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“There will always be obstacles, unexpected challenges and reasons to put yourself last”—a fitness industry veteran explains how consistency and workout variety helped her progress

“There will always be obstacles, unexpected challenges and reasons to put yourself last”—a fitness industry veteran explains how consistency and workout variety helped her progress

Published by Jenni Sidey

Welcome to Workout Diaries, a series where we ask experts to talk us through what a week of exercise looks like for them, helping you figure out how to develop and maintain an effective workout routine. Meggan Berg has been in the health and fitness industry for more than 20 years. In that time, she’s worked as a trainer, yoga teacher, and group class leader. Nowadays, she’s in charge of the day-to-day running of Life Time’s Baybrook studio. Latest Videos FromFit&Well While she leads fewer classes than she used to, she still finds time to dedicate to her own health and fitness. “My biggest priorities are consistency and progression,” she says. “Consistency drives progress and progress keeps me inspired.” You may like She adds that she tries to keep a goal in mind for every workout, so she’s motivated and working toward something. Sometimes, that goal is more formal, particularly when she has a competition to work toward, but sometimes it’s simply to be stronger than she was yesterday. Start your week with achievable workout …

Senegal’s first elite girls’ boarding school challenges patriarchal norms

Senegal’s first elite girls’ boarding school challenges patriarchal norms

Published by Sam Flores

Off the coast of Dakar, Goree Island is home to the Senegal’s first elite boarding school for girls. The Mariama Ba School of Excellence encourages its students to challenge what has traditionally been expected of girls across the predominantly Muslim West African nation. The school has a 100% completion rate, and admits 35 students, whose tuition and board are completely state-funded, each school year. Keywords for this article Source link

Ousted Ukraine defence minister challenges Zelensky’s leadership

Ousted Ukraine defence minister challenges Zelensky’s leadership

Published by Sam Flores

Ukraine’s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called Tuesday for elections to be held even as the war against Russia continues, saying the country was gripped by a crisis of governance. The move by one of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s most loyal and longstanding team members until recently could become the most significant internal challenge Zelensky has faced since Russia’s full-scale invasion. FRANCE 24’s Emmanuelle Chaze reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Source link

Neurodiverse Sexuality and Common Challenges

Neurodiverse Sexuality and Common Challenges

Published by Jenni Sidey

An increasing number of people are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), sometimes both at the same time (AuDHD). This has become so common that people who are trying to destigmatize such neurodiversity have crafted new words to describe the population of folks with varied thought and processing differences. Rather than disabled or disordered, some people prefer to refer to others and themselves as neurospicy. This rise in diagnosis does not necessarily mean that more people have autism or ADHD today than in years past. Instead, lack of awareness in previous decades meant that this range of diversity went undiagnosed for many people, especially women. Increasing knowledge has led to a significant uptick in diagnosis among adults, and especially Millennials and Gen Z. Sometimes adults who bring in their children for diagnosis also find themselves matching many of the diagnostic criteria and realize later in life that they too have autism, ADHD, or sometimes both. Neurospicy folks share some common traits when it comes to sexuality and gender, …

Mariska Hargitay opens up about ‘challenges’ in brand new chapter

Mariska Hargitay opens up about ‘challenges’ in brand new chapter

Published by Daniella Wilson

Mariska Hargitay has ventured out into new career lanes lately. The Law & Order star opened up on Today about recent obstacles she’s faced as she’s embarked into new creative territories. The actress revealed to Savannah Guthrie: “I am somebody to take on new challenges.” Mariska recalled the moment she was backstage during her Broadway play, Every Brilliant Thing, when she got a phone call from the head of the NBC network right before she was supposed to go onstage. © Getty ImagesMariska Hargitay got candid on the Today show The entertainer joked: “I thought, ‘I should answer this. Am I getting fired?’” Mariska got the news that she was being offered the role of host for the upcoming Emmys, and she was in complete disbelief, and commented: “At first I thought she was kidding. I actually thought she was kidding. And then she wasn’t.” The performer didn’t immediately get on board with the idea and she revealed that it “took me a while to process it.” © Getty ImagesShe opened up about her career challenges She had …

iFixit’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown is a Preview of Apple’s Foldable Challenges

iFixit’s Galaxy Z Fold8 Teardown is a Preview of Apple’s Foldable Challenges

Published by skeptic

Samsung launched new foldable smartphones earlier this month, including the Galaxy Z Fold8. If you didn’t know it was a Samsung device, you might look at it and think it’s Apple’s foldable because it matches rumors about the iPhone Ultra so well. The Z Fold8 is likely to be the closest competitor to the foldable ‌iPhone Ultra‌, which makes iFixit’s teardown of Samsung’s smartphone an interesting read. Will Apple’s foldable have some of the same troubles as the Z Fold8, or has Apple solved the issues plaguing foldable smartphones? Hinges have been a failure point on foldable smartphones, and it’s a design problem Samsung hasn’t been able to solve. The Fold8 has a dust-and-water ingress rating of IP48, so it’s resistant to water, but not to dust. It’s hard to keep dust away from a smartphone, and when dust gets inside, it gums up the hinge mechanism and it fails. iFixit did a dust test on the Z Fold8, putting particulates in the hinge. It resulted in “truly awful crunching and grinding noises” and then …

Scotts Valley challenges Interior decision over disputed Vallejo casino gaming eligibility ruling

Scotts Valley challenges Interior decision over disputed Vallejo casino gaming eligibility ruling

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The Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians has returned to federal court after the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed course on whether its trust land in Vallejo, California, can be used for gaming.  The lawsuit, filed August 7 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenges the department’s July 30 decision that the roughly 160-acre property does not qualify as the tribe’s “restored lands” under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, known as IGRA. Interior reverses Vallejo casino approval after review finds historical connection – https://t.co/WCFiQqV4PA @RWW — Suswati Basu (@suswatibasu) August 4, 2026 Interior continues to recognize Scotts Valley as a restored tribe and agrees it satisfies the timing and modern-connection requirements under federal regulations. The tribe is arguing that it has a significant historical connection to the Vallejo property. Latest reversal from Interior triggers another legal challenge from Scotts Valley According to the complaint, the department abandoned the approach it previously used when it approved the property earlier this year. The tribe argues the latest decision is “arbitrary, capricious, contrary …

A new wave equation for light challenges how physics explains the arrow of time

A new wave equation for light challenges how physics explains the arrow of time

Published by Jenni Sidey

A new wave equation suggests accelerating waves can move only toward positive time, offering a possible microscopic explanation for why time has a preferred direction. The framework treats changing wave speeds as relativistic effects and argues that light’s momentum remains unchanged from the wave’s own reference frame when it enters a material. The theory could be tested with time-varying photonic materials, although the proposed optical experiments face problems including energy losses and material damage. Light does something deceptively simple when it enters matter: it slows down. Yet that familiar effect may conceal a deeper problem about how waves move through changing environments, how momentum is conserved and why time appears to move only forward. A theoretical analysis from researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University proposes a new way to describe waves whose speed changes over time. The work develops what the authors call an accelerating wave equation, designed to handle a feature the standard wave equation leaves out. That missing feature is acceleration. When a wave moves between media or through …

James and Ola Jordan lift lid on ‘personal challenges’ that led to their split

James and Ola Jordan lift lid on ‘personal challenges’ that led to their split

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Former Strictly Come Dancing stars James and Ola Jordan have spoken out about the “difficult personal challenges” that led to their split. It was announced on Saturday that the couple, who have been married since 2003 and share a six-year-old daughter named Ella, are “taking some time apart”. Their manager, Vickie White, said that the pair “began a trial separation some time ago”. The Jordans have now shared a joint statement, posted across both of their Instagram pages. “We have always tried to be open and honest with the people who have supported us over the years and we feel it’s only right that this update comes from us,” they said. “At the moment we’re taking some time apart as we work through very …