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  • How to use a single dumbbell for a total-body workout

    How to use a single dumbbell for a total-body workout

    When you think about working out with dumbbells, you probably picture using a set of two, one in each hand. There are many exercises you can do with two dumbbells, but as a strength and conditioning coach, I can tell you there are just as many — if not more — you can do using just one. In fact, you can effectively train your entire body using a single dumbbell in about 10 minutes.

    Below, I’ve outlined five exercises you can do sequentially to strengthen your legs, hips, arms, shoulders and core. Read the detailed descriptions for each exercise to familiarize yourself with the cues and any needed modifications, then follow along with me in the video above as I take you through each exercise.

    The gauge was being transported by a subcontracted company, which picked it up from the mine site on 12 January to move it to a storage facility in the northeast suburbs of Perth.

    When it was unpacked for inspection on 25 January the gauge was found broken apart and the radioactive capsule was gone. One of four mounting bolts and screws was also missing.

    Authorities said vibrations during transit may have caused the bolts to become loose, allowing the capsule to fall through gaps in the casing and truck.

    This incident came as Rio Tinto tries to repair its reputation in Australia.

    In 2020, Rio Tinto blasted the 46,000-year-old rock shelters at Juukan Gorgein Western Australia to expand an iron ore mine, sparking a major outcry that led to several of the company’s top bosses standing down.

    And last year, a parliamentary inquiry found sexual harassment was rife at Australia’s mining firms after an internal review at Rio Tinto found more than 20 women had reported actual or attempted rape or sexual assault over five years.

  • Montessori: The world’s most influential school?

    Montessori: The world’s most influential school?

    Tech geniuses, nation builders, and famous artists have praised the benefits of a Montessori education – but does it hold up to scientific scrutiny? David Robson and Alessia Franco investigate.

    When considering the lives of the rich and famous, it is always tempting to look for the secrets of their successes. So here’s a brain teaser: what do the cook Julia Child, the novelist Gabriel García Márquez, the singer Taylor Swift, and Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin all have in common?

    The answer is that they all attended Montessori schools as young children. In the US, the schools’ influence in the art and tech world has long been noted. But the reach of the educational method goes far beyond that. Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi was a fan, and described how children taught with it “felt no burden of learning as they learned everything as they played”. Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel Prize-winning poet, set up a network of Montessori schools to free children’s creative self-expression. 

    But does the method actually work?

    It is more than a century since the Italian doctor and educator Maria Montessori designed her famous principles, which encouraged children to develop autonomy from a young age. Her life offers an inspiring story of an early feminist who dared to defy the Fascist regime in the pursuit of her dream. And according to some estimates, there are now at least 60,000 schools across the world using the Montessori method.

  • Children as young as nine exposed to pornography

    Children as young as nine exposed to pornography

    Children are being exposed to online pornography from as young as nine, according to a study for the children’s commissioner for England.

    A quarter of 16-21-year-olds first saw pornography on the internet while still at primary school, it suggests. By the age of 13, 50% had been exposed to it.

    The findings have been linked to low self-esteem among young people and harmful views of sex and relationships. 

    Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza said it was “deeply concerning”.

    In a nationally representative survey of more than 1,000 16-21-year-olds, 38% had found pornographic content accidentally.

    Joanne Schneider’s son stumbled across a pornography website, aged eight after typing swear words he had heard at school into a search engine.

    “We’d put all the normal safety features in place and had removed apps such as YouTube but didn’t for one second think that my son could find himself on adult-entertainment sites within a few seconds,” Ms Schneider, from London, said.

    “As soon as I saw what was happening, I closed the site – but both him and I were left in shock at what he had seen. I felt so terrible about the whole thing.

    “All of a sudden I was having to explain it all, including the fact that what he saw was artificial and far from what real people look like.”

    Of the 18-21-year-olds, 79% had seen pornography involving sexual violence as children.

    Almost half of the young people say girls expect sex to involve physical aggression, such as airway restriction, the commissioner’s report says.

    One 12-year-old told Dame Rachel her boyfriend had “strangled” her during their first kiss. He had seen it in pornography “and thought it normal”.

    The commissioner urges “every adult in a responsible position” to take the findings seriously.

    The Online Safety Bill, going through the House of Lords, should be used to protect children from internet pornography, she says.

    “It should not be the case that young children are stumbling across violent and misogynistic pornography on social-media sites,” Dame Rachel says.

    “I truly believe we will look back in 20 years and be horrified by the content to which children were being exposed. 

    “Let me be absolutely clear – online pornography is not equivalent to a ‘top-shelf’ magazine.

    “The adult content which parents may have accessed in their youth could be considered ‘quaint’ in comparison to today’s world of online pornography.”

    Dame Rachel encouraged parents not to shy away from the topic at home and make it clear extreme pornography is “not real, it’s acting”.

    She told BBC Breakfast children “want their mums and dads to talk to them often, even when they’re really young, in an age-appropriate way about the things they might see so they’re not confused”.

    She said conversations about “simple boundaries” like why it might not be right for youngsters to have internet-connected phones or social media accounts were also important.

    The Online Safety Bill is due to be debated in Parliament this week amid calls from some MPs and peers for it to include tougher measures on age restrictions on social media.

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