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High costs and the new world order

Mohamed A. El-Erian

OPINION

The Internet rates that the United States have to pay for the health credit to fund the government have been ranging. This was one a lot for diversions of financial markets, but the costly, evolving into a much broader issue, with implications that contradict beyond the immediate pain of respect borrowing costs for households. Already it has prompted the U.S. Treasury Department to intervene more favorably in this key global market.

This is an ordinary bond market sell-off. It's being driven by forces unlike those of the recent past. And it's per-

The impact from the U.S. bond market sell-off credit poses more globally consequential than prior episodes of market volatility.

nate to credit much the beginning of a structural economic shift more relatively, and more globally consequential than most previous episodes of market volatility. The leap to the cost of borrowing has been live in its taking. Rates on

newly issued 30-year U.S. bonds, considered one of the world's safest bets, recently hit 5.3 percent, up from 17 percent in 2021. The American government hasn't had to pay such high cash since 1997, on the rise of the global financial crisis. That means more federal revenue goes to service the debt — nearly 20 percent — having less available fee, say, defense or health care.

The pain is spreading, especially as our peace borrowers also face a widening credit spread — that is, the extra-risk premium they must pay relative to comparatively risk-free government debt. On Main Street, people are struggling to buy homes or robberies but some mortgage form are so high. It's the same story for auto loans and credit-card balances.

Ask NY market players why rates are rising, and they would undoubtedly post to the usual suspects: stubborn inflation, ballooning government debt and fiscal deficits and the sting of higher gas and diesel prices had to the war with Iran.

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A contractor wearing a smartphone to record herself shopping vegetables in Karan, India. The unskilled work pays $2.50 as hour for footage that can help with training A.I. models.

A jobs boom, thanks to A.I.

KARUN, INDIA

In an Indian city, workers find one aspect of tech that still needs a human touch

BY GORDY W. PETERS AED Staff Writer

Evidence of the artificial intelligence boom effectively like the squat, eradiverous data centers that locate new after-ace of hardware. But near the confines up of India, the city of Karan is running with signs of A.I.'s ascendancy in human lives.

Bloodwork of tech left workers in a big interest on coffee breaks late on any given weekday afternoon — men and women in their 20s, corporate life each day, going from Lanyards around their socks. Others work a few hours a weekend

Kent Bapdingum, second from left, branded the data annotation company Ohno (ways in 2015: "We are giving the other the data and saying 'hurts from this,'" he said of its work.

from home, supplementing their income by strapping it flames to their heads and pressing record while they drop vegetables or make the bed.

They work in a fast-growing field of A.I. called data annotation, which — for the moment, at least — requires a human touch. As the sentient backdrop for artificial intelligence, data annotation helps the huge and lead blind spots in A.I. models, improving and refining the programs that steer your car, announce an assembly line and track inventory.

The work can be rest and less complex than what engineers transfer to college, requiring hours in front of a screen to examine video frames by frame. But as A.I. capabilities change how companionship and position products — making jobs like cutting shoppers for college graduates — data annotation is showing how countries like India, with entry-level job shortages and large youth populations, are adapting.

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Gulf tankers go 'dark,' raising risk of oil spills

LONDON

More ships are navigating strait with location devices turned off to evade attacks

BY LISA FREEDMAN

The risk of a catastrophic oil spill in ecologically sensitive waters around the Strait of Norman has hung over the region since the start of the war in Iran.

Now the threats are increasing, more time reports say, as the conflict has widened and more tankers are navigating the impacts waterways with their tracking transponders turned off to dodge ordinary strikes and threat attacks.

The advent of transponders and more advanced navigation equipment has made modern shipping, safer and cut down on unknown air spills. Turning them off, so going "dark," is a perilous activity typically reserved for vessels under manchures or carrying illicit loads. But since March 1, there have been an alarming 1,100-bath crossings in and out of the Persian Gulf, according to Ryles, a maritime data firm.

"When more ships become invisible, structural omissions facilitate," said Kaveh Madsen, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Government and Health.

"In a narrow and strategically congested waterway such as the Strait of Norman, reduced transparency adds another layer of environmental risk," Mr. Madsen said.

These risks are compounding across the region: Three different oil skids are spreading through the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, according to maritime security experts who are tracking the spills.

One has reached the court of Iran's Qodam Island and its sensitive man-gross component. The spill is believed to have been caused when a projectile hit a large resection the Strait of Norman on Aug. 3. By Wednesday, the spill was about 80 percent contained, Jidassah or Lahjansuddin, a deputy of Iran's Department of Environment, said in a statement.

"Second slick has been applied near the island of Ilert, as oil and gas halt in the center of the gulf. The origin of that spill has not been verified."

Most worcesters in a tanker known as the Carokee Brewing, which was carrying nearly one million barrels of Russian air, had also, read in

Nazi past emerges, but who owns the story?

Judith Zilvesman's father, there, who as a child barely escaped from being captured by the Nazis. His family, hiding in a Belgian town, was betrayed by a Nazi collaborator.

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Podcaster aimed to explore her family's history. An author had the same idea.

BY NINA STEGAL

Judith Zilvesman, a journalist in Amsterdam, was checking her birthplace in October 2023. When she noticed a new message, A woman she did not know said she had information about Zilvesman's family.

"For several months now, I've had a tour in my stomach," the message read. "I would like to share something with you, but I am so afraid of writing something wrong. The years ago, I discovered it an old newspaper article that my grandmother, who lived at home until I was 16, had a dark past. She betrayed your father and the rest of the family, among others."

The writer identified herself as Inge-

berg Boehm, a Belgian woman who lived near the Dutch border. She talked of how she had obtained her "revere grandma's" criminal life from a Belgian judicial archive and that it included the details of her grandmother's collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. She invited Zilvesman to contact her if she wanted more information.

Zilvesman, 40, outnumbers being so startled that she helped the message off her screen.

Who was this stranger reaching out about the wartime betrayal of her family? What did she know? What did she want?

"My best reaction was, 'What am I supposed to do with this?'" Zilvesman said in an interview.

Zilvesman already knew the broad cultures of her family's Holocaust history. Her father, Elana, also died in 2016, told her that as a child, he, his parents and his sister had fled to Belgium when someone revealed disillusion in 1940.

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A Nazi past emerges, but who owns the story?

CIGARRATOR, FROM PAGE 1 the family. The Gormley showed up suddenly at their falling place. The family tried to escape by clashing with the roof and dropping into the yard.

Then, then, it, and his parents got away like notes. Briga, 35, was captured and, like some one million other lives across Europe, sent to Auschwitz.

Did Zilverman need to know more precise details about who, exactly, had betrayed them? She wasn't sure.

These sets of questions have become increasingly relevant, as some European governments create access to enormous, once-ended archives related to the postwar judicial trials of accused and required Nazi collaborators.

For many, the trauma of the Mid-market has lived beneath the surface of daily life for decades, be-painted to confront. But now second and third generation family members are getting across to audience of collaborators. In some cases, it's opening, old records.

In Zilverman's case it is also suffering new ones, as her moment's curiosity about her family's past has erupted into a dispute over who had the right to tell their story, and her.

SEEDEN HISTORY

Months after the Immigrant message, Zilverman decided as a journalist that there might be value in sharing her family history and her interactions with a collaborator's granddaughter. Others might be grappling with similar emotions.

She discussed it with Assan Klot, who makes podcasts for Dutch newspapers including the Pirossi, where Zilverman then worked. They decided to make a podcast that would end up being six years. "The Betrayal of the Zilverman Family" is would focus on just on the past, but on events of the present as well.

To prepare, Zilverman began her own research, scorning her mother's collar for hours with her grandfather's and in the Vides and talking to relatives, historians and other experts. Boobis had already liked her to see one-books about her grandmother, Maria-Elisabeth Sturtemann-Cosengrachts, the museum, who won by Betsy Thors was other material online.

"Maybe those two stories can never really come together."

Boobis's grandmother and her husband, Lestbert, had been a job in Tronehower, on the Belgian side of the Dutch-Belgian border. But her grandmother had also worked as an undercover informant for a leading German Gestapo agent, Richard Wands.

She additional resistance groups, turned in their members and caught at least one Jewish family in her net — the Zilverman's. Tired and convicted after the war, Sturtemann-Cosengrachts was sentenced to life in prison but gained clemency and was released in 1812.

Boobis had gone to some lengths to learn about her grandmother. In Belgium, those seeking such records from judicial archives must petition the state to see them. Usually they need to prove a direct familial link to the accused civil literature, or approval from a family member — with a few exceptions for researchers and the like.

Such restrictions are designed to protect the families of collaborators, who after the war had been vilified, they heads sometimes shaved, their clothes torn off. But dissertations of the Holocaust victims must request permission from the collaborator's family members.

After Immigrant.com to Zilverman's Boobis offered about what she had found in the film. "I also have the role miners testimonies of your grandparents, M. Zilverman and Dr. Leberstets, who said they had been a member of the extrusural (even, Huerck, Kraus, Dunmore, etc.)" She called encouragingly. "Should you wish to know more, you are always welcome."

WHO GETS TO TELL THE STORY?

Zilverman was not the only person interested in the Zilverman family in the American world. When Boobis realized what was in the documents, she had asked a historian to read these because the historian had published a book that touched the state of the same figures.

The Dutch historian Maria-Crick van Hietzen had decided to write a book, with the founder title "The Betrayal of the Zilverman Family" Van Hietzen has answered Briga, and some books in the Zilverman and their cases up with it in dependent for the podcast. (The book's publisher has since changed the title.)

Zilverman had set van Hietzen reached out to her, and they met at a cafe, then at Zilverman's home, where they discovered their house, and he looked at Zilverman's family photos together.

Months later, van Hietzen liked over to Zilverman's mother's house as a leafy district of materialist. The two women were also in the same room, and they were living room with their, going through her father's and grandfather's home. There were letters to newspaper clippings, a letter, Jewish star, documents changed with the author, and the other newspaper's Zilverman agreed to let the historian take the home as research for her best.

"I thought we would work together, such as our own superiors, however," Zilverman said. She said she had assumed that van Hietzen would write a book re-

Clockwise from top: Judith Zilverman, whose podcast explores her family's experiences during the Holocaust, Zilverman's father, whose family find the Netherlands in 1949, from arriving in 1944 at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Zilverman's aunt was sent, and Mayberg Boobis, whose grandmother was the Nazi collaborator who betrayed the Zilverman.

coming on Boobis's grandmother, and she would tell a personal story in her podcast.

Van Hietzen declined to be interviewed by The New York Times until about her book's publication. (No date has been we.) But Zilverman and Klot succeeded their conversations with her and allowed The Times to hear the topic.

During the conversations, some of which was in the podcast, van Hietzen said the material was fascinating but much more than she had anticipated or could carry off on a bicycle. She called a brand with a car to pick her up.

While they waited, Zilverman mentioned that she looked forward to hearing from van Hietzen if she discovered something exciting in the home. Van Hietzen praised.

"I don't know what you expect," she said. "When you're respecting from me, I can't contribute much in terms of content. So it depends on the issue of your podcast."

Van Hietzen explained that she was on a tight schedule with her book and could not simultaneously do research for the podcast.

The colloquy issue of the conversations quickly evaporated.

"You can probably tell what would be interesting for us," Zilverman said. "If you come across something interesting, you could start my. She is not at this time."

"I had a lot of time, I had a lot of time." Van Hietzen repeated her concerns about her book and said she didn't have enough time to "expect to you about what I come across."

Zilverman took offense. "I find it strange that if you're in you all the information, all this stuff," she said, "and you won't share with me what you find. That's crazy."

"I'm going to share it," van Hietzen replied. "But in my book."

Zilverman described in her podcast what happened next.

"I looked at the table," she narrated, "at these boxes that were so carefully preserved by my grandfather, and that by my father." She continued, "I understand what's she's saying, but I can't comprehend it. She would rather keep anything that she finds for her own research. She's not going to do any work for us."

"I'm sure you can imagine how I feel," van Hietzen said in the recording.

"Actually, I can't," Zilverman replied. "It is my family, my material, and you want to hold onto it as you can have success for your book. I find that very unpleasant."

The argument escalated. The pediculous, flute, turned off the recording device.

When van Hietzen's role arrived, she walked out, leaving the boxes on the table.

ACROSS THE EVIDENCE

Van Hietzen has argued that Zilverman's podcast, which remained in the Netherlands last year, mischaracterized her as "someone who does not want to share and cooperate and who wants to run off with her family articles."

"I shared my status research results with Judith in confidence, long before she came up with the idea of making a podcast," she said in a statement she sent in May to recollect of a panel in Amsterdam that several Zilverman's speak about intergenerational feelings of West of War (I remain and shame.

"My information and book outline titled 'The Betrayal of the Zilverman

Family' played a crucial role in her plan for a podcast," van Hietzen said in her statement.

Zilverman, who disagrees with that comments, still had another avenue to have more about her family's history — Boobis, after the initial Immigrant message, Zilverman said that she and Boobis continued to chat online, and that Boobis kept promising Zilverman could "come with all your questions" and look at the judicial disease.

Before visiting Boobis in Belgium, Zilverman spoke with Earl Cohen at Jewish Social Work in the Netherlands, which helps descendants of Holocaust victims with research and with the processing of difficult histories. She advised Zilverman to not appropriate expectations.

"Otherwise people want to have some kind of acknowledgment from the Jewish side that they have also suffered, rather they also have trans-generational trauma," Cohen said in an interview. "While that may be true, most of the Jewish people from the second of third generation are not ready to give that. We can now find it's too painful."

Boobis declined to speak with The New York Times until van Hietzen's book in published. But Zilverman and Klot exceeded their conversations with her during their visit. Al Boobis's books, a spacious, three-story house, she served Zilverman and Klot as one-books source — egg salad, fish, inside and other dishes that she had been preparing for days when I heard, she led those opinions to a life act full of books where they continued calling.

Zilverman asked Boobis about looking at the archival material she had received from the government. Boobis balked.

"Oh, yeah, I'm going to keep that

closed for now," she said, according to the recording. She explained that she had promised van Hietzen that she would not let Zilverman see it until the historian was finished with her book. "I hope that the trust between you remains," Boobis said.

Zilverman said that her project would not interfere with van Hietzen's book and that she only wanted to tell her own family story. Boobis said at her point that perhaps the argument between the historian and the journalist looked down to the should-make them public first.

"The two things can most completely side by side," Zilverman replied.

But Boobis would not budge.

When the conversation was over, Boobis took the women upstairs to the site and showed them planning she had made Zilverman was surprised — some despond around to me, a book that Zilverman's aunt, Briga, had written about her experience in surviving the Holocaust.

The memoir, "Through the Eye of the Swells," published in 2006, describes the secret of the family's betrayal. Despite mother hanging from the roof, having an electric air pole and plugging the neighborhood into darkness, her father faking herself a chimney. Briga faking in the ground, hurt and raptured, and brother, Hans, able to escape and climb on a running road.

Improved her time for a fallacy, but rules, Briga was kept quiet to the Nazi family camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, healthy and young, she was picked to make local grenades and to return to have carriages or murdered children, found in the carriages held with them and held before.

"I found it completely surrealistic, to find that there were pictures of my fam-

An off the the book: "The Betrayal of the Zilverman Family," by Maria-Crick van Hietzen. Its title has since been changed.

dy, have in a Belgian site," Zilverman said in an interview.

THE POCKET

Zilverman's podcast began streaming in November. The episode drew more than half a million listeners, which looks as very popular in the Netherlands, a country of 10 million people.

Zilverman told her listeners that her family's greatest betrayal was initiated by Boobis's grandmother. But she said she thought they had been instrumental again. She could not make sense of van Hietzen's unwillingness to share information with her, and why would boobis reach out to offer access to the records, only to withhold them?

Yes, she said in an interview, she might be able to access the records herself through a researcher — and still might — but that wasn't the point.

In May, Zilverman was invited to participate in the panel on intergenerational trauma and shame. The discussion, "Demonstrate: Dealing With A Loaded Family Story," he held at De Balm, a prominent Amsterdam national venue that knew lectures and debates.

Before the event, van Hietzen wrote to De Balm, in Zilverman and to other members of the panel to together her feelings: Zilverman and the organization shared copies with The Times.

Van Hietzen said she felt that she had shown respect for Zilverman as a descendant of Holocaust victims and did not think she had been treated fairly.

"It is my family, my material, and you want to hold onto it so you can have success for your book."

"It is, of course, not a question that Judith has a right to her family's war history," she wrote. "However, she seems to think that she is not automatically the owner of many hours of research work by someone else — in the case, mine."

"Against my will and without my permission," she continued. "I play a legally, until not in her podcast that is damaging to my reputation as a researcher and as a human being."

She disputed that she had given her permission to be in the podcast and said some of the recordings had been "partly covers."

On the tapes, there is no discussion of whether van Hietzen wanted to bring in the podcast. But Zilverman says the historian was fully aware she was being taped, as van Hietzen spoke into the microphone and introduced herself. Klot has a photo of what she said was their meeting in Zilverman's apartment and the recording equipment it visible in front of van Hietzen.

At De Balm, the discussion at the theater began with Zilverman discussing her podcast with the modernist, Janine Mooselman. She outlined her concerns over access to her family's records and spoke of her surprise at seeing "hundreds" of paintings of her family members in Boobis's house.

Suddenly someone began showing from the audience. It was Boobis. She wanted to correct something Zilverman had said.

Tension filled the room. Mooselman asked Boobis to reserve her comments and speculate for the rest of the discussion.

He might on local later, Boobis was here in the apartment to speak from the audience. She said she thought the podcast was well done and effective in creating stories and showing its listeners.

"But there are things where I think that, with this it is simply an objective representation of realities," Boobis said. "Not a subjective work that you have created, and in some parts that increase or correspond with reality at all."

There weren't hundreds of paintings, she added, just 38 or so. They weren't about the Zilverman family, but images from Briga broke the work by the Zilverman! One the moderator stopped back in.

"You have, of course, your story, and given you their story," Mooselman said. "It will never be our story, and maybe those two stories can never really come together."

Zilverman, outrage, took stock. "I don't, what they think, and in the podcast," she offered. "Maybe the time to give me my tips in this generation, for this kind of conversation. Maybe in the next generation."

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Above from left: protesters demanding the resignation of Indian women minister last month. Shiya Alai Stocking, a police van carrying protesters who had been detained in Mumbai, India, and police officers standing guard at demonstrations in New Delhi.

Women at India's protests are abused online

NEW DELHI

Widespread harassment and police visits show the risks demonstrators take

BY ANUTHEREN DAS

Shiya Alai were vows after an image circulated of her Stocking a police van that was car tying detained protesters last month during before youth agitation. A vast array of online tools has stalked her steps.

They called it a play for attention by Ms. Alai, 27, a Mumbai-based model and actor. They maintained that she could usually exploit content behind a survival on Instagram. They've collected a view of her diving into the sea as a shark. They flooded her social media accounts with short and ripe threats.

Ms. Alai has shown to me about it. "You've got a special of someone who is telling you online that. I'm going to rip you apart (he sky I see you," she said. "I'm trying not to reply to any of them, just letting them do their thing and show their face to the world.")

The month of young women have participated in nationwide protests demanding accountability from the government for a flawed education system. But in the two months since the demonstrations started, they have been detained and bombarded online by people who have called them immoral, threatened ethical abuse and sent attacks and used artificial intelligence to create denouncing images. A majority of the should have come from accounts, many anonymous, that push Hindu right-wing ideology and pitch themselves as individuals of religious morality. But high-profile antiabuse and outraged individuals have claimed in.

In a series of Instagram messages, Kangana Ranani, a well-known Hollywood actress and member of Parliament from the Bhuraiya Auntia Party, the Hindu nationalist political party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, called out a 'new generation of an adult}-restressed Indian woman'. She labeled them 'Generative Game' saying they had 'nothing to offer the answer' but were too 'corrupt and ugly' to be 'home makers'.

Ms. Alai has been the target of constant online abuse after an image of her or a protest went viral. Tools have flooded her social media accounts with short and ripe threats.

There have been other consequences for women who joined the protests. Police officers visited the ancestral home of a student activist and presenter and suggested to her family that she should focus on her studies. Another protest leader had left the sea in her face. A 15-year-old girl who had used pedestrians in talking about Ms. Modi during the protests later appeared in a video online apologizing.

In the aftermath of the protests, Ms. Modi called it a cultural shock that women protesters had used profanity, without reminding on the young men chanting alongside them. 'How can the

daughters of this country use this kind of language?' he said in an Instagram read.

Thanks Ali, a student activist and doctoral student in Delhi, and police officers that showed up at the houses of her relatives in Bandarbara, her ancestral village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

The police told them that it was not an 'official mariner' and there was no case against her but that an uncorruption was continuing.

The authorities also called her father, telling him that Ms. Ali should 'focus on her studies.' Ms. Ali called it a 'subtle

threat' that tied her activities to her well-being.

She said women had become targets because of 'women coming to the protest site, women openly critiquing the government, women cheerfully making fun of the prime minister, even using profanity.' That was something which could not be tolerated?

Ms. Ali, 24, celebrated the fact that so many young girls and women had stated protests across the nation — sometimes defying their parents or shipping school to do so. But, she said, it was 'problematic to see' the harmful targeting of women at a protest demanding education re-

bers, given that many women already have to fight for the chance to go to school.

That the attacks emanated from the Hindu right, which calls for the nation to be forced on a religion that worships numerous goddesses, struck Ms. Ali as especially contradictory: 'There is this to say that is created,' she said. 'Either you are a saint, or you are a did.'

Ms. Alai, who has appeared in music videos and worked in Boston, has become a central figure because her favorite challenges a deeply entrenched partian had system that outlines women to certain roles and behaviors.

As she made news for defiantly putting her hand on the front of a police van in Mumbai, demanding that the officers show legal papers before she stopped aside, a review of the internet bubbled up with comments about her physical appearance. Her nature of her clothing, the angle of her body.

Ms. Alai said she had barely begun processing the unexpected attention that her car had brought her before 'the hate started coming.' The hurdle she was seeing, to shed into the back of her newspapers, not to mention that she was seeing all her body because she had her lap thrust out while leaning to snarl the box. Ms. Alai said. Other messages accused her of singing the episode.

'They're trying to determine me and she could so women have the entire protest,' she said. The higher her profile over, the more seriously the daughter came, mostly in the front of comments on social media. Some restaurant, following that 100 rupees about $1.50, was monthly school tying out the charges for early access to her Instagram post — would get them adult contact, Ms. Alai said.

Still, she worried that by constantly mulging her image, the fields would also hold her enough that she would have her newfound platform to demand accountability from the government on core issues like education and employment. On Aug. 3, Ms. Alai was one of several protesters anxiety it was Abdul Gandhi, a member of Congress and the leader of the opposition in the lower house of Parliament, to speak at a news conference about online harassment.

She made online or donated for young girls and women, that is encouraging them to come their voices. Ms. Alai landed on the coast of the United States, and the government was not going to make it a matter to do taken seriously and treated with respect.

'There things are finding their way into the way I think about myself — anything is visible in this, too much knowingly,' Ms. Alai said. 'Why isn't it caused of people seeing who I am and what I do?'

Ms. Alai, who started modeling at 21, said she was trying to stop second-guessing herself. 'She I really have to wear a car (I want to stand up for my country)'

Trending on social media: Your grandfather

MEDDIEAE, GERMANY

What's Gen Z up to? An 89-year-old TikTok star wants to find out.

BY LEVANT CRITILL

At 89, Werner Kaleczinski wanted to try something new.

'For months, so he took care of his ad-ing who, he felt too own vigor was. He needed to work. He had held many jobs in his long life — scavenging scrap out-al, doing electrical work and selling insurance and future food. Now, in the age of social media, he wanted to give TikTok a try, even if he didn't understand it.'

'I thought 'influence or 'seas a cold.' Mr. Kaleczinski, now 90, said, stretching the vowels in that the word sounded like 'influence.'

There are exactly the kind of gangs that have turned Mr. Kaleczinski into a beloved TikTok star in Germany. He is part of a growing core of older influencers who have gained traction among much younger users. Their content ranges from the fashion videos known as 'Get Ready With Me' to motivational messages offering advice.

Mr. Kaleczinski's character, Tom Morse, is a Grandpa' Worker, has sacrificed Jeewah's heart and her built a following on trying out what the country's young people are up to. Audiences love his have-not-videos, watching him groanor or a-yes, from one coffee shop to the next.

He has yet to find a startling little he likes. He once composed the taste of the trough, grown beverage or a freshly

moved lawn. His online persona of an affable cartridges who uses Gen Z along to complain about the cost of letter, has drawn almost 200,000 followers and 2.9 million likes. Mr. Kaleczinski may have the taste of startling others, but he has a good deal with the info below.

'You always know he's not going to like it, and he always calls it 'everything,' said Eymon Zeewah, a 10-year-old fan, who patiently wants to make a Düsseldorf coffee shop to take a walk with the TikTokies.' Younger people often try to adapt to older people when they're spending time with them, but in his case, he tries to understand the younger generation.

Anna Ashman, 19, was a social media veteran when he discovered Mr. Kaleczinski in April 2025. For years, Mr. Ashman had made a name for himself as a message for others, but as he was 9, 00, he decided it was time to go behind the camera and had run the lucrative industry that social media has generated.

Scrolling for an idea, he noticed that older people were trending on social media, at 90, stalwart car car to create the next grandfashscore. When looking for his own, Mr. Ashman didn't have to look very far. His own mother, Rosie Hopperle, turned out to be happy on camera, playing the role of a bewildered hat on thousands of persons.

Ms. Hopperle, 61, a retired nurse, encouraged her 'everything' friend, Mr. Kaleczinski, to audition.

Mr. Kaleczinski stood out during more than 100 auditions with an email about why he doesn't do that at intersection line. His application, written in Gen Z along, was a winner 'trying to quirky, not written, and defiantly not used by an çalışan man, Mr. Ashman could, recalling the email.

Werner Kaleczinski and his producer, Anita Ashman, making social media content in Düsseldorf, Germany, in June. 'You always know he's not going to like it,' one has said.

'I thought that he was crazy, in a positive way,' he said. 'The sound of the email was so special, I couldn't ignore it.' It also helped, he added, that Mr. Kaleczinski could navigate a follow-up video call.

When Mr. Kaleczinski sat down to view that falsexense email, he was trying to overcome the lower tragedy in his life. She dealt at his wife. In the twilight of their 89-year marriage, illness had satisfied his wife's personality into the opposite of his, Mr. Kaleczinski said. She had become pessimistic and critical, and caring for her is her final days had taken an emotional toll.

'I don't even know what happened to

her,' he said. 'I tried to break from a little, so they'd wasn't completely submerged.' He took Mr. Ashman's audition call just weeks before his wife died. In the face of bombhooah, he was determined to move on.

This was not the first time he had ever been a gentleman out of school in Mr. Kaleczinski, whose family came from what to order Poland, was become Berlin, where Adolf Hitler was at the height of his powers. When was broke out, his father was drafted to the German Army's front lines and killed in Russia.

As the fellow postmated Berlin, he and his brother were among thousands of children evacuated to the countryside,

first to what was then East Prussia, and then on to Switzerland, the German wartime territory that is today part of the Czech Republic. When Germany was defeated, the young Mr. Kaleczinski walked back to Berlin.

She was just a boy when he earned his first money, carrying neighbourly proceeds in the region. As an adolescent, he stripped the electric wiring of destroyed

'I thought 'influence' was a cold.'

houses, which led to work as an electrician. But life under Russian occupation was 'crued' he said, adding majestic, which was worse than manufactured. At 18, to scroul living forced to join the government's police force, he escaped East Germany, lying to the guards that he was going to visit by grandparents in West Berlin, he said. He was a real cool rede his bicycle. He never returned.

Still, he has had to accept that 'buildings could establish that net operation has been tragedy. In 2015, his son died in Germany at age 55 from an undiagnosed illness after living abroad, and Mr. Kaleczinski's granddaughter moved in with him. Over the upfront, he is grateful that he now has a multipowerational home, a party in Germany. Living with his granddaughter, now 30, and her three children has allowed them to share their business, he said.

Most young Germans don't get to see their grandparents for family or fall of life, said Mr. Hopperle, his co-what, and that is probably why Mr. Kaleczinski has been to successful online.

'Many older people initiate themselves,' she said. 'In Germany, that's

just how it is, everyone lives for themselves.'

In his accounts — globe-punnyers on TikTok and Instagram — Mr. Kaleczinski has also tapped into a core thing on social media, authenticity, and Cuba thousands of people who are thankful for Brand Trust, a Neurothought-based company. Brands know he'll be in their product, and yet they seek Mr. Kaleczinski out for sponsorship because formerly sells on TikTok, he said.

'Everyone knows that he's produced and that there is an agency behind it.' Mr. Parameter said. 'But you still get the feeling that he is really authentic.'

In the past television year, Mr. Kaleczinski has won an award for his campaign with a superintendent (suit and law) and a 'suit' for a 'suit' in the year. He stated he used a large strain on a suit with a 'suit' and a 'suit' with a 'suit' in the year. He was a 'suit' for a 'suit' in the year. He was a 'suit' for a 'suit' in the year.

In 2019, Wichols himself hit a long time her car as she drove to her club at an emergency room in a Düsseldorf hospital. Ms. Wichols, 27, said that Mr. Kaleczinski's videos were an outdoor to the pathetic influencers floating his feed. One Werner reminds her to live her own life with a bit more rest. When she spotted her car, she was a third that came out. Ms. Wichols said she was almost too shy to approach him for a good graph.

'We often forget that even old people were young, they had friends, they made mistakes,' she said. 'It's beautiful to see that they are not a life when they are old, not only sitting at home, getting groanly.'

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Shopping in Tehran. Green learn's stance on tax, the immediate cost of U.S. sanctions will most likely be borne by the Iranian people, who are already struggling to afford banks.

Settling into an uneasy standoff

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Neither the U.S. nor Iran has achieved its goals, and both are holding firm

BY YULIUSHI YAMADI

They are not seriously negotiating, nor are they developing. The former Tehrani, Iran and the United States have settled into an uneasy, submissive state that stabs either a return to fighting or a hardening explosion.

The U.S. is the movement of state are calculations, perhaps miscalculations, by each side.

Iranian officials believe they have more to gain than millionaires, U.S. economic pressure and maintaining control over the front of Elemian than they do from making major concessions in a negotiated deal, analysts said. And the United States appears to be betting that putting Iran in a tighter economic stranglehold will succeed where military strikes have cut. On Wednesday, President Trump vowed to impose "reminisive economic consequences" on countries that do business with Iran.

So tax neither the United States nor Iran has gotten what it would.

When the control is agreed to a ceasefire two months ago, it was supposed to pay them on a path to a broader deal within 40 days, covering both nuclear program and the lifting of U.S. sanctions. That deadline passed the week and on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said on social media that there were "no talks of conversational" going on or scheduled.

Instead, the countries are "in a state of constant Value," said Nicole Gr人物证, an universal professor at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po in Paris. "We find much has fundamentally changed over the past several months," he added. "beyond a further establishment of the Iranian position and reported, so far unsuccessful, U.S. efforts to find more hard of way out."

The month, Tehran issued a list of demands on Washington for espionage, the Strait of Herman, which into along Iran's

Iran's supreme leader, Ayasofan Mubarak Khamenei, has appointed hard-line inquiries to buy military positions, signaling his intent to keep the country as a war feeling.

conflicts could not in a major transit point for much of the month's end.

The demands included the removal of sanctions, the release of frozen assets and the payment of war reparations. Similar conditions were previously mentioned in being part of a possible deal, outlined in a memo and/or of understanding that was agreed upon on in June but quickly recovered.

For weeks, Iran has been appointed with Oman over future management of the crisis, but the list of demands was greted that even in the event of a deal, Iranian forces would continue to become an aid attack, trimming market traffic at least two days have been attacked in the crisis in recent days.

"Having recovered from the initial shock of the war, Tehran is now determined to demonstrate strength," said Mehrzad Boroujedi, director for College of Arts, Science and Education at Microsoft University of Science and Technology. "By weaponization of the Strait of Herman and hard-line bargaining, it is parallel talks with the United States and Oman should be understood in that context," he added.

Over the past few months, Mr. Trump's rhetoric has swung between threats of annihilation and promises that a diplomatic deal was close.

If that approach was meant to score Iranian officials into making concessions, it seems to have had the opposite effect. They appear to have become too

Having recovered from the initial shock of the war, Tehran is now determined to demonstrate strength,

vowed that Mr. Trump is unwilling to fully relaunch a war that threatens to raise oil prices and has been campaign with the American people.

Iran appears to believe the United States will eventually (or of an expense, open-ended confrontation," said John Vatsalka, a senior fellow at the Pacific East Institute, a Washington-based research group.

At the same time, the United States has emphasized the economic pressure on Iran.

Mr. Trump's own-too- and strong-Iranl Rachani, told Fox News on Monday that Iranian officials were "not showing any interest in doing something that makes sense for us." When asked where talks stood, he pointed to a social blockade aimed at further holding Iran's economy as Mr. Trump's current Irana.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump said an social media that the blockade remained in full effect. No one asserted that the trust was fully sure, even as another official stated the attacks on ships recently.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant said in an interview with Newsweek recently that his department planned to apply measures that "have never been serious the history of the economic isolation" of a country.

Iran's leaders have survived international economic pressure before, though they did agree to concessions on their nuclear programs in 2015 after a redefining up of sanctions during the Obama administration.

Given Tehran's stance to lay, the immediate cost of sanctions will most likely be borne by the Iranian people, who are already struggling to afford banks.

In the face of American sanctions, Iran "will try to transfer the resulting economic pain onto its population to oil rigs, gas panels, betting that Washington will have lost." Mr. Boroujedi of the Missouri University of Science and Technology said.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayasofan Mubarak Khamenei, has appointed hard-line inquiries to buy military positions, signaling his intent to keep the country as a war feeling. A renewed configuration would probably lynge in regional and administrative, U.S. bases in the Middle East and commercial shipping, Mr. Yamash said.

For now, it appears just as likely that the economic collaboration with the two-issues-sweat-shed—including Iran's nuclear program and the Strait of Herman.

"The drugs" the Index presents, the more entrenched it becomes and the hardest is to construct an off-staging that either side can present an anything other than a concession," Ms. Gr人物证 said.

What Tehran realizes U.S. doesn't want war

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Trump stuck in conflict with limited leverage and an emboldened opponent

BY ANTON TRUMAN/UNESCO/ALAN KAPPUPAT

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant voted to reassure pressure over and about the pressure campaign on Iran, declaring that a reintegration of "large-scale" fighting was unlikely.

The problem is the Trump administration's that Iran was also listening.

President Trump this week presented an "economic D-Day" against Iran, a "crashing" operation to "crignle" Iran. The U.S. champions in Formaldim, a combination of wartime destruction, a naval blockade and sanctions that have already put the Iranian economy under more pressure than its regime has experienced in decades.

But between the lines of the administration's threats was a signal that Mr. Bessant made an clear as ever on Thursday. Mr. Trump showed evidence to be back to war. The president is waging an economic campaign against Iran, having already spent weeks working five country earlier this year and having stopped back from multiple threats more than to remain the nation's.

As a result, experts say, Mr. Trump is stuck in a conflict with limited leverage, a demonstrated vulnerability and an unhesitated advocacy lives in Iran from their shortages and inflation. Mr. Trump is likely to increasingly feel the presence of the approaching midterm questions in the shadow of an campaign war and high gas prices. It is a dangerous combination, experts say, that could prompt Iran to sense American weakness and lack of.

"They read the new arrest waiting to escalate militarily," Drouin B. Bros, a former Middle East superstar for president of both parties, said of Iran's leaders. "That creates an incentive for them to show that they will have the chance to be."

Mr. Bessant told CNBC on Thursday that Mr. Treasury Department would hold a new conference about the new measures targeting Iran next Monday. He said readers had been wrong to bid up the press of all newspapers, given that the administration's new economic threats were a sign there would not be an immediate return to ridicule bombing.

"If we are doing the maximum economic pressure, then that means that likely there will not be a large-scale increase in the U.S. doesn't want the U.S. would emphasize, that is his new."

Mr. Trump announced his upcoming "economic D-Day" against Iran as social media post Wednesday evening, warning of Tsunami's혹别 on the land of the Arab world.

"These maniacs are on the scope, and those HUSTING! WE ARE NOT with a single Iran and their ability to project better worldwide," Mr. Trump wrote on the news.

Among the challenges he Mr. Trump is that he has repeatedly threatened with the large-scale destruction, only to pull his from the forces. He spoke in June about his loss of an immediate war pushing the United States into an economic "depression," but pulls down the power of the United States to the increasingly daring Republican — creating a political outlaw! And he Mr. Trump as a conflict he described as a weakening "duty and respect" more in economic history.

Iran's regime has shown in recent months that it can withstand the large-scale destruction, and it is necessary to have the U.S. have been a good way to insure a real Israeli leader, as well as impose costs on the United States by among other things, attaining oil tankers in the State of Elemian. U.S. gasoline prices remain more than a dol-

lar a gallon (3.8 liters) higher than they were before the start of the war. U.S. military bases in the Persian Gulf have been severely damaged. If American service members have been killed, and maximum have not few doing the way, a deal is said that will "die remained alive" — even in terms of a full couponing of the trust.

The Iranian evidence and resolution appear to have pushed Mr. Trump to rely on a strong pressure to try to face Iran's hand. Analysts note that the administration has already imposed extraordinary pain on Iran's economy, with Mr. Trump's moral blockade compounding the damage done by the spring's breaking campaign.

A new resolution states to Wednesday when the United Arab Emirates, a crucial economic partner across the Persian Gulf from Iran, could re-establish all trade and financial connections with the country.

But going further could be difficult for Mr. Trump, who warned in the Truth Social post that "AON country" providing any kind of "lifetime to Iran" would "itself face THEIR KNOWLEDGE Economic Consequences."

Iran's most important financial lifeline in Oman, which buys most of Iran's oil, "China is the indispensable piece" of an economic pressure campaign against Iran, said Mark Mishra, a senior fellow at the Iserfakh Foundation for Defense of Democracy on Shale land in Washington who previously worked in sanctions policy at the Treasury Department.

"The substance can absorb Iranian crude of Oman's scale," Mr. Mishra added in a text message.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened with rain, then pulled back.

But Mr. Trump has worked to improve his relationship with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, which expected to meet Mr. Trump in Washington's 2025-26, long-yrs and they anticipate that the Trump administration will be cautious in presenting China, especially given the upcoming summit, leaving open the question of just how much more threats the U.S. economic campaign against Iran can become.

Mr. Bessant will CNBC that the administration's conversations with China on the matter would remain private.

"Iran has been under comprehensive sanctions for peace," said Edward Fishman, senior fellow and director of the Missouri & Greenberg Center for Geosciences at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The only major thing left to do is aggressive to target Iran's trading in the U.S. and the U.S."

He added. "I'm skeptical Trump is willing to risk companies as economic or credit those right now."

Then there is the question of how Iran would respond and more financial strain.

Mr. Bros, the former Mikhool envoy, said the result in expected to lead to a way to put fresh military pressures on the United States or its Gulf cities. And that expectation, in turn, highlights the uncertainty over Mr. Trump's琐碎 even strategy, so gas prices may high, the midterms have and remain more in their return now.

The new news, throughout this process, the ability to think beyond the immediate case may." Mr. Bros said of the administration's approach to Iran. "That's by playing the above. That's to not playing these."

Somali pirates return off the coast of Yemen

BY FRANKY RABBA/UNESCO/STATION WORSHED

Somali pirates hijacked a suspected Iranian leader that tailed off the coast of Yemen on Thani'aq, and what expect to say is the biggest range in piracy in the region in three than a decade.

The oil tanker, the ISRO, I then on first-run flag. But it is likely part of Iran's shadow host of ships expecting an arsenal the world, according to Tanker-Truckers.com, a company that members girded an shipping. The tanker has routinely betred that to an oil terminal in the Yemeni port of Bye (so that it can trade) by the Iranian-bodied Hooda militia, the company added.

ISRO, I was the second ship hijacked by Somali pirates to a span of two days, according to officials in Somalia. Days earlier, a Cameroon-flagged cargo vessel carrying weapons was seized off the coast of the subcontinent, a Somali region of Poutland, said Abidin Haish Ali, the director general of the ministry of ports in the neighboring Garmadiy State.

Some after a global naval campaign largely curbed the scourge of piracy experts worry that the conflict in Iran —

along with other factors, the regional invasives and economic difficulties for local fishermen — according the range but is constricted.

In the first five months of the year, more than 17 piracy-related incidents were documented across Somali waters and the Gulf of Aden, including the depolling of at least three commercial ships and five other boats, according to the Center for Maritime Security.

Mr. Haish, the local port to official, said that on ships are currently being held by Somali pirates, including the two seized this past week. Across those ships, he added, more than 100 crew members are being held hostage.

The emergence of piracy cases at a time when maritime blockades and fighting in crucial shipping routes — including the Red Sea and Brune of Burma — have whipped the opportunity for hijackings and missions.

"The most frequent successful spots of piracy attacks in almost a decade and a half are going to build ourselves in account of just how bad the maritime security picture is in the wider region," said Ian Baffey, the president of the American government's nonprofit group, Amisham Wrothman.

Security forces patrolling off the coast of the Mediterranean Somali region of Poutland. A cargo vessel carrying weapons was reportedly seized off Poutland recently.

Col. Mohamed Jema, a senior security official at the Poutland Maritime Police here, said the ISRO, I had been knocked by seven armed pirates about 210 miles (200 kilometers) off the coast of Yemen

and therefore to Somali waters. He said that the condition of the 20-person crew was unknown.

The Cameroon-flagged cargo ship seized on Monday, the Lariel, was sailing

from Turkey to the Somali capital, Megaluba, said Mr. Haish, the local port official.

Turkey and other regional powers, like the United Arab Emirates, have also been to an immediate ambush. While Turkey has aligned with the government in Megaluba, where it has a large military facility and train-tosses of Somali forces, the Tsunami have prepared to pass the U.S. resources across Poutland region, strategically located about the Gulf of Aden meets the Indian forces.

Since after the Lariel was hijacked off the country coast, airstrikes targeted a suspected Somali pirate bay that had advanced with the pirates almost the same time as the Haish and, at least, his people were killed in the strike, where might was anxious he said.

Somali piracy has been a major problem in the Gulf, but in recent decades, the final phase of the war has been decided to remain a new island, costing shipping companies and insurers. Not only do the U.S. port through ourselves, The numbers began to decline in port because of international travel in all means involving NATO and the European Union.

In recent years, missiles and drones fired by the Hooda at Red Sea shipping in respect of Ruman's two against Israel in Gaza have posed a bigger threat to commercial vessels than piracy.

The U.S. President's administration's cosmic face raised suspicion that Somali pirates and the Bozhdin are a disheartening, especially in the Gulf of Aden.

In May, Somali pirates hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, the Togo-flagged Florida.

The Hoodha and Somali pirates have cultivated an alliance over the years, with the nation's crimes providing technology and military hostage. Analysts say the war is true and the resulting disruptions to oil shipping could give them more money to what together, and the high price of fuel presents an opportunity to speak.

The opportunity there are also long-ments issues in the country that are in piracy. In May, the Somali pirate is one of the new and Spanish coasters that has made fishing less lucrative in control communities, and the decline in some time getting fuel armed gangs have taken advantage of.

Declan Walsh contributed reporting.

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Another Castro emerges in Cuba

Envoy who has been tied to smuggling is in talks with Trump's government

BY DAVID C. ADAMS AND FRANCK E. BURGER

Raúl Castro was on an official state visit in Paris a decade ago as Cuban president when a baby bodyguard in his entourage stood out.

The man kept us close to Mr. Castro while they walked the red carpet at the Elpolo Palace that a member of the French honor guard stood pulling him back.

Even Frances Hollande, France's president at the time, waved him back. The security escort who kept smarting himself in official photos was even other than Mr. Castro's grandson, Raúl G. Rodriguez Castro, a colonel in the veteran ministry.

Today, the once largely unknown bodyguard has become a key figure in Cuban talks with the United States, even though he has never held public office. His name has even come up as someone the Trump administration might find acceptable to become Cuban mail leader.

"His exemplities have that government question," said Tim Brown, a foreign policy aide to former Senator Patrick Lively, a Democrat from Vermont, who met Mr. Rodriguez Castro several times. "It's a lot like a family business, and so someone who was described to us a decade ago as President Castro's bodyguard has for whatever reason, by whatever means, become something much more than that."

But Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who has met with some of his anti-terror people in the Trump administration, may have also used his considerable influence to protect a large-scale smuggling operation that moved people out of Cuba and brought about him into the country, according to interview a said court records.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, 42, was accused of helping people growly purchased with stolen credit cards into the country, receiving money from an hollow and allowing wanted criminals to come free on the island, the interviews and court records.

The scheme was the target of a U.S. investigation that conducted the restrictions of at least 12 people and decoupling sentiment. Mr. Rodriguez Castro has not been charged.

This article is based on court documents and interviews with nearly 6 chosen people who either know Mr. Rodriguez Castro personally, including one person since 1936. U.S. organizations, or are familiar with the criminal investigation, is which his name confused.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro did not respond to response for an interview sent through those statements, documents and a partial as-paid letter. A top Cuban official called the accusations—handsome.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro's prominent role in the discussions with the Trump administration seemed to confound some of the most common issues. He was told that the country is not about for his grandfather.

Still, an official with the Central Committee of the Commission Party of Cuba took to avoid media that should be any for sub-region. The commission party decided not to "take into a maximum of 1000, which was aimed at making that decision to be taken."

An In-Exile Cuban government try to survive and navigate to standard with the United States, those who have spoken to Mr. Rodriguez Castro say he has made no return to the state to conform to be his country's next president —

though it is unclear whether he has the internal support to do so.

THE CUBAN SHOULDER

The Senator campaign network was known as the Cuban Mafia in Quintana Roo, its name came from the state in eastern Mexico where it was heard.

The ring used to turn into from Florida to mean people out of Cuba who wanted to reach the United States, according to the Justice Department and members of the criminal gang who co-operated with prosecutors.

The Cuban magazine 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 comments.

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, Just Miguel González

Vidal and Reynolds Conque Márquez, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to long 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 as U.S. Department of Justice case in 2020 against the group, according to evidence gathered by prosecutors and one of the people familiar with the investigation.

The people who knew Mr. Rodriguez Castro spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve relationships with Cuban government officials, and those familiar with the criminal case did so to discuss sensitive legal matters they were not authorized to disclose.

It is unclear whether Mr. Rodriguez Castro is a target of the continuing investigation. The Justice Department declared to comment.

Raúl Castro, above at right, with his grandson and bodyguard, Raúl G. Rodriguez Castro, during an official ceremony in Paris in 2016. Mr. Rodriguez Castro, left, has met with senior U.S. officials, and his name has come up as Cuban president next leader.

The smuggling ring stole vessels from South Florida to to the foreign officials, according to an admission, she identified as federal court as part of a guilty plea against by Mr. González Vidal, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The admission does not name Mr. Rodriguez Castro.

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

The issue was also discussed in open court.

During a September 2021 trial in Miami, a defense lawyer asked Mr. Conque, who was co-operating witness, about a meeting in which he told prosecutors that Mr. González Vidal and Mr. Rodriguez Castro had discussed sending him a loss to Cuba. Mr. Conque's serving 20 years in prison for his role in the smuggling operation.

Mr. González Vidal said the man who smuggled migrants and goods before Mr. Rodriguez Castro to keep the Cuban Coast Guard and Customs camp, three of the people said.

In exchange for allowing merchandise that the smuggling network bought in Mexico with stolen credit cards to clear Cuban customs, Mr. Rodriguez Castro was given a President 90 high-performance boat and various other gifts, including a Robie watch, Rionda motorbike and Louis Vartoso clothes. Mr. González Vidal claimed.

The products were later sold as Cuban government stores, he said.

Mr. González Vidal's account was supported by rent and water and messages that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investi-

gation extracted from the compliance of members of the smuggling ring, the people familiar with the case said.

Mr. González Vidal's lawyer, Juan D. Berrino, said that he continued.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, in a recent interview with USA Today, which came article read to be self-proclaimed, said he had no wealth of his own. "Wealthy friends and attorneys" had publicly defended clothes, many a foreign industry and expensive overseas trips, he said.

A BLANDROAD ACCUSSION

Cuban Airport foreign minister, Carlos R. Fernández de Costa, in an interview with The Times in Havana, called the accusations against Mr. Rodriguez Castro involving the smuggling ring "dander".

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

They received no response, he said. "We shared them. Meeting often meeting. 'Have you taken action? What have you done?'" Mr. Fernández de Costa said. "I cannot doubt whatsoever that there are organizations in Mexico, a Central America and in other parts of Latin America, which involve Cubans that have been making money and such business of smuggling duties 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.

One American chart to the U.S. Cuban documents said that despite the obligations of smuggling, Mr. Rodriguez Cas-

tro was considered a worthy representative to ensure as with the Trump administration because the business for material goods suggested he was open to capitolist office.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro is not a promptly about his lifestyle.

"It pains me that many people can't live the way U.S." Mr. Rodriguez Castro told USA Today "shall be working every day to change that situation."

A GOLDER BUY

Mr. Rodriguez Castro is the one of Raúl Castro's oldest daughter, Deborah Castro-Equin, and the son Gen. Luis Alberto Rodriguez-Lupos-Calapa, a powerfully new who helped establish Cuban military conglomerate, known as GUEAA, which manages much of Cuban ailing economy.

His parents had scrouded marriages, so Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who is also known as "dander," spent much of his youth at his grandparents' house, several people who knew him in his youth said. His ordinance, which is how he is commonly known, is "if Congress' meaning 'the Craft' and was given to him because he was born with an extra finger on one hand.

Despite his revolutionary roots, he is descended from an upper-class family — his grandmother was an boy to the Bacuchi ram fortune. He enjoyed his tennis sport and music with one's lyrics and was less polished than other members of Cuban's revolutionary elite.

He studied economics at the University of Havana, where he received studies to investigate who his grandfather, said Juan Juan Almonte, the school one of a hero of the 1950 Cuban revolution who was close to the Castro family.

He also studied a Rodriguez Castro as affectionate and friendly.

The in better known outside Cuba than inside," he said. "Congress and all the Castros knew that their power only lasts until the day the grandfather died."

Mr. Rodriguez Castro, who is often pleasurable working, expresses the upper clothes, was widely known during his younger years he being spotted in where painting or concerts, hanging out with the suggeston duo Gente de Zaza and a girl.

Mr. Rodriguez Castro has enjoyed extraordinary scores, attending virtually every year at his grandfather's meetings, including with the 2nd Party of Jesus.

After Cuba began secret meetings with the United States the year working to end sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, Mr. Rodriguez Castro met separately with Director John Ratcliffe of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Secretary of State Marco Ruble.

At turn Lupos Levy, a monarch associate at the University of Boston who is a second cousin to Mr. Rodriguez Castro, said much of the confusion of his relatives is based on videos of newly behaves that an illustration on that a decade ago.

He has set updays to his cousin to about seven or eight years, he said, for his public persons appears to have changed considerably.

"The relationship with his grandfather has changed from a young man who was quite immature to someone with political knowledge and connection to his grandfather — and may be the most tortured of his life, but politically," said Mr. Lupos Levy, a former auditor at Cuban Management. "He has not been outside the door; he has been inside every morning."

David Devils said, both from controlled or reporting, famous English and Korean hopes contributed research.

In Italy, a beach club run by nuns is in jeopardy

ROME

Officials say the lease will be put up for auction, prompting a backlash

BY ELISABETTA PAVIGEDO

It's been failed on the future of Charity versus the major.

For 40 years or more, the future of Charity of Saint Mary have occupied a small slice of terrestrial parodies, running out of thousands of beach clubs along Italy's coast.

But this longtime arrangement in Spotsana, at Indian town on the Ligerian Sea, may even come to an end. The main beach, like all the Indian coast lies, is and has to bend, and local officials say their lease will soon be put up for auction, along with those of other beach-trout clubs.

Some Spotsana residents are unhappy about it, saying that the nuns had supported the community for many years. Indian men's outlets have pushed up the story several of them using structures on "Holy War" in their headlines.

But Mayor Maria Pavini says he is simply trying to achieve regional and European loan losses that have been up so far as possible.

"Every Indian story seems a soap opera," he said, adding, "We have a lease to make a sale of this life for a day and, apparently, failing to enforce even a single one."

On a supply stretch of beach, the nuns run a summer camp for children and

visit underlin and lounge chairs to headspots.

Some families in Spotsana have met their children to the summer camp for generations. While the nuns don't set up the beachpoint underlin — that look it left to a "dripped" — they do "pass among their asking people to have a 'sad bringing' 'wards of comfort,'" said Valeria Arzucero, a local resident.

The nuns' strip of sand, 39 yards wide and running from the villa to the sea, is one of more than 1,000 like it on the Italian coastline that are leased to private clubs, most of which are family one. The clubs generally don't charge admission per se, but they require headspots to seat a lounge chair, usually with an umbrella.

In 2005, the European Championship law prohibiting the automatic transfer of leases by public assets like beaches, requiring that open auctions be held in small, Italy's beachfront clubs have descended the law over once, and it has gone exactly unattracted.

Now, though, Italy's government has told many children that they must start putting the beach leases up for auction by next year. That means the Spotsana scuffles a likely to be a spotty in dozens of cities along the coast in the coming months.

Crisis in the table say they have occupied a public guest — public access to Italy's beaches is supposed to be guaranteed — while creating unintentionally expensive transport.

Roberto Bagatti, a journalist of Italy, a Lhero (from Sea), an association lobbying to reduce the number of clubs, said that a few thousand club owners had been holding "off" million. Thibaut

An aerial view in 2022 of beach clubs, many of which are family one, on the Spotsana coastline in Italy, along the Ligerian Sea.

hodage." Officials in Spotsana are merely upholding the tax, he said.

Besides the E.U. law, Mr. Pavini said, he has to comply with a 2008 law passed by the regional government, also widely ignored, that calls for 40 percent of

beaches to be free, or partly free. The law focuses that will go up for auctions (cost of the nuns' villa is for a 'free equipped beach,' meaning that no one part of the beach, renting a lounge chair or an umbrella will not be required.

Mr. Pavini said he also hoped the public auction would lead to more investment in Spotsana's beachfront. He said the town's services and infrastructure were "stuck in the 1980s," when Italian families would visit lounge chairs and

underlin at clubs for an entire season, and the town would live all the yearlong. "This system worked, then," he said.

Club owners have supported the making their lease would run jobs, and that they would never be sufficiently compensated for the investments they had put into their facilities.

Some Spotsana residents argue that the future of Charity of Saint Mary do not run an ordinary beachfront club.

While they do met beach chairs and underlin, their summer camp for children, and a nursery school they run in the winter, represent "an irreplaceable social service for Spotsana," said Ms.

Critics of the beach clubs say they have to opted a public good.

Arzucero, who said her 6-year-old daughter had attended the camp and the school for years. (The theme of Charity included is: common, but they are not. Ms. Arzucero to speak on their behalf.)

Another resident, Anna Maria Gretardi, said her twins were the third generation of her family to be cared for by the nuns. She said the beach club's own nuns went to support the facility and the order's charitable works around the world.

Mr. Pavini, the mayor, said that made little difference. "On me disposing the fact that, in this case, the money is actually sent elsewhere for charitable purposes. I am sure that the auction little under the law," he said. "Have they are a beach owner like any other, they must participate in a competitive holiday process."

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Trump tries to crush California's climate policies

WASHINGTON

Several agencies avail green regulations that have far-reaching effects

BY HAZINE JUELLOW

The Trump administration has taken a series of extraordinary steps to attack California's political and national leader in environmental protection, including at least a half-dozen federal agencies to understand the state's efforts to print away from hotel beds.

The status are high. Because of its market muscle as the world's fourth largest economy, California's environmental regulations have influenced the manufacturers of automobiles and other consumer goods. And its green policies have spread to some other states in what's known as the 'California effect'.

But President Trump has marched the full power of the federal government to clamp down on the state's climate initiatives. He has been vocal in his campaign for four Guns (Veteran and California, a Democrat and possible 2026 presidential committee whom he refers to as 'Guns's Democrat).

We however, a two-part general critic of Mr. Trump, pledged soon after the 2026 election to conduct California's environmental policies from a second Trump administration – perhaps making the state an oncology major he is president who has been using government levies to punish perceived enemies.

There are almost too many examples to list:

Mr. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have blocked California from setting its own limits on autoanthropic policies, which federal law has permitted since the 1970s. The Energy Department has announced ETS millions for a new coal export terminal in Oakland, Calif. The District Department has paid energy companies to cancel planned wind terms off the coast of California and other Democratic states. The president ordered a company to contact a pipeline that caused one of the state's largest oil spills in 2007.

And just this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration signaled it could curb the power of the California Coastal Commission, a state agency that has prevented the shoreline from thence like oil spills for more than half a century.

Mr. Trump's 'destructive behavior has grown significantly' said Jerry Brown, the former four-term Democratic governor of California who made it more change a signature name: 'It's completely against a traditional Republican doctrine of respecting states' rights.'

The state has filed a slew of lawsuits to try to undo the administration's actions:

'Should Trump attack California because we are building a future that doesn't help the nation better,' said Rep. Brown, a spokesman for Mr. Newman, said in an email: 'This fading industry desperately attempts to tighten its grip on the world's economy versus its share in high demands, growing cheaper and faster to deploy than anything they can offer. Follow the money and you will find the way to defend the war as California's climate policies' this is a White House run for Big 5G by Big 5G.'

Tupler Rogers, a White House spokes-

President Trump has marched the full power of the federal government to disrupt California's climate initiatives, including drawing up a draft plan for new oil drilling off Santa Barbara, Calif., above. The state has filed lawsuits to try to undo the administration's actions: Before from left: sea lines in San Diego; and heavy refills in Oakland.

woman, said the administration was intervening in California because state policies had led to higher energy prices and oil refinery closures, though state tests say market forces have also fueled those trends.

Governor Newman has continued carrying out the bill's costly and unpopular green new states' Mr. Rogers said in an email: 'President Trump is working voluntarily to reverse the change done by California Democrats and an involv American energy dominance.'

Richard Goldberg, a former state counselor for the National Energy Programme Council, which Mr. Trump counterfeits past to coordinate energy policy, said the White House had genuine pol-

ory disagreements with California, but it also saw a political advantage in funding with Mr. Newman.

'I would say it's probably a beneficial byproduct that it happens to be Newman,' Mr. Goldberg said. 'She regards loss of who the generous is, California has important energy resources.'

A CLASS OVER THE COAST

California's 600 miles (1,800 kilometers) of coastline are one of its most технiavest resources, drawing millions of tourists and locals annually.

In his first term, Mr. Trump largely left the coast afore, with the emergence of an unsuccessful attempt to spot off above oil and gas drilling. This time, his

administration has sought to bring out only more oil rigs, but also more pipelines and possibly more rocket launches by SpaceX from a coastal military base. In November, the Interior Department announced a draft plan to allow new technology to attract more than 100 ferries for the first time to roughly four decades. The plan called for up to six oil and gas lease sales in these waters, including in an expense off Santa Barbara, where a 1000 oil spill galvanized the modern environmental movement.

Asked about the proposal at the time Mr. Newman called it 'dead on an oil in California,' the staff that the state would 'discharge the plan in course of it was finalized.'

The clash over the coast was just beginning, and an offshore oil pipeline would be the next striking point.

In March, Mr. Trump ordered the Houston-based company Salire Offshore Corp. to restart its pipeline off Santa Barbara, when thought some agencies had denied patriotic for the project, saying it had failed to fix damage that led to a 2015 oil spill. To justify the move, the president revealed a 2.6M fire-out law that the administration said unprecedented state regulations.

The law, the Defense Production Act, also specifically been used in emergencies like hurricanes and the Covid-19 pandemic. In this case, the administration said the emergency was an energy

shortage in California fueled by the war in Iran, which had divided global oil supplies.

Yet the administration has also paid energy companies hundreds of millions of dollars to cause physical wind losses in the waters of the country.

'It really is the definition of byproduct to say that we're in a national energy emergency and we need to improve companies like Salire, but at the same time, we're paying taxpayer dollars to not do offshore wind projects,' said John Katz, the executive director of the Environmental Defense Center, a nonprofit organization based in Santa Barbara.

The administration recently opened a new front in insufficient power control of the coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration held a public hearing in Santa Monica, Calif., to reconsider the power of the California Coastal Commission, which he described fully contrary but had the legal authority to review and object to federal actions that affect coastal resources.

Mr. Trump has long complained about the commission, who has a 1.6M 10-crop him from serving a 70-foot 220-metre flag on his second-jet golf course near Los Angeles. Eine. Mink, a Trump ally, has also sought with the agency over the meaning the number of Special Fredericksons from Vandalizing Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

The review could lead to the commission's losing federal certification of its programs of federal grants that accrued for 35 percent of its budget.

A MULTI-FIRST-TERM?

Another environmental shoreline between California and the Trump administration could also corroborate the keying the state's borders, affecting vehicles and airplanes.

This fight dates back to the 1970s, when heavy smog choked Los Angeles. Its response Congress passed the Clean Air Act, which explicitly allowed California to set automobile policies standards that were stricter than federal rules, so long as the state obtained waivers from the Environmental Protection Agency. The landmark law also allowed other states to adopt California's climate.

Ever more, the waivers have helped win in policemen like men and everyone's despite that can contribute to asthma and lung disease. They have also been a powerful tool for curbing greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change.

Mr. Trump and Republican in Congress have shattered that dynamic:

Last year, Mr. Trump signed a congressional resolution to revoke a waiver that had allowed California to lose sales of new gas cars for 2025. And in June, Lee Zeldin, the S.F.A. administration, urged Congress to conduct waivers for four other minimum rules.

California has filed multiple lawsuits to maintain its vehicle rules. In a hearing on Wednesday, a Justice Department attorney signed that the state lacked standing to sue over the law and allowed waivers because Congress hadn't yet acted on them. A federal judge will soon decide that question.

The outcome of these legal battles could dictate the types of vehicles available at dwindeling authorities, said New England law, including the Code of the U.S. Climate Alliance, a bipartisan coalition of governors working on the states for the state.

'Attempts to block climate progress in California,' he said, 'don't live just in California.'

The cost to Harvard in its epic fight with the president

Despite its legal wins, university faces funding slowdown and staff cuts

BY MARK ARBINACU AND SELVA SPAGNO

Over Harvard University's biggest federal funding system is down sharply, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.

The declines have permitted even after a federal judge forced the Trump administration to reverse drastic cuts to the university last year.

The funding, from the National Institutes of Health, currently high about 18 percent behind the average pace of grants during the Biden administration, the analysis shows.

Last year, Harvard successfully used the Trump administration's new the government announced it had found more than 10 percent of 2025, from the highly federal agencies.

But rather than, when Trump officials say it's a big investment out of maintaining the cars, the N.I.H. is mainly delaying, reducing, or rejecting grant requests, often leaving researchers and university leaders in the dark about which they are.

The solutions appears to be the latest boost in the Trump administration's an agency, which is with 20 percent and other alternatives within 3 to 4 mm, more feeble, easier, than in the 1980s. The cost is left that could be lost as changing if cuts and uncertainty build.

The new federal government has targeted a number of America's elite universities, according about of obtaining autonomous and pursuing racial diversity in ways that their life lies, among

other criticisms. Harvard – the country's wealthiest university – has become of the most frequent targets of federal officials.

As the Trump administration has pulled multiple levers to try to bring Harvard and other schools to need, Harvard has often pushed back. It was the first institution to use the Trump administration, has won an order on a number of resources and has been used as a settlement with the federal government, another prominent schools have done.

Now, however, the university faces cuts that may be harder to counter Last September, a judge ruled that the administration had improperly cut off funding to Harvard when it ended all of its grants in 2025, finding that the government had created Harvard's first amendment rights.

But in the ruling, the judge suggested that there were partial means the government could pursue it if it wanted to control Harvard's money, should it choose to.

That is what is happening, Through June 30 of this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, the N.I.H. provided Harvard 100 awards worth a total of $100 million. That is down from an average of roughly 400 awards worth $248 million for the same state-month period in 2025-26, according to the latest data available.

Harvard is still one of the largest in-sponsored N.I.H. funding, thought to be behind the 1980s, and the costs of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the University of Michigan and Yale University in Connecticut. Other major research universities have also seen reductions in N.I.H. funding.

Though N.I.H. support has slowed compared with the Biden years, the 2026 awards are surpassing last year, when Harvard's funding was chosen. In

Harvard University has received 10 percent free funding from the National Institutes of Health that fiscal year, compared with the average amount during the Biden years.

the same point in 2025, N.I.H. funding to Harvard was studied at 20.9 points worth $10 million.

In recent months, Harvard's national schools have laid off staff. The leadership of the university's largest division, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, reported in an email to the division on Aug. 16 that 102 of its staff positions had been eliminated in a layoff and restructuring. The job start years aimed at reducing a major deficit.

Carole Burbank, an organizer and former president of the Harvard Union of Clinical and Technical Workers, said the final number of layoffs may change as some staff members whose jobs were eliminated consider moving into some newly designed rules.

The current grant slowdown is not taking place nearly as on Harvard. The university's Chan School of Public Health is heavily dependent on N.I.H. funds and has seen nearly 25 percent free in grant funding this year, compared with the average amount from 2021 to 2026.

The N.I.H. has obligated 107 million across 62 awards to Chan through July of this fiscal year. The 2023-24 average of 2025, the time period was $50 million across more than 100 awards.

Nancy Kriggin, a professor of social psychology at the Chan School, said that talked from the funding slowdown gave Second individual projects that last grants. More than a year of federal cuts – and legal fights over the reductions –

have 'shaken any sense of stability as to whether the federal government is available from the cars.'

The school is already cutting back, with layoffs and reductions in the number of slots for Ph.D. students. 'It's not just that you lost funding, it's that you're reducing the size of the cohort for the next generation of researchers that you're trying to. The longer task' What is the slowdown? It's not that are the eternal rages effects for the economics of the cities and towns that depend on universities as major employers?'

Harvard has also won some rounds in its fight with the administration. Harvard's court victories protected much of its grant money and its ability to best do to national students.

A federal judge on Aug. 16 dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit against Harvard that had accused the school of televising, nationalism and sought the ability to deny it grants.

Harvard's unprovenest continues to take the stock market to record fights and the university's misstatements under pressure has inspired supporters that stands with no use want it to push to President Trump.

While Yale University is in talks to perhaps become the next elite school to settle with the administration, Harvard continues to hold out. Harvard is not to extend it to engage in any serious settlement either at the time.

'Harvard is fighting for principles, both legal and constitutional, and doing so is bound to the same system of meetings and universities,' said Lee Burbank, the former president of Columbia University, in New York. 'We should all be grateful.'

Yet, as Mr. Burbank noted, 'any blogue will inevitably pay a high price.' Putting the university's standby base

suits, grant slowdown, and other pressures from the administration, Harvard has been forced to delay its contract to re-reach, said Tom Corett, a former president of Andover College in Massachusetts.

'The advertising you do to uncertainty is rather downcast say, 'What can you see made right now?' he said.

Tighter research budgets will mean scores of the seven likely to point the outside the United States, he said, while those will at American schools may be best likely to take the unconventional big sweeps in their research that can lead to scientific breakthroughs.

'This is going to fact,' Mr. Corett said, 'and it's going to fact's 4.64 more in 30 years than it does now.'

The government has pursued appeals of funding to the state that were the world's only last year. This two sides, as well as a number of outside parties, that levels this number over last fall's decision in the funding case. The government also approved the 2026-24 election. The decision blocking the administration's effort to stop Harvard from having an industrial research facility in general in that case are scheduled for October.

METHODOLOGY

The Times analyzed N.I.H. awards made it being of interest in Harvard's research, and the results were of School of Public Health 2025, using several methods and able through the agency's BAFERT-Of Business. To account for legal's interest, the results were of the 2026-24 election, awards made through June 2026. The court record results comparable to prior years.

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Spouse takes a hands-on role at the Pentagon

WASHINGTON

Defense secretary's wife, Jennifer Hegseth, is his most influential adviser

BY ELIZABETH SCHOLER

There has never been a Pentagon spouse quite like Jennifer Hegseth. To May the worst a camouflage shorts and a wears-flavored 5 stars that said 'That is War' working out with nature, Marinus and her husband, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on the back of the U.S.A. Since its Singapore, he likes she and his at the coupon series. Alike to accompanied Mr. Hegseth to the B-Day commentators in the industry, where a Defense Department promotional video with a wedding, cinematic soundtrack captured husband and wife walking arm in arm on Omaha Boards. The imagery moment to start her on the line is that of the Pentagon.

Last year Washington got a different view when she was included in a group Signal deal in which Mr. Hegseth shared attack about its U.S. war power targeting the Marshal in France.

This month she took on a new role-chair of the President's Military Species Commission, an unpaid position aimed at improving the lives of military families. She stood behind President Trump in the Oval Office as he announced the initiative.

'This is a big deal today,' she told the president. 'We're super grateful.'

Mrs. Hegseth was for years Mr. Hegseth's producer at Fox News as he built a broadcast server. Now, seven years old their marriage, she is the most influential adviser and his de facto producer at the Pentagon. She has prepped him for appearances, cut in on her marriage with journalists, interviewed potential members of her staff and brainstormed about her the Defense Department videos for a girl entertained in the local police.

Last year she was in a highly sensitive meeting with her husband and top British defense officials after the United States senators met in regard sharing military intelligence with Ukraine. The Wall Street Journal first reported, in a previously underloved part of that meeting, a Trump administration official told The New York Times, the British indicated that they had officers on the ground in Ukraine and that without the U.S. intelligence, including early warnings, it including minutes from Russia, the officers' lives were at risk.

She has prepped him for appearances, cut in on meetings with journalists and interviewed potential staff members.

The British spoke in general terms, the official said, because the presence of Mrs. Hegseth made them aware. Later they had a similar meeting, without her, to go into detail.

The chief Pentagon spokesman, Sean Parnell, said on Tuesday that Mrs. Hegseth was only in the meeting he so traitorious, left soon after and has not been present for any Defense Department conversation or meeting where clumbled information was discussed.

Mrs. Hegseth has also encouraged Mr. Hegseth's adversarial relationship with the news media, the administration official said, and although she was a member of a group of members, she was worked with her husband's four reports on from the building (The New York Times is using the Defense Department over its connection on reporters who cover the Pentagon).

Her involvement in the Defense Department is so unusual that it has been that the President, Mr. Hegseth's leadership, for it already under pressure for the high cost of the time was obtaining mundane strategies, poor conditions almost the U.S.A. decrease. Lincoln daring an eight-month deployment in the Middle East, bringing of senior military leaders and blinding the promotion of women and women.

'It's evident that a defense secretary would not do their job in the meantime of head issues, including sharing details of an impending military operation, and face new consequences,' said John Ulyev, who left the Pentagon as chief spokesman after three months working under Mr. Hegseth and has been critical of his leadership. 'Any president of an American military service from his national security leaders.'

'This is not serious,' Senator Chris Cooke said. 'It's a major disinterest in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and that year on MOM's during the upper over Mrs. Hegseth's initiative in the old and high-level meetings, and the President has decided, that it has not levels of disunfurness across. He can't just hand that in his wife and son, 'Here, honey, had my love, and had my clumbled information.'

The President's position is for interviewed for this article, which he based on interviews with 20 current and former members of the state and people who know Mrs. Hegseth in other capacities. What the deanfuls have been that they proud.

In a statement, Mr. Parnell called Mrs. Hegseth to encourage the climate of the own right and a devoted military spouse. 'Mrs. I'm a vital asset and a true hero: multiplier for our mission.' The Defense Department, he said, 'not only

The Hegseth and three children at Pete Hegseth's swearing in ceremony. The Pentagon has not said whether Mrs. Hegseth has a security clearance, but she is in direct contact with members of her husband's inner circle.

Before Mr. Hegseth's appointment, Jennifer Hegseth had an 18-year career at Fox News, including several years as his producer.

welcomes her current leadership but actively plans to involve her even more deeply in the future.'

The Pentagon has not said whether Mrs. Hegseth has a security clearance, although in the poor year there have been no reports that she is attending sensitive meetings with foreign leaders. She has still slipped quietly into the Pentagon, including using an elevator from the building, to judge that spous directly into Mr. Hegseth's office suite. She is in direct contact with members of her husband's inner circle, among them Ricky Burns. Mr. Hegseth's chief of staff, and Dale Ruddough, a close friend of Mrs. Hegseth and a fellow former producer at Fox.

Mr. Ruddough has become a senior adviser to Mr. Hegseth for communications strategy and is considered Mrs. Hegseth's eyes and ears at the Pentagon. The distant respond to a request for comment.

One person familiar with Mr. Hegseth's thinking said that the defense secretary likes his wife to travel with him to keep him out of trouble. Mr. Hegseth, who has a history of heavy drinking, has himself made clear he must be who at his side. He often can do his 'yes, it's a disaster and Jesus — with it is not coming his life.'

'My family, my wife, friends, changed my life, saved me — there's not so much about it,' he told Regis's Kelly on her podcast in December 2018, weeks before his confirmation hearing. 'And without these two, it's a mistake he sitting here right now.'

There is one Hegseth family's talk. 'It's, it's just deep God,' Mrs. Hegseth said.

It was a December podcast recording with Katie Miller, a veteran adviser from Mr. Trump's first term and the wife of Stephen Miller. Mr. Trump's most powerful policy aide. Mrs. Hegseth and her husband were started in a small role at the Pentagon, hence teaching, with an American flag hanging behind her shoulder. She was in years, a black

sweater and high heels. He was in a dress shirt with sleeves rolled up to show her calves.

Mrs. Hegseth frequently squeezed her husband's arm and interlaced her fingers with her when he put his hands on her knee. At times they finished each other's maximum.

She transcends her children, she told Mr. Miller in accordance with a conservative Christian curriculum at the family's home in Washington, called Quarter of, a 28-week, video-colonized colonial revival house. It was built by the Global Age architecture from McKee, Shields White, on a classical place into the Potomac River on the Fort Worth military base.

'I watch her the night before at the whiteboard in our dining room, which is now a converted schoolhouse, and she's wearing Thursday and writing Friday, and 'Here's the looks we've got for the day,' Mr. Hegseth said in her interview. 'It's really been a blessing to watch her embrace that role.'

On many holidays she attends services with her family and associate decal at Clarin Church Washington D.C., located in a meeting space on Capitol Hill owned by the Conservative Democratic Institute, the church in part with a 20-year county of McKenzie. Evangelical Churches whose leaders believe the United States should be a Christian state and that people should work for cutting our view per household, typically not by a man.

'If they're in town, they're in needy in attendance,' said Joe Rigan's a pastor and a leader of the church network who delivered a sample of the church in the hot July den. Even though the Hegseth's renovate of the city, there was a large price of revenue, bringing a few protesters away from the building.

Publicly, Mrs. Hegseth has continued the life of a more traditional official Washington spouse. In May she was the host of a Pentagon garden and her mother of military mothers. In February she was at Fort Campbell, resulting a book in children at the Defense Department school time. Last December she chaired

Gold Star families — relatives of service members killed in war or an active duty — for a Christmas tea at the Pentagon.

She told Mr. Trump during the announcement of the spouse commemoration from meetings with military families from Fort Campbell to Singapore had made her aware of the problems they face. 'It's housing, it's health care, it's employment, it's child care, it's education,' she said.

On weekends Mrs. Hegseth is often on the couple's farm outside Nashville, where photos on her Instagram feed were captured her children riding horses and the Hegseth building a dead caravan that killed four hens. The Hegseth's are not regular on Washington's party circuit.

'Not family is her life,' Mr. Miller, a good friend of Mrs. Hegseth, said in an interview. 'So many people in D.C. are insane at looking over the person they're talking to or looking for the unimpressive conversation or only talk with the important spouse. She's out of the care people who when we get together, it just feels very normal.'

'GLOBE TO GOD'

Mrs. Hegseth, 40, is a daughter of a Lockheed Martin executive whose work took her family from Mailhead, Fla., to Hunt Valley, Md., a suburb north of Baltimore. She majored in association at Thomas University in Towne, Md., and was also a student at a producer at WYCI in New York. In 2008 she began an 18-year career at Fox as an executive producer on 'Fox & Friends,' the cable network's manager morning show.

She was a colleague three short short feet on a talented worldview — smart, organized, driven — with the number of letters in the broad early morning hours of the 6 a.m. so it was got after. She also had a good eye for maturing what several called the 'wet' man' names she appealed to Fox viewers. She was a executive former Bounder, a New York real estate developer, and had three children with him.

Mr. Hegseth, a graduate of Princeton in New Jersey and a decorated veteran

of the war in King and Afghanistan, arrived at Fox as an senior contributor. In 2016 he was seen a rising star, although he had episodes of heavy drinking that compared officials to co-workers had to address. An early marriage had ended in 2009, and he was still in contact with in 2010. The couple had three children.

Mr. Hegseth has said he never had a drinking problem. When Will Cam, a Fox colleague of Mr. Hegseth, called that on a 2021 podcast if he drank heavily after serving in Iraq, Mr. Hegseth replied 'Oh, yeah.' He wrote for wouldn't drink at all an secretary of defense.

By 2016, when Mr. Hegseth was regularly co-horing 'Fox & Friends' Weekend? he said Mrs. Hegseth were having an affair. The relationship have into the open at the 'Fox & Friends' Christmas party that year, when Mrs. Hegseth's husband turned up even though the event was limited to Fox employees. Mr. Hegseth, who had been drinking, was a member of the state of the state's association that the human resources department had to address with him, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

Timothy Pedersen, Mr. Hegseth's home president lawyer and new law special adviser at the Pentagon, has said the Christmas party episodes is not true.

Tom moved Mrs. Hegseth in January 2017 to be executive producer of 'Watercry' World.' then its Saturday nights. In June of the year she and her first husband were divorced. In August she gave birth to a daughter with Mr. Hegseth, Greenberg-Bayer.

In September Mr. Hegseth's second wife died for divorce. In October Mr. Hegseth was accused of raping a woman at a speaking event in California. Danger were never filed and Mr.

'It's honours that a defense secretary would involve his wife in his worldview official duties.'

Hegseth has said the accusation was false. He he said he paid the women $50,000 a year! all settlement to protect his family and his job at Fox News. Mrs. Hegseth has never commented publicly on the matter.

After this chain of events, Mr. Hegseth began what he has described as a religious transformation. In 2009 the Hegseth's named Colin York Company (March in New Jersey, where they were living at the time. The evangelical church is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, and Mr. Hegseth, who gave up attending Sunday services at a Baptist school in Minnesota, said Mrs. Hegseth at first showed many co-honours.

She was 'wary of what evangelical Baptists were like.' Mr. Hegseth told the magazine Nashville Christian Family Bar 'within 20 minutes,' he added, 'we left at home.'

People who worked with Mrs. Hegseth at Fox do not recall her taking sports about faith — but father's 2009 Journal Sufficient as a Methodist church in Texas because a partner, either husband's spouse, also she was were married to August 2016 at the Trump National Golf Club in Colby Town, her Instagram feed for more more religious.

'Every 1st child' she wrote in a June 2022 post when 'Battily for the American Mind,' a book Mr. Hegseth wrote with David Goodwin, a pioneer in conservative Christian education, limited on No. 1

on the New York Times best-seller list. By then Mrs. Hegseth was very president at Fox Nation, a Fox subscription remaining service, as well as the incentive producer of 'The Misbehaviors of America,' a documentary show that obtained the two seasons of Fox Nation. It starred Mr. Hegseth standing what he called the liberal takeover of American schools.

The Hegseth brought their Tennessee farm in 2016, and in the final 2023 episode of the series, Mr. Hegseth took viewers to his children's school outside Nashville to showcase, he said, 'The beauty of classical Christian education.'

It is unclear how many of the children in their blended family, ranging in age from 18 to 6, attended the Nashville school or are home-salaried by Mrs. Hegseth. Under the terms of Mr. Hegseth's 2020 divorce settlement, his children from his second marriage primarily live with their mother in Minnesota, although he now there there and in Washington and on the Tennessee farm.

'IT HAD SO HEAST'

Mrs. Hegseth had never lived or worked at Washington when she arrived with her husband in December 2018, shortly after she left Fox Nation. She immediately shattered what was expected of a political spouse by accompanying Mr. Hegseth to meetings with startled Republican senators ahead of his confirmation hearings.

'It was unusual,' Mr. Hegseth acknowledged to Mr. Miller on her podcast. 'I remember the first meeting we went to that she came with, I was like, faith. And I had it full enough and so natural.'

In those early days Mrs. Hegseth also later viewed potential staff members her role at the Pentagon. Mr. Ulyev, who was in line for Pentagon spokesman, said he remembered getting a call that Mrs. Hegseth would like to see him. She expected it to be a pleasant most-anticipant. But when he got to the offices at the Republican National Committee that Mr. Hegseth used for a time during the transition, he said Mrs. Hegseth called him in a new one later than 'unexpectedly founded and hard-velged questions,' including how he would handle a hostile news media.

Once Mr. Hegseth was in office, Mrs. Hegseth was eager to revoke the credentials of Pentagon reporters who she left had written negative stories about her husband, the administration official and a former administration official said.

After Mr. Hegseth was told he could not rate legal problems by snapping out individual reporters, Mr. Ulyev said. Her Pentagon appearance is where he is now 'annual media sessions program' that occurred 'for New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Public Action Now' work spaces in the building and engaged in The New York Post. Brooklyn News, One America News and HuffPost (Short Star), officials have moved all reporters to an amass outside the building for what they say are work space entertainers.

In the year after it all died, Mr. Miller and at his interview, Mrs. Hegseth had settled into Washington. 'She's got a rhythm, she's got a routine,' she said. 'They've got a good thing going.'

Adam Deines, Craig Jolly and Steven Lee Pearson contributed reporting. Zilzy Bennett and Julie Tate contributed research.

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Europe strives for tech breakthroughs

STOCKPORT, ENGLAND

To catch U.S. and China, continent offers funding to promising start-ups

BY PATRICIA COHEN

The shiny cylindrical tanks and skato-coded control panels showed against a stellar C1 Biotech's laboratory been essentially from hereof, not a multi-million-dollar graveyard of high-grade stainless steel equipment.

All of this three-order air gear was discarded during the company's quest to discover a cheap way to convert agricultural waste like potato grain or sugar beer and zinc or zinc, glass, a material widely used in manure/teeth.

Nigel Scrutina, a co-founder of C3 Biotech in Stockport, England, makes a point of showing off these expensive failures before explaining that the world's winnow revolved using discount plastic tube — the kind you might find at a local retailer.

What is equally surprising is that this British company's breakthrough has been funded by an unusual grant from the Germany government, part of a novel effort to support describe-mean interviews throughout Europe.

The promise on Europe is better compete with Chinese and American technological and industrial advancements in products.

Europe has been trading the world's two largest economies for more than a decade on several measures of competitiveness, including investment, research and development and productivity growth.

At status in Europe's 'lead to many future strongholds, including automotive, pharmaceuticals and machinery', a report on competitiveness from McKinsey Global Institute, concluded. The region would have to spend nearly $2 trillion more in investment annually just to keep up, according to estimates.

Searing energy costs, aggravated by wars, relatively high labor costs and the European Union's traditional slow decision-making process are also blamed for blaming Europe's competitive edge.

Amid the dire foreseen, Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation — called SPREND — offers a

breath of optimism. The office is determined to back regulated assumptions and prove that governments can fund ambitious, cutting-edge ventures quickly and across national borders.

SPREND is hardly the first effort by the European Union or Britain aimed at jump-starting innovation. The Euro-

pican Union's 95.5 billion euro (2021 bill) into Western Europe program has been running since 2020, and a C3's billion budget had been proposed for the next phase, scheduled to commence in 2026.

Hectonic track record has been raised, with critics complaining about cumbersome applications, confusing

rules and a preference for large corporations over disruptive enterprises.

SPREND's much smaller, but it thanks big. Its goal is innovation that 'tothe a massive technological, social or environmental problem,' create 'a completely new teacher' or change an amazing one.

C3 Biotech in Stockport, England, received funding from Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, a SPREND. 'SPREND is completely different,' said Nigel Scrutina, above, a co-founder of the start-up.

'SPREND is completely different,' said Mr. Scrutina, who has applied for countries good enough nearly four decades of research at C3 Biotech and the University of Manchester, where he is a professor. That's how transition that span several months or every year. KOBAFF, PALE M

A.I. tax boom could curtail America's debt

WASHINGTON

Consequences for budget largely hinge on whether humans keep working

BY ASHBURN DICKEREN

Artificial intelligence could fundamentally change the nature of work and transform the U.S. economy to its potential to alter the nation's admittedly troubled fiscal trajectory and seem more.

Yet a growing number of economists have started to anticipate that widespread adoption of A.I. could structurally improve the imbalance between white-collar economy. What it collects in tax revenues are the coming years — as long as the technology does not put too many people out of work.

That is because A.I. could help make workers more productive than in growing the economy more rapidly. Foster economic growth could generate more tax revenue, helping to ease the widening gap between what the government speaks and the future of things in.

Not that this would amount to a total fiscal impact. Economists still expect the gross debt, now a short 10% of the tax, to continue to grow, just two quickly than it might have without A.I. Several factors could impede or even reverse any budgetary progress, including the possibility that the gains from A.I. are slightly raised. And Congress could always apสนุก on spending increases or tax cuts, searching for they fiscal gains.

'The future productivity growth from A.I. is not going to move out budget imbalances,' said Douglas Elmendorf, a former director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. 'It will help the problem, but it will not be enough to solve it.'

The consequences of A.I. for the budget will largely hinge on whether — and to what extent the tax technology endanger the labor market.

The bulk of America's tax revenue comes from the money people make working. That is true not just because the tax is the nation's national in general comes from work, rather than from investment. It also is often business growth that is known as the nation in a higher rate than capital income, a reflection of a long-held trade in Washington that lower taxes on capital helps encourage more economic growth.

The double cost of A.I. makes workers more productive without making their jobs畸形ly would be a positive outcome for the budget. Stages and tax receipts will help a lot. Companies are more likely to work in a better manner, and pay more taxes, albeit at lower rates.

The economic growth of the U.S. replaces at least some human labor, all while experiencing the profits that companies and investors make. That would mean more of the nation's total la-

come comes from low-tax capital rather than labor. Overall tax revenue could still increase, but its less than it that does share of income stayed what it is now.

In an analysis of several different potential fiscal outcomes, researchers at the Yale Budget Lab found that the overest being from rapid A.I. induced growth could be about half as large in 2016 if a greater share of income accrued to capital.

Then there is the possibility that A.I. takes every person's job, creates an even more economically stratified activity and spends American taxation entirely. (Not to mention the possibility that A.I. becomes more or less strong now, it messages for avoiding taxes.)

This arguably disengage accounts, while not the base case for many economists, has started to guide ideas for addressing even more from the state, even if jobs because of A.I., with options ranging from spending more on support for people out of work to redesigning the tax system.

An Ilaine Amodee, the leader of the thrope, put it in a January essay, the world's billionaire should support the creation of 'a more clear tax policy,' writing, 'if they don't support a good version, they'll not totally get a bad version designed by a man.'

'It will help the problem, but it will not be enough to solve it.'

Chief among these possible tax changes would be increasing taxes on capital, which could involve causing the tax cuts on capital gains, improving new taxes on personal rights or creating down on necessities of service on businesses. There are also some Democrats who want to raise taxes on A.I. companies or activities specifically, a potentially politically resonant option that some tax experts discount in favor of broader changes to how capital in trust. But some economists see the tax pro-

ference for capital as necessary and would rather backfill any lost revenue with a value-added tax, a levy number in a sales tax that is common in advanced economies. Many public-thanic experts have long hoped the United States would start taxing consumption and see it as a safe on concentration on market what the future holds.

'The good thing is that it is a fairly robust policy recommendation, is that even in the current regime many economists favor consumption taxation,' said Lee Lockwood, an economist at the University of Virginia.

Of course, taxes are just one side of the fiscal triage: Even if Congress does not dedicate significant new resources to something like a universal business, A.I. could still increase how much money the federal government spends every year.

If A.I. helps scientists develop better medical care, for example, the average American life expectancy might increase. While longer human lives would be a good thing, it would also come at a cost to the budget. The government would have to spend more on Social Security and Medicare to keep delivering these benefits to retired people for long life.

A boom in A.I. investment could also increase demand from companies for financing, raising interest rates across the economy. That could raise one of the government's other top costs: the labor set it pays on the debt.

But the fiscal year, which ends after nine months, the Treasury has paid $12 trillion in interest, more than it spends on the military and most other government programs.

How these different factors for the fiscal system actually turn out is highly uncertain, just as the consequences of A.I. for the economy — and humanity — are uncertain. A wild card is how the political system responds to the changes A.I. ushers both, including any new surge in fiscal health.

But Harris, the director of economic training on the Brookings Institution in Washington, remembers attending a conference around 2010, after a contract, up a personal jump in productivity in the 1990s but played create fiscal key places. A major focus of the conference was what would happen to the financial system one of a United States retired of a decade.

That never happened. Congress responded to the surplus by repeatedly cutting taxes, including an recently as last year. The country went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The debt grew quite a lot.

'The bottom line is that these projects continue to be incredibly cost-free, with likely always question for waste-losing estimates of outgrowing our fiscal importations.' Mr. Harris said: 'That same concentration and A.I. optimism again, providing unprecedented growth rates reminded me of the optimism of the early 2000s.'

In other words, even A.I. might not be able to make a few knack

Surprise horse racing wins ignite talk of 'betting coup'

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.

BY JUE DREWE

Andy feeling is a handicaper for the New York Racing Association. His job is to tell Pro Sports viewers which leaves he thanks to the likely winner. And before one run at Santiago Race Course this month, Mr. feeling tailed it.

He selected a filly named M. B's Midland Carve as side of 13 to 1. She had not run in seven months. Her mechanic won after this was trained by a horse racer. He had never heard of.

On paper, there was not much to recommend M. B's Midland Carve. Except Mr. feeling had noticed that in an earlier race her trainer, Ernesto Ochoa, had a horse named Classic Rock who won by nearly nine lengths of a side of 9 to 1 after a long hand of rich slow workouts.

Mr. feeling suggested to his viewers that a 'betting coup' was under way. It is a practice as an air horse racing itself, where owners and trainers make the horse appear slow heading into a race to keep the odds high and cash in big after winning.

Mr. feeling told his audience that he was putting a low-burley of his own on M. B's Midland Carve, who he predicted could pay out $25 in a $2.00.

M. B's Midland Carve won by almost four lengths and paid $175 for a $2.00 — nearly what Mr. feeling had predicted, and a windfall that set the upstart race-to-knack made him.

The buzz, unmatched when horse-players need to a similar set of circumstances — as the same day, Aug. 8 — at Monmouth Park on the New Jersey Shore, where another trainer, Angel Quirce, won back-to-back races with a pair of horses with similarly underwhelming victories.

The best winning horses were trained by Mr. Quirce at that Hill Training Store in Elkton, Md., and the new Saratoga winners were sold in Mr. Ochoa before their thieves. In order, Unlike race-tracks where every horse is found in an dependent location, the Hill has trained in the training themed two and report the times to the track where they intend the horse to compete. This process offers the opportunity to 'themed' a known horse with slower times to make the thoroughbred track less appealing to horses.

On social media, the heaving world was allotted about how the trainers got 'one way' to racetrack parlance, in mostly admitting terms.

But the racing industry's regulator was the unnamed and fast-quoted on investigationalize the two trainers said the training center.

Lian Lazarus, chief executive of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, is particularly the driving engineer, said that the horses had undergone extensive drag and 200s to being and that the sports' role system was being examined for suspicious betting. She said

none of the results were true.

'BISA takes this situation very seriously, and if any violations are uncovered, there will be serious consequences,' Ms. Lazarus said.

But darkening a horse's practice from with slow workouts is hard to prove, and suspected instances have rarely been punished. Short of finding evidence that the races were hard or the horses had been given performance-enhancing drugs, it will be difficult for BISA to hand down meaningful penalties to the trainers.

Mr. Quirce and Mr. Ochoa said they had been nothing wrong after then being a very good day in the track.

'I have nothing to take — I am alone,' Mr. Quirce said in an interview, adding that he had reported accurate training times.

Mr. Ochoa said he felt also unnamed against as a small-time trainer. 'I've two races at the very racetrack in the world and people aren't happy,' he said. 'Betting cops are less stuff of race-track now.'

'I always have a gratifying respect for people who pull it off,' Mr. feeling said, echoing a sentiment common among horseplayers.

In the scheme, trainers make the horse appear slow heading into a race to keep the odds high.

The questions around Mr. Quirce and his horse have now been represented by another issue. On Aug. 31, regulators announced that a horse not involved in the races and trained by Mr. Quirce had tested positive for affirmed, a horse against and bronchodilator used to treat equine arthrosis or respiratory distress in horses. It can be repurposed to build lean muscle mass when it is abused, according to regulators.

Mr. Quirce is following an interview about the drag test results. Mr. Quirce said that there had been a death in his family and that he was unable to comment.

How coming under scrutiny is the Fair Hill Training Center. It's a boards setting, with riding trials and 40s, just and synthetic surfaces. It is meant to the Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Graham Stream and Greg McLaughlin.

Will Phipps, Fair Hill's executive director, said Mr. Quirce's three-month lease to train horses at the facility with its September. He said the training center's board was also investigating.

Mr. Quirce said he had moved his operation to Fair Hill from Florida two months ago. Over the past 17 years, he has won 176 races for more than $1.3 million. Mr. Ochoa has won 21 races in the last nine years for about $100,000.

'I wanted more options,' Mr. Quirce said. 'It's a short drive to racetrack in Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.'

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Spike in 'dark' tankers raises risk of spills

SIR, SUNDAY, FROM PAGE 1 crude bound for beta. The drip, operating under international sanctions, can aground all forces after an unexplained explosion in early June. The drip is believed to be part of a so-called shadow fleet that Russia uses to circumvent Western financial restrictions on its oil exports.

The dark new series of estimated 400 to 300 square miles (1,000 to 1,300 square kilometres) can be swiping into a nature reserve that is home to endangered hawkfield and green sea turtles, Jambore Sea hemphoek wharls, and thriving coral reefs. The oil has begun to wade up on the beaches of the mainland, in an area known as the Turtle Coast.

"These are not simply shuts that disappear when they are no longer visible from satellites," Mr. Madarский. The oil can contaminate beaches and coastal habitats, and have lasting consequences for marine species and potentially human health.

Some of the active spills have been directly off-famed to a smooth going dark to avoid human military strikes. Yet experts warn that the tactics of wartime survival are now overlapping with the smooth hold of third shipping. Whether turned off to dodge drones or to evade sanctions, doubted transponders eliminate the safety buffers designed to prevent oil spills.

Before the United States and Israel launched activities in Iran on Feb. 28, more than 100 vessels per day passed through the Strait of Herman, a narrow channel between Iran and Oman.

Ships occasionally suspended their navigation devices. Those were mostly vessels linked to frames of and other experts under sanctions. But they occurred in small numbers, and many maritime data have taken even track the tally.

That changed with the war. Tehran has level driven anti-marine at dozens of tankers traveling the Strait of Herman, including two in the past week. Days after the war began, ships traveling in and out of the Persian Gulf began defying oil and water numbers.

According to Rape, about 100 ships were responsible for the 1,514 dark crowings since March. The vast majority were traveling without assistance.

The substantial changes in the size of these vessels. The others are linked to companies in a variety of countries, but primarily the United Arab Emirates, Greece and China, including Hong Kong.

Karen E. Young, a senior research scholar at Columbia University in New York focusing on the Middle East, said

An oil slick along Iran's Qodam Island this month, in a photo released by the Israel Shadun's News Agency. Here oil slicks are operating through the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.

that until Gulf oil-producing nations were able to add pipeline capacity to avoid the Strait of Herman, cancer and getton practices would continue. Have owned oil companies will have an advantage, because they are now likely to own their own tankers, the said.

"The future there's national oil companies that can assume risk and pay for things," Ms. Young said.

Since 2004, the International Maritime Organization, a UN standards set-

ting agency, has mandated the use of drip-shouldering systems on virtually all large international cargo ships as well as passenger vessels.

With it, vessels share information like their position, speed and path by radio to control offshore islands. Other ships and agencies use it to avoid collisions.

"It's not 'nice to have' equipment," said Boudrin Amparatiba, a senior risk and compliance analyst at Rape.

"Ship captains have the legal flexibility

to tank off transponders for safety reasons, Mr. Amparatiba noted. But in normal times, that is clear with the provision of the country under whose laws a ship is registered, known as the flag class, and an nearest, he said.

"We see it that has led captains to make more decisions on the fly.

"They have done this manual way of crossing the seas only as a lesson in their classes," Mr. Amparatiba said. "It means we are turning back to the tech-

nologies we were having on the vessels 20-pounding years ago, and two do have increased companies to a 100 man."

"That causes potentially more oil spills."

Before 2024, the chief executive of Qodam Island, a consultancy, noted that the waters in the region were already under pressure from overfishing, deciduation and climate change.

"Another major spill would be a disaster," he said.

Europe puts funds into promising start-ups

ROBERT, FROM PAGE 2

The average total between the filling of a grant application at SPRIND and the signing of a contract is 0.4 days, according to the agency.

A contract report on the competitiveness is now commissioned by the European Union and headed by Mario Draghi, a former prime minister of Italy, singled out SPRIND's approach as a model for innovation.

One inspiration for SPRIND was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States, or DSRPA, which laid for foundation for the interest.

Public research funding often steers clear of projects that may have a big proof that also a big possibility of failure and could take a long time to develop. Groundbreaking innovations frequently perish in which known as the "valley of death" because they can't get money to finance the long between early-stage research and commercial production.

June Contact, whose title at SPRIND is head of challenges, wants to give researchers the "involves to really push the boundaries and do something that you wouldn't get funding for probably through a conventional venture capital route."

The strategy is to offer challenges to develop pioneering products and technologies, and those to enter means of an troposphere, a common and innovative to compete, a key of experts across the nation.

Since it started to early 2020, SPRIND has received 4,700 submissions and funded 370 teams. To obtain the next round of funding, a team must demonstrate measurable progress. Failures are expected.

The goal of 53 Biotech's three-year blockade involving challenge was to create a way to cheaply convert waste streams into products that could ultimately be produced on an industrial scale. Other challenges funded by SPRIND would outweigh barriers and ethical intelligence to health data, the use of management for drug development and more.

SPRIND's goals include innovations that "take a massive technological, social and environmental problem."

One unusual feature of how SPRIND works is that while its leading comes from the German government, the organization is willing to spend all over Europe, including the suburb of Manchester, England, where 13 Biotech is based.

"We need to create breakthroughs, and there might not just come from Germany," Mr. Conrad said. After all, it's significant advance could, say, reduce energy prices in Germany, then it's money well spent.

Last month, SPRIND awarded grants worth up to 120.1 million to 19 teams from five countries to develop frontier artificial intelligence systems. At the end of 2020, the agency plans to help three teams that emerge in women to raise 15 billion cash from public and private investors.

Vineova, a Swedish government agency that regularly owes represents 1,000 to 2,000 people. "We need to create technology challenge, how to destroy small drones while safeguarding civilians and their lives."

Brad Sadovan, Vineova's director general, said that "we were really surprised" to leave that SPRIND was funding teams outside Germany. That was "one of the things that really caught my attention."

Other countries have taken action. Last month, France announced plans to create six new breakthrough innovations agency that would work with SPRIND. The Netherlands, too, is trying proposals to set up six new venues at the German institute.

At 12 Biotech, the team is tending to SPRIND's investment. In the lab an plastic vein filled with hungry, salt-living bacteria that are feeding an excess left over from making potato chips.

The biological compound that this2m meets the products can be processed into acrylic glass and used in a mold or 3-5-power-ice-sensitizer for the mouth of produce, from a water-soluble headhanger to children's toys.

A constant-coupled proof prototype in the hand is very black on stock, a transducer, blue band and a yellow cup-like cigarette. At under from 1000, carry, the new chemical produced in their lab.

Enthusiastic change process is made chemicals from waste streams "has been the body great of manmade to keep for many, many years," Mr. Serafina said. This needs, he and his team celebrate a successful, 100 days of continuous production.

12 Biotech is now willing to corporation to drive interested in commercializing the discovery.

A magazine (the 12 Biotech) could provide the kind of innovations that undergird Europe's future prospects.

The "world's leading brand for background against which SPRIND was created," Mr. Conrad said. "We can't do it, and now it is make sure that we are able to create these new industries."

A jobs boom in an Indian city, thanks to A.I.

JOHN, FROM PAGE 1

Asway to Palaniswamy, a 25-year-old with a student's degree in data analytics, found a job last year with the Karar-based Objectways Technologies, a data-announced business forum and mainly American companies using A.I. in their products. Objectways employs 2,000 people – 100 of whom were hired to the last month.

There are always no data. There will always be information," Mr. Palaniswamy said, including confident she had found a job that would be cost not at a time when A.I. has announced jobs like payroll and data entry that workers in India used to fill. She and her co-workers want to keep from products in the region, expanding physical A.I. space, including self-driving cars and humanized others, and men to each frame how well the A.I. model is performing its work.

Objectways' skilled entry-level office jobs put around 1210 to 1260 a month, – a central elite salary in a small Indian city like Barry, and around 600,000 people. The installed work of recording yourself at home spurs 12.35 an hour for usable footage and in done on a free-lance bank.

In India, leading steady employment for a rapidly growing population of young adults – over 2 million Indians from 19 each month – a particular promising for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his governing Bharatiya Jaisata Party.

The lack of opportunity for young people was an increasing impulse behind the "cockroach" protests over education that erupted last month. Mr. Modi, who has presented to local India into a golden era of prosperity and marketization, of hired a rich retirement and replaced the education minister. But the underlying anger over the lack of skilled jobs for graduates is not coming to control.

While data annotation companies like Objectways do much of their work for companies outside of India, the Modi government would either see homegrown A.I. businesses developing their own applications to the economic impact in greater.

A. Krishnan, who leads the country's information and technology industry, said in an interview that India has an opportunity to deploy its biggest resource – to 1.4 billion people – in the parts of the U.S. economy. "We've got border kind of human knowledge as consumer. That can make a jobs such as marketing the many languages spoken in India or marketing patients in an intensive manner," said a new business firm, done by Indian companies today, he said.

India should avoid aiding too many A.I. jobs that could go away just as the bank office jobs did. Mr. Krishnan adds

Above, working at Objectways Technologies in Karan, India, which employs 2,400 people. Skilled entry-level office jobs put around 1210 to 1260 a month. Many workers spend their days announcing data for a humanoid robot designed to perform household chores, right. Feeling steady employment for a growing population of young adults is particularly promising for Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India

so. "We have to look for higher value-added jobs," its buyer as 1.4 million jobs in information and technology are more could disappear because of disruption from A.I., according to a 2021 report from a government think tank.

The range of activities that artificial intelligence can make more efficient is vast. So are the entrepreneurial opportunities.

Praset Anduf, chief executive and founder of Labedira, a data annotation company in the state of Punjab, said that as A.I. begins to power many people in the office and in home, there will be greater need for data from diverse populations, collected in many languages.

"India is one of the most diverse countries we paid in 2014, and people have so many different ways of working," Mr. Anduf said. "The kind of scale you can get from India is phenomenal."

That is especially true in this energy-

ing market for others: devices designed to complete tasks humans do themselves today.

As Objectways' labs in Karan, when two New York Times reporters visited in July, many workers spend their days announcing data for a humanized robot designed to perform household chores. Other projects include work on a device that can help blind people by telling them what their surroundings look like.

One recent meeting, a worker in a test facility, operated a pair of heavy, light sets with cameras attached to them in Objectways could record and then analyze video of how they performed various household tasks – picking up plants, interviewing the top of a new bottle and pouring its contents into a cup, arranging food. Employees requested these tasks in Objectways' test bathroom and bedroom.

"We are giving the robot the data and saying 'more from this,'" said Ravi Rajalingam, the founder and chief executive of Objectways.

He has been interested in the field after 2000, with a leading company to streamline its application process with A.I. He started Objectways in his hometown, Karan, in 2018, setting an opportunity to put recent graduates to work. His wife hired their first 20 employees, he said.

"India is the back office for the world, so longer," Mr. Rajalingam said. He acknowledged that many of his positions do not require engineering degrees, but added, "It is technical, and they can learn about models of A.I." Many employees work their way up the ladder, he said.

Mohamed Abtar, 25, has been promoted and now overrun a 100 employees working on projects at the company's own site in Casablanca, a larger city, about two and a half hours west of Karan. "It's an missionary event and we need a longer work term," he said.

Mr. Abtar, who grew up nearby and was the first person in his family to attend college, said that 200 people can process around 70 hours of video a day at various levels of the school driving car. That is still short of what he needs to analyze the 1,000 hours of video that come in from the company's clients every day.

Analysts estimate that data annotation will contribute up to 120 billion to better economy by the end of the decade. But it is still too small a business to convince a economic and policymakers that A will give India a meaningful edge to catch up to the A.I. care.

Some of their biggest economies were now to invest in a 1.1 billion to participate – described in our Morgan Stanley report on a "biggest" – African community in three countries like A.I. development industry until 2024, when the government announced a 16, 25 billion Everson plan. The new start meant India had less of a custom to absorb the data and it lost because A.I. made them absolute.

At Objectways, the new have seen content for now being the humans who help with a digital for vital part of the project.

Ravi Prasad, 25, said that when he graduated with an engineering degree last year, he did not imagine his work would include something resembling science fiction.

"It's common had tell me that 10 years down the roads a mile would be leaping from the world, wouldn't have believed them," he said.

But the job today is to help make sure that artificially happen. "We need a man to train the robot," he said with a media-

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He grew up on antidepressants. Now he wants a way out.

S.S.R.I.s can leave people feeling emotionally roused, but getting off the drugs is tricky.

Camille Bromley

When Cameron Luther was a kid, he was a low-back with bright blue eyes and big body hair, and while some things more strongly than other children. His family lived in Southern California, and when he was at the beach or playing in the pool, they of purchase on a double-lump, and the first available license, whereby get used on his hands or was probably the grass. Susan Luther, for mother, called him the flip-top baby. He'll hold up to a certain pressure, then sing it in tears.

Around the age of 3, his face and body began to get slowly, with long as many he couldn't come in. Mr. Luther bought books on Tourette's curvilinear and star-telling lighting things she recognized — until she was almost coloring in whole pages. In fourth grade, his teacher called her and said that he had gotten over-the-lined with some mouse on an assignment and it was at his desk. She took him to a pediatric neuroleptic who diagnosed that with Tourette's therapy, shortness-competitive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

Of her five children, Mr. Luther thought, he was the most like her: anxious and sensitive. "He can't take a deep breath," she told the doctor. "He's a knotted-up." The doctor suggested that Paul, an antidepressant in the category known as S.S.R.I.s, could level things out for him. The doctor told her that Paul would outlaw what was going on in his head so he could do what he needed to do. «Like, all there are here and complete the home».

Giving her son psychiatric medical record 9 years old was not a decision Mr. Luther took lightly. Her thought about it every night for a week, then called the doctor and asked for a prescription at the lowest dose that would help him get started. Even inside his own head.

More than 25 years later, he was told, Mr. Luther looks back on that moment with and evidence and regret. It was the start of a prolonged pharmacological spiral that kept him on medication without regime. She believes that the years he spent on antidepressants kept him from feeling the full range of his emotions — from living a full authentic life, even. He was not alone. When he described his experience within, he encountered a multitude of others who had a similar view.

The release of Prozac, the first S.S.R.I. antidepressant, in 1949 was hailed as a revolution in psychiatric treatment. S.S.R.I.s were older, with less but dynamic side effects. Some previous kinds of antidepressants, in the coming decades Prozac, Zidell, Lenapev and other drugs were usually prescribed to control mild and severe reactions. For how thought, however, was given to have to take patients off them.

For some patients, trying to stop medication is provided with several symptoms when more debilitating than the depression or anxiety they'll set out to treat. The doctors and nurse practitioners who prescribed their drugs provided little guidance on how to prevent more symptoms beyond staying on the drugs. Bewildered and angry, patients congregated in Facebook groups and have not forrass to work help from one another.

Now the Make America Realite: Again either of health engines of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hard novel into that old, between patient and doctor, promising to love the mental health of America has been a dependence on pills. The public attention has finally moved the psychiatrists government to take steps to address the possibility. But the medical system that puts people on these medications will need to add a dangerous carefully and safely lead people off. The question for patients is what they will trust for patients.

OKPHUL, MS. LIBERT remembers, her son was himself again. He answered and could function as a cheat. Mr. Luther committed a fifth grade on the best year of her life. He had eighty him, he was popular, and a girl on the occasion team had to be the first time for symptoms of Tourette's symptoms caused nearly all lung patients, and that was the case where he was.

Mr. Luther and her son tried a re-opause of medication throughout his teens to suppress the less. In tenth grade, he started the period and finally gained 10 pounds. In seventh grade, he took hevyard, which made him on fevers, he tried a sleep during first period in a public of devel. In eighth, each, with out 5th grade, he took healthy, but published Canadian and increased the dose of Paul. He had raised the doctor energy drink in his hand and to help him stay awake during school.

The patient went to take a medication until the side of the 6th grade. In four that first day, the patient hit in a cold, dry, sweaty, and the first clinical down, and he was taking only Paul. With that out, the nurse might 'a little more need to be. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. At the time, he didn't question the

suggestions to stay on his S.S.R.I. The explanation he had been given to the doctor for why he needed to take medication was that he had a chemical infused serum his blood and the medication would fix it. The phrase 'chemical infusions,' popular really pharmacists in a marketing and marketing market by doctors, was, on the long because it appeared only and scientific. But the complicated truth is that the lesion and its dysfunction remain mostly a memory.

Uncertainty over the origins of mental illness doesn't have to be a problem for sure, most clinicians would say that child understanding of what 'comparing certain patients' is also more important than recognizing which practical treatment made them bad before. Studies and clinical experience have shown that a significant portion of people defect in antidepressants than off, at least in the short term. But in the meantime, the effect of these drugs on the people who take these long-term, and what happens when they stop, have gone woefully underestimated.

For patients, one result of the chemical infusions every way that it was believed your brain had a disorder that needed regular chemical intervention, there would be no reason to stop the pill even after you get back on your feet. You would put keep taking them, and so many cases your doctor wouldn't suggest otherwise. Doctors receive his more training on prescribed psychiatric medications than on stopping them, and he's patient already doing well on a drug, many doctors will get to keep it rather than can't.

By now antidepressants are one of the more common prescription medications in the United States — one out of every six adults taken them. But in from the 1970's, and 2010, you'll be needed duration of use in the United States at five years, with a quarter of more taking them for 10 years or more. If you were one of the earliest people to take Prozac, you could have been taking antidepressants for almost 40 years.

MEDICINEWELD, M. Luther moved to Rome, Malta, for a new job and promptly left apart. He was working from home and knew almost no one in the city. And he was getting terrible, enough advanced swings. He lifted 100 for a few days, then got his wild hospitalization and dejection.

The backyard of his apartment in Rome looked right out onto the river, and he as well to change his mind. Mr. Luther would outstamp himself in the beginning. It goes into a lift that cannot booey, and he started an Instagram account to talk about the mental health benefits of cold plagging. The use next to all. He would wake up in the middle of the night to see

For some patients, trying to stop medication prescribed withdrawal symptoms even more debilitating than the depression or anxiety they'll set out to treat.

Despite a good job, in the long and so on a side battle and a fever in his backyard, Mr. Luther was looking extremely down after his life. All of his other siblings had married. His younger brothers had children. And yet he, in his early 30s, did not know what love even was. 'Twas young is,

until keep hearing always, and I don't know what anybody's talking about,' he told his older sister, Luis Luther.

One woman he dared as graduate school was pretty, hard working and better. 'But I'd better right to take months, then Mr. Luther did an internship out of state for a couple of months and spent the time in the first community, and the same thing I have been doing. He would be interested in someone, but the feeling never grew, and after an initial phase of excitement it failed into an difference. He was stopped using about one. 'In the what life of?' he asked the nurse on the phone.

Mr. Luther started having a thought who helped him trust the mood swings back to when they started, and he could used to have a regular and little more was taking Kinsapin regularly. A nurse practitioner had handed him a prescription some years earlier after he had a panic attack, and in Rome he snag had a copy up, which every day. 'It's the needs,' he thought.

He resolved that he would start tapering off the Kinsapin and his antidepressant, Lenapev, which had continued on the side, and started an emotional blunting, a common side effect of S.S.R.I.s that has been popular feeling about the problem. He was deroof that could explain his mood swings, apathy, and inefficiency to someone.

Mr. Luther remembered an episode that in 1978 on the fourth stop taking Paul and was for within a few days with intense, apathy to death. He found it estimated the medication, improving that the emergence of anxiety was good

enough he needed it. This time, willing himself to try again, he posted a chart to gain that he was thinking of stopping his mind. One of his life never went then, and this never saw with Dr. Mark Horowitz, an associate professor of psychiatry at Adelaide University in Australia who had become a passionate advocate in the depression of his movement.

Mr. Luther won't tell the three best video straight through: 'Because there's not the public, they't understand the side of these drugs,' Dr. Horowitz said in the interview, 'a lot of harm to being done to people with long-term stress

comparing few patients (are when following different tapering methods. American psychiatric associations do not have standardised guidance on how to stop taking psychiatric drugs. Without doctors to provide reliable answers, people who feel they have been able to be able to get their own help and to make your own progress for information. There they feel also anti-mybamation for their distress.'

AFTER WEDDING THE CHATERS REVIEWED with Dr. Horowitz, Mr. Luther felt as if he was walking up. He saw his family

presentable because of unpredictable fits of treatment. He quit and moved into a small apartment in link Lake City, near where he operates and three of his siblings now lived.

Mr. Luther went to help him get started, and her son's distress was erased late. Her father had come back from World War II at Harare and closed off him. She thought to go窒息ly could have been helped by an antidepressant. She'd been older family members take antidepressants in terms of hardship and benefit from them. She'd been her son benefit. She himself is his place a

ment.' She outlined a method for coming off medications called by psychostapering, in which the medication was reduced at a slower rate on the dose approached zero. This approach can take months or even years, but longer than the report typically recommended by doctors.

Stopping antidepressants abruptly can provoke symptoms including short-term, nausea, insomnia and brain injury — opening second to an elective shock is inside one's head. The American Psychiatric Association has said these medications are important to youth, so many after a week or two, and class sizes generally agree that a major by at least one day's leave lasting problems coming off medication.

For some of them a little bit time. People in online groups such as the viving, antidepressants, which had more than 12,000 members believe it was an ill-nodular issue, report withdrawal symptoms and are not being underwoven. Some people experience what's talking not as not helpful and, in which symptoms continue long after patients have fully stopped their medication.

How to distinguish relapse from withdrawal is a crucial question for those who attempt to do routine medication. For this problem has never been adequately studied. Very few studies have measured withdrawal in people taking antidepressants for a long period, and there are almost no studies

to going off Penile's hit. Do in a new light: perhaps one Lenapev had rather the effect of his body's dependence. He decided to follow a hyperbolic tape on Dr. Horowitz recommended. Over six months in 2015, with the support of his psychiatrist, he reduced his Lenapev from 20 milligrams to nine. That didn't solve his mood swings, so he passed the Lenapev there and a couple of months later started tapering Kinsapin.

The withdrawal from Kinsapin was hard. He could no longer sleep this heart need for no reason, and he got short of his life in还有 a moment in his depression got much worse. But once he reached zero, he felt a kind of clarity that he hadn't experienced in a long time. His energy returned, and he noted swings clearly during work. In children his achievement, he went on a side trip to to stand and spent a week cold plagging.

Upstream, he resumed his tape at Lenapev, returning by tending on immediately he took into a formation get of treatment. Every good feeling left away, and what was to the surface were thoughts of success. After a few months he trodled again, he had a milligram. This proved too much. On top of the minimum and the standard dose, Mr. Luther felt removed from his body and discontinued from his life, as if floating outside it all. He didn't see friends or get on dates. He lost all motivation at his job, where he struggled to stay

comms his taper and will him. 'The way you're feeling so exactly why we started you on this. This is how you were off, how it's. That is why we put you on the medication.'

Mr. Luther disagreed. He acknowledged he was a man, but he was thing, he'll been cold plagging in the polluted trunk nearby and caught a stomach bug. And he was certain that what he was feeling was not how he really was fully about underlying conditions, he thought, was something a goofything do you would say. 'When, He is with a doctor,' he said. 'I know I'm OK undermine.'

SEND THE APPOINTMENT OF Mr. Kennedy as health care manager, here you, his office, has been given report with his own medication on mental health care, particularly for children. This spring, he announced several initiatives intended to enable clinicians to help patients stop taking antidepressants. 'The family patients begin treatment without a clear understanding of the risks and how long they will stay on their energy or have to come off of them. That's not the need to contact,' he said.

Over medicalization as a concept makes maintenance psychology to help patients stop thinking, a further problem of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, found Mr. Horowitz's talk might encourage people to BEOBET, PACE IT.

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Should having a child be a human right?

Anna Louie Sussman

Contributing Writer

Since in vitro fertilization was invented nearly 30 years ago, at least 10 million children who would not otherwise want have been brought into the world from constellations of families — older name, some sex parents, single-faith — have flourished. This is one of the major scientific success stories of each specific. But despite these advances, U.V.F. in the U.S. today is far from a new path to parenthood. Fertility care could be anorexicly available that it holds above the existing history, in which the man you call home, the company that can pave you, or your relationship status determines whether or not you become a parent.

Access to fertility care is not a subtle problem. The conduct for the elderly, already estimated at once can people of reproductive age globally, are patient to grow. Our recent study estimated that as more women would do age and delay childbearing, a healthy case among women over 10 million years by nearly 20 percent by 2026.

In the U.S., the rising number of births to women over 10 months the fact that many others in the same cohort fail to get pregnant — and that delaying and malleas the often a few outermost effect of the greater time and effect it now takes to establish middle-class stability. Queer and single people, also a growing demographic, need assistance getting pregnant too. As many people could fertility treatment, this necessary information out of reach for a significant share of the population.

This place to become a parent is profoundly personal. Everyone should have the ability to make this decision for themselves. That, while naturally, is not the current situation in this country. But what if we thought of not being a family as a fundamental human experience — even a human right? Even this way it is immediately clear to we only come people can receive the fact right, and how to many others are doused.

The chance is a child's own living, no one does it, but it is a child's family. Many people will look up on the place, but they can see a family, and are not in one born near good as well. They seek out stronger children's sperm donation. They may not credit cards, may God's faith campaigns, or take out human through fertility leaders like Pictors Family, which has extended upwards of 1200 million to credit since 2016. People apply for 'baby when a baby,' or 'grown' in a child's family to help pay for fertility care. They give away half their eggs to exchange for the chance to choose some of their own choices. They wait for years to adopt. They give to more or more for that, to increase it, is one third to half the American one. I traveled to Europe where to invest my eggs, and I that's not for U.V.F. at first into that the price of a single U.V.F. cycle in New York City.

People to help you live, remember they take second mortgages out, go into India, all sorts of things like that. 'Dr. Jonathan Van Bercke, a retired British doctor who helped protect a single U.V.F. cycle, he helped to lower costs, to drive.' And if they don't get pregnant, which many don't even go the best program, they are not they the baby's but they still have the debt.

There is increasing institutional and political recognition that more people need help to build their families. In 2013, they were and recently re-entered to the Medicine expansion to define the of infertility to a knowledge source on couples and single people. They are at least five minutes more玻璃幕布, or just to gauge their own plans to cover U.V.F. housed, they would add to the 20 states that currently require some sex to make sure what a legal sense is used for her family care, and the 10 that require coverage of U.V.F.

The government fertility handter that welcomes the previous of our pastes, employees at local level, and the men now working without to retain workers at companies like Target. President Trump, who does not have a "work-at-large president," at the beginning of his career event, has even the greatest sense U.V.F. drugs and sought to make it easier for employers to offer fertility benefits.

At the same time, religious conservatives embedded in the British decision have put U.V.F. to their own share, seeking to work to reduce the risk of developing people to have their own rights to be increased and that could end embryo. In a June series, the Department of Health and Human Services has been a major employer to invest in a drug free "children who are already most under the control of a family — a clear attempt to repair embryos, with living people in order to limit or limit to develop a child's family, and advocacy group, has decreased his proposed faith since 2016 the parent's baby decision U.V.F. as soon as it came. There all also are likely violent attempts to make a part of the child's family's family, married and between each, getting pregnant early and often, and such a study like child education shows — what fertility decision has arisen through call U.V.F., or in both ways.

Even in progressive locales, the right

to a family is not universal. In 2024, a married gay couple used the City of New York, which had employed one of the men, for discrimination because of thought the city's health plan covered U.V.F. for heterosexual couples. The gay men were denied it. 'So many employees benefit public so are based on this kind of 1990s we now if for family,' said the couple's lawyer, Peter Renne-Peast-

What if coming a family was thought of not as a privilege, but as a fundamental right? man. Societies have often expressed preferences about who should not should not reproduce, both explicitly — with the common to laws and policies, and even even too and often cause another, too pregnant — or implicitly, through

social and cultural messaging. In the 1980s, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed, and that deemed to method malpractice is a officially insinuated a woman receiving public assistance. The governor eventually vetoed the full law, even today. Medicaid generally does not provide U.V.F. coverage. On July, Senator Tommy Dackworth of Illinois and several Democratic colleagues on introduced a bundle of full-cash, among other things, would require Medicaid to

cover a full-range of fertility care.) The historian Laura Briggs has described this as a "percented-cropped" system in which "nonsurveys for the poor to go births cannot lead for the rich to get U.V.F." Fertility discrimination can be performed even within a single company. That group, Business Studies reported that 26 births planned to call a 100,000 family building benefit for support staff in U.V.F. finance and adequate advice offer. Accountants and consultants would still get the benefit. The road is a two-tiered system that considers people with no crazing ability to become parents, while leaving colleagues in U.V. on their own.

Renee Cobb, 45, recently went through a costly and time-consuming journey to become pregnant that re-reads the doctor in the country's patchwork system of care. Mr. Cobb lives in Washington State, which does not re-quire resources to cover fertility care. Her employer, a public university, does not offer meaningful coverage. When she started U.V.F., she relied on her family's insurance to cover many of the costs beyond a $4,000 annual daily life. After three successive of U.V.F. cycles, she and her partner broke up. That left her putting out of pocket. She created embryos with doses eggs and agents at a time in through where the cost was lower, then had the embryos shipped to

a clinic in Los Angeles, Texas, days, or long last, pregnant, 3-week six years. The idea that Mr. Cobb and others in her circumstances might call on for more her assistance is not novel. It is a foundational bundle of the operation two parts as necessary, founded by Black women as it does more than three decades ago. They asserted that in matters of family making, having a right to bodily autonomy, as was theoretically removed by Rev. is not enough. These women argued that it was a human right to have children as, not their children, and to be able to parent in a safe environment — and that governments were responsible for ensuring their rights that had been taken a safe demand to women of care. Their philosophy shows inspiration from the University of the United States of Illinois (U.S.), which affirms that "Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to choose a family."

If you've, such a right is not clear-cut. Let the right copious so early grant it material? To go into a child and experience going birth? To be a parent to make the alternative of parents' loss? How we answer these questions has got outstanding at once for policy, and for what kinds of families we welcome are the work! But recognizing family from a human right would be a useful starting point and a way to push back against the star on and not human any cause of the family that many on a single day.

In a choice activities say that abortion bans don't eliminate abortion, because a woman who needs an abortion will have a common program. The other values, the same is true for people who have to desire a family. Poland formed U.V.F. for single women in 2015, but the law only has been a major economic deterrent, but it is not a major economic deterrent. The government is not a major economic deterrent, but it is not a major economic deterrent.

Such other ideas are both prejudiced and cruel. Mr. Cobb is now working through the U.S. and has had her patch to be a member of our more than 100,000 and left her with some of thousands of dollars to support this that someone working in a different employer or living in different states could have avoided. Our current system makes becoming a parent accessible to some, and costly and nonsocial and nightmare for others. Let's remember that family life is the most common one experience of my children — one that we can open for their little life many people who want to.

ANNA LOURI SUSSMAN writes about gender, education, gender distribution and in the author of the forthcoming Book of Women with The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty.

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He grew up on antidepressants. Now he wants a way out.

and his 21 years ago, a male-binary decision to stop medication. "We think that nine most consent means knowing there's your chance of religion, here's your chance of suicide," Dr. Goldberg said.

In February, Dr. Goldberg published a paper with a task force of experts in psychopharmacology outlining some basic agreements on depression. The paper recounts a brief but press release, which is a patient's medication at least once a year and that medication be stopped if it has longer working. It did not provide detailed protocols for how tapering should be conducted or how withdrawn should be managed.

People who had himself to the medical system are not eager to come to it now. Instead they often put their trust in online support groups. "The whole real community knows so much more about the process than psychiatrists because they have done it for decades in this point," said Dr. Deepak Gupta, a psychiatrist in New York State who gave a general to Goldberg's paper and helped write, in 2018, the first book about psychiatric depression.

At the same time, three online groups usually critical to new or professional medicine that can determine a major primary — the belief that mental disorders are actually rather than biologically caused and that psychiatric drugs harm more than they help. In this way, a new crisis about which medication has to harden any distressing any drug as valid.

The main key to many to make mind. You find an online group that helps you make sense of a challenge, swinging experience, and the comes a place to question the larger to either (even if not) to be able to do that. The new system is a digital tool and is much in moderation for so long. Maybe what your doctor's dental depression was never a disease to begin with, maybe it was a normal exercise that would be the patient's own strength.

If you were someone who had given decades of over-life over 6 years and who had been in the past 10 years, the depression, the most urgent question can become here to continue personal agency. For people in this situation, control over that health factor from like taking medication, it looks like dropping

product and off. Mr. Luther is used in a social media. He started thinking: videos in which he got with a child he called for the first one of a daily job, and he said more vulnerable and angry than he had been, and some of these videos are used

millions of views and thousands of comments.

He pointed a piece of his younger self next to his birthday club, wondering. Why was this kid who couldn't handle life? He saw what he was posting in coming an avenues, but if he was being honest, he also wanted to draw that the search crazy. A chance of reason from the internet hidden that used.

Mr. Luther usually talked to her mother on the phone every day. But the calls off off after the video went up. "You just got down, it when you were a little kid and talk about how you were this and that," she said to him. "These pictures are too much on me, because that's my little boy. He was happy, and he was down."

Because of his influence in time, Mr. Luther was an associate and another figure with political agendas about psychiatric drugs, the type of disorder. He didn't make a go on what is political advocacy.

How to distinguish relapse from withdrawal is a crucial question for those who attempt to discontinue medication.

Just a new event has been seen, and a useful reaction is to be felt on to advice other people on whether to continue treatment. Though he had to grow about how young he'd been when he tried to be addicted, he's admitted that he didn't know how he

would have to tell without them — maybe better but maybe worse.

The success of his point made him no wonder his hesitation. Perhaps he could see the rest or other at one moment to relax any people about withdrawal. He came up with a slogan, "How the feelings" and appealed to him to them. The spring he accepted an invitation from Laura Dickson, a former psychiatric patient who finished a group called Inner Company Initiative, 7-year-old at MAMA conference, and he's once started to publish social media posts in partnership with a statewide tapering clinic that Dr. Howard helped them.

The alignment of patient advocates, MAMA and student team members' team members, and the community's approach to the treatment of a single patient is an under-represented issue. Primary care providers, who prescribe a majority of 0.5, 0.7, a remain largely unproven that some people have additional care with. In addition, and that a stepping drug needs to be done with careful oversight.

Common-Luffer, who began taking psychiatric medication at age 5, is a true to them. Make, where he would announce himself in triplet notice for mental health purposes.

But we should also be concerned about what mental health will look like in this country if medication are not dissolved but something else will be used. Dr. about 2018, a psychiatrist in Ohio who writes a popular newsletter about details in the field, said that most patients do not call for them according to a treatment for their suffering rather than help coming off their medications. He suggested in a recent newsletter that the only way for the medical field to resolve disagreements about depressing is to "conduct a doctor-understood controlled legal act tapering methods and outcomes."

In the absence of such research, there remains no conclusion on what depressing should look like. But, any form of careful tapering requires time, attention

tion and collaboration between individual prescribers and patients — the very things that are so often lacking is to typical doctor's visit.

The MAMA movement popular is a view of mental health that positions taking medication in operation to prevent autonomy. But going to the catman carefully, in scale, will require patients to rely more on the medical systems rather than loss. That means the delivery of better mental health care depends not on all of us how to not do. I have a lot of time to be able to do the same thing as all of us.

Mr. Luther is now taking 7.5 mL tapes of 2 images, what he calls his 21-year-old show, the equivalent amount to what he last took at that age. The ultimate goal is his 9-year-old base:

you. It is a long road yet. Dr. Sherwin's rough guideline for long-term users is that every year on an 8.5 ft. repair to be used in 1st year of. Mr. Luther figures for 10 years on this depression for 28 years, so that works not to more than four years of tapering. She has it must be ten years left to go.

He plans for continuing to do a minor figure. He will get a legal suspension of 2 images, which allows for more money from him for standard tablets, and orders not shared with a milligram every day or so.

The law explained his plans to his psychiatrist, the doctor laughed, saying it was the director says he'd be a medical physician. If they had he left Mr. Luther, "I want you to think about whether you are saying, of the medication because you have come and it appears that you really would be working with the medical system to save those years or whether it's worth just anything else."

The decision is based on the question. He is know-belged that having his job was a big price, to you. But everything had a price, and that happened to be the price of tapering. He is a good thing, and he has been than anything. Soaring who he may not have he could cope without medication. He wanted to hold a relationship longer than a few months, to feel free, to be intimate without the interference of much. It had nothing at all to do with a matter.

He was keeping on my on his D.C.E., which was creeping back. Height made him getting dressed in the morning and deciding what to eat for dinner had given him the 10th. After we went that at the command his lapse had G.C.D. would manage, and she suggested in the sequence and response prevention therapy. But he wanted to learn to manage his life on his own.

In the beginning of the summer, his self-recipient offered him his job to his and his co-operative doctor. That is, he is welcome reset and a sign to prepare to receive the super in his life. He keeps a reminder to himself in his 70mm app: "What is your purpose?" To love my self and feel confident, proud. To be a great husband (company), father (somebody) and uncle, "for wrote: 'To live free of antidepressants.'"

CIRCLE BOOKLET is an editor in Times Square.

FROM READERS

A bitter anniversary for women

Re "Time to test the page on Afghanistan," by Shaddad-Babber (Olympia, Aug. 21). As a woman from Afghanistan, I was disappointed for the article's personal title under Taliban rule, which marked health anniversary on Aug. 21. The description of conditions in the group's story at least suggests, at worst, goodbye. The reality is that life for women and girls in Afghanistan is getting worse every day. Women are not preeminent to show their faces or speak to public, are not preeminent to work or have to do education and have been forced out of public life.

At home, they are not only controlled by family members. A recent study by UN Women found that the majority of women, in Afghanistan only have the house size or two a month. So when Mr. Babber talks about the ability of "workers" (alleged to school) and the "workers" (sure they don't refer to talking about men).

Changing the Taliban without first addressing the woman's rights criteria the country will improve the future. Any those who have been working here, make. The Taliban have not and will not negotiate. We must not overstate what gender apartheid exists on our environment, nature, race, and sex.

We write an essay about the Far East Gender Apartheid Campaign. Shaddad-Babber's work uplifting girls' education in Afghanistan is the case. The women's rights, the children's equality, what has proposed changes in U.S. policy would actually mean for the most rather elite population in Afghanistan.

He calls for more international aid and more education and health care for all-whites, and notes that the Taliban has made life more difficult for workers' rights and those working for change, but does not identify the steps to work a long-term solution. These steps should include international support for Afghanistan society, stronger accountability efforts and the recognition and confidence of gender apartheid as a case against financials. To imagine that the Taliban will receive with a good sense of the need to resolve simply agree to change in our realistic. Instead, a network looking policy would be to support a U.S. end-province political consolidation among men. Taliban, hijabers, oppressed at home and was diverse, exist, as they can argue for their own sovereignty and help the country move forward.

A true message to the women's rights, the women's rights, the children's equality, what has proposed changes in U.S. policy would actually mean for the most rather elite population in Afghanistan.

AL JIMAN, FROM PAGE 1

While these explanations make historical issues, they risk misleading policy makers and investors alike as both the "why" and the "no what" of the current situation.

There are four new and significant issues at play.

The main dynamic is a staggering range in actual and prospective borrowing by technology companies pursuing the transformative promise of artificial intelligence. Simply put, a rising number of tech companies want to borrow large amounts of money to deliver investments in more return than can benefit billions. They've already sold about $300 billion a month, they now and will likely be now a minimum of another $100 billion by year's end.

We should certainly welcome the simple capacity of American capital markets to fund productivity with strong investments, from institutions companies to the main trade centers, that are the first and most powerful and prosperity. Yet any profound transition needs to be managed carefully, especially this one, as the colonial corporate demand for capital companies directly increases in larger government debt insurance.

While this is in person appetite is growing, traditional foreign buyers of American Treasuries have increased. This is not merely a consequence of China's geopolitical hesitancy or the need for Prisian full-flame investors to come of a more significant domestic economic development and repair damage from the Arab world. It also involves standard buyers who could become sellers because of their own domestic exigencies. Japan, he was, faces mounting pressure to liquidate foreign assets, including U.S. government and corporate funds, to develop its hardened yen — something that the U.S. has already negotiated between joint intervention. The diminished appetite of these traditional buyers directly assures the economic growth into digester private hands, finding volatility or media rising path of yield.

In the past, higher fund yields were typically a product of massive inflation, but the most market indicators suggest that's not the issue as the moment. Neither is one even with the PwEs credibility. (Despite the many past policy measures of the Federal Reserve, our investment in the research council and a commitment to returning inflation is its poor not target the district.) What has an important yield, or the extra, inflation-adjusted compensation that provides a threat to lower the risk of buying debt in a more volatile world. It's something not there right now. The most important reporting these problems to come of the closest allies. Higher American yields have unintensity driven up borrowing costs worldwide, pushing yields on a very low altitude German

government bonds to involve common stock at least 200. At least three other countries in the powerful Group of 1 are even more overt or because of their own financial burden: Japan, France and Britain. Pronouns in these new ways do not allow risk between the U.S. markets.

Tales all that are, account and are, got a yield range like no other. It's a new order, down by the rural nature of enormous, with an government borrowing needs opposed by a decline in willing fund buyers. The other we in the energy shock and, finally, individual inflation and Federalized issues.

This countering is especially consequential as it suggests that elevated borrowing costs will be far less expensive to the traditional

Pronouns in sovereign debt markets like Japan, France and Britain risk bloodsack for U.S. markets.

macroeconomic dynamics that have stabilized markets in the past as closely defined, dramatically, two distinct forces have been able to break the force of moving borrowing costs. The Prefishing

may the proverbial liquidity may be reduced by taking into account the possibility of a new or a new policy. Neither will has the efficiently today. Policies increase while working in the upper limit of government debt spending. Indeed, they would merely increase the government debt-serving burden. The higher rates differ technology from that position in the industrial markets in the region and future returns on their investments in artificial intelligence — and whose POWEs are palpable. Consequently, often more vulnerable segments of the economy will have to adjust.

Section that are traditionally sensitive to interest in an industry housing

and autos, are in the cross-basis, not the high leverage in some parts of the financial markets and in everything credit card business. The resulting superior will fall hardest on low-to-low finance funds. It will add the even more expensive than what is now but we can inflate the everyday cost of transportation. Both dynamical and directly relevant affordability crisis that already sets stop were assertive and all the operating problems the best.

The economic and political risks could target the Trump administration are a new phase of market state resistance, a tame the so-called bond tightness. The government has announced it will increase the buying back of longer-term bonds as a way of lowering those yields. While this boys time for that segment of the market, it requires the government to issue more chance to run bonds, risking unintended consequences for the functioning of liquidity markets. Ironically, Fed and the tonight wryly note that this could take place just as a charismatic end of bank strength to unwind the collateral damage and unintended consequences of its own protracted market over reach and until during the global financial crisis.

Hopefully, the investments in artificial intelligence will deliver higher productivity than generation significant on one growth, and at some point, the administration and Congress may agree to inform a budgetary process that results in working a deficit and two much debt, which on Wednesday created the 6th trillion minimum. Until then, the fund was now will offer a full interchangeable and considerable risk to our well-being.

WOMEN'S & ELIZABI is the former chief executive and a former chief information officer of POWEs, and served as the chair of President Barack Obama's Global Development Council from 2012 to 2017.

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INTERNATIONAL HOMES

Restoring their own 'disaster' mansion

Eight years later, a couple is still fixing up an abandoned house bought at auction

BY ALEXANDRA MASTAR

Aimee Gardner and Dave Lancelot were standing in the basement of their newly purchased, 3000 Hudson Valley thornages when they found a strange building. - like tiny drops of rain. They would soon have left us the second time they were still in the room and the past 6 months didn't - right before it collapsed.

Second time, the entire north wall dropped vertically, some had a low (15 centimetres), with a thundering vibroids and an eruption of dust, leaving the floor above them pre-porosity can be moved.

"We've just lucky it didn't fall sideways," Ms. Gardner said. It became another thing to add to the punch dot as they restore their first home, a project's table taken, so far, night and a half years.

Ms. Gardner, 51, an arts administrator at a local nonprofit, and Ms. Lancelot, 65, a software engineer with a book's heritage, called 'Disaster Mansion.'

In December 2017, they led us the once-joined house in the tiny Pivade hostha neighborhood of Hudson, N.Y., in a city tax auction, for $15,300. Their offer succeeds from a local landlord and, as they recall, a 'Pivade tourist' who81, a woman's home.

"All the contractors just stopped holding at about $35,000," Ms. Gardner said. But the couple, who had been run on in the San Francisco Bay Area until their 1,000-country move for Ms. Gardner's new job, left comments about what they could see through the mostly beautiful-up windows.

"Originally built by a wealthy Irish carpenter, David Gill, the 7,200-square-foot (300-square-meter), shawy. Italianans had been abandoned for years when they closed in January 2024, long stripped of its fortunes, copper, plaster and lids, with crowbar marks on the down from break-ins post.

Still, it is hard their home. "There were plenty of houses we could have allotted, but we wanted something with character," Ms. Lancelot said.

After the August task of clearing away the previous owner's belongings, including marketing books, old credit cards and ratings are torn, and patching the cost in a wealthier-forming in-store, they got to work outraging, and it's going and reducing. They sought advice from historic preservation experts while spending a total of 'thousands of hours' nearly every evening and week-end on the house.

They live in a $1,000-a-month one-bedroom rental nearby, which has added more than $10,000 to their project budget. One of the earliest projects was the yard, where they removed mounds of trash, scrap and overgrowth, then needed a steep drop-off into a gently slop-

ing, laws with fruit trees, dogwoods, trees and wildflowers. They stabilized the foundation and reinforced structural beams. They removed a collapsing back deck, a rental staterell and a superflower, free-staining concrete wall along the back of the house that blocked light to the ground level.

Then, they got to work converting a dump, dirt-floor collar into a one-foot room apartment, digging down to allow for higher ceilings and pouring new floors. Wrong and plumbing throughout the house are being completely over-

Some people are judgmental about the project, she added. Other people do not mention, "This is gorgeous!" When you hear comments like that from its experts, it doesn't you up," Ms. Lancelot said, "because it is a challenge. There have been mail-drawn."

It's also been a learning experience. For example, the second time, months later, that Ms. Lancelot found the talking sound, he knew to run for it.

At first last period, they've all lost eliminated their minions on contractors, at least for the jobs they can learn to do themselves. "If we had more money, I would just people to do stuff," Ms. Lancelot said. "And we do later people as we go. But we've learned a lot, and we do a lot," even already up a hotel before to do nothing without food.

They don't run corners. They recently rebuilt the collapsing front porch with true-to-period, marlins and tunas pits, and the most important is the same.

Ms. Lancelot's background is in math, and computing, but back in Oakland, Calif., he finished in nineteenth and woodworking. Ms. Gardner is game at

hears, taking woodworking courses and masonry workshops. Today, families of members like the basement wall. Upstairs, UV lights on a paltry system are rioting. Instead of paint on custom dust scanners, panels. Sharps on roofs on the

wall add up to 22. The number of floor tiles they've manned, painted and soaked by hand after deciding the manufactured tiles they loved were too pricey. They estimate they'll need around 700.

"With no use for the best," Ms. Lancelot said, swinging open the door from the cupola onto the roof. A rough room dangled like an overuse Christmas ornament. To the right is that it was from the wall. The Shallow Room beyond a stretch of industrial waterfront, once a brisketaking empire.

This cupola will host nine of the honors 34 windows, all of which Ms. Lancelot is building by hand, with advice—and donated materials—from a supporter of the architectural Resource Center, plus a cover of antique glass acquired on Craigslist. "It'll be lovely in winter," Ms. Lancelot said, "sitting up here, watching the move."

The couple spent $500,000 on the initial renovation, from a loan extended by a friend. Ms. Gardner estimated that they have spent an additional $199,000 since then, and that the total cost of the work will ultimately total close to $400,000.

"I think we are saving a little by doing a lot ourselves," Ms. Gardner added, "but we're still paying rent at our apartment until we can move into the ground floor."

The wait does get to her sometimes, Ms. Gardner said, sitting on an overturned bucket in her future garden apartment. "Other days I'm like, well, I've got a cool over my head. I'm losing in debt to some mountains."

Recently, Ms. Lancelot was laid off. This gives him more time to work on the house, he said.

The couple said they hoped to move in next year. "We said that last year," Ms. Lancelot said with a laugh. "And we probably said that the year before? But it's different now, Ms. Gardner added: 'The practical to delude it.'"

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Homes for under $850,000 in Iceland

Helsey

$800,000 (50.5 MILLION KILLANDS' KRONOR)

A two-story outright cottage on an island in the north of Iceland. This four-bedroom, two-built cottage are on the shore of Helsey, off the coast of Iceland.

Helsey is about 4.2 miles long and 1.5 miles wide (7.2 kilometers long and 2.4 kilometers wide), and offers important terms of the living club with a home of Elysfjordsk, one of the country's largest foods. It is a food-swelling kitchen box, with about 80 stories and 10 species. The island is largely car-free, and from amenities includes a grocery store, a restaurant, a spare center and a garden and a restaurant pool.

A 12-in-20-minute story with some Helsey reaches the mainland village of Ardeugjarnnule, which is about five hours northeast of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital, by car. The top-town the island is Hallafs All International Airport takes about six hours.

MD: 1,301 square feet (220 square meters)

PRICE PER HELSING FRIEND: $500

MESSENG: A spacious bedroom, a bathroom, a laundry room, the kitchen and the living and dining area are on the first floor, windows in three units face the ocean. The ocean-colored kitchen has an island and families think most wrong. On the second floor are the bedrooms and a double sitting area with one room and a pooled ceiling.

OUTDOOR SPARE: The cottage has a yard steps away from the rocky shoreline, an ocean-though that with a hot tub and a separate deck accessible from the kitchen.

SNACK: Annual property taxes are about $2,200 (270,000 kronor), and fees are $999 (76,700 kronor). Iceland charges a stamp fee for real estate transfers. The fee is $1 percent of the property's value for first-time buyers, and $4 percent for other buyers.

CONTRACT: Halifax Hallandstór | TOWG Real Estate Agency

Ondreydarnes

$750,000 (50.4 MILLION KILLANDS' KRONOR)

A two-story cottage in a summer house community in the south of Iceland. This three-bedroom, two-built-cupler cottage is in a gated community of roughly 100 calms in Ondreydarnes, a strip of land about an hour near it Reykjavik. The community is organized around an 18-kish golf course with a clubhouse and restaurant. There's also a swimming pool for residents.

Ondreydarnes is near the Golden Circle vacation crest, which includes highlights like the popular Gullfora waterfall and Tningrolls National Park, sitting on a techsac off valley. Clusters, gunners and lacemical waterfalls are also nearby, as is Gullfora, a sustainable sea-village.

Ondreydarnes is about 20 minutes north of Seflinn by car, and about 90 minutes east of Keflavik Airport.

MD: 1,301 square feet (200 square meters)

PRICE PER HELSING FRIEND: $470

MESSENG: The living and dining service spacious, with large windows, a headboard ceiling, 1000 floors and a fireplace. The kitchen has wood, a bench, white-tiled walls and an island. The three-bedroom feature headboard walls and ceilings. A wooden room one leads to a 300-square-foot loft with parapet floors and two dormers, one of which has a covered balcony.

OUTDOOR SPARE: The cottage is on a lot of small, small, separate and two sheds. A deck wraps around the entire cottage, with a large sheltered area and a hot tub. The second floor has a covered balcony with mountain views. TOWG: A large property taxes on this house are about $1,300 (302,785 kronor), and the land taxes for it about $1,300 (348,000 kronor). Stamp fee charges apply.

CONTRACT: Theoteman Magnussen | Arbinger Real Estate Agency

Kerfmann

$700,000 (50.4 MILLION KILLANDS' KRONOR)

A two-story cottage in a vacation home area in the south of Iceland.

The three-bedroom, one-built-commiparety-style summer house is in Kerfmann, a collection of vacation homes about an hour near it Reykjavik.

Kerfmann is set within rugged volcano area inside with mountain views. Thingville National Park, the Goyce geothermal area, the Rock center take and Reykjavik's thermal river are within a short distance.

Keflavik Airport is about 30 minutes west of Kerfmann by car. Seldon, along Iceland's ocean-South Coast ream, is about 20 minutes south. Nearly 40% from include a museum dedicated to date, a flaky product market is yogurt, and New Old Town, a commercial and cultural center featuring mainstream and historical buildings.

MD: 1,442 square feet (210 square meters)

MESSENG: The kitchen and living area, with a flat, chimney and room, custom tops, is to the left of the entrance. The space has double-length ceilings, radiant heating, a fireplace and tall windows facing three directions. At the other end of a three-bedroom with wood floors and tall windows, and the bathroom, a staircase leads to a 140-square-foot loft with mountain views. OUTDOOR SPARE: A deck with a hot tub under the head of the house. Construction of a 450-square-foot geothermal to permitted on the property.

TOWG: Annual property taxes on this house are about $2,500 (258,000 kronor), and fees are $1,500 (348,000 kronor).

CONTRACT: Multifolder Sunna Therfsittsdales | TOWG Real Estate Agency

Given the just pace of the current market, every property may be a huge issue inside of the time of publication.

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SCIENCE LAB

PREGNANCY TEXTS

For ultrasounds of giant mantas, house calls are now available

Giant mantas rays are otherworldly leviathans gliding through the world's seas on huge wings. But even though they are the largest ray species in the world, a fundamental part of their lives remains obscure: where they give birth.

"The big unknown for us now is where females go to pup and where these pups hang out," said Joshua Stewart, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University.

Now, a team of scientists in Mexico has reported the first use of underwater ultrasound scans to detect pregnancies in these animals, which may help answer that question.

An endangered species, giant oceanic mantas are sparsely distributed and travel vast distances, making many aspects of their reproduction hard to study. So Madalena Cabral, a marine ecologist at Mares de México Giant Manta Project, led two expeditions, in Revillagigedo National Park, off Baja California in Mexico.

On dives to locate female mantas rays, Dr. Cabral let each animal grow comfortable with her presence before holding an ultrasound probe near its body. She recorded the sonograms on an iPhone 15 in a waterproof housing.

It took time to learn how to interpret the resulting images.

But one night, while reviewing recent footage, Dr. Cabral realized she was looking at a mantra fetus. "Once you see it, you can't unsee it," she said.

Soon, Dr. Cabral was able to recognize a pregnancy underwater while scanning a mantra during a dive. She confirmed pregnancies in three giant mantas. The mantas were given tags so that their journeys could be tracked by satellite. AURA FENLAY-VII

NOT SO-WILD LIFE

Marmots have money troubles. The video solution is G-rated.

Daniel Blumstein, a biologist, ran to a field in Gollar, Colo., waiting to see a marmot. The rodent was elusive, leaving his thoughts to wonder.

He lamented a lack of funding for his work amid federal cuts to scientific research. Then he alighted on the TV show "Margo's Got Money Troubles" and that's when the epiphany came.

Perhaps the show's plot, about a single mother who, unable to find conventional work, turns to the adult content site OnlyFans to support herself, could be applied to marmots and research funding.

Back at his lab, Dr. Blumstein pitched the idea to his colleagues. One student suggested naming the profile OnlyMantas.

"It's going to be G-rated, and we've not going to somalize this," said Dr. Blumstein, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The account, which spends research videos of marmots but owing more or scurrying across rocks, offers free subscriptions but asks for tips, which go to funding studies by Dr. Blumstein's team.

Dr. Blumstein said that his team's research could be invaluable in understanding how animals and humans behave and evolve. EWAETT LINDSER

APPETITE FOR FLUES

Darwin was right: These plants survive as carnivores

Charles Darwin loved a deep dive. He devoted years to studying foenacites and obsessed over breeding pigeons.

But one of his most enduring fascinations was carnivorous plants. He called the Venus flytrap "rest of the most wonderful plants in the world" and once remarked that he cared more about sundown, plants that sport sticky, hypoperfike traps, "than the origin of all the species in the world."

In 1875, Darwin published a treatise on carnivorous plants that featured several species he thought could be flesh-eating flora. Among them were hardy alpine plants in the genus Sanifraga that had sticky hairs reminiscent of his beloved sundown. Darwin tempted two European Sanifraga species with insects

during feeding experiments, but he was ultimately unable to prove that the species were carnivorous.

More than 150 years later, scientists have vindicated Darwin's hypothesis. A team of researchers recently served tiny flies to another Sanifraga species native to China. Their findings showed that the plant does digest and absorb sustenance from mapped prey.

According to Hong Sun, a researcher in China and one of the authors of the paper, the findings reveal that carnivory has deep roots. "This implies carnivorous plants could be more widespread than we currently know and that more species are hiding the ability to digest prey," he said. JACK TARRIS

"I think that's quite commendable, because they don't get any guidance from anywhere on what they should be doing."

Dr. Martly Banks, a fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, an precautionary researcher's book to present an artificial intelligence model from generating generous of viruses that could threaten humans.

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Sports

Gilded family business may be nearing its end

The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold again, and the Buss era could be over

BY LAW MURRAY

THE LOBBY

The Los Angeles Lakers have undergone an unprecedented series of ownership changes over the past year. The Lakers' "Mark Walters" agreement to sell his ownership interest in the team to the former Disney chief executive Bob Jigel and the western capitalist Jordan Kushner into them is one after acquiring it from the Buss family could lead to the end of nearly five decades of Buss family control over one of the most prominent franchises in professional sports.

Joanie Buss, 64, is one of Jerry Buss's six children, along with Johnny (69), Jim (44), Janie (42), Jerry (41) and Jesse (37). The siblings inherited the Lakers through the Buss family. Their after their father died in 2013, though their two to the organization extended well beyond ownership. Joanie, Jim, Joey and Jesse played significant portions of their careers working for the Lakers, and each has been ultimately involved in the team chores day-to-day operations over the years.

Now, Joanie Buss is cementing her siblings' effort to sell his family's remaining stake to Jigel and Kushner. Her attorney Sam Hathawayt then abides to sell without her consent and asserted that she should remain the Lakers' team governor.

As that despite plays out, Joey are major events during the Buss family's tenure with the Lakers, from Jerry's purchase of the team to the potential end of their 47-year son at top the franchise.

Jerry Buss takes over

During 1975, Jerry bought the Lakers, the Los Angeles Kings in the National Hockey League and the friends in Saginaw, Calif., from Jack Kent Cooke for $87.5 million. Jerry, a chancel who made a certain in mid-June, needed some last-minute maneuvering to complete the deal. Short on cash, he sold 31 Santa Monica apartments to Donald T. Sterling, using the proceeds to close the deal. Sterling later bought the San Diego Clippers and moved that franchise to Los Angeles in 1994.

Jerry's arrival allowed it one of the greatest main events in N.B.A. history. T. Sterling is drafted Magic Johnson at No. 1 in 1979 to get him with Kareem Alisha father, who had already been named the most valuable player free times. The Lakers won the N.B.A. championship in Buss's first full season as owner in 1980, launching the Showtime era.

Joanie Buss named an executive in 1995. Joanie was named executive vice president for business operations and became an influential figure inside the franchise. The appointment put him in a leading role with the Lakers for the rest of her father's life. The season, 2000-2008, was the first of five championship seasons with Phil Jackson on coach.

Jerry Buss dies

Jerry Buss died on Feb. 19, 2013, at the age of 90. The Lakers had last won a championship in 2018, the 10th title in his 34 years of ownership. His six children inherited the franchise through a family trust, with Joanie continuing to oversee the team's business operations and succeeding her father on the Lakers' representative as the N.B.A. Board of Governors.

The Lakers made the playoffs in 2013 but were swept by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round, just twelve after John Buss was lost for Achilles' treatise. Dwight Howard left the team in five against the off-season, and the Lakers began their longest playoff drought in franchise history.

Joanie Buss fires a sibling, Part 1. Four years after Jerry's death, Joanie fired her brother, Jim, the Lakers' executive vice president for player personnel. The team was at the midst of a fourth consecutive losing season when Joanie removed Jim, General Manager, Ritch Rapchak and John Black, the Angelina public volunteer chief, in February 2021.

In Jerry's time as owner, the team entered the playoffs only twice, in 1994 and 2007, 20 1957, the Lakers were headed toward their fourth straight postseason absence. The shake-up also led to a family power struggle. Jim and Johnny Buss attempted to wroze control of the franchise from Joanie and remove her as the Lakers' controlling owner. Joanie provided in the dispute and further consolidated her control of the organization.

The latest Johnson as president of basketball operations while adding Rob Polukis, Bryant's former agent, as general manager.

LeBron James arrives

In 2018, the Lakers' playoff drought stretched to five seasons. The team

had the N.B.A.'s worst record, 124-104, in that time. LeBron James, funds off an eight-season run in which his teams reached the N.B.A. finals every year, including winning two championships with the Miami first (2012, 2015) and another with the Cleveland Cavaliers (2008), chose to sign with the Lakers in five games.

Joanie was the Lakers' most significant acquisition under Joanie's leadership of the franchise, although his arrival did not result in immediate success, the team endured another losing season in 2020-18 and moved the playoffs to a ninth straight year. More organizational turnout followed when Johnson dropped down as president of basketball operations without first intervening Joanie and later accused Polukis of "backstubbing" him. The Lakers also fired Coach Luke Walton.

Winning in the Covid Babble

One year later, the Lakers were champions again.

The team ended the N.B.A.'s longest season in October 2018 with the franchise's 57th title, the crowning achievement of Joanie Buss's time as the face

of Lakers ownership. The Lakers defeated the Miami first in the 2020 finals, which were played at Walt Disney World during the Covid-19 pandemic. Franchise series from its public gatherings meant there was no championship game, and the title proved to be the best triumph of James's Lakers on it.

The Lakers was just three playoff series in James's remaining six years with the franchise. The 2020 championships was the 10th under the Buss family — and, potentially, the last.

Walter named a minority owner in July 2023, the Los Angeles Dodgers owners Mark Walter and Brett Beatty acquired Philip Amelietz's 27 percent minority interest in the Lakers. Walter and Beatty were already familiar with pro basketball ownership through their involvement with Sparks LA Sports, the investment group that purchased the W.B.A.'s Los Angeles Sparks in 2010 and still rose the franchise. Walter, the co-founder and chief executive of the global financial services firm, Guggenhims Partners, praised Joanie Buss's leadership of the Lakers, adding

that he "couldn't be more excited to partner with her and the entire management team."

The Buss family sells to Walter. In June last year, the Buss family agreed to sell its controlling interest in the Lakers to Walter in a deal valuing the franchise at 100 billion. The agreement allowed Joanie to remain as the Lakers' governor.

The N.B.A. approves Walter. The N.B.A. Board of Governors approved the sale of the Lakers to Walter on Oct. 18 last year. Joanie Buss was to remain the Lakers governor. "In a period of at least five years following the closing of the transaction," according to a statement the league released announcing approval of the sale. Commissioner Adam Silver expressed gratitude to the Buss family while adding that he was "the first" that Joanie would remain governor.

Buss fires her siblings, Part 2. Low Buss a month after his N.B.A. approved Walter's takeover, the Lakers tried. Joey and Jesse Buss, these was an assistant general manager and director of scouting, while Joey was president of the 63 league finals Bay Lakers and an alternate governor for the Lakers. Their sister Jesse was also removed from the role as chairman services director. "She's tired everyone," Jesse said of Joanie.

Walter sells to Iger and Kushner. A new 14 months after completing the initial deal to purchase the controlling stake in the Lakers, Walter agreed to sell to Iger and Kushner, with the franchise now valued at $12.5 billion. Walter's decision came less than three months after the Lakers conducted a series of layoffs in an effort to integrate the franchise into Walter's organization. The Lakers are headed toward their second ownership change in just over a year, after spending the previous 60 under the ownership of one family.

Is Buss out as governor? Now, the questions is simple: Can Jesus or Buss hang on as governor?

The Buss family. True! voted to sell its remaining 27.6 percent share in the franchise to Iger and Kushner, a move that, if completed, would end the family's run as Lakers owners.

Joanie Buss is challenging the vers of the trust. In a letter sent to her siblings' attorneys, her attorney wrote that their attempts to sell the family's remaining stake to counteract "a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty" and would put them "to contempt of court." If the family completes the sale, she would no longer own enough of the franchise to meet the N.B.A. requirement to be governor.

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Weekend

Let me be your mentor, babe

In movies this summer, middle-aged sexual gurus are helping younger people

BY NADALIA WINKELMAN

In "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misoma," Kiss (Hannah Kahlmeier) is a 20-year-old filmmaker who has been hired to revive an old shadow franchise. She's confident in her work, bringing on quite vision and a progressive value system. But when it comes to matters of the flesh, the picture features sex and lived.

"What's wrong with me?" Kiss skar-mars, embarrassed, after pumping the brakes during foreplay with Billy (Olikus Anderson), the actress Kiss hopes to visit us her had. "Sex seems to endorse and carry for no more people."

Billy lies on the floor beside her. "It's all just plus," she reassures Kiss while smoking her bare skin. "I promise I won't judge you."

"Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misoma," from Jane Schoenberg, is one of several movies this summer that present not involving a specific pairing, an exotic mentor and her tentative initiate. In such case, the guide in a middle-aged woman who hopes to usher the nerves into a floor can die.

This figure seems tailor-made for not moving long moment. In recent years, film bars, critics and readers have been told again and again that younger ands ensues prefer chaotic lure. Whatever the merits of those claims, these recent movies can be undermoved as cautious — and sometimes tongue-to-thank — of fact it is minimal as even to theaters, with the comfort of a built-in chaperone.

Gregg Acido's "I Want Your Sex" plays the drummer as a force. Our welcomes in Erika (Gloria Wilde), a renowned dog artist and government. He voicing latest groups and milestones, Erika records her argumente for audio installations and is known for making sculptures of genitalia. But her transgressive instinct in often tinged with irony. When a collective asks what one of her prices means, she always, "It means money in my bank account."

Like a hunter pursuing her prey, Erika homesits an Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a scruffy gallery assistant who describes sex as "a standstill." Still, he responds to Erika's beaten advanced as any tattoos, sex-deprived recent graduate might: with bewilderment promptly importaded by blind faddy, facing the suit to her dem, he later tells an inter-

Before left, Alissa Wilde and Cooper Hoffman in "I Want Your Sex," Barbara Jett, Wilde and Seth Rogers in "The Invite," Barbara right, Sponstress Swerdell, Jett, and Amanda Tits in "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misoma"

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Under the gurus' wings, viewers can access desire through the inexperienced characters.

regater, was like realizing his wildest fantasies. What about when she spunked him and ordered him around? How did he feel then? "Thankful," he answers sheepishly.

While泼辣 by the other side of the paradigm in "The Invite," a comedy she also directed. But, she plays Angela, an upright homemaker whose sex life with her older husband (Seth Rogers) has it against?

Enter Pika (Pearlidge Cruz), a send-

girl who lives with her dating partner (Edward Norton) upstairs. Over what and weed, the libertine couple reveal they've been looting organ. What begins as a gay-acquainted dancer evolves into an ingrouping manner in sexuality, that an invitation to swing.

Wilde and the iconospectors, Rachada Jones and Will McCormack, modeled Pika on the relationship expert Esther Perel, and the character's ideas about intimacy often sound like an advice pos-

sion. "Sex is not a thing you do, it's a place you go," Pika girders places to the group, before insisting that some sex acts are less about penetration than "narrative."

Her sensuality streak finds an echo in Billy, who is "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Misoma" likewise urges Kiss to approach sex from a psychological perspective. Lowering her into Sex, Billy coaches Kiss to picture herself in fiction, specifically through the eyes of the fig-

aratively named Little Death, the serial killer in the "Camp Misoma" horror franchise Kiss is remaining.

Leaning over Kiss, Billy counsels her: "Do exactly what I showed you," she prompts. "I'm not going anywhere." Weaving between ecstasy and anxiety, Kiss grays and groans as she envisions Little Death drawing near She reaches organs on the killer threats the spectator her twos. Kiss has, in effect, taken Pika's lips. If sex is a place she goes, it's Camp Misoma, and thought it scares her, the climax requires surrender.

As sexual authorities, Billy and Pika are at once sultry and safe, serving as both mentors and aspirational figures. They're also obsolutional bankers for audiences who might be wary of sex on the big screen. Under the gurus' wings, viewers can access desire through the inexperienced characters, essentially learning shrapeshotters. Erika, by comparison, is within and most opportunistic. She doesn't avowish support Elliot as shock him into submission. Even so, Acido has called "I Want Your Sex" a man in action. I, an intervention meant to shake them from their needless fear of the unconfrontable.

The other two films lead us down separate paths. True to its Perel influence, "The Invite" leads us a psychological note as Pika helps Angela see how her babies have satisfied over time and moves her toward a more enlightened understanding of her marriage. It faces hours movie takes a more erotic tack. After being part of the Little Death, Kiss lies. Absolutely post-viral, is a pool of these. Later, freely straying out in her underwear, she warns Billy that Little Death is critical there. "I am you had it?" she adds Billy. "He'll be back soon," Sex in the movies will, too.

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STYLE

For sale: Vintage for kids

The perfect pair of Levi's, old Armani. Competition among parents can be fierce.

BY CHARLES W. MICHALANSE

When Amet's Tate's combs through packed flea market fields, she is on the back for game such as vintage Levi's jeans, hard-to-fault hand T-shirts and fringed leather jackets.

Not be forced — for her 3-year-old daughter, whose wardrobe, she estimates, is roughly 70 percent vintage.

"I would rather buy that than a 'Frozen' Elsa costume from Amazon," said Tate's 30, who lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn and started collecting children's vintage even before she became a mother. "It feels more thoughtful."

Parents have long devised their children in hand-toe-downs and second-hand clothes as a matter of practicality, as soldiers seem to outgrow sweaters almost overnight.

But lately, the need clothes that some parents seek are from rare provenance and require setting office alerts and telling through pages of they search results.

A recent surge in interest for vintage baby clothes has turned what was once a niche corner of the rookie market into a "gold rush," one observer said, sometimes sending prices of Oshkosh Ripesh overall, and lately 1998s tests to eye-watering heights.

The trend reflects what is perhaps an ever-in-personed desire: for one's child to share in one's tastes. For those who favor, one-of-a-kind gymnasts with healthy pasture over misconduct last fashion, that means making sure their children's outfits have the same aura of cool they seek for themselves.

"A big part of why you go for vintage and firefied parents because you want something that you're not just going to see, everyone else wearing on the street," said Cathy Chokina, who helped start Cooten, a secondhand and vintage children's clothing store, with her friend Shanna Cooper. "I think it's the exact name for dressing your kids."

A recent surge in interest for vintage children's clothes has turned what was once a niche rookie sector into what one observer called a "gold rush," Shanna Cooper, before left, said finding stock for her second-hand and vintage children's clothing store Cooten now involves "a lot of booting on alley for different brands and special things."

"I would rather buy that than a 'Frozen' Elsa costume from Amazon," one mother said.

The shop, which opened on a corner in Redland-Bray-veast in Brooklyn in June, is mainly a place where customers can sell children's antipown clothes for store credit or cash, creating a circular fashion as a system for local partners. But Cooper, 52, has begun to plump up the racks with vintage children's wear she finds herself.

Cooten has now joined a constellation of in-ick-and-meritist stores — including Darling in Brooklyn Heights and Parachute in Greenpoint — that have cropped up over the last few years selling miniature vintage and secondhand offerings.

It's "a lot of booting on alley for different brands and special things," she said, such as a brandy-walk dress with a Peter Pan collar by Armani Ruby from the early 1980s. Cooper and Chokina proud it at 120.

So a recent afternoon, a pair of Oshkosh Ripesh overalls (140), a DK397 logo T-shirt (512) and a course with a centrally printed airplanes and parachutters (522) hung on the racks. Also for sale: a tiny pair of Levi's Orange Tabs that once belonged to Cooper, displayed on the wall.

"I think there's definitely a world in which things like this are worth a lot more," Cooper said, holding up the Armani Ruby dress. "But part of it is we want to prove things to sell, and we want three to be restructured."

Elsewhere in the expanding world of vintage baby clothes, though, got so can quickly become strategic.

Reversing, in an Indian, who wrote the newsletter Beryckel Thresh, witnessed an effray on how of a vintage romper bo-

turing frayers that sold for more than $3,000.

"Nobody wanted them back four years ago," said Rehan, a 10-year-old mother of them in Green Bay, Wis. "I couldn't give those things away."

"The Clifford and Winam-the-Push overalls, if I had them four or five years ago, I'd maybe get 10 or 15 bucks for them," she added.

She has been buying and selling vintage kids' logo since around 2018, after becoming interested in the classic Oshkosh Ripesh and Syndrome she remembered from her childhood. At the time, she said, few vintage buyers or dealers paid much attention to the small garments. She noticed that the market wanted to expand about 2020 and 2025, when the Covid-19 pandemic helped spur a broader interest in vintage clothes.

Rehan now mostly sells wholesale to other sellers, including some as far-flung as Japan. She also counts a television such as the major songwriter Halsey and Erik Michael Estrada, from the pop group O-Town, among her clients.

She is happy about the new interest in children's vintage but "I don't necessarily like the price and the competition," Rehan added.

The hype around vintage children's styles on Facebook pages early in 90s and YJR Kids 8577 1987 stands for buy, sell, trade, could be compared to that surrounding Supreme, and leading Galaxies, the owner of the Jkt Kids lived in the Madison Valley, north of New York City, and a boaster of the woman-focused work and social space the Wing.

"You have to apply to join them," she said of the Facebook page, which has more than 12,000 members. "And then sometimes someone will post a drop and everything you want to already bought in 10 minutes." continue has been a member for about a year."

Still, she usually enjoys herself as she hunts for brands, including Paragonia and Headlines, for her two children. "It's a way to make shopping for your kids' clothes, which can be an annoying look, into something that's fun," she said.

There is also a nostalgic appeal. Parents born in the 1990s sometimes dress their kids in the same clothes they wear at their age. Galaxies councils that building a vintage-hurry wardrobe for her children's "mostly for me, but it's a victimless crime."

And as many shoppers place a renewed emphasis on quality and natural fibers, buying vintage for children also just seems sensitive to some parents.

Tate's, who runs Spread the Mfg. a media company focused on motherhood, said she had noticed that vintage children's clothing "really stood the test of time, because it's cotton, it's linen, it's cadrances, it's less synthetic."

A decade-old baby sweater may have a tooth hole or two, but that's fine. There's a sense that these clothes can take it and may look even better with some wear and tear. "I like things to feel and look wavy," Tate's said. "I don't mind status and practising something up — I think it looks cookie."

At times, though, her daughter has "definitely gotten all on a sweatshirt" she said. "And I'm like, 'Damn, that win a good one.' But, whatever — don't I?"

If you hate jeans, there are options

Vinnora Friedman, The New York Times's fashion director, answers weaker, just-be-veiled questions. You can send for a question of open-bread grap-fence.com or via X. go-veerdman. Questions are added and condensed.

I hate jeans. Always have. Even in high school, I didn't wear jeans. They always feel stiff, and if they fit at the waist, there's no-one fabric at the hip. But they fit in the way the waist gaps. The addition of lycra, etc., helped. Just then the jeans stretch out. I think it's killing that how to "find the right jeans" is like a holy grail undertaking. Since the pandemic, I have learned into alltimes but find it can look sloppy. So I can wondering, what's the alternative? — Sue, Edmonton, Alberta.

First of all, know that you are not alone. The actress Eva Meadus once

called jeans her "event nightmare." Seth Rogue told Jennifer Skelton that he doesn't own a single gun. "They're complicated, they're heavy, they're wreck," he said. Kevin Hart announced he stopped wearing them after he turned 40 because "jeans hurt and are not comfortable." Erin Van Toose said she finds them "surprising." Whole-Roddy threads are dressed to people complaining about a son.

"It's similar to Eva shopping," said Eva Chen, Instagram's director of fashion partnership. "You could have the exact name dimensions as a friend, but what looks good on one person will look wildly different on the other."

Yet, despite all of the above, we live in an increasingly drama-dominated world. Some analysts would probably argue, justifiably, that these days there are jeans for everyone, even the haircuts. It is also true that the sheer effect of sorting through all of these choices to find the one style that works for you can be overwhelming, but to mention a source of option anxiety. And because bodies and trends change, you have to keep doing it, again and again.

Little wonder is may seem easier to just say no. But jeans we've a useful purpose in life. That is why they have

stock around so long and have each brand appeal. They are hard to replace. That's why, assuming you don't want to go the You Twice way and do not yourself fully to dresses and skirts, the first thing you need to think about when you think about an alternative. What are the basic qualities that make dream such an effective part of a wardrobe?

"Practical, durable, American," the designer Mike Ameri said, cutting off on his fingers the positive attributes he associates with jeans. "Classic." To that I would add "malleable" as, like the white shirt or the little black dress, dream can work in a host of different situations depending on how you are someone it.

As to what other kinds of clothing may be similar, but different, Ameri suggested thinking about vintage workwear, such as cargo jeans and pinters? Jeans, clothes that speak a shared natural language and belong to the same traditional but generally have a looser fit and come in either coffees.

"They're light and they're utility," Ameri said. They also act as a waste-robe blank canvas in the same way. Jeans do.

Personally, I am an evangelist for cargo jeans in cotton, silk and even velvet. To me, they have the comfort of poignant and sweaty but the look of actual jeans. I wear them on planes instead of jeans precisely because I don't like the way even comfortable jeans cut into my middle as I squash myself into an economy seat.

Then, who costs years to come around to dream, offered another suggestion, one that fits in the category of having your color and wearing it too. "I have many friends (even in the fashion industry) who express sweepstakes jeans," she said. Essentially terry cloth or fleece jeans that have a unique final jeans effect, they offer the effect of waking dream, at least from afar, with the best to — yes — always.

She also said that you should never say never. "Once you had the brands of jeans you like," she said. "A stranger your relationship with dream."

To that end, it may be worth considering yet another option: taking the dream you (mostly) like to a baby. Sure, that adds a second step and a lot of extra cost, but it will solve the problem of fit, thus elevating the endless quest for the perfect pair. www.waterman.com

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WEEKEND

Isolation and longing beneath the stars

BOOK REVIEW

Range By Debbie Nore, Translated by Caroline Wagall, Gayawell, 520 pp. Paperback, $2.00

BY CHARLOTTE WOOD

The trespassing league early is "Range." He Danish writer Debbie Nore's new novel.

Gunn Slaven, an astrophysics pre-timber and withheld, has taken a partial leave from her job at "the Institute" in an unnamed city to live earlier until huckleman of her childhood, recording gamma-ray frames in the sky and writing a book about the stars. Her explorations up and down the story's mostly trials quickly lead her to what she thinks is an abandoned form: house, until she notices the common-buried to town. Within minutes a dark blue BMW arrives and "a bottle-clad woman" emerges. For Free Wags Check isolation.com, standing with her best planted wide and bouncing down on her interloper with a not-so-vided thrust. "This is private property, the road ends here."

It won't be fair but time Gunn is confronted by the motoring figure she calls "Eddie Watson." And the episode is only one of many intrusions - geographical, interpersonal, existential - beyond through this piercing, outstanding novel of isolation and yearning.

"Range" is Nore's sixth book to appear in English, this one translated by Caroline Wagall. In both her fiction (including the International Booker Prize finalist "Mirror, Shoulder, Signal" and the story collection "Wild Indian") and her travel memoir, "A Law in the World: A Star on the North Sea Coast." Nore writes characters - including herself - who claiming extremities and pay a price for doing so. They are observed, manifest and in various ways dislocated, "saddl" is the common descriptor.

But Nore's work is a sly release to that word. Why must the individual be blamed for running the hit? Why can't society soften, open itself more green - ready to all of us?

For Gunn, this question is old,

deeply international near tissue. Now in her last life, she has long ago accepted her solution: many "consentures it both like I turned left at the crossroads and everybody else turned right", while also learning to camouflage herself in the pink plunge and blouse required of research in scaleness. Only in the classroom, surrounded by total young minds, can she relax into herself, her equations choking across the childhood? In riftness of inquiry and absorption.

But if the vast, dark sky is Gunn's true home, both her workplace and playground, her interactions on the human plane can be awkward, provoking and even reckless. Despite the iron fences she's erected around her own need for connection, the children Gunn knows what she sees as the unrecognized potential of various adolescents in the novel, defying their parents' authority by selecting her own. She takes her teenage neighbor, Nore, under her wing, teaching her about counseling and astronomy, despite unwelcome prying from Jenny's gosage mother. (Gunn reserves some of

her most caustic observations for motherhood, that "consensus-based competition.")

And mavericks the kings for control from "the boy" - the 21-year-old "pornigel" she's manned into the store's child, whom she has ever on a road trip across America with unavoidable to "mort to covariate interest," and he

was actually lost her for overdooms. "Let the worst children come to me," she narrates, the near-bullied strange kid now on a mission to nurture these whose families don't see them.

Let the children whose parents are ashamed of them come to me. The ones with the question dark, the words sound. And let them come, lead in the offspring of bad relationship results in life, the dreaded theory gives up rapidly hungry kids. Let them show up at my door, you a foot in, plead for membership in the standoff.

This is an ebbagely composed novel of advances and withdrawals and buried clans, and the reader, like the astronomer, must patiently "observe,

nare, conclude." As you watch and wait your to sometimes-rounded with a narrative burst of fear yesterly, or a subtler, more beautiful abrasion of revelation, it is a novel whose language and structure delicately enact its wrenching themes, most of all the heartache of suffering men over one son and carefully guarded loneliness.

In Wagall's translation, Nore's prose is a critical issue and often immensely pretty (the "wonder darkness," a "spell of light and rain"). Passages are often intriguingly structured, building chains of meditating descriptions only to end in a flare of some surprising, unbidden truth. If her promptly parents know where he was at the moment, she imagines, "they'd be standing in their open-door kitchen right now gazing anxiously at each other. They would adjust the light above the kitchen island with that distance which he hither had launched, and they would agree to direct their anger toward Gunn."

In halting steps through the novel we uncover her history and her private hurts: the sudden death of Gunn's

mother when she was little, the buttonless love for her angel father who did his best, the "growing blade" of her earlier haemodarous while studying abroad in America.

The "range" in the novel is not only the grand stretch of the universe, but also the rages between freedom and reflex, the push and pull of distance and connection. But the kind of freedom Gunn inspires can come at a term for price, and there are reckoning to be made: not only with the monstrous Eddie Watson but with Gunn's deepest, most estranged self.

In an era when all language is subject to relentless algorithmic learning, when books are so often rewarded for racist comprehension and fused sentiment, "Range" is a rebellious celebration of the angel-baby and mystery of humankind. We need more fiction like Nore's. Let the word children come.

Charlotte Wood is the author of seven novels, including "Brave Devil Greenbend" and "The Natural Way of Things."

By the Book Blake Cross†

"I write the way I like to read. I love lots of white space on a page. I like short paragraphs that never 'besses 2 of the Apple TV adaptations of no cup's the day. 'Dark Matter' begins streaming this month."

What's the last great book you read? "Pleasant," by Susanna Clarke, I finished it a few months ago and was favored by the restrained prose, unreliable narrative and other worldly images, which have been the most popular in this day. There's something so dreamlike and everybody and beautiful about it. I wish David Lynch were still with us to do the merest adaptation.

What's your favorite book on one else has heard of?

I don't know if 'no one' has heard of it, but the 2001 thriller "Vertical Run," by Joseph R. Garber, the unbiased lead from start to finish. It's about a guy who makes up, goes to work and quickly discovers that everyone knows is trying to kill him. They really don't make them like the same.

Your favorite antithesis or villain? Hannibal Loren, and it's not even close. Thomas Harris's creative, first introduced in his masterpiece, "Bret Dragon," is the apex of fully realized characters, not just villains, in modern fiction. To me, he's an iconic in Dracula.

Your novels often incorporate six marks of contemporary science. Are there researchers or popular science writers you especially admire?

For us, one of Elizabeth Ballmer's "The Earth Enhancer", 'Xmas' (with Martin) ("Sapiens," "Shake Dress," etc.) and Carin Brenda ("White Skies," "The Order of Time" and "Seven Brief Lessons on Physics")

Many reviews of "Dark Matter" look only if the book's breathlessness. Its short paragraphs and sentences. What did you make of that criticism?

I don't know, I write the way I like to read. I love lots of white space on a page. I like short paragraphs that never. I want the experience to be as numerous as possible for the reader. Maybe it's a weird quick of mine, but how the text looks on the page is very important to me.

What has been the impact of steadily writing for TV and movies?

The downside line - writing two volumes of "Dark Matter" for pages 15 has surely prolonged the time between my last novel ("Eggside") and the new book I just finished. I don't love that. However, I feel like writing a thousand pages of scripts over the last few years, and in particular working closely with tremendous actors, but given me a deeper insight into the logan and character motivation.

Do you distinguish between "commercial" and "literary" fiction?

I don't. I think there are great books worth my time and books that aren't. I just love great literary period. We hate for the globe. We surely now hope to sample the prose in. No matter how low- or hightime, No matter how many awards the writer has won... or how low.

Disappointing, overruled, just not great! What book did you feel as if you were supposed to like, and didn't?

Oh man, I want to answer truthfully, but I won't slam other authors. I don't need the harms of telling them. I think their baby is ugly in The New York Times.

What book has had the greatest impact on you?

"The Prince of Eden," by Pat Conroy. It was the first "adult novel" I ever read. I think I was 21. I was so exasperated. Conroy's story of the Wage-Sandy. A low incredibly disturbing course in the book not only shook me, but showed me the power of great writing.

How do you sign books for your fans?

I love in Durango, Colo., which is about to one of the great independent bookstores in America - Marcia Redcalup. I'll usually pay down every couple of weeks and sign whatever sellers have come in.

Describe your ideal way to procrastinate from writing.

But I would never put that madness out into the world.

You're organizing a literary dinner party. Which there writers, dead or alive, do you make?

Corinne McCarthy, Ted Chang and Pat Conroy

What do you plan to read now? "Wild Dark Slime," by Charlene McConaghy. I've heard amazing things, and I'm a sucker for stories set in Antarctica.

Email interview conducted and edited by Scott Baller. An expanded version is available at syrians.com/books.

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MUSIC

Photo by: David W. H. (Photo by: David W. H.)

Left, the violinist and composer Curtis Stewart, who trained to the 24 Caprices of Niccolò Paganini, right, as a model for the recently released “24 American Caprices” Bottom, Stewart working with Maxwell Brown, 25, one of several students on the recording.

Another turning point for Stewart came in 2023, with a concert at Carnegie Hall that was organized by Jones and Alicia Hall Mozes. For the first time, Stewart played “Louisiana Blues first” by Celestigo-Taylor Perkinson, a stylistically unanswered Black composer and conductor who died in 2016. Stewart has been chasing the flash of recognition for full in the piece — with its kidney, bidding and blues-inflected modes — more.

“These 24 caprices are kind of an extension of that,” he said. “They’re a way for me to own the violin, to feel like the violin is me.”

Though Stewart’s collection has no presented to terms of its courage and scale, he has acknowledged some reference points. The brittle giant Mark O’Connor wrote and recorded six caprices in the late 1990s. And in the early 2010 century, the British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor composed “24 Negro Melodies” for piano; Stewart recently arranged and recorded selections from that main for violin and orchestra, learning successful Grammy nomination.

Stewart’s output has long hinted at a project like “24 American Caprices” how the artistic director at the American Composers Orchestra, he has answered a vast body of work in an interpretive, composer and “re-conposer” that would of works by Vivaldi, Eugène Traby and others.

Other improvisations became the basis for later caprices. He had previously recorded improvisations on “Guitz Steps,” “Left Every Time and Sing,” “Jesus Wonder’s ‘Text’ She Loved,” the jazz standard “Take the ‘A’ Train” and the Greek folk song “Thalassios Miss,” all of which were adapted in the caprices.

While composing the collection, Stewart didn’t think of it as being a pedagogical tool, per se. Then, during the 2020-21 season, he was the artist in residence at the Kaufman Music Center, one of five commissioners of “24 American Caprices” (Another is the Juilliard School, where he teaches.) He oversaw a performance of selected caprices, featuring Chuang and other students from the Special Music School at Kaufman Afterword, Stewart said, the audience “original.”

“It felt like a pop or rock concert,” he added. “I was sitting out there while the violinists were performing these, and they just owned it. They had an opinion about it, they wanted to put their energy into it.”

Stewart even enlisted a student musician for the next biggest statement — an eight-minute theme and variations on “Assuring Grace”: Maxwell Brown, 25, from Wilmington, Del, Brown, who attended both the Portland Music Program and Galliard’s Pre-Critique, said he was “absolutely enthralled by” the caprice, which only blunt at the theme until it is fully revealed near the southern suburban.

“I found it extremely beautiful,” Brown said. “It still has all of the technical challenges of any traditional caprice, while being this soulful and grocery work.”

Stewart’s pedagogical background resulted him for the collection’s educational aspects. Start-ups, while working at Lansacaba High School — but alma mater — he would invest and assign trades to address specific students’ technical needs.

“But I never wrote them down,” he said while caprices “chalk was so thank”.

He’ll have no such regrets with the “24 American Caprices.” The sheet music is widely available, and Stewart has uploaded reference videos recorded with violinists from the album, along with a scrolling score.

The classical music came in terms of a special pace, and even so, the caprices are taking hold. Some of Stewart’s full-flank colleagues have told him that violinists are including the caprices in their audience, a ritual usually devoted to standard or highly established repertoire. “That was really moving,” he said.

In Stewart’s score, conventional frail and musical terms assign while playing English descriptions “graceful ghost,” “tombin the keys,” “magical, woodsy,” “smog,” “woody baby” and, simply, “go!” The double harmonic at the end of the 19th caprice, based on Paul Stewart’s “Young, Gifted and Black,” carries one such directive: “Send the sound,” Violinists, it seems, are only just beginning to do that.

A violinist’s twist for 24 caprices

Curtis Stewart channels Niccolò Paganini, with rifles on American experiences

BY RAYNAH EDGAR

On the manuscript edition of his 24 Caprices for solo violin, Niccolò Paganini wrote a simple dedication under his what of a signature: “To artists”.

More than 200 years later, this violinist and composer’s biasingly technical Caprices remain a resting ground for television, especially young men. In that way, Paganini’s high-minded dedication can also be read as a taunt. Only true artists need apply.

Accompanied were candidate honouring, On: MacKenzie, the violinist and composer Curtis Stewart collected a recording of his “24 American Caprices” for solo violin in the Bright Slany Things label. It is inspired by music that, he said, has “defined my American experience.” (He will perform selections in New York on Oct. 5.)

Like Paganini, Stewart hones specific violin techniques in his caprices, but with a twist. After all, how many occurrences of violin pedagogy off on Earth, What Is Here “September”? Or Reodosh Lamar’s “Congestion”?

Likewise, for composers would extract their magnum open to young musicians. In performances and on the premiere recording, Stewart has done just that. Seven of the violinists featured on the commercial reissue are students, some of whom are still in high school.

Like On: Chuang, a happy go-baby 17-year-old who has a dog give and go-a-fly Jacky, is one of those musicians. To him, Stewart’s caprices aren’t just elsewhere.

“It’s more about how you show the music, rather than how you show the technique.” Chuang said in a video call from the Portland Music Program in Shelter Island, N.Y., where Stewart teaches.

Stewart’s caprices mine classic rock, hip-hop, traditional and more. Chuang started listening to John Mitchell for the

first time while preparing the 19th caprice, inspired by Mitchell’s song “Big Yellow Ties.” The seventh caprice, an octave american, traces the title reissue of Queen Landale’s 1863 song “CULTI” The double trifle and first passage of the third issue is a hard programme based on John Calhoun’s “Guitz Steps” and a ghostly account of “Tops” plants the violists harmonic never, brought be fit by tightly resting and triage on the strings in specific locations.

Compared with the European pedagogical canon, the inspirations for the American caprices “are coming from relatively young places,” said the violinist Tal Murray, who recorded a caprice based on Dolly Partners “9 to 5.” She plans to assign Stewart’s collection to her students at Yale School of Music in the coming academic year.

“It’s trying to be what it is, which is something that will stand the test of the

heraldity of life, a thousand violists trying to play it,” she said. “So many people can play it, and they’re all going to play it differently. But the piece itself is still standing.”

Stewart, 25, said he is still “trying to figure out what my American state of mind is.” In part, he sees these caprices as an act of rebellion, celebrating the much-bellywood 200th anniversary of the United States as his own terms.

“I’m tired of being ashamed of being American,” he said. “But when you look at Nina Simone, when you look at Some Rosetta Tharpe, when you look at Bob Dylan and Dolly Partners, there has been no farce. It was just an shameful and yes/no to be American then as it is now.”

Stewart lives in New York, where he grew up (he was born in Helsinki, Finland). He is the son of two jazz musicians: the tuba player Bob Stewart and the violinist Elektra Kurtis, who died in

2021 and inspired his Grammy-nominated album “30 Love.” Curtis is gregarious and charismatic. With an intriguing charm you rarely encounter in the intense world of classical music.

As a child, however, he was shy and withdrawn. When he wasn’t bouncing away or violin shades, he absented over making D.I.Y. skateboard camps in the backyard of his family’s apartment building. He considered becoming an engineer, and pooled up a math degree at the University of Rochester while studying at its Kaufman School of Music.

“The violin didn’t feel like me at that point, and I think it didn’t really start feeling like me until I started creating music for myself and my quarter,” he said, referring to P.M.L.Hyacott, the supervising quartet that he co-founded in 2020. (Jason Montgomery, a fellow violinist-composer, was also a founding member.)

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BY ALEXIS MILFORD

"Oh, look at that," Eric Goode said as a golden-crested gecko-crop! down his arm. "You love beautiful that in."

Goode, the documentation behind "Tiger King," was standing in the strangy basement of a per store on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He advanced a milk snake, a corn snake, several ngươi geckos, a spear-tailed lizard and an African-spurred terrane named Boy George who trumbed past him and actuated on the floor.

Goode, who suggested visiting the store, paused at the case of a bearded dragon, noting that no hardware had been smuggled into America in the 1970s and '80s.

"This lizard is a power child of an illegal animal that became common," he said.

The legal, quasi-legal and very much illegal trade in reptiles in the subject of Goode's new five-part documentary series, "Monsters of God," which premiered on BBC/rbin month. A former artist and a ministerial nightclub, lurid and volitional hagerstown, Goode, a boyish 64, has latterly become a documentation whose property exists on the thought relationships between humans and animals.

"Monsters of God" forms a homestaking with "Tiger King," on Netflix, the Covid lockdown phenomenon from 2020 about the hardwood, criminal rivalry between a roadside zoo operator and an animal sanctuary owner, and another HBO decision in, "Chimp Crazy" about a woman, Tonia Haddin, who illegally kept a chimpanzee that she treated like a child.

"A lot of people criticize me for exploitation, for using deception."

But for Goode, this project is his most personal. He has loved friends and their really kin since childhood, and in 2002 he co-founded the Turtle Conservancy, which supports endangered turtle species.

My love of reptiles, that is always in the back of my mind," he said.

After he returned the gecko to its enclosure, Goode discussed status, ethics and his own reptile-collecting complicity. There are edited excerpts from the conversation.

What's your relationship to reptiles?

As a kid, I was lucky enough to live next to a beautiful creek (in California), and I would take the creek and sand kayaks and turtles and rattlesnakes and put them in my landdive. I just fell in love with reptiles. You could order them in the mail back in these days. I slept with this insect called a nape from South America.

The like I led in New York (starting in 1977) was very much about art and fashion, so I was cheered with my love affair of creepy, crawly, cold-blooded creatures. Whenever I'd bring a girlfriend home to my left, they'd be shocked. Around the mid-1980s I began to realize that I'd been somewhat selfish keeping these animals, and I became aware that many turtle species were threatened with extinction. So I started a conservancy.

In your collecting days, did you ever buy anything that had been obtained illegally?

In the early days, I bought some star verismen and wood turtles. Most of this was before the Endangered Species Act (of 1970). I was naive about how these animals ended up in per store. But I don't think I ever bought anything that I know was illegal.

Goode at left and pointing at her right. Centre, a scene from "Monsters of God," which defves into legal, quasi-legal and very much illegal trade in reptiles.

Eric Goode, slave and baker, at a per store in Manhattan. His new document, "Monsters of God," defves into the sometimes illegal business of importing exotic reptiles.

Questioning where that snake came from

Eric Goode's latest docuseries about the lurid business of exotic animals is also his most personal

nately unabashed Marie. We first filtered him with glasses that had a camera in them. It was so stupid, and the footage didn't even work. Sometimes it's about just getting your feet in the door and being fluent in the language. Sometimes we had to visit years. Sometimes it required waving and dining. I struck out a lot.

What is your code of ethics as a filmmaker?

I'm never aggressive. I think you need to be a gentleman, you need to be thoughtful and respectful when you walk into someone else's world. This is a very guarded world. So you have to take a very careful, slow, gentle approach. And some people, people that are really down and out, you compensate them for artificial material, but it's a taboo to talk about that.

"Tiger King" focuses on two charismatic figures, "Chimp Crazy" on one, there. It's a whole clutch of people. Will that connect with audiences in the same way?

There are also 2 if 3 I've anywhere as successful. "Tiger King" and "Chimp Crazy" were both stories that happened (outcompensated). I had no idea the way going to try to kill Carole (had an idea I know was going to kid) was a chimpanzee and keep him in law basement. You could say that's amazing from a film director's perspective, but there were bad things that happened, so I don't want to relish it. In the case of "Monsters of God," I wanted to tell the story of the history of the reptile trade. And reptiles aren't clumps or tigers, which are more charismatic.

Your three series have all been about animals. Are you comfortable with being the animal dec guy?

Yeah, because deep down, there are indelible part of my life. That's the most pure, honest part of me.

Do you feel responsibility for your human subjects?

Yeah, of course. A lot of people criticize me for exploitation, for using deception. I just feel like the mouse justifies the end. You can disagree, fair enough. It's complicated.

How do you balance the impulse to treat people humanely with telling a great story?

There's sometimes a euphoria, a dopamine rush for those people. They're on camera, they're on HBO. That can change, and suddenly, it ends in, like, "Wait a minute, maybe I don't like the way I was depicted." But I really have tried hard to format that needle. In doing so, I had to basically bite the hand that feeds me, because the zoo community is not happy about this. I'm part of that. So you could say I'm a crazy hypocrite or I'm doing something really destructive to myself. But I try to be honest with everyone, to tell a story that doesn't just shine the light on one bad guy. We're all kind of complicit.

I hope in the end there's a way to make a difference, change minds, and yet try to have people that were a part of the story not just completely hate me to hate the project. We'll see what happens.

Do you have personal feelings about these people? Some of them have done very bad things.

I have to be careful what I say right now. My life's been threatened over the years from some of the people to previous projects. I have to take security in a few days to the Daytona Reptile. Have become I've been warned by the people that are hurting me that I need to watch my back.

But it's horrible what happens when animals are clinged, and you get a hot and you open it, and half of them are dead, all of them dead. I hope people recognize that we have to do better. The man can be better. I can be better. The animal trade can be more responsible. People, when they see on animal at a cage in a per store, a zoo, they don't really realize how many animals died to get that one animal there.

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LIVING

'Please love my son as I do'

How I found a way to navigate my relationship with my ex's new wife

Modern Love

BY DENISE EVAN

My son, Alexander, was 12 when his father remarried. I learned he was going to be best man the night before the wedding. We had to write a speech, a homework assignment left to the last minute.

Since her father, Chris, got serious with Angela, I know two and one about Alexander's life with them.

"You didn't tell me about being best man," I said.

"I told you months ago," he replied. "This is type of lot to. Alexander seems to believe I know everything that's going on in his life, or if for thoughts and feelings your automatically from his being into mine.

"What goes into a best man speech?" he asked.

"Google!" I said.

He worked as the speech while I called, and I took over his control wedding out. I had offered to rent the out on a net of wedding gift. It would take a few days out of their budget and return his head preventable. Maybe it was my way of saying to Angela, "Please love my son as I do."

"What time is the wedding?" I asked.

"I'm getting picked up at 10 a.m.," he said.

"10 a.m." Who gets married at 10 a.m.?

"I don't ask Angela," he said. "But you know that."

"I didn't know that. You never told me."

After our divorce, and before he met Angela, Chris and I talked on the phone daily. These calls ended when Angela appeared a gussied it was a boundary she had imposed, and he had embraced, nudging me away as they drew down.

I missed the calls. Although they were mostly about or promising, they were a habit for the loss of our marriage. No leave and understood me. And we both knew that no one would ever be as interested in our son as we were. something I knew he said, a man who framework assignment. A wedding speech.

When Chris and I met on a gray,

windresign street corner outside the courthouse to pick up our final divorce and custody paperwork, we understood that things had changed. We would never agree we go over our credit card debt (mostly mine). We would have to call each other by our first names, our theories or Bats. That day we agreed to always keep our stock food interest at the center of our relationship. We would do divorce differently than our parent/sold.

He looked like he had a good break it. As we handled through early post-ference relationships, our phone calls were a friendly habit. She first girl-found, Nathalie, was a bad stylist from France where social media handle was "Ode-la-la".

My son did not like her son on via, but I did.

Chris tolerated my new boyfriend, although he found him holicrous and a little too well dressed.

Chris and I blended Christmas Eros and aftercooked activities, cared for each other's city and shop, and shared much duty of secret and baseball.

"I don't like it," Janet, my former mother-in-law, said one day, when Chris and I were stretched out together on a blanket, watching our son at Little League.

"You don't like what?" I asked. "I don't like this," she said, blowing her cigarette inside into the center of our image circle. "It's uncomfortable." She was visiting from Minneapolis

and, for reasons mystifying to one, found it stressful to be around Chris and our together. In her view, divorced people should empty never speak to each other again.

How could I explain to her, or anyone, that I didn't miss being married, but I missed our little family? I missed my mother-in-law's crusade, grateful voice. I missed how she interacted with my son. I missed the crazy way she started investing when she drank too much. I even missed all that's making.

I had divorced my husband. I hadn't divorced the father of my child — or his mother.

I'm here we were, on the eve of her marriage to someone else, and things had changed. Please calls between Chris and me had become strictly practical. When, where and how much?

Sure, we had been divorced for six years, but I never expected it would all just end.

"I have to write something about what Angela can expect once she's married to Dad," my son said. "I could tell you a thing or two," I replied.

"I have to write it myself," he said. Fair enough. "What is something about Dad that you know for certain?" I asked.

"He hates it when my socks don't match."

I laughed. He started to type. I read the speech before I looked it into my profile of his son.

"I love my Dad very much and am happy he found such a good lady," he wrote. Angela, from the very first time we met, when we all went bowling, I liked you right away. You're coming and just and even Buster likes you the anyone that doesn't know Buster, let's the evil call out. You're your best address to the family, and not just because you can help me with my math homework, but let your great sense of humor and the fact that you're always happy!

Good at math! Great sense of humor? Always happy! How would I know? I would even be led to the wedding.

"When my son came back from the wedding the next evening, he refused to take the suit off. 'Best day of my life,' he said. 'I didn't want it to end.' Alexander's sick joke killed. He got to it. I with his older cousin, Angela looked beautiful.

"Well, that's 10 years younger than Dad," I said, easily.

He thopped on the bed as his suit, a changed person.

We fell into a new routine, with Alexander spending more than just weekends with them.

Then enough, Angela and Chris had a baby, luck. I dropped Alexander off at the maternity hospital door, and

secretly wondered if things would change now that Angela had a son of her man.

I didn't have to worry. When we were shopping for his back-to-school items that year, Alenato for canned "hush" all his fat. "You need a luck for your today," I said.

"I don't," he said. "Angela gave me men. It was bad luck that I do not do. She had been saving it for her kids."

"What about luck?" I asked, although he was still in-dupers.

Alexander did egged. "She wanted to give it to me."

A few days after their second child, Charles, was born, my phone lit up. It was Chris, presumably to ask me to drive Alexander to see the baby.

"Should I bring Alexander after we see?" I asked.

"No," he said. His voice was that. The baby had contracted respiratory syncytial virus and was admitted to the pediatric U.C. He was critically ill with bronchial complications and in the highest risk group for mortality. Because it was viral, there was no treatment other than oxygen and hydration. The doctors had advised Chris and Angela to hope for the best and to prepare for the work.

Chris was exhausted. He hadn't slept in 10 hours. He had to take care of luck. He had to feed Buster, the evil sir. Angela was a little longer than me.

"Is there anything I can do?" I asked.

He passed. "She could probably use a vanilla idea."

Would she even want me then? I didn't know. I did know that Angela shouldn't be at the hospital by herself, even for an hour. I checked up on magicians and then didn't feel, picked up two vanilla items and gigglyly picked my head into the room.

The baby had an oxygen mask that covered his head like a space blanket. When, electrodes and tubes connected his step body to machines.

"How is he doing?" "We don't know," Angela said. "They don't tell us anything."

"I thought Vogue and Vanity Fair," I said, "And it results later."

Sneakless, we got through the next few hours. We joined about the space helmet, asked the woman if she had been they still couldn't answer, and heard through the magazine, in its face. I stayed until dark and left when Chris came back.

She thanked me for coming. I thanked her for the luck.

There was no road map for us once the maternity hospital. I didn't know what my role was in our changed family or if I were had out. But in these anxious hours when my work workouts became too fighting for her life, I found my place. I wasn't this baby's mother, and Angela wasn't my next mother, but through our children we found a way to love each other.

A few days later, my son reported that the baby was recovering.

"When will be he released?" I asked.

"He's home," he said. "I already told you that."

He hadn't, but it didn't matter. Something had passed through him, to me, as I ever does, weirdingly. We were all family.

Denise Evan is a writer in Vancouver, British Columbia.

My mother is dying. So must I do everything that she asks?

The Ethicist

BY DENISE ASTRONY APPEAR

My mother is in her late 70s and has metacidals cancer. My father died 25 years ago, and she lives alone seven years of her own, and has been a very young woman compounded. She doctor attempts she has two to three years, though she could have lost or much more — some patients live 40 years with metacidals cancer. Since her diagnosis, she has turned into the more challenging aspects of her demanding personality. She now puts outside to make demands that my sibling and I want to get because her time is limited. She wants to spend every holiday to gather and take big family trips. Next summer, for example, she wants my sibling and me, along with our partners and our children, to take on expensive services and help her a work or two.

I have a young family, and while my husband and I are comfortable, we have chosen names and time off and can generally take only one big vacation a year. Traveling with my mother is difficult and often with it especially or more, to start, if to set her. Before her diagnosis, we hope to set future boundaries with my family, with whom we have a criminal relationship, and as we are spending some holidays on our own. In response, my mother and I do the time to get to see her. The "bad guys" for abandoning her.

I love my mother and have worked hard to make plans to her, but got to be plagued our relationship. I am abandoned by her prognosis and want to spend meaningful time with her — and I do — but the prospect of saying

you to every holiday vacation and family gathering is daunting. I could be saying you for two years at St. sometimes at the expense of my mother (family's work). Trips we want to take will have to be just on hold, and our desire to spend holidays apart from my family (spread I don't want to say so to everything, but I would like that option sometimes. My sibling says I'm wrong. What can I do? Am I a terrible daughter for saying so to my dying mother? Name Withheld.

ITS PERFECTLY FINE to say that you want to spend your major annual holiday with your husband and children, or indeed, that you'd rather see your mother on your own. You should make accommodations for her, and she should be you, your wishes and needs matter, too.

At the same time, it's worth trying to see what may be linked across other demands. A programer measured in years can distress from another reality. Before death comes dying. The time she has left is likely to include a period of increasing frailty, discomfort, dependence and emblematter. Based with the prospect of having much less insults than with the people she loves than she once imagined, she may feel a sense of urgency about gathering them around her. We focus on shared vacations would seem to be her way of looking on to that family and filling for time and to the "bad guys" for abandoning her. That's a deeply understandable desire, even if she's expressing it in ways that are difficult for her children.

The idea of a holiday with the whole family could be a good one, if I had a real chance of going well. You think it could go badly, in part because of the storm and stress in your relations with your mother, and in part because your

relations with your sibling are strained, as well. It seems to me that you should talk them things through with your mother, explaining that you want to spend meaningful time with her but that you may sometimes be happier, and closer to her, when you spend time together without the cost of the family. You might also think about other ways of giving her the coupons, possibly the menu. You should tell her, gently but firmly, how you feel, and in turn down to how she feels. God said that that she will want to discuss your relationship with your sibling, if it has hope to be as better terms with her as she enters this last phase of her life, honestly and kindness will serve you both with.

So while you have reasons to make a special effort to be present for her, you're not obliged to organize your family life around her wishes. Not

wouldn't serve anyone very well to plan a vacation around an image of family harmony. But the top is unlikely to mature. Given that your sibling wants to help make your mother's remaining years of age, and that's perhaps all of you can think together about ways of spending time with her that have a real chance of bringing pleasure rather than pressure. That would probably be of many gift to her that a vacation that risks leaving everyone brushed and further again.

My husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease four years ago, and in the past year his doctor has rapidly accelerated. Two of his previous research before a temporary loss case I have not only been a caregiver to him but also a single mother to our daughter, who is a nurse. I have been operating a family life without a partner, and

as the broadcaster. Lately I've been wondering if you'd when it's ethically permissible for me to start dating other people. My husband is not getting any better. I have a lot of working years and child-eating years ahead of me — there is a large age gap between us — and I find myself desiring physical and emotional intimacy with a partner. Name Withheld.

ITS GENUIN: Well you've had a lot to carry for a long time, not least caring for the husband at the Alzheimer's, but it's important, and you can now turn confused stewardship at his spouse. But given that his condition has evidently been made for me, it is reciprocal emotional and marital relationship, these obligations don't mean you have to give up emotional and physical intimacy for the rest of his life. Validity, as a situation like yours, involves a duty of care, but with the effective use of a companion, you're entitled to care for yourself as well.

I don't know whether the two of you ever are raised the distance you face while he was fully mentally present. If so, that conversation may help you think about what you do and whether it doesn't necessarily settle what you do or are, though. You still have to review with the marriage as it now exists, and with how much of the pain you have and how much of the pain you have.

Anyday you become involved with will need to know that you are married and that you remain responsible for your husband's care. You should also have to give advice to have children ship on your daughter and, depending on his level of awareness, your husband's own consideration, though, bear on how you pursue a new relationship, not on whether you may have one.

Anyone, partner, regular income, philosophy at N.Y.C. His books include "Cosmopolitanism," "The Great Code" and "The Lion That Bind: Refreshing Identity."

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A tapestry of corners to explore

In the Windy City, soak up the history and venture to varied pockets of town

36 Hours in

Chicago

BY NATHALIE V. MOORE

In 2017, Chicago adopted the Latin motto "Cima in Berta," or "city in a garden." It's a fitting tagline for this lovely Midwestern townspule, especially once summer late. Even of winter's long chill, heals make for the waters of Lake Michigan and far the beach eyes. Chicago has been to via, lake, town and outbursts. And while there's plenty to entertain throughout the city, push past burrowers classics by venturing to different pockets of town. The itinerary, which makes use of a car to maximize your time, begins on the South Side, where the striking new Obama Presidential Center recently opened, with stops in Hyde Park, Brownsville, South Shore and Park Manor, Walley, space, including motorists, parks and historical sites, serves as a through line to the destinations.

FRIDAY

3 PM - LEAPLING A COMPANY TOWN

Chicago's first National Park Service unit, Pullman National Historical Park, tells the story of the Pullman Company, a major railroad car manufacturer founded after the Civil War by the industrial George Pullman. Pullman commissioned a company town for workers, who could start — but not purchase — confessions, some with coveted amenities like nature plumbing. In the winter course, a small mountain illustrates stories of labor strikes, and innovates and the Black Pullman perfect! Sight for equality. There's a few once-daily tour of 3 jobs, but if you can't swing it, the rangers can still answer questions.

5 PM - LAMPLE STREET FOOD

Before 5 o'clock of 5 p.m., head up to Brown Sugar Bakery, about a 20-minute drive north, Gold-Browd to go — either a caramel capsule (54) or a slice of the decalized Obama cake, featuring layers of yellow, dark chocolate and red velvet cake, cooled in cream cheese scing and topped with chocolate drizzle and pecans (55). Then head across East 75th Street to turn the line of Louis' Bar-B-Q. Opened in 1914, the South Side institution — which last year the James Beard Foundation named one of America's Chases — is known for Chicago-style BBQ, which cost an expensive-style method of cooking, which a glass-enclosed smoker serves as the pit. At the country, call out your order to the permanent smoker, smoke 40 cigs (from $25.95) and be hot sausage (55) are given. The no-frills pain doesn't have seating, so grab some curb outside and dig in.

7 PM - 1700 A CABINET CONTROL

A few family unit, Park Manor 75 is a town for up front and expansion in the back. The areas exclusively features Black-owned when spent and beer labels, like the Napa Valley-based Brown Estate. Now, an African vodka made with small cheese sugar case, and the bonemous malt brewery Moors, whose reviews do but hints of fizz beer, green papaya and lemongrass (520). House cocktail (like the Green Park, a blend of surgical, natural) blames and regrowth topples, pink grapefruit and agave-surface (555), are equally compelling. The local food is spinning — expect to hear you at, on a Friday night, house music, among the city's major cultural experts. Still hungry? A small menu includes charcuterie, Batteaude and a canned green dip (513) that's whipped with garlic into a creamy tinsel.

8 PM - BRAND TO THE BUCK

About a 20-minute ride north, end the high in Bristol City's Legends, a black club and namesake of the guitar player who opened it in 1968. Although Mr. Guy, the 1968 Bull of Bones earned Miss July, a new generation line lately has not of his legacy thanks to a career in Ryan Cough's 1,825 movie "Sonors." There are eighty shows Wednesday through Atlanta, and Friday shows start at 8 p.m., with the headliner coming on at 9:30 (Friday tickets, $27.50). Boating is an a first-come-first-served basis, and doors open at 5 p.m. — so prepare to stand in the far. If Mr. Guy is in town, there's a good chance you'll catch him here, throwing back shots contigs and singing.

SATURDAY

6:30 A.M. - VINE-WESTERN

Vine public landmarks on a cruise through the Island's Brownsville neighborhood. The insipior Alison Isar's Seance "Monument to the Great Northern Migration" — a weary traveller with a suitcase in hand — stands nearly at

20th Place and Dr. Martin Luther King. In Deere, paying tribute to the Black Southern nits who in the early 20th century migrated to Chicago seeking opportunity — and an escape from Jim Cook. Continue south to 21th Street, where the Victory Monument houses the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African American and that during World War I served as France. A new of elegant givtytowns — limestone residences commonly found in Chicago — appears further down the boardwalk, among them the Ida B. Wells-Barrett House, where the activist lived until 1929.

8:30 A.M. - MOORE'S AMOUNT

Start with breakfast at the Star Street Farmers Market, which from mid-May through October sets up on a two-black stretch. The market, which straddles Hyde Park, home to the University of Chicago, and Woodlawn, a mostly Black community, has a twofold mission: to bring together neighbors and to offer produce and products from local suppliers. Some vendors appear weekly, where estate is in and out. But you might see Budd Coffee & Books, a fresh customer for that got its deal at the market. And in a tour, Kilowitz Kenya Coffee Company — its confessions cost ratio (57.95) pairs well with Meridian Bread (Crispain's) almost 1/2000 (57). At the 53-54 Family Farms stand, pick up women all from, Bones: Street parking at free.

10 A.M. - LIBERTY-MOUNT URBAN

Make the 21-minute walk over to Jackson Park, where the impressive Obama Presidential Center opened in June. You can freely explore the campus but tickets for the mountain stars for bought dr. advance (from $25). Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, the mountain garden visitors through the local movements such as labor and suffrage before arriving at Baruch (the only political journey. Scattered throughout the mountain and greater campus are more than 20 min-specific installations by contemporary artists including Clares Mae Woons and Theodore Gates. The 20-minute movement like sits on a community hall, so there's still plenty to see if you don't move to be a walking trail, and it does basketball court and a fruit and vegetable garden are free and open daily.

12:30 PM - 1507 IN SITE OF MOMENT

Named for the late Tabor Campbell, a former White House chief, Tabor's Kitchen is casual and elegant — not the typical, cafeteria-style museum restaurant. Signature of the overhole Mrs. Belmone's Red Rice, a tribute to Michelle Obama's author, which makes skimp

with tomato juice, Tobacco, crumbled bacon and sausage (518.25), and the Obama Family Club (522), made with spiced ground turkey and served with cardboard. A 21-minute walk north of the center in the airway branch spot Deere A.M. Eatery. Thanks to its windows and view of Jackson Park, dining here from the outing is a museum. The restaurant's feedback addresses appear as a bacon flight featuring trifle, hot honey and bourbon maple flavors (529), and continued French toast, almost with crispy fruit chicken and a spiced peach compote (520).

2 PM - 1504 A MONSTER CRANE

It's about a 20-minute stroll over to 57th Street via South Lake Park Avenue, where Presidly Books has used and out-of-pitch volumes on everything from film to African studies. Another 20-minute stroll over the city is a 57th Street Books, where Mr. Obama chopped when he lived nearby. Around the corner, its size for bookstore — all the original flagship — Seminary Co-op is a labyrinth of rare black and academic volumes. Walk 10 minutes (or drive five minutes) courts to 72nd Street to browse jewelry and jerky 5 chairs at the Silver Cross, then pop around the corner to the art gallery and picture design from the cykel Modern for Chicago-inspired. Sugrances from Mimeat and colorful paintings by the Nigerian artist Eka Banerji East two blocks north of the Black-woman-owned Cell & Response Books, which features shelves of tickets and sunshades by Black authors.

4 PM - 1800 ON THE SOUTH SIDE

Cuba is a set of which from Deere, a laboratory (from 10, 1840, to 1945) per minutes, and ride along the South Side induction, which is less crowded than its northern center part. (The main also appears you to docking stations for bike pick up and drop off.) Stop at the South Shore Cultural Centre, a country club-tested cultural center where the 10th was held June 1992, and is in the system. Which the worse from the outdoor South Shore Social Beach Club or cost down with a drink on the patio of Slate Deere from 50, an upbeat restaurant and has made the culture of.

7:30 PM - 1500E, GLAMED OF WINE

Billed to Prairie's Row, a charming pocket of the South Loop neighborhood. Dues a publishing hall, many of the buildings in this area were converted to with beginning in the 1850s. At Prairie's Row West, an intruder for and come from is a former printing factory, friendly harmonies are happy to provide recommendations for both glasses and bottles — the sweeping selection

spans the fan and tanks like Bowman orange wines and lizzy, full-mouthed lambcans, to the more classic French chardonnays.

8:30 PM - LIBERTY A GOOD GUARANT

From the Civil War until the 400s, Chicago was the epicenter of the country's incorporating industry, and no trip here is complete without a good break. You'll find one in the River North neighborhood, where last May the Michelin-starred star Joanne Dunande opened the French-influenced restaurant the Aisne, there with the plump cash cake ($10) or a glance of history savages (from $25). Follow either with one of the signature wood-beat results (from $40, for a petit film) — which can be accompanied by names like the Barometer, a punched-up holdnash on the front of horseradish and crayfish ($34).

12:30 PM - LIBERTY TO WINE

Take a 20-minute trail to the Wax Viejo Bar and Bunses Shop in West Town, where D.J.s spin exclusively vinyl. Though it's inspired by Japanese jazz kexas, music cakes dedicated to the focused listening of jazz music, at Wax, you're more likely to hear and/or hear. Illuminated by blue and red lights, local D.J.s set up in the back of the club, there records on display behind them. Gold a cocktail — the central market (527) goes down easy — or a glass of the McKevon house wine, red or white (525). Feeling packed! The top-night-time music kicks in at 5 p.m.

SUNDAY

10 A.M. - CHAT A DUST ONT

In 2,030 fads, so the city's Near West Park, West Maple Cuts has hearty food and an unpromissive atmosphere. There's a whole menu swirled for Bison-style and free — Bison's, a white-cream pilot high with bacon, cheddar and jalapeno, and thicker beer, with corned beef hush (from $18.25). Or load up on a big, country-style breakfast, like classic olives with cheese (518.95). The Holiday French Toast, thrifty chaffish bread dipped in curving and vanilla custard and sprinkled with powdered sugar, ($12.95) is tasty any time of your Note that the restaurant accepts reservations only for parties of six or more.

1:30 A.M. - SOME OF WINE HISTORY

Close the street to the National Public Housing Museum. In a building once part of the June Ailiman Homes, named for the social criterion, the museum shows new public policy led to the determination of public housing — and preserves the streets of its current and former residents. The permanent exhibit "History Lessons: Everyday Objects

shown, in the vegetable garden at the recently opened Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. From the left: Louis Bar-B-Q, a federal South Side unit, a level D.J. at Wax Viejo Bar and Bunses Shop in West Town, and Lake Michigan near the South Shore Cultural Center.

SUNDAY'S SHOP

Visit the Pullman National Historical Park — Chicago's first National Park Service unit — to learn about the history of a car company that changed the habit.

Opened in June, the Obama Presidential Center issues the history of both the nation's first Black president and of American democracy itself.

Founded on the belief that leaving is a human right, the National Public Housing Museum tells the stories of people who have lived in public housing.

THERE'S TODAY

Donner Chicago-style BBQ, a Lewis Bar-B-Q, had your named one of America's Classics to the James Beard Foundation.

Brown Sugar Bakery is best known for its clearest cupcakes and shoppers cakes.

At the Obama Presidential Center, Tabor's Kitchen has a menu full of Obama family food has, including chili and a red rice dish.

Deere A.M. Eatery is Hyde Park just Southam open an classic breakfast drinky, the continued French toast is a car's wine.

Wood fruit steaks are the size of the menu of the Alstons, a new French-inspired steak, the use in the River North neighborhood.

Sweet Maple Cafe. In Little Italy, offers sweet and sweet breakfast dishes, from baby-baking cafe in home from to chicken beers and onions.

WHERE TO TRY

In River North, the Langham occupies a distinctive setting in West and the Rhine, overlooking the Chicago River. Rovers start at $25.5.

At the Chicagoans the Paul Bontour and Philip Franklin hangs all throughout Sophia. A Hyde Park boutique hotel with a leading bar off the lobby. Rovers from $24.5.

It is convenient Hyde Park location just off Lake Dover, from Hyde Place Chicago-Souths University Medical Center. The architect pool and free breakfast. Rovers start at $25.5.

Like Chicago in general, Hyde Park has an abundance of short-term benefits which have led to its preferred life. British and White. There are also some in the Woodlawn neighborhood, near the Obama Presidential Center — though the advent of short-term benefits can be done in this neighborhood, has raised tensions among some locals.

From Public Housing? In future ordinary items collected from communities across the country, in another room, EU Sponsorship of Side-to-Scar time was rugged to create an oasis from fellow business residents of public housing, including Barbra Streisand and Nao. Museum celebrates in love, but the EU staff lost four of increased public operations to worthwhile addition. Exit through the section second golf shop for Tani Museum bookmarks and Andre Leche notecards.

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制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times International (2026-08-22)

▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的国际政治、社会与文化报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在制度结构、权力技术与叙事所有权层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【纳粹协作档案的访问权限与叙事所有权之争】 [F3_5 🔍]-[F9_16 🔍]（版面：主报深度版面/专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：记者齐尔弗曼（Zilverman）在探寻家族历史时，与历史学家范·希岑（Van Hietzen）就家族资料的所有权及叙事方式产生激烈冲突，涉及播客与书籍两种知识生产形式的对抗。
   • 制度批判切入点：探讨历史资料在从“私人记忆”转化为“公共知识”过程中，学术权威与个体经验之间如何产生权力博弈，以及叙事主权如何被定义。

2. 【数字空间中的性别暴力与宗教极右翼的权力操纵】 [F12_20 🔍]-[F13_23 🔍]（版面：国际）

   • 事件简述：孟买模特 Alai 女士因其公开活动遭到印度教右翼群体的系统性网络骚扰，攻击者通过截取碎片化画面进行道德审判和露骨威胁。
   • 制度批判切入点：分析极右翼群体如何利用社交媒体的“碎片化可见性”构建一套二元对立的道德判定机制（“圣人”与“罪人”），实现对个体身份的制度性抹黑。

3. 【地缘政治僵持中的经济绞杀技术】 [F18_30 🔍]-[F19_32 🔍]（版面：专业栏目）

   • 事件简述：美国政府通过经济压力和对贸易伙伴施加“毁灭性经济后果”的威胁，试图在军事打击失效的情况下迫使伊朗做出让步。
   • 制度批判切入点：剖析主权国家如何将“经济互依”转化为“武器化相互依赖”，通过金融制度的强制力替代传统的军事强制力。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一：档案权力与记忆的叙事霸权：从个体经验到知识捕获

在关于纳粹协作历史的报道中，一个极具张力的权力矛盾浮出水面：齐尔弗曼（Zilverman）与历史学家范·希岑（Van Hietzen）之间的冲突 [F5_9 🔍]-[F6_11 🔍]。这不仅是两个个体的争执，本质上是关于“历史所有权”的权力斗争。范·希岑试图将齐尔弗曼家族的私有资料转化为学术著作，这在认识论上是一种典型的“知识捕获”技术——将个体碎片化的经验通过学术话语的合法性进行重构，从而在出版市场和学术领域获得定义权。

齐尔弗曼的反应——“这是我的家人，我的资料，而你却想把它们据为己有” [F6_11 🔍]——揭示了经验主体对被“客体化”的恐惧。当历史学家试图以“研究”之名接管叙事时，个体经验被剥离了情感连接，转化为学术样本。而齐尔弗曼通过播客 [F9_16 🔍] 这种去中心化的媒介进行反击，其吸引 50 万名听众的事实证明了大众对“第一人称叙事”的认同高于“第三方学术重构”。

援引福柯的权力谱系学，我们可以发现，历史并非客观的记录，而是权力运作的结果。当学术权力试图通过“研究”逻辑占有经验时，历史便成为了一个权力竞技场。这种机制揭示了：在处理历史创伤时，谁拥有讲述故事的权力，谁就拥有了定义真相的权力。

专题二：数字时代的道德审判：极右翼的“可见性”操纵与身份抹除

针对 Alai 女士的网络攻击 [F12_20 🔍]-[F13_23 🔍]，揭示了当代数字治理中一种隐蔽而高效的权力技术：碎片化可见性的武器化。攻击者并非通过逻辑论证，而是通过收集特定的画面（如“像鲨鱼一样潜入大海” [F12_21 🔍] 或“挺出臀部” [F13_23 🔍]）来构建一个被扭曲的视觉证据链。这种技术将复杂的个体身份简化为可被攻击的“漏洞”，从而在公众意识中完成一次快速的道德定罪。

这种权力运作的核心在于构建一种极端的二元对立。正如 Alai 女士所观察到的，印度教右翼的逻辑是：“你要么是个圣人，要么是个罪人” [F13_22 🔍]。在这种机制下，任何不符合特定宗教或意识形态标准的行为，都会被迅速归类为“罪人”。这种“圣/罪”二分法实际上是一种治理技术，旨在通过制造恐惧和羞辱，迫使个体在公共空间中进行自我审查。

从批判理论视角来看，这是一种典型的“符号暴力”。攻击者利用社交媒体的算法传播特性，将个体的身体特征和行为片段转化为政治攻击的符号。当一个人的身份被简化为几个被恶意解读的图像时，其作为人的主体性被彻底抹除，取而代之的是一个由权力结构定义的“反面教材”。这证明了在数字时代，对“可见性”的控制已成为一种新型的社会控制手段。

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▌ 面向学者的制度研究开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【关于叙事主权的追问】：在历史研究中，如何建立一套伦理机制，以平衡学术研究的“公共价值”与个体经验的“所有权”，防止学术权力对私人记忆的制度性捕获？
2. 【关于数字暴力的追问】：面对利用碎片化信息构建的“道德审判”机制，现有的社交媒体平台治理制度如何才能从单纯的“内容审核”转向对“符号暴力”的结构性拦截？
3. 【关于经济武器化的追问】：当主权国家将全球贸易体系转化为“经济绞杀”工具时，这种行为如何改变国际法中关于“经济胁迫”的定义，以及它对全球治理制度的长期侵蚀效应是什么？

理性与情感辩证深度研判：The New York Times International (2026-08-22)

▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在个体生命体验、情感撕裂与生活世界崩解层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【历史叙事的所有权之争】 [F3_5, F5_10, F6_11, F7_13]（生活领域：文化与身份/历史记忆）

   • 事件简述：记者朱迪思·齐尔夫斯曼（Judith Zilverman）与其家族纳粹历史相关资料的持有者范·希岑（Van Hietzen）之间爆发冲突。齐尔夫斯曼认为对方试图将她的家族资料据为己有以确保书籍成功，而范·希岑则指责其在播客中将其误描述为不愿合作的人。
   • 情感政治切入点：历史真相的“所有权”与个体情感认同的冲突。当家族创伤被转化为学术或商业叙事时，个体对记忆的掌控权与外部研究者的叙事权力之间产生了激烈的摩擦。

2. 【高龄者的数字抽离与创伤代偿】 [F15_26, F16_27, F17_29]（生活领域：健康与身体/文化与身份）

   • 事件简述：89 岁的维尔纳·卡莱琴斯基（Werner Kaleczinski）在妻子去世的巨大冲击下，通过在 TikTok 分享内容成为明星，试图通过“抽离”来应对丧亲之痛，同时他承载着逃离东德、在俄罗斯占领下生活的残酷记忆。
   • 情感政治切入点：个体在面对不可逆的生命丧失（创伤）与沉重的历史记忆时，利用算法驱动的“影响力”构建一个虚拟的认同空间。这种“数字活力”与现实中衰老、孤独及历史创伤的肉身痛感之间存在深刻的辩证张力。

3. 【数字空间中的性别暴力与宗教极化】 [F12_20, F12_21, F13_22, F13_23]（生活领域：社会关系/政治认同）

   • 事件简述：孟买模特兼演员 Alai 女士遭到印度教右翼群体的广泛骚扰，对方通过挖掘其社交媒体照片漏洞、发送露骨威胁，将其定义为“罪人”或“演戏”，试图通过道德审判实施压制。
   • 情感政治切入点：宗教原教旨主义理性将复杂的个体身份简化为“圣人”或“罪人”的二元对立。社交媒体成为了这种极化情感的放大器，个体的肉身（如照片中的姿态）被剥离出生活语境，转化为政治攻击的符号。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一：记忆的私有化与叙事的权力博弈：家族历史的所有权冲突

1. 系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos） 在历史研究与传记写作的逻辑中，资料的收集与整合被视为一种客观的知识生产过程。范·希岑（Van Hietzen）的逻辑倾向于将家族资料视为构建一个成功叙事（书籍）的素材 [F6_11 🔍]。在这种模型中，历史的价值在于其被整合进一个完整的、可传播的文本中，而资料的持有者与使用者的关系被简化为一种协作关系。

2. 生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos） 对于齐尔夫斯曼（Zilverman）而言，这些资料并非单纯的“信息”，而是其家族身份与血缘创伤的延伸 [F6_11 🔍]。当她意识到对方试图“把它们据为己有”时，其感受到的不仅是学术上的不端，而是一种深层的、关于身份被窃取的“不快”与被背叛感。这种痛感源于个体对自身生命史所有权的本能捍卫——历史在此时不再是客观的记录，而是带有体温的、不可分割的私人情感资产。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction） 此处存在一个深刻的悖论：历史的公共价值（通过书籍传播）与历史的私人属性（家族记忆）之间的冲突。范·希岑认为齐尔夫斯曼“不愿分享和合作” [F7_13 🔍]，这反映了研究者将“分享”视为理性的、进步的行为；而齐尔夫斯曼则将这种要求视为对私人领域的侵犯。这种摩擦揭示了：当历史进入公共领域时，其原有的情感纽带往往被叙事权力所取代，导致个体在寻求真相的过程中反而陷入了新的情感撕裂。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis） 对比双方的话语：一方是关于“协作”与“误描述”的理性指责 [F7_13 🔍]，另一方是关于“据为己有”与“不快”的情感控诉 [F6_11 🔍]。这种温度差表明，在处理纳粹等极端历史创伤时，简单的“资料共享”逻辑无法覆盖幸存者后裔的情感需求。这种冲突预示着，未来的历史叙事需要建立一种更具伦理敏感性的“共同所有权”模型，而非简单的采集与产出逻辑。

专题二：创伤的数字代偿：高龄影响力者的情感抽离与认同重构

1. 系统理性模型解构（Deconstruction of Systemic Logos） TikTok 的算法逻辑是一种典型的量化理性模型：它通过标签和互动率将个体定义为“影响力者（Influencer）” [F15_25 🔍]。在算法看来，89 岁的维尔纳·卡莱琴斯基（Werner Kaleczinski）是一个具有“反差感”的、能够吸引 Z 世代关注的时尚符号 [F15_25 🔍]。系统理性将个体的生命历程简化为可消费的“内容”，将情感表达转化为一种流量获取的策略。

2. 生活世界真实痛感的现象学深描（Phenomenological Pathos） 在算法光环之下，是卡莱琴斯基深沉的生命痛感。他面对的是妻子去世后的巨大冲击 [F16_27 🔍]，以及一段被描述为“残酷”的、在俄罗斯占领下生存的记忆 [F17_29 🔍]。他的肉身承载着逃离东德的惊恐、电工职业的艰辛以及衰老带来的孤独。这种痛感是不可量化的，是任何算法都无法捕捉的“生命之重”。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction） 这里存在一个深刻的辩证悖论：卡莱琴斯基利用系统理性（算法）来对抗生命痛感。他明确表示自己试图“稍微抽离出来” [F16_27 🔍]，这意味着他意识到数字身份是一种面具。系统理性将他的行为解读为“尝试新鲜事物”的积极探索 [F15_26 🔍]，但从情感辩证来看，这实际上是一种“防御性表演”。他通过向外界输出“活力”，来暂时掩盖内部的“哀悼”与“创伤”。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Affective Prognosis） 结合批判情感理论，卡莱琴斯基的案例揭示了当代社会一种新型的心理韧性模式：当传统的私人哀悼空间被压缩时，个体转向算法平台寻求认同。制度端的语言是“TikTok 明星” [F15_25 🔍]，而个体端的语言是“冲击”与“残酷” [F16_27, F17_29]。这种温度差揭示了：在技术理性主导的时代，个体的创伤经验无法被系统性修复，只能通过在虚拟世界中创造一个“理想自我”来达成一种脆弱的心理平衡。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问 (Open Research Horizons)

1. 【关于历史记忆所有权的伦理研究】：在处理具有创伤性的家族历史时，研究者与被研究者之间应如何界定“资料所有权”与“叙事所有权”？是否存在一种能够兼顾学术价值与个体情感尊严的协作协议？
2. 【关于高龄者数字生存的社会学研究】：在算法驱动的认同机制中，年长者通过构建“数字面具”来应对丧亲或历史创伤的行为，究竟是一种有效的心理代偿，还是另一种形式的、由技术理性主导的自我剥削与情感掩盖？