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ZEN CITY
IINN
TTHHEE
Stressed out city dwellers can now fi nd peace of mind
where they’d least expect it — like a crowded subway or
Times Square — thanks, ironically, to technology. 4
SHINE
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WELCOME TO AIDE ASSAILS BOOK, CALLS FLOODING AT JFK AIRPORT
METRO.US PRESIDENT A ‘GENIUS’ ADDS MISERY TO DELAYS
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NIKKI M. MASCALI, REPORTER
I fi rmly believe in making resolu- A senior aide to President fi ction.” Miller accused CNN of Flooding due to a 4, video on CNN showed. The
tions. After all, there’s always Donald Trump on Sunday “anti-Trump hysterical coverage” water main break disruption occurred while the
room for improvement for us all assailed a new book rattling following the Friday release of forced the suspension Northeast continued to endure
— yes, even you — but it’s hard the White House, called his boss the book, which portrays Trump of international fl ight arrivals bone-chilling weather with the
to make self-care a focus. If our a genius and launched an attack as mentally unstable and unfi t for at New York’s John F. Kennedy New York City temperature at
recent weather, this city or the on news coverage before a TV the demands of his job. Its pub- International Airport on Sunday, 17 degrees. International fl ights
political climate have you ready anchor cut off their interview. Se- lication prompted Trump to post adding to the misery of travelers to Terminal 4 were suspended
to scream, a new app from the nior policy adviser Stephen Miller on Twitter that he is a “very stable after a winter storm canceled and passengers who had already
creators of Shine Text wants to told Jake Tapper on CNN’S “State genius.” Miller added, “The reality or delayed hundreds of fl ights arrived there were diverted to
help. Find out how to prioritize of the Union” that the book “Fire is that the president is a political in recent days. Water poured other terminals, according to
your emotional well-being on and Fury: Inside the Trump White genius,” before accusing Tapper from the ceiling onto 5a check-in the Port Authority of New York
page 4 or at metro.us. House” by journalist Michael of being “condescending.” Read counter and covered large and New Jersey, which operates
Wolff was a “grotesque work of more on pages 7 and 10. areas of the fl oor of Terminal the airport.
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NO PANTS SUBWAY RIDE
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The “real feel” may be in the single digits, but that is of no concern to New York’s
brazen improv comedy crowd. Thousands of brave New Yorkers turned out Sunday
for the 17th annual No Pants Subway Ride, a yearly winter event organized by the
comedy group Improv Everywhere. This year, the event was expected to attract about 4,000
half-naked subway riders to the MTA transit system. Thousands more participated in the
event in 60 cities around the world, according to organizers. The only requirements for
participants were a willingness to go pantless on the subway and an ability to keep a straight
face while doing it. MORGAN ROUSSEAU
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One Powerball ticket pur- payout would total an estimated P resident Donald Trump delayed a military exercise amid
chased in New Hampshire $358 million, before taxes. The said over the weekend that a standoff over Pyongyang’s
matched all six numbers for odds of a single ticket hitting all he would “absolutely” be nuclear and missile programs.
Saturday’s estimated $570 million six numbers in the Powerball are willing to talk on the phone to Trump, answering questions
jackpot drawing, the fi fth-largest 292 million to 1, according to the North Korean leader Kim Jong from reporters at the presidential Twenty-fi ve percent of
grand prize in the game’s 15-year Multi-State Lottery Association. Sat- Un and that he hopes a positive retreat at Camp David, expressed Americans think that they’ll
history, lottery offi cials said. The urday’s winning Powerball ticket development results from talks a willingness to talk to Kim but pay more under the newly
winning numbers drawn were 12, is the second large lottery grand between North Korea and South not without preconditions. Trump passed tax plan.
29, 30, 33, 61 with a Powerball prize drawn in as many days. On Korea. North Korea agreed on and Kim have exchanged insults
of 26. The identity of the winner Friday, one winning Mega Millions Friday to hold offi cial talks with ever since Trump took offi ce, with
or winners was not immediately ticket, worth an estimated $450 South Korea next week, the fi rst Trump repeatedly calling Kim
released. If the winner selects the million, was sold in Florida. That in more than two years, hours “rocket man” for testing nuclear Source : Yougov.com
lump-sum option, the one-time lump-sum payout is $281 million. after Washington and Seoul weapons and ballistic missiles.
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How to find Zen in an urban setting
An app called Shine
motivation, interac- to prioritize our emotion- ZEN AT YOUR
helps city dwellers tive audio content, like al well-being. FINGERTIPS
decompress despite conversational “Mindful
Moments,” and a chatbot Tell me about Mindful
the chaos of their
expanding on its daily Moments. It may be a bit ironic to use an
hectic lives. motivational texts. Shine’s Mindful Moments app to unplug, but such is the
Shine co-founders are written the way we world we’re living in. Here are a
Naomi Hirabayashi and would talk to each other, few other apps to help you fi nd
NIKKI M. MASCALI
@NikkiMMascali Marah Lidey, who was voiced by wellness influ- a moment or two of Zen.
[email protected] named one of Forbes’ “30 encers we follow and in a
under 30” for consumer first-of-its-kind interactive Meditation Studio curates
People often look to technology this year, format. You can listen to more than 300 expert-guided
improve themselves at told Metro about Shine’s Mindful Moments around mediations to tackle everything
the dawn of a new year, growth from a text for topics like “Nix That from stress and pain to mood
and after the chaotic 2017 50 people to currently Inner Critic” or “Help, boosters and even practices for
many of us had, 2018 having more than 1 mil- I Have a Toxic Friend,” parents, millennials, teens and
may need to be a Year of lion users, if it works for and get meditations that fi rst responders.
Well-Being. non-millennials and how relate to what you’re deal-
More and more they decompress beyond ing with. Headspace has similar of-
millennials are turn- technology. ferings, including “bite-size
ing to a mindfulness When Shine launched its motivational well-being app in early December, it Shine is very millenni- meditations,” that are delivered
practice to improve their How did the Shine app installed bright yellow benches in high-stress areas of New York City to let al-focused. Can other in the soothing British accent of
quality of life — and for come about? people try out its content. SHINE generations benefit co-founder Andy Puddicombe.
good reason. A recent Naomi Hirabayashi & from its content? Calm provides breathing ex-
study found that just 25 Marah Lidey: With our deeper experience to it’s especially difficult We want solutions that ercises, sleep meditations and
minutes of meditation or community’s feedback work on their well-being during the holidays. Plus, keep up with our well- nature scenes and sounds sure
yoga each day improves and our attention to and leverages audio con- between political drama, being at the rate in which to take you to a happy place.
cognitive function and how much the world has tent that brings the Shine record-breaking natural we’re thinking about it
energy levels. changed in the past year, voice to life. disasters and a height- — all the time. And while Apple Breathe reminds you
If this type of self-care we realized the important ened climate of sexual as- the “on-the-go” value to throughout the day via your
is one of your resolu- opportunity we have to This time of year can sault awareness, 2017 has Shine resonates deeply Apple Watch to focus on breath-
tions, millennial-minded provide more ways for be stressful. been a rough year, and with our generation, the ing, guiding you to inhale,
wellness brand Shine people to integrate self- It can feel difficult to Americans’ well-being is issues we address are exhale and focus on you for as
launched a new app that care into their routine. carve out time to take on the decline. Now more issues people experience little as one minute at a clip.
includes mindfulness The app gives users a care of yourself, and than ever, it’s important across generations.
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Penn Station schedules
change as repairs begin
It won’t quite be
NIKKI M. MASCALI
a “winter of dis- @NikkiMMascali coming on Monday for branches. For specifics,
content” for Penn [email protected] Amtrak, Long Island Rail visit mta.info.
Road and New Jersey Tran-
Station commuters, The winter round of re- sit passengers, though NJ Transit
but there are a few pair work at Penn Station most of the work will be Five trains a day on the
is slated to begin as sched- done on weekends. Northeast Corridor (NEC)
changes going into
Phase II of repair work at Penn Station began Friday, and changes are coming uled  on Friday, which Amtrak owns and and North Jersey Coast
Monday for Amtrak, Long Island Rail Road and New Jersey Transit riders. AMTRAK eff ect Monday. means that changes are maintains the tracks at Line (NJCL) will be impact-
Penn Station, the nation’s ed due to the work, two
busiest rail hub, and in the morning peak and
Phase II of its infrastruc- three in the evening.
NOW is the time to take ture renewal work is a The 6:11 a.m. east-
continuation of its two- bound NJCL train 3216
month “summer of hell” from Long Branch will
work that concluded in now leave at 6:23 a.m.
care of YOUR BODY! September. and divert to Hoboken as
This round is expected train 2604. The 7:06 a.m.
to end May 28 and will fo- eastbound NEC train 3122
cus on Tracks 15 and 18. from New Brunswick will
Work includes concrete terminate at Newark Penn
demolition, rail renewal Station and be renum-
and replacing three turn- bered as train 5822.
outs that direct Amtrak The 5:25 p.m. NJCL
Varicose Veins Heaviness and LIRR trains heading train 3267 from PSNY
east and to Sunnyside will originate from Hobo-
Leg Ulcers Swelling Yard. ken at 5:22 p.m. as train
Here’s some of what 2609. NEC train 3171 de-
Spider Veins Itching commuters can expect: parting PSNY at 5:43 p.m.
will originate at Newark
Pain/Burning Fatigue LIRR Penn Station at 6:03 p.m.
Five of the LIRR’s 98 as train 5869. The 6:51
Restlessness Cramping morning rush-hour trains p.m. NCJL train 3441 from
to Penn Station will be PSNY will be canceled.
rerouted, as will three of
Frustrated with previous treatments, the 86 evening rush-hour Amtrak
trains from the station. Northeast Regional trains
services and poor results? Five trains will have ex- 110 from Washington,
tra cars for added capacity, D.C. to PSNY and 127
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Though 5 percent of train 640 will terminate
service will be affected by at Newark Penn Station,
this winter work, as op- while Keystone train 643
(cid:115) Personal & discrete care delivered (cid:115) No downtime posed to the 20 percent will originate at Newark
affected by the summer Penn Station.
directly Ronald Lev, MD (cid:115) 1 5 minute minimally repairs, there are several Southbound train 173
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MONDAY , JANUARY 8 , 2018
TRUMP’S AMERICA
DUMB, DUMBER, TRUMP
How, like, stupid is this? ANALYSIS one’s been able to prove right twice a day — and no one form of intel- Metro columnist Ellis
A new book raises it. I’d like to quote some repeatedly sputtering ligence. People can be Henican is the best-selling
ELLIS
questions about Donald of what Miller said to that Trump is a “political smart — or dumb — in a author of a dozen books,
Trump’s mental fitness. HENICAN Jake Tapper on Sunday. genius,” most of what thousand different ways. including “TRUMPITUDE:
So he fires off an angry @henican But other than calling Miller yelled was simply But dumb isn’t smart, no The Secret Confessions of
tweet storm that makes Bannon “grotesque” — indecipherable. matter how loudly you, Donald’s Brain.” Join him
him sound mentally even a stopped clock is I know. There is like, yell it. on Twitter @henican.
unfit. Then, he sends an
unhinged person named campaign boss and chief
Stephen Miller onto CNN White House political
to vouch for his “very strategist who now runs
stable genius.” Breitbart News.
There’s a phrase for As the book shot
strategies like this one. up the best-seller lists,
The phrase is “not too and the legal thuggery
bright.” was met with guffaws,
You already know Trump took to Twitter,
the background here. his digital primal-scream
Michael Wolff’s new room, declaring that he’s
book, “Fire and Fury: always been known for
Inside the Trump White his “mental stability”
House,” quotes an army and “being, like, really
of insiders, many by smart.” Typed the presi-
name, raising disturb- dent: “I went from VERY
ing questions about the successful businessman
president’s 71-year-old to top T.V. Star to Presi-
brain. On page after dent of the United States
page, Trump comes (on my first try). I think
off as a volatile nitwit, that would qualify as not
a semi-literate child smart, but genius … and
unable to focus on any- a very stable genius at
thing but his own whims that!”
and eruptions. Well, let’s see.
To calm the roiling To prove it, he sent
waters, Trump’s lawyers wild-eyed Stephen
did the worst possible Miller, his chief policy
thing: They threatened advisor, onto CNN’s
legal action, firing off “State of the Union.”
cease-and-desist letters to There may be a less
silence Wolff and his on- attractive man in Wash-
the-record source Steve ington, physically or
Bannon, Trump’s former temperamentally. But no
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And even better - if this treatment
New York City - Nothing is more true. A life
works Why Treatment Can Fail
with constant pain is not a life worth living.
And if you can’t stay active and do all the and the results a This is why viscosupplmentation can fail for
things you love - like walking, playing golf, ten- often better some people. It is also why many knee
nis, vacationing etc. It’s not really a life at all. arthritis sufferers come to NYC Pain MD
s ore rison key to this treatment being successful after failed treatments elsewhere... and are
And for generations, knee arthritis has is actually getting the special lubricating gel
given good, hard working people a life sentence directly into the joint where it can go to for patients to travel hours for these advanced
of pain and suffering. To make things worse,
work. That’s why the doctors at NYC Pain
slick marketers only add to the pain by
promising wonder cures. ate night televi MD use very advanced digital imaging that
an allows them to see directly into the joint and
arthritis cures” that make wild claims and sound make
too good to be true . . . Because They Are If you have already had this procedure
the treatment has the best odds for
without this advanced imaging... Or if it was
Nothing is worse than getting your hopes success. Studies show that doctors doing
not used there is a
up - spending your hard earned money - only to these types of procedures without this special
good chance you did not get the
be let down time after time. imaging actually miss the joint space up to
results you
It is easy to give up one third of the time!
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der cures,” real doctors and researchers were retrospective study of nearly 1000 cases of
hard at work trying to discover a real medical ld
solution. Modern medicine eradicated small
pox and polio. Through laser eye surgery, doc-
tors can give almost blind people perfect 20/20
vision. The potential cures on the horizon with
breakthroughs like stem cell ti program of image-
therap are endless.
Solve The Riddle Of ad not need surgery...regardless of age or
For the past 3 years, that’s exactly what a
medical clinic in New York City has been
doing. The NYC Pain MD doctors have been rewent this type of treatment.
Follow up 2 years later revealed 82% had not
able to help thousands of knee arthritis suffer-
required surgery.
ers with cutting-edge treatments and technol-
ogy older generations could only dream about. Massive Cost Saving For Patients,
Insurance Companies & Medicare?
One of these treatments in particular has
help thousands of patents ease or eliminate
pain and go ba to doing their favorite some...
activities like: walking, playing gol, tennis and
many more. The treatment is called I’m a golfer and want to play golf but I less invasive
viscosupplementation. But wait. This is NOT couldn’t. I made the call and went and it’s the
the typical viscosupplementation. So if you best thing I ever did. It’s just – now I can play
are one of the many knee arthritis sufferers golf, I can walk, I can climb stairs, I can do a
things I did many years ago”.
who already had viscosupplementation and did potential s if
not get great results - what you are about to
discover be very important. I’ve been going for the treatment for my knees I
don’t’ take any pills, I take not over the counter
It might get you out of pain. yr.
medication..”
Here is why: During viscosupplementa-
tion, a special lubricating gel is put directly to be avoided and up to could
into your arthritic knee joint. This not only about it and I recommend It to everybody.” potentially be saved by patient d
helps the knee joint to glide more smoothly, it William La Spina insurance carriers. This should be welcome
acts as a cushion, protects the joint. a news for rising health care costs.
a often (While we cannot guarantee that all knee Who ?
In many cases, when done arthritis pain sufferers will respond like the This treatment is not for everyone. But it may
patient noted above, we can say these results are
properly, this can lessen knee poss.i ble.) be for you if you e sensations of grinding
pain for up to 6 months in or ,
getting up from sitting or even simply