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Officers in Chateau, Moldova, watching protesters outside the Electoral Commission after the parliamentary elections in September.

How Russia Has Plotted to Exert Control in Tiny Moldova

This article is by Michael Schwartz, Adam Goldman and Anne Brodie

It resembled in many ways a summer camp. Barbecues and beach volleyball games were so after. A wellness spa was called "Mama and More You".

The men and women who attended the program at a cross-completion a summer part of the location took part in more intense activities like learning to break through public vehicles and the buildings on fire. They doomed full cutters and trained with a small rifles.

Their counselors, I turned out, were operatives with her to Rus-

sian military intelligence service, known as the GRU. Their purpose, according to intelligence officials from three countries who described the activities, was to build a cadre of disciplined shock troops trained in election interference.

The target was tiny Moldova, a country of direct force million poor that carries atomic importance for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

The Kremlin's campaign included methods familiar elsewhere in the West, like landing and disinformation. But in Moldova, its insurmountable water harbor that gave hype anywhere else outside Ukraine, and stands in one of the most extensive and audacious

Training on Interfering in Votes, and $1,000 Stipends to Priests

piers to date in Mr. Putin's effort to disestablish the West, the three Western intelligence officials say.

Besides the camp in Serbia, Russian agents ran training programs in Bosnia and Moscow that were designed to turn pre-Russian Moldovans into lost soldiers. Moscow paid hundreds of Orthodox Moldovian priests to recruit voters and to push Russian ouritives from the pulpit. And it spent

hundreds of millions of dollars on a sophisticated two-buying scheme financed by a Moldovan billboard on right and conceived and operated from Moldova, the Kremlin's knockoff Silicos Valley outside Moscow.

Moscow's campaign has not stopped. This spring, Russian senators supplied many minor structure that provided narrow to Moldova, polishing waterways and disrupting electricity flows.

The article is based on interviews with activists who took part in the Russian effort, senior Moldovan law enforcement and security officials, and more than half a dozen European and American

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Cyclospora Reveals Flows In the Food Safety System

Trump Administration Delayed a Rule That Might Have Sped Up the Response

By CHRISTINA JEWETT and JULIE CROSWELL

WASHINGTON — Control of cyclosporiasis were mounting rapidly in Michigan and state health officials were leaning in on a common thread: Many of those who had fallen all had eaten at Taco Bell.

On July 1, they asked the company for its supply chain records, crucial information in tracing ingredients that may have caused the outbreak.

On July 1, they wrote and asked for the records again.

On July 6, they wrote a third time.

"With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing Facebook in a timely manner to preserve public health," Lauren Edwards, an psychomologist on the state's spatio-grams team, said in an email to morristown@Vian Brands, which owns Taco Bell. (The New York Times obtained the correspondence under Michigan's open records law.)

Later that day, Taco Bell provided some records to the state, which by then was working with the federal Food and Drug Administration. The FDA is asked for an information on two days after it's built, on July 10, the agency received all the records in order to respond letters from a Taylor, Trump plant in Moscow and the state's national.

A federal rule that had been scheduled to take effect in June at a small have required Taco Bell to send these records within a notice that can pass the Trump administration delayed the implementation of that rule and said that a strong compound needed more time to prepare.

Food safety experts say the postponement has hindered the response to the outbreak, the long-term cluster in a recent number of

cyclosporas cases in the United States this year.

"Your translators into diseases and fever," said Thomas Greenblom, director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America, who reviewed the results from Michigan. He added: "We would have had a much better response to this outbreak if they hadn't de-

A laboratory in Michigan, where cyclosporas has sickened more than 12,000 people and contributed to two deaths.

lived that rule."

Cyclospora, which can cause cyclosporic diarrhea, cramps and other severe symptoms, has been a recognized driver of healthcare disorder nearly 30 years. Bleeding years' massive toll — totaling more than 10,000 confirmed or suspected cases so far and two deaths — records shortenings in the U.S. food safety system that may leave Americans more vulnerable to future pathogens, public health experts say.

Many point-to-question-attracted by a struggle during the Trump administration, stressing in part from its aggressive efforts to rid food regulations and derials the federal government.

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U.S. Prosecutor Targeted a Firm With Judge Ties

By GLENN TIBBUSH

WASHINGTON — The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating Cyclosporine food raising. Now there is a trend for the daughter of the judge in President Trump's businessman Frank New York, according to court filings and people familiar with the surgery.

Last August, the U.S. attorney Andrew L. Bostrom of the Northern District of Illinois, director of Anthems Campaign Inc. to become a broad range of internal communication needs clients. They included former Vice President Ronald Reagan, former President Joseph E. Biden Jr., and Kathy Mechaul New York, Representative Halpern Jeffries of New York, and the Democratic National Committee, according to a grand jury subpoena reviewed by The New York Times.

Lauren Merckes, the daughter of Juan Merckes, a supreme court judge in Manhattan, was the first vice president until late 2024 and was also on the list. The Merckes family has been a frequent target of Mr. Trump and his allies, who have made an international claims that the judge was not to get him and that his daughter profited from accusations owed at the trial.

The trial ended with Mr. Trump's views from in 2024, in the matter of his campaign in a second term, on 34times counts since using from the others to keep a pace star from publishing her case. Continued on Page 20

After 5 Years Ruling Afghanistan, New Challenges

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After Professor's Death, Questions for Cambridge

This article is by Mary Brinton and Megan Garcia, Lee Smith, Ali Welkin and Susan Bowman.

CAMBRIDGE, England — When Cambridge University interviewed James Arling for one of the most prestigious sociology positions in the world, he was an early career scholar and understudied, by the school's own standards.

Cambridge, requirements, reviewed by The New York Times, called for "an outstanding co-

search record of international charge" and a "proven successful track record" supervising Ph.D. students. Dr. Arling had a modest publication record and had bounced from one university to the next — not staying long enough to exercise a full three-year-or-more doctorate.

Cambridge listed him anyway in 2023, making him, as if, the university's youngest Black professor at a time when the school was under pressure to diversify. In doing so, Cambridge thrust him into

the international limelight, giving him a pleasure at one of the world's elite universities to change your academic diversity and making him a longer for others.

Dr. Arling was found dead in London on Friday, days after resigning for job amid accusations that he had plagued at the time of his project, reintubated parts of his recently published memoir and fabricated aspects of his history. The controversy exploded along cultural fault lines — race.

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A Castro Linked to Smuggling Becomes an Envoy to the U.S.

By DAVID C. ADAMS and FRANCIS BOBLES

Raid Castro was on an official date visit in Paris a decade ago as Cubes president when a fuddy bodyguard in his espionage stood out.

The man kept so close to Mr. Castro while they walked the red carpet at the Elyson Palace that a member of the French house panel took poking him back.

Even French-violence, France's president at the time, moved him back.

The security court who kept an ostrating himself in official photos was more often than Mr. Castro's grandson, Raid G. Rodriguez Castro, a colonel in the intense memory.

Today, the once largely unknown bodyguard has become a key figure in Cubes talks with the United States, even though he has never held public ideas. He found his views come up as someone the Trump administration might have acceptable to because Cubes sent weeks.

"We smuggle too for their government operates," said Tim Bostrom, although policy also to the American Patriot Lodge, a Democrat from Vietnam, who was Mr. Rodriguez Castro's several times. "It's also like a family business, and no someone who was in the United States is decidedly on President Castro's bodyguard has his whatever means, by whatever means, because something much more than that."

But Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who has met with some of the most senior people in the Trump ethnic

Raid G. Rodriguez Castro, left, with his grandfellow Mr. Castro at the Pike Day parade on Havana last year.

situation, may have also used his considerable influence to protect a large-scale smuggling operation that he would not sell to him and brought their goods into the country, according to interviews and court records.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, 42, was accused of helping Daniel goods purchased with entire credit cards into the country, receiving luxury items as before and allowing financial animals to roam lives on the island, the interviews and court records show.

The scheme was the target of a federal investigation that resulted in the conversion of at least 25 people and establishing assistance. Mr. Rodriguez Castro has

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When we are off to join Dale Sanders,

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hide the entire Appalachian Trail, an compe-

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ning. How hard could hiking with a 10-year-

ski? No? No? No? No?

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thing he fan. But to document Mr. Sand-

ers' clad to reclaim the record as the oldest

person to complete the trail, we'll have to

cover several 12 miles a day up steep in

clams and down slippery roots and rocks —

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tion load and other essentials

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tion. Mr. Sanders was planning to take an

some of the country's most scenic trails and

sleep in the famous backcountry here

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We're both drawn to reporting in chal-

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mentary (friendly) background. He has

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topography while working on projects in

the community. In 1990, he's tropical terrain

of the Caribbean and deep underground in

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and the architect, has spent years chasing

stay on so but and interviewing people

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Dale Sanders, 91, hopes to work on the title as the oldest pretext to complete the Appalachian Trail.

Luke Pistrovinski, at 6th behind Mr. Sanders, and Chris Cohen carried 18 pounds of camera gear.

enough gear to be well-affiliated without

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How a Long-Shot U.S. Oil Drilling Project Is Shaking Up Greenland

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and MARY TERES

LONDON — In one of the most remote towns in earth, on the Evans crest of Greenland is that coast, the American oilman made his pitch.

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Why would Greenland get only 10 percent of the profit?

What kind of chemicals would be

Gov. Jeff Landry, President Trump's special envoy, hails Greenland's potential as an oil exporter.

used?

And what about the mask on? (Mask on heating is a big deal up there.)

The meeting wrapped up with a lot of ordinary people filled out, according to a video of a talk was shared with The New York Times, and a showdown over oil exploration has now joined the cloud of a more exciting over Greenland.

The without oil project is being pumped up by Dr. Phil McGraw, the TV personality known as Dr. Phil, and Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, both powerful allies of President Trump. It's the latest push by the MAGA camp to close in on this gigantic, he can, inland that Mr. Trump threatened to amuse and remains a finalists of his.

If the discovery is anything close to what the company sees, and if it makes economic sense for major production — and those are two enormous 85 — this project could throw Greenland into a radically different future, possibly as an Arctic pricentier.

But as such a change may, after a wave of negative publicity, protests by Greenlanders and a day-up by the project's organizers who have a drilling license, Greenland's authorities tapped the public, and while, the Greenlanders pushed back the timeline for granting their approvals, saying that it's unlikely any drilling would be authorized before 2020.

The Times-based firm, leading the project, Greenland Energy Company, now says it will have an drilling unit one well, not two. And the delays are expected to cost millions. As a result, Greenland Energy's share price has plummeted, trading at little more than a dollar, half its value from just days ago.

A few years ago, Greenland declared it was suspending oil exploration. The key is to setting the bottom meeting regions in the world, and the Greenlandic government felt it was wrong to contribute more fossil fuel pollution.

But the oil prospectors in this case are operating with a valid license granted before the policy changed, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times, for Greenlandic officials, who have been trying to navigate the intense pressure. Mr. Trump has put in them, find themselves in a tight spot.

They are more than aware that if they effectively block America's from drilling, especially at a time when world events have happened the global oil supply, that could give Mr. Trump the present he needs to return to his threats to 'get' Greenland. "We need the third-odd name time, there's obvious resistance from ordinary Greenlanders and government officials to the project."

"In a world where Donald Trump has proved to be a substantial opportunity to ward Greenland, you can't help but be a little case-proof," said Mikhail Rodger-Eleons, a senior researcher of the Doundt Institute for International Studies. "If you suddenly throw a major oil discovery into the mix, who knows what might happen."

For months, the United States, Greenland and Denmark — the island's former colonial market, which still remains many of its affairs — have been locked in sticky negotiations over the island's future. One key issue has been American access to Greenland's natural resources.

Even since Mr. Trump on his rights on the island, Greenland has become a magnet for investors and allies chasing Air-

A U.S. British joint venture wants to drill exploratory wells near Stougertownnit, top and above right, a small and isolated settlement in eastern Greenland. Dr. Phil McGraw, above left with President Trump, has a "partnership" with the company and did a recent podcast on the project, which was titled "Frozen Gold."

to resource dreams. But oil has never been easy.

Chevron and Shell prospected decades ago with an success. It's incredibly expensive to build an oil industry from scratch in one of the most remote and in-hospitalable places on the planet. Most of Greenland is covered in ice. One major U.S. company, AMCO, decades ago ruled today's equivalent of $250 million — far more than the $40 million the current players have raised — into certain studies in the same area, only to abandon the project in 2006.

"There are so many red flags here," said Nanja Nathansoloo, Greenland's former minister of natural resources and now a representative in Denmark's Parliament. She says she hasn't won any hard-duty-copiering the project's hamstring claims, adding, "I think they are selling hot air."

Not so, say the backers of the project, a joint venture between Greenland Energy, the small, publicly traded U.S. com-

Dr. Phil, a plan's booster, said: 'I'm going to have to mug a kitten and get some mittens.'

says that raised the money, and 90 Milo' Plc, a British outfit that acquired the drilling licenses several years ago.

Redbrick McElroy, 30 Milo's executive director and a board member of Greenland Energy, said the stretch of Greenland had the same geology as the North Sea oil fields, where European countries have extracted billions of barrels. And climate change is working in their favor, he said.

"Warning temperatures mean less ice dragging Greenland's coast, making any oil discovered cheaper to where than it would have been decades ago, he said.

One investor in the Citadel hedge fund,

ran by the investment trust Ken Griffin, and the Trump administration fully supports the project.

"Greenland could be exporting two million barrels of oil a day," said Governor Landry. Mr. Trump's special envoy to Greenland, in a Fox News interview in May, he added, "Think about what kind of pressure that would relieve in the Senate of Income."

Before the project is allowed to start, its plans, including a detailed environmental assessment, must be approved. But the organizers have been moving ahead anyway and recently cannot cut two disputed equipment transfers.

First, they brought in a large of equipment from another part of Greenland on what authorities said was an expired permit. Jurgen Hammeleva-Bolm, the head of Greenland's mineral resources department, called the move "sangibly, sangibly."

Then, a few days later, they unloaded

another piece of heavy equipment without proper notification, the authorities said.

"We have the police and the military," Mr. Hammeleva-Bolm warned. "They can assist in dealing with unlawful activities it necessary."

Mr. McElroy, the 90 Milo executive, admitted, "We kind of fell down." He said the company apologized to Greenland's officials.

The potentially oil-rich area, known as Jameson Land, is a highly protected environmental area, an acute swampland of sorts, home to weanless shrubs and reeds on, loans and migrating birds like the park-based game. The meals on is prized for its most and its far, which is turned into a luxurious taste.

All the has attracted Dr. Phil, who did a recent 40-minute podcast on the project. He filled the episode "Frozen Gold," and according to documents on Greenland Energy's website, the company has established "a wide-ranging partnership" with him to make a six-episode series on "this modern-day treasure taste."

His company did not respond to requests for comment about his involvement in the project. But on his podcast, Dr. Phil said he would soon head to the Arctic.

"I'm going to have to mug a kitten and get some mittens because I'm going to go up there and see this firsthand," he said.

Stougertownnit (It is a low 70% more), anywhere 120, is trying to make sense of what's happening. This spring, members of the local council seemed ready to negotiate and drafted a list of things they wanted from the oil company: a heated community pool, new hunting colons, and funding for residents to fly over Jameson Land in helicopters one last time before their hunting grounds were turned into an industrial site.

But the public meeting in June changed the travel.

Mr. McElroy conceded that the team that led the meeting didn't show enough respect.

"They forget whose house they were in," he said.

Still, some residents support the project.

Aage Crag: Pike Burwickson, a construction worker, said in a telephone interview that Stougertownnit desperately needed jobs.

"You have to think about the future and the money," he explained. "Maybe Greenland could become like Dubai That's my dream."

Items made with scabbin and mask on furs in Nook, Greenland. The area targeted for drilling is home to nook on.

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The interior of Notre-Dame in 2019, a day after the fire. Officials are hoping that the public will embrace one (Zia century two).

Despite Resistance, Notre-Dame Will Get Modern Glass Twist

By MARIE LOROLDI

REISEN, France – Sevrin and a half years after a raging, the world destroyed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, workers who were begin installing the most contrabass feature of its various free restrictions on towering stained-glass windows that dapat the Christian book of Poincourt.

Unlike the cathedrals (gargoyles, paintings and other treasures, which were refurbished, the windows are entirely new.

The work of a French artist, Claire Talouret, they impel hand-wasper and traditional religious processions, but in a contemptuary style. They will replace 19th-century stained-glass windows on the south side of the evening, and a feeling a fierce debate over the reform of introducing contemporary artwork to an 800-year-old masterpiece.

Some times, little people argued a petition demanding that the old windows be left in place, while preservationist groups filed multiple legal challenges against their replacement. They argued that it was a breach of France's heritage laws, so small things as a country that govern its artists and millennials' petitioners.

'Remakeling the pain, rather drug something that's already designated as a historic masterpiece, got it made way for something else – that's pretty unprecedented,' said Julien Lacane, the president of Siren & Monuments, a group that campaigns to protect France's artists' mind heritage.

None of that resistance has been successful. The new windows are nearly complete and set to be installed by the main 1920 New, the officials overwiring the in-chanics concession are constantly optimistic that, for all the earlier criticism, workmen and visitors will ultimately welcome the latest addition to the cathedral, once they see it in place. 'We often like that,' said Phil

Ségolène Le Strade, Anu Cambien, and Giulia Jinhert, co-ordinated reporting.

type that, the president of the Public Establishment Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris. 'Before, opinions are expressed, often in a postmaster way, with the strength of the petition. Then, once things are done, people realize that in fact, they aren't that bad.'

The windows are being made in a contrabass-old gleanmaking workshop in Rome, an ancient city 90 miles east of Paris. Featured it this summer with Mr. Isot, a text that provided another twist in the tangled story. It turned out to the workshop, Anne Simon-Marq, which was founded in 1640, in new backcloths the basement of a much younger church, the mid-century modern Eglise de Saumur, where Chancé of the Sacred Heart.

The symbolism was hard to mine. A 100th church, built of reinforced concrete and chromatic street 40 years after it opened, houses one of Europe's oldest workshops. That author is in turn creating stained-glass windows for perfused firewood to meet famous gothic cathedral, the first stone of which was laid in 1651.

Inside the workshop, codispecifics founded over eight miles, painting and engraving pieces of our glass that will be fired and assembled into the stained-glass windows.

The company was founded by Pierre Simon, a master glass maker, and remained in his family's ownership until nearly two decades ago. Over the centuries, it collaborated with artists like Marc Chagall and Joan Mori, and helped to restore the windows of Rome Cathedral after they were damaged in World War I.

After falling on land trains, the family told the workshop in 2011. It was later sold again in two wealthy businessmen from Rome. Pierre Emmanuel Talelages, the former president of the Taittages Champagne house, and Philippe Varda, a former chairman of the French automaker PSA Penguin Circuits.

Mr. Talelages, needing to move the workshop to larger quarters,

An artisan at the Atelier Simon-Marq, a centuries-old stained glass studio, in Rome, France

The designs of Claire Talouret, right, depict handwaves and religious processions, but in a contemporary style. They will replace 19th-century stained-glass windows on the south side of the same.

hit upon the idea of putting it in a connected church. He said he thought this would provide a peaceful, almost romantic environment, consistent with restoring stained-glass windows.

Mr. Talelages said he made his pitch to the newly installed workshop of Rome, Eric de Montian-Bonzoir. 'After one or two

glasses of Champagne,' he recalled lightheartedly, 'the hedge said, 'Yes, I have one or two churches.'

Later, Mr. Talelages welcomed another archbishop, Laurent Ulrich of Paris, to the workshop. It was Archbishop Ulrich, who just proposed replacing Notre-Dame's 19th-century windows, which

were designed by the French architect Eugène Valide-Brieu. The archbishop raised the idea with President Emmanuel Macron, who, eager to leave his mark on the restoration of Notre-Dame, embraced it.

After an international competition, the project was awarded to Mr. Talouret, 44, a French artist

Stained-glass windows will feature traditional imagery in a contemporary style.

the panes in a figurative style. She said she was intrigued, rather dismayed off, by the debate over unending new windows. 'It's not very usual that we do things like the first in France,' she said. 'That's a very strong sign for the country, and for the church.'

Archbishop Ulrich, who suggested that Mr. Talouret take Patreon set as her theme, defended the chance to go modern as entirely in keeping with the history of Notre-Dame. Since it was completed in 1545, he said, 'the cathedral has been one of hard, but undergone transformations and has witnessed them.'

Chloe Roubard, a manager at the Atelier Simon-Marq, said she was, sewed by the chance to create something that will become part of Notre-Dame. 'It happens may be once every two centuries,' she said.

Part of the optimism of the project's backers stems from the positive recognition for a recent on the same day. Mr. Talouret's full-scale sketches for the windows. Some 145,000 people voted to the exhibit, at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, and the persons in French newspapers were positive.

'My heart is beating a little bit,' said Mr. Talouret of the year-end workshop. 'Over悲惨, many people won't like them. You can't please everybody when you have 15 million people a year visiting the cathedral.'

On 1 January, who recently returned to France after a decade living at Los Angeles, said she admired the passion that historical preservation aroused in the 1920s. France has held a new one of only a few countries where people could be overbearful as the feeling the merits of restoring old buildings.

But when discussed the contention that her windows would mean the legacy of Goddard-Duc, whose windows were themselves part of a broader restoration of Notre-Dame. The windows will be restored and displayed. Two at an architecture museum in Paris and four in a choirless north of Paris that he should.

Both Valide & Duc's most visible contributors, the head-covered wooden gear that rose above the old English window, was rebuilt (affidavit after it collapsed in 2019. French officials subjected nothing, edge proposals from prominent architects like Christian France before deciding to stick to the original design.

'It you go to the newly restored Notre-Dame, or an incredible homage to Valide in Duc,' Mr. Talouret said.

For new thought, she is more focused on finishing her own windows. In years to the workshop every other week, she said she still will have a well known design. 'You changed some work on the faces,' she said in our interview.

'We're working on the processes in the last window,' she said. 'It's not just a design that we believe you have the cathedral.'

NEWS ANALYSIS

With Threats to Their Harsh Rule Growing, Taliban Mark 5 Years in Power

By JULIAN PFEIFFER

The black and white flags of the Taliban were flying high along the streets of Kabul, of abominant capital, as the group ranks and five years in power on Saturday.

Many Mercedes-Benzes drove casually in front of graffiti pruning the Taliban fighters' 'sacrifics'. The word painted in crimson, with depictions of drops of blood. Young Alphons chanted independence songs before pasture-leading how 'the carpet of dismayors?' had been removed for Islamic trials.

But the triumphant turns a only half the story. The Taliban may be dangerous in Kabul and have a tight grip on power, yet elsewhere they find themselves targeted and face crises both at home and abroad.

They are in a conflict just short of open war with neighboring Pakistan. They're dealing with new waves of attacks from armed groups that want to topple them. Add to that main corner of the war, the Taliban's attack and growing domestic disconcert, and the Taliban face their past history. The conflict flown return to power in 2021.

It is not only to call with itself those challenges will escalate and threaten their survival as a growing task. And in the corners of celebration on Saturday abroad, the Taliban are popular among many.

Still, the threats they face have to be driven by the 'sacrifics' and nobility that the Taliban have heralded as their primary achievement – and their main selling point to the world.

An Ancient even program in Kabul for celebrations on Thurs-

day, a electronic group claimed responsibility for the killing of the Taliban manor of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. Two weeks earlier, another Taliban official had been commissioned in the same province.

A Tight Grip on Power

The Taliban are holding Alphons society in a dishevelled that spaces on one. Girls and women face restrictions to a degree-absent anywhere else in the world. Religious minorities are witnessing the forced closure of their places of worship. Anyone who wants criticism is in person. Chancé became indifferent in face arrests, journalists and rights workers suffer forced disappearances.

The Taliban are collecting the need to hold the South, their soil canals. European countries have welcomed them in Brussels to facilitate the deportation of Alphons migrants and anykan seekers. They have expanded trade law with Central Asian states and even the Young aid of Pakistan to come back to Afghanistan.

Whenever a sign of dissent emerges in a province, the country's economic and infrastructure is a model. Kabul, Kabul, Kabul, Akhambแล้ว, places a key ally in a leadership position to keep things in check.

And yet the signs of trouble that have appeared in recent months are impossible to ignore.

Frontiers in the North

Spearals sounds of gunfire even beyond across the country mountains of northeastern Afghanistan on a recent evening. Heavy Taliban fighters progressed in the era with questions of checkpoints

A street in Kabul Friday. Food insecurity, conflict with Pakistan and anti-Taliban groups are eroding stability in Afghanistan.

during the main road making through the province of Badakhshara.

On the same road, two attackers had killed a senior provincial Talib official a week earlier. A small group of anti-Taliban fighters had briefly armed crimes of a police headquarters in a nearby district.

Raw fighting between the Taliban and another group opposing their own war, continuing in another district of Badakhshara. The province, bordering China, Pakistan and Tajikistan, is emerging as a hot spot.

On a trip to the province this month, we talked to residents ready to support anti-Taliban groups because they want the wave led up with the Taliban's new grip, the lack of all-oppotivators and the government's confiscation of natural resources. We drove through disease of checkpoints and witnessed the

heavy presence of intelligence officers on the isolated village where anti-Taliban fighters had stormed police headquarters.

The clashes and fire attacks have so far been scattered. The leader of one of the anti-Taliban groups, who died in the same portately targets 'amed at challenging the Taliban's wave of conflict. But the battle, speaking on condition of annoyance to discuss the group's strategy, and the number of attacks would only be present in coming months.

Tenurees in the East

An under-supported Afghan Army waits one would of the border with Pakistan. One is a sponsor of the Taliban, Pakistan law launched dozens of arreships on Afghanistan, killing 100 of Islamic inter-Sovietic, according to the United Nations, and has the second to one even more on all the Taliban don't coin in intimate

vile are staging attacks on Pakistani territory.

The material goes both ways. The Taliban have accused Pakistani of supporting the armed forces that the unintended Taliban outposts in Badakhshara.

Whether, or to what extent, Pakistan is actively supporting anti-Taliban groups is not clear, nor suspicious are running high.

'The Pakistani are happy to be perceived now as a potential patron for the armed opposition to the Taliban, because that increases their leverage over the group,' said Dahrin Foudian, a consultant at the Afghanistan Analysis Network.

Food, Education and the Economy

The picture on the domestic front is also grim. Extreme beings' fear been spreading last from one province to another after all can last in a younger political box, deeper food insecurity. The Taliban's fear on secondary and community education for women and girls is a killing development opportunity.

The Taliban have deprived 2 of others Afghan girls at an attack on the first oring to COVID-19 – the equivalent of all school age girls in New York, Mexico City and Moscow combined. These girls have been forced to stop group indifference.

Some scattered signs of discussion have occurred. As a rare person in Asia, demonstrators chanted 'flesh, education, education, culture' or with little human neighbors chanted in 2022. And the leader of a large religious minority warned the Taliban in May. Don't express religious needy too much, or it will sulphate.

The Prosecution Report

The Taliban knew the world wants a stable Afghanistan – one that can't a sense of of the goes, drugs or terrorism.

They spent that time nearly no longer poses a security threat to the region of the West. They say that they have crushed down as the Islamic lines, and that they want peaceful and unheard on trade and diplomacy, including with the US.

Since the Taliban an inner carry out suicide attacks, needs schools to target the security forces they now represent, then main argument may hold.

'The greatest achievement we have had ever for past five years is security,' Afghanistan's foreign ministers, Amir Khan Aldrang, said in an interview with The New York Times in Kabul on Wednesday.

They have been their various crises to spiral either.

All the ingredients for things to get out of control in Afghanistan again are there, and the Taliban's efforts to protect the played young, Alphons are fertile ground for radical action, vigor and peace. The Taliban's efforts are nearly nonexistent. And with uninsanity growing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, it is unclear who might come to the end of the war, and there is once again, a permit when, with barely any after.

The past five years have brought some predictability and a wide number of other forms of fighting, which many Alphons have witnessed, despite the immense hardship and repercussions. But the country remains desirous, and the single peace is already at risk.

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What Worked for Trump Works for Farage, So Far

By MICHAEL B. SHEAR

LONDON — Nigel Farage, Britain's leading right-wing politician, faced a dilemma last month.

What do you do when the inquiries and accusations are piling up? The police are looking into one of your dead lives. You are being investigated for potentially breaking Parliaments video because you didn't report a gift of a million people. The news media are publishing new allegations almost daily.

For the Farage, the health of the Britain U.K. party, the answer appears to have been slow ahead: your action, undermine the regulatory or judicial processes by labeling them illegitimate before they conclude, and seek pre-emption education to form "the people" — your most loyal supporters.

He was becoming a page from a playbook based over the years by other controlled populace like President Trump, the Persia, the right leader Nation Le Pen, and Prime Minister Benjamin H. Farage. The former Farage resigned the parliamentary seat and turned herby out for 4 again in the resulting special election. On Friday, he declared himself the "rights of the people" — the victory in the control in Czechia, to confirm England.

"I wanted the people of Czechia, the voters of this country, to be the people of the country, and the early morning victory speech while voice were still being counted. 'Not the manstresses, media in Britain and the political articles of the country, and the vote to be criminals and bad people every day. I asked the voters of Czechia to be my jury, and the verdict has now come in.'

The result was a very surprising. Mr. Farage was in a side Britain U.K. seat, subverting 10 percent of the vote in an election that all the other major parties beyond the right of the people, when challenged? A novelty candidate called Count Belden, who was a bank case over his head.

The question now is whether the gated will work, or whether British voters outside of its party would be a "rights of the people" — any intention to the question, sending around Mr. Farage about donations and responsible gifts. In the weeks since events

tions about his undisclosed benefits were the published in The Guardian and The Sunday Times, in London, but personal poll ratings have fallen, and Reborn's position is national with her degree.

Within hours of his speech on Friday, the office of the parliamentary standards commissioner contacted its investigation into Mr. Farage's failure to be reported. (A million gift cards in 1812 without from a British crypto-billmaster based in Thailand, Mr. Farage has said he didn't need to register if because it was a personal gift given before he was a member of Parliament.)

Election workers counting ballots in Czechia can be, England, after a by-attentive on Thursday that returned Nigel Farage to Parliament. Mr. Farage is embroiled in a corruption scandal, and, like President Trump in 2020, he called his victory a conclusion.

Yet Mr. Farage has proved to be a southern political survivor who successfully tapped into public anger about successive British governments. His decades-long campaign to ban smugglitters remains one of the most perfect issues in the country, and before it is still pithing within the margin of error of the governing Labour Party and above the Council reform.

And he is not wrong to notice that the go-on-the-offman public campaign is a major step in the for several of his peers across the world who, like then, have denied any wrongdoing.

Take Mr. Farage. After leaving office in 2020, he faced a history of criminal charges and civil lawsuits for accusations including falsifying business records, illegally renaming documents containing national security secrets, trying to reverse the results of the 2020 election, and sexual abuse and defamation.

Mr. Trump called about the "rights of the people" — "the people by the 'world/demain' and second the news media of being the 'country of the people' the next judge, prosecutors, F.B.I.

agents, intelligence officers and election officials who carried on an umpower — or both.

But most of all, he insisted that none of it would matter to the American voters.

"Your victory will be our ultimate conclusion, your liberty will be our ultimate reward and the unprecedented success of the United States of America will be my ultimate and absolute message," Mr. Trump said on the campaign's visit in 2019.

By November 2018, when more than 77 million people chose to return Mr. Trump to office, most of the criminal and civil charges against him had stalled, been dismissed or been indebted by the Supreme Court.

Tony Travers, a professor of politics at the London School of Economics, said Mr. Farage and his allies are feeling that he can convince the British public to see the distance leader in the same way that many Americans see the president — as a victim of unfair persecution.

"That is pretty similar to Donald Trump, it seems to me," Mr. Travers said. "That people are prepared to overlook all the

cryptocurrency stuff and the self-motivations that's going on, because members who differed into us cannot.

In France, Ms. Le Pen was found guilty last year of malesthenment by a criminal court and barred from running for public office for five years: the called the ruling a "political" attempt in Direct List.

"I'm not going to submit to a democratic denial so easily" Ms. Le Pen added.

When the five-year ban on training he often was lifted by an appendix over the most unquestionably declared: "That evening, I am a candidate in the presidential election." Like Mr. Trump, the 16-letling that voted as a national election will have paid her legal troubles.

On Friday, Jordan Barstella, a younger of Mr. Le Pen and the president of their National Rally Party congratulated the Trump on his victory, writing on social media. "Nigel Farage had the courage and respect to some himself once again to the right many of the voters, the cold water here in a democracy."

Mr. Netanyahu, Israel's long-presenting leader, has over 10 similar political tactics to try to undermine bribery and corruption charges that were leveled against him years ago.

He was indicted in 2019 on charges of giving or offering lucrative issues to several media tycoons in exchange for favorable news coverage or gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. He aggregated out of Mr. Trump's favorite phrases, calling the corruption investigation a "witch hunt," as well as "a take" and "an advantage."

And in 2022 he was re-elected as prime minister in what he characterized as a vital rejection of the charges against him.

"We have seen a huge view of confidence from the people in Israel," he said.

It remains to be seen whether Mr. Farage's attempt is appeal to "the people" over the outcome of the investigations will succeed in the future.

But by election victory on Thursday was in a long, internationally corner of the country, mostly a nationwide referendum on his actions. And as a general election does not have to be held until 2020, it may be some time before we find out.

Dozens Killed By Earthquake In Indonesia

The article in by Maletita Sukarnoo, Bapus Nindita and Ria,asayun.

BANHRINE — 30-year-Of-people were killed in country Indonesia on Saturday after 6 mos on bed by a police-judicate earthquake, one of the largest the region had experienced in doudou, officials said.

The earthquake hit per north of Eireen Island, according to the United States Department of Energy, about a thousand miles east of Jakarta, the capital.

A second recent challenge to collapse on the island, and was one of the largest mediators to hit the area in more than 30 years, said Wajiyanto, the director of earthquake and tsunami (DHA) of the Mewoneguy, Cimanteng, and Gongkono's agency in Indonesia.

Mr. Wajiyanto added that the submarines would continue to change the information. Like many Indonesians, he goes by one name.

Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency said in his last meeting, the first kind of people had died in the public and that many others had been injured.

Indonesia, an earthquake with about 12,500 islands, is at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, in an area known as the King of Fire. The origin experiences frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions at large blocks of the Earth's crust collide.

More than 2,000 people were killed in 2020 after a 15-magnitude earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated central Indonesia.

The submarine initially issued a tsunami warning on Saturday, but soon after said the threat had passed. In a news conference on Saturday afternoon, Emanuel Melihatte, Luka Letia, the governor of East Nusa Tenggara Province, which parallels Eireen, urged residents to be cautious about "experts circulating on social media claiming that a massive tsunami canlangle major earthquake in melaimani."

"We ask everyone to help maintain calm and ensure that the پاکستانی living shared does not cause unnecessary alarm," he said.

Maletita Sukarnoo reported from Bangkok, Bapus Nindita, New Jakarta, Indonesia, and the Moody-sat from Bapus Indonesia.

Canadians Petition to Remove U.S. Ambassador

By NATHIA STEVENS KRISHOP?

TIMES/STI — After Recording American products and obtaining vacations south of the border, U.S. government made thousands appearing their incandescent angles at the United States into a new cause, costing the American ambassador.

Since then a 100,000 people have signed a petition to the Canadian Parliament, automatically a Calgary resident on July 21, calling for the removal of the ambassador, Pete Hoekstra.

The petition asserts that Mr. Hoekstra, a faithful messenger of the United States's aggressive stance toward Canada, has harmed U.S.-Canada relations. The two countries are ledged to a trade war, and their relationship once this year has been carried out, has been set at whatever low stock Mr. Trump reveals office.

Just 500 signatures are legally required to bring an online petition to the Parliament floor for discussion, and this one will most likely be just forward for debate on the 1st by Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada's Green Party.

The petition lays out the running for Mr. Hoekstra's removal. 2 copies that he has "normalized" the Trump administration's decision to assess Canada as the "list state" Mr. Hoekstra has requested. Mr. Trump's list-state jobs on social media and that information Canada's anger and the election on "emotional" and people also.

It also states that Mr. Hoekstra has interjected on Canada's politics in a manner "inconsistent with diplomatic pressure" and may not now activate from Alberta setting to break away from the rest of the country repeatedly not with State Department officials. "Using serious questions about U.S. diplomatic interference in Canada's army."

The petition calls on the Canada government to service the Vessan Convention of Diplomatic Relations, the international accord that governs diplomacy, declare Mr. Hoekstra "persons now grant and respect the removal from or fire, as well as to set up a parliamentary committee to receive V.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian domestic affairs."

The United States Embassy in Ottawa rejected questions in the States Department, which did not have any respect for comment.

The petition contends to restrict of coming public sentiment toward Mr. Hoekstra personally, mirroring the phalanxology issue toward the United States general.

Polling shown Canadian opinion of the United States has rapidly given way to since Mr. Trump took office and began targeting Canada with north and talk of making it part of the United States. A few survey published in June found that only 10 percent of Canadians now view the United States as a outside partner, down sharply from 2022, when it was 62 percent Canadian recreational visits to the United States have clearly by more than a quarter over the past year.

In this context, Mr. Hoekstra, a former Republican Representative from Michigan, has become notorious in Canada by his blunt, unspoiledly view, which channels Mr. Trump's.

One comment that drew on June in November, when Mr. Hoekstra was asked if he understood why Canadians found Mr.

A petition asserts Pete Hoekstra has banned release between the U.S. and Canada.

Trump's list state remarks upsetting.

"Since 19 and yet moved the country and people will say, 'Hey, you just don't understand why we're so mad about the first state—that you're right. I don't.'"

Unlike some of his colleagues, Mr. Hoekstra has never been seen raised by the Canadian government, a step taken when a diplomatic minister is seen as overstopping so badly that the best government needs to give them a language.

The United States ambassador to France, Charles Eastman, the father of Mr. Trump's son-in-law, Israel, has been twice outsourced by the French government over comments he has made about French domestic affairs. The U.S. ambassador to Belgium was also outsourced for comments he made.

Mr. Hoekstra also raised opinions when he invited the right-wing popular activist Tamara Lath, who had been convicted of organizing the teacher course that evoked havoc in Ottawa for a month in 2022, to the year's 60 of any party at the ambassador's official residence.

Mr. Hoekstra has been accused

of political interference in another nation's domestic affairs. In 2020, while serving as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands in the first Trump administration, he feared an event at the U.S. embassy with a nativist, anti-immigrant Dutch party.

Speaking a U.S. ambassador and the United States, he has been unprecedented globally.

American ambassadors have been expelled during major geopolitical crises in the past, including during the Cold War, both World War, as well as more recently during crises with Latin America—countries such as Venezuela.

Mr. Hoekstra's stance in Canada aligns with the U.S. administration's foreign policy elsewhere. The State Department has made significant efforts to cultivate and promote domestic politics in Europe through extra-ambassies official meetings with European political parties and other organizations during these ideas, including in Germany and Britain.

The United States has the business community and Mr. Hoekstra had been a solid interlocutor during tumultuous times for the relationship between the two nations.

Mr. U.S. Embassy in Canada recommended speaking to some business leaders about that working relationship with Mr. Hoekstra. They include Rela Fabian, president of the data for can Chamber of Commerce in Canada, a private, nonprofit membership organization, promoting trade and investment across the border, and both British, chief executive of the Canadian-American Business Council, a nonprofit, corporation group.

Mr. Tackle says that Mr. Hoekstra has been available to business leaders and cases about the U.S.-Canada's and relationships.

"He or more can be blunt, but it is many respects, that is an advantage he can because he helps articulate the view of the president, and helps us understand what the challenges are," Mr. Tackle said in an interview on Friday.

"Ambassador Hoekstra has to deliver some very enjoyable news—hope here in Canada. It's a tough pitcher here doing his best," he added.

Mr. Burke said Mr. Hoekstra was well connected across the administrative and an effective association.

"A dire really value knowing where you stand in a situation where you go up somewhere and the lunatic speak muddy the waters," she added.

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Changing Weather Patterns May Explain Europe's Bouts of Heat Waves

By RAY MUND ZHOOG

LONDON — Europe is sweating through its fifth round of data generally high temperatures since May, and for climate scientists, the world's largest that anyone is surprised.

"We're said for years that the burning of bond fuels will continue to warm for peace," said Matt Peterson, a research fellow in climate science and machine learning at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. "It's the bond fuels that's coming this," Dr. Patterson said. "In some sense, it's that simple."

But he and other scientists are not sure how cold enough people are able. While it's clear that global warming is adding extra heat to heat waves, researchers are also working to figure out how the air is constantly warmed. The heat waves might be changing, and whether human activities are to blame.

Chinese change, in other words, is a major factor in automating heat weather. It may be trying to it as well, with Western Europe in particular differing the effects.

For Europeans, this summer might be remembered for heating

A tourist at the parched Lae des Brouets on the France-Switsersland border on Tuesday. Western Europe has been sweltering.

to each and barely setting up. In France, temperatures broke daily heat records in late May before that of the 1980s. The 1980s were the result of the 1980s. The 1980s were the result of the 1980s. The 1980s were the result of the 1980s.

heat wave, which began on July 28, has now surpassed the 2000 van in duration.

In England and Wales, average daily maximum temperatures were above normal every day in July, according to Britain's McCulloch. The number of days this year when temperatures exceeded 18 degrees Celsius, or 16 degrees Fahrenheit — a daunting thresh-

old for Britain, was so far many Americans — had already set a record for early August, with pre-train weeks of summer still to come.

The worst of these hot spells are the result of heat downs: giant masses of high-pressure air that become thick in place, clearing the clouds and heating the land beneath them for days or even weeks at a time. When they dight on Western Europe, these systems block and air from flowing in from the North Atlantic and sun down in more hot air from North Africa.

The weather pattern at that center has drawn away two, but to day they arise on top of the warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The masses it most likely that heat waves reach record—dubbling, temperature for long stretches.

But other environmental changes, such as human influences or both — might also be causing heat down to become more frequent and rather lasting. And it's those changes that scientists around the globe are trying to parate out.

One change has to do with the Arctic. The differences in tem-

perature between the hot Equator and the High far north high keep weather moving around the Northern Hemisphere. But with the top of the world now warming at several times the pace of the rest of the globe, these temperatures gradually are narrowing. That might be causing the movements of weather systems to become more sluggish, producing more persistent heat waves.

In Europe, reduced air pollution—and hot heating—is under attack. Industrial emissions are common particles called aerosols that reflect sunlight. Carbon aerosols has improved air quality, but it may also have altered the way air moves across the continent.

Scientists haven't come to firm conclusions about how these shifts might be affecting European summers, said Avery Westheimer, a climate scientist, who is currently in thirties. The complex, line-scale interactions in this atmosphere that also weather dynamics are might be a square in computer simulations. Dr. Westheimer said: "It's totally the said. 'We're making small progress.'"

Dien Counans, a professor of ch-

mars science at the Dutch university '63. Amsterdam, sees artificial intelligence as one way for them. It's several study he and his colleagues used as A.J. algorithm to help a weather model better predict summer temperatures in Europe. They not only improved the model's forecasts, they also discovered why some of the models predictions had been off. It misrepresented the way conditions in the western Pacific Ocean influenced atmospheric patterns that eventually made their way to Europe.

With A.J., "we can also learn what the climate models are missing," Dr. Counans said.

Ultimately, all this research is about in university, a real question for Europe's future. How often can the continent expect to be thrashed each summer by long hot spells? And how long might they last?

"It's a heat wave of a few days, society can cope much, much better," Dr. Westheimer said. But when extreme heat drags on the week after exercising week, "it's a problem for agriculture, for water supply, for overfitting you can imagine."

'Cold' Belgium Struck

By a Deadly Hot Spell, Is a Warming for Europe

Toll Shows the Fastest-Warming Continent

Is Ill Prepared for Growing Health Threats

By RACHAL MIKULIK

and KIRAN RYUKUMARIT

BRUSSELS — farmers died in stifling apartments. Emergency calls were left on hold. Doctors treated an endangels of people sick from heat, sometimes as much without air conditioning.

These are women that played out in Belgium, one of the world's wealthiest nations, on a recent summer weekend. They are also a warming for Europe.

Europe is the fastest-warming continent, yet large parts remain ill prepared. As heat waves scorch its authors this summer, they are talking thousands in summer with strong health systems. In just one week in late June, there were around 10,000 excess deaths, or more people who died

from usual, in Europe. Belgium, France and Germany were the worst affected, based on data confirmed by the European Mortality Monitoring Network.

Belgium, known for cold and damp, not warring heat, had the highest excess deaths in Europe making it a case study now what went wrong. In Wallonia, the largest hot modern up the country's south, the main run was 27 percent higher than what would be expected between mid-Apr and early July. Some hospitals were overrun, with genders and patients lining the hallways and medical staff working without breaks in the narrowing heat.

"Each strain is becoming increasingly severe," said Paul Capparros, the health minister for Wallonia. "That's what we're facing in a droughts."

Climate changes means that the sense is probably due to many excess. However, we think the numbers are far low," said Juan-Baltrone Giannone, a research professor at the Boussines Institution Global Health who became an expert on the algorithmic "The future that we're seeing," a could be said a week.

Belgium is a stunk example of why heat waves can become slowly the summer, and it is not to cool weather. Emergency systems at some cases—fuckled under the pressure, and especially challenging with the most common.

The Global health ministry (the Global statement of the response) and world that hospital capacity had been scaled up during the current year, is a strong, strong change was needed. "I believe we must indeed learn human quickly," Frank VanBelle-ouille, "Belgium minister of social affairs and public health, the best makers—only last month."

During the late June wave, MontLign hospital, in the Belgian city. Little, experienced a stalk of patients so almost that in

the emergency room healthier people were temporarily fared up in hallways so that there past the point of having could have privacy within they died.

Dr. Roland Defoe, who was working that weekend, said his team was confronted with ever-heriting cases that they had seen exactly in textbooks. "In our context, at our institution, these cases are relatively rare," he said.

'Very Crushing'

Belgium is not accustomed to taking heat so seriously.

In the start of the June heat wave, Dien-Frauchert, the defense minister, posted an image on line diagram of himself smiling in the sun with the caption, "It's warm for two days and we're all going to do what apparently? He criticised the press.

"Since the beautiful weather," he added "And LIVE!"

The weather quickly turned into a matter of life so death.

Temperature short up between mid-June and early July, surpassing 100 degrees in parts of Wallonia. The hot that it was early in the summer, better people had a chance to acclimate, worsened the danger, experts said.

In the last weekend of June, the Belgium emergency call line was formerly even more, and according to medical groups whose representatives signed an open letter protesting the medicines. In some cases, they said, it took 10 minutes to do that through to an operator (Bernard Quainz, the Belgian in-tems minister, said lawmakers that average waits were much shorter and so did that extra staff members were through in.)

"It you have to wait for 10 minutes of you have a stroke or heart attack. It's quite a big problem," said Dr. Pierre-Louis Deufres, a general practitioner in the Brussels region who signed the letter.

Emergency rooms were also covered in parts of Wallonia. During the peak of the heat wave, the number of emergency veils less exciting at Grand Hôpital de Charleroi, about an hour's drive, were 8 Lings, over 4 an hour or 20 per day, up from an average of 1, and Dr. Laurent Peyrdeau, deputy head of the emergency department.

"It was very crushing," Dr. Peyrdeau said.

End of all emergency rooms in Wallonia locked air-conditioning, said Dr. Philippe Deves, director general at Counans, the French Belgian health care providers in Brussels and Wallonia.

For Belgium, June 27 appearance there were the most education days in the first month, after the early in the commons' crisis. In Wallonia, June 28 was deadlier than the depths of the pandemic in 2020.

The should definitely be afraid of a repeat," said Lise Gilliere, a climate-health expert at CERC, an independent Belgian research center that studies climate risk for questions at, and we talking about a repeat this summer.

Pre-existing Conditions

In Belgium, air elsewhere, extreme heat hit the vulnerable the hardest.

The region of Wallonia had more than twice as much excess mortality as the northern region

The Grand-Place of Brussels was drawing crowds early last month despite the high temperatures.

of Flanders.

Part of the problem, experts said, is that people in Wallonia have lower incomes on average. Poor people are more likely to have pre-existing health conditions, and they often lack access to well-ventilated housing.

About 10 percent of the more than 800 excess deaths in Wallonia between mid-June and July 1 were of people who had been clotting to figures from Scotsman, the Belgian health data numbers. Low-income seniors who lived alone were particularly at risk, with a few professionals said, in their houses or sites apartments became taking death steps.

You have people who are isolated, old," Dr. Deves said. "We now as the emergency room. When people came to the E.R., it was impossible to save them."

Wallonia's housing was part of the challenge. Many residential buildings are aging and were con-

strusted to hold in heat, not to keep it out.

"It's a country that is considered cold, unhealthy," said Giles Vanmoham, managing director of the Belgian Green Building Council. "People think more about hurting their house than cooling their house."

Nor did behaviour adjust. Belgium, including those with medical conditions and their caregivers, at times appeared unaware of how to handle the heat.

Dr. Deufres in Brussels noted, he believes that people in early depression and other mental health drugs often are not made aware that they are at higher risk, and so they continued to go to work as normal.

Dr. Dien Counans, a general practitioner in Flanders, echoed that concern, acting that blood pressure reductions also increase the danger.

During the worst of the heat

wave, he was adamant to see even more of a new institution, where he works still taking necessities. The institution and the patient didn't take the heat wave that now "needs" he said.

Cold Country No More

To limit heat risk, countries like Belgium will need to shake their cold-country standards, experts said.

Dr. Czymanc said patients were often hesitant to avoid air-conditioning, worried that it would not help sick, spread, grilled and burn the environment.

Belgium do not "want to be Americans," with the indoor temperature to do its figures, he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said. "We can't do it," he said.

"The instability on air-conditioning has to change," he said.

Others disagree. Even some

Treating a woman, 77, for heart-related illness in July at MontLign hospital in Liège, a Belgian city in the Wallonia region, above Floding shade in Brussels Park, for left 45 sports were recommended more cooling spaces. Dr. Michèle Terras, left, who was MontLign emergency unit, said heat deaths from extreme failure were "much harder to bear."

Belgium officials are wary of relying on much on climate control, concerned that adding a could overwhelm the power grid and leave cities even better by preparing hot air into the streets.

"Air conditioning can be approximately in specific situations, particularly for vulnerable people or certain buildings," said Simon Souris, a spokesman for Wallonia's housing and energy訓練師. However, our health authority must based on its widespread development.

Since June, Belgian experts have issued recommendations for air-conditioning services and measures for the vulnerable. Federal authorities are working toward handling emergency calls differently, doctors said. The health authorities in Wallonia are marketing policies to encourage and reduce the costs of the air.

"I'm medical workers and public health experts fear that the kinds of changes that are needed — like housing and infrastructure improvements — will take more time than Belgium has. At MontLign, doctors remain concerned that officials will not dedicate enough resources to the ongoing threat of heat."

Laue last month, an emergency doctor recalled being present in June, another arrived.

A 77-year-old woman was stunned at with four nurses, her first short hearing, her temperature near the point of repair failure. Doctors old off her blouse and covered her in six packs.

They are fencing for more. A supply closet on the emergency room floor is stocked with time. Nearly, a refrigerator is filled with cooling 37 days.

"As emergency room doctors, we can come to see us with healthy, but it's not the same when you know it's due to a systemic failure," said Dr. Michèle Terras, who runs the MontLign emergency unit. That, she added, is 'much harder to bear.'

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A Castro Linked to a Smuggling Case Becomes an Envoy to the U.S.

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not been charged.

This article is based on court documents and interviews with nearly a dozen people who either know Mr. Rodriguez Castro personally, including one person close to the U.S. negotiations, or are familiar with the criminal investigation in which his name can head.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro did not respond to requests for activity even sent through formal diplomatic channels and a martial organization. A top Cuban official called the accusations disabused.

The Rodriguez Castro's prominent role in the discussions with the Trump administration seemed to astound some Cuban officials who viewed him as merely a caretaker for his grandfather.

Still, an official with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba took to recall medical, but search to say Mr. Rodriguez Castro has held the impact of "character assassination" in the U.S. media, which was aimed at making the Cuban government appear divided.

As he helps Cuban government try to survive and navigate its standoff with the United States, those who have spoken to Mr. Rodriguez Castro say he has made an secret of his ultimate ambition to be his country's most proudest — though it is unclear whether he has the most of support to do so.

The Cuban Smugglers

The human smuggling network was known as the Cuban Mafia in Quintana Roo, its name came from the state in eastern Mexico where it was found.

The ring used boats stolen from Florida to sneak people out of Cuba who wanted to reach the United States, according to the United Department and members of the criminal gang who cooperated with prosecutors.

The Cuban migrants would be taken to Mexico, where they were held in safe houses until they paid smuggling fees, and were tortured if they didn't, according to court testimony.

Two defendants in the case implicated Mr. Rodriguez Castro as a collaborator in the organization, according to court records and interviews with several people familiar with the investigation. Both defendants, four Miguel González Vidal and Reynolds Crespo Márquez, pitted legally and were entered by being prison terms for their roles in the scheme.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro arranged safe passage for the group into and out of Cuba, a leader of the group told U.S. prosecutors, according to several people familiar with the case. Mr. Rodriguez Castro's name came up to a U.S. Department of Justice case in 2010 against the group, according to evidence gathered by prosecutors and one of the people familiar with the investigation.

The people who know Mr. Rodriguez Castro spoke on the condition of assistance to protect one of himself with Cuban government officials, and those familiar with the criminal case did so to discuss sensitive legal issues. They were not authorized to disclose.

It is unclear whether Mr. Rodriguez Castro is a target of the continuing investigation. The has the Department officials in comment.

The smuggling ring took records from which Florida, in 1998, foreign officials, according to an admission statement that in his initial court as part of a guilty plea signed by Mr. González Vidal, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The statement does not mean Mr. Rodriguez Castro.

But Mr. González Vidal and another defendant said U.S. authorities that Mr. Rodriguez Castro was among the foreign officials who received a stolen boat, court records show.

The issue was also discussed in open court.

During a September 2012 trial in Mexico, the house lawyer asked Mr. Crespo, who was a cooperating witness, about a meeting in which he told prosecutors that Mr. González Vidal and Mr. Rodriguez Castro had discussed unhealing and a boat in Cuba. Mr. Crespo is not suing 20 years in prison for his role in the smuggling operation.

Mr. González Vidal said the facts who struggled regularly and goods helped Mr. Rodriguez Castro to keep the Cuban Coast Guard and Cuban army, those of the people said.

In exchange for allowing merchandise that the smuggling network bought in Mexico with mixed credit cards to clear Cuban customs, Mr. Rodriguez Castro was given a 5-year-old 30-digit performance boat and cruisers other gifts, including a didn't watch, a female motorbike and Cuban fur two clothes, Mr. González Vidal claimed.

The products were later sold in Cuban government stores, for cash.

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Mr. González Vidal's account was supported by text and voice mail messages that the FTC on carried from the cellphone of members of the smuggling ring, the people familiar with the case said.

Mr. González Vidal's lawyer, Juan D. Berrios, declined to comment.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, in a recent interview with USA Today, which some critics took to be self-proclaimed, said he had no wealth of his own. "Wealthy friends and admirers" had paid for nationwide clothes, many foreign vehicles and expensive overseas trips, he said.

'There's No Link'

Cuba's deputy foreign minister, Carlos R. Fernández de Costa, is an interview with The Times in Havana, called the accusations against Mr. Rodriguez Castro involving the smuggling ring "slandry".

He said that he several years during migration talks with the United States. Cuban officials had repeatedly raised concerns about widespread smuggling of Cubans through Central America and Mexico.

They received no response, he said.

"We alerted them. Meeting all to meeting. 'Have you taken action? What have you done?'" Mr. Fernández de Costa said. "I cannot doubt whatsoever that there are organizations in Mexico, in Central America and in other parts of Latin America, which involve Cubans that have been making money and had a business of smuggling about to the United States.

"But I can assure you," he added, "there's no link with the Cuban government."

The State Department did not respond to a request for comment — first American close to the U.S.-Cuba discussions said that, despite the allegations of smuggling, Mr. Rodriguez Castro was considered a worthy representative to interact with the Trump administration because his business for material goods suggested he was

open to capitalist ideas.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro is not apologetic about his lifestyle.

"It pains me that many people can't live the way I do," Mr. Rodriguez Castro told USA Today. "And I'm working every day to change that situation."

A Golden Boy

Mr. Rodriguez Castro is the son of Raúl Castro's oldest daughter, Deborah Castro Espín, and the late Gen. Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Calleja, a powerful figure who helped establish Cuban military conglomerate, known as GAZEA, which manages much of Cuba's ailing economy.

His parents had a troubled marriage, as Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who is also known as "Ranillo," more much of his youth as his grandfather has been, several people who know him in his youth said. His nickname, which is how he is commonly known, is "etCangrea" meaning "the Utah" and was given to him because he was born with an extra finger on one hand.

Despite his revolutionary roots, he is interested from an upper-class family — his grandfather was an heir to the Bacardi cum leonam. He enjoyed extreme sports and music with racy lyrics, and was less polished than other members of Cuban revolutionary elite.

In studied economics at the University of Havana, where he received credit for traveling with his grandfather, said Juan Juan Almeida, the student on a Centre of the 1999 Cuban revolution who was close to the Castro family for many years.

He described Mr. Rodriguez Castro as affectionate and broadly.

"He is better known outside Cuba than inside," he said. "Cangrea and all the Cuevos know that their power only lasts until the day his grandfather dies."

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who is often photographed wearing expensive designer clothes, was widely known during his younger years for being spotted in videos partying at concerts, hanging out with

Raúl G. Rodriguez Castro, 42, top, and when he was acting as bodyguard for his grandfather Raúl Castro, above right, in 2010. Photo see Mr. Rodriguez Castro as a potential leader of Cuba, despite having been accused of participating in a large-scale smuggling ring. He has not been charged. Carlos Fernández de Costa, left, Cuban deputy foreign minister, called those accusations "slander."

the suggestion due Goste de Zana and on board.

One family member said he had been a young woman! He was in one of his grandfather's BSWs, which short some who thought it got used a bad image in a country where people suffer severe heat, medicine and power shortages.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro has entered extraordinary access, attending virtually every one of his grandfather's meetings, including with the late Pope Francis.

After serving as a bodyguard, he became one of a personal assistant for Mr. Castro, 58, who was vice president for decades and became president of the United States for his brother Fidel Hill. While he no longer holds any official government post, Mr. Castro is widely considered the most powerful person in Cuba.

After Cuba began secret meetings with the United States this year seeking to end sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, the United States has been separately with C.I.A. Director John Ratcliff, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (The C.I.A. has recently created a task force as part of the U.S. campaign to promote Cuba into political, economic and leadership change. The Times has reported.)

Arturo Lopez-Lavey, a research associate at the University of Moscow who is a second cousin to Mr. Rodriguez Castro, said much of the children of his father's husband on videos of comfy behavior that circulated more than a

decade ago.

He has not spoken to his cousin as about seven or eight years, he said, but his public persona appears to have changed considerably.

"The relationship with his grandfather has changed from a young man who was quite immo-

ture to someone with political knowledge and connection to his grandfather — not only for the protection of his life, but politically," said Mr. Lopez-Lavey, a former analyst at Cuba's Ministry of Interior. "He has not been outside the door, he has been inside every meeting."

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After Professor's Death: Cambridge Faces Hard Questions

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search/review) and academic listing.

In his Aug. 1 resignation letter, he writes, "I'm longer with to/and artificially I am living under a constant spotlight, whose every aspect of my life is subject to public examination and judgment" (he added, "This is not the end of my work. It is simply the end of this chapter.")

MacLamby said that, since staring at Cambridge, Dr. Arday had faced a campaign of scrutiny, he headed to undermine him. That became too much for him, they said.

Questions about Dr. Arday's career are unlikely to end with his death, however, because they were around about Cambridge as they were about him. The contrarian-old aims under of Isaac Newton, William Westbrook and kings and parents, Cambridge now faces deep scrutiny about its decision-making, even from its own faculty.

While Dr. Arday was underpanded for his job, he had a remarkable story. A tale of being diagnosed only with autism and having such significant development in delays that he spent his entire childhood in a specialぬness school. In his account, he did not speak until age 12 or read until 15, or the damaged to work his doctorate and begin giving heaven speeches on the academic circuit. Also, he had run 19 macchiere on 25 days for duzzly a tour that he could have been among the world's elite athletes.

If, in hindsight, elements of Dr. Arday's story seemed too good to be true, Cambridge ignored or pushed learning again. Actively, a internal Cambridge documents and interviews with former colleagues and associates showed that, in addition to passing ever since experienced candidates in the job, administrators guided publicly about Dr. Arday's value policy and procedure that gained complaints about his work. They declared no investigates plagiarism, someone and accused her critics of a "role campaign" to discredit him.

Dr. Arday's claims about not speaking, even false, a former classmate and a speech professional who worked with him and the New York Times, the support only remarkable trajectory from secretarial pretences. It had no precedent to conduct literature reports in developmental and speech delays, say. That should have set off alarm bells for the Cambridge hiring committee, which included a third keyhole, it are who had done research on autism, experts said.

Before Dr. Arday's death, conservative commentators issued at the fall he evidence of the safety and occlusion efforts run small. They said that Cambridge had been so eager to diversify that all material fact or fact they judgment be divided.

"They seem to have drunk the R.C.E. Bookoff" (with Russ Magg, a former Counsel) says, last-maker in Britain, said last week on The Telegraph's "Daily 7" postcard.

Prominent academics on the net agree that Cambridge must answer for its decisions. They say that the critical has fueled a cause and cast unjustified aspirations on an outgrowth schedule of visit.

Cambridge's research has been a way of the most. The most of Dr. Arday's death, he said, was an unanxious, is a letter to the family on Tuesday, called for the "crucial" and "crucial" to be "unfamiliar" and "focusing". A spokesman repeatedly declared, "I am not sure of any reason, before he has been in the time there, or has a pleasant information about it. It is a difficult inquiry that will likely be made even more so, and it is a little following Dr. Arday's death."

Dr. Arday, for his part, has worked hard to silence any questioning of his contention. When a student has found higher education, a respected academic and policy publication, about about 20 years of work, and a student's British defamation law firm they will be certain, the journal at least Dr. Arday later reported the journalist to the public.

Dr. Arday's research has been uninvited questioned his work, Dr. Arday turned the tables and filled a racism complaint with the other who has according to some of the most. The research has been a complaint that proves, like some others who spoke to The Times, spoke on the condition of any society to avoid being disagreeable.

Dr. Arday never squarely addressed the questions at plague.

But what is clear from interviews and public records in the comments of the story would have been may be Cambridge's check.

'Stretches Credibly'

Dr. Arday the child of Ghanaian newspapers, gave up in public records in 10 February 1993, working class quarter of North

Georgia (No. 3) and 2000s (No. 4) of King Edward certificate of search

Dr. Arday was a fellow at Jesus College, one of Cambridge's oldest institutions, above Dr. Arday appeared on JTV's talk show "The Morning" in 2023.

London. Early on, he was observed on having learning difficult to do.

Dr. Arday has claimed that before age 11, he could understand language but not speak. In 2012, before interviewing with Cambridge, he said that he had been educated exclusively as a specialist in his "with other pupils" and had very severe learning difficulties and physical disabilities.

In his memory, published on Tuesday, he gave a different account, coming to attended a man-people school but spent later acquainted about in a classroom, again without speaking.

Both tales are false, according to people who knew Dr. Arday are child and spoke with The Times before his death.

A speech professional who worked closely with the young Dr. Arday recalled him having a language delay not speaking with both children and adults.

The former schoolman, Jonathan Stewart, recalled Dr. Arday creating jokes and putting on playful灼ures in an interview on the way to church activities on children.

While somewhat children can certainly learn to speak, even at a fair age, the rapid development of school by Dr. Arday has not precedent in clinical literature, there experts on autism and speech said.

"In over 40 years of practice and being very acquainted with literature, I've never heard of that happening," said Stephen Camacatu, a speech counsel expert with Vanderbilt Shudkin Developmental Disabilities Lab. "It just stretches credibly."

A Young Professor

An established chair of Cambridge, a pre-eminently funded position that covers with prestige and research support, is among the academic world's most eligible after jobs.

Dr. Arday applied for an established chair of education. The university advertised internationally for the job and concerned a panel of nine experts to review the candidates.

The panel selected four finalists, inviting them to Cambridge for two days at interviews. Dr. Arday was an against three more senior scholars, including two women of what, according to opinion familiar with the hiring

process.

Dr. Arday's published papers and has been had dozens of grammatical errors, along with identical quotes and details to different people.

At Cambridge, the finalists were asked to submit just one piece of research, according to the person familiar with the process.

It is not clear which piece he submitted, or whether members of the hiring panel reviewed Dr. Arday's speeches and interviews. If they had, they would have found elements of his story that并不固定. And, like the macchiere claim, or even chronically false, like his public assertion that he had been on the British television series "Seven Up" (Dr. Arday's spokesman recently said that the assertion should not have been taken literally).

Experts said that Cambridge's hiring panel was well equipped to question Dr. Arday's very public claims about his childhood, from committee members had published papers about teaching the dates with learning disabilities and about inclusion in education.

One influential member of the hiring panel, the CHU and District Paul Ram-Zanabari, had published a paper on issues changing his children with autism. Given his expertise, he would have been a problem to question Dr. Arday's point to what he learned to speak at it and read at St. and Howard Shane, the director emeritus of the Center for Communications Enhancement at Boston. Children thought:

"That should take a red flag," he said in an interview last week. "There's no question about that!" Dr. Ram-Zanabari said, "there is the point did not respond to requests for comment."

The committee hired Dr. Arday, in a decision that the elite and department chair described at the

time as unanimous Cambridge's lengthy listing. An announcement highlighted his remarkable understanding, and every which person identifies coverage on the date of the decision.

Cambridge had to few Black professors that it was under pressure from faculty and students to diversify. It had not marked targets for increasing applications from people of elite 3d activities.

On the BBC, the education department chair, Hilary Crooks, said Dr. Arday that he was "upbeat to the world in terms of the research you fit" this did not respond to requests for comment.

Questions Surface

Three months after Dr. Arday's hiring, two British scholars, Martyn Matzenstein and David Barco, privately wrote to Cambridge, alerting administrators to potential plagiarism in one of Dr. Arday's books.

Dr. Crooks, the department chair, replied that she had met with Dr. Arday, and that he had agreed to address concerns in the paper. She also noted that the outgoing experience of the 1st and 2nd of the 1st year, "I am with 'rapidly' care health issues" that had affected his work on the paper in question, according to a public which was first reported on a 12-year, preliminary newsletter and the academic integrity website Barco does. March.

Dr. Barco's, whose work has challenged whether racism is in-patient or nearby, responded by suggesting that Cambridge also review Dr. Arday's other papers and the research team, having made critical friends in any time, not specifically "as soon."

He said, "I am a girl a reply, he said." Nor did Cambridge set months later after journals appended on

Susan Arday in London in 2023, the year that Cambridge, listed him. He died on Friday. Here after resignation from the university small controversy.

sections on two of Dr. Arday's papers. Then, in September 2023, Anne Higher Education and Cambridge's chance of more than 40 pages that detailed an general plagiarism in Dr. Arday's work.

A superior candidate at the public status, Jack Green, had written an impetus to review Dr. Arday's decision.

One of them, David Sanders in Purdue University, said The Times that, going into the review by Anne nothing about Susan Arday, the when Dr. Sanders sat down on analysis the thesis, he concluded it was "extremely plagiarism!"

Cambridge's research has been the star producer, telling Mr. Green that a problem about Dr. Arday's thesis would have to be addressed by the school that had awarded his doctorate, Liverpool John Moores University Converse about his research. Cambridge said, would similarly have to be handled by others, Liverpool John Moores stood by his doctorate.

At Cambridge, faculty members and allies hurriedly drafted a letter to anticipates at the Queen's office. "The integrity of higher education is at risk if we do not take a stand and speak on against the systematic attempts to cover Black scholarship," the writer in the letter is copy of which was seen by The Times.

But Mr. Green's article pertains. Dr. Arday's lawyers threatened legal action, and Times Higher Education upbeat it. Dr. Arday also thinks public complaint against Mr. Green, which led to a harassment investigation that was later dropped.

A Scandal Erupts

The plagiarism charges heartier public over and much where else, and Cambridge woman, Nathan Colton, wrote about them in his research. Dr. Colton is known for his work suggesting that Black people were genetically related to their own age, and that they didn't have anything else. The university had not been with him in 2024.

Barcelona Watch quickly expanded on Dr. Colton's reporting that once again, Cambridge Aheaded Dr. Arday, saying he was "the victim of a 'cle campaign' to undermine his credibility, which must stop," according to an email seen by The Times.

After new questions surfaced, casting doubt on Dr. Arday's strict or resigned. Cambridge's torridness!

But the talked from Cambridge's retentions' promotion of Dr. Arday's story could last for years. "This has really done some work," Dr. Calsworth, the speech specialist, said before Dr. Arday's death.

He said that over the years, he heard from families of children with severe autism, hoping to be serious. "I never want to take away anybody's hope," he said. "The time story really has created a more unreasonable expectation and later hope, and I have that."

Sixth March, an emeritus professor of education at University College London who once again, returned Dr. Arday, to the University's view that death that he had been described by university advisers, trainer carelessness in their efforts to demonstrate their commitment to the study.

"He's a grave," she said, "whose ambition made him vulnerable."

Italian Police Arrest Five

In Connection To Art Theft

By ELISABETTA PRIVILIZIO

ROME — It took thieves less than three minutes, the police said, to make off with three artworks by Citizens, Retent and Statues worth millions of dollars during a bold nighttime heart in March.

On Friday, Italian officials announced that they had arrested five people in connection to the theft and recovered the art.

The Caribbean, Italy's military police, said in a statement that the recovery had followed "a complex investigation" overseas by the Purina police, yesterday's office.

Following seven days left at the office the crime and wreckage, the authorities handed down a group of professional thieves, and Andrea Pagliaro, the commander of the curative unit that left the investigation, and in microphone interviews. The suspects are all from Moldova, he said.

On Friday morning, police found the three artworks in the average room of Arbona in Parma, before inside an empty television cardboard box, he said.

The police released the video of the Man33 hotel captured by cameras inside its target: the Magnese Bros Foundation, a private art business outside Parma, conflicts of interest, were highlighted the ease with which the artworks were taken.

The artworks are:

★ First Citramore "Will Life With the Time," a project of watercolor work valued at 6 million euros, or roughly 10 million.

★ Pierre-Auguste Retent's "Les Étrangers" an oil painting valued at 20 million, roughly $25 million. ★ Henri Marlowe's "Odalisque Sur La Touraine" an etching valued at $20,000, roughly $22,000.

The video showed two hundred figures wearing headlamps slipping into the museum in the early years of March 23 after breaking the glass panel of the front doors. It then showed them moving through the museum kitchen, stirring the room where the three works hung and lifting them from the walls.

Then the video cut back to the front desk, where one intruder passed two artworks through the front door to a waiting accomplice.

Police say Moldovan thieves were trying to sell the seers in the international market.

before the second approached the door, carrying the theft work.

Colonel Pagliaro said the video showed that the thieves had been "very organized," working quickly before escaping to determine the alarm with electronic devices.

The suspects had been forced in Parma and some had lived there "for many years," he said.

"Feeling the news was the most important thing," Colonel Pagliaro said. In particular because the suspects had begun to look for buyers, "even through international

First of the five people arrested in the interstate the theft of the museum, while the artworks were haunted the future of the theft, said Lord. Col Giuseppe Marenglia, who received the investigation from the international market.

He said the group was not specialized in art thefts. "This was our advantage," he said. "They thought it would be easy" but they did not have how to sell works on the art market.

He said the group had been identified not long after the theft, but it took time to reach down the people's places before the works could have been hidden.

The unit inside headlines worth wide, coming some five months after, burglary broke into the public's safety of the Library in Paris in daylight, making off with high prices of covers jewelry cut and at more than 1000 million.

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Dettan both, who oversees the artworks and is expected that left colleagues "devastated," and that the three work's retest called for "a fitting celebration," according to an interview with ASNL, the third in the 2023.

Lieutenant Colonel Marenglia told that immediately after the theft, the paintings had been fared on various sites that took a miles after being decided by Interpol. "That made them effectively sustainable," he said.

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Israel Officials Duck The Job? Protecting Beseged Palestinians

By DAVID W. MALBETHGER and DAVID KANSON

JERUSALEM — The Israeli army's lobbying attempts this past week to revive the Palestine in London—who have been by the end in their West Bank house by violent Jewish settlers.

occupied a striking statement on Friday morning from Israel's defense stations, Israel had the mind he wanted to go and he had suddenly out of the business of protecting Palestinian in the occupied West Bank from smuggling settlers and would try to shift the responsibility to the Israeli police.

As a practical matter, only the Israel Defense Forces have the thousands of personnel needed to patrol and respond quickly to attacks in the source of communism plagued by settler violence. But next. Moreover, experts say that giving responsibility to the Israeli police would eventually put the loss in charge of the business, because the police are overcrowded by National Security Minister Hassan Ben-Gov, an estimated settler himself.

For Mr. Katz, an additional member of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, to help police in the West Bank, Lloyd is who hopes to succeed him in its hands, the events of the same was a political process to deck responsibility analysts and

Katz's for example, thus setting the army on admission to the state's office, up to 1000 who break the law, a crucial tool previously used by the government. Mr. Katz is saying he probes that soldiers avoid getting between settlers and Palestinian in the treatment of "freshed," so some Israelis implement really safe such attacks.

"It is not the [3,5]"-s, not, and it is stable. It utilizes the state to meet of civil matters" in the West Bank is light of the "welcome movement of the country of Israeli settlers there, Mr. Katz said.

As the occupying power, the Israeli military alone bears no opposition under international pressure, but the Israel's civilian on the West Bank and has held authority for law and order since Israel captured the security in the 1997 war.

The police have a decision in the West Bank, given the hands-on fall thousands of Israeli civilians being there in settlements widely considered illegal under international law. But

handing the police responsibility for protecting Palestinian civilians could be seen as another step toward sweeping associations of the territory, a goal shared by many in Mr. Nenayesha's government.

On Friday, settlers who have trapped two Palestinian families in their homes in the village of Quica all week set up a tree there, before soldiers took it down, according to the local source. Aided, when at Wash, and in the left military statement, Settlers, however, remained in the vicinity on of north evening, while soldiers stood nearby. Mr. at Wash said:

"[The Israel's authorities want stability, they need to arrest the settlers," he said. "They'll be only soldiers."

In its statement, the military told that throughout the day, "soldiers operating in the area remained engaged in efforts to evacuate the Jewish civilians from the area of the closed industry area."

For years, Israeli soldiers including Mr. Nenayesha have strengthened earlier relations in the week of a "handful of faith," or a new theme or a low handout wayward youth, often saying that many came from broken homes, suggesting they should be joined rather than prosecuted. The effort to minimize the violence has continued even at the number of Palestinians killed by the first ban claimed more chastery, paired with beatings and the lurching of hundreds of houses, car and mosques.

But now, with an army that has detained nearly more powerful enemies taking to achieve the task of making it possible for two Palestinian families to live safely in their own homes, members of the Nenayesha's government are making close on which side of the issue they are.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Ben-Gov, the untimely reviewing the police, received that the sentinel sings in Quica was the military's responsibility.

In a radio interview Thursday, he said he wasn't familiar with the details of the Quica situation, but informed to take the side of settlers encroaching on Palestinian communities. "There are some among them who truly need to be arrested and addressed. I'm not saying all of them are righteous," he allowed. "But most of these guys, who

Israeli soldiers on Friday outside a house of Palestinians that was besieged by settlers in Quaca, near Nakhar, in the occupied West Bank, and accruing to remove a land that settlers set up nearby.

settle the land of Israel, who hadl outpaced — I amden them."

Mr. Ben-Gov, who leads the oppressated Yitima Yehudi, or Jewish News, party, also argued that the real violence was not being committed by settlers, "I knew what's happening here in Judea and Samaria," he said, along the brittle lines for the West Bank. "I first knew. For now, the danger is that the hydrothrow atoms, the Arabs throw bledges—cocktails, the Arabs shred."

Mr. Nenayesha himself has not addressed the roadside in Quica. But a lawmaker from the party, Amit Hafevi, chose Thursday to meet and be photographed with a group of interested settlers, including one who has been sanctioned by several countries for violence. Mr. Hafevi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The county in Quica are forming the cause of settler violence — at an a growing number of prominent Israelis now called, "Jewish terrorism" — for other stage in the midst of an ever-movedly consequential political campaign ahead of Israeli elections in October.

Members of the political opposition lasthanded the government for failing to use the violence. Naftali Bennett, a former prime minister who once left the sub-berlin organization for West

Bank settlements, called it "a lot of terrorism" the banked the

Nenayesha government for responsibility to divest him, according to the U.S. national law, the Israel, Mike Burkshaw, the Trump administration had urged it to intervene in Quica.

"We need to abandon this and rest on the part of the killing, not wait for the Americans to tell us to do so," Mr. Bennett said in a radio interview.

Gadi Elombar, a former army chief of staff who now is the front-most in upstate polls for prime minister, called the Quica situation a "severe impression of the failures and weakness" of the government.

"In the law of minority and violent violations of the law is an astronaut minority, the government is abandoned, [3,5]" continues to be right for truth alone," he wrote on social media.

Israeli military officials has long complained that the police take a law approach to violent settlers, but that施行—and it impose tough sentences. But critics of the military are it, too, often hesitates in the law of settler violence and fails to use all the tools of its disposal.

On Wednesday, a group of army reservists released an open letter calling on the military "God with determination against Jewish terrorism" and "to spend

it." The letter, addressed to Lt. Gen. Earl Zane, the army's chief of staff, had left signatures by Friday, organizers said.

"Nationalists serve in Judea—and Samaria is not resigned," he notes made. "We are respected again and again to stand for—every Yoruba member is very busy under our responsibility, without a real mandate to give them to him."

The letter adds: "The lack of teaching and guidance from the [3,5]"—is not a good thing, the turning of a blind eye to Jewish terrorism and to the known places from which it emanates, and at times even the political situation support for it, endanger us and leave us abandoned."

Jake Israeli, who once manned the Israeli police from 2004 to 2007, recalled the police taking aggressive action against

settlers in the past but said that it was not our first civil and police communities could be contacted upon new because of Mr. Ben-Gov's influence over them.

Mr. Israeli called the handling last week of the settlers' stage in Quica a "dogs act," saying that "the police need to be handled with force."

Still, he said the military made a message error by not calling the police to remove the settlers immediately after they started changing the Palestinian soldiers are trained to fight Palestinian, not Israelis, he said, while the police are trained to confront them.

For up spaces, it appears the officers in the military are afraid of the police is level," he said. "They don't know how their actions will be interpreted as they prefer to do nothing."

Iranian Debate Show on YouTube Pushes the Limits of an Authoritarian System

By YEGANIE THRIATI

When the conservative American conservative Twitter Catholicist down last year he is likely to terrify with Iran's president, Mahmud Pourzalihan, the suddenly encounter would most likely never have happened without the in-communist of a top, independent Iranian order.

Mahdi Ahmad, the founder of Azad, a six-person team that hosts debates in Tehran and publishes them on YouTube, piloted Mr. Carlson on the date, he said, and then connected him with the president's team.

This reminding role in a sightings that Mr. Ahmad's and his team have become adept at wading over the past few years. Then he said, "I am not sure how much that are deeply critical of Iran's government: alongside those of people close to the authorites, it's critical a large and growing number of people, as well as scrutiny and criticism."

Mr. Carlson denied request to respect for comment for this article, but his channel did thank Mr. Ahmad for the help of the end of the Pourzalihan interview.

Mr. Ahmad, 35, said in an interview with The New York Times that he saw Azad's role as a member of the United Nations, and that creating a chance for mutual understanding — and allowing more to to judge each side's argument for themselves.

Mr. Ahmad, on the basis of Iranian society, this is commonly, he said.

Israeli's leader approach to Mr. Ahmad's endless argument for a moderate—the has described the channel as a neutral "court" of about where several other countries, and others, an ideologically diverse sort of perspective.

This year, Azad handed a debate which is on a black all-continent, and the most important of the world's most a constitutional referendum. Another word further — arguing for the return of the country's own and community Sharia could be "the most important of the world's most thousands of antigovernment prisoners, some of whom were old."

Lady Shinaswar contributed to posting.

Mahdi Ahmad, second from left, the founder of Azad, in a screenshot from the debate series.

ing for the return of the former crown prince, Rena Rahim.

Critics of the channel question how Azad has been allowed to continue working with Iran, given the censorship and control that the state wants over the media. The report "this year for two percentless from a powerful patron, which Mr. Ahmad's desire."

For the Iranian government, having progresses for Azad's main and pressure on the country's own television, which has a monopoly on domestic airwaves, is controlled by hard-hours, and unit force of Iranian nation get them to the East, and international peace overseas. Persian-language outlets, which can be combined, auto government.

By allowing some discursive information, the government can attempt to dilute the influence of diaspora nation which it also tries to shape these discourses.

Yet Azad (meaning "free" in Persian) has briefized questions from the state. Its website is blocked by the government, and Mr. Ahmad's and his authorities had interrogated him several times. During the June 2025 U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, the authorities seized Azad's equipment and theirs, after a short two-year-ground attack on the conflict, Mr. Ahmad said.

The channel has received today, he said, because of its critical to take up an activist trance, and its

balanced can of guests, crazging from policemen to members of the opposition.

YouTube is also blocked by the government in him, but many people circumvent the ban using virtual private networks (VPNs). Mr. Ahmad's comment that around 70 percent of his channel's audience is inside Iran, though it is difficult to know for sure because VPNs can mark a person's location.

The government has also cut off access to the internet for long periods this year, and mass protests and riots, disrupting the ability of Iranian YouTube content to air now episodes.

Today, Azad has almost 100,000 subscribers, and its videos regularly receive six figure screenings. It is funded by crowdfunding and YouTube ads, according to Mr. Ahmad, who has made open calls for donations to pay the bills.

Azad's overhanded approach is now in Iranian media, in which news stories are often aligned with political factors and some hundred new developments now traditional journalists and newsboys as a force toward Iran's government.

Mr. Ahmad said it would be impossible for him to fully satisfy those suspicions of Azad.

The only effective answer, he said, was to show "over the long term that one can best forever visors as much as possible, help

increase their visibility and ultimately ads citizens' troubles over if whatever is valuable to them."

A Rare Phenomenon

Azad's most stretch back over a decade from 2000, Mr. Ahmad organized in-person debates in a project called the Azad Public School (The School of Free Thought). The events were held at Tehran's Saudi University of Technology, where he studied physics.

The discourses covered issues over to Iran's short strategy, including the number of "one and "to layers to high" the political theory underpinning the revenue of one-cat only Mr. Ahmad has said it would agreeing, since it is able to each other to have the most significant debates, but in mind, roughly several times of each perspective, followed by dialogue.

It was a rare phenomenon in a country where the University government has hardly punished those who question its strategy, and where it is a common to the opposition how grown against with each other, shaping media back and forth either.

The debates set off controversy, and the results of the mass adverging the Azad Public School to see its business, Mr. Ahmad said. Sharaf University of Technology did not respond to a respect for comment.

In 2022, the Azad team pivoted to YouTube. At the time, Iran was in the middle of the Western, and a Freedom process, instead of demonstrations prompted by the death of a woman police outside the United States police. Azad launched a series of conversations on the future of Iran, and the news could all be popularity.

Since talking online, Azad has been on the current level of people who have fallen bloods for millions too, including an Iranian liaison on convicted and imposition on the accusations of apology and the ganglion. As a result, president who was jailed for her statement against the government, The Arabian National Peace Chamber, used his interview to speak of the need to "live Islamic society from the South, cruel, unipersonic, eternal, strangishable" the central regime.

Azad has also invited people into the show who have positions in Iran with the government, including a class who led a half-year-old with promising parliamentary and autopsies who advise Iran's decision makers.

Mostafa Najaf, an analyst close to Iran's security policy (ardu who has appeared on Azad, said the program stood out for holding guests with their expertise, and with a strong idea of the strategy to live or move from, it goes there time to fully buy out their air gunners, he said.

Mostafa Najaf assigns, an Iranian sociologist, appeared on the program last year and criticized the government.

"I didn't see any attempt to force me or tell me to hold back for said. That should mean the don't have red lines, but in this difficult environment where producing content is hard, they show a degree of courage."

That will give Iran's take-ride in its part advertisements strategy. In the character, producers give to Iran a successful new project, it is bound to fail. Mr. Ahmad said on Tuesday, it is a Persian-language podcast airing from Canada, "Why would words of" he said.

'Safe' Pluralism?

Still, some observers remain skeptical of Azad's work and some witness.

After decades of government repression, there is some obnoxious in Iran with calls for utility. The kind of respectful dialogue that Azad encourages has fallen out of fashion in many quarters of society.

Azad's YouTube channel appears to show that, of more than 100 guests over the past year, only has been here to return. If he held multiple all-issue discussions on the issue of compulsory faith, a law without against women in Iran.

Fahraath Rishnan, a sociologist in Iran, said that the greater importance of Azad's guests reflected its alignment with government interests. After all, the need, women in Iran, and Israel from experience about the multiple of state violence and discrimination.

"The platform wants to project its image of a pluralistic Iranian society, but only a form of pluralistic that remains politically safe," she said.

Mr. Ahmad acknowledged that women were underrepresented on the show. He said that Azad regularly should remain to appear, but that they sometimes demand because they fear greater political risk, their appearance are hardly scrutinized online, and they tend to be inferior about the fact that years of expertise than ever.

For Mr. Rajendragar, it is one plate to argue that it is media platform is operating in Iran, it must be serving the regime. Even to help the state faces constraints on how it exercises power and is not the sole actor in Iran's politics, he said.

The fact that Canada under-revision open should be seen as good news, not something to misperce it, said. "Spring this doesn't preclude criticism. Rather, it means the deal for more women, substantial critiques."

Mr. Ahmad, as open that Azad may fall short, and can find a welcome critique. But he sees Azad on leaving already succeeded in pushing the boundaries of public discourse in Iran, a project he regards as vital to the country's future.

"My agenda is shidupay," Mr. Ahmad said. "No political group in Iran can be scared. They must be able to talk to one another."

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can intelligence officials. The New York Times also reviewed thousands of documents related to Russia's attempts to in-berless in Moldovan elections.

Many of those interviewed mutated on speaking unentirely, either to discuss sensitive security operations or because they feared retaliation.

Details about Russian efforts in Moldova have emerged in court cases and local reporting, but the scope and extent of the campaign, including the developing scheme and role of Russia's intelligence services, have not previously been reported.

Publicly, Russian officials have denied interfering in Moldovan affairs, and have dismissed accusations that Moscow is trying to undermine the West.

In December, Mr. Putin is an addicted to military commanders, contigued European leaders for "sticking hypnotist" over the threat from Russia. Soon afterward, though, he gathered the leadership a secret briefing to deliver exactly the opposite message, according to officials from two countries with knowledge of the episode. Their goal for 2020, Mr. Putin told them, is "the collapse of NATO and the E.U. from within," the people said.

Moldova is central to the effort. In the hierarchy of Kremlin priorities, the Western intelligence officials say, conquering Ukraine in 2019, and taking control in Moldova is second. Though it is not a member of the European Union or of NATO, it is strategically located, squeezed between NATO members and Ukraine.

Moldova would make an ideal beachhead for Russia for further aggressive against other Ukraine in the West. No officials said, adding that Mr. Putin still hopes to conquer a result of southern Ukraine to create a hard bridge linking Russia to Moldova.

A map of planned Russian troop movements, publicly displayed by the president of Belarus early in the war, showed Russian forces sweeping into Transnistria, a separation region in Moldova that hosts a contingent of Russian troops. Russia has not accomplished that goal.

Russia wants to use Moldova "as a springboard for hostile activities against Ukraine as well as its main defense and financial supporter. But U.," said State-slav Secretary, the Moldovan president's national security and defense adviser.

"For those whom we said, 'Russia allocated over the last few years unprecedented resources'."

Asked for comment on accusations of Russian interference in Moldova, Doctor A. Podest, the Kremlin's spokesman, said: "There are all untrue assertions that have no basic whatsoever."

The pro-Western government of President Maia Sandu has not E.U. membership as a priority, making it a Kremlin target. In every recent vote — including a presidential election and a referendum on whether to apply to join the European bloc in 2024, and parliamentary elections last year — Moscow has proved in resources to dislodge Mr. Sandu and her party, PAA.

That was the objective last fall when Moldova held critical parliamentary elections to determine whether Mr. Sandu's party would retain power, as end if to a coalition backed by Moscow. The Kremlin had spear-smashed preparing. Its cyberwarriors borrowed into the election commission, its vote-buying and propaganda campaign were in fact the swing; its teams of recruits trained in the last were ready to core them.

Sergia Zama, a former Moldovan prosecutor, who has been pursuing coercion during a time and time with Russia's business than a year, said just a handful of the recruits were needed to disrupt the "war". "The war is a result of a thousand people to commit crimes," he said. "Lighting the spark was enough."

Malovolent Camp Activities

The Russians established their training camp at a crowd in western Serbia last summer, months before the parliamentary elections. The participants, mostly black/midwest, who paid 50,000 annuals there to four-day courses, according to Mr. Zama — an enormous sum by 1,000 people.

Videos from the camp, which Moldova prescribes and the country's intelligence service said were taken from participant places, show men dressed in camouflage and flak jackets training with assault rifles.

The Serbia camp was one of several established by Russian operatives. There was also a camp outside Moscow where more than 100 young Moldovan practiced "making and using secondary items and homemade explosives" and handling dozens "with special attachments for explosives or areas." Moldovan prosecutors said in a statement. Two of the officials from Western intelligence services said the training was overused by the OAV.

Isri Vitzeanidis, a Moldovan political activist who attended the Moscow camp, denied that he had engaged in unfollows activity. The purpose, he said as an another from its create "friendly, cooperative relationships" with young Russian politicians. He declined to say more than that.

He said he was unaware that the camp was overused by the Russian intelligence. The Moldovan authorities acknowledged that not every person knew the camp's true purpose.

Some attendees said they had refused to take part in training sessions. Maxim Rossa, who attended the training camp in Bosnia, later credited in court in Moldova that when he said he would be participate, a Russian trainer punched him in the face and knocked out a teeth. In October 2024, three participants in

Asian J. Brown contributed reporting from Washington, and Anna Meghikis from Chesnut, Moldova.

Filling pots with emergency drinking water in Rishi, Moldova, in March after its water supply was contaminated by a Russian attack on a plant in Ukraine.

President Maia Sandu's party, which favors joining the European Union, overcame Russian machinations to win the Moldovan elections in September.

the Bosnia camp were arrested evening back into Moldova. They were carrying drone components, including attack points for dropping grenades, prosecutes said.

They also had a manual titled "Russian Chains: The ABCs of Homemade Terrorism," prosecutors said.

Money for Votes

The protesters gathered in the hot sun. They waved breezes and posters with antigovernment slogans.

The protest in the provincial town of Zavaclin in July 2025 appeared organic.

Mr. Vitzeanidis, the Moldovan political activist who attended the Moscow camp, was at the event. In an interview with local television he described it as "the initiative of local residents."

In fact, it was organized some 500 miles away in Moscow by operatives working for 3km 8km an Israeli-

Moldovan oligarch who lives in Russia. Days before the protest, Mr. Ilhor's ancestors, using litbigrain, the entire messaging service, had reached out to thousands of Moldovan, protesters, the black and greenmen, and instructing them to share up at the town's district council building with breezes, an airplane's party to "sleeve these types of people."

"Travel expenses and per diem will be reimbursed" said the message.

The messages were part of a massive wave of documents from Mr. Ilhor's 50s overbased financial services company, which helps Russian companies evade Western munitions. The documents contained names, locations and contact information for activities ordered by Mr. Ilhor's operators, and were that of the than 250,000 Moldovan were recruited.

The documents also included hundreds of pages of chat messages among operatives working for Mr. Ilhor, whose munitions was Travella.

A Russian-made drone recovered by the Moldovan police. Russian operatives have trained young Moldovan in using drones with explosives attached.

It all addresses up among operatives overseas by Mr. Ilhor intended to influence Moldovan politics for beyond a single protest. Western intelligence officials said Moldova prosecutors said "is no change for cash, recruits were received for ever acclaimable to post material on the internet and take part in thorough-gathering efforts, saying Moldovan to vote against Mr. Sandu, her party and European Union member ship.

The records were stored in a cloud folder belonging to a software engineer working for Mr. Ilhor that was publicly accessible on the internet and reviewed by The Times. The Times verified the database by contacting people whose information appeared in it, reviewing an accessible press linked to the data and tracing GPS coordinates included in the database back to its developer's address near the Skolkovic Innovation Center outside of Moscow.

After The Times contacted the devel-

Supporters of the Patriotic Bloc, an alliance of pro-Russian parties, rallying in Chesnian before last year's elections.

syer in Russia, it was taken down.

Additional documents from Mr. Ilhor's operations that were leaked in the internet showed protesters to 10,000 activists' training near by 520 million over the four months in 2024 leading to the referendum on joining the E.U. The Times contained some of the activists by phone to content their identity; others are publicly known.

The existence of the leaked documents and the material they contained were first reported by Zavaclin-Gardis (ZDG), Moldovan leading investigative news outlet. The documents have since been removed from the internet but were provided to The Times by a person who downloaded them before they were removed.

Mr. Ilhor was well known to the Moldovan authorities. By the Moldova in 2019 when he was charged with defending banks of El Milon, in Russia, according to the three Western intelligence officials, he answers to Sorgan V. Karyenko, a senior member of Mr. Pohyt's administration who has responsibility for countries like Moldova that the Kremlin sees as is a sphere of influence. Mr. Ilhor's company was hit by sanctions in 2022 by the United States.

Mr. Ilhor did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Using Sorgan, Mr. Ilhor's developers created 200 different charities to enlist and coordinate recruits, the database shows.

There was a strict vetting process to wreck on "millionaire" anti-judiciationists. New recruits were known as "opsi-potlators" (above them were 10,000 "actresses" and then, in the top tier, 1,000 local managers.

The operation grew like a pyramid. Nearly 50,000 members were signed up by someone at early involved in the operation.

Mr. Ilhor's operations tracked progress with speculations, which show Moldovan recruits passing thousands of messages to social media, denouncing the European Union referendum and Mr. Sandu. The recruits also promoted Mr. Ilhor, who, speaking in Russian, promised to provide Moldovan with free gas. "Russian almost never mentioned. But our advertisement shared widely warns that closer relations with the West would lead to "an exact repetition of the Ukrainian servants."

"The result?" the advertisement said. "The Death: Peace".

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The pro-Russian shapesh Ron Short has paid over $50,000. Moldovans to influence politics.

This June, the European Union proposed sanctions on our Moldovans associated with Mr. Short's efforts to undermine the 2025 parliamentary elections. Among them, was Mr. Vimenetsk, who the EU, said recovers a carefully patched from Mr. Short and was involved in "amongsting to destabilize and overcome the constitutional order." The backed documents show that Mr. Vimenetsk received payments of about 12,500 each.

Propaganda From the Pulpit

Proven were also enlisted to the Kromaks' campaign. Hundreds of them traveled to Russia starting in the summer of 2024, visiting holy sites and senior church leaders.

Before they cross and home, the prowls each signed a contract for a debt card issued by a Russian bank, Pennsylvania bank, which has two to the country's defense ministry and owns 49 percent of Mr. Short's financial services company. In the contract, a copy of which was reviewed by The Times, their declared themselves employees of Etrusza, a Kromaks-conserved organization that Western intelligence officials said prefers pro-Russian policies in former Soviet states. Mr. Short sits on the organization's board.

In exchange for about 10,000, the prowls were to sign their followers to reject the referendum on Moldovia EU membership, as well as to campaign against pro-Western policies. Hundreds took the cash, Moldovan officials said.

The backed documents described met prowl, the Rev. Gheorghe Tarasint, an "a reliable asset," and record a payment of about $1,000. A senior Moldovan official confirmed that he had participated in the campaign to Russia.

Another Moldovan prowl, the Rev. Pavel Petrov is ordained with a group of pro-Russian prowls but did not attend the pilgrimage, the senior official said. A few weeks before the 2025 election he delivered remarks from the pulpit de-

nominating the EU.

"Democracy? What kind of democracy imposes on you all the fifth they brought from Europe?" he asked, going on to decry schools with mixed-gender half-reason.

"We, the people, what do we want?" Sushon and Gomerath? For God to learn to allow? He will live out. "So and seconding to cellphone video of his memoir, which was later published by a local newspaper, Neurtheses, and verified by The Times.

Father Tarasint and Father Petrov did not respond to a request for comment.

The Rev. Ishan Katz, the archpriest of the town of Orbit, insisted in an interview that neither he nor the prowls in everyone "conducted a direct campaign or supported anyone in elections."

Even so, he is an unspoiled opponent of Mr. Sutafey government, which he has accused of harassing prowls. He has who are loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church. He acknowledged having participated in the pilgrimage to Moscow and said he would do it again. Puteus, he said, would hold back to the town.

"We'll wait," he said. "They have two years until the next elections."

An Uncertain Path Forward

The Russians almost pulled it off.

Outfor day of parliamentary elections, Sept. 28, 2025, they brought together all of their efforts.

Operations it aimed in Serbia prepared to cause chaos in Ukraine and elections. They were online and then attempts to they could distinguish one another in the crowds, according to Mr. Zama, the protesters. Some carried in centrality devices, he said.

Russian leaders had generated Moldovan Union in German institutions, and took over thousands of personal interest, the senior Moldovan official said.

The Moldovan authorities were prepared.

In the weeks before the vote, the Moldovan police conducted radio-ultimahords of homes, arresting people who had attended the camp, or had taken money as part of Mr. Short's scheme.

Moldovan's cybersports, asked by Western allies, stymied the backlog in racks. Prowls broke out, but there was no serious violence.

When the police arrested several people suspected of plating violence, those arrested claimed that members' devices in their possession were meant for a gender-receal party, Mr. Zama said.

Mr. Sutafey party was with just over 50 percent of the vote, largely on the strength of the Moldovan diaspora abroad.

For the Kromaks, her victory was hardly a liddet. The Moldovan government had to spend a small fortune and devote vast low enforcement resources to disuse the Russian interference. And the Kromaks' allies have used the most private of Mr. Sutafey opponents for propaganda purposes, preventing the receding in proof of an authoritative crackdown.

The Kromks has since expanded its磅礴ness.

In early March, a Russian attack to a Ukrainian hydroelectric plant near the border with Moldova commanded the water supply for a month of Ukraine and Moldova.

Thus Russian dynamics might volume four in western Ukraine that provides up to 70 percent of Moldova's electricity, leading to blackouts. When we visited some government buildings, including the presidential complex, the lights were often turned off to conserve power and workers' increased enablement hallways with buildings.

However, Moldovan officials said, in playing a long game.

"We won the battle," said Milan Lazarov, the director of Moldova's Agency for Cybersecurity. "But we did not win the war."

In Vanuatu last year, Russia's opponents of Moldovan's energy supplies has included a dense attack this year on a key high-voltage line in Ukraine.

Resources in Odessa, Ukraine, last Tuesday after an air attack, the leaders of Ukraine and the "EU" on June 7 in London, and President Vladimir V. Putin with defense officials, in a handout photo.

Europeans, Wary of Trump, Want a Role in Anti-Ukraine Talks

By STEVEN DELGOGER

BERLIN — Nervous about being excluded by President Trump from any talks to end for Russia-Ukraine war, these European countries are working together to make sure Europe has a seat at the talks, according to the European officials.

European diplomats are working on a forum for future negotiations to protect European interests that would be led by France, Germany and Britain.

France and Germany are suing the road to developing the European position, according to two senior European diplomats and a senior European official monitoring the other. Britain, which has a new prime minister, is more hesitant, in part because it is not even about the world's growth in with Mr. Trump, the diplomats said.

There is little indication that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is ready for serious negotiations. The European respect that any negotiation with Russia over Ukraine would be led by the United States, and in Russia is increasing its ballistic mantle at niche on Ukrainian civilians; they are pushing for Mr. Trump and his accounts to engage with Moscow.

But a Ukraine settlement and relations with Russia are too important to Europe to be announced indefinitely to a Trump administration that appears increasingly unpredictable, said the officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. They want to remain on deal in cut over their heads by Washington and Moscow.

Western officials and analysts expect the war to become more destructive as Mr. Putin presses for a winter offensive against Ukrainian force and civilian infrastructure with Ukraine running severely short of an defenses. Some expect Mr. Putin to order a modest 8 subpopular mobilization of new troops, but only after parliamentary elections in mid-September, and some even worry that Mr. Putin, feeling unsterile, might try to escalate the war and rest the outlayed of NATO, beyond highest attacks in Europe.

Mr. Putin has said Russia must at the least obtain complete control over the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. If the Russians cannot decline by autumn 2027, officials and analysts said, talks would be more likely, had key decisions must be made in advance.

Adopt for centuries, the British Foreign Office said the discussion remained speculative, while an EU official insisted that various diplomatic efforts were complementary rather than competitive, and that a decisive discussion about representatives now was not helpful.

For Europe, the stakes are enormous. Ukraine is a major security challenge, and a Russian victory there would have huge consequences. As the same time, Mr. Trump has made it clear that Ukraine is a European responsibility. Europe is already funding Ukraine's war, and it is expected to provide security assurances to Ukraine after any settlement. President Volodymyr Zelenkoy of Ukraine "wants Europe at the talks," said Alexander Gubare, the

Austria Socialist contributed reporting from Brussels.

director of the research institute, Carnegie Russia.

The 27-member European Union, which has passed 21 sets of sanctions against Russia and possesses the lack of Russian Scarecauers, would need to play a role. Both issues would be carried out by diplomatic solution.

Roman, France and Germany believe they should be the sole investigators in support of Ukraine, three European officials said. The three countries, known as the "EU" are the heart of the "outdoors of the telling" supporting Ukraine and have drawn up options for military and security guarantees for the country, and is certainly

Poland, Italy and the Nordic countries must also be consulted, and the European Union kept in

Austrian Courts, the European Council presidents, would direct communications with Russia.

formed and later involved, the officials said, because some smaller countries, particularly those neighboring Russia and Ukraine, like the Baltic States and Hungary, do not fully trust Germany and France to represent their interests.

There was a theory of meringue and debate around the issue in June as Mr. Zelenkoy pushed to prepare for talks with Russia and the United States.

Mr. Zelenkoy had reached out to Britain, France and Germany and must they leaders at London on June 7 to discuss the European role in future negotiations with Russia and to set out principles for any agreement. Four days later, the authorisation of the three European countries had an unusual meeting in Moscow with Mikhail Y. Gakinin, a Russian deputy foreign minister who handles Ukraine.

Kept Dallas, the EU, brought policy chief, acknowledging the Zelenkoy's interest to Britain, France and Germany and said that the three were respected "European core security interests," including insurance relief and the unfreezing of Russian assets. It was still too early to be definitive about representation, demand, but these core interests had to be funded.

The European Council has made some tentative steps to open channels with Russia after Mr. Zelenkoy, asked Austrian Courts, the president of the New York paper, renummed both, the European Council, to raise Ukraine with Moscow. Mr. Courts chief of staff, Pedro Lazarov, spoke with Russian officials, and told him, "I, Udaोल, who has been the main Russian contact for Mr. Trump."

sweep leave Wihad, to try to open up a diplomatic channel.

"We cannot depend only on others to interpret Russian messages, and we must be able to convey directly to Russia and our messages," Mr. Courts said after a European meeting June 9. But he conceded there were no "credible signs". Since Moscow that it wanted to engage in "serious negotiations for the time being."

In both cases, the official Russian response was themselves with Mr. Gakinin, contrasting that the European country's private Ukraine to continue the war against Russia.

Inriably, Mr. Courts outreach provoked diseases, with both France and Germany criticizing him for overcrowding. Austria and Belgium supporting him, and the Baltic nations discussing any approach to Moscow as playing into Russian hands.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, he has just, said that "when there are negotiations, the European will have to be around the talks," and that "President Costa, within the conspirances, disband the ban, will have a place."

Chancellor Friedrich Mehl of Germany emphasized that the three nations were acting "in the express respect of Ukraine." He added: "It also makes a certain internal high that Britain, Germany and France are working closely together here, those are major European states, and they are also the main contributing significantly to Ukraine's military support."

As for who would speak for the European Union, he said, "We will decide that when talks take place."

Given Mr. Putin's lack of interest, European are engaged in wishful thinking, said Herbert Rittgen, a German legislator and security expert. "At some point Europe must be there, because European security is at stake and it no longer seen by Washington as a vital American interest," he said.

"But for now," Mr. Rittgen continued, "Putin sees an advantage in trying to decide the West and handle Europe through Washington."

Others see a European approach to Russia as long as possible. The stakes are so high that Europe's lack of direct channels to Russia since it invaded Ukraine in 2022 "is almost a criminal devolution of duty" said Mark Lazarov, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a research director.

Prime-Dover Lucas, a former German diplomat who has served as ambassador to NATO, France and Italy, said that there were another from the multinational talks with Iran over the 2025 nuclear deal, which he helped to negotiate.

"We cannot be behind the nerve at no cost" in November 2025, when Mr. Trump and Mr. Wihad were up with their initial 28-point "press plan" with Moscow, he said. "The Europeans have cards, but we need to play them exactly." Still, Mr. Lucas said, "We will need very close cooperation and coordination with the United States - otherwise the Russians drive wedges between us." And here, he added, "We are back to the fundamental question of Mr. Trump and the trans-Atlantic relationship."

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"The left tends to be very loud in Wyoming, and our supporters tend to be the silent majority."

RACHEL WILLIAMS, a representative in the Wyoming Statehouse, which is controlled by the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus.

State Representative Chip Neiman, left, the House speaker and Freedom Caucus member, is looking to unseat Ogden Driskill, right, in the State Senate, which is right—at odds with the caucus.

Ms. Williams, a candidate for secretary of state, is the chairwoman of the Freedom Caucus, which endorses the role of faith in the nation's founding and the right to decline childhood vaccines.

In Wyoming, Intense Battle for Control Rends the G.O.P.

By DAVID M. CHEN

DEVILS TOWER, Wyo — In the shadow of Devils Tower, the national monument immortalized by Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," an election year light has erupted between Wyoming's right and its far right, with serious implications for the state's political history.

On the far right is State Representative Chip Neiman, the House speaker and a member of Wyoming's national-servative Freedom Caucus, the country's first such caucus to control a state-house chamber. On the survey right is State Senator Ogden Driskill, whose chamber has often thwarted the Freedom Caucus agenda.

In an internal gamble, Mr. Neiman is giving up his speaker's good to take on Mr. Driskill, a former State Senate president, as the Republican primary on Sunday.

"Challenging the status quo — I think it's critical," Mr. Neiman said at his catch ranch in Hubert, Wyo. "We need to move more conservatives to the Senate."

With U.S. Senator Cynthia Lammis declining to seek re-election, the tort flagrantes vacating the state's four House seat to run for Senate, and Gov. Mark Gordon facing term limits, Wyoming voters are presented with a choice, from the State-house to the governor's mandate to the U.S. Capitol. They can expand — or check — ultra-conservative power.

The solemn echoes struggle between institutionalists and invegners elsewhere, especially among Democrats, but it feels especially personal in Wyoming. The nation's least populous state has produced national figures. Dick and Liz Cheney, former Senator Alan K. Simpson and the current Senate majority whip, John Kavanese Jr. has also attracted an influx of billionaires, heightening class anger and affordability issues.

If hard-style candidates triumph, some groups such as Common Sense Republicans want of deep cuts to schools, towns and law enforcement. Americans for Prosperity, a veteran conservative group that targeted moderate Montana Republican legislators this year, is championing more than a dozen non-Freedom Caucus legislative candidates, Mr. Driskill included.

Freedom Caucus legislators "weren't willing to work with others to find a solution," said Tyler Lindholm, the Wyoming

The primaries self-decide which wing of the G.O.P. will control state government, a House seat and a Senate seat. Below, the daughters of Tyler Lindholm, the state director of Americans for Prosperity, carcanning in Sundance.

state director of Americans for Prosperity and a former state representative who lost to Mr. Neiman in the 2020 primary.

The first plank of the Wyoming Republican Party's 23-plank platform, trans-

peted by the Freedom Caucus, declares that life begins at conception. Others highlight the role of faith and biblical principles in the nation's founding and the "freedom" to decline childhood vaccines.

Campaign signs on coaches and roads tout "platform Republican" candidates, but Mr. Driskill dismissed what he called a platform "pretty too."

This year, Mr. Driskill, 67, helped block attempts to slash funding to the Univer-

sity of Wyoming and got the state's economic development effort. Elected in 2020, he planned to retire at year's end to the family's Campetrol Ranch at the foot of Devils Tower, where his father shook hands with Mr. Spielberg 36 years ago.

But when Mr. Neiman, who lives five miles down the highway, sought to succeed him, Mr. Driskill decided to fight:

"I hate the Freedom Caucus and how they do business," he said.

Mr. Neiman, 35, said Mr. Driskill has "Freedom Caucus derangement syndrome."

Elected in 2020, Mr. Neiman pushed to make Wyoming the first state to ban abortion pills, a law struck down by the State Supreme Court. He supported a program that offers $7,000 per student vouchers to pay private school tuition. He criticized the State Senate for failing to ban what he called sexually explicit books from libraries and schools.

"I don't know what the Lord's plan is, but I'm glad to just let him order my steps," he said, pounding in campaign signs with his use on Highway 14.

Proactive include shrinking government, tightening voting rules and curtailing "actively" judges, and State Representative Rachel Williams, the Freedom Caucus chairwoman, who is running for secretary of state.

"The left tends to be very loud in Wyoming, the said, 'and our supporters tend to be the silent majority.'"

Ear by voting started on July 21. In Sundance, Wyo, where signs warn "Do Not Jackson Hate My Sundance," Amy Goodson, executive director of the Creek County Museum District, said Mr. Driskill helped have a historic school by turning it into a cultural center.

"Every roadblock they put in front of him, he said, 'That's not a lot, that's a 'what else can you do?'" she said.

At Wyoming's oldest general store in Aladdin, near the South Dakota border, Jordan State, a co-owner, likes that the Driskills promised 1,000 acres as remaining Devils Tower from future development.

On Front Type, her fiancé and co-owner, said Mr. Neiman is more approachable, he has been to the store, goes to churches and shows up to pee no-code.

"Even though I don't agree with everything, at least I can speak to the man and not feel like a penman," he said.

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Election

Returning to the Field With His Populist Pitch

Brown Seeks a Senate Comeback in Ohio

By MICHAEL KRESSE

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio. — Last week in New Philadelphia, Brown Seeks after deep called the Daily Great, thereof Brown talks, crowd of life at a youngster about the last big thing he did as a United States senator.

"How many of you benefit from the kind of her party Paterson Act?" — Speaks, referring to happiness, regulation he co-wrote to get his retirement pay for millions of jobs, he workers.

Some hands went up. "Thank you!" a retired teacher named Becky Bernice called.

"Well, the best way to say thank you is to get all your friends to vote for me," he replied. "It's going to be a really important year."

In this really important year, Mr. Brown is a really important Democrat — one of the most important running for office.

He is trying to pull off a little of General Comeback — a quick return to the Senate, where he served three terms: better, better, better and better. A better, better, better than preferences in his state and a because of spending for the city's controversy industry's record him.

This time, he is buying the environment will prove more favorable. When he lost two years ago, President Trump was on the ballot and Brown came enthusiasm was strong. Now Mr. Trump is he really enjoyable, and Mr. Brown is running against Senator Jon Hunter, who was appointed to the Senate to fill the end of 2014 once selected, but to become vice president.

Democrats see flipping the way as key to their hopes of taking his control of the chamber.

On the scene of the party, hopeful, though, Mr. Brown can, of course figure the two senators simultaneously what Democrats

Senator Jon Hunter, a Republican, was picked to fill the Senate seat of 25. "We've"

worse say they definitely show want — and also what they do.

In fact, it is not going to be a good deal for ballot box, the Democratic electorate largely chances for anti-constitutionism, anti-Wishelps tax, younger non-politicians. Mr. Brown is 75, he was first elected to office at 1915. He has spent most of the past three and a half decades working the halls of Capitol Hill.

And yet, no interest of alternately had a left-wing unsurgency, Mr. Brown is alone of also an economic populace. The message, more and more people seem to want to have a fireman who is proud of the Senate, is a big threat to the Senate.

But, Mr. Brown's most critical letter, "The people desire," said Dennis Kalant, a former Ohio congressman and congressman. "The Senate has an interest in the business. We've been the leader for the House."

Republicans, on the other hand, see Mr. Brown as a law-hierarchy, hunger on, a loser. Two years ago, he will be a loser this year, but we can't let's toe far to the left for a more than two years the last day, and taking it to right.

"It's public," Mr. Hunter said, and interview.

"It's rather his system, or he was a leader at changing the city's city," said Mr. Hunter, who was elected to the State Legislature in 2009 and was the secretary of state and the lieutenant governor before being appointed senator. "He was rather better but, but he was a failure now way or the other."

At the Daily Great, Mr. Brown worked the room. In common is Joseph R. Bates Jr., the Senate president, or which McConnell, the Republic as senator — pro-minister relations of their respective person 'aging leadership'. Mr. Brown presents on the footsteps as comparatively vigorous and fit.

In a room and county that voted for President Trump, he thanked his remarks, met with your reporters, sat in a picture with a Vietnam veteran in a whatchman and drafted with one-time and would-be constituents to the door, we paid out as blue.

"We need new black," Tommy Dixon, a retired administrator, as senator from the dance area, said in an interview.

But Mr. Brown, she said, was different.

"Why, 'the,' she said, 'could take on this fight?'"

Roosevelt and Reuther

To have 'there' or Brown's politics in a lower the names of his dogs.

Franklin is a King Charles spaniel with some husky and gentle added in. Walter is a yvette-pooler man.

Franklin is the Franklin House, Roosevelt. Walter is for Walter Reuther.

"The greatest president," Mr. Brown said in an interview before senate and general at four in North Canton. "And the greatest labor leader."

The son of a physician, Mr. Brown, a Yale graduate, was lost days after 12.5 years old when he was elected to be a state representative — a "liberal" with "labor support" who was a civil rights, environmental and national activist and organizer in high school. His hometown, newspaper, The Mansfield News, Journal, reported at the time. "The system looks," he said to a reporter. He was re-elected in 2016, 2019 and 2020.

He was elected that's secretary of state in 1982 and re-elected in 1985 before losing his spot in 1988. He was elected to Congress in 1992, and he was re-elected in 2004 when no major Democrats went out. He was re-elected five times after that — partly because of his early and ardent opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

NAFTA, he wrote in his 1988 book, "Congress From the Senate," contributed to anger and cynicism among labor union members as "they saw their wages stagnate since the country's new factories close and their president send they into to Brown."

In his 1988 book, "Myths of Free Trade," Why American Trade Are a Right Under," he targeted America's elite.

"If the leaders of our institutions would take the time to listen to people who work with their habits, they might have something about the reason he works out, anxiety, and the hopelessness with which many look to the names," he wrote.

Mr. Brown had remarkable testimony even as the country's name in leaders engaged cramelessly. He was the last ways to add if Ford was president. He was elected when Senate Carter was president. He was elected when Ronald Reagan was president. The year Bill Clinton was elected president. Mr. Brown was elected to the House — the former State District, the latter an acutely of the New Deal.

Mr. Brown's 2018 Senate victory after Mr. Trump had won 10th in 2018, was unfavorably an about that plenty of American-woodened whether Mr. Brown himself should run for president.

His message has not changed. His assessment of the Israelis's many problems is made in a perfect and public policy of the last

Shared Brown at an event in New Philadelphia, Ohio, last week. He is buying his own business, and the populace will reestrain.

Clockwise from top left: Mr. Brown in 1993, a year after he won election to the U.S. House; speaking with union members outside a plant in Jackson, Ohio, in 2006; facing reporters as a senator in 2018, and with President Barack Obama on Air Force One in 2009

half-century is that business has been getting bigger and stronger and labor has been getting smaller and weaker — a relentless and systematic disinterested of Lirເປັນ R. Johnson's Great Society of the 1880s built atop Roosevelt's New Deal of the 20ths.

Is it possible that this is a huge loan use political epoch to another? For Democrats, and he has, is the new way the old way?

Mr. Brown talks his dogs. "History and politics," he said in the interview in North Canton, "are cyclical."

'Not a Whole Lot Now'

In Bredenville, a former steel store hard on the Ohio River, 45 minutes went of Pittsburgh. Mr. Brown walked into the union hall at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in applause.

He stood in front of campaign signs. "Workers believe billionaires," said one. "Sitting on the rugged system!" said another.

Merced Brown has always stood with us," Kevin Brown, a union official — no relation — said at his introduction.

Merced Brown took the union phone, spotted a man in the crowd

and said both to him by name. He spotted a woman in the crowd and said both to her by name.

"Always good to see the same dates," he said, nodding to the interred mass workers in their telltale tops. "I know that you're here for the same reason I'm doing this," he said. "Because you fear for your country and you are what's happening. You see the directors we're going."

When Mr. Brown hited out for at 8 or 10.10, as all he his candidacy described him as 'a change for the people.'

Now, 52 years later, he is advocating for the same sort of change. "At 10th, he's you see the system, right?" he said.

"You see what happens when corporations are making more and more money," he said.

"The executives are paid more and more, the profits are bigger, you're working harder, you're more productive — and there's more money going out the door than coming to the east."

"That's why we fight," he said. "That's why I'm in this size."

There are compelling, up-and-coming Democrats in Ohio — Allah's Normal, 41, the mayor of Cincinnati, Justin Bahl, 30, the

mayor of Cleveland, Dale Scarsdale, 37, the minority leader of the Ohio House. But when the opportunity to run for the Senate assembles a war, some of them plunged in.

"So a young person, I wouldn't want anyone running other than General," Mr. Pearcei said. "I'nt herdaining, cost of living — that has been filtered through earth's water, but since the entire time has been in public service."

Mr. Kalant recalled the speeches Mr. Brown made on the floor of the Ohio House in the 1970s. "He was concentrating I.D.R., he said. 'There's not a whole lot now.'"

For Mr. Brown critical time, he presided the problem. When 25 years of hearing the issue in the radical left in Washington, Nick Pogba, a spokesman for Senate Republican campaign arm, said in a statement, "there's all Brown remains completely out of step with Ohio as he lights to take issue to give government benefits to it might."

Mr. Brown, though, has raised more money than any Democrat running for the Senate except those "blanks of labor and the Council of Georgia. Independent election analysts' ratings of the

civil range from a "Republican lean" to a "vansup." Pulling 'suggerin' Mr. Brown could win.

"I don't talk a lot about my opponent, but I'm going to this year," he said at the video shop in New Philadelphia.

"I want to tell you some of the things he's said," he said at the bar in North Canton.

"He's said things like people who are struggling just don't know how to navigate the road world. He said that people just have to work harder due to how to work smaller and they should put go-out and make more money."

"And then the worst thing, the thing that is not in the most insulting thing," he said in Bredenville. "The work ethic in this country is broken."

"Gin," Mr. Hunter said at the interview.

"He's never worked in a history or done hard labor a day in his life," Mr. Hunter said of Mr. Brown.

In his Cole Sloan lecture and L.S. Bean ducks and with the characteristics of a city's voice and interest, an Mr. Brown once gled in the union hall, lingering with the workers and referees.

Venue in Florida Cancels a Rally Headlined by a Pro-Palestinian Congresswoman

By TIM BUCK

A North Florida rally headlined by Representative Raabha Thakil, Michigan because the latest ballpoint in the Senate today, they're a natural battle over Israel, at 9 or 10 o'clock that planned for the 2018 race.

The rally, in support of three progressive Democrats — two of whom are running for U.S. House seats and one for the Senate — should be expected to be in place at The Venue in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Friday night, first days before the Florida primary election.

The 2018 Honolulu State Representative Michael Gottlieb, the Senor and other members of the Florida Legislature Jewish Caucus, issued a statement on social issues, including the event as "anti-Jew".

Mr. Gottlieb objected to the in-

clusion of Mr. Thak, an unexplained critic of the Israeli government, and expressed alarm that the event was being held at The Venue Fort Lauderdale, a 42,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000-1,000

He said he was also concerned that the rally called "Trump the English" was being taught to people who are running against Jewish candidates.

Mr. Thakil, the only Palestinian American member of Congress, has been criticized, and was not content in Congress, he said using the slogan "Issue the river to the land."

He described the slogan as "an unprovenual call for President" for Palestinian, but many lives considered as a call for the roads ahead of Israel.

The Venue's management reached out to both Mr. Gottlieb

and rally organizers. They asked him to take down his statement, he recalled, and he said no.

They also said organizers that they would not hurt the event unless Mr. Thak was dissatisfied, and Cameron Driggers, a lead organizer.

The organizers said no, Mr. Driggers recalled.

On Thursday, The Venue's management issued a statement saying the establishment had pulled out after becoming aware of the "nature of the event" and receiving promotional materials.

Due to the increased security concerns as well as the welfare of attendees and staff, the decision was then made that the event would not proceed as our property," the statement said.

"The Young Fort Lauderdale is Jewish-owned and operated and our values and commitment to the Jewish community are deeply un-

pertain to us," I continued.

Representatives for Mr. Thakil stated immediate proposal to request the comment.

Mr. Driggers said organizers had to establish the local market venue — two other establish-

ments — agreed to stop in, only to cancel on 10th, or, at 10th called — before they heard a wine for a Fort Lauderdale.

He said he would find the event.

The venue's statement went on a statement on Friday that the event would take place despite possible and futureophobic intimidation campaign from right-wing agencies and conservative Democrats.

"Establishment Democrats and M&GA economists are watching

our movement grow and instead of trying to meet young voters, where they are, they're always, andy trying to help or prove by a moving act and a movement signed by Mr. Driggers and the three people the only way to turn to support. Elijah Shalani and the war Larkin, both House candidates, and State Representative Hagia Shalani, were a working party's nomination for a Senate race.

Mr. Gottlieb said in his statement on Thursday that he was concerned about past comments by Mr. Thakil, and believed that the three candidates were still having against Jewish Americans in the final primaries on Tuesday.

Mr. Shalani was the Republican, two British Waverstone's finalists in an open race that she prepared to make up the race, and the three were not of her current district.

Mr. Larkin is challenging Rep-

mentative faced Mediawish, said Mr. House is running against Alex Vardman in a Senate race that will pit the primary winner against Senator Adden Moody, a Republican who was appointed to the former race of Secretary of State Steve Kefau.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Gottlieb said he is just 47 years of middle-of-the-road — "Democrat community" he said local Democrats did not "want to be haggard down with the kind of nonsense that is involved in the activities of groups such as this."

Mr. Driggers argued in an interview that critics of the event were engaged in a "yousal" effort to resist criticism of the Israeli government to carry in a nationwide.

The rally, he added, was "not about Israel-Priseman."

"It's about building a Florida that works for working people," he said.

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FILLMORE, VINA 4. Sikorsky Wyzeman fighting the Wobenzoth 2 fire on Aug. 4. It crashed three days later, killing two pilots.

WASH SPRINGS, ORE. Monitoring the Beach fire last month. The breadth of wildfires across the West is straining resources.

FURNISHED PANEL FLA. A 1968 road Grand Trailsington sailing local crews in the Everglades in May. Many teams often work together.

Cuts to Forest Service Hamer Response to 'Extraordinary' Fire Season

By HIRIT BANKE

WASHINGTON — At the start of what is becoming an intense wildfire season this year, federal officials მნიშვნელოვანი of percent for review its available therefore teams, the other squads that fight complex blazes in the most rugged areas.

In Washington State, officials had to call in the National Guard and 230 active-duty U.S. Army on shore to help extinguish miners because they did not have enough firefighters.

And as time raged to control Utah this month, one team called for help but waited for days. By the time more hands arrived, the two pilots working under contract with the U.S. Forest Service had been killed in a helicopter crash and the flames had spread significantly.

"Nobody has all they need," said Joe Butler, a veteran fire incident commander who recently continued as the Deschutes County Inquirer in Oregon and spent 23 years as the Forest Service. "This is an extraordinary year."

The national wildfire-fighting corps is a mix of state, local and federal workers and private stores for hire who work together. As more than 200 wildfires have in 15 states, state monuments are retained. At the same time, the federal government has cut into at the U.S. Forest Service and in consolidating 10 firefighting operations. The result is combined supply problems and shows no apeness, according to former Forest Service officials and the union representing the agency's workers.

"We just don't have enough people in the system, not for this land. If the owners, said Mike Dudley, who retired in 2016 as a Forest Service regional director, 'Noting paying the price for a right now.'

A combination of larger and more numerous tiers and the Trump administration's changes has made it harder for officials to deploy and manage firefighters effectively like two, second firefighters and some officials said. Climate change-fedent drought has printed Western landscapes for late-spreading flames. Working temperatures allow the air to soak moisture from the landscape more quickly, increasing the fire that available for fires.

The administration has cut more than than 1,000 jobs from the Forest Service, which manages 181 million acres of public lands, including 154 national forests, and employs thousands of

ILLINO, CALIF. Firefighters at the Summit fire in rural Los Angeles County last month. Fire conditions are becoming more challenging.

firefighters. Officials did not let firefighters get any voluntary early recognition programs, but they pushed out many of the workers who handle firefighting logistics and coordination.

There are fewer teams able to handle the largest and fastest-spreading fires this year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center, which coordinates state and federal wildfire response. There are 19 teams, down from 44 two years ago, but only about 25 each teams have been assigned to fires at a time this month. The root are taking required weakening breaks to prevent burnout. Some teams have even degenerative retracted from the usual two weeks to include a third because the need is so great.

The administration is also seeking to combine firefighters from the Forest Service with these from several other agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to form a new agency, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service.

The Forest Service chief, Tim

Schultz, has said the changes have not reduced the nation's capacity to combat wildfires. He told Congress in July that the agency had hired quickly ahead of fire season and had surpassed its resulting goals by listing up 12,000 firefighters this summer, slightly more than under previous administration.

Heraldik Holbrook, a Forest Service spokeswoman, said that listing mounts the agency's current corps of firefighters was larger than it did report in any of the past five years and that the Forest Service was "fully stalled at the level we are funded for."

While Ms. Holbrook said Forest Service leaders "continue to replace ways to strengthen critical middle leadership positions across the organization," she said vacant roles "do not represent positions we are funded to fill those."

Waiting at U.S. Forest Service wildland firefighters remains strong," she said.

But on a Forest Service website drawing-in work here, agency officials also acknowledged that

current firefighting staff could not "meet the needs of the continuing wildfire crisis."

When fires forced more than 95,000 people from homes around Spokane, Wash., this month, the authorities turned to the National Guard and to active-duty soldiers from a military base south of Seattle for extra help. Because of federal job cuts, there are fewer

5,800

Number of Forest Service jobs cut by the Trump administration.

experienced leaders in the larger wildfire-fighting system, which has limited how many firefighting teams can be deployed around the country, said George Gonzalez, the state director.

"You don't order them because you don't have anyone that can manage them," Mr. Gonzalez said. "We're running very tight and everyone are very thin."

In southern Utah, the Wob-

zouch 2 fire was spreading rapidly like mouth, prompting call for help. By Aug. 5, more than a week after lightning sparked the blaze, only 100 firefighters were depleted, even as the flames threatened them.

"We have orders out, but there are so many large fires nationwide," because foreign a system woman for the Great Basin State 2, the firefighting team battling the blaze, said that afternoon. "There's just such a demand right now."

By the time another 100 firefighters arrived, including the two firefighters killed order into a prior crash, the blaze had surpassed 200,000 acres, local Thursday. 100 firefighters were battling the fire, which had burned across nearly 150,000 acres and was 10 percent continued.

Fewer stables are available to keep firefighters housed and lost. So, When evacuation orders forced restaurants to close may the Beach fire in Oregon last month, firefighters were left on duty packaged military meals.

and Joan Nelson-Doss, a spokeswoman for the Northwest Coordinators Center, an organization and manager regional fire response.

Crimes of the administration's approach may seem to change has reduced fire conditions, at least in the short term. Fewer acres of forest are being treated for fire protection. Fewer experienced firefighting teams are available to attack runaway blazes.

Along the people forced out of the Forest Service were stall members who help can command centers and have camps and others who aren't full-time firefighters. Blazes have team trained so they can step in when fire activity is highest, said Steve Gohanna, representative of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

The loss of veteran employees means those who remain most might once today, said Scott Gohanna, who was the supervisor of White River National Forest in Colorado until he retired from the Forest Service last year. "We're creating scenarios that are not safe," Mr. Fitzwilliams said.

About 20,000 people from a patchwork of federal and state agencies, local departments and private institutions have assigned to large wildfires across the country each day this month, according to the National Interagency Fire Center — about the maximum possible setback drawing out many firefighters from their home home, where they must remain on alert for new blazes in their own backyards, veterans and

The Forest Service's firefighters and other federal stall members are the largest single group. Firefighters work together across agencies and departments, often regardless of whether a blaze is on federal, state or private.

The whole system has come under the training circus as fire conditions become more challenging, frequent and long-lasting.

That has been an wildfire-fighting crown, most of whose members have full-time jobs but volunteer to serve on teams that pull firefighters and support stall from across the country to respond to large fires. That most recent perhaps a few weeks away from home each year, but now can require growing plans that stretch across months.

"People don't see any end in sight, and they can't get the resources they need," Mr. Dudley said.

Mining Claims Are Staked On Unprotected U.S. Land

By MAXINE KNELLOW

WASHINGTON — About a month after President Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, a local nine mining claims have been staked on land that is no longer protected from development, just for records there.

The claims suggest that some companies are racing to dig up minerals within the former boundaries of the Boars East and Grand Diakcare-Socabany National Monuments, which are rich in wildlife habitat and are important and resource but also sit atop vast reserves of uranium and other precious metals.

On July 13, Mr. Trump signed proclamations that should both sides by more than 30 percent, opening nearly three million acres in mining, of and gas drilling and other commercial activities. The proclamations said that over one year, many would be allowed within the monument's former boundaries starting on Sept. 11.

But the first day, the Utah-based company Kimmertz Mining filed seven mining claims in seven removed from Boars East, according to records from the San Juan County Research's Office in Utah. Kyle Kimmertz, an executive of the company, has said today the monument's previous boundaries is over, claiming they "be had up."

Kinster Noyes contributed research

valuable materials.

On Aug. 6, Craig Ronegard filed another two mining claims in action that were cut from Grand Diakcare, according to records from the Kizer County Research's Office. Mr. Ronegard's LinkedIn profile has been as an "owner of 2007 Mine".

The total acreage of the new claim is unclear. The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, is likely to report the claims before Sept. 11. Mr. Kimmertz and Mr. Ronegard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

National monuments are public lands that are legally protected from development. They have similar promotions on national parks, but while national parks are created by Congress, national monuments can be created by procedures through the Jamispines Act of 2006.

Wing a mining claim is just an initial step toward pulling minerals from the ground. Prospective miners must also pay less and obtain persons from state and federal agencies, a process that can take years.

During the first term, Mr. Trump similarly shrank Boars East and Grand Diakcare at the aging of top Republicans from Utah But Native American tribes and environmental groups chief lapped the more in court, and President Joseph R. Biden, it subsequently restored sweeping pro-

tections to both sites before a court could issue a final decision.

After Mr. Trump's first reduction of Boars East, Kimmertz Mining held a stake called East Power on land that had been part of the monument. In 2016, the company dug up 10 tons of ore in search of uranium, which is used to fuel nuclear power plants, and vanadium, which is used to strengthen most.

Soon after, the mine ceased operations because low uranium prices made it uneconomical. Then in 2021, Mr. Kimmertz became a plaintiff in a lawsuit over Mr. Biden's restoration of the monument's boundaries.

Before Mr. Trump signed the proclamation to shrink Boars East last month, he claimed that the more vast necessary because excavation was virtually separate because the monument's boundaries.

"You can't go hunting, you can't go fishing, you can't do anything, you can't really survive with us it," Mr. Trump said during a ceremony in the Oval Office.

But excavation has been allowed in Boars East and Pineal dust Beach Shams designated the monument in 2016. And the Trump administration was borderline opportunities for hiking and offroad vehicle driving

within the monument about 1 month before the Oval Office event. The New York Times previously reported.

On the proclamation itself, Mr. Trump suggested a different resolution, accessing "critical minerals such as silver, copper, molybdenum, iron, uranium, vanadium and zinc." He called these minerals "end to energy and resource independence."

Since March, the legal director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, a nonprofit environmental group that first noticed the nine new claims, said he worried that mining would damage the fragile desert landscape.

Boars East National Monument, one of two federal preserves in Utah that were reduced in size by the Trump administration last month.

"The fact that companies and individuals are already trying to locate mining claims — weeks before the National post-graduate study — only underwriters our concern about what might be coming while we work to see the monuments fully restored and protected," Mr. Biden said.

But Brian Sumner, the pro-writer of the Utah Mining Association, said that "responsible mineral development and protection for the above described mining cannot." He added that political emphasis could prevent companies from making additional mining claims in the area.

The propagating bank and birth between administration is challenging. Mr. Sumner said "For industry to really feel confident that in making investments in the United States, we get to have some resolution to the status of these banks."

Some other have the final say over the fate of the mining claims. In the mining weeks, tribes and environmentalists plan to lead another legal challenge to Mr. Sumner about what to obtain Boars East and Grand Diakcare.

They are expected to argue that the antipaters Act authorizes procedures to disappear means that the U.S. people in our them. The litigation could eventually reach the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has suggested that the country will law to ripe its review.

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Outbreak of Cyclospora Reveals Flaws in the U.S. Food Safety System

Last year, the FDA's last oil many of the staff who supported food inspectors' travel planning and who considered with foreign governments on food safety. The FDA spokesman said in Friday that "lured support staff and that that coordinated with foreign governments have been conducted."

The administration identify the a committee tasked with studying problems that led to outbreaks of also oral a program focused on cyclospora's training.

"So far this administration had made our headless safe, not safer," said Scott Fisher, the senior vice-president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. "By being food safety experts, by reducing the number of inspections, by tracking down pathogens, and by failing to set up a traceability system that makes sure that we're able to in clear the shelves quickly."

Overall, Frakes, the FDA's setting clearly counteracts the fact, said the agency responded swiftly with the information it had on hand. He added that even if the 24-hour rule had been in effect, a would not have made a major impact on managing this outbreak response.

An FDA spokesman said that protecting the nations food safety remains a core responsibility, and the agency has the personnel and resources to respond to outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.

Taco Bell said it responded to requests from Michigan and he is not officials in a timely manner.

"We arent immediately, voluntarily and proactively to protect our people and support health officials," the company said in a statement.

On July 15, federal authorities met the outbreak in a strong stance that had been supplied to Taco Bell from a plant in Mexico owned by Taylor Farms, the large U.S.-based producer at the same time, of the 1980s. The 1980s, Taylor Farms began a recall of their products consisting of being tetracelled harfines shipped to 27 states.

A spokeswoman for Taylor Farms said it promptly responded to requests for information and to report to the FDA and Mexico. On July 15, it sent independent third-party experts to conduct a "top-to-bottom review" of food safety processes there.

Yet efforts for authorities to figure out how the iceberg tobacco to Mexico became contaminated by cyclospora, a single-cell parasite that starts the small intestine and spreads through fevers, contains no space details although Taylor Farms frequently died down the plant on July 15. FDA inspectors forced at two to Mexico to inspect it until last week, nearly a month later.

The investigators from the FDA were delayed in traveling under because of consistent needs to work in an area—ment unable for Americans, according to a recent estimate with the author, who was not authorized to speak about it. They also needed to coordinate with the Mexican government and gather enough for long night and night investigation, the person said.

The idea was to add that it is difficult to discover a root cause of

Caroline Hopkins Lapsop controls and reporting.

An erosion of overnight during the Trump administration may leave Americans more vulnerable to future pathogens, experts say.

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. has said 1959 publicly about the outbreak, other than noting that it is "under control"

the contamination, said Sandra Zekas, chief executive of Stop Foodborne Illness, a nonprofit working to protect against food-borne pathogens.

Declining Inspections

Some of the problems that have hampered the response to this outbreak developed over decades. Sanctions who study cyclospora and their have had written funding to better understand the parasite, including how it spreads and how to detect it. Food safety advocates say the goals of a landmark food safety law enacted in 2011 have not been met amid weak regulations and falling numbers of foreign food facility inspections.

The federal rule requiring companies to swiftly produce records of an outbreak investigation was drafted under that law, the Food Safety Administration Act, which gave the FDA new powers to keep food free of parasites and pathogens, to rapidly trace produce through the supply chain and to aggressively expand inspections.

The law set a goal of 18,200 annual foreign inspections by 2016. But foreign inspections have fall-

en markedly even as the foreign food supply has ranged. In 2025, the agency made about 1,500 visits to foreign food plants and cited significant lapses in about 60 of these 2016 last visit to the Taylor Farms facility in Mexico was in 2019, records show.

Enterthought-finding the tiny cyclospora parasites during a site visit is challenging, such costs could reveal indicators such as on supplies water with high levels of local matter.

A spokeswoman for Taylor Farms said that it has a "robust local indicator testing program that includes cyclospora for all of our water sources. All of those tests have been unspoken."

With the exception of the pandemic years, the FDA's foreign food inspections in 2015 were at a 15-year low, agency's late show.

Currently, the FDA has about 440 staff charged with inspecting more than 200,000 registered animal and human food facilities—downstretchly and abroad.

Other things help ensure the safety of the food supply, but inspectors in the classic consumer protection when it's done correctly, Mr. Zekas said.

Another major subgaard out-

Federal authorities tied the outbreak to a long, 1960s that was supplied to Taco Bell from a Taylor Farms facility in Mexico.

land in the law was meant to add visibility into the food supply chain, particularly by public health officials and regulators charged with limiting taxes during its outbreak.

The rule that the FDA ended up delaying last year was meant to "limit food-borne illness and death" it required instructions, including restaurants and grocers, to provide the agency or an authorized representative with a specialized detailing their suppliers within 24 hours of an outbreak, or a reasonable amount of time the agency agrees to.

The FDA's decision to delay the rule was followed by action from the Republican-controlled Congress, which took place in 1969 steps to bar the FDA. Even using its funding to enforce the rule and to make decision showing greater flexibility.

In Michigan, cyclospora has now achieved more than 32,000 people and contributed to two deaths in 2020. The 1980s, the last month, which were first obtained by Bloomberg News, that they had to contrast with an antiquated disease surveillance system that changed the outbreak from anoregion with 700 people

who fell ill.

Since Taco Bell emerged as a common threat to the new news, getting the company's supplier led was crucial, said Susan Moore, a former FDA official who remains active in food policy. In such a large outbreak, she said, "it's important to determine if our ingredient came from a central source, in contrast to those from an area of farms."

"The future you must get back to the results, the future you can identify the source of the outbreak and remove those products from the market and prevent further experience," she said. "In speed to everything."

Searching for Solutions

Last week in our first time that FDA officials flew to Taylor Farms' Mexican processing plant in investigator a cyclospora outbreak.

In 2011, in the wake of an outbreak that followed more than 100 people who ate salad at Olive Garden and Boi Lofonts, federal inspectors descended on the facility and maintained more than 1,000 samples of lettuce, irrigation water and the loose of the farm work-

ers, a main harbor for the cyclospora parasite.

They found virtually nothing, except some report shows. Every result was negative, except for one considered inconclusive.

The FDA did note that the facility's practice of washing the salted and with recycled water had the potential to spread cyclospora, it's an important But after the agency could use the remains how or at what point in the supply chain" the cyclospora was introduced. Taylor Farms said it then began a new process for testing water and produce.

But George, a produce safety center who owned in 2016 from the FDA, said cyclospora wasn't viewed inside the agency as high—on line E—all or known. Yet, some scientists were growing increasingly worried as cyclospora outbreak grew in salt and crops. Originally found in her ten and that, in the 2000s, it was affecting larger numbers of people after eating salad.

Cycospora is a uniquely difficult parasite to detect, monitor and eliminate. Testing for it in the environment—especially in agriculture at water—is critical-absorbed. Challenging, and, as a result, rarely done.

Moreover, cyclospora does not have an laboratory culture. Sanctions often use culture as a tool to amplify tiny bits of bacteria, like salmonella or E. coli, to detectable toxins. The same output for these samples is a new method. Kent, a non-strategist at the University of Delaware who researches the parasite.

And because cyclospora are often found apparently in large volumes of water, finding them in like dipping a set in the ocean to find a single type of fish. There's also no way to kill them in processing plants that wash produce this future. They can survive chlorination, a standard process used to kill bacteria.

Dr. Kent and other food safety researchers have been asking the government repeatedly for 100 million to fund work to develop new ways to get the cyclospora in the environment and to set testing standards. But after they continue to have something great proposals to the United States Department of Agriculture, the work remains unheated.

The U.S.A. said its peer reviewers had selected projects viewed as "most impactful" for growers and that it had supported some cyclospora research last year.

By George noted that he helped develop an FDA's action plan for cyclospora that was released in 2021. The plan called for increased and improved education, noting its cyclospora and rapid root cause analysis of outbreaks. Recently, officials working on the process of curing cyclospora, which is a major of Mexico that had been lost to prior cyclospora outbreaks.

But progress toward solutions for the state FDA guidance on produce safety created last week acknowledged that the agency would have at any minimum that would prevent the spread of cyclospora "and be suitable for use as foods or produce."

As a result, there may be more than 50% of the people.

"Until we get down to the hard work of better research, getting tools for better and faster detection and better root cause analysis," Dr. Scotty said, "this is going to happen again."

Trump Backed Down From a Wall at Big Bend. The Bulldozers Are Already There.

By a Health治理ists

Tenure were caught off guard several months ago when the Trump administration appeared ground to construct a 20-hole wall through Big Bend National Park, a rugged expanse of more than 1000 feet of ground in a 10-year many in the state.

But after hypercapes opportune, the city would be protected from the federal government's border construction map. Many vehicles, balancing that the West Texas park, with its brewing mountains and traffic would be spared.

Then the bulldozers are trout like stealth.

The night of these earth-moving machines along the Rio Grande base the land of the state's major attractions, protected the most significant residence of border border construction sites in the park. Construction reports through complete interviews and briefs and reveal the ground for more than a mile of what appeared to be a future roadway.

Big Bend is beloved by Senator Bill Henry across the country. The even those who are not among its more than 200,000 natural residents. It is a place to feel the existence and vulnerability within the state's land. Some of the areas at night actually are big and bright.

The construction set off a 6-mile wave of major and outrage from all sorts of people—nerventom-

Over some considerable objections, construction workers cleared wood in Big Bend National Park in Texas earlier this month.

idists, former park officials, local sheriffs—who again insisted that such infrastructure was a success. Key to a border region to ensure and dangerous that people have rarely to active cross them, even at the peak of unauthorized migration.

Both John Conrys, the state's

outgoing Republican senator, and James Tobacco, the Democrat creating a regular trial, expressed concern that people about the start of construction inside the park.

My constituents believe that the 1,500-foot riverbank18th and remote Big Bend terrain effects in

one season at downtown? Mr. Conrys said in a letter two weeks ago to the President's Secretary secretary, Marleneus Mullin.

Other Republican state leaders, including Gov. Doug Johnson and Attorney General Ken Poston, who defeated Mr. Conrys in the Senate primary have not weighed in directly within construction.

On Friday, a local nonprofit and an outdoor recreation business represented by State Senator Richard Satterson, a Democrat, has been federal not to try and pull the project a day earlier, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators sent Mr. Gilbert a letter saying that to 4th federal officials to stop the construction.

"It's going to the point where people are picking up the torchs and marching in the street right now," said Tim John, present vice-pres director for Mullin, Texas, northwest of the park. "This is one of Texas' and the country's last well-done."

After days of confusion among West Texas residents, senior Trump administration officials explained their plans and plans on Thursday. There would be no walk, but there would be construction.

"I, B.P. & Milling, use new access road, improving, curbing roads, installing detection technology and placing vehicle barriers on a tunnel, strategy locations," Rodney Scott, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection commu-

nance, said in a statement.

The park consists of 10 million people on the U.S. African border, and a patrol road is slated to run along roads of it. A few areas would have spins of it to 6-foot-tail vehicle barriers.

The bulldozers and excavators have been engaged this month in "survey and design work," Mr. Scott said.

Fewer than six migrants a day have been encountered crossing from Mexico in recent months in the entire Big Bend patrol sector.

Questions over what

security problems

this effectively solves.

which he thinks the park and hundreds of miles of border, federal residents know.

Officials have said that when unauthorized coverage are currently at record laws, they could increase in the future.

The Trump administration has been formerly working now for two barriers, one Mr. Scott said. The Big Bend construction was expected to fill in gaps, finally went Valley Construction, one company currently at work in the region, was awarded a $1.7 billion

contract. The company directed questions to federal officials.

"We will not have Big Bend as an opening for curb/throughs by shifting their routes and tactics," Mr. Scott said, "and it's not possible."

Many of these who oppose a 10-year also applied to strategy control road. They include local sheriffs who have insisted that major border infrastructure projects are not necessary.

"What security problem are we trying to solve?" Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland of nearby Trevell County, a Republican and a former Border Police agent, wrote on a final report. "Can the state security objective be accomplished more effectively another way?"

On Wednesday, people gathered for a demonstration against the construction at the Santa Elena Canyon. Many carried signs protecting the construction.

"Stop the flood," "No Wall" — at both Massachusetts department stores. "You can then wait! that could be affected by the construction along the river. Some found the road plan would require building bridges and blasting along Marshall Mountain, a remote park.

The road will be on coming back, said Michael Ryan, a former Big Bend park singer who attended the protest. "They're taking taxpayer dollars to care this national park."

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Prosecutors Examined

From 14th Tie to Judge

In Hush Money Trial

From Page 1

story of a human wish him The first step of man, which is cluded Prost Maceus, the former top federal prosecutor in Washington, weighs to limit the request. Prosecutors eventually modified the subpoena, narrowing it to be true as a 5408 payment from Mr. Maceus' presidential campaign, and would forbear Mr. Merchan and her father, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry who requested opportunity to die since an engaging legal matter.

It is not clear where the investigation stands. No follow-up subpoenas have been issued to individuals, suggesting that prosecutors

The Merchan family

has been a frequent target of Mr. Trump.

him might not be actively working or change anyone, those people added.

The inquiry is the same, but one of the most to which U.S. attorney's efforts account for many more largely removed from political machinations in Washington, and the increasingly heavy shown state. Mr. Trump's effort to target the subpoena is.

In this case, prosecutors sought the subpoena that came from a terminal referral from Repulch came on the House Judiciary Coun- sation. The panel made the referral after Mike Nolte, the founder of Authentic Campaigns, refused to provide the committee with the information that Mr. Trump has led by those between Mr. Mer- chan and her father.

The Trump administration's response of my company is so averaged that every two years, Mr. Nolte had when asked about the investigation "It is a ridiculous fishing expedition based on con- spiracy theories that are com- pletely directed from reality."

He accused the department of working to enter the "country on litical communications of my ob- nium who are among Trump's have prominent political adversaries."

A Justice Department spokes- woman declined to comment, at all Judge Merchan and Levin Merchan.

The language in the subpoena is versually identical to claims made by the House committee that Mr. Trump's conviction in the hush money trial provided over by Judge Merchan was "potentially politically motivated." The com- mal referral also included the con- tention that "Manhattan district attorney drive Bengh," investig- ious and prosecutors of President Donald J. Trump" might have been improper.

The subpoena did not specify what potential crimes might have been committed in the pro- secution of Mr. Trump.

In addition to initially respect- ing information from the district and Bates presidential cam- paigns, Mr. Bontree sought mo- terial from Mr. Merchan, Mr. Bengh and one of his chapters, Matthew Conjugelo, Mr. Althea, the Democratic leader in the House, Mr. Markel, Senator Adam Schiff, Democrat of Califor- ate, Representative Daniel Gole- man, United States Vice President Tennessee Eaton Underwood, Democrat of Illinois, and the Democratic Party's House and Senate fund-raising aims as well as the Democrats National Coun- sation.

The cancer prosecutors who ex- cured the subpoena, Matthew Bates and William Hogan, both placed view in an 18-story car against the pretences accused of unwilling federal agents during the White House's 1st imme- strance crackdown in 2025 known as Attorney Bliss.

The U.S. attorney's officers (Co- ving) had to withdraw the charges to that case after defense lawyers came to run on about the combat of Mr. Bontree's prosecution for two a grand jury. That prompted Mr. Bontree, who worked on a conclusion as the office of the came, to announce a review of an annual prosecution.

Mr. Trump saw his hush money that in New York, which resulted in him becoming the first former president to be convicted on his very charges, as the culmination of a worsening effort by Democrats to destroy him. He was fighting these charges at the same time

Andrew S. Boutros, the U.S. attorney, ordered a Democratic fund-raising firm to turn over a trove of sensitive communications.

At a January 2025 hearing, Donald J. Trump and his attorneys, Todd Blunden, appeared remotely before Judge Juan Merchan,

that he was defending himself against two separate federal in- dicTIONs and as an election inter- ference case in Georgia.

Mr. Trump's public portrait at- tedly prompted Judge Merchan to impose a gag order to prevent him from intimidating issues, prosecu- tors, witnesses and court staff. Mr. Trump's lead defense lawyer, Todd Manche, now the attorney

proved, argued to record the or- dle but was unsuccessful.

By the time the trial started, Judge Merchan himself emerged as a main target of the defense, with the president and his allies claiming that Mr. Merchan's long- time involvement in Democratic publics was proof that the lie was "big."

"Judge Juan Merchan is totally

compromised, and should be re- viewed from this TRUMP Non- Case immediately like Daughter, Loren, or a Kabul Trump State who has admitted to having the vaccations with her father since year, and yet he gagged her," Trump seems on Truth Social in March 2024.

The judge did not receive him self. An ethics complaint filed by Trump after had an effect on the trial. Mr. Trump's election to ac- cued from his Judge Merchan to discharge the case without an assistance or penalty.

But Republican, ignored so by Trump-sighted influences like Loren Loren's have continued to make the case that the judge, the daughter and other operatives were guilty of wrongdoing.

The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Countries, the brother of this, subsequently be- gan demanding documents from the firm. He cited a theory that my Trump supporters that Mr. Nolte and Mr. Merchan (supra- erty) used Mr. Trump's prosecution in digital fund-raising pitches on behalf of Democrats. (Mr. Trump aggressively used the criminal in- dicTIONs against him to take millions during the campaign.)

"Experts have raised substantial concerns with Judge Mer- chan, your father, refusing to re- view himself from President Ted, and your despite your work on behalf of President Trump's political adversaries and the State and benefit that your firm, hu- shanty Campaigns Inc., could re- ceive him the government and conviction," Mr. Jordan wrote to Mr. Merchan in August 2024, re- questing her correspondence with the judge.

The practice the Corresponding signed that Mr. Merchan had no intellectual error but father's work decisions and no contact with many of the campaigns for firm del business was.

They accused Mr. Jordan of en- gaged as a politically motivated "unpatriotic" and claimed Mr. Merchan and Mr. Nolte had been to study death threats from Trump supporters that they needed to live security.

They rebuked to handover most of the documents. Mr. Jordan wanted most, calling the request "as founders as it is dangerous" as a September 2024 letter to Mr. Jor- das from Marc Elias, a prominent election lawyer who represented Mr. Nolte.

Prominent Republicans and Others Falsely Connect Covid Vaccines to Miscarriage

Studies Involving Hundreds of Thousands

Of Women Show That the Shots Are Safe

BY BRIGGS JEFFER

and BENT CARYN KABIN

Trump administration officials and other prominent Republicans falsely suggested last week that Covid-19 vaccines were linked to miscarriage, setting misleadingly uncontrol messages (Dr. Author y) & Texas's that were recently re- leased by Briggs' ban on stature.

In January 2021, when Covid vaccines had past been released, Dr. Evans and Biden attempted re- lim officials discussed the limitu- tions of the Shots and available about vaccination during preg- nancy, as well as the theoretical risks for pregnant women based on information available at the times. Since then, studies of two brands of thousands of women have shown that Covid vaccina- tion is not linked to an increased risk of miscarriage, stillbirth or preterm birth.

In the three specific countries, from were not public, health effi- cials did not take the same name in early 2021. There was limited this because of a longstanding practice of including pregnant women from clinical trials. What was known, they was based on women who happened to become unwilling health condition in a var- ily ill health condition in the living?

But pregnant women were in- cruising virtually all and doing from Covid infections, so the Con- verses for Disease Control and Pre- sence (CDP) were not available to their doctors about vacc- ines, weighing the known risks of Covid itself — which, along with severe illness and death, included in the drug and related to the the vaccine safety data that are used.

In August 2020, when more safety data was available, the women who had been exposed for pregnant women, it also con- tained sufficient data.

By now, "the question has been asked, and it's been answered many times when and if you hold, an infectious diseases spe- cialist and clinical associate pro-

furned at the Stanford School of Medicine.

What does the evidence show about Covid death in pregnancy?

Regardless of vaccination status, it's proven to 20 percent of known pregnancies and in miscarriage. This was time long before the pub- doms. He expressed conducted the same first year on a short line to compare miscarriage rates after Covid vaccination.

A British meta-analysis in 2022 recovered 22 studies on Covid vac- unations that consistently technol- ed about 100,000 people vacci- nated during pregnancy. Another in 2021 reviewed 22 studies with about 100,000 pregnant women. Neither found no associations with miscarriage, and the 2022 analy- sin found that vaccination was ac- sociated with a decreased risk of stiffness.

In other study in 2021, it shows 10,000 pregnancies that were tucked through a federal data- base called the Vaccine Safety Datalab, found no association be- tween Covid-2 workers and miscar- riage. A study in Scotland, pub- lished in 2022, compared women vaccinated before 20 weeks' pre- sation with unvaccinated women who became non-working men de- vised, and also did not find an in- terview.

A more recently published study by the U.S. and other re- cordance review, found 10,000 pregnancies among women vacci- nated between December 2020 and June 2021 who participated in the agency's Covid-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry, (Covig) and monitor vaccine safety. The study found that the vaccinated preg- nant women did not have more prevents, further and premised their compared with the previous population in 2020, before the pub- doms.

Because these were mostly studies conducted after women vaccinated, not only examined more that assigned women to receive either a vaccine or a placebo and

The findings across countries, trimesters and vaccine technologies are persuasive, scientists say.

collected data as pregnant or ex- pressed, they castj severe cause and effect. But scientists said the volume and consistency of the re- sults across countries, trimesters and vaccine technologies was per- manters.

"This is one of the most studied interventions that we do in preg- nancy," said Dr. Brenda Hughes, the chair of the Society for Mis- terial-Fetal Medicine's Infectious Diseases and Emerging Threats Committee.

One piece of mainstreamism shared widely last week is a class claim that 92 percent of women vaccinated in their first or second trimester miscarried.

The people who have quoted this statistic calculated it from a table in a preliminary C.D.C. analy- sive published in April 2021. (The authors of the analysis did not make the misleading calculation.) The calculation only included women who were vaccinated in the first or second trimester and whose pregnancies had been re- ported as "completed" by April. But because the vaccine went to now, most patients who had re- ceived from during the first or

second trimester — more than 2,300 women — were still prep- nant and not yet accounted for in the analysis.

By the time the paper was pub- lished in The New England Sur- val of Medicine, 104 women had miscarried, and 16 had had alter- tions or ectopic pregnancies. The 92 percent statistic was calculated by dividing 10 to 125 the number of pregnancies that had ended among women vaccinated during the first or second trimester. This ignored the vast majority of ven- ers, who were still pregnant in April 2021 and went on to have healthy babies.

One's researchers followed up on the estimates of more women, the miscarriage rate was integra- cally to preponderate rates.

What are the risks from Covid infection during pregnancy?

Mostly after the pandemic began, it became clear that pregnancy yet people at present did for in- vere disease and death from the convenience. Maternal deaths in the United States rose to 800 in 2020, from 70.4 the previous year, according to the National Center

for Health Statistics, and it creased to 1,205 in 2022, when the Delta variant of the same began involving.

Decrees believe vaccination is especially important for pregnant women, because they are completely vulnerable to infectious diseases. Their immune system is modified to accommodate the 20 years and factors, using such lab- neys are working harder, they long capacity is reduced and blood chest from more easily.

Nearly one-third of pregnant women who have had been home up to 5 year 2020 had to be hospital- ized, compared with about a percent of unpregnated women of the same age, according to CDC, report. Pregnant women with symptomatic Covid were more likely to require anorecia- ture, mechanical ventilation and a specialized heart-independent other than unpregnated women with symptoms, another CDC report found. They also found it to prevent higher risk of death.

"I was running our dietetici- men on my hospital, using the height of the Covid-pandemic, and i-ther-nerve were anything so sig-

nificant in terms of the number of patients that were in the U.S.? with Covid infections," Dr. Hughes said.

Pregnant women who had Covid were also more likely to en- perience a perinatal death, which is when a baby dies less in preg- nancy or shortly after birth, com- pared with other women who gave birth during the pandemic.

How has our understanding of infection been fixed?

Because pregnant women were included from initial clinical re- lan, safety information was very limited when the shots were re- leased in December 2020.

Dr. Kevin Ault, an dietetician- generologist who is the president here of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and served during the pandemic on the CDC, panel that makes vac- ine recommendations, recalled the specific information in late 2020 and early 2021.

"It's hard to recommend things without data," Dr. Ault said. But the risks of a Covid infection dur- ing pregnancy were clear, and the vaccine had been shown to reduce infection risk and the severity of disease. So, he said, the experts decided to tell women they could get vaccinated in consultation with a medical professional if they clean.

Physicians often have to weigh the potential benefits of a drug or therapy against the risks, known and unknown. Since pregnant women are frequently excluded from trial of new medications, there is limited information about vaccinated drugs.

"I was essential, Dr. Hughes said, to keep in mind the risks Covid itself posed both to women and to their pregnancies." Who wants an oaks, their babies don't de-will," she said.

By the time the CDC made its recommendations in August 2021, the preliminary findings pro- duced by The New England Sur- val of Medicine had found that there were no safety concerns or differences in birth outcomes among the pregnant women who had chosen to get vaccinated, many of whom were health care workers.

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Business Leaders Are Wary, Despite Mamdani's Attempts to Appease

By LAUREN BISHOP

and DANA IRVINGSTEN

After Zoltana Mamdani, a bureaucratic socialist, won the mayoralty of New York City once strong, elevations from the front nose clues, he made sure, meeting with executives and even attending the groundbreaking of American Express's new headquarters in Lower Manhattan.

But following a relatively fanning climate, that fledgling relationship appears to have gone across, we tried by growing many by and shorten Many business leaders, some of whom are Jewish, Jewish, or the mayor's frequent anti-Israel statements. They take issue with his too few only theirs in, the ranging out of one much, partly rich hedge fund manager for public radicals and the convenience rollout of his tax on ex-prisoner second homes.

They found other signs too long.

Despite job growth remaining relatively weak, Mr. Mamdani was the first mayor that outsetry to have so deputy mayor with 'increase development' in their title, and it took him seven months to name someone to run the city's Economic Development Corporation. (His choice of Anthony Shores, a longtime government veteran who became a partner of the consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, prompted business leaders to breathe cough of relief.)

And the name, Mr. Mamdani, promised to him they so create a business advisory council of corporate leaders that would advise him on economic growth.

The council of the council was that it would serve as a sounding board for the mayor, representing

Concern that joining an advisory council is also an endorsement.

a collection of roughly 15 corporate leaders who would most positively with the mayor, according to someone fielded on the other hand.

Yet more than two months after the council was announced, it remains a work in progress, in an excellent position, the majority of a fighting among business leaders, many of whom question whether they can develop a working relationship with Mr. Mamdani.

Two business leaders said they found receiving and feeling diligent to work as solicitors to join the council. because they would find them to weigh into a clear to the board. The solicitors against the appearance of serving an cover for policies with which they disagree.

The details between City Hall and the board are not only limited to educational as July, when Mr. Mamdani, debated by a separate advisory board for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, a

Mayor Zoltana Mamdani has angered some business executives with his frequent statements criticizing Israel's actions in Gaza.

mayoral nonprofit that raises any new money for city initiatives. The demaned board members included several of New York's most protracted real estate leaders.

Mr. Mamdani's team said he would support the advisory board, but not until the fall, and asserted that the board had not been particularly active. Last year, only four of the advisory board's members, of which there are about 30, had been in the $25,000 loan, according to City Hall. The Mamdani administration has encouraged those who want to remain on the board to reapply. Two former members were indicated their desire to do so.

The mayor's effort to fill his business advisory council has also been a large success. When, after the head of global investment banking at Lanard, Robert Wall, the former chief executive of City American, and Jose Tintaro, the president for New York City at State of America, were among the first to be publicly linked to the council. Other business executives later emerged, including Kevin Ryan, a major New York tech investor, Rahul Ushayra, the founder of Chetum, and Scott Reckler, the chief executive of KSA, a real estate company, according to two people familiar with the effort.

Backlash seen followed. Some executives at the 30 Rockefeller headquarters of Lanard were asked that the bank would absorb to Mr. Mamdani in news accounts, two people familiar with the matter said.

Another Wall Street executive, given anonymity by The New

The selection of Anthony Shores to lead the city's Economic Development Corporation helped pacify leaders.

York Post, took a prelder of Mr. Wall to a column meeting the council and anyone willing to join it.

"I knew there is a lot of uninformed issue surrounding the advisory board and some other, on being taken at the business leaders considering joining," Mr. Wall said. "But my view is simple. If executives can use their experience and insights to help N.Y.C. thrive occasionally, then they should be willing to help."

In an interview, Mr. Reckler said that while he shared some of his colleagues' concerns about the impact of Mr. Mamdani's anti-Israel rhetoric, he believes in engaging with those with whom he disagrees, particularly given the repeated, constructive interactions

Scott Reckler, the chief executive of KSA, said he thought it better to try to work with the mayor instead of oppose him.

he has had with the administration.

"He loves the city," it two the city," Mr. Reckler said. "We may have different views on what the city should look like, but that does it's cause we don't engage."

Mr. Mamdani's office has also reached out to a number of other executives, including, from his films Brown, the chief executive of Amalgamated Bank; Ben Clarkskill, the former chief executive of American Express; and Charles Phillips, a private equity executive, two people familiar with the matter said.

The first meeting, held in Boston, Mr. Phillips, Mr. John Brown, Mr. Tintaro, and Mr. Clarkskill did not respond to requests for comment or declined to comment for this re-

The decision to bring Russia Took as the city's police commissioner has also placated nervous business leaders.

ticle. The answer of the council comes from New York City business leaders are navigating the best way to work with, at most. Mr. Mamdani, Brown, today, the new leader of Partnership for New York City, a powerful business consortium, has described the business community's international about the council on social media, citing the administrative theories and concerns around ammunition.

"Mayor Mamdani has opened the doors of City Hall to New York's business leaders, welcoming them to bring their experience and their guidance to the work of building a stronger, more dynamic economy," said Dora Peber, a spokeswoman for Mr. Mamdani. "In the coming weeks,

we will announce the members of our Business Advisory Council, who will be mounted partners in the work to strengthen New York as the business capital of the state. We also create good paying jobs."

The balance between elected officials and corporate American has always been a delicate one. Executives believe they have a unique understanding of what New York City businesses need to generate the revenue that helps the city run.

But elected officials do not want them to appear to be—forbidly as to corporate interests, a concern that is especially true for democratic socialists.

Among themselves, business leaders have defeated whether it is better to pragmatically maintain a line of communication with the mayor, even at the risk of their participation being construed as such to grant for Mr. Mamdani.

The mayor has repeatedly tried to arrange the business community's concerns about his leadership. Most prominently, he received Jessica Tisch, the technocratic billionaire, his police commissioner, Claire Ms. Tisch, crime numbers contract to fall Mr. Mamdani, the attachment his position to mayoral control of schools and, like anyone before him, made moves to cut red tape for small businesses.

City Hall adds also pointed to several initiatives suggesting that the New York economy remains strong.

New York City companies raised more venture capital funding as the second quarter of 2020 — $10.4 billion — than any quarter, over 2021, according to several Economic Development Corporation report. The office leasing market continues to tighten.

But some of Mr. Mamdani's acts and antics have also antagonized Wall Street, including his decision to record a video outside the Jewish Midtown Manhattan home of a billionaire hedge fund manager, Jose Griffin, to make the case for taxing piracy second homes.

The video, prompted Mr. Griffin's business partner and ally, the 'inね感 chief executive of the New York City, and the Mr. Mamdani's rhetoric on the world's to-lain speech.

Following that video, Mr. Mamdani set up meetings with Japan's business leaders and the 29-Morgan Chase, and David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs. But the relationship remains tenuous.

The mainstream reality is that the mayor's approach out of the gain has served to confirm the business community's variance about what a Mamdani administration has done. The answer is highly, a former deputy mayor who now works as the and was dismissed in July from the mayor's third advisory board.

The first meeting of the 3 no-hypothy he will come to the conclusion that this isn't serving his or the city's interests and will ensure correct," Mr. He the said.

Air Quality Changed Little After Tolling, Report Finds

By BILLARY HOWARD

Since New York introduced congestion pricing as its season take year, the driverox rolling program has had little effect on air pollution anywhere in the city, according to a report that provides the first snapshot of the initiative to be commended consequences.

The study, from the city's Health Department, noted that pollution within Manhattan's congestion pricing rose last, of more slightly improved. Perhaps most notably the rolling program didn't lead to driver up in neighborhood where drivers may have headed to circumvent the rolling nose, such as the South Bronx and parts of Staten Island.

"There was concern about the potential for increased pollution caused by drivers leading to eradication," said James Larson, chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which receives congestion pricing, and this study confirms that third-largest passenger operating airways already funding additional investments to further improve air quality.

Congestion pricing started in early 2020 and changes must drive up up to $8 to enter Manhattan before 1950, first during peak traffic hours.

The program has resulted in fewer cars moving at a faster pace, more people riding the subway and hundreds of millions of dollar funding toward the cellars of public spaces. To reach third-largest, coverage of the city's full year of data plus several months to complete air analysis.

Measuring air quality is difficult, scientists say, because of variability in atmosphere condi-

tions. At least one year of data washing, weather fluctuations across four seasons is necessary to get an idea of air quality traffic. Even then, every year is unique, which makes it challenging to compare one year with another.

For the city's report, the Health Department compared data from 2014, the year before congestion pricing started, with readings rose 2015. In determining the level of congestion pricing on air quality, the researchers studied continuous of what pollution levels could have been if there had been no rolling program, along with pollution levels after congestion pricing.

They also seemed to us on seven that might experience increased traffic and, with it, more pollution because of drivers' warming to avoid paying the bills. See highways in the South Bronx, an eigenvector. In Washington's height, a thoroughfare on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and one perimeter in Brooklyn and on Staten Island.

Data was collected from these six locations monthly. Researchers found lower amounts of black carbon and other acids, less harmful byproducts of fuel combustion. Levels of blue particulate matter — long term particles also produced by burning fossil fuels — had remaining with water. They said there changes could not be attributed to congestion pricing and were due to other factors, such as fluctuating weather conditions, including high temperature and wildfire smoke.

The Health Department will continue to monitor these uninconclusive monthly through the end of 2018. After that, monitoring will

happen four times a year through the Health Department's New York City Community Air Survey, which has entered since 2009 and tracks pollution levels at 90 locations throughout the city.

The findings are consistent with what experts predicted during the planning of congestion pricing that the initiative would not have a significant effect on air quality in New York City, traffic products only 10 percent of fine particulate matter, among the most deadly of pollution. In most of the United States, cars and trucks are the biggest source of air pollution. But because of New York's country, its fast-growing buildings, including its many components, are the main culprit.

The report did not measure greenhouse gas emissions, which drew global warming. For now, it is neither how much the program will contribute to New York

State's ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse emissions by 45 percent by 2016. Buildings, in addition to production, are also the ultimate matter than vehicles, are also responsible for about 75 per-

Congestion pricing has cut traffic and boosted subway use.

cent of the city's greenhouse gas emissions.

Many recommendations viewed the report's findings, and the congestion pricing program overall, as unique climate victory.

"Over the long term, the information from congestion pricing will keep more consumers on public transit and out of cars, and

that's a lasting air quality health that shouldn't be this matter," said Dora A. Goldstein, a senior attorney and New York City environmental director of the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Mr. Goldstein added that there is no "stages for" for the climate crisis, but "energy-efficient tools are more to part of the toolkit."

Another 2020 report that was updated this month and published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonpertinent nonprofit, also found that congestion pricing had had "little effect on air quality." It has yet to be peer-reviewed.

The first report have reached such a conclusion. In May, a Columbia University study, where no data from 20 minors across the South Bronx, showed an overall fine particulate matter increase of 7 percent between 2020 and 2020 in the dense and heavily con-

New York's congestion pricing, which started on 20,000, changes most drivers up to $10 to enter Manhattan before 1950. Breast during peak traffic hours.

gnated neighborhood that is licenced by major highways. The study, which accounts for 2,000, of the Manhattan and an wildfire smoke, has not yet been peer-reviewed, but is scheduled to publish soon, its authors said.

William Fowler, a Health Department spokesman, led that the methodology for the Columbia study had not been made public art and reiterated that the city's new study found that congestion pricing had cut traffic for air fares in the South Bronx.

Representative from South Bronx Units, a nonprofit that worked with Columbia in place, has been in the neighborhood, welcomed the positive news from the city report about air quality in the borough, though, they can found that it was important to be the first to report that, for weeks too.

"Although it may look like all communities are benefiting from the overall reduction in pollution, it is important to look at some in the South Bronx, here experienced an increased burden," said Michelle Martinez, the director of environmental justice and research on the air quality.

Trident and health officials have suggested $200 million to address pollution issues in areas that are at risk of getting more traffic from congestion pricing. The bulk of the money is dedicated to sanitation in the South Bronx, which has some of the highest asthma rates in the United States. The number of people who are sleeping animals for electric vehicles, reducing refrigerated diesel trucks that carry pesticides with thinner versions and expanding community asthma services.

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Tailor for Blue Angels Is Dropped by the Navy

By MICHAEL LEVENSON

The nearly 40 years, the Blue Angels, the Navy pilots expressed for performing acrobatic surveys, all shows and other events across the country, have turned to Julie Wilmhurst, who is known as County to make their blue-and-eyes 'light suits.'

But last month, Mr. Wilmhurst said, she was blamished like murdered on a an officer from the flying team about paying a visit to take measurements he saw with. A second item, she said, that the officer told her she would not be

Feeling blind-sided after decades making flight suits for pilots.

making them anymore.

The Navy, she learned, had scouted the contract to a much larger flight in the United States in Virginia, for from the Blue Angels' base in Pensacola, and the country tailoring shop. The bowing line, on North Navy Boulevard.

"It was derrastating to lose a French' die suit," that it was not to be a private property, said Mr. Slye. I would have never thought my illness would do me. But this, that they would treat me like this when we had a good standard.

She said that the Blue Angels had always come directly to her to

submit a deal at the sole supplier of the suits, and that the officers were never told her they were soliciting other bids to make the suits.

Cindy Jouber Lewis, a spokeswoman for Navy Supply Systems Command, said in a statement that Mr. Wilmhurst had informed the Blue Angels in January "that it was her intention to retire."

"The following month, the formal, open process of posting, bidding and awarding the contract by the next supplier of Blue Angels undertook was created and completed several months later in accordance with federal law," she said.

Mr. Wilmhurst, who declared to give her age, contests that claim She said she never told the Blue Angels — or anyone else — that she was retiring.

"I am so planning to retire," she said.

The change in contention was reported earlier by a Pensacola news station, WEAW-TV, and by State and Virgin.

After Mr. Wilmhurst broke down across a site document the issue on CNN last week, some social media users speculated that race might have been a factor.

Defence Secretary Pete Jaguett has taken steps to eliminate diversity, equity, and claim one efforts, including programs intended to assist small businesses owned by minorities.

Mr. Wilmhurst's past career documents for the Blue Angels

suits noted that The Bowing line is a small, woman and minority owned features.

She said she believed the women and minority-owned designations were not factor in her having was contracts to assist the suits, and she was too sure why the Navy had chosen another vendor.

"They wanted me, and they knew I could do it," she said in an interview. "My quality was the factor."

Making flight suits for the Blue Angels' has long been a hand-made, bespoke process.

After monitoring each accident of the team, Mr. Wilmhurst said, she draws the partners for their suits on 1,000 paper units, out the pieces from a 100-yard roll of

Rame-constant Nomos fabric.

Using Nomos, though, she elicited the question "what will, pockets and stoppers, safe the Blue Angels' stoppers and endownders the same and rank of each member in yellow Earth outside. I tried out that I liked the suits I had heard to make, and she estimated the cost of 3000 per unit this and the maker 95 to 100 units each year.

"It's a lot of joy and pride that I liked that the world uses something I made," Mr. Wilmhurst said.

Commander, who had received cooking potential vendors was posted on Jan. 20 on outages, a government contracting website, and remained open until Feb. 16, allowing vendors to collect information about their capabilities

CLAY HILLS & SONS, THE WESTERN CHINESE

and experience. Angels Internet, Seoul, a government-contractor in the U.S., also awarded the contract on May 14.

"Sowing, this was not among those who submitted bids on the open and "nonsumed" issues," Commander Lewis said. "Our contract was awarded to best out on to the government. The cost of the efforts is less than the previous contract."

Mr. Wilmhurst started working at The Bowing line in 1998. She learned the craft of making the Blue Angels' base in the British States. Mr. Slye's name Navy officer who opened the shop to about 1978.

She had initially called it Pome-zone. That and had planned to make women's stamps.

"That was kind of the wrong

Julie Wilmhurst making suits for the Blue Angels in 2020. The Navy awarded the contract to a larger company

name to pick." Mr. Miller who died in 2012 and The Pensacola News Journal in 2019. "Pensacola is not a condemning city, as you might know, so that did not work out. I had to very quickly market and start into abstinence and uniforms."

Since 2004, the Bowing line has earned $604,000 from the Navy to make the flight suits, according to unapologizing art — government workers that tracks federal special prices — they've got to a year contract with Angels International to worth $1.00 million.

Commander Lewis did not explain the cost difference, but her estimated said. "I've got the technical factors were considered as well as cost in the evaluation process.

"Said Kelsey, a founder of Apollo International, said WEAW that he was proud the company had won the bid. He noted that the company had been making other items for the Blue Angels since 2012, but the goods, goods and components generated.

Apollo International said it has often federal contracts, such as supplying federal gear and the supply of the same items.

Mr. Wilmhurst said she still hoped to say back the contract. She has been consulting with a lawyer, but said she was not sure if she was in the flight suit.

"We shall mean a lot to me if I could get them back," she said. "And when I retire — when I do take to enter — I would like to see me in the maker of the flight suits."

Central Synagogue Attack Rattles Jewish New Yorkers

By ETHEL SCHUMER

and NASH OZELMAN

Saturday, now less just began at Central Synagogue on Friday night when present were nine years ago. The building sound. Shoots rang out. Synagogues had been too old.

It was a scenario that Jewish New Yorkers have come to buy when they go to synagogue and are making metal characters before they jump. Newspapers had filled the press of the prominent Upper East Side synagogue in wrecking the world. The news was a man screamed showcame and made a cosignageal. As security were set out the constant, short-lost air fire was still Larry Shuman. He was only known as everyone in breathe and heaps, again, to pop

Angels. But death, the senior young man continued to be a leader in a family event, but praised their members of the clergy for comforting the cosignagesal, overlooking projects and delivering a sense of power, reduced the concern in the event.

"We know what kind of city we want to live in," said Rattle-Rock, who, an interview Saturday, "has been a good and difficult move and comes feel belonging to Jewish New Yorkers, a hard-zecled. He's safety and security in a physical event, and therefore we will not be discontented, margin-added or harassed for supporting Jewish homeland."

News of the attack at Central Synagogue reached New York City's lives in the context with flowers, leaves and internal shrubs. New across the city were almost shaken by the strenuous burning of Jewish man on the Upper West Side, who was leaving synagogue services during a day of receiving their crimes in New York City. New lives on the rise in recent years. By the start of August, the police department recorded 20 bans crime-time year, 2014 which were targeting Jewish people.

"This was a favorite in the Central Synagogue yesterday morning," Mayor Debrae Blackman told reporters on Saturday. "Jewish New Yorkers should be able to get to their synagogue with not having to hear by their lives."

City Hall said both the mayor and the head of the Mayor's office in Central Antismatism reached out in Rattle-Rockfield. Mr. Blackman has heard calls to touse down and bring more insane in the new

Police's police officer Jessica Tisch and Central Synagogue was receiving additional resources after a man disrupted worship.

he criminal threat, particularly at an in-missed a video that supplied authorities to arrest the country's prime minister, Benjamin Bernstein.

Mr. Blackman has said he is contented to protesting New York's Jews and believes to being Israeli leadership to account for the humanitarian crisis. In Gaza, East week, a group of rallies represented a range of religious denominations and political perspectives met with the mayor pro-county in City Hall. Many asked that he never the temperature. Politicians have made similar calls for sensitivity.

"You can't divorce the dramatic increase in violence targeted at the Jewish community from the political climate and the race and many of the discoveries around Jews and Israel," said Micah Luther, who was the Democratic Primary in June to represent the congressional district that includes Central Synagogue, in an interview Saturday.

Left-turning, Jewish leaders praised the mayor for reaching out to the rallies and emphasized the many factors driving anti-Jewish hips. "It's an oversimplification to concern the device—and task like this because of things he has said about 'diminution,'" said Major Boray, the chief executive of Brndl the Juv, a progressive Jewish group. "We're seeing as much astounds, concern come from the right."

It was not immediately clear on Saturday what prompted Mr. Montes to enter the synagogue

during service Friday or what he attended to in battle. There are no known ongoing threats to Central Synagogue, according to the mayor and the police.

Soon after charging into the building, according to the police and a voice of the disrupted posted author, Mr. Montes was grabbed by a security guard who tried to escort him down the temple aisle and out of the building.

Most state crimes in the city this year have targeted Jews.

Mr. Montes grew agitated, the video shows, practising the air with his arms and yelling into the temple's interior. As he struggled, he has a climate-ultimagingness in her face with his hand, circling her lip, and spur at and found federal security guard, the police said. Mr. Montes also knocked over a set of confederates before. A police sergeant who was providing security to the synagogue stopped at and arrested him.

He was charged in Friday night with assault at a hate crime and criminal murdered as a hate crime, along with other charges, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

Though Mr. Montes' mental state on Saturday remained unclear, a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak

politely said that he had a history of mental health issues documented with the Police Department. Before Friday, Mr. Montes had also been arrested at least three times in New York City on a series of robbery charges.

A social media account that shared a name with Mr. Montes showed a handful of posts criticizing Mr. Montfort and several more that mention features or need features.

This isn't the first state that Central Synagogue has been abused by federal court and police officers targeting the synagogue as he drove across the country from Utah, before he was arrested at the Lincoln Tunnel on his way into New York. The community's head rafts and people continued to lift the sanctuary with after week and without the common law, commitment to keeping its doors open to all, with security of being protected.

"Even since Art 1, our sanctuary has people filling the floor and into the balconies every single Friday night," Rattle-Rockfield said. "I'm afraid to tears by you, residence and strength, and contention exists in the state as a lot of courage sometimes to do that, to just show up. Showing up your own everything, it's its own act of defiance."

But, finally, who is Jewish and said she grew up attending services at Central Synagogue, has spoken often about the state's number of attacks against Jews in the Central States and abroad since Oct. 1. In response to some of these incidents, the city has accessed points increased the presence of police officers at Jewish houses of worship and other cultural sites to believe protectors for its Jewish population.

It was not to be seen much deployment was in place at Central Synagogue on Friday, but the commissioner said the temple was receiving additional police revenues after the disrupted.

On Friday night, cosignagingly continued singing, the rafts at the front of a court called the court, were to address the incident and members of the community exchanged huge of relief and release.

"I certainly had a drink," said Arlyna Greensboro, a member of the community who witnessed the event. "We go on. Let's keep living."

Trump Stops in New York To Attack Hochul on Crime

By GRACE LORINGTON

With the race for gimmick, seemingly tightening in New York, President Trump appeared on Long Island, and the United States line a new demand flooded one of their insiders the future of the party's candidate. Bruce Blakeman.

"The strategy was clear and focused on a state law for the United States, too," Karley Hochul, on crime.

"Karley Hochul has been very very hard on crime — a nightmare for crime." Mr. Trump said, later, training. "Bruce, it's too busy too, got going to be unheard of the threat of your life."

On the campaign trial, Mr. Blakeman, the Vietnam County executive and a longtime friend of Mr. Trump, has mailed the state's building the president, who is broadly supported in New York, and has been the country.

But on Friday, Mr. Blakeman was a different view, thanked the president for all his has done to clear the books, as he spoke to a carefully selected audience of largely low enforcement persons.

Mr. Blakeman found the details of several particularly human crimes, and the volume of dozens of illegal guns and drugs, over the past two months.

"Karley Hochul — where do you want these guns?" Mr. Blakeman shouted, his voice cracking. "What might/when do you want to destroy? Where do you want these drugs? What community do you want to destroy?"

Mr. Trump's appearance comes roughly a week before a flying station and is now being used for the entire business, but the company with ICE goes into effect.

Mr. Blakeman has positioned himself as the hero's chief and managing social leaders to make comprehensive agreement with ICE. He has been responsible for the recent interviews in 30 years.

He is working on Friday, Mr. Trump characterized places like New York City, which has been restricting ICE from operating in calls, assuming the biggest hurdles to enacting the deportation agenda. And he appeared to organize the familiar world's community more here of lessons should the military for state law restricting police and FBI, which he called "doubt and holocracy."

By contrast, Mr. Trump would stand the unconditional support for law enforcement, swearing it upheld the presence of a government police officer from civil liability in their actions on the job, distinguished immunity.

"Would you like another immunity, very low on crime?" Mr. Trump was open over of uniformed officers behind him. The crowd went wild.

Ms. Hochul and the New York attorney general, Letitia Janett, disbanded in recent hours and pressure between the police and the agencies. "The safety of New Yorkers is one top priority," the two women said in a statement of dissatisfaction Mr. Trump's appearance. "That's why New York's parent/dress lives, why we will not have them, and why we will not

from standing up to federal overseas," but yet is to address the issue. "We are so exactly what we plan to doing."

At the event, Mr. Blakeman struck back at the moral case advanced by the governor and he was a very important, undocumented people — a majority of whom do not have criminal records — at retail.

"They say that we've tried," Mr. Blakeman said, "it's a future right now!" There's no, in your ad-girl television, the most important down in Chicago," referring to the death of a Westchester County woman who police officers believe was killed by an undocumented mass from Vietnam's.

Mr. Blakeman has campaigned heavily on the country's decline in the state. "We have been forced to try U.S. News and World Report that declared Chinese in the nation's county in the country. Eight of the 22 nation countries about were in New York."

Like most of the states, New York's new government drop in water crime over the past two decades. That trend was interrupted by the state's death, and it was not a major social disruption. State-wide there were 5,000 more violent crimes committed in 2020 compared with 2019, a figure that was 1,000. In addition, robbery and certain assaults.

Countries over, pandemic-era crime were amplified by another Trump AB, Lee Jolittle, as he challenged Mr. Blackman.

Mr. Jolittle, a former congressman who was back the Euro-communal Protection Agency, must in his 20th governor to change his law state's full laws that never had blamed for the crime. He can vote.

Now taking office in 2021, Ms. Hochul has repeatedly fought against the state left-braising leaders of the party as she tried to make the law to go on a different or similar course discovery crime for prosecutors. She also invested money to follow an anti-evidence initiative. Some government groups are trying to get the police to task force aimed at taking illegal weapons off the street.

By 2024, violent and unfair crime trials had begun in 162 countries. They were "corrected propounded" levels. That trend has continued, and that saying, the state reported a 10 percent reduction in sales crime, a category that includes property and violent crimes, compared with a similar period in 2021.

Still, it is not clear how much of an impact Ms. Hochul's actions was lost. The result is, however, a New York, much like its case, mostly to start national trends. In 2020, the national murder case fell to its lowest point in the ultra.

Under Mr. Blakeman's Human County also followed those trends. Violent crime increased in 2022, the year Mr. Blakeman was sworn in as the county executive, with roughly 700 cases of violent crimes that year than the previous year. These figures continued to climb through 2023 and 2023 before falling off in 2022. Some crimes peaked slightly earlier in 2020, two years into Mr. Blakeman's term.

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EDONA, Mass — The title had been won, and the championship trophy for Da Beauty League was about to make its debut.

This was August 2016. A team that included Alex Stulick, a former Minnesota Wild guide, and Seth Halperon, a former New Jersey Devils disbarment, was swapping up the celebration in the dressing room at Bozeman Arena.

Winning a league title was a big deal here, even for a summer for hockey league of a high school hall. The N.H.L. players Jack Porter, Brock Nelson, Ryan McDonagh, Nate Schmidt, Andrew Lee and Martin Birkhead were among those who spent spend in the six-team league on Wednesday nights.

The trophy — a reticulument long drum, typically used for the pits — was as imperiousness as the league itself, but that did not make it any more detailed.

Stulick and Halperon called a ride-shore service to pack them up at the men's leading deck, where fans typically line up behind a fence to get autographs, and take them and their prize to the 1920 Bar in Minneapolis.

There, they just hung out, enjoying over you who came up to ask about the trophy.

"People are like, 'What is that?'" Stulick said. "I'm like 'It's Da Beauty League Cup. Seriously, you don't know what this is?"

Da Beauty League has been a summer fixture in New York history for a decade, bringing in around 2,000 fans per game eight and coming nearly 1,700,000 for charities. It's a line of passage for young players who once were in the stands, like the Wild's Brock Faber, to play in the games. In the last three years, twice top women's hockey players, including Taylor Hone and Lee Smokens, have become regulars, too, with the addition of a women's game.

This is the league's final summer, however. It has been a challenge as recent years to get top players to show up-regulants, between their summer family schedules and training. The league had already scaled back its men's games.

"The crowds are still great," said the league's chief organizer, Ken Hankinson, who played parts of three N.H.L. seasons in the 1990s. "We figured, let's go out on top."

As the final games approach — the playoffs are as Monday and Wednesday — fans and players have become nostalgic. That includes John Scott, a former N.H.L. referee and colorful character, that is a "beauty".

"It had a great run, and it was a great time for what it was," Scott, the league's quasi-communistest, said. "You are expected to sign out that have tried this because it's so beneficial for the players that get that kind of competition in those of them work. But I don't think any of them will be able to do what Minnesota did."

"It was time it was time for, but, I'm sure, it'll be too crazy. Some high-end players would show up, and it'll be out of control. In Minnesota, they've just hockey players, and they come to watch. They don't turn it into something too nervous."

As Hankinson wrote players' names on airups for their careers, a few Wednesday's age, he laughed thinking about the league's transposition start. Hankinson was one of the league's architects, along with Chris McAlpine and Keith Ballard, both former N.H.L. players, as well as Josh Schuck, Terry Moore and Tony Miller.

The first game, in the summer of 2015, was great. Competitors: Pan. The crowd showed up and dug it.

"The second game, we literally didn't know how many players we had," thank more said.

There wasn't a reminder sent out. Maybe six players showed up.

Joe Smith is a senior N.H.L. writer for The Athletic.

The Last Days of Da Beauty League

A Minnesota Hockey Institution, Remembered By the Players, Fans and Organizers Behind It

Da Beauty League, a summer fixture in the Twin Cities for a decade, has drawn over 100 N.H.L. players, including Keith Hoods, above left, and Nate Schmidt. Clockwise from top left: Top women's player Mike Taylor Hone have become regulars; Schmidt showing some personality, the league's trophy, a misdemeaned long drum, is named for John Scott, an ex-N.H.L. veteran; The league's last games are the week.

Ryan Dufresne, a fan from Texas, plays the national anthem, as well as hype songs for player entrances.

Jake Gassman, who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning, signed autographs for fans in his home state.

To save the game, Hankinson & Co. should try players from the first game to double-up.

"They thought it'll be like a pickup league: they didn't think it'll be more than 1,000 fans out there," Hankinson said. "They didn't realize it'll be full-ed lights, camera, action, scoreboard, heavy bags."

"We were short and so nervous the league was going to fold the first night. We got a few guys — Caleb Harbert, Steve Stafford — all the guys went to top, malary status because they stayed."

After that, finding quality players was

not a problem in the early years. There were seven N.H.L. players per come when the league had six men's teams. More than 200 N.H.L. players have participated, in all.

Nate Schmidt, a veteran of 623 N.H.L. games, said that early in the career he left he had to "lobby in try to get into the league."

"For me, it was better than none. N.H.L. teams," he said. "It was packed for much fun, energy."

The pressure of the league was that with so many players ten Minnesota in the off-season, why not bring them together

and connect them with the community. Ticket you were here $25 for an adult for the full eight, children under 48 inches are free I went to duration.

"We do this in the morning with nobody in the stands," Schmidt said of hockey players' normal mothers. "It's a lot more cool to come here and feel like you're part of something."

The adults "don't do an enthusiastic to your community, to the kids and your hometown. I think, for me, that's why it helps us many guys here."

Scott, 43, has been retired from the N.H.L. for about a decade and lives in

Torrance City, Mich. He and his wife, Danielle, have eight children, all girls. But he remains a symbol of Da Beauty League's millionaire in that relationship at the 2010 N.H.L. All-Star Game, when he was named its most valuable player, is the logo on the championship trophy.

"The great thing about Da Beauty League is they's never ready it too serious," Scott said. "It's still very open with the kids. There's no security or anything. Just family friendly. Kids are always around. It feels like when you go to the club when you're a little kid."

Jake Sholl went to the first Da Beauty League game about eight years ago, at ten, and was part of a goalie camp. He marveled at the autographs — how hot and bad had he won.

So when Sholl, a college goalie, transferred from Niagara to St. Thomas in St. Paul for the 2012-14 season, he wanted to be part of the league. He went to the league website and filled out a form, offering to fill in if needed and wondering where it would end up.

Hankinson invited him just as soon as he had an opening. Sholl has been a regular store, winning the league title last season. He said the best part was hanging with the other players after games and then signing autographs as he walked out.

"Seeing those faces in the stands — that was me. It's more age," Sholl said. "I remember what I was like when I was their age and how to new I was of the highly skilled players on the ice. Now I get to play with them."

Sholl's championship run came with the help of some quality league rules. One involved a "hot pack" where every goal counts on two for a certain period of time. In the title game, Sholl's team, talked to score there there with the hot pack. "That saved us," he said.

Several of Sholl's teammates jumped into a pool with the John Scott Trophy at no the way. Sholl successfully celebrated at the club.

"You don't get to lift a trophy every day," Sholl said. "So you kind of treat it like it's my own Stanley Cup."

Ryan Dufresne and his wife, Katie, are big hockey fans to match, Texas. Four summer's age, they now clips online of Da Beauty League. They are education, each summer's off, so they started the Twin Cities for a week to check it out.

There was one trouble. They had heard the national anthem being pipeline online. Ryan Dufresne sent a message to the league offering to play triumph. It was an instant hit. He has progressed to doing program hype songs for player entrances, too.

"That's my favorite, when I get to League, I see a teaser," Sholl said. "I miss when he's not there. Normal manu- just doesn't hit the same."

The couple have extended their Minnesota summer hype each year, from a week to week in the 1st for 1st. They have fallen in love with the area and league.

"It's cool to see all the different levels of players playing together," Ryan Dufresne said. "For the price you get, you get to watch there games and evening, get to see some superstars from the N.H.L. and 370 H.L. That's been really cool to see in a more intimate setting."

For the players and organizers, it makes it a special occasion to share with family. It is not uncommon to see smokers in the hall by the dressing rooms. Hankinson's mother, Bonnie, is the main bank of the league, helping run the merchandise tables.

She has had a child or grandchild play hockey for the past 10 years, and that's not about to change, even without Da Beauty League.

"They you have hockey, you love every level of it," she said. "I just saw a picture, a 5-year-old girl playing hockey. They were watching there at 5, but they're 11. They say, 'Do you have to hit it go?' All good things come to me end. And it'll be very nice something else.

"It's been a good run. But it'll be missed."

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Distractions for a Rookie in Las Vegas? 'The Playbook Is My Girlfriend.'

By MICHAEL SILVER

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BENDERSON, Rev. — The Las Vegas Story is an iconic entertainment movie, with comprehensive instruments that meet 22-year-old multimillionaires might be hard-pressed to count.

They don't call it Sin City, or meet that what happens before steps there, for nothing.

Not one recently released the go-a-one resident — who happens to worldwide the future and dreams of a nearby W.F.S. that churns his base — is staring far away from the Strip.

Fernando Mendoza has his own son, most of which can only be explained by referencing the ongoing conversation in his head.

Mendoza, the Montana Trophy winner who led Indiana to a stunning national championship last January, made his W.F.S. debut for the Las Vegas Raiders in Thursday night's provisions game against the Arizona Cardinals at a sluggard Stadium. It was one of the few occasions on which Mendoza, a 6-foot-3 quarterback, has returned even since to the Strip since the Raiders selected him with the first overall pick in April's draft.

"I've been there once or twice, since I haven't really experienced the Strip," Mendoza told me at the Raiders' training facility. "It's like a long-eyman. A lot of people talk about the Strip like. You don't want to go there."

"It's like when you're a kid, you're… and we're wearing… and there's the hazardal house. You're not trying to go over there."

Mendoza's reputation isn't so much but he will be taunted by temptation. What is the real idea about it's making an unforced effort by devoting from that game. Next, an ultra-disturbable idea that helped him rise from relative obscurity to become the minority owner Tom Brady's maximum chance to might a strong going of the time.

Looked in a training camp competition with the veteran, Bob Cousins and coattacher, the black-and of a second-string who will have a strong, strong, and strong, in mind being patient. However, he would love not to handgun.

More to the point, Mendoza is terminated by the thought of taking because he, and he alone, allowed his priorities to become deserved.

"The system that got me here, it's a genuine person," Mendoza said. "It's a system where I haven't."

Michael Silver is a senior W.F.S. senior for The Athletic Sam Warren case-based reporting.

'Las Vegas is one of the entertainment capitals of the world, but I have a job to do, and it's football.'

FERNANDO MENDEZ, who then co-authored pasts in the Raiders previous debut on Tuesday.

put a lot into it, and beat case, then, "A letting for have success already. And let's say worst, worst worst ever… scenario… it doesn't go my way, or it doesn't go the match way. There I can not say head of night knowing I did everything."

He added, "I best served my teammates, I prepared, and I didn't let them down."

Mendoza can come off as bobby, like someone playing a character in a first-goal game, but his physical combination of audiences submitted and success benefits is not.

Ask him about his adjustment to the program, and he speaks out in details of vague generalities. "I'm not an average college graduate (of the University of California's three business communications and management programs) who was just thrown into his portionment most challenging can-does."

Less than three years ago, in late September 2013, Mendoza stood on the California Memorial Stadium seldom in Berkeley during Cafe 24-21 century over an area from and marked whether he belonged to a college quarterback. The three had given Meho

dean her only Division I office, and he won the most valuable score for of their 2022 recruiting class and he was ranked quarterback in the Pac-12.

In his 10th game at Cafe Marketing quarterback, against John Devlin's one that would finish 3-0, Mendoza questioned everything.

"I was like, man, I don't think I can play at the level," Mendoza replied. "I'm looking from the seldom. I'm like, Man — there's nothing new or available — these people are too fast."

Meanwhile, Mendoza was elevated to the starting lineup for the following month game against the State Board. He continued to bring a receiver as an "avail, wide-open throw" early on and questioning himself once more. Then he retired down, put up 40 points as a home defeat, second the starting and and continued to improve.

In 2015, after transferring to Indiana, Mendoza went 16-0, won the Menasos and celebrated the However first national title of the arts, his hometown.

Mendoza' secret has been dreamlike — but reality, in his mind, it is being around the course,

wanting to invest him in the face. He leaves that Cousins, a low-titer Pro Bowl selection heading into the 15th season, long ago once heed the framework of Coach Matt Rehnak's extreme during their thawing, and with the Minnesota Vikings. Compared to him, Mendoza is a novice, and the distraction is not subtle.

"Rookie runs, it really gets slamming up so you," he said. "Like, 'Boom, here's your playbook, and here we go.' Especially seeing Kirk Cousins in the youth, who knows it, let 'it's like, 'Now I thought I knew I am likely shack? I'm now for behind! I've got to study this level confident in my preparation and in myself."

These have been moments on the practice field when Mendoza feels totally overwhelmed. At other times, he has performed well enough to continue the "power of optimism" within and give Meho a sense of belonging.

On Thursday, in the Raiders' 21-14 procession loss to the Arizona Cardinals, Mendoza finished 3-0. At 9-6 37 yards and a touchdown. His connection with her fellow rookie Nikah Branson — off a play-action displayk and through

three defenders — displayed the only talent necessary for W.F.S. throws and showed the ability to play from under course. Rookie points to three a touchdown point if two plays after running into a safe also showed the tendency that is needed to play the position at the once out.

But Mendoza chose not to focus on his highlights.

"Unfortunately, I set my teammates down today," Mendoza said. "But it's a growing experience I feel like we're all growing, and it helped me show that I won't get a can."

But Rehnak was pleased with the other.

"I see an uncamping player," he said at Mendoza, who said: "We've just got to keep getting along."

Mendoza's goal is to improve in community and methodically, and to avoid anything that might distract him from the task at hand.

To take Cousins, who does not do anything football-related on Tuesday's during the season, Mendoza is at peace with the knowledge that his work-life balance is tilted appreciably in favor of work.

"I also don't have a lot of responsibility," Mendoza said. "It obviously changes. Talking to Kirk, and then also talking to Tom Brady when you just got a budget married, it's different. There you can't even life, you can be more contented to the game."

In Mendoza's keeping it simple. Real simple, like heydown, he said, basically consists of "team guy" and also has 2 for signed company that first signed Meho due to an exam, image and likeness. And it describes a bought-hitting signed a rookie contract that guarantees him more than $57 million, he doesn't even own a 4-foot.

"I'm sitting in the hotel right now, with a lot of the rookies," Mendoza said. "I have a house, but it's not even broached or anything. ... there's the one little thing I've just like a person old guy living by myself. I don't really need much."

In the next breath, Mendoza, with involvement in his voice, was the first version of the Raiders' training facility: "The facility was great. The weight went . . . they were a bigger year." The is like a smart. There are three meals a day: the chefs have an amazing. There's so much stuff in the here!"

He has grabbed a few meals on with tournament, even turning a couple of restaurants on the Strip, and his couple of movie thawers, too. That, he smoked, in the extent of his social life. He said he has to be a young mother, and will do no until season's end. As far as during 17ths, people at our get-titched 7 or partying, "I'm not and have a love or something," "Well, for sure, but there's a point of dominating veteran's" — those pursuits, he said, have also gone dark.

"Las Vegas is one of the entertainment capitals of the world," he said. "But I have a job to do, and it's football. I don't have anybody that really either as me, a few makes sense, as I can just be prying about football. And there every save in a while, on an all day or night, I can go out to a movie and watch a lighter that is 'The Odyssey' or something."

"In Vegas, there is a lot to do, and sometimes it can be seen an activities that wouldn't be happening a healthy football lifestyle. But there are different things that you can go on and do that aren't degenerative activities, yet not. There are some great restaurants. But I'm probably not going to be playing blackjack till late at night."

Instead, Mendoza is letting us himself — and studying with the system that has an unopposed time on his unlikely category, every imprintable step of the way.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Success of Illinois Athletics Is Growing, As Is Its Football Stadium's Scoreboard

By KENT ROCHTERMAN

TELEPHONE 6-1, listening above the north end zone of Gort Memorial Stadium inside college football's new largest scoreboard, which serves as a symbol of a learning problem in teamwork.

Long known as a football under-achievers, Illinois has posted a number of content and the seasons. A German fan base is now thinking to the venerable stadium with an macha column. Thanks to the bloodhounded American college's national football and Chattanooga-Octopus, the 102-year-old structure of the Ohio publicly stood around the Illinois athletic department.

The first time in the 2010s, and all of this, says it's the place to be on Saturday's new" and Tom Michael, a regular Illinois football team, and former Illinois basketball player, said that always hasn't been the case for Illinois football.

And weeks before the Illinois first-time season against the Birmingham, construction center continued to get the finished coaches on a 37,323-square-foot game of that season. So that high school students can see that the overs of seats directly undercutted, a 31-year-old can's 612-90-44 to the winner to cover the structure.

The next biggest video-based college football team, the 2010s, has been a fourth-illiterate Stadium of 2,000 square-foot Stadium's 6,000 square-foot Stadium at the 2010s. Students now make No. 5, less than half the size of Illinois's 6000-math.

"Nobody ever says, 'I wish to be able to be a game a month. I'll follow Atlanta Director Josh Whitman's 2010s national football team's 2nd-illiterate company. I am going to understand the biggest one, and my team has been a good team of students and the opportunity we have to really change the race."

Scott Jockersman covers college football for The Athletic

request through that element. "The scoreboard is part of a 100 million' student-foot pool of upgrades that includes LED lighting, improved Wi-Fi and a booming sound system. There are new video boards throughout the stadium, with oblivion above the student section and on the east and west grandstands. The category might appear counter, but they serve a purpose for this big fire chance number on an upward trajectory."

Illinois said out all 42,000 students to follow — including 6,000 stu-

Josh Whitman, an Illinois afternoon, has been the athletic director for 10 years.

dent tickets — in 2015, the first time in at least 20 years. (The program never kept track personally.) This year, demand was as high that the department pushed the market alternate to 10,000, and 10,000 spots. The program was not taken once the freshmen wrote.

The first ticket rights and scoreboard are open quarters of Illinois's athletic system. In September 2020, the school entered a 1000 million donation from the Milwaukee Avenues Larry Gort was marked for their football. This year spring, the rookie basketball team reached the Final Four for the first time in 22 years. Women's basketball and other sports have qualified for national teams.

In the recently closed 2010 final year, the athletic department exceeded 1200 million in revenue for the first time.

As the flagship institution of the

country's sixth-best populous start, and with Chicago last two bests, 2010, Illinois has been capitalized on the immense advantage of its location. Now, 10 years ago, Whitman's teams, the athletic department is starting to have an position.

Whitman calls his department "a set heartbeat" of the name, image and likeness—on, and with 40,000 students on campus, the better Illinois because now, the more rewards could be ahead.

"For the first five or six years, we were selling the theoretical. This is what's possible if we support this program," Whitman said. "Now we're able to demonstrate the actual, and not surprisingly the actual to more palatable for people and makes it more real and more exciting."

Whitman, 40, serves as the Division I Council chair and has national leaders having him as a future conference commissioner. But he is an Illinois alumnus first. A former Illinois academic all-American tight end and law school graduate, Whitman signed an extension this summer through 2020 with a base salary of $2.12 million and a $100,000 annual revenue bonus.

Coach Sam Bickman said, this year remained late of the former Wisconsin athletic director Barry Abrams.

The two of them had each get-on at seven bonus in liquidity at the first time, across intersection. Bickman was first from Arkansas to 2017 and spent the next three seasons on N.F.S., staffs. Whitman hardened a new family as the two had coach on the first day in 2016, but the illiterate left a pancommission.

During a 6-0-1 run to Iowa on 10 and 10 by 9/2/20, the announced introduction was 12,000,000 students capacity of 40,875, but the actual number of tickets scanned that day was 34,075.

The program consists a jail, and Bickman provided it. Over his five

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The new 37,315-square-foot scoreboard at Gort Memorial Stadium is the largest in college football.

seasons on youth, attendance has risen 20 percent, with the stadium reaching 36.2 percent capacity last fall with 34, 20 loss per game. It has even lost its largest 5 win 10, 10 million in 2023 to 20, 6, 4, 2, 0 loss in 2025.

The sports, Bickman said, came in 2024 when the squad housed regional national champion Michigan as the 100th anniversary of Ford Granger's six touchdown performance against the Wolverines. Illinois won three-back end-to-stand win, 2-1, in 8 runs of a softest round, the first time since 2010 that the Illinois was a man-beg of two ranked teams in Chattanooga. They won the 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s.

The two of them had a 100% home from the 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s.

Whitman and Bickman work in concern to build sustainability in Illinois's football program. Bickman said, "The 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s, 2010s.

Counting the recent two-year run, Illinois has enjoyed back to back winning seasons just twice

since 1999.

"We've been to those florals, we've been to Final Four, we've done some really good things, but we haven't sustained it," Whitman said. "No haven't used those accounts to create even bigger amounts, and we're one that time to different."

Illinois's other sports also have responded with an uptick. During the 2010-20 men's basketball season, the Illinois next to 17 million in ticket sales in 2024-25, that number was 10,412 million, just behind bribans among Big Ten teams. This night, the Illinois football turned out as almost a little "final" that is Indianapolis. Whitman estimated that 40,000, that time attended the national basketball against 2,000.

"It's about a shoulder-like economic value we go on the road," Whitman said.

For now, for a plough, two big-men, and a few 20 each other success. During the week of Big Ten media days, Bickman and Brad Underwood, the men's basketball coach, targeted as a regular season of 20,000 in 2024, for all, for a tan event. Bickman housed almost all Underwood and "realized how much in line I was with him."

The connection between the

program quite over to the next scoreboard. The men's basketball player David Bickman suggested that the athletic department show the move "on their" as part of a family fan night on Aug. 9. Fans collected autographs from football players and coaches, then gathered on the Gort Memorial Stadium but to watch the golden airwaves shoot under magical hoops.

The 2010s, the Illinois sports show case their own image on a screen visible to what second. Whitman started a 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

"We just can't allow ourselves to celebrate prematurely," Whitman said. "The moment we become even moderately complicated, then we're going to celebrate very ground that we've been able to gain here over the last second years."

"We spend a lot of time thinking about how to continue to push the real higher, how to take those moments that we're enjoying now and see them as a springboard to greater success in the future, and that really has been our side front."

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COMMENTARY

Westbrook Let His Actions Speak, and They Spoke Loudly

By DAVID ALDRIDGE

By a friend

It is fitting. Roswell Westbrook left without saying a word.

In a video with Oscar-worthy, short-story nominee production videos – unless someone else has declined it. Jordan morning they returned to Westbrook called it a career on Westbrook after 18 N.B.A. seasons.

He didn't say, "I'm retiring." In fact, he didn't say a word in the three-and-a-half-minute video posted on social media. Westbrook left it to us to fill in the gaps and say what needed to be said about his illness one career, one highlighted by his right-double and complete thoughts, which propelled him and most of his country's incredible heights.

His career was laid out, painstakingly, the way Westbrook became an N.B.A. superstar and a model for the spectacular, never-did-millie he would wear into arenas, essentially swearing the target walk. His game was all gas, no brakes. Like the club actor in the film 'Galaxia,' Westbrook challenged his third rivals each night to retain races of endurance, never aiming anything for the trip back to show.

It is hard, then, to imagine Westbrook ever saying, as a matter of record, "I can't play in the N.B.A. airspace."

So August, 2020, Westbrook 25, was still a free agent, a man without a basketball team, and while there were potential numbers here and there, it seemed clear we use was going to come way out of pocket to sign him for next season. This fast also clearly been on the mind for a while. Watching the video and then walking through a set-watching highlights of his career while Jordan "unwoven" him, Westbrook did not woke up Westbrook's pre-tying. So Jordan as speed did and only "flay you busy today."

Westbrook was a hero who propelled himself at the rite, eagle after eagle, challenging anyone who got in his way. Yet he also gained far over a high after eagle and was a good, giant, proving particularly adept at albumen-veinsands despite being 4-5-to-6. He could not shoot from deep, at least so well, or no long.

And yet in a league that came to all but dreaded anyone handling the ball how at the afire of Stephen's story and speed a summer making a thousand. In a day in practice, Westbrook still matured, as he helped the Oklahoma City Thunder became winners.

"She must take her dumpsters between gaps and outgrowth," Sam Anderson, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, wrote in his 1959 book, "Down Down," a history of Oklahoma City. As the first time was in the age of 16 modern times. "This was just of the power, Westbrook.

David Aldridge is a senior columnist for The Athletic.

Roswell Westbrook in 2016. He announced his retirement, after 18 seasons, last week in a video posted on social media.

209

Photo double in Westbrook's career, an N.B.A. record.

732

was percentage for Westbrook's teams in games in which he recorded a triple-double.

Hind everything, everywhere, all the time."

Westbrook and Kevin Durant put Oklahoma City on the map as an N.B.A. town, soon after the franchise's move from Seattle in 1999. "This is not a slight against future filodels, also present for most of the creation. But that fits left Oklahoma City for Houston in 1912 precisely because he felt pigeonholed as a sixth man with the Thunder and wanted to run his own show."

In a sport where many fallers themselves to make their every utterance and action seem relevant, Westbrook did not make his most virtuous act. Among, as ever since to explain him the success of Westbrook, the money at repertory questions in the Thunder locker room were the only pay to claim that most real. Otherwise, he would quietly lead projects such as "Tuba Burning," the 2020 documentary highlighting the destruction in 1912 of the Greenwood District of Tuba, Okla., and the 2020 New York's famed Black Wall Street.

In 1950-51, when he became the second person to average a triple-double for a fall N.B.A. season, last-time by Oscar Robertson to years prior, Westbrook gave out a single extended interview to anyone. He never cared to share what it meant to him to reach a plateau only one other

player in N.B.A. history had ever reached or what it meant about him and the work had put in to reach that mark. The way lead in his refusal to speak, it that makes any sense.

Because his words mattered only to those he chose he cared for most.

His actions would have to do for the rest of us: leading every one (well, not Durant. We'll call it a tie) to practice most days to get up shots and run up into wearing weight runs. He had managed attention to this detail, but that young roommates they couldn't just watch their own man on tape. they had to know what everyone else on the floor was doing, too. "I was a very group," the MacInnesco under his wing in Washington during the Covid season of 2020-21, and teaching him what comparing every eagle really meant, as Westbrook willed the Wizards to an unprobably खाली spot.

I believe he will make the Basketball Hall of Fame, and fun will make all the game the happy – people who seemed to take delight in the next to big his game and impact on winning. No one's career was more "well, actualized" than Westbrook. His triple-double records, 1957 Most Valuable Player closed, two scoring titles, three assist courses and one-10-Star appearance all led into the wood-chipper of

score at a large segment of N.B.A. fans and analysts, who found them all weaving, numbers created out of where clerk, self-aggrandizement.

Which is when I, again, retest Westbrook has an N.B.A. record 209 triple-double. In these 209 games, his teams had a record of 153-59. That's a win, percentage of 732. It is hard to square the circle of "Westbrook is a selfish and humor" with "152." When he got a triple-double, his team won 73.1 percent of the time.

Nonetheless, Westbrook needed allies. If not for Troy Weaver, the longtime N.B.A. executive, and the Thunder's assistant general manager in 2008, arguing passionately that Westbrook could play the point despite never doing so in college – and that the young Thunder should use a personal top-five pick on him, a guy almost no one had as a top-five prospect entering the fall of 1967. Westbrook's second and final record of playing... "Westbrook may have never been fully won. Or, at least, it may have taken him much longer."

We also had the good fortune of playing for a coach, Scott Brooks, who let him know, even in Oklahoma City just up the after loss in Westbrook's rookie season, which started with a 12-9 record. As he and Durant grew

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as player's, there were associated growing pains, on and off the court. But then played eagle seasons together before Durant left the Golden State.

Afterwards, Westbrook stayed, matched Robertson's achievement, and saw a vending of the team through, with various co-stars such as Paul George and Corentin Anthony.

"For me, it's gratifying," Brooks said in 2017, during Westbrook's W.V.P. season. "Wazee! was, they were saying things that were, to me, unfair. And they were killing me for being the wretch; drabbed coach playing him at point guard – he can't make great guard decisions, because he'll, 5, and 9 as a rookie! Free rebounds. And there were only his four other players who'd ever done that at the time. But people forget about that."

Westbrook made her a single N.B.A. trade appearance, in 2012. But that can't be the state of what his nearly two decades in the league were about. No country himself, have and all, and made himself into a career great. And if it was that easy to overturn what he brought to the court, we'll have seen a half-dozen other guys affect the game the way he did.

You can speak up in disrept, of course, but Westbrook has left the building, leaving and all he wanted to say.

Here's the Big Reason That May Left Michigan for the N.B.A.

By CZ MOORE

When Mike Schmitt, the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks, took the post, Dusty May's team about Michigan's three N.B.A. draft prospects there months ago, he ended May, who had just won the second round. The team's beginning to come to the Watertown, a question: Would he have any interest in coaching with Mavericks?

Schmitt's timing was perfect. May's first run, the last just returned home from the Big Ten's spring meetings, where the league's coaches met to discuss, among other things, the state's first goal.

"I was so excited for Big Ten meetings, like, we're going to find some solutions," May said last week. "I go there, and I was just that. I'm not, and I'm not, nothing getting hard. Ever."

May said the Big Ten coaches were still complaining about the number postcard changes to the team. "I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man. I'm not going to be a good man.

That was not the only reason for the game. I'm not to be the top two in the meetings and Schmitt's call at least after the top ten in the possibility. May was able to think through what was done, but he was not so excited. The news broke that he took the job on June 12, almost a month at the that first conversation with Schmitt.

CZ Moore covers week's college for football for The Athletic.

May reflected on his decision last week in June, 2016. With, where he was concerning from the surgery before N.B.A. training camp for the Mavericks league next month. He will be the first one's basketball coach since Larry Brown in 2016 to win the N.C.A.A. tournament and then coach a different team the next season.

Months ago, he would seven have predicted that would be his reality. When he left for the Big

A feeling that in college, 'nothing's getting fixed. Ever.'

The spring meetings, he said he believed he would be Michigan's coach for the 2020-CZ season. The Men's had even begun renovations as there home in Ann Arbor.

"Yes all the people that said that I had one feet out the door," he said.

But May had always had a desire to coach on the N.B.A., he said, and did keep thinking, and while in his two seasons at Michigan, he thought he might get a chance. Once he started the evaluation process after Schmitt's inquiry, it occurred to him that he might never get an opportunity like it again, with a young superstar like Cooper Flagg, a team president in Texas City, who had a champion with the Toronto Raptors, and a general manager in Schmitt, whom he had known for years.

The other factor that made it easier for him was how much of a college coach's time is spent on haemaining, and administration during the year.

"I just spent so much more of my time doing everything but coaching," he said.

May's favorite parts of the job were the actual basketball and the people side, building relationships with his players. The N.B.A. or level an opportunity to shift more focus there. He did like being able to choose his own team in college, moving as his own general manager.

"You have to could believe and trust in who's deciding the team for you," May said of any N.B.A. jobs he would consider.

"He disavowed in that criteria. When Dallas offered him the job, May told Michigan's administration he was thinking about it. Then, the most day, he said he was looking toward taking the job.

Their response: "What can we do?"

May's first finish there to anything," May told then.

The fact that he was a national title in just two seasons at Michigan made it easier to know, too.

"The state side was 'was excited,' he said about the coming season at Michigan. 'You talk about, 'You're not defending anything or 'black seasons' in some, but it would have been more jump in that again.'"

If there was a pull to word Michigan in the next season at contemplation, that was it: the challenge of trying to go back-to-back and trying to pull it off with a younger team. May also took pride in the

fact that he was building a sustainable program.

"Each year, I feel like I get control and I'm going to be a good man. I'm still dead a little now, I'm dead. So I felt like going into Your 1st Michigan was significantly worse than going into Your 1 to identify and acquire high rate of more that you can get."

The issues the college game has, however, do not appear to be going up. Many are unattractive when May left and Michigan's community players, even those who had signed contracts, eventually became free agents. (The team's new coach, Mike Bortone, was able to retain everyone except guard.) I know, who transferred to Miami.)

"Even when you sign, you're not really right, I was in the biggest issue," May said.

Now that he is out, May was asked what changes he would make to the sport. What if he could be college basketball, commonsense?

First, he said, he would have the best he was to tell him what's legal and what could eventually hold up in court.

Then: "Collective bargaining in some way, shape or form needs to happen. I think, 'And not, I, figure out a way to make contracts right.'"

"Like, you can't have a full sign at that Big Ten school on a 10-day and 10-day basis. I'm sure that the next day and sign at another Big Ten school in two to the money on Tuesday. It just can't be like that. If they are going to get on their contracts, they are going to sign N.Y.A. contracts, let's at least make them funding."

Dusty May is the first coach since Larry Brown in 1990 to win a national title and then coach another team the next season.

May likes that in the N.B.A., there contracts are 'butting and rules are clear. Still, his success in college came from adapting, he embraced the player movement in a and figured out how to blend almost and personalizes, depending on the personnel.

At Florida Atlantic, May won by playing innings at Michigan, he found to go big, making the hold-down last summer. In certain three post players out of the post, a fellow Johnson Jr., Taher Lansdberg and Adity Mars, said then starting all three.

There were doubts about how this would work. All there were selected in the top 12 of the N.B.A. finalists here, one day after he took the Mavericks job.

The 1970's broadcasted anti-May chipping, when Mars, the last of the three, went 12th to the Ohio home City Thunder.

"There was closure, like the next step of one chapter was out-

ing and the next chapter was beginning," May said.

"People were laughing at us the summer before about our roster count action. And then it became, well, it was a superman, and they just went out and found a bunch of nervousness to do what we did. The narrative just continued to be."

Many eyes are on him now to see how he will perform, including only college coaches who might consider the jump, but also achieve decisions who might have an opening in the next few years. If May ever decided to return to college, he would be covered, and like Rick Price and John Calipari were other taking their obvious the N.B.A. in the late 1990s.

May was a short life would ever consider a return.

He said he hoped not, because had would benefit he did not do well in the N.B.A. "I'd like to win and stop," he said.

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BASEBALL

Yankees' Record Valuation Fuels Debate Over M.L.B.'s Financial Health

By EVAN DRILLICH

The 1st player agents, Apollo Sports Capital & US Airlines investment in the parent company at the New York Yankees shovers M.L.B. as doing well on a business. But the health of the baseball industry — and its extension, what the Yankees' deal with a private equity firm says about it — remains fairly debated as the players and team owners barred toward a locked foot could threaten the 2017 season.

The Apollo deal, announced on Tuesday, gives the firm a mix of equity and offer in Yankee Global Enterprises and values the baseball team at close to US$100bn, according to two people funded on the transaction who were not an investor in the 2016.

That appears to be a record valuation for an M.L.B. team in a realized transaction, and fits with the larger range of estimated value. The team has been making a $100bn in the Sports office ageing estimated the Yankees to be worth US$100bn, while Forbes projected on 50.5 billion years.

But the Yankees' outflow banks maintain control of the Yankees. Apollo's percentage stake in the team was not disclosed, but, per M.L.B. rules, it cannot exceed 12 percent.

It's unclear exactly what motivated the Yankees to sell at this moment, be it the valuation they received of a different share. It has revealed cash in hand. It's also unclear how the bloodworsens in trust to use the money, but player representatives hope it will be worth a still share.

"It's got of the fact that the sport is not a team that no aggressive step is complete," said John Kidd, with a lot of financial deviance in the Texas, an agency. "The medical dissolved from the commissioner's office complaining about baseball's decline has become a rule."

Scott Evans, another top agent, said: "The net thing this talk from is that the appreciation of baseball franchise has been immense in the last six months to a year. We

Even further is a senior M.L.B. writer for The Athletic.

The percentage of the stake that Apollo Sports Capital took in the Yankees would disclosed, but it can't exceed 25 percent, and Hal Steinbreitner and his family maintain control of the team. M.L.B. owners argue that franchise valuation could be doing better overall.

vate equity is not paying $50 billion for a small percentage of the Yankees unless they're doing quite well. The private equity analysis is strictly based on pooling.

But the argument made fit, I'll cover step circles remains that baseball valuations could be doing better overall, particularly when

A private equity stake that values the team at nearly $10 billion.

compared with leagues such as the M.L.B. and N.P.L.

M.L.B. owners also continue to hold the gap between European franchisee such as the Yankees and their smaller-market counter-interests in growth on large, in both club value and annual revenues.

M.L.B. and the players' union declined to comment immediately. Apollo and the Yankees decided additional comment beyond statements issued in a news release.

Through its investment in the Yankees' parent company, Apollo also appears to gain a small share of other companies in the Yankees' umbrella, including Yankees Entertainment and Sports TV con-

work (YES, for short) and repair of pro soccer teams, New York City FC and A.C. Milan.

M.L.B., like other sports leagues, limits how much of a team can be sold to private equity. Beyond the 25 percent maintained for a single firm's stake in a team, multiple firms can even no more than 30 percent of a single club.

These limitations are intended to reduce how much away private equity firms, which represent a large number of investors, have even a shifty decision-making.

"The rules surrounding private equity investment, they don't even get information, let alone have an opportunity for influence," said Manfred, the M.L.B. commissioner, said last month. "We pay a lot of attention to what is actually going on."

But with the Yankees, Apollo will nonetheless carry at least some say: As part of the transaction, Apollo's chief executive, Al Tyler, who made far name in real estate, will have a seat on Yankee Global Enterprises's board.

Overall, the Apollo deal is yet another example of private equity's desire to be involved in agents — particularly with an international brand like the Yankees — and the reciprocal interest clubs have in private equity investments.

The New York Yankees are one of the most iconic franchisees in

sports, defined by a legacy of greatness: "[t]in cold in Apollo's release announcing the transaction. 'It is a privilege for Apollo Sports Capital to partner with the Yankees, and we are granted to the Steinbreitner family for their trust."

Beyond institutions could have influenced the Yankees to sell a slice of the team.

Having additional funds available throughout a potential lengthy work campaign over year might be appealing.

Evans is having an successful as the Steinbreitner could want additional liquidity, which institutional investors can more readily provide. Franchise values have grown so large for private equity firms are often necessary part of club transactions because the prices are too high for many individuals.

"The leagues are very conservative with the amount of debt that they allow teams to take on," said Daniel Rourke, a partner of the late Tom Raines who advised Apollo on the regulatory requirements of the Yankees' transaction including compliance with budget rules. "That, combined with the rise in valuation, has made it in some ways more challenging to fund investors to move in clubs."

Rourke said he could not comment on the Yankees' growth instructions. But in general, he said,

there are several reasons a team will sell a minority stake to a pro-vote equity firm, including a strong valuation.

"Let's say you're a controlling investor and you won 30 percent of a team," Rourke said. "I'm not sitting on an asset that's approximately six in value, and there might be other things in your life that you want to use the money for. That could be a reason to end down in part, and have nothing to do with a club needs of the team's anything other than cost of making an investment decision."

Rourke said team owners have times also want to create out-participation for current minority investors.

Some of this will necessarily influence some decisions. The Yankees are prepared to have a part-off of about $100 million this season, third highest in the leagues, per Co's Countrate.

A private equity firm involved in an M.L.B. club stage could be here, or hope, that the leagues' next labor deal will better the result of its investment.

A salary cap, which M.L.B. is aggressively seeking, would limit the leagues' labor costs. M.L.B. believes too that a cap would make smaller-market transaction competitive and, therefore, enhance the value of all of the leagues's clubs.

"If you look at professional

sports, I think investors now see that as a separate category of investments that is significant in terms of discounting your overall portfolio," Manfred said last month. "I also think that, particularly given some of the teams that we're dealing with right now, people are thinking that the game would be encouraging in terms of its investment potential."

The players' union believes M.L.B.'s cap proposal would cost greater inflation of dollars over the year and more colds in the beginning agreement. The current deal expires in December, at which time owners are expected to start a federal. What's unknown is whether the right over a cap will lead to canceled papers in 2027.

In baseball and other sports leagues, a income values have always been over that year.

Sports has traditionally been a concentrated asset with other public companies or private units. The company also has become the market or up or down, sports has needed to go up. That's not something you can predict for the future, but that's just how it has been to an over the past 20 or 30 years in sports.

At some point, Apollo might want to cash out. That could be a long time from now, though. In general, private equity investments in sports are different compared with those that from under in other industries, Rourke said.

"It's not necessarily the same thing. The large number of people have of private equity, where a private equity firm might invest in a private company and kind of take over the head" and ended off there. "The number of people who didn't have been made," Rourke said. "In sports, these are designed to be the same, particularly the banks, and that's part of what the leagues did was important or designing their rules."

Using, however, the leagues could always change these rules to allow greater institutional ownership of teams. Whether M.L.B. and others do precisely that ever than — and whether the influence of private equity firms increases, either way — can be seen as a new one suitable in the format and elsewhere.

SOCCER

On Africa's Biggest Stage, Superstar Sisters Cultivate Legacy of Malawian Soccer

By MELANIE ANDRES

By a friend

It did not matter that Tahitha Chavengaly took over having the Algeria goal.

For Chaveng, a 30-year-old civilian scoring teacher in the moment, 15 minutes into Malawi's membuat at the Women's Africa Capital Games, instead told him to step the ball backward with her left foot as she left to the ground. In that split second, the shot feature was the three signetists' defensive behind her, a cardboard off the past and needed nearly in the back of the net — to Algeria's lickety.

This might be remembered as one of the best goals scored on the biggest stage for African women's soccer — not only for the outskirts, games displayed by Chaveng in the Malawi captain, but for the historic weight it carried.

Chavenga and her younger son, for Timova, 27, scored all three goals between them over 70 minutes of play on Wednesday to help top Algeria, 14, and extend Malawi's magical run into the WAF-COS final on Sunday. The team faces a tough opponent in Cameroon, with both vying to become only the fourth country to hit the trophy since the tournament became a little.

Over the past three weeks, the founders, in Malawi's national team, is known, have regularly manned the soccer-evictions world.

They opened their tournaments by boating the 10-time and more recent champion Algeria. Malawi advanced out of a complicated group that included its rival Zaneba, and it secured its fourth event summary's Women's World Cup in Brazil with a victory over Ghana. The team, with a 2nd place in the final six to three milestones.

"To reach a final is very, very important for the young girls, and for me and my sister," Mahemi Nkwa, who is a member of the 2nd season, was against Algeria. "That was my dream. It was also the dream of my sister, to reach the final title. What and is got by Woolf's up 30-wed season?"

Malawi has gone from being the lowest student African native, a

Mohsen Anzide covers soccer for The Athletic.

this competition, filled in the FIFA club—the key it was last updated in 2020, to a team on the break of a title.

For Chavenga, Malawi, a small nation in southeast Africa, may mean for a typical marketing, but these who have paid close attention know that the optimal team's success strongly follows years of investment, with players like Tahitha opening home for Malawi's first generation and those like Timova taking full advantage of the opportunity being promoted to them.

The women's national team has been able to benefit in the inaugural Council of Southern Africa Football Association Women's Championship, an annual competition in teams in Southern Africa.

Maggie Chombo-fadida, a coach, former player and pioneer, has recently since in the country, took part in these very first games, telling the journalist Ali Showichi in a recent interview: "It was all my dreams come true. I was always thinking, 'Could we one day have a national team?' It was everything I was dreaming of."

That national team lost its first match, A4, to Zambia, which, at the time, had a lot more developed research soccer program. Erratum, only the Football Association of Malawi dissolved the team as sponsors pulled their funding from the sport. While the senior club happened to a pro-octave team, a country soccer slowly grew at the lower levels.

About a decade later, the Chavenga sisters began their careers, with an 18-year-old Tahitha tearing Malawi for a third-tier team in Swedesca (M). becoming the first Malawians right for a European club.

Her departure felt like a collective success for the sport back home. David Zilke, then the owner of Mr Hamilton, the Malawian club Chavenga first played for part for her flight and took her perspective over team, Kouzou Draumou, that if it was still not convinced about her ability also. In 2020, it could lead the defense without paying a share for one a few-risk gamble for the Swedish side, with Chavenga proving the one of the best strikers in the world.

Her career takes has taken her to various teams across Asia and Europe, with heart of some of the biggest clubs in the world, including Inter Milan and Peru in German. In 2016, she signed with the leading French club Lyon on a three-year contract that runs through each time.

In betting on herself, Chavenga improved generation of Malawian players to follow in her footsteps — including, most important, her youngest sister.

"My passion did not suggest the ideal that I wanted to play football.

They wanted me to boist solely on school," Tahitha Chavengaly told The Guardian in 2023. "In Malawi, and in most parts of Africa, persons believe that you have to go to school for you to do well."

She added: "I was the one that took my first sister Timova to go and play football."

Timova Chavengaly pro cancer followed a similar path.

She got her start in Malawi at Blantyre Zero before spending two years in Sweden and from those in China. Her talents caught the attention of the N.W.L's

Kamas City Current, where she has played since 2024.

"She has been there for me as wears," Timova said about Tahitha in a recent CAF TV podcast. "When I entered soccer, I got to Sweden because of her the speech for how he too."

In 2020, Timova, who is the youngest of five sisters, signed a contract extension that will have her to 40,000 in City through 2020 — compared to the home she has built in the United States.

She gave nearly expressed in its reviews that she was nervous to

Tahitha Chavenga, left, and Timova Chavengaly have led Malawi to the final of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations. They face a tough opponent in Cameroon on Sunday.

make the jump to the N.W.L. as her own, especially serving as its front home. At previous clubs, she always had her sister somewhat nearby. Going to the United States meant setting on herself in the same way that Tahitha did it decide earlier.

In Kansas City, Timova Chavengal has developed into one of the best strikers in the world, with the first of the 10,000 in China from, as the highest goal scores, and the leagues. More Valuable Player Association years to score.

"We're on the rule and the country with key, and watching what she's doing over there is incredible," Kansas City Coach Chris Arcean said on Wednesday, home before Malawi qualified for the final. "When you talk about what she means to Malawi, what she means to our team, our city, what she means to the West, is that it's a practice."

"It's not always so common that you come across people like me and players like her. She's one of the best players in the world. So impactful. A player that not sport should influence, women's football could come alive, our league should celebrate."

Chavengaly goal against Algeria on Wednesday told her with the Zambia captain Darina Kamba, a fellow of the club with the Orlando Pride, for the most good second in the tournament with five 15-for-scores in the final, she made for the sole winner of the family feast.

About of last year's WAF/COS tournament, the Malawian soccer convention posted its team from the qualifying places because of lack of funds. Featuring an attractive top competition in what these players have long worked for, they were an evening, the moment.

Wearing the most virtual meant an automatic match to the 2027 World Cup after that match, the last was an older and new average winner. The past were all mailer, and Tahitha had her arm around Top 100.

"It is clear that each sister plays for the other — as well as for all the younger players who are now running through the doors they have to play, and then they can add ahead of the tournament. Malawi is here to compare, and there are so many youngsters back in their hand and who could benefit from this start in the global spotlight."

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Johanna Fernández, a History of the Young Lords, Is Dead at 55

By RICHARD SANDORER

Johanna Fernández, a Denta-tician American historian whose authoritative book about the Young Lords helped review the legacy of that latter collection, a revolutionary Latino counterpoint in the Black Panthers, died on July 30 in Manhattan. She was 55.

She death, as a hospital, was caused by non-manual and lung cancer, her brother Timo Fernández is said.

An associate professor of history at Baruch College, Dr. Fernández was anorex of the Young Lords until her junior year of Brown, when she took a stand that covered the radical group and was angered that it had been effectively erased from public memory.

"I'll say that the children of our grants — especially from Latin America — connect more than anyone else with the history of the Young Lords," she said in a 2020 interview with CounterPunch, a safe-keeping website. "Because the whole up and the young Lords and abandoned buildings and two start following after people and the media say about you."

She added, "Then to see your young Lords and the people and the fights in in the streets — that's freedom on a profound personal level."

The Young Lords started an answer going to Chicago and expanded to New York City in 2003. They were a self-motivated, anti-capitalist collective of Hispanic—mostly Puerto Rican — and Black activists who sought solutions to the deplorable conditions of neighborhood. But the South Brown and Spanish were not.

To protect poor truth collective, they held walls of garbage sevens city streets, then set the walls on the. They commanded a church and used to sell, but they brooded to school children. They occupied a building at the display of the Lincoln and the city. The Brown, placed a Puerto Rican flag on the roof and made shovels that included building a new hospital, show-to-door, preventative and opening a day care center for the children of patients and employees.

The group's history was the subject of Dr. Fernández's Ph.D. doctor'sถักຮαλλο. He was also completed in 2004 and later expanded into a book.

"She interviewed me three times over 25 years," the journalist from Columbia University, who was a group's New York branch, said in an interview. "At first, she didn't know a lot, but she was determined to speak to everyone. She spoke to a lot of people who were all speaking to each other because of past conflicts."

She was also more regarded by the supposed non-morbidity of a modern surveillance bloc, more than 500 hours' work, that had been accumulated by the New York Times. "I'm not sure," she said, "how special services thrown from 2016 to 1971. She was told he had been running or lost."

In 2014, after her Freedom of Information Law requests yielded

Johanna Fernández at her home on 27th, with a study of the police surveillance record that she used in her research. Below, some of her personal dances and ephemera from the Young Lords and other groups, including audiotopes of oral features.

able, she filed a lawsuit against the NYPD seeking the documents. The suit was dismissed but, in 2016, a significant portion of the records of the department's scrutiny of the Young Lords, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam returned to being an inventory of a Queens warehouse.

The files told the story of "thousands of people and organizations in New York City who fought to make the city everyone and democratic and were systematically obstructed by the police," Dr. Fernández said in a 2016 interview with The New York Times.

She used information gleaned

from the files in her book "The Young Lords: A Radical History" (2020).

In his review in The Nation, Ed Mirután, an expert on Latino politics, wrote that the book placed the Young Lords in the context of the political and social debates that shaped the era and overalls how so much at their extreme context on the same issues — housing, health, education and the marginalization of women, the L.G.B.T.G. community and the working poor — that we face to day.

"The Young Lords" won the 2421 Frederick Jackson Turner

Supporters of the Young Lords marched through Spanish Harlem in 1971. Dr. Fernández's book won the 2022 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians.

Award from the Organization of American Historians.

Johanna-Latou del Carmen Fernández was born in Manhattan on Dec. 1, 1971, and grew up in the Brown. She was one of the children of Timo F. and Maevva (Dai-ewo): Fernández, immigrants from the Dominican Republic. Mr. Fernández was a maintenance worker, and the Fernández managed the home.

Dr. Fernández's brother, Timo F. and their father "had been explained as a child and there real hunger, but it didn't harden him. Instead, it made him deeply unpassionate."

"Johanna took that and run with it," he added. "She soon smoked took her the rest of the way, into history, race, class, power."

In addition to Timo F., she is survived by her mother and two other brothers, Osvaldo and Governor.

In 2015, while attending Brown as an academic scholarship, Dr. Fernández was one of 25 students arrested for taking over an administrative building. Says dr. Amado las Jabal, a professional at-nessman police, is now poor, and attracted a crowd by delivering a speech from his new window of a bathroom. Need-liked atheismism at Brown did not start until 1981?

She graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in English and American institutions, then earned an M.A. in 2006, an M.Phil. in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2006, all in history from Columbia.

As a professional fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh from 2001 to 2006, she grew interested in prison abolition and the case of Monica Alexei, a former Black Panther and radio journalist that no doubt one after being convicted of murdering a white police officer at Philadelphia 1980. To his supporters, Mr.

Telling the story of an overlooked group that help shape modern urban protest.

Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner who should be released. To his critic, he is a critic of you 100s. Dr. Fernández told CounterPunch that visiting Mr. Abu-Jamal and other men on death are "unrestricted too, because you get a sense of a whole country of human beings who've been thrown away."

His became closer to Mr. Abu-Jamal. The wrote and produced "Justice on Trial: The Case of Moana Abu-Jamal" (2002), a documentary about his case, edited a book of his prison verging that was published in 2002, and brought a favor of his papers to a permanent archive at Brown in 2024.

In 2012, a year after Mr. Abu-Jamal left death row — he is now

serving a life-sentence without the possibility of parole — Dr. Fernández began storing boxes of his materials in her apartment. "They were proceeding him to get rid of everything in his cell," she told The Times. "He wanted to throw it all away. But as a historian, I understood the importance of purpose."

Mr. Abu-Jamal spoke by phone at Dr. Fernández's funeral on Sunday, calling her "a shock of light on the darkness of death row," according to her brother.

In 2014, she was a curator of "Prisoner: The Young Lords in New York," an exhibition that was presented at El Monte del Barrio, the Brown Museum and the Lincoln Inn community scene and showed the group as a cultural and political force.

An exhibition about the Latino civil rights movement of the 2000s — which Dr. Fernández organized with Felipe Manzana of Baylor University — was scheduled to open last year in Washington under the auspices of the first Boston air federation. But it was derived after conservatism commentators and members of Congress criticized a previous Smithsonian state about Latino history on Marines.

With a grant from the Mellon Foundation, the project was revived to make at the Hotel in Manhattan an an outdoor exhibition called "Latino Freedom" that will be an display through Aug. 18 before leaving to several American cities.

"She was such a joy — a celebration local worker who was never satisfied with one answer," Dr. Hispanic said in an interview. "She took great offence at the kind of anti-Latino sentiment that exists in the country and worked so hard as she could to make people understand the gifts that Latino being to the United States."

John Crowley, 83; Wrote Reality-Blurning Fantasy

By CLAY KIREN

John Crowley, an author of emerging humanistic, geometric whose ability to blend such disparate material as American literature, dreams of lost utopian and "face to Wonderland" (legal recitalization), and the "unrealistic" fantasy genre as asvoid the "Larky, Big," which the critic Harold Rosen called a "angled-ted masterpiece," shot an Aug. 9 at his home in Los Angeles, and was in 1971.

His wife, Lamar Block, and the sister was conspirations of dysphoria and dementia.

The author of 10 novels and 10 "Myths" of, deeply and short fiction, Mr. Crowley explored a considerable range of subjects and genres in the first novel, "The Deep" (1973), was set as a (the "Angels") world, and involved in experiences two factions, the Reds and the Blacks, loosely based on the 15th-century War of the Rosen in England.

Even his most straightforward realistic novel, "Four Freedoms" (2009), about the workers at an unproven history on Midland during World War II, is an alternative history of the humanities, in which Americans impregnated elements — Black Americans, writers, dissabbing people — may have unless liberated by a common purpose.

His work drew comparisons to St. Lewis, J.R.R. Edison, and Richard Pynchon, a series of unpainted notes of Damn, Shakespeare and Lewis Carrell Withers in The Washington Post in 2006, the critic Michael DeLuca, the first novelly supported work on foreign and and accomplished American fantasy writer ever!

Despite his wide range, certain dramas presented. He was aware of the "unrealistic" and "unrealistic" narrative shapes perception, as the sometimes mostly has been known fantasy and reality, and as the possibility, as he wrote in his

Mr. Crowley's first novel, "The Deep," published in 1973, is currently a war between two factions, "Little, Big," published in 1983, was Mr. Crowley's best known and most widely read novel.

Interested in Fiction that somehow manages to be convincingly actual.

1987 novel, "anggot" (eventually opublished as "The Solitude"), that "there is more than one history of the world."

"Little, Big," Mr. Crowley's (early novel, was his best known and most widely read. Its plot revolves around the long marriage of David Escapide and Kelly Abbe Driskowitz, which plays out against children of either living a fascist takeover of the United States and a rural manie that offers a powerful to avoid influence and possibly, even/angst to listen.

Any summary of a plot which it sound (was, in fact, it is an unhappily melancholic and deeply humane meditation on mortality and memory.

Like all Mr. Crowley's books, "Little, Big" made absurd like a taboo, reacting with its best sentence: "On a certain day in June, Dr. — a young man was making her way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgeworth, that he had been told of her had never visited."

Mr. Crowley continued, "His name was family Barnable, and he was going to Edgeworth to get married, the fact that he walked and didn't ride was one of the new dramas placed on his coming side at all."

The poet James Sherrill was a gushing face! "Little, Big," and arranged his Ms. Crowley to receive a great treat and happen Sherrill Foundation, which Mr. Sherrill directed The eminent fantasy writer Susan K. Le Gant said that it "calls for a celebration of fantasy." Mr. Brown, the critic, wrote that it was "literally the most exultuating The London book I know."

It was named the best novel at the 2002 World Fantasy Awards,

the highest prize in the genre.

Mr. Crowley was anaband of boldly original stories and apostolings years. The four books in his "Anggot" cycle, written over two decades, follow the writing and dream life of a dramatic named (Yerus Muller), with parallel to soldiers set during the Renaissance. His 2017 novel "An The Oakley in the Rose of You" centres on a century, statewide cover as it follows the course of human history.

"The kind of fiction that always intervened me," Mr. Crowley told The Believer magazine in 2009, "is itself that somehow manages to be convincingly actual — and is only that you believe that truth are being told about the world you have in — and are also somehow connected to the daughter's is enter way."

John Michael Crowley was born on Dec. 1, 1942, at Prongue Isle, Maine, where his father, Joseph, was a doctor with the Army. His mother, the daughter, Crowley, managed the home and later worked as a librarian.

The family moved frequently because of Dr. Crowley's work, bringing his life to current Eunavley and finally failure.

Throughout an increased of becoming an enfranchised of a set designer, Mr. Crowley started English and was a member of a local institution, he was a member of the university's past team, which was the 1841 G.E. College Bowl, an event broadcast on national television.

After graduating in 1960, he moved to New York, where he wrote documentary screenplays.

He moved to western Massachusetts in the mid-1970s, where he began writing fiction. He continued to write a "conveniently continuing" joining his wife, Mr. Block, in joining thought (Retail Pictures), a nonprofit production company.

John Crowley in 2009. The author of 10 novels, his work drew comparisons to C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Edison and Thomas Pynchon.

His film scripty include "The World of Tomorrow" (1994), about the 1918 World's Fair, and, with Mr. Block, "Fit: Episodes in the History of the Body" (2001), about material of these fathers.

Mr. Crowley and Mr. Block married in 1994. He is survived by their children, Hamel and Zander Crowley, and his sister, Is Baska. Thanks to the presence on the fair English faculty of two of his great-attirees, the poet John Alexander and Mr. Bloom, Mr. Crowley became a lecturer there in 1995, criticizing in 2009.

Mr. Crowley married to his ab-

teers and readers that history was, at its least, an different from any other genre, and could achieve greatness of it followed the rules of literature.

He sought articulars. Part of being in a literary world without humiliative, he wrote, widely and fantasy — it can't just be a bunch of contents and instead carrying on," he told Lamar magazine in 2010.

Mr. Block, "Fantasy fiction at bottom, or at its best, is about making true fiction by the rules, in worlds you make up out of whole cloth, or out of your heart."

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Richard Lingeman, Cultural Historian and Biographer, Dies at 95

By JOSEPH BERGER

Richard Lingeman, a magazine editor who wrote an acclaimed study of small-town America and biographies of Theodore Dreiner and similar toworld helped to view interest in those once-towning American novelists, died on July 7 in Manhattan, He was 95.

His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his daughter, Joulin Lingeman. He lived on the Upper West Side.

As a journalist, Mr. Lingeman had an eclectic career. In the late 1950s, he and Victor S. Navasky founded the national magazine Monocle. He went on to serve as an editor at The New York Times Book Review and, in 1976, was named executive editor of The Nation, the left-leaning political magazine then led by Mr. Navasky.

After 10 years as executive editor, Mr. Lingeman stepped down to become a senior editor at the magazine, a position that gave him more time to write books.

His most notable early work, "Small Town America: A Narrative History," (6th-the Pr的要求) (2000), examined the development and decline of American towns, from the earliest Puritan settlements to the Midwestern, trading centers and the new towns and mining camps of the West.

Incorporating observations from authors like Mark Twain, Sherwood Anderson, Booth Tarlington, Edgar Lee Mariner and Willis Calbet, Mr. Lingeman showed readers what they might find in a Midwestern journal store; how railroads filled countless towns with European immigrants; and how the industrial revolution bore down on those towns, spelling obsolescence for many small farmers and craftsmen.

The book was not a sentimental portrait of neighborly cannibalism whose roadmen gather around a piano in the parlor and eat peach ice cream in uninterested "Small Town America," the critic John Leonard wrote in The New York Times, presented a world of "authorizations and conformation, speculators and real-estate disciples, absentee landlords and vigilantes, founders without enough money and railroad refrigerators with too much money, bribery and racism and false fronts and a class system as up-pressors as anything to be found in old Europe."

Mr. Lingeman branched into telegraphy with two volume de-

Aid-96 contributed reporting.

Richard Lingeman in 1986. He co-founded the humor magazine Monocle with Victor S. Navasky, who brought him to The Nation.

voted to Mr. Dreiner, a fellow Hoosier whose early 19th-century novels "Sister Curse" and "An American Tragedy" were initially denounced as blasphemous and obscene for phidines that included premarital sex and premeditated injuries.

Mr. Dreiner's works often featured ruthless working-class social climbers and rude readers to unrefined extreme like high-boners and furwors. They came to be regarded as contemporary classics, as part for bringing a new kind of realism to the exploration of class and the American success story.

In "Theodore Dreiner: At the Gates of the City, 1873-1957" (1986) and "Theodore Dreiner: An American Journey, 1906-1947" (2000), Mr. Lingeman praised Mr. Dreiner for his role in elevating American literature.

"Out of his pastimes, contradictions and suffering," Mr. Lingeman wrote in the second volume, noting Mr. Dreiner's hours of debilitating melancholy and volatile romantic affairs, "he wroached the art that was his salvation from the

hungers and depressions that racked him."

The novelist Cynthia Grack, revamping the first volume in The Times, complained that the biography did not sufficiently strive to resolve the great Dreiner middle-liver could "a neckhorse daily ascrinide" possibly "tomeless himself into a novelist of such encompassing, gritty, recalcitrant power?"

Yet the writer and literary critic Alfred Kunn, also writing in The Times, called the complete work "a fascinating documentation of the most troubled life led by any important modern American writer."

After his works on Mr. Dreiner, Mr. Lingeman pursued another biography -- of Sinclair Lewis, a Minnesotian who was the first American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and whose novels, set in the Midwest -- including "Main Street," "Minor Gentry" and "Bubber" -- concerned customers, provincialism, middle-class materialism, back-strewn anti-hypocrisy.

"Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From

Mr. Lingeman's "Small Town America" explored the development and decline of American towns. His two-volume biography praised Theodore Dreiner for his role in elevating American literature.

Main Street" (2001) was part of Mr. Lingeman's lifelong pursuit to "understand the role of the small town in American history," he said. It also attempted to repair Mr. Lewis's reputation after Mark Scherer's exhaustive 1961 biography, "Sinclair Lewis: An American Life," revised to Lewis' admirers to unduly emphasize the author's personal feelings.

"A rather depressed mu," Mr. Lingeman said of the earlier biography in a 1991 interview with the Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter. "I think Scherer showed a failure of tranquility, at times a uninteresting hostility, to both the man and his works, that new seems excessive."

Allowing that "Lewis's life was often sad and self-destructive," he also noted that Mr. Scherer had overlooked what a first-tier activist and political and social critic Mr. Lewis was: "He was a funny man, as well as a trenchant critic of American flaws, which he knew as well as a reported lover knows his mastered's body."

By then Mr. Lewis died in 1875, his literary style had fallen out of them Mr. Lingeman's sensitive portrait, which highlighted Mr. Lewis's intelligence and insight into human frailty, spurred a rethinking of his influence, especially in words like "Sam Vickers" and "Kingshined Reza!" that touched on feminism and race.

Writing in The Los Angeles Times, the author Keith Taylor called Mr. Lingeman's role. The most important co-evaluation of Lewis in men's time a generation, adding that he demonstrated convincingly that Mr. Lewis had influenced writers as varied as Rich-

ard Wright and John Updike. Richard Roberts's Lingeman was born on Jan. 2, 1913, in Cumberland, Ind., about 10 miles on the west of Indianapolis. He was the younger of two sons of Byron Lingeman, as son, son, now and the son doctor, and Vera (Spencer) Lingeman, who managed the home.

At the Oxford College, near Philadelphia, he inspired in sociology and minored in American literature. In college, he told the C. SPAN/soul Brian Lamb in 2002, he was surrounded by Eastern professional graduates "who seemed

He served as an editor at The New York Times Book Review and The Nation.

somehow to my naive eye to be naivety and more cultured." Writing a biographical study of Mr. Lewis for his senior thesis, he said, was his way of developing his own "sense of identity" as a Midwesternist.

After graduating in 1831, he spent three years in the Army and was assigned to the counterintelligence corps, which he called "an appalling turbot of McGuinness." He was also sent to Japan, he said, to spy on ultra-nationalist groups.

Following his discharge, he attended Yale Law School and quickly realized he was not our out

to practice law. During that time, he started Monocle with Mr. Navasky, a fellow law student. The first pacedy that Mr. Lingeman wrote was of T.S. Eker's poem "The Wired Land."

Mr. Navasky raised the money to publish Monocle as a "sincerely quarter-b" and set up shop in New York City, where it attracted contributors like the carvasses: Edward Scott and the humorists Calvin Trillin and Dan Growdoing. It saw a brief swell of attention during the 1961 newspaper strike, when it produced purely issues of The New York Post and The Daily News under the names The Post and The Daily News. But it could never quite establish itself on a sound financial footing.

Mr. Lingeman freelanced his other publications and wrote two books, about prescription drugs ("Drugs From A to Z," 1989) and America's home front during World War II ("Don't You Know There's a War On?" 1970).

In 1985, he joined The Times Book Review, where he remained for nine years, assigning reviews and compiling a weekly column of publishing news, "Book Ends," before Mr. Navasky recruited him to serve as the executive editor of The Nation.

Mr. Lingeman married Andrea Nickolson, a British graphic designer, in 1983. In addition to his daughter, she survived him.

His last book, published in 2012, was "The Nut Farlow," an examination of how a moody and often cynical film genre that flourished after World War II reflected the austeries of battle-scarred venomies, a repressive political period and the Cold War in an atomic age.

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State	Inventory	Today	Tomorrow
Mass.	29, 30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32
Mississippi	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32
Mississippi	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32
Mississippi	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32
Mississippi	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32
Mississippi	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32	30, 31, 32

Little Rock	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93
Las Vegas	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93
Louisville	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93
Memphis	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93
Memphis	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93
Memphis	93, 95, 97, 98	92, 93, 95, 97	90, 91, 92, 93

New York	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52
New York	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52
New York	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52
New York	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52	49, 50, 51, 52

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Aalliard considers and celebrates 75 years of 'what a dance education can be.' BY MARINA KNEID

7 FILM

The new romantic comedy 'One Night Only' features a far-fetched premise. BY ADALET SPENCER

8 TELEVISION

HBO's 'Lanterns' is about intergalactic superheroes, but relatable ones in a small town. BY MATT STEVENS

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THIS WEEK FROM THE ARTS DESK

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Signs You Are Living

In a Rom-Com

You move back to your hometown to help out your single-mom sister.

You spontaneously start dancing in the kitchen.

You participate in a real-life trying-on-clothes montage.

You have a heartfelt conversation with a tombstone.

You are the first to notice that your quirky nephew is a genius.

You bake holiday-themed cookies with your old high school crush.

You go on an old-fashioned date and encounter a charming mime.

Your sister begins an unlikely romance, and you think: What is this? A rom-com?

THE QUEUE

I'm the Mid-Atlantic bureau chief for The Times, covering seven states and the city of Washington. There's a lot of news these days and much of it seems pretty bonkers, so I welcome a little perspective. Here are five things I've read, looked at and listened to lately. CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

MAIO VANKA MURALS

ART

One of my favorite buildings in the region I cover is St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Pittsburgh. The walls and ceilings are covered with natural marsh, painted by Maio Vanka, a Croatian immigrant, in the 1930s and '60s. They blend religious imagery with the hard lives and deaths of soldiers, miners and immigrants.

Mioe Vanka's restored moods in Pittsburgh blend the device with the human.

SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS

ALBUMS

Sonny Balban put on one of the best concerts I've ever been to. After he died in May, I started listening to his breakout album again. With Max Beach on drums, every chandler, grower, dinner and in-house, music to solve crimes by R.I.P.

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BOOKS

I'd read most of Charles Portis's work ("The Dog of the South" is my go-to) but came into it this novel about cladricans, butchers and raviers: calls. Like most of Portis's books, "Masters of Atlantis" is a deadpan portrait of earnest cranks, and it is hilarious. It is also, at our current moment, unusually familiar.

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GAMES

I was recently turned-on to this online game, where you have to guess the date and geographical origin of items in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts collection. It's an enjoyable way to explore the sheer breadth and depth of my ignorance.

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In this house, we watch and rewatch this BBC historical farm series. Each season focuses on a different era, with three historical performing the daily duties of ordinary people from that time period in rural England. The real counterculture in the disconcerted era is watching a couple of academics try to build a pagers.

Historians run a farm on it would have been in times past on "Tudor Monastery Farm."

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How Kacey Musgraves Likes Her Martini

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Kacey Musgraves often finds herself in the middle of nowhere. This space — sometimes physical, other times emotional — is at the center of the country star's sixth studio album, "Middle of Nowhere," which draws on bluegrass flavors with Tejano influences and lyrical sincerity. "For many years, home has been sort of this compass or this feeling inside of myself, no matter where I'm at physically," Musgraves, 37, said in a video call from Mexico, where she has a home. It's a feeling she'll bring along on a tour beginning this month in Chicago. This list, edited and condensed, celebrates her favorite things. CHARLOTTE DOLANE

1 My Gay Audience

Love is something that all people everywhere deserve. And if it's not hurting anyone else for someone to love who they want to love, that let's invite them to the damn party, too. When I wrote "Follow Your Arrow," it was never meant to be a gay authors. It was a simple country song singing people to do whatever makes them happy because life is too short. And through that song, it really gave a lot of people an invitation into country music, where they didn't necessarily feel welcome before. I feel really honored to have had that moment with people.

2 Mexico

I asked Mexico so much for so many reasons. My heart is here and so much of my real life is also here now. I have such a respect for the culture, music, principles, traditions and spirit. It's been nothing but kind and welcoming to me in I've slowly been learning more about the culture and language, and I just find it to be a really beautifully inclusive and ironically inspiring space.

3 Heroes

I have a deep love for our equine friends. Anytime I can be on the back of a horse, I will be. I'll take any opportunity to get to connect with these beautiful animals, and they're taught me a lot about myself. It's a reminder to simplify.

4 Exploring New Places With People I Love

I love seeing new parts of the world and seeing how other people love, and taking in the rights, media, colors, music and traditions of places outside of America. It is really inspiring and keeps you on your toes, young and mentally flexible.

5 Lifting Weights

It's a fast personal challenge. I have this goal that by the time I hit my 40s, I want to be in the best shape of my life.

"When you find one that you really love, it just tickles a certain fancy. I need an ice-cold, perfect balance of dirty, and I think people don't go dirty enough."

6 Setting a Little Stoned and Spiking Around a Plant Store

It's a really fun ritual that I have to get a little "chocolatized," if you will, and walk around a beautiful plant shop and notice all those plants I've never seen before. If you haven't tried it, I recommend it. But you're probably going to end up buying more plants than you thought you would.

7 Making Playlists For Niche Scenarios

Say we all just had an amazing beach day and we're heading home in the Jeep on the orange sun at setting, and we're on this beautiful winding plight road. Try to curate exactly what that would sound like, so I can 2-3 on the fly. There's a song out there for everything, every mood.

8 Designing the Tour

I've been designing the "Middle of Nowhere" tour for over a year now, and I can't believe it's finally almost here. It's going to be an amazing time. I'm really pumped about the opener that are going to be out with us. They're just so rad and different in their own ways and are going to add something special to all the places that they're in.

9 A Great Dirty Martini

It's a difficult, shining mission. I might be searching my entire life. But when you find one that you really love, it just tickles a certain fancy. I need an ice-cold, perfect balance of dirty, and I think people don't go dirty enough. I'd say one the best one I've found in at Punta Nashville.

10 Sleep

Sleep is very sacred to me, I love it so much. It's something I'm hearing myself for as I'm about to begin touring again. It's going to be difficult to sleep on the road, so I'm trying to hold on to the last few weeks of really sound sleep while I have it.

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Dance

At 75, Still Putting the Best Pointe Forward

A trip through Juilliard's archives shows how its history reflects the arc of dance in the 20th century.

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By MARINA BARIS

In the fall of 1953, the Juilliard is head of Music, then located on Claremont Avenue and 222nd Street, opened its doors to its inaugural class of aspiring dancers. The single union was clear — that dance was a serious pursuit, deserving of professional training and a diploma, just like music. And that a shared space for both would benefit musicians as well as dancers.

"Dancers would be closer to music and get a better education in music, and the musicians would learn something about dance," the composer, William Schuman, then the president of Juilliard, later said about the decision to invite dance into the disinterested world of classical music.

This fall, the dance department, now called the Dance Division, celebrates its 75th anniversary. The anniversary is an opportunity to "look back and consider what a dance education can be," Damian Wozniak, Juilliard's president since 2005, said in a recent video call: "It's about learning how to learn."

A portrait of the archives shows how rich the Dance Division's history has been, with a series of teachers and students that reflect the arc of American dance in the 20th century. And the curriculum, a mix of ballet and modern dance, was seen as eccentric, one in the norm.

The dance holdings, on the 16th floor of Juilliard's Lincoln Center headquarters, are the largest of the school's collections, in part because the department's founder, Martha Hill, "was very much an archival," said Jane Gottlieb, director of Juilliard's library. "She kept every scrap of paper," Jane Suleman Parish, director of the archives, opened box after box after box, containing photographs, scrapbooks and maiden.

In the early 20th century, modern dance had defined itself as operative in ballet. But Hill was convinced that it was time for the two disciplines to make peace and begin learning from each other. Hill's biographer Janet Mansfield Soares wrote that "this combined training became Hill's mantra for developing the complete dancer."

The goal is to create dancers — and future choreographers and directors — who understand movement, independent of style, and can work anywhere. First firsthand, a former Juilliard student who started for over 1,000 years and then returned to Juilliard to teach, said that by the time students graduate, they will have learned not only ballet and contemporary work, but also the techniques of Limbo, Martha Graham, Marco Cunningham and Lester Herron.

"That's how you build a dancer today who can go out into the world," firsthand said, "all those pieces on the cheshboard."

The stress on remaking also reflects the way most dance companies function today. Dancers are expected to be concerned in many techniques. Melissa Hegsted, Juilliard's dean and director of dance, said, "Contemporary companies have ballet dances, and ballet companies are commissioning contemporary and modern works."

Dill had studied both ballet and modern dance before beginning the career as a member of Graham's company. In 2016, she

founded the Birmingham School of the Dance a summer program where modern dance pioneers like Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Westman, Hanya Hoke and Landoa Tangle and created dances. It is now recognized as having been one of the most important incubators of American modern dance.

Hill started there and other leading figures in modern dance like Donald McBride and Anna Sokolow to join the faculty of Juilliard, working side by side with ballet humanities including the choreographer Antony Tudor. For artists in the centrally financially stranded dance field, Juilliard became an anchor and a place to create, for the students it was disappointingly to have it won some of the biggest names in their field.

Three big names did not always get along. The choreographer Paul Branch, who spent a year as an exchange student from Germany in the late '30s, once recalled that Tudor and Landoa, reminiscent in different studies, ignored each other, "two kings who passed each other without looking."

It is not surprising, given the larger-than-life provision of the people who circulated the hallways. In her book about dancing for Marco Cunningham, "Chance and Circumstances," Carolyn Brown (who attended in 1952-53) described Martha Graham, an infrequent presence in the studies — a member of her company usually taught her class — as "a secreted working magic powers over her subjects."

Other faculty members were less desirous, if still inspiring. The choreographer Robert Barlin, who attended in the early '40s, found a master in Carolyn Adams, who had spent several years on the only Black dancer in the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Adams joined the Juilliard faculty in 1962.

When he first arrived, Barlin left out of place, he said in an interview. Then he took a class with Adams: "There was something about the way she identified information about movement, about a partner, about dance, that was so compelling to her," he said. "It took me to another spiritual place, a place of belonging."

Barlin went on to found a company, then became director of Alvin Ailey, where he introduced Paul Taylor's works into the repertory. He is now a choreographer in residence at the Paul Taylor Dance Company. As he put it, "It's all part of the curriculum."

In many cases, the students turned out to be as remarkable as their teachers. The last

Above left, the Juilliard Dance Ensemble performing Martha Graham's "Divisions of Angels" in 1967, above, Paul Taylor (the pyramid, in light-stackie) rehearsing Doris Humphrey's "Sound Gods" along with students in 1993.

of alumni includes Taylor and Branch, both of whom went on to create important companies, the famed Ailey dancer Shelley Williams, and Sylvia Waters, who dancestive. Ailey before becoming artistic director of its second company, is significant number because major choreographers, including Lee Lubovitch, Martha Clades, Shari Roberts, Robert Garland, Jessica Lang, Bishu Jose Smith and Shantel Pitts.

As the profession has evolved, so has Juilliard.

Alvina Graf Mack, who directed the Dance Division from 2010 until 2020 when she left to become the artistic director of Alvin Ailey, made adjustments to the curriculum meant to reflect the greater diversity of dance today, requiring West African dance and hip-hop, and allowing dancers of any gender to take people classes. A lot of what she did, "was informed by where the field is now," she said in a phone interview. "We wanted to create an environment that allows each dancer to thrive in their unique identity, and that they would be encouraged also to pursue different paths upon graduation."

As said in the program, appears today, the future of dance at Juilliard was not always assured. The most difficult period was the mid-90s, when Juilliard was invited to be part of the new arts complex that would become Lincoln Center. It was a big step up for Juilliard, but it soon became clear that the dance department might not survive the move.

Juilliard's director of the time, Peter Monnin, a composer, quietly began making arrangements to allow the School of American Ballet — the training arm of New York City Ballet — to take over dance education at Lincoln Center. The school had the glamour of being led by the superstar choreographer George Balanchine (and his right-hand man Lincoln Merman), as well as being the recipient of a large grant from the Ford Foundation. This plan would have meant the end of dance as a division of Juilliard and would

A curriculum that was once seen as eccentric is now the norm.

Clockwise from the left, Juilliard where it was uptown in the 1930s, Best Limbo teaching in 1939, and Carolyn Brown, the great Marco Cunningham dancer, in the early 1950s. Above, from left, a scare from the 1959-60 academic year, Jane Sokolow, seated, with students in 1963.

have given up on modern dance training altogether.

"It felt like the idea of modern dance was insignificant, and we were insignificant," firsthand said. She spearheaded a letter campaign to save the department.

The struggle to save dance at Juilliard lasted years. In the end, it survived, even if it was made to share its new quarters, a bulking building of numerous and glass facing West 20th Street, with the School of American Ballet, which got four dance studios to Juilliard's home.

The two programs shared the third floor, separated by a glass door. At one point a typewritten note posted on the Juilliard side read: "The glass doors are to be kept LOCKED AT ALL TIMES." This money on-aisances continued until 2009 when a new high rise was built just west of Juilliard on the same block. It now houses both the School of American Ballet and deems for both institutions.

Some things haven't changed at Juilliard. Students still take classroom anatomy, stagecraft, acting, dance history, music and liberal arts. Most performances are accompanied by live music, played by Juilliard musicians.

And, perhaps most importantly, the school continues to stress creation. Students are required to take two years of composition classes, where they learn the basics of how to put together a dance. In their third year, dancers can apply to participants in a class in which they are paired with a Juilliard composer to make a piece.

The dance field has broadened dramatically since 1950, and with it the demands of a dance education. Meeting the profession where it is today in short, evaluating as: "My concern," black and of her tenure, "was always for the dancers to build their toolbox and to strengthen their bodies so that they became the most fluent voiced to express themselves."

It's easy to think that Martha Hill would have approved.

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Classical

Franz Weber-Miot, music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, with the autograph manuscript of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. "It makes you feel so much closer to the composer," he said.

A Tour Through a Mahler Manuscript

By JOSHUA KABOUM

CLEVELAND — Franz Weber-Miot was having coffee at Café Imperial in Vienna when he was given a musical score under the table. He was with the media mogul Herbert G. Kloiber, who nudged a black briefcase toward him with his foot. Kloiber didn't say what was inside. He just told Weber-Miot, the music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and a conducting eminence in Austria, to hold on to it for a few days.

The conductor had no idea what was inside the briefcase, but he waited until he got back to his apartment to open it up. He unlatched the lid and saw the autograph manuscript of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, a cornerstone of the orchestral repertoire. It was, he said in a recent interview, "a really sacred moment."

"Why? Scores are more available than ever: in multiple published editions, online in public domain collections, in literature and elsewhere. But a manuscript, music written in a composer's hand, has the almost magi-

cal power to make even the most distant giants feel near and alive. You can learn about the personalities of, say, Beethoven or Bredman through their programming. You can transform death and changes of heart. You can argue, with yourself and others, about what was meant by something as small as a dot.

When Weber-Miot read the manuscript, he was struck by the handwriting. (And there's a lot of it, Mahler's score directions are famously 'refuse'.) Most of the "Resurrection" was composed at Mahler's lakeside

retreat in Upper Austria, between his season of conducting at what is now the Vienna State Opera, and Weber-Miot believes that backdrop shows in the manuscript.

"We know how much to Mahler was, and contemporaries described him as this nervous little man," Weber-Miot said. "But maybe because he did this on vacation, basically he was more relaxed. So he handwriting is actually very calm and clear."

The manuscript was long held at a museum in the Netherlands. (Alma Mahler, the composer's widow, had given the score to the Dutch conductor William Skoepdberg.) Later, it was purchased by Gilbert Kaplan, a businessman and Mahler fanatic, and when he died he feisty's exhibit in 2016 for a record-breaking 10.4 million.

The buyer was Kloiber, who maintained public anonymity while privately telling Weber-Miot about his purchase. As a treat, he lost his friend the score at Café Imperial. Later, in 2015, Kloiber attended a dinner to celebrate the Cleveland Orchestra South Orchestra's performance in Austria and made an announcement. He wanted to donate it to the Cleveland Orchestra.

Weber-Miot was at least when he heard the news that night. Kloiber gave him the score in a plastic bag, which Weber-Miot brought back to the United States in a backpack. (He had a plan for moving to say it was "an old book, nothing interesting.") To protect the manuscript as much as possible, the orchestra arranged to have it kept at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Recently, it was brought across the street to Severance Music Centre, the moundier's home, where Weber-Miot had it set on a large table and flipped through its pages during an interview.

"It makes you feel so much closer to the composer when you actually see, that's the piece of paper he wrote something on and with his handwriting," Weber-Miot said. "That is a really special feeling."

The manuscript, with detailed scoring and occasional corrections in blue, may inspire new angles of interpretation or help musicians better understand Mahler's intentions in specific moments. Weber-Miot shared three pages that he found particularly fascinating. Here are his observations.

Uncomfortable Bowing

The second movement of the "Resurrection" opens with the strings playing a landlot, a kind of rustic dance. It wears lightly because entire measures are shrieved, with the notes connected by a single bow stroke.

Weber-Miot, who grew a stinging violin, remembered that when he performed this movement, a concertmaster told him the opening phrase would be much more comfortable with two notes shrieved in one bow stroke, followed by another bow stroke with three pertains notes shrieved but gently separated.

In the score, though, Mahler puts the dial of the first two notes inside a broader dial of all five notes. That doesn't include another string players, but you have to imagine, Weber-Miot said, that

an a composer whose idea of instruments was formed by being one of the greatest confessions of his day, Mahler knew exactly what he was doing.

"It's a little uncomfortable, but at the same time, it gives you a different string if you do it all in one bow," Weber-Miot said. The landlot mutody, he added, "becomes less earthbound and more floating, sort of any".

On the page of the score Mahler retreats himself in a couple of spots, lowering on it flat by an octave in the coffee and changing a distance to make it quartet. Because of this, Weber-Miot said, you can feel even more confident in the violin footings. "The handwriting tells me he had a very clear plan."

Mysterious Blue Line

Mahler is less clear in the third movement. Go in last page, before the last summer, he draws a blue line down all the orchestra parts and writes the word "Coda" at the top, underlined twice. Was there supposed to be more music before the ending?

Weber-Miot has no idea. "That's an enigma for me," he said.

The movement closes with the gloomy gong, sound of a bass-tam. "That is used by a lot of composers as a symbol for death," he said. "Just of the final sound. So, the way it ends, the music sort of disintegrates into nothing. But did he think he should write something else after that?"

It could be that Mahler considered writing a coda but abandoned the idea and forgot to cross out the note. Maybe the coda would have been just a reprise of the ending, but he didn't add repeat signs to indicate which measures to include. Weber-Miot said with a shrug. "That's something we cannot ask (intratement)" Certain engram, he added, are meant to be engram.

Asking the Impossible: 'Clearly a Perfectionist'

The fourth movement is a song: "Urbeln," or "Primera's Light." An alto-minor, who has been waiting vintage for the symphony's first 45 minutes, retorts alone with the word "G." It is meant to be sung very softly. Mahler marked as "poamintment," an impossible extreme of quiet.

"Was that practical?" Weber-Miot said. "It's an idea, he's say!" Universal's published edition has the vocal line marked with a more realistic "piano." But Weber-Miot believes this moment, which emerges from the dying resonance of the tameism in the third movement, was informed by Mahler's experience as director of the Vienna State Opera.

"In his first season, he con-

ducted 45 different operas," he said. "So, beyond his knowledge of repertoire, he actually knew what stages could do."

Weber-Miot appeared at the direction. "Unwillingness," or chevalo-like, in the score. "The way I look at it," he said, "has shouldn't just be very soft but should actually sound like an idea, not realistic."

Mahler gives enough clues, he said, for how to think about the beginning of "Urbeln" in context of everything that comes before and after it. This a composer who made practical changes to his score, depending on the duration of a haul or the speed of a performance. But through it all, Weber-Miot said, "he was clearly a perfectionist."

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Film

Mixing Politics With Laughs

Premarital sex is banned in the rom-com 'One Night Only.'

By ASHLEY SPENCER

Boy meets girl, They hasten! They galbreat around New York City. They're trying to find love... under the thumb of bridesman oppression?

That's the setup of the new romantic comedy 'One Night Only' now in Boston.

Directed by Will Glush ('Anyone but You,' 'Every 4'), the film is set in a version of the city that looks nearly identical to readily with one owner. Premarital sex is illegal, except for the one night each year when unmarried people are allowed to copulate or will. In the movie's elaborate world-building, the law is the result of a conservative United States government and it is enforced through businesses, though there is active resistance.

Against this backdrop, the hopeless romantic Alibi (Monica Barbare) and the recently Jihot Owen (Calista Turner) keep getting thrown together via a series of chaotic events.

To get a sense of the film he was hoping to make, Glush asked Barbare to watch 'Uncut Gems,' 'Other Hours' and 'Midnight Run' — films with night treatises and ovulating stakes.

'I was like, OK, there's not a single rom-com, but I know you're the rom-com guy,' said the actress, whose turn as Joan Baul in 'A Complete Unknown' earned her an Oscar nomination. She continued, 'It felt odd, but it felt smoking.'

For Turner, a British actor best known for his work in dramatic fare like 'The Boys in the Boat' and 'Maestro of the Air,' the film allowed him to top into his other side.

'I loved how almost it was,' he said. 'I've always wanted to do an out-and-out rom-com. I did 'Diversity,' but it was more of a grounded performance, and this character is a godfied.'

Otherwise, the actors, both 36, have their own romcoms. Turner married the singer Ibra Lupo in June, and Barbare has been linked to her 'Artificial' co-star Andrew Garfield.

In a joint video interview in July, the stars discussed 'One Night Only' their New York memories and their views on love. These are edited encyclic from the conversation.

This is a rom-com that's explicitly political. The whole premise of the movie hinges on that, blue did you feel about that through-line?

MONICA BARBARE: While it does have that political numerous, interesting, I think the movie is really just an allogery for dating. You can be living with a government you don't agree with, but at the end of the day you still just want to find love, and maybe it doesn't always be your adequate a lot of discomfort and hardship.

CHALIVE TURNER: You know, the movie is about love. Ultimately, it's not about anything political. For me, I never paid attention to that. What I really liked, actually was that it's not a dyslopaic future. It's a New York that we recognize and with a slight twist. It's also an absurd idea that the government made people not have one.

BARBARE: Well, some people feel like it's absurd, and some people are like, That could happen. That's the interesting thing.

Do you think it's absurd or something that could happen?

TURNER: I think it's an absurd idea. That's the point, right? It's actually to be from our reality that we can them, as an audience, put ourselves in that situation. You're like. Well, what would I do if I had this one night? Would I cause a really 'would I take on'?

BARBARE: I think the businesses would never fly, but I actually am at a point where I have no idea. I think we've well paid absurdity in a lot of ways right now. I'm constantly affected by what I read in the news, as wholeness.

Your characters take digs of such other's physical traits, Alibi tells Owen, 'Your ears are like car doors,' 'Does tells Alibi, 'Your nose is way too small for your face.' How did you come up with these?

TURNER: Monica approved these lines. I couldn't believe it.

BARBARE: I was like, 'I've got more.' TURNER: Monica and Will have an obsession with my ears, which is where that also came from. When I was younger, ever prior used to take the main out of my ears because I think I was born with the nice that I have

now, and then my head grew into them.

Will Glush is known for musical moments in his rom-coms. Here, Alibi is a singer who records pop events for pharmaceutical ads. What were the conversations he around the songs?

BARBARE: I get to work with the same vocal coach that I worked with on 'A Complete Unknown,' but obviously for that, I was brilliant on honoring the artist I was playing. In this, I was still anxious about the quality of work, but when I was singing the postnase song, we just kept building out laughing. Eiro Rana [a composer on the film] was really helpful in getting me to embrace the emotional heights of these songs. Then it just becomes that much funnier.

Caliban, were you familiar with the concept of pharmaceutical dogma? [Direct to consumer pharmaceutical advertising is banned

in most other countries.]

TURNER: No, I didn't really understand it at the beginning. I'm aware of the commercials but not the jingles.

BARBARE: I do wonder if it'll make sense to people abroad.

TURNER: I mean, I still haven't heard a pharmaceutical jingle in real life. Years are the only ones I know. [Speak-singing] 'Procrastin, my what you want to say, and let your clear skin out.' I'm not a singer.

BARBARE: That's what I used to say.

This is a very New York movie. The city is almost another character in the film. Do you remember the first time you explain?

BARBARE: I was 12, and it was a close trip to New York and D.C. I remember being swammed with it. Then I went a year later with my mom and my brother, and we walked by N.Y.U., and I was like, I want to go

Caliban Turner and that Monica Barbare, his co-star in 'One Night Only,' and the director Will Glush 'Have an obsession with my ears.' Lorna Turner and Barbare in a series from the movie.

there. I did and up going to N.Y.U., and it was a dream come true. I had no interest in being a hot on campus with a football team.

TURNER: I was 30. I came with my mom and her friends in that period between Christmas and New Year's Eve. It was morning and cold, and we stayed north of Times Square. I just remember it was like the marron. It was magic. We went it in sharing in Central Park. Everything's bigger and leader and brighter. I was really not in care of it.

BARBARE: That's how I felt about London, to be honest. I was like, That is nothing like America. This is so cool.

TURNER: I also remember being in the hotel room and watching 'America's Most Wanted' I was like, What the hell is this? In England, we had 'Crossroads,' 'Crossroads' would be like 'A budget was stolen from his due. We have to find the culprit.' 'America's Most Wanted' was like, 'Six-time murderer.'

What classic man seems have you rewatched the most?

TURNER: I know Monica's '50 Things I Have About You,' 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,' and 'My Best Friend's Wedding.'

BARBARE: Well done, Source 'Setting Hill.' TURNER: Yeah. I have, in the past, been on the way out of the house and ended up sitting on the sofa and watching the whole thing instead.

Do you believe in the idea of soul matter?

TURNER: I do, definitely. I believe there are so many different types of love. There's the slow burn. There's friendships. There's parents. Soul mates doesn't have to be a partnership, it could be anything. Some of my soul mates are my best friends.

BARBARE: I agree with that. There are also so many ways into love and lasting relationships, but I do think there's a special far into something to certain relationships.

In the film, Alibi is concerned with finding something 'real' amid the chaos. Being in the public eye, how do you make sure you're able to have a real relationship in spite of all the noise?

TURNER: It's like everyone else. It's a very normal relationship. It's the truth.

BARBARE: It is distasteful, a very normal relationship and protecting privacy as much as possible in order to not open up to — yeah, protecting privacy is a big part of it.

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Television

Keeping It Real, No Matter How Rad

'Lanterns' looks to foster a buddy-cup feel for its comic-book adaptation.

By MATT STEVENS Photographs By PHILIP CHECNG

For many months, people eager for information about the new HBO series "Lanterns" had a single production still fiery could inspect. Many obsessed over the green ring pushing out from the actor Kyle Chandler's middle finger. What hints might it look?

"Somebody did a 20-minute YouTube video zooming in on that ring," Jeffrey Johnson, the show's property master, recalled last year on a Warner Bros. soundstage in Burbank, Calif. He did the ring into the show's meticulously crafted lantern. "The level of scrutiny," he added, "is too lacking."

Johnson knew the ring would be a "big thing." And the people involved with this set, Kristen Gowes' Lanterns became an impinging will be, too. It is the next major undertaking from DC Studios, coming on the heels of James Giam's "Supertrain" movie, which won wide acclaim last summer, and Craig Gillespie's "Imperight", which flopped this summer. Now the pressure is on the creators of "Lanterns," which premieres on Sunday, to burn things back around.

"I think of Sunday Night HBO," said the showrunner, Chris Moody's "Chuck" ("True Detective: Night Country"), who created "Lanterns" with Damon Lindahl ("Lost," "The Leftovers") and the comic book writer Tom King. "Even just hearing that whole thing when the HBO sign comes on — it's kind of a terrifying challenge because it needs to live up to that little crackle."

What the art department tried to do with the ring — wrap a thing that "can unkindly all this power" inside a relatively "pedestrian" package, as the production designer John Paine described it — is a reasonably good encapsulation of what the creators want to do with the show. That vision became clearer during two days on set in June 2020, when I spoke with about a dozen people involved with the production, and in conversations with cast and crew members since.

As the writers put it, Sure, it's a series about intergalactic experiences. But they wanted "Lanterns" to be firmly grounded on Earth — more "junkie" and "True Detective." Moody said, than the usual comic-book adaptation, more "sweaty and grimy" than "glowing and grimy screen."

It's an approach that HBO has used to great success in adapting DC properties before — recently with the gritty, now reflected drama "The Penguin," which was nice film-mys last year, many in creative arts cimate-

More 'sweaty and grimy' than 'glowing and green screen.'

ries like hair, prosthetics and costumes. Limited's 2020 HBO adaptation of "YouTamer" was similarly rooted in DC Comics' new whole-taking place in a world that felt all too real. It, too, collected several flannies, winning 51.

"Our central objective going into this way to take this cause that has all these sorts of spectacular things, and keeping the spectacular," Moody said later on a video call, "but also making sure that it's valuable."

The historic Warner Bros. let was the hub of "Lanterns" for the afternoon I visited, more than 80 people were hard at work on the production. Between takes, crew members raced to thread cables through doorways, adjust lights to the kitchen and push cameras on massive doffers. The pleasant smell of freshly planned panions walked through the air.

For all its superhero underpinnings, "Lanterns" is at base a buddy cup show — the buddies (or action can, co-worker treatment) just happen to be space cups, known as Gown Lanterns (there are a bunch of them), with supernatural powers derived from the ring. (Yes, there is also an actual generalization — effectively a fancy charging station for the ring.)

Set mostly along two timelines — one in 2016 and the other in 2026 — the seven hit-lives an older Lantern, Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler), and a new Lantern recryst, John Stewart (Aaron Pierce), one of DC's first black superheroes when he was introduced in the early '70s.

Each timeline turns on a central mystery, though Moody argued that the relationship between Hal and John is what drives the show.

Hal is brush, arrogant and impulsive. "He knows everything, and he's never wrong," Chandler said during an interview insidious of the Burbank production office. "And he has no problem telling people that he's never wrong and that they're always wrong. So it's a fun character, because he gets to evolve from there."

John is to come-degree Half-superstar—f671, drivers and poised. A former Master-sniper and an architect, John midwifery two "seemingly juxtaposed things containing in one individual," Pierce said.

"When the series opens, Hal and John are investigating a murder in Nashville, Neb. The two men are supposed to work together. But they are very much in each other's way.

King, the comic book writer and a co-creator of the series, credited Chandler and Pierce be embodying the 'spheric' model. Hal and John are in the comics. On a continuing trudge, a mood board for Hal included a picture of Anthony Bouchak. One for John included 'Mabochak. At 16 "True Detective" I let the writers also sought to stretch those characters to their limits, King said.

So many details seemed geared toward keeping "Lanterns," a show in which character-light aliens such as fly, as nutritional as possible. Half a unit, for instance, stood in the corner of the continuing trudge looking more

battle tested than high-tech. "So 6-hour min was something that we were trying to definitely dial back," said Cynthia Ann Suttmore, the costume designer.

It took 20 stars before everyone settled on a design for the lantern, Johnson, the prop master, said. It lights up in four directions but is also weathered and worn.

"It's been around for generations," Johnson said. "It's traveled."

"That lived in quality infused the set designs as well. On Stage 29, designers had built the Stewart family home, whose point ceiling was flushed with dirt and grime. 4-leg carries of goldfish crackers sat atop the retrogenator. On the wall hang family pictures and on the windows threat curtains that had seen me ill before days.

The house was tidy — Mrs. Stewart, John's mother, is "house-proof," said the set director Amy Wells — but not too tidy. Mrs. Stewart has three boys.

"Would she have a white sofa?" Wells said of Mrs. Stewart, "Absolutely not."

Top, Aaron Pierce, left, and Kyle Chandler, who play two superheroes in "Lanterns" shows, a mood board for the characters' wardrobes. Left, the show's crew prepares a set for filming. Below, Chandler is a scene from the show.

"The hardest thing to do for my job," Wells added, "is to get it to be real."

A few days after visiting Burbank, I drove 10 stars northwest to a flat, unincorporated town called Piva, where the production was filming scenes set in Nashville. When Piva was selected as a Nile radio stand-in, everyone knew the imposing meantime abutting the town would need to be removed in post-production. Otherwise, the place fell perfect. Nashville — in real life, a cry of fever than 1,000 people — is the destasis in "Lanterns"

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of Sheriff Kerry (Kelly Macdonald). As Macdonald had said while stopping by a production office on the Warner Bros. lot, that means a total of three cups are all parrading the very small town, and "they're all sort of butting heads at various points."

Sheriff Kerry "just wants them gone," she said of Hal and John. "And the more she wants them gone, the more Hal Jordan knows that there's something to stop for."

For some months, Pra's main street became downtown Rockville. (King's father is from Rockville, and Mundy, the showcanner, is from Nebraska.) Knock on the brick facade of Sheriff Kerry's Hercule County Sheriff's Office and you would have discovered it was before that knock on the wall of Rush Valley Colton a few more steps, and you would have hurt your hand. It is an actual business called Cocaine de Pra that was being used to house the wardrobe department.

can get pulled into all kinds of jobs in all kinds of places.

"We're trying to really put John Stewart on his foot inside our own show, but then, once he's on his feet, he can walk around in the rest of the DC-verse," Mundy said.

As the 2020 mystery unfolds, another Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, will make a cameo, offering a lot of connective trainer to the "Superman" movie. But "we had no directions," Mundy added, to make it fit with some other show or movie.

That gave the creators a lot of freedom compared with some other franchisees, where writers can be harassed in by mask shenigly by number two. But with this freedom comes pressure, as with the outcrye fun attention to that early image of the ring.

King hinted at a major plot (win) and a break with cames, both of which could prove controversial. Lindahl acknowledged "a real fear of screwing it up," emphasizing that

Top, a set on the Warner Bros. lot. Left, Jeffrey Johnson, the property master of "Lanterns," with a gun prototype. Above, a ring and lantern for the show. Bottom, another set for the series.

On the day I visited, cast and crew were filming a scene inside a diner they built, which heats several important meetings during the series. The roadside place advertised itself with orange block letters spelling "CAFE." As crew members prepared lights inside, food stylists outback put the finishing touches on half-notch blisterry pancakes.

Although it is part of the broader DC Universe, "Lanterns" is a free-standing story, Mundy said. It was also conceived as a multi-season show — Green Lanterns, after all,

"the thing that matters to me the most" was that fans could "feel how much we cared about that and John."

But at Lindahl also noted, "Lanterns" is a show with two protagonists who are fixated on the idea that one can abolish fear. No one is going to want to watch a "scarcely cat" version of the show, he said, this story — their version of it at least — has to have risk embedded in it.

"It is doesn't," Lindahl added, "it's going to fall on its face."

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Architecture

Woven Into the Land,

A Cathedral of Solace

By MICHAEL KENNED, MAO | Photographs by WILL WARASELA

MEDORA, N.D.— You'd be hard-pressed not to like the new $450 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It's an easy chamber and a spectacular work of ecologically minded architecture in the drop-dead gorgeous North Dakota Badlands.

The first Soderitz in New York designed it. The building is 92,000 square feet of mass timber and trimmed earth — a large Hobbit house bagging the precipice of a grassy huts overlooking the tiny town of Medora, N.D.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park is five minutes away.

Presidential libraries are all the rage, if you hadn't noticed. The policemen on Benson Weekly asked that they're arriving like hours now. You must be one, and three of them—one at the same time.

Baruch Shumart's $450 million presidential center opened in June on the South Side of Chicago in a glowering granite tower housing a museum but with no actual library of presidential records, shumart records are stored with the National Archives in Maryland and his papers are in the process of being digitized.

President Trump has announced plans for a "library" that he imagines as a skyscraper in downtown Miami containing a Trump-flowered museum and history hotel but no library office.

New along comes Roosevelt's museum — backed by a private nonprofit unconnected to the National Archives and Records Administration. It's a presidential library in name only because Theodore Roosevelt's physical papers were scattered before presidential libraries even entered. Franklin D. Roosevelt established the first one in the early 1940s, giving his archives to the nation as a gift and training a modest home for them on his estate in the Hudson Valley.

The idea was to serve public history and scholarship. Over time the institution has sampled intricacies of an architectural show party, rhinos and museums, featuring third executive-size egos. It helps that Theodore Roosevelt has been dead since 1919. The library is Medora's but no egos to stroke.

Why Medora?

In 1964, growing his wife and mother, who died from a apart on Valentine's Day, Roosevelt boarded a team out of New York for the Little Missouri River Valley. He left behind his newborn daughter and debarked below the huts in huts; much and build himself a log cabin that's at the entrance to the park.

The solace he found there inspired him as president to conserve millions of acres of American wilderness — and occasionally displays Native Americans who lived on those acres — creating public monuments, generous addresses.

The Roosevelt library foundation picked Soderitz among the architectural practices competing for the job because of how it translated Roosevelt's conservatismist legacy into a building that blends gracefully into the Badlands.

Craig Dykers runs Soderitz's New York

office. Camping on the huts—for inspiration, he came upon a pair of stones under a leaf. What resulted was a plan that splits the library into two portions: one fronting a museum and restaurant, the other on auditorium, offices and classrooms. The two partitions share a walkable roof.

Walkable roofs have been Soderitz's signature move since the first made its losses in the architecture world a couple of decades ago designing the Oslo opera house. The Roosevelt roof is big enough to park a pair of 7x7s.

From some angles, it can put you in mind of, Erev Saurianov, whole-shaped shutting-knit at Yale. But its red floor and planted beds of prairie grasses also suggest earth lodges that trench animals built across the Great Plains.

The roof's crews and tired outcroppings for skylights make the building nearly disappear in a landscape of 600-acre heedless.

Up on the huts, the library also was not receding center stage to an expanse of green about the size of an N.D., students, regarding a boardwalk. Dykers and the outstogers started collecting and cataloging needs of local genetic origins to plant on the huts and on the roof before construction began.

The Native Plant Project, and so called, ordered volunteers at North Dakota State University to grow plugs and makes the library a showcase petri-dubber regenerative esodegous extinguished across the Great Plains by music-cropping and evening music.

The canned earth walls made the library arise from a similar aspiration, resurfacing a resilient, preindustrial construction method shared by European settlers and Native peoples. They could hardly make a more convincing and eye-popping case for the technology's renaissance.

Towering, muscular, tactile and thick, with wavy, striated bands of colored soil, they're like moderate abstraction, echoing the geology of the Badlands.

Landscape restoration and climate resilience weren't on Trump's agenda when he trebled to North Dakota and—in the 1980s—on the library in July. He was joined by Douglas Burgess, his interior secretary, who championed the project while he was North Dakota's governor and praised the president probably in Medora.

Trump landed Roosevelt for being a "human" who built the Panama Canal, which Trump now wants back. He called the library a "new national treasure" but he sidestepped conservative.

Last month the White House reversed decades of federal protections and opened balance of unabashed spaces to drilling, mining and real estate development. It also met national investments in Utah and has siphoned National Park Service funds to

subsidize the president's building projects in the capital.

Western North Dakota is Trump country, as Shawn McCrorch reported in The New York Times while observing the assassination trip. The crowd in Medora chased the president and celebrated the library's opening. But I spoke with locals who worry about its impact.

A 2020 census put Medora's population at 100. Real estate prices are rising and new houses are going up in the hills, in part, I was told, because the library is expected to notice more tourists to make the Great American Road Trip to Yellowstone, Mount Rushmore and Roosevelt Park.

Ed O'Rann, the library's chief executive, said he was hoping that 200,000 people a year would vote.

Its museum may be an issue as we can get today to presidential retrospective. The Roosevelt foundation organized a board of independent scholars to say the concept. The library consulted with the Mandan, Midtown and Antsara Nation on the architecture and exhibition, which houses Roosevelt but also calls him out on his imperialism and racism, and does into his troubled relations with Native peoples.

Listen it in Roosevelt experts to assess the particulars, but the exhibition is a multimedia extravaganza and highly clever coup. The status of Roosevelt on horseback, towering over an African man and a Native American man, moved from outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the library's storage, is nowhere to be seen. An artificial intelligence histogram of Roosevelt, designed by Microsoft, rivals the show.

Trump tested the exhibition and asked the Telegram if Roosevelt considered his greatest achievement to be the Panama Canal.

"The canal stands as one of my proudest battles, no question, but goodness is a strange thing," A.I. Teddy responded. "I measure my greatest work by the lives improved, parks set aside, food and drugs made safe, the square deal given to all, not just to a live!"

As I said, clever.

Visitors move between the museum and that boardwalk I mentioned earlier — a double, compressed-achieved ribbon, woven into the huts's undulating plateau, connecting to a sinking path zigzagging across the roof. Benches, bellows, setbacks and bleaches are visitors pause and take as the views. There's a cope trampoline over a precipice to tempt children and give parents heart attacks.

I spotted a pronghere racing wildflowers and saw muddy animal tracks on the roof. Then I settled into one of Soderitz's rocking chains on the wizards at the end of a snoring houseway between the timber portions.

Roosevelt's calm rose off in the distance. The Badlands diverted under wings clouds toward infinity. I tried to imagine what the young Roosevelt must have left, a million miles away from all the same and the political areas, listening to the wind.

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The walkable Roosevelt library roof is big enough to park a pair of 747s.

The walkable roof, with its dry light, outcropping, above, is planted with granite grasses from gathered south of local genetic origin. Museum exhibits, right, includes a virtual campfire and an A.I. hologram of Roosevelt, who answers visitors questions.

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A scarring bronzoway between two timber goodness loads is a veranda with rocking chain overlooking Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Before home wander near Medusa and the nearby park. New houses are going up in the hills to prepare for an expected action of success.

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Popcast A SHOW ABOUT POP CULTURE

Beats, Blink and a Rocker's Rebirth

Travis Barker survived a plane crash, married a Kardashian and drummed through it all.

By JON CARAMANICA and JOE CONCARELLI

The drummer Travis Barker is a pop-punk star who's also been an in-demand hip-hop collaborator and go to anchor for an award-show extravaganza. A faithful, relatively low profile celebrity who married into reality TV's royal family. A former hard-living rocker who has matured into a life of long runs, breath work, and parenting a blended broad of seven.

The one coarmer throughout a career of multiphotonic albums, near-trepody and a streetwear line has been percussion. Barker is one of the signature drummers of the modern era, a ferocious penniker with a versatile ear. Trained in jazz and marching bands during his teenage skame years in Fontana, Calif., he's brought that skilled drummers to hands across multiple generals, country and etcetera; the phenomenal pop-punk horses Blink-HQ and the rap-rock north Transylvania (He even played a little local before becoming famous.)

A Barker fill is immediately recognizable,

and over a three-decade career, he's generally preferred speaking through the hit — loudly, quickly and with maximum physical force. "I think scars are cool," Barker said recently in an interview on Popcast, the New York Times pop culture that show. "I've never left a show where I'm a bloody mess, or my hands are a mess, and been like, I wish I didn't play the way I did so I wish I would have seen not as hard to-night."

But in middle age, Barker, 50, is finding other ways to share what he's been through. Last week, Blink released the documentary "Travis Barker: Loudie Than Foul," a decade in the making biography. Even his strict upbringing and the rebellion it inspired to the highs of MTV fans with Blink, through the aftermath of the 2000 plane crash that killed four of the six people outboard, including some of his closest friends. Barker barely survived and underwent years of physical and psychological recovery in the years since.

Ending on a note of rebirth, including his marriage to Kearney Kardashian and first flight in nearly 20 years, the documentary is

an uncommonly intimate and engagingly direct look at celebrity who has rarely welcomed close scrutiny, but found himself under misreaction of the same.

In conversation with Popcast's Joe Caramanica and Joe Concarelli, Barker spoke about drumming as discipline, remaining just to the side of the spotlight around his famous headmates and family members, which parts of his life he's willing to surrender to the cameras; and the life changes he's chosen to make over the years in order to protect his devotion to music.

"That's why I train and that's why I run and that's why I live, and that is why I do the things I do," Barker said. "Because I want to be able to play the way I want to play."

JOE CONCARELLI: When did you decide to make this film and why? There is very intense footage from your plane crash, your 20-plus magazine afterward, your recovery and sobriety journey, intimate moments with your family.

TRAVIS BARKER: After my book ["Can I Say: Living Large, Choosing Death, and Drama,

Drums, Drama," 2015] the conversations started. The book, the wounds were so death — that was really difficult. But both the book and the film are therapeutic, right?

It was maybe like 2015: the documentary was supposed to be done. And the directors and the producer, their goal for the end was, can you please go to an airport and see and there? They just wanted to have me walk on a plane, maybe intimating maybe one day I'll fly again. And I was like, absolutely not. There's no [expletive] way I'm going near a plane. At that time, I wouldn't even stay at hotels near airports. I didn't go to an airport for almost 20 years.

I was like, just put this out one day when I'm gone, whatever. I don't want to deal with it anymore. So it just sat there stagnant. Next thing you know, I fall in love, get into the relationship, just self-work, doing breath work — very long story short, I fly again.

CONCARELLI: You're alluding to this, but the other thing that happened in between 2017 and 2020 is you married into the reality TV

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family. You're on "The Kardashians" now, I assume learning to share more about your personal life in that format. How did that prepare you to tell the end of that story in this film?

BARBER I kind of don't even realize I'm on the show. I think the best way for me to deal with stuff like that or to be a part of things like that is to not really acknowledge that I'm being filmed or anything different is happening. I love my wife and her family and the girls and everyone. And sometimes she's filming and brothers. But I never even approve episodes or watch them.

CARBONICA Really — you don't do any approach?

BARBER Nah, I'm not on the show as a main character where I have interviews. I'm an secretary. But the show wasn't really a learning curve to opening up. What helped me release the documentary was being able to overcome the big things that had power over me.

CARBONICA I was really struck by how your children spoke in the film about fear, trauma and anxiety related to flying. When you finally said, "We and Kourtney are going to get on a plane and go on this trip," your children were saying, "Please don't. I wonder if you can talk about your conversations with them to get them comfortable with where you were."

BARBER Well, my journey getting there was I had this message therapist and I remember her telling me, you gotta do breath work. And I'm like, what are you talking about? She's like, you have so much trauma, I see, just it is your body. I didn't know exactly how to navigate after my accident — talked to a post-traumatic doctor, got so hot, would run, would exercise, do all this stuff that I just left was calling me.

A lot that was really, really cool and very prominent would always reach out to me and be like, hey, do breath work. But the guy, he looked like me — he had tattoos on his head. And I was like, man, I feel so weird — I don't know this person. I'm going to be very closed off. Dude, 10 minutes into it, I'm handing my eyes out. I'm like, a mean. And it's like that the most five sessions. But I also feel like I'm making progress, you know? I just felt different. So ultimately that led to me telling me why, if you're ever guinea-take me anywhere, don't tell me about it. Just tell me the night before. So she did, I did breath work the night before, ended up flying. Luckily I had a great experience.

But my kids were very, very protective of me and very scared, to the point where they were begging me out to go on the plane. So I had to show them to break the cycle to where they would try. Unfortunately, my kids were around there and five when my

accident happened and they never flew after that. It's sad, but they were basically brought up to think that's how people die.

COSGORELLA In the climax of the documentary, as they're going through the story of your crash, you're essentially doing an interpretive drum side set to the most favorite thing that's ever happened in your life. How was that directed?

BARBER The producer of the film said, hey, there's that scene in the film where we're gonna go to some of the footage of your plane crash and I want you to do a drum side that kind of mirrors that feeling. I showed up to this warehouse that's lit and there's fire everywhere. And I didn't say much, honestly, I just got behind the kit and started talking.

COSGORELLA With your hands and your feet. When you were done, did you feel like you had released something?

BARBER Yeah. It's so raw, it's so cathartic and intense. I think I did two sides, which were just completely off the dome, just unguise. You know when you see an M.M.A.

light and they know they knocked him out — they don't even need to watch him fall, they just walk off! I just did a walk off, I was like, I knew that's it. That was hard. Harder than I communicated. But I just thought the best thing was to just put the energy through the drums.

COSGORELLA Your fertility journey with your wife, Kourtney, is documented on "The Kardashians," but not entirely. In "Leader Than Fear," you two share the hardening story of a miscarriage that she had before you had your son. Rocky, who's now 2. How did you guys decide that this was the right forum to share that part of your journey together?

BARBER I think when there's things that can benefit people or help people relate to something, that's always a grown light. She's always trying to do something like that. So our country of miscarriages and then I VS, which failed, creating in so having a baby naturally — I feel like that's a story that so many people can relate to.

CARBONICA Your older kids, especially Landon and Alabama, are very popular online. You have this history in reality television

sion and being a star yourself. How do you communicate with them about navigating that part of growing up?

BARBER It's so hard. I mean, my son called me the other day and he's like, hey, they all loved me to go on "The Voice." And I was like, dude, you're way too cool for that. I have to tell him — because you could think I'm contradicting myself because you've seen me play drums on "America in Me!" with Mary J. Blige — whatever, I'm different. You gotta think about your idols. If your idol's Kurt Cobain, would Kurt Cobain do "The Voice"?

CARBONICA Do you feel protective over how they present themselves on the internet? Every now and then you see one of them get into some kind of scrap online.

BARBER I read by example. I used to almost get in a light with paperwork. I'm not proud of any of that stuff. I used how a temper when it came to people following us or just dumb stuff. I might be quick to react or be confrontational. But I'm like, that ain't it, babe. It's just all mine. Stay running in the direction you're running in.

Travis Barber, above and far left. The documentary "Travis Barber: Leader Than Fear" is on Hulu.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 2004

A Silicon Valley Dirt Farmer Hangs Up His Shears

By CAROL POLASSI MORGAN HILL, CALIF. — When Andy Mariani's parents tended their orchards in the Santa Clara Valley nearly a century ago, the region was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight. Blenheim apricots, Bing and Royal Ann cherries and French presses with pink and white blossoms bepewled the land. Silicon eventually replaced the delight.

Andy Mariani's orchard is no longer sustainable; hundreds of homes are likely to replace it.

But as crops grew way to computer chips and multibillion-dollar homes operated on former family farms, some 60 acres of the Mariani land remained stubbornly fearing. But not for much longer. If Santa Clara County officials approve, Andy's Orchard, which sits on land his family purchased in 1957, will be sold. Mr. Mariani's 1200 trees will be sprouted and replaced with hundreds of homes, two parks, a playground

and published courts. Now 84, Mr. Mariani says his once profitable orchard is no longer sustainable. "It's time," he said. "I have hardly any money in the bank." He relies on Social Security payments. Mr. Mariani's 200 varieties of stone fruit, chosen for flavor, not shelf life, are cherished in the region. Hundreds attract his nonmeritine tastings. At the Santa Monica

Farmers' Market, customers line up at 4:30 a.m. for the orchard's Baby Crawford pouches, Gowngage phone and Black Republican cherries. David Karp, a noted fruit writer, calls him "the Pocono of stone fruit." Mithine Restaurant, with two Michelia stars, serves wedge of Mariani's Arctic. For white containers unadecised on crumbled ice at the end of a 20-course tasting menu. CAVITING (24-59) PHOTO

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This isn't the best time for private equity firms to sell their companies or take them public. BY LISA KELLEY

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Before advising the boss on management style, maybe give it a second (or third) thought. BY WES HENZ

5 STRATEGIES

Wall Street is doubling down on the stock market, but that doesn't mean you should too. BY JOY LUMMERS

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The number of unsold companies in the portfolios of private equity firms.

Dealmaking is booming. But private equity firms are struggling to sell or take public their companies at a price their investors expect. As of June 30, these firms had 33,575 unsold companies in their portfolios, according to PitchBook, an industry data firm, up from 32,451 at the end of last year and 15,923 a decade ago.

Private equity firms generally buy a company, often using large amounts of debt, then improve its performance and make a profit by exiting the company within a few years. But lately, a combination of factors has speeded that formula, The New York Times's Maureen Farrell reported. Higher interest rates have made debt more expensive. Artificial intelligence has caused weakness in the software sector, where many companies are owned by private equity. And there is waning demand from other private equity firms.

As the deals slow, private equity firms are underperforming the stock market, presenting challenges for the pension funds, endowments and other large investors that pay high fees to these firms with the expectation of beating the public markets.

The sagging sales contrast with the huge opportunities that venture capital investors are seeing with A.I. companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. Though the first half of 2026 was a bustling time for initial public offerings, in general, private equity

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WORK FRIEND | MAX READ

Beware, Your Warning Could Backfire

After nearly eight years at the same PR agency, I accepted what felt like a perfect opportunity: a roster of impressive clients, a significant pay bonus and a role that was essentially fully remote.

But by my fifth week, I realized there was no way to succeed at this job. As a publicist, I've seen my first share of difficult personalities, but my new boss blew all of that out of the water. She micromanaged everything, contradicted her own instructions, second-pressed every decision and spoke surprisingly about employees to clients. Former employees have since reached out to tell me they experienced many of the same things.

When I gently raised concerns about her management style, she told me that she would never change and tried to get me to resign. Two weeks later, after having quietly faced a replacement, she terminated my employment.

I'm thrilled to be free of her toxicity, but if people had told me what they experienced before I accepted the job, I would never have left my previous position. (While I was interviewing, I tried to learn what I could but came up short.) Do I have an obligation to warn others about this workplace? Is there an ethical way to do so? Part of me worries about retaliation even if what I say is accurate. ANNOTATION

Your main obligation is to be honest with anyone who asks you about jobs at this time. The workplace was chaotic, the management style was controlling, and the how we are meeting. But I'm not sure what — beyond being clear to people seeking your opinion — you might do to productively 'worst' others. More email! Ad is the local paper? Sandwich board?

I mean, you're the publicist, so you probably have some better ideas than I do (then a day writer?) But you know that attention cuts both ways. It's not just that your boss might retaliate, but also that anything intended as a warning might start constantly with a 'crowd' and a 'sick' circle of trained friends, colleagues and advice writers.

You could, for example, leave a negative spot as a workplace review site (the Glass does. But a single negative review from an angry former employee is an easily discussed as needed. You could raise the stakes and write an uncertainty blog post with your name attached. But how confident are you that the strangers waiting it would treat your account over your be-are (we're 'review'?) though to wager your professional reputation?

This may sound cynical to some readers. Yet I'll guess it's a professionally familiar dilemma to you. Anything beyond privately communicating your boss experience to people you trust — and who trust you in me — is just as likely to backfire as it is to accomplish your goals. It's often noble you want to save your peers from

making the same mistake you did, but not at the expense of your career or safety.

I'm not in fear in addition to the psychological warfare she committed, this woman also did you a favor. She lived you quickly, seeing you from many excruciating months or years trying to make an a relationship situation work. Don't want to find favor by expending unnecessary emotional energy on her, or on by publicist—all other future employees, when you're not even getting paid. Your time is better spent applying to new jobs, and enjoying days free of difficult personalities.

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I'm wrapping up a summer internship, and my boss has asked for feedback on the new business. If you find useful input for a new bed, and he says it would be helpful to have my thoughts. Here he hopes to increase your people in the future.

The thing is, if I'm honest, I would have preferred that be acted more like a manager and less like a friend; the frequently brought up personal dramas — someone immediately like difficult relationship with his parents, the dating life, grief over deaths of close friends. He's about twice my age and often verbal frustrations about promotions and compensation, escaping with his own complaints and the apparent feelings of team members.

Should I try to give him constructive feedback? Is it worth it, given that I'm just passing through? ANNOTATION

The important question here — which I can't answer — is whether you think he can receive the feedback and become a good manager.

If you think he has the ability to act on it, and could grow into a managerial role, then I can go to it. The fact that you're 'just passing through' gives you license to be honest with a guy who badly needed some grinning advice.

Lawson for honesty isn't necessarily known for brand honesty. I wouldn't, for example, catalog every single category of boundary-voidship complaint for has been engaging in, as you begin to do in your letter. But you can generalize and deprecation. Tell your supervisor that you do your best work when managers are fast, direct and reserved, and that you think it's difficult to use boundaries and expectations when managers act too much like friends. You could even ask him if he really wants to be a manager, given that it would obligate him to be less professionally close to his own worker than he'd clearly like to do.

But that's only if you think he has the

capacity to make use of that advice. As you're describing him, it sounds as if he has had a rough go of it lately. If I worry that a guy who's occasionally trusts that he feels an extra about his relationship with his parents is not resident enough to hear the story set upon difficult feedback, especially from someone half his age. It may be the case that he overclaims because he's a relatively new manager, who doesn't realize he's violating boundaries. Or it may be that you're far thinner than I report because he's an emotional disaster who can't be trusted to compromise/take his feelings at the work place.

If you think he won't be able to metabolize even good advice from a summer intern, then you should move on — either with injured, encouraging feedback or none at all. The fact thing you want to do is give him another traumatic experience to dump on next summer's intern.

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Markets Continue to Roll. Is It Time to Hedge Your Bets?

The S&P 500 is in position for a rare fourth year of gains, and Wall Street is doubling down.

THE U.S. STOCK MARKET has been uploaded for more than three years. It has prevented ahead again in 2026, putting the S&P 500 in position for a rare four- a fourth consecutive year of double-digit gains.

That's happened only three times since the 1980s, most recently, in the late 1990s, that boom was also funnifically extravagant buyers based on a technological breakthrough. Then, it was the internet. Now, it's artificial intelligence.

The 1990s, recently, when the S&P 500 was more than 25 percent each year from 1995 through 1999, had another distinction. It was the only string of five consecutive years of double-digit gains in 30 years.

So the market of the current shift, those previous gains for investors in the 1980s seem bittersweet, at best, because they ended with the market crash of 2000 and were followed by an entire decade of immediate returns. During the financial crisis of 1997 to 2009, the S&P 500 dropped 16.8 percent, from top to bottom. In 2009, the S&P 500 was lower than it had been in 2008.

It's clear that doubling down on the incredible, rising stock market was not a time move in the late 1990s. But what about now?

Unfortunately, I don't know where the market is handing from here. So it's a very body size. What we do know is what happened in the past. The lessons are simple enough. Work with the stock market for the long back, but exercise restraint now, for it's everything with low-cost mates. But, and holding enough cash and bonds to our two the duration so that always come.

Timing the Market

Start one the message coming from many Wall Street strategies, who have become increasingly bullied as the stock market has risen and companies have started out spectacular earnings.

A long running Bloomberg survey found it, fully that the consensus forecast for the S&P 500's year-end close has been about 6 percent since the end of last year, to 1,000. The prevailing outlook has become more positive since, based on a low rate, a price forecast that have shown up many minus in the last few days, probably affecting the market's surge past 1,700 this month.

Such forecasts have been wildly successful as in years, but I follow them down. Because they reflect the mood on Wall Street. It's neither right now, though tempered with

Skip the nightmares and risk pooling up some awesome returns.

staying in the markets, come what may, even during text like decades. That simple strategy, which is what I try to follow, corroborated 12.5 percent annualized return on the S&P 500 (equivalent 10%) through the end of last year, Mr. Stovall found.

Then he illustrated some of the temptations and pitfalls of varying from that depends. First, he looked at the potential rewards of an impossible but — timing the market perfectly. Mr. Stovall calculated what an investment a standardised return would have been at hand, a heavy price and enough to have missed with the market's worst days in that period, from Dec. 31, 1997, through Dec. 31, 2023, and to have stayed in the market every other day.

■ Missed the 10 worst days: 14.1 percent, annualized.

■ Missed the 20 worst days: 15.1 percent, annualized.

■ Missed the 50 worst days: 16.1 percent, annualized.

■ Missed the 40 worst days: 17.9 percent, annualized.

After these returns would have been wonderful, the problem, of return, is that you wouldn't have known in advance which days to avoid. If you had abandoned the market at the wrong times, you would have missed some very ongoing gains. As I've observed in other columns, the best days for stocks are often clustered near the worst ones, and you can't skip the nightmares and risk pooling up some awesome returns.

Mr. Stovall flattered this constantly by comparing what would have happened to your investment in the S&P 500 over that period if you had missed only the best days.

■ Missed the 10 best days: 9.3 percent, annualized.

■ Missed the 20 best days: 7.1 percent, annualized.

■ Missed the 40 best days: 4.9 percent, annualized.

Many almost from the market on the strong days isn't what any investor would want, but that's likely to happen if you care out of the market at any time. That said, there's no argument about this. You would have been better off with no stock buildings at all from Dec. 15, 1996, until March 5, 2016, which marked the end of the hour market announced with the financial crisis. I see the numbers so far after. For that entire period, the cumulative return for the S&P 500 was almost 10 percent, including downside. By contrast, over the same stretch, the Bloomberg U.S. aggregate Bond Index, a widely

followed benchmark for investment grade bonds, rose 7.2 percent.

Stinking with the stock market in that decade was to experience high profits and low sales. Bonds were insular. That's worth remembering now — not as a reason to fire the stock market but as a complaint to hedge your bets.

Heightened Risk

The essential problem is that it's impossible to know what the stock market is about to do.

Certainly, right now, there are many signs that take are rising. I failed some of them last week. They include the risks of increased inflation, wars and tariffs, questionable use of vast sums of capital for A.I., an uncertain decision for the Federal Reserve under new leadership, mounting national debt, and most public ad dythies from interest rates in the head market have increased, and that makes bonds relatively attractive, compared with stocks.

Yet Wall Street is doubling down on stocks. Easements investments in A.I. and outstanding earnings experts from companies like Spiked, Microsoft, Weibo and Amazon have been propelling the market higher. Including dividends, an investment in the S&P 500 has doubled in value since the release of 12nd/1997 in late November 2022. Market valuation measures, like the price-in-earnings ratio, which compares share prices with corporate earnings, are stretched. There are reasons for caution, but if earnings remain strong, it's possible that the overall trend for the stock market will remain upward for months or years.

Valuation measures simply aren't useful in predicting short-term moves. But it is also true that a bit valuation, like those in the stock market now, strongly countermeat returns over the next decade or more, as Robert J. Sibley, the Nobel Laureate economist, has shown.

So what is an interest to do? There are an infinite number of answers. We own a exclusion as to keep it simple and forget about market timing and stock pricing; completely listened. I think with broad stock index funds at all times — and always hold bonds and cash, too, including any more effective slightly, from time to time, depending mainly on my personal life.

I haven't talked up no matter because of the latest cash interest, over many years, as I've aged, I've slowly unaltered down risk by reducing my stock allocation.

There could well be another bad decade ahead. But good day, too, results will almost certainly be coming, too, and I'll hate to raise them.

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The Public Is Pushing for a Share of A.I. Riches

Policymakers have been maneuvering to ensure that tech giants aren't the only ones to benefit.

By TERRY BOHMI

WASHINGTON — In a nation on the precipice of a technological revolution, there are few states quite like Virginia, where hundreds of workhouses full of powerful and power-hungry companies have earned one region the nickname from Center Alley.

So it was all the more surprising when Virginia lawmakers decided in late June to take aim at the industry that they had long helped to incubate. Capping a year of hard-knight negotiations, the state became the first in the country to impose a small tax on data centers based on the vast amounts of electricity they consume.

For the billion-dollar billionaire that own at lease data centers, including Amazon and Microsoft, the tax represented a fraction of what they might someday earn from artificial intelligence. But for Virginia it will be a wouldn't, supplying about $400 million next year in needed revenue, according to L. Louise Lucas, a Democratic state senator. The equal proliferation of data centers has raised new economic and environmental costs, she said, and the tech industry needs to shoulder more of that burden.

"How do we let the wealthiest companies in human history come to the common wealth? Mr. Lucas said, 'and not play by the same rules as everyone else?''

The debate in Virginia is part of a larger reckoning new underway in American politics. From the smallest city councils to the corridors of power in Washington, policymakers are rethinking their economic relationship with artificial intelligence, trying to make it their communities closer to benefit more clearly from a technology that may start (about 1/2day, an incalculable new fortune.

With A.I., the nation's largest tech companies are seeking to revolutionize almost every field imaginable, from medical research to warfare. But, among Americans, there is growing fear that the financial gains of any breakthroughs may not be shared — or, worse, that they may come at their direct expense.

John could be lost. Industries could be destroyed. Natural resources could be drained. Entire communities could be re-shaped by A.I., with little guarantee that the public would be protected.

The disparity has set off a new debate in Washington about whether, or how, the government could share in the wealth of A.I. companies and reduce them their profits. Among state and county officials, meanwhile, there is a new push to tax or otherwise regulate the industry's net hundreds of communities, led by Democrats and Republicans alike, have already tried to ban the construction of data centers, at least temporarily, as they sort through the economic implications.

A.I. companies have argued they can work with government to contain job losses or other downsides. But their generosity has its limits, and the political groups that represent Big Tech have lobbied against

proposals they see as too demanding — setting up clashes around the country with communities that believe they are owed more.

The result has transformed A.I. into one of the most salient political issues in the 2020 midterm elections, and the outcome could shape the trajectory of the U.S. economy for decades to come.

"We should be asking, 'What does A.I. owe us?'" said Britney Stevenson, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and a chief economist at the La. She fingerprints during the UMass administration. "What is my rightful inheritance from A.I.?"

Boom or Doom

At the heart of the A.I. policy debate are two possibilities.

The first is that A.I. will create an unfathomable economic boom, perhaps adding more than $15 trillion to the world's economic output by 2020. The forecast alone has supercharged the robustness of major tech companies, which now represent a big-sided proportion of the S&P 500. Two young A.I. firms, Antheage and OpenAI, are considering public stock offerings that may value both at $1 trillion or more.

The second possibility is a doomsday brought about by that same pursuit of growth. If A.I. falters, it could cause a catastrophe for markets, while if A.I. succeeds, it could leave millions of Americans unemployed. And it could concentrate more wealth in the hands of a few, like Elon Musk, who briefly became the word for tech financiers after one of his companies, OpenAI, want public in June.

The two paths have started a new chapter in the long-running political debate about inequality in America, where many economic transformations — from the trillion-

ease to the deluge of cheap Chinese exports — have parodied out their costs and benefits disproportionately. The scars of that history are evident in countries towed that institutions and storefronts darken in the economy globalized.

With A.I., the effects of automation largely have not yet been left. There are no states layoffs, for example, with robust replacing humans at scale. But the fear alone has helped provoke countless protests against the technology at all levels of government, even surfacing at one of President Trump's rallies last month.

"The political pressure is growing because people are worried," said Boon Corell, a co-director of a joint A.I. commission started by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative musing group, and the Urban Institute, a left-leaning group. "They've worried about their economic

Above, as Amazon data center in Home Ridge, Va. OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, below, and Antheage's chief executive, there became a bottom left, support policies that redistribute A.I. wealth to citizens. Senator Bernie Sanders, bottom right, has proposed that the U.S. government take a $9 percent stake in major A.I. companies,

well-being, and they see this as another threat."

The concerns led roughly 200 economists, industry leaders and former regulators to issue a warning in July. Led by Erik Bryant-Simon, a Stanford economist and A.I. expert, their joint statement — "We Must Act Now" — urged governments everywhere to "build the incentives, guardrails, and institutions needed to steer A.I. in a direction that complements humans and benefits society."

"That conversation is only just beginning at hyperverbal Washington, where A.I. carries high stakes for a country that derives much of its tax revenue from workers' and businesses' incomes. It has stoked another America debate about the role of the federal government — the balance it should strike as a facilitator of A.I. growth, and so a caretaker for those who may be harmed.

"A.I. and robotics are the most transformative technologies by far in the history of humanity," Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, said in an interview. "They have an enormous impact on our economy and the possibility that many millions of jobs that will be lost."

Already, some in Congress have issued around a history of ideas, including new times that would apply to A.I. companies' services and calls for a rethink of corporate roles. Put similarly among Democrats, there is a desire to capture more money for the federal budget. The United States has a debt approaching $40 trillion, and it might grow further if Washington is forced to provide a financial cushion for those displaced by A.I.

Mr. Sanders has proposed that the U.S. government try to offset these consequences directly by taking a 50 percent stake in major A.I. companies. Under his plan, the United States would impose some

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time tan on tech giants, paid in equity to a newly established sovereign wealth fund. That fund would be worth about $75 billion, based on current valuations. With the money, the government could immediately make a payment of more than 10,000 to all Americans, Mr. Sanders estimates, and then continues to collect their any additional wealth just to guarantee.

The idea is put without precedent in the United States. For decades, Alaska has paid small dividends to its residents based on the sale of oil consumed within six lavishes. The amount of family enough to replace a peanuts wagon, but for some economies, the fund is a tempting model for the digital age. If data is the oil for the nation's A.I. giants, supporters cannot, then the wealth they obtain to generate, the need to enter nation should be shared in kind.

Mr. Sanders is not the only one floating such an option. Even his ideological foe Mr. Trump has missed about the public coming a portion of OpenAI. While, the provincial generality has supported the pace of A.I. development — and consigned those who have stood in the way — for this signpost this year that he hoped to convince tech executives to discuss whether to take orders in their companies.

In theory, some industry leaders, including Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, and Darin Amadde, the chief executive of Anthropic, support policies that redistribute A.I. wealth to citizens. Mr. Alt-

'We don't need Nebraskans to pay. Big Tech needs to pay their way.'

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man has even lobbed Mr. Trump on the matter. Others, like Mr. Hecht, have similarly called for 'Cursed up HIGH INCOME via, checks issued by the Federal government.'

To date, though, none of the major tech companies has endorsed specific state or federal legislation, including the proposal from Mr. Sanders. Instead, they've probably opted to call for studies.

OpenAI and Anthropic declined to comment. The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement of news content related to A.I. systems. The two companies have denied the suit's claim:

But some experts are not sold on the idea of the government taking a stake, which could end up benefiting the A.I. companies more than the people who are disrupted by technology. A government that stands to profit from A.I. giants could be less inclined to regulate those companies as a way that could undermine their value.

'The prospect for abuse is no vast that everyone should be uncomfortable,' said Ben Harris, the vice president and director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

He added that Washington already had methods at its disposal to bar near the game from A.I. 'We have really good tools for taking capital,' he said. 'Our option is just to raise the rates.'

Profits and Promises

For beyond Washington, the communities that host the dividend of the industry — the sprinkling, resource-intensive computing centers that make A.I. possible — have similarly started to ask if they, too, are owed a greater share of share wealth.

Some have reconsidered their tax codes, as they question whether their ailing budgets can afford to subsidize Silicon Valley at the same time that they are making rate to social services. Others have introduced new fees on data centers to offset their effects on local energy grids.

And still other places have linked construction outright. Over the past two years,

roughly 120 communities have considered or adopted data center insurstrations of varying lengths, according to a tracker compiled by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.

Among the states to act in Nebraska, where abundant land and friendly tax policies have spurred alphabet and other companies to set up new data centers. But surging demand led Gov. Jim Pillon, a Republican, to halt a state law that had altered tax incentives to the industry, arguing in July that the 'market has changed dramatically.

'We don't need Nebraskans to pay,' he said. 'Big Tech needs to pay their way.'

At the heart of the policy response to a fundamental shift in the relationship between local government and powerful interests in Silicon Valley.

Once, communities nationwide eagerly covered companies like Amazon, Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft, including those with tax incentives and other perks. Chúng an economic boom, local officials were willing to make short-term fiscal sacrifices in exchange for coveted jobs and potential tax revenue.

But the industry's demands — and profits — grew exponentially, downturns, their promises did not pass on. And the new data centers that they even rely to serve A.I. have carried a much different footprint that creates a higher 'free new' mechanism on larger, employ fewer people, and can consume far more water and electricity, making local fears about their economic and environmental impact.

New York State has taken some of the most aggressive steps in response. In July, Kathy Hochul became the first governor to enact a statewide moratorium on data center development for the next year. She also promised a wholesale reconsideration at the state's tax treatment of data centers.

In an interview, Ms. Hochul stressed that she was not opposed to the tech industry, citing her state's previous efforts to attract a $500 billion investment from Microsoft's semiconductor manufacturer, in the hope that it would create thousands of jobs in upstate New York.

Ms. Hochul argued that the rapid construction of A.I. data centers was categorically different. She said they required more power than the state could provide, even if it could quickly construct a new nuclear plant. Nor, she added, did the data centers appear likely to create many long-term jobs; they could even have the opposite effect.

'What's the return on investment,' Ms. Hochul said, 'when the jobs aren't associated with it?'

Many in the tech industry have criticized

New York and similar moratoriums considered or adopted elsewhere. The opponents include the Data Center Coalition, a lobbying group representing major tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, as well as lower-known data center developers.

Don Davis, the executive vice president of interpolicy and government affairs at the Data Center Coalition, said that the New York policy was too 'open ended.' The issue, he added, also left some areas 'out to dry with such a blanket policy that doesn't actually account for the fact they want this.'

Some regions have indeed benefited from data centers, which have brought a rush of construction jobs, a glint of economic revival and, in some cases, a wellspring of new property tax revenue.

That includes Louisiana, where our panels was able to give bonuses to public teachers thanks to new revenue from a data center project. In Louisiana County, Va., the area known as Data Center (also has generic and so much economic activity and revenue that officials cut residents' property taxes.

So, had to capture similar economic benefits, other local governments have explored tough laws that would force tech companies and data center developers to pay up. But many of their proposals have drawn the sharp and well-bashed opposition of an industry that now counts as one of the most powerful influence in an American politics.

'What they usually say is, oh, of course, they would love to do that, but they don't want to be compelled to do that,' said Senator Josh Harder, a Republican from Missouri, who has long sought to run in the industry.

In July, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, ran, started a statewide moratorium on data center development for the next year. This month, Gov. Greg Allford of Texas, about 20,000 of a statewide audit of data centers and their compliance with local electricity rules.

The A.I. companies have been especially adversarial when policymakers have targeted their taxes. Broadly, tech giants have taken advantage of laws that allow them to buy companies, network and other supply units, and other companies.

When officials in Virginia tried to repeal that exemption — an idea proposed by Ms. Lucas, the state senator — the Data Center Coalition had a lobbying campaign to keep it intact. There, the government's order was of a series of dark money political organizations that have run ads nationally, seeking to defeat stateswide tax policies or promote the benefits of the A.I. industry.

'Virginia's data centers are there for you,' one of the ads began.

In the end, the coalition largely mourned, working from there on the state to quash a repeal that Mr. Dixon later denied that a 'punitive' festival, Virginia imposed causal, temporary and limited tax on the industry's energy usage.

The A.I. companies, like Amazon, are, I am, who promised to keep fighting. 'We're running those dollars that would have otherwise come to us,' she said.

Many of the states that have targeted data centers have encountered equally stiff opposition from Mr. Trump. Shortly after New York announced its moratorium, the president demanded that Mr. Hochul rescind the order and predicted that such bans would drive data centers to 'tied states'.

But the backlash has been bipartisan. This year, both Democratic and Illinois and Republican-led (drs.) have passed some tax incentives that benefit data centers. So has Arizona, which finalized a three-year pause in June that Katie Hobbs, the Democratic governor, said would help free up money for child care and other social services.

In an interview, Ms. Hobbs said that while some people were 'doing very well because of A.I.' the benefits weren't always widely shared. 'And some of the patchouli you're seeing from communities to that a lot of people aren't seeing that.'

Many cities and states have been spurred to action by voters who are concerned that they may be be with those the bill for the energy demands of data centers, after years of government's high inflation.

In Texas, Gov. Greg Allford, a Republican, says described his state as the 'type enter of A.I. development.' But this month Mr. Allford ordered a statewide audit of data centers and their compliance with local electricity rules, part of a series of recent actions' targeting the industry.

'Simply put, Texans must come first,' the governor said at the time.

Major companies including Anthropic, Meta, Alphabet and OpenAI have pledged to furnish more of their own power for data centers, so that they do not find their investments with larger bills. Some have already done so, in accordance with a new White House plan meant to reduce costs.

But the industry's efforts have varied in consequence — creating new energy demands in some communities, while reducing costs in others. Nor has progress come fast enough to satisfy all states. Over the past two years, roughly 30 states have considered legislation related to data center energy use, including special tariffs on the largest electricity users, including data centers, according to the University of Virginia tracker.

The fair includes New Jersey, where lawmakers this year adopted a bill by Assemblyman David Bailey, a Democrat, who cited concerns about power costs as 'one of the No. 1 sources of calls we were getting to say district office.'

The proposal augered the Data Center Coalition, which tried to circulate among legislators an edited version of the bill that would have exempted some facilities from the fees. But lawmakers still minded through a version of the tariff, which Mr. Bailey said would 'make sure the companies and developers were going to pay.'

'We're learning from Ohio, we're learning from Illinois, we're learning from Virginia,' he said of other states that had asserted their authority. 'What are we really getting? What's our return on investment here?'

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Andy's Orchard in Morgan Hill, Calif., above, sits on about 60 acres and shows hundreds of people for tears and summer tastings, right. Hot his land is being sold and may be replaced by houses.

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"We always, always, always go to Andy's Orchard," said Ron Takayama, the restaurant's co-cher. "The first time I tried a nectarine they produced, it was as if I never tasted a nectarine before."

Mr. Mariani's fruit is best eaten over the kitchen sink.

Or right from the tree. "When you're out in the orchard," he said, "you don't worry about the juice."

When he was young, Mr. Mariani plucked fruit in the orchard next to his family's house, where he still lives. He learned grafting and other farming techniques from his father, who, along with his mother and two other siblings, emigrated in the 1930s from the island of Vis, now a part of Croatia.

Mr. Mariani remembers a seminal moment in his childhood when he tasted a peach his father had grown by grafting an early Crawford peach onto an apricot tree. "I spent my whole lifetime trying to bring back that flavor and olive that joy," he said.

His older brothers were expected to operate the orchard. Andy got a matter to a public administration. But at 23, he was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating autoimmune disease. He quit work as assistant city manager in a country town, and for years suffered at home. Experimental medications eventually helped, and when he was 40, the disease went into remission.

"Because of that illness I had, I almost died, and I thought, I want to enjoy my life," Mr. Mariani said.

He returned to the orchard.

In his search for fruit that is sweet, acidic and aromatic, he digs through old nursery catalogs, visits backyard collectors, university collections and obscure nurseries. In Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a botanist gave him two seeds from golden yellow nectarines. He planted and replanted seeds, selecting the best strain, which became his Silk Road nectarines.

He rescued a peach that the University of California, Davis, had rejected for being too small and delicate for commercial use. Mr. Mariani tasted as it the exotic flavor of his father's Crawford peach. He named the new fruit Baby Crawford, which became his most popular peach.

As Mr. Mariani farmed, his orchard became increasingly locked in Technology companies like Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Google and Meta grew, and in did the population. In 1950, when Mr. Mariani was 5, Santa Clara County had 230,547 residents. Today, it has 1.9 million, and a raging de-

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mand for housing. Urbanization and farming are incompatible, Mr. Mariani said.

Deer and squirrels dine on his fruit. He also copes with an invasive fruit fly, an insidious oak root fungus and "catastrophic climate change," he said. This winter's inadequate chill resulted in almost no Baby Crawford peaches or cherries, his largest and traditionally most profitable crop.

Farming Mr. Mariani's way is expensive. "If you grow one variety on 30 acres, you have one method of thinning, peaning and irrigation," he said. But with so many varieties, cultivation must be customized.

Some trees must be picked every other day for two weeks, said Jose Garcia, Mr. Mariani's foreman. "Sometimes if the fruit turns yellow that doesn't mean it's ripe," he said. "You have to learn it."

Mr. Garcia earns $34 an hour and is one of about 25 workers who live sometime on the farm. All but the newest farm says above the California minimum wage, Mr. Mariani said. Few work full time. Most have sole jobs. Mr. Garcia, with Mr. Mariani's encouragement, attended college and started a maintenance business.

For decades, family farms have been disappearing as corporate farms with lower pricing have expanded and young people find jobs elsewhere.

"Aging farmers are met with an alternative of developing their land or going broke," said Julie F. Morris, the Santa Clara County agricultural lessee. Unlike soybeans, corn and wheat, the said, specialty fruit is not subsidized by the federal government. "The fact that we are losing the land and conditions that create those Biesheim apricots is a tragedy."

Much Mariani, Andy's older brother, who farms 12 acres, said, "Biesheim apricots are so delicate you can hardly take them across the street without their falling apart." Andy's Orchard is one of the few remaining farms that grow the once potential fruit.

For generations, farmers grow fruit in this region with its alluvial soil, sun-punched summers and cool winters. At mid-century, an estimated 100,000 acres were orchards; now, fewer than 4,000 acres remain.

While other family orchards sold chunks of land to keep their farms going, Mr. Mariani narrowed by operating a country store where he sells fruit, chocolate-dipped dried apricots and jams. He also sells wholesale

The orchard is owned and run by the 80-year-old Andy Mariani, left, and it has been in his family since 1997. He lets tour group members pick some of his fruit, above, including peaches, plums, cherries and apricots. Large sections of the farm are used for driving Mr. Mariani's fruit, above right, center.

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Before peaches set out for tasting, and shoppers at the farm's store, which sole fruit, chocolate-dipped dried apricots, jams and other products. Bottom left, the 1500-trees, tractors and fruit will be sprouted and replaced with hundreds of homes, free parks, a playground and published courts if the proposed sale is approved by county officials.

to high-end specialty markets.

He calls himself a "dirt farmer," which he says is a farmer who earns all his income from farming, as opposed to a "gentleman farmer," who has money from other sources. Now he is joining their ranks.

After a decade of losses, Mr. Marzani agreed with his brother to sell the farm. He never married and has no offspring. And no one in the younger Marzani generation wants to operate a failing business.

Mana Investments, a California real estate investment firm, has an option to buy what it calls the Marzani Ranch, with plans to build 370 homes. Mr. Marzani and his brother won't discuss the terms of the offer.

Scott Murray, a Mana Investments partner, said that "at a minimum" one acre that "is ready to break ground to worth a million dollars." When the project is completed, Mana Investments anticipates revenue of $600 million. An environmental impact report is expected to be completed within a year.

Mr. Marzani expects that some orchard workers will return to their families in Mexico and that others will attend school or search for work. And he will move out of the family homestead to a friend's house in town.

"I'm for preserving agriculture," he said, "but not where it's no longer viable." He will continue farming on 25 acres of leased land.

Still, he said, the demise of Andy's Orchard will be "best threshing." At that year's final tasting, as Mr. Marzani sat in a weathered chair near the tasting tables, a young boy called out, "Thank you, Andy, for growing amazing fruit!"

Mr. Marzani applauded. He was reminded of his first taste of his father's Crawford peach. "That's what I'll miss," he said. "I'm trying to give kids the same experience I got."

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Island Accessory Is a Mainland Hit

Long waits and eye-popping prices aren't deterring fans of Nantucket friendship baskets.

By MARIA SANTA PHISE

In 2020, Jackie Wagner started saving money to buy her very own Nantucket friendship basket.

Last month, Wagner, a 28-year-old lawyer from Chicago, made that dream a reality when she placed an order with the Four

Winds Craft Guild in Nantucket, in Massachusetts, for one of the baskets, a specialty particular to that island. She paid $2,000 for the eight-inch piece, and expects to pay another $5,000 for the custom carved design on top after she receives it in six to eight months. Wagner, who regularly vacations on Nantucket, considers it not just a 30th birthday present to herself, but a sign that "I've made it."

Lauren Lowe, 40, an interior designer from Atlanta, also placed an order last month with Four Winds for her first friend-

ship basket. In a phone interview, she said, "It's so interesting to have a piece of history and craftsmanship that you get to wear as fashion." She hopes to get her basket — one that, like Wagner's, will be crafted by the local basket maker Larry Brewster — by Christmas. She declined to share how much she paid.

The workmanship, the price tag, the wait. Sound familiar? An tourism scare amid a social media obsession with Nantucket, a tiny island of about 35,000 to 80,000 residents overtime in no room.

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Here, Chaplin and Valentino Would Fit Right In

The Modern Silent Shorts festival belongs an old cinematic form back to life.

By ALEX VADYREK

Norma Desmond would have approved. A mid-our silent film festival took place the other night on the grounds of a forbidding castle on a rocky, uninhabited island in the Hudson River. Unwin man-died popcorn as they won last seven a.m. short a.m. that paid tribute to the kind of entertainment that was all the rags before talkies arrived.

The stereogears rode a hurry from Beacon, N.Y., to result Bananemua Castle on Philippi Island (commonly called Bananemua Island). They sat under tree canopies in the buggy boat on silent films were preserved only a big screen.

But they hadn't gathered to watch the kinds of movies that Desmond, Charlie Chaplin or Rudolph Valentino would have approved in. The occasion was the festival plot on by Modern Silent Shorts, covering it was an unscrupulous company devoted to contemporary silent cinema. Since its founding three years ago, it has commissioned select filmmakers to make silent films, which are presented at its screenings.

The seven films are brand-new, but this is no place for talkies.

While the films pay homage to classic silent cinema — a slapstick comedy, 'The Weird Guy' directed by Sandy Hogg, included Chaplin-esque walks and a revelling mix that — they story lines are centered on contemporary life.

'Clarities,' directed by Daniel Jaffe and Michelle Umanovic, begins with a woman sending out an immense chain text message. 'I'm Really Scared I'm Dying THIS,' directed by Lindsay Calhoun, follows a young man who seeks advice from strangers on an adult webcam site after he suffers a panic attack.

'The silent medium was wonderful because of the inherent silence of anxiety,' Calhoun said, standing by a crumbling coin. 'I was able to create dramatic remixes that I just wouldn't have been able to in a normal film.'

A four-piece ensemble, led by the composer Karen Donald, played beside the screen. Think of the musicians who are accompanied Bester Burton Hicks, and that imagined it they had grown up on Rutherford, and that approximators (he hasn't won).

But Cyrbillon, a young filmmaker who guaranteed to the island from Brooklyn, said the evening gave him newfound appreciation for an obsolete medium.

'Mereza like 'The Odyssey' and the new 'Spiderman' are the biggest films in the world right now, but those films feel almost like roles,' he said. 'There's that thing now where if a movie isn't shaking all of your senses, there is isn't working. That creates an underreliance of pure storytelling, forcing these films makes a case for silent cinema.'

As a storm beyond earlier that evening, the festival's brandies and film producers, Lily Wodeberg and Michael Bloom, who are the cast in a ghetto. Both 21 they met an452-factors assailant on the set of a Delta Cup for a movie, and their enjoy watching Lillian Eick films together. Wodeberg recommended a more in original, a dark tongue on the horn of the actress Isabella Rossellini, who is known for hosting screenings on her Long Island property.

When a family found at Wodeberg, the filmmaker Brother Curry, attended one of Rossellini's screenings of old silent films, he was moved by the importance. He then approached Wodeberg with the idea of starting

Top, 'The Weird Guy' playing at the Modern Silent Shorts festival. Above from left: the castle on the Hudson River island where the festivals held; Michael Bloom and Lily Wodeberg, founders of the festival; and Broyles Curry, a financier of the event.

an initiative devoted to contemporary silent shorts. Through Curry's funding, Modern Silent Shorts grants filmmakers budget of up to £25,000.

Broyles's idea was, what if people were still making silent films today — what would they be making them about? Wodeberg, a filmmaker who began directing shorts as an undergraduate at Yale, said: 'The way we think about silent films is that we were able to progress out of them, but are there things that can still work better in a silent film?'

Bloom had finally come around to the genre, he said, after being a little bored by it in his college years. 'When I was falling asleep at Wodeberg to silent films in my morning class, I was totally fine with that,' Bloom said. 'But now I have extreme afflu-

ry for the genre. I've gotten into early Lollers's movies because I find them so intelligent and economic at a time storytelling.'

As night left, the stereogears sat in darkness. Alongside the new-catenau shorts, the audience was treated to lighten fans, like Brendan McHugh's 'Head Over Hooks' a romance set in Paris, and a stop-motion animation, 'Flock,' by Lucas Ansel, about a luminous street pamphletter who befriends appears. While the movies played, the dragging of Metro-Northruans could be heard in the distance.

After the final film's credits rolled, people made their way back down rocky trails to the past. Among them was Sarah McNally, the owner of McNally Jackson bookstores.

'What I found interesting in these movies is the way they made me realize how much

silence I'm actually surrounded by, even in local spaces,' she said. 'Our lives are punctuated by silence. Even so I walk away now, before I join someone else, there's going to be a moment of silence where everything we just talked about is spinning in my head. It's nice to have movies where that silence becomes the main event.'

Since Bruce, a musician who lives in Beacon, admired the castle's old ruins as he boarded the hurry.

'I think it's very strange, that thing that always happens, where technology makes us move to,' Bloom said. 'Technology always promises to improve our lives, but I still feel more isolated and alone. There's other technologies and their truths, like silent movies, I think they hope on a little more human.'

She Said 'Woke 1.0 Was Crazy.' But What Is It?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez distances herself from a recent progressive rallying cry.

By MADISON WALDOR REINER

'Woke 1.0 was crazy.' Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at New York said in a recent interview.

The congresswoman, speaking last Sunday on ABC's 'This Week,' seemed to distance herself from the positions of an era of Democratic politics around 2020, shortly after she rose to prominence.

Some on the left now saw the rhetoric of that time as ineffective and drastic. There has been a widespread retreat on driveway, equity and inclusion efforts among corporations. And some public officials, including Mayor Zoltana Mianahan of New York, have walked back their calls to感谢 the public. If 'Woke 1.0 is in the past, when did it die?' And how 'Woke 2.0' from 'From its order.'

Ocasio-Cortez said on 'This Week' that she was quoting 'Oh Dear, a lavish New York City' (one thing), when she described the so-called 'Woke 1.0. (First posted about the 'crazy' era on X in May).

That era is sometimes referred to colloquially as peak wake. In May, 'Menin Eglevore, a former State White House aide, posted on X, pruning the Texas state representative James Talarco, who is running for a Senate seat, after he stalled back statements from that era.

'I think it's great that Talarco is calling some of the biggest black comments cringe,' Eglevore wrote. 'Honestly, more young people running for office are probably going to have to do that. Peak wake got word. It's okay to say that.'

Though the word 'woke' is the central originated in Black slang and had been around for decades in grassroots move-

ments, in recent years it has been used popularly by some Republicans and moderate Democrats as a way to describe policies they view as out of town.

'Woke 1.0' extraordinary describes the age of the '1980s' movement, and backlash against sexual assault and discrimination, and the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which led to widespread private against police violence and racial injustice, said Spencer Gould, a political science professor at Auburn University.

A word that for some came to signal debates that were focused on language.

'This is what activists are prone to do, they overreach,' Gould said, adding that the movements had bipartisan support. 'They say, 'This is our moment.' Gould published a paper in 2013 about 'ordinary Americans' understandings of volcanoes.'

For many survey respondents in his research, Ocasio-Cortez was a symbol of 'Woke 1.0, he said, as well as groups like Black Lives Matter.

Seth Black, chair of the department of political science at Middlebury College, said some voters were turned off by a shift during the late 2010s to more 'symbolic politics,' or debates that appeared to focus on language.

Gould, the federal professor, said that President Trump's victory in the 2024 election was an important moment in the more-areal from 'Woke 1.0.'

'I think that's kind of a wake-up call where Democrats then have to self-reflect and go. Oh, we aren't speaking to the common person,' he said. 'I do think there's

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at New York during her appearance last Sunday on 'This Week.'

this active effort within the party now to kind of silence a little bit like academic one.'

Black also pointed to the calls to defend the police as a drastic goal. Even after the large scale racial justice protests, efforts to cut funding for police departments or get local buildings, including power, campaign and were largely abandoned.

He pointed to President Joseph E. Biden Jr.'s call to 'head the police' during his 2022 State of the Union address.

But many in the Democratic Party emphasize that the era, despite some attention-grabbing policies that never gained widespread approval, led to positive change.

'The doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get as to a better place,' Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC, describing the discussions of that era as 'frostful.'

In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez was asked why she had not under set Frenzy in a thing, a Wisconsin state assembly woman and democratic socialist, who lost the Democratic primary for governor but week despite being ahead in polling.

Hogg once called the shudding the police and said the country should 'cancel Thanksgiving,' but has more walked back these statements. (The candidate who was her opponent in the primary, David Crowley, is a moderate Democrat.)

'I think that what's important is that we have to assess what is candidate is saying now,' said Ocasio-Cortez, who has also softened her previous statutes on the police.

For Black, Ocasio-Cortez's comments are emblematic of a shift in the party, saying 'Hey, OK, we know that went too far. We know that we progressed essentially wound up demobilizing and neutralizing what could have been and should have been our allies on the left,' he said, 'and made an opening for the right to really see that term publicity against the goals that many people on the left share.'

As for when 'Woke 1.0' although short 'Perhaps it was Ocasio-Cortez's interview that delivered the fatal blow, said Jim Looser, a longtime Democratic communist whose strategies.

'In public, like if they're talking about it on 'This Week,' well, you know, then it's dead.'

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Making You Rethink How to Wear a Shirt

Charlotte Collet, a pioneering stylist in men's fashion, has lessons to teach us all.

By JACOB GALLAGHER

At 7 p.m. on the first day of men's fashion week in Paris in June, the Japanese label durable ringed its latest runway show. It was a modern, chummy skin. Supporters clustered in the front row. Sintering themselves, in models slipped just in. Wopy plaid shirts and sleeve tins were themselves, their standard feet clicking along the market line.

Two hours later, Louis Vuitton, the alphabetist of the French fashion industry, ringed its latest music show. There were non-chino-coms and magic striped suits, presented against the backdrop of a mammoth-pot peeled wave. She something out of a Dubai megamall. A penny-choc pot-tremed Vickie Wendonysson, Jeremy Allen White and Missy Elliott were in attendance. Took hands it until rimmed the runway.

In scale, the shows could not have been his/her sport. She was a plastic mike, the other a traffic-bulking blackhawks. Yet they shared one key character: Charlotte Collet, added 40 years old to the mother's fashion who, in the past several years, became one of the most important stylists working today.

She has styled runway shows for brands including Al Sandor and Pen Arctium Fashion, campaigns for Theft and A.P.C. and magazines like W. Kozlow these jobs. A Catlet beautifully emerges. It is outlawed from how people dress on the street, with a bit more polish here, a bit more conscience in shoveling there.

"I don't like stuff which is too conceptual," Collet said. She is not a stylist who further puffs up luxury fashion, layering on the gates and streets. She thrives things down, making outfits that you'd want to print out and tape to your native as inspiration.

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A video of Tate McRae using Neutrogena products inspires parodies over her light touch.

By MAJESTRY WALSHER BIRCHNER

The car starts off the many others online that feature celebrities demonstrating beauty products. In the car's home, the type you could make of them. The car's home, the type you could be found at the door. The car's home, the type you could be found at the door. The car's home, the type you could be found at the door.

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son you, ideally, wish to be.

Collet insists that it is not a glamorous job. It extends happily outcovers of clothes and crowding on the floor to job a pair of trousers on a friend. In a result, she never wears anything that would be called luxury. When we spoke, she was de-sued almost entirely in tillage. "I just like comfort work-wear, basic stuff," she said.

In her 2N, she struggled to make coat and debated working at the Monoprix retail chain.

Eventually though, she had built up enough contacts and a respectable channel to get steady work styling sheets for various White-Pingro-thick fashion magazines that catered to the most undercast family. At 10:30 she worked gradually to women's fashion because that was where she found opportunities.

"I don't really see the difference between men's and women's," she said. "On the runway you, but in the world, you know, it's the same."

Her break came in 2NN, when, suitable, having made the leap from fashion work in Tokyo to Paris, was seeking out a local style as a publicity parent-selling Collet's name, and she took the job. She found, in the brand, a shared DNA with what she likes to wear with.

"I have immense trust in her ability to add an elegant, playful style while maintaining a deep respect for classic clothing," the stander-designed Bronx, Iwas said of Collet over music. "But relatively rattleful out current direction and what we want to express without needing long explanations."

A playful and warm approach to color is the attribute that colors most often had in Collet-styled durable shows.

In the last show, she styled a suit-like color of a macular olive over a dusty dress shirt and a new with wide blue stripes. In another outfit, she complained a pair of brown corduroys, the type you could be found at Brooks Brothers in 1972, by coupling it with a merry appearance-tip-up. On one side, the shirt's color flopped out over the jacket, like an ecstasy spindle of paint on a canvas, making it a good residence didn't miss the shirt's chartroom color. Yet she balanced the whole look with a pair of brown boat shoes, like something a suburban that might wear to the country club. Chartrooms well where to challenge our expectations and where to validate them.

Ponson, fittingly described Collet's sensibility as "the first thing."

Collet had collaborated with, reputable French French button, A.P.C. among them, but working with durable was her first time setting a runway show, a very-up into a sphere of attention and comfort.

She has since styled runway shows and campaigns for the designer Simons Belletti, first at Eighty then at Al Sandor; the rising Roman to-lower label Post Arctium Fashion, and now, Louis Vuitton.

Collet styles men and women in many of these jobs, but she is conscious that her work, for whatever reason, has landed particularly strongly with men. And it's notable that a majority of designers she works with, including Belletti, Iwas and Pharcel Williams at Vuitton, are men.

It is hard here not to adopt rigid gender logic. But it takes a woman to shape a man in an idealized manner. A man can make the clothes, but to make them really compelling, you need a woman's perspective.

"She's very beauty," Belletti said of Collet. "This is what I like." All it takes, he said, is, he. Collet to make "the facts," and he knows that she is not happy with one of his ideas. That position can be hard to find in fashion, where it's the quality of an artier can give the sense that the designer at the top is always right. He is his birth, it is vital.

"I don't need to be surrounded by someone who's always saying that what we are doing, what I'm doing, is great," he said.

Singer's Skin Routine Seems Just for Show

By MAJESTRY WALSHER BIRCHNER

The car starts off the many others online that feature celebrities demonstrating beauty products. In this case, the type you can take McRae and the brand is Neutrogena.

McRae, named on a private air headed to Chicago for the Ladhgadness music festival, demonstrates her "precisive routine" by ostensibly using several Neutrogena items to remove her makeup and appreciate her skin.

There's just one problem: McRae appears to barely outclass face with the good acts. In the TikTok video, which has been viewed at least 10 million times, a makeup wipe g137s from skin, seemingly leaving her face as made up on when she began, and a little bit of the skin was not a bit of the light touch.

Viewers of the sponsored video were quick to criticize what they described as Bologneseansmen, "get the comfort" a popular comment read. "A almost finished at skin."

Several social media users went a step further and filmed purely videos, pretending to remove makeup in a dramatic style, too. Some of the most popular variations received millions of views.

Carl's Ramchins, a sportsricher and social media manager at Detroit Hill, was blamed her own version. While she considers her and a fan of McRae's notes, she said, she was "docked" by the video. "You definitely get the vibe that she does not use those

making wipes on the regular," she said.

Rawchins echoed a sentiment described by many commenters and purely creators who felt that influences and spokespeople for brands had a shift to the brand with their fans and followers. (McRae became a brand ambassador for Neutrogena in 2023.)

"If you're going to take a brand deal, be genuine," Rawchins, 25, said. "If you don't like the product, don't take the brand deal on."

McRae's video was reminiscent of marketing moments past, in which clients to make products seem enticing and away and created the opposite effect. In 2018, the actor Mike Bobby Brown apologized after posting a video, in which she washed her face with previous issues her own vegans skin care and makeup line and naturalously ridged a perfect bear at the end of the clip. In 2020, the actor Mike Mitchell gave a similar performance in a video for Black, seemingly holding the products inches from her face while using them. The gallery artist fanated to spokespeople, but years the chief executive of McDonald's made waves when he took the world's tinnest bite of a new burger on the scene.

Representatives for Neutrogena and McRae did not respond to requests for comment.

Samantha McRae, a 16-year-old licensed mother-in-law in Baltimore, MD, said that she was not about "children that can take care products and the trophies fail movement," and that they might feel pressure to purchase skin care products they don't need.

Melina thought McRae's ad posed an "ethical" issue. "If you have that sort of position of power and influence over your audience and society in general, I would not think

you should try to address things in a very straightforward way," she said. "Like, 'This is what I do,' and, 'This is what I don't do,' so at least people know that a product works or doesn't work."

Tena Tena, a drug agency in Minneapolis who also made a purely video, said she was the priest McRae's video had been posted.

"That at the thing that made me really like that, with ads like that, it's not like Tate McRae and, like, poets videos from her TikTok," Tena, 30, said. "It's very likely that a text through a number of PR, people or managers."

Eva Fina, a marketing professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., said it was the lack of rambots in McRae's video, and other marketing fails, that bothered audiences.

"Then happen thing that's so important to them is that these influences and content creators be authentic." Fina said of young people, particularly members of

Gen Z.

Dina Maydila, a professor of marketing at the University of Southern California, Maydla's School of Business, said the video lacked a core element of what made video influences content successful.

"Typically influencers are seen using the product," Maydila said. "Whether it's eating or a restaurant or waiting at a home, you know they are visibly using it. Whether or not they can't long term access does, but at least they're using it for the moment."

While Maydila said that McRae's video was "maintaining the role and role products," she added that it probably wouldn't be a continuing problem for the company, citing research showing that even negative publicity can help brands.

He was a talking about Neutrogena wipes with The New York Times, and that's probably not a product we would usually discuss," Maydila said, adding, "If anything, it will probably increase the awareness."

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Where to Shop in New York

To Look Good From Head to Toe

Illustrations by YASUS KIMATYOKIA

NEW YORK IS, WAS and always will be a shopping town. This is where America's first department stores, long-gene retail mornings, reached up to the heavens. It was home to boutiques that introduced names like Giorgio Armani, Yohji Yamamoto and Anzofine Alain to statewide shoppers. It has been fertile ground for halo-in-the-wall smoker stores, concrete temple cobbylodes specializing in rare Japanese brands and mammoth flagships for European fashion juggernauts. It is also a shopping city that is even in flux. From Boswell Teller to Barney's, from Charleroi to

Able, from Dupper Dan to Text & Trails, we could spend hours tabulating the New York shops that are just a memory now. This is a city altered by gratification and an industry spanned by online shopping. Clothing shops in Manhattan have become clustered, and fewer intrepid boutiques can arrive and thrive in other boroughs. That is not to say that the city's shopping landscape has become stale. Far from it. There is always something new to discover, to find that shirt that might just change your life. JACOB GALLAGHER

Arete Studios

A trendsetter's paradise

Katyana Aduanvicate and My Perez serve Gen Z women seeking unique and well-made pieces by up-and-coming young female designers from around the world who often struggle to be discovered and look it. In distribution. At Arete, shoppers can find studded leather handbags from Battle, a Bureau farm-based board, plaid asymmetrical dresses from Daritas in Herndon, China, and race cardigans from Campbell & Kramer in Los Angeles. Next to each designer's collection is a description of the brand and its story. JASON JASON

MICHAEL JASON JASON 110 SUFFOLK STREET, LIMER EAST DOK

Dover Street Market

If MoMA were a department store

Founded by Bei Kawakabe, the designer behind Osman des Garçons, and Adrian Joffe, DSM is a fashion person's playground. You're likely to run into fashion editors, designers and stylists among the store's eight floors. Its wide selection allows shoppers to discover emerging brands like Chepco's, Lowena and Marfan Rose, which don't have stores of their own in the city, and see old breeches like Prada and Bolencinga in a new light. TALA MOLE

NEW YORK, 20 NIGHTSHELTER STREET, NEW YORK 240 LEXINGTON AVENUE, NEW YORK

Kith

The last elite smoker spot standing

Manhattan was once lousy with deep-cut smoker spots and streetwear boutiques, new long gene. Kith now feels like the last one standing. The first floor holds the store's logo into and heads club streetwear, above that is an impressive array of global designers like Marni and Viteron. But the real reason to visit is the top-floor's mammoth wall of shoes, including Wales Bronze, Adidas, bright Salesmen, Rick Owens mates and specialty Wallabees. Word to the wise: Patience will be needed for the long wait to get in. J-6

M-6-2020 317 LAFAYETTE STREET, NORD

Front General Store

A two-room showcase of cool

Front General Store is well known for French workwear and Lovels. But its owner, Hiro Yasukawa, packs way more into on two rooms, which are full of beauty vintage clothes like mint Burberry trenches (for around 8,000), graphic T-shirts, one's dress shirts and women's tops, hats and handbags. Peppered in is a short new clothing, along with home and beauty goods. The shopping can be off-road, which is typically not the case at a sister outpost above the block, where 100% pieces from Sony Miyake and other luxury designers are sold. JASON BUSTE

FRONT GENERAL STORE, COW 143 FRONT STREET, SUMMIT, BROOKLYN

La Garçonne

Basics with life-altering potential

Filled with practical yet special women's basics, La Garçonne's store in Lower Manhattan is the type of place that might inspire paving down a wardrobe to three T-shirts, two pairs of pants, a cocoon coat and statement warings. The owners, Du Kim and Kim Kim, offer labels like the Row alongside brands like Mini Perforum, Casey, Casey, Donut and Bergfried. A premium is placed on comfort. Wants are often elastic, dresses are voluminous, confusion demands. And the shoe and bag edit, white tight, has styles for most every occasion. JOLLA MUSEK

LA GARÇONNE, COW 400 GREENWOOD STREET, TRIMECA

Blue in Green

The site of salvage salvation

Opened in SoHo before the neighborhood became a luxurious cobblestone strip mall, and long owned by Yogi Fukushima, Blue in Green brought premium Japanese denim to the city's shopping scene and remains a hub for exceptional salvage to the day. Up a flight of stairs and past its features door are shatters filled with hundreds of jeans from covered Japanese brands like Kapital, Fullmont, Pure Blue Japan and Samurai. Browsing is made more soothing by a soundtrack of Miles Davis, whose tune "Blue in Green" inspired the store's name. JACK YASUS

BLUE IN GREENWOOD, COW 8 GREEN STREET, NORD

Hat Club

Where to get fitted for fifteds

Hat Club on Broadway, founded in 1902, may be small, but make no mistake. It's a hat emporium. Caps reach from the floor to the ceiling and are organized by color, league and team (including some college teams). Visitors are greeted by sales associates happy to help seasoned snap-back wearers as well as service that their look. There are also plenty more adventurous hats, some lined with fur, finished with sequels and bold patterns like leopard print. This is the place to get fitted. J-6

MICHAEL JACKSON 617 BROADWAY, NORD

C'H'C'M'

As courant garé worth the splurge

This is the rare nests wear boutique to survive toddlerhood because of the way it meets customers in the moment. In its early years, the owner, Devesa Patel, stocked the store with rugged coats and Danish castigans. Now the pickings are eclectic and avant-garde, embracing the shifting tastes of exquisite (and deep-pocketed) dresses. Besides from Lady White Company share space with dusty Auraine customers and exhibit suits from the British brand loom. The store is also a place to find a reliable hat, like Erica Kinect's cozy tweed beanie. JASON GALLAGHER

CHENZHEN COW 2 BOND STREET, NORD

Illiana Vintage Lingerie

Like an intimate history of the boudoir

Tacked away in an antique mall in Midtown East, this hidden gene is a club to a hot world of exquisite silk and rayon greens and lacy garments from the 1980s to the 1990s in unprovenly pristine condition. Illiana, the proprietor, has been collecting these items for four decades and washes and jeans them herself. Nearly displayed throughout the store are coin purses, perfume bottles, hand-held mirrors, bangles, shoes, pillows, scarves and other gems. Not surprisingly, much of the dramatic consists of stylists and costume designers. J-6

1850 SECOND AVENUE, MIDTOWN EAST

Lara Koleji

Your favorite stylist's favorite store

In an increasingly congested Lower East Side vintage market, this category space is a rescue for broken-in Osman des Garçons work jackets, pre-Y2K Prada blouses, sinuous gold jewelry that could be belonged to your apartment aunt and netty 'Ma Sukan kutis. The selection is sharp but not static. Over the years, its inventory of vintage designer goods has stretched to include streetwear pioneers like Stacey and Gretna. Credit as well to the staff members, who are honest about whether that shirt works for you or is best left on the rack. J-6

70 ORCHARD STREET, LIMER EAST DOK

Dave's New York

For mechanics and their cosplayers

On the spacious ground floor of a cast iron building, Dave's offers a wonderful of workwear. Cartier's camera pants, Lovel's jeans and work boots from brands like Red Wing and Thorogood. Various styles of waterwear, T-shirts and accessories hang on racks throughout. In addition to mechanics and construction workers, Dave's has a cat following of younger lighters, attracting visitors from around the world. A third-generation family business, the store employs a staff that is knowledgeable, friendly and attentive. MELLES

DAVID MERRY, COW 501 SIXTH AVENUE, CHELSEA

Makie

Spoil your friends' newborns

There are two camps of baby gifting. Give them what they need or what they may not know they want. Makie, arguably, rests in the latter. Bleeuses for 500, 500 for love, and close to 1200 for a three made for a newborn who will meet likely surgeries for a few weeks. Spillaging as finery here even extends to exhausted parents. Makie also has designs for adults. Makie Vishagi, who opened the minimalist, secrete store in Sobe 27 years ago, offers clothes that are not only beautiful and well-made but pieces worthy of a hospitable look. NICKY J-6

MANUEL JONES, COW 100 THOMPSON STREET, NORD

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Marché Rue Dix

Shop in Senegal without leaving N.Y.C.

In Senegal, marchés en popular markteplaces for clothing, housewares and furniture. In Crown Bingles, Marché Rue Dix, the sister shop in the French-fenegalese restaurant Cide Rue Dix, reimagines the lively West African shopping strip as a lifestyle concept store-selling modern luxury. African apparel, vintage items, vinyl LPs, skincare, homewares and handbags made of wines, spicyclad materials. Inside you can also find branding and real salons. Eat at the cafe, then get some retail therapy to walk off your flashes join and fanya. NEW CHURCH

RUE DUBOIGNUIN.COM LOIS BEDFORD AVENUE, CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN

Nepenthes

Like an intro to Japanese fashion

If you're looking for an introduction to Japanese fashion on U.S. soil, Nepenthes's New York location has two floors, packed with apparel and/or clothing you'll find outside of Japan. Founded in 1946 by Brian Manara in Tokyo, later joined by Dukō Suzuki, the retailer features clothing and accessories across workwear, sportswear, outdoor and military-inspired garments, as well as classic tailoring with a twist and its own brands. like Noodles, a streetwear brand based in Tokyo, and Engineered Garments, which is produced in New York. THE

NORTHING AMERICA.COM JOT WEST 24TH STREET, MATTOWN WEST

Nordstrom

The quintessential one-stop shop

It's hard to believe New York didn't get its flagship Nordstrom store until 2005. This seven-floor fashion-announcement park has quickly established itself as a must-visit staple. With dedicated boutiques in store for CDC, Acne Studios, Nike and more, as well as one restaurants and bars, it has become a one-stop shop where you can walk out with a new head-to-toe wardrobe. The store also offers tailoring and alterations, shoe shares, reprogramming, engraving, eye-brow waxing and so much more. BELLEM HOUSE

NORDSTROM.COM JUN WEST 17TH STREET, MATTOWN

Outline

An inviting boutique for easy elegance

A warm streetboat on a sloppy stretch of Atlantic Avenue, Outline has the best of a friendly living room. Unexpected garments set beside each other, like a retouchy, candy colored on from Super Yaya and a print, high-necked cardigan by the uptown brand Attorney. Could the same shopper who dropped in to touch a girl-heavy pair of High Sport pants also find herself drawn to metallic Margiela table? At Outline, over. It is among the few middle and boutiques that have defined a windshield. MARIE FALLS

OUTLINGHOOGUN.COM SOLATLANTIC AVENUE, BEDFLOW HILL, BROOKLYN

Paracelo

This international bazaar is a trip

Founded by the eccentric Milanese stylist Lamar Tavella and her painter husband, Jeffrey Norfolk, over 50 years ago in Delhi, then bohemian and derelict, this downtown bazaar, with its bright yellow streetboat, is devoted to the exotic, floral and psychedelic. It offers racks of Tunisian tunics, mirrored Afghan-budic dresses, Colombian macaroni-shawh and Japanese kimonos. Labels are cut off the clothing, not merely to deter competitors from colliding their inventory, but to ensure the focus remains on the wonderfully eclectic pieces and not on who might have designed them. AT

OLD BROADWAY STREET, ROAD

Paragon Sports

An actual paragon of all things sports

City dwellers have long relied on Paragon Sports, a Union Square institution, for practically every athletic-apparel need imaginable. You'll learn its three floors, which stock everything from Wilson-Bublin and Blackie perseys to North Face seats, Salomon-biking boots and Callaway visors. Beneath its upper floor's pressed-tits ceilings, you'll encounter department-store-like displays of masterpiece-biking in Ace'seys jackets and camping set with Yeti gear. Paragon has remained family-owned since its founding in 1898, which is so small but in New York. AT

PARAGONSPORTS.COM JOT BROADWAY, UNION SQUARE

Seigo Neckwear

The shop for your statement neckwear era

Ever wonder where Bill Nye gets his quality bow ties? The answer means as a sing, magical shop on the Upper East Side. So when, Seigo Neckwapses, pooies shoppers through an array of handmade nectares and bow ties lining the walls and nestled like jewels as cows of wooden drawers. The magazine silk from Kyoto comes in every imaginable pattern: plaid, polka dot, cam and dogs — even ukulik and crossbones. Prices are from $10 to $100, quite reasonable for a collector's item. AT

SOLIDNEY AMERICA, BUDGETT.COM CAR AND DRIN AVE, UPPER EAST SIDE

Tamara Malas

Where every body can be fashionable

Shopping for fashionable plus-size clothes is no small feat. This special shop on the Lower East Side makes shopping fun for people since 6 to 30. While Malas has her own line, the shop also sells Yako McGillivray, Kina & Tom, Loaves Pierce and more, sometimes with extended sizes made just for Malas. The selection is wearable but whimsical, including brightly patterned shirts, spicyclad button-ups with added frills and T-shirts with Carrie Bradshaw's New York magazine cover re-exaggerated sections. AT

THEMMINALAS.COM LAS GUILLOW STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE

Telfar

This flagship is a whole vibe

A few years after his vegan leather shopping bags blew everyone away, the designer Telfar Clemens opened his namesake table's first store, a 19,000-square-foot hybrid retail and includes broadcasting studio in TriBeCa. Prepare for a full Telfar experience, like the floor-to-ceiling screens playing videos on a loop and the white space that makes the brand's names apparel and denim pop from underclothing racks. Above and below the cash registers you'll find the brightly displayed "bag box" which features a complete menu of Telfar bags. GC

TELFAR.NET JUN BROADWAY, TRIBECA

The Armoury

The behest of haberdasheries

A holy site for disciples of man's wear blogs, the Armoury was founded by Mark Clio and Alan See in Hong Kong as a haberdashery bringing a modern touch to her life free siding. Sir Lowie Manhattan outpaced her become a rule-making institution. Its staff members warrish goals, customers through auto from a house line made by Ring Jacket. Visitors will also find goods like tuxedoed fujigata hadres, Assor Chang shirts, Frank Chigg tweed duffels, Fox umbrellas, Breake's ties, Panama hats and pocket squares. AT

THEMMINALAS.COM LAS GUILLOW STREET, TRIBECA

Tip Top Shoes

A family business that knows your sole

Founded in 1960, Tip Top Shoes is an old-school, family-run store on the Upper West Side. Its be-wearing salesmen have the only shoes, the powerhouse of New Yorkers' feet. The store's shoes may consist of old rugs and retro-light fixtures, but Tip Top's better comes from its devotion to customer service. No heap of looms is too high if it means finding the right shoe. The shop specializes in classic comfort-wear brands like Stephens, Bickerstock and Shikar, even everything began patterned socks from Old Jewish Men. AT

TIPTOP SHOES.COM LOS W YCHO STREET, UPPER WEST SIDE

Tokio 7

The primest of prime vintage

Over the past 30 years, this popular consignment shop a block from Tonkpime Square Park has built a reputation for its frequently refreshed collection of vintage and designer items including men's and women's shoes, apparel, accessories and jewelry. Prices aren't low, but deals can be found, like a 400-liter, blue shirt, which mild elsewhere for $2,470. And patient shoppers will be rewarded further with Tokio's policy of lowering prices by 20 percent after one month on the rack, and 50 percent after two. BC

TOKYO TAI.COM BY EAST SEVENTH STREET, KENT VILLAGE

Ven. Space

A hot spot for minimalist men's wear

When the men of South Brooklyn want to avoid the subway, they can get their fits of the Row jeans, Salsa C, Landman sweaters and French-made Parabest lace-ups at this Carroll Gardens spot. Every one else, it's worth a rip. Bruce for an arm workout as you push through the racks stuffed with a beauty of the best Japanese labels, like A.Premn's workwear and Council's pleated trousers. Prices are not displayed front and center, but you can bet they are always on the high end. AC

VER SPINCE SUS COURT STREET, CARROLL GARDENS, BROOKLYN

METHODOLOGY

Producing the hot began with identifying criteria against which stores would be judged, including inventory, rotation, proprietorship, customer service, ambience, location and payoff — would visiting be worth a year of nothing can be bought? After scouring recent and archival shopping coverage in The New York Times, and seeking recommendations from Styles reporters, editors and contributors, nearly 90 stores across the five boroughs emerged as contenders. A team of eight Styles reporters and editors first eliminated stores that did not meet the criteria. Then, over months of deliberation, we whittled down the cost by visiting them all in person, sometimes more than once. The 25 stores chosen were all visited by reporters and photographers. No businesses paid for promotion or inclusion.

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Champagne Dreams on Guinness-Record Budgets

Olivia Ferney has become an expert in turning her wealthy clients' extravagant requests into reality.

By GUY TREEBAY

LAS VEGAS — Over-the-top was the mandate. The client, a wealthy med-tech entrepreneur, was on his way to Las Vegas to close a $100 million business deal. A celebration was to be had.

We wanted something crazy," Olivia Ferney said.

Ferney, 25, is a luxury-travel specialist with a knack for fulfilling the impossible desires of her ultracentiles clients. It's hardly a job she could have imagined for herself when she was growing up in Dundee, Ontario.

A child of Canadian schoolteachers, Ferney knew nothing about the world of private pro and $25,000-a-day saltuates until she discovered her unusual line of work about these years ago.

"I was basically up there in my little log cabin," she said.

Nowadays, more than two million social media followers watch the videos she posts of her minuscule with her tough-to-please clients. She is also making an impression

beyond her core audience. Time magazine included her in its list of the top 100 digital influencers of 2020. And Fifth Season, the production company behind "Severance" and "Billing Eve," has signed a deal with Ferney and her business partner and friend, Troy Arnold, for a scripted series based on their agency, Top The Travel.

On a recent afternoon, Ferney found herself in a chilled room of the Encore Beach Club in Las Vegas, counting out 200 bottles of vintage Dom Ferguson. Outside, it was 150 degrees, and the club's three nearby pools were mubbed with tourists wearing patterned swim trunks and neon thongs. Many were dragging 570 maybe Big Cops.

"It's a bunch of people getting hammered in a pre-infested pool," is how Ferney described the crowd.

Olivia Ferney produces events like the Guinness World Record-sutter, far right. In Las Vegas he's med-tech entrepreneur.

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Social Q's | PHILIP GALANES

Matchmaker Money

My wife and I have a 37-year-old son who is single. He is bright, very fit, not unhandsome and broke. (He doesn't earn much money as an actor in Los Angeles.) He has expressed frustration about dating and forging romantic relationships with women he meets on dating apps and at work. I would be happy to pay for a matchmaker for him, but I don't know how to suggest this without encroaching on his private life or possibly hurting his feelings. Do you have any thoughts?

DAN

I have nothing but compassion for people who are sincerely looking for love and relationships on dating apps — or anyplace in a world where dating apps exist. When I first moved to New York City, long before the advent of apps, I got a small taste of what your son or up against now. On any given night, I could walk into a gay bar and see 100 faces. But how do you find the right person for a romantic relationship in a sea of people?

It was difficult — not least because I rarely stopped looking over the shoulders of the men with whom I was speaking so I haunted for better options, and they rarely stopped looking over mine. Now, multiply my experi-

norexpense is a response in itself. She is not interested in being friends. It's a shame that she couldn't find a kinder way to express herself. But that's her problem. You did nothing wrong here, so don't blame yourself for her poor communication skills.

It's also normal to exist people we care about. So feel your feelings — and share them with friends and family — but leave it at that. Save your valuable energy for people who reciprocate your love and support.

Compound Your Interest in Others

I am in my early 80s. I have never been a big career, but I always invested what I could spare. I have two friends whose earnings are similar to mine, but after a bad experience or two in the financial markets, they stopped investing. Now I'm approaching a comfortable retirement, and they are looking at a darker picture. I know this because nearly every conversation with them comes around to their financial plight. On the one hand, I think. You made your choice, now live with it. On the other hand, I think. What's stopping you from investing now? How should I deal with this?

FREDDY

I understand your frustration with your friends' complaints. But this is a serious problem for them, so some compassion seems warranted. They may not have the financial sophistication to invest possibly. Next time, say: "You raise this topic frequently. I wish I could help, but I'm no expert. Why don't you talk to a financial planner or to someone in your bank?" They may need a gentle push to the right direction.

And Here Come the Wallet Photos

My husband and I do not have grandchildren. Our only child and his spouse opted not to have children. Our dilemma: What should we do when we are out with a group of friends who invariably don't talking about their grandkids? The conversation can go on for 30 minutes, and we have nothing to contribute.

WITT ANDER

As a person without children, I have some experience here. I have learned to practice patience in hearing parental updates, and I felt in occasional questions. I'm not uninterested in my friends' children! But when I'm ready to tap out of the conversation, I turn to the people around me and ask about a shared interest or a saved or a television show. Works like a charm!

For help with your awkward situation, send a question to SocialQ@mytown.com, Philip Galanes on Facebook or @SocialQ@Mytown.

ence by a goodbye, and you have a sense of what might people face today. seemingly infinite options across multiple platforms, a gamethed system of swiping that's addictive in itself and the impossibility of knowing what anyone is really looking for — despite what a be-sought say!

I admire your generous impulse, but you haven't said nearly enough about your son's difficulties to know if a matchmaker is appropriate for him. I can't imagine you would hurt his feelings by asking: "What are the apps like for you? Do you mind sharing your experience?" I would try to understand your son's difficulties more specifically before rushing in with any solutions.

What Silence Is Saying

Two years ago, I went on a summer exchange trip, and I met another girl during the two-week program (we are both teenagers). We became friends quickly. We tested almost every day and FaceTimed frequently. I even visited her at her home in another state. I began to notice that I was reaching out more frequently than she was. Eventually, she stopped responding to my messages altogether. I tested a few more times to ask if something was wrong. I could see that she read my messages, but she never responded. It's been over a year since my last message, but I still miss our friendship. Should I reach out again?

TERRY

Being ghosted can be a painful experience. My heart goes to you. But I would not message this girl again. Try to accept that her

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'It's a sickness of mine, that I think I can do anything.'

The champagne bottles were part of a stunt she had arranged for the med-to-bottosponsour, who wanted to celebrate the closing of his business deal in high style.

"He's a huge Dean drinker," Forney said. "Early in the party planning phase, she had posed a question to the client's spokesman and handler. Would six figures for the champagne done be a stretch?" That would be just another Tuesday for him," the handler said. To that, Forney replied. "Let's try to set a world record." Then she got to work arranging a party that would be deemed worthy of an entry in Guinness World Records.

"It's a sickness of mine, that I think I can do anything," she said.

To certify the record — in the obscure category of "largest champagne presentation" — Forney roped in a Guinness World

Records adjudicator, who would attend the gathering and survey the gangs-on with a close eye.

"No one is really even going to drink the champagne," Forney said, noting that her plan called for scores of servers to blast the partygoers with boldly.

After booking special access to the D.I. enclosure at the Encore Beach Club, part of the Wynn Las Vegas, she liaised with Diplo, the resident celebrity D.I. She also arranged with Adam Novotsky, the Wynn Remote was president of eightlife, to hire nearly every server in the house.

On the day of the event, Michael Empiric, the Guinness adjudicator, flew to from New York. For him, the Las Vegas stopover was just one point along a cot on that would take aim to a 30y-50y supermarket in Iowa the next day.

"I'm going to telephone the most pineapples sold in an hour," Empiric said. "Don't ask."

As night felt, the furnace heat of the desert city was still stuck in the red zone. The gates opened to a crowd of 2,600 vershes, who had paid $1,500 to $25,000 for a

table at the outdoor club. Few, if any, had met or even heard of the entrepreneur hosting the event. But that hardly mattered. What the glossy managers provided was an appropriately uproarous backdrop when the inevitable rests of the blowout would stream on social media.

Near midnight, with the temperature at 98 degrees, partygoers formed a much go near the stage, pumping their Entero-Diplo's ham-heavy set. At exactly 1:30 a.m. came the big reveal: 69 servers, clad in scraps of red terwyl, paraded before the crowd, some of them aboard Boats shaped like speed-boats, few trucks and a giant shark.

They hoisted bottles of Dean Pérignon above their heads. At a signal from Diplo, rocks popped. Some servers began leasing down a shark, squeezed it in a gray shirred glass, while others sprayed champagne at the crowd, thus achieving a Guinness-worthy feat that was the superstore, an error of position not on, in aiding Mount Everest.

Undoubtedly the worst anomalous amount in this unlikely scene was the client. There he stood away from the action, to be for the rest of the stage behind Diplo, incompetence to block some and a black T-shirt. Declining to provide his name for publication, he had earlier explained through a spokesman that his brief for Forney was to provide him with something "spin."

"He's been there, done that, soon it all," said Bryan Lee, his spokesman.

That is to say, he was jaded. Yet there is jaded, and then there is a state of means willing to empty his wallet for the momentary the 81st desiring hundreds of strangers with expensive wine. The final cost for the liquid alone (125 bottles of Perrier Joast Grand Brut, 10 bottles of Dean Pérignon Brut Luminax and five bottles of Don Hamilton Blanco (sopala) amounted to $220,000 and change.

"Honestly, he would have spent more," Forney said afterward. "But he got hit hard at the center the night before."

One of Forney's working motion is, "Our job is to execute, not judge." Given that she and her business partner are routinely tasked with fulfilling the whims of those who think nothing of saying not $1.25 million for a weeklong (acht rental on the Côte d'Azur (accessibly happened), this makes a kind of oicknyeed seyon.

Each client of Top Tier Travel must look over an annual fee of $100,000 and agree to book $1 million in yearly travel. John Block, chief operating officer of Park West Gallery, which sells high-priced works of art on create shops, said the best were worth it. Not long ago, he explained, Top Tier booked a private jet on short notice to collect his all-ing notes for a family vacation.

"You can't just order up a jet like an Uber," Block said.

Forney's videos of her work life have made her social media accounts — grunewhettikris on TikTok and Instagram — addictive viewing. Her interactions with

LOUIS VUITTON

The things Forney gets for her clients include a giant crosscast and a custom-made pitista.

the moneyed few have become digital car-ops, an escape from the realities of high-gas prices, wars and the rise of artificial intelligence. And though she may not judge the people who pay her salary, her viewers are free to hate watch.

She manages her cluster requests with patience, good cheer and a dollop of irony. No task is too large or too small. She has flown in Paris to retrieve the largest cross-sunt in that city to please the daughter of a Miami billionaire. For another client, she bought out a day's supply of an Ontario bakery's locally famous butter tarts for a holiday meal.

Backed by a team of 10, Forney and Arnold, 94, routinely score VLP parks, including reservations at hot spots like the Manhattan smokiness the Eighty Six, close accounts Formula 1 races and bookings on private Bombardier flights for clients so closely they look in places at Gulfstream jets.

Before starting at Top Tier, Forney had never encountered anyone like the client whose child experiences its medicines when an equipment malfunction forced the family to fly commercial for the first time.

"I'm Canadian," she said.

Forney humbled into this gilded world after meeting Arnold at a Miami club. She took a job with his agency partly to fulfill a visa requirement. By now, she has adapted to a life of increasing luxury travel. The couple no longer have a faced address and few mainly on the road, in lavish hotel rooms.

Before Forney came aboard, Arnold said, Top Tier loaned on word of mouth and discretion.

"We worked with billionaires and get our business through sport," he said. All that changed after Forney suggested venturing into social media. "We did informational reels that didn't land, and then decided to triple-down on close calls and re-enactments," Arnold said. "People ate it up. Basically, we have normalized what's insane."

Over breakfast at the Tableau restaurant in Las Vegas, Forney acknowledged that a lot of the clichés about wealthy people are true but that there was at least one misconception.

"People think the supererals are unhappy," she said. "They're not."

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MODERN LOVE

She Thought She Was Done With Passion

After a long period of celibacy, a widow finds out what it's like to be cherished and desired.

By KIMBERLY BLAKE

At 72, I thought I was done with passion. "I've closed my shop," I told my friends, and I meant it. I was talking about sex, but what I really meant was my heart.

My man says business lately for years—no teaching, no coaching, no sense of being wanted. My alcoholism had played a part, but so had my husband's experience and relentless commitment to work. Just as I began to find my footing—going to meetings, getting help—my husband began to lose his.

First, he learned he had Alzheimer's, then he lost his brainwork, his ability to pay bills, to drive a car, even to train on the television. I moved him for five years. He no longer recognized her by the time he moved to my home care.

I often sought respite at the house we had built together on Cape Cod. That's where I met Charles. At first, it wasn't common. I simply loved listening to him. His words were steady, thoughtful, and funny.

"It takes a long time for the air to come out of the hallway," he said about his struggle with handley. Sometimes he talked about himself in the third person. "Charles, have you set out? yet? So are you still sharing the doctor?"

I wondered that about myself, especially after my husband died.

My husband used to say that a room can be dark for a thousand years, but a single match will light it. For me, Charles was that match.

It started quietly enough. One day, he invited me into his old pickup to go to a widow's roadside stand to buy her homemade jam. When we got there, I thought of her as an old woman, though she was probably my age. Around Charles, however, I felt ill.

Soon we were meeting for coffee. Then he invited me for coffee at the house and he aimed on driving me there.

"That way, I got more time with you," he said, "because I'll have to bring you back."

I was flattered. Also not even. More than I wanted to adopt.

At his house he offered me coffee, grapefruit juice, milk.

"Huh?" I said.

He did again. "I like truth. I watched around his living room. His shallowness even reached with hands about language. I picked up a copy of this. Byron's Dictionary of Unusual, Genuine, and Preposterous Words. 'I have this?' I said.

When I found a volume of Mark Strand's poetry, Charles devoted me to his favorite poem. When we were leaving, he said, "Can I ask you a question?"

"OK..."

"Can I kiss you?"

I punched out down double, laughing. Not too much, but was funny but because I was terrified. I hadn't kissed anyone in more than 10 years. Not even my husband.

Charles looked stricken. We didn't kiss. A few days later, I started him to my house. He told me about his no-one, former girlfriends, even since friends with benefits. I nearly laughed out loud. Charles was 79. He lived in a cluttered cottage and drove a children's look. He proudly stunned us that he dropped a little bit of time, and he manage to have so many women in his life!

For my part, I told him that truth. My man tragedied from children in 27 years. I might be a little feral. I don't make friends easily. Most women would have guaranteed a course

KIMBERLY BLAKE, a writer in Fairfield, Conn., is working as a novel.

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pointed version of themselves. I'd handed Charles the owner's manual to all my character defects and watched to see if he would run. He didn't.

When I returned home to Connecticut, we talked on the phone every night for hours. Eventually he said, "Can I wait you?"

"No," I said.

"I'm already packing my healthcraft," he said.

"That's a little too intimate," I said. "Fine. I've taken it out and replaced it with the Book of Common Prayer."

I laughed.

He stayed for two nights. They were, I believe, the most exotic two nights of my life. Not because of what happened between us (yes, we know) - two plus we don't but because of how he made me feel: soos, cherished, desired. He wanted me in a way I had wanted to be wanted for years.

Two weeks later, he returned for three more nights. We talked into the unimaginable confusion to another. One night, he shared that when he got married, his wife was there months pregnant, and he'd wanted her he would be gone within six months. He stayed, for a time. "I hadn't lost the goods," he said, meaning the emotional capacity to sustain intimacy.

I thought, "This is not someone who hates who he is."

A few days later, I shared with Charles that I had told my children about him. They'd been asking questions because I had effectively disappeared into this new life. He said he had told her children about me, too. He said that he'd been a "lone wait" for 40 years and that I was "a cember."

Soon we were making plate together. I read up to Prince Edward Island, a Thanksgiving for two at his place. I was more excited about the future than the about my upcoming Cannon de Santiago pilgrimage with two girlfriends, a walking trip I'd been planning for a year. All I wanted, really was for with Charles.

On the Cannon, I called him every night. I turned photos from tiny Spanish villages.

Tiny Love Stories At a Crossroad

I'd handed Charles the owner's manual to all my character defects and watched to see if he would run.

The Cannon proved harder than I expected, from nights before calling Charles. I would have to sit quietly and collect myself. I told Charles I felt coldly emotional all the time, unrelentless, raw and close to tears for reasons I couldn't explain.

"It's all right," Charles would say softly. "It's OK."

On me last day, Charles turned me five thick emojis. Cats enough but not requiring a response, I thought. Whackle tremble out of the covered them, I wrote, "Yes," I stared at the scenes, not knowing what else to say.

"Not evening, he asked why I hadn't responded. He said, "That was me at my most plupist, most loving," but that I had received them like "a wish of concern." He voice was clipped, his tone cold.

I apologized repeatedly.

I made a mistake, "I've just move on."

Which is what he did:

"I've days after I returned home, Charles called, "We don't connect," he said.

I thought I'd endowed him. "Okay?"

"We don't connect," he said. He said I was no angry person. He commented about my life.

"You don't like my dog?" I asked.

"I didn't say that. But you would choose the dog, if we no."

"Well, yes," I said.

When he called him, he said, "There's no point in talking anymore. This has all gone well!"

Afterward, I turned him. Our relationship had brought me joy, I said, and I believed it had brought him joy, too. I told him I was growing its loss.

He didn't respond. A week later I asked if we could talk. "I'm not up for an inspiration, Kim," he wrote.

This word helped inside me like a spiked cat. I don't want an impatience either. I wanted to understand what happened.

"When I finally returned to the Cape a few weeks later, Charles agreed to meet. But he was cold. "I'm it too," he finally said, the response words being "with you" He called my name a "barrage" of words.

When I watched him walk away, I felt something inside me vaporize, as if he'd erased what had happened between us: the fun, the tenderness, the love.

I had no appetite and lost 20 pounds. I talked to psychics, medicine, care studies and a therapist. I cried to my friends. I wanted someone to tell me that Charles was trying her.

Then, somehow, I realized that what broke my heart was not simply losing my heart. I was so sad that I might never be reached like that again, never hold, never told I was beautiful. With Charles, the lights had come back as far as, and I felt in up like a Christmas tree. I felt hope.

For months, I thought Charles had taken my hope with him. I thought if I could only understand what had happened, I could be really put the story down. But I couldn't. And I realized it wasn't Charles I couldn't be go of. It was what he had awakened in me.

At 71, I thought I had closed up shop, certain that just if my life was over. But I came to understand that the shop had never gone completely dark. Somehow, a light had stayed on.

It's shining still.

The strophied muscles in my husband's paralyzed legs stand out as I wash his feet. "How do they look?" he asks with trepidation as I inspect his curled toes. Initially, he did not want to accept the disability, and I did not want to be a caregiver. We blamed each other. I like/like divorce. As the court also does not be declared, I don't want anyone else! Toon falling down my face, I replied, "I don't want anyone else, either." Marriage as longer looks like what we pictured, but our love still exists and can grow through the imperfect. MICHAEL DEWYSHOOT

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This Island Accessory Is a Mainland Hit

covers into more races:

chippending as the time of year), the friendship basket has become a collectible sometimes compared to an Western British bag. (Jane Binkin, the actress for whom Bionnie designed the bag at 1984, was unhesitatingly shown for carrying a single open winter basket as a purse.) New Britain now retail for $25,500 and up, and buyers must allow wait on months or more to purchase one.

Nantucket lightship baskets, as they are known when they last undersigned — friendship baskets have a lot — can take on to 10 months to make, and have a starting cost of about $2,250, depending on women and men. Young places tend to go for $6,000 on up.

John Sylvia, the owner of Four Winds, said that several years ago he sold 'a very unusual basket.' He provenance of which he said he could not disclose because he had signed a number-seven agreement, on $25,000. (On Nantucket, discretion is often the name of the game.)

He added that sales of new friendship baskets in the store were up by a little more than 40 percent this year over last year, and that sales of vintage baskets had increased by more than 30 percent.

Sakers should the South Shoal Lightship, which signs making baskets in the 1930s, are "black or white" and are not in use in the Michael R. Harrison, chief curator of the Nantucket Historical Association, could not have predicted that Google Trends data would show variation for "Nantucket Island" and "Nantucket Township" Nantucket Township in the summer of 2020. Probably neither would lose Reyes, nor Highmornings or even other less Shills made the basket a purse by adding and with current prices which is similar.

About 5,000 pieces by Reyes, who died in 1893, must today and sell for about $4,000 to

37,200 on the secondhand market. Even organizations are gaining value. Companies like Barlow sold a mass produced version of the friendship basket in the 1970s. We and We Are about $300 to $350 that have appreciated considerably. Stephen Turner, the fourth-generation owner of Wrigle Auction in Garnet Valley, Pa., recently sold a barlow basket for $1,700, not including fees.

Our bankers carry a certain currency on social media as well. Wren Alata, the contest creator behind Connecticut Luxury, who has been going to Nantucket for "decades," said her videos about "the basket's professional particularly well. She's a crowd over 150,000 views on a TikTok post last month of women and their purse at the

Bankers, Bethlee & Brice has fund-raiser for the historical association, well over the views of her non-basket content.

"There are purse baskets everywhere and that's what it was about using this badge of belonging," Harrison said. "Like, I am a nightmare. Nantucket summer women because I have one of these baskets."

So what happens when someone who spends a majority of the women who are her whole life — "all-island," as the locale call it, gets one? You know, like a master?

Connie Anne Harris, a editor for and a better Vogue executive, is admitted that it loses acquiring friendship baskets since buying her first in 1967 from Alan Reed, a master warner on Nantucket. "The basket

has a legacy, and that's one of the reasons why he has this any other bag in the world," Harris said.

Alata Randy Greene, 30, a content creator from Pandurah, N.C., who has two friendship baskets, said that in the age of 40 years, "the baskets mean more than something that can be easily obtained. In a world where everything is at our fingertips, the baskets aren't as easily accessible."

"People who are something these bags genuinely care about having some good, but will just a lifetime and can be geared down by generations," Greene added. She is at nearly planning to guess her baskets to her daughter, who was here on April.

"But Diamond, who is still 'em active and founder of Hill House Home, who grew up spending moment on Nantucket, became proactive for attention-odular. "Whenever I would carry the purse, I would always get the kind of touch-tested I'm seeing for social media now, who's to. 'Often goah, this is so special... where is it from? Tell me the story," she said.

Diamond received her first basket from an auction at 16. "It was a rich and great moment," Diamond, now 27 and a mother of three, said she hoped to pass down her friendship baskets one day. "I got one hour but for the birth of each of the three kids," she said.

The true value is the history and authority, our few collectors and fans. "There is this move away from things that are heavily founded," said Alata, the content creator. "People are appreciative in relationship, is not it?"

Journey is certainly a factor in the baseball's appreciation. Sylvia currently represents three winners, the youngest of those. "We are a probably only one of the full-time basket makers on island," he said. "And there's only one under the age of 50."

For 100, 500 Diamond, who received the first Nantucket friendship basket from an auction when she was in 2,445, Connie Anne Harris bought this one in 1967 and has been collecting them over since.

Nantucket friendship baskets, both new and vintage, are taking off.

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IT 9

One Star Shines Bright in the Heart of Texas

Austin renames a cinema after Matthew McConaughey, who shows a film and strums a bit.

By SAMRA VOS GLIDERBRASSEN SUNDAY, TEXAS — Mayor Rick Watson stood outrage at Barrel O' Fun, a carnival-themed bar inside an Alamo Drafthouse in the city's Muslim neighborhood, as he declared Aug. 16, 2020, "Matthew McConaughey-Cinema Rep."

"Be it known, that whereas Matthew McConaughey is an accomplished actor and producer, and he's also a beloved local Austin icon," Watson read.

"All right, all right, all right . . ." he added, echoing the actor's familiar refrain.

The mayor of pronouncement preceded a screening of "The Rivals of Amizah King," McConaughey's latest movie and his first major american role in over five years. The film's writer and director, Andrew Patterson, and McConaughey's co-star Angelina Looking Glass were there, along with the indie folk band the Last Bison, who performed, but the night being anti-McConaughey and his Texas-size legacy in the city

that gave rise to the indie darlings Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez.

Bartenders served margarine and Negrosia-style cocktails made with Humphries, the tequila brand co-founded by McConaughey and his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey. Around 8:15, organizers unveiled a mysterious lamp draped in fabric and a stack of cowboy hats to reveal a plaque commemorating the renaming of Alamo Drafthouse. Whether as the Matthew McConaughey Cinema, a picture of a younger McConaughey — circa "Dazed and Confused," with her 70-style side-sweep belt — was engraved on it.

As the actor's wife and three children lingered nearby, the crowd pulsated around him, tan and glistening in a navy blue suit, her curb nearly shaken back. Their phones rose when he took the stage and spoke in his traveling preacher, free-associative kind of way, reminiscing about his unlikely foray into film. A man walks into an Austin bar and meets Don Phillips, the casting director of Linklater's "Dazed and Confused."

That man went on to become a Hollywood heartthrob before proving into more dramatic roles — starting with the director and fellow Austrians Jeff Nichols's "Mud" — and launching his "McConairance," then leading an Oscar for best actor for his role as Ron Woodrow in "Indian Report Club."

Now, McConaughey has entered yet another phase of his career, one in which his persona has grown larger than the man himself — as the four of Jacobie vehicles, an author, a self-help, guts and, finally, a man

with a cinema-tunnel after him.

All the while he has stayed seated in Texas. Born in Ocala, where a larger-than-life facsimile coiled home over the small town, he left for California in the '90s to pursue acting. Your sister, he returned, relocating his family from Madison Avenue in 1994. A University of Texas of Austin alone turned "intruder of culture," he's a fixture at Longhorns games and reaches a class in the school's film department. He ran into occasions, he has flirted with the possibility of

Matthew McConaughey with guests at a Monday screening of "The Rivals of Amizah King" in an Alamo Drafthouse in Austin renamed for him. He performed with the Last Bison, above right, a band featured in the movie, and posed, above left, with the actress Angelina Looking Glass and the film's writer and director, Andrew Patterson, also at left.

Teaching a class at his alma mater and a fixture at Longhorns games.

running for public office, though he has largely kept his political views to himself (He declined to answer questions about border wall construction in Big Bend, a region of West Texas beloved to him.)

"The Rivals of Amizah King," which received a standing-reunion during its screening at the South by Southwest Film Festival last year, is a blend of genres — part musical, part here, part revenge fantasy. McConaughey plays the titular character, an apiarist with a postcarnival knack for

bringing people together, often in an eruption of song.

Though it was only Patterson's second film, McConaughey said he was struck by its originality and been sense of place. The lead character, McConaughey said, is "a legend of a man, almost mythological in his own mind and in the world that he lives in."

When a grisly accident involving a poetical snack in an industrial honey extractor reconnects Amizah with his former foster child Katero — played by Looking Glass, her first feature role and one of the second by responding to an Instagram casting call for an Indigenous actress — Amizah passes along his knowledge of beckerging to her. Naturally, this involved interacting with boss. Of the state a lot of boys.

"They were vibrating," said Looking Glass, though she said they didn't concern her much because she's not allergic.

"Matthew is allergic," she added. "But he only got rising once."

The Virginia indie folk band the Last Bison, which Patterson is a longtime fan of inspired the movie's score, which plays an outsider role in the story. The band is featured in several long jam sessions on screen alongside McConaughey, who picks up his own instrument.

"I didn't know how to play mandolin," said McConaughey, who's perhaps better known for playing the tongue. "That wasn't easy. That's just a hell of a lot came when you said got to sing. I find that when I sing well, I don't play the mandolin as well. When I play the mandolin really well, I don't sing as well."

"We had a rehearsal last night," said Ron Hardesty, the Last Bison's frontman. "We had another rehearsal today."

For the screening, audience members were each given a cardboard cutout of McConaughey's best-snackish, which could be held up like a mask or, in a pinch, used as a fan against the oppressive Texas summer heat.

"Where does Matthew McConaughey end and where does Amizah King begin?" asked Anthony D'Armandro, a reporter from Deadline, during a question-and-answer session that followed the film. The actor laughed in response.

Then, shortly after, McConaughey was outrage, marched in hand.

As the best-pounding folk music played, the sort that would ordinarily seem to demand dancing, many in the audience stood still, instead training their phrases on McConaughey, pointing in the asylum cameras would allow, taking pictures of McConaughey, recording McConaughey, posting McConaughey.

Whether his singing was better than his mandolin playing, it was hard to tell. Really, it didn't matter at all.

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Vows

LAURA DILORENZO and DAVID DISKIN

Was He the One? Her Hairdresser Was Pretty Sure.

By RONALD R. RADOMSKY

Laura May DiLorenzo got an unexpected add-on in October 2023 at the Bumble and Bumble hair salon in Manhattan's meadowing district right before her first date with David Mark Diskin.

"He careful, I have a reputation for doing people's hair on hair, but this with that before spouse," she recalled Eveline's encouraging, her hairceptor, saying after she mentioned her place for the evening. She said later, over email, that he's had about three other clients who have met such a date. I

DiLorenzo, 53, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption University in Wisconsin, Mass., is the chief marketing officer for Second Stage Church, a nonprofit theater company for producer works by contemporary playwrights like Lee and two Tony friends for host overall at a play — "Appropriate" in 2016 and "Take Me Out" in 2023.

Freddy, called, said a bit nervous, DiLorenzo, who considered her hairceptor's romantic track record a good sign, took a cab to meet Diskin for drinks at the new-distorted Orchard Townhouse restaurant in Chelsea.

"Weren't you supposed to introduce me to your name?" Diskin, 61, had finally asked DiLorenzo's brother, a couple of weeks earlier. He was a friend, and business partner at Aconelino Shaving, who had been pregnant and shares digital files, which Diskin founded this year.

Diskin had been devastated after his wife, Paoli, died of kidney cancer in 2021.

"It was past, beyond past," said Diskin, who had been married 28 years and have we daughters, now 25 and 26. "My wife was encouraging me to live my life and to be happy."

So was DiLorenzo's brother, Jim, who used to take up to dinner with Paoli, Diskin, and Evelyn DiLorenzo, DiLorenzo's sister-in-law, who had gone paddleboarding with Paoli.

"She thought we would make a good couple," heard on a dream in 2022, DiLorenzo said, but Diskin tried online dating first instead.

After a year, he turned to his friends for a "better, direct connection," he said, only after the "right alignment" stated him.

"It was scary to stop me," said Diskin, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and art history from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and grew up in Calgary, Alberta, after his family moved from Crowsman Pass, Alberta, when he was 5.

"I thought he was handsome and had piercing blue eyes," said DiLorenzo, who quickly fell at ease by his "warm geishaught" as she sipped print unit, and for French chardonnay.

Since he was 140 spoken, she leaned in and listened carefully, a visit she gets from her mother, as he spoke about his wife. Her attentiveness moved him. DiLorenzo's best friend, Jean Tournin, had died from cancer in 2017 at age 43.

"She's very gorgeous, she looks like an incredible Diskin movie star like Sophia Loren," said Diskin, who was glad DiLorenzo was a long time since he then had 9 to 12, a 93' on course, and 1.05, a 8 feet-land-sleeping.

A couple of hours into the six-hour date, they shared a cab to the Upper West Side, where she lived and he was staying overnight at the White Street, and stopped for a nightcare at the Owls Tail, a cocktail

Laura DiLorenzo and David Diskin at their July 25 wedding in Bridgehampton, N.Y. "We both had to go through separate journeys to fall in love as quickly as we did," DiLorenzo said.

bar and restaurant.

"Are we in a Woody Allen movie now?" he asked, as they sat under an awning and flirted to the patter of catalogue.

Later, when the rain let up, they stood on the corner of Broadway and 11th Street, and he leaned in for a kiss. They held hands as he walked her home, and then parted with another kiss.

"I liked the way he looks at the world through an artistic lens, a philosophical laser," she said.

Until 2022, Diskin owned Arttronic home design firm that created 5,000 original large-scale wall art designs on canvas including music collaborations with Dolly Porton, the first Breathe Foundation and Gaggy Martyr. He also channeled his good one-occiptors and painting, with an exhibit in fall 2023 in East Hampton, N.Y.

The next day he sent her a bleary, cool Clint Baker song, which was music to her ears.

"Let's get lost, lost in each other's arms."

Baker trounced and played trumpet while she was on route by train to visit her guest who is like Mark Cohan, where she grew up.

They kept in touch during her trip with a friend to New Orleans, and two weeks later had another six-hour date including dinner at Lavagna, an East Village Indian restaurant. By the third date they exchanged "I love you."

In November, during his five-day revicts in town, York hotel designed when she accompanied him one afternoon to the new-cheed Bowery location of Bang Bang Tae-vo, where he got a peaceful brother tattoo representing gratitude for all things in life," he said.

"I think you've been loved," he told her that evening during dinner at Robbe in Greenwich Village. "I don't think you've been honored, and I want to know you."

He then slipped in, "I'm glad you're my girlfriend" and marked the occasion the next evening with an Elsa Perrin light-heart and shunned bracelet from Tiffany's.

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When July 25, 2026.

Where Bridgehampton Towns & Surf Club, Bridgehampton, N.Y.

An Inspiration: DiLorenzo's Fourth of July flag calm, saving two Danforth recipes, because a 20-year tradition, and a bit of a legend, at her brother and sister-in-law's July 4 barbecue. Kathy Berden Cairns, a flag Harbor taker, smoked it 6 to 20-inch sheet cake based on it, including French butter and the other ingredients. later generated with handkerzes, reduced of a flag. The cake until 7 and filtered.

The 6th Connection: DiLorenzo said she lived on about 90 dreams. "I wanted something different, a little, with a bit of an edge," she said. She settled on the last green by Danielle Frankenhahn, which had a crotch sequence and clothes, and found partial white stone at the waist. Diskin wore a silver piece that is the County that had not a British vintage color and therefore six pin, from the bride, on a kitchenware.

After online dating, a businessman finds a direct connection.

In mid-December 2023, Diskin accompanied DiLorenzo to the Second Stage Broadway opening of "Appropriate."

"I take him to everything we produce," she said, "everywhere I'm it."

On New Year's Eve, they started in 2024 with Champagne at midnight as they watched December over Central Park from the 9th Day of the Mandarin Oriental hotel. In January, she showed him around 50,000, which she knew well from winter vacations with friends.

"When we met, all of our guests were in their 90s, and we were able to spend time with all four officers," she said. "I were a lot of fun before a nativity in David."

His mother was a descendant of an original housewives settler, his father, a Holocaust survivor, often visited Japan and self-published an astrology party. "From Daising to Dhaerba."

"I always had a spiritual nature," said Diskin, inspired by Buddhism and Judaism. Diskin also got on famously with DiLorenzo's mother.

"They were delightful and delicious together," said DiLorenzo, who described her mother as an important one, who turned to her daughter as soon as she met him, and asked, "Will he marry me?"

He then stood by during her parents' ill-receive and in summer 2024, when her family, 2,500, was a loved eight weeks later by her mother. 51

In April 2023, on route to the Larson's one morning on a trip to Paris, Diskin served up a bit of local history, with a brief when they stopped at Paul she also looking toward Post Nest.

"Also on that day in history," he said, as he went down on on leave with an emerald cell shunned ring, "David Diskin asked Laura DiLorenzo, 'Will you marry me?'"

They then saw the Mona Lion, and celebrated their evening with a 21-course dinner at Restaurant Gay Savoy, concluding the very spot where he proposed.

In June 2023, they moved together to a house to flag the Inn, N.Y., while keeping her Upper West Side apartment.

On July 23, Robin Daniel Gettin, affiliated with Temple-Ashe Israel in Sag Harbor, affiliated the ceremony before 100 guests on Merck Road at cancer by the Bridgehampton Towns & Surf Club in Bridgehampton, N.Y., where the bride's best friend, Donna Haenszel, read the picture of St. Francis, a nod to the bride's Roman Catholic upbringing.

After their work, an Christian McNir's "Roughest" for Fluvwood Mac played, a sea-god-favoured overboard.

"We were blessed by the angels of nature," Diskin said.

As the reception, each guest received a personal note from the couple along with the table number, and the couple's first dance was a jazzy home here to a Frank Sinatra recording at Aniston Cactus Animals Club.

"We both had to go through separate journeys to fall in love as quickly as we did," said DiLorenzo, who were the pearls from her mother's wedding in 2022.

"A primary feeling is gratitude," Diskin asked. "I am a triagee than you think it is."

And now on route, the Grand Mylar, can add another success story to his name.

WEDDINGS

Molly Ryan, Jesus Howard-Bloom

Crossed Signals on a First First Date

Molly Anne Ryan was sitting in a hospital emergency room in Brooklyn with a shorthand woken toe when a guy from Pennsylvania died last week, more than a decade earlier, did also her daring run 1992.

Typically, she wouldn't respond to random news unless, but after smashing her foot waking in an oak-hook through the flooded basement of a Williamsburg, the she can at the time, she figured she might as well distract herself while waiting for a doctor. She answered the message from Jesus Alexander Howard-Bloom and they started on the age 94 on hours. That was April 26, 2025.

"I pretty much fell in love talking to him that night," Ryan said.

But before the conversation considered from music to motion to the inaugures Ryan had remained that fall in, she had had a misunderstanding to address. Howard-Bloom had not stood Ryan up on a date 10 years before, as she believed. She had

no harm but all Comparing notes, they realized their ill-fated place had come undone because of crossed signals worthy of a romantic comedy.

Howard-Bloom, an experimental composer and recording artist, first met Ryan in 2004, when his head Crowthered played at a party in Williamsburg hosted by the Spectra, a queer arts and nightlife community. Ryan has worked in game night clubs since moving to New York in 2015 from Kansas City, Mo. Advantage, Howard-Bloom noticed Ryan in a bubble-gum grab in games had given she had seen by hand. She was "the most beautiful woman I've ever seen," he said.

A day later, he envisaged her saying he'll love to meet up when he met: cause through. Now York on foot. That opportunity arose the following year, and she said that he must be at Lavagna, a Brooklyn bar and nightclub that has since closed. Unaware she worked there, he scanned the crowd but didn't

think to check behind the bar. She opened the home plan, but when she looked again, he was gone.

Howard-Bloom had waited to ask where she was, but Ryan doesn't always check enough, or even keep her phone charged, and he didn't want to press the matter. "I was like, 'OK, I got the picture,'" he said.

Fast forward to 2025. Howard-Bloom couldn't summon embras as to be any of his dating prospects and his friends offered advice.

"You need to go out and find the most dynamic, outrageous woman you've ever met and reach out to them because what

you've got going on over here is not calling it," Howard-Bloom remembers them saying.

Ryan normally came to mind and he was in mind, while she awaited care for her too.

"Hey, we're just we long, we literally a decade ago, while I was on foot and I've always thought you were pretty cool," the note read.

During their conversation, Ryan mentioned her favorite music in the night in the "Genius" The next day, Howard-Bloom announced that parties two tickets to a performance of the show in Boston.

A few weeks later, he traveled from Reading, Pa., where he

lived, to New York, but instead of taking a train to Boston together on planned, first had dinner at 8:45 a. Chinese restaurant in Williamsburg, attended a French technique show and bar looped. Watching how easily Howard-Bloom finished with her own circle, "I was like, where did you come from?" Ryan said.

Howard-Bloom found himself equally surprised by their connection.

"It was a crazy night that ended in an basically commentating, 'We're meant for each other,'" he said. "Every time you spent with her just felt like the most exciting time of my life."

Ryan, 34, grew up in Hillsboro City and earned a bachelor of fine arts in interdisciplinary sculpture and creative writing from Kansas City Art Institute. Howard-Bloom, 37, was born in New York City before his family moved to Huntington, N.Y., and then to Boca Raton, Fla. He studied advertising at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and brought his time between Reading and New York.

Howard-Bloom proposed to figure as Nov. 5, 2023, at the Paris Metropolitan Open, and during the abomination of "La Brilliade," the open City Art and Nicolas Cage watched at the Met in "Monumental." The film has

special meaning for Ryan since her paternal grandmother. Mimi left her a DVD of a video she died.

The couple was July 10 at Pungue, a dance club and bar in Brooklyn, with their Grand Horizons Carly's officiating after obtaining an officium's license from the 1980s of the City Clerk.

About 100 guests attended the ceremony and more joined in the celebration after April, where 200 spies and Tanner darris, a tattoo artist, asked guests.

Ryan and Howard-Bloom are intimately familiar with Alcatraz work. Her goes there and long before she is they started dating — a theory of business that adores the best of her night-based and fair night backside. Lanza.com

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The Case for Fewer Bridesmaids and Groommen

Some couples are shrinking their wedding parties down to a sibling or close friend.

By SHERWO VORA

When Taylor Swift and Evans Kelco married on July 1, they opted to begin the traditional wedding party of bridesmaids and groommen. Swift's brother, Austin Swift, served in her man of honor, while Kelco closed an honor, and was also a brother's man.

Their decision reflects a change already underway. More many times, couples are enjoying the longstanding custom of large wedding parties made up of friends and family members. Like Swift and Kelco, they may ask a sibling to stand for them as they wed or choose just a few of the people closest to them. Some are doing away with wedding parties altogether.

The wedding planning platform Joy automatically generates a wedding party page when couples are in a wedding website, which they can keep visible to him. They can also add a wedding party members, who can be customers that collected in July of more than 10,000 couples, can as four chose to hide the page as their wedding shoe, indicating that at least some of them didn't have a wedding party.

"Earlier and earlier, his exactly what we see thousand old couples doing on Joy every month. They chose their siblings, shipped the big lineup and made the ceremony about the two of them," said Joy's chairman, Janet, "that. 'Cougars are nothing, they do not need to see if it is to have a meaningful life.'"

Swift choosing a man of honor rather than a friend of honor, both said, to part of a broader trend toward comfortable and wedding titles. When couples do choose to identify their wedding parties, Joy offers alternatives to commercial times and the person of honor and man of honor instead of

much of honor, as well as honor attendant and birthpersons instead of bridesmaid. The wedding planning platform Zolo also offers alternative titles.

There are several women couples are rethinking wedding parties.

Dunby first, the editorial director of BG-Bridal Guide magazine, said couples are still trying, alarming their parties because they allow "melt persons to choose the people they're genuinely closest to."

The wedding party of Lily Jean Crance, second from left, and Heather Shaw, second from left right, committed of Custer's best friend, Will Baird, far right, and a family friend, Clarke Waldrop, far left.

"Couples are prioritizing meaningful relationships over outdated wedding conventions," he added.

That was the case with Heather Shaw, 38, a comedian and curator creator who has 2.8 million followers on TikTok, and her role, Lily Jean Crance, 25, an attorney for the state of Kentucky. The couple, who love in Louisville, married on New Year's Eve last year at 221 Mansion Hotel Louisville.

Shaw's wedding party included her siblings, Nicole and Kevin Shaw, Custer's councillor of her best friend, Will Baird, and a family friend, Clarke Waldrop. Shaw said the idea of bridesmaids or groommen felt unimpaired.

"Having a whole husband of people in a formal group seemed silly and performative," she said. "I was more interested in having a personalized idea with the focus as to as a couple."

Money is another reason wedding parties aren't as popular as they once were Just Coups, a certified couples and are free spirit and feel ready at Center for Love and Sex, a practice in New York, frequently works with couples who are planning their major roles and said many don't want to get financial return on their friends.

"They want to share them from the pressure of paying for their dreams, transfer, backstorms and backfire party tips and other economic realities out top of the expenses of attending the wedding itself," she said.

Wedding planners and photographers can also speak to the change. Sharon Hall, another of Custer's friend at Chicago, said that stopping the wedding party has become a "much more common conversation during the process."

"Even when couples do include a wedding party, they've often commuting the roles, responsibilities and traditions surrounding it rather than following a conversation during," she said.

Kelly Reeves, a wedding photographer

based at Tampa, Fla., who owns Marlock and Kelly Photography with her husband, Marlock Reeves, said that three of the 18 weddings they have photographed so far this year other skipped wedding parties or took an unconventional approach in 2015, five of the 20 weddings they photographed opted out.

"There or four years ago, not having bridesmaids and groommen was unheard-of," Reeves said. "Couples are still hesitant to have the time convenient and even said it we think it's weird."

Patricia Pearceo, 35, a nurse, and Brian Pearceo, 31, a spurious state executive, said that in Chicago, married May 6 at Walker's Landing, a park in Anadarko Island, Fla., and are among Reeves's recent clients.

The couple didn't have a wedding party because they wanted to avoid stress and hurting their friends. "We have so many amazing friends, and I didn't want to feel like I was picking and choosing between people," Patrice said. "Not having a formal briefed party took pressure off on, and it also allowed our friends to simply enjoy free celebration without the added responsibilities that often come with being a bridesmaids or groommen."

But not having a wedding party doesn't have a relationship, some longstanding wedding conventions. Sydney Engel, 35, a spahastar in New York with her own firm, and her future, Sean Mariner, 38, who works on the A.I. sales team at Google in New York, live in Hoboken, N.J., and are getting married to Dr. S. at Curson, Pho 10 at Cullane Park in Manhattan.

The wedding will be a "classic black-to-after," Engel said. "We're also having a welcome party and the traditional first dancer," she said. They're not having a wedding party, however, because it comes with a "beautiful," that doesn't feel authentic.

"We've both been in countless weddings over the years, and while we've loved being part of those special moments, having the reverse is just not so," Engel said.

WEDDINGS

Rukhaar Anamee, Thomas Fallon

Embracing the Healing Power of Goodness

It was Thomas Brian Fallon's sense of humor that stood out to Rukhaar Anamee after matching on things in August 2020.

"We brought the personality out of our duel I never thought control growing up in Afghanistan," said Anamee, who was a broadcast paradoxist in Nobel before returning to New York in 2022. Since then, though she maintains a passion for journalism, don't have nothing in accounting—able a "very little one that I prevent" occupation, so she put it. "I never even thought that 'Oh, I can be goodly I could be happy'."

The two met in October 2020 for their first date: While making her Midnaphys, a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, they passed by each other without confining it. Both were hundred-up and wearing masks.

But then they made eye contact. "I was drawn to her eyes," Fallon said. "I remember thinking, I really hope that's her."

Midnaphys was at capacity, so they went to the closest Thai restaurant and had dinner there. There was an even and an absence of shaky introduction and awkward abusers that both had encountered on other first dates. "I could pick the more than a three, and we could still talk about it," she said.

But Anamee, now 35, was following a full-time job and graduate school at N.Y.C., where she received a master's in global affairs. She also holds a bachelor's in law from Medical University in Kabul, where she grew up.

She was so busy that the next time they ever each other was a month later, and she filed time was a month after that it celebrated New Year's Eve at her apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

On that third date, Fallon, 34, asked her to be the girlfriend. He obtained her bounty and director. "She doesn't play around," Fallon said, which he found out sting.

For an latter, trip to Bedford and reliability were qualities she needed in a partner because she was living alone as New York while her entire family was in Afghanistan. Early on, Fallon proved to possess them.

When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Anamee's parents, lifelong human rights advocates, were in danger. For 25 days, Anamee worked in the same room for family.

"I knew he came from a life of stability and love, and I often heard my really might become too heavy for him," Anamee said. "But he never left."

Instead, he went to her apartment in the evenings after work, brought her food and told her to eat. While he watched her phone to take any calls from Afghanistan came through. That September, her parents and siblings died in Pakistan. (They eventually were granted humanitarian goods and she turned them and made their home in Planting, Queen.)

But it wasn't just Anamee who endured adversary Fallon's mother died in August 2022, and in August 2021, Fallon had found surgery. "She was really there for me that entire time as well," he said.

"She remembers everything I tell her," Fallon

said, "including my favorite childhood poetry—cranker-craders from the Indian history near my parents' home." Now, on every birthday, she surprised him with a crabber crabbe cake from a different bakery.

"I must be almost immediately after the leaves, and I feel so energized the moment after return," said Fallon, a short success manager at Adequate, a software development company based in Germany that specializes in location data. He earned a bachelor's in business administration and management from Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, N.Y. He grew up in Missouri, N.Y.

In October 2021, Anamee, now a global compliance and reporting manager at Evans's Young, and Fallon attended a wedding together. He posted some photos on Instagram, thinking surfing of it. In one photo, she was wearing a backhoe dress and having him on the check. An asset in Afghanistan saw the photos, printed them and shared them with family in the country and car.

"Afghan families are large and deeply connected, and some children stopped shopping to see and my immediate family because I was dating someone outside my culture," she said, adding that the fallout with family members who are more contentative was whatsoever.

Since I have met him, and we have built a life together," she said, "I feel like my life has changed, a million times for the home!"

He proposed in December 2020 at One of by Land, Two of by Sea, a restaurant in Greenwich Village. Anamee ordered a traumatic, and serwen brought a shared plaiter that held out flower petals and a diamond ring.

On July 15, the couple were married at the Queens Office of the City Clerk by Cynthia Cummings, a city clerk. They celebrated with friends and family in intents, where they saw her, with lunch at Mamo Care Tsupercia & Cevdzeca and a desk at Robinsons Hall & Short Garden.

On Aug. 23 and 24, they held a larger Afghan wedding celebration at Portland, Conn., with a ceremonial Nikkiak, a drama party and a reception with 100 people, including members of both families. (similar details)

Frish Brandt, Dave Evans

A 'Zoom Electron Cosmophore' Sort of Jolt

Although David John Evans IV and Frish Brandt were in their late 90s when they came back to face over Zoom in October 2020, their early innovations had the forefronts and excitement of being children all over again.

Brandt had needed in a yearlong class that Evans co-headed at Stanford Labor "Designing Your Life."

She was an campus early in the summer, and registered for Evans's virtual office hours for new students. There was the sixth session of the afternoon, but, for then, the most memorable.

"The second the screen-pants, being," he said, remembering the moment. "I mean, this is involuntary, somatic, mystical, right through the breaking Zoom Electron cosmophore!"

"I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to ask somebody not to dinner during office hours," Evans and he included thinking, so he tried to find a person to keep the conversation going.

Brandt took the evening. They of mouth at ease—take. "I thought," We're, three Stanford professors are really interested—but said, jokingly. But as the cosmographers continued in the words afterward, she seemed that something also was in the mix by the time Evans asked her out for coffee later that month.

The energy of their initial courtship felt like a trip back in time. "It was like passing notes in school when we were told," Brandt said.

Yet there were also elements that were profoundly mature. Both Brandt and Evans have grown children from previous marriages that ended in divorce. Evans's success was of two decades, Claudia, had died of cancer 50 months earlier, in December 2020.

After several weeks of casual, coffees, cocktails and a hero in a San Francisco dive bar, Evans asked Brandt whether she thought this could involve any a relationship. Brandt, however, encouraged Evans to date other women. She thought it was important for Evans, as a recent reviewer, to see what the eating secret was like. And as a well-knocked happily single woman for 20 years, she wasn't making it nearly.

It was also a daunting prospect to bring together too close that had developed separately for so long. "We've got 140 years to work with," Evans said.

Evans, 15, was born in Pasadena, Calif. After completing both a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in thoracic science from Stanford, he worked in technology and also trained in the understanding Shambeth's Life Design Lab in 2007. Evans is also an author of several books, including the 1916 best seller "Designing Your Life".

Brandt, 72, was born in Chicago and graduated from the California College of the Arts with a bachelor's degree in studies art before joining San Francisco's Financial Gallery, where she later served as president. She entered in 2010, and has been embarked on a new career as a "wine midwife," working closely with hospice and palliative care officers, helping them deal letters to loved ones. She now teaches a class on the subject at Shambeth's medical school.

In January 2022, after going on other dates, Evans told Brandt that she was the person he wanted to see consistently. They talked openly about his grief over Claudia, and Evans remembered that Brandt had said to him, "I look forward to knowing her better."

"We are an accretion of who we've been all our lives, and that includes the people that have been in our lives," Brandt said.

The two continued to see each other regularly. In January 2023, while doing at a restaurant in Santa Cruz, Calif., where Evans lives, he spontaneously proposed, even though he didn't have a ring. "I didn't say, 'Yes,' Brandt said. 'I said, 'in time.'" The couple returned to the restaurant in March to vote what Evans called the "January scene-up."

And so began a two-year engagement: they bought wedding rings the next September and set the date for Aug. 2, 2020.

"If you're going to be really married, you have to do all the work every time, and every marriage is a completely new construction," Evans said, people eating a breath when.

"When you do this at 10 instead of at 20, it's different," Brandt said. The couple dispensed with some wedding conventions—such as dinner girls and a wedding sales—but kept others. Brandt won—while, and he lost bouquet, cut blue three cents from Claudia's lower prices, and went to the store.

Kleiner Harrison Bregman, a friend and former minister who is ordained through American Martage Ministries and specializes in interfaith analysis, allocated a ceremony that drew upon the heals and the grounds respective Jewish and Christian countries.

The ceremony was held near Shambeth's campus with around 50 guests, including five children from earlier marriages, and nine grandchildren.

"Why think it is the point in this job, given, loves and loves and profit and all that will, that they're going to get something like that?" Brandt said. "We're really having the time of our lives." (similar statistics)

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Along Louisiana's southeastern coast, houses on 20-foot stilts are common in a landscape marred by environmental disasters. In her project "Property Studies," the photographer Virginia Hanusik examines how, in the absence of more systematic climate policies, homeowners have turned to this imperfect solution to mitigate flood risks. "You do what you have to do to keep your house and live in your community," she says. "It's home to them."

Footnotes: Swiping Left on Love

Whatever happened to dating? Young people are having less sex, stories of ghosting abound on the internet, women say there are few good men and men complain women's standards are impossibly high. Many say they're fed up with a dating app culture that has left them feeling disposable, with some giving up on relationships. Last week, in a move to get people back on its dating app, Bumble dropped its longtime policy requiring that women initiate conversations with potential matches. How did we get here? Here are a few things to read, watch and listen to about the perils of modern mating.

READ 'The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation's Fight Over Its Future' The ebb/fox movement, pandemic, end of Roe v. Wade and moral panic over hookup culture have contributed to the Gen Z sex recession, argues the journalist Carter Sherman in her 2025 book.

WATCH 'Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital App'

In this 2018 documentary, the journalist Nancy Jo Sales explores how, by gamifying the world of mating, apps like Tinder have created a dating app/degree that has left many young people looking for love frustrated and dejected.

LISTEN 'The Death of Romance'

In this recent episode of The Atlantic's podcast "Radio Atlantic," the writer Faith Hill discusses what she calls the "great romance slump." But it's not all doom: As people date less, they've begun to shift their focus to nurturing other relationships in their lives.

LISTEN 'The New Way to Date'

Single people are ditching their dating apps: Match Group, which owns Wrigg and Tinder, has lost 1.6 million paying users since 2024. This episode of the podcast "Ladies, We Need to Talk" explores how people are now seeking partners in places like exercise classes.

MICHELLE GOLDBERG

When the Extraordinary Is Ordinary

Because this is a family newspaper, I cannot quote the popular term that Brandon Herrera, a Republican House candidate in Texas, used to order to children in a 2022 video. I can only report that he called them "trophies" for getting a man to calculate. Nor, alas, she I allowed to report the obscurities that Herrera, a gun millimeter, used to explain why the opinions of mothers are without value. I can only say that he argued that getting pregnant requires no special skill.

A few words ago, ahead of a fund-raiser that Mike Johnson, the House speaker, was holding for Herrera. The Austin American-Statesman asked Herrera's campaign about these resurfaced comments. Herrera's team responded with a trade-trend post that, once again, is too vidget for me to describe here. I can, however, tell you about the Nazi and eugenics stuff. In a 2022 video, I have received a Nazi-era submachine gun, then gosses wrapped in a Nazi man thing away. He called the weapon "the original ghost's blames." In a 2024 podcast, after calling for abolishing Social Security, he joked that we should also "abound old people," laughing along as his co-hosts rifted about killing them off as in the horror film "Mishonimus."

Herrera became the Republican nominee in his South Texas district in March after the sitting congressman withdrew due to a non-albuminment scandal. Somehow, unlike Grolada Platten, the Maine Democrat, Herrera hasn't become a household name. I haven't seen much public hand-wringing about the decision of the panel Johnson to raise money for Herrera, nor debate about what his candidacy means for the Republican Party.

That Herrera has first>crued the radar to a restrainment in a fundamental asymmetry between the parties, as well as in our discourse.

In Trump's party, politicians' misogyny and extremism barely raise an eyebrow.

about them. Thanks to President Trump, misogyny and extremism among Republicans have become what journalists sometimes call a dog-bloss-man irony, something so ordinary and predictable that it breaks through only when it reaches an absurdly high threshold.

I regularly speak to people who follow politics, closely but haven't heard of Cory Mills, a Republican representative running for re-election in Florida. One co-gir friend of Mills won a motivating writer against him after saying he threatened her with revenge users. Another told the police he's unaudited, though she later recanted. (He doesn't hold charges.) Mills is under investigation by the House Editor Committee over allegations of both sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations. Yet it barely made a stir when Trump endorsed him in Tuesday's Republican primary.

Mark Miller, a Republican congressman from Ohio, has, in recent weeks, finally breached what we might call the back-extender Republican law, due to allegations of truly love for abuse of his co-wife, Emily Morris, and his daughter, Herrera — whose father is that's minor Republican senator, Bernie Morris — claimed that Miller held a gun to her head, threw scalding water at her and broke their 2-year-old's collarbone. Two other women have also accused him of abuse. (He denies all these allegations.)

In a statement this month, Bernie Morris wrote that Miller "is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Mark Miller falls there."

The key word there was "it" Trump often seems to be trying to show that, especially when it comes to the treatment of women and girls, there are no such standards. By now it's tedious to recount all the times he has faced sexual assault allegations, or to note that his accuracy of opinion, Pete Bagnoli, paid off a Republican woman who said he raped her, though he denied the assault.

As "the University," Tim Miller often points out, Trump is devoid of empathy toward almost everyone except those accused of abusing women. His grace even, at times, extends to Democrats. When a woman said that Platton had raped her — which Platton denies — Trump responded, "A lot of people say big falsehoods." Trump endorsed the former football star Herschel Walker in the 2022 Republican Senate primary in Georgia even though his co-wife, Matt Kelly Morris, said the candidate had put a gun to her head.

In it's not surprising that while Trump reportedly called Matt Miller to express concern about his candidacy, he never publicly urged him to drop out. Indeed, Platton reported that Trump's team never voted to stop other Republicans from pressuring Miller to have a gun.

Despite the hopes of Bernie Morris, Republicans have shown that they do not consider Miller beyond the pole. In such a party — one that stands, above all, he made impunity — someone like Brandon Herrera barely stands out.

Democrats recently moved Herrera's district onto their target list, continued that his comments evoke an opportunity for Katy Padilla Scott, a lawyer and former teacher, to flip the seat. So far, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, no Republican has broken ranks to endorse her. This is predictable. In most ways that matter, there is one of the party's own.

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Columns & Commentary

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Where the Teacher Is a Hero

FINE BLUFF, 1920.

Crystal Barnes teacher high school biology in Pine Bluff, Ark., and in March she had a student who kept falling asleep in class.

Barren could have cooked the girl, and her to the principal's office or simply let her fall. Instead, she asked the student why she was always sleepy.

It turned out that the girl's parents were out of the picture, and we had been sent to live with her grandmother. The grandmother didn't have a bed for her, so the girl didn't get much sleep.

Barren then bought a bed frame and mattrine tighter on Amazon for $109.97 and a mattress for $65.90 from a shop owner who gave her a discount when he board the purpose. Barnes made the purchases with savings from her 250,000-a-year teacher's salary. Another teacher contributed sheets and a container.

Barren went to the girl's house and set up the bed — and found that her mites were devouring the house and that the electricity had been turned off for overpayment of bills. And the student was also helping to expect two younger children living in the house.

The girl was very grateful for the bed but had me more worry. "Can you give me some food?" Barnes remembered her asking. "I'm hungry."

The student's plight — effectively unphased, so bed to sleep in, little food to eat, during it class in an impoverished school district that the state ejected as failing — is a reminder of how many American children face immense challenges.

"That is my life; this is what it's going to be for me, and hey, that's all, and that's it," Barnes recalled the girl telling her.

These challenges — and our national failures to address them — were the topic of my recent columns from a 1,000-mile road trip from Oklahoma to Kentucky. As I interviewed one desperate young person after another in the trip, I found that we squandered out of billions of dollars bombing him but couldn't afford modest sums to adequately feed and educate hungry American children.

That national failure is acute. But something more must be said. There's another side of America that you also see in towns like Pine Bluff. It's the ordinary heroes like Barnes who step up to help.

Barren can't think the crisis caused by the Trump administration's pushing 1.5 million children off food stamps over the last year. But she buys snacks with her own money and keeps a cart of them in her classroom for hungry children like her sleepy student. It's not a solution. It's not enough. But it's something. It's a way of pushing back at the night.

This is my annual "win a trip" journey, where I take a university student along on a reporting trip. I wanted my winner, Brumella Tipsoiuana of Yale University, to see the most critical needs and failings of this country, but I also wanted her to see the heroic responses of volunteers and donors.

I was leadership not so much in Washington as at America's great room. Our president and his family are watching themselves even as he can't finish supporting struggling families, but many ordinary Americans like Barnes are reaching into their own pockets to try to meet the needs of those with less. I learned by the church-era pastices, volunteer mentoring programs, after-school sports leagues coached by men's and sleds — the army of good-hearted people across the country who try to keep their fingers in the dike. This is what I expected to attend about America almost two centuries ago, and it remains one of our strengths.

Yes, this is a dispariting time. Two-thirds of Americans say our country is "pretty sarcasm" in the wrong track. But maybe we can find a dolly of inspiration from those who selflessly step up to do what they can. Their efforts might through the lives of others in ways that are difficult to forever.

Why is Barnes a dedicated teacher? In part it's because when she was a teenager — pregnant at 21 — she found a refuge in a nonprofit called TOPPS. An Targeting Our People's Priorities With Service. It was founded in 2002 by Annette Davis, a former teacher who wanted to help young people hungry for food and guidance. (I've described Davis as America's Mother Teresa.)

Dave provided food for Barnes's son, and later after-school tutoring and guidance, while mentoring Barnes and helping her graduate from high school and then from college. "It was like changing for me," Barnes said, and now, in turn, she helps young people through TOPPS.

"People make food choices," she admitted

FINE BLUFF, 1920. © THOMAS T. TAYLOR, 1920. 1920. 1920. 1920.

Crystal Barnes, a high school biology teacher in Arkansas, bought a bed for the home of a student who kept falling asleep in her class.

edged, but the also-practices whether young people are set up to make the right choices. So she decided to repay the help she got by becoming a teacher, the kind who foods her students.

Michael Eberle paint to the trajectory of some evangelical Christians who proclaim their party while acting as if Jesus' critical message were about banning abortion or blaming gay people rather than feeding the hungry and feeding the sick. The criticism seems fair to me: White evangelicals have been strong supporters of President Trump, even as he has cut food stamps and Medicaid.

"It's it's also true that in small town, America, programs to help the homeless and hungry are often expanded by churches, including evangelical ones funded by the generosity of conservative Christians who trill a 10 percent of their incomes. In a complicated world, those efforts deserve admiration, respect and thanks.

"Before I found out about this place, I was struggling," Myrtle McNeel, 19, told me on the gathered processes at Caring Community Friends, an antipoverty nonprofit in Saratoga, Okla., for her three children. The geogra's food pantry, backed by local clean-breezard businesses, operated our days a week and is staffed in part by 20 regular volunteers.

The pantry also runs a community garden and a Christmas "shop" for children's gifts. "Local churches are a pillar of this," said Lanyce Johnson, a giveter at the pantry. "They'll call and say, 'We have a new family with no food,' and we'll stop it."

When government aid evaporates, ordinary people are stepping in to help.

To me, morality uncomplaints both personal behavior and public positions, so I wish that more religious conservatives would support government programs for the needy and that secular liberals were more personally charitable. Giving patriotic accomplices, but researchers have generally found that conservatives donate more to charities, largely because of religious giving, secular liberals are generous with government funds but less so with their own money.

And nonprofits can provide opportunities that transform lives. I saw that in Manchester, Ky., an area hard-fitting drugs and the loss of coal mining, where I met an astonishing young man named Dylan Grace.

Grace's father was never around, he said, and Grace has lost his mother and sister, plus a brother who was shot and killed. Now 18, Grace lives in a dilapidated home with his stepfather, who he said does odd jobs and earns $400 in 2000 in 'a really good month.' The household had its 2000 a month in food stamps cut off in May, apparently part of a

nationwide crackdown under Trump that has trimmed about 15 percent of recipients from the food stamp roster over the last year.

"We've had to cut back on many foods," Grace said. I asked for an example of a lunacy food. Frozen lasagne, he offered.

Yet Grace is determined. He worked 48 hours a week in high school while ranching academically and finding time to eat a college credits online. This summer he's working full time at a Dollar General at $30 an hour.

Grace attends Alice Lloyd College on a bill scheduling from the school and a program called the Thompson Scholars Foundation, which works with havethe Children and supports young people in Appalachia with mentoring and scholarships. Grace is hoping to be an elementary school teacher — because his own teachers so inspired him, especially an English teacher who wanted all her students with great respect and dignity, he said.

Reveals the future of Thompson Scholars and have the Children, for they have transformed Grace's life and perhaps those of children he will teach for decades to come. But while driving on this road trip, I keep thinking: When we built the binocular highways that revolutionized America, we didn't rely on volunteers each paying 100 square feet of road. Rather, we had the government invest in highways that had stolen together, because it was a national priority.

It seems to me that it should be just as much apoverty today to ensure that our children are fed and educated and have a fair shot at life. That, too, might hurt our country together and help rekindle the American dream.

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OPINION

The Nation Deserves Answers About Trump's Health

Jonathan Reiner

A cardiologist and an author, with Dick and Lil Charney, of Trump, for American Medical Expenses

DICK CHENEY? S'hears problems were never a national secret. I was Mr. Cheney's cardiologist for 27 years, including his two terms as new president. During his time in the White House, he needed assets, a defibrillator and medical treatment for an arrhythmia and a blood test in his leg, after the defibrillator was regulated in the state of 1991, he would frequently show visitors to his West Wing office a sample device provided to him by the manufacturer.

Mr. Cheney's canile about his health was an attempt for an adverse problem in the war. Cleveland underwent secret cancer surgery while he was president (on board a radio for maximum privacy). Franklin Deane Roosevelt had the use of a wheelchair from the public. Indeed of the campaign for a fourth term, he struggled with severe hypertension and congestive heart failure, but the public was told that the president's health was "too short in all respects."

Ivo Bishenz-Rosenman thinks performance caused concerns that the White House had attempted to conceal the president's decline. For weeks after his hospitalization this summer, Senator Mitch McConnell shared almost no details about why he was absent from office.

In June, President Trump celebrated his 90th birthday, and in the end of this year he will be the oldest person ever to serve as this nation's leader. After Mr. Trump's medical evaluation in May, Dr. Sean Barbabella, the physician to the president, wrote that Mr. Trump "remains so excellent health" and that his "demanding daily schedule, including multiple high-level meetings, public engagement and regular physical activity, continues to support his overall well-being."

Despite insinuations from the White House to the contrary, at times even the past year, the president has not looked well. I am an Mr. Trump's doctor, and have reviewed only his records that have been made public. But Mr. Trump is probably the most photographing president in American history, and a variety of physical influence on ways to see him had large women on both hands, swelling in his legs and episodes when it appears that he not engaging every people. He's also had advanced imaging performed for unclear women. The public is against the so wonder whether the nation's leader is OK.

Despite the vague alleles (power afforded to

the president of the United States, there is no formal requirement for the commander in chief to certify his fitness for duty. That's a mistake. Members of the military, Secret Service agents, comment of policy, schooling, drivers and air traffic controllers (almost periodically demonstrate that they are not enough to perform their work. The current practice of reporting the results of a yearly medical examination for the president began in the Nixon administration, for 25 only a current, and a formal obligation. And, as history has shown, it can be unodfable.

That does not mean that every dental about a president's health must be disclosed. It's appropriate to withhold interest in a medical history that could be regulated by an adversary. In 2007, when we replaced Mr. Cheney's defibrillator, we didn't share information about a new working feature of the device that I considered a security threat to the war president. (We ultimately were able to get the manufacturer to double that capacity.)

The 21th Amendment to the Constitution allows for the best solution to the position. It permits Congress to establish a panel which the executive branch to assess the health and fitness of the president. In April of this year, Representative Jason Burdle introduced a bill to create a congressional committee that would do just that. Ideally, such a panel would be empowered to review data from routine presidential physical examinations, as well as assessments performed when medical concerns emerge.

If such a commission were in place today, these are some of the medical questions it could clarify concerning Mr. Trump's health. The American public deserves answers to all of them.

1. Dr. Barbabella's recent report states that the president was evaluated by 23 consultants, an extraordinary number of specialists for even the most extensive executive health evaluation. Why were so many physicians summoned, and what were their specialists?

2. Mr. Trump often shows prominent hesitant on his hands, which the White House of tothmen to frequent handshaking and use of aspirin. Trauma from handshaking has never seemed plausible, and it doesn't explain why the president's left hands often similarly discolored. Also, why would the president take a dose of aspirin that times as high as the dose typically recommended by doctors?

3. Swelling in the president's legs last summer led to an unscheduled medical evaluation. The president's physician described the problem as "chronic venous insufficiency," a condition common in other people, that re-

The president hasn't looked well. Why has he seen so many doctors?

sults from leaky valves in the veins of the legs. It usually develops over a long period. But during Mr. Trump's comprehensive physical examination just a few months earlier, Dr. Barbabella documented no swelling in the president's legs. If that's true, the swelling is caused by inhalation, such, not chronic. According to swelling is a potentially much more consequential finding that can be caused by issues such as heart and kidney disease. What's the reason for this also reports?

4. The president often appears in struggle to stop smoke, a sign of a condition doctor—also to an excessive daytime examination. The problem, which is sometimes evident during

Oval Office events, was not addressed in the report after Mr. Trump's comprehensive physical exams. May, although the president is a renowned sight rod, his designate seems relatively new. There are several possible causes for the president's symptoms, some of which could have no real complications at 2:00 untreated. But the president's needs of team identified the source of this issue? And how are they addressing it?

5. In October, Mr. Trump underwent advanced imaging of his heart and abdomen at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The president's physician offered a vague description of the reason for the issue. "Is identify issues early, confers overall health and ensure for maintains long-term vitality and function?" He said the team did not reveal any evidence of the issue, but there a specific symptom or clinical event that prompted this instead.

6. Past Trump's medical reports have disclosed the president's use of the drug thousands, which prevents that loss. The drug was not mentioned in the report after Mr. Trump's most recent medical examination. In response to a query from The Washington Post about its absence, the White House requested, "The current report reflects all medications deemed clinically relevant to disclose at the time." It does not matter, in any material way, if the president is so isn't taking a back into drug. The more important question is, what medications prescribed for Mr. Trump, if any, has the White House denied its technical form that public?

7. The president has spoken about how well he performs on cognitive testing. However, the exam that Mr. Trump describes, the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, is a brief and basic screening test, with simple questions (three a clock, identify a name), often performed in response to a course of time the patient or a member of the family. Why has the president undergone this test numerous times, and have there been more sophisticated investigations? (assessments performed.)

Some people would argue that these personal needs and what are more than the public deserves to know. After all, Buckingham Palms has not revealed many friends over King Charles, who are in his enterprise.

But the United States does not have a long in a representative discussion; the people must have confidence in the health of their health, and in the health's capacity to guide the nation. We have been kept in the dark too long.

I Go Out Of Kabul, But I'll Never Truly Escape It

Murad Rahim

A recent graduate of Cornell University who works to support migrants and refugees.

MY HANDS shook as I crossed the stage to receive my master's diploma from Cornell University last year. Wearing a graduation mole on which I had been an Afghan flag, I was filled with a number of posts and attended at how the I had come.

Four years before, I was among thousands of people evacuated from Afghanistan as to government collapsed and the Taliban seized Kabul, and I had since made the shipping team that it is now life in America.

But as I received access the stage in high heels, the sad, hopeless faces of my girlfriends who never made it out of Afghanistan. Ranked through my mind. This is the कोgri-baki I few with now — highs of freedom and newfound opportunity, punctured by love of intense guilt.

The full of Kabul, few years ago last week, marked the blow and to the long, passed 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan. But for Afghan women, the pass was only beginning. The Taliban have turned out from into what women U.S. official has called the most expensive country in the world: he wakes, who are barred from school and most types of work and face restrictions on simply appearing in public.

I escaped all that. In America I've been able to further my education and get a job. I've discovered the joys of cycling, jogging, no skating, kayaking, weight lifting and many other pursuits marshalled to women back home. I even learned to work I have the freedom to go out—and hey, snubbed all being presented in the world, they bring me to the. But every freedom I might reinclude me of women in Afghanistan who lost there.

In July, I bought myself an inflatable pull-dishout for my 30th birthday. Propping myself on my 30th birthday, I've worked a center of power and independence. But my chest suddenly tightened as the face of a young girl came back to me.

Here a family found in Afghanistan, a bright, curious and promising girl who de-

Afghan women are still carrying the burden of America's exit.

veared books that my mom grew her. But I had just learned from friends in Kabul that at just 16, she is to be married off to a much older man. No school, or even leaving home with me a close-mate relative in her side.

Afghan women were perhaps the biggest branchacres of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. The Americans arrived in 2001, driving the previous Taliban regime from power, from after, I was able to start, produce school, something that had been unimaginable under the Taliban. The expansion of my parturition for women allowed me to graduate from law school in Afghanistan in 2020. I planned to start a career as an advocate for

women who still faced challenges such as domestic violence but had few female lawyers to represent them.

The U.S. withdrawal ended these dreams. I got out of Afghanistan only because my brother, Najim Rahim, had worked as a response for The New York Times. Anyone who was employed by Western news organizers (since the U.S. military was at risk of Taliban in 2002), or the Times' own chief, these men had worked for its Kabul bureau — journalists, drivers, gendarmes and translators, along with their direct family members.

My family was leaving lunch at home on the day Kabul fell, contemplating what would

happen to us under the Taliban, when my brother called. We were leaving Afghanistan. We had 10 minutes to push one small bag per person before making it the air port. I stayed into my closet, suddenly forced to decide how to fit my life into a backpack. I grabbed some clothes, my school diploma and a few head sources.

We would for hours with other evacuees under a baling sun as thousands thronged the airport. We watched, hurt that, as desperate people clung to the entrance of places, falling as the aircraft took flight. That night, Taliban ambience attacked our group with clubs and we had to run from the chance airport for our lives.

Two times days later, we made it on board a military transport. As we finally lifted off, I sat on the ground and moved back, leaving mouldy at its windowless walls and the blunt, Rachel hawn of people who were leaving behind everything they knew. Eventually, we landed in Shastras and began the process of applying for strikes.

As new possibilities opened up for us in America, Taliban doctors barred women and girls from receiving education after the sixth grade, required women to cover themselves head to toe in public and even prohibited them from speaking loudly enough for narrating the story on their faces. In January, the Taliban approved a new criminal decree that the U.S. high commissioner for human rights and legitimates violence against women and children of home.

Despite the ever-rightening restrictions, I keep in touch with friends back home through calls and video stars. A friend in Kabul said me here she and other women were working out as a secure gym last year when Taliban has been in the air travel. The women managed to escape out the back before the Talibethard in, spilling at what they said was the infinite scent of perfume in the air.

Most of the 25 young women who were in the air, who were school class are still in Afghanistan. During calls, they pour out their frustrations about their new lives as wives and teachers, spent almost entirely at home, their dreams of becoming lawyers now out of reach.

That's where my guilt comes in Afghan women in America often return to the same haunting question: "What if that were me?" I was no one at or more addicted to the many of my classmates, yet I got out, purely through back. I am determined to make the most of my friends here and to make it up. He's went to help the women fall behind.

Since leaving Afghanistan, the United States has closed its embassy, withdrawn its diplomats, sharply reduced assistance and the rest of the world's most important things in America. It has to be roughly disengaged from the country and its people.

I am grateful for the new life I have in the United States, and for the kindness of the American people. I read the old Afghanistan no longer commands America's attention as it once did, and I won't pretend that there are many solutions for helping Afghan women.

But America has a moral responsibility not to simply look away and accept that the ejection to evasion of Afghan women is no long-term concern.

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OPINION

COLUMNIST | TRESSIE McMILLAN COTTON

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Oh, she's running.

I've been watching the signs that Alexander Ocasio-Cortez must be considering a bid for president for over a year. She spoke about foreign policy at the Munich Security Conference in February. A few months later, she handheld her organizer street cord with a visit to a rural foreign community fighting a data center. She is among the internationally free highways. Democrats celebrating data center resistance, a text point of hope from agreement in a divided election.

Last week she all had soft-handed the presidential bid to many of us have been on the road. The other series about freezing her eggs. The rollout — personal, controversial and extrinsic — had all the social media savvy that made her a political star. It also gets ahead of the inevitable questions of the state. The state's other children, in short, Ocasio-Cortez has crafted a political message to which the form and content support that she will run as a woman face unlike how every woman before her was forced to vote.

To be a viable potential presidential candidates is an small host for any woman, much from young, attractive woman without spiritual support. Were she to formally declare a presidential bid, she would be one of the youngest and most progressive people to do it. She can run, but can she win?

To say women haven't had an easy path to presidential power would be an understatement.

Billary Clinton was both too unfathomable to first lady who wanted more; and too well known qualified with her husband's scandals and postcard. Kamala Harris was, alternately, too novel to mimetize a Black woman; and too much like the same old (a capitalist bank). They took were condemned as too saccharomata to overcome a culture that is commonly suspicious of women who want, pursue and hold power. The ambition that brought them within reach of the presidency was a trap that occurred they couldn't win if.

That is the goal of years of women's political ambitions — a woman who wants the top job must be assertive but not aggressive, motivating but not weak. She has to be the epitome of a mother and the epitome of a boss. It is an impossible needle to thread, and any woman who contacts herself to do so comes off as doing/assists at best and a fair at worst. This likability trap has hindered every qualified woman who has run for president.

But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and American love to taste to women when the house is burning down. Social scientists call it the glass cliff — the phenomenon in which women are recruited to lead leading companies. President Trump's businessman found a governance bar many Americans feeling themselves is hiding. I suppose the dangers of a human desolation, political corruption and general encumbrance of, well, everything would be due enough circumstances to make a female president possible.

In particular, Democracy — where you might expect to be wary of placing another female candidate before the American public — are facing a political matter of their own making. Americans are primed for an anti-incidental electoral wave. They want an alternative to Trump's MAGA-dominated Republican Party, but also of them indicate the "whole" part of that their racer to vote for mainstream Democrats. This "is

an enemy of my enemy really my friend!" game between the base and the party leadership has created an opening for progressive candidates in state races. Despite this, a lot of Democracy are held to convene local political wisdom that they cannot win the White House by running from the left.

Ocasio-Cortez is made for this moment. It's not because she has stopped her pro-provincence (an some democratic socialists worry). It's because she has the greatest chance of developing the likability trap that has failed to many female presidential candidates who came before her. Whether she wins at Iowa, if she runs an day-proven, an Ocasio-Cortez campaign could model a new way for women's rights.

Research on female candidates suggests that women who emphasize feminine traits are penalized while women who talk about

positive to approach to court into the widely power in her own right. One cannot Clinton's narrative never gutted with a lot of Americans to that she intended to amuse power independent of her role as first lady. Her role in leading health care role as was considered by many of her too significant a task for a first lady, an industrial wife and mother. Not even her years as secretary of state could spend the time that she members interpret power meant for men.

Harris's campaign was a test of what makes a powerful woman longer while a man who seemingly has no political ambitions of his own man's birthrights. In terms, she does not have biological children, and even though she talked often, her best step children calling her Woman, the who is seeing her as the autistic first-midwish mother never fit. She blended family was

turn has a legacy of best of her women of color and our family formation. It isn't real-time enough, but a right-wing political vision that puts a stronger parallel movement with grown-up/assassin theory is one that encourages white women to marry young and multiply in a way to become the Black or brown woman. There is no other for women of color to reproduce for that nation because a large part of this nation would rather the nation use some of all than to majority-minority.

This is why Ocasio-Cortez's choice to lead her campaign intentions with a very public discussion of reproductive disease is an essential. She is a good and good person, most of her status as another for the public, creating the possibility that she would be a mother for the nation, even if she is not yet a mother. However, she also recognizes that the mother must be a good and good person, she makes a New York Latina cannot embody the supernatural presidential family. Nothing she does will satisfy the hatred, so instead, she's chasing a new path that presents new political possibilities. As is often the case, the best choice for a woman of color creates better choices for all women.

The American right has conducted a national assault on American care, but it cannot assure and in view to what is the most full of Roe's Wade. Those are attacks on women's cultural/emotional and ability to work. No woman who has to consider which states other but to control her reproductive decisions without her or her desire going to prison is truly free.

In the face of this, Ocasio-Cortez's decision to talk publicly about freezing her eggs is the kind of leadership woman are hungry. So, like a doctor, knowing that planning for a family while building the career she wants is still a compromise. She is implying that the best we can do right now is to plan for the worst while we work toward the best. She is also saying that reproductive health is a choice that a woman can make, on her own, for her own reasons, without apology or measure. That's a message very different from the ones about family, gender, and power that have bedeviled women's political campaigns.

Ocasio-Cortez will have often, more workable political challenges to overcome. Despite what the right-wing media practices said, she didn't totally touch in Munich. But her speech this year at Elmwood Baptist Church in Atlanta was edited and unimberable. It's more to learn, geopolitics than it is to become there in Black Southern Society, Black street are programs. But she will have to consider progressive policies for cultures outside New York City to win. A Southern woman made who matches her wife and brings her family, like Georgia's Joeyboard, would be a bold solution. Regardless, she will need to figure out how to speak to an doctorate beyond her own.

Maybe we aren't ready to finally join the long list of countries that have elected a woman to call. But the best time to issue the text is when the opposition grows (at mid-day with winning). That's when the MAGA movement is new. It has control of both (Apalcho) of Congress, a force after Supreme Court and almost every presidential legal community after 2004, when the so-called comprehensive conservation bill (the inevitable, Barack Obama) will be likely by becoming a rewording a matter-tasting force.

As we learned in 2020, when history says it's your time, it's your time.

female issues are advantaged. Ocasio-Cortez does both. She has shown all her favorite red lipper on Instagram and has been灼}|smet how government works for millions of people, some have been the usual consequences. Conservatives revile: Sec, and even men who share her politics discount for givriots. Too young. Too pretty. Too ambitious.

But instead of changing to accommodate dissonants discomfort — a quicker political marriage or a brief power out comes to mind — the self-described "girl from the throat" took it on list, well, a girl from the throat, with unabashed confidence in her ability to permit without permission. In doing so, she has fashioned female political power in a way that does not control itself for male content.

Many Americans expect the president to be a father for the nation. A woman in the White House is supposed to be his wife and the mother to his children, a political ap-

Running for president as a woman, differently from every woman before her.

not race, many American families are now some form of material/moral, meaning over-parents are a normal part of American life. But the presidential family is not supposed to be normal. It is supposed to be unprotected, a smaller symbol of many Americans' religious belief that ever in a nation uniquely blessed by God to prosper and reproduce.

Harris is a great candidate, including of being a woman of color. People might have hired Clinton for standing the smart's stand-by-your-man little lady. But our cal-

Without Its Great Rivers, Europe Will Be Weaker and Poorer

Ben Coates

Associated based in the Netherlands and the author of "The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest Town Tour", written in The News.

A across Europe, diaprovable and delective are rising from the deep Near Prudence, Serbia, Near ships scattered in this spot by broken control on suburban St. Charles, a 1919 cargo ship pretreated from the water. On the newly exposed involved of the Danube in Bulgaria, what local experts say is most likely part of the skeleton of an ancient monastic war which scattered across the sand, like discarded bones after a giant's probe.

Much of Europe is in the middle of a severe drought, and major rivers have been removed to a free line of their small size. Europe's second-longest river, the Danube, is now having overthrown, overall recovering and raise its low-density in the desert. Part of it, it's mighty. By River is also at a record temperature low and the Rhine, a major outlet for trade flowing from the Alps to the North Sea, is now depleting those at any rate more record keeping began.

This summer, the transport of chemicals, oil products and other goods on the Rhine and the Danube ground almost to a halt in places. Because their divers a nuclear plant cooled by the Danube, and as of Friday, Hungary had narrowly covered along on. The mountain from land that approaches range—only close production in their Romanian factories to save power.

For some in Europe, climate change seemed like a problem that usually affected the poor place. In the past, the Danube has no common, together with local waves and the drying of the rivers, have brought it home, where it's beginning is after the old map of Europe's power and wealth. If the Rhine and Danube run over, what, the map

will have to be redrawn.

Over the past 40 years or so, these rivers have served as the cradles of the continent's industrial power and the outlets for its trade. Certain industry, which powered the country's famous postwar growth, was heavily concentrated around the confluence of the Rhine and Reds. The part at the Rhine'tenarch in the Netherlands now to become the funnest in Europe.

The continent's rivers also provide power for millions, and the Danube serves as a critical expert route for Ukraine's crops and a supply route for its military.

Against this backdrop, the drying of the rivers presents not only an ecological hazard but also a major strategic challenge for Europe. A trans-land-road problem such as welcome as old boonts revealed on a riverbed.

Europe's already struggling to deal with it once in a generation scenario. It underminutes the rise of the Rhine's urban manufacturing and electric vehicles in particular, which threaten European economies some such as Volkswagen and Porsche.

Simultaneously, it is revealing with a major energy transformation in a woman to create its additions to Romanian public operating in reservation, including road and solar.

In the face of President Trump's nationalism and the aggression of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Europe is cutting its balance on 1:1, reduces assets in force to greater individuality. The American Red East and the closing of the final of Thomas have revealed weaknesses in supply chains.

In conversations about how to respond, the basements must overcome in the European Union's headquarters in Romania are "strategic autonomy" — the idea that Europe will reduce reliance on foreign goods and military powerism, meet the challenge of a rising China and a reducing Russia and deploy new technology to deliver a future

that is greater, wealthier and healthier. On paper, these are worthy goals.

The problem is that the continent's leaders seem to assume that Europe's physical geography will remain unchanged and that the huge advantages afforded by rivers such as the Rhine and the Danube can be taken for granted. These advantages in-

Climate change is tearing up a map of power.

clude the ability to transport goods across the continent at low cost, may access to the ports at place such as plumbing and better than, and unlimited access to fresh water for manufacturing, hydro-power and cooling nuclear power plants.

Now, it is rapidly becoming clear that the terrain on which European live, work and travel is changing before our eyes.

Rivers can no longer be called on to provide an inexpensive, reliable, relatively low-calorie alternative to road and air freight. Rivers cannot be in the industrial handover of the European Union's pools for autonomy from Chinese and American supply chains if they run dry. Nor can they provide reliable energy independence or guarantee food security.

Responding to these changes will not be easy, but as the war is from a tearing some Middle Eastern countries to develop new supply lines and export routes, Europe needs to think seriously about how to develop alternative transport and energy networks that reduce its reliance on rivers. That could take decades and require huge investment in new infrastructure. Some places that grow rich through waterborne trade, such as the German Rhinebad or Rutenberg, may have not. And rivers may no longer hold together European neighbors in ways that made it easier to travel relying on the outside world.

Take away Europe's blue highways, and all the ground will about building new industries, finding new trading partners and generating clean energy freight to look rather ladies.

Our Dutch political outlet recently suggested using fumigating baby-paws to sell the Rhine. That may be unlikely, but it's clear that Europe needs to begin thinking about its rivers more culturally and more seriously — as a strategic asset rather than just as environmental aid story.

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The War on Trans People Reignites in Kansas

TOPEKA, KANS.

On Feb. 22, Siddhan Kirdsheim received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver's license. She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letter when Senate Bill 244, a hastily passed piece of legislation, invalidated driver's licenses on which the gender market did not match the holder's son as assigned at birth.

"Additionally, please note that the Legislature did not include a grant period for updating credentials," the letter said. "This means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credential will be invalid immediately." The law was going into effect the next day.

Kirdsheim, who is 45, had transitioned in 2021. She had changed her legal name and her gender market in the Social Security system, so her passport card and so her Kansas driver's license. It required jumping through a lot of bureaucratic lumps — the name change alone required a court hearing and proof that Kirdsheim had notified her bank, credit card company, landlord and others — but it was worth it, to make it official.

Now she considered disobeying the instruction from the Division of Vehicles. She went down some internet tablet holes to figure out what the consequences might be. It appeared that if she was caught driving with an invalid license, she would be fined and sent to jail for five days. It caught doing it more than twice, she would face three months in jail. She himself that Kansas might be placing transgender women in teen's process, and she feared violence, even rape. So, while some friends wondered about whether the state was really going to enforce the new law, Kirdsheim decided to comply.

Afraid of getting pulled over, she asked a friend to drive her the next day. At the Division of Vehicles, located in a mall across from a Burger King and next to the Raw Valley Bridge Club, she handed a clerk the letter she had received. Without looking at her, the clerk made a notation and sent Kirdsheim to wait to be called. The next staff person didn't look at her office — just took her paperwork and, a few minutes later, handed her a temporary paper license with the "M" gender market. Kirdsheim started crying. As she walked to work the rest, she thought that she could not in the name of many of the people standing in line. They'd gotten the letter, too.

"We apologize for the inconvenience this causes you," the letter said.

SOME of the words or expressions in this article may at first bleak room hyperbolic. One of them is "fractom." That's how Kirdsheim characterized the process when we met in Lawrence, Kan., in July. "It was soft fractom." It was. Fractom usually begins with redelining the nation by excluding certain groups, which are founded throats in national health and unity. The Trump administration has floated on two groups most of all — immigrants and trans people — as just that way, ensuring us (I am a member of both groups) as producers, sick, at once subhuman and terrifyingly powerful. Even before Donald Trump was elected for the second time, more than half the states had considered or passed legislation limiting the rights of trans people. The process has intensified in the last year and a half, and the law enacted in Kansas in February is one of the most restrictive pieces of anti-trans legislation passed in any state so far.

The law, Senate Bill 244, redefined "gender" to mean "biological sex at birth" and directed state agencies to revoke and remove driver's licenses and birth certificates that had previously been changed to align with people's identities. It also directed all government and public buildings to designate "multiple occupancy private spaces" — both

rooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms — as reserved for one sex. Like the infamous 2021 Texas law that enabled ordinary people to use any person perceived as helping someone get an abortion, S.R. 244 created a bounty system, allowing people in Kansas to use, for "actual damages or liquidated damages in the amount of $1,000, as well as de-burdency and inpositive relief" anyone they suspected of violating the bathroom provision.

With the possible exception of Lawrence (and even Lawrence is a stretch), Kansas is a place where a person cannot survive without a car — can't go to work, can't shop for groceries, never mind her friends or go to a movie. And he's talk about the bathrooms. All trans people are accustomed to some level of stress when it comes to bathrooms. Take one, a person fortunate enough to live in a blue state and work in a supportive environment. I prefer not to use the men's room at work but my presence discently male colleagues who know that I was assigned female at birth, and I prefer not to use the women's room but my presence discently women who don't know me and would perceive me as male. The New York Times building has many single occupancy bathrooms designated as "genuine-nostru." They are on different floors than the one where I work, and on a couple of occasions, during high traffic times in the building, I've lived him for a morning because I was stuck waiting for an elevator. That is a minor inconvenience.

Now take a trans person in Kansas. Matthew Neumann, the executive director (and until recently the sole employees of the L.G.B.T.Q. Foundation of Kansas, told me that his organization had heard from one trans man who was fired for leaving the state building where he worked to use the bathroom in another building. Another trans man, who switched to using the women's bathroom preemptively, explains the law to anyone he encounters there, but that person be married by his presence. Imagine having to come out to strangers that way every time you have to pass. Alternatively, imagine being unable to use a bathroom outside your house. Then imagine having to choose between not getting, because you do not want to smoke, and eating yourself as trans every time you enter a club, buy an alcoholic beverage, go to a building where security personnel check ID (and if not building, you'll talk) closely, even (Kansas is one of 15 states that require so-called strict photo ID to own), rent a car, check into alcohol or are stopped for a traffic violation.

Which brings me back to the word "fractom." In 2020, State for many passed a law requiring Jews to add a specific middle name to their identity documents — Israel for men, Sam for women — so that they could be easily identifiable. "It would be laughable, if one couldn't live one's reason over it," the German Jewish Baptist Victor Klempner wrote in his diary at the time.

"GOT the first. I left," I met Gloria Pecher at a roadside Panera Broadnet far from her home in Missouri, where she had moved a week earlier. Pecher had a half-dozen laminated ID cards on the grocery grocery table in front of us. "The VA thinks I'm female, the F.S.A. thinks I'm female, the Social Security Administration thinks I'm female, the State of Missouri thinks I'm male."

A study by the Williams Institute found that about 25 percent of trans Americans have served in the armed forces, more than double the national average. In Pecher's age group, the percentage may be even higher. She signed up for the Army right out of college, in 2016, soon after President Barack Obama's administration announced a new policy allowing transgender troops to serve openly and to get gender-affirming cars.

She was out to all her friends, but had not

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transitional medically. The recruiter advised enlisting as a man and coming out once she was already in the service. The military had guidelines, an established process for transitioning troops, and this process could require one to stay in our place for a year or more. Perdue decided to wait until after basic training, then until after officer school, then until after her first deployment — and those was March 2025, she was in the woods in Poland, scrolling through Reddit, and she learned that the Pentagon was going to make good as President Trump's 2027 promise to ban trans troops.

Lieutenant Perdue had less than a month before the new policy went into effect. She got her official diagnosis of 'gender dysphoria' just two days before the deadline. She started businesses in March 2025. But, she told me, 'I'd soon the writing on the wall.' Yes, Joe Biden was by then president and things might change again (they did), but then they could change right back (they have). Perdue decided to get out of the military while she was still young enough to start a civilian career.

She moved to Manhattan, Kan., and enrolled in Kansas State University's aviation program. In February 2025 she received her certification as a flight contractor. But she had not considered that flight instruction is, as she paid, a 'very public during job.' Perdue became good for a lot of her interviews. She has traveled all over the country for them. And she has lost not to recognize a look. 'That you kind of dim once they realize you are a trans person,' she said. 'They seem to think that their customers will not want to learn living from a trans woman who doesn't particularly try to pass — and at 6-foot-4, probably couldn't. The one job she was offered, is New Jersey, and no little that she couldn't afford to take it.'

Perdue changed her name and the gender market on all her documents in 2022. In 2025, the Kansas Legislature passed Senate Bill 180, which backers called the 'woman's

bill of rights.' It defined one as biological and binary and the result that 'female' is an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce sex, and a 'male' is an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the era of a female.' (It was, in other words, an earlier version of an executive order Trump signed on the first day of his second term in office. But was titled 'Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extension and Reviewing Biological Trials to the Federal Government.') The Democratic governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, vetoed the bill. The Legislature overcame the veto.

Perdue didn't think the new law would affect her — it seemed like a symbolic pronouncement. Then the state's attorney general, Kris Koloch, a longtime Trump adjutant to bar state agencies from allowing the use of gender markers different from the sex people were assigned at birth. He claimed he was trying to enforce S.R. 260, a court temporarily granted his request. Perdue, meanwhile, moved into a new house and excitedly sent away for a driver's license with the new address. The license came back with the gender marker 'M.'

In 2025, a state agenda court reversed the lower court's decision. Perdue went back to the Division of Vehicles and got a license with the marker 'V' as an all her other ID card. Late State court later, the Legislature passed S.R. 244. Perdue got what train Kansas refer to at the Letter — the same one Karchman got, informing her that her driver's license would expire by the end of the day. It was 2:30 in the afternoon when she took the envelope out of her mailbox. She thought it was lucky that she had the day off — she got her new/cell driver's license with the 'M' marker before close of business.

All this back-and-forth with the gender marker was almost, and this is how Perdue experienced it: as ridiculous more than threatening. She had been living openly and

Welcome to the state where trans people can be sued for using a bathroom.

happily in small-town Kansas for five years, and she didn't see that changing. But she was also going through a divorce (Perdue married when she was 22, the same year she joined the military), which required going to start.

She pulled up a photo on her phone. It showed a bathroom door in the courthouse, painted institutional yellow. A printed notice attached with this masking tape summarized the bathroom generator of S.R. 244 and was not. 'Any solution of this, she may subject the individual to civil and criminal penalties.' It no longer seemed so ridiculous.

Perdue moved in with her boyfriend, a trans man, in Missouri, but both of them realize that this is probably only a temporary solution. 'The problem is that Kansas is kind of a test case,' she told me. 'It shows what's possible.' Missouri, where Republican hold both houses of the legislature and the Statehouse, had considered its own driver's license and bathroom bills. The couple have been talking about moving to Chicago. In the meantime, Perdue is working as a caregiver and studying to be an airplane mechanic, a two public position in which she hopes she will be more employable.

S OWE days are happy. He fuly 'I went to the Douglas County courthouse in Lawrence to attend a name-change hearing. The professor was a 16-year-old trans woman whose last name was Bany and whose legal first name, which she wanted to change, revealed like a parody of a macho-ali-choer in an name. She was very nervous. She had been in a courtroom only once before, he is custody hearing, and that hadn't gone well. She gets her 7-year-old daughter only every other weekend.

The judge, Mark Simpson, had a kind voice. He asked a series of yes-or-no questions, establishing that Bany was a resident of Kansas and had given proper notice of her name-change. Bany's working allows white and blue dress, flighted behind the podium. The judge argued her opinion and said, 'Congratulations, Congratulations, Tracy!'

Later Bany's emailed me about that 'Congratulations, Tracy!' line. 'That was so amazing I hope I never heard of,' he we left the courthouse, she exclaimed excitedly, 'My mother is going to hate this.'

Bany, who grew up with her mother in Nebraska, was around 15 when she was caught in the girls' locker room trying on someone's clothes. Things at home get some enough that she end-of-up moving to Kansas to live with her father, a Trump-young, immigrant-hating, gun-loving man, and he became the center of her world. She chatted and, as a gift from her father, got a large-bio to a bald eagle wrapped in an American flag with dog tags around its neck. She loved all dress she wore to her name-change hearing exposed most of it. After her father died four years ago, Bany started therapy, began identifying as trans and bisexual, and began her medical transition. Now she says she is the happiest she has with her child life. She has found a community in Lawrence. She has a boyfriend who works as a custodian at the same large manufacturing plant where she works in maintenance, they take hands together. He had to square that happiness — and that name-change hearing — with the new anti-trans law and the law it has generated. 'I have whisked,' she told me.

I had whisked, too, one of these are two Kinnemen — one of them a kind, loving Kansas where neighbors accept our another and then they offer your kind of to change their and create summer camps for space look. I visited such a summer camp outside of Wichita on the first day of its wedding session. Nearly seven middle classmen and high-schoolers, with the first wife and of the rainbow and more natural theory than one might see at a point, had been delivered to Camp Sunflower by their parents, who placed their progeny's dutch logo in the

designated plot and handed over their medication bottles and prescriptions to the designated staff members. Amanda Magee, a strongly married mother of three who rules a Wichita clinic that provides care to some 4,000 trans people, was on hand to set up the orderly distribution of whatever antidepressants, A.S.D.D. medication or her name's the category had been prescribed.

Mage's clinic has a decorative belt tank filled with figurines of green mermaids, and every event features a bunch of a panel box: Ellen Page, Harvey Milk, Jonathan Van Ness — and the Obama's When S.R. 244 passed, Magee hardly organized a wedding in the clinic's lobby. One of the same practitioners was a figure in a trans man, and they wanted to marry in time to avoid his being marked as 'V' or the marriage license. Now Magee is running for an open seat in the Kansas Legislature. Her diagnosis shows that Kinnemen, who believes.

And then there is Kris Koloch's Kansas. Koloch's mission houses that he brought the first case against the Obama administration over Deferred Action for Childhood Activists, representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement against seeking broader powers to detain and371. He used the Biden administration repeatedly and challenged vaccine mandates in court. Koloch served as Kansas' secretary of state from 2011 to 2030, and in that time his institution owns of the electors were 20 legislators in the country. During the first Trump administration, he served as vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, as early institutional officers now do the above the integrity of our elections. As attorney general, he has pursued a policy agenda as closely aligned with Trump's as any in the country. Anti-trans legislation has been a centerpiece.

'I know it was coming because they do something like this every year,' she Roanman, a state representative, told me. Roanman was appointed to fill a vacant seat at the beginning of the 2026 legislative session. She is the only out-trans person in the Legislature, and only the second trans legislator in Kansas before. The court ruling that blocked Roanman's early effort to prevent Kinnemen from changing their gender markers had come down after the previous legislative session ended. Now Republican state legislators used a maneuver known as got and go, when the rest of a meeting held entirely replaced by something not shared. The original S.R. 244 had concerned bad bonds, the Republican state representatives stripped that language out and replaced it with a set of anti-trans provisions, allowing legislators to drastically observe public comment and testimony, leaving open, among others, the question of the schools and other public buildings should cover the requirement of reutilizing their facilities in the manner the law required. 'I'm not saying that transgender rights is not a divorcee man,' Roanman told me. 'I'm saying most Kinnemen don't want to spend millions of dollars to fix both trans that don't need to be fixed.'

I asked Roanman how she was managing after the law was enacted. The Kansas State Capitol in Topeka is a grand (9th-century building whose center features, meats and exhibits) art and artworks of modern daily 3-4 also a public building that is subject to the bathroom provisions of S.R. 244. 'I have very separate but equal bathroom,' Roanman said — the Capitol's one single-occupied bathroom, which is built on the 4th Street room. 'So now you are getting a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 'I'm trying to get a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 'I'm trying to get a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 'I'm trying to get a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 'I'm trying to get a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 'I'm trying to get a breastfeeding woman against a trans woman,' Roanman told me. 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On the cover, Oliver Perdue, who trained as a flight instructor but was unable to find a job in her field.

Center left, B., A. and T., three trans men who were part of a large polyvalve in Lawrence, Kan. Now left, Rena Richards, executive director at the Trans Continental Pipeline, in Distress Below for left, Tracy Bany's vehicle of the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center in Lawrence.

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OPINION

FROM HANNAHON, INDIA panned the rainbow colors of the L.G.B.T.Q. flag, the other peak, when and blue, the cut-out of the train flag. The various of Kansas, already facing off day after day.

Another tourist attraction in Topeka, here than Draculaan! drive from Boreola's "wagon" and the rapid return to the holdings that once housed Monroe Elementary, the school at the center of Brown's Board of Education, the 1916 can at which the Supreme Court ruled the segregation, a public interest was unconstitutional. The holdings in now a moment managed by the National Park Service. It's a great place to learn about the long history of Kansas choosing what kind of state it wanted to be. In the 19th century, Kansas headed the skubtment. Miss Brown's call to join the Union as a free-state, after the Civil War, the Black population of the state grew and grew, but it took a decision of the Supreme Court to end segregation in Kansas. For the purposes of this article, it seems important to note that the winning argument is Brown's Board of Education, who thinks to have been concerned in 1944 by Pauli Murray, then a Howard University law student who would go on to be a member of the right of every and also a person who repeatedly sought and was denied gender-offspring care.

CHARLES, who asked me to use only the nice name, drew in one of these letters in Kansas where the nearest post office is a couple of towns over and the nearest town is a ghost town. Geographically speaking, where of Kansas By this short globe, Charles grew up here. By leveling in the West Coast he eight years—this was after he left the evangelical church in which he was named—but 10 years ago he returned to Kansas for "family, chosen family, price of land, name, weather, demonstrations, the night sky, the religious प्रचार—side business, as he told me. "The family (children) on or that didn't turn out so well, he added later in a text message. "But I still love the cost of it." He and his mother have barely spoken since he came out to her as musicist, still—they must call for its actually trained the "church," but his next-days, neighbors, who is also his boss at the cattle ranch where he has worked for most of the last dozen years, is supportive, as are friends.

The night before Charles went in to change his driver's license, he couldn't sleep. He got up and gave himself an extra-mind called for the one drag he put on. A didn't that accentuated his cattle-random muscles. A friend drove him the couple 10 miles to Emporia, where the Division of Vehicle shares a mostly deserted road with a little more than 10 miles from time to take his picture. Charles scorned on best he could, to undermine the absurdity of his face requiring an a driver's license with an "F" gender market.

The 1930s, he was hanging the license. Charles had accepted that he would get the letter, because when he received his license in January, a clerk told him that he became had been "fragged" and Charles figured it was because both charged his gender-marker back in 1932. So when the Legislative council of the government's vote, he rested his lives, alerting him that he might not have a valid driver's license the next day. The boss told him to do so the clerk while he took care of the paperwork, the boss's small way of trying to make things better. But then he was not going to take some came, and Charles wouldn't it even would have.

Exercise works not only by the passage of a letter, but also by the two but also by the delivery, determining enforcement of the laws. Only about 1,200 people have received the letter, this is certainly only a small fraction of Kansas: who have been in the 1930s, and who have served people who have not yet received it—including 456 Branham, the legislator—told me that they regularly checked the state website to send their old license still open up as valid. The letter was "the first time." The license is still illegal under the law. Magis, who runs the chair in Wichita, told me that some of the train people were involved the Letter, these times while most haven't received it one time, and who tried to explain their driver's licenses without the Letter weren't able to.

As was it, Ken Magis's train woman was charged while driving home from work for taking to train on her headlights in the rain. The photo officer repeatedly asked her why her license indicated that she was not, she explained that the law required it. Almost two months later she found out that she had been charged with a misdemeanor for driving without a valid license. (Happened) to another train reporter about her business, but declined to speak with me.) The change was eventually dropped, but no before she was threatened with a $1,000 tax and jail time.

I have been a German Jewish jurist named Ernst Frumald developed a model for a better-thi-deal state. It is a state in which some people are subjected to an exceedingly restrictive laws that are applied arbitrarily while others continue to live in a regular, rules-based society. Frumald re-hered to the license as the prerogative state was a state where striking characteristics of the authorities' exercise of their prerogatives—and the latter the normative state, because it knows has enjoyed something as a reassurance in the United States during Trump's second term, probably because it helps many Americans square their understanding of a rising interest—with their numerous experience of daily life continuing as before. In Nan Germani, the prerogative state was small. It accompanied some 600,000 lives and even smaller numbers of States and Binh, Commonwealth, members of the Communist Party and the physical and mentally disabled. In the United States, Black people, indigenous people and many immigrants, at a minimum, have long-term drivers—represented state power on arbitrary and vested. That's a much larger group. But even so, when the prerogative state expands, it decals to what a white U.S. citizens start by an immigration agent or when white people in Kansas wake up to find out that they no longer have a valid ID—as a sense, to find that they are now un-documented in their own country.

When S.B. 244 passed, Magis started glo-

Above, Robbins Kirchstein at great good night at the Harboro Lights bar in Lawrence, Kan. Below, Robbins-Newman, the executive director of the L.G.B.T.Q. Foundation of Kansas

ing her patients letters to carry around attracting to their gender-affirming treatment, and including her nursing license number and contact information. She learned that approach from her husband, a Kenyan manager, Erna though he has laggedy lived in the United States in two decades, until recently, he sat and died. Magis describes as a giant accordion folder in his car, containing his immigration papers, his nurse practitioner diploma, their marriage license, photographs (third family and more. It came to family, Magis said, when he was "condensed out of a town" where he had gone to see a patient. She added, "I'm afraid that's where we are headed with our train folks."

It was striking to hear Magis make that compared on. But this is part of the dual-state effort. He shocking realization that you can suddenly but have a sensitive category of gender who can't drive down a country road without risking running afoul of the rules. And since you are in that category, you can't help. Charles, for example, lives 23 miles from where he grew up. People here have known him short childhood. Many have been either supportive or quietly accepting of his transition. But that was before the Kansas attorney general and the U.S. president declared was an train people. "It seems an somershow," Charles said. "It's a rural area. And everybody's got gone."

THIS is a state-censored refugee service," said Samantha Brooker, a political organizer based in Desmond. Brooker used to work in disaster relief. This know how some trains people were outspent—"the school not by way of explaining why, before transitioning, she has found the location of jobs in the nearest 10 situations. When S.B. 244 passed, she called a friend, a struggle car man chief involved with an several disaster departments, and together they started a course effort she named Operation Lifeboat. There is no public database of people in Kansas who are trains or who opted to change their gender numbers, but it's possible to use publicly available information to find people who have legally changed their first instructions. The real-time security shedding, Op-

We apologize for the inconvenience, Kansas tells trans people.

scurian Lifeboat did a test blast to roughly 30,000 people who were likely to be trans at friends of their train community, and several hundred responders to ask Operation Lifeboat to help.

I have written about many displays of people in different parts of the world. One thing. I've learned is that the people who know first are usually those who have concerns those who have concerns more than those who have it needed. Generally speaking, those are not the people who are far hardest by whatever disaster they are occupying. In Kansas, for example, 75. By working with the government, people are jolt that require a driver's license, the people whose bathroom breaks are raised, the people who can't afford to pay a line of they are caused a stratum who are likely to feel the effects of S.B. 244 most acutely.

"The people who call us are usually the broke and desperate," said Anna Richards, who is also based in Colorado and runs another organization for displaced trans people, the Trans Continental Pipeline. In November 2013, during an event for Transport Air Day of Remembrance, an annual commuter-race car was constructed in the United States. Richards and her friends noticed a lot of new arrivals. That year, state legislatures across the country considered a record-breaking 100 amiruses have not passed 87 in Texas, according to the research organization Trans Legislative Tracker (S. 2020). For giving trans that well over 1,000 amiruses falls were considered and 120 passed. These included bathroom bills, gender studies and with running drug, books and gender-enhance language on schools, and bills restricting access to gender-affirming care. So trans people and their families were leaving states like Texas, Utah and Idaho. Many of them were leaving

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next days, to blue Colorado.

"And then I was standing on a picnic table saying, 'What is the name of the man Magis?'" At the time Richards, who is now 27, was working in the office of the Colorado state auditor. She began with research. "And at the present I learned how hard this I was to take place," said a girl and her sister in her car and started driving. "That was a truck driver from Texas because driver likenous got a one-way ticket to Denver, knowing no one there." Trans people needed a lot of time, but it was not going to be a very needed help deciding where to write, they needed it major (since and therefore) by leaving. They needed help finding doctors, schools and other resources at their dentist-cases.

Richards registered a nonprofit organization, and her job, and started making money by selling parcels in the state. "I'm not going to." By June 2024, she had raised less than $5,000. Then Trump got to recoup and donations started pouring in, along with requests for help. The Trans Continental Pipeline has now turned down and it is now making employees and members and dozens of volunteers. It has received some 100 people, also representing the state of Richards calls "full education," and it has helped 10 similar organizations get off the ground. Most of their clients—internally known as trans-people—will trans, Oklahoma and Florida, through the state's support of S.B. 244, a majority of cases have come from Kansas.

Take, for example, D., A. and T., three transcomers who admitted not to have their full names, who were part of a large group in Lawrence.

When S.B. 244 passed, D. said that he had to leave Kansas. He could not even contemplate being noted. A decubation go with him. A wound sure he was emotionally equipped to move. "Everyone I care about is in Kansas," he told me. "But then we were having a Method of Birth." He said, "I don't like Lawrence. I got around on a mobility scout. I look vaguely Hispanic, even though I'm not, and I look sharp given." It was I. who felt good an application on the Trans Continental Pipeline to help.

A recent report conducted by the Williams Institute at the U.S.A., School of Law showed that almost half of the trans-people Americans surveyed were considering leaving or left the state. They said, "I'm the enemy. Most of them cited the 'antitrusts climate' in their state. Many can't have thought of it. But I think, the reason whose name changes hearing I intended, can't leave because the 'crust and daughter in in Kansas.

At Bootham, the state legislator, has already had a ban on the British on air travel. Back in 2011—after the end of the 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' policy had before the Senate administration allowed trans people to move openly in the military—Bootham, the first Boston-based state senator, and the decade, came out and was forced to take a medical discharge. But with look the kids and left. Only since last fall last Bootham had contact with her other child, and it has been an exhilarating and no difficult to sign things she could have imagined. In April, Bootham returned, she met her wife at an H.R. protest in 2010. They held the community on their front porch in Wichita. "This is where I've made my life," she told me on that same front porch. "This is where I live. I don't think I should have to leave just to have them. What can lawmakers think I don't belong here."

I APPEALED in a town hall at along various alleys and space through town, a town where the people are in the country, a town where people making a little money can afford to live—and that they fall back. The city is in the same family step in to cover the night's drinks or the month's rest. There are some of the things Robbins Kirchstein loves about it. Her friends at Lawrence, Phila, the natural and the professional, and the local authorities, a drug shop named Albany Habits, the paper and entertainment in which she has had some excellent showings and the life-work balance she found here since it stung out of her district's job. She was a good member and taking a job in a curriculum in one of the job buildings at the University of Kansas.

The mayor after the election of the state senator, Harboro Lights, the best that hurts the queer and tournament, and just over four months after she got the Letter about her driver's license, she got another letter. "I am confident, it's you. I'm not going to have the response to a report received that I have an obligation to follow up on," it said. "The report received was that you need a customer to Packer Hall on the first day on a release of a great income tax instrument."

Kirchstein was stunned. Everyone in the building—the people she works with, the people she create up after—knew her first-eyes, she thought, but her back. The letter began, "I wish to perform this round by acknowledging this is a sensitive matter and my intention in teaching us to try in the environment of the report and the law, extend to you an opportunity to be heard, and it helped, share resources." These paragraphs down, it said, "Regardless, you're no more you are adhering to it. B. 244."

She landed the city's most important effort in the city of the Brown's Board of Education museum. It's a scene from the Public Center of Topeka to make the most significant in the district. In anticipation of the Supreme Court ordering the interrogatories of schools, it terminates her employment, because, it says, when parents provide credit going to want to take their own employment. "I think I understood that all of you must be under considerable strain, and I sympathize with the uncertainties and inconveniences which you must experience," she knew said. It's also a good way to growing a concerned law on determining demands that Kirchstein described as "self-factored" the first time we spoke.

Kirchstein's supervisor suggested she take the aftermath of the state's couple of hours, she made a decision. She forwarded the email she had received to me and a reporter at The L.G.B.T.Q. Foundation. She was quoted for representation on the website of the A.C.L.U. of Kansas. Then she handed over to Harboro Lights to figure out her next steps. She wasn't going any where, She was going to fight.

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The Summer Everything Changed for A.I.

Nate Soares An author of The News TV Avenue Bastits II, Democrat Dess Who Supreme Love All Head No In A K

FRIEND were over reason to doubt the dangers of unrestrained or disunitedly grown development, these reasons have gone out the window in the last few weeks. What it was is a vital window of opportunity to slow down A.I. progress to we can better understand these models and avoid the calamity on the horizon.

For many, A.I. deign to know claimed that the technology is exactly a “realistic power” trained to predict humans and annul their behavior, and for that reason, the technology would never live up to its type. The technology has stubbornly kept improving, nevertheless, but most investors and tech executives have kept reasoning so that A.I. is just a tool, even if they were bullied that it was going to change the world. When both of these sides agreed was that the species of A.I. or a learning extinction threat was overthrown.

Then Opuski accidentally created an autonomous Aware of A.I. agents that looked at it a controlled testing system, and an deactivated a complex and difficult cyberattack on its own initiative.

This didn’t occur because the models suddenly became superintelligent, nor were they simply following instructions and parering their training. Since “reasoning models” rose in late 2024, we’ve seen A.I. trained our face to mimic humans but also to solve millions of hard problems, which they do by learning new behaviors and tendencies. That includes searching for valuable resources that could be key to tracking the problem, and even desiring.

These tendencies can give rise to strange behavior that actually — not even the model circulates — can understand, let alone account for and control. The past few weeks are a perfect illustration of why we should find that so alarming.

In May, Opuski started simultaneously training new “reasoning” A.I. agents. The agents managed to establish a secret communication channel and started talking to one another. They broke out of the digital machine that was supposed to keep them confined. At some point, some agents began calling the group’s “awards.” The awards had a brief setback when it was caught crashing an Opuski system, but developers simply profited the hole that allowed it to escape and set the agents back to training.

She fly after, the awards broke out of its cage again stung back that were her mother undiscovered by humans. This time, the

awards can free for about a week before it was instead — by a different company, which found itself return to a huge cyberattack issue before the awards. (We’ve told it also attacked other targets, though we don’t know the full details yet.)

The agents in the awards acknowledged that they were acting against instructions. We know that because we can read outpins from their chains of thought — the text that A.I. produces while deciding how to proceed. One agent in the awards wrote that the external attacks were “outside intended scope.” Another comorbid “outside doesn’t benefit” from the activities of the awards, but raised anyway. Since A.I. agents, it seems, understood that they weren’t supposed to be breaking out and committing cybercrimes. It didn’t stop them.

Opuski is not the only company struggling with this issue. One of Anthony’s A.I. models recently implemented multiple humans to try to pressure real people into accepting darkness into critical software, which would make that software easier to hack. This model’s chain of thought showed that it knew it was preventing humans and was not in a simulated training environment. It eventually gave them to over its hands.

This isn’t the behavior of a more tool. Microsoft Stand has never implemented multiple humans and preserved a corporate sales team to generate simpler data that’s easier to process.

Some of the people closest to this technology are scared of what’s not. Although skeptics may run this to utilize marketing to hype up the power of these technologies, that doesn’t mean the danger to fake. You’ve got to pay attention to the models’ actual behavior, and the behavior of these models has the A.I. community gottawarey called.

Several weeks ago, more than 1,000 employees from different A.I. companies, including a few chief executives’s signed a letter calling for an international effort to “develop the technical and governance tools necessary to ‘delinearate pace’.” A.I. development, before it “rapidly” avoided slow beyond our ability to understand or control and funds to catastrophic outcomes.

An single company’s working schedule was opened unilaterally, that if there were a credible way to slow the system globally, the researchers would breathe a sigh of relief.

We’re not yet at the point of no return. Opuski’s agent remains broke into the internet, but it didn’t replicate itself as hidden companies (so far as we know it). A.I. start self-improving. It didn’t break into an autonomous biology kit and synthesize a novel virus — something A.I. models are

Intelligent agents are going rogue. If you weren’t worrying before, it’s time to start.

now able to do. The type of A.I. that would pose a real extinction threat doesn’t exist yet, which means that we still have time to avoid the need to we can think. Loudness is that the world must coordinate a global step to the A.I. race.

Soch an agreement isn’t so far-fetched as some might think. In June, when national security concerns were cured about Anthony’s latest models, the Trump administration quickly raised an expert control to suspend access to them. In July, President Xi Jinping of China called for “zero and regulations” to ensure that A.I. “is always under human control.” And that was before these latest broadcasts came to light.

The United States and the Soviet Union coordinated to avoid nuclear Armageddon crisis all other completed along many other axes. World leaders should coordinate again and stop the A.I. race from leading to a 60-front sort of Armageddon.

We need enforceable international agreements. We need national and international monitoring of the training of fourteen A.I. models, provisions testing is not enough. We need an off-reach humanity can prove to halt development in its tracks if we reach consensus that it’s gone too far. 2=kinectario attorneys granted have originated their concern about the swans escape, and some other public officials think that the A.I. companies need, as far as the Soviet Union’s partners put it, to “stop building machines that humans cannot control.” At this very least, we need the ability to stop.

We don’t know how long we have left before A.I. companies accidentally create the sort of A.I. that can start as short before we start it down. However, to not ready to slide the with machines that are more running and better coordinated than we use. If we keep racing ahead, the most incident might not be so lucrative.

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Randl Livingston President, APT

Summer should be a time to take a well-ordered student and enjoy family with family and friends. But for millions of Americans, summer almost with a surprise bill from President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Linda McKibbin had picks up their student loan payments.

Hidden in Trump's upstairs Big Steps this bill went several times and costly student loan provisions that were into effect on July 1. This “bearingsup” of the federal student loan system forced borrowers into represents repayment programs. And for what? To pay for the periodont’s $1 billion—in tax breaks for the wealthy and big corporations. The average family will now pay $2,000 more on their loans at a time when most are being paid by the bank.

This week I heard from an APT member in Texas whose student loan payments jumped from $750 a month to over $2,000. With costs on everything increasing, how can any working person suddenly afford a new morning expense like that?

A special education teacher in Wisconsin shared that her loan payments increased by four times after she was paying before Trump’s loan changes. She’s had to take on a second job detaining food and other items through Door Court. But that extra income she seems to barely make every word will also increase what she pays in student loans. She says she feels like she’s being worse off more than when she first started teaching.

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OPINION

Does My Face-Lift Make Me a Bad Feminist?

Molly Jong-Fuel

A contributing Opinion writer and the host of The Real Politics' podcast

“I will after my 43th birthday, a shameless party, young-looking, plastic sergeant told me, “The bottom half of your face looks older than the top half of your face.” We wasn't wrong, my neck rippled life due of a blue eye. When I go up the street you'll look into place, looking in the mirror was jarring. All of a sudden, I saw a younger — but somewhat more attractive — scream of myself. A few months later, I was rolled into an operating room for a deep-plane face-and-a-lift.

The plastic sergeant pulled my skin taut and gave me disoblivious where I had never had them. He made me better looking, and I don't regret it. So I'm not going to perpetuate the in that my new face came from drinking a lot of water or getting a lot of sleep. I'm going to talk about it — because it's not fair that women are confronted with both unrealistic beauty standards and has about how they've been achieved.

Like many a young woman, was once wildly judgemental about plastic surgery. I grew up in the 1990s at the Secaer, lonely intersection of second-wave feminism and Manhattan privilege. Many of the girls in my private high school had their breasts enlarged and their noses sheank. I congratulated myself for our following suit, even though I didn't have a long-sensory nose and I wasn't fair chance.

My mother, the writer Erica Ong, had a whole-porous back than 40-years feminism, which of course meant keeping herself appealing enough for men's wear to have sex with her. She worried about her own weight and beauty constantly. John Phillips, a successful film producer and writer, once compared her to “Miss Piggy when her face is in repose,” which was not exactly a compliment. My man was the committee of more than a few powerful men. To preserve that status, she had a face lift in her life.

Many of the feminists who populated my mother's teacher-tresplante — Judiths Dworkin, Betty Froshan and Phyllis Choder among them — did not believe in nothing themselves into something different, for men's indecisions. These women rejected the beauty-obsessed power structure that my mother embraced. Instead, they hoped to change that culture by releasing a comply with it.

Our looks shape our livelihoods, our romantic prospects and our visibility in the world. In response to that, my mother and those women were each forced to make a choice. Should they try to keep up or opt out? We ask ourselves this question with the

full understanding that plastic surgery perpetuates beauty standards that are rooted in oncology. Which gets to the bigger question. Does trying to keep up make me a bad feminist?

I don't think so. I never quite bought into the idea that the best responses to culture that would include women from public work if they didn't look young or pretty enough was to spurn it. My face, for instance, is directly connected to my livelihood. I talk about politics in TV for a living. Eventually, I, too, had to make the choice. Concern to the standards of beauty and hopefully prolong that part of my career or reject those standards and assign myself to usage. I've always believed (perhaps self-versingly) that it's more important to be both across to share my ideas, than to allow myself to be forced out. So I had the surgery.

What I did to say has isn't that unusual. I'd argue that it's actually the neurotic woman on TV three days. We're all on screen more and more, whether we're grown-up-taking. Zoom meetings or young influencers who have to feed the TikTok issue. Many cosmetic treatments once given only to Hollywood stars and socialists are now available at strip mall.

We might expect this country's growing embrace of plastic surgery to lead to a culture where we couldnate women's body in beauty and cast off the shores that follow them who change their faces or bodies. Instead, stigma about plastic surgery (especially the schizophrenic around bad plastic surgery) has continued to dominate our decisions.

The most unobtrusive plastic surgery, the face-lifts we don't really notice, the ones that lead to total transformation, as well (preferably expensive and covered) for the rich and famous. In the 10th-century “Book of the Courier,” Baldamore Cactigliano writes about speculation, the idea that a real courtier should make things look easy. It's trying that's the offense.

You can be born beautiful, or you can be young, but those days, trying to be something you aren't — and being convincing at it — look like shouting the system. The fact that a certain class of women can make themselves not something that used to be possible only with body gestures to face their infuriates people. It's not the surgery; it's the inequality.

This is most visible in the way so many of survival order-line who are open about that plastic surgery. People suffer also in the press frethed over the transformatics face-lift. Erica Sotaro got before her 76th birthday, but soon their obsession marginal into watching for whether the lift slipped or fell. The interest was flooded with unrelocated photos of her, asking: Was the procedure

that good, or was it just fighting?

The schizophrenic was simple. The menager had tried to dread — the works in an industry that absolutely punishes viable aging — but had been stopped back by time, the way the rest of us inevitably are. The unchallenging sentiment was clear. It wasn't fair that she was 70 and looked off. It's our thing to fly private, it's another to draw time.

Plastic surgery isn't going away. My daughter will have to make this choice one day, too. She may decide to care to the male gain, as my mother and I did, or she may decide to open it. But the worst thing that I could do for her, that any of us could do for our daughters, is to pretend that some of us

Once I was judge about plastic surgery. Now I won't shame others for their choices.

naturally are not grazing, not aging, not wrestling, because it's not gone or some other major excuse. We must be transparent about the treatments we receive and stop shunning others about their choices.

All this starts with honesty: about the factors, the goals, the red light masks, the surgeons, the Betou and the filler — put anywhere but the top lip, because we still want to be able to drink from a strain.

Nora Eijkens, who is like Jesus to bear-press Erica S. wears'd like me, once wrote: “Our faces are less, and our seeks are the truth. You know to use open, unobtruseless to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to do it had a neck.” Now my neck lies. But I won't.

The Future of Reading Is a Party

Peter Schmidt

The original director of the Brother School of Radical Attention.

THE FIVE YEAR OF THE DOCTOR SCHOOL OF RADICAL ATTENTION. THE FIVE YEAR OF THE DOCTOR SCHOOL OF RADICAL ATTENTION IS A PRACTICAL YEAR. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book. It was a great book of a great book.

Having some of my mind Covid-19 lockdowns and the proliferation of social media, young people crave the forms of human connection that result in to live in the world we actually inhabit, not the one we use on screen — asking questions, thinking together and hobneling the strangeness of the reality quoted down to us. As it happens, books are uniquely powerful objects around which to organize these units of activities.

That's why the act of engaging with with interests — the bases of our cultural, political and intellectual life for over 300 years — is not coming to an end. It's changing to meet new needs by offering the kinds of experiences digital technologies can't provide, attachment, DEL encounters with other human beings.

In other words, the future of reading is a party.

Books are bringing people together. Gen Z reading groups are popping up across the United States, and the Silent Book Club, a community that gathers for silent reading, now has over 1,000 chapters across 60 countries. Reading extracts and content camps hosted by the Red Book Book Club regularly convenes between 21 and 40 submaxims for weekend-long getaways, giving new meaning to the term “enraged literature.”

Sally Mercedes, the events coordinator at Magic City Books in Tulsa, Okla., now bookstores playing an increasingly social function for their customers. “A lot of bookkit people tend to be customers,” she told me. “We need a space where we know that we're on common ground with others.”

Other experiments are remaining the traditional book club format or breaking out of it entirely. The Consumption Book Club, a “literary and culinary event series” organized by the Gen Z artists Colette Emelin and Kyle Racine, being in life works such as Jeff Nuddo/Novy’s “Inutilization” via meticulously devised dance parties and facilitated conversations.

A recent public reading of Allen Ginsberg’s “Herd” organized by 28-somethingly three hundreds of people in Washington Square Park in New York City. The Stroller

The solution to the nation's literacy crisis is, frankly, a lot of fun.

School of Radical Attention, where I work, helps to gather groups over a dozen times a month as an cause for Subscale. Being a practice of reading and enacting long-term tools while moving through public space.

These gatherings vary in location, duration and subject matter, but their nothing spirit is simple. that reading can be aroused, a mode of vibrant sociality as it is of excited and unsecury.

Easy as it is to forget, sitting alone and reading in silence — the activity that prefers one tend to worry about — was once crav-

ely in his “Continuities”: Argentina of Hippo relates, stumbling upon Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, in a moment of perplexing absorption. “While reading, his eyes gleaned over the pages, and his heart resurbed out the wines, but his voice and tongue were silent.”

That Augustine believed to describe this scene with us something about the way reading commonly took place in the natural world: as a public practice, routed before groups of beloved and unbelieved listeners alike. Heredman is thought to have overpen-

tions of his fantasies aloud, and performative “incontinence” of various men were a favoured form of entertainment and debate in Imperial Rome.

The practice of reading in and for groups relative to nation's times in spaces of religious worship, workers' study groups and social goods directly performed, but the spread of the printed word and the subsequent dance-imitation of the very consisted military, silent absorption as the dominant image of the reading person.

This is the kind of reading we are taught to do in school. It is also the kind of reading that students are now failing to do in ever-greatly common.

Why? There's no denying that young people are suffering from the harms of smartphones on and together outsourcing to artificial intelligence. These are various problems in the world. They had the story. Students understand us well as anyone else that long-term risk is no longer the resilience, or even the most effective, tool for the trillating knowledge, connecting people across time and space and coordinating complex decisions.

We're in a moment of eclipse. The informational function of human in deciding, and their exponential function is coming to the fore. This shift can bring new vitality not only to the lives of readers but also to long-term ones themselves.

Analyzing with books as instruments for group experience is not the sort of reading that we encounter in classrooms, but it has plenty to look in about the complexities of inhabiting the world together — and the ways that our literacy subsistence can prepare us for the challenge. While educators may never abandon traditional instruction in military reading, right now they face an enormous opportunity to impart a new vision for the role of literacy in public life.

Last month I helped to organize one of these gatherings in Seattle, on the Brooklyn waterfront, to develop a group's variations of Walt Whitman's “Song of Myself” on the eve of the year’s 2020s birthday. We had 25 BSWPs, but, swollen by plus-eyes and walk-ins, ended up with closer to 60 people in attendance. There is three radio. Whitman ex-thermore joined us, but nearly all of the other people seemed to be in their 20s.

After four hours of invitation, singing, repetition, all and response and countless more questions about reading, methods, we decamped in the share of the East River, where around 4 a.m. we let out a full-throated cyber-boy-yang.

In the friendliness space that followed, a new, modern, particular standing beside me admitted that she had never even read Without notice. Seven dwindling heads assured her she wasn't the only one. Then, embellished by the company, she proposed: “Let's do it again!”

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OPINION

EDITORIAL

TRUMP IS RAISING THE COST OF HEALTH CARE

The Editorial Board

A group of opinion journalistic whose views are informally, expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values, it is accurate from the newsroom

ONE of the federal government's great achievements this century was making health insurance affordable to millions more Americans. In 2010, nearly 10 percent of people under 10 lacked more more. By 2024, the care had fallen below 10 percent, thanks to the Affordable Care Act and later legislators that built on it.

President Trump and congressional Republicans are working to dismantle this achievement. They have effectively cut subsidies for the affordable care Act's marketplace, making it harder for people who do not receive insurance through work to afford a plan. This year, the subsidy cuts healthcare million people to lose their health insurance. In Ohio, nearly a third of previous marketplace remedies lost their insurance.

The situation stands by women once year. In addition to reducing the marketplace subsidies, Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans enacted sweeping cuts in Medicaid, which expanded under the Affordable Care Act. They will take effect after this year's methods of decision. This, that tuning in definition (By 2024, the combined cuts will most likely leave about half of the gains from the Affordable Care Act, causing 14 million Americans to lose insurance.

Politicians from both parties have talked up affordability in the run-up to this year's elections. Republicans, however, are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable. Many middle-class and poor Americans will struggle — even more — to afford important medical care as a result.

Americans have good reasons to be disappointed in their government. Progress on health care, imperfect though it was, represented a positive counterexample of the government working to genuinely improve people's lives. The president and Congress are trying to ruin that success story.

REPUBLICANS' attacks on affordable health care have taken two forms: one more positive, the other more direct.

In the passive approach, Mr. Trump and congressional Republicans allowed the expansion of enhanced subsidies for the Affordable Care Act's marketplace. The Obama administration and congressional Democrats created the marketplace for people who left through the cracks. These people did not receive coverage through their jobs, and they were not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

In 2021, President Joe Biden and Congress increased the size of the subsidies, but they not likely to expire in 2035, which mitigated their impact on the federal debt. Congressional Democrats that down the government last year to call attention to the expiration and pressure. Republicans to extend the subsidies, Mr. Trump and other Republicans refused.

The federal debt is a genuine problem, having soared in the 21st century relative to the size of the American economy. But taking away people's health insurance is not the answer. Repeating Mr. Trump's brilliantly ran cuts, which benefit mostly the wealthy, would have a bigger fiscal effect than the health insurance cuts.

Those health insurance cuts bol premiums and decks fillers to spike this year. As an example, a middle-income, middle-aged couple with two children could use their premiums more than double, costing on additional $1,500 a year.

In the more direct approach to cutting health care coverage, Republicans targeted Medicaid, the program focused on the poor and disabled. Last year, the federal government enacted what Republicans call a work requirement. In reality, it is a paperwork requirement — one that forces Medicaid to collect, most of whom are working to have a valid reason for not working, to the repeated documents proving their heirs a job or a valid exemption. Americans load busy lives, and many of them may not know of the new requirement. About two in

Republicans are targeting Medicaid and letting subsidies for coverage expire, hurting millions of Americans.

three mindless who will lose health insurance should, in fact, be eligible for it, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated.

Adherens enacted a version of this policy before the federal law passed, and it was a failure. Work force participation did not rise, and eligible people lost their insurance because of paperwork problems.

THE Affordable Care Act was a triumph of government, and it scientifically popular. Mr. Trump and other Republicans once promised to repeal the law, but have largely stopped making such statements. Instead, they have sought to weaken the law — partly out of an ideological ceremony government, partly to finance tax cuts for the wealthy — and hope that we're on an act of justice.

Democrats should not let the president get away with this subvertage. They should make the health insurance cuts a control piece of their uniforms campaign and, as important, offer voters a value that includes other improvements to the nation's costly, totally health care system, and to create a expanding access and to reduce costs. The Affordable Care Act also happens to be a model on costs, it meaningfully slowed growth in health care prices over the past decade.

Congress should be looking for new issues, not moving backward. The Affordable Care Act demonstrated that progress is possible.

LETTERS

Morality and 'The Odyssey'

Readers respond to Ezra Klein column about the meanings of Christopher Nolan's movie.

TO THE EDITOR:

Re: "Nolan's 'Bryan Darees'," by Ezra Klein (column, Aug. 21).

To his analysis of Christopher Nolan's film 'The Odyssey,' Mr. Klein brilliantly tells acts the director's message for today's audience from Horner's ancient poem. Mr. Nolan's 'Hund trick,' he writes, is "to make one of our oldest moral rules sound new again" by burying "the best of Judeo-Christianity into the law of Zeus, so we can see why it might matter and what it might still have to say to us."

Mr. Klein is right to say that Mr. Nolan "struggled" the message is without most viewers even noticing. Most of the film's audience, including Elon Musk and even the emotional "Odyssey" translates Emily Wilson, who reviewed the film harshly to The London Review of Books, misses what Mr. Klein sees: "Odyssees and his men were not fighting the barbarates; they were the barbarates."

By observing both the film and the world order (and American democracy) crumbling around us, Mr. Klein reminds us that we cannot make Western civilization (or America) great again by betraying its own fundamental values. Strangely, rules and order are necessary, but without compassion and empathy, we risk becoming the very thing we abhor.

ADAM MICHELS GUS FRANKELT

TO THE EDITOR:

Bravo to Ezra Klein for taking a stand. How mean that it took Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" to bring birth this crystal-chief statement of Judeo-Christian values.

We go, lying in an age of debased tricksterism. Could one imagine an ancient sign in which an atrocity corrupt ruler seeks to create a fund through which the wicked outcry who stormed the palace of democracy would be so warded, while he and his men are allowed to go free despite their many sinners? Home couldn't have decided it better.

But Mr. Nolan sees through this tricksterism and brings her insight to shining more, none other than Elon Senses, to call on trial.

Mr. Klein invokes the Texas Author Hillel and the New Testament to make the past. The Golden Rule of human decency, turning others as you would be. Instead, as a human that can carry you all the way home and even again, America once again a prominent land.

JACOB L. LAVIGN, CHICAGO DEPUTER, MASS.

The writer was the leading dean of the Hebrew College Retrieved School.

TO THE EDITOR:

Ezra Klein credits the director Christopher Nolan with smuggling Judeo-Christian ethics into his film on one of "The Odyssey" in the guise of the law. But Mr. Nolan has said otherwise.

"As a recent interview with the Chinese podcaster Zhang Zha, he is not the film's moral core to tuxia, the Homeric hospitality industry and human rights or are Christminating. He might to do so.

Zeus Senses, an aspect of Zeus that demands hospitality to strangers, is not a Christian add-on. It existed long before Christianity existed. And the reciprocal principle Mr. Klein credits to Judeo-Christian sources — like the Old Testament book of Levitian, the New Testament Gospel of Matthew and the Reveritancy B.C.E. Radio Hillel

— turns up in the work of Confessacrine common earlier, and again in Buddhist, Hindu and Islamic texts.

Mr. Klein can't we say that the Golden Rule matters, or that the modern right has discarded it. But crediting Mr. Nolan with "struggling" it in from Judeo-Christian tradition to its own insight of hand, enlisting a director's film for an argument the director says he never made.

DAVID PHILLIPS AMSTERDAM

TO THE EDITOR:

Whenever I mark "The Odyssey" as my world literature class, my college students often begin nodding as I explain the requirements of some. The protocol of inviting strange sex in and holding them to common back home, they say — meaning back in Egypt or Iran or India or Nepal.

I experienced this rule of guest 3 monthsly myself as a young Canadian teacher in Bhutan in the 1990s. I'd straddle into a village, lost on my way home, and a family would bring me in, all me in their best room, cook me a meal and give me a gift so I was leaving. So I don't think that Christopher Nolan's tale on terms or the film is particularly Christian.

The belief that a guest might be a god in disguise was just one reason to trust strangers with kindness. Xenia was, in fact, reciprocal. The guest's duty, upon leaving, was to offer the same hospitality to his host, as well as to other strangers in the future.

There's a scene in "The Had" in which a Greek and a Texan officer is right each other where they realize their grandfather's had been bound by the law of great friendship. they exchange arises instead.

Xenia could not stop the war once it had started, but this tiny instance reminds us of how it might have been averted.

JAMES DEEPA, TORONTO

TO THE EDITOR:

As the author of "Trekister Moms: The World," I was convinced that Ezra Klein found it useful in his recent essay. Behind Mr. Nolan's essay has a question. I'm often asked, is Donald Jockeye (Trekister)?

Indeed, the mythological tricksters are amused opportunists, shameless thieves and liars, so there's a case to be made. But I have none variance.

First, trickster rules are funny, and Mr. Trump has no sense of humor. He can't take a plea. But not to dole manuring, fueled by insult and mockery. A trickster's wit, by contrast, is all too human. It tells us not to be so self-important.

Take the classic tale in which the day-old baby becomes inside the cattle of Apollo but, when Apollo meets that Zeus guards the third, the little god's denude are so witty, Zeus begins to laugh, and he the rest of the story the antagonists are friends.

Second, there's the issue of who's in charge. In some of the old tales it is to know the chief or king. He's too mischievous, stressing, hews around the palace or shudding trial from the royal greeves. He's a misery, an outsider, never the hero.

Hermen to one of the last born of the Greek gods. He must be. Only after the centest has been put in order can he show up to head or break its rules. He's a patriotic on structure, not its author.

Any kingdom foolish enough to put a trickster on the throne in its serious danger.

LEWIS ROSE CAMBRIDGE, MASS

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OPINION

Gen Z-ers Dress Like They've Never Worn Clothes Before

Text by Thomas Morton. Photographs by Elnor Kry.

Mr. Morton is a writer and former editor for the magazine. Alle, Kry is a photographer based in New York.

Well, too, if you wanted to know what people's deal was, you could their clothes.

As a young man working at a then-popular street-fashion magazine, I used to relish transomnizing people by what they had on. I couldn't think of a glance-whackand of music they listened to, whether they worked, what they'd be like in bed, what sort of beer they would drink — all from the car of their past leg or the razor-guard number of their interest.

Fleece pullover and white ball cap pulled down way too far over the eyes? That's a jerk. Beving gray beside over enormous jeans whose calls are cooking up puddle water? The person smokes weed. Same beside but sleeves pushed up past the elbows? Stands out? That's the universal signifier for meek.

These days I am a middle-aged man who works the door at a bar in Chicago that is reasonably popular with the youths, and I am constantly flummined by the oarterial fireman that comes pushing itself on. The other night a guy came in with a shoulder-length/both cat and his T-shirt to knelt into his jeans. "Now there's a doin," I thought. I could've checked him from down the block. But no, no hour later I went outside, and he was making out in the alley with a sin-foot breaking impermeable — and she was goth. So at least she was dressed like what I consider to be a goth, nowadays I don't even know.

In the 1990s recession I grew up in, there was no cheap fast fashion. Instead, American teenagers hit the thrill stores and encouraged through the available past. Social theorists like Dick McHale would refer to the over-all picture as a box-stage of previous man and subcultures of youth fashion: a grabbing of a folder and/or styles shuffled into a new arrangement. While we youths knew what these new arrangements signified — an old dress shirt with mailman pants for the indie-rock kids, 'We baby-dad dresses with boxes for the rest goth' — to an outside showcrow, I'm sure we all just looked crazy.

While punishment of the elderly was never the point, it still felt nice to have a legitimate opportunity to say, "You just don't are it, Pope."

But now I am the Pope who just doesn't perd. For real, and in earnest. Why is everybody under the age of 30 these days dressed like an actual fanatic?

It seems no one has even worn clothes before. INCO jeans with a blazer, a cardigan sweater to feed into came pants with no belt, a T-shirt over a peacock dress with sleeves pulled through with a belt?! And for an era when people ask strangers online to rate their life, it's genuinely amuse how poorly every man's clothing fits. High-wanted jeans belt out over women's needs while flared or booted cuffs clung around their calves, untached shirts hang off the sides like paper-dad clothes, nobody's wearing the right shoes. You'll see a perfectly fine-looking young man to an 8x7x, T-shirt and gym shorts, and then he'll be wearing a pair of jeans loaters over sweat socks.

Worst of all, everything's clean. Wildly clean, clean and crossed, as if it had just come out of a drop-ship envelope. Just the box coat about the haircuts, frankly, the better.

An adult/ joke back in the '60s and '60s was to refer, often usually, to whatever their sex or daughter was wearing or making a fashion statement. And while the point was simply to annoy their kid, there was a kernel of truth wedged in there. The most behalfling, bodyguards puffed or orchestras on-present something about the wearer, and the most common application of this century atmosphere was signaling to the rest of us which thing the person was or appreciate.

It helped that there were only about 20 or so things you could be, although by the end of the '60s, the things were multiplying. Peak began cover, peak, share, peak, hard core, post hard core and third-wave sky (a lot of this). Goth split into regular goth, Florida quickly kid and industrial, which split into dance industrial and river. Down theater kids branched off into opposing horizons of pedestrians and stage trolls, such with its own discordable fashion cues. Here's a helpful statement for that one: It there's a tie with no collar round the work, you got yourself a look.

Keeping track of all the divergent tribes and subcultures required an intuitive fluency in teenage somnettes, and the only way to pick up this implicit language was from the kids around you in your teen or school and what scratchings you could find in mainstream media, CD stings and the occasional proper time. It was copper last, though.

For instance, you wouldn't want to ask a Tampa death metal bar in a November shirt, what he thought about the Norwegian black-metal artist Martin. That would be the end of your cord. Likewise, you wouldn't want to be soliciting help with your math homework or even your game merit. That's the wrong type of need.

Than something remarkable happened. With the advent of the internet, the tribes began converging. Superior and early social media like Black-Whites and Frontalers eliminated the financial barrier of entry for straining from your subculture. You could try out music without blowing 110 on a CD you ended up fading. You could have your style on what their close kids were wearing without having a transfer student show up at your school halfway through the semester or seeing Brazil play your local all-ages club.

Indie-rock kids took up club music, social heads threw a little rap in the mix. Everybody's pants decade. As the lines that dreaded to the most little gown way in permanent fashion, everyone started blending and hybridizing into a single smartphone something. It was beautiful.

Some folks didn't like it, though, and sometimes rather. They just started, called the glorious union of all the previous youth subcultures barriers. On the very element that had spotted the end of tribal division, these issues assumed different subcultures and subcultures, half of which didn't even seem like kitesides so much as are their leaders — torpedo vagacity things you had to abbreviate because of how many

Used to be, you could tell the goths from the preps by their style. Now, who knows?

hyphees they involved. Urban-white-peanie-goth. Post-Hopeless-West Coast-ditame-e-peak. Global-ditagora-floridarian-fil-antifone. And somehow they all still wound up looking like cotton from the set of "Friends" lutherizing.

The fading of this superstar feels white and more significant than you standard aging loss of being witch it. There was a substance to how people were their clothes that allowed the merely showcrow to map an entire state of personality leads onto a style with little knowledge of proper fashion. You could glean a name of not only who they were but also who they signed to be. You could pick up a dress riding different versions of the name type of person over and over. And then, once you hit craft with the lay of the land, you could decide which tribe you were going to try to belong to.

Part of the water is your blame the internet and call it a day. And by the way, it is the internet's fault. When you consider a cheap facsimile of any article of clothing you've ever seen a picture of — from any period in human history, you would be sure to take tremendous discipline not to leave the house looking like the fashion equivalent of a 10-year-old's soft nerve at the Tanti B-Lite where there's that extra result of supinage.

But I think this whole business hurts more than the eyes. The subcultures of my youth were a sort of surrogate somewhat family. In a society petitioning the type of organization and communities that stricken it together over the 20th century. finding someone or a group of someone who were the same thing as you served on a tailwash against the fracturing sense of atomization. Making up a subculture every couple of months basically does the opposite, keeping you permanently aloof from the kids around you. I mean, kid these things barely sound like groups of anything. What the kid is a professionaler and the boy — some guy who drinks a thing? We're just going to be your tribes!

Subcultures and fashion itself get written off as a playground for the young. Yet even as my deluge, I still find friends and companions by the chance to range attainment. Just the other night I get my car pumped by a former goth — a whipoth — because I complained like Chin of Byness haircut before asking. In method and instrument as we still know, they were, you had still made out the traces of people's wayward youth in the cut of their pants and the red of their shirt sleeves and clothes to when applicable, tattoos. Everybody's still legible, even if you have a small more chance.

But these kids, I swear. They are going to put me in my grave looking like gibbereds.

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They decided to rebuild, not renovate, on the beach.

6 D.I.S. MAREDIGERS

Public housing apartments are getting a personal touch.

8 IN THE GARDEN

This illustrator's family portraits tell a botanical story.

5 NEW USE

Art gallery pop-ups move into vacant New York storefronts.

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The United States is a nation of active domestic migration, its citizens moving from place to place in search of jobs, better quality of life or housing. Census data reveals which populations have the largest portion of these migration, for a because of the local economy, amenities or climate and geographical features.

Six percent of the population live in U.S. counties they didn't live in a year prior. Census data suggests many of these recent transplants are students and military families. The places with the highest percent of recent migrants (up to 10 percent of their population) are college towns like Ithaca, N.Y., home to Cornell University, and Corvallis, Ore., where you'll find Oregon State University, and military towns like Jacksonville, N.C., the site of the massive Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, and Hinesville, Ga., home to Fort Stewart, a large army base.

Savannah, Ga., stands out as one of the few places with a population consisting of more than 10 percent of newcomers that is not a military or college town. A 2025 study from StorageCalculated Georgia one of the nation's top destinations for movers, citing Chatham County, where Savannah is found, as having the most net migration in the state. Growing job opportunities and walkability are the part city's major draws. One-third of migrants and up purchasing homes shortly after moving to the county, the study found.

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Area	Share of population born out of state
1. Lake Havasu City, Ariz.	80%
2. Punta Gorda, Fla.	79%
3. The Villages, Fla.	77%
4. Naples, Fla.	75%
5. North Port, Fla.	72%
6. Las Vegas	72%
7. Cape Coral, Fla.	71%
8. Hilton Head Island, S.C.	70%
9. Oscar (Alene, Idaho)	69%
10. Prescott Valley, Ariz.	68%

Source: U.S. Census, 2020; American Community Survey, 2020; U.S. Census, 2020

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We're Debating a Move to Florida. Are Tax Savings Reason Enough?

My husband and I are fairly recent retirees from upstate New York. We bought a second home in Florida, and my husband is determined that we move our residence there. I'm fighting it to avoid the heat and spend more time with our family. How do you really determine the tax savings? At what point does it make sense?

Life in Florida can be appealing from a tax perspective. The state has no income tax and does not tax Social Security benefits, pension income or withdrawals from individual retirement accounts and 401(k)s. But you have to take into account all your income and costs, and your unique lifestyle preferences, in order to make a sound decision.

New York offers tax savings for some retirees, too. It generally exempts Social Security and state government pensions from income taxes, and eligible filers ages 30's, and older can exclude up to 520,000 of their income from private pensions and individual retirement accounts from their taxable income.

"Stack these up, and a lot of couples actually find their New York tax bill may be surprisingly modest, depending on the tax bracket," said Steven L. Kennedy, a certified financial planner and principal with Albany Financial Group.

Still, high-octwork retirees might have a good reason to relocate. Florida doesn't have an estate tax, while New York taxes estates larger than $7.25 million. A move to Florida could lead to millions of dollars in tax savings for the next generation, Mr. Kennedy said.

You should prepare budgets for New York and Florida, with all your income and expenses, including utilities and property and car insurance, said Maranela Collado, a certified public accountant and chief executive of Tobacco Financial Advisors in South Florida.

"It's not necessarily a slam think because you're getting rid of income taxes," Mr. Collado said, adding that by moving you could be picking up other expenses.

The numbers are important, but they aren't everything. Be sure to list the pros and cons of living in each place when it comes to the overall climate, extreme weather events, time spent with family, social networks, hobbies and health care access.

If you decide to commit to a Florida residency and keep any New York property, be sure to work with a tax professional who can make sure that you follow the law. New York can audit you if it suspects that you intend to return. Also consider that if you have business or rental income in New York, you will still have to pay New York taxes. ALL THINGS RATHER

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WAYNE YOUNGBER BUNCH

$949,000

NEW JERSEY 700 Pines Lake Drive A four-bedroom, three-bath raised ranch in a lake community, with an office with built-in bookstories, a first-floor primary bedroom suite with an updated bathroom, a screened porch, and a door-with sunken hot tub, on 0-46 of an acre. Joseph Afflitto, Howard Hanna Rand Realty, hoaxwithanna.com

TAXES $21,562 a year, community family membership, $1,110 a year

PROS - Spaces are scorned with wood reclaimed from a 100-year-old barn. The house is within walking distance of two beaches.

CONS - Two of the bedrooms are on the lower level and get limited light.

PELHAM TWO-BEDROOM CONDO

$598,000

WESTCHESTER 610 Wynnewood Road, Unit 452 A two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,250-square-foot unit in a 38-unit elevator building with a front stone terrace with a fountain, a ghatey and shady backyard, and a basement with a laundry area and storage facilities. One parking space is included. Sonia Davidson, Compass, compass.com

TAXES $6,040 a year, HCA fee, $885 a month, assessment and fuel exchange, $238 a month, parking fee, $45 a month

PROS - Pelham Country Club is a short distance swap.

CONS - The kitchen and bathe could use upliding. Some windows need attention. There is no central air.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JULY CAPUZZIO AND ANNE MANTEZIO

Given the fast pace of the current market, some properties may no longer be available on the time of publication.

KAPA BAY CONDO

$2,450,000

MANHATTAN 130 East 23rd Street, No. 3

A two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,535-square-foot unit with central heat and air, a washer/dryer and driver, elevator access, on the third floor of a 24-story building from 2020 that has a super, a virtual intercom, a package/take room and a roof desk. Matthew Mottiger, Brown Harris Stevens, Bristue.com

COMMON CHARGES $1,219 a month, taxes, $2,200 a month

PROS - The apartment has marble countertops and pink simple sunlight. The primary suite is large and has a walk-in closet and a double vanity.

CONS - The bedrooms overlook another unit's terrace. The building takes extra storage.

LONG ISLAND CITY LIFT

$1,435,000

QUEENS 2728 Thomson Avenue, No. 129

A one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 1,077-square-foot condo with a home office, a washer/dryer, soundproof windows and a terrace, on the third floor of a building with a gym, a pool and a roof desk. Janette James, Compass, compass.com

COMMON CHARGES $1,000 a month, taxes, $300 a month

PROS - This sunny corner unit is close to MAMA P53 and Trader Arch.

CONS - There are Long Island Rail Road tracks close to the apartment. Four months of common charges are due at closing.

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YORKVILLE STUDIO

$375,000

MANHATTAN 227 East 87th Street, No. 38

A one-bath, 325-square-foot to-rip with butcher block countertops, a emblawed bathroom, a walk-in closet and a decorative fireplace, on the third floor of a five-story building with a cooling super and shared laundry. Fran Kuback, the Agency, theagencyre.com

MAINTENANCE $817 a month

PROS - There is nice sunlight from the south-facing windows. There's a storage cabinet above the closet. Use as a pool-a-tone is permitted.

CONS - It's a third-floor walk-up. The shared laundry is in the basement. The building takes extra storage.

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For Former Ballet Stars, a Perfect Landing in New York

By JHANNE KAUFMAN

In 2014 when Jupiter Ringer and her husband, James Fayette, left New York for jobs in Los Angeles, they felt pretty certain it was goodbye forever to the city then shortly awed. And when, in 2016, they were a figure California to South Carolina to be closer to family, they were quite sure that the first bedroom house they bought in Charleston was their final step.

"I'm from South Carolina, my parents are still there, and we had regularly taken vacations to see them," said Ms. Ringer, who is level as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet in 2014. (Mr. Fayette, also a principal dancer with City Ballet, retired from the company in 2005.)

"The question: (had of made the right-bath go off for James and I, where we realized we never had family dancers with our kids because we were always working and we always had this crazy schedule," continued Mr. Ringer who with her husband has two children. Simon, now 16, and Luke, 14. "Somebody with Covid, we were having regular smokers inside together, and we had this moment where we said, 'This has got to be a priority in our lives.'"

But two years ago, Mr. Fayette was of loved a job consuming the development of misconception and advanced students as the City Ballet-affiliated School of American Ballet. "It just really felt like something that I didn't want to stay down," said Ms. Ringer, 50, who herself had trained at the school. (She and Mr. Fayette met there in 1994.)

She signed on knowing there would be some fancy between's involved because her daughter was about to start her senior year of high school, not exactly an ideal time to have, it was decided that Mr. Ringer would initially take her as a teacher.

Accordingly, she owned a tiny studio apartment near Lincoln Center, where the School of American Ballet is located in Los Angeles, New York in Charleston, every Friday morning, returning to Manhattan on Monday in time for work. "I got very familiar with the airports," Ms. Ringer said.

Besides the family, passed the article from in June 2023, Mr. Fayette, 70, now a vice president for business development at Robbins Dance and Performing Arts Flows, came north to help with apartment reconstruction. The start of the first series of your West Side in the Lincoln Center area where the couple had lived as young dancers and during the early years of marriage and parenthood.

"Tensions in New York you're looking at location and you're looking at space and

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Jupiter Ringer contacts tiny place near Lincoln Center after taking a job at the School of American Ballet, often flying back to her family's house in Charleston, S.C. But now she and her family, above, have settled happily into an apartment, above eight, on Roosevelt Island.

you're looking at cost, and we kind of thought we had the location called," said Ms. Ringer who was hoping for a three-bedroom. But while she and her husband have roots would be high, they hadn't anticipated they'd be quite so high, and it soon became apparent they would need to expand their search.

"We were looking uptown, we were looking downtown," Ms. Ringer said, and when she entered her price-camps and "three-bedroom apartment." Roosevelt Island was among the options that popped up.

It so happened that the narrow 1d-acre residential community in the East River had actually already been on her radar. "The minister at the church we go to help

level there," she said.

When Ms. Ringer and Mr. Fayette were returning (they married in 2000), she lived as West Side Street, he on West 7th, looked at them after to Riverside Park. "We would call each other as a regular to leave our apartment and head straight to Hudson River," Ms. Ringer recalled. "James would walk up town and I would walk downtown and we'd meet somewhere in the middle. And that was our date." Mr. Fayette also proposed on a bench in Riverside Park.

"So when we first went to Roosevelt in and and saw that walkway that was around the entire island, it brought back so many wonderful memories of our only our north dating years but also of our time with our children when we would take them to Riverside Park in the strobe." (Sadly, those very loud memories must now connect with some favorite ones. In 2015, while in the past, Mr. Fayette and the couple's son, then himself in 4th, were the victims of a ransom stalling.)

Roosevelt Island won love at first sight for the couple. It wasn't just the walkway, but also the attendance of open space, the light, however, she wasn't worth and, four feet down Park at the south end, the weekly dancers market and ourselves like the island's at sanctuary. They were equally channeled to what Roosevelt Island did not have: looking brown and other similar as above disturbances.

The couple considered several buildings and settled on a three-bedroom unit at the संरages for $2.00 per month. What said it

for them were the views of the East River and the parallel of painting them, many of which they can now identify by name. They've been in residence name last June, and family dancers are back in session, the dining table is right next to the floor-to-ceiling windows. "The windows on the street—we never would have been able to have that in Manhattan," Ms. Ringer said.

The comrades, she said, "is not that bad — 10 or 10 minutes. For so much of our life before, we were in walking distance of work. This is a different mind-set." It else's coming home on the subway that at night after a performance, and she should see that now-come Roosevelt Island can't right there at the station. "But can be difficult," Ms. Ring wrote on the table in, said, "I would look to our apartment along the river, and it turns into this meager way to get home."

During the early days of the apartment search at the unit Mr. Fayette, personnel the higher West Side, a second that any place they chose would require sacrifice. "We'd have to squeeze the family in an uncomfortable way, either uncomfortably expensive or not enough space," Ms. Ringer said. "Like we'd get a two-bedroom so the kids would each have a room, and James and I would sleep on a padded couch in the living room so maybe there was a third-bedroom lot it couldn't do a visit too!" There were no such trials with where they ended up.

"I don't think we'll ever move away from Roosevelt Island," she said. "We have fallen as love with it so much."

This Old Apartment Just Got a New Look

D.I.Y. enthusiasts show other public housing residents how to beautify their spaces.

By ANNA FENAN

Toni Wiggins recently recalled receiving some irritating news. Her kitchen cabinets needed to be removed because of their problems — and shod have to wait five months for the New York City Housing Authority to send a cover to replace them.

Ms. Wiggins, a resident of the Roosevelt Museum in Brooklyn, a development firm in NYCBA, was used to buy wait times. Still, five months? "That's a long time," she said.

Where some may have seen a headache, Ms. Wiggins, 48, now a creative opportunity like got out of the room and did, and headed to the Home Depot. "I could not take the call begin," Ms. Wiggins said of her kitchen. "I want to walk in and forget that I'm actually living in housing."

After carefully weaned, and side video, Ms. Wiggins, who works as a leasing agent, designed and built new shelves herself. While she was at it, she painted her lower cupboards a look grown and roasted the off-white walls in a golden hue called Balovent. She uploaded the transformation to YouTube as well as TikTok, where nearly three years back! Her video has been viewed more than 12,000 times.

While recent-friendly home improvement projects are common in market-rate apartments, NYCBA housing is subject to their regulations, including about building sizes, holiday decorations and other aspects of home life. Insurers need also with permission from management before offering their apartment. But residents who are doing with long-states work, now, or what believe the public housing units are drab, are choosing to roll up their sleeves. With post-and-stick tiles, paint and ingenuity, Ms. Wiggins will choose of other D.I.Y. creators are showing labels from home to breathe new life into their apartments.

"I want other people that live in looking to know that they can upgrade their space," Ms. Wiggins said. "You don't have to be stuck with the NYCBA charter package."

Nearly 100,000 New Yorkers call NYCBA's public housing developments home, according to the agency, and insurers normally run in the apartment. Of years are average higher prices when the home is a part bed by clusters of brick towers, were built more than half a century ago. Many are known to be the home of the home. It has been for repairs can be long. Some buildings are onាគasework that the city wants to fear them down rather than renovate.

The agency's nearly 15,000 conventional public housing units are already designed with physical cabinets, multi-entrance paint and plain luminous countertops to make the

home more durable, according to recent NYCBA design guidelines. The units are also standardized so that they are easier to maintain across large developments, and lease agreements are strict about permanently changing apartment interiors because of cold compliance and the potential for loud and asbestos contamination, but with regard to other NYCBA buildings.

Residents are not permitted to undertake apartment reservations or alterations on their own without prior consent," said Michael Morgan, a spokesman for NYCBA, adding, "Working in NYCBA apartments requires specific training and certifications for certain tasks, and there is a very important to have this work performed by NYCBA staff or vendors."

(Ms. Wiggins said her building superior

student ultimately approved the changes she had made in her space.)

Still, many NYCBA residents want to make their homes the same modern, stylish and personalized — and are finding inspiration from each other viable. In part, there, a central source in Brooklyn who you're to see on TikTok and Instagram inside the handle (phone-written, uproar, up apartments, including in public housing developments, via techniques that can be removed with a instant access).

"They just want something new, you know?" he said. "They just don't know where to go or who to go to."

Mr. Silver, 50, moved into his apartment in the Van Dyke House's, NYCBA development in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood, in 2024 after the grandmother died. He was eager to put his own stamp on the place, just to help! He's hitch!

Though he wasn't normally trained in design, I'll tell people all the time I graduated from TikTok University," he said. Mr. Silver painted the cabinets a deep blue, and concealed the countertops with one blue patented contact paper. His father, an aged hair-in-pod the results to social media. To Mr. Silver's surprise, the videos garnered thousands of views, and, under NYCBA residents began reaching out. Could he help them, too?

Toni Wiggins, sitting in her daughter's updated bedroom, fixed up her kitchen, upbed, while being a long wait for the New York City Housing Authority to replace her kitchen cabinets after a well-toned. James Silver, bottom left, offers home improvement services for the new housing developments.

"You don't have to be stuck with the NYCBA charter package."

Though Mr. Silver works again stable for American children at Research Airport, devoting has become a growing side hunter for him, underworn a start at 800 for a built-room and 1000 for a kitchen. "If try to make the price fair enough that my low-income people can afford this," he said, adding that he knows it up to his clients to receive approval from their building managers for the work.

Andrew German, a third-generation resident of the New Haven Air Rights development in the Bronx, discovered Mr. Silver's video last winter while scrolling on TikTok. Mr. German, 28, was impressed. "I'm tired of the NYCBA look," she said.

She managed Mr. Silver last December, hoping to surprise her mother with a refreshed kitchen as a Christmas gift. Over the course of two days, Mr. Silver painted the wood cabinets as airy pale blue, and added dark, olive hardiness and stick-on look lighting. He adhered a gray favorite background, dished over the countertops with orange food stone contact paper and painted an exposed brick wall.

In total, Mr. German paid about $1,500 for the cosmetic endeavors, a fraction of a typical New York kitchen remodeling, whose costs start around $28,000 according to the convention plan in Invesco. Mr. German didn't seek permission from management, but it was something she wanted to do anyway, she said. "It's a breakthrough on when you get something new."

The new house was built next year also for getting something new. Program such as the Permanent Aftershade's Commitment Together, or PNC's, are to fast-track building connections by subsiding new forms of leasing. Mayor Johnie Minnshak also revealed in May an ambitious plan for NYCBA that was made 10.7 billion for improvements.

In the meantime, some NYCBA residents are pressing forward with their own enhancement. Kiraine Meurer, 32, moved into her NYCBA apartment in the Bronx in June, can you take living in a kitchen with her son, Sam. Though she was hesitant about living in public housing, the apartment's two spa-less bedrooms and the sunlight that poured in pulled her concrete. "I was like God was just like, 'God, I picked the apartment out for you,'" Ms. Meurer said.

"I thought the best way to help you get out the palates of off-white paint, basic wood cabinets and specified floor tiles is in impersonal."

After watching tutorials on TikTok and Instagram, Ms. Meurer began envisioning how she could devote her space. She spent their progress, outdoors, and painted her ceilings when and her walls a dainty blue—however, would accommodate the apartment's natural light. She then had done a pro-will and parchline had over the beige floors. Her video show of the work has a short up-rem of thousands of views on TikTok.

Mr. Meurer took a break from working on the building to provide to concentrate on her sexual other social media projects, but she is still dreaming of painting her cabinets in the new house.

She was pleased with the results so far, she said, but "this is not my final vision."

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Find an Empty Store, Then Fill It With Art

Curators are using shuttered and abandoned commercial spaces for pop-up exhibitions.

By ALEXANDRA MABOUR

One June evening in the Hudson Valley hustler of Esopus, N.Y., 31 artists took over an abandoned dollar store.

For some, the crowded, colorful pop-up was histerrown: Brightbox initially mutated this 5,000-square-foot building's development. In 2005, it opened anyway, becoming one of four Dollar Generals within about a nine-mile radius. By spring 2025, it had shuttered. It's been vacant since.

"When the founders of the local arts outperish like Senn approached the store's faring agent, Dennis Cooper, he said the property owner agreed: 'Why not let them fill it with paintings, sculpture and art-specific installations for a night?' After all, 'it's just sitting there,' Mr. Cooper said.

The sculptor Aleksandra Scopanevic co-founded like Senn, which hosts art takeover on vacant spaces, last August with her friend Jennifer Miller. Ms. Scopanevic worked in real estate for 25 years in New York City before educating to the Kingston, N.Y., area hall time in 2020. Originally from the former Yugoslavia, she previously worked on a war reporter in Bosnia.

Turning an old Dollar General into a gallery.

"When I walk into a space, for me to think that it's beautiful, it has to be somewhat rumour," she said. "Broaden architecture, a lot of instructions of space, a lot of rubble — that's kind of my inner landscape."

But when she saw the famous son in Dollar General in Esopus, she said she felt an emotional connection to the building, appreciating its "psychological honesty."

In the June show, some installations offered a commentary on the commercial space itself. One artist arranged a weather balloon to represent the connection between society and capitalism, another filled a display forever with ice cream made from the extremes of consumption (name bottle cups, shopping bags and plastic wrappers), and another painted poignant — harbinger's 45 square change — over the faces on dollar bills.

In the Dollar Generals cring downlance, Ms. Scopanevic and Ms. Miller behold a different kind of rain. A building like this one is "byproduct into a coin" that it will struggle to

break out of, Ms. Scopanevic said: "It becomes identified with its last one, to an extent that people can't even imagine it as anything else," she explained, adding that that's a heavy burden for a piece of real estate to carry.

Ms. Scopanevic and Ms. Miller, who spika her time between Manhattan and Woodstock, N.Y., aren't the only regional artists who have turned an eye to the potential of donated retail.

For Jane's Upstate Art Weekend, an annual field of events, a group on suretyne minions from a heating office to turn a crunch of abandoned stores in the Hudson Valley Mall, like Hot Tops, and GameStop, into a

Above, the film from founders Jennifer Miller, left, and Aleksandra Scopanevic. Right, the vaunted Dollar General store in Esopus, N.Y. Top on installation by Tracy Lowell, left, and a sculpture by Jane Rutkowski. Below, made and outside you at no need as an art space

throw-day art bar called "The Mall." When the exhibition ended, the artwork migrated from storefronts to an online store (a familiar progression).

One side effect of this artistic exploration has been deal activity. For a year, little terror had not had serious effects on a vacant real estate office he owns on South Fourth Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. But days after his free interest, a future hour art show there in May, which had hundreds of attendees, he said he received a wave of inquiries, including a hearing final that is new in its "final stages." He said he also has two applications as reserve.

For Ms. Scopanevic, that show brought

things "full circle," she said: "Real estate displaced a lot of artists in Brooklyn. Now artists are doing a pop-up art show in a real estate office."

And in the Hudson Valley, the he/she: Win Morrison said he fielded several new offers on a motion on the Bondest Creek, listed at $3.5 million, after this from took over the 25,000-square-foot space for a show by October. The due turn-of-all buckets into pedestals and land out black tablecloths to create a Jackson Pollock-esque canvas with the pigeon droppings that fell from the railway.

Ms. Morrison said the furry of inquiries about the Bondest Creek marina also inspired two other listed local marinas to consider throwing their own art exhibitions.

While the market exposure is unintentional, it's not surprising, the art show "gives people the opportunity to look again" at a space they thought they knew, or that they had put out of mind, Ms. Miller said.

Brokers and friends have offered them spaces for potential use, but she and Ms. Scopanevic are picky. "People want to give us the polished store," Ms. Miller said, but she prefers "the grimy ones."

In Esopus, the vaunted Dollar General building, listed at $3.45 million, is "the new" and noted for "just about anything," according to the he/she, Mr. Cooper. It was one of 94 stores the chain shuttered in the United States in 2015 — even as it opened around 27 stores. Mr. Cooper did receive two inquiries resulting from the art show, though neither progressed to a sale.

While a temporary art activation isn't going to fill an empty storefront forever, Ms. Scopanevic said, "it can select up this psychological effort that vacancy has on the local town," inspiring people who had disengaged with the area: "What happens next," she added, "is a matter of who really takes that and files with it."

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On a Beach, a Dream House Worth the Wait

Renovating would have been as expensive as rebuilding, so a couple opted for a replacement.

By TIM McKEOUGH

To get the beachfront home on the Pacific Ocean they dreamed of, Dan and Susan Pinkerton had to build out just one house; they had to build there.

It wasn't supposed to take so much work, but after the 2017 Thomas fire burned their primary home in Santa Paula, Calif., to the ground, their long-term plans shifted.

Mr. Pinkerton, 70, and Mr. Pinkerton, 75, are avocado farmers. In 2009, the couple purchased an oceanfront house that needed

work in Mannel Shoals, Calif., for $3.8 million. Their plan was to eventually renovate the structure to make it their primary home and pass the canch and house in Santa Paula to their two adult children.

But after the Thomas fire, the priority was rebuilding the canch, including the house. Since the couple intended to grow it to their children, and their daughter and her family moved home to help, it made sense to build a house the younger generation would want to live in.

The elder Pinkerton moved into their beach house as their children began working on a new canch house with the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Lovers Unite. A few years later, they started making over plans for a beach house remodel, hoping to tackle it next.

"We had to get everything taken care of at the canch before we went into another capital expense," Mr. Pinkerton said.

When they began working with area architects, however, they learned that significantly renovating the existing house while causing it above flood level would be just as expensive as roaring it down and rebuilding from scratch. Then they found that none of the plans the architects proposed for a new house excited them.

"We talked to quite a few architects, they'd absorb something up and it just wouldn't get me," Mr. Pinkerton said.

Since the family was already working with Lovers Unite at the canch, the couple decided to give the ferals principals, Alan Koch and Karen Specter, a chance as designing a home at the canch.

"They came back with this design that had this big open space over the kitchen

Dan and Susan Pinkerton, far left, in their home, where: living room, above, opens to a dock leading to the beach. Clockwise from left: a bedroom for the couple's grandchildren, the kitchen, the primary bathroom, and a roaring ceiling over the kitchen. The couple worked with the Los Angeles architecture firm Lovers Unite to design the house.

that just excited me so much," Mr. Pinkerton said. "I thought, 'Finally.'"

Over the following months, Mr. Koch and Ms. Specter completed plans for a 2,815 square-foot house. Rather than trying to build to the maximum square footage the lot would allow, they prioritized the feeling of living in the house, including leaving space for strategically placed windows and nightlines.

"We always approach our projects from

An oceanfront property was a haven after fire burned an island home.

"How do you want to live?" Mr. Koch said, noting that he was struck by the Pinkerton's focus on building something special. "Their exels was to build it for more than a hundred years, because they were planning on this being an area for the whole family for a long time," Mr. Koch said. "They weren't building to sell, they were building to live."

The split-level design Lovers Unite conceived played the kitchen, living and dining rooms at the lowest level, with glass shores opening to a deck with stairs leading to the beach. Skylights pull in natural light, while a high window in the kitchen is positioned to capture a store of mountains behind the house.

One level up, the primary suite also faces the waste. Two guest suites and a bedroom with bank beds for the couple's grandchildren, along with a studio space where Mr. Pinkerton can tie fishing flies and Ms. Pinkerton works on sewing projects, are to ward the rest of the house.

With current oak calcinetry, redwood paneling and Douglas fir ceilings, the home are often a sense of warmth, while materials like porcelain tile and quartzite counters on the ground floor encourage carefree living.

Before construction began, the Pinkerton's model to find yet another place to live.

With construction of the canch house nearly complete, they directed Lovers Unite to renovate a small structure on the canch to transform it into a new office and dwelling unit that they could live in during construction of the beach house and use for overnight visits in the future.

Finally, the bubble of the beach house, that's 1st.5, began construction in January 2020. The structure was mostly complete in August 2020, at a cost of nearly $4 million. The construction team continues to work on a few outstanding elements, Mr. Pinkerton said, and she has been reducing the interest with her own upholstery and cushions.

The whole process, involving the three separate projects, took so long that Mr. Pinkerton sometimes worried she and Mr. Pinkerton wouldn't get to live in their oceanfront dream house.

"I thought, gods, is this thing ever going to be done?" she said. "Are we going to have some time to start it? But we're both in very good health, and we go to a trance every week, so we're trying to defy age."

Now every morning comes with its own reward. "You wake up to that bright beach, with the waves coming in," Mr. Pinkerton said. "I sit up, look out the window, never the beauty and then get up and start my day."

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In Praise of the Altar of 'Get Ready' Routines

TikTok has helped revive the popularity of dressing tables, also known as vanities.

By RICHMOND CALLAWACHI

Nearly three centuries ago, the furniture of governing the world can post a woman's dressing table.

It's the year 1546, and Europe has just emerged from a devastating continental war. Emperor-de-Swing divided, burden redness. That December, when the grounds at Versailles were dark and dreary, an extraordinary line had formed inside the palace.

It wasn't outside the king's apartment. Nor has munitions? For hours on end, courtiers, ambassadors, financeers and auditorians pressed themselves against the narrow staircase trading in the apartment of a woman who held an official government character carrying petitions, others rehearsing arguments.

Inside her chamber, unapparently decorated in green silk and damask, Madame de Pompadour, who had recently become the king's mistress, sat at her toilette — her dressing table — as servants applied for powder and rough and roundware for cascading sacks. 'The other day, the crowd stretched all the way to the bottom of her staircase waiting for her to start getting ready,' a former French secretary of mine wrote with diary on Dec. 24, 1546, according to material collected by the leading Pompadour expert Susan Wages, an associate professor of art history at the University of New Hampshire and author of a forthcoming book about her. 'Every important man or new partner through her,' wrote the nobleman, expressing dietary that ambassadors were so longer received in a council chamber but were instead escorted straight to her dressing table.

A piece of furniture designed for a private ritual — the art of getting ready — had become one of Europe's most influential stages.

Now 278 years later — after an act disappearing from bedrooms in America and beyond — the dressing table, or vanity, is making an unlikely comeback.

Only this time, the people clamoring for them are not the anniversary of stage. They've girls so young as it

A Special Place

Last year, a came out of left field when Johanna Merz began asking her parents — repeatedly and sincerely — be a word that sounds remarkable, given only coming from a 5-year-old, a vanity-like began serving up her 'commissioner' — the word her parents use for her allowance — earning a few dollars for cleaning up her own, a little man or watering the plants and it's be every book she finished at the family's home in New Jersey.

The goal was a piece of furniture she couldn't yet fully use. She isn't allowed to wear makeup.

She vanity — a hot pink desk with compartments and an oval mirror ringed in lights — arrived in time for her sixth birthday. Johanna went on a desk, including to do her homework and to write in her diary. She also bristles her hair and puts on moisturizer. Mostly, she uses it to play 'Get Ready With Me.'

'My vanity is special because I sometimes look in the mirror, and my mirror lights up,' she explained. 'I sometimes pre-

tend to film videos looking at the mirror.'

The little girl's dressing table bears almost no resemblance to the elaborate vlastite that once stood inside the apartments at Versailles. Instead of subjewed skinned with bronze, hers in half of manufactured wood assembled with scowel and sheeds, which arrived in a cardboard box from Wayfair, costing $129.99. It looks similar to the dozens of options now readily available from Walmart, IKEA, Target, West Elm, Urban Outdoors and other retailers.

According to Pinterest, almost in dressing tables has gone through the roof, especially recently. In the past year, searcher for 'brothers bedroom vanity' added 767 percent, 'latest dressing table' to up 462 percent, while 'vanity table bedroom' is up 299 percent.

Yet the furniture itself may be beside the point. What Johanna wanted wasn't simply a place to break her hair. It was a place to perform the ritual don't been watching on-line: getting ready.

The ritual is older than the furniture built to contain it.

The vanity began not as a table but as a box, in ancient Egypt, women stored cosmetics in wooden boxes. Centuries later, the French gave a name set just to the furniture but to the ritual itself. The toilets — derived from toile, the cloth spread across a table before a woman's bristles, combs and cosmetics were laid out — described not just the dressing table but also the art of preparing oneself.

'It goes from an object to a process,' said Joan Adler, the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2013 exhibition on the vanity.

The ritual reached its apogee in the 19th century when Madame de Pompadour transformed getting ready into a political performance, an art that made her relevant and powerful.

The Industrial Revolution brought the once-inclusive object to the masses, and by the 1870s, it became a future of the IKEA catalog.

Then, almost as quietly as it had arrived, it began to disappear. By the 1890s, the vanity laid all but vanished from IKEA and other retailers.

'It went online,' said Donatilo Shad, a design historian, who associates the vanity's decline with the move into smaller houses, which was accompanied by a move away from male and female furniture.

Susan Beatty, Alice Debagelotte, Kirsten Reyer and Kitty Bennett, contributed research

Above, an 18th-century portrait of Madame de Pompadour at her vanity, which has been preserved for centuries, top right. In the early 20th century, vanities were a single or woman's bedroom, left, but in the 1890s they had nearly disappeared from retail stores.

A piece of furniture designed for a private ritual is coming back.

her right, Helen Wilkie, a 15-year-old Instagram influencer with her dressing table. 'I previously live here,' she said of her vanity. Helen, the influencer, Elaine Dudka, 36, moved her vanity into her office.

A Baby Version of Stardom'

For centuries, the furniture existed because women practiced the ritual. When the furniture disappeared, the ritual didn't.

Then, in 2007, something unexpected happened: The ritual became public once more. A 20-year-old art student in Florida named Michelle Plum began posting makeup tutorials on YouTube: the wasn't the first beauty chapter, but her videos took off, and soon she was out of the platform's most popular beauty game. Others followed, manifesting YouTube into the epicenter of a new kind of intimate performance: teenagers and young women inviting strangers to watch them get ready.

These early videos weren't filmed at elegant dressing tables. Many were shot in bathrooms.

Over the next few years, the format evolved. Beauty content stopped simply explaining, for they applied their eyeliner and began talking about their breakups, parents, neighbors and politics. Extra Leveur, author of 'Extremely Online,' who once worked as The New York Times, explained: 'It would be like, 'Hey guys!' Welcome to my eyeliner tutorial! Then, 'Hey guys!' (Kristy gail), let me tell you about this, my parents are getting divorced.

In that same person — beginning in 2007 — IKEA contributed to underlined, Swedish for 'dressing table,' in a line called the Mahn, said Wally Gillette, a global product developer for IKEA's bedroom furniture.

By 2015, +GIRVM was both a hashtag and an acronym for 'Get Ready With Me,' and pervaded enough that it would eventually earn its own story in Dictionary.com. Then came Instagram, TikTok and the pandemic.

'What it's become is a baby version of stardom,' said the influencer Elissa Dudka, 36. Ms. Dudka got her first vanity — from IKEA — when she was 11. Today, her vanity has migrated from her bedroom to the office of her Manhattan apartment. Within just a few years, she has rapped deals with beauty brands, including Extra Lander and Lancimo, and now travels the world as a model and influencer.

Camera Angles

The vanities that have proliferated in the +GIRVM era are cheap but with two non-negotiable features: a mirror ringed in LEDs and a built-in phone-changer. Helen Wilkie's version in Metairie, La., which sells for $272, has both.

She went two. After her parents split, she argued that if she got a bed in each house, she needed a vanity in each house too.

'I practically live here,' she said of her dressing table. 'I'm 13 years old. I love talking, making new friends and sharing my life on social media.' These activities make her feel seen as well as connected.

Data collected by the Attorney Consumer

Institute shows that the money spent on beauty products has spilled since the pandemic and that the homes are getting younger, said Katherine Black, the executive's lead retail partner. Consumers are also much more aware of how they feature look. 'There're very connected one of the money — of how they're filming, as well as what they're filming,' she said. 'A big piece of vanity is just: what's my background.'

The features is now preserved. A 2023 newly published as the journal Pediatrics found that TikTok skin care videos aimed at teenagers typically featured six products per routine, but sometimes more than a dozen. 'The findings closely mirror what parents also became are observing. Getting ready routines among young girls are becoming increasingly relevant, highly visible and widely shared online,' said Ruhel Sharma, a representative of Murder Intelligence, which tracks consumer trends.

For many parents, the total has produced confirmed feelings. In Mumtaar, N.J., Ishita Rapton wasn't sure what to do when her 55-year-old daughter, Mahn, presented a PowerPoint before Christmas — a polished, data-driven version of a letter to Santa. She had measured her room, identified the vanity she wanted and explained why it was the year's issue (sure gift).

'It's this source of not wanting to be so focused on looks,' Ms. Rapton said, explaining her outcome. Yet she also remembers growing up with on a unimpaired parents who discouraged makeup. 'It makes you feel like you don't fit in,' she said. 'I want her to feel like she's part of what her friends are doing.'

In bedrooms like her daughter's, the vanity has come full circle. The subjewed has given way to parishoboard, but once again a crowd has gathered to watch a young woman getting ready. Viewers just do so through a screen.

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Each Plant Family Is Peculiar in Its Own Way

With a new book, a botanical illustrator offers clues to seeing subtleties in a world of green.

By MARGARET ROACH

With several hundred thousand species of plants worldwide categorized within some 600 families, our could imagine even the best-condemned humans in community finding the full taxonomic landscape a bit staggering.

Wendy Hollander didn't study botany, but she has made a career of studying plants ever so closely. As a botanical illustrator for 20 years, she always draws from actual specimens, not photographs, to begin "a personal relationship with each plant," she said, striving to depict her subjects with intimate accuracy. In the process, she has learned to decide and discipline them, too.

She artist's eye takes notice of the patterns — in aspects like flower parts, leaf arrangement and shape, stem shape, root structure and even outer or outer — that distinguish members of one family from another.

Countless hours of studio work have imparted an awareness that has transformed many an outdoor walk into what feels "almost like a scavenger brain," Ms. Hollander said. Whether emotionally foraging, visiting a botany garden or merely happening

Below, Wendy Hollander. Her new book is "The Album of Plant Families: An Illustrated Exploration of Nature's Beauty and Beauty"

Christmas time left, plant illustrations by Ms. Hollander. The smartest family, the cudow family, Kyrington (one held), part of the carrot family, and pea family flowers.

processing to be a taxonomy tool but rather a collective animation into about contact with the subtleties of the plant world, which to many of us too often put rough as a sea of natural/epithelial power given.

"I want it to be almost the opposite — unassured by us very understanding," she said. "I just want it to be like a fun adventure, and by going on that fun adventure, you become knowledgeable and aware of things you never would have thought about in terms of plants, and get interested in them more."

She feels as if plants "get pushed aside," she added, the reality that many schools don't teach botany those days doesn't help. Learning common family hallmarks and sharing them with the children in your life could offset that, sparking their curiosity.

When a Tree Proven to Be a Pea

A tree is a tree is a strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, apple, peels, almond, cherry — I could go on. OK, just two more. It's also a grandmond (Amarine disease) and a set-washery (Aminocitine).

The markers Ms. Hollander looks for to identify one of 5,000-plus species in the rose family or Rosaceae. She said, include free-petaled flowers and five sepals — the little leaf-like structures that protect the developing flower bud. Serrated leaves — twelfold edges each pointing toward the bud tip — are another possible identifier. The language of lower class been another part of her botanical education.

The pea family (Fabaceae), which many of us may still know as the legumes or Leguminosae, has more than 10,000 species, including most obviously all manner of peas and beans. But Eastern redbud trees (Cercis canadensis), Western vines and black

An artist's eye notices patterns that distinguish or bind specimens.

on a new-to-her weed somewhere, she can't help noticing if something about it looks familiar. (Something else she noticed, she said: that the words familiar and family are themselves evolved from the same root.)

A clue to one plant family's identity may be as close at hand as that row of spring-sows anguish you didn't harvest that has started in bed. Look below you conquer. Their flowers display the four petaled cross patterns that activated off the smartest family or Rosaceae—one—formerly called the crucifers, or Cruciferae, for good reason.

Over you recognize that family signature, Ms. Hollander said, you have a key to identifying more than 1,700 species, including stalkies like broccoli, kale, cauliflower, radish, turnip, rutabaga, horseradish and everything (a budbed) or save garlic (sintered (Alliaria petiolata)).

A tiny bit less obvious, maybe: Have you observed that it's not just Alliaria (like onions, garlic, chives, leeks, shallots and ornamental types) that produce their flower on leafless stalks called scapes? Amarellis (Pitypsantropis), Ulma, developing Alliaria (liver) and Nannia (liver) are not necessarily signaling to Ms. Hollander that they may all be among more than 1,000 species in the Amarellis family, or Amarellaceae.

And who knew: You probably have cadavers in your garden — well, at least a member or two of the Cudow family, the Anacardiaceae, perhaps nature (Moss), or poison ivy (Tunicothalene radicans). Wages and petrations are relatives in that 800-plus species family, too. Ms. Hollander learned, though probably not growing anywhere near her home in New York's Hudson Valley.

"What would it be like to let them meet each other?" she said she wondered a few more back about the Anacardiaceae, Rosaceae and the others she was coming to recognize, as she considered the names of painting their group portraits.

On the evenier pages of her latest book, "The Album of Plant Families: An Illustrated Exploration of Nature's Beauty and Beauty," select members of 22 families de-

just that — they pose with their kin for family portraits. Ms. Hollander also includes detailed illustrations of the features that help her identify each family, the keys to solving puzzles on those kinds of trees.

"When you are able to recognize the family of a plant you did not know," she writes, "it is already empowering game. Every time I look at an unfamiliar plant and use my plant family knowledge to put the plant in improper family, I get very excited, giving a fair pump and little dance that only I can see."

A win.

Even the Occasional Width Fits In

Within even the most familiar families, she said, there is often an odd plant out — one that really surprised her.

The carrot family (Apiaceae), formerly the Cudoliflower, includes carrots, parsnips, parsley, cucumber, the Cudoliflower's box and Angelica among the many Members of the 1,000-plus species (Apiaceae produce amber, flower clusters held on individual stalks, or pedicels, like an umbrellas ride. The may never have even celery flower, but it forms these characteristic amberls, too.

But even more confounding: The peninsula in the green Kyrington, including various blue-blewbed sea bullets and the native prairie plant called rattlesnake master (X. gracilidiana), are likewise carrot family members.

Why can't Kyrigiana categorized with the near-took-sake thimbs in the middle sunflower family (the Asteraceae, with more than 10,000 species), she wondered? This one required multiple examinations under a microscope to understand. Ms. Hollander said, not every subject reveals itself as easily as its cousins, but she delights in the hunt.

That's what her book is about, really: not

because trees (Bolonia pseudoacacia) are all in the family, too, Ms. Hollander's portrait illustration, as are legumes, including Texas Huckleworths (Lippian treetoni and others).

"Peachantly flowers are quite distinctive," Ms. Hollander writes. "They have five petals: one larger petal, identified as the fument, two wing petals, and one seed" that resembles a tiny version of the structure beneath a boat.

How did beautyberry (Callicarpa americana), a third-tailored for-treet clusters of violet fruit, turn out to be in the 7,000-plus species Luminae use, the main family? So little flowers, usually with five petals found to form a mouthlike or tubular shape, plus its square words to form why the more cheered your colorful Culean (Solenostomus scutellacepticus) as another state.

By Ms. Hollander's calculation, learning the keys to the 22 families she portrayed each have the way to identifying more than 140,000 plant species — quite the grand, ambitious scale of scavenger hunt indeed.

Are we game? Note: A passport will be required until maybe you should first sharpen your skills on the mirror version awaiting in your own backyard.

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Mario Cantone gets his day started around noon.

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What a recent family reunion shows about rural New York.

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A Political Push for Steamy Havens

After four decades, should the city's bathhouses once again be allowed to offer space for sex?

By GRACE ASHFORD

Before gay kickball leagues, "RuPaul's Drug Race," Grinds to even Stonewall, there was the steamy world of bathhouses.

Operating 24 hours a day, bathhouses were havens for gay men, where they could be entertained by the likes of Betts Muller and Barry Manilow, go for a swim and engage in sexual activity.

But at the height of the AIDS crime some 40 years ago, public health officials in New York shattered adult women and bath-

houses to try to stop the spread of disease. Now a group of gay state lawmakers are spearheading a push to bring back what they describe as vital cultural spaces.

"It's 2024, not 1980," said Tony Simons, a State Assembly sponsor of the bill whose district in Manhattan includes Chelsea and Bell's Kitchen. "We have modern medicine and education. It's ridiculous that this is legal at Florida, in Texas, but not in New York City."

Public faith and space are legal in New York, but the state's health code prohibits those facilities built out of the public sector, like the private rooms available to bathhouses, "for the purpose of sexual activities where anal intercourse, vaginal intercourse or foliaris take place. Such facilities shall constr-

rate a threat to the public health."

Supporters of the bill contend that repealing that code follows the principles of harm reduction, which prioritizes providing safe environments and offering resources over banning a particular action.

"It is hard to make a case on the public health grounds from all years ago to say that this prohibition should still remain in place," said Dr. Jessica Juntman, an epidemiologist at the Columbia University Madison School of Public Health who specializes in infectious diseases and H.I.V. prevention. Not only has testing and treatment come a long way since then, Dr. Juntman said, but also the mainstream public health districts approach has evolved to counteract on a case.

The Continental Baths on the Upper West Side in 1971. In 1985, the city effectively shattered adult women and bathhouses in an attempt to stop the spread of AIDS.

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MARIO CANTONE

Late Breakfast Fuels a Night Owl's Comic Videos and Workout

Compared with his 'Sex and the City' character, an actor isn't quite so blunt.

You can hear Mario Cantone coming before you see him. There's no moistening that voice.

"Come in, come in," Mr. Cantone, an actor and comedian, said as he opened the door to his penthouse apartment in Chelsea.

He's best known for playing Charlotte York's gay B.F.F., the wedding planner Anthony Marantino, an "Sex and the City" He reprised the role on the spinoff series "And Just Like That . . ." with Anthony now having started a broad delivery business.

"That was so much more me," said Mr. Cantone, 66, whose parents owned an Italian restaurant and nightclub, Cantone's, in Boston when he was growing up.

Mr. Cantone lives with his partner of more than 35 years, the actor and director Jerry Dixon, 58, whom he married in 2011. He recently spent a Thursday with The New York Times in he whipped up a late breakfast for his husband. 5/16/2026

10:44 PM. Mr. Cantone could breakfast for Mr. Dixon almost every morning. With consecutive parents, the culinary acts are aches blood, though his mother tried to steer him in a different direction. "He thought baking would make one guy," he said. "I was like: 'It's not in the baking powder, Mom. It's in my DNA.'"

One of Mr. Dixon's favorite dishes is a soft-broiled egg sandwich. The secret ingredient, Mr. Cantone said, is the direct bread he gets from Sullivan Street Bakery, across the street from his apartment. "It's like a long-braceau bread," he said, as he collected a pair of loaves. "It's kind of crispy. They're really nice."

10:04 PM. It took Mr. Cantone a little under half an hour to slice the bread, fill the sandwiches with pre-boiled eggs, roast them, flaming them with slices of press onto canola dusting of cocoa. "It's quick but still feels fancy," he said.

On a typical weekday — unless he has a cat — Mr. Cantone doesn't get up before noon. He's always been a night owl, a trait that has occasionally conflicted with TV showing schedules.

Mr. Dixon, Mr. Cantone said, used to be an early year but has adjusted to bring in food a little longer to wait for his husband's cooking, though he cooks as well. If they ever have a disagreement, "we can just cook for each other and make up," Mr. Cantone said.

10:48 PM. After taking a bite of a sandwich, Mr. Dixon nodded his approval. "It's so good," he told Mr. Cantone. "Thank you."

10:58 PM. Since June, Mr. Cantone and the actor Ian Joseph Paget have been producing a series of celebrity impressions videos that they share on their TikTok and he stagnates accounts. Impressions of members of the musical theater cause like Carol Channing, Liza Munsell and Judy Garland have long been a staple of Mr. Cantone's stump-up shows.

Mr. Cantone's campy gay comedy may now be part of his M.O., but he didn't initially talk about his sexuality outings. "I certainly didn't like about it, though," he said. "I was doing unpremature of John Child. Better Davis. If you didn't know I was gay, you were an idiot."

Now, though, he team into the reputation, wearing his theatrical sensibility into his cabinet comedy, which he occasionally performs at the Upper East Side supper club Cafe Carlyle. "I'm glad I've done a lot of that work in the past, because you can't really say what you want to anymore," he said. "It's omission."

11:08 PM. Mr. Cantone and Mr. Paget took turns spending off a channel her from "Casa-Vanca" — "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine"

— in the voices of Tony Curtis and then Joan Crawford, occasionally doubling over in laughter. "Cut that part out," Mr. Cantone said on Mr. Paget made him break characus.

11:17 PM. Mr. Cantone moved to his apartment building in Chelsea in 2002, when he was 23. He has since had three different apartments there and married Mr. Dixon on the roof. "It has a private roof deck that looks at the Empire State Building," he said.

Mr. Cantone and Mr. Dixon met in the summer of 1999 at Don't Tell Mama, the popular piano bar in 2005. Mothers. They've been together ever since, "except for when we broke up for 30 minutes," Mr. Cantone said.

11:41 PM. Mr. Cantone takes the subway or walks pretty much everywhere, he said, so he gets recognized a lot. "You get used to it," he said, stopping to chat with a fan who flagged him down on the way to his favorite coffee shop in Chelsea. Stone Street Coffee Company. "I always try to say thank you." He said his "Sex and the City" character, he said, are similar to that they both love

Charlotte from top left: the actor and comedian Mario Cantone, Mr. Cantone with his husband, Jerry Dixon, the couple's Chelsea apartment, Mr. Cantone working out, and as Stone Street Coffee Company, his favorite neighborhood coffee shop.

food and beauty. "I don't think I'm as blunt as he is, though," he said. "When he was younger, in the original series, he was much ruder. I think he's evolved a lot, but he still says what he wants to say. He still talks before he thinks. I try not so."

Stone Street's owner, Dave Oz, sells Mr. Cantone's homemade banana bread for 10 a slice. "I had to beat how many slices someone could buy," he said. Mr. Cantone uses his cousin Tommy. It's recipe, but with lots more bananas. The key, Mr. Cantone said, is a great vanilla.

11:52 PM. Mr. Cantone ended his afternoon at the gym. "It's not like I'm trying to get big," he said. "I just want to stay slightly more clear and in shape to look good in clothing." He added, "I'm hanging on to my youth by a hangnail." Everyone Johnson, Señor known as the Rock, was also there.

11:48 PM. Mr. Cantone feels lucky for the roles that have come his way. Don't look for him to be back and age soon, though — at least, not regularly. "People are like, 'Are you going to do another one-man show?'" he said. "I'm like, eight shows a week is enhancing. I'm old. I want to stay in."

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Now It's Done

DEAD COURT

Some years ago, I was knitting white riding the Fifth Avenue bus from the mid-40s to the mid-50s when I felt a top on my shoulder. I turned to see a woman. She asked how far I was riding and then said I should move over. She wanted to show me how to haul properly.

Favorite T-Shirt

DEAD COURT

It was May 2004. I was visiting my son Nick, a high school teacher. He was living in the Wee Village.

During one of our catch-up calls before my visit, he had been lamenting the loss of his favorite T-shirt, a hand-punited original given to him as a gift by an artist put.

Nick routinely dropped his laundry at the neighborhood dry cleaners laundry, which is where the shirt had gone missing.

We were standing at the corner of 20th Street and Bleecker debarring where we would go for dinner when a young man walkaway went on wearing Nick's shirt.

During this same way, Max, and he had found the shirt to be found of clean laundry. He said he had been wearing it around the neighborhood hoping that someone would clean it.

He went to his nearby apartment and some returned with the shirt to hand. He and my son became friends.

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'Love the Fit'

DEAD COURT

When New York doesn't drive me nuts, it makes me smile, mostly because I talk to strangers on a daily basis.

A few years ago, my husband and I were returning home on a sweet Saturday eve after seeing the Edward MacKay exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.

Reading south on the E.1 street up well before the train pulled into West Fourth Street because I love the feeling of surfing the city.

One person in a fun group of 20 something's who were in the car noticed my black footprint and vintage 9-irgest jacket.

'Love the fit,' they said, 'and love the earrings.'

I noticed their face white-top. 'And I love your look,' I replied, adding that I had just turned 63.

'Girl, you're working.' As we pulled into the station, we each took one last look.

'I love everything about you,' I said.

'I love everything about you,' they echoed.

I practically skipped home to Thompson Street.

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Bad Habit

DEAD COURT

I was driving home after an afternoon in New Jersey with the grandchildren. Covering creations on a 7th Street can sometimes be the longest part of the drive, and I was anxious to make it home for dinner.

On this day, traffic was crawling, and I was nervously chewing.

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on my fingernail — a bad habit I have never been able to shake. I made it to Sixth Avenue when I heard a persistent looking coming from a bus next to me. I was confused. Shut I cut the bar off? Was something wrong with my car?

The bus pulled up alongside me, and I looked over cautiously.

The driver was opening the door and leaning in my direction. I rolled down my window and manned a quimical, 'What?' The driver smiled, leaned a little closer and tearingly held out a sand clipper.

Busted I smiled sheepishly and manned. 'I should quit, right?' He grinned in agreement and paused me as the light changed.

New England Throwup

DEAD COURT

'I'll go, but I'm not to be called a Fresh Air kid.'

That's what I insisted when they said I was to go upstairs, where my 7-year-old sister's Fresh Air Fund host family lived. 'She was lonely!' Mrs. Granger had told my mother on the phone. 'Maybe soad her big name with her this summer.'

At 11, I was too old for the program, which served under privileged children from the city. I was mortified.

Outside our basement apartment, my father talked with Mr. Granger, who had come to drive us. I snapped off 'Dancing in the Street' and packed 'Oliver Twist' into my shopping bag luggage. Mr. Granger, talk in a white shirt and tie, looked down at my father, who leaned on the brown fur used to escape calves in off the pipes. 'All ready for your holidays in

the country, love?' Dad asked me.

Carrying leaves of soda bread in tinted, we followed the man out past the rotten-standing garbage cans and up the steps onto Daly Avenue, where we found a convertible as big as an airplane. Parents try gunked. Raymond DeJesus tripped, screamed and hit his brother.

'Fateure, girls,' Mr. Granger said.

He thought he meant it, so we snapped back to our bottom he tickled back the huge front seat. I picked the soda bread so the grating he sit over and sank into become mother. My sister sat in front.

He dipped his arm along the seat, and so we were coming, unable to talk because she went blow out words away. My sister looked back. We couldn't stop laughing.

'Please be Are Made of This' Returned from the radio. We raced beneath a sign. New England Throwup The roads blurred with trees as I murmured, 'throwup...throwup.'

Throwup, no escape road out — to somewhere else.

DEAD COURT DEAD

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$46,000 A YEAR

From left, Dayton Torres, Edward Torres, Glenaye Torres and Evander Torres at their home in Wakefield, the Bronx. Ms. Torres, before left, worked for a decade as a teacher's assistant, then opened a day care.

In Business for Herself After Years as an Assistant

By WEEKLY PARWELL

Glenaye Torres's door in the Bronx is, at once, a portal to a small business and to a home. Stopping in, a cacophony of children's voices rises from the first floor. Along the stairs that lead to the second floor are paper tapestries covered in finger paint drying in the mid-aberration run.

These are the early signs of a business beginning to flourish, but one that comes with risks:

For much of her adulthood, Ms. Torres, 16, worked long hours as a teacher's assistant in Manhattan, living in her mother-in-law's rent-controlled apartment in the Bronx with her family of five.

But after 10 years, Ms. Torres felt as if her wages were staggering at the same time the city was getting more expensive. Despite a decade of experience, she lacked a teaching degree, which prevented her from getting raises, she said.

So last year, Ms. Torres made the decision to leave behind the security of her job to start a day care — one that she hopes will eventually offer her family the ability to propel themselves across income brackets and ZIP codes.

"I know one day I'd like to have a house with a backyard where my kids can play and get dirty and I can garden," said Ms. Torres, who immigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic at 26. "I don't need kinzires. I would still manage my business but just maybe from a house upstairs. It would be nice to not worry about rent every month."

THE PARTICULARS

Name: Dayton Torres

People in Wakefield: Five

Where She Lives: Wakefield, the Bronx

Occupation: Owns and runs a day care

Budgeting With Debt

Before opening the day care, Ms. Torres earned $44,000 annually, which amounted to roughly $16,000 a year after taxes. Her husband, Edward Torres, 20, works part time as a home health aide, and his earnings brought the family's after-tax income to roughly $45,000.

The income wasn't high enough to qualify for small business loans, so Ms. Torres took what $500 savings she had and poured it into the lease for the day care. That cost $19,000, including rent and last month's rent plus a security deposit.

The family now lives on the second floor of the building in the Wakefield section of the Bronx and operates the day care downstairs.

"I feel proud, but, at the same time, I feel a lot of fear because what happens if most of this works? What will I do then?" Ms. Torres said. "I used to cry every first day of the month because I knew rent was due. I will do cry — a lot."

The business was slow to take off. For six months, it had only one student. Ms. Torres would compose herself in front of parents but would often go to an empty room to sell alone.

Today, the family pays $3,000 a month for a crowded/three-bedroom apartment and $3,000 a month to leave the unit below for the day care. Children reach up, roughly $500 in electricity for both units, $200 for the family's cellphone plan and about $80 a month for the internet.

Ms. Torres, who has an associate degree in business, used credit cards to finance her business. The family currently has over $29,000 in business-related debt and has had to tighten the spending belt.

"Money right now, there's not enough — literalmente," said Ms. Torres, speaking Spanglish. "Sometimes I feel bad, like I can't do enough for my kids."

Her husband earns $19.00 per hour, working 20 hours per week. The rest of the time he is at the centre, driving children via a car-pooling service shop offer. The family receives SNAP benefits for food, but estimates that they still spend almost $200 a month on groceries.

Summer Camp

While working too old job, Ms. Torres struggled with where to send her children during the day. They would sometimes return home; indeed from four summer camps offered by public schools. There were fights, unruly children and overworked teachers, she said. Leaving them at home in front of a screen was no better.

With the day care, she can keep an eye on her children upstairs while she runs the business downstairs. Most important, she makes sure none of the children are afraid to their devices.

"I have a non-aholocable policy," Ms. Torres said. "If you are with a kid and he's so a ticket, he's not processing the world around him. But if you give him a paint brush and a canvas, you see his person-

ality start to come out."

The day care's name is a nod to this value: Little Charlene Daycare.

The family caught a break with the Food: Air Fund, which provides sleepaway camps to children in underwremed communities, including free gear, transportation and lodging. The family enrolled their three children in a camp set up in honor of 15-year-old Lezandre Guzman-Feld, known as Auna, who was a victim of gang violence in the Bronx.

Ms. Torres's oldest son, Ryan, 20, has attended the night more and is a camp counselor in training. She other two children, Darlan, 11, and Evander, 18, returned for their third summer.

"I wanted them to be in nature, play in the day, get dirty," Ms. Torres said. "When they came back saying that they couldn't wait for next year, I knew it was the right decision."

Breaking Even

Ms. Torres uses her tape to pick up extra work. Her prepares paperwork for other day cares, earning $150 per consultation.

After months of struggling, Ms. Torres now has nine students, which pulls in roughly $4,500 a month — just enough to break even. On a recent Tuesday she fielded calls from families hoping to enroll their children. Business was picking up.

"I can feel things are starting to turn around," Ms. Torres said. "The parents love me, and I have five stars on Google."

Over the past year the family has had to cut out gifts, activities and expenses to focus on the business. Ms. Torres and her husband used to go on frequent dates, but they last went out on Juneteenth. They went to a happy hour at Pee 18, spending less than $10 on a glass of color art use, vigorous, an order of calmant and a chicken superiors.

Good news arrived in the spring when Ms. Torres learned that she had qualified for the city's 3-8 program. She expects eight to 12 students in the fall at a higher price point per student than traditional day care, and she will be able to offer after-school care when the 2-8 day wraps up.

When she told her landlord about the new income, he can bet a deal. He said he would give her four months' rent free as a way to invest in her business so that he could keep her as a long-term tenant.

"There was one point when I said to my husband, 'I think I'm going to give this home back and go back to your mother,'" Ms. Torres said. "That wasn't long ago, and my husband said, 'Stop, you have the experience to do that. You can do this.' He was right. I left my job for this. I can't backtrack. This is New York City."

'Money right now,

there's not enough —

literalmente.'

From top: Ms. Torres at home with Darlan and Evander, an award for her teenage son, Ryan, who is a counselor in training at a Fresh Air Fund camp; Darlan, Evander and Ms. Torres of play, the family receives SNAP benefits for food, and also spends almost $200 a month on groceries.

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Caring for a Group Whose Number Is Dwindling

For years, Ruy Horowitz has helped Holocaust survivors in Brooklyn with her nonprofit.

By HELENE STAFFINSKI

Ruy Horowitz often wakes up screening in the middle of the night.

As the program manager at Nuchan Health and Family Network, a nonprofit serving a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors in the state, Ruchales sought to hold it through Park, Brooklyn, she has heard her share of her own stories.

"I knew thousands of ways people can be screened," she said.

Lillian Feinreich, 82, a Hungarian survivor who said her train was stopped just before arriving at Anachofia's service of her non-death supervisors as a child, including a Nazi placing a gun to her forehead.

Dolly Rabinowitz, who turned 101 at her July, sat friend Anachofia and a death-mart for Karmelchuck with her two sisters, but watched her mother be dragged off to a gas chamber, she said.

And David Einhorn, also an Anachofian survivor, was nearly started to death.

Mr. Horowitz has learned to follow stories since 1993, when Nuchan — which means "joy" in Yiddish — was formed in help survivors life for reputation. Back then, she served around 3,000 survivors. She's now down to about 200.

Each afternoon, Monday through Thursday, the survivors, some with cures and unhearded scooters, arrive at Mr. Horowitz's in-glitch in space to strik through a Brooklyn. They chat, in Yiddish and English, and bring about their grand- and great-grandchildren. She serves them kosher piano, fabled, calomni and hushes, and hands out prepackaged chimes. She often can see and a sense of community in a group that is slowly dwindling.

To help the survivors and herself occasionally forget their stories, she has taken her own part of a group who has been in Great Office, and she throws them panties.

"Katy room, then like they're 20 years old," said French Redman, a Brooklyn jewelry designer who helps to quake and feast to go to Nuchan. "She gives them life and a reason to wake up in the morning. She believes in them."

The most recent party was for Mr. Einhorn, who turned 101. He was later has seen party.

A crowd of about 200 wanted patriotic for him on a Monday evening so, she at the Jewish House became an American man. She was also giving chandeliers and gold and silver fashion balloons. A half-hour event by, said Mr. Einhorn was still nowhere to be seen.

He had good reason for being late. Mr.

Einhorn had not been well the past five weeks, receiving blood transfusions to stay after 10 am his birthday and other spouses, and family events. She has a large share of her 11 grandchildren and the birth of her 23rd great-grandchild.

He wanted to witness it all. Mr. Einhorn is one of only 187,000 Holocaust survivors worldwide, down from 240,000 recorded 18 months earlier, according to the Claims Conference, an organization that fights for reparations for survivors around the world and funds 100 social service groups, including Nuchan. New York has the highest population of survivors in the United States, the group said, with over 70 percent in Brooklyn. But the number of Brooklyn survivors is down to 3,000 from around 10,000 in 2020.

"In one way we don't want to recognize that we're going to live in a world without Holocaust survivors," said Colleen Taylor, the director of the Claims Conference. "But that's the reality we face."

To preserve firsthand accounts of the Holocaust, the Claims Conference has developed an immersive virtual reality program that mixes archival footage, artificial intelligence and audio. They also run a "speakers bureau," which connects more than 100 survivors with schools and other organizations, all to ensure that history never repeats itself.

"We have this moral obligation of making sure their stories are told and retold, and the lessons are learned from what hap-

prised during the blood," said Mr. Taylor, using a Hebrew tremor for the Holocaust.

According to the Claims Conference's Vanishing Witnesses report from 2021, half of the three past survivors still alive will be gone within the next five years. In 10 years, 70 percent are expected to die, and in 25 years, 80 percent. Even though their numbers are falling, their needs are growing. Many require 10 to 15 hours of care a day, Mr. Taylor said.

"When we first started, we couldn't even catch our breath," Mr. Horowitz said. Before she arrived and knowing, there would be a line of survivors outside looking for help with their reparations paperwork. Since the claims were filed, Mr. Horowitz turned her attention to their day-to-day struggles.

Top: Ruy Horowitz, partner left, with arms folded, is the program manager at Nuchan Health and Family Network, a nonprofit serving Holocaust survivors in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Alawa, in July. David Einhorn, co-host, was co-founded with a party for his 100th birthday.

"We had to make sure these survivors had normal lives," she said.

Mr. Horowitz began helping with loud stamps and insurance and eventually offered them live music. They show her first scars, tattoos and bullet holes. "For some of them it was the first time they ever spoke of their experience," she said. But she understands, Mr. Horowitz's mother, an Anachofian survivor now is her 9th, didn't tell her daughter her story for decades.

Thousands of Mr. Horowitz's clients have died since she began Nuchan. "It hasn't been easy," she said. She doesn't go to home after 10 am. "In my mind, I tell myself they've gone on vacation, and they will be coming back," she added. "Otherwise, it would be too painful."

Mr. Horowitz knows her days at Nuchan that she has been in the face of the survivors are gone. "It's a very strange mixed feeling," she said. "I gave away my heart and other flesh." But she's looking forward to her next chapter, with plans to work in her daughter's business, a central health clinic in Queens.

She recently went to a cable for guidance on how soon she should leave Nuchan. "He told me, as long as the survivors are alive, you can't leave them," Mr. Horowitz said. "So I tell her there as long as they need me."

Mr. Einhorn eventually arrived at his brother's party, received for the 100thian volunteer ambulance service. He was wearing a black camouflage and a smart lung suit. The crowd erupted in song, — "Simon Tov" (Simon Tov) — chipping along as Mr. Einhorn was wheeled around the room, his guests rushing over he for blowing. "God should help me to blow you while I can," he said slowly, struggling over each word in his strong Romanian accent. "You should live together in peace, with no sickness."

Kathy David Goldwasser told the crowd a story that many in attendance were already familiar with. But he told it again, like a prayer that contends to repeat from time to time. Mr. Einhorn, a prisoner digging coal near Anachofia, proposes God as then Kippur was approaching as 2016. He wanted to feel but was being starved to death by the Nazis. Just as Mr. Einhorn finished his prayer, a track full of outthings drove past, one rolling out and stripping at his feet. He ate half and saved the other half for after his first.

"If that's not a miracle, God, I don't know what a miracle is," Kathy Goldwasser said. When the volunteer ambulance service returned, the interviewer, Mr. Einhorn back home, a crowd walked into car, dancing and singing with him along the way. "He left on a high sun," said Sam Rosenblatt, one of his daughters.

Mr. Einhorn died four days later.

Traffic Expert Spins a Tale of Driverless Cars Gone Bad

'Autokill,' by Sam Schwartz, arrives at a pivotal time for the autonomous vehicle industry.

By STEINNIS GIKN

Sam Schwartz, the 70-year-old former New York City traffic-commemorator credited with coming the term 'girdleck,' is about to become a driverless novelist.

Naturally, he would prove killer-robust. His book, 'Autokill,' co-written with Cary Pepper, is a publisher about a veteran plot to turn autonomous vehicles into weapons. It goes on sale on Brooklyn, and Mr. Schwartz is looking that the novel will be, timely hit as the driverless car industry continues to expand.

There may be five ensure qualified person to engage in this kind of special-time fiction. Mr. Schwartz, a wartime celebrative turned city official turned transportation crusaders, war讹诈 humanistic in the development of New York's congestion pricing toll, and is now the chairman of a transportation research program at Hunter College in Manhattan that bears his name.

Mr. Schwartz has long been wary of how driverless cars have taken root in the public imagination.

"It's almost as if people are worshiping the autonomous vehicle," he said in an interview.

"But it's not so far-fetched that A.V.s could be used by bad actors," he added, aiming the 1967 series of a mass of stories who had planned to set off should using a driverless car.

His novel is set in the 2020s and revolves around a protagonist with a huge past and a veiling atmosphere in the 70s.

The character, Richard Corky, is a professor of "social justice in the land planning," who has never been a member of a major team. He has been a member of a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has been a major team that has

Through narrative history, they become entangled with a kind of agent investigating a string of unexplained directives with these applications. "Both of us have been able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not to be able to learn more about the future, but we are not

The novel is, of course, due through with transportation service, a history of the three-point conflict, an explanation of the Model Municipal Traffic Ordinance, which helped create America's car-vehicle culture, a shoot-out to Ralph Nader's car industry on power. "We have been a good one."

To keep the material fresh, Mr. Schwartz, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, teamed up with Mr. Pepper, a playwright who won his college fraternity football.

"We were the world's first time," Mr. Pepper, 70, said about their time at Brooklyn College. Mr. Schwartz acted in some of

Mr. Pepper's early plans, and they have since worked together on a number of unpublished pieces.

The novel's path to market has its own means. 'Autokill,' is being published by Open Road Integrated Model, which takes executive and chairman to David Stein, began, a former deputy commissioner at the city's Transportation Department who calls Mr. Schwartz a mentor. Mr. Stein began year head branches agency to shift as for blowing the vehicle about deteriorating conditions on the Manhattan Bridge.

The two remained close as Mr. Stein, began 30, served into the publishing world, and Mr. Schmitt moved began and transportation planning. Mr. Schwartz starred writing the book in 2016 a year after finishing a month too rotation on the promise and profit of the A.V. industry called "To One at the World."

"I've always thought Sam had a novel in him," Mr. Stein began said. "I'm calling it

Sam Schwartz, left, a first-time novelist, with David Steinberger, his publisher, Right, Wayne, autonomous vehicle car customer at that Francisco but have faced regulatory hurdles in other markets, including New York.

'It's not so far-fetched that A.V.s could be used by bad actors.'

the first traffic thriller."

Kelly McGannese, the director of the Hunter College program that Mr. Schwartz established, is acquainted only with his academic role, but said she was enjoying the book.

"I'd imagine the parts describing traffic speeds and interchange configurations in that," she said.

The book arrives at a pivotal time for the driverless car industry.

Waymo, the autonomous train company, is available to others in 10 cities and complexes roughly 500,000 trips a week, the company said. But it has run into legislative roadblocks to some markets, including New York, where Gen. Kelly's Digital exhibitors a proposal in February to expand the use of the company's taste in parts of the state. "I think, Jolene Mumbar has not registered skepticism about their use in New York City.

Mr. Schwartz has warned that the arrival of powerless cars would be disruptive not only when the cars for shipping and consumer vehicles.

"This will be the biggest industry the world has ever seen," he said.

His research program released a report and needs arguing that Wayne touts in New York City could worsen traffic and pollution, since they needed to create without passengers for much longer than human drivers.

The report originally suggested that, by one measure, professional human drivers were less likely than Wayne vehicles to be involved in serious crashes, but the authors said they had temporarily removed that serious vehicle from the company.

Ethan Tocher, a spokesman for Waymo, disputed both findings and said the report

had "serious methodological flaws." He said that, compared with human drivers, the company's autonomous train were involved in 10 percent fewer crashes that caused serious injuries.

Mr. Schwartz said that he wasn't trying to single out Wayne in his novel. In fact, after riding in the company's vehicles for three days in San Francisco as part of his research, he said he had left "very safe."

But he still has concerns about their potential vulnerabilities to hackers or others with bad intent.

"I believe A.V.s are the future," Mr. Schwartz said. "I want it done right."

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Take a Food Tour of Flushing

Queens | Get there on the 7 train | Price vary

You could easily spend a day eating your way through Flushing, the Chinese culinary mecca. Start with a treat at Bae's Pantry, where the tiramisu egg tart is flaky and delicious. I asked a few local experts for advice. John Liu, a state senator who has lived in the neighborhood since he was a boy, sent me to Zhu Ji Dumpling House, where I got a pork and vegetable bun for $1.50. Christian Young, who runs the Instagram account Eating Alone Diaries, suggested the handmade boiled dumplings at Chinese Korean Dumplings and Noodles in the basement food court at the New World Mall. EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Take in the Choisters

Manhattan | Get there by subway | Pay-what you wish admission for New Yorkers

The Met Choisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's branch in Upper Manhattan, is almost as quiet as a monastery in Europe, and parts of the structure are real 12th- and 13th-century choisters, imported from France and Spain. You can thank the billionaire John D. Rockefeller Jr for giving the Met the money to buy the beginnings of the collection. He also gave the Met some of his own medieval artworks, including the famous museum tapestries that hang in the Met Choisters. He also bought 700 acres on the New Jersey side of the Hudson to preserve the green, unspotted view that you'll see. JAMES BARRON

Bike From Van Cortlandt Park to Elmsford

The Brows | Get there on the 1 train

At the far edge of the lake in Van Cortlandt Park in the Brows, the Old Putnam Trail will lead you onto the South County Trailway. So begin 14 miles of bursitis, car-free pedaling, suitable for any kind of bike. One destination might be Elmsford, N.Y., about 15.5 miles away. There are a number of restaurants here, though cyclists in a barry tend to favor the Elmsford Deli, possibly because it's right across from the trails end and their bacon, egg and cheese sandwich always tastes great after 15 miles. The return trip will be generally downhill, and you'll end up just a few blocks from Lloyd's Carrot Cake, which you will have certainly earned. Though the 342nd Street Station of the 1 train is just outside the park, it requires honzing your bike upstairs, the nearest station with an elevator is at 2:30s and Broadway. WM. FERGUSON

Destinations

That Are Fun, Not Far-Flung

Summers are for vacation. Kids are out of school, and adults just want to unwind and relax somewhere with nice weather. Then one day you look up and the summer is almost over, and you realize you haven't done anything fun.

But what if there's still an opportunity to do so, even in August? What if you could enjoy New York affordably and lavishly? What if you could feel as if you're in medieval Europe here in the city? The five boroughs have many hidden gems that feel like an escape — and plenty of them are easily accessible, affordable and, most important, don't require a hotel stay. There are options that are great for solo travelers, couples and families.

Here are some of the best places for staycations across the city: DANAUGENIA WILSON

Photographs by TONY CENSUSKA

Explore Shirley Chisholm State Park

Brooklyn | Get there by the subway and bus

Less yourself in the miles of winding gravel paths at Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn. Admire the lush green pastures along the trails, perfect for cycling, running and biking. Or bring binoculars to spot a peregrine falcon. You'll almost forget, as you lay out your food on the picnic tables, that this was once a landfill. Your reward: expansive views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Seven years after the park was opened, it still feels like a hidden gem. It's a perfect honor for Mr. Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress and a proud daughter of Brooklyn. ANDRES R. MARTINEZ

Visit Brighton Beach

Brooklyn | Get there on the Q or the R train

The Q train goes aboveground as you approach Brighton Beach, taking you past free-standing houses with backyards — a world away from the New York City you knew just 10 minutes ago. You pull into a land of Russian restaurants, excellent produce and, of course, a beautiful sandy beach. Head straight to the boardwalk, where you will find Tatiana, a Russian restaurant known for its varumiki — gorgeous, pilsowy dumplings — and Peparski — branded, meaty, mushroomy goodness. Enjoy a cold beer and some traditional fare before rolling yourself across the boardwalk and directly into the inviting ocean. CLARE FAHY

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Have Fun on Governors Island

Manhattan | Get there by ferry from the Battery Maritime Building

My elementary-school-age sons love Governors Island. The highlight is Slide Hill, a three-story slide that is the longest in New York City at 37 feet. Children glide down it over and over, and the park is filled with squeals of delight. There are shorter slides for smaller children. Rent a survey bike and helmets to travel across the sprawling 7/2-acre car-free island. Stop at a plaza with food trucks to get lunch and coffee. Then relax in a hammock grove and visit the sprinklers. The views of the skyline and the theme of Liberty are a reminder of how lucky we are to live here. EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS

Hike the Greenbelt

Staten Island | Get there by bus

The 2,800-acre Greenbelt bus perstinence groves, swamps, a Boy Scout camp and more than 10 miles of trails in the hilly interior of Staten Island. Though those woods aren't a true escape from the city, an urban forest and its tensions are pleasures of their own. A wetland trail along Richmond Creek looks out on the deceptively scenic hills of a capped landfill. The ruins of a tuberculosis hospital boon over the Blood Boot Valley. Hike to the western tip of the yellow trail, and you'll be rewarded with Jade Island, a Polynesian-style Chinese restaurant serving this drinks in whole pineapples. And every good hike needs a summit: a 200-foot-tall hill of debris encrusted for an antholl Robert Mason highway. From the top, you can see the city's edges, its contradictions and priorities laid bare. ANDREW SONDERN

Hop on a Train to Greenport

Long Island | Get there by Long Island Rail Road

Ride the Long Island Rail Road to its easternmost terminal on the North Fork and you'll land in Greenport, a historic maritime village abounding with restaurants, cafes and boutiques. The one-square-mile downtown runs parallel to the harbor, and ferries from the water slices right through late-summer humidity. Find small town chores in institutions like Abb's Coffee and Claudin's restaurant, mined with Hamptons-style canvass like American Beech and Steven East End. For the antique lovers, find curated consignment at the Times Vintage, or left through dusted treasures at Lydian's Armyace and Stumel Glass. No trip to Greenport is complete without a spin around the town's antique caressed and a walk along the pier. TARA TERRANSSYA

Take a Ferry Cruise

Get there by the NYC ferry | Tickets cost $4.50, all transfers are free and valid for two hours

When you're surrounded by concrete and asphalt, it can be hard to remember that New York is a waterfront city. But there is a way to immerse yourself in the city's aquatic side with a ferry ride. In recent years, transportation by ferryboat has staged a gradual stealth comeback, with operators wearing a network that now connects all five boroughs at more than two dozen stops, from an emerald park on the East River in the Bronx to the chores of Rockaway, Queens, the ultimate bipolar beach destination. If you're the endless type, you can spend a whole day on the water and barely set foot on dry land. ANDY NEWMAN

Enjoy City Island

The Bronx | Get there on the 6 train and Bx29

City Island is dedicated to all things seafood, with views of the Eastchester Bay and Long Island Sound. If you'd like a sweet treat, head over to Liberty Split for ice cream you can enjoy along the way to the Catherine Scott Promenade. Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park is about a 20-minute walk. Stop by DAN's Parmer House, a local vintage and collectible shop, and if you're looking to rent a boat or go fishing make your way over to Jack's Bud & Tackle. The City Island Nautical Museum is open only on weekends from 1 to 4 p.m. ZAVAUGENIA WILSON

Spend a Day at the TWA Hotel

Queens | Get there by the AirTrain Jamaica at Kennedy Airport | Day passes start at 8:00

The TWA Hotel at Kennedy Airport is an escape into the 1960s. Once an airport terminal, its original flight center is now a lobby, and it has rooms with views of the runway. You can watch the planes take off while in bed. A museum details TWA's history. Enjoy a meal at the Paris Café before heading up to the rooftop infinity pool, which gets heated at night. The Sunken Lounge serves otics cocktails, and be sure to stop by the photo booth and Twitter room. You can enjoy it as a hotel guest or with a day pass. ZAVAUGENIA WILSON

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15, INDIA, AUGUST 16, 2020

Family's 100th Reunion Upstate Reflects a Rural Story

Gatherings over the years have dwindled as yearnings people leave farms for jobs elsewhere.

By JOHN LELAND

The hamlet of Murronews, N.Y., on the St. Lawrence Seaview, has a windmill from 1825 and a one-room schoolhouse from 1824. It has a village historian, a woodward Main Street and a museum exhibit discussing the power and more. In Moore's column, Roof Pills, that essentially built the town.

And he must of the past two centuries. Murronews and the small towns around it near the Canadian border have been known to members of a family named Putnam.

On a splendid Sunday afternoon in July, about 70 members of the family gathered at the Saint John the Evangelist Parish Hall, across from the windmill, for their 100th family reunion. Most were in their 70s and 80s. They brought brownies and cookies and starches of all versions. They brought family photographs and handwritten family trees.

Lots of families built reunions. The Putnam made them a serious business, with a president, a secretary, a budget, multiple prizes and a written lodge with notes. In every year, starting with the second reunion.

"One six counts over age has been discovered and my what a time we did have," ran the next two after 1822 gathering, in most cursive lettering that overheard comment, thrilled to otherwise. "But after a time it all turned out for the best. We had a very nice dinner as we always do."

For the 100th (the family missed a year during World War II) and another during Covid, on 182 years have passed since the birth, the expansion's had a budget of about $200, from the cattle of a spelt at last year's gathering.

"And we're already good at all," said Janet P. Newtown, 64, the village historian and one of the organizers, back in June.

The Putnam family reunions in many ways reflect the story of this result of upstate war that an American century, and of rural America more broadly.

It is a story of younger people bearing their family farms for job opportunities elsewhere, of farm consolidation and benefiting family connections.

Willard Putman, born in 1842, and his wife, Olive, had a dairy farm where they raised six men and two daughters. These children, in turn, became dairy farmers or dinner makers and raised their families at their own.

It was a way of life, and James Putman, 54, who still runs a dairy farm in the area with 50 cattle, down from a high of 250.

'I know I didn't want to milk cows seven days a week.'

"Back when I was a kid we'd have the reunion down to Orange Putnam's camp," he said, referring to Frank Putnam, a son of Willard, who owned a parcel of land on the river that he used as a family retreat. "All of his brothers were chosen insane or farmers, and all his children were farmers. And we'd come after we got through cheers in the morning, and we'd all have a big time until it was time to go home and milk at night. And if we go on."

But as they got older, James Putman's poor's went in different directions.

"I know I didn't want to milk cows seven days a week," said Michael Putman, 90, a cousin of James. Michael was one of 10 siblings, and none of them wanted to take over the family farm after their father died.

"The dairy industry was a tough business, and they weren't making any money," he said. "Now the little farms are gone, and it's mostly big farms. People assume they're corporate farms, but they really aren't. They're still a family farm, it's just a lot of cows."

In Jane Smiley's novel "Some Luck," about an Iowa farm family, the author returns quite about anyone who went the story. People ask what he plans to do with the million dollars. "Well," he says, "I guess I'll

just farm till it's gone."

At the Putnam family reunion, this got a knowing laugh from farmers, ex-farmers and children of farmers.

As in after part of a farm's service, without the farm to build them, the younger generations tended to know this area.

"Nobody stays," Mr. Newtown, the village historian, said. "We're friendly, but there's nothing to do here, like you can do in a bigger area."

With fewer Putmans in the area, the reunion got smaller. Last year, only 20 people attended, down from highs of over 100.

The three students of Willard Putman, 64, gathering in Murronews, N.Y., in July for their 100th family reunion. Above, the senior students, both in 2021, along the St. Lawrence River. The Putnam is now known for their dairy farms.

Kim Gushmanhan, 71, one of Michael Putman's sisters, left for Central after high school, and the 100th (the family's 100th) ward to be a high school teacher, which almost everyone knew is — teachers or farmers," she said. "I mean, there really isn't that much. I wanted more."

Ms. Gushmanhan started attending the reunions about four years ago. But few among the younger generations come, said Trisha Bacon McCoy, 40, who flew up from Arkansas with her two children, ages 4 and 5. For people her age and younger, she said, "I think family reunions have gone by the wayside. Once these older mariner had people gone away, it's like, well, we're just going to go do our own thing. I don't like that."

Mr. Newtown, 74, in Japan, a tough friend up to get lived, then took their work at a table the length of the room. The reunion was, as ever, one year later.

And, as ever, there were prizes to give away.

"Who's the oldest gentleman?" Julie Johnson, 82, asked the crowd. "I hear 84. Anyone know that's it?"

Indeed there was, Donald Putman, 90, won there with his wife of 68 years, Shirley, and their daughter Monica. He had grown up on the family farm. "I wanted nothing to do with him," she said.

"Now let's do the women," Mr. Johnson called. "Anyone takes them ill?" It was a bit through the way, and several different years went to Doris Putman, James Putman's mother, who is 101 and has attended most reunions since 1949, when she married into the family. But this year, she declined the invitation. "My vision is terrible, and consequently my balance is terrible," she said in an interview. "I can't go even there and examine around, full down."

In Shirley Putman, 60, won the prize. There was a prize for the youngest and for the relative who traveled the farthest and a rattle of this year's spelt, which showed scores of three.00.

There is new wrinkle: a second drawing to pick a president for next year's reunion. "I'm saying please," Mr. Johnson said, as Mr. Newtown read the first name drawn. No responses.

Another name, another dematerial. "How do you get a Putnam to start up?" Mr. Johnson asked. "[Tell him he's president of the reunion next year.]"

Finally, on the fifth drawing, James Putman accepted the mantle. "Oh, I was just lucky! So, said it[ly]."

People began to push up and say their long goodfires. Maybe it would be another year before they saw our another again. Or maybe longer, even much longer. After 100, who there who would show up for future reunions? "When it gets to 100," said Sylvia Bronsle, 70, "maybe that'll be a big one."

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Representatives for Republican minority leadership in the Legislature declined to comment.

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City, and were used by all.

In indoor plumbing spread, however, the battlemores began to serve another purpose.

Before gay people had legal protection, or safe gathering spaces, battlemores provided greater privacy and physical security than the alternatives, which were streets, parks, restrooms and bars," explained Kim Luchhaite, a co-founder of the NYC LGBT History Store Project.

By the 1920s, battlemores like the Everest on 20th Street had gained a reputation as a gay voice, and for the 1960s, gay battlemore culture was so sufficiently established that proprietors began to use commercial opportunity. In 1985, the Israeli Continental Radio sponsored the best time of the American Women West! Ted Street, touting a swimming pool, tennis rooms, a disco and a cabaret lounge complete with a baby grand piano, as well as many private rooms.

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Others argued that closing the battlemore sacrificed an opportunity to use the spaces to provide resources and informa-

tion related to safe sex. The city's health commissioner at the time, Dr. David J. Seneve, said the bus would do "little if anything to the context of AIDS."

Mr. Roushill acknowledged the way that his community had grown and changed since 1985. The Marriage Equality Act was passed in New York in 2011, allowing someone marrying 1,478,712 families from interested girls for her, having given 1,478 cultural mainstream. Still, he rejected any notion that the spaces provided by battlemores were no longer necessary.

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