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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week things are slowing down a bit. We have a short drop list but as has been the case with this entire year, it’s still unbelievably strong. Jordan heads have a lot to look forward to including the women’s exclusive AJ-1 Black and Gorge Green, and the new Jordan 4 Oxidized Green.

Those are dope releases, no doubt, but it’s what else is dropping this week that has be most hyped. Namely, the return of the AF-1 Linen. The sneaker was first dropped as a Japanese exclusive before KITH brought it stateside a few years ago. If you weren’t able to cop a pair during the re-release, you’ve got another chance this week. But those aren’t the only highlights of the week, we’ve got a couple more pairs that we’re sure you’d love to empty your wallets over.

Let’s dive into this week’s best sneakers.

Women’s Air Jordan 1 Low OG Black and Gorge Green

Price: $140

Looking for a bold Jordan 1 colorway that are sure to demand attention when you walk into a room? Look no further than these Black and Gorge Green Jordan 1s. Featuring a low-profile silhouette, this Jordan 1 sports a luxurious leather build with a cracked leather Swoosh in a strong four-color design.

The sneaker features a white midsole with a green upper and black leather panels, while crimson red accents adorn the laces, outsole, and branding. I’m not sure there is a colorway that indicates we’ve slipped into the summer season more than this one.

The Nike Women’s Air Jordan 1 Low OG Black and Gorge Green is out now for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

Nike Air Force 1 Low Linen

Price: $135

It was hard to put this list together this week because I don’t think a single release holds a candle to the Air Force 1 Linen. This colorway first dropped as a Japan exclusive in 2001 and since then it has been one of the most coveted colorways of the AF-1. We even included it in our Greatest Air Force 1 Colorways of all time!

The sneaker sports a leather upper in light tan with Pink accents at the Swoosh and outsole. It’s simple but looks amazing. I’d say good luck on drop day, but I sincerely hope you catch an L and I pick up the W. Because of that, I probably won’t be so lucky.

The Nike Air Force 1 Low Linen is set to drop on June 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $135. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT.

Nike NOCTA Air Zoom Drive Black

Price: $165

You all still Drake fans? We’re kidding of course, there is nothing wrong with being a Drake fan, but lets be real, the most vital thing Drake has done lately has been his work with Nike. He’s taking the Kanye route, fading out of musical relevance and focusing on shoes. Hopefully his entire career doesn’t take the same trajectory. Again, we’re kidding, I’m sure Drake will release a huge song soon and the whole world will forget how thoroughly Kendrick embarrassed him.

All of that to say is the new Black NOCTA Air Zoom Drive is pretty cool! The sneaker sports a mixed textile and leather upper with an exposed zoom air bag at the heel and reflective underlays. The leather is used sparingly, ensuring the sneaker is lightweight and easy to travel in.

The Nike NOCTA Air Zoom Drive Black is set to drop on June 14th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $165. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Air Jordan 4 Oxidized Green

Price: $215

The greatest Jordan silhouette — that’s right, I said it — is getting a new colorway! The Oxidized Green features a clean white leather upper with Oxized Green accents throughout and metallic eyelets. I love the combo of white and green but if I had one gripe about this design it would be those metallic eyelets.

Would that stop me from wearing a pair if I was lucky enough to cop? Not a chance.

The Air Jordan 4 Oxidized Green is set to drop on June 15th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $215. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app or aftermarket sites like GOAT and Flight Club.

New Balance MADE in UK 1500 Vintage Sport

Price: $249.99

A classic straight from the late ‘80s, the M1500 makes a return via New Balance’s MADE in UK studio. The 1500 sports a mesh and pigskin suede body with synthetic overlays, leather foxing at the heel, and ENCAP midsole cushioning.

To emphasize the late ‘80s vibe, this sneaker sports a classic off-white, navy, and red colorway with a slightly aged outsole for a lived-in look. This might just be the best sneaker to come out of NB’s Made in UK studio all year.

The New Balance MADE in UK 1500 Vintage Sport is set to drop on June 13th at 9:00 AM PST for a retail price of $249.99. Pick up a pair via the New Balance webstore.

New Balance MADE in UK 991v2 Vintage Sport

Price: $259.99

If you’re not feeling the vintage vibes of the 1500 let’s flash forward more than a decade to the 991. First released in 2001, this sneaker exudes new millennium vibes and sports a pigskin suede and mesh upper with synthetic overlays, thick rope style laces and an ENCAP midsole outfitted with ABZORB SBS pods for a comfortable step.

This sneaker utilizes the same colorway as the 1500 but with less emphasis on the navy accents, and an added dose of NB grey.

The New Balance MADE in UK 991v2 Vintage Sport is set to drop on June 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $259.99. Pick up a pair via the New Balance webstore.

Stone Island x New Balance 574 Legacy Light Green/Dark Green

Price: $139.99 (Light Green/Dark Green)

The Italy-based luxury streetwear brand Stone Island is again teaming up with New Balance for a modernized build of the late ‘80s classic, the 574. The sneaker sports a mixed upper that combines a polyester ripstop upper with nubuck overlays and a rubber outsole, with polyester terry lining, and reflective details throughout.

Rounding out the design is Stone Island’s iconic compass logo woven into a patch affixed to the tongue, as well as a compass logo sock liner, and custom packaging. The sneaker drops in two colorways, a light and dark green iteration. The dark green recalls the brand’s signature colors more but we’re feeling the lighter take on the design a bit more.

The Stone Island x New Balance 574 Legacy Light Green/Dark Green is set to drop on June 14th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $139.99. Pick up a pair at the New Balance webstore or aftermarket sites like GOAT.

Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.

This off-season has seen a number of stars get paid in the NFL. Most recently, Justin Jefferson became the highest paid non-QB in league history and Jared Goff got a massive new contract from the Lions. One of the last remaining big questions marks in the league as minicamps got underways was whether the Jaguars would lock down Trevor Lawrence.

Many around the league are split on exactly what Lawrence’s value is, as the former No. 1 overall pick has clear talent but has yet to put it all together and hasn’t taken the kinda of strides that indicate he’s ready to breakthrough into the elite QB category. That makes extension talks tricky, because he was always going to ask for money in the same vein as the elite young QBs, despite not quite having the same level of success. On the flip side, he’s clearly good and has the upside still, and the Jaguars aren’t a franchise that wants to hit the reset after building a perennial playoff contender.

As such, the two sides were able to strike a deal that gives Lawrence 5 years, $275 million — the same Joe Burrow got from the Bengals last year — with $142 millions guaranteed at signing and $200 million in practical guarantees, slightly less than Burrow.

That’s a large investment in Lawrence, who threw for 4,016 yards, 21 touchdowns, and 14 interceptions a year ago. His ability to raise that production, with more investment in the receiving corps around him, will determine how this deal ages. But for Lawrence, he secured his financial future and the Jags leave no doubt who their franchise QB is long-term.

Now, all eyes shift to south Florida, where Tia Tagovailoa is awaiting his extension from Miami and has a new benchmark for negotiations.

The number of teens and tweens who have smartphones is on the rise and we’re starting to see the effects that “great rewiring” has on them. Recent research shows that smartphones can have a very negative effect on girls’ mental health.

After giving her 11-year-old a smartphone about a year ago, Kailey Wood, known as The_GeriatricMillenial on TikTok, deactivated it because she’s seen “firsthand just how detrimental” they are. “So much so that last night, I finally said, ‘I’m done with this,’ and I deactivated my 11-year-old’s phone,” she says in a TikTok video. “And I don’t know when I’m gonna give it back.”

She initially gave her kids phones to keep track of them around the neighborhood, but now she “regrets” the decision. The 37-year-old mother of two from Buffalo, New York, shared her story in a TikTok video viewed over 1.4 million times.

@the_geriatricmillennial

Taking away my 11 year old daughters phone agter having one for a year because its feeling like more negative than positive lately. No opinions needed, parentinf kids in the digital age is hard enough but would love to hear what other parents are doing to maintain their kids independence while also being safe #momofteens #momoftweensgirls #momofdaughters #parentingadvice #teenswithphones #millennialmom #momsover30

Wood was tired of her daughter being in constant conflict with her friends, so she took the phone out of the equation. “Young girls get jealous and don’t think before they text, so they unintentionally hurt their friends’ feelings,” she told Upworthy. “Snapchat and Instagram document their whereabouts and friends feel left out. When that happens, sometimes emotions fuel mean comments and DMs. They’re all totally normal feelings, but if I can prevent drama and conflict longer, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

Wood struggled with the decision because smartphones made it easy for her to contact her daughter when she was at her friends’ houses. They also gave her peace of mind because she didn’t have the phone numbers of some of her friends’ parents.

However, she couldn’t take the constant jealousy and bickering between her daughter and her friends. “I just decided it’s gone too far. I’m done with this; we’re going to have to figure out a new solution,” she said in the video. “Phones and social media … those are a part of the teenage experience now. But at what expense?”

Wood believes that to stop the problem, parents should “band together” to prevent children from getting smartphones until they are at least 14.

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Since the video went viral in April, Wood has had a slight change of heart. She has reintroduced the phone but with a new set of strict rules. “No socials, limited screen time and she’s not allowed to bring it out of the house. So if she goes out, she only has her Apple Watch,” she told Upworthy. “Phones this age at sleepovers or hangouts just take away from the time together.”

The good news is that she has also recruited the parents of her daughter’s friends and they have implemented the same rules.

Wood believes that her strategy is all about making a difficult time in life a bit easier. “My goal is to avoid any social conflicts that social media or group chats unintentionally cause,” she told People. “Being a tween/teen already comes with enough pressure and drama, which leads to more depression/anxiety,”

Remember NFTs? It’s okay if you don’t — no one should — but, apparently, no one told PleasrDAO, who now owns Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-one album, Once Upon A Time In Shaolin. You should remember this; the album was recorded in secret over six years, pressed onto one CD copy in 2014, and auctioned for an extravagant amount of money to a person who even RZA regretted giving access to it.

As predicted back when the group of self-declared “DeFi leaders, early NFT collectors, and digital artists” was first revealed to have bought the album from the US government at auction, PleasrDAO has turned the album into an NFT. A representative for the group told Rolling Stone upon its purchase, “This album at its inception was a kind of protest against rent-seeking middlemen, people who are taking a cut away from the artist. Crypto very much shares that same ethos. The album itself is kind of the O.G. NFT.”

… yeah, sure, okay. Move fast, break things, reinvent cable with yourselves at the top. We get it.

According to Consequence, PleasrDAO figured out a loophole in the legal agreement that prevents the album from being commercially exploited until 2103 (of course they did). Each NFT purchase will purportedly speed up the countdown by 88 seconds, although as of now, only a five-minute sampler is available for $1. You can find more information below.

Shark movies are risky. They can either go on to be one of the best movies of all time or a giant meme. There’s no telling which way it will go.

So when Under Paris dropped on Netflix, it would have made sense for the film, about a shark attack in France, to fade into the depths of Netflix, never to be seen again. It sometimes happens.

But the makers of the film clearly forgot how “in” France is right now, thanks to the 2024 Olympics, the recent elections and Emily In Paris season four, so the movie became an unexpected Top 10 hit.

The movie follows a young climate scientist who discovers that there is shark in the depths of the Seine river in Paris, right before a world triathlon. While it might seem too on the nose, filmmaker Xavier Gens told Variety that it’s not just about the upcoming Olympic Games. “We’re targeting everyone! Not just the Olympics,” he explained. “We’re anticipating the media circus that will go on this summer, and riffing on the ideology that’s put forward around the Olympics. In principle, the Olympics are all about bringing people from everywhere in the world, all together. And that’s great, and virtuous. But there is also a lot of hypocrisy and a commercial ideology behind this which I don’t support.”

While there is no plan for a sequel at the moment, Gens said that he has an idea in mind should Netflix greenlight another installment. “Right now, as of today, we’re not on it but there’s a chance that we’ll be discussing it soon. If there is a sequel, it will take place in a Paris that is entirely submerged underwater.” Hopefully Emily will be out of Paris by then.

You can watch Under Paris now on Netflix

You usually only hear a few names brought up whenever someone is asked to pick the GOAT basketball player. There’s Michael Jordan, there’s LeBron James, every now and then you’ll hear someone cite Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s career of excellence in the sport, or Bill Russell’s 11 championship rings in a 13-year playing career.

In a recent clip while promoting his new movie Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Will Smith decided to go in a different direction. The question got posed to himself and his co-star Martin Lawrence, and while Lawrence used a pretty common argument in picking Jordan (he was undefeated in the NBA Finals in his career), Smith leaned heavily on his Philadelphia roots in naming his GOAT — and no, he did not pick Sixers legend Allen Iverson or Philly native Kobe Bryant.

“I mean, ok, so you got a Greatest of All-Time,” Smith said. “I think there has to be avenues. Like, for me, the GOAT basketball player for my life — for my life — the GOAT basketball player is Julius Erving. Like, the basketball player that changed my life.”

Erving spent 11 years as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers, and was an important piece of their NBA championship winning team in 1983. Smith would have been a teenager in Philly at that point, so it probably isn’t a big surprise that he holds Dr. J in such high regard.

A great opera voice is a learned art, not a natural-born gift like other styles of singing. It takes discipline, physical training, and to truly wow the audience, the performer must be a great actor and athlete as well.

“Singing opera is to ordinary vocal activity what distance running, triple-jumping and pole-vaulting are to ordinary exercise,” said Sir Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House wrote for the BBC. “Which means that singers and, almost as important, those who teach them are locked in the same kinds of relationship that obtain between elite athletes and charismatic coaches.”

So what goes on inside of the head and throat of an opera singer while they perform?

German baritone Michael Volle performed “Song to the Evening Star” by German composer Richard Wagner while inside of an MRI scan to give people a never-before-seen look at how an opera singer produces such a haunting sound. It’s a pretty freaky-looking image, but shows the amazing control these performers must have to hit such powerful notes.

This article originally appeared on 05.05.16

Photographer James Balog and his crew were hanging out near a glacier when their camera captured something extraordinary.

They were in Greenland, gathering footage from the time-lapse they’d positioned all around the Arctic Circle for the last several years.

They were also there to shoot scenes for a documentary. And while they were hoping to capture some cool moments on camera, no one expected a huge chunk of a glacier to snap clean off and slide into the ocean right in front of their eyes.

It was the largest such event ever filmed.

For nearly an hour and 15 minutes, Balog and his crew stood by and watched as a piece of ice the size of lower Manhattan — but with ice-equivalent buildings that were two to three times taller than that — simply melted away.

As far as anyone knows, this was an unprecedented geological catastrophe and they caught the entire thing on tape. It won’t be the last time something like this happens either.

But once upon a time, Balog was openly skeptical about that “global warming” thing.

Balog had a reputation since the early 1980s as a conservationist and environmental photographer. And for nearly 20 years, he’d scoffed at the climate change heralds shouting, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!”

“I didn’t think that humans were capable of changing the basic physics and chemistry of this entire, huge planet. It didn’t seem probable, it didn’t seem possible,” he explained in the 2012 documentary film “Chasing Ice.”

There was too much margin of error in the computer simulations, too many other pressing problems to address about our beautiful planet. As far as he was concerned, these melodramatic doomsayers were distracting from the real issues.

That was then.

In fact, it wasn’t until 2005 that Balog became a believer.

He was sent on a photo expedition of the Arctic by National Geographic, and that first northern trip was more than enough to see the damage for himself.

“It was about actual tangible physical evidence that was preserved in the ice cores of Greenland and Antarctica,” he said in a 2012 interview with ThinkProgress. “That was really the smoking gun showing how far outside normal, natural variation the world has become. And that’s when I started to really get the message that this was something consequential and serious and needed to be dealt with.”

Some of that evidence may have been the fact that more Arctic landmass has melted away in the last 20 years than the previous 10,000 years.

Watch the video of the event of the glacier calving below:

This article originally appeared on 11.04.15

Madalyn Parker wanted to take a couple days off work. She didn’t have the flu, nor did she have plans to be on a beach somewhere, sipping mojitos under a palm tree.

Parker, a web developer from Michigan, wanted a few days away from work to focus on her mental health.

Parker lives with depression. And, she says, staying on top of her mental health is absolutely crucial.

“The bottom line is that mental health is health,” she says over email. “My depression stops me from being productive at my job the same way a broken hand would slow me down since I wouldn’t be able to type very well.”

She sent an email to her colleagues, telling them the honest reason why she was taking the time off.

“Hopefully,” she wrote to them, “I’ll be back next week refreshed and back to 100%.”

Soon after the message was sent, the CEO of Parker’s company wrote back:

“Hey Madalyn,

I just wanted to personally thank you for sending emails like this. Every time you do, I use it as a reminder of the importance of using sick days for mental health — I can’t believe this is not standard practice at all organizations. You are an example to us all, and help cut through the stigma so we can all bring our whole selves to work.”

u201cWhen the CEO responds to your out of the office email about taking sick leave for mental health and reaffirms your decision. ud83dudcafu201d

— madalyn (@madalyn)
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Moved by her CEO’s response, Parker posted the email exchange to Twitter.

The tweet, published on June 30, 2017, has since gone viral, amassing 45,000 likes and 16,000 retweets.

“It’s nice to see some warm, fuzzy feelings pass around the internet for once,” Parker says of the response to her tweet. “I’ve been absolutely blown away by the magnitude though. I didn’t expect so much attention!”

Even more impressive than the tweet’s reach, however, were the heartfelt responses it got.

“Thanks for giving me hope that I can find a job as I am,” wrote one person, who opened up about living with panic attacks. “That is bloody incredible,” chimed in another. “What a fantastic CEO you have.”

Some users, however, questioned why there needs to be a difference between vacation time and sick days; after all, one asked, aren’t vacations intended to improve our mental well-being?

That ignores an important distinction, Parker said — both in how we perceive sick days and vacation days and in how that time away from work is actually being spent.

“I took an entire month off to do partial hospitalization last summer and that was sick leave,” she wrote back. “I still felt like I could use vacation time because I didn’t use it and it’s a separate concept.”

Many users were astounded that a CEO would be that understanding of an employee’s mental health needs.

They were even more surprised that the CEO thanked her for sharing her personal experience with caring for her mental health.

After all, there’s still a great amount of stigma associated with mental illness in the workplace, which keeps many of us from speaking up to our colleagues when we need help or need a break to focus on ourselves. We fear being seen as “weak” or less committed to our work. We might even fear losing our job.

Ben Congleton, the CEO of Parker’s company, Olark, even joined the conversation himself.

In a blog post on Medium, Congleton wrote about the need for more business leaders to prioritize paid sick leave, fight to curb the stigma surrounding mental illness in the workplace, and see their employees as people first.

“It’s 2017. We are in a knowledge economy. Our jobs require us to execute at peak mental performance,” Congleton wrote. “When an athlete is injured, they sit on the bench and recover. Let’s get rid of the idea that somehow the brain is different.”

This article originally appeared on 07.11.17

What do you get when you combine an infectious beat, an empowering message and a bunch of energetic tweens with delightfully thick Irish accents?

You get “The Spark,” this summer’s bangin’ anthem that people around the world can’t stop playing.

The young rappers from Cork and Lisdoonvarna—cities on opposite coasts of Ireland—came together to create this absolute banger for Cruinniú na nÓg, a national day of celebrating youth creativity in Ireland, which takes place on June 15.

The song and video were released as part of the Rhyme Island youth rap initiative created for the event, with kids ages 9 to 12 participating. It almost immediately began to spread on social media, with people raving over how catchy and fun it is. (People have been clamoring for a month for the song to be released on streaming, and we’re thrilled to share that as of June 14, you can officially find “The Spark” on Spotify.)

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The comments on on TikTok pretty much sum it up:

“I’m about to be screaming I SEARCHED FOR MY SPARK AND I FOUND IT all summer.”

“AI SHERCHED FOR ME ShPARK AN A FEUND EHT!!!!”

“If the clubs aren’t playing this song this summer then I’m leavinggggg.”

“This has no right to go this hard.”

“The Cork accent has found its calling.”

Even the Duracell battery account weighed in with “This is the kind of energy we live for.”

Many people shared that they love that the kids look like kids and not little adults. And with lyrics like this, how can you not walk away with a little extra spring in your step?

I searched for my spark and I found it

Everybody in the crowd start bouncin!

If we see a dream you know we’re gonna chase it

So get over any fear you have just face it!

You can do it like we do it, don’t doubt it

Any obstacle we find a way around it

If you’re proud of who you are and what you do, shout it!

The kids worked with local producer GMCBeats and The Kabin Studio, a music and creativity-focused nonprofit in Knocknaheeny, a suburb of Cork, to create the song.

“The response has been amazing,” said Garry McCarthy (GMCBeats), the creative director of the Kabin Studio and co-producer of “The Spark.” “The kids’ energy and positivity have inspired people worldwide. It’s been all over TikTok especially. It’s bonkers, we’ve never seen something like this!”

Dancers on TikTok have been coming up with dances to go along with it, so here’s one to try if you get the urge to get up and dance with the kids:

@stasii777

pov: youre running away from those irish kids DC: us!!!! #fyp #sparksong #irishkids #viral #dance @Stephanie

The Kabin Studio shared the hope that the song’s popularity will result in more people supporting young artists:

“‘The Spark’ is more than just a tune; it’s a celebration of creativity, resilience, and the unbreakable spirit of youth. As it continues to inspire listeners worldwide, The Kabin Studio hopes to channel its success into furthering their mission of supporting young artists locally and in direct provision.”