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March 17, 2022

Pandemic ruined your sleep? Here’s how to snooze well tonight

Filed under: Fitness — Tags: Latest — admin @ 9:03 pm

From anxiety about getting COVID and navigating the blurred work/home divide to keeping home schooling kids motivated and grappling with job losses, it’s little wonder that 40 per cent of us say that the pandemic had a negative impact on our sleep.

On top of that, a recent Freedom survey of 1,000 Australians found a whopping 73 per cent are reporting less than ideal sleep, with most clocking only 6.6 hours’ shut-eye a night.

Dr Moira Junge, CEO of the Sleep Health Foundation, says a lot of our COVID-disrupted sleep had to do with our bodies receiving mixed “sleep cues” due to increased time at home and not always honouring our body clocks.

“Sometimes you wouldn’t go out all day and those normal light cues and social cues weren’t had,” she explains.

“There was also a lot of loneliness, distress and uncertainty and we know that those are the types of things that produce poor sleep.”

And once we’ve developed poor sleep habits, they can easily stick, so with World Sleep Day upon us, we asked Dr Junge to share how we can reclaim some quality shut-eye to undo any damage the pandemic has caused.

Move first thing

When you’ve had some sleepless nights, it’s tempting to doze until the last possible minute you have to get up.

But Dr Junge says that if you’re in a poor sleep rut, you need to start re-training your body clock, and the best way to do that is to exercise outside first thing.

“Even though it’s hard, you have to get out into the light – doing 20 minutes of exercise outdoors in the morning will help enormously,” she says.

“Bright light suppresses melatonin, our sleep hormone, and exercise gets your body temperature up which does an enormous amount of good for your body clock.”

Dim down

At the end of the day, dimming lights and switching off handheld screens at least 30 minutes before bed will help your body release melatonin to enable you to easily drift off.

“Be very aware of light-dark messages and understand the affect natural and artificial light has on our sleeping patterns,” Dr Junge says.

“When the brain recognises darkness, melatonin will come.”

Set yourself up for success

According to Dr Junge, we can’t underestimate the importance of creating the right conditions for sleep.

Use dark curtains or eye masks to block out light and earplugs to block out noise and invest in a comfortable mattress (a choice option is the luxurious Freedom Celestial Mattress), to ensure you’re accessing cloud-like conditions.

“We want to minimise external disruption, making sure our bedroom environment is quiet and dark,” Dr Junge says.

“We also need to have boundaries in place for kids and pets to stop them disturbing us in the night.”

Don’t fret in bed

Our brains take a lot more cues from our environment than we give them credit for, and Dr Junge says it’s crucial that we prevent an association developing between our bed and racing thoughts.

For that reason, she suggests that if you’ve been wide awake with churning thoughts for 20 minutes, get out of bed and move to the loungeroom to quietly read or watch TV until sleepiness sets in.

It sounds counterintuitive and a likely recipe for next-day tiredness, but it’s a great “long game” play for avoiding lasting sleep problems.

“The aim is to disrupt the association that your bed is somewhere you don’t sleep well,” Dr Junge explains.

Trust sleep to come

If you’re living in a high stress situation, it’s natural your sleep will suffer and that it’s okay to be somewhat accepting of that.

“If you are in a challenging time, you might have to shrug your shoulders a little and think, ‘I’m not going to fret about getting my seven hours tonight – I’m going to have faith that sleep will return if I don’t panic and stick to the core principles of getting good sleep,” says Dr Junge.

“The cruel irony is that if you put too much ‘sleep effort’ in, it backfires. You can’t push too hard for sleep or you can become anxious and alert and hyper aroused.”

So don’t be too hard on yourself! Setting up a good sleep environment should help take the pressure off.

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March 16, 2022

Best Irish Coffee Recipes That Reinvent the Classic

Filed under: Fitness — Tags: cocktails, Food & Drink, liquor — admin @ 11:11 pm

The best Irish coffee recipes can be as simple as putting a splash of Irish whiskey into a flask of hot coffee and calling it a day. Or, it can be a labor of love in which you craft your own spiced syrup or concoct a homemade whipped cream. (Go on, show off.)

While it’s got a lot of room for creativity, an Irish coffee is traditionally stirred with sugar, then gets a collar of cold whipped cream. The type of coffee you use, how you brew it, and the sweeteners you add can all lead to new spins on this classic coffee cocktail that’s believed to have been invented in the 1950s for tired passengers stuck at an Irish airport restaurant.

Buzzy and boozy, these five Irish coffee recipes follow their own set of rules.

Best Irish Coffee Recipes to Reinvent the Classic

1. Spiced Irish Coffee (shown above)

Making your own simple syrup with winter spices is worth the extra step and brings out the complex flavors in the rum cask-finished small batch whiskey, says Rob Caldwell, global ambassador for Teeling Whiskey.

Ingredients

2 parts Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey
4 parts black coffee
1/2 part spiced syrup (see directions below)
double cream
grated nutmeg or chocolate (optional)

Instructions
For Spiced Syrup

Mix two parts sugar with one part hot water and your favorite spices like cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, anise.

For Cocktail

Pre-heat glass with hot coffee, then add in whiskey and spiced syrup.
Layer fresh cream using the back of a bar spoon and garnish with grated nutmeg or chocolate (optional).

Coffee cocktail in glass with cream on top — Courtesy Image

2. Belfast Coffee

“Earthy, luxurious and sweet, this is the perfect introduction to poitín, Ireland’s once illicit native spirit,” says Dave Mulligan of Bar 1661 in Dublin, Ireland. Poitín was first distilled by monks, then banned by the Brits in 1661, but never really went away. Mad March Hare is made with malted barley that’s been distilled three times in copper pot stills and then cut with Irish spring water. This recipe uses cold brew and a demerara syrup, which is similar to regular ol’ simple syrup but uses demerara sugar, which is a less refined sugar that will lend your cocktail some caramel characteristics.

Ingredients

3 oz cold brew coffee
2 oz Mad March Hare Irish Poitín
1 oz demerara syrup
hand whipped heavy cream
nutmeg

Instructions

To make simple syrup at home, bring demerara sugar and water to a boil at a ratio of 1:1.
Stir the ingredients in a mixing glass over ice.
Strain into a chilled footed glass.
Top with whipped cream and garnish with nutmeg.

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3. Proper Frozen Banana Irish Coffee

The secret to a good Irish coffee is a ratio in which the whiskey shines, but doesn’t punch, says Jesse Peterson of Simple Serve in San Diego, California. This blended coffee drink is creamy, smooth, and full of flavor and gives Irish coffee staying power beyond St. Patrick’s Day.

Ingredients

1.5 oz Proper No. Twelve Irish Whiskey,
0.5 oz heavy cream
0.5 oz brown sugar syrup (1:1)
3 oz cold brew coffee
1/2 of a ripe banana
2 cups of ice

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a blender. Add ice and blend until smooth.
Pour into glass and garnish with instant coffee granules (optional).

Clear glass of coffee with cream on top — Courtesy Image

4. The Italian Coffee

A dessert cocktail best enjoyed by a fireplace, this Italian spin on Irish coffee has a delicate and rich hazelnut flavor, says Dianne Lowry, beverage director at Macchina in Brooklyn, New York.

Ingredients

1.5 oz Arte Italian Malt Whisky
6 oz Italian coffee
0.25 oz Frangelico
whipped cream
crushed hazelnut wafers

Instructions

Fill coffee glass or mug with hot water, let sit for 30 seconds to warm, and then discard hot water.
Measure whisky and Frangelico into your heated glass, then fill with coffee.
Top with whipped cream and crushed wafers.

Cocktail in coupe glass next to bottle of whiskey — Courtesy Image

5. The Night Owl

Irish coffee, meet tres leches. The star of this cocktail from Reyes Mezcaleria in Orlando, Florida is the Illegal Mezcal Reposado that brings notes of clove, butterscotch, and vanilla.

Ingredients

1 oz Illegal Mezcal Reposado
1 oz Mr. Black Cold Brew Coffee Liqueur
1 oz cold brew
1 oz of evaporated milk, condensed milk, or heavy cream—or a blend of all three. (The restaurant uses its housemade Tres Leches mix).
Abuelita chocolate (for garnish)

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a shaker glass with ice and shake.
Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with Abuelita chocolate dust.

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Why the pursuit of eight hours of sleep causes us so much stress

Filed under: Fitness — Tags: Life Coach — admin @ 11:03 pm

We’re always being told to aim for about eight hours’ sleep for optimum health and energy, but if you don’t – or can’t – get it, you can be left stressing that you’re behind the eight-ball.

But a leading sleep expert wants us all to know the furphy we’ve been made to believe about a perfect eight-hour block of rest.

Dr David Cunnington, specialist sleep physician, says that the idea of eight hours of sleep was invented by humans and isn’t necessarily the way Mother Nature originally programmed us.

“This concept of eight hours’ sleep is a concept of industrialisation, it’s a social construct,” he tells 9Honey Coach.

In fact, Dr Cunnington says that a lot of our sleep ideas stem from the slogan coined in 1817 by labour rights activist Robert Owen: “Eight hours labour, eight hours’ recreation, eight hours’ rest.”

“Up until the early 19th century … human sleep had been three-four hours at the start of the night, an hour or two awake in the night, and then some dozing until the sun came up, and a nap in the day if the opportunity arose,” Dr Cunnington explains.

“That’s more biologically how we sleep, that flexibility of sleep and wake being a bit dispersed across the day.”

But when industrialisation occurred, we began “shoehorning” sleep into a designated window. Dr Cunnington says that can work perfectly fine when life is going smoothly, but can pave the way for sleep anxiety if you have sleeping difficulties or a lot of life stress.

“[We have] rigid time domain constraints around sleep and wakefulness — sleep must only occur in this eight-hour window,” he says.

“[We think we must] get eight hours in the eight hours we allocate for it, and then wakefulness must occur for 16 hours continuously with no sleep interrupting that continuous wakefulness, and performance across that wakeful period must be uniform.

“That’s a societal construct … it’s just not biological. We have ebbs and flows in energy across the day, but that allocation of time, that eight-eight-eight doesn’t pay any respect to that.”

While our society is unlikely to change to allow us to sleep in chunks, Dr Cunnington says the knowledge that sleep wasn’t always forced into a particular block and did not always have so much pressure on it, is useful to know.

“Sleep has varying depth: it has ebbs and flows; it’s longer one night, shorter another night, restless another,” he explains.

“There’s ebbs and flows on different days. But your body is regulating it tightly [and] each week is [roughly] the same. How powerful is that?”

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Tost: Tsunoda in “good shape” after fitness drive – Autosport

Filed under: Fitness — admin @ 10:11 am

Tost’s frustration with rookie Tsunoda’s apparent lack of commitment to training and preparation in 2021 features heavily in an episode of the latest Drive to Survive series.

Part way through the season Tsunoda moved from Milton Keynes – where he was based to have easy access to the Red Bull simulator – to a new home close to AlphaTauri’s Faenza factory.

As well as spending more time with the engineers he stepped up his fitness programme once in Italy.

Tsunoda joked in Bahrain last week that in his first season he had spent too much time ordering Uber Eats, and not enough following the example of fitness fanatic Tost, who runs every morning.

However Tost insisted that Tsunoda wasn’t as unfit in 2021 as the Japanese youngster has implied.

“I think Yuki meant everything a little bit ironically!,” said Tost. “If a young driver comes to F1, he is totally surprised about the forces he’s faced with in F1. It’s braking, it’s fast corners, slow corners with right hand/left hand forces against the neck and so on and so on.

“But Yuki was fit last year, otherwise he couldn’t have finished here in Bahrain in the ninth position. Of course, he realised as all the other young drivers realise, that you have to do even more physical training.

“And therefore, it’s important to sit in the car, because the best training is sitting in the car.

“Once you sit in the car, once you have done a race, you feel where you have the pain, then you can talk to your trainer, to your physiotherapist, how to change the physical training to strengthen the muscles where you were suffering. And regarding Yuki, he came to Faenza, and his trainer was with him.

“And he had to train twice a day in the morning and in the afternoon, until it was very good. The physical fitness because of the training improves. Therefore, I think that Yuki this year is in very good shape. But once more, he was not so bad last year, it’s just as a newcomer in F1, and you can ask all the others as well, it’s something new.

“It’s F1, these cars, they are so fast. I don’t know any driver who is not suffering after the first races or after the first runs in an F1 car, because it’s very, very demanding. And Yuki trained a lot. And he’s in a good shape. And I’m looking forward to seeing him this season in the car.”

Franz Tost, Team Principal AlphaTauri

Photo by: Red Bull Content Pool

Asked if Tsunoda ever joined Tost for a run the Austrian joked that his driver would not be awake in time.

“My morning runs – Yuki does not stand up at five o’clock to run with me. He looks to me and maybe he thinks I have a bird in my head!

March 15, 2022

Best New Movies of 2022

Filed under: Fitness — Tags: Entertainment, Movies and TV — admin @ 10:18 pm

It’s going to be a big year for movies. From action films to superhero flicks, dramatic thrillers and comedies, the best new movies of 2022 have something for everyone coming to theaters or streaming at home.

Stars like Dwayne Johnson, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Cruise, and Brad Pitt all have highly anticipated movies coming this year among plenty others you won’t want to miss.

Here are the best movies of 2022 we can’t wait to see.

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1. The Batman

Director: Matt Reeves (War for the Planet of the Apes)
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell
Release Date: March 4, 2022

What It’s About: Following Ben Affleck’s run as Batman, director Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson are taking the character in a new direction, focusing on Bruce Wayne/Batman’s early days as the Caped Crusader. Taking place during Batman’s second year of fighting crime in Gotham, a serial killer named the Riddler (Dano) emerges, taking the hero on a trail that will lead him to uncover secrets about Gotham and his family that he never knew. Along the way, Batman will cross paths with burglar Selina Kyle (Kravitz), crime lord Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), rising gangster Oswald Cobblepot (Farrell), policeman James Gordon (Wright), and Gotham district attorney Gil Colson (Sarsgaard). Since this is the early days of Batman, we’ll see the rise of many iconic characters: Oswald’s Penguin isn’t the quite the powerful criminal he’s known as, Commissioner Gordon is just a lieutenant in the GCPD, and Selina isn’t truly Catwoman yet. We won’t give away any surprises, but there are also a few twists and turns in store for Pattinson’s Batman in this film. Reeves is also planning to expand his Bat-verse with a sequel and spin-offs, including an already-announced show centered on Farrell’s Penguin.

Fun Fact: While auditioning for the film, Pattinson took on the time-honored Batman tradition of doing a screen test with a previous actor’s suit. As he mentioned in an interview, he tested in Val Kilmer’s batsuit from Batman Forever, since it was the only one that fit him well enough.
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2. Deep Water

Director: Adrian Lyne
Cast: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Tracy Letts, Lil Rel Howery, Jacob Elordi
Release Date: March 18, 2022 (Hulu)

What It’s About: In this psychological thriller, a married couple (Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas) start to play mind games with each other that start to spiral out of control, leaving people in their circle dead under mysterious circumstances. The movie is an adaptation of the 1957 Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name and marks the return of director Adrian Lyne to filmmaking after a two-decade absence, with his last film being Unfaithful, which was another thriller involving a married couple.

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3. Morbius

Director: Daniel Espinosa (Safe House)
Cast: Jared Leto, Matt Smith, Adria Arjona, Jared Harris, Tyrese Gibson, Michael Keaton
Release Date: April 1, 2022

What It’s About: Following in the footsteps of the Venom series with Tom Hardy and the upcoming Kraven the Hunter film, Sony is looking to expand its Spider-Man universe of films with Morbius. Oscar winner Jared Leto stars as Michael Morbius, a scientist who suffers from a rare blood disease and is in search of a cure. During his experiments, he turns himself into a vampire, gaining superhuman abilities like strength, speed, and the ability to heal. Considered one of Spider-Man’s best-known villains—including a run on the classic Spider-Man cartoon in the 90s—it’s likely Morbius could be more of an anti-hero like Venom or a straight-up hero in these movies.

Fun Fact: Michael Keaton is reprising his role from the MCU’s Spider-Man series as Adrian Toomes/Vulture, although it’s unclear how much of a connection the films will have with Marvel’s series for now. Either way, it continues quite a run for Keaton, who won a Screen Actors Guild award for his role on Dopesick, and will be reprising his role as the original big-screen Batman in the upcoming Flash and Batgirl movies for the DC universe.

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4. Ambulance

Director: Michael Bay (Transformers series)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eiza Gonzalez, Garret Dillahunt
Release Date: April 8, 2022

What It’s About: This crime thriller might be a bit smaller scale for Michael Bay following his recent work in the Ryan Reynolds action film 6 Underground and the Transformers series, but don’t worry, there will be plenty of explosions. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a war veteran who’s desperate for money for his wife’s surgery, turning to his adoptive brother (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) for help. Together, the duo takes part in a massive bank robbery—only things go wrong and they shoot a police officer, then flee in an ambulance, taking an EMT and the officer along for the ride.

Fun Fact: The movie is a remake of a 2005 Danish film of the same name and has been in development since 2015, when Phillip Noyce (The Adjustment Bureau) was attached to direct. Gyllenhaal even got involved behind the camera: In a recent interview, Abdul-Mateen spoke about how his co-star shot some scenes of the movie himself: “There were times when he would take the camera from Mike. And then you look around and Jake is shooting the scene. I had never seen anything like that before. I’m curious about those things, but I would never ask the director if I could shoot a scene.”
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5. The Northman

Director: Robert Eggers
Cast: Alexander Skarsgard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Björk
Release Date: April 22, 2022

What It’s About: If you’re a fan of a show like Vikings, the historical drama The Northman will be up your alley. Inspired by the Scandinavian legend of Amleth, Alexander Skarsgard stars as a Viking warrior and prince who’s out for revenge after his uncle murders his father (Ethan Hawke) when he’s a young child. Following his critically acclaimed work in The Witch and The Lighthouse, Eggers brings his unique directorial style to tenth-century Iceland, staging massive battles of warriors and some incredible, gory action set pieces.

Fun Fact: Strongman Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who most memorably played “The Mountain” on Game of Thrones for five seasons, has a role in the film. It also was almost a family affair for Alexander Skarsgard: His brother Bill (It, Eternals) was originally cast in a role, but had to drop out due to scheduling issues.
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6. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Director: Sam Raimi (original Spider-Man trilogy)
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams
Release Date: May 6, 2022

What It’s About: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is ready to go full-multiverse. Following the shenanigans of Spider-Man: No Way Home that saw three different Spider-Men share the screen together, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get another massive dose of the mystic arts. Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) returns for the long-awaited followup to the character’s 2016 solo film and must join together with a range of friends and foes from different universes to fight against a mysterious new villain. Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch will be a major part of the story—possibly as both a hero and a villain—while different variants of Doctor Strange himself will also appear, including Sinister Strange, Defender Strange, and Supreme Strange. The film will see the MCU debut of America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), a fan-favorite comic book character who has the power to travel between dimensions through star-shaped portals. The film will connect back with the Disney Plus series Loki and WandaVision, while also picking up on the threads leftover from Spider-Man: No Way Home. This may be the biggest MCU move since Avengers: Endgame.

Fun Fact: As he’s done in many of Sam Raimi’s films over the years, actor Bruce Campbell will be making a cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, although he did not yet reveal who he’ll be playing. Campbell has been friends with Raimi since high school and starred in Raimi’s Evil Dead series. Since those early collaborations, Raimi has found a way to get Campbell a cameo in nearly all his films, including the original Spider-Man trilogy Raimi directed.
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7. Top Gun: Maverick

Director: Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Jay Ellis, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro
Release Date: May 27, 2022

What It’s About: It’s finally time to enter the danger zone again. Following multiple delays, Tom Cruise is ready to return as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the anticipated sequel to Top Gun. Picking up over 30 years after the original film, Mitchell is still flying as a test pilot and putting off a promotion that would keep him out of the skies, the place where he’s at his most natural. Soon enough, Maverick finds his biggest challenge yet when he takes on a new class of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission with new planes that not even the best pilots have mastered. Among those cadets? Miles Teller’s Lt. Bradley Bradshaw—the son of Maverick’s late partner Nick “Goose” Bradshaw. Cruise isn’t the only one returning to the series, as Val Kilmer is also back to play “Iceman,” while composer Harold Faltermeyer will be updating his iconic score for the sequel. Kosinski has a great visual eye, shown by his work in the underrated Tron: Legacy, and now he’ll put his camera to the sky for Top Gun: Maverick.

Fun Fact: The film was originally set for a July 2019 release, but was pushed back to June 2020 at the time so Kosinski and Cruise could do even more work on the “complex flight sequences.” The extra time allowed Cruise to train in actual planes and Kosinski to find ways to mount cameras on the fighter jets used in the film. As you can see in the trailers, the extra time was well spent.
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8. Jurassic World Dominion

Director: Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World)
Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, Omar Sy, B.D. Wong
Release Date: June 10, 2022

What It’s About: Picking up four years after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dinosaurs and humans are now trying to find a way to co-exist. The previous film saw the destruction of the island where Jurassic Park was located, and after saving many of the creatures from the island, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Owen (Chris Pratt) uncovered a nefarious plan to sell dinosaurs on the black market. While they were able to stop that from happening, it resulted in dinosaurs roaming across the planet from big cities to deserts to snowy terrains. With dinosaurs seemingly retaking Earth as their own, the big question is which species will be able to survive? The big news about Dominion is the eagerly anticipated return of Jurassic Park’s original trio: Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum.

Fun Fact: The movie was in heavy production in March 2020 just as the COVID-19 pandemic shut most of the world down. Dominion ended up being the first big-budget movie in the world to start filming during the pandemic, with production resuming in July 2020 with strict Covid protocols. Many of those protocols were adopted by other studio productions to continue filming during 2020.

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9. Lightyear

Director: Angus MacLane
Cast: Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Dale Soules, Taika Waititi, Peter Sohn, Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Efren Ramirez, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Release Date: June 17, 2022

What It’s About: This could be a fun ride for everyone in the family. The movie will tell the (fictional) origin story of the “real” Buzz Lightyear, the character who was the inspiration for the Buzz Lightyear toy in the Toy Story films. Chris Evans stars as the titular space ranger, who travels across the galaxy and explores new worlds, creatures, and dangers before becoming the hero Andy Davis admires in the Toy Story series. The meta premise is a way for the franchise to keep going without actually making a direct sequel, and if this story is a success, we could see more missions of Buzz Lightyear in the future.

Fun Fact: The film expands off the story nugget from the original Toy Story film, in which the character, Andy, saw a movie that popularized the Buzz Lightyear character, making him the most popular new toy on the market.

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10. Elvis

Director: Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby)
Cast: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Xavier Samuel, and Kodi Smit-McPhee
Release Date: June 24, 2022

What It’s About: For his first feature film in nearly a decade, director Baz Luhrmann is turning his attention to one of the most notable figures in American history: Elvis Presley. The biopic will follow Elvis’s life as he rises up the ranks to become one of the most famous musicians and movie stars in the world. Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) stars as Elvis, while Tom Hanks is playing Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ manager, who discovered the singer and helped him become a worldwide sensation.

Fun Fact: Butler beat out some notable names for the role, including Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and singer Harry Styles.

11. Thor: Love and Thunder

Director: Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok)
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Russell Crowe
Release Date: July 8, 2022

What It’s About: The God of Thunder is ready to return: Chris Hemsworth is back as Thor, appearing in an MCU project for the first time since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame. Plot details are being kept mostly under wraps, but what we do know is that Waititi is taking elements from writer Jason Aaron’s fan-favorite comic run on the Mighty Thor, which saw Jane Foster become Thor herself, gaining powers and Thor’s hammer in the process. Natalie Portman is returning to the franchise as Jane for the first time in nearly a decade since appearing in Thor: The Dark World, meaning she’ll likely fight alongside Thor as a hero herself. Christian Bale is playing the villain Gorr the God Butcher, marking his return to superhero movies after his iconic turn as Batman in Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of films. Other story threads that will get picked up after Endgame include Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) continuing to lead Asgaard as King, along with Thor’s rivalry with Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy, whose heroes like Drax (Dave Bautista) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) will also appear in the film.

Fun Fact: After appearing as Asgardian actors telling the story of the previous Thor movie to comedic effect in Thor: Ragnarok, Matt Damon, Sam Neill, and Luke Hemsworth will cameo again as Loki, Odin, and Thor, while Melissa McCarthy will appear alongside them as Hela, and the villain will be played by Cate Blanchett.

Trailer not yet released.

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12. Bullet Train

Director: David Leitch
Cast: Brad Pitt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Zazie Beetz
Release Date: July 15, 2022

What It’s About: Brad Pitt stars as an aging assassin named Ladybug, who’s tasked with picking up a briefcase on a bullet train from Tokyo. What he doesn’t know is that the train is filled with a number of other assassins (including Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, and Hiroyuki Sanada) who all want their hands on the package too. Leitch has plenty of experience working in the action genre, having directed films like John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, and Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs & Shaw, so expect some unique fight scenes on this bullet train.

Fun Fact: Lady Gaga was originally going to star in the movie as Ladybug’s handler but had to drop out because of scheduling issues with House of Gucci, with Sandra Bullock taking her place. Pitt also took some hits on this movie, as stunt coordinator Greg Rementer told Vulture the star did nearly all of his own stunts: “Brad did 95 percent of his physical stunts—the fighting. He’s like a natural-born athlete. He really got in there!”
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13. Nope

Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Keke Palmer, Daniel Kaluuya, Steven Yeun, Barbie Ferreira, Michael Wincott
Release Date: July 22, 2022

What It’s About: Following his mind-blowing work on Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele is back behind the camera for his third original movie. As usual, plot details are being kept under lock and key, but the premise is centered around a small town in rural California that deals with a mysterious event—maybe aliens or UFOs?—that starts to terrorize and kidnap people in the town. Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as the owners of Haywood Ranch, which is located in the town and trains horses for Hollywood productions. If this film is anything like Peele’s previous two other movies, there certainly will be some scares and twists along the way.
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14. Black Adam

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Noah Centineo, Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell, and Pierce Brosnan.
Release Date: October 21, 2022

What It’s About: Dwayne Johnson will take on the mantle of the titular antihero Black Adam in the upcoming DC superhero film, bringing the fan-favorite character to the screen for the first time. While story details are being kept behind closed doors, it’ll likely tell the story of how the ancient God-like character made his way to the present day. In comics lore, Black Adam is imprisoned for thousands of years before finding his way out, and the story could pick up on some of those classic threads. We already know that the Justice Society of America will be involved, but will Black Adam be fighting alongside the team—or against them? Noah Centineo is set to play Atom Smasher, a member of the JSA who can grow to massive size, while Aldis Hodge will portray Hawkman, one of the leaders of the team. Black Adam is also a classic foe for Shazam (Zachary Levi), so this film could have some connections back to the Shazam series.

Fun Fact: Johnson has been looking to play Black Adam for over a decade, and the film has been in development for even longer than that. Johnson became attached to the film when it was going to be a Captain Marvel/Shazam-centered project in which he would play the titular hero, but he later showed interest in portraying Black Adam instead. Over the years the project morphed into two separate projects, with Zachary Levi playing Shazam in the 2019 film and Johnson fronting his own Black Adam movie.

15. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Director: Ryan Coogler (Creed)
Cast: Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Martin Freeman, Dominique Thorne
Release Date: November 11, 2022

What It’s About: With the sad news about Chadwick Boseman passing in 2020, the filmmakers of the Black Panther sequel had to change course, while also finding a way to honor the incredible character Boseman portrayed in King T’Challa. Specific plot details have not been released, but the story might focus on who will take over the Black Panther mantle and step into the void that T’Challa left behind. That could mean more screen time for the warrior M’Baku (Winston Duke); T’Challa’s sister, Shuri (Letitia Wright); Dora Milaje/special forces leader Okoye (Danai Gurira); and Wakandan spy Nakia. This will be the first return to the world of Wakanda since the Avengers films and there will be a lot of story threads to pull, like what happened in the nation during the five-year blip? While Okoye survived and appears in Avengers: Endgame, we never get to see her in action in Wakanda and that could be a great way to catch things up to the present-day story.

Fun Fact: Something we do know is that parts of the movie will be set at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has some major connections in the MCU already, as Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) attended the school. Part of that may tie into Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), who becomes the Iron Man-inspired Ironheart and has her own Disney Plus series on the horizon. Williams is set to make her debut in this film and it could put her on the path to get an Iron suit of her own.

Trailer not yet released.

16. The Gray Man

Director: Joe Russo and Anthony Russo
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, Billy Bob Thornton, Regé-Jean Page
Release Date: 2022, Netflix (Specific release date not yet announced)

What It’s About: Based on the first book in the Gray Man series of spy novels by Mark Greaney, directors Joe and Anthony Russo make their return to the world of big-budget action films after their work on Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. The story centers on Ryan Gosling’s Court Gentry, the titular “Gray Man,” a CIA mercenary who has a hidden identity no one in the world knows. When Court uncovers a conspiracy involving the agency itself, he goes on the run and has a target put on him by Lloyd Hansen, an off-the-rails former colleague of Court’s played by Chris Evans. Gentry is forced to go on the run around the world as groups of different assassins come after him. The excellent supporting cast includes Ana de Armas, who co-starred with Evans in Knives Out and Gosling in Blade Runner 2049.

Fun Fact: An adaptation of the novel has been in development for over a decade, with various actors in talks to star as the Gray Man, including Brad Pitt with James Gray (Ad Astra) as director. Later on, Charlize Theron was in talks to star with the character being gender-flipped as a woman. That version was going to be written, but not directed by the Russo Brothers, as they were busy working in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Clearly the brothers were excited about the film, as they now have delivered it as their next directing project.

Trailer not yet released.

17. Knives Out 2

Director: Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
Cast: Daniel Craig, Ed Norton, Janelle Monáe, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Jessica Henwick, Ethan Hawke
Release Date: 2022, Netflix (Specific release date not yet announced)

What It’s About: Following the box office success of Knives Out, director Rian Johnson is back to write and direct the sequel, a whole new murder mystery for Daniel Craig’s detective Benoit Blanc to solve. This time around, Blanc will be investigating a case that takes him to Greece and he’ll be the only character returning from the first film. As you can see from the list above, the cast for this movie is stacked with actors, including Dave Bautista, who will get the chance to once again show his comedic chops like he has in the Guardians of the Galaxy films.

Fun Fact: After the box office success of Knives Out making over $300 million worldwide, Netflix outbid Apple and Amazon to lock in a $469 million deal for two more sequels starring Craig. The James Bond series made Craig a very rich man, and he will earn another $100 million to star in the two Knives Out follow-ups.

Trailer not yet released.

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Gym chain Fitness First shuts down | The Standard – Hong Kong Standard

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Fitness First, with eight branches throughout the city, announced its closure on Tuesday, marking it the “first blood” of the fitness industry since the government ordered all gyms to close.

An international brand based in the United Kingdom, Fitness First operates in Hong Kong under a franchise. The local operations boasted at least 100 workers, including about 60 coaches and over 10,000 members.

In a letter sent to all staff on Monday, the company announced its permanent closure. All employment contracts had also been terminated immediately, a staffer said.

Fitness First also apologized to the staff in the letter and thanked them for their services in the past.

According to the staffer, all part-time staff have been paid back in early February, and the company will later issue an official employment termination letter.

It was understood that the decision to shutter the gym chain came after an emergency meeting convened recently by the senior management.

Gyms are among specified premises ordered to be closed since January 7, as Hong Kong entered the fifth wave of pandemic and Omicron cases surged following the birthday party of Witman Hung Wai-man, principal liaison officer for Hong Kong of the Shenzhen Qianhai Authority.

According to other gym operators, the rumor that Fitness First is going down has recently spread.

Gordon Nowitzki Yau, chairman of the investigation panel of Hong Kong Fitness Guide, said the gym business has been halted for more than two months now, and operators are not even sure if they can resume business by April 20, the expected “expiry date” of the stringent Covid curbs.

Yau continued that the monthly rent could cost a fitness center hundreds of thousands of dollars or even over millions of dollars.

He believed some 100 to 150 more gyms will close later if the industry cannot resume business by mid-April, when the curbs are supposed to be relaxed.

Another struggling fitness center, Goji Studios, shut down back in December last year. It cited Hong Kong’s Covid development and social distancing measures as the main reason for the closure.

It also added the company had been unable to raise the necessary funds, and no consensus has been reached after active discussions with several landlords.

All remaining membership, personal trainer courses, and other services of members could make their transitions to another gym, Physical Fitness & Beauty.

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How healthy is your morning bowl of cereal for you

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In the world of diet and nutrition, breakfast cereal has coped a beating over the past few years. Often assumed as high in added sugars, it seems many of us have replaced our trusty bowl of cereal with other protein-rich options to break the overnight fast. While there are some sugary, highly processed cereals on the market, especially those developed with children in mind, generally speaking cereal remains a nutrient-rich way to start the day. All you need is to follow a few simple steps to ensure you are choosing the best option for your dietary goals.

What does breakfast cereal offer?

Breakfast cereal has much to offer nutritionally.

Not only is a wholegrain cereal a source of good quality carbohydrates for energy, but a daily bowl of breakfast cereal offers a significant proportion of dietary fibre, a nutrient that is crucial for gut health and one that fewer than half of all Australians achieve their recommended daily intake of. An adult requires at least 30g of dietary fibre every day to support heart and digestive health, and to reduce the risk of developing a number of lifestyle diseases — including heart disease and some types of cancer — and a bowl of high fibre breakfast cereal can offer up to 8-10g of dietary fibre per serve.

Wholegrain breakfast cereal is also a significant source of B group Vitamins which are directly involved in digestion and energy production, as well as a range of other micronutrients including Vitamin B, zinc, magnesium and iron.

Wholegrain is key

To reap the potential nutritional benefits breakfast cereal offers, the key is to choose wholegrain varieties. Wholegrain breakfast cereals include oats (100 per cent wholegrain) and other flakes, bites or granola mixes that offer a high proportion of wholegrains. The higher the wholegrain content, the higher the nutrient content of the cereal. Processed cereals range anywhere between 30-95 per cent wholegrain. Seeking out options that are at least 80-90 per cent wholegrain is a good starting point when choosing a nutritious cereal.

Toast toppings ranked by calories, from lowest to highest

Minimise added sugar

Ideally, the breakfast cereals we choose will contain minimal, if any added sugars. Oats for example, along with Vita Brits are two of the few breakfast cereals which do not contain any added sugar. There is also a growing range of sweet breakfast cereals that have minimal added sugars, offering just 3-5 per cent or less than 5g of sugars per serve, instead use fruit, a small amount of natural sweetener or flavours like vanilla to achieve a little sweetness minus adding sugar itself.

Consider the pros vs. cons?

The sugar content of breakfast cereal is given a lot of attention and while that is one variable to be aware of, keep in mind that there are some breakfast cereals which offer nutritional value, and may not need to be completely discarded.

All Bran is great for digestive health. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

All Bran, for example, is one of the best foods we can eat for digestive health but it does contain added sugars. In this instance though, 7g of sugar is not so much overall and for a serve of more than 10g of good quality fibre any negatives outweigh the bad.

Consider how you are enjoying it

Consuming a large bowl of sugary cereal with extra honey, fruit and sweetened milk is not a nutritionally sound breakfast. It lacks dietary fibre and protein and has way too much sugar and refined carbohydrates for a satisfying breakfast.

On the other hand, enjoying a portion controlled serve of 1/3 -1/2 cup of good quality wholegrain and fibre-rich cereal with low-fat milk or high-protein yoghurt can be a balanced, nutrient-rich way to nourish your gut and break the overnight fast. Like many foods, it’s the company it keeps and the portions you enjoy that is also important to consider when ensuring your cereal choice is a fibre-rich addition to a healthy, balanced diet overall.

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Author Susie Burrell is a leading Australian dietitian and nutritionist, founder of Shape Me, co-host of The Nutrition Couch podcast and prominent media spokesperson, with regular appearances in both print and television media commenting on all areas of diet, weight loss and nutrition.

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March 14, 2022

A Mysterious Photo Album Fuels C.J. Box’s Latest Novel

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Since 2001, C.J. Box has put out a thriller about Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett every year. Then he started a second series with his Cassie Dewell books. With March’s Shadows Reel (which includes a subplot based on a real-life WWII German photo album found in a Wyoming library) marking the 22nd Pickett novel and a new Pickett TV adaptation coming on Spectrum, the Cowboy State native is bigger than ever.

Men’s Journal: Why so long to make a Joe Pickett series?

C.J. Box: The very first novel was optioned for a movie, so this has been going on and on for years with people who had their own ideas about how Joe Pickett should be portrayed. This is the first time I felt like they got it. They’re gonna go every novelist’s dream: book by book.

Were you happy with ABC’s Big Sky, the first TV series based on your work?

The story lines are loosely based on the Cassie Dewell books. When I watch it, I recognize certain lines of dialogue as mine. There are decisions I wish I had made, there are times I wonder what the hell they’re thinking. The best thing about it is that it’s created a lot more readers. We saw sales of the Cassie Dewell books spike by 30 times. It’s a one-hour commercial for a book each week. That’s all right!

Book that reads Shadows Reel — “I love writing the first draft more than anything on earth.” Courtesy Image

Fair to say a theme of the Pickett series is “Nature is remarkable; people are a pain in the ass”?

That’s pretty fair. Nature is not benevolent. But if you’ve read the books, you know most of the trouble comes from outsiders coming in [to mountain country] with some kind of agenda.

Is it tough shifting between the two book series?

It is difficult to go back and forth. I agreed to do another Cassie Dewell book and that’s what I’m writing now. I love writing Joe Pickett books. I’d drive my wife crazy if I wasn’t working on something.

You’ve been billed as selling 6 and 7 million books. Which is it?

My agent has tried to track the sales. But what’s really difficult is foreign sales. There’s no real reporting feature. You can only guess, kind of.

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New GM marketing appointed at Fitness & Lifestyle Group – CMO

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Audible’s director of brand and content marketing has switched audiobooks for the fitness sector and joined Fitness & Lifestyle Group as its new general manager of marketing and PR for A/NZ.

Sara Dunseath has spent the last past five years with Audible, initially commencing as marketing director with the Amazon-owned business. Her resume also includes senior marketing positions with HR tech startup, LiveHire, Gumtree Australia and Carnival Australia.

Dunseath told CMO she saw it as an exciting time to be working in the health and wellness industry.

“Covid-19 has had a significant impact on how we value our health. I am deeply passionate about the industry, and fitness has always played a pivotal role in my life. It’s helped me get through the hard times and I’ve experienced the positive impacts it has on my energy and mental health,” she said. “So when the prospect came up to join Fitness & Lifestyle Group, whose core purpose is ‘to make a meaningful, positive impact in people’s lives through innovative and diversified health and wellness offerings across physical and digital platforms’, it was an opportunity I had to explore.”

Dunseath is indirectly replacing previous GM marketing at Fitness & Lifestyle Group, Matt Fletcher, with a broadened remit. Reporting to the A/NZ CEO, she’s responsible for leading the marketing of the A/NZ businesses’ core brands, which include Fitness First, Goodlife, Zap Fitness, Barry’s Bootcamp and Jetts NZ. This includes brand and retail marketing, sales and lead generation, digital and ecommerce, member acquisition and retention programs, communication and public relations, market research, operational and capital expense budgeting, and the training and management of the FLG Marketing team. She’ll also oversee insights, which is moving into marketing for the first time.

Dunseath highlighted her experiences over the past decade working for several well-loved brands as providing key learnings for how to tackle the new role.

“P&O Cruise was the training ground where I cut my teeth on brand and retail strategy. At Gumtree, I led the shift from a traditional marketing culture to an integrated and customer-centric culture, leading a customer segmentation strategy and developing the CRM vision and plan,” she explained.

“Over the last five years at Audible, I was fortunate to work across multiple roles [director of marketing, director of engagement and retention and director of brand and content marketing]. As a result, I’ve directed a gamut of local and international projects, from overhauling the local membership offering, launching the Audible Originals program in Australia and leading the recommendation to evolve the brand management and creative services marketing practice on a global scale.”

Like all marketers, Dunseath also recognises she’s going to need to navigate the impacts of Covid and how it has evolved and changed customer behaviour.

“Being customer-obsessed and curious, I am focussing my energy on getting close to the customer and understanding the drivers and barriers of getting Aussies and Kiwis back into our gyms,” she added.

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Dottin faces late fitness test ahead of Aussie Cup clash – cricket.com.au

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Full and swinging: Darcie’s simple recipe for success

West Indies will give in-form allrounder Deandra Dottin every chance to prove she is fit to take on the World Cup favourites Australia in Tuesday’s showdown in Wellington.

Dottin has proven a force with bat, ball and in the field already this tournament, but was hampered by back pain throughout West Indies’ heavy defeat to India in Hamilton on Saturday.

She did not train at the Basin Reserve on Monday, and was spotted stretching and moving uncomfortably on the outfield with team medical staff while her teammates were in the nets.

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Windies coach Courtney Walsh described Dottin as a “fighter” on Monday, adding a call on her availability would be left until close to the coin toss.

“I told her to take it easy (for a) couple of days,” Walsh said.

“She really did everything she could to stay on the field in the last game.

“As far as I’m concerned, I know she wants to play (and) if she’s fit, she will play.

“She didn’t practice today, she just did what she had to do to rest and recover.

“We’ll assess her in the morning – knowing Deandra, if she has recovered she’ll go out and give it everything she’s got because she’s a fighter.

“But if there’s any risk of the injury getting worse, that’s something we’ll (reconsider).”

Dottin came up clutch in West Indies’ early wins over New Zealand and England, and they will be desperate to have her available even as a specialist batter.

She took the ball for the 50th over against the White Ferns, with the hosts needing six runs for victory and despite not having bowled at international level since September last year due to ongoing shoulder concerns, took two wickets and executed a run out to seal an upset win.

Against England she hit 31 before taking a contender for catch of the tournament, a one-handed diving effort to remove Lauren Winfield-Hill.

And while her five overs went for 1-32 against India on Saturday as she started to struggle with obvious back pain, Dottin still opened the batting and belted 62 from 46 deliveries.

West Indies were at one stage well-set in their unlikely pursuit of India’s 8-317, reaching 0-100 in 12 overs thanks to the efforts of Dottin and opening partner Hayley Matthews.

But they then lost 10-62 to lose by 155 runs, a rapid return to earth after their early upset wins.

Walsh said his side had quickly parked the defeat and turned their attention to the huge task of upsetting Australia, a side they have beaten just once in the one-day format, during the 2013 World Cup in India.

“We move on very quickly – we play, travel, practice, then play so there’s not a lot of time to mope about,” Walsh said.

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“We have to be positive and look ahead.

“Yes, it was a very disappointing game for us but we’ve still got four more games in the group stages.

“We play the number one team tomorrow and we just have to look forward to our execution, our game plan and if we do what we want to do … the team knows if we play well enough, we can beat any team.”

Full and swinging: Darcie’s simple recipe for success

Australia quick Darcie Brown told reporters on Monday she and her teammates were preparing to face the hard-hitting opening combination of Matthews and Dottin.

Brown got a brief taste of what it is like to face Dottin in a warm-up match last month, when she was hit for several boundaries, but Australia had the last laugh in that game in Christchurch, winning by 90 runs.

“It’d be a be an awesome challenge,” Brown, who tore through New Zealand with 3-22 on Sunday, said.

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“We played against them in the practice match and (Dottin) whacked me around a little bit.

“I’m always looking forward to a good challenge playing against some of the best batters in the world.

“We’ll create some plans around how they went against us then (but) it’s a different wicket, different place and it’s a lot windier here than it was back in Christchurch.”

ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2022

Australia squad: Meg Lanning (c), Rachael Haynes (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Grace Harris, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Alana King, Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Amanda-Jade Wellington. Travelling reserves: Heather Graham, Georgia Redmayne

Australia’s World Cup 2022 fixtures

Mar 5: Beat England by 12 runs

Mar 8: Beat Pakistan by seven wickets

Mar 13: Beat New Zealand by 141 runs

Mar 15: v West Indies, Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8am AEDT

Mar 19: v India, Eden Park, Auckland, 12pm AEDT

Mar 22: v South Africa, Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8am AEDT

Mar 25: v Bangladesh, Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8am AEDT

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Semi-finals

Mar 30: Basin Reserve, Wellington, 8am AEDT

Mar 31: Hagley Park Christchurch, 12pm AEDT