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Pia Wurtzbach finishes New York City Marathon
By Claire Morales True, Managing Editor
Yes, Filipino beauty queen, actress and top in uencer ia Wurt bach has con uered the New York Marathon, her fi rst marathon, just like Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former resident Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
The Miss Universe 1 titleholder was one of the 1 runners from the hilippines who joined the New York City Marathon and fi nished it in on November . She was awarded a marathon medal after completing the race. ia s accomplishment was publici ed on Instagram by her British boyfriend, eremy auncey, who did not participate in the race but supported, cheered and tracked her along the way.
There was no immediate report on the time of the other Filipino runners.
It was gathered eremy also joined “the last few miles” of the marathon with ia.
“She did it!” eremy wrote at the very end of his Instagram documentation. “COVID, work travel schedule, and she still achieved her goal.” ia, who said joining the marathon was one of her “secret dreams,” and eremy ew to New York a week before the race after undergoing training since February.
Chelsea Clinton fi nished the race at . She also fi nished the marathon the previous year.
Aside from the -year- ld Filipino-German ia, who was number , other actors who fi nished the race were Ashton Kutcher, actor and entrepreneur, who completed the race at 1 actress Claire Holt, who fi nished it at 1 and Lauren Ridlo , actress from “The Walking Dead,” with a fi nish time of 8.
Ellie Kemper, actress from “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” also fi nished the race at 1 , the New York Times reported.
The marathon went back to pre-pandemic level as some , runners participated in the race.
The winner of the New York Marathon was Evans Chebet of Kenya with a time of hours, eight minutes and 1 seconds while Ethiopia s Shura Kitata was runner up at 8 and third placer was Abdi Negeeye of Netherlands with a time of 1 1.
In the women s division, Sharon Lokedi of Kenya was the champion with her time of while runner up was Lonah Chemptai Salpeter of Israel with time of and third Gotytom Gebresiase of Ethiopia with .
The wheelchair men winners were Marcel Hug of Swit erland with a time of 1 while American Daniel Romanchuck was runner up with 1 time while third placer was et e lat of Netherlands with a time of 1 .
The guaranteed pri e at the marathon was 8 , , according to organi ers. Sharon Lokedi and Evans Chebet, the top fi nishers in the women s and men s races, will each receive 1 , each while Marcel Hug and Susannah Scaroni, the wheelchair champions, will receive , .
In his Instagram post, eremy auncey proclaimed “She did it! COVID, work, and travel schedule and she still achieved her goal.” He also shared a video of ia with her fi nisher medal on Instagram Stories and reported by ABS-CBN and other media.
The former beauty ueen, for her part, said “I did it, I did it, I did it! My phone wallpaper is now a reality.”
Months earlier, ia disclosed that the idea to join a marathon competition came during the New Year when she had COVID and felt “just sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Other famous runners who joined the -mile -kilometer race as reported by New York Times were Ellie Kemper of “The Offi ce” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” T. . Holmes and Amy Robach of ABC s “Good Morning America” and former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber.
Actor AshtonKutcher, who completed the race, reportedly raised more than 1 million for Thorn, the nonprofi t technology company he co-founded to help prevent sexual exploitation of children.
Other famous runners and their time were
Matt ames, former lead of “The Bachelor”
Meghan Duggan, Olympic gold medalist in hockey
Ashton Kutcher, actor and entrepreneur 1
Claire Holt, actress 1
Lauren Ridlo , actress from “The Walking Dead” 8 ac Clark, former “Bachelorette” contestant 8 1
T. . Holmes, “Good Morning America” anchor 1
Tiki Barber, retired Giants running back 1 ia revealed last uly that she was joining her fi rst marathon, the New York Marathon.
She has been using her social media platform to inspire people to try running as a way to stay strong and fi t, among her other advocacies.
Last month on Insta-
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SB19 makes first live US tv guesting before New York show
Yes, the top Filipino band SB 19 has just achieved a new milestone.
On November 4, FOX 5 New York’s YouTube channel uploaded a video of the Flipino boy band performing its latest single “WYAT (Where You At)” ahead of its world tour. Reports from US showed the performance marked SB1 s fi rst-ever appearance on a US television show, the Good Day New York, where host Rosanna Scotto introduced the boy group as the “fi rst and only Filipino act to enter three Billboard charts early in the career.” SB1 s offi cial Instagram page updated fans: “Surreal! Hope you didn’t miss our fi rst live U.S. TV guesting earlier at fox5ny,” according to the reports. The group were set for its fi rst show at New York’s Palladium Times Square last November 5. During an interview, SB19 member Stell taught Rosanna the hand sign made popular by SB1 s hit song Go Up. It signifi ed the group s collective ascent to greater heights.
Before the TV guesting, SB1 members also paid a visit to the Philippine Consulate in New York headed by Consul General Elmer Cato, as part of their responsibilities as the National Com-
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mission for Culture and the Arts’ Sentro Rizal and youth ambassadors.
In its offi cial page, the group stated “SB1 is grateful to have met the wonderful people at Sentro Rizal of the Philippine Consulate General in New York.”
“As the Youth and Sentro Rizal Ambassadors of NCCA, we are committed to promoting Filipino genius and culture, especially music, on the global stage,” it added.
After several Billboard chart appearances, SB19 continues to gain global popularity!
The OPM boy group secured a sweet spot in the American fashion maga ine Teen Vogue, joining K-pop sensation BTS and the iconic British band The Beatles.
On uly 1 , , Teen Vogue published an article on their website titled “Our Favorite Boy Bands of All Time,” listing 34 global groups of various music genres and eras.
SB19 was the 18th band on the list.
Joining them are other iconic boy groups such as The Beatles, Boy II Men, One Direction, Backstreet Boys, Westlife, *NSYNC, Five Seconds of Summer, and The Jonas Brothers, among others.
Korean groups BTS, E O, SEVENTEEN, Big Bang, SHINee, Monsta , and Seo Taiji and the Boys also made it to the list.
Pia... (From page 19) gram, the former Miss Universe revealed how she struggled during training, both physically and mentally.
“I was worried I couldn t do the marathon anymore because I got sick twice and previously got COVID. I missed training days and some of those essential long runs so I was really worried,” she said. “My performance su ered, I couldn t get the mileage in, and I was slower than before. Mabagal na nga ako, bumagal pa lalo.”
“And nobody ever mentioned na mentally maa-a ect ka rin pala sa ganon. When you miss those long runs or you fail at reaching goals during training, you get so disappointed in yourself to the point of wanting to give up. Durog ang confi dence mo, wala ka nang gana,” she added.
Pia said she was able to get back on track “with the right guidance, support, and a lot of determination.” especially from her coach who remained “confi dent I can fi nish the km.”
“If you ve ever wanted to try running, this is the sign you re looking for. Don t let excuses stop you! I started with ero training,” she said.
Sunday’s New York City Marathon unfolded under the warmest conditions on record since the race was moved to its traditional early November date in 1986, the New York Times reported.
The temperature in Central Park was 73 degrees Fahrenheit (23 degrees Celsius) at 11 a.m., shortly before the elite runners crossed the fi nish line. The previous November record, as measured at the time the fi rst runner fi nished, was degrees on Nov. 14, 1993, according to New York Road Runners, which organizes the marathon.
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NATIONAL NEWS SPORTS / REAL ESTATE Carlos Yulo salvages silver and bronze medals in World Championships in UK
MANILA LIVER OOL After an eighth-place fi nish in the men s all-around fi nal of the World Gymnastics Championship in Liverpool, Filipino gymnastics star Carlos Yulo salvaged a silver and a bronze medal on the last day of the competition in England.
Yulo bagged a silver and a bron e, respectively, in the men s vault and parallel bars at the end of the 1st FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at M S Bank Arena in Liverpool.
Earlier, in a heartbreaking fi nish, Yulo missed for the fi rst time the podium with an eighth overall fi nish after garnering a total score of 8 . 8 across six events.
Yulo registered his highest points in the oor exercise and parallel bars with 1 .1 apiece but Olympic gold medalist Daiki Hashimoto of apan clinched the allaround title, while China s hang Boheng pocketed the silver and apan s Wataru Tanigawa bagged the bron e.
Yulo, who made history as the fi rst Filipino to capture a world championship gold during the oor fi nal in 1 , yielded his vault title by the slimmest of margins to top Armenian ualifi er Arthur Davtyan, who banked on his strong and clean aerial skills and landings to wrest the gold with 1 . points, or just a one-tenth of a point ahead of Yulo.
After a short break, as ABS-CBN reported, Yulo later scored 1 . points for bron e in the high-scoring parallel bars won by reigning Tokyo Olympic champion ou ingyuan of China, who was untouchable in ruling the event for a third time at the worlds in scoring 1 .1 points. German Lukas Dauser bagged the silver medal 1 . .
Seeking to atone for earlier lapses in the men s allaround and oor exercise fi nals, the pint-si ed Yulo, who was the third performer at the vault, brie y took the lead after he scored a solid 1 . points on his fi rst run with a handspring pike double front half despite landing slightly out of bounds.
That proved to be a costly error meriting a .1 deduction that led to his downfall, following a score of 1 . on his second attempt, resulting in the 1 . average output of the two tries..
The second-to-the-last entry, Davtyan opened with a picture perfect dragulescu — front handspring, double front half out in scoring 1 . points, then sealing the deal in with a superb second vault in earning 1 .1 points with his pinpoint landing.
Sharing the podium with Davtyan and Yulo was bron e medalist Igor Radivilov 1 . from the wartorn country of Ukraine.
Yulo admitted later he still had not perfected the “ri se gwang” a front handspring double pike one-and-a-half twist named after Rio Olympic games men s vault gold medalist Ri Se-gwang of North Korea that he executed on his fi rst try.
“My fi rst vault is not ready yet. It was a great challenge for me, and great preparation for next year. I m really happy that I made it, even though it s not gold in the end, it s still silver,” Yulo said in the ABS-CBN report.
“It s really di erent when you get gold, but it is what it is, and I accepted that,” he added with a shrug, adding that he was dissatisfi ed with his second vault.
“My second vault was not good. I really focused on my fi rst vault. It was really stressful.”
Also the third entry in the parallel bars, Yulo again had a eeting spell in the lead after four of the eight fi nalists performed, but that position was eclipsed by Dauser, the Tokyo Olympic silver medalist, and ou in succession as they took their respective turns at the apparatus.
Yulo s stint was somewhat of a disappointment after declaring earlier that he had wanted a top- fi nish in the men s all-around event and a gold in the oor exercise, vault and parallel bars.
The Filipino bet placed 8th in the men s all-around and could only muster th place in the oor exercise, an event he won convincingly at the 1 world meet in Stuttgart, Germany.
Yulo, however, kept his record of winning at least a medal in his fourth straight outing at the world competition, beginning with a bron e medal in the oor exercise in his debut in the 18 edition in Doha, Qatar, followed up by his historic gold in the same event in Stuttgart, Germany a year later.
A Recession is here!
Market is on edge. Central banks are hiking interest rates to try to rein in in ation. Meaning Fed Chair want to slow down the economy before in ation prices go up any higher. By increasing interest rates, it will or it should slow down the economy. When the economy slows down, demand will slow down and that might be good for in ation. Less demand means we will need less supplies.
We are due for a major recession, Wall Street is staking out the more bearish position. Bank of America, in the still-grim-but-less-dire camp, said the mood in fi nancial markets has been “recessionary.” Goldman Sachs is among the more optimistic of the big banks, but it s not exactly cheery The tight labor market has “raised the risk of recession meaningfully,” it said recently.
A person shops in the meat section of a grocery store on November 11, 1 in Los Angeles, California.
In ation, explained Why prices keep going up and who s to blame
Meanwhile, the Bank of England warned Thursday of double-digit in ation and a possible recession as it raised its key interest rate by a uarter percentage point. China s economy, the world s second largest, is stalling, threatening to drag down global growth. And Russia s war in Ukraine is sending energy and food prices through the roof in the EU and beyond.
If history is any indication, the recent run-up in in ation suggests we re due for a contraction. With one exception, every US recession since World War II has been preceded by broadly soaring prices, according to the Congressional Research Service.
So, what exactly is a recession, and how much do you need to worry about it Let s unpack it.
What is a recession
First, the textbook defi nition A recession is a prolonged period of economic decline, beginning when the economy peaks and ending when it bottoms out.
Recessions are typically marked by an economy shrinking in back-to-back uarters, measured by gross domestic product aka, how much are we collectively buying and producing as a society . But there are exceptions to that rule, including the brief and exceedingly steep recession the United States entered during the early months of the pandemic. And that technical designation doesn t mean much to anyone who s not an economist or a politician someone who is e ually if not more interested in avoiding the “R” word than anyone on Wall Street .
The reality of a recession feels is broadly economically gloomy think rising unemployment, a stock market in decline, and stagnating or shrinking wages. eople often rein in spending as gloom sets in, giving recessions a psychological component that can be hard to shake.
For example Technically, the Great Recession that began in lasted just 18 months, but the impact of the crisis weighed on consumers far longer.
Economists call this lingering e ect, especially in the labor market, “hysteresis.” The recession itself was brief, but its mass layo s and furloughs, along with a rapid shift to working from home, shattered previous assumptions about the value and meaning of work. Around the world, workers dissatisfaction with their employers has stirred a movement to seek something better, a phenomenon known as the “Great Resignation.”
What causes a recession
You could spend a career in economics researching and debating this very uestion. But let s focus on the most pressing risk right now The Federal Reserve s fi ght against in ation.
One of the uirks of the modern capitalist system we live in is that when the economy is going too strong, offi cials have to deliberately hurt it to keep it from going completely o the rails. That s precisely what the Federal Reserve is trying to do right now.
On Wednesday, the Fed raised its key interest rate a three uarter point, its most aggressive rate hike in years. Interest rates are the Fed s primary tool to control in ation, which is currently hovering at 8. the highest it’s been since the early 1 8 s.
Mortgage rates rose above for a year loan. If you were hoping for a . loan on a , . loan, with todays rates your payment would have gone up about 1 . each month. That means your buying power will decrease by about of your supposedly approved purchase price.
The ideal outcome is known as a “soft landing,” in which consumer prices come down and economic growth carries on at a steady clip.
How should you prepare
First, don t panic Even if a recession is inevitable, there s no telling how severe it will be. But it never hurts to plan for the worst. Here are a few ways fi nancial advisers say you can insulate your fi nances from a downturn.
Lock in a new job now With ultra-low unemployment and plenty of openings, it s a job seeker s market. That could change uickly in a recession.
Cash in on the housing boom If you ve been on the fence about selling your home, now may be the time to list. Home prices in the United States are up nearly year over year, but mortgage rates are also rising, which will eventually curb demand.
Set some cash aside It s always a good idea to have li uid assets cash, money market funds, etc to cover urgent needs or unexpected emergencies. CASH IS KING!
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