As China Drops Travel Rules, Wariness Rises Over its Covid Outbreak

Many welcomed Beijing’s plan to loosen quarantine rules for travelers, but concerns linger about the country’s Covid wave.

NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/world/asia/china-covid-travel-rules.html Chang Che, Claire Fu and Amy Chang Chien

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The Pocket Chinese Almanac Sees Some Hope for 2023

A little book bases its forecasts on a geomancer in Hong Kong, and says next year will be “nowhere near as bad” as 2022.

NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/nyregion/pocket-chinese-almanac-2023.html James Barron

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People Are Going Back to Holiday Parties — With Covid Tests

As rising Covid rates collide with a return to holiday festivities, hosts are coming up with inventive compromises.

NYTimes New Year's Eve https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/23/health/covid-holidays-parties.html Roni Caryn Rabin and Holly Secon

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Netflix is delving into fitness with Nike Training Club programs

Netflix is delving into fitness, and I, dear reader, couldn’t be more…happy about it, yes, that’s it.The streaming giant has teamed up with Nike to launch its longstanding free workout app Nike Training Club on the platform on Dec. 30 (yep, New Year’s, it’s not lost on me). Basically, alongside your gloriously slothy binge-watching stretches, you’ll be able to run up that hill physically and metaphorically and access exercise content too. “It’s not always easy to motivate yourself to exercise, but the option to feel the burn and then directly transition into one of your favourite shows does have a certain appeal,” Netflix wrote in a blog post Thursday. “And now, that’s exactly what you can do.”
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Nike Training Club’s Netflix offering will initially have five exercise programs made up of multiple episodes, released in 10 languages and made for varying fitness levels. There’s the 13-episode program “Kickstart Fitness with the Basics,” as well as programs for core, vinyasa yoga, HIT and strength, and “Feel Good Fitness.”Netflix users will be able to search “Nike” in the app to find the workouts. If you don’t have Netflix, the Nike Training Club app is free to download for both Android and iOS.

Mashable https://mashable.com/article/netflix-nike-fitness

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