeister laced with liquid nitrogen when she fell ill
A wine bar is being prosecuted after it served a freezing liquid nitrogen cocktail to a teenager who was celebrating her 18th birthday and left her needing her stomach removed.
Gaby Scanlon, from Heysham in Lancashire, drank two shots of the liqueur Jagermeister, which had been laced with the chemical, with friends at Oscar's Wine Bar in Lancaster in October 2012.
But soon after the drink she was doubled over in pain and her friends drove her straight to Lancaster Royal Infirmary where a CT scan found a large perforation.
The student spent three weeks in hospital as doctors removed her stomach and connected her oesophagus directly to her small bowel.
During a four hour emergency operation they found the extremely low temperature of the liquid nitrogen had burned a hole in her stomach and completely destroyed the stomach lining.
The super-cold chemical creates a dramatic dry-ice effect as it evaporates at room temperature. As a gas it is harmless, but the much colder liquid freezes objects on contact in seconds.
Today Lancaster City Council announced that court proceedings will take place against the George Street wine bar, one of its directors and an employee.
In a statement the council said: 'Andrew Dunn, of The Garden Village in Old Earswick, Yorkshire, has been summoned to court to answer charges under sections 3(1), 33(1)(a) and 37 of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974 in relation to his role as a director of Oscar's Wine Bar.
'Matthew George Harding, of George Street in Lancaster, has also been summoned to court to answer charges under and breaches of sections 7 and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974 in relation to his role as an employee of Oscar's Wine Bar
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Gaby (left) had been out celebrating her 18th birthday with friends when she ordered two shots of the drink, laced with the ice-cold chemical to create a dramatic, bubbling effect to the beverage
'The company, Oscar's Wine Bar Ltd, registered address of 39-42 Bridge Street, Swinton, South Yorkshire, has been summoned to court to answer charges under sections 3(1), and 33(1)(a) of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974.'
The first hearing will take place at Lancaster Magistrates' Court on February 9 next year, the council added.
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Lancaster City Council today announced court proceedings will take place against the George Street wine bar (pictured) , one of its directors and an employee
