Self-Isolation 🏥 Home Workout Tips

At-Home Workout Tips and Tricks
If you’re in Self-Isolation
By Melissa Malamut - March 16, 2020

No Peloton? No problem.

Although many boutique studios and gyms remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have suggested we practice “social distancing,” which means also avoiding group fitness classes.

But finding the motivation to break a sweat at home can be tough, especially in New York, where small spaces mean minimal equipment, and close quarters means any move that requires jumping makes you that neighbor.

And when you’re cooped up working from home, it’s particularly important to keep moving. “Working from home can create extra tension and stress, and even short bursts of exercise can help release energy, relieve stress and improve your mood,” Equinox trainer Colleen Conlon, 27, tells The Post.

Fortunately, we’ve reached the Golden Age of at-home fitness, with high-end (and high-quality) offerings like Peloton and Mirror getting new competition: SoulCycle’s new at-home bike ($2,500) just became available for preorder. Spin classes stream with the Variis app, which also includes other workouts by Equinox trainers, and will start rolling out this spring. And apps like Obé (starts at $27 a month or $199 a year) bring boutique studio-quality classes — from sculpting to dance cardio — right to your screen.

So don’t fret; working out at home doesn’t have to be a drag. Here, Equinox’s Conlon, who also teaches on the new Variis app, and Fithouse instructor Tiffani Robbins, 34, who’s featured in hundreds of Obé videos, share tips and moves to help you feel accomplished and strong in between work-from-home deadlines.

 Make space
Conlon recommends cleaning up — at least what’s in your eye (or camera) view. “I’m notorious for throwing clothes all over the place, but if I’m taking the time to work out in the apartment, I will clean the space first to clear my mind,” she says.

Open a window
“Fresh air helps to wake me up and get ready [to work out],” Conlon says. “If it’s cold out, I’ll put on a diffuser with eucalyptus or peppermint.”

Squeeze it in . . .
“Every little bit counts, so do what you can,” Robbins says. “You can do squats anywhere. Even a 10-minute express workout counts.” She recommends peppering in a few pushups throughout the day between deadlines — aim to do 25 to 50 in total.

. . . But give yourself a break!
“You don’t have to force it,” Robbins says. “If you don’t feel like working out, encourage yourself to start with five minutes, and, if you’re still not in the mood, give yourself permission to stop. Most likely, though, you’ll want to continue. Endorphins are magic.”
 

Try Tiffani Robbins’ 10-minute equipment-free arms workout

“You don’t need anything except a mat or a soft surface,” she says.

Equinox and Variis trainer Colleen Conlon’s top at-home move

To fight the home office hunch, try this row, which helps open shoulders and strengthen the back.

Bent-over row with dumbbells
Hinge forward at your hips keeping your shoulders slightly higher than your hips and your back flat. You should feel a slight stretch in your hamstrings. With one dumbbell in each hand (Conlon suggests anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds), let your arms hang loosely in front of you. Pull the weights up to your chest, bending your elbows toward one another behind your back. Squeeze at the top and lower the arms. Do 15 to 20 reps, and aim for three to five sets.

https://nypost.com home-workout-tips-and-tricks-if-youre-in-self-isolation

Cabrini Day to Replace Columbus Day - Colorado

Colorado will Replace Columbus Day with Cabrini Day

The first Paid State Holiday

Recognizing a Woman in the US

By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, Wed March 11, 2020

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini founded schools, orphanages, and hospitals throughout the United States and South America, and became the first American saint, canonized in 1946

(CNN) Colorado passed legislation Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with Cabrini Day because bill sponsors say it doesn't represent their community members.

The first Monday of October will now honor Frances Xavier Cabrini, who according to the bill, is the woman responsible for creating 67 schools, hospitals, and orphanages in the United States and South and Central America throughout her lifetime.

Sen. Chris Hansen, one of the bill's sponsors, told CNN that Cabrini is a local Colorado hero because of the work that she did. Chicago and New York join Colorado in honoring Cabrini with a shrine dedicated to her, Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, another one of the bill's sponsors, told CNN.

"We need holidays to recognize the contributions of women across history"  

Hansen said.

Benavidez said Cabrini Day would be the first paid state holiday recognizing a woman in the US. There are some holidays dedicated to other prominent women throughout history like Rosa Parks and Susan B. Anthony, but those are days of recognition, not paid state holidays, according to Benavidez.
 

Columbus Day marks Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America, landing in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. It became a legal federal holiday in 1971. A year later, the first Columbus Day celebration was held marking the anniversary of Columbus' landing.

In recent years, several states and even cities have stopped observing the holiday altogether after a growing movement to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day to recognize the native populations who were displaced after Columbus and other European explorers reached the continent.

Historians largely agree that he did not "discover" the Americas because people were already there, nor was he the first European to reach the "New World."
The bill will take effect no later than the beginning of August after it is signed by the governor, Benavidez said. Legislation for this particular bill started in 2007.
 

"This truly is this decade's long effort by so many people," Benavidez said."There have been so many negotiations, groups of people over the years that never gave up, this is so important to the communities that are impacted by this."

The transition from commemorating Columbus to Cabrini is a step forward Benavidez said.

"The pain that they (indigenous people) endure and the historical trauma endured by indigenous people in this country as a result of what Columbus has put in place is real," she said. "And this is a step forward in erasing that pain."

CNN's AJ Willingham, Marilia Brocchetto and journalist Emanuella Grinberg contributed to this report

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/colorado-columbus-day-cabrini-day/index.html

Honoring Cabrini, an Italian American and patron saint of immigrants, was a compromise with Italian Americans, who take pride in the Italian explorer, lead bill sponsor Adrienne Benavidez said.

"Although Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) is recognized as a voyager who arrived in what is now known as the Caribbean Sea, he never traveled to or entered the territory that became the United States," the text of the bill states. "He had no knowledge or contact with the area now known as the state of Colorado, providing no rationale for a Colorado state holiday in his name. In 1492, he was welcomed by the indigenous Taino people to their homeland on the island of Quiqueya, which Columbus renamed Hispaniola. Fifty years later, the Taino people had been nearly exterminated by Columbus and his successors." 

Cabrini came to Colorado in 1902 and opened the Queen of Heaven Orphanage for girls in north Denver a few years later. In 1909, she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen and she negotiated the purchase of a rural property to be used as a summer camp for girls at the orphanage.

The property's land on the eastern slope of Lookout Mountain had no reliable source of water, so all of the water needed had to be brought up to the camp from a stream at the bottom of Mt. Vernon Canyon.
During her last visit to Colorado in 1912, she directed the girls to dig under a rock where they found a spring of fresh water that continues to provide water to the property.

"The land upon which Cabrini established her orphanage and camp is the traditional territory and homeland to the Cheyenne, Arapaho and Ute indigenous nations," the bill's text read. "Those indigenous peoples, and all indigenous peoples, have a special, sacred relationship with water, similar to that of Cabrini."

Throughout the United States and South and Central America, Cabrini founded 67 institutions, including schools, hospitals and orphanages, in her lifetime.

  https://www.upi.com/Colorado-bill-Cabrini-Day-to-replace-Columbus-Day

 

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In Memoriam 🙏 Cabrini Alumni 🙏🏾

Cabrini Medical Center

Alumni

Ave Maria by Michal Lorenc

(English subtitles)

Michal Lorenc's Ave Maria Rendition with lyrics + English subtitles 
Soundtrack of TV movie Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Zeffirelli (1977) 

• Composer: Michał Lorenc
• Soprano: Olga Szyrowa (1995)
• Picture: Olivia Hussey playing the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary

2008

C M C  - Closes its Doors......03/15/08
2011
Tessie Vasquez..............................01/21/11
Jackie Sackel................................02/01/11
Carmen Saavedra.........................08/02/11
Gisele Roberge...............................10/16/11

2012
Peter Morales................................06/17/12
Linda Ward...................................10/01/12
Tom Sanseverino...........................12/02/12


2013
Chrystalyn Terrell..........................06/05/13
Josephine Gonzales.......................07/10/13
Loretta Campbell...........................07/15/13

 
2014
Ricardo Alvarez M.D....................04/10/14
Kathleen Cardinale.......................05/05/14
Lourdes Boado ..............................10/13/14
 Juan Garcia....................................10/13/14

 
2015
Fr. Dan Morey................................03/03/15
Lea Wolfburg.................................03/10/15
Leon F. Mehalick...........................08/30/15
Virgie Granados............................ 09/21/15
Brett Slomiak.................................11/18/15


2016
Ting K. Leung................................01/27/16
  Dr. Vincent Lobbato.......................05/06/16
Theresa Liu Avitabile.....................07/12/16
Helene Carrier................................08/11/16
Michael Frasch...............................10/08/16
Helene Carrier................................10/20/16

Girolamo Giovanni Cuppari..........12/12/16



2017
 Lieutenant John Charles................03/26/17
Fathers Day In Heaven..................06/17/17
Walean Regina Solomon ..............10/29/17
 
2018
Baudilio Agostini......................... 01/08/18
 Ines Suarez....................................01/17/18
Mary Smith....................................02/11/18
Ana Laguerre.................................03/11/18
Alma Guevarra Baral.....................08/17/18
Linda Chung .................................09/??/18

          

Original Latin Text:	English lyrics Translation:	Texto en español. Letra traducida:
Ave Maria, Gratia Plena,	Hail Mary, full of grace.	Dios te salve, María,
Dominus tecum, Benedicta Tu,	Our Lord is with you.	llena eres de gracia,
In Mulieribus, Et Benedictus,	Blessed are you among women,	el Señor es contigo.
Fructus Ventris Tui, Jesus,	and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.	Bendita tú eres entre todas las mujeres,
Sancta Maria. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,	Holy Mary, Mother of God,	y bendito es el fruto de tu vientre, Jesús.
Ora Pro Nobis, Nobis Peccatoribus	pray for us sinners,	Santa María, Madre de Dios,
Nunc Et In Hora, Mortis Nostrae.	now and at the hour of our death.	ruega por nosotros, pecadores,
Amen!?	Amen.	ahora y en la hora de nuestra muerte.
		Amén.

Mother Cabrini 💓The Immigrant Saint

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

Mother Cabrini: The Immigrant Saint

Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini; July 15, 1850 - December 22, 1917), also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American Roman Catholic nun.
She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a Catholic religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian immigrants to the United States.
She was the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church, on July 7, 1946. (Elizabeth Ann Seton later became the first native-born U.S. citizen to be canonized.)

Beatified:   Nov 13, 1938,  by Pope Pius XI
Canonized: July 7, 1946,  by Pope Pius XII

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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was born as Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850 in Sant' Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy. She was born two months premature and the youngest of thirteen children. Unfortunately, only three of her siblings survived past adolescence and Frances would live most of her life in a fragile and delicate state of health.

Frances became dedicated to living a life for religious work from a young age and received a convent education at a school ran by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. She graduated with high honors and a teaching certificate.

When Frances was 18, she applied for admission to the religious congregation of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart, but was turned down because of her poor health. Instead, a priest asked her to teach at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadagono, Italy. She taught at the girls' school for six years and drew a community of women in to live the religious way of life.
In 1877, she became Mother Cabrini after she finally made her vows and took the religious habit, also adding Xavier to her name in honor of St. Francis Xavier.
When the House of Providence Orphanage closed, her bishop asked her, along with six other women from her orphanage in Cadagono, to found the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart to care for the poor children in both schools and hospitals. Frances composed the Rule and Constitution for the religious institute.
In its first five years, the institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery. Frances wanted to continue her mission in China, but Pope Leo XIII urged her to go to the United States, a nation that was becoming flooded with Italian immigrants who needed her help. "Not to the East, but the West," was his advice to her.

On March 31, 1889, Frances arrived in New York City along with six other sisters ready to begin her new journey. However, right from the beginning she encountered many disappointments and hardships. The house originally attended for her new orphanage was no longer available, but Frances did not give up, even though the archbishop insisted she return to Italy.

After she refused, Archbishop Michael Corrigan found them housing with the convent of the Sisters of Charity. Frances then received permission to found an orphanage in what is now West Park, New York and now known as Saint Cabrini Home. 

Filled with a deep trust in God and endowed with a wonderful administrative ability, Frances founded 67 institutions, including orphanages, schools, and hospitals, within 35 years dedicated to caring for the poor, uneducated, sick, abandoned, and especially for the Italian immigrants. Her institutions were spread out in places all over the United States, including New York, Colorado, and Illinois.

Frances was known for being as resourceful as she was prayerful. She was always able to find people to donate their money, time, and support for her institutions.

In 1909, Frances became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Eight years later, on December 22, 1917, Frances passed at the age of 67, due to complications from dysentery at the Columbus Hospital, one of her own hospitals, in Chicago, Illinois.

Frances' body was originally placed at the Saint Cabrini Home, but was exhumed in 1931 as part of her canonization process. Her head is preserved in Rome at the chapel of the congregation's international mother-house. One of her arms is at the national shrine in Chicago, and the rest of her body rests at a shrine in New York.

Frances has two miracles attributed to her. She restored sight to a child who was believed to have been blinded by excess silver nitrate, and she healed a terminally ill member of her congregation.

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was beatified on November 13, 1938, by Pope Pius XI and canonized by Pope Pius XII on July 7, 1946, making her the first United States citizen to be canonized. Her feast day is celebrated on November 13 and she is the patron saint of immigrants.

Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
In November 1880, she and six other women who had taken religious vows with her founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (M.S.C.). Cabrini composed the Rule and Constitutions of the religious institute, and she continued as its superior general until her death. The sisters took in orphans and foundlings, opened a day school to help pay expenses, started classes in needlework and sold their fine embroidery to earn a little more money. The institute established seven homes and a free school and nursery in its first five years. Its good works brought Cabrini to the attention of (the now Blessed) Giovanni Scalabrini, Bishop of Piacenza, and of Pope Leo XIII.

Cabrini organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for the needs of the many orphans. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds. She was as resourceful as she was prayerful, finding people who would donate what she needed in money, time, labor, and support. In New York City, she founded Columbus Hospital, which merged with Italian Hospital to become Cabrini Medical Center from 1973 until its closure in 2008.

In Chicago, the sisters opened Columbus Extension Hospital (later renamed Saint Cabrini Hospital) in the heart of the city's Italian neighborhood on the Near West Side. Both hospitals eventually closed near the end of the 20th century. Their foundress' name lives on in Chicago's Cabrini Street.

She founded 67 institutions: in New York; Chicago and Des Plaines, Illinois; Seattle; New Orleans; Denver and Golden, Colorado; Los Angeles; Philadelphia; and in countries throughout Latin America and Europe. Long after her death, the Missionary Sisters would achieve Cabrini's goal of being missionaries to China. In only a short time, after much social and religious upheaval there, the Sisters left China and, subsequently, a Siberian placement.

Feastday:   November 13
Patron:      of Immigrants, Hospital Administrators

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Friendship Between MLK and MD who Saved Him

Inside the Friendship Between
MLK Jr. and the Surgeon
Who Saved Him

Dr. Emil A. Naclerio, member of the surgical team that operated on the Rev. Martin Luther King, at King’s bedside in Harlem Hospital in New York on Sept. 21, 1958.

 

(Dr. Naclerio was an Attending Physician at Columbus Hospital /Cabrini Medical Center)

The operation to remove the 7-inch piece of steel was overseen by Dr. Aubre Maynard, the hospital's chief surgeon, and performed by Dr. Emil Naclerio  and Dr. John W.V. Cordice.

By Larry Celona and Max Jaeger

September 19, 2018

Rev. King, stabbed by Izola Ware Curry as he appeared at a Harlem Department store on September 20, was still on the critical list after an operation.
  
As the nation prepares for the 50th anniversary of the 1968 assassination of the civil rights icon, his 1958 stabbing has been largely forgotten, although he said on the eve of his death a decade later, that had he merely sneezed, it would have killed him. 

The tip of Curry’s blade, King said, was on the edge of his aorta, “And once that’s punctured, you’re drowned in your own blood - that’s the end of you.”

But that’s what made it all the more shocking when, on Sept. 20, 1958, the mentally ill woman produced from her handbag a 7-inch steel letter opener - and plunged it into Martin Luther King Jr.’s chest at a Manhattan signing for his book “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.”

 

 Middle-aged and neatly dressed, Izola Ware Curry did not have the cut of an assassin.

And so, 60 years ago today, the beating heart of the civil rights movement nearly ceased - until King was saved by two Harlem doctors.

If King had died that day, there would be no “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and no “I Have a Dream” building momentum for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The attention to housing rights that marked King’s later career - and spurred the Civil Rights Act of 1968 - might never have come into sharp focus.

“Without Martin Luther King Jr., there would be no civil rights movement. My father allowed him those 10 extra years to continue the movement,” Ron Naclerio, whose thoracic surgeon dad, Dr. Emil Naclerio, helped save King, told The Post.

With Curry’s dagger still buried in his chest, King was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where Dr. Naclerio and Dr. John Cordice were called in to save the leader of a burgeoning movement.

Dr. John Cordice sitting in his home with a photo of the operating room the night Dr. King was stabbed

Naclerio was at home when the phone rang, his wife, Gloria, recalls.

“I remember we were getting ready to go to a wedding at the Waldorf. My husband had a tuxedo on, and I had my gown on, when the kitchen phone rang,” she told The Post last year, shortly before her death earlier this year.

“My husband answered it, asked a few questions, then hung up.”

Then “he looked at me and said there was a change in plans. He was going to take me to the wedding, but then he had go to work — he had an emergency. He didn’t say who or what the emergency was. That was my husband - he would have went to work no matter who the patient was.”

 

Curry’s blade was lodged in King’s sternum, just a hair’s breadth from his aorta - the main artery that pipes blood from the heart to the rest of the circulatory system - and Naclerio had to remove two ribs and go into King’s torso from the side, the son said.

The delicate procedure took the two physicians and their support team two and a half hours.

‘King hugged my father, thanked him, exchanged numbers, and a strong 10-year friendship began

During his final speech a decade later, King would reveal that his doctors told him the slightest movement — even a cough or sneeze — could have irreparably ruptured the artery and drowned him in his own blood in a matter of minutes.

“I want to say tonight, I, too, am happy I didn’t sneeze, because if I had sneezed, I wouldn’t have been around in 1960, when students all over the South started sitting in at lunch counters,” King said during his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968.

The following evening, nearly 10 years after the stabbing, a bullet fired by James Earl Ray killed King. But it couldn’t erase his world-changing achievements.

Dr. Naclerio was crushed.

“He was devastated. It was like a member of the family was killed,” Ron recalled. “He was very quiet all night, mostly staying in his office.”

The intense reaction spoke to the deep friendship that Naclerio and King forged after the surgeon saved his life.

“When Dr. King was released, he bumped into my father on the elevator,” Ron Naclerio said. “King hugged my father, thanked him, exchanged numbers, and a strong 10-year friendship began.

“They talked and saw each other over the next 10 years, calling the house on Thanksgiving and/or Christmas most years. They talked about a lot of things, King respected and trusted my father, and he would bounce thoughts and ideas off my father. I think they each thought of the other as a genius.”

King would test out passages from his forthcoming speeches on Naclerio, finding an intelligent ear and the kind of feedback only a movement outsider could provide, Ron remembered. 

Ron Naclerio sits in his Queens home kitchen looking through a scrapbook he has about how his father, Dr. Emil Naclerio, saved the life of Martin Luther King. 
Matthew McDermott

I want to share (maybe once again) this historic letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to my dad. Two of the greatest-Dr. King and Dr. Emil Naclerio- a pioneer as a thoracic surgeon who devised how to put in Pace Makers and the doctor who saved MLK' life

 

Emil Naclerio

Il medico italiano che salvò la vita a Martin Luther King di Manuela Cavalieri e Donatella Mulvoni
Era il 2013. Durante la presentazione di un documentario su King da Sylvia il ristorante di soul food più popolare di Harlem, ci siamo imbattute in Ron, allenatore di una squadra di baseball del Queens, ma soprattutto figlio di Emil Anthony Naclerio, il medico italoamericano che salvò la vita al reverendo Martin Luther King nel 1958.

Il medico italiano che salvò la vita a Martin Luther King
Emil Naclerio

https://www.raiplayradio.it/articoli/2018/04/Radio3-Tre-Soldi-EMIL-NACLERIO-MARTIN-LUTHER-KING-74c87db8-594d-40a7-9142-9e5d65119fcd.html

He's seen here recuperating with is mother (left) and wife (right).

 

 

 Dr. Martin Luther King autographs a copy of his book minutes before being attacked. With Jack Blumstein, Mrs. James Watson, Dr. Arthur Springer and Mrs. Robert Johnson

 

 As seen below, a photo published on the front page of the New York Daily News showed King with the letter opener sticking out of his upper chest.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/the-woman-who-nearly-murdered-martin-luther-king-jr-687453

DR. EMIL NACLERIO SAVES MLK'S LIFE

IMG 3781New York, NY - In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day we'd like to honor and acknowledge a man who was recognized as helping to save Martin Luther King Jr's life after he was stabbed in 1958.
When Martin Luther King Jr. was rushed to Harlem Hospital, Dr. Emil Naclerio performed a life saving operation that kept the civil rights leader alive.
Dr. Emil Naclerio's son went on to become the legendary high school basketball coach, Ron Naclerio (pictured) of Cardozo High School.
Watch the touching video below of how Naclerio kept one of our nation's greatest leaders alive.

https://www.bigapplebasketball.com/index.php/97-archives/1080-dr-emil-naclerio-saves-mlk-s-wife

Mahalia Jackson ♫ Amazing Grace

👇♪ 📽 ♪ 👇
 

• https://nypost.com/2018/04/03/the-assassination-attempt-that-left-mlk-jr-with-a-cross-shaped-scar-on-his-heart
• https://nypost.com/2018/09/19/inside-the-friendship-between-mlk-jr-and-the-surgeon-who-saved-him
• https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Doctor-Saves-Martin-Luther-King-Junior-Life-New-York-City-Obituary-238289901.html