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SAN FRANCISCO Ten years after Apple unveiled the iPhone and embarked on an era of supercharged growth, the company lifted investor hopes on Thursday that the iPhone X would be its next blockbuster product. As Apple reported revenue and profit increases that beat Wall Street expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter, the company said it was also seeing strong demand for the iPhone X, as well as for the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models, which it unveiled in September. Apple said it expected revenue for the holiday quarter, which is typically its most robust, to come in at between 84 billion and 87 billion. That forecast was well above the 78.4 billion that Apple generated during last year's holiday quarter, which was an all time high for quarterly revenue, and reflected confidence that people want new iPhones. Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, said during the earnings call that the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus had been the most popular iPhones every week since they went on sale. And in an interview, Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer, said that iPhone X production was going well and that the company "could not provide such strong revenue guidance if we didn't have strong iPhone X demand."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. 'ANISH KAPOOR: DESCENSION' at Brooklyn Bridge Park (through Sept. 10). The British sculptor Anish Kapoor has installed an antimonument by the East River: a circular fountain, 26 feet in diameter, from which water doesn't gush forth but is sucked into the earth instead. This is not the first time Mr. Kapoor has explored the sculptural properties of water and suction (an earlier version was seen at the Palace of Versailles two years ago), but it's hard to miss the blunt metaphorical resonance in today's America of this permanent abyss, whose mushroom colored water rushes around the drain before getting sucked into the ground. But don't point that out to the children flocking to the fountain's edge: They love it. (Jason Farago) publicartfund.org 'KATJA NOVITSKOVA: EARTH POTENTIAL' at City Hall Park (through Nov. 9). This young artist from Estonia, who is representing that country at this year's Venice Biennale, has filled the park outside the mayor's office with her uncanny photo collages, drawn from scientific and astronomical websites and printed on aluminum panels. She likes to emphasize the dissolution of scale that digital images allow: In one work, a roundworm is magnified to appear as large as an image of Titan, Saturn's Earth like moon. Not much is gained by seeing these in public rather than a pristine gallery space, but there is something nifty, you've got to think, about Wall Street workers shuffling every day past a giant blown up image of the E. coli bacterium. (Farago) publicartfund.org 'PEDER BALKE: PAINTER OF NORTHERN LIGHT' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (closes on July 10). This modest, magnetic show of mostly small canvases introduces one of 19th century Romanticism's best kept secrets, an artist nonetheless revered in his native Norway, who found his Mont Sainte Victoire at the top of the world in the boxy headlands of the country's North Cape. It and other astounding land formations, along with thunderous waves, dominate these miraculous works, some not much larger than postcards. (Roberta Smith) 212 535 7710, metmuseum.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
A Supposed Stickler for the Rules, Now at the Center of a U.S.C. Scandal LOS ANGELES Ron Allice, the track and field coach at the University of Southern California, assumed bad news was on the way when Donna Heinel summoned him to her office back in 2011. Heinel, the athletic department administrator who functioned as a gatekeeper over whether recruited athletes could find a spot at the increasingly competitive private university, had found a problem with the track athlete Allice was pushing. He had taken a sign language class to fulfill a foreign language requirement and, though that was the standard in the state university systems, Heinel dug in against him. Now, Allice wonders if there was another reason Heinel was so resolute. And he is not alone. Heinel, 57, who as an unyielding, by the book administrator rose to a position of unchecked authority during her 16 years in the U.S.C. athletic department, has emerged as a central figure in the academic admissions scandal that has ensnared members of rich and in some cases famous families. They are among 50 people charged with carrying out a series of bribes and rigged admissions qualifications, including making up athletic accomplishments, in order to get affluent children into prestigious universities across the country. Nowhere was the scheme more widespread than at U.S.C., where four others who have coached there one of them until earlier this month are under indictment. Heinel stands accused of being at the fulcrum of the scheme, conspiring with Rick Singer, a private admissions consultant, to obtain millions in bribes and then easing more than two dozen students into the school through the so called side door of athletic admissions, using fraudulent athletic profiles. Through a lawyer, Heinel, who was fired the day she was indicted, declined to comment. Heinel is the only administrator who has been charged, and her university is the only one of eight involved at which more than one coach has been implicated. U.S.C.'s interim president, Wanda Austin, has pledged to revamp its athletic admissions process. According to the indictment, Heinel and Singer, the private counselor who hatched the plan, collaborated with the water polo coach, Jovan Vavic, and the former soccer coach, Ali Khosroshahin, who was fired in 2013, and his former assistant Laura Janke, who created phony athletic profiles. Like Heinel, Vavic was fired by U.S.C. on March 12, the day the indictments were unsealed. Walsh and his former colleagues are now wondering how far back the alleged scam might have gone. Heinel required coaches who recruited athletes from Europe to have their transcripts translated in the United States to limit the chances of fraud, Walsh said. One runner he recruited was an artist. Heinel demanded to see a portfolio, and copies or photos of the works were not sufficient. The originals had to be shipped. "She was basically the gatekeeper," said a former U.S.C. coach who requested anonymity because he was concerned that being identified could hurt his career. "If you wanted to get someone in, she was the person that really made that decision. Or not." Regardless of that power, Heinel largely kept a low profile both on campus and off. She has two children in elementary school and lives with her partner, a school district special education administrator, on Naples Island, an exclusive neighborhood in Long Beach, Calif., known for multimillion dollar homes on winding canals. Neighbors were shocked when F.B.I. agents surrounded Heinel's house on a narrow, quiet side street just before dawn 10 days ago to arrest her, instructing an inquisitive neighbor to go back in his house. Heinel was described by neighbors as quiet and unassuming, driving a red sedan reminiscent of the official color of U.S.C., walking the dog, jogging or riding a bike frequently, and flying drones or playing sports with her son and daughter. Neighbors said Heinel generally kept to herself, even when they mentioned their children had gone to U.S.C. It's not clear when exactly Heinel developed a relationship with Singer. But since 2014, Heinel had presented to admissions more than two dozen students with bogus athletic credentials, including a football player whose high school had no football team, as well as a 5 foot 5 men's basketball player and a high school cheerleader made to look like a lacrosse star. In fact, emails and recorded phone conversations in the indictment paint a portrait of Heinel not merely as a conduit, but also as a fixer who could spot potential brush fires and swept aside skeptical questions. When counselors at two high schools reviewing applications to U.S.C. last April raised questions with parents about the listed athletic qualifications of their children, Heinel called Singer. In a voice mail message captured by investigators, she warned that the indignant parents must be stopped from going to the high school "yelling at counselors." "That'll shut everything that'll shut everything down," she said. Around the same time, Heinel wrote a lengthy email to the U.S.C. director of admissions to set aside concerns about the athletic credentials of Matteo Sloane, the son of a drinking and wastewater systems entrepreneur who was admitted as a water polo player despite not playing the sport. Heinel said that because Sloane's high school did not have a water polo team, he played at L.A. Water Polo Club during the school year and traveled internationally with a youth junior team in the summer, playing in Greece, Serbia and Portugal. None of this was true. "He is small," Heinel continued in the email. "But he has a long torso but short strong legs, plus he is fast which helps him win the draws to start play after goals are scored. He is an attack perimeter player." She then thanked the admissions director for raising the discrepancy. Sloane did not play for U.S.C. The admissions director replied to Heinel, thanking her and saying that a paraphrased version of her email would be passed along to assure the high school officials that U.S.C. had looked into the matter. "They seemed unusually skeptical," the director wrote. Pat Haden, a former U.S.C. football star lured from his post at a private equity firm to become athletic director after the football and basketball programs were penalized in 2010 for improper benefits to players, tripled the department's compliance staff. He also promoted Heinel to senior woman administrator and the director of admissions and eligibility, jobs that had previously been handled by two associate athletic directors. Haden could not be reached for comment. More than 50 people charged. In 2019, a federal investigation known as Operation Varsity Blues snared dozens of parents, coaches and exam administrators in a vast college admissions scheme that implicated athletic programs at the University of Southern California, Yale, Stanford and other schools. The linchpin. William Singer is an admissions counselor at the center of the scheme. He led an elaborate effort to bribe coaches and test monitors, falsify exam scores and fabricate student biographies. He has pleaded guilty and is cooperating with the government. He has not been sentenced. The parents. Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among the more than three dozen parents many of them wealthy and powerful charged in the case. A private equity financier and a former casino executive, who were found guilty on Oct. 8, 2021, were the first to stand trial. The former C.E.O. of Pimco has received the harshest sentence so far. The coaches. The case also involved athletic coaches from some of the most prestigious universities in the country, including Stanford sailing coach John Vandemoer and Yale women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith. Mr. Vandemoer, who was among the first to take a plea deal, has written a book detailing how he was duped by Mr. Singer. Heinel managed to cash in on her experience navigating admissions for prospective student athletes. In 2008, she established a side business, Clear the Clearinghouse, which advised high school coaches, counselors and administrators on N.C.A.A. rules for athletes. She offered subscriptions services, for up to 700 annually, and hosted workshops that cost 100, along with offering to do consulting work. Heinel's business held two hour workshops at U.S.C.'s Galen Center. The notices advertising the clinics were sent to about 150 high school and private counselors, either from Heinel's work email account or from that of Katie Fuller, an assistant director of admissions and eligibility at the school. Typically, about 50 people attended the workshops, according to one private counselor who said she attended two of them, several years apart. The workshops were unusual in that most schools, including U.S.C., put them on at no cost or for a nominal fee as a sort of public service for counselors. One of the few documented interviews with Heinel is from a panel discussion for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people she participated in at U.S.C. in 2013, at which she described herself "as a loner for mostly all of my life." Growing up in Philadelphia, she recalled, she was estranged from her parents for more than two years when she came out to them as gay while she was a student at Springfield College in Massachusetts, where she was a member of the swim team. But she reconciled with them somewhat a couple of years later when a sister became ill with cancer. The experience of coming out to her parents stayed with her. "I've just kind of been, 'Do what I want to do, when I want to do it," she said. Years later, established in her career as an athletic administrator, Heinel quickly developed a rapport with Haden, who has a gay son. Haden, and his successor, Lynn Swann, instituted few checks on Heinel's powers. From October until April, Heinel would meet every other Thursday with a subcommittee from the admissions office that included the dean of admissions and two assistants. At each meeting, Heinel would go through a list of recruits, including their test scores, transcripts and athletic profile, and within a few days would get a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether they would be admitted, according to both colleagues and the indictment. Sprinkled among those hundreds of recruits in 19 sports were the fraudulent athletic resumes that Heinel is accused of shepherding. Often those profiles were created by Janke, who was paid by Singer, but according to the affidavit, on at least one occasion, Heinel created a profile on a U.S.C. letterhead that made it appear as if the U.S.C. lacrosse coach were lavishing praise on a recruit who in reality had never played the sport. Almost always, within days of one of Singer's clients being conditionally admitted to U.S.C., a check for 50,000 or more made out to "U.S.C. women's athletics" or "U.S.C. athletics" would arrive in an envelope addressed to Heinel. In all, those checks added up to 1.3 million, which were deposited into accounts that Heinel largely controlled and could distribute to various teams. (Heinel also received 20,000 per month dating to last July from Singer in what court documents referred to as a "sham" consulting agreement.) In explaining to Todd Blake why he had received a solicitation call asking for another donation to women's basketball when his daughter was admitted fraudulently as a volleyball player, Singer said: "the money went toward her," referring to Heinel, "and she gets to decide where it goes within the department." Eight years later, Allice, the retired track and field coach, remains annoyed. Memories of that hurdler were dredged up by the allegations against a woman who now stands accused of fraud. The athlete Heinel said did not measure up to the school's standards was hardly a borderline athlete, much less one of the fakes she and Singer created. The hurdler, Johnathan Cabral, ended up at U.S.C.'s Pac 12 rival, Oregon, where he would finish second in the N.C.A.A. finals in the 110 meter hurdles as a senior. A year later he finished sixth during the 2016 Olympics while representing Canada.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
It's been weeks since people started getting coronavirus relief payments. You've checked and rechecked your eligibility, just to be sure. But still, no 1,200 stimulus payment has arrived in your bank account or mailbox. Perhaps 3,400 is riding on this for you, your spouse and your two children, for whom you're supposed to get 500 each. Tens of millions of people have already received their payments, but many others are still waiting or wondering. There are a lot of reasons you could be among them, even if the government has removed some of the hurdles it initially set up. So what do you do if yours hasn't arrived? Try the I.R.S. tool again. A couple of weeks ago, the I.R.S. introduced its Get My Payment tool to help people figure out when and how their money might be arriving. The unveiling didn't go so well: Many users did not realize how picky the site was about, say, entering an address that precisely matched the one on their most recent tax return. Also, there were lots of confusing messages indicating that there was no information available at all. Things have improved some since then, and the I.R.S. is updating the information once each day, usually in the middle of the night. You may need information from recent tax returns at the ready to use the tool, and it doesn't work for recipients of Supplemental Security Income and Veterans Affairs benefits. Make sure you've filed the right paperwork. People who don't usually file a tax return should give the I.R.S. an assist. If you haven't had to file a return because your gross income did not exceed 12,200 ( 24,400 for married couples), you still qualify for a payment. But if you're not a recipient of S.S.I. or V.A. benefits, you should fill out a special form for non filers. The government is also crosschecking all the Social Security and V.A. databases and issuing payments to those recipients for whom it does have bank account or similar information, but that process can add time. But May 5 is an important deadline: S.S.I. and V.A. beneficiaries who didn't have to file a tax return in 2018 or 2019 and have children 16 or under should register online with the I.R.S. non filer tool to get the 500 per child payment more quickly. Don't (necessarily) panic if the payment went to a strange account. One known quagmire: If you filed taxes in 2018 or 2019 with the help of a third party company, you may have taken advantage of something called a refund anticipation loan. The company may have set you up with a temporary account to process the loan and give you access to that money. The bank information the I.R.S. has for you may be for that account, which may be closed at this point. That means that when the I.R.S. tries to deposit the stimulus money there, the process will break down. At that point, the I.R.S. is supposed to send a paper check to the address on the most recent tax return, or one on file with the U.S. Postal Service. You should be able to track this whole messy process using the Get My Payment service, but it could take several more weeks to get your payment. But worry about fraud if this happens. A lot of money is flowing right now, so people will indeed try to steal it. The I.R.S. knows this, so 15 days after it issues your payment, it is supposed to send confirmation letters to the most recent address it has on file for you. That letter should explain exactly how the I.R.S. made the payment. If you haven't received the money yet, that's the time to worry about whether someone else took it. The letter will contain contact information for the I.R.S. if you need help. Speed up delivery this way. For any number of reasons, the I.R.S. may not have up to date information or any at all about your address or bank account. For instance, plenty of people don't trust the I.R.S. with their checking account information for direct deposits or payments. Instead, they pay tax bills with paper checks and collect refunds that way, too. If you're in that category but are willing to change your approach, you may be able to get your payment more quickly. If the government hasn't already started the process of sending you a paper check, it may still be possible to enter your checking account information via the Get My Payment tool to get your money more quickly. People with higher incomes might not get a payment. The 1,200 payment decreases until it stops altogether for a single person earning 99,000 or a married couple who have no dependent children, file their taxes jointly and earn 198,000. And if someone else claimed you as a dependent, you don't get a check. Check with the I.R.S. for more information. The agency got off to a pretty slow start in explaining how things would work, but it has now answered 38 questions in its F.A.Q. It has also published a chart to help you figure out what, if any, additional information you may need to hand over to receive a payment or get one more quickly.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
For the past half century, I've run thousands of hours with my brother, and with my sister Natalie's husband and her son. We are all marathoners. Running is our thing. I've done no training with Nat; she can't run. She was born with lymphangioma in the right foot and had a just below the knee amputation at age 9. I was 15 at the time, her oldest sibling. I am a pitiful swimmer. I've tried several times to add swimming to my exercise repertoire, but my efforts never lasted long. In water, I sink. Nat rises. She finds liberation in water, which frees her from gravity's clutch. In the sea, she cavorts like a porpoise. In early July, my sister and I began swimming in Long Island Sound every morning. Turning right onto her street, I looked first for the battered wooden crutches. A moment later, Nat would bustle through the rickety screen door in her blue bathing suit. She is a strong woman who has moved through her 67 years with clear intent. Her determination is so great that I rarely notice the prosthesis below her right knee. At the beach, I pull off my shirt, tug on my goggles and toss a towel on the empty lifeguard stand. I'm ready. (I also wear a rubbery flotation belt around my hips.) On the horizon I see Fishers Island and the Orient Point ferry churning into nearby New London. Nat's process is longer and more complicated. She drags her crutches and a lightweight beach chair to the water's edge. Sitting, she rolls down her stump sock, and tucks it in a plastic bag. If the sock collects sand now, it might later rub her leg raw and bleeding. She loosens her prosthesis and pulls it off, revealing a pointy, wrinkled stump. Nat grabs the crutches and hops into shallow water. She stops briefly to steady herself, then tosses the crutches backward while simultaneously making a shallow dive. It's my job to fetch the crutches, and return them to her chair. At this early hour, we're alone on the beach. During sultry afternoons, however, I have seen curious young children congregate around her. "What happened to your leg?" one always asks. Nat doesn't hesitate to answer. "When I was a little girl, my leg was sick," she says. "The doctors took it off and gave me this artificial leg. Do you want to see how it works?" The day she came home from the hospital post amputation, I couldn't look at her heavily bandaged stump. I wondered: How does someone play sports with one leg? Climb trees? Go to school dances? I need not have worried about Nat. She thrived in high school and college, and became a psychiatric nurse. In her first job, she worked with Vietnam vets suffering from PTSD. After placing Nat's crutches on her chair, I plunge into the water behind her. We will swim from one set of buoy lines to another a quarter mile away, and then return. In sports training, it's crucial to have a workout partner at your same level. Otherwise, you strain too hard to keep up, or get little benefit if you surge ahead. Although I am more fit than my sister over all, her swimming experience pays off: Our differences cancel each other out in the water. I take about 10 strokes and lift my head in search of Nat. She's lined up shoulder to shoulder with me, just a couple of feet to my side. I go another 20 strokes, and look again. Same result. This isn't anything we've concocted or practiced for decades. We're no synchronized swimming duo. We just seem instinctively connected in the water. Nat's more independent than just about anyone I know. I suspect going through life with one leg teaches autonomy. She has friends, yes, but also follows her particular passions: singing, attending national ice skating competitions, organizing the local Democrats, and many more. I grew up in an era when the phrase "loneliness of the long distance runner" was more apt than today. You could call us both staunch individualists. Except when we swim together. Once or twice, we bump, startling ourselves. Shark!? Of course not, but we slant away from each other for several strokes. A minute later, we have drifted back. We seem connected by some force that is elastic enough to allow us personal space, but soon tugs us back. At the halfway buoy line, we stop for 15 seconds to check in. "Ready to turn around?" I ask. Nat usually is. But the other day she surprised me. "I feel good," she said. "Let's keep going to the house with the flagpole." What? I'm not expecting this. I'm a man of rigid habits. I like to swim to the buoy line and return. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. Can I go farther? I pause, feeling stupid. This reminds me of my early days in running. Extending my distance from two miles to three seemed difficult, from 10 miles to 15 impossible. But the barrier turned out to be mental, not physical. If I didn't give up, I could cover more miles with little additional effort. "Sure, let's do it," I say finally. We begin swimming again, and the extra distance passes with little effort. Sometimes it's easier to keep on keeping on rather than stopping to ponder and debate. Go with the activity's flow, not the mind's limitations. The last five minutes of our swim feel the smoothest, and my stopwatch shows that we have sped up. Physiologists have investigated how distance runners can sprint at the end of an exhausting race, but have gained little insight. Perhaps it's more about euphoria than muscle and oxygen. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist, writer, and addicted swimmer, once said: "Swimming gives me a sort of joy, a sense of well being so extreme that it becomes at times a sort of ecstasy." I imagine ecstasy helps you go faster. At my age, 73, I could list any number of physical ailments (I know you don't want to hear them). Though she's six years younger, Nat must have even more. Still, I've never heard her complain. She tells me the secret is acceptance Zen Buddhism. She's no card carrying zealot, but a damn good role model. I'm trying to learn from her.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
In summer resort towns across the United States, livelihoods for the year are built in the 15 weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day. It is during those 15 weeks that tourists from around the country and the world arrive to bask on the beach and gather for festivals and weddings. And it is during those three months that tour operators, hoteliers, innkeepers, restaurant employees and others earn the bulk of their income. But this year, with Memorial Day the kickoff for summer approaching, there will be fewer guests to welcome and likely no sizable weddings or festivals to host. Business owners in resort areas, from Cape Cod, Mass., to Lake Chelan, Wash., say that as the start of summer approaches, they are having to face the difficult reality that little money will be made this year. Between canceled trips and uncertainty about how willing and financially able people will be to travel once shelter in place rules are lifted, business owners say that even if summer travel starts late, it won't make up for losses that have already been incurred. Ms. Rishel said that most guests visit in the summer months, with the National Cherry Festival in July being the biggest draw, and although Michigan's stay at home order is expected to end on May 28, this year's festival has been canceled and she doesn't have any bookings. Public health is essential and should be prioritized, Ms. Rishel and other business owners said, but business survival is also important. And so resort towns are grappling with the cost benefit analysis of reopening and potentially having the virus spread versus remaining closed and potentially shuttering doors. In North Carolina's Outer Banks, tourists will be allowed to return and stay in hotels beginning on May 16, but life will be different. Social distancing rules will have to be followed; businesses will limit the number of people to 50 percent of their usual capacity; sanitizing stations will be at every turn; and staff at hotels will wear masks. "Even if we can't do 100 percent of our normal business, we are just excited to be back in business and have a chance at survival," said John Harris, a co founder of Kitty Hawk Kites, which offers adventure tours and sells and rents equipment for various outdoor activities. "Staying closed isn't an option for a community that's 90 percent dependent on tourism." Mr. Harris said about 80 percent of his revenue is made between Memorial Day and the end of September. And since the Outer Banks are less densely populated than other areas, he added, reopening was the right move and will keep people from losing their businesses. "Since the virus isn't going away, I'm sure that we'll probably have cases like everyone else. But as long as we're prepared to deal with them as best we can, we will be OK," he said. In New Jersey, where beaches will be open for Memorial Day, with restrictions, and hotels will reopen on June 1, the mood among some innkeepers and hoteliers is also cautiously optimistic. When the Outer Banks reopen to tourists on Saturday, Pam Gutlon, the innkeeper at the White Doe Inn, will be there to welcome guests. But she is nervous about the lack of clear guidance from the health department on how best to accommodate guests. "I'm excited to see people, but I'm also being terrified because it's too soon to reopen," she said. "I don't think the state has met all the standards they said we'd need to meet before we open. We are still seeing new cases, and the rules about how to operate just aren't clear." Ms. Gutlon, as well as other innkeepers and owners in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Washington state, said that they are trying to figure out the rules for guest numbers, social distancing and serving food on their properties. For example, she said, no more than 10 people can gather, but the inn typically has about 16 guests in its eight rooms, in addition to staff so would filling rooms be breaking the rules? In Massachusetts, where short term rentals (including hotels) have been banned since March, the lack of direction from authorities led 26 Martha's Vineyard innkeepers and hotel operators to write a letter to Gov. Charlie Baker's advisory task force earlier this month, asking for guidance about reopening. Thirty two business owners from neighboring Nantucket also signed the letter which called the continued close of business an "impending crisis" and expressed fear about what would happen if businesses didn't open this summer. Governor Baker said on Monday that the state will reopen in four phases beginning around May 18, but it's not yet clear in which phase hotels and short term rentals will be allowed to reopen. Despite the lack of a firm date, seasonal ferry service is scheduled to begin between New York, New Jersey, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket during the first week of June; service between Oak Bluffs, on Martha's Vineyard, and Falmouth, on Cape Cod, will begin on May 22, along with service between Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Service from Boston to Cape Cod on Boston Harbor Cruises and Bay State Cruise Company is not currently running and does not have a start date. Diane Carr, a partner at the Hob Knob Inn on Martha's Vineyard and the acting spokeswoman for the Martha's Vineyard Lodging Group, said that it's unlikely that businesses will recoup losses if summer starts late. The lack of guidance about what reopening could look like and when it will happen adds to the confusion and stress that she and others in the local tourism industry are feeling. "There's so much speculation about what could be expected of us when it's time to reopen," she said. "That causes a lot of anxiety." Bernard Chiu, the chairman of Upland Capital Corporation and the owner of the Harbor View Hotel in Edgartown on Martha's Vineyard said that before the coronavirus, bookings for spring and summer were high, with guests looking forward to seeing the hotel, which has just been renovated. "In the summer months all hotels are operating at close to full capacity, but I doubt that will be the case this year," Mr. Chiu said. Hospitality businesses are also thinking about how the industry has been fundamentally changed by the coronavirus. When tourists return, there will be no hugging and no touching; smiles will be hidden behind masks; turndown service likely won't exist; and many travelers will be afraid of staying in hotels where they don't control cleaning procedures or know who stayed there before they did. (One open hotel in Lake Chelan is asking guests to answer questions about their health before checking in.) "Will people want to pay hundreds of dollars to take their own sheets off their bed or to sit in their room and eat all their meals there?" asked Ms. Gutlon of the White Doe Inn in the Outer Banks. She and others said that those questions will also affect people's willingness to travel from afar. Guests who usually book for more than just a few days have all canceled their trips this year, she said. Carol Watson, one of the owners of the Captain Farris House, an inn on Cape Cod, said she is already feeling the loss of international visitors. "We rely on foreign students with J 1 visas whose families visit Boston and then come to the Cape," she said. "This year, we'll hopefully see local traffic. But we're all in a holding pattern." Ms. Watson has been trying to figure out another way to make money while the bed and breakfast that she and her husband own isn't able to accept guests. Before the pandemic, their inn had begun serving afternoon tea to get additional revenue in the off season. The couple is now thinking of extending the tearoom's hours when business begins again and offering pickup service for baked goods. "We are going to try different things to make money," she said. "But we need to get back to business, because nothing takes the place of overnight guests." Memorial Day, Ms. Watson said, is the real kickoff for the summer season, and she would normally be preparing for a revolving door. Instead, she is spending her time on conference calls with other business owners and a marketing company, trying to stay on top of what's going on and updating policies and cleaning and sanitizing procedures. "Everybody is frustrated with where we're at and we're all worried about this summer, but we don't want to see people sick," she said. "We don't want to see people dying." Follow New York Times Travel on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And sign up for our weekly Travel Dispatch newsletter to receive expert tips on traveling smarter and inspiration for your next vacation.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Hotels in the Caribbean and Mexico are being hit with room cancellations in the wake of the Zika virus. But these cancellations are not just in Zika affected areas. Marco Franck, the general manager of the luxury resort Amanyara in the Turks and Caicos, a Zika free destination, said that the hotel had a number of cancellations in February, typically a busy month, because of the virus. "What we're seeing is that travelers hear about Zika being in the Caribbean and think all of the Caribbean is impacted and cancel their plans," he said. Properties are responding to the dip in occupancy by offering deals during their peak season. None are being promoted as Zika deals; some, such as those from the Gansevoort and Ritz Carlton hotels, are annual offers being introduced earlier than usual. Graeme Benn, the vice president for sales and marketing for Ritz Carlton hotels in the Caribbean, said the incentives are meant to entice travelers to book a stay. "We want to help keep the Caribbean in people's minds for a getaway," he said. Here are seven such offers: At the Cape, a Thompson Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico, travelers get a fourth night free through Dec. 18. Also, those who call the hotel and book 60 days in advance of their stay get 30 percent off their room rate. Nightly rates from 399. At Gansevoort Dominican Republic, guests get the fifth night free through March; thereafter, they get the fourth night free. At Gansevoort Turks and Caicos, guests get a fifth night free through March 9; after April 4, the fourth night is free. Also, travelers who book a stay at the Turks and Caicos property through a Virtuoso agent get a 100 food and beverage credit and room upgrade, provided space is available. Nightly rates from 595. Amanyara in the Turks and Caicos has sweetened its Winter Getaway offer; it used to be applicable for a four night stay and include daily breakfast and one dinner, but it's now available in a three night version. Guests who book for four nights get dinner daily in addition to breakfast. Valid through March 16. Prices from 1,750 a night. Also, from April 4 through May 31, the property has the three night Sojourn package that includes breakfast and dinner daily, one lunch and sunset cocktails and canapes one evening. Prices from 1,500 a night. Malliouhana, an Auberge Resort in Anguilla, has a Winter Escape package; it includes a fifth free night, 300 resort credit, daily breakfast and nonmotorized watersports such as snorkeling and kayaking. Valid through March 31. Prices from 750 a night. The Ritz Carlton has seven hotels in the Caribbean and Mexico: Cancun, Los Cabos, Aruba, Grand Cayman, St. Thomas and two in Puerto Rico in San Juan and Dorado Beach, a Ritz Carlton Reserve. All have stay longer, save more offers although the amount varies by property. Guests who book a stay at the Cancun property, for example, get a 25 percent discount off their room rate on a four night stay, 30 percent off for five nights and 40 percent off for seven or more nights. The luxurious Dorado Beach is offering 30 percent off room rates for stays between five and seven nights. Nightly rates for regular Ritz properties start at 399; for Dorado Beach the starting rate is 799. Carlisle Bay in Antigua is offering guests 30 percent off their room rates when they stay four nights or more. Daily breakfast and afternoon tea and water and land activities are included. Valid between April 18 and Nov. 30. Nightly rates from 725. Those who book by May 31 get rates from 495 a night in an ocean view balcony suite. Casa de Campo Resort and Villas in the Dominican Republic has the Spring into Action package. Guests get either the fourth night free or pay for five nights and stay for seven. A daily 100 resort credit is included in both. Guests who book a villa receive a 300 resort credit daily. Nightly rates from 300. Valid through April 25.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
THE Bentley Mulsanne, it turns out, is a pleasant car to drive. I can hear the snorts already: "Excuse me? Bentley's flagship costs 330,000. I should hope it's pleasing." Yet there's a reason the movie wasn't called "Drive, Miss Daisy": movable penthouses like the Bentley are usually best experienced from the back seat. The idea is to leave the driving to the guy in the funny cap while the owner peruses his Davos itinerary. In the fragrant bellies of these behemoths, the world outside is silenced and the ride is like clotted cream. But again, the word is "ride," not "drive." Traditionally, the indentured pilot feels as disengaged from the road as his boss. While this new Bentley would still seem misplaced on the Mulsanne for which it is named the straightaway on the Le Mans racing circuit its surprisingly able handling and top speed of 184 miles per hour make it the rare ultraluxury chariot that encourages you to drop the Champagne flute and grab the reins. The Mulsanne is an enormous car, weighing almost 6,000 pounds and measuring nearly 220 inches in length, some seven inches more than the aging Arnage it replaces. That's more than a foot longer and roughly 1,500 pounds heavier than a Mercedes Benz S Class. The Bentley manages to look richly imposing, yet tasteful, avoiding the chromed Panzer strut of the Rolls Royce Phantom and the soulless limo look of the Mercedes Maybach. Crisply tailored shoulders and flowing haunches evoke Bentley S Types of the '50s. Those creases and curves rely on a range of costly techniques including superforming, which allows a single sheet of superheated aluminum to be molded by pressurized air into complex, three dimensional shapes. Rear fenders envelop the striking "floating ellipse" taillamps with no unsightly cut lines around the lamps. Hand finished stainless steel provides gleaming contrast on the mesh grille, door sills and other components. The retractable Flying B "radiator mascot" is a 2,550 option. In that vein, if a buyer isn't satisfied with 115 standard paint shades, 24 leather colors and a magic forest's worth of woods, many whims can be met through the Mulliner bespoke ordering program. Customers have previously requested colors matched to a favorite nail polish and even a turquoise kitchen mixer. The company occasionally draws the line: Bentley says it has politely refused eccentrics who asked for quick release shotgun holders, a solid gold radiator shell or a microwave oven. Whereas even a typical mass produced luxury model can be finished in about 24 hours, it takes nine weeks to build a Mulsanne at the factory in Crewe, England: 170 hours alone to assemble the interior, including 15 hours to hand stitch the steering wheel. Workers inspect the leather for insect bites and other blemishes; 17 hides are required to outfit the cabin, including a single sheet for the enormous headliner. Wood from three foot thick, 80 year old root balls is shaved into thin veneers and applied atop five sturdy layers of tulip poplar wood not simply stuck atop an aluminum substrate and mirror matched so the grain pattern on the left perfectly mirrors the one on the right. The lumber loving detail plays to great effect in the Mulsanne's waistrail, an unbroken band of wood that encircles passengers front to back. I drove a pair of Mulsannes, a primed for South Beach model with piano black wood and (my preference) a blue black model stuffed with burl oak, including fold down "picnic tables" in the back and saddle leather seats with contrasting blue piping. The Mulsanne's ergonomics benefit from a version of Audi's Multi Media Interface, a welcome improvement over the wretched Volkswagen derived navigation screen that scarred the first generation Continental GT coupe. And while Audi's Bang Olufsen audio system is tremendous, Bentley tops it with a 2,000 watt 20 speaker Naim unit ( 7,415 extra) that's simply the best I've experienced in an automobile. It's certainly the most powerful factory audio in history. Clearly, you could bask in the Bentley without leaving the cobblestone driveway. Yet the Mulsanne is more than a Hogwarts library that levitates on command. What Bentley calls its first ground up design in more than 80 years neither a modified Rolls Royce nor a VW based car like the Continental GT keeps its traditional engine size of 6.75 liters. With twin turbochargers, the V 8's 505 horsepower urge the Mulsanne to 60 m.p.h. in just 5.1 seconds. The engine's torque has reached biblical proportions: 752 pound feet fully available at just 1,750 r.p.m. Mated to Audi's new ZF 8 speed automatic transmission, the engine peaks at a diesel like 4,500 r.p.m., meeting Bentley's goal of "unstressed" performance. Even as the Bentley does its bullet train act, passengers hear only a distant rumble, as relaxing as the sound of thunder from three counties away. The Mulsanne covers ground like a fairy tale giant, quicker and nimbler than you expect. You feel its prodigious momentum, yet there's no clumsiness; an adjustable air suspension keeps the car flat and poised through curves. The car might seem unstoppable, but huge brakes halt this dreadnought in surprisingly short order. Road imperfections, noise and vibration are washed clean away, yet the driver selectable steering communicates just enough to instill confidence. At night in the pitch black Catskills, on narrow and devilishly winding lanes, the Mulsanne seemed to beg, "Is that all you've got, mate?" The engine can also switch seamlessly to 4 cylinder operation to save fuel, though that might be a Pyrrhic victory: the E.P.A. rating of 11 miles per gallon in town and 18 on the highway draws a 3,700 guzzler tax. The oddest thing about the Mulsanne is its econocar size trunk, just 11 cubic feet. Chief executives must travel light. Reality rudely interrupted when I walked out one morning to find the front end slumped atop the huge 21 inch wheels. The air suspension had deflated; the car was towed away, quite demeaningly I thought, on a greasy flatbed. A loose clamp proved the culprit. Spaciousness aside, whatever the Mulsanne does on the road, a 12 cylinder Mercedes, Audi or BMW does as well at half the price. Executives admit that the brand's exclusivity, history and obsessive luxury help to convince customers that a Bentley is worth the price. They don't have to convince many. Bentley will build just 700 to 800 Mulsannes a year for the world market, roughly 200 for Americans, starting at 291,295. With options, my Mulsanne test cars reached a respective 324,840 and 333,885. Some commentators suggest that the Mulsanne is handicapped in the world domination race because it's roughly 90,000 cheaper than the Phantom. (But about 50,000 more than the new Rolls Royce Ghost.) On the contrary, the Mulsanne reveals Rolls's emperor as nakedly overpriced for what it delivers. The Mulsanne isn't as spacious as the Phantom, but it is less fusty over all. Ultimately, even these stratospheric sedans must be judged on how well they drive. In appealing contrast to the one note Phantom and Maybach, a driver might take the Mulsanne for a fast spin without coming off as that social climbing cliche: the man who could afford the car, but not the chauffeur. INSIDE TRACK: Finally, a British monarch declares that all seats are created equal.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
When lockdown began a few months ago, as some women adopted sweatpants and worn in tees as a virtual uniform, others were buying apparel that's considerably more alluring: lacy push up bras, slinky thongs and other undergarments that are more characteristically reserved for P.P.E. free, socially undistanced activities. On La Perla's website, for example, sales of the Ambra collection, an assortment of pieces that includes delicate balconette bras and high cut panties adorned with French Leavers lace, increased 200 percent in the period between April 1 and mid May compared with the six weeks that preceded it. Figleaves, the British online lingerie retailer, reports that United States sales of its Pulse collection, which includes ornately detailed low cut bras and sheer back Brazilian panties, more than doubled between March and April, and nearly doubled again between April and May. Between March and the end of May, thong sales on Le Mystere's website more than doubled compared to the same period last year. (It's worth nothing that in the lingerie business, sales are usually slow in the weeks after Valentine's Day.) More risque styles proved popular, too. At Journelle, a lingerie merchant that, until recently, had been selling solely online after its boutiques closed on March 17, purchases of its Natalia Ouvert style, a skimpy bikini with a large open section that leaves little of the wearer's derriere to the imagination, were up nearly 50 percent in April and May over the two preceding months. The terms "ouvert" and "crotchless" are now among the Top 10 search terms on its website. On the Kiki de Montparnasse website, sales from March 22 to May 27 of several options of panties and bras with exposed areas topped the sales of those styles for all of last year, according to a representative for the brand. Fleur du Mal, which designs and sells lingerie that's both luxurious and suggestive, quickly sold out of four styles of its crotchless panties online after its New York City boutique closed on March 15. "Anything that's on that racier, sexier side our strappy bondage styles, our open bra styles, garter belts is moving," said Jennifer Zuccarini, the Fleur du Mal founder. Guido Campello, the co chief executive of Journelle, offered an explanation, suggesting that for some couples, confinement may be encouraging intimacy that is outside of typical comfort zones. "They've gotten to know each other and gotten a lot closer, and they've gotten more creative," he said. "It's all about making you feel great from the inside out," Ms. Burt said. Or as Pascal Perrier, the chief executive of La Perla, put it: "What else can you do from home actually? Do you buy a Gucci handbag? No, because you have plenty already, and you don't go out. You buy food OK, that box is ticked. 'How about myself? What can I buy for myself that I'm going to enjoy?'" That enjoyment can come at a steep price: Many of La Perla's bras are around 400, and Fleur du Mal's "cheeky" lace underpants, with an especially high cut back, are just under 100. But then, alluring lingerie is available at many price points, including at mass retailers like Walmart and Target. Overall, sales of lace bras increased 37 percent between the first half of April and the second, according to NPD Group, the market research company. "What I think is really happening is that sexy lingerie is self care," said Todd Mick, NPD's innerwear analyst. And, Mr. Mick noted, shopping online is conducive to the sale of racier pieces. "You can purchase sexy stuff in the privacy of your home," he said. That, he said, is also driving sales.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
ATTLEBORO, Mass. I distanced myself from my son Patrick, not as a precaution against the virus though he is an emergency room nurse and in the thick of things but because a novice fly fisherman poses enough danger. Stand too close and that whip of line he has aloft, tipped with a tiny hook masquerading as a bug, can take a wayward path and snag your shirt. Or your ear. I know this. The sun was low in the trees and the stream now slid by like ink. A trout nosed the surface beside a half submerged log and Patrick was in range if he could just keep that line out of the brambles around him. I watched the scene play out from the road bridge while I blew cigar smoke at the midges flitting around my head. Years ago I sat along streams like this with my oldest brother, Dennis, and watched him roll cigarettes while we scanned the water for the telltale ripple of a feeding trout to target. We were younger and more irresponsible, dropping everything in spring to travel to the Catskills, or the Rockies or the White Mountains anywhere for the chance to catch magic hours like this when hungry trout rise in waning light and a trance like stillness closes in. Now, as I watched Patrick, I felt a twinge of melancholy. Denny, now in his 70s and a dozen years older, lives hours away and we share fewer spring adventures. It didn't help that in this time of self isolation and daily death toll announcements he said during one of our more frequent phone calls now that he and his wife, Devina, were getting their affairs in order. All of them. It just seemed timely and prudent, he said. "We've settled on cremation," he said. Our mother once termed the early 1970s "the worst years," so much societal unrest and worry over Dennis, her oldest. Fresh out of college and then the Peace Corps, Denny had a wanderer's spirit that took him from coast to coast and to Denver in between. He would light home for a time but then with little warning he'd shoulder his backpack and hike for the highway, to hitch a ride ... somewhere. "Why don't you ask Dennis to take you fishing?" she once asked, her motive clear even to a boy barely a teenager. Keep him close. PATRICK AND I LEFT THE STREAM without fooling a fish. Two nights later we were standing on the bank of a nearby pond, ready to try again. Patrick, who is 27, had not until recently shown much interest in my fly fishing passion. But this virus, he confided one day after another 12 hour shift caring for the gravely ill, "has everyone appreciating things more." Teach me, he asked. He watched closely as I tied different flies on our lines and spared me any wise remark as I expounded on the life cycle of trout bugs, from their submerged origins as crawling creatures to their transition to flying adults. "Just pay attention to what's coming off the water," I said. I hooked a nice trout on a submerged nymph pattern and it jumped completely out of the water to try to shake the hook. I handed my rod over to Patrick's girlfriend, Meg, so she could feel the fish. The trout swam in close and with slack in the line, eventually slipped off. "L.D.R.," I said. "Long distance release." We kept at it for a while but grew frustrated as the magic hour commenced and the trout were leaving bull's eyes all over the water but beyond our casting range. We'd decided to call it a night when a stranger walked up holding a plastic shopping bag sagging with something heavy inside. He spoke with a Russian accent, and with his few words of English we came to understand he had a big trout in the bag he wanted to give us; he didn't know how to cook it and did not want it to go to waste. "Caught four," he said. "Let go the others." "Four?," I said, impressed. "What were you using?" He nodded. "Mini," he said, and pressed his thumb and forefinger together to emphasize the small variety. So much for weighted nymphs and artificial gnats. We accepted his generous offer, and Meg snapped a photograph of Patrick and I with the fish. "Well, that was different," Patrick said, and as we laughed, I thought how I'd retell the story to Denny the next morning, sending first just the photograph as a tease and saving the best part for the question I knew would come: What fly did you use?	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
On the jacket flap of her 2007 book "The Principles of Uncertainty," the author and illustrator Maira Kalman briefly explains what the reader will find within a fragmented personal diary "abounding with anguish, confusion, bits of wisdom, musings, meanderings, buckets of joie de vivre." Now brought to the stage in collaboration with choreographer John Heginbotham, the performance version of "The Principles of Uncertainty," arriving Wednesday, Sept. 27, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, can be described pretty much the same way. Ms. Kalman and Mr. Heginbotham, an alumnus of the Mark Morris Dance Group, spent three years building the whimsical world of this show. In addition to the cabinet of curiosities set by Ms. Kalman, who also appears as a version of herself, that world is inhabited by seven dancers, actor Daniel Pettrow and four musicians performing an animated score by Colin Jacobsen of "The Knights," which gently rocks between fanciful and melancholy. "The Principles of Uncertainty" floats along without narrative, collecting impressions of life's peculiarities and gently placing them in buckets of joie de vivre. (Through Sept. 30; bam.org.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
A roundup of motoring news from the web: According to a panel at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit on Wednesday, it is possible for automakers to comply with the federal government requirement to meet a Corporate Average Fuel Economy target of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 using current technology. Among the tools the panel discussed were turbochargers, start stop systems, direct injection and advanced battery technology. (Automotive News, subscription required) Tom Doll, president of Subaru of America, said at a conference in Detroit on Wednesday that the automaker was on its way to selling 500,000 units annually in the United States by 2016. In 2013, Subaru sold 424,683 vehicles in the United States, a 26 percent increase. Mr. Doll said that to keep sales in line with the company's current infrastructure, it would have to moderate its current growth. (Automotive News, subscription required) A study published by comScore, a research company, said that ads on Facebook could have a considerable impact on car buying decisions. ComScore's research indicated that, because of Facebook ads, visits to individual automotive model web pages increased by 50 percent, in turn pushing up automaker website visits by 37 percent. (AdWeek) Chrysler announced Wednesday that it had appointed Robert E. Lee, the company's current head of engine, powertrain and electrified propulsion systems engineering, as interim head of its transmission powertrain and driveline engineering department. For now, Mr. Lee will occupy both positions simultaneously, in addition to his duties as the powertrain coordination member on the group executive council for Fiat. (Chrysler)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
Hawthorne James, left, and Ray Chambers in "Necessary Sacrifices," a North Coast Rep streaming production that is being covered under an agreement with SAG AFTRA. For unemployed theater artists, there has been one bright spot during a pandemic that has prevented live performance: streaming. But now two major entertainment industry unions are locked in a battle over that work, with compensation, health insurance, and even permission to perform at stake. Actors' Equity Association, the labor union that represents 51,000 theater actors and stage managers, is accusing SAG AFTRA, the union that represents 160,000 people who work in film, television and radio, of raiding its turf and undercutting its contracts by negotiating lower paying deals with theaters for streaming productions. SAG AFTRA, in turn, says that work made for broadcast has always been its domain, and that it has offered to work with Equity through the pandemic but that the stage union has refused all efforts at compromise. The two organizations have been sparring privately about the issue almost since the start of the pandemic. According to Equity, during that time SAG AFTRA has signed contracts for at least 60 streaming productions made by theaters that normally present work to live audiences. The casts are often the same, regardless of which union is involved, but Equity says they are paid less well, and lose contributions toward Equity health and pension benefits, when SAG AFTRA takes over. And stage managers are often cut out entirely, because SAG AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) doesn't cover them. Now a frustrated group of Equity represented stage managers is circulating a petition urging SAG AFTRA to back off. "Don't leave us unprotected and without work during a national health emergency that has left unemployment almost absolute and our industry devastated," the letter pleads. Heather Brose, a San Diego based stage manager, said she has lost work as a result of shows that would have been represented by Equity being streamed under SAG AFTRA contracts. "We're being left behind, and we're being left out of work," she said. "It's maddening that our sister union is doing this to us." Each union is blaming the other for the breakdown in what they say is normally a constructive working relationship. Equity says SAG AFTRA is violating longstanding union practice by encroaching on theaters with which it has contracts. The union contends that, because SAG AFTRA pays daily instead of weekly, and because the stage actors don't earn credit toward Equity insurance, actors have lost 600,000 in earnings and 150,000 in employer contributions to the embattled Equity League Health Fund. "We're in the middle of the worst crisis facing the American theater since the flu of 1918, and why would now be the time to change our decades long relationship of working together?" said Mary McColl, Equity's executive director. "It doesn't help actors and stage managers, and it doesn't help the labor movement. We should be fighting to protect the workers, and instead we're in this argument about whose fence should be where." SAG AFTRA says it has offered to back off for the duration of the pandemic, but only if Equity agrees that streamed theatrical work is ultimately its territory. "Obviously live performance has been hit harder than anybody, and I understand that there's a real feeling that they're fighting for their life," said Duncan Crabtree Ireland, SAG AFTRA's chief operating officer. "We want to help them, but we insist on recognition that this is intended to help them through the pandemic, and not to shift things long term." Crabtree Ireland said SAG AFTRA doesn't represent stage managers, and that if Equity is concerned it could still represent them. McColl disputed that, saying, "This is exactly what someone who does not understand how the American theater business works would say." The dispute is complicated by the fact that some theaters administrators have quietly complained that it has been difficult to get Equity to negotiate agreements that would allow its members to work on theater made for streaming, which has become a key way to stay engaged with audiences and solicit donations during the pandemic. McColl said the dispute with SAG AFTRA has made it difficult to negotiate streaming deals. Nonetheless Equity says that since March it has reached agreements permitting its members to work on 249 "remote shows." Among the theaters named by Equity as normally producing with that union but now working with SAG AFTRA are the Guthrie, a leading regional nonprofit in Minneapolis; North Coast Repertory Theater, in Solana Beach, Calif.; and TheaterWorks Hartford. But the practice appears to be increasingly pervasive as the pandemic drags on just this week the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia said it would film a site specific production of "Heroes of the Fourth Turning," with its performers represented by SAG AFTRA, not Equity. Asked about the situation, the Guthrie declined to comment, while a spokeswoman for North Coast Rep said, "We are in the process of productive conversations with AEA to resolve this issue going forward." Representatives for TheaterWorks and the Wilma did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The dispute comes at a time of increasing labor unrest in the entertainment industry, where many workers are facing long term unemployment. Health insurance funds affiliated with both Equity and SAG AFTRA are facing criticism after making insurance harder to obtain because of sharply diminished revenues. And this week members of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents musicians who perform onstage and on air, protested television networks, seeking greater compensation for streaming work.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Many of us are stuck at home at the moment, so here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. In a phone interview with Fox Business Network on Thursday, President Trump insulted a number of women in the Democratic Party notably Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's newly appointed running mate in the general election. Mr. Trump called her "a mad woman." "Man, looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the My Pillow." JIMMY FALLON "He's tough on the phone, but if he really had guts, he'd say all that on 'The View.'" JIMMY FALLON "'Sleepy Joe and the Mad Woman.' Sounds like the best indie band. It actually sounds like a band Morrissey would join after the Smiths." JAMES CORDEN "These guys love to joke about liberal tears, but they are the whiniest little babies in the world. Trump sounds like he's sniffling to his mom after getting home from the playground. As Trump 'She was the meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful bully. She gave me a wedgie.'" SETH MEYERS "At this point, our best shot at Trump attacking Covid is someone telling him the virus ovulates." JIMMY FALLON "Good to see Fox Business really staying laser focused on all the business." JAMES CORDEN "OK, he just admitted that he's not agreeing to a deal to fund the Postal Service because he doesn't want mail in voting to be possible for the election. Trump's like one of those movie villains who spends so much time explaining his plan out loud that the good guy manages to shimmy out of his handcuffs." JIMMY FALLON "I've never seen a villain give away a plan like that without seeing James Bond tied to a chair in front of him." TREVOR NOAH "Trump got impeached for trying to secretly rig the election and his response is to go, as Trump 'I learned my lesson. I won't rig an election in secret ever again.'" TREVOR NOAH "And the truth is, this effort to sabotage mail in voting is a real threat to America's election. If Trump gets his way, they're going to have to change all the 'I voted' stickers to end in a question mark 'I voted?'" TREVOR NOAH "Postal workers were like, 'How much less funding can you give us? We don't even have pants!'" JIMMY FALLON "Millions of Americans wrote Trump angry letters about it, but he was like, 'Weird, I didn't get anything.'" JIMMY FALLON "Establishing post offices is in the Constitution. Congress needs to stand firm and protect the United States Postal Service with the same fervor the right uses to defend guns. What I am saying is you can have my sister in law's Christmas newsletter when you pry it from my cold dead hands." STEPHEN COLBERT	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. MODERN PIANO ( ) FESTIVAL at Spectrum (through Dec. 19). This sprawling celebration of the piano returns for a second annual festival, with highlights aplenty. This week, check out Jacob Rhodebeck playing Alex Nante's 50 minute "Diario de Abril" (Friday, 8 p.m.); the International Contemporary Ensemble's pianist, Jacob Greenberg, performing works by David Fulmer, Amy Williams, Dai Fujikura and Phyllis Chen (Saturday, 8:30 p.m.); the pianist and conductor Naomi Woo exploring the outer limits of the keyboard in pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti, Louis d'Heurieres and Celeste Oram (Sunday, 8 p.m.); and Alexandra Saraceno playing Messiaen's "Preludes" and "La Merle Noir," with the flutist Jacob Mortensen (Tuesday, 7 p.m.). spectrumnyc.com NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG AT MERKIN HALL (Dec. 12, 8 p.m.). Harlem's gay underground is brought to life by the pianist Steven Blier and his team of singers, with songs by Bessie Smith, Billy Strayhorn, Porter Grainger and, perhaps most intriguingly, Gladys Bentley. Giovanni Russonello described her in a recent obituary for the Times's Overlooked series as a singer of "gender bending original blues numbers," which led to her becoming "Harlem's most famous lesbian figure" in the 1930s. 212 501 3330, nyfos.org ST. THOMAS CHOIR OF MEN AND BOYS at St. Thomas Church (Dec. 10 and 12, 7:30 p.m.). One of the three or four quintessential renditions of "Messiah" in New York will be particularly fresh this year, albeit still with the classic sound made by the choir's boy trebles, in this group's first performances under music director Jeremy Filsell. For reference, this year the New York Philharmonic's "Messiah" gets going on Dec. 17, but you will have to wait until Dec. 20 to hear the best "Messiah" for miles around, at Trinity Wall Street. 212 664 9360, saintthomaschurch.org SO PERCUSSION at Zankel Hall (Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m.). Joined by a number of friends, this essential quartet looks back on a century of percussion music, from Edgard Varese's "Ionisation" and Johanna Beyer's "March for 30 Percussion Instruments" to Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" and John Cage's "Third Construction," all the way through to the New York premiere of Julia Wolfe's "Forbidden Love." 212 247 7800, carnegiehall.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Last summer, with her ubiquitous hit "Bodak Yellow," Cardi B became the first female rapper since Lauryn Hill in 1998 to reach No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart with a fully solo release that is, with no "feature" appearance by another artist (say, a male rapper). Now, Cardi B has pulled off a similar feat on the album chart, as her "Invasion of Privacy" (KSR/Atlantic) opens at No. 1 with the equivalent of 255,000 album sales in the United States, according to Nielsen. As Billboard noted, she is only the fifth female rapper in history to top the chart, after Nicki Minaj, Eve, Foxy Brown and Ms. Hill. "Invasion of Privacy" also had the highest streaming week ever for a female artist, with 202.6 million streams of tracks from the album, beating Beyonce, who logged 115 million for "Lemonade" two years ago. In addition to the streams, "Invasion of Privacy" had 103,000 sales as a complete album, on formats like CD and download.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
"It's the most expensive thing I own, aside from my house." CATHERINE HAYLEY, whose diabetes was diagnosed when she was 9, describing the digital insulin pump that helps keep her alive. Traditionally, insurers lost money by covering people with chronic illnesses, because they often ended up hospitalized with myriad complications as their diseases progressed. Today, the routine care costs of many chronic illnesses eclipse that of acute care because new treatments that keep patients well have become a multibillion dollar business opportunity for device and drug makers and medical providers. The high price of new treatments for diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, colitis and other chronic diseases contribute mightily to the United States' 2.7 trillion annual health care bill. More than 1.5 million Americans have Type 1 diabetes and cannot survive without frequent insulin doses, so they are utterly dependent on a small number of producers of supplies and drugs, which have great leeway to set prices. (Patients with the far more common Type 2 diabetes linked to obesity still produce insulin and can improve with lifestyle changes and weight loss, or on oral medicines.) That captive audience of Type 1 diabetics has spawned lines of high priced gadgets and disposable accouterments, borrowing business models from technology companies like Apple: Each pump and monitor requires the separate purchase of an array of items that are often brand and model specific. Companies that produce the treatments say the higher costs reflect medical advances and the need to recoup money spent on research. But David Kliff, a financial analyst who is editor of Diabetic Investor, an independent newsletter on the industry, points out: "Diabetes is not just a disease state; it's a huge business, too." Those companies spend millions of dollars recruiting patients at health fairs, through physicians' offices and with aggressive advertising often urging them to get devices and treatments that are not necessary, doctors say. "They may be better in some abstract sense, but the clinical relevance is minor," said Dr. Joel Zonszein, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center. "People don't need a meter that talks to them," he added. "There's an incredible waste of money." "People don't need a meter that talks to them. There's an incredible waste of money." DR. JOEL ZONSZEIN, director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center. Karsten Moran for The New York Times Even patients with insurance often feel squeezed by large out of pocket costs, and many describe holding old pumps together with duct tape, rationing their test strips and skimping on insulin. Dr. Jeoffry B. Gordon, a family practitioner in San Diego, said he had patients with failing kidneys and others who had ended up in emergency rooms because they could not afford their maintenance care. "From a guy on the front lines, the improvements have been miraculous," he said. "But the acquisition cost is very high, and the pricing dictates what treatment you get." Complication rates from diabetes in the United States are generally higher than in other developed countries. That is true even though the United States spends more per patient and per capita treating diabetes than elsewhere, said Ping Zhang, an economist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The high costs are taking their toll on public coffers, since 62 percent of that treatment money comes from government insurers. The cumulative outlays for treating Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes reached nearly 200 billion in 2012, or about 7 percent of America's health care bill. Expenditures could well double by 2030, according to estimates by the C.D.C., in large part because the number of Americans found to have diabetes has been increasing more than 50 percent every 10 years. Most of the increase is attributable to Type 2 diabetes patients, whom manufacturers are encouraging to try insulin treatment and glucose monitoring, even though that is rarely medically required. Also, the Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover people with chronic disease, meaning they will have better access to treatments. "This is not just a health care crisis," said Mr. Kliff, the newsletter editor, who has Type 1 diabetes. "It's an economic crisis as well." Catherine Hayley was born in 1977, the year before the first synthetic human insulin was made using new gene splicing technology. Her diabetes was diagnosed when she was 9, about the time this new generation of genetically engineered insulin was brought to market. One of her earliest memories is practicing insulin injections on an orange. The development of insulin therapy in the 1920s was one of the great medical triumphs of the 20th century, on a par with the discovery of antibiotics. Before then, Type 1 diabetics often died within a year and were on such restrictive diets that they sometimes succumbed to starvation. Diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the pancreas stops producing the hormone insulin. Without it, sugars build up in the blood, producing symptoms like blurry vision, exhaustion and frequent urination and leading to a severe accumulation of acids that can be rapidly fatal. Even when treated with insulin shots, moderately high sugar levels over the long term can damage the eyes, heart, kidneys and nerves. But if too much insulin is given, blood sugar can plummet, leading to unconsciousness and seizures. Because digestive enzymes degrade insulin, it cannot be swallowed, and must be injected. THE BUSINESS OF ILLNESS The American Diabetes Association's recent exposition in New York attracted all manner of vendors. Pictured: An appearance by an Ironman facsimile against an insurer's backdrop. Christopher Gregory for The New York Times When Ms. Hayley's diabetes was diagnosed, maintaining that balance involved testing a drop of blood on a paper strip that would change color to indicate within a wide range the patient's glucose level. Patients would typically give themselves a shot of insulin morning and night in response to the results. "What I ate was all very regimented, and it had to be at the same time each day," she recalled. At school every day at 10 a.m., she pulled out a snack of a precisely weighed chunk of cheese and rice cakes. The treatment tools were initially cheap: simple syringes and pig insulin, which is almost identical to that made by the human body. But that all changed after a landmark study in 1992 showed that patients did better if they maintained very tight control keeping their blood sugar within a nearly normal range by checking it frequently and taking multiple insulin shots a day. Around the same time the business of American medicine was changing, too, with direct to consumer advertising, proprietary treatments and designer insulin in development. When Ms. Hayley left Memphis for Colorado College in 1996, she was using a tiny meter through which she could get more precise measures of her blood sugar level, a penlike injector containing insulin with an adjustable dose, and human insulin made with gene splicing technology. All were covered by patents. A saleswoman for Medtronic demonstrating one of the company's insulin pumps. Christopher Gregory for The New York Times She did not switch to a pump until 2006 when, after years of waiting tables and studying in graduate school, she got her first job with insurance benefits. "It controls my blood sugar better," she said, on her way to a dinner that included sharing a once forbidden fruit cobbler. "I'm really able to live how I want. However, the price has increased dramatically." The tiny squirts from her pump are delivered more precisely by patented systems with microchip sensors and Bluetooth capability, with technical support by company representatives in endocrinologists' offices. When Ms. Hayley pricks her finger, it is with a customized lancet to go with a customized test strip that fits into a customized meter, which transmits the result wirelessly to her compatible insulin pump, which delivers the appropriate insulin dose. (There is not yet a one device does all that automatically performs the pricking, measuring and dosing.) While some components, like the meters, are low cost or even free for patients, their supplies are costly. Dr. Spencer Owades, a dentist in suburban Denver with Type 1 diabetes, said he was shocked to discover that his test strips which cost just pennies to make were priced at 1.50 apiece when he ran out and had to buy them at a pharmacy. He usually received them in the mail through his insurer and uses five to 10 a day. "It's a printer model," he said, "where the printer is cheap, but they get you on the cartridges." He added: "But if you have diabetes, they have you over a barrel." Medtronic declined to talk about specific prices, but said a core tenet was to make only "a fair profit." Amanda Sheldon, a spokeswoman, added: "We are committed to reinvesting in research and development of new technologies to improve the lives of people with diabetes, and our current pricing structure ensures that we can bring new products to market." For the small meters to test blood sugar, "the technology isn't very sophisticated it essentially hasn't really changed much in the past 25 years," said Dr. John Pickup, a professor of diabetes and metabolism at King's College London. "The test strips are based on an electrochemical reaction. The new meters are a bit more sophisticated they can make charts and things like that. It's a little bit of added value to the patient. But the companies can charge a lot more money." The types of insulin available have evolved as well, as has their price. Synthetic human insulin is safer for patients, who sometimes developed reactions to animal insulin. But it is made by only three companies: Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk. Manufactured in microbes, each one's product has minor dissimilarities that reflect the type of cell in which it was made. Since the companies owned the cell lines, it is nearly impossible for other companies to make exact copies or even similar versions that would be cheaper, even once the patents expire. And the pharmaceutical companies defend the patents ferociously. What's more, the three companies continued to refine their product, adding chemical groups that made the insulin absorb somewhat more quickly or evenly, for example. They are called insulin analogues, and their benefits are promoted tirelessly to doctors and patients. Representatives of Walgreens, a sponsor of the event, with sample bags for attendees. Christopher Gregory for The New York Times "The insulins are tweaked for minor benefits that may help a small number of patients with difficult to control diabetes, and result in major price increases for all," Dr. Pickup said. Because of analogues, he added, Britain's National Health Service has had to spend 130 percent more on insulin in the past five years. In the United States, said Dr. Zonszein at Montefiore, the price of Humalog, Lilly's analogue insulin, was typically two to four times that of its older human insulin line, called Humulin. "There is not a lot of difference between Humulin and analogues," he said, but he noted that Humulin was getting "hard to find." Sanofi Aventis has stopped selling its older product in the United States, and Mr. Kliff, the financial analyst, said other companies were likely to follow suit, effectively forcing patients to use the costlier versions. Dr. Todd Hobbs, chief medical officer of Novo Nordisk, defended the rising prices of insulin, linking them to medical benefits. "The cost to develop these new insulin products has been enormous, and the cost of the insulin to the consumer in developed countries has risen to enable these and future advancements to occur," he wrote in an email. Patients get squeezed between insurers or employers, who are trying to limit their outlays, and the suppliers. The constant shifts in products and prices are a challenge for even the most sophisticated consumers. Denise Lombard, an insurance broker in Oakland, Calif., whose 16 year old daughter, Gabrielle Woodland, has diabetes, said many policies contained "not one word about how they are going to cover insulin and supplies." Gabrielle's current policy does not cover glucagon, a hormone injection which retails at 272.72 a dose that families of diabetic children are told to stock should they faint because their blood sugar drops too low. Nathan Weyland for The New York Times Jonathan Lloyd, a pharmacist in upstate New York, has been frustrated trying to manage the care of his daughter, Erin, 25, who uses a pump with a built in glucose meter and is teaching in Nicaragua. When Mr. Lloyd went to fill the four prescriptions for her supplies this year, he discovered many of them were no longer covered by his insurer, which had switched to reimburse a different brand of insulin and a different metering system, because the insurer got a better deal. He now faces a dilemma: His daughter could switch to the new type of meter, which cannot communicate with her pump, which would mean her current meter would sit uselessly on her waist. Or he can pay thousands of dollars to buy supplies for the meter she already has. "It's so complicated there are all these hidden costs, and I'm a pharmacist, for crying out loud," he said. Meanwhile, as the price of supplies rises, endocrinologists remain among the lowest paid specialists in American medicine, meaning severe physician shortages in many areas and long waits to see a doctor. Most other developed countries with or without national health systems provide free care and supplies for people with chronic diseases, reasoning that the disease is a natural catastrophe that fells its victims unpredictably. Also, with such policies in place, other countries and health care systems bargain hard with drug and device makers to bring down list prices. In Germany, where everyone must have private insurance and contribute co pays, people with diabetes get their care free; the price of pumps and insulin is negotiated by the government. In Britain, each hospital negotiates for pumps for its patients, getting prices that are typically less than half those in the United States, Dr. Pickup said. The vial of insulin analogue that Ms. Hayley gets for 200 at an American pharmacy is typically bought by British pharmacists for under 30 and dispensed free. Some economists say manufacturers extract high prices in the United States to compensate for the fact that national purchasers overseas demand bargains. That may be justified in a world where bringing a new drug to market can cost 1 billion, they add. "To some extent, Europe is getting a free ride from the U.S.," said Robert J. Shapiro, an economist and chairman of Sonecom L.L.C., a Washington based financial advisory firm. "Drugs and equipment makers operate in a global market, and our costs are higher because every other country applies price controls, and we don't." Mr. Kliff, the financial analyst, said some companies were no longer willing to sell in Germany as ever tougher price negotiations have eaten into their margins. "I'm not saying they can't make money there they can," he said. "But they can't make the kind of money they make in the U.S." He added that diabetes treatments remained highly profitable in the United States; insulin, for example, yields profit margins of around 70 percent. With growing frustration but limited tools, the federal government has taken some tentative steps to fight back. Medicare is not allowed to bargain for insulin prices. But for the first time last year it instituted competitive bidding for diabetes supplies, cutting reimbursements for test strips, for example, by about 60 percent. Even when governments negotiate prices and foot the bill, patients may feel the rising price of diabetes care in other ways: While about one third of Type 1 diabetics use pumps in the United States, that number is under 10 percent in Britain. What is the right number? Since pumps are complicated to operate, young children cannot use them, and some patients prefer syringes that operate like pens because they do not like having pumps attached. The British government will not dispense these costly items unless a patient's diabetes has proved uncontrollable using other methods, but many doctors feel the devices are underutilized in Britain. In the United States, each patient with a chronic disease must make the cost benefit analysis of each new high priced treatment, weighing symptoms, disposable income and insurance coverage. They are often wrenching decisions. For Kristen Bailey, 28, of Colorado Springs, who has Crohn's disease, an intestinal disorder, that meant not marrying her fiancee so she could continue to qualify for drug company assistance programs that provide, at no cost, two medicines with list prices of more than 16,000 a year in the United States. For Jeffrey Kivi, 51, a chemistry teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York, it meant recently giving up an intravenous drug that, as an outpatient, he had had infused every six weeks for years to keep his psoriatic arthritis at bay. Before taking that drug, Remicade, Dr. Kivi was on high doses of steroids for debilitating joint pain that left him unable to walk at times. But when his last three hour infusion at NYU Langone Medical Center's outpatient clinic generated a bill of 133,000 and his insurer paid 99,593 Dr. Kivi was so outraged that he decided to risk switching to another drug that he could inject by himself at home. That is true even though his insurer did not require him to make up the difference. "I cannot, in good conscience, continue to force my insurance company to pay 100,000 to NYU each time I get a Remicade infusion," Dr. Kivi, who was a drug company researcher for many years, wrote to the hospital. "That's insane." "I cannot, in good conscience, continue to force my insurance company to pay 100,000 to NYU each time I get a Remicade infusion. That's insane." JEFFREY KIVI, who recently gave up an intravenous drug that had kept his psoriatic arthritis at bay for years. Michael Appleton for The New York Times In a statement, Lisa Greiner, a spokeswoman for the medical center, said Dr. Kivi's charge had been high relative to that of other patients because he had been prescribed a high dose of the drug. He had moved his care to NYU Langone to follow his longtime doctor, who had moved her practice from a nearby hospital where the same infusion had been billed at 19,000. The average price that hospitals paid for Dr. Kivi's dose of Remicade late last year was about 1,200, according to Medicare data. Changing drugs is not an option for patients with Type 1 diabetes, like Ms. Hayley. They need insulin. She is resigned to paying her share of the new Medtronic insulin pump. And she is steeling herself for other new costs that will bring. The pumps are designed to work with yet another new device called a continuous glucose monitor bought separately that could be lifesaving for some patients with unstable diabetes, because it sounds an alarm and suspends insulin flow if it detects that blood sugar has dropped dangerously low, which can happen during sleep. This device has two parts: a disposable probe, which is attached to the body and measures the glucose level in the skin, and a transmitter that attaches to the probe to calculate the results and send to the pump. The probes retail for over 100 and must be changed every six days; the transmitter costs about 600. (Since such devices are not precise enough to adjust insulin doses they are meant primarily to detect trends Ms. Hayley will have to continue pricking her finger for meter measurements as well.) She does not yet know how well her insurer will cover those. "You want me to be able to afford good treatment," she said. "Because otherwise I end up disabled."	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Claridge's, the luxury hotel in London, is one of many hotels around the world to open its doors to health care workers. Hotels, some high end, that have closed in recent weeks because of the coronavirus have reopened as lodgings for workers on the front line. Days after closing for the first time in its 200 year history, Claridge's, the storied luxury hotel in London's Mayfair district reopened on April 3 to 40 doctors, nurses and other National Health Service workers responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Claridge's is one of many hotels around the world that shuttered to the public in recent weeks to follow rules set by governments and health experts, but reopened as lodging for health care workers as it became apparent that many workers would need a place to stay. "We felt that Claridge's and all our hotels had a duty to step up," said Paula Fitzherbert, the director of communications for the Maybourne Hotel Group. "We love London. London is part of what we are and we need to help. We need to step up the way all our health care workers are." Ms. Fitzherbert said that the Maybourne Hotel Group, which owns Claridge's, became aware that as the virus spread, more health care workers would be asked to come to London from surrounding towns and cities, and those people likely wouldn't have a home in the city. She said offering them a place to stay would alleviate some of their stress as well as keep people from commuting on trains. Guests will be staying in rooms that typically cost PS650 (about 850) a night. Ms. Fitzherbert expressed some disappointment that guests won't be able to experience the luxurious stay the hotel is known for, but said she was glad that the hotel could still help. "We're thinking of this as a comforting refuge rather than a five star refuge," Ms. Fitzherbert said. "I hope they'll be able to come in, run a bubble bath, hopefully relax before going out again." To enter the hotel, N.H.S. workers must ring a doorbell and walk up the stairs to their room the hotel's famed elevator, the last person operated elevator in London, is not operational. Breakfast and dinner will be delivered without contact and in to go boxes, "instead of fine china," and rooms aren't being cleaned daily and will likely be kept empty for 48 hours after someone leaves. The meals are being prepared by kitchen staff from three Maybourne Hotel Group hotels. Ms. Fitzherbert said that Claridge's has "a skeleton staff staying in house," and for those commuting, transport is being covered by the hotel, with many employees taking Ubers. When a call to staff to see who would want to volunteer was sent out, almost everyone offered, she said. Gary Neville, the soccer coach and former Manchester United player, said that at two hotels he co owns in Manchester, staff also volunteered to come in and tend to N.H.S. workers who are being offered more than 170 rooms. Hotel employees are receiving their usual pay, even if they aren't currently working. The hotel began planning to service N.H.S. workers in early March. "We didn't wait for the U.K. and U.S. governments to lock down because we could see what was coming from the advice we were getting from our Singaporean counterparts," Mr. Neville said. Mr. Neville said that at the request of the health care workers, rooms are not being cleaned on a daily basis, and those inside the hotel are following social distancing rules. The rooms will remain dedicated to N.H.S. staff for as long as necessary, Mr. Neville said. "Medical professionals need to be able to stay away from their families," he said. "There is no choice for them and there is no choice for us. We have to do this for them. We want to do it." At the Sophy Hyde Park, a hotel in Chicago that opened the majority of its rooms to University of Chicago Medical Center staff since March 27, contactless interactions between hotel staff and the health care workers checking in have become routine. Its rooms are open to the hospital's employees until mid April, at which point it will begin charging a discounted rate. "Our staff is across from the front desk, the keys are premade and in the credenza eight feet away from the front," said Anthony Beach, the hotel's general manager. "There's a key sanitizing station. There's no handing over of credit cards or anything of that nature, so they can get their keys and go directly to their rooms." In New York City, on the night of April 2, the Four Seasons on East 57th Street opened 225 rooms for medical personnel. A hundred rooms were filled three days later. Social distancing measures begin before people enter the building, with street markers set six feet apart to mark the entryway and help curb the flow of people entering the building at any given moment. "A single point of entry and screening station has been designated for both guests and employees," said Bryan Barbieri, a spokesman for the hotel. "Each person will go through a screening process, one at a time, which includes a temperature check and answering a series of questions." The hotel's general manager, Rudy Tauscher, said that inside the hotel, guests and hotel employees are divided into designated areas and told about "green zones" in the hotel, where they are allowed to be. Beverages and boxed meals are being provided for guests to take on the way to their rooms. After checkout each guest room will be empty for three days and then cleaned and disinfected by a professional third party company before being cleaned again by the hotel's housekeeping team. The Fairmont Royal York, an Accor hotel in Toronto, has opened up 500 rooms to health care workers from three nearby hospital foundations. At this hotel, in room dining is available and is being delivered without contact between the guests and the hotel staff. Guests can also order delivery from outside restaurants, to be delivered without contact. Ms. Fitzherbert at Claridge's and Mr. Neville from the Stock Exchange Hotel and Football Hotel both said that before opening to health care workers, they were in conversation with health and government authorities to figure out the best practices. In recent weeks, hotels and government officials in the United States have been criticized for not working harder to house health care workers who, in many cases, are unable to go home because they could expose someone in their home to Covid 19. There have been reports of health care employees sleeping in their cars and being verbally abused while hotel rooms have sat empty. Mr. Tauscher at the Four Seasons in New York said that he has been in discussions with the health organizations, staff at the governor's office, as well as other hotels.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Kristina Nicolas will proudly tell you that she's been doing practically all her shopping online for years now. She will also tell you, in a more exasperated voice, that this has not remotely abbreviated the amount of time she spends going to stores. "It has become a huge errand and a huge part of my life having to get all this stuff back to where it came from," said Ms. Nicolas, a stay at home mother and former fashion buyer. She receives about 10 to 15 boxes per week of merchandise at her home in Chicago, and returns (or tries to return) about 30 percent. The ease of the task varies. "Sometimes it can be returned to the store, but sometimes it cannot," said Ms. Nicolas, growing louder. "Sometimes it's UPS, or DHL, or FedEx, or however they shipped it, then you have to print up a label, and I never seem to have the right tape." And who has a working printer at home anyway? "I don't really need one except for this," said Beth Paholak, a TV producer who has sacrificed a corner of her small apartment in Manhattan to boxes awaiting return. "And I'm not buying a printer just for returns." The paradox of e commerce now is that while acquiring items has gotten easier than ever before, exchanging or returning the unwanted ones remains an epic, tyrannical time suck. It wasn't supposed to be like this. Online shopping would save us time, we were told. It would free us from the torment of malls, angry clerks and wasted Saturdays. But as the fantasy becomes real e commerce will account for 2.3 trillion, or one tenth of all retail sales, in 2017, according to eMarketer some shoppers are surprised to discover they are devoting as much time to returns as they once did to in person shopping, with less fun. "I've ended up keeping stuff because the return process was such a pain," said Rob Cromer, an entrepreneur in New York City, using profanity. Likewise, Ms. Nicolas is currently making peace with the fact that the three wooden cutting boards she bought for Thanksgiving, total cost 100, are hers to keep at this point. Between Dec. 26 and Jan. 31, 45 percent of Americans will try to return at least one gift, according to Optoro, an e commerce software company. Today, that gift is more likely than ever to have been purchased online: 2017 is the first year that a majority of Americans planned to do their holiday shopping on the web, according to Deloitte. But while a handful of retailers receive nearly unanimous praise from shoppers for open ended, friction free returns of purchases made online (Amazon, Nordstrom, L.L. Bean, Madewell, among others), and many offer more generous policies during the holiday season, plenty still impose tight limitations and draconian requirements that seem designed to either discourage returns or drive traffic into their physical locations. Forever 21 and Shopbop require customers to return items bought online within 30 days, and like Victoria's Secret, Kohl's and Rue La La, don't always pay for shipping (Shopbop offers refunds for items returned within 15 days). Returns to Net a Porter must be made within 28 days, and within 14 days for Apple and Barnes Noble a narrow window if you factor in packing and shipping. Many retailers will send multiple items from a single order in separate boxes, each of which could require its own label (and box) in case of return. And while Amazon refunds your money the moment UPS scans your box for return, others make customers wait weeks to see the refund on their credit card a period of uncertainty too agonizing for some. "If I can't go the store to return something, I won't make the purchase," said Lauren Nolte, a marketing executive in Los Angeles. "It's like you have to make up your mind the second you get the item, then run to the post office or you're out of luck." And good luck finding a post office open before or after work. One can also feel sorry for the stores. Returns cost retailers 260 billion in 2015, according to the National Retail Federation. And about 30 percent of items bought online end up being returned, versus 9 percent of items bought in stores. Retailers can ease the expense if they can convince customers to return Web purchased items to stores in person. On average, returns to stores cost companies half as much as returns to distribution centers, and allow retailers to get the items back on shelves faster, according to new research from AlixPartners, a consulting firm. And driving shoppers into stores has the added benefit of possibly resulting in more purchases. (The good news for retailers: 62 percent of consumers prefer in store returns.) In November, Walmart raised some of its prices online to encourage in store foot traffic and cut down on shipping costs. Whether its attempts to discourage online returns will save money or simply drive away customers remains to be seen. "This is principally a reason why many retailers aren't making any money," said Mark A. Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia Business School and a former chief executive of Sears Canada. E commerce start ups have the extra challenge of needing to build loyalty. "These are new businesses that are just learning what they're in for," Mr. Cohen said. The unavoidable shortcomings of online shopping may make a high return rate a necessary part of the process. Trying on clothes isn't an option, and colors often appear different in person, leading many shoppers to buy an item in multiple sizes or colors with the intention of sending back the misfits. But there is also the growing problem of so called wardrobing: buying an item to use once knowing it can be returned afterward. The classic example is a prom dress, but generous return policies are luring more people to try bringing back, say, the camcorder they bought to record the prom, too. Some third party vendors are eager to cash in on the inconvenience of returns. In 2015, two former Nordstrom employees started Happy Returns, a company that operates physical "return bars" in malls where customers can give back items brought from e commerce retailers including Everlane, Chubbies and Tradesy for immediate refunds. Happy Returns has 50 locations and expects to open 150 more by the end of 2018. And in October, Amazon paid a reported 50 to 70 million to acquire Body Labs, a start up specializing in technology that allows shoppers to create 3 D avatars for trying on clothes online. While you wait for a better system to come along, there are steps you can take to cut down on online returns, said Eric Himel, a stylist whose clients include Giuliana Rancic and Kristin Cavallari. "Shopping is something you have to be in the right frame of mind for, and you have to dig in and do a little work," he said. That means no more clicking and buying at midnight, or after a second cocktail, and always taking the time to read reviews, check the fabrication and make yourself aware of return policies. Most important, Mr. Himel advised, remember that clothes modeled by professionals online may not look the same in your mirror. "It's like I tell women, 'Don't go shopping with your girlfriend, because they're always going to say something looks cute on you.'" If you miss the cut off dates, you can sell mistakes through secondhand marketplaces like Letgo, Vestiaire Collective or the TheRealReal. You're not likely to get full price, but getting anything can feel like a triumph (though of course, you still have to pack it up and ship it). "I'll say to my husband, 'See I made money!'" Ms. Nicolas said. "He says, 'No you did not. You lost money today.'"	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Survival tips for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, April 10 to 12 this year, are like advice for running a marathon. You'll want to drink water regularly, for example, and be wary of the vicious desert sun. But with the right planning, you can avoid fatigue and make the most of a weekend with some of the biggest names in music. Just ask Ben Ratliff, a music critic for The New York Times who will be covering Coachella this year for the eighth time. Whenever he works from the festival, his day begins with a four or five mile run at 7:30 a.m. (any later, and the sun is merciless). "The desert flower smells, the light and the San Jacinto Mountains are very good for the head," he said. Festivalgoers should keep in mind, he added, that doing this might require a nap later. Mr. Ratliff usually stays in Palm Springs, Calif. a short drive from Indio, where the festival is. If you're going to the festival and haven't booked a hotel yet, chances are that Indio is out of the question, as is its neighbor Palm Desert. There may be rooms for stragglers in Cathedral City or Palm Springs, "possibly overpriced, but available," he said. Just expect a drive back to your hotel that could last upward of 40 minutes, depending on traffic.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
The choreographer Twyla Tharp has been a classicist, a modernist, a postmodernist often at the same time and maybe now and then a feminist and a Romantic, too. She also has a strong streak of the clown: tough, solemn deadpan, with crazy timing, making a joke of how impossible things can be. Now, in "Minimalism and Me," a production that began life last year in Chicago, and which is currently at the Joyce for four weeks with six Tharp dancers, some old films and photographs, and 10 other people playing onstage audience members Tharp reminds us that she was once a minimalist. It's evident that this was just an early phase: Minimalism wasn't big enough to contain a temperament with her streaks of rococo excess and genre crossover, but she wryly tells us that her work from then on had to do with "less is more," as she takes us through 10 works she made from 1965 to '71. Increasingly since the 1980s, Ms. Tharp has become a memoirist, too in writing, on TV (using film of her earlier work) and in live performance. Reading from a lectern onstage, she narrates the first half of this show, a retrospective of her first seven years of making dances. In her earliest work, "Tank Dive" (1965), she stayed in motionless dance positions for whole minutes while Petula Clark's "Downtown" played; she now connects this to the painters Barnett Newman and Frank Stella, whose studios were close to the loft where she lived at the time, on Franklin Street in New York. Minimalism is her starting point; "Me" (or at least her work) is her main fascination. Yet she is our most obvious problem here: Her way of talking mixes seriousness and comedy in an awkward amalgam and in vocal tones that lack any spontaneity. Both her vocal delivery and her dances get laughs at some unlikely moments, while some of her funniest lines elicit no reaction. And, though she's keen to demonstrate the creative sophistication she quickly built up in the 1960s, she seems to be rewatching her early work impatiently, with the fast forward button. The excerpts are fascinating but, until we reach 1970, too brief. By 1968, she was famous enough to be included in what has become an often reproduced Jack Mitchell photograph of eight modern dance artists of several generations: Martha Graham at its center, and featuring Jose Limon, Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Don Redlich, Yvonne Rainer and the youngest, Ms. Tharp. In excerpts from the late 1960s there are snippets of original cast film, too you see the emergence of Tharpian style. This included the shrug, the shimmy, the wriggle. When I first experienced her work, in 1980, it was the most kinesthetically intoxicating dance style I'd ever experienced. It is not Ms. Tharp's task to make connections between herself and other choreographers of her time, but that photograph is not the only reason many of us will do so. Taylor's 1950s experimental pieces, not least "3 Epitaphs" (1956), seem to have been an influence, and when we see the different solos coinciding in one space, we're likely to think of Cunningham. These early works, and that Tharpian style itself, all have a pronounced kinship to Ms. Rainer's development of "democratic dance" (non virtuoso movement related to the everyday). We see only half of the 20 minute work "The Fugue" (1970) at the Joyce, but that's enough to show why she considers it her real Opus 1. (It's the earliest work she has regularly revived.) An arrangement of 20th century tap related movement sequences in baroque type musical structures less a single fugue than a series of mini fugues, with no music than the sound made by the dancers' hands and shoes it made her the formal classicist of her generation. But its blend of seeming informality and objectivity has always looked related to other dances from her generation, like Ms. Rainer's "Trio A" (1966) and Trisha Brown's "Opal Loop" (1980). Its first cast was made up of three women. (Viewers saw it as women's liberation onstage.) B y the time I first saw it in 1980, it had three men, but other combinations have been used. On Wednesday, it was danced by Kara Chan, Kellie Drobnick and Reed Tankersley elegantly, exactly, charmingly. I find these dancers somewhat slick when I compare them to the Tharp stylists I watched in the 1980s, but that's not a new complaint: Today's Tharp dancers, almost too accomplished in lines and rhythms, lack the juicy, weighty texture that emanated from their predecessors' whole body language. That's true also of the one full piece shown here, "Eight Jelly Rolls" (1971), the first piece she made to fit its musical accompaniment (old jazz recordings by Jelly Roll Morton and Charles Luke), and one of her greatest comedies. Since Ms. Tharp has staged this with the assistance of Sara Rudner, the greatest of Ms. Tharp's collaborators I was lucky to see them both in this work and others trouble has certainly been taken. Here, too, men now have some of the originally female roles. There are marvelously right moments, as when Ron Todorowski suddenly suspends a gesture of both arms in midair; Ms. Tharp's drastic contrasts of dynamics are often brilliant. This "Eight Jelly Rolls" its dancers dressed in white, replacing the previous black is alive, if lightweight. I'm glad today's audience can see it. It's immediately followed by a new encore that Ms. Tharp has added: a Jelly Roll sequel of sorts in which she dances, too, in her consciously eccentric way. The main joke is that she's chasing to keep up. I'd like to join in the applause for this flimsy footnote: She's in good shape, and it ought to be fun to see her back in clown mode. Perhaps the comedy will click into focus as the Joyce run continues.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
An experimental malaria vaccine tested in varying doses provided 55 percent protection for one year to a few volunteers, a study released Monday said. The vaccine, made by Sanaria, contains thousands of live malaria parasites weakened by radiation; the parasites create an immune response but do not persist in the body for long. The radiation is applied to mosquitoes carrying the parasites, which then are gathered from the insects' salivary glands. Several teams, each using a different principle, have tried for decades to develop a malaria vaccine, but complete, long lasting protection has proved elusive. In the current study, published by Nature Medicine, 55 volunteers were broken up into five groups who received different doses through different routes. Very high doses injected into muscles did not work. Neither did five small intravenous doses, nor three medium ones.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
AFTER Mark Donham's wife, Chris, fell under the spell of early onset Alzheimer's, he doubled down on his marriage vows. He quit his job as a well paid sales representative in the printing industry and became his wife's 24 hour caregiver: dressing her, doing laundry and scheduling social visits with friends. Faith, hope and courage became his new mantra. As Alzheimer's slowly progressed and Chris became frailer, their lives narrowed. To explain their painful emotional journey to friends and family, Mr. Donham, who lives in Portland, Ore., began making videos and posting them on YouTube. When his wife didn't recognize him anymore, he said he felt as if his heart was ripping apart. But Mr. Donham, still in his 40s, was being ripped apart in other ways, too. One day, he landed in the emergency room because he thought he was having a heart attack. "It turned out be stress and strain," said Mr. Donham, who also joined an Alzheimer's support group for men. "When you're in the middle of caregiving, you don't know what caring for yourself means." Looking back, Mr. Donham, now 54, says that caregiving, painful as it was, made him a "richer, deeper person." But five years after his wife's death, it also has proved costly emotionally and financially. When he finally returned to the work force, Mr. Donham took a pay cut and began commuting to Los Angeles. Despite having long term care insurance, Mr. Donham spent about one third of his carefully built retirement savings while caring for his wife. Though caregiving can be a profound and moving journey, caregivers' needs are often overlooked. The health care system is mainly focused on patients; caregivers who are slowly burning out can slip by unnoticed until it is too late. Images from the Donhams' wedding album. They were married in 1983. Amanda Lucier for The New York Times "We're seeing that caregiving burnout is more prevalent," said Anne Tinyo, national manager of life management services at Wells Fargo Private Bank. "And it's happening over a longer period of time." Caregivers, she added, may even die before their loved ones. "People take on too much," she said. "And so the stress becomes normal to them. The immune system is steadily eroded." Many caregivers feel more comfortable talking about the Alzheimer's disease rather than about themselves. "But they're patients, too," she said. The symptoms of burnout can be hard for outsiders and the caregivers themselves to recognize. They include weight gain or loss, choppy sleep patterns, daily habits that get whittled away and clinical depression. Mr. Donham ended up recharging his system by taking a two year trip to 26 countries on his BMW motorcycle. "Take care of yourself," he counseled. "Have a plan. Get involved in support groups. And know what help you'll need, like mowing the lawn." Perhaps the best antidote to burnout, many experts say, is building a team, rather than handling everything yourself. Mauny Kaseburg used the teamwork approach when caring for her dying parents. They didn't want to leave their longstanding, custom made home in the state of Washington. So Ms. Kaseburg assembled a family team that included her sister, niece and daughter, who took turns caring for her parents. She became the team captain. Thomas C. West, a partner in the investment advisory firm SEIA, said caregivers can become so overwhelmed that they neglect basic financial responsibilities, like filing their taxes, contributing money to retirement accounts and the like. He argues that society needs to come up with a way for caregivers to be paid for their work. "You can measure the impact of caregiving on not working professionally," he said. Mr. Donham has not remarried since his wife died. He has taken on a role as an advocate for the Alzheimer's Association, pushing for increased funding for research and greater attention to the needs of Alzheimer families. "It takes people standing up," he said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
HONG KONG Ever since a new round of pro democracy protests broke out in Hong Kong last year, journalists from both local and global media have exposed how freedoms are shrinking, human rights are deteriorating and police brutality is worsening in the city. Now, with new sweeping powers under the national security law that China promulgated for Hong Kong on June 30, the news media themselves are in the Chinese government's cross hairs. The publisher Jimmy Lai, whose media company puts out the popular tabloid Apple Daily, has long been one of Beijing's most vocal critics in Hong Kong. Mr. Lai was arrested on Monday morning under the recent law, for allegedly colluding with foreign forces. The paper's office was raided by dozens of police officers. (Mr. Lai was released on bail late Tuesday night.) A special unit has recently been created in the Hong Kong Immigration Department to vet visa applications that are deemed to be sensitive, including for foreign correspondents, according to The Standard. Freedom of speech and of the press, both vital to the rule of law and the city's vibrancy, are under attack. China is extending to Hong Kong the regime of media regulation and repression that it applies on the mainland. Yesterday, it was legislators, contenders to political office and activists: Recently, just after disqualifying pro democracy candidates from running in legislative elections scheduled for September, the Hong Kong authorities delayed the elections by a year paving the way, I think, for their being canceled. Tomorrow, who knows who will be China's next targets here. But I do know that many Hong Kongers will respond then, too, by demonstrating our solidarity, creatively. In a show of support for Mr. Lai and Apple Daily, people have been buying up shares of his media company: The stock's price surged by 1,200 percent in less than two days. I began writing this Op Ed on Monday evening. A few hours later I learned that Agnes Chow, a former colleague and ex member of our political group Demosisto, was arrested, also for violating the national security law also for allegedly "colluding with foreign forces." But Agnes had quit Demosisto on the morning of June 30, before the new law went into effect and its text was released, and she had ceased all activism; she even stopped updating her Twitter account. (She, too, was released on bail Tuesday night.) Before her arrest, she had been tailed by unknown agents for days, she said. An infrared camera had been installed in front of the main entrance to her home, according to a neighbor. I fear that other dissenting voices in Hong Kong will also face this kind of surveillance, harassment and persecution. On Tuesday, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in Beijing announced that in light of the delayed election, the term of Hong Kong's current legislature would be extended for "no less than one year." Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, expressed her "heartfelt gratitude" for that decision. No limit has been placed on the term of this interim legislative body, meaning that it could be endlessly extended, with no further elections more or less as happened in Taiwan during the island's authoritarian decades, between the late 1940s and the early 1990s.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
On Tuesday, New Yorkers commuting through the Atlantic Avenue Barclays Center subway station will find it transformed with vibrant portraits of Black, Asian and Pacific Islander people along with anti discriminatory messages like "I did not make you sick" and "I am not your scapegoat." The series is the work of the neuroscientist turned artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (pronounced PING bodee bak ee ah). In August, Ms. Phingbodhipakkiya was named a New York City Public Artist in Residence through a program that has partnered artists with city agencies since 2015. She is one of two artists currently embedded with the city's Commission on Human Rights, which invested 220,000 in this campaign. Ms. Phingbodhipakkiya's "I Still Believe in Our City" series was created as a response to a grim statistic. From February to September, the Commission received more than 566 reports of discrimination, harassment and bias related to Covid 19 184 of which were anti Asian in nature. It's a troubling spike not just appearing in New York, but in Asian American communities across the country. "My goal with this art series was to turn these hurts into something beautiful and powerful," Ms. Phingbodhipakkiya said in a phone interview. She added, "I really wanted to find a way to say, despite everything we have faced as Asian Americans and New Yorkers, that I still believe in New York."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
Desiree Akhavan's "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" is on HBO. And Patricia Arquette stars in a new true crime anthology series on Hulu. THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (2018) 9:45 p.m. on HBO. The actress Chloe Grace Moretz portrayed two characters in punishing settings last year. In Luca Guadagnino's "Suspiria," she played a student missing from a backbreaking West Berlin dance academy. And she played the title character in this movie, directed by Desiree Akhavan and based on a young adult novel by Emily Danforth. Set in the early 1990s, the film centers on Cameron, an 11th grader whose family sends her to a boarding school for anti gay "conversion therapy." The story follows Cameron as she befriends Jane (Sasha Lane) and Adam (Forrest Goodluck), two other teenagers in the program who rebel, in part, by way of a makeshift pot farm squirreled away in the woods. Though the film doesn't let those running the school, including the headmistress (played by Jennifer Ehle) and her brother (John Gallagher Jr.), off the hook, it takes pains to paint a morally complex picture. Akhavan "steers away from cliche, and the cast avoids caricature," A. O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times. "There is a delicate humanism at work here that feels especially refreshing, a commitment to respecting differences without sacrificing a clear ethical point of view."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey with President Trump after declaring the opioid crisis a public health emergency at the White House last week. The president's commission on the crisis, led by Mr. Christie, released a report on Wednesday making wide ranging recommendations to combat the epidemic. WASHINGTON President Trump's bipartisan commission on the opioid crisis made dozens of final recommendations on Wednesday to combat a deadly addiction epidemic, ranging from creating more drug courts to vastly expanding access to medications that treat addiction, including in jails. The commissioners did not specify how much money should be spent to carry out their suggestions, but they pressed Congress to "appropriate sufficient funds" in response to Mr. Trump's declaration last week of a public health emergency. The 56 recommendations which covered opioid prescribing practices, prevention, treatment, law enforcement tactics and funding mechanisms did not so much advocate a new approach as expanding strategies already being used. Reaction from treatment advocates was mixed, with many expressing frustration that the commission had not called for a specific level of funding. Chuck Ingoglia, a senior vice president at the National Council for Behavioral Health, which represents treatment providers, said that his group agreed with many of the recommendations, but that the report "starves the country for the real resources it needs to save American lives." Although the commission did not put a dollar amount on its recommendations, it had specific ideas for how federal money should be funneled to states. Its top recommendation was to streamline "fragmented" federal funds for addiction prevention and treatment into block grants that would require each state to file only a single application instead of seeking grants from dozens of programs scattered across various agencies. The commission also appealed to the Trump administration to track more carefully the huge array of interdiction, prevention and treatment programs it is funding and to make sure they are working. "We are operating blindly today," its report said. Regina LaBelle, who was chief of staff in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Barack Obama, said the recommendations recognized "the importance of proper and appropriate treatments" for addiction, particularly medications that help people avoid cravings and symptoms of withdrawal. But, she added, "There needs to be more funding for this." The head of the commission, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a Republican, suggested in a television interview Sunday that Mr. Trump would soon ask Congress to allocate far more money for fighting the nation's addiction problem. "I would say that you're going to see this president initially ask for billions of dollars to deal with this," he said on ABC's "This Week." The White House issued a statement thanking the commission and saying it would review the recommendations. Richard Frank, a health economics professor at Harvard Medical School who worked in the Obama administration, estimated that it could cost roughly 10 billion a year to provide medication and counseling to everyone with opioid use disorder who is not already in treatment. Treating opioid dependent newborns, meeting the needs of children in foster care because of their parents' addiction and treating hepatitis C and other illnesses common among opioid addicts would cost "many billions more," Mr. Frank said. Mr. Frank also cautioned that block grants would not work if the administration decided to include federal Medicaid funding for addiction treatment in them. "When one starts to carve out certain services as grants, as opposed to insurance funding, one undermines the insurance," he said. "It is a method of killing Medicaid with 1,000 nicks." Some of the commission's other recommendations included making it easier for states to share data from prescription drug monitoring programs, which are electronic databases that track opioid prescriptions, and requiring more doctors to check the databases for signs of "doctor shopping" before giving a patient opioids. The commission encouraged the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to review policies that it claimed discouraged hospitals and doctors from prescribing alternatives to opioids, especially after surgery. According to the commission's report, C.M.S. pays a flat, "bundled" payment to hospitals after patients undergo surgery, which includes treatment for pain. Because they get a flat fee, hospitals are encouraged to use cheap products and most opioid medications are generic and inexpensive. "Purchasing and administering a non opioid medication in the operating room increases the hospital's expenses without a corresponding increase in reimbursement payment," the report said. More broadly, the report said the federal government as well as private insurers should do a better job of covering a range of pain management and treatment services, such as non opioid medications, physical therapy and counseling. And it recommended that the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies eliminate any reimbursement policies that limit access to addiction medications and other types of treatment, including prior authorization requirements and policies that require patients to try and fail with one kind treatment before getting access to another. One prevention measure the commission did not embrace is expanding syringe exchange programs, which public health experts say save money and lives by reducing the spread of H.I.V. and hepatitis C with contaminated syringes. "I was hoping to see that in this report," Ms. LaBelle said. The commission's members Mr. Christie, Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican; Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat; Pam Bondi, the Republican attorney general of Florida; Patrick Kennedy, a former Democratic congressman from Rhode Island and Bertha Madras, a Harvard professor all voted for the final recommendations, which came about a month later than expected. His voice quaking with emotion, Mr. Kennedy said during the commission's meeting Wednesday that Congress needed to appropriate sufficient funds for the initiative, suggesting at least 10 billion. "This town doesn't react unless it hears from real people" who will vote in the next election, he said, nodding to guests who had testified about their families' searing experiences with addiction, stigma, lack of treatment options and the refusal of insurance companies to cover treatment. Mr. Kennedy also noted that insurance coverage is crucial to fighting addiction; in another commission meeting earlier this year, he took Republicans to task for working to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
AMERICAN BALLET THEATER at the Metropolitan Opera (through July 8). Gear up for more Alexei Ratmansky this weekend with continuing performances of "The Golden Cockerel," his 2012 two act ballet based on Alexander Pushkin's folk tale and inspired by Michel Fokine's 1914 production that brings a fantastical Russia to life as an Astrologer captures a Cockerel to win over the Queen of Shemakhan. What's most impressive are the set and costumes, created by Richard Hudson after Natalia Goncharova's original designs: a bold, brave explosion of colors and patterns. Next week comes the comic, swashbuckling story ballet "Le Corsaire," which gives male dancers in the company a chance to show off some bravura. Debuts on June 7 include Alban Lendorf as Conrad at the matinee performance and Joo Won Ahn as Ali, a slave, in the evening. 212 362 6000, abt.org BALLET TECH KIDS DANCE at the Joyce Theater (June 8 9, 7 p.m.; through June 11). "Delightful" would be the word to describe this group, the brainchild of the choreographer Eliot Feld. The troupe of 60 young dancers from age 11 to 17 perform Mr. Feld's "Meshugana Dance," "The Jig Is Up," "Upside Dance" and a premiere, "Pointing," for four young women on point. There are other new works as well: Laura Careless's "The Wild Current," set to music by Debussy and the Native Jazz Quartet, and "It's the Effort That Counts," a collaboration by three recent Juilliard graduates: Conner Bormann, Riley O'Flynn and Stephanie Terasaki. 212 242 0800, joyce.org LA MAMA MOVES! DANCE FESTIVAL at La MaMa (through June 4.). The final weekend of the ambitious La MaMa Moves! continues with performances of Maura Nguyen Donohue's "Drowning Planet" and also brings the premieres of Patricia Hoffbauer's "Getting Away With Murder" and Patricia Noworol's "Tremendous." A split bill featuring Regina Nejman's "Beautiful Figure" (a New York premiere) and Ephrat Asherie's "Odeon" and a special presentation of six emerging artists chosen by Alexis Convento round things out. Nicky Paraiso, the curator of the festival, presides over the remainder of the programming, which this year explores the political, social and ecological conditions of the world. 212 352 3101, lamama.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
"This is Captain Kate, but you can call me Captain because it took me 19 years to earn this title." Those are typically the first words that passengers hear booming over the speakers when they are aboard any cruise ship helmed by Capt. Kate McCue. The announcement continues, like the woman who makes it, friendly and lighthearted, but also sharp and direct. "People don't have a tendency to call men captains by their first name," Captain McCue said on a recent phone call from her home in Las Vegas. Captain McCue became the first American woman to captain a cruise ship in 2015, and commands the Celebrity Equinox a 122,000 ton, 1041 foot ship in the Celebrity Cruises fleet. Starting in September she will be at the helm of the Celebrity Edge, a billion dollar ship that was designed by women and overseen by Lisa Lutoff Perlo, Celebrity Cruises' chief executive. What sparked your interest in sailing? My interest in sailing started when I was 12. I went on a four day cruise with my parents and brother over Thanksgiving. When we got back, I told my dad that I was going to work on cruise ships. I wanted to be the cruise director. My dad said I could be a cruise director or a captain or whatever I wanted. Do you have to join the Navy to become a captain? It depends on the country you come from. Being American, I could have gone through an academy, which is what I did, or I could have started sailing without a license and then put in the time at sea and taken the exams when I could. The academy was a lot more organized and structured with schooling and exams as part of the curriculum. I also could have gone the military route and joined the Navy. Can you walk me through the process of how you became a captain? As a cadet I worked on banana boats, taking boats between California and Ecuador. I was unhappy doing this because I knew I wanted to be on a cruise ship. I applied to every cruise ship and didn't hear back from anyone. I ended up applying to Disney as a bartender and was too qualified for that, probably because I had never been a bartender before, so they passed my C.V. along and I was hired as a third mate on a Disney cruise. That was great, but Disney only had two ships and not much room for growth. From 2003 to 2015 I worked my way up, from the entry level position of second officer, progressing through first officer deck, first officer navigation, first officer safety, chief officer safety and staff captain. What challenges did you encounter on the path to getting where you are now? I don't have war stories. I know that's not the case for everyone, but I've been really blessed in my career. I have only worked on international flagships where everyone is a minority of some sort. Most of us have a different religion, sexual orientation, nationality. When I was promoted I never got negative judgment from the crew, and I think the secret is that I was always surrounded by diversity. Is being a captain in 2018 and 2019 very different than it was, say a decade ago? There used to be the wrath of the captain. Those captains were older, stricter men and they ran the ships very differently. I'm part of a generation called the new age captains. We're in our late 30s and early 40s. There's an interesting gap between the captains who are retiring and the younger people replacing them. I love my job so much I'm not going anywhere for another 40 years, God willing. Why did you want to be involved with the Celebrity Edge? I wanted to be part of Edge because since joining Celebrity Cruises in 2015, I'd heard about this incredible ship that will change the way we see cruising and evolve the industry. I love change and wanted to be part of a something that was bringing such innovation and a new level to the cruising industry. Everything about this ship is revolutionary. It is the first ship to be designed using a 3 D virtual reality lab. Is there a big wheel on the ship like you see in the movies? The "Christopher Columbus" dial is no longer. People expect to see that, but on new ships what you see is a wheel smaller than the wheel in your car. On one ship we brought the big wheel from a show and would have people and have them steer. It was a fantastic prop. Does your cat, Bug Naked, come aboard? Bug Naked comes when I'm the captain, not when I'm a guest on a trip. She's got her routine on the ship and I've got mine. The guests love having her. This interview took place in December, following the Edge's first trip with passengers. It has been condensed and edited. We have a new 52 Places traveler! Follow Sebastian Modak on Instagram, and discover more Travel coverage by following us on Twitter and Facebook. And if you sign up for our Travel Dispatch newsletter, each week you'll receive tips on traveling smarter, stories on hot destinations and access to photos from all over the world.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
When Dusty Baker flew to George Bush Intercontinental Airport last week to meet with executives of the Houston Astros, two reporters greeted him at baggage claim. They asked Baker if it would be tough to take on the job he sought: manager of a team disgraced by a sign stealing scandal. "Yeah," Baker said, with no equivocation. "I'm not going to say it's not." Half of the current major league managers had not even been born when Baker started his major league playing career in 1968. He is 70 years old now, with a perspective sharpened by his deep well of life experience. Managing a baseball team, he said, is far easier than some jobs. "If you want to feel some pressure, you just be a world leader," added Baker, who served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves in the Vietnam era. "I'm just hoping to bring some love back to baseball, some integrity to the game, and I think I've got relative respect in the game." The Astros will talk a lot about moving on from the cheating scheme that forever taints their 2017 World Series title. But to really get past it, they need a frontman who will level with the rest of the sport. Baker, who has never worked for the Astros, will not minimize the issue or pretend that the cheating made no impact. By speaking openly about the need to restore integrity, he has already shown that he gets it. To review: Major League Baseball confirmed this month that the Astros' players devised a scheme to steal opposing catchers' signs off a monitor, and, in real time, relay the type of pitch to the hitter by, among other methods, banging on a trash can. Commissioner Rob Manfred suspended General Manager Jeff Luhnow and Manager A.J. Hinch for one year, and then the franchise owner, Jim Crane, fired them. None Everyone Loves Ohtani: The Angels' two way star was a unanimous pick for A.L. M.V.P. and his superfans redefine devotion. Phillie Phavorite: Bryce Harper truly committed to Philadelphia and now he's back on top of baseball, winning the N.L. M.V.P. Cy Young Winners: Milwaukee's Corbin Burnes and Toronto's Robbie Ray had hit rock bottom before they worked their way up to stardom. Baseball Is Stuck in Neutral: The potential of a lockout has a star studded group of free agents waiting for the dust to settle. Free Agency Tracker: Get the latest updates on signings, contract extensions and trades. Alex Cora, who helped orchestrate the sign stealing as the Houston bench coach in 2017, was soon let go from his job as manager of the Boston Red Sox. The Mets then parted ways with Carlos Beltran, their new manager, because he had been instrumental in the operation as an Astros player. Those decisions highlight the outrage around the league over the Astros' infractions. Four extremely bright, talented leaders lost their jobs because the scandal so severely undercut their credibility. They all have more to offer, but only if they pave their way back with sincere contrition. So far, the Astros' hitters, who were spared punishment from M.L.B., have shown little to no remorse for what happened. At the team's FanFest on Jan. 18 five days after Manfred issued his report the All Stars Alex Bregman and Jose Altuve offered no insights or apologies. "The commissioner came out with a report, M.L.B. did their report, and the Astros did what they did," Bregman said. "They made their decision what they're going to do, and I have no other thoughts on it." Altuve was a bit more expansive, saying he felt bad for Luhnow and Hinch but stopping short of saying much else, other than the usual bromides about sticking together as a team. Dallas Keuchel, a starter for the 2017 Astros who now pitches for the Chicago White Sox, demonstrated a better way to handle this. Asked about the scandal at a White Sox fan event last week, Keuchel said: "Was it against the rules? Yes, it was. I personally am sorry for what's come about, the whole situation." Such a blanket apology should not be hard to convey. Keuchel's new teammates deserve that much; Manfred's report said the White Sox had caught on to the trash can signals during a 2017 game, causing "a sense of 'panic' in the Astros' dugout" and forcing the players to remove the monitor from its place in their dugout tunnel and stash it in an office. That episode shows that the Astros understood they were cheating, and deep down they must know that they have earned their fate as a laughingstock. Opponents openly mock them on social media now, and you wonder if pitchers will soon express their disgust with beanballs. Out of context teasing is also fair game: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot, lampooned the Astros at a recent game by whacking a trash can with their logo on it. The Astros needed an outsider to change the story, and Baker has spent a lifetime bringing people together. He is a magnetic personality who commands respect, gives respect and produces wins. All four of the teams he has managed the San Francisco Giants, the Chicago Cubs, the Cincinnati Reds and the Washington Nationals won their divisions during his tenure, and only eight managers have won more games with a better winning percentage. "He has an ability to relate to each and every one of these guys, where they're from, what they've been through, their parents' situation, their likes and dislikes. He's a pretty eclectic guy in regards to everything," Chris Speier, a longtime coach under Baker, said in the Nationals' clubhouse a few years ago. "He understands it, because he's lived every one of those scenarios in his own life. He's walked a lot of the roads the players have walked before, so I think from that standpoint there's an immediate almost kinship that he develops with his guys. There's a trust. He's that uncle they can talk to, that they feel comfortable with." The Astros have the talent to get Baker the championship he has never won as a manager, the one accomplishment he needs to validate his case for the Hall of Fame. Whether or not they acknowledge it, the Astros need validation, too. Ten players remain from the Astros' 2017 team. Few people outside Houston regard them as legitimate champions anymore, but the players avoided discipline from Manfred. Soon they will get another chance to prove themselves, with a leader wise enough to emphasize the missing component in their success: integrity.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us As one of the exceedingly rare members of her species to live beyond age 110, Goldie Michelson had divulged her secrets to longevity countless times before dying last year at 113. "Morning walks and chocolate," the Worcester, Mass., resident and onetime oldest living American told the steady stream of inquisitors that marked her final years. Unlike the growing ranks of nonagenarians and centenarians, those who breach a 12th decade, known as supercentenarians, rarely face protracted illness or disability before they die, a boon that many of them have ascribed to personal habits. "I try to live the truth," said Shelby Harris, who threw out the first pitch of the local minor league baseball team's 2012 season a few months before he died at 111 in Rock Island, Ill. Emma Morano of Verbania, Italy, still cooking her own pasta until a few years before she died last April at 117, prescribed raw eggs, and no husband. But even as they indulged the notion that exceptionally healthy longevity can be explained by lifestyle, each agreed to donate DNA to a private effort to find the secrets in supercentenarian genes. The full genetic sequences of Ms. Michelson, Mr. Harris and Ms. Morano are among some three dozen genomes of North American, Caribbean and European supercentenarians being made available this week by a nonprofit called Betterhumans to any researcher who wants to dive in. A few additional genomes come from people who died at 107, 108 or 109. If unusual patterns in their three billion pairs of A's, C's, G's and T's the nucleobases that make up all genomes can be shown to have prolonged their lives and protected their health, the logic goes, it is conceivable that a drug or gene therapy could be devised to replicate the effects in the rest of us. "I hope you find something that does someone some good," said Clarence Matthews, 110, who allowed his blood to be drawn as a final contribution to the database last year at his Indian Wells, Calif., home while I watched at his side. The rare cache of supercentenarian genomes, the largest yet to be sequenced and made public, comes as studies of garden variety longevity have yielded few solid clues to healthy aging. Lifestyle and luck, it seems, still factor heavily into why people live into their 90s and 100s. To the extent that they have a genetic advantage, it appears to come partly from having inherited fewer than usual DNA variations known to raise the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and other afflictions. That is not enough, some researchers say, to explain what they call "truly rare survival," or why supercentenarians are more uniformly healthy than centenarians in their final months and years. Rather than having won dozens of hereditary coin tosses with DNA variations that are less bad, scientists suggest, supercentenarians may possess genetic code that actively protects them from aging. But the effort to find that code has been "challenged," as a group of leading longevity researchers put it in a recent academic paper, in part by the difficulties in acquiring supercentenarian DNA. The New England Centenarian Study, one of a handful of longevity research groups around the world focusing on supercentenarians, now turns down prospective DNA donors under age 103: "We tell them they're too young," said Dr. Thomas Perls, the study's director. The DNA sequences being released this week were acquired almost single handedly by James Clement, 61, the founder of a company advised by the prominent Harvard geneticist George Church. A professed citizen scientist, Mr. Clement collected blood, skin or saliva from supercentenarians in 14 states and seven countries over a six year period. Many were still gardening, arguing, driving and flirting. Ms. Michelson, for one, was fond of reading and reciting Shakespeare. The usefulness of such a small group for a genetic study is unclear, which is one reason Mr. Clement's company, now defunct, has turned into a crowdsourcing project. Complex traits like height, body mass index and disease risk phenotypes, as they are known in genetics speak typically arise from a combination of hundreds of places in the genome where the DNA alphabet differs between individuals. Zeroing in on which variations affect which phenotypes requires the statistical power of tens of thousands of DNA samples almost certainly a dealbreaker when it comes to supercentenarians, whose verified number, worldwide, hovers at around 150. On large swaths of the planet, where birth records are sketchy or nonexistent, identifying verified supercentenarians is virtually impossible. In the United States, researchers say supercentenarians account for about one in five million people. Amateur genealogists dedicated to validating the ages of the world's oldest people estimate that even the unverified total comes to only about 1,000. Still, some researchers hope that despite the limited number of available genomes, it will be possible to identify the secret sauce of supercentenarians with methods used to uncover the genetic basis for other rare conditions. No one quite knows how many genomes might be necessary. "This is what we call an 'extreme phenotype,' " said Dr. Church, who ultimately arranged for the genomes to be sequenced so that Mr. Clement could release them through a nonprofit. "The farther out you go on the bell curve, the more likely you are to find something, even with a small sample size." Mississippi Winn celebrated her 113th birthday in Shreveport, La., in 2010. "RIP Miss Winn," he posted on the Facebook page that family members had set up for Ms. Winn, believed to be the last living child of African Americans born into slavery. Such condolences would become a familiar refrain. Of the 70,000 or so Americans who live to be 100, only some two dozen are typically alive at 110. Once that milestone is reached, as Mr. Clement quickly learned, the chance of dying within the next year is roughly 50 percent. After 113, the odds are closer to 66 percent. The oldest person on record, Jeanne Calment, was 122 when she died in 1997; only one other person is known to have lived beyond age 118. "Even while you're packing the car, the person may fall ill and say they're not up to it," Mr. Clement said, after the first of several plans for me to observe a DNA donation was abruptly canceled. Mr. Clement could extract DNA from post mortem samples, with permission from the family and assuming he could reach the funeral home in time. Exhumation is also possible, in theory, to obtain samples. But for understandable reasons, he said, family members most often ended communications with him at the time of a supercentenarian's death. To improve the odds of getting samples and the gender balance, since supercentenarians are nearly all women he lowered his target age from 110 to 106. "It's better to get there when they're alive," he said. Guided by the World's Oldest People email list, whose moderator, Robert D. Young, verifies ages on behalf of Guinness World Records and tracks supercentenarians for the Gerontology Research Group, Mr. Clement placed decal dots designating the locations of prospective participants on a map pinned to the wall of his home office. He created Google alerts for the phrases "109th birthday," "110th birthday," and "111th birthday," and for the obituaries of known supercentenarians. Unlike so called blue zones, where centenarians are said to cluster, there is no geographical shortcut for netting supercentenarians. So he called, emailed and sent Facebook friend requests to whatever contacts he could find, wherever he could find them. There was, nominally, the prospect of making money. But with a business plan that, even to some of his investors, sounded more like a research project, Mr. Clement seems to have undertaken the task largely because it provided the chance to act on a longstanding interest in human longevity, including his own. A self described transhumanist who eats mostly low glycemic vegetables and nuts and walks seven miles a day, Mr. Clement has accumulated an eclectic resume that includes starting a brew pub, practicing international tax law and cofounding a futurist magazine. He harbors what he prefers to call a "healthy love of life," rather than an aversion to death, and he is possessed of an apparently genuine conviction that longer lives would make humans more humane. "My hat was off to someone who was willing to take the time out of his life to go get these precious specimens," said Dr. Church, the Harvard geneticist, who has devoted a portion of his laboratory to research into the reversal of aging. The kind of ultrarare mutations that supercentenarians might harbor, Dr. Church believed, were not likely to be detected with standard techniques, which scan only the places in the genome where DNA is already known to vary between individuals. To look for as yet uncataloged variations would require sequencing all of the supercentenarians' six billion genetic letters, a far more expensive procedure. When he and Mr. Clement first discussed the idea in 2010, the cost was about 50,000 per genome. But the price was falling. And with the financial support of a handful of like minded wealthy individuals who agreed to invest in the exploratory phase of the project, "it just seemed," Mr. Clement said, "like something I could do." Even with the Harvard name as a calling card, several of the families he contacted over the next few years did not respond to his inquiries. A few, Mr. Clement knew, had already been approached by laboratories at Stanford and Boston University, which were collecting their own stashes of supercentenarian DNA. "She already did her DNA donation," Paul Cooper, the grandson of Besse Cooper, a 116 year old former suffragist, told Mr. Clement, who had driven several hundred miles to her Monroe, Ga., nursing home in 2012. Walter Breuning, of Great Falls, Mont., one of just a handful of men known to have lived to 114, replied in late 2010 that it was his preference not to risk winter meetings. He died early the next spring. An invitation to the 111th birthday party of James Sisnett in Barbados finally served as Mr. Clement's entree in February 2011. He died two years later. Mr. Sisnett, who grew his own food until he was 105, was "still fascinated by seeing a nice looking backside" when he was in his 110s, his daughter, Everine Carter, 88, recalled in a telephone interview. The best time to get DNA from a supercentenarian, Mr. Clement found, is midmorning. By lunchtime, they would prefer to be eating. After lunch, they might be groggy or napping. Most, like Dorothy Peel of London, then 108, had sharp minds. Ms. Peel inspected the informed consent form through her reading glasses and peppered him with questions about other supercentenarians he had met. Dorothy Peel signed the consent form to participate in the supercentenarian study. Crisscrossing Europe in 2011, Mr. Clement hit his collecting stride. But there were some bumps. He had ordered an inexpensive kit that allowed him to prick a supercentenarian's finger and deposit a drop of blood on a card to preserve it, often used by geneticists in the field. Within a few months he had blood drops from 15 donors, including Ralph Tarrant of Sheffield, England, who at 108 completed the London Times crossword puzzle every afternoon. In July 2016, I was invited to accompany Mr. Clement to Mr. Matthews's home in California. As much as I looked forward to meeting my first supercentenarian, I was not prepared to envy his win in the genetic longevity lottery. I had feared he would be lonely, a concern echoed by several of the Facebook viewers who watched me ply him with questions over a live video stream the morning we met. "I don't want to outlive my friends and family," one typed. "That's no fun." The prospect of shifting today's average life span to that of the known limit of all humanity is disorienting. An average life expectancy of 80 in some ways seems generous it was just 48 when Mr. Matthews was born in 1906. Most of us expect around 80 years on the planet, assuming nothing horrendous happens. "When you have children the first time, it don't come with a manual, and it don't come with a manual when your dad gets to be 100, then 105, then 110," said Mr. Matthews's son, Steve, 75, who also gave blood the day we visited. But Mr. Matthews asserted without hesitation that he still enjoyed life. Pleasures included his lunchtime smoothie, his family, the kindness of his caregiver, and this with a nod to a New York Times photographer and a rakish grin "having my picture taken." He reminisced fondly about his second wife, Katherine, who died in 1980 and with whom he had loved to dance. At 110, he said he had never been diagnosed with a serious illness. The younger Mr. Matthews recalled that his father had played a one under par, 18 hole golf game on his 99th birthday. Having built a successful real estate business, he provided financial support to his last surviving sibling, a sister who was 105. Talking to him, it was hard not to fantasize about the possibility that, as another Facebook participant suggested, "by the time we get to that age, we may all be living to 110." At the time the oldest man in America, Mr. Matthews sometimes strained to hear, but his sense of humor and perspective were intact. If that was what we wanted, he advised, "Keep breathing." Mr. Matthews died this summer. His DNA was sequenced a few weeks later, and last month Mr. Clement uploaded it to the database. Like all normal human genome sequences, the beginning of his first chromosome reads like this: Whether, in combination with the genomes of his fellow supercentenarians, the rest contains the secret to a long, healthy and happy life remains to be seen.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
For more than a century, the Nobel Prize in Literature has often been a polarizing spectacle, with critics denouncing the winners as too obscure, too Eurocentric, too male, too experimental, or simply unworthy of literature's highest honor. On Thursday, it waded into fresh controversy, awarding the prize to a right leaning writer, Peter Handke, who delivered a eulogy at the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic, the former leader of Yugoslavia who was tried for war crimes. This year was supposed to be a reset for the Nobel Committee, after a messy scandal involving sexual abuse and financial impropriety forced the Nobel Committee to postpone its 2018 prize for literature. The Swedish Academy faced enormous expectations and heightened pressure this year, as it promised to deliver not one but two awards. In addition to Mr. Handke, who received the 2019 prize on Thursday, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk received it for 2018. "We are dumbfounded by the selection of a writer who has used his public voice to undercut historical truth and offer public succor to perpetrators of genocide, like former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic," the novelist Jennifer Egan, PEN America's president, said in a statement on behalf of the organization. "At a moment of rising nationalism, autocratic leadership, and widespread disinformation around the world, the literary community deserves better than this. We deeply regret the Nobel Committee on Literature's choice." When asked about the academy's selection of Mr. Handke, Mats Malm, an academy member and its permanent secretary, said it was based on literary and aesthetic grounds, adding: "It is not in the Academy's mandate to balance literary quality against political considerations." As Mr. Handke's award was condemned in some corners, many in the literary world celebrated the news about Ms. Tokarczuk, an experimental novelist and poet from Poland who is beloved by readers and critics. Mr. Handke, who is from Austria and whose mother was Slovenian, has espoused nationalistic views, and has publicly expressed doubt about the massacres of Muslims during the Balkans War. Ms. Tokarczuk has been a frequent critic of right wing nationalists in Poland, who have branded her a traitor. Her Polish publisher at one point hired bodyguards to protect her. Some prominent authors, among them Hari Kunzru and Salman Rushdie, were critical of the choice of Mr. Handke, who could not be reached through his American publisher. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. Ms. Tokarczuk, for her part, seemed untroubled. In an interview with the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza on Thursday, Ms. Tokarczuk said she was happy to receive the Nobel alongside Mr. Handke. "I am also very happy that Peter Handke has received the award with me, I value him very much," she said. "It's great that the Swedish Academy appreciated literature from the central part of Europe. I am glad that we are still holding on." In awarding the prizes to two renowned European authors, the academy seemed to brush off criticism it has received in the past that the prize had become too Western and Eurocentric. Since the literature prize was first awarded in 1901, the vast majority of winners have been European and English language authors. Women have also been underrepresented historically. Ms. Tokarczuk is the 15th woman to win the Nobel for literature, out of 116 laureates. Some observers in the literary world anticipated that the academy would select at least one non European writer this year, perhaps awarding the prize to one of the often cited favorites, among them the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the Chinese writer Can Xue or the Syrian poet Adunis. In a statement this year, Anders Olsson, who leads the academy's literature committee, conceded that diversity should be more of a priority and indicated that the committee would take geographic diversity and gender into account in making its selection. "Previously we had a more, let's say, Eurocentric perspective of literature and now we are looking all over the world," he said in a video interview. "Previously it was much more male oriented. Now we have so many female writers that are really great, so the prize and the whole process with the prize has been intensified and is much broader in its scope." The academy postponed last year's prize amid a scandal that involved a husband of an academy member who was convicted of rape and accused of leaking winners' names a crisis that led to the departure of board members and required the intervention of the king of Sweden. The academy made several organizational changes following the scandal, including appointing five independent experts to help choose winners. A group of Swedish cultural figures even set up a substitute award, the New Academy Prize, to fill the gap and show a winner could be chosen in an open fashion, in contrast to the academy's secret workings. Their laureate was Maryse Conde, a writer of historical novels from Guadeloupe. Mr. Handke was born in 1942 in southern Austria. Both Handke's biological father and his stepfather served in the Wehrmacht, the German army. After his mother's suicide in 1971, Mr. Handke made sporadic visits to Yugoslavia. He spent part of his childhood living in war scarred Berlin and went on to study law at the University of Graz. He dropped out in 1965 after a publisher accepted his first novel, "The Hornets." His body of work now includes novels, essays, screenplays and other dramatic works. He has been based in Chaville, a suburb of Paris, since 1990. Literary critics have described his work as avant garde, but Mr. Handke has dismissed that label, branding himself a "conservative classical writer." His decades of writing, published originally in German, include "A Sorrow Beyond Dreams," a critically acclaimed novella based on his mother's death. Michael Wood, reviewing the book in 1975 for The New York Times, called it "a major memorial to a host of buried German and Austrian lives" and "the best piece of new writing I have seen in several years." But Mr. Handke's friendship with Slobodan Milosevic and his comments that seemed to downplay the Serbian massacres of Bosnian Muslims drew condemnation. In an interview in 2006, he said of Milosevic: "I think he was a rather tragic man. Not a hero, but a tragic human being. I am a writer and not a judge." In the same interview, he said he did not expect to ever win the Nobel Prize because of the controversy. "When I was younger I cared," he said. "Now I think it's finished for me after my expressions about Yugoslavia." The same year, he was selected as the winner of Germany's prestigious Heinrich Heine Prize, but it was revoked amid public outcry. In response, Mr. Handke asserted that he "never denied or played down, not to speak of sanctioned, any of the massacres in Yugoslavia." When Mr. Handke was awarded the International Ibsen Award in 2014, he was met with protesters at the awards ceremony. In the United States, Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published translations of Mr. Handke's work since 1970, starting with his collection "Kaspar and Other Plays," followed in 1972 by the novel "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick." Since then, FSG has released more than 15 books by Mr. Handke. "Handke is one of the great German prose stylists, who has spent his career exploring both the natural world and the world of human consciousness with exquisite precision, humor, and courage," FSG's president, Jonathan Galassi, said in a statement. Ms. Tokarczuk was born in 1962 in Sulechow, Poland, the daughter of two teachers. Her father was also a school librarian, and it was in that library that Ms. Tokarczuk found her love of literature, devouring book after book. She went on to study psychology at the University of Warsaw and worked as a clinical psychologist but felt she wasn't cut out for the work, noting in one interview that she quit because she realized she was "much more neurotic than my clients." Ms. Tokarczuk published her first book, a volume of poetry, in 1989, and won acclaim in 1993, when she published her first novel, "The Journey of the Book People," a fictional tale of characters in search of a mysterious book in the Pyrenees, set in 17th century France and Spain. The book was awarded the Polish Publisher's Prize for a debut novel that year. But her real breakthrough is considered to be her third novel, "Prawiek i inne czasy" or "Primeval and Other Times." First published in 1996, it tells the story of three generations of a Polish family, from 1914 to the beginnings of Solidarity in 1980. In 2018, she became the first Polish author to win the Man Booker International Prize, for her novel, "Flights," which was translated by Jennifer Croft and published in the United States last year by Riverhead. "Her work is simultaneously universal and very Polish," Ms. Croft said. A series of 116 vignettes about characters who are in transit or displaced, the book was praised as a literary antidote to cultural isolationism, xenophobia and nationalism. "Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized," Ms. Tokarczuk writes. "Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids." In an interview with The Times, Ms. Tokarczuk said she started the novel more than a decade ago, well before Brexit and other nationalist movements took hold throughout Europe. "I wrote this book when the world was looking to be open for everybody," she said. "Now we're seeing how the European Union will probably become weakened by the policies of countries like Poland and Hungary, which are focused on their borders once again." She also referenced increasingly severe immigration policies in the United States. "Twelve years ago there was no mention of the idea of walls or borders, which were originally adopted by totalitarian systems," she said. "Back then I must admit that I was sure that we had put totalitarianism behind us." Ms. Tokarczuk is a prominent and outspoken figure in Poland, known for her opposition to the right wing Law and Justice party. She faced a backlash after the publication of her novel, "The Books of Jacob," which is set in 18th century Poland and celebrates the country's cultural diversity, and won Poland's top literary prize, the Nike Award, in 2015. Though it was embraced by critics and readers, the novel drew a sharp rebuke from nationalist groups, and Ms. Tokarczuk was subjected to a harassment campaign, receiving death threats and calls for her deportation. In January, she wrote an opinion piece for the Times on the state of the country after the murder of a leading liberal mayor in the country. "I worry about our immediate future," she said. Asked this month if he'd read Ms. Tokarczuk's work, Piotr Glinski, the Polish culture minister, replied that he had tried but had never finished any of her books. On Thursday, Mr. Glinski congratulated Ms. Tokarczuk. "It is proof that Polish culture is appreciated all over the world," he wrote on Twitter. Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council and former prime minister of Poland, also offered his congratulations in a tweet. He added that he had read all her books from start to finish. Is this the first time two people have been honored? Far from it. Authors have shared the prize on four occasions, most recently in 1974 when the academy gave the prize to two Swedish writers, Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson. That award caused a scandal, too, because the two were members of the academy. "Mutual admiration is one thing, but this smells almost like embezzlement," wrote Sven Delblanc, another Swedish author. What other scandals have hit the literature prize? Some people will always find the choice of winner scandalous, or at least not to their taste. In 2016, Bob Dylan won, the first musician to do so. His award prompted weeks of debate about whether a songwriter should win a literature award. Jodi Picoult, the novelist, wrote on Twitter: "I'm happy for Bob Dylan, ButDoesThisMeanICanWinAGrammy?" The following year's prize was a more conventional choice. It went to Kazuo Ishiguro, the British writer best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day," about a butler serving an English lord in the years before World War II. Who else has won a Nobel Prize this year? None The prize for medicine and physiology was awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their work in discovering how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. None The prize for physics went to three scientists who transformed our view of the cosmos: James Peebles shared half of the prize for theories that explained how the universe swirled into galaxies and everything we see in the night sky, and much that we cannot see. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were jointly recognized for the other half of the prize for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun like star in our galaxy. None The prize for chemistry was given to three scientists John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino who developed lithium ion batteries, the energy storage systems that have revolutionized portable electronics. Larger lithium ion batteries have given rise to electric cars that can be driven on long trips, while the miniaturized versions are used in lifesaving medical devices like cardiac defibrillators. When will the other Nobel Prizes be announced this year? None The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday in Norway. Read about last year's winners, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege. None The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science will be announced Monday next week in Sweden. Read about last year's winners, William Nordhaus and Paul Romer. Correction: Oct. 10, 2019 An earlier version of this article misstated where Peter Handke's mother was from. She was from Austria, not Slovenia.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
David Geffen Hall was nearly full on Sunday evening for Kanye West's "Mary," the hip hop star's second venture into what he calls opera. But no one there seemed more enthralled with the performance than West himself. Sitting downstage, bathed in golden light, he bopped his head and swayed in his seat as his Sunday Service choir sang his hits and a handful of Christmas classics, all given the full gospel treatment for this 50 minute rendition of the Nativity story. But between the most stirring numbers, it was easy to get confused, caught in the chasm between a classical performance at Lincoln Center and an arena show. Was this a Kanye concert? A traditional opera? Was screaming "We love you, Kanye" in the darkness appropriate? (Yes, according to the tiny voice that hollered back from Kim Kardashian West's box in the first tier: "Kanye's my dad!") Like "Nebuchadnezzar," West's first opera, which premiered in Los Angeles last month, "Mary" consisted of Sunday Service tunes interspersed with West's recitation of Bible verses. Like "Nebuchadnezzar," it was directed by his longtime collaborator, the artist Vanessa Beecroft. And like "Nebuchadnezzar," it was announced with just a few days' notice first its premiere in Miami on Dec. 8, and then this reprise at Lincoln Center. But there were some changes from Florida to New York: A full crop of what appeared to be grain sprouted from the stage, the costumes were significantly less reflective and no one entered on a speedboat. Waiting outside before the show were some audience members who traveled internationally Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Stockholm and some who just took the 1 train; some who planned their trips intentionally around "Mary" and some who were in town by chance. There were longtime devotees and new admirers; fans focusing on West's creative work rather than his recent political leanings; and some who were decidedly not fans at all. Here's why they went. "I'm not even a Kanye fan," she said. "I'm a jazz fan." She'd been to the opera before "Porgy and Bess" but never to a Kanye concert. Her daughter was the opposite: Nicole Matthews has seen West live, but never a traditional opera. They came to "Mary" by way of a family connection: Diane's goddaughter is part of the Sunday Service choir. "Her mom posted a video, she's posted videos," Diane said. "I don't know, I just need to see for myself." Nicole first heard about Sunday Service when West brought the group to a Queens church in September. Her cousin was there, recording on her phone. "I was like, I have to be a part of it," Nicole said. Sam Scherban, 16, is a burgeoning Kanye opera expert. He watched the live streams of both operas West has put on so far: "Nebuchadnezzar" in Los Angeles and the premiere of "Mary" in Miami. "It was bizarre," he said of the first "Mary" performance, "but it was cool." But he still wasn't really sure what "Mary" was going to be in person. That's why Alisa Scherban, his mother, came along. Chris Pearson was drawn to West's opera out of curiosity. He knew the talk that "Mary" was generating. And West's recent moves into gospel have drawn some controversy, he said. He first heard about "Mary" through Instagram. Pearson had been to a West concert before, but watching videos of the opera online was something different. "It was church, you know?" he said. "Instead of traditional church, it was New Age church." Two months later, Shutze's father gave him tickets to "Mary" as an early Christmas present. Blaustein, 16, tagged along. (He said his family wasn't bothered by him spending the first night of Hanukkah at an opera about Jesus's birth. They thought it was great, Blaustein said "an awesome opportunity.") Shutze read up ahead of time on the opera and its story. He looked at photos on Instagram of West and the ensemble at the Miami premiere, dressed and painted entirely in silver. (At Lincoln Center, the group opted for more muted Yeezy esque shades of brown.) Blaustein was slightly less prepared. "I saw the memes with the silver people," he said. "It's not that I'm not expecting much, but I don't really know what to expect. I'm very open minded."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
When new comic books arrive in stores on April 17, retailers who ordered the latest issue of a Buffy comic will get a bonus: free copies of Issue No. 0 of Angel, a new series. "We wanted to do something special with the launch of Angel," Arune Singh, the vice president of marketing for Boom! Studios, the publisher, said in an interview. The notion, he noted, became, "How do we do a Beyonce album drop, but for comic book stores?" Keeping Angel under wraps was no easy feat. Retailers and fans hear about new comics months in advance and sometimes even earlier. Boom! worked with Diamond Comic Distributors, the hub for retailers, on the top secret project playfully code named Tooth Fairy, after the film starring Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. the Rock, as a hockey player. (Angel is a hockey fan.) Angel, a vampire with remorse, will expand the universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which was rebooted in January. Like the new Buffy series, Angel will be set in contemporary times, not in 1999 when the character's television series a spinoff of the 1997 "Buffy" TV show first aired.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
EDGE OF CHAOS Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It By Dambisa Moyo 296 pp. Basic Books. 30. Bemoaning the worrisome state of liberal democracy has become a cottage industry. With each erosion of individual liberties, with every election gone awry, the commentariat disgorges a fresh flotilla of analyses of the world's ailments and favored prescriptions for fixing them. Some fret about the slide toward absolutism in central European countries ranging from Poland to Turkey. Others cast a wary eye on the wave of populist tremors that fringe parties in mature nations like France and Germany have tried to ride. Brexit was a Code Red alert. And of course, the most energetic hand wringing is reserved for what has befallen the United States not just the election of a president with little visible respect for democratic norms but the seeming ease with which Russia cyberburrowed into email systems and social media networks. Such is the state of fear Freedom House declares democracy to be facing "its most serious crisis in decades" that even economists are leaping across customary academic boundaries into political science in order to opine. To this discussion, Dambisa Moyo brings strong economic credentials. She is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. In 2009 she was named one of the "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine. Her familiarity with the dismal science radiates through her provocative new work, "Edge of Chaos," as she argues compellingly that the global failure to achieve sustained, inclusive growth underpins the rampant political turmoil. Liberal democracies could probably endure either slow growth or rising inequality, she says. But when the two collide, as they have in many mature economies, the chemical reaction can be fierce. To take a vivid example, the United States has seen its rate of expansion slide from 4 percent in the late 1990s to a bit more than 2 percent at present. At the same time, the gap between rich and poor has exploded, leaving many of those near the bottom enduring lower standards of living than they faced decades ago. As Moyo notes, left to its own devices, capitalism produces income inequality. This, however, is within the power of governments to redress. While inequality has risen in Europe as well, progressive taxation and robust social safety nets have kept the gap there manageable. Want to keep up with the latest and greatest in books? This is a good place to start. None Learn what you should be reading this fall: Our collection of reviews on books coming out this season includes biographies, novels, memoirs and more. See what's new in October: Among this month's new titles are novels by Jonathan Franzen, a history of Black cinema and a biography by Katie Couric. Nominate a book: The New York Times Book Review has just turned 125. That got us wondering: What is the best book that was published during that time? Listen to our podcast: Featuring conversations with leading figures in the literary world, from Colson Whitehead to Leila Slimani, the Book Review Podcast helps you delve deeper into your favorite books. Moyo ticks off seven headwinds from aging societies to limited natural resources as impediments to growth. In the United States, for example, educational attainment is a major cause for concern; on a 2015 math test administered globally to 15 year olds, the United States came in 30th out of 35 major countries. While many of these are, indeed, scary prospects, her most vexing fear with much justification is the rising tide of protectionism. Partial blame goes to the financial crisis and ensuing recession, but globalization advocates must also be held responsible for the drift (perhaps now, a scramble) toward more protectionist policies. They failed to recognize that for all the winners (think of how many products we buy that are better and cheaper because they are made elsewhere), there are also losers (think of the shuttered factories throughout the industrial heartland). However, rather than question capitalism and globalization, Moyo mounts a vigorous and welcome defense of both. She argues that they are the most likely avenues to high economic growth, which she pronounces to be the holy grail. She is surely correct that capitalism and globalization have done more to improve living standards than any other economic arrangement. But is democracy a necessary ingredient? China's mixed system of state directed capitalism has produced stunning results: In just one generation, China has moved 300 million people out of poverty. Moyo is appropriately respectful of China's accomplishments and appropriately concerned that if proponents of liberal democracy don't figure out how to fix what's broken, systems like China's could become more prevalent, with severe implications for individual liberties. Moyo is not all darkness. She recognizes the vast improvements that have been made around the globe in public health and even in economic well being, particularly in emerging nations. Indeed, she doesn't always seem sure whether the glass is half empty or half full. At one point, she mourns incomes that have remained flat in the United States since 1970, after adjusting for inflation. At another, she extols the success of democratic capitalism in generating a 30 fold rise in earnings throughout the 20th century. And then there's the matter of productivity. Amid the near hysteria over the future of work, even thoughtful commentators often get twisted up in its complications. Uncharacteristically for an economist, Moyo is among them. She rightly pronounces improved worker efficiency to be the key to economic growth and laments its current sluggish rate of improvement across the developed world. But then she goes on to climb a familiar wall by expressing worry about robots and automation when, in fact, significantly greater productivity can occur only by supplementing workers with machines yes, with robots and automation. There are other problems as well. She muddles the concept of change versus rate of change, declaring global productivity to be on the decline, though what she means is that the rate of growth of global productivity has been waning. In any book so crammed with facts and figures, small errors are bound to creep in. The United States and Europe together have many more than 10 cities with populations above one million. India, with its sparkling 7 percent growth rate, can hardly be considered a laggard nation (as Moyo declares three times). Lastly, there's the occasional infelicitous phrase, like "the leaders of leading nations." Turning to politics, Moyo documents how trust in government has fallen as polarization and gridlock have risen. For this, she blames "short termism." Eager to win elections, politicians make decisions to maximize voter support rather than those that would do the most for long term growth. Meanwhile, in Washington, gridlock has slowed action to a crawl. It was not always thus and Moyo takes a valiant stab at explaining why. She cites the move in recent years toward more laissez faire capitalism, the rise of the 24 hour news cycle, the emergence of social media and a shift in power toward corporations and wealthy philanthropists. Gerrymandering and an avalanche of political money, for both electoral campaigns and lobbying, are additional (and related) flaws. These and other villains dance across her stage before Moyo unveils her proposed fixes, all designed to reform the American political system so that capitalism can flourish. They number 10, from the incontrovertible (getting money out of politics) to the incredible (imposing what amounts to literacy tests on would be voters and weighting voting toward "the best informed segment of the electorate"). Her other ideas include longer terms for elected officials coupled with term limits, less gerrymandering and mandatory voting. There are oddities as well, like restricting the ability of successor governments to modify long term agreements entered into by their predecessors and setting minimum qualifications for officeholders. Helpfully, Moyo includes as an appendix a chart showing how 14 leading countries rank in terms of her goals for reforming democracy. By her tally, unsteady Mexico ranks at the top (having achieved five of Moyo's milestones) while Europe's economic engine, Germany, ranks at the bottom, with a goose egg. That may leave readers scratching their heads.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Ashley Chioma Emerole and Madison Ray Head were married May 24. Kacie Lyn Martinez, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at Freemans, a restaurant in Manhattan. Ms. Emerole (left), 31, is a candidate for an M.B.A. at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. She is to be a summer associate in June in the technology, media and telecommunications group of Credit Suisse's Manhattan investment banking unit. She graduated from the University of Arizona and received a master's degree in urban planning from the City University of New York's Hunter College. She is the daughter of Obii N. Emerole of Jamaica, Queens. Ms. Head, 30, is an architect. She oversees design and delivery of new construction and renovation in the capital projects unit of Indiana University in Bloomington. She graduated from the University of Miami. She is a daughter of Judy McKelvey Head of Indianapolis and Stephen R. Head of Carmel, Ind. A little bit of cabin fever led both Ms. Head and Ms. Emerole to leave their apartments to meet up with friends in Manhattan after a big snowstorm in January 2016. Both were heading home around the same time from the Upper East Side. Both ordered an online ride share.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
After the coronavirus pandemic forced concert halls and opera houses to close this spring, online performances proliferated. The Metropolitan Opera began streaming nightly operas from its extensive video archive, and in April it presented an At Home Gala, broadcast over smartphones from the homes of singers around the world. The classical music and opera offerings this spring and summer have mostly been free and tremendously gratifying. But as cancellations continue into the fall, and beyond, organizations have worried that listeners will start taking free performances for granted. So the Met is testing whether audiences will pay for digital content with a series of recitals by some of its biggest stars; the first, on Saturday, featured the tenor Jonas Kaufmann. Tickets are 20, roughly the price of the Met's Live in HD movie theater transmissions. The endeavor might bring in some much needed revenue for a company that is losing up to 100 million in sales during its theater's closure, which will last at least until the end of the year. But perhaps even more important, the recitals are intended to stimulate donations. "Fund raising ebbs and flows according to activities and events," Peter Gelb, the company's general manager, said in a recent interview with The New York Times. The Met's At Home Gala used charmingly makeshift technology. Mr. Kaufmann's concert, by comparison, offered professional camera work, including many maybe too many dramatic close ups, and high quality sound. (At least, after a glitch when the audio briefly dropped out just as Mr. Kaufmann began singing the aria "Recondita armonia" from Puccini's "Tosca.") The program, with the pianist Helmut Deutsch, consisted of 11 arias and one Italian song performed (without a live audience) in the ornate 18th century library of Polling Abbey near Munich, where Mr. Kaufmann lives. With a couple of exceptions, this was a greatest hits collection of numbers from "Tosca," "Turandot," "Romeo et Juliette," "La Gioconda" and more. Still, Mr. Kaufmann has been perhaps the Met's most elusive star, and it was exciting to hear him again, even over a livestream. When called for, he drew on smoldering power, as in his heroic account of an aria from Giordano's "Andrea Chenier." Yet I've seldom heard the "Flower Song" from Bizet's "Carmen" sung with such tenderness and vulnerability. Mr. Kaufmann did the climactic phrase with a softness rare among tenors, following the pianissimo dynamic Bizet wrote in the score. The high B flat was beautifully subdued. To give Mr. Kaufmann some breaks on Saturday, excerpts from his Met Live in HD broadcasts were shown, including scenes from Wagner's "Die Walkure," Massenet's "Werther" and Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West." There was even footage of Mr. Kaufmann performing "Vesti la giubba" from "Pagliacci" at the Salzburg Easter Festival in 2015. If all this, and the photo montages of Mr. Kaufmann in action at the Met, pushed the promotional trappings a little too obviously, no matter. Revisiting his triumphs was a reminder of what opera fans are missing right now. The 12 concert recital series, hosted by Christine Goerke, will also include performances from various locations by Renee Fleming, Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Bryn Terfel, Angel Blue, Lise Davidsen and others. One delicate issue came up during Mr. Gelb's recent Times interview: While the stars participating in the series are being paid, the Met's orchestra and chorus, among other employees, remain furloughed. But Mr. Gelb said the recitals, and other initiatives, are necessary to keep the company going. "If there's no Met to come back to," he said, "the jobs of our furloughed artists will be lost." Mr. Kaufmann implicitly acknowledged this at the end of the concert, after a valiant performance of "Nessun dorma." He and Mr. Deutsch, following hygiene protocols, bumped elbows instead of shaking hands. Then Mr. Kaufmann spoke of what a "pleasure and privilege" it was to be the first singer in the recital series. Not all musicians have that privilege right now, he added. So he announced that he was donating 5,000 to artists who are out of work, with the hope that they and audiences will be together again soon.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
It is a truth too seldom acknowledged that books mark their authors for life. Authors, of course, mark the completion of their books: a party, a bauble, for the lucky few, a check. Yet the wages of a book go deeper than royalties or celebration. So it was that on a Saturday morning last year, just shy of my 54th birthday, I found myself at a trendy tattoo parlor on the Lower East Side, waiting for my artist to arrive. The plan: She would ink onto my forearm a detail from a painting by the Boston born artist John Singleton Copley, whose biography I had recently written. I spent the better part of a decade in the close company of that fascinating, vexing man, dead some 200 years yet far more alive to me than most of my neighbors. Now he and I were both moving on. A remembrance seemed in order. "A life should leave / deep tracks," as the poet Kay Ryan writes. My older son, the kind of teenage faculty brat who dreams in rap and ink, had hatched the plan when I submitted the manuscript. "You should totally get a tattoo," he said, desperate for one himself. Over the years, he had traveled the stations of Copley's cross with me. He knew the artist's work well, and his mother better. "I'll find the artist," he said. He did: a remarkable talent with nearly 400,000 followers on Instagram. Her work was astonishing, as minutely detailed as any Copley, with a feminine, folkloric twist. But she plied her craft in Turkey. This, I pointed out, was an obstacle. "Nah. She's coming to New York," he answered, half dare. "Have you written her yet?" he asked, about as often as I told him to clean his room. The artist and her assistant pulled up to the shop in a black Escalade. The place was spotless, all black leather and mirrors, and throbbing with a soundtrack that ranged from Barry White to Migos. The customers came from many nations but only one generation: an inky pan ethnic youthquake. The only other person within spitting distance of my age was the father of two French speaking girls sisters, it seemed whose design would celebrate their lifelong bond. Under 18, they required his consent. The man at the desk took my ID, too: a universal policy, he said, with a glance at my gray mane. The artist, a tiny, striking woman of not more than 30, sported a gorgeous head of gray, too, hers artfully dyed, with undertones of lavender, in a manner that Copley would have recognized. When he got to England, in 1774, the most fashionable young women wore their hair powdered gray and piled atop their heads in billowing waves. He quickly incorporated the modish look into his best London portraits, ethereal things full of motion and light, an ocean away from the sharply etched lines of his New England work. My image was a Boston image: a detail from the portrait of Copley's half brother that has come to be known as "A Boy With a Flying Squirrel." The painting is labored and lapidary, a bravura display of the artist's ability to counterfeit finishes ranging from gold to velvet to glass to fur, and to catch in a likeness the depths of longing, including his own. In 1765, the year Boston began to come apart over imperial taxation, Copley had hauled the painting to the Long Wharf and shipped it to London, a message in a bottle bobbing across a vast and furious ocean. A gossamer golden chain holds the little squirrel, as Copley too felt himself bound shackled, he said in his letters to a little life in a frozen region. It took the pull of a decade and the push of a revolution, but in time he broke the chain. I wanted to wear the squirrel. A close friend cautioned, "You know, people won't see it and think, Copley detail. They'll think, rat girl." The tattoo artist lines up tiny pots of ink, 16 in all, blacks and browns and reds, a metallic gold, a lurid pink. She has studied the image, taking apart its planes and colors, rewinding Copley's brushstrokes. To watch her build it up again, from outline to underlayer to surface, working in pigment and blood, is as close as I will ever come to watching Copley's hand and seeing through his eyes. The work is painstaking, paint staking. I worry that her eyes must someday fail her, as those of miniaturists often do, as Copley's eventually did. Tiny facets of the picture that I've never noticed before the squirrel's eyebrow, the pink tip of its nose, the peak of its ears, the faint stripes of black that mottle its back come clear as they needle into my arm. My book mark has long since peeled and healed. Occasionally, even when I'm wearing faculty drag, the squirrel peeks out from a sleeve. "I thought it would be smaller," one friend offers, tentatively. "Aren't you afraid somebody will see it?" asks another. The mark, like the book, is about seeing; the squirrel simulacrum catches my peripheral vision as I write. Which seems, precisely, the needle's point. I'm working on a new book project now, an entanglement with a more recent century that may, one day, make for a shocking tattoo. But as I rebury Copley, it seems only fair to admit that my time with him changed me. I will see the whiskers of that little squirrel every day for the rest of my life, flesh falling and eyes failing before its colors run.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Not all artists can sustain the energy required for a full album. Some people thrive three or four minutes at a clip (or in the case of some recent hip hop, 90 seconds). There is no judgment there different modes for different folks. This year, as the album continued its decline a victim of the internet, the playlist and the diminished attention spans of billions songs felt like they mattered more than ever. So the pop music staff of The New York Times gathered to listen to some of the tracks on the pop critics' best of 2018 lists, and a few of our other favorites from the past 12 months. None Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The New York Times None Joe Coscarelli, pop music reporter for The New York Times None Caryn Ganz, pop music editor for The New York Times	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
"We both really enjoy being out in nature, and being able to get outside," said Ms. Farnum. "That's just one of the reasons Altadena is so appealing." Last summer, they paid 840,000 for a three bedroom, two bath bungalow in Altadena's historic Janes Village neighborhood, a cluster of about 200 heritage homes designed by Elisha Janes in the 1920s. Theirs has a cheery yellow facade, a blue front door and a towering elm tree in front. "It's just a happy house," she said. "It has large windows and gets great natural light." Built in 1937, the home has upgraded electrical wiring and copper plumbing to go with its original flooring. They built an addition in the back that now serves as Ms. Farnum's work space, and with the extra space they say they are ready to start a family. "We wanted to be somewhere that felt diverse, and the area of Altadena that we came into is extremely diverse, both socioeconomically and racially," said Ms. Farnum, who is white. (Mr. Nishibayashi is half white and half Japanese). "When it comes to starting a family, we wanted to be somewhere where not everyone looks like us." For Kerin Cantwell, 56, the journey to Altadena was less deliberate. Ms. Cantwell, a lawyer, had been renting a home in nearby Pasadena for 10 years after separating from her husband. With her two children grown and her finances in order, she was ready to re enter the housing market, and looked almost exclusively in the Pasadena, Eagle Rock and Sierra Madre communities. "I thought of Altadena as being too far away," Ms. Cantwell said. She works in the city of Rosemead, 20 minutes southeast of Pasadena, and she was hesitant to add time to an already tough commute. But after she was outbid on a home in Pasadena, she wandered into an open house in Altadena and found a three bedroom, two bath home with a private guest unit that was perfect for when her children came to visit. Better yet, it was priced below market value by an owner hoping for a quick sell. She offered 845,000 and quickly brought in a contractor to rip out the garage floors, which a previous owner had painted lime green. Her new community has come to surprise her. "I work in a very urban area and I just love coming up the hill at the end of the day and seeing the mountains right there," Ms. Cantwell said, noting that the mountains were covered in snow at the end of December. "And Altadena has changed. It's got all these cool little restaurants and coffee places now. It's a nice mix of things." Altadena is wedged against the foothills of the Angeles National Forest, with its northern slopes branching into a patchwork of hiking trails, including Altadena Crest, Henninger Flats and Camp Huntington Trailhead. 2793 LINCOLN AVENUE A two bedroom, one bath house built in 1923 on 0.19 acres, listed for 630,000. 855 872 8026. Beth Coller for The New York Times It sits just north of Pasadena, home of the Rose Bowl Stadium and the storied Rose Parade on New Year's Day; and just to the east of La Canada Flintridge, home to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the NASA research and development center. Its neighborhoods include Janes Village, dominated by Tudor style homes, and Millionaire's Row, a series of wide, handsome estates on Mariposa Street whose owners have included the publishing magnate Andrew McNally and the author Zane Grey. 1007 SUNMORE LANE A three bedroom, two bath house built in 1951 on 0.18 acres, is listed for 790,000. 424 230 3700 Beth Coller for The New York Times Along the commercial drag of Lake Avenue, locals gather at Fox's Restaurant, a diner and landmark that's been in operation for more than 60 years, as well as several coffee shops and the friendly Rancho Bar; both The Los Angeles Times and L.A. Weekly have gushed over Bulgarini Gelato, just off Lake. Prices in Altadena are slowly rising. In 2017, 372 single family homes sold at a median price of 820,000. The following year, 396 single family homes sold at a median price of 831,000. As of the final week of 2019, there had been 367 single family homes sold during the year, at a median price of 871,000, according to the Combined LA/Westside Multiple Listing Service. For renters, a one bedroom condo can be found for 1,800; a two bedroom house will rent for about 2,500, and a four bedroom house will cost around 4,000 a month. 1966 HOMEWOOD DRIVE A four bedroom, three and a half bath house built in 1926 on 0.43 acres, is listed for 2.25 million. 855 872 8026 Beth Coller for The New York Times "Altadena is a very diverse, eclectic kind of place," said Tracy King, 71, a realtor with Compass Real Estate who lives and specializes in Altadena. "You have a strong contingent of people who are buying here because they've been priced out of metro Los Angeles, and it's not that far from downtown. And for the same money they could pay in Silver Lake, they get a house and a lot more land here." Altadena, Ms. King said, has managed to avoid the swift moving gentrification that has transformed other communities in northeast Los Angeles, despite its slow creep in prices. That's largely thanks to geography, bounded as it is by wilderness on three sides. 1011 CONCHA STREET A three bedroom, two bath house built in 1932 on 0.23 acres, is listed for 1.249 million. 855 227 5456 Beth Coller for The New York Times Jani and Becky Zandovskis, who bought a two bedroom, two bath house with wide front and backyards in Altadena for 777,000 in October, agreed that the community's end of the world feeling has helped maintain its character. "It's tucked up at the edge of civilization," said Mr. Zandovskis, 48, a freelance camera operator. He and his wife moved to the area from Highland Park, he said, after growing tired of cramped urban life. "We really liked how it's up near the hills, and it just feels like it's not part of Los Angeles." Students in Altadena are served by the Pasadena Unified School District. Public elementary schools in the district include Jackson Elementary, Franklin Elementary, Altadena Elementary and Daniel Webster Elementary. During the 2018 19 school year, 49 percent of third graders at Jackson, 27 percent of third graders at Franklin, 38 percent of third graders at Altadena and 64 percent of third graders at Daniel Webster met benchmarks for English language arts on the California Smarter Balanced Assessment test, compared with 48 percent districtwide and 49 percent across California. During the same year, 51 percent of third graders at Jackson, 16 percent of third graders at Franklin, 25 percent of third graders at Altadena and 49 percent of third graders at Daniel Webster met benchmarks in math, compared with 49 percent districtwide and 50 percent statewide. (According to the California Department of Education, students with scores at or above benchmark levels on these tests are ready for higher level coursework). For high school, most students attend either John Muir High School, Pasadena High School or Marshall Fundamental, which serves grades six through 12. During the 2017 18 school year, 54 percent of students at John Muir, 75 percent of students at Marshall Fundamental and 76 percent of students at Pasadena who took the SAT exam met benchmarks for English, compared with 70 percent districtwide and 71 percent statewide; 32 percent of students at John Muir, 51 percent of students at Marshall Fundamental and 52 percent of students at Pasadena met benchmarks for math, compared with 46 percent districtwide and 51 percent statewide. (For the SATs, the College Board defines students as "college ready" when their test scores meet a benchmark of 480 in English and 530 in math). Altadena is a 10 minute drive from Pasadena; the 30 to 40 minute drive to Downtown Los Angeles can take up to 90 minutes in traffic; Los Angeles International Airport is 40 minutes away, though with traffic the drive can take up to two hours. The Iowan brothers John and Fred Woodbury began developing Altadena in the 1880s, selling the land they had purchased to socialites who were eager for a piece of California with clean air and access to nature. They also planted trees and orchards, whose beauty along with the fresh mountain air of the area lured millionaires like Andrew McNally and William Kellogg to the area.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (through Aug. 28) This weekend brings several more performances of "Sunset, o639 Hours," a visually and musically rich, semi narrative ballet about early airmail in the South Pacific by BalletX, of Philadelphia, and the choreographer Zvi Gotheiner's triptych of works inspired by the artists M.C. Escher, Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko. Beginning Wednesday, the ballerina Wendy Whelan, formerly of the New York City Ballet, will perform a series of contemporary solos and duets by and with the choreographer Brian Brooks. Meanwhile, down the dirt path, Bryan Arias and his ensemble execute his sharp, angry sexy moves. At various times, 358 George Carter Road, Becket, Mass., 413 243 0745, jacobspillow.org. (Schaefer) L.A. Dance Project (Tuesday through July 30) Only four years old, this Southern California company has proved a safe bet for adventurous programming and polished dancing. Case in point: For its Joyce debut, the troupe will present an American premiere by one of its founders, Benjamin Millepied, a work by the popular and ubiquitous Justin Peck, another by the singular Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and three duets by Martha Graham. And they'll make all of them look good. Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., Thursday through July 30 at 8 p.m., also at 2 p.m. on July 30, Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, 212 242 0800, joyce.org. (Schaefer) Monstah Black (Friday and Saturday) The HOT! Festival at Dixon Place is a multidisciplinary arts buffet that has celebrated queer artists and culture for 25 years way before they found a degree of mainstream acceptance. The centerpiece this year is "Hyperbolic! The Last Spectacle," a debauched evening of apocalyptic glamour by Monstah Black, a choreographer, composer, designer and performer who mixes ingredients like modern dance, disco, burlesque and a bit of butoh with equal parts party and politics. At 7:30 p.m., 161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey Streets, Lower East Side, 212 219 0736, dixonplace.org. (Schaefer) National Ballet of Canada (Thursday through July 31) Fresh off the success of last year's Tony winning "An American in Paris," which he directed and choreographed, the British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon gives New Yorkers another taste of his smart storytelling with an adaptation of Shakespeare's complex romance "The Winter's Tale." Performed by the National Ballet of Canada (after a 2014 premiere in London by the Royal Ballet, which co produced the ballet), this tale of jealousy and forgiveness features lush sets, original music by Joby Talbot and Mr. Wheeldon's lovely moves. Thursday through July 30 at 8 p.m., also at 2 p.m. on July 30 and 31, David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, 212 721 6500, lincolncenterfestival.org. (Schaefer) Twyla Tharp Dance (Friday and Saturday) Twyla Tharp, modern dance's great populist, brings her company back to the Joyce for the first time in over a decade. The broad range of her artistic and cultural interests is on display with a program that includes deconstructed square dancing in "Country Dances" (1976); the busy, complicated and colorful "Brahms Paganini" from 1980, with six dancers elegantly freaking out in preppy pastels and a long, riveting solo; and a new work made to sections from Beethoven's Opus 130. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, Manhattan, 212 242 0800, joyce.org. (Schaefer)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
The festive season is traditionally the most popular time of year for couples to get engaged, which makes the unveiling of Graff's latest jewel particularly apt. At 118.78 carats, the Venus is the largest heart shaped diamond of its kind in the world. The raw stone, found at the Letseng mine in Lesotho, weighed 357 carats. Purchasing a stone of such size is a nerve racking experience, said Laurence Graff, chairman of Graff Diamonds. "We are only allowed to view the stone through 10 times magnification, and we are not allowed to polish a window into the rough to clearly see inside, or use any specialist equipment," he said. "You can never be 100 percent sure." The heart shape is not only a metaphor for love in the world of fine jewelry it is also one of the most difficult shapes to get right.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
The room went still when the women hugged. All of the staff, bustling in preparation just moments before, paused when Ruth Bader Ginsburg emerged quietly from her private chambers at the Supreme Court last month and embraced her old friend Gloria Steinem. And just as quickly, life resumed. Justice Ginsburg, 82, led Ms. Steinem, 81, into her wood paneled chambers, with its stately traditional furniture and blue chip modern art by Mark Rothko and Josef Albers (on loan from the National Gallery of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden). "What a magical place, Ruth," Ms. Steinem said. Justice Ginsburg gestured to an immaculately set table in the corner, tucked beside shelves of mementos and personal photographs including one of the two women together. She offered tea, cookies and chocolates she had brought back from a recent trip to Zurich. These women have a history. Long before she was crowned "Notorious R.B.G." a nod to the tough guy rapper Notorious B.I.G. for her fierce intellect, Justice Ginsburg was a trailblazing litigator for women's rights. Beginning in the early 1970s, as a professor at Columbia Law School, its first tenured woman, and as a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project, she successfully argued five cases before the Supreme Court, focusing on laws and government policies built on gender stereotypes. PHILIP GALANES: Let's start with a glaring inequity. Only one of you has a rap name. RUTH BADER GINSBURG: I like the way mine began. A second year law student at N.Y.U. was outraged by the court's decision in the voting rights case. But instead of just venting her anger, she took up my dissent. GLORIA STEINEM: They have those? PG: Yours, if you want it, is GlowStick. GS: We may need to work on that. PG: Rap names aside, your careers unfolded side by side at the forefront of the women's movement. When did you meet? GS: When Ruth was at the A.C.L.U. What comes to mind are these cases in which young African American women were being sterilized without their permission. RBG: There was an irony. We couldn't get abortions. But there was this notorious obstetrician, and if it was a woman's third child, he would automatically sterilize her. GS: The A.C.L.U. would not have taken up that case if it hadn't been for Ruth. RBG: I was so embarrassed. The dean had each of the women escorted by a distinguished professor. Mine looked more like God than any man I ever met. He was also a chain smoker, so we were sharing an ashtray on my lap. When I stood to speak, the cigarette butts fell on the living room floor. But I gave him the answer he expected: "My husband is a second year law student, and it's important for a woman to understand her husband's work." PG: Did you really think that? RBG: The only thing that really bothered me is they had given me a generous scholarship. We had to take two years off when my husband Marty was in the service. And when I applied for readmission, they said, "Submit your father in law's financial statement." GS: You can't make this up. RBG: They shouldn't give scholarship funds to a person with family money, but you can be sure they never asked a guy to submit his father in law's statement. PG: Now, Gloria's turn: Early in your career, you're sitting in the back of a cab, between Gay Talese and Saul Bellow, and Gay says: "Every year a pretty girl comes to New York and pretends to be a writer. This year, it's Gloria." Any desire to push him out the door? GS: I had just interviewed Saul Bellow in Chicago, but it wasn't published yet. My first response was, "Oh, he's going to be regretful that he gave an interview to someone who's not really a writer." It wasn't until we were out of the taxi that I got angry. And it wasn't until years later that I got really angry. PG: But your first thought was to doubt yourself. GS: And in a weird way, to be fair to Gay Talese, he thought it was a compliment. He didn't see that I wanted to be a serious writer. PG: When did you start thinking seriously about women's equality? RBG: When I was working on a book about civil procedure in Sweden, in 1962 and '63. GS: For which she learned Swedish. Is that not incredible? RBG: Between 20 and 25 percent of the law students in Sweden were women. And there were women on the bench. I went to one proceeding in Stockholm where the presiding judge was eight months pregnant. There was also a journalist who wrote a column in the Swedish daily paper: "Why should women have two jobs, and men only one?" Inflation was high, and two incomes were often needed. But it was the woman who was expected to buy the kids new shoes and have dinner on the table at 7. I remember listening to those conversations. It was that same summer I read "The Second Sex." GS: For me, an important point came when I was living in India, because of the Gandhian movement and the role of women in it. But I was slow to see how it applied here. I couldn't quite bridge that gap until the late '60s. PG: How did people respond when you first raised concerns about equality for women? GS: They were either disinterested or said it was impossible. My classic experience was an editor who said, "O.K., you can publish an article saying women are equal." But right next to it, he would publish an article that said that they weren't to be objective. RBG: The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous. GS: I remember covering a hearing in Albany about liberalizing the abortion laws. This was before Roe v. Wade. And they invited to testify 14 men and one nun. A group of women said: "Wait a minute. Let's have our own testimony from women who had this experience." That was my epiphany. But when I wrote about it, my friends at New York magazine, good people, took me aside and said: "You've worked so hard to be taken seriously. Don't get involved with these crazy women." RBG: We decided when we met I was 17, he was 18 that we were going to be together, whether it was in medicine PG: Wait! You decided that you would go into the same profession? RBG: Right. But Marty had a consuming interest in golf and played on the Cornell golf team. So medicine was out because chemistry labs were in the afternoon. For some reason, he wanted to go to Harvard, and the business school wasn't taking women. So that left law. GS: It's such an important point for young people, who often think life has to be all planned out. It's not that way. PG: Did you decide marriage wasn't for you? GS: Absolutely not. I assumed I had to get married. Everybody did. If you didn't, you were crazy. But I kept putting it off: "I'm going to do it, but not right now." Until I was in my late 30s and the women's movement came along, and I realized: I'm happy. Not everyone has to live the same way. RBG: I just read Anne Marie Slaughter's book. She talked about "we don't have it all." Who does? I've had it all in the course of my life, but at different times. GS: And the implication for women having it all is doing it all. But you can't. We're still far away from the idea of truly shared parenting. PG: One of the cleverest things you did as a litigator was demonstrate how rigid gender roles harm men as much as women. RBG: There was an interesting case this court decided in the first year Justice O'Connor was on the bench, about a man who wanted to go to the best nursing school in his area, but it was women only. You could read between the lines what she understood: There was no better way to raise pay for women in nursing than to get men to do it. GS: Equal pay for women would be the biggest economic stimulus this country could ever have. Big time profits are being made from gender roles as they exist. It would also be win win because female headed households are where children are most likely to be poor. PG: Last subject: You are both bridge builders. Justice Ginsburg on the court; and Gloria, with a sea of men and women over the years. Any advice for getting along with people who disagree with us to the core like Justice Scalia? RBG: Last night, my daughter and I got a prize from a women's intellectual property group, and Nino Scalia was in the video, saying his nice things about me. He's a very funny man. We both love opera. And we care about writing. His style is spicy, but we care about how we say it.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
A few of the performers had songs to suit the moment: Alicia Keys sang her new "Underdog" fondly from her piano as she praised "people on the front lines knowing they don't get to run." Dave Grohl earnestly belted "My Hero" with an acoustic guitar, then suggested its chorus as a hand washing song. Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," performed solo by a gum chewing Billie Joe Armstrong, had a refrain made for social distancing: "I walk alone." Demi Lovato emoted through part of her "Skyscraper," about the aftermath of devastation. Others relied on less thematic hits. Backstreet Boys electronically synced up to share "I Want It That Way" over a studio backup track. Billie Eilish, with her brother Finneas on guitar, sang "Bad Guy" behind half closed eyes, delivering each breathy phrase with deceptive nonchalance. A barefoot Camila Cabello, with her boyfriend Shawn Mendes on guitar, sang "My Oh My" with lavish melismas and consulted her phone to recall lyrics that had been rapped by DaBaby. Sam Smith performed "How Do You Sleep?" without the elaborate electronic counterpoint of its studio recording; instead, he sang it a cappella, snapping his fingers. Tim McGraw straddled the diving board of his swimming pool while he sang "Something Like That," with studio musicians joining him remotely. Mariah Carey had backup too: a keyboardist and three singers filled out "Always Be My Baby," which peaked with a high note flourish. Meanwhile, without fanfare, H.E.R. unveiled a brand new song: a plea for reconciliation with a lover called "Keep Holding On." Seeing performers broadcasting from their homes offered not only a glimpse of personal spaces (and dogs) but of music in rudimentary form without a band to punch it up, a studio realization to build its superstructure, a show to flesh it out. That kind of bare bones intimacy has its charms, but also its limitations; there's synergy in musicians striving together and using every tool and toy at their disposal. (Lady Gaga and Lizzo, both big room troupers, appeared on the show to talk but not to sing.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
For the Remote, the lockdowns of the past two months have been stressful. For the Exposed, they have been catastrophic. For the Remote, another few weeks of lockdown is an irritant. For the Exposed, whose jobs are disappearing by the millions every week, it is a terror. For the Remote, Covid 19 is the grave new risk. For the exposed, it's one of several. For the Remote, an image on the news of cars forming long lines at food banks is disconcerting. For the Exposed, that image is or may very soon be the rear bumper in front of you. The 2020 election will hinge on who decisively wins the vote of the Exposed. The Democratic case is that nothing matters more right now than saving the public from Covid 19. Hence the preference for prolonging the lockdowns until the virus is somehow contained. The Republican case is that nothing matters more than saving the public from the effects of the response to Covid 19. Hence the preference for lifting the lockdowns sooner than may be medically advisable. For now, Democrats seem to have gotten the better of the argument. Essential medical workers aside, nobody in the work force is more exposed to Covid 19 than the Exposed themselves the people whose livelihoods depend on constant personal interactions that place them at continual risk. So it stands to reason that lockdowns, cushioned by effective financial help and the hope that things will soon return to normal (or semi normal), should enjoy their support. Politically speaking, that case seems to be working. A Washington Post Ipsos poll found that Democratic governors associated with some of the tougher lockdown measures Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania; Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan have approval ratings north of 70 percent. By contrast, Republican Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor prominently associated with lifting the lockdown, is at 39 percent. But the Democratic case rests on some large assumptions. One assumption is that Covid 19 is containable and will eventually be curable. If it isn't, what are the lockdowns really achieving, other than delaying the march toward herd immunity while imposing ruinous costs on those least able to afford them?	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
Ms. Soe Lin is managing director of Pharos Global Health Advisors and a lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. Mr. Hecht is a professor of clinical epidemiology at Yale University and the president of Pharos Global Health Advisors. Almost the only people who are being tested for the coronavirus are those who have symptoms of Covid 19, an approach endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provides guidance for states. That has probably revealed just a fraction of the people infected, putting thousands of American in danger, because most of those who carry the virus do not know it. What's needed is widespread testing of people with no known symptoms. A small set of blood tests for antibodies indicated that as many as 2.7 million New Yorkers may have been infected without realizing it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday. That's in line with other findings. A recent study showed that up to one third of residents in Chelsea, a hot spot in Massachusetts, may have been infected, and only half of them could recall having a single symptom over the past four weeks. Another small study, of pregnant women in New York City, found that 15 percent tested positive for the virus, and 80 percent of them had no symptoms. Of the 840 cases on the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, 60 percent were asymptomatic. So Covid 19 seems much more prevalent than our meager amount of testing has indicated, and millions of infected people may be innocently spreading the disease. We need to aggressively search for asymptomatic carriers, particularly among people who have frequent contact with the public and among vulnerable populations. This includes those who are infectious but will never develop symptoms and those who will develop them days after the test. Those in high risk asymptomatic groups who must be urgently targeted include health workers, especially those in long term care facilities; the homeless and those working in shelters; grocery store employees and delivery drivers, taxi drivers, emergency workers, employees in high density workplaces like delivery warehouses and meat processing plants; and anyone who has had close contact with a known Covid 19 patient. These high risk groups need to be tested as often as every five days, given what we know about the time it takes to develop symptoms after becoming infected, and those found to be infected should self isolate immediately while their contacts should be quarantined for 14 days. Testing will need to be expanded at least fivefold and made as accessible and convenient as possible, without the need for a doctor's referral, and free of charge. Right now about 200,000 people a day are being tested for the virus across the country. We need this to grow to around a million tests or more daily. Testing will be sufficient when fewer than 5 percent of the tests come up positive. In New York, 38 percent of those tested were found to be infected as of Wednesday. The number of new tests is also far too low. Louisiana, another hot spot, reported only 481 new Covid 19 tests last Thursday. To do this, states must expand mobile testing programs so workers like those in grocery stores and high density workplaces can be tested repeatedly and on site. They should also set up neighborhood testing sites to encourage everyone else to get tested without hassle. Scaling up testing will require a surge in strategic planning and supply chain management. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved new polyester based swabs that can be swiftly manufactured domestically and don't have to be inserted as far up the nose. It also approved the use of sterile saline solution for transporting samples for testing if the medium that is normally used is unavailable. Newly approved testing platforms can deliver results in 15 minutes. These recent advances should ease supply chain bottlenecks and increase the availability of tests. But states will still need to build a vast testing infrastructure using community health centers, pharmacies and private providers. The results of this hugely expanded testing will need to be digitally coordinated so infected people can be connected to the larger system of counseling, contact tracing and supportive services. Massachusetts has started an ambitious collaboration between the Department of Public Health, the Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority and Boston based Partners in Health to contact trace all infected cases. Expanded testing would let states more aggressively suppress the disease. Those with active infection could get support for self isolation and contact tracing to identify others at risk who can be quarantined. To help those who cannot self isolate safely we need a chain of care, adapted to American conditions, that includes safe places for self isolation, supported by tens of thousands of community workers who can perform testing and contact tracing and make it easier for people to quarantine. Already, some states have converted empty university dorm rooms and hotels for this purpose, but so far the effort has been patchwork. If we can't prevent the spread of Covid 19, the economy will not be able to reopen. Rapidly finding and isolating all infected patients, focusing particularly on the large pool of infected asymptomatic people, and quarantining their close contacts before they have had a chance to infect others is the only way that the pandemic can be controlled until an effective Covid 19 vaccine is found.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
As the oft quoted line from "The Dark Knight" goes, "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Now a more respectable immortality awaits this 2008 Christopher Nolan superhero blockbuster, which earned Heath Ledger a posthumous Academy Award for his performance as the Joker: it is among the memorable motion pictures, along with "Shrek," "A Clockwork Orange" and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," that have been chosen for preservation this year on the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. On Monday, the library plans to make its annual announcement that it has selected a new roster of 25 films, from 1913 to 2010, that will be honored for their historical and cultural significance and added to this registry, helping to preserve them for future generations. Those selections include milestone films like "Lilies of the Field," the 1963 drama for which Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win best actor at the Oscars; and "The Hurt Locker," Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war drama for which she became the first woman to win the best director Oscar. This year's list also includes "Kid Auto Races at Venice," the 1914 Keystone Studios comedy that was the first released film to feature Charlie Chaplin playing the character of the Little Tramp.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
The singer and songwriter Mac Davis in 1973. His songwriting revealed a debt to both the sunny humanism of 1967's Summer of Love and the candid sensuality of the sexual revolution that accompanied it. NASHVILLE Mac Davis, the pop country crossover star who wrote hits for Elvis Presley and had a No. 1 pop single of his own with "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me," died on Tuesday at a hospital here. He was 78. His manager and friend, Jim Morey, said the cause was complications of Mr. Davis's recent heart surgery. Mr. Davis enjoyed early success as a songwriter in the late 1960s, supplying Presley with Top 10 pop hits like "In the Ghetto" and "Don't Cry Daddy" after spending much of the decade working in sales and publishing for independent record companies. He also wrote "Something's Burning," a Top 20 pop single in 1970 for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, and "I Believe in Music," which was recorded by the Detroit pop group Gallery, reaching the Top 40 in 1972. "I Believe in Music" was recorded by scores of artists and became Mr. Davis's signature song; he closed his concerts with it for decades. "Watching Scotty Grow," another of his best known compositions, stalled just outside the pop Top 10 for Bobby Goldsboro in 1971. Singing in a warm, resonant baritone, Mr. Davis recorded many of these originals himself, working in a Southern pop vein akin to that of Presley, whom he often cited, and his fellow Lubbock, Texas, native Buddy Holly, whom he called his greatest musical influence. "He was like nothing I'd ever seen before," Mr. Davis said in an interview with the website Elvis Australia about the first time he saw Presley perform onstage, in a parking lot at the county fairgrounds in Lubbock. "Of course, I was just a kid, you know," Mr. Davis went on. "So was he." Genial, photogenic and fit, Mr. Davis had his own television variety hour, "The Mac Davis Show," from 1974 to 1976 on NBC and was a regular guest on "The Tonight Show" and other talk shows in those years. He made his acting debut in the 1979 movie "North Dallas Forty," a comedy that starred Nick Nolte as an aging football star and Mr. Davis as a calculating quarterback. He also wrote "Young Girls" with the pop star Bruno Mars; a version released by Mr. Mars in 2012 was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Mr. Davis's other projects over the last few years included collaborations with the country star Keith Urban and the singer Rivers Cuomo of the band Weezer. Mr. Davis's songwriting in the late 1960s and early '70s was a product of that era, revealing a debt to both the sunny humanism of 1967's Summer of Love and the candid sensuality of the sexual revolution that accompanied it. Buoyed by singalong choruses and a handclap beat, "Stop and Smell the Roses," a Top 10 pop hit for Mr. Davis in 1974, expressed a naive optimism verging on schmaltz. "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me," with lines like "I'll just use you, then I'll set you free" (about desiring only casual sex from a woman), smacked of male chauvinism. By contrast, "In the Ghetto" inspired by Mr. Davis's experience with a childhood playmate, the 5 year old son of one of his father's Black co workers conveyed empathy and depth in speaking to racial inequities. "I really thought I was going to change the world with that song," Mr. Davis said of "In the Ghetto" in a 2017 interview with the website songwriteruniverse.com. "I was very proud of it. But unfortunately, with the way things are today, the song is probably more poignant now than when I wrote it." Morris Mac Davis was born on Jan. 21, 1942, in Lubbock, the second of three children. He and his sister, Linda, spent their childhood living in an efficiency apartment complex with their father, T.J., a building contractor, after their parents divorced; his brother, Kim, grew up in Atlanta with their mother, Edith. Mr. Davis's first guitar was a gift from his father when he was 9 years old. But he was less interested in music than in sports and fist fighting until he finished high school and moved in with his mother in Atlanta, where he started a rock 'n' roll group called the Zots. The band released a pair of singles on a local label before Mr. Davis accepted a job as regional manager for Vee Jay Records, the influential independent label that was home to popular R B singers like Jerry Butler and Gene Chandler. He moved to Liberty Records in the mid 1960s and was soon transferred to Hollywood, where he worked for the label's publishing division before leaving to join Boots Enterprises, the production and publication company owned by Nancy Sinatra. While working for Ms. Sinatra, he played on her studio recordings and in her stage shows. He also began publishing his own songs and persuading Presley and other artists to record them. He left Boots Enterprises in 1970, shortly after meeting the Columbia Records executive Clive Davis and signing a recording contract with the label. He had his first major hit with "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" two years later. Mr. Davis had only four Top 40 pop hit singles with Columbia. But by the mid 1970s he had become more of a force on the country chart, where he had 16 Top 40 singles, including the Top 10 hit "Hooked on Music," between 1972 and 1985. His work as an actor also gained momentum as the '80s progressed, including roles in the Hollywood movies "Cheaper to Keep Her" (1981) and "The Sting II" (1983), as well as appearances on TV shows like "The Muppet Show" and "King of the Hill." In 1993 Mr. Davis played the title role in the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies." He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1998. Two years later he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
LONDON The moment has arrived. Britain is out of the European Union. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his "People's Government" it scarcely calls itself Conservative at this point has fulfilled the promise on which it was elected in December and "got Brexit done." There are difficulties ahead. Mr. Johnson has promised impossible and contradictory things on Brexit: Maximum regulatory freedom where it suits his government, maximum frictionless trade where it suits the British economy. The European Union is unlikely to give him what he wants in the months of negotiations to come. But by fulfilling his pledge, Mr. Johnson has won enormous good will from nationalist voters across England and Wales. Outside the European Union, he will also have more scope to change the British government's role in the economy. This gives him a unique opportunity to do what his predecessors could not: build a lasting popular base for the Conservative Party. Mr. Johnson can now take advantage of his big majority to overhaul British capitalism, incentivizing long term Conservative voters while permanently annexing chunks of the Labour Party's historic base. Already, the dimensions of Mr. Johnson's plans are becoming clear. He has no intention of running the country as any Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher would have: He is not out to roll back the state. Instead, he is out to secure the support of working class voters who handed over to the Tories dozens of seats formerly held by Labour. His premiership, set free by Brexit, could reshape Britain's electoral map for decades. During the election, Mr. Johnson campaigned as an almost single issue nationalist, the phrase "get Brexit done" falling robotically from his lips between every other stammer. Beyond that, much of what he said was conventionally Tory: He promised harsher restrictions on immigration, meaning an end to free movement from the European Union and the expansion of the "hostile environment" for migrants. Domestic repression, the manifesto promised, would also tighten, with a bigger penal system and a greater emphasis on "counter extremism," which, as Home Secretary Priti Patel has indicated, will target parts of the left. Mr. Johnson has also hinted at constitutional reforms, which would strengthen the executive and weaken judicial challenges. He promises an attack on liberal norms and legality in the name of national invigoration. Tellingly, he distanced himself from the last government. He would end austerity, raise spending on the National Health Service, guarantee pensions, raise the minimum wage and borrow PS100 billion to invest in infrastructure. Many of these promises were grossly exaggerated, but they served to underline the point that a Johnson administration would be different. And since the election, the government has acted to carry out its commitments, passing legislation to guarantee N.H.S. spending increases and proposing moderate improvements to workers' and renters' rights. It has also promised that most of the infrastructure spending will be invested in England's deprived northern regions and this week backed up the promise by nationalizing the north's major rail service. If this sounds like an incursion into Labour territory, it is. Many of the policies are directly taken from Labour's plans. The push for a larger state resonates with a politically ambiguous popular memory of the postwar era a certain nostalgia for the era of big, dynamic industries owned by the British government inflects both a version of the left wing politics of the Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and a version of Brexit sentiment. Mr. Johnson knows that many of the votes contributing to a Conservative majority were "lent" by voters who wanted Brexit done. A more interventionist state is a way to shore up a lasting, broad coalition. This pragmatic raid on enemy turf was first conceived under Mr. Johnson's predecessor, Theresa May. More thoughtful Tories knew they had to change. The British state and economy had become dysfunctional: gaping regional inequalities, a housing market inaccessible to younger workers, weak labor productivity, sluggish investment and very little to export. Mrs. May's advisers understood that the Conservatives had to break with the formula of austerity and financialization somehow. But while she used the rhetoric of working class uplift, she was unable to back it up with policy. Her chancellor, Philip Hammond, a traditional ally of the banks, was determined to keep austerity going. If nothing else, he could see no other way to create a fiscal surplus big enough to soften the impact of Brexit. Mr. Johnson, by contrast, is just enough of an opportunist to see that delivering Brexit, in however self injuring and punitive a form, gives him both the political power and the regulatory latitude to do things differently. There is a risk, though, of succumbing to Mr. Johnson's own mythmaking. As much as he needs working class conservatives, they have always existed. And the core Tory voter remains the affluent middle class. What's more, when it comes to public spending, he's limited in what he can do by his commitment to freezing most taxes. In an economy that is already weak and likely to be weaker after Brexit, he has little room for serious investment. And Mr. Johnson will face conflicting demands from within his own party. The chancellor, Sajid Javid, has demanded 5 percent cuts from most government departments, making plain that the spending spigots are not about to freely flow. And the prime minister is surrounded by allies who, far from wanting a more interventionist state, want to cut taxes and slash regulations in the interests of a more globally competitive economy. During the election, Mr. Johnson was able to glide over the glaring contradictions in what he said with a bustling con man's charm, but in office he has to navigate them. With a big majority, he can no longer play the outsider. However, the lesson of nationalist leaders globally is that, in this jittery era, they don't have to deliver booming success to keep power. From Viktor Orban in Hungary to Narendra Modi in India, these leaders have expanded their base by delivering a personalized, charismatic form of rule in which they are militant defenders of the nation against all comers be they foreigners, "traitors," liberals, or leftists. Mr. Johnson is not a nationalist by conviction. He is the epitome of the "reckless opportunists" that, as the sociologist Aeron Davis says, run Britain. His voting record in Parliament shows him to be slightly more liberal than his party. But his performance over the last few months during which he agitated against Parliament, accused opponents of "collaboration" with Europe, and saber rattled against the courts and media showed him to be adept at using the far right's template. Whenever the contradictions in his government threaten to unravel, he is likely to return to these tactics. Indeed, Brexit fits in with that method perfectly. After today, Mr. Johnson will be able to continually remind voters that he was able to overcome the hostility of the liberal elite and accomplish his goal. And as negotiations proceed, he can gin up hostility against his supposed enemies whenever he doesn't get his way. Whenever any politician claims to speak for "the people," someone always pays the price. Migrants are first on the list for Mr. Johnson. But they will not be the last. Richard Seymour ( leninology) is an editor at Salvage magazine and the author, most recently, of "The Twittering Machine." The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter ( NYTopinion) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
The Ghent Altarpiece, parts of which have been restored, at St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, before a ceremony to unveil it on Jan. 24. Up Close, There's More to the Ghent Altarpiece Than the Lamb It was Friday morning, just hours before she was set to reveal the 2.4 million, multiyear restoration she had led on panels of one of the world's great artistic treasures: "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the Ghent Altarpiece. But the lamb's "new" face had already been seen by thousands, online. In the previous 48 hours, a side by side of the panel before and after restoration had gone viral on Twitter, with Smithsonian Magazine calling the new lamb "alarmingly humanoid" and users comparing it to the pouting fashionista Derek Zoolander. Inside, displayed in a huge glass vitrine, was the nearly 600 year old masterpiece by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, its details defined and its colors vibrant and joyful, as they must have been when it was painted. The massive work, created from 20 paintings on the front and back of 12 panels, is an astounding work of art. The lamb's face, at the center of the largest panel on the front, is no bigger than a walnut. "You see how small it is?" Ms. Dubois said. The changes to the lamb's face were indeed quite substantial, she added. "This is the original sheep of van Eyck, which was painted over by someone else to make it look like a passive animal, and more anatomically correct," she said. "But this is what van Eyck's intention was. It's nothing bizarre; it's just not what people are used to looking at and perhaps do not expect." The unveiling of the lamb panel was the first event in what is being called here "The Year of Van Eyck," and the return of the newly restored central panel to the cathedral is accompanied by a landmark exhibition at Ghent's Museum of Fine Arts called "Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution," which opens Feb. 1 and runs through April 30. The show features 13 original van Eyck paintings more than half of the 22 extant known works shown alongside 100 artworks by contemporaries from the late Middle Ages. The restored exterior panels, including ones portraying Adam and Eve, will be separated into pairs and presented in the museum, next to similar or contrasting works by other artists of the period, like Fra Angelico and Masaccio. Most of the altarpiece's front, including the "Mystic Lamb" panel and the unrestored top panels, will remain in the cathedral. (One of the original lower panels, known as the "Righteous Judges" panel, was stolen and continues to be missing; it is represented by a copy.) "The last time two panels of the altarpiece, Adam and Eve, were shown in a museum was in 1902," Frederica van Dam, a co curator of the exhibition, said. "When they depart back to the cathedral, you'll have this distance again. To have an exhibition where you can see them so close is so extraordinary, to be able to see all the wonderful details." It's the details that may stir the most discussion, as shown already by the recent social media excitement. The restoration of the altarpiece, which began with a study of the painting by a consortium of international experts in 2012, has revealed that a substantial amount of it was reworked in the 16th century, about 120 years after it was originally painted. "Basically, we have been looking at a masterpiece by someone else," Ms. van Dam said in an interview at the museum. The Ghent altarpiece was commissioned for a private chapel in St. Bavo's Cathedral around 1420. Although there is still debate among scholars as to its precise origins, the current consensus is that it was conceived and designed by Hubert van Eyck, who died in 1426, and completed by his younger brother, Jan van Eyck, by 1432. Both painters worked in a studio with students, and so support probably came from other painters, too. Ms. Dubois, the restorer, said that at some point in the 1500s another painter, or perhaps a group of painters, decided that it needed a reworking. They may have wanted to change the painting for theological reasons this was, after all, the middle of the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Church was rewriting its doctrines at the Council of Trent or because painting styles had changed. The whole painting was redone, she said, "not only the lamb but all the draperies, the top part of the landscape, the sky and the city view, and on the reverse of the wings, about 70 percent was overpainted." She added: "What is peculiar about this one is that it was extremely carefully done so that all the contours of the figures were respected and most of the colors were reproduced with very high quality pigments. It was not a botched job." "He is not the first one who painted the lamb in that way," Ms. Dubois said. "We have many, many examples from the early Middle Ages and late antiquity, including Roman mosaics, which show the lamb with these very large frontal eyes, gazing at us to make it very identifiable as the Lamb of God." Because she could see the original image of the lamb emerging over a span of time, rather than in the instant way people look at side by side comparisons on Twitter, she said, she didn't find it shocking to realize that the eyes were facing forward, and the lamb was far more alert than in the overpainted version. "Of course, it's more intense than I expected," Ms. Dubois said. "It actually moved me. You're just used to this demure, passive lamb and then you're confronted with this very strong vision of the religious symbol of Christ being sacrificed on the altar. Here, Christ is aware of his sacrifice."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
Dr. Peter C. Nowell, who with a colleague discovered the first genetic defect proven to cause cancer, died on Dec. 26 in Newtown Square, Pa. He was 88. The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, his daughter Kristin said. The finding, published in 1960, took cancer research in a new direction, leading to an extraordinary advance by other scientists three decades later: the drug Gleevec. For many patients, Gleevec transformed chronic myeloid leukemia from a fatal disease to a chronic one that can be kept under control for many years. Before the report, written by Dr. Nowell and David A. Hungerford, few scientists had believed that flawed genes could lead to cancer. "The notions of cancer were so bizarre," said Dr. Mark I. Greene, the director of the Immunobiology and Experimental Pathology Division at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where Dr. Nowell spent most of his career. "It was a total conundrum. There was no consistent theory at that time that was even recognized." Dr. Nowell (pronounced NO well) and Dr. Hungerford, who at the time was a graduate student at the Fox Chase Cancer Center, made a deceptively simple observation. They noticed that in diseased white blood cells from patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, one of the 46 chromosomes the structures that carry genes was abnormally short. It came to be known as the Philadelphia chromosome. Dr. Nowell realized that the genetic change was important in the development of the cancer, and that tumors might arise from a single cell that had such a change. There was resistance to the idea at first, Dr. Nowell told PennCurrent, a university publication, in 1999. "Now, a lot of people didn't want to believe that at the time," he said, "because they preferred that cancer should result from changes that did not involve the genetic material of the cell, because it would be easier to reverse." But, he added, "I wasn't particularly concerned because it made sense to me, and so I just kept on working." More than 10 years passed before advances in laboratory methods enabled another scientist, Dr. Janet D. Rowley, from the University of Chicago, to analyze the Philadelphia chromosome more deeply. She found that the shortened chromosome, No. 22, had exchanged genetic material with another chromosome, No. 9. This genetic swap, or translocation, had created a new gene that led cells to produce a hyperactive enzyme, which stimulated uncontrolled growth in white blood cells the hallmark of leukemia. Gleevec, developed in the late 1990s and approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2001, turns off the enzyme. It is also used for some other cancers. Later research by Dr. Rowley and others found many more translocations leading to cancer. In 1976, Dr. Nowell published a landmark article in the journal Science describing the stepwise evolution of tumors. In a statement that seemed to anticipate the current push toward personalized treatment for cancer, he wrote, "Each patient's cancer may require individual specific therapy." Dr. Nowell was also renowned for devising techniques that greatly enhanced researchers' ability to study cellular genetics particularly the use of a plant based substance to stimulate cell division, which became an indispensable tool. "He did simple things that turned out to change everything," Dr. Greene said. Dr. Greene said that Dr. Nowell had little interest in money or prestige and had turned down promotions including a chance to become provost of the Penn medical school because they would have taken him away from science and teaching. Dr. Nowell wrote 400 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and received many major awards for his research, including the Lasker Award, often called the American Nobel, in 1998. Peter Carey Nowell was born on Feb. 8, 1928, in Rose Tree, Pa., about 12 miles west of Philadelphia. He was the third of four children. His mother, the former Margaret Matlack, was a teacher and writer. His father, Foster, was an electrical engineer. Dr. Nowell attended Swarthmore High School, Wesleyan University and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1952. In 1950 he married Helen Walker Worst, who supervised telephone ordering for Sears Roebuck. They had met in high school. The first of their five children, Sharon, was born in 1954 with severe disabilities from cerebral palsy. At the time, the Nowells were living in San Francisco, where Dr. Nowell, who had been drafted into the military, was studying the health effects of radiation at the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory. He joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty in 1956. Kristin Nowell said that her parents had cared for Sharon at home for 35 years, and that her father would get Sharon up in the morning before leaving for work and would feed her dinner and put her to bed at night. Unlike most scientists of his stature, Ms. Nowell said, her father rarely traveled to conferences, choosing instead to remain at home and share the care of Sharon with his wife. Sharon Nowell died of pneumonia in 2000. Dr. Nowell's wife died in 2004. In addition to his daughter Kristin, he is survived by another daughter, Karen Nowell King; two sons, Timothy and Michael; a brother, Foster Nowell Jr.; and seven grandchildren. Jonni S. Moore, who trained in Dr. Nowell's lab and is now a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school, described Dr. Nowell in an interview as a generous mentor who, unlike most senior scientists, insisted that she not include his name on her scientific publications, so that she would get full credit for her work. He was unusual in his support for women in science, she said, and in urging his trainees to spend more time with their families rather than practically living in the lab.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
For Dweezil Zappa, one name change was not enough. In April, Mr. Zappa, a guitarist and one of the four children of the rock composer Frank Zappa, changed the name of his project Zappa Plays Zappa a tribute to his father's music to Dweezil Zappa Plays Frank Zappa. Clunky, perhaps, but he said it was necessary to avoid legal conflict with his brother, Ahmet, who controls the Zappa intellectual property through a family trust. Now, after yet another legal tussle between the brothers, Dweezil is rechristening the show again. His next tour, starting July 1 in El Prado, N.M., will be called "50 Years of Frank: Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the Heck He Wants The Cease and Desist Tour." (Instead of "heck," the tour uses a vulgarity.) "We are incorporating the absurdity," Mr. Zappa said in an interview. The 50 years refers to the anniversary of "Freak Out!," the debut album from his father's band, the Mothers of Invention. The Zappa brothers, once musical partners, have clashed since the death of their mother, Gail, last year. The Zappa Family Trust now has two trustees, Ahmet and Diva Zappa; Dweezil and his sister Moon are beneficiaries. Frank Zappa died in 1993.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
Dr. Paul Polak in 2011. He advocated training the world's poorest people to earn livings by selling their neighbors basic necessities like clean water, charcoal, a ride in a donkey cart or enough electricity to charge a cellphone. Dr. Paul Polak, a former psychiatrist who became an entrepreneur and an inventor with a focus on helping the world's poorest people create profitable small businesses, died on Oct. 10 in Denver . He was 86. His daughter Kathryn Polak said the cause was heart failure. Dr. Polak lived in Golden, Colo. In an era when foreign aid is largely based on charity , Dr. Polak (pronounced POLE ack) instead advocated training people to earn livings by selling their neighbors basic necessities like clean water, charcoal, a ride in a donkey cart or enough electricity to charge a cellphone. Although the nonprofit companies he created did accept donations, their purpose was to help poor people make money. His target market was the 700 million people around the world surviving on less than 2 a day , and he traveled all over the world seeking them out. Before embarking on any project, said Dr. Polak would interview dozens of villagers. "I've interviewed over 3,000 families," he said in 2011. "I spend about six hours a day with each one walking with them through their fields, asking them what they had for breakfast, how far their kids walk to school, what they feed their dog, what all their sources of income are. This is not rocket science. Any businessman knows this: You've got to talk to your customers." His most successful project was in foot powered treadle pumps to pull water out of the ground. Beginning in 1982, he sold millions for about 25 each in Bangladesh and India, he said. The company he created for the project , iD E for International Development Enterprises, now operates in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The cost included the mechanism, which could be built in a local welding shop, and drilling the well. Dr. Polak's organization trained thousands of welders and drillers. The customers small farmers supplied the foot power and long bamboo handles for the pumps, the device resembling a crude elliptical traine r. To sell them, Dr. Polak ran a publicity campaign: a singing, dancing Bollywood style movie about a couple that could not marry because her father could not afford a dowry. But once he bought a pump and could grow vegetables in the dry season, when they fetch more money, love triumphed. "O.K., somewhat cheesy," Dr. Polak admitted, "but we bought a van with a video setup and took it to villages. A typical open air audience was 2,000 to 5,000 people." By contrast, he said, the World Bank was subsidizing expensive diesel pumps that drew enough water to cover 40 acres. They were handed out by government agents, who could be bribed, he said, and the richest landowner would thus become "a waterlord," who could drain the aquifer supplying everyone else's wells and then charge them for water. "It was very destructive to social justice," Dr. Polak said. Another franchise company he started in India was Spring Health, which uses battery power to convert salt into chlorine. The bleach is used to disinfect local water, which is then sold door to door in refillable containers. Franchisees get caps and shirts with distinctive blue raindrops, and street theater troupes help uneducated people make the connection between dirty water and diarrhea, which sickens millions of children every day and, when chronic, can leave them mentally and physically stunted. Dr. Polak wrote two books about his ideas and experiences, "Out of Poverty" in 2008 and, with Mal Warwick, "The Business Solution to Poverty" in 2013. In 2007, he helped arrange an exhibit, Design for the Other 90 Percent, at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in Manhattan. It displayed the kind of simple products he endorsed: drip irrigation systems, inexpensive eyeglasses and 20 gallon plastic water containers in the shape of a wheel that could be rolled instead of carried on the head Dr. Polak was born in Prachatice, in what was then Czechoslovakia, on Sept. 3, 1933, to Hugo and Marta (Baum) Polak His father was a fruit tree nurseryman, his mother a librarian. Six years later, fleeing the Nazis, the family ended up in the small town of Millgrove in Ontario with the help of a synagogue in nearby Hamilton. Their first home had no electricity or running water, and Paul and his brother attended a one room school. He later attended medical school at Western Ontario University and did his psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado. At a student party, he was brewing beer in a washing machine a money saving measure when he met Agnes M. Potter. They were engaged six days later, his daughter Kathryn said, and were married for 59 years. His other survivors include two other daughters, Amy Schefer and Laura Polak, and two grandchildren. Dr. Polak practiced psychiatry in the Denver area for 23 years and, for extra income, bought and managed small apartment buildings, drilled for oil and invented an oil well pump jack. By 1981, he could afford to think about giving up medicine and focusing on real estate. "But, instead of trying to become a Bill Gates or a Donald Trump, I came to the realization that, beyond having enough money to cover my basic living expenses, the marginal value of accumulating more wealth was not really useful," he told an interviewer this year. Shortly afterward, a friend working with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees invited him to Somalia, where he quizzed inhabitants of a resettlement camp about how they lived. Seeing that transportation for water and wood was a major problem, he worked with local blacksmiths to repurpose parts scavenged from derelict cars. "We built 500 donkey carts and sold them to the refugees for 450 each," he said. The commission's model, however, was charity, "so we had to fight the establishment," he said. But many refugees had connections from whom they could borrow money, repaying the loans by carrying goods for others. Earlier this year, Dr. Polak described a new project he was working on: carbonizing mesquite chips and bamboo in motorized kilns made from chains of 55 gallon drums to see which made the best charcoal. He hoped to form a partnership with Mahindra, an Indian car and tractor maker, to encourage using renewable invasive plants instead of coal in rural stoves. "We're going to keep the whole system under 25,000," said Stephan Reckie, who said Dr. Polak had made him the successor chief executive of Transform Energy, the company pursing the project. "It's quicker than making charcoal the traditional way. We capture the off gasses and reuse them, and we're looking at a lot of employment for local people."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
OAKLAND, Calif. When it selected Intel to help build a 500 million supercomputer last year, the Energy Department bet that computer chips made in the United States could help counter a technology challenge from China. Officials at the department's Argonne National Laboratory predicted that the machine, called Aurora and scheduled to be installed at facilities near Chicago in 2021, would be the first U.S. system to reach a technical pinnacle known as exascale computing. Intel pledged to supply three kinds of chips for the system from its factories in Oregon, Arizona and New Mexico. But a technology delay by the Silicon Valley giant has thrown a wrench into that plan, the latest sign of headwinds facing government and industry efforts to reverse America's dependence on foreign made semiconductors. It was also an indication of the challenges ahead for U.S. hopes to regain a lead in critical semiconductor manufacturing technology. Intel, which supplies electronic brains for most personal computers and web services, has long driven miniaturization advances that make electronic devices smaller, faster and cheaper. But Robert Swan, its chief executive, warned last month that the next production advance would be 12 months late and suggested that some chips for Aurora might be made outside Intel factories. Intel's problems make it close to impossible that Aurora will be installed on schedule, researchers and analysts said. And shifting a key component to foreign factories would undermine company and government hopes of an all American design. "That is part of the story they were trying to sell," said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee who tracks supercomputer installations around the world. "Now they stumbled." Argonne and Energy Department officials remain committed to the project and "are in discussions with Intel to update the delivery plan for Aurora," the Argonne lab said in a statement. The partners are "actively working to mitigate any potential impacts to the schedule," Intel said in a separate statement. The company was already struggling to rebound from a several year delay in perfecting a new manufacturing process that was finally delivered last year. That lag allowed technology leadership to pass to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung Electronics, which build chips designed by other companies. "What's different is we're going to be pretty pragmatic about if and when we should be making stuff inside" and turn to external factories when it makes the most sense, Mr. Swan told analysts. Intel's disclosures caused its stock market value to drop by close to 50 billion. They were also bad news for Argonne. Government labs and other organizations have long used supercomputers for tasks like breaking foreign communications codes, modeling weather changes and designing drugs. Aurora was viewed as the lead U.S. entry in the race to build exascale systems, capable of a quintillion calculations a second roughly a 50 fold increase over existing supercomputers. Aurora, for example, is expected to allow feats like mapping all the connections in the human brain, potentially leading to cures for traumatic brain injury or Alzheimer's disease, Argonne officials said. Much of Aurora's promised speed comes from Ponte Vecchio, the name for an unusual bundle of chips meant to be the first to exploit Intel's now delayed production process. Mr. Swan indicated that foundries might now produce the key component of that product, with delivery pushed to late 2021 or early 2022. Intel had disappointed the lab in 2018 by canceling Xeon Phi, a chip that would have powered an earlier version of Aurora. Despite that, Rick Stevens, an Argonne associate laboratory director, said last year that taking risks on new technology like Ponte Vecchio was necessary to push computing's frontiers. In a sign of continuing collaboration, Argonne said on Wednesday that Intel was one of 10 corporate partners for a research center to study quantum technology as part of a new Energy Department effort. For decades, Intel seemed an extremely safe bet to help deliver chip advances, using its production prowess to develop microprocessors used in the majority of supercomputers today. But foreign competition is now stiff. Mr. Dongarra predicted that China would field an exascale machine first, with three expected machines, including one that is slated to arrive as early as this year. The Energy Department has funded two other exascale systems scheduled to be installed in 2022, after Aurora. "There is a lot of national pride and politics that goes into these systems there always has been," said Karl Freund, an analyst at Moor Insights Strategy. Where key chips are made, especially the dependence on foundries in Taiwan and South Korea, has become a political issue in the United States. TSMC, in particular, dominates production of chips for applications like smartphones, 5G wireless communications, and programmable chips frequently used in aircraft and weapon systems. There are some geopolitical risks to depending on chip manufacturing in Taiwan. Besides the theoretical possibility that shipments from Taiwan could be halted by earthquakes or actions by China, government officials fear sabotage or software attacks on foreign built components. Congress reached rare bipartisan accord this summer on plans to spur more domestic chip manufacturing, though funding of as much as 25 billion may not be considered until next year. Proposed legislation includes grants of up to 3 billion for new U.S. chip foundries, with TSMC's recent proposal for an Arizona factory a likely candidate. The foundries are playing a bigger role in supercomputers for several reasons. One is the success of chip designers that years ago dispensed with owning factories. An Intel rival, Advanced Micro Devices, for example, plans to use TSMC to make chips for the other two planned exascale systems, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The foundry also made chips for Fugaku, a Japanese system that recently took the world speed crown. Intel's corporate identity has long been linked to Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by one of Intel's founders about how quickly manufacturers pack more transistors on each piece of silicon to allow chips to do more at lower cost. But TSMC seems to be extending its new lead. The company says it has now shipped one billion chips with a production process introduced in April 2018, more than a year before Intel's comparable technology. This year it delivered yet another process, which is expected to create chips for Apple's next iPhone. TSMC "executes like crazy," said Andrew Feldman, a Silicon Valley veteran who heads the chip start up Cerebras Systems, which uses the foundry. By contrast, Intel's latest technology delay "was an enormous surprise," he said. Mr. Swan gave little explanation last month for the delay except that the new production process yielded too few working chips. The company followed with a reorganization that removed a senior executive who oversaw manufacturing technology.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
What is the holiday season without a visit from the Sugarplum Fairy? Because of concerns about the continuing threat of the coronavirus pandemic, New York City Ballet is canceling both its fall season and its popular holiday run of "The Nutcracker," the company said on Thursday. The cancellation of "The Nutcracker" eliminates a major source of funding for the company as well as an annual event that for many has become emblematic of Christmastime in New York. City Ballet has pushed its return, tentatively, to January 2021. The company said it was following the advice of government officials and medical professionals in determining that it would not be safe for large groups of people to gather in a theater or for artists to interact in close quarters through the end of the year. (Lincoln Center also announced on Thursday that it was canceling all fall events. The David H. Koch Theater, where the company performs, is on the Lincoln Center campus but is city owned and operated independently by City Ballet.) This is the first year that City Ballet will be without "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker" since it had its premiere in 1954. It is by far the company's most lucrative production; last year it brought in more than 15.3 million in ticket sales out of about 35 million in total. The loss will put even more financial strain on the company, which is looking at a budget deficit of about 8 million for this fiscal year and has said it is planning to take more out of its endowment than normal to help the company get through this live performance drought. The company has yet to determine to what extent its dancers and other employees will be paid during this extended hiatus, said Jonathan Stafford, City Ballet's artistic director. He anticipates that the company will begin negotiating with the related unions soon. "The Nutcracker," which is typically performed 47 times in one holiday season, has its own distinctive concerns about social distancing because of the number of people involved. The production includes City Ballet's roster of more than 150 dancers and musicians, 40 stagehands and more than 125 students from the School of American Ballet; the children play the leads of Marie and the Prince, as well as excited partygoers at the Christmas Eve gathering in the first act and, among others, the toy soldiers in their feathered hats. Although company members do not start preparing for "The Nutcracker" until November, the students audition in late September. With the precautions that are likely to be in place in early fall, it would be difficult to start rehearsals on time, Mr. Stafford said. The show with its extra sets and scenery that moves on and off the stage takes more people than usual to produce. "It became apparent that there would be no way to pull this production together safely," Mr. Stafford said. Other ballet companies across the country will have to make their own decisions on whether to cancel their "Nutcracker" performances; the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago has already decided to cancel its production. Even when theaters are given the green light to open in the fourth and final phase of the city's reopening plan, there will likely be social distancing protocols in place, meaning that the theater might only be allowed to sell about 20 percent of seats for its performances, said Katherine E. Brown, the company's executive director. For City Ballet, that situation would be "economically impossible," she said. When City Ballet announced in March that it was canceling its spring season, the hope was that the dancers would all be able to return for the fall season, slated to start on Sept. 22. With that canceled, commissions by the choreographers Sidra Bell and Andrea Miller, who were scheduled to premiere their first works for City Ballet at the fall fashion gala, will be pushed back to fall 2021. Last year, the company's fall season generated more than 4 million in ticket sales, and the fall fashion gala raised more than 2.5 million. As it did during what would have been the spring season, the company plans to post recorded performances online in fall to give regular audience members their dance fix. City Ballet is looking into ways to stream a previous production of "The Nutcracker" and hold its fall gala online. Looking forward to 2021, City Ballet hopes to be back onstage for a six week season starting on Jan. 19. But Mr. Stafford said he wanted to get the company back in the studio as soon as it was safe, which will likely mean staggered rehearsals with a small subset of dancers in a room at a time. Because of social distancing guidelines, the season will probably feature less partnering and touching among dancers, Mr. Stafford said. And the schedule means that the dancers will start rehearsing for the winter season much earlier than normal. He added, "We'd potentially be in a situation where we would have the most rehearsed ballets that we have ever seen."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
This article is part of our latest special report on Design, which is about getting personal with customization. Customization has always been part of home furnishings. Urged on by their clients, interior designers seek out luxurious fabrics and collaborate with workshops to design special pieces. And even mass market items like Crate Barrel sofas come with size, finish and upholstery options. But in almost all situations, the more personalized the piece, the more you will have to pay, and the waiting time for made to order is months. It doesn't have to be that way. A new wave of e commerce furniture companies, including Inside Weather, The Inside, Interior Define and Benchmade Modern, are promoting speedy customization for all. To buy a sofa in Inside Weather's online store, shoppers choose among a dozen arm styles, including fat upholstered perches and grooved timber slabs; upholstery options like woven linen and polyester fabrics and vegan leathers; and details like tufting and stitching. If a credenza is wanted, shoppers can pick the finish for the top and sides, one of more than a hundred ornamental door patterns, and their favorite pulls and legs. The sofas start at 898, and small credenzas begin at 518 a substantial savings over traditional custom furniture, which can run into five figures. These are shipped (from California) typically within a couple of weeks and in some cases just a few days. "In apparel, customization has moved downstream and become more and more accessible," said Ben Parsa, the chief executive of Inside Weather, which began in 2018. He wants to do the same for household products. "Being able to visualize tens, and soon hundreds, of millions of combinations of furniture from the comfort of your home is something that we think has tremendous mass appeal." "The people who are shopping online have spent years on social media saving gorgeous interiors, and they have a sense of what they're looking for," said Britt Bunn, a co founder of The Inside. "We're excited to be able to make those visions come true." As with so many other industries, technology has changed furniture production. On the front end, digital tools and apps allow companies to reach consumers, no showrooms required, and provide real time visualizations of what custom pieces will look like. Interior Define even offers an augmented reality smartphone app that inserts the prospective piece into an image of your living room. Behind the scenes, the companies hold essentially no inventory and rely on computer controlled machines to do much of the work. At Inside Weather, a sofa is merely raw lumber until a customer places an order. When this is done, a CNC machine cuts the necessary wood components at the company's facility in Rancho Cordova, Calif. When someone orders a credenza, a flatbed digital printer applies patterns to panels. "Frankly, we couldn't have done this at all 15 years ago," Mr. Parsa said, "and it would have been significantly more cost prohibitive even five years ago." Skyline's digital textile printer turns out upholstery fabric on demand. "Previous to that, if you wanted to do a custom textile, it took 90 days, and you had to buy a minimum of 2,000 to 3,000 yards," said Meganne Wecker, the company's president. Now Skyline can print just enough fabric to cover a single chair, in any pattern. The company manufactures many pieces for other retailers, including The Inside, but also has its own consumer facing brand, Cloth Company. In a recent partnership with One Kings Lane, Cloth Company created Palette, an online service that allows shoppers to play with the color and scale of their patterns, even changing elements within them. Online furniture customization "is a challenge to a company like West Elm or Ikea, which does carry a lot of inventory," said Patricia Johnson, the graduate program director for furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design. "It gives a populist element to design it's more democratic which I think is never a bad thing." Less appealing, however, is that many of the pieces offered by new online companies venture into knockoffs. "A lot of them are derivative or copies of things," Ms. Johnson said. Inside Weather's Vita lounge chair ( 473) looks almost exactly like the Shell Chair ( 3,865) designed by Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen Son in 1963. But imitation is hardly a deterrent, certainly not at these prices. Jessica Stambaugh, an interior designer who splits her time between Nashville and New York, has purchased upholstered beds, benches and ottomans from The Inside. "I've recommended them to clients and friends on a regular basis," she said, adding that the products resemble the custom pieces she creates with expensive fabrics from design centers. Alex Burrow, the head of home design at Zeus Living, a San Francisco based start up for furnished rental homes across the country, likes that Inside Weather products can be altered to meet the particular aesthetics of different regions. "Having that baseline foundation of a good silhouette and a good design, and then being able to customize it with fabric, wood grain, stitching and things like that makes it a lot easier," she said. Cultivating trust remains a hurdle for digital retailers, however. Ordering a sofa without flopping down on a sample can feel like a roll of the dice. To help ease shopper anxiety, some online furniture companies are opening traditional showrooms, much as Casper has done with its mattress stores. When Interior Define began in 2014, it had a single showroom in Chicago. But after finding that shoppers were more likely to buy furniture they could actually touch, it opened outposts in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Austin, Texas.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Contestants mingle outside the Winter Garden Theater for the Oct. 24 costume competition at "Beetlejuice." Inside an upscale corporate office building in Midtown Manhattan, Amaryllis Ruiz, a legal assistant, watched the clock strike 5 p.m. She grabbed her electric green wig and a smattering of neon cockroaches, dashed to the office bathroom and got to work. She slipped into a striped, black and white '50s pinup dress , lined her eyes with dark circles, covered her mouth with lipstick. Then the wig, a blunt bob with bangs Ruiz trimmed herself. The cockroaches were the piece de resistance: fake craft store bugs, painted a fluorescent chartreuse, sprinkled in her hair and down her dress and through her fingers. With her " Handbook for the Recently Deceased " in tow illuminated with LED lights that Ruiz had buried within the pages she was off across town, toward "Beetlejuice" on Broadway. There are always a handful of Lydias, contestants who go full goth in homage to the teenage antihero's all black vibe. Sometimes the Maitlands appear a Barbara or an Adam, the show's newly deceased yet not so scary couple, demure and suburban in an unassuming green dress or flannel. One winner's body was painted entirely in a shimmery teal, with a red gown and pageant sash identifying her as Miss Argentina, the Netherworld's regretful receptionist. And then, up Ruiz's alley, are the many, many Beetlejuices: in striped suits and shirts and skirts, faces pale and ghostly, with hair both green (the musical) and white (the 1988 movie). There are a few ground rules: Your costume has to fit in your seat. (Sorry, sandworms.) No weapons, functional or otherwise, are allowed. (Sorry, musket wielding shrunken heads.) And stick as close to the musical as you can. Ruiz had those boxes checked, but she was nervous leaving the office ghoulish makeup tends to stick out. She knew she'd be in the clear once she hit Times Square, but the commute was a challenge. Ruiz had skipped the crosstown bus in favor of a taxi "These bugs look pretty cool," she thought, "and I don't want to startle anyone" but rush hour traffic, of course, is Manhattan's most frightening Halloween scare of all. "I was just so happy to be around other people who love the musical as much as I did," Ruiz said. "Because in normal life, you have a few people that you can share some of your passions with especially when they're very specific." Taylor Rooker, a 21 year old Beetlejuice from Orlando, took several hours and an X acto knife to create her homemade light up sign for the Oct. 24 contest. "I flew at 2 a.m. this morning, and I'm flying out at 6 a.m. tomorrow, specifically for this," she said. "My family thinks I'm insane." While "Beetlejuice" opened to mixed reviews, it has been building at the box office, with social media and special engagement efforts part of the strategy. Fan art handed to the cast at the stage door lines the stairwell backstage. Online fans are especially pervasive particularly on TikTok, where short videos of teenagers lip syncing to the soundtrack have become a far reaching meme. Cultish Broadway fan bases are nothing new. But costumed patrons in the seats each night? "This is blowing me over," said William Ivey Long, the costume designer to whom fans have been (perhaps unwittingly) paying homage. "I've never seen anything like it. " Every once in a while, through his decades designing 75 Broadway shows, Long has spotted an audience member in costume: Little girls in sparkling tiaras for "Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella," a zipper necked "Young Frankenstein" or two. But not like the fan response at "Beetlejuice," he said. "No, I must say, this is something." He's still looking for some of the Beetlejuices to up their game. The ghosts with the most he's seen so far just aren't looking quite dead enough. His suggestion: "Buy a Beetlejuice suit and go to town. Customize it. Try to think of what the earth has done." The costume contest extends beyond the Winter Garden. Fans who can't make it in person can enter the online competition: Sara Poskonka, a body painter from New Jersey, went full aquamarine as Miss Argentina. The winner of the online contest will be announced on Halloween. Each week's in the flesh champions, on the other hand, find out at the Thursday night intermission. At curtain call, after the actors take their bows, the winner is brought onstage and then escorted behind the scenes for a photo with the cast. Ruiz didn't enter the contest thinking she would win which is why the shock of the cast welcoming her onstage, victorious, rendered her silent for a good three minutes. "We got this gem of a picture, and they saw it and they said, 'You look like you're part of the cast,'" Ruiz said. "And I almost absolutely melted on the floor."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
Rappers, your streaming numbers may be gigantic, but when it comes to the Billboard album chart they are no match for an autographed Taylor Swift CD placed on the counter of an indie record store. Swift's latest album, "Folklore," is No. 1 for a fourth time with the equivalent of 101,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen Music. It is the first album by a woman to spend its debut month in the top spot since Adele's "25" at the end of 2015. In its fourth week out, "Folklore" had relatively modest streaming numbers 70 million clicks that were easily bested by Pop Smoke's "Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon" (123 million) and Juice WRLD's "Legends Never Die" (117 million), two posthumous albums by young rap stars. But "Folklore" trounced those albums with its sales as a complete package, which carry much greater weight in Billboard's chart formula. "Folklore" had 46,000 sales as a full album, while "Shoot for the Stars" had just 2,000 and landed at No. 2, and "Legends Never Die" sold 3,000 copies and is No. 3 (the deciding factor there was streaming numbers).	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
After buying Whole Foods in 2017, Amazon made a couple of bold pronouncements about lowering prices at the grocery chain. It made a third this week, saying that it was offering lower prices on hundreds of items, especially fresh produce, without going into much detail. It is also giving more special discounts to people signed up for Prime, the company's membership service. "We will continue to focus on both lowering prices and bringing customers the quality they trust," John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market, said in an announcement. But we wanted to see for ourselves if a typical grocery bill would change much. To test the new prices, we selected a baker's dozen of the types of items we buy all the time, not necessarily the fresh produce that would be the focus of the price changes. Eggs? Check. Milk? Check. Beer? How could we go without? We bought those groceries on Tuesday at the Whole Foods across the street from Bryant Park in Manhattan. Then, we bought the same ones at the same store on Wednesday, after the price cuts went into effect. We did not apply a Prime membership to either purchase.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE? (2019) Rent or buy on Amazon, FandangoNOW, Google Play, iTunes and Vudu. This documentary weaves four stories together to paint a portrait of the troubles plaguing African Americans in the South, mainly in New Orleans. There's a teenager teaching his younger brother how to defend himself as shootings become a regular occurrence; a bar owner struggling to keep her business afloat; a group called the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, which protests police violence against young black men, and a chief with the Mardi Gras Indians who is working to keep the tribes' cultural heritage alive. Ben Kenigsberg named the movie a Critic's Pick in his review for The Times. "Although the people in the film may have been let down by institutions," he wrote, "they draw strength from one another." TERRACE HOUSE: TOKYO 2019 2020 Stream on Netflix. If you're searching for a quiet escape from coronavirus news, this Japanese reality series will do the trick. Back for Part 3, the show follows six young men and women living in a glamorous house in Tokyo. In the first episode, Haruka tells Peppe whether or not she will take him as her beau, and Ruka shares some personal news.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
The top Massachusetts court unanimously ruled on Monday that a judge can require defendants with substance use disorders to remain drug free as a condition of probation and send them to jail if they relapse. The case, which challenged a requirement routinely imposed by judges across the country, had been closely watched by prosecutors, drug courts and addiction medicine specialists. For many, it represented a debate over the nature of addiction itself. The defense argued that addiction is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that compromises an individual's ability to abstain. The prosecution maintained that addiction varies in intensity and that many individuals have the ability to overcome it and can be influenced by institutional penalties and rewards, like incarceration or a cleared criminal record. While acknowledging the numerous experts who weighed in on each side, the seven justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declined to take a stance in the debate. Instead, they said, the defendant in the case should have raised the issue when her probation condition was first imposed, when it could have been fully argued before a trial judge. Justice David A. Lowy wrote that a judge has the power and discretion to determine probation requirements tailored to an individual and that further probation's twin goals: rehabilitation and public safety. Judges, he said, "stand on the front lines of the opioid epidemic" and are "faced with difficult decisions that are especially unpalatable." The challenge was brought by Julie A. Eldred, now 30, who had been convicted of larceny for stealing jewelry to support her heroin habit. In August 2016, a district judge gave her a year's probation, facing up to a 30 month sentence for violating conditions. The judge ordered her to begin outpatient treatment and remain drug free. Ms. Eldred enrolled in a program and began taking Suboxone, a medication that can reduce cravings and symptoms of withdrawal. Shortly afterward, she relapsed and, she said, returned to her doctor for help, asking for a stronger dose of Suboxone. Eleven days after her probation began, Ms. Eldred tested positive for fentanyl. The judge ordered her to go to inpatient treatment, but no placement could immediately be found. What should be done with her? It was the beginning of Labor Day weekend, and Ms. Eldred's parents were out of town. "The judge was faced with either releasing the defendant and risking that she would suffer an overdose and die or holding her in custody until a placement at an inpatient treatment facility became available," Justice Lowy wrote, in the decision handed down Monday. During the 10 days she was in a medium security prison, Ms. Eldred went through withdrawal. Suboxone was not prescribed. Lisa Newman Polk, one of Ms. Eldred's lawyers, called Monday's decision a "massive blow" and said that the court had missed an opportunity to incorporate mainstream medical opinion about addiction. She said the court had "rubber stamped the status quo, dysfunctional way in which our criminal justice system treats people suffering from addiction." Ms. Eldred's lawyers had argued that sending someone with a severe substance use disorder to jail for relapsing amounted to cruel and unusual punishment that she had been sanctioned for her illness. The Massachusetts attorney general's office disagreed, saying that many successful treatment models rely on a person's ability to abstain. Because Ms. Eldred committed a crime to support her drug habit and her addiction was active, prosecutors said, the judge also had an obligation to protect the public from the likelihood that she might commit another crime. "We are pleased the Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a court's ability to take an individualized approach to probation that encourages recovery and rehabilitation to help probationers avoid further incarceration," said a spokeswoman for Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general. But Fiona Doherty, a clinical professor of law at Yale Law School and an expert on probation, said that because the court did not take a position on addiction, the case was only a qualified win for the prosecution, confined to Ms. Eldred's circumstances and timing. "The impact of substance use disorder and a defendant's ability to prevent relapse is still open," she said. "There is lots of room for lawyers and defendants to remount a challenge to the same drug free condition. They can object at the time the condition is imposed and seek a full hearing on the science."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
Quarters operates two co living projects in Manhattan, including this building in the East Village. New Yorkers have long shared apartments in order to afford the city's famously high rents. This, of course, often entails hunting down an apartment with a real estate agent and paying a broker's fee, plus a hefty deposit then furnishing the place, lining up roommates and getting electricity and internet service up and running. For several years, co living companies have been popping up, providing a fast, streamlined alternative in the form of fully furnished, move in ready rooms in shared apartments. Lately the trickle of co living activity has become a torrent. Homegrown companies are expanding into new neighborhoods. Brands that have built up their businesses elsewhere are planting their flags here. And even traditional real estate companies are getting into the act. "No one wants to be left behind," said Matthew Polci, a managing director at Mission Capital Advisors, which has been financing an increasing number of co living projects. Although there are differences among co living companies some focus on communal life with comfy lounges and social activities, others emphasize getting out into the neighborhood all do essentially the same things: trick out rooms, hook up utilities, hire housekeepers to clean and maybe replenish toiletries, match up roommates and charge a monthly rent that covers all of the above. They also offer wiggle room in the lease term. But as more co living companies muscle their way into New York and competition among them heats up some are upping the ante. They are jazzing up the decor in their buildings. They are giving some rooms private bathrooms and adding full fledged studios and one bedroom apartments so a resident can graduate from a shared apartment to his or her very own place. And they are not only retrofitting apartments in existing small and medium size buildings but also working with developers to add co living to new large scale projects or even planning their own buildings from scratch. Generally, the all inclusive rent for a co living room starts at around 1,300 and can run well over 2,000 for a room with an en suite bath not unreasonable, perhaps, considering all that's covered in the monthly fee, but not exactly low budget. Still, for those moving to New York for the first time, or for a finite period, the arrangement can be a boon. It certainly has been for Andrew Athanasiadis, a Chicago native. He had two weeks to find a place to live here after landing a job at Cushman Wakefield, but he didn't know New York well and was loath to get locked into a long term lease for fear he'd end up in a neighborhood he didn't like. A Chicago friend had mentioned the co living company Quarters, which was founded in Berlin and had opened a project in Mr. Athanasiadis's hometown. Quarters, he learned, also operates two locations in Manhattan (and has three more in the works, in Brooklyn). A bedroom was available in a three bedroom, one bath apartment in the company's building in the East Village and he signed a six month lease at a rate of 1,700. He was grateful not to have to "buy all new everything" and figured he could move once he got his bearings. But he found he liked the social activities in the building, which include weekly happy hours, as well as outings that he and other residents planned on their own, such as a trip to the Hamptons over the summer. The building provided an instant social network. And its location meant an easy commute to work. Recently he renewed his lease, locking in a discounted rate of 1,600 because he signed for another six months. Mr. Athanasiadis, who is 30, said that eventually he will want his own place. For now, he added, "as long as the price is right I see no reason to move." Although Mr. Athanasiadis's building is a six story brick apartment house from the 1920s that was retrofitted for co living, Simon Baron Development's Alta rental tower, which opened in 2018 in Long Island City, devoted the second through the 16th of its 43 floors to co living from the start. The co living operator Ollie advised on the layouts of the 169 shared suites on those floors and now manages them. The model co living apartment is 918 square feet the size of a one bedroom one bath apartment on the regular upper floors of the building. By eliminating the living room, Ollie managed to fit in three modestly sized bedrooms, two baths and a kitchen. And perhaps borrowing a page from the micro unit trend, the company outfitted the bedrooms with Murphy beds and multifunctional furniture so they could each feel like a living room during the day. While Alta combines co living and conventional apartments in a single building, the Collective, a London based company, is experimenting with co living/hotel hybrids. While such projects may point in a plush direction for co living, there are also plans for projects dedicated to those of more modest means the 21st century equivalent, perhaps, of 19th century boardinghouses and 20th century single room occupancy hotels. The city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development recently held a competition eliciting proposals for co living projects that would become part of the city's affordable housing efforts. In October the agency announced that it had chosen three "shared housing" projects to be constructed over the next few years. The largest of these, in East Harlem, will be developed by Common working with L M Development Partners and LIHC Investment Group, an affordable housing owner. Two thirds of the units in the project will go to tenants earning 50, 80 and 120 percent of city's area median income. The lowest rent: around 800.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
"Black Panther" and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" were the big winners Sunday night at a SAG Awards ceremony that spread the bounty among several films and television shows. Chadwick Boseman, speaking for the "Black Panther" cast, which took the SAG equivalent of best picture, said that he was often asked if he expected the Marvel superhero film to be such a blockbuster. (It has earned 1.3 billion globally.) He said the Nina Simone song "To be Young, Gifted and Black" came to mind as he thought about the lack of diversity in most Hollywood films. "We know what it's like to be told there's not a screen for you to be featured on," he continued. But "Black Panther," he said, meant that "we could be full human beings in the roles that we were playing, that we could create a world that could exemplify a world we wanted to see." "Mrs. Maisel" swept the comedy honors, including outstanding comedy series ensemble, and best comedy actress and actor for Rachel Brosnahan, who plays the title character, and Tony Shalhoub, who plays her father. "This Is Us," the NBC melodrama, took best drama series ensemble. There were few overtly political moments Sunday evening, which more often focused on guild issues. Patricia Arquette, named best actress in a mini series for "Escape at Dannemora," thanked Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's 2016 election interference, as she left the stage. But she drew much more applause from fellow union members when she called out production companies that didn't pay performers overtime.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
LOUISVILLE, Ohio The countryside in eastern Ohio is marked by rusting tanks that stand in open fields and along the edges of family timber patches, like graveyard headstones for an era of energy riches that most people here thought had passed. Petroleum from this region once supplied John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil refineries in Cleveland, 70 miles to the north. More than 6,500 conventional oil and gas wells have been drilled here in Stark County over the decades, according to state records; most no longer yield enough fuel to market. But natural gas buried in shale thousands of feet below the surface is attracting more than 1 billion in private investment and rapidly reviving the area as an energy producer. To prepare, market and transport the natural gas, companies are building an expansive network of regional field offices, processing plants and other infrastructure. For example, the Chesapeake Energy Corporation, which is based in Oklahoma City and is the largest developer of the shale formation, known as the Utica Shale, is building a field office on a 291 acre site here that it bought here last year for 7.11 million. The project's centerpiece is a five story, 85,000 square foot office tower that is scheduled to be completed early next year. The company is also building a 55,000 square foot receiving and maintenance building and a 6,000 square foot repair shop. Chesapeake's development plan, approved last year by this city of 9,200 residents, also calls for a second phase of construction to build a rail spur and eight storage silos to move sand from rail cars to trucks. Thomas Ault, Louisville's city manager, estimated that the first three buildings under construction would cost 22 million to 24 million. Chesapeake employs 550 people in eastern Ohio, according to company records: Mr. Ault said that if Chesapeake moved a good portion of them into the field office, the company would become Louisville's second largest employer next to the city's public schools, which have 618 teachers and staff members. "We haven't had any private development around here to compare to this in a long time," Mr. Ault said. Executives with Chesapeake declined to be interviewed. In public statements, though, energy industry executives have said drilling and production are being impeded by a shortage of processing plants and pipelines. Chesapeake and other leading production and processing companies are attacking that problem with an infrastructure development program never seen here, said Thomas E. Stewart, executive vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association. "Really, there is nothing in Ohio's drilling and processing history to compare to what's going on now," Mr. Stewart said. "It's transformational." Ohio remains a comparatively small producer 4.8 million barrels of oil and 78 billion cubic feet of gas in 2011 ranking it 18th in oil and 20th in natural gas production among the states, according to federal figures. Two years ago, though, the first wells penetrated the Utica Shale. Since then, according to the latest weekly tally by Ohio's Natural Resources Department, 255 of the 548 Utica wells that received permits have been drilled and completed, and 74 are producing natural gas. Chesapeake Energy and other companies are building offices, pipelines and processing facilities to serve wells in several Ohio counties. Companies are using the process of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, which pumps a mixture of sand, water and chemicals at extremely high pressure down a well to fracture the rock and release the gas. A completed Utica well, which dives vertically 6,000 to 10,000 feet and then travels horizontally through the shale for roughly the same distance, costs 6 million to 10 million, according to industry reports. With all this energy related construction, industry executives believe that Ohio will produce two billion to three billion cubic feet of processed gas daily within the decade. Even so, fracking has attracted some opposition in eastern Ohio, and the process has raised questions about water contamination and air pollution that are under investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Utica Shale yields "dry" natural gas, which is nearly pure methane and so plentiful in the United States that the market price, just more than 3 per thousand cubic feet, is near a record low. The shale also contains more valuable "wet gas," which is methane permeated with ethane, propane, pentane and butane that can be separated and used to manufacture chemicals, plastics, and liquid fuels like gasoline. The abundance of natural gas in the United States also drove prices lower last year for the four liquid compounds. But with a price range of 30 to 95 a barrel, depending on the product, processing and marketing wet gas can be very profitable. A Utica well in Belmont County, developed by Gulfport Energy, last year produced 21 million cubic feet a day of natural gas, in addition to 945 barrels a day of ethane, propane, butane and other liquids. Tim Carr, a professor of energy at West Virginia University, estimated in January that at 3 per thousand cubic feet of gas and 50 for each barrel of liquids, the well generated more than 100,000 a day in revenue. Such results have stirred the strong exploration activity in Ohio, where 28 drilling rigs are in operation, according to Baker Hughes, the oil field services company, which tracks rig operations nationally. East of Louisville, in Mahoning County, NiSource Inc.'s Midstream and Minerals Group is working with an affiliate of Hilcorp Energy Company to build a 300 million gas gathering system and processing plant in Springfield Township. The plant purifies and cools the gas to minus 150 degrees Fahrenheit, turning it into a liquid that can be separated. Constructed on a 95 acre parcel, the cryogenic plant will process 200 million cubic feet of gas daily when it is completed later this year. Three counties south, in Harrison County, Mark West Energy Partners, a Denver based company, is working with the Energy and Minerals Group to build a processing plant near Cadiz, according to company reports. The plant expects to process 385 million cubic feet of gas daily. A second plant, near Summerfield in Noble County, also will process 400 million cubic feet of gas and will start operations this year. Exterran, a Houston based company, last year completed a 13 million, 65,000 square foot office and fabricating plant in Youngstown, about 50 miles northeast of Louisville, to manufacture gas processing equipment. Chesapeake's big move in Ohio by the end of 2012 it had drilled 184 Utica wells came amid sales of some of its reserves in Ohio to raise cash, as well as administrative turmoil that last year engulfed its home office in Oklahoma. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company and its chief executive, Aubrey McClendon, over a perk that granted him a share in each of the company's gas wells. Chesapeake conducted an internal inquiry into the well program and Mr. McClendon's finances and found no "intentional" wrongdoing by the executive. Mr. McClendon is set to retire on April 1. At the close of 2012, Chesapeake Energy's holdings in eastern Ohio included 45 producing gas wells in the Utica Shale, 47 wells awaiting pipelines and 92 wells that were not yet complete. Production from those wells, and dozens more the company says it intends to develop, will make it the largest customer for a 900 million network of pipelines and processing plants under development by EV Energy Partners, Access Midstream and M3 Midstream/Momentum. The first of the three processing plants planned for the project, which is capable of processing 600 million cubic feet of gas daily, is under construction near Kensington in Columbiana County. It is scheduled to be completed in early summer. Construction of a second plant, to store wet gas, will start in Harrison County in the spring. A third plant, with capacity to process 200 million cubic feet of gas daily, will start later this year in Carroll County, and production is scheduled to start in 2014.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
Never underestimate the power of love and the mind blowing kindness of a by the book preacher to lead a man to salvation. At least, that's the message of "Burden," the third recent movie (after last year's "Best of Enemies" and "Skin" a few months later) to feature a Klan member being coaxed into the light. This time, the movie's flawed hero is the real life Mike Burden (Garrett Hedlund), an uneducated repo man in small town South Carolina. The year is 1996, and Mike and his brothers in hate have repurposed a crumbling movie theater as the Redneck Shop and K.K.K. Museum, complete with Confederate flag. Outside, the Reverend David Kennedy (an affecting Forest Whitaker) and his flock are staging peaceful protests against the opening of this abomination. They don't know that Mike will soon mount a roof and train his sniper rifle on the Reverend's head.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
With a reputation as a happy mix of surfers, resident hippies, incognito celebrities and carefree intelligentsia, all living in a relatively small community on a stretch of pristine Pacific with perfect surf breaks, Malibu has long held a cachet as a particularly alluring beachside enclave. But until recently, there weren't many tasteful lodging options for visitors who weren't either in possession of a mansion (Hard Rock co founder Peter Morton reportedly just sold his Richard Meier modernist compound for a mere 110 million) or who wanted more than just a bare bones motel room. Most visitors like me would just head there for the day and then have to go back to Los Angeles after sunset. And that's why the opening of three new properties in this old school surf boho destination was so striking to see. Malibu has welcomed the Surfrider Malibu, the Native Hotel and the Nobu Ryokan Malibu, not to mention a complete interior renovation of the 1989 Malibu Beach Inn, one of the first luxury lodgings in the community. And with the debut of a members only Soho House outpost, Little Beach House Malibu, the area also has new pull for creatives and Hollywood types who want to brainstorm away from Los Angeles. Now, after a day of surfing, I too planned to sleep over for a long weekend. Local observers say the new additions to the lodging scene embrace the fact that a diverse group of travelers finds the "Bu," as Malibu is affectionately called by surfers, compelling. The Surfrider Malibu has actually been around since the 1950s, a thin walled motel to bed down after a post surf session or a show at next door's Crazy Horse Saloon, a rock hangout , but nonetheless on a prime spot on the Pacific Coast Highway. Now, after a three year plus renovation by its owners, Matthew Goodwin and Emma Crowther, and their partner Alessandro Zampedri, the Surfrider Malibu has been transformed into a boutique hotel with the kind of barefoot cool vibe that the destination seemed to crave. The property opens into a large communal lobby full of coffee table books and framed art, a long wood table and wicker lamps hanging from the ceiling. "In The Surfrider we set out to create the ultimate California beach house ," Ms. Crowther said, "a place for travelers rather than tourists, for the person seeking the local experience, a taste of the elusive California dream." As I was in a ground floor unit I didn't have a full Pacific view like the rooms above me. But I did spend most of my time at the rooftop restaurant and bar drinking a fresh smoothie and marveling at how the natural light changed over the iconic 1938 pier, across from the hotel. The pier juts over the water with its little cafes and shops, and surfers gather at the world famous break alongside. The Surfrider, with rates starting at 350, offers a complimentary 1968 sage green Land Rover for excursions to other surf breaks, as well as picnic baskets for beachside lunches at a cost. At 2,000 a night with a two night minimum, the Nobu Ryokan Malibu on local Carbon Beach, also known as "Billionaire's Beach" because of its high end real estate, is close to the Little Beach House Malibu, the Soho House outpost with no lodging, but it was sadly out of my price range. The Nobu Ryokan Malibu, formerly the Casa Malibu Inn, was bought by the tech guru and Oracle co founder Larry Ellison in 2007 and opened a decade later as the new benchmark of luxury on the beach. The chef Nobu Matsuhisa, the actor Robert DeNiro and the producer Meir Teiper are co owners of the property, which is managed by Nobu Hospitality. The property has 16 suites, some with teak soaking tubs, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, and room service from the famed sushi chef himself. (When I win big, I will be booking a suite.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
MILAN Often as fascinating as what designers show on the runways here is doping out the business plays behind the fashion. Take the case of Versace. In a backstage interview before presenting her lively and assured men's wear collection for spring 2018, Donatella Versace noted that she had chosen to stage the show not in one of the theaters she has used in recent years, but rather in the family's 18th century palazzo in central Milan. It was a homecoming as pragmatic as it was symbolic. Next month is the 20th anniversary of Gianni Versace's murder on the steps of Casa Casuarina, his oceanfront mansion in Miami Beach. Though the survival into the 21st century of a label he founded in the early '80s is nothing short of miraculous, business miracles are not accidental. Three years ago, Versace took on a 150 million euro capital investment from the Blackstone Group, an American private equity firm that also acquired an additional EUR60 million of the fashion company's stock. At the time, the billionaire investor Stephen Schwarzman noted that Ms. Versace had helped "make Versace one of the few global, luxury fashion brands," global being the operative word. It's not hard to figure out what the key asset in the deal was, because among the designs she sent onto the runway were high end sweatshirts emblazoned with her name. "I've been thinking about how much fashion has changed," Ms. Versace said backstage at the show on Saturday, noting that when her brother died the internet as we know it barely existed. A designer's role in those days was instructing consumers on what to wear. Now it is the other way around. "We work backward," she said. "It's the millennials who decide what's going to happen." If people seemingly born with a smartphone in hand cannot be expected to know the label's history, Ms. Versace and her talented men's wear designer, Ashley Fletcher, can gently help them along. "We just want people to enjoy life," Ms. Versace said of a show defined by pops of goofball colors like bassinet pink, baby blue and the gold of a lame tracksuit. Alessandro Sartori, the Ermenegildo Zegna designer, also had fun on his mind going into his latest collection, as he explained in a preview before his show on Friday that and the joy of using color to "create emotion." He did not add, though he might as well have, that the trippy tangerine gravel he used to fill a colonnaded courtyard of a state university, housed in a Renaissance architectural treasure in Milan, had a different goal, one now as crucial to what designers do as any other element. It was Instagram ready. "Sometimes, you go to a show and the lighting is wrong for an iPhone," Will Welch, the editor of GQ Style, said during another designer's presentation. "And you think, 'You just shouldn't have had this show.'" After a seriously misjudged effort marking his return last season to the creative helm of Zegna, Mr. Sartori scaled back, settled down and returned to the tailoring and technical know how that are his strengths. And that was a good thing. On a group of models cast for their youth and varied ethnic backgrounds, the designer presented easy, drifty suits and printed silk summer coats in colors like matte white, antique rose, freesia, water blue and geranium. He also showed a covetable paneled jacket that resembled a zillionaire version of something a character from George Lucas's '70s classic "American Graffiti" might have worn to Mel's Drive In. Anomalies like that are particularly welcome in this banking and industrial capital, a city hardly known for a laid back attitude. As admiring as one is of the Milanese and their sartorial traditions, it helps when an American like Ralph Lauren shows them how to loosen up. Oddly, it was the formal wear that struck the most assured note in an Emporio Armani collection representative of Giorgio Armani's continuing design dialogue with Japan. There was much to admire, although mostly abstractly, about a show whose sleek suits were largely overshadowed by groupings of curious skirt trousers, ankle length culottes in trademark Armani ink blue, and silk jackets patterned with Edo period cranes in flight. Yet it was in evening clothes used to open the show a tuxedo spliced with a kimono that Mr. Armani demonstrated how, even at almost 83, he retains his mastery.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images The guilty verdicts against Harvey Weinstein in a prosecution that faced long odds is more than a victory for the MeToo movement that his case propelled. Even though he was acquitted of the most serious charges two counts of predatory sexual assault the outcome sends a signal that social and legal barriers that have long denied justice to victims of sexual assault are beginning to crumble. Mr. Weinstein was found guilty of a first degree criminal sexual act against Miriam Haley, a former production assistant on a television reality show, and third degree rape in an assault against a onetime aspiring actress, Jessica Mann. He was sent to jail to await his sentencing. The convictions of the once powerful movie producer certainly bring a measure of validation to his many accusers, both in and out of the courtroom. But this outcome is not an endpoint. While there may never be another prosecution quite like the one of Mr. Weinstein, increasingly we'll see others that resemble it. This alone counts as real progress. The trial was among the most watched in recent history, and for good reason. In 2017, blockbuster reporting unearthed multiple accusations of sexual assault against Mr. Weinstein going back decades, fueling the spread of a Twitter hashtag and a global movement in MeToo. That Mr. Weinstein, 67, even stood trial was a remarkable anomaly. A vast majority of sexual assault cases never reach the courtroom. Most sexual assaults are never reported; of those that are, few ever result in arrest or prosecution. The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network estimates that out of every thousand sexual assaults, only five lead to felony convictions. Those cases that do end in conviction tend to look very different from the Weinstein case. Prosecutors are most likely to pursue charges in "real rape" cases those involving strangers, physical injury, a weapon, physical resistance and immediate reporting. (In the Weinstein trial, Annabella Sciorra's account of being raped by Mr. Weinstein may have come closest to matching this paradigm, but the assault she described happened in the early 1990s, outside the statute of limitations, and could not be pursued as a separate criminal charge.) The prosecution of sex crimes is relatively rare when the assaults are of the more commonplace kind between acquaintances, with minimal force and delayed disclosure. Such circumstances can test the ability of jurors to set aside conventional notions of sexual assault. When friendly exchanges or even consensual intercourse between the perpetrator and the victim occur after the assault, as they did according to testimony in the Weinstein trial, it becomes difficult to fathom a prosecution, must less a conviction. In all, six women testified that Mr. Weinstein sexually assaulted them, but only two of the cases were charged. Prosecutors had hoped that the other witnesses would establish a pattern of Mr. Weinstein preying on vulnerable women. Not all men accused of sexual assault will have left such a trail. Prosecutors often have the testimony of only one witness, which is typically not enough to persuade jurors, even if additional evidence corroborates the victim's account. Jurors often are unduly skeptical when judging sexual assault allegations. This "credibility discount" has historically pervaded the criminal justice system and persists, even in the age of MeToo. Cross examination of Mr. Weinstein accusers sought to tap into what were likely deep seated suspicions held by some jurors of women who report sexual assault. It is no surprise that age old tactics were used to discredit the witnesses. At times, they were portrayed as lying for fortune or fame. They were blamed for putting themselves in a vulnerable situation. They were presented as vengeful women who regretted having consensual sex. Now the question is how long those familiar tropes will retain their power in an era when accusers stand a chance, however remote, of being believed. Throughout the trial and the jury's deliberations, many supporters of the MeToo movement felt a sense of urgency. If Mr. Weinstein was not held to account, they wondered, what hope was there for ordinary survivors of sexual violence seeking criminal justice? Over the past six months, as I researched a book on credibility, I spent many hours talking with victims of sexual harassment and assault. Our conversations often turned to the meaning of accountability. Some survivors told me they wanted nothing to do with the criminal justice system. For others, protecting possible future victims was a main reason to turn to the courts. Still others saw a criminal conviction as recognition of the harm they suffered and that it matters. For these survivors and countless others, Mr. Weinstein's conviction is cause for hope. To be sure, MeToo aims to accomplish much more than sending the worst offenders to prison. The movement's reach is ambitious it demands that we transform our culture of male sexual entitlement and the misconduct it begets. But legal accountability is part of this evolution. This shift may also require reforming our sexual assault laws, which continue to fixate on physical force rather than on the absence of consent. In the case of Ms. Haley, the jury believed her testimony that he forced oral sex on her, and conviction for this first degree criminal sex act carries a maximum penalty of 25 years. But the conviction in the third degree rape case of Ms. Mann did not require proof of force and carries a maximum penalty of only four years. What the law fails to recognize is another dynamic at work: coercion. The Weinstein accusers described him controlling their professional and personal lives in ways that were not mainly physical. But the law of sexual assault does little to account for that kind of power. The Weinstein convictions show us that real progress is underway. But the system still mostly fails survivors. Women who are poor, of color, who come forward alone especially these women will continue to be disbelieved and blamed. Even women whose cases never make the headlines deserve more than an elusive promise of criminal justice. Longstanding biases against accusers will not disappear overnight; not even an extraordinary conviction can remake the world. But the Weinstein verdicts indicate that we are beginning to correct course. Deborah Tuerkheimer is a professor at Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law and a former assistant Manhattan district attorney. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter ( NYTopinion) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
What the movie is left with are the performers enacting the characters and their dilemmas. Lise Leplat Prudhomme, 8 years old at the time of filming, plays young Jeannette in 1425, the year she had her first vision. (Here, too, the director takes liberties, as most histories of Joan say she was 13 that year.) Skipping in a stream, she chants a variant of the Lord's Prayer, bemoaning the fact that God's name is "so far from being hallowed." Mr. Dumont adapted his script largely from Charles Peguy's late 19th century poetic theater work "Jeanne d'Arc," and the way the characters switch from speaking to singing, as well as the sparseness of the settings, sometimes give the work the feel of an oratorio. Except the characters don't only sing, they dance, and in astonishing ways. Ms. Prudhomme twirls, cartwheels, stomps and headbangs, as does Jeanne Voisin later on as the teenage Jeanne, who's dropped the "ette" from her name. It's a bit funny, but it's also more than that. Between the music and the dance, the temptation is to conclude that Mr. Dumont is trying to "modernize" Joan's story, as she becomes determined to follow her visions and create an army to save France. Given that the very act of filming is a modernizing factor, that's true in a sense. But his artistic aim is, I think, the inverse of that. "Jeannette" throws the modern back at the medieval, making no distinction between religious ecstasy and that experienced in certain contemporary contexts of music and ritual. It's a provocative proposition that yields a film of genuine spiritual dimension.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
It has been a long time since I enjoyed a book as much as I did LOVE IN THE BLITZ (Harper/HarperCollins, 496 pp., 28.99). Of the hundreds of books about World War II that I've read, this is one of the best. I would welcome the author, Eileen Alexander, as a fresh new voice, but for the fact that she has been dead for nearly 50 years. This volume is a selection of letters Alexander wrote to her lover during the course of the war. They were not discovered until a few years ago and are being published only now. Her letters tell a rich, multilayered story a wealthy and bright young woman's day by day experience in London during the war, the growth of her love for a young man and her insider's view of a fascinating slice of upper class Jewish life in mid 20th century England. One of her closest friends is Aubrey Eban, who would later become Abba Eban, the influential foreign minister of Israel. Simply "everybody" she knows from Cambridge University, where she took a first in English just before the war, has gone to work at Bletchley Park, famous nowadays as the headquarters for British code breaking during the war. She lunches with Anthony Eden, dines with Orde Wingate, chats with Bernard Lewis and argues about politics with Michael Foot. One of her friends is court martialed and tossed out of the Royal Air Force after losing his copy of some top secret war plans because he was distracted by a letter he was writing to Yehudi Menuhin about the proper way to play the third movement of a certain violin concerto. To top it off, Alexander is a lovely writer, reflecting her readings of great English literature, especially Shakespeare and Donne, but also Samuel Johnson, Daniel Defoe, C. S. Lewis and Jane Austen. Imagine how that last novelist might have witnessed the Blitz, and you have a sense of this wonderful book. Of her lawyer father, she acidly notes that "he has an extraordinary power of making other people unhappy from the best motives in the world." And yes, reader, she went on to marry her beloved, bear a child and translate some of the detective novels of Georges Simenon. Alexander's book is about intense personal love. ATOMIC DOCTORS: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 304 pp., 29.95) is about the opposite: the decline into depersonalization by doctors involved in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Here in Nashville we've got the Frist museum, which is wonderful. It's a funky little thing. The Country Music Hall of Fame is my absolute favorite. I'm so astounded by what they've accomplished there. They just made it free for all kids under 18. It has a big education component to it. It's a beautiful space. Nashville is home for you. What are some of your other favorite spots there? I go to eat breakfast at the same place every morning. It's called Noshville. Everyone's on a first name basis. It's "Cheers" with a side of eggs. Do you have favorite restaurants when you're on the road? I'm a pizza nut. If I go to New York all I eat is pizza. The first job I ever had was making pizza as a kid. I don't eat it much around here, but when I go to New York I'll have it for breakfast and dinner. In Oklahoma City, I go to Ted's Escondido. It's about my favorite Mexican meal. You travel a lot for your tours. What's the best and worst part of working the road? The best part is that you're knocking around on a bus with your friends. You're laughing a lot. You're playing music every night. It's completely intoxicating. There's nothing better. The downside is your family life. You don't get to have as much time with them as you'd like. But no whining allowed. Where are your favorite places to perform? There's Red Rocks in Colorado. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever played music. The Gorge in Washington State is a magnificent place. I've gotten to play Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall. I've played a few ballparks over the years: Wrigley Field, Comiskey Park and Dodger Stadium. The Troubadour in Los Angeles is a historic place where a lot of people got started James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt. It was neat to play there 30 or 40 years later. It's nice when something holds a great memory for you a place, a friend. Every Monday night I play in a 10 piece band, the Time Jumpers, at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville . It's fun when you can be part of a place that's a destination. But our Ryman Auditorium is probably my favorite place to play. There's something magical about how music sounds in that place. It's a tabernacle. Mr. Gill and Ms. Grant play a series of "Christmas at the Ryman" concerts in November and December. Where would you like to go again? I played at a cowboy bar in Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a few weeks when I was 18 or 19. I went out on the river. That mountain climate was magical. About two years ago Amy Grant, Mr. Gill's wife and I went back and spent four or five days there. I went back to the bar, bought a T shirt and told him I played here in 1976. It was really neat to reminisce. And the mountains were still magical.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
Vicki Noble, who with Karen Vogel created the Motherpeace Tarot Deck in the late 1970s, hasn't really kept up with the latest happenings in the community of divinatory playing cards. But when Maria Grazia Chiuri, the artistic director of Christian Dior, called and said she wanted to incorporate the Motherpeace into a fashion line, she and Ms. Vogel agreed. Both felt that it could breathe new life into their 40 year old deck. Almost six months after Dior's fashion show in Santa Monica, Calif., Motherpeace sales have skyrocketed, up 263 percent from last year, according to Stuart Kaplan, the chairman and owner of U.S. Games Systems, a global distributor. "I feel like this is a wave, and we should catch it," Ms. Noble said. Tarot deck sales in general are up 30 percent this year, after rising 30 percent in 2016 the highest in 50 years, according to Lynn Araujo, the editorial and communications director for U.S. Games Systems. The company sells hundreds of thousands of decks a year, including Motherpeace, the Rider Waite Tarot Deck and 123 other varieties. The tarot boom comes as no surprise to Libby Edelson, a senior editor at HarperCollins. In 2015 an unusual new deck called the Wild Unknown caught her eye. With images of plants and animals instead of people, the deck had attracted a dedicated following and was selling out with each new edition. Ms. Edelson acquired the rights to sell the deck with the accompanying guidebook and watched this package climb best seller lists. "Now there's this whole new wave of tarot," said Kim Krans, the creator of the Wild Unknown Tarot deck. "People are saying things like, 'I'm going to quit my job and become a tarot reader.'" Ms. Krans attributes her success both to Instagram, on which she has posted images of her cards, and tarot's incursion, like crystals and yoga mats before it, into modern boutiques rather than dusty occult stores. "There used to be this idea of tarot being connected to that chick in a shop behind a neon sign who's going to take you for a ride and tell your future," said Sasha Graham, a tarot reader and author. "That's different now. Witchcraft and feminist spirituality, especially in our political climate, are having a moment. Tarot is part of that." And what could be more of the moment than crowdfunding? Tarot projects have been on the rise for the last five years at least, according to David Gallagher, senior director of communications at Kickstarter. In 2013 there were 37 such projects. In 2017 there have been 88, including decks created with more diverse audiences in mind. "We want to find ourselves in our decks, and we want them to tell our story," Ms. Road wrote of her project. "My stories are about smashing systematic oppression, owning our truths, being accountable to the people and places that support us, and taking back a connection to your body that may have been lost through trauma or societal brainwashing." Lindsay Mack, a tarot reader and teacher in Brooklyn, said that she has seen more customers of late seeking help connecting to their life purpose, rather than answers about their fate. "Tarot is very trendy right now, but more people are coming in with inquiries that are very thoughtful and beyond themselves," Ms. Mack said. Contrary to popular belief, she said, and opposed to the fortuneteller's crystal ball, tarot has never been about predicting the future. "It's a mirror," she said. "It's an invitation into the present moment."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
TAKEN DOWN Stream on Acorn TV. Gritty crimes shows may be ubiquitous, but it's not common for them to engage with pressing political issues. This Irish series is among the exceptions. It focuses on the perils faced by Dublin's refugee communities. A team of detectives is tasked with solving the murder of a Nigerian teenage girl and the disappearance of another young Nigerian woman, both of whom lived in a center for refugees seeking asylum. They are also, it turns out, both connected to a local brothel. As the detectives' search for the truth progresses, the center's director (Brian Gleeson) seems to have sinister motives for standing in their way. All six episodes are now available. DANCING WITH THE STARS 8 p.m. on ABC. The popular series begins its 28th season with a new group of celebrity dancers and the return of Peta Murgatroyd, a professional dancer and audience favorite. This year's roster of notable competitors includes something for everyone. Die hard fans of reality television will relish the chance to see Hannah Brown, last season's "Bachelorette," onscreen once again and to find out if Karamo Brown's expertise in cultural matters extends to dance. Sports fans will be interested to see the basketball player Lamar Odom and the former football player Ray Lewis try to translate their athleticism into moves on the dance floor. And for those interested in politics, the inclusion of Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary, should be fascinating.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
PARIS Jean Paul Gaultier, the French designer who put Madonna in a bullet bra and men in skirts, scandalized the couture establishment by hosting the TV show "Eurotrash" and never forgot his sense of humor, yet could cut a tuxedo with such panache he was regarded as an heir to Yves Saint Laurent, said goodbye to the runway after 50 years on Wednesday night . He did it in the gilded 19th century Theatre du Chatelet, where the Ballets Russes once danced, in front of a packed 2,500 seat audience that included the former supermodel and the former French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy, and the designers Nicolas Ghesquiere (who began his career as a junior assistant to Mr. Gaultier), Christian Lacroix and Dries Van Noten, who had made the trip in from Antwerp, Belgium, just for the evening. And he did it with a greatest hits spectacular starring friends and family, from the actors Beatrice Dalle and Rossy De Palma to the models Yasmin Le Bon and Paris Jackson, plus the burlesque star Dita Von Teese. Plus Boy George, who opened the whole thing with his own version of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black," and closed it with "Church of the Poison Mind." Mr. Gaultier, 67, stepped back from the ready to wear runway in 2014, but this was his final farewell at least to shows. It seems he will continue to have some role in his company, which is owned by the Spanish group Puig, and he's already dabbling in a sideline as a cabaret director. He announced his departure from the catwalk only five days ago, via Instagram. How do you sum up a career for such a crew? Especially one that broke so many boundaries and pushed so many buttons? It's been a while since Mr. Gaultier was considered the enfant terrible of fashion, courting controversy by finding inspiration in the clothing of the Orthodox Jewish community, pulling down the velvet rope of inaccessibility with one of the very first contemporary lines, challenging gender stereotypes, putting models of all sizes and ages on the catwalk. A while too, since he balanced all that rebellion with cutting skills learned in the ateliers of Pierre Cardin and Jean Patou so perfectly judged they made a neophyte to fashion sit up in sudden understanding: Oh, that's why this costs so much, and is worth it. It just looks so ineffably better than anything else. To a certain extent, simply surviving a half century is an achievement in a fashion world where these days designers seem to come and go almost annually. Mr. Gaultier navigated the move from family run artisanal houses to global brands dominated by mega groups, and did his time as creative director of a big house, taking the reins at Hermes from 2003 to 2010. If he has been, latterly, more of a prankster than anything else, wallowing in his own thematic puns 1980s pop stars! Nanook of the North! sometimes to the detriment of the clothes themselves, he also helped the shape the industry as we know it. His final collection was no different; balanced on the knife edge between showgirl and chic, listing toward the former. Mr. Gaultier overindulged himself with more than 200 looks, not just reminders of favorites past (corsetry and underwear as outerwear; denim sliced and embroidered and elevated; tuxedo trousers turned into hot pants in front, the legs streaming out like a train behind; the blue and white striped mariniere; a body suit with the naked body embroidered on top) but examples of his artistry; his ability to make you look and then think again. He didn't just recycle his themes, he upcycled his fabrics, melding silk ties into striped skirts, leather bombers into a bubble mini, and false fronting jackets onto the top of corsets. Camouflage coats billowed like clouds; columns of crochet encrusted in elaborate embroidered runes; basket woven leathers; a breast plate made from mother of pearl shells atop a skirt made of real sponges.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every week for new suggestions on what to watch. This Weekend I Have ... an Hour, and I'm Quirky 'My Favorite Shapes by Julio Torres' When to watch: Saturday at 10:30 p.m., on HBO. The writer and comedian Julio Torres has harnessed his offbeat perspective in recent years for some of the funniest, most surprising "S.N.L." sketches in ages "Papyrus," "Wells for Boys," "The Sink" and for the wonderfully odd series " Los Espookys ." In his new stand up special, Torres sits onstage behind a conveyor belt, which brings him little tchotchkes, like a crystal pyramid or a cactus in a jar. Then he explains the object in silly, arcane detail, with specifics that are both very funny and sometimes breathtakingly tender. ... an Hour, and I Need the Hard Stuff	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
When it comes to the volatile new lithium ion battery technology, Boeing and Airbus are heading in different directions. Faced with the potential of a lengthy investigation into what caused batteries on two Boeing 787 jets to ignite or emit smoke last month, Airbus said Friday that it had dropped plans to use the technology on its forthcoming wide body jet, the A350 XWB, to avoid possible delays in producing the planes. But Boeing, which has much more at stake, said later in the day that it would stick with the batteries, and the company is working with regulators to reduce risks even if the cause of the hazards is not clearly found. All 50 of the 787s delivered so far were grounded in mid January. And even though the problems have embarrassed Boeing and could cost it hundreds of millions of dollars, the company said Friday, "There's nothing we've learned in the investigations that would lead us to a different decision regarding lithium ion batteries." To some extent, Boeing's bravado reflects a sense among battery experts that they have narrowed down the ways that the batteries, made by a Japanese company, GS Yuasa, could fail. That then increases the chances that a handful of changes may eventually provide enough assurance that the batteries would be safe to use. Airbus was planning on a more limited use of the lithium ion batteries than Boeing, and by switching to the more traditional nickel cadmium batteries, the company can make the necessary changes as it is building the planes. Boeing, on the other hand, has a strong motivation to stick with the lithium ion batteries in hopes that a solution will emerge. Under flight safety regulations, industry and government officials said, Boeing might not have to go through as extensive and time consuming an approval process if it redesigned the lithium ion batteries as it would if it switched to the conventional batteries. Even though the behavior of the more traditional batteries is better understood, they have not yet been certified for use in the 787s, and the batteries and related parts of the plane's electrical system would have to be created and tested from scratch. Under the safety directive grounding the planes, Boeing might have a more straightforward path to get them flying again if it could persuade the Federal Aviation Administration that redesigning the lithium ion batteries would work. Federal and industry officials said Boeing would probably have to spread the eight cells in the batteries farther apart or increase the insulation between them to keep a failure in one cell from cascading to the others in the "thermal runaway" that led to the smoke and fire. Battery experts are also looking into whether vibrations in flight could have added to the risks of unwanted contact between the cells. And Boeing would undoubtedly have to wall off the battery within a sturdier metal container and make it easier to vent any hazardous materials outside the plane. Aviation experts said the examination of such changes reflected what could end up being a difficult calculation for safety regulators: Will there be a way to ensure the safety of the batteries if they cannot tell for certain what set off the problems on the two planes? Until now, most of the public statements by regulators have focused on the need to pin down the cause of the battery problems. But investigators, now weeks into their work, have been able to find only limited clues in the charred remains of the two batteries. As a result, government and outside experts, working closely with Boeing engineers, have been studying the research on lithium ion batteries carried out since Boeing won approval for its batteries in 2007 and, in essence, trying to come up with a safer design. Government and industry officials said Friday that it was still too early to know if Boeing could devise enough changes to satisfy regulators and the flying public. Airbus said it started informing airline customers on Thursday that it would not move ahead with an original plan to use the lithium ion batteries on its A350s. Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. Netflix buys a visual effects company in a move to support its global ambitions. "Airbus considers this to be the most appropriate way forward in the interest of program execution and reliability," said Marcella Muratore, an Airbus spokeswoman. Airbus completed the assembly of its first test version of the A350 late last year and initial ground tests of that plane using the lithium ion batteries had already begun at its factory in Toulouse, France. "Airbus is at a point where they have to make a decision," said Scott Hamilton, the managing director at the Leeham Company, an aviation consulting firm in Issaquah, Wash. "Obviously, they decided to take the safer course to stay on schedule. They could always go back to lithium ion if the 787 problems are sorted out." "But if Boeing went back to the older batteries, they might have to recertify the entire electrical system," Mr. Hamilton said. "So it's not in Boeing's interest to do that." In this case, Airbus is also benefiting from being several years behind Boeing in developing the new generation of fuel efficient planes, Mr. Hamilton said. He said Airbus had more flexibility since the A350s, which will compete with the 787s and Boeing 777s, have not yet been certified to fly by regulators. Airbus has booked 617 orders for the A350 from 35 airline customers, while Boeing has about 800 more orders for the 787. Ms. Muratore, the Airbus spokeswoman, said the company remained confident that the lithium ion battery system that it had been developing with its French supplier, Saft, was "robust and safe," and added that Airbus still planned to use lithium ion batteries on the A350s it will use for flight tests scheduled to begin this summer. The decision to revert to nickel cadmium batteries, she said, was made purely to avoid delaying the first deliveries of the A350. Battery makers have promoted lithium ion batteries as being significantly lighter and faster to recharge than nickel cadmium batteries.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series, which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve. Karen Huxtable Jester, who teaches in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, knows technology's distractible downside. Once, while observing a lecture, Professor Huxtable Jester discovered that a group of students had been watching a movie instead of their instructor. "In years past, I was fully on board with the idea of banning technology use in my classes," she said, making exceptions for students with disabilities who needed help. Over time, though, she became more flexible: "Every now and then, I could say, 'Can we look something up?'" The experience of Professor Huxtable Jester, who is also the associate director at the university's Center for Teaching and Learning, demonstrates evolving debates on whether smartphones, tablets and laptops divert students' attention from the lesson at hand. "People develop very strong opinions," she said. "The dividing line is everyone wants to do what is right, but no one knows what that is." Many professors and education professionals are discovering that rather than distract, strategically applied devices increase engagement with students, especially those with learning disabilities, who are on the autism spectrum and for whom English is a second language. Brad Turner, vice president and general manager of global education and literacy for Benetech, a nonprofit educational software company that creates tools for students with dyslexia and other reading issues, said "technology is the great equalizer" that allowed "every student to learn in the way they need to learn or want to learn, to the greatest extent that they want to learn." That is the experience for Pamela Stemberg, an adjunct assistant professor of English at City College of New York who also teaches at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. "My students were the reason I started using technology because they were actually using it to look up things," she said, including words they had never seen before. She likened this to its old school analog experience: "Weren't you told when you were a kid, 'Go to the dictionary'?" "Using technology in the classroom really enhances the whole class," Professor Stemberg said. Diverse backgrounds and varied exposure to the English language are part of why her students seek auxiliary help. Many are immigrants or American born children of immigrants speaking another language at home. Even those from English speaking countries do not always understand word nuances in poetry and literature. By using devices, Professor Stemberg said, students "are taking control of their learning; they become more engaged with it and they have more skin in the game." On her own, Ms. Rahimova said, she had used her smartphone to look up words she did not understand, sometimes seeking out translations into Uzbek or Russian. "This helps me define it in English, to know this word," she said. Fatou Kanate, a native of Ivory Coast who is studying to be a radiology technician at Hostos Community College, found the smartphone useful in Professor Stemberg's English 111 class. Ms. Kanate said that "while in the classroom working on group activities, we will look up words from literature." She said that she and her classmates often found various definitions and that "we will decide together which is the context we are looking at." Such participatory methods make education "meaningful and authentic," said Christine Greenhow, an associate professor of counseling, educational psychology, and special education at Michigan State University. "When you ban technology, you close off access between the classroom and the world outside," Professor Greenhow said. "And on the other hand, when you open up the classroom with technology, you are giving students the ability to connect to translation services, with databases to do research in real time, with other people they can connect with to get questions answered, because the instructor is only one person." Would students' attention still wander if they had a device in their hand? Professor Greenhow acknowledged that it could still happen, but added that educators had a say in the matter. "If you are finding your students are being distracted on their cellphones or on laptops, you have to ask yourself: What am I doing in my teaching that is not engaging?" she said. "How can I give them opportunities to participate so they don't feel the need to disappear down the rabbit hole?" She uses devices in the classroom to create a communication "back channel" with students, often integrated with social media. Students post questions on Twitter for journalists and authors, who respond in real time. Professor Greenhow said students "will find things in the news, in the media, tweet about it in the Twitter back channel, and I will end up projecting those tweets in class," adding, "I have more insights into my students and what they want to learn more about." A study by David Baron, a researcher at the department of chemical engineering of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and colleagues from the university, published in 2016 in the journal Computers Education, defined the educational back channel as "software that allows a secondary, digital conversation to take place during a university lecture." The study found that "a digital back channel increased the overall number of questions asked in a class," with "little evidence of the back channel promoting distraction in class." Perry Samson, a professor in the University of Michigan's department of climate and space sciences and engineering, developed his own back channel program for his classes. "Students can click on that, and I've got a meter on the room, telling me how many students are confused." The app lets students give anonymous feedback answered in real time by teaching assistants as he lectures. Professor Samson also consults with the educational video technology platform company Echo360, which records, streams and captions live academic lectures, among other features. The company placed the back channel he developed into its Active Learning Platform. These tools also help students who have special needs. Arianna Esposito, the director of life span services and supports for the advocacy group Autism Speaks, says students on the autism spectrum use smartphone enabled augmented technology and other applications "at a much earlier age than ever before, and as those students age out, and enter college, they have developed new study skills and they have used cognitive behavioral support that helps them be successful in the classroom." While Ms. Esposito emphasized that a specific example cannot apply to everyone, useful and readily available smartphone, tablet and laptop features include notes to write out questions before speaking and calendar reminders. She also mentioned universities creating centers to help autistic students, including the Kinney Center at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Education
Hillary Peckham felt a different kind of pain when Maren Hall Wieckert, whom she had been dating for four years, decided in August 2016 to leave New York to attend the University of Colorado, where he would begin a Ph.D. program in learning sciences. "I was stunned and really hurt," Ms. Peckham said. "This happened just after my sister's wedding, and at a time when I thought Maren and I were about to move in together." It also happened at a time when Ms. Peckham, who was an avid horseback rider and runner, was still dealing with the excruciating pain that followed a failed hip surgery in 2009, which left her walking on crutches and in physical therapy for two years. As Ms. Peckham slowly began to recover, there was yet more pain to endure. Her grandmother, Frances Keeffe, was suffering from a long and agonizing battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease. In the spring of 2012, just weeks before Mr. Hall Wieckert came into Ms. Peckham's life, her grandmother died. "My mother was my grandmother's caretaker, and a doctor had suggested that she try and find medical marijuana to comfort my grandmother while she was declining in health," Ms. Peckham said. "Though there was no legal way to procure it, my mom and I went ahead and started doing all sorts of research on the subject." Ms. Peckham and her mother, Amy Keeffe Peckham, considered creating their own medical marijuana business. "We had both experienced firsthand how pain management could be mismanaged," Ms. Peckham said. "We knew that medical marijuana was an alternative that could provide for quality of life in many situations." Ms. Peckham and her mother began putting together a "highly skilled and knowledgeable team of industry experts" to apply for a license in New York State to grow and distribute cannabis. Their team included physicians, horticultural experts, pharmacists, manufacturing engineers, and Mr. Hall Wieckert, who was living in Brooklyn at the time and working as a researcher for the Graduate Center Advanced Science Research Foundation of the City University of New York. "I was spending my weekends writing sections of the license application, it became a second job," he said. "I learned right away that the Peckhams are doers, and I was very excited and extremely motivated about being a part of their vision." Ms. Peckham, now 28, and Mr. Hall Wieckert, 27, met in June 2012 at a 21st birthday party for Ms. Peckham and her twin brother, J.D. Peckham, who brought along Mr. Hall Wieckert, a friend from Oberlin College in Ohio who was about to enter his senior year. The party was held at the Peckham family home in the Bedford Hills area of Katonah, N.Y. "I thought Maren was really cute," said Ms. Peckham, who was about to enter her junior year at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. "We started talking, and I could tell that he was a very smart and thoughtful guy." They talked, and talked some more. Around midnight they kicked off their shoes and began dancing in the basement. "She was very personable and a lot of fun," Mr. Hall Wieckert said, "and she was awfully pretty." They began dating, spending long hours on the phone and in their cars, with each making the 14 hour round trip drive from Oberlin to Hamilton at least once a month. "Maren was the first person that could turn Hillary's head," her mother said. "They made each other laugh, which is what made them work so well together." Mr. Hall Wieckert learned that Ms. Peckham was one of four children born to Amy Peckham and John Robert Peckham, the owner of a construction company in White Plains who described his daughter as "a very hard charging person who has always been very focused and aggressive about pursuing goals and challenges." Ms. Peckham received a business certificate from Dartmouth after graduating from Hamilton with a degree in music and a minor in biology. As a lover of animals from the time she was a child, she had dreams of becoming a veterinarian, though her injury and subsequent interest in medical marijuana led her down a different path. "Growing up, we had four dogs, a pig, a few dozen chickens, rabbits and reptiles," Ms. Peckham said. "I know I would have enjoyed a career being around so many different animals, especially those that needed my help." Ms. Peckham's mother, who is of Irish descent, named the company Etain, after an Irish goddess, and it became, and still remains, the only family run, women owned medical marijuana company in the state of New York. By July 2016, Ms. Peckham, her mother, and her older sister, Keeley Peckham, a certified horticultural therapist, had grown their business into a 50 employee operation that included four medical marijuana dispensaries in Manhattan, Syracuse, Yonkers, and Kingston, N.Y., and on site pharmacists at each dispensary. The company also constructed a cannabis manufacturing plant in Chestertown, N.Y. Though Team Peckham's vision had come to fruition, Mr. Hall Wieckert's decision to leave the team to study for a Ph.D. was something that Ms. Peckham did not see coming. "It was our moment of uncertainty, and a particularly kind of devastating moment for me," she said. "I tried to appear not to be so upset and be supportive of Maren, but I don't think I did a good job, and things got a little bit rocky from there." "We talked about it at length," she continued, "and I finally told him that if he didn't come back, I didn't think the relationship was going to work." Though Mr. Hall Wieckert had completed a full semester of classes by the spring of 2017, he also began "feeling pretty miserable," he said, regarding the emotional and geographical distance that he had put between himself and Ms. Peckham. "Hillary was my best friend the person who helped turn me into a better version of myself, a more social, outgoing, motivated and courageous person," he said. "I knew for sure that I had made a mistake." He told her as much in April 2017, at a rendezvous in Budapest, where Ms. Peckham and her family was visiting her younger brother, Gregory Peckham, who was enrolled in a study abroad program there. "After six years of dating, I think we both had waited long enough to get engaged," she added, laughing. They boarded a plane for Port St. Lucie, Fla., to celebrate the occasion before getting back to the business of creating and distributing medical marijuana. They also began discussing plans to buy a home in Bedford Hills, and achieved that goal in January. The couple married Aug. 17 in an outdoor ceremony at the Bronx Zoo, an ode to a little girl's love for animals. "When I was growing up, my Godmother took me to the Bronx Zoo about once a month," Ms. Peckham said. "Now I try to go to a zoo or animal reservation on any vacation or trip I take." That included her trip down the aisle as a live rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" filled the air on a scorching day more fit for lions and tigers than polar bears. "They are both crazy, determined, passionate and fun filled people," said J.D. Peckham, who became a Universal Life minister to marry the couple. "They are also extraordinarily intelligent and very driven," he added, speaking before 220 guests, not including a small colony of California sea lions yelping a short distance away as part of the Madagascar exhibit, where the cocktail hour would be held. (Dinner followed in the Schiff Family Great Hall). "I love you to the moon and back," the bride told the groom during the exchange of vows. "I love you as you are, as you have been and as you will be," said the groom, fighting back tears as he spoke. "You are a dream come true." Party Favors Most of the flowers and bouquets at the wedding had hemp leaves in them, and the party favors were jars of honey based hemp lozenges produced by the bride's company. What They Wore The bride donned a dress from the designer Mikaella, purchased at Kleinfeld Bridal in New York; it featured a V neck crepe bodice with guipure lace over sheer cap sleeves and sheer midriff. Her peacock style shoes were from ParisXox. The groom wore a dark navy Hugo Boss Suit, black shoes from Allen Edmond, a shirt from Proper Cloth and bow tie from Brackish. Continue following our fashion and lifestyle coverage on Facebook (Styles and Modern Love), Twitter (Styles, Fashion and Weddings) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
WASHINGTON Employment has been increasing at a healthy clip for the last few months, but the Federal Reserve is not ready to relax just yet. "We need to see sustained improvement," the Fed's chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, said at a news conference on Wednesday. "One or two months doesn't cut it. So we're just going to have to keep providing support for the economy and see how things evolve." The Fed's policy making committee said much the same thing in a stilted statement issued just before Mr. Bernanke took questions, announcing that it would continue to hold down short term interest rates and buy 85 billion a month in Treasuries and mortgage backed securities. Mr. Bernanke's remarks suggested that the Fed would reduce its asset purchases if job growth continued at the current pace, the first time he has said that the central bank is likely to reduce the amount of monthly purchases before it stops buying entirely. But such a change remains at least a few months away, and quite possibly longer. The Fed is wary of pulling back too soon, a mistake it has already made several times in recent years. It is waiting to assess the impact of the federal spending cuts that began this month. And Mr. Bernanke said the members of the Federal Open Market Committee, which makes policy for the Fed, "have not been able to come to an agreement" about the goals of the asset purchases or, by extension, when they should end. Mr. Bernanke, who has made job growth the Fed's top priority for the first time in its 100 year history, spoke about the issue in personal terms. Asked when he last had spoken to an unemployed person, he said that one of his own relatives was out of work. "I come from a small town in South Carolina that has taken a big hit from the recession," Mr. Bernanke said. "The last time I was there, the unemployment rate was about 15 percent. The home I was raised in had just been foreclosed upon. I have a great concern for the unemployed, both for their own sake but also because the loss of skills and the loss of labor force attachment is bad for our whole economy." Mr. Bernanke also may have provided some insight into his own future. Asked repeatedly about his interest in a third term as Fed chairman, Mr. Bernanke demurred several times before telling one reporter, "I've spoken to the president a bit but I really don't have any information for you at this juncture." The asset purchases are intended as a short term measure to catalyze faster job growth; the Fed has said it will slow increasing its collection of Treasuries and mortgage bonds, a policy known as "quantitative easing," once it is convinced that employment is increasing at a sustainable pace. The unusual rigidity of this basic course has diminished the importance of the Fed's regular meetings, and it has to some extent created a problem of foreshortening. The next change in policy is necessarily the major subject of discussion among Fed officials, analysts and investors. But that may make the next change seem nearer than it really is. It is quite possible that the year could pass without any significant change. "In one line: Sustainability, sustainability, sustainability," Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomic Advisors, wrote in a note to clients. "Mr. Bernanke clearly does not want even to consider slowing Q.E. until he is convinced that any such run of strength now is a permanent shift." The decision, of course, does not rest with Mr. Bernanke alone. And he noted on Wednesday that there was no consensus on the policy making committee about how much longer asset purchases should continue. "We've not been able to come to an agreement about what guidance we should give," he said. As is often the case, Fed officials are not just debating how to respond to economic circumstances. They are debating the nature of those circumstances. The economy has grown more robustly in recent months the committee hailed "a return to moderate economic growth following a pause late last year" and job growth has increased since the Fed began its latest stimulus campaign in September. But even as spending by consumers and businesses drives growth, the Fed noted that fiscal policy "has become somewhat more restrictive." "The committee continues to see downside risks to the economic outlook," the statement said. The Fed separately released economic forecasts by 19 of its senior officials showing that their expectations had actually soured slightly. They predicted growth of 2.3 percent to 2.8 percent this year, down from a forecast in December of 2.3 percent to 3 percent. The consensus forecast for 2014 also fell. Officials now expect growth of 2.9 percent to 3.4 percent in 2014, compared with a December forecast of growth from 3 percent to 3.5 percent. Concerns about inflation remained in abeyance. Fed officials do not expect inflation above 2 percent over the next three years, well below their self imposed ceiling of 2.5 percent inflation. At the same time, officials were modestly more optimistic about job growth. They predicted that the unemployment rate would rest between 6.7 and 7 percent at the end of 2014. In December, they predicted that the rate would sit between 6.8 and 7.3 percent at the end of 2014. Against concerns that the pace of growth remains subpar, the Fed continues to weigh the possibility that its efforts will destabilize financial markets by encouraging excessive risk taking. So far, support on the committee for the stimulus remains strong. The decision to press forward was supported by 11 of the 12 voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee. Esther L. George, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, recorded the only dissent, as she did in January, citing concerns about stability and future inflation.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
With Broadway houses and performance venues across the country closed because of the pandemic, musical theater lovers burned off pent up creative energy on TikTok this year, creating songs, dances and even set designs for a hypothetical musical version of the 2007 Disney Pixar movie "Ratatouille." Now, the crowdsourced hodgepodge of a show is coming to virtual life in a one time only benefit performance. Seaview, a theatrical production company, announced on Wednesday that it would present an online performance of the show on Jan. 1 to raise money for the Actors Fund. The performance will be available for streaming for three days, the company said. "The love for the performing arts shines through in the 'Ratatouille' inspired TikToks from theater lovers around the world," Joseph P. Benincasa, the Actors Fund chief executive, said in a statement.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
The 33rd Rock Roll Hall of Fame ceremony airs on HBO. And estranged brothers face off in "Warrior." 2018 ROCK ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION CEREMONY 8 p.m. on HBO; also on HBO streaming platforms. Bon Jovi, Nina Simone, Dire Straits and others enter the Rock Roll Hall of Fame in this 33rd annual celebration. Guests and presenters include Mary J. Blige; Brandon Flowers, of the band the Killers; and Lauryn Hill. Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first recording. (Judas Priest, Kate Bush and Radiohead were among the first time contenders who didn't make the cut this year.) Bon Jovi has been eligible since 2008 but was first nominated in 2011. In an interview with The New York Times, Jon Bon Jovi, the lead singer, called the recognition long overdue: "I really want to say it's about time."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
Children are resilient, yet we do have concern about the pandemic's effect on their development. Masks are far from a nonissue for infants and toddlers, who learn to read cues and use facial expressions to build relationships, relate to peers and develop their sense of self. Infants look at mouths to learn language, and read facial cues of loving caregivers to develop feelings of security and trust. Children can adapt and bounce back with the loving support of a caregiver. Yet the assumption that children do not need to see faces to develop foundational emotional and social skills goes against decades of research. Nuanced nonverbal communication in the first three years develops into lifelong skills. The pandemic calls upon the intentionality, creativity and sensitivity of astute caregivers and early childhood professionals to tune in to the needs of our youngest, just as parents have been doing to buffer and interpret what is happening for their young children, responding in ways that help children make sense of the vast changes to their world. Intentional, sensitive and reciprocal interactions that respect the strengths and vulnerabilities of infants and children are necessary to highlight what children may not garner through masked communication. It could be as simple as having a caregiver in a day care setting say to a toddler: "I am so happy to see you this morning, and I am smiling so big! Do you see any clues in my eyes that let you know I am smiling even though my mouth is covered? See how my corners crinkle?"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
It was already going to be a year of transformation for the beloved Bang on a Can Marathon. A New York new music institution since 1987, the annual event was set to expand into a new three day festival, Long Play, spread over several Brooklyn performance spaces. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. With Long Play canceled, the Bang on a Can collective's founders and leaders the composers David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe opted to try another first, if in a more familiar format: a six hour livestreamed marathon, starting at 3 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, at marathon2020.bangonacan.org. Jazz figures like Vijay Iyer and Mary Halvorson will share a digital space with experimental music veterans like Meredith Monk and George Lewis. Younger composers have had new pieces commissioned. The production values will be unpolished, but the marathon which has varied in venue and length over the years has never been too fancy. The emphasis on Sunday aims to be, as it always has been, on free spirited variety, representation across musical generations and the intermingling of genres and artistic scenes. How long did it take to reset the plans for this year? DAVID LANG It took us a while to reorient ourselves. We had this gigantic idea of how to expand the marathon into Long Play. I'm sure we'll do that again, should the world ever get back to normal. But we have these people who depend on us, who have no money. We have young people who are looking for opportunities. There are so many people who are in need of a venue. JULIA WOLFE It really came after a lot of discussion and soul searching about what is important. Everyone's getting compensated. We talked about a lot of different approaches and came back to what we do. We started with a marathon in 1987. Over the years we've had so many amazing soloists; the Bang on a Can All Stars the collective's resident ensemble is made up of people who appeared as soloists. So we're very oriented toward spectacular individual players. MICHAEL GORDON Part of the reason it takes so long to get a physical festival together is that everyone has to come to New York. And everyone has a different fee, and different requirements. You know, the classic thing: "organic cherry tomatoes in my dressing room." Less than a month ago, we were like: "OK, we're going to do this." And then all of a sudden you also realize no one's traveling. There's no conflicts. It's lightning speed, putting this together. There are a lot of distinct musical personalities on the schedule. WOLFE Meredith kicking it off is very significant. First of all, we just made a beautiful recording with her, so we're really proud of that. And she has a long history with the organization. It was a curatorial decision, from early on, that this is multigenerational; it's multigenre. It's about the power of the music and the performers that engaged us. What are you particularly looking forward to hearing on Sunday? WOLFE I'm particularly excited about the commissions. Dai Wei is writing a new piece for Todd Reynolds for his electronics, and for his incredible violin chops. LANG I have a category of highlights: the people who are pushing the boundaries of the worlds that they are in. I'm interested in people like Moor Mother. I'm interested in Ian Chang. Meara O'Reilly. Mary Halvorson. GORDON When we first started the marathon, we asked George Lewis to come and perform. And he set up all these electronics and a Mac computer. And everything crashed. I thought, "Oh, what's this going to be, a flop?" And then he did the most incredible trombone solo. I was totally floored. And now here we are, a little more than 30 years later. To get to hear him, it's special. You come full circle. There are also lots of artists on the schedule who are closer to the beginning of their careers, like Shelley Washington. WOLFE She has a really strong connection to playing the sax in bands, and playing jazz. She's a very broad musician. We have some great video shots of her, from a Bang on a Can summer festival, looking ecstatic. We stayed in touch. It's fun again to pair her with the Bang on a Can All Star clarinetist Ken Thomson, because they worked so well together at the summer institute. LANG Eight of the younger composers I wouldn't call them "young" any more were people who came through our summer institute. When we started the marathon, we were trying to figure out people for whom Bang on a Can is central. Shelley Washington is a great example. She's an amazing person who would have been fine without us. But she found us. So we want to make sure we can help her, in this moment.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
More than 530,000 children have their tonsils or adenoids removed in the United States each year to prevent recurrent infections and sleep or breathing disorders. But a new study suggests that the surgery may have long term risks that in some cases outweigh any short time benefits. The report, in JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, compared 60,667 Danish children under 9 who had tonsillectomies, adenoidectomies or both with 1.1 million who had not had the surgeries. They were born between 1979 and 1999, and researchers followed their health for up to 30 years. After controlling for many health factors, they found that tonsillectomy was associated with almost triple the relative risk of diseases of the upper respiratory tract. Adenoidectomy was associated with about double the relative risk of obstructive pulmonary disorder, upper respiratory tract diseases and conjunctivitis. The surgery has some short term benefits in cases of abnormal breathing, sinusitis and ear infections, but the long term risks for those conditions were either significantly higher after surgery or not significantly different.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
Late Night Reels as Joe Biden Gets the Boot, Too Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. We're all stuck at home at the moment, so here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. President elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. fractured his foot over the weekend while playing with Major, his German shepherd. He'll have to wear an orthopedic boot for a while. "So in a way, Trump and Biden both got the boot this month," Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday. Trevor Noah was suspicious: "Someone check who that dog voted for," he said. "He suffered hairline fractures in his right foot. Even the eventful things that happen to Joe Biden are uneventful." JIMMY KIMMEL "Biden was like, 'Ah, it's no big deal; I've been dealing with a fractured hairline for years.'" JIMMY FALLON "Apparently, he slipped and fell while playing with Major, his dog. The Pentagon today announced that Major has been demoted to captain." JIMMY KIMMEL "And why does Biden need a walking boot? He shouldn't be walking; he should be riding a golf cart everywhere. It's called being presidential." TREVOR NOAH "I feel bad for Biden, though. Nobody wants to start a new job in a walking boot. It's hard to act tough with China when you have to leave a press conference on one of those knee scooters." JIMMY FALLON "Speaking of Donald Trump, Bloatus weighed in on Biden's injury last night. On Twitter, he wrote, 'Get well soon!' He's just jealous because Biden has a dog and all he has is Mike Pence." JIMMY KIMMEL "Can you imagine Trump having a dog? I can't picture him feeding anyone but himself. The closest Trump gets to that is when he feeds Giuliani a bucket of frozen mice." JIMMY KIMMEL "When the news broke, Kamala Harris was stretching in the bullpen like, 'I guess I'm getting in the game sooner than I thought.'" JIMMY FALLON "They're still in their 50s, so it was kind of like watching a fight scene from 'The Irishman,' except with double the amount of Black people from 'The Irishman.'" TREVOR NOAH, on Mike Tyson's fighting Roy Jones Jr. over the weekend "Who is this person disguised as Mike Tyson? What happened to the guy who said he would eat your children? And bit off two human ears? I guess this marijuana really works." JIMMY KIMMEL, on Tyson's mellow reaction to the fight being called a draw "Even half baked, Tyson looked pretty good. Roy Jones was hanging on to him for dear life. It was less of a fight it was more like two old friends who haven't seen each other in a long time, they just got the vaccine." JIMMY KIMMEL "Now I know some people didn't think this fight was worth the 50 they paid on pay per view, but right now, people, this is the only place you can see two middle aged men fighting. I mean, now that Covid has canceled all the Little League games, where else are you going to get that action, baby?" TREVOR NOAH	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
I had been on only one cruise in my life: a hulking 4,252 person Royal Caribbean vessel that featured an ice skating rink, a mini golf course, a casino and a Johnny Rockets. It felt as if a small city had been ripped from its foundation, airlifted and placed on the water. David Foster Wallace's famous essay on the perils of being pampered at sea rang true: Between the all you can eat food, bad drinks and being compelled to participate in "Y.M.C.A." more times than I care to admit, I was ready to never set foot on a cruise ship again. Two things changed my mind, and led me to book a cabin on a seven nighter to the Dominican Republic on Fathom, one of 10 Carnival brands. The first was the price: 249 plus taxes and fees. Even more shocking was that, after I had booked, the price dropped to 199 for an interior cabin. That breaks down to less than 30 per night. (While on board, at least one passenger inquired about moving onto the ship semi permanently.) The second reason for booking was that the cruise was not your typical party boat Fathom bills itself as a "social impact" cruise company, organizing on the ground projects with local nongovernmental organizations and encouraging passengers to take part in activities like teaching English in schools, sorting cacao beans at a cooperative, or helping to install concrete floors. This kind of "voluntourism" has become a legitimate travel niche: relatively well off people popping over for a week or two to volunteer in a country in need of economic assistance. It was only a matter of time before the idea spread to cruise companies: Crystal Cruises offers onshore volunteer opportunities, as do certain Holland America and Royal Caribbean Cruises. It's raised important questions about the complicated nature of development work and whether these voluntourists actually cause more harm than good. Why, some argue, encourage untrained tourists to spend thousands of dollars to go on one of these trips when far more good could be accomplished using that money to, say, hire trained local workers? But it seems that vacationers haven't gotten the message. The Adonia, as our ship was nicknamed, which holds 777 passengers, appeared to be about half full when I sailed. I didn't mind at all in fact, I found it made for pleasant sailing and a relaxing, almost meditative experience. Fathom did not respond to a request for occupancy numbers for Adonia's cruises, but recent events would indicate that my experience wasn't unusual: While dates for the Dominican Republic cruise have been extended through 2017, Fathom canceled two planned cruises to the island nation, replacing them with a more popular cruise to Cuba. And how was the cruise? With a few qualifications, I will say: very good. The Adonia, while lacking the amenities of some larger ships (full scale production of "Grease," anyone?), had a few advantages, the most notable being a greater sense of community. I couldn't help but strike up a conversation with someone after running into them multiple times in a day. Passengers are divided into groups called cohorts and are encouraged to attend meetings that discuss Fathom's mission of improving economic development and education in the Dominican Republic. Though some of the meetings played out a bit like a summer camp icebreaker ("When was the last time you were bold?" was a question I had to stand up and try to answer), the sentiment and general vibe of these gatherings were always positive. My lodgings, a balcony cabin on the bow of the ship, were excellent. The room was spacious, the bed comfy and the bathroom and amenities adequate. From my balcony I could turn around, look up and wave at the captain. Mostly, though, I just sat in one of the balcony chairs and gazed into the deep, stunning sapphire blue of the Caribbean. My cabin attendant was kind and kept my room in immaculate shape. Food on the ship is free in three of four restaurants, including the Pacific, the large main dining room. Dinner was usually a game attempt at something fancy venison loin with nashi pear, say, or panko encrusted coconut shrimp. Drinks are not free, but also not overpriced: Cocktails are 8 to 10 and beers 5 to 6, to which a gratuity is automatically added. When all was said and done, my final bill was 686.25 a significant markup from my 249 purchase price, but still quite cheap for a seven day cruise. That included a 50 percent single supplement, taxes and port fees, about 80 in gratuities, and another 80 or so for the outrageously expensive Wi Fi. I signed up for two activities: reforestation, in which volunteers plant trees and try to undo the effects of agricultural deforestation, and community education, in which groups of 20 to 25 volunteers go into homes in a local community and teach English. Disappointingly, reforestation was canceled because not enough people signed up. I had better luck with my second assignment, teaching English in the small town of San Marcos Abajo, near the city of Puerto Plata. A group of us boarded a bus near the port and made the 20 minute trek to a small, unpaved section of road in San Marcos, where we were greeted by members of the community. After a brief introduction in the sweltering heat, we were assigned to different houses. I met the girl I would tutor for roughly the next 90 minutes, a shy 11 year old named Racieli. I was given a binder with a basic English curriculum. I wasn't given much instruction or time to review it, but soon Racieli and I were reciting the alphabet and beginning to learn numbers. Did it make a difference with a capital D? Probably not. Would a trained teacher have done a better job? Undoubtedly. But I think there was value in the experience, for both of us. Racieli had come out of her shell a bit by the end of our session and told me she really enjoyed getting to meet visitors, an experience that builds confidence and is not really measurable. The passengers appreciated it, too. "It was like the best of both worlds," said Tia Taylor, a 22 year old passenger from Columbus, Ohio, "vacationing and giving back to the community while having fun and meeting great people." Bruce Armbrust, an instructor at Lake Tahoe Community College, called Fathom "completely different" from any other cruise he'd been on, saying that the attitudes of the passengers really set it apart. "There's an element of wanting to help instead of just, 'you're here to serve me,' " he said. If Fathom can successfully scale up these efforts, the effect might be more profound. Imagine having the 4,000 plus passengers on my first Royal Caribbean cruise each spend some time with a native family at one of the many ports of call, getting to know them and volunteering a few hours of manual labor, or trying to teach them a marketable skill. I would like to believe that would make a difference still lowercase, perhaps, but worthwhile nonetheless.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Travel
The 73rd annual Tony Awards were held on Sunday: None Here are the highlights of the 2019 Tony Awards ceremony. Our critics also weighed in on the show. See what they had to say. None Take a look inside Radio City Music Hall. Our photographer captured the big winners, eye catching presenters and, of course, the performances. None Ali Stroker won the award for best featured actress in a musical for her performance in "Oklahoma!," becoming the first wheelchair user to receive a Tony. None In her acceptance speech, Rachel Chavkin, the director of "Hadestown," challenged her industry to increase diversity. Bryan Cranston defended "all the real journalists around the world." None On the red carpet, stars like Billy Porter and Taylor Mac took the opportunity to challenge gender norms. The full list of winners is below. Best Revival of a Play: "The Boys in the Band" Best Leading Actress in a Play: Elaine May, "The Waverly Gallery"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
From Bernstein centennials at Tanglewood to Mahler in the desert, concerts across the country you don't want to miss this season. We also picked our favorite festivals in theater, dance and pop music. ST. LOUIS, MAY 19 JUNE 24 Four ideally balanced productions make up this summer's program. There's a "La Traviata," which represents the directing debut of the soprano Patricia Racette. There's a slight rarity, not that it should be, in the form of Gluck's "Orfeo and Euridice," starring Jennifer Johnson Cano. There's an overlooked American piece dating from 1949, Marc Blitzstein's "Regina," which features Susan Graham in the title role. And there's a premiere, "An American Soldier," with music by Huang Ruo and a libretto by David Henry Hwang. opera stl.org CHARLESTON, S.C., MAY 25 JUNE 10 The Westminster Choir is in residence again in Charleston, as it has been since 1977, but opera remains at the heart of this festival's classical offerings, with three productions this year. Most notable among them is the American premiere of Liza Lim's "Tree of Codes," inspired by the book by Jonathan Safran Foer and directed by Ong Keng Sen. There are also Cimarosa's "Il Matrimonio Segreto" and Donizetti's "Pia de' Tolomei," having its first U.S. performance a mere 181 years after its debut in Venice. spoletousa.org CHICAGO, JUNE 1 SEPT. 16 The warm weather retreat of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra sees that esteemed ensemble giving 15 programs. They are led for the most part by Marin Alsop, who was a pupil of Leonard Bernstein's, so there are plenty of tributes scheduled in honor of the composer's centennial, including a performance of his "Mass." Other conductors passing through town include Vasily Petrenko and Gustavo Dudamel, who gives an all Beethoven concert with the pianist Yuja Wang. And there are concerto appearances from Igor Levit, Joshua Bell and Simon Trpceski. On a smaller scale are recitals from the Pacifica Quartet, Jonathan Biss and Federico Colli. ravinia.org OJAI, CALIF., JUNE 7 10 Patricia Kopatchinskaja, the endlessly intelligent and provocative violinist, is the music director of this happily inventive festival this year, and she is doing a welcome amount of playing, too. With help from the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the JACK Quartet and others, her concerts are predominantly thematic, often juxtaposing the very old with the relatively new. There are also programs devoted to the music of Michael Hersch, Georg Friedrich Haas, Hans Abrahamsen and Galina Ustvolskaya. In contrast to the sprawl that blights many other classical festivals, Ojai is a concentrated burst of intellectual energy, easily reached just outside Los Angeles. ojaifestival.org LENOX, MASS., JUNE 15 SEPT. 2 A celebration of Bernstein dominates this season's festivities in the Berkshires, a place so central to his life. Fans of his theatrical works can enjoy "On the Town," "Trouble in Tahiti," "Fancy Free," "Candide" and more, while his orchestral output and works associated with his conducting are amply represented in the Boston Symphony's output at this, its summer home. Andris Nelsons leads 13 programs, including Mahler's Symphony No. 3 and a semi staged performance of Puccini's "La Boheme," starring Kristine Opolais and Piotr Beczala. Thomas Ades, the British composer, is this year's curator of the Festival of Contemporary Music, and there are solo appearances by Igor Levit, the JACK Quartet, Paul Lewis and Jeremy Denk. bso.org KATONAH, N.Y., JUNE 16 JULY 29 The Orchestra of St. Luke's is the house band in Westchester County, and it gives concerts led by Ludovic Morlot and Bernard Labadie. Other ticketed events include Handel's "Atalanta" from Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; a So Percussion premiere of a new work by Vijay Iyer; piano recitals by Michael Brown and Marc Andre Hamelin; and appearances by the Knights, the Brentano Quartet and Apollo's Fire. Also of note is a free performance of John Luther Adams's outdoor percussion masterpiece, "Inuksuit." caramoor.org VAIL, COLO., JUNE 21 AUG. 2 As usual, the visits of four major orchestras make up the bulk of this serene Rocky Mountains festival. Leading off is the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, directed by Joshua Bell, followed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which is joined by two notable pianists, Helene Grimaud and Behzod Abduraimov. Heavier fare comes from the Philadelphia Orchestra, led this year by Stephane Deneve and Donald Runnicles and featuring soloists Nikolaj Znaider, Augustin Hadelich and Daniil Trifonov. And the New York Philharmonic brings Bernstein under Bramwell Tovey, as well as two concerts conducted by David Robertson. bravovail.org ASPEN, COLO., JUNE 28 AUG. 19 More than 400 events take place at this year's festival, the big daddy of North American events, and many of them come under an overall theme, "Paris, City of Light." That means a good dose of French music, particularly from the start of the 20th century, performed by an array of resident ensembles, under the watchful eye of music director Robert Spano. Guest soloists this year include Yuja Wang, Daniil Trifonov, Sarah Chang, Jonathan Biss and James Ehnes; and the conductors David Robertson and Ludovic Morlot, among others, are on hand to help with podium duties. aspenmusicfestival.com ANNANDALE ON HUDSON, N.Y., JUNE 28 AUG. 19 At the heart of every summer at Bard College is the Bard Music Festival (Aug. 10 19), which this year concentrates on the composer Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov and provides a wealth of panels and performances that climax in a presentation of his 10th opera, "The Tsar's Bride." Before that, SummerScape takes an inventive approach to this year's celebration of Bernstein's centennial, with a Christopher Alden production of his dark Broadway adaptation of "Peter Pan." And Leon Botstein, that indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, conducts a run of Anton Rubinstein's "Demon" with the American Symphony Orchestra. fishercenter.bard.edu SANTE FE, N.M., JUNE 29 AUG. 25 Five operas this year out in the desert, all of them strongly cast. Most valuable is a fresh staging of John Adams' seminal "Doctor Atomic," directed by its librettist, Peter Sellars. It stars Ryan McKinny as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Julia Bullock as his wife, while Matthew Aucoin conducts. A Tim Albery production of Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" also looks good, with the up and coming James Gaffigan conducting a cast including Amanda Majeski as the Composer. Rounding out the bill are a run of Bernstein's "Candide," directed by Laurent Pelly; a decent helping of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"; and the return of Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri," with the excellent Daniela Mack in the leading role. santafeopera.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
A flu vaccine being administered in Brownsville, Tex., in September. This winter's flu season has been made worse by an imperfect vaccine and unusually cold weather, according to health experts. Already 'Moderately Severe,' Flu Season in U.S. Could Get Worse This winter's flu season is turning into a "moderately severe" one that might get worse because of an imperfect vaccine and steady cold weather, flu experts and public health officials said this week. The flu is now widespread across the country and the peak of transmission probably occurred during the Christmas New Year's holiday week, just as many people were crowded into planes, buses and cars or in large family gatherings, said Dr. Daniel B. Jernigan, director of the influenza division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 80 percent of cases are of the H3N2 strain, which caused many hospitalizations and deaths this year in Australia, where winter comes in July and August. READ: Questions and Answers About This Year's Flu Season Compared to H1N1, the other seasonal Type A strain, and to B strains that usually arrive late in the season, H3N2 tends to kill more of the very young and very old, he said. Warnings about the "Killer Aussie Flu" were raised as far back as September mostly by British media outlets. However, those fears are probably exaggerated because of two important differences between this country and Australia, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. Far fewer Australians are immune because flu shots there are recommended only for health care workers and people at high risk those who are pregnant, have diabetes, obesity, lung problems, compromised immunity or other factors. Health authorities in the United States recommend flu shots for everyone older than six months. Also, the same H3N2 strain that hit Australia hard circulated last winter in this country, so anyone who caught it then should be immune this year, Dr. Fauci said. According to the C.D.C.'s FluView index, which is updated each Friday, this season's infection rate is closely echoing that of the 2014 15 season, which was also a predominantly H3N2 year and also rated "moderately severe." However, the hospitalization rate is already only half that of 2014 15, Dr. Jernigan said, so he expects fewer deaths. Flu has been ticking up again in the wake of several mild seasons that followed the 2009 10 "swine flu" pandemic. In that year, an H1N1 virus with a mix of human, bird and pig genes that had never been seen before struck in the spring of 2009, disappeared over summer and returned in the fall. Although millions caught it, it turned out to be relatively mild, and few died. The H3N2 component of Australia's flu shot was reported to be only 10 percent effective at preventing infection and is the same as in North American shots. But both Dr. Jernigan and Dr. Fauci said they expected to see roughly 30 percent effectiveness when data is collected at season's end, in part because more healthy people get their shots. The vaccine mismatch was not caused by a genetic shift in the circulating flu, as happens in some years, but by changes in the "seed virus" used in the vaccine; as it grew in eggs, it picked up mutations foreign to human flu. Dr. Fauci was one of the authors of an article published Thursday in The New England Journal of Medicine arguing that it is time to stop using a flawed 70 year old technology eggs and pursue a universal flu vaccine that can be ready in less than the eight months it now takes. Nonetheless, experts still recommend getting flu shots even at this late date because the season has three more months to run and because, even when shots fail to stop infection, they often prevent the worst complications: pneumonia and death. "It's far from a perfect vaccine, but we can still do a lot of good with a pretty good one," said Dr. William Schaffner, head of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University's medical school. Flu hospitalizations in Nashville, where Vanderbilt is, "have really spiked in the last two weeks and are still going up," he said. Similar reports have come in from around the country. Flu remains a major killer. Last month, health agencies in 47 countries, including the C.D.C., published a study in the Lancet with new, higher mortality estimates. Even in the absence of a pandemic, a severe flu year kills nearly 650,000 people worldwide, while a mild one kills just under 300,000, the study concluded. In recent years, the C.D.C. estimates, flu has killed about 12,000 Americans in mild years and 56,000 in moderately severe ones. Some flu experts have privately complained that this year, the C.D.C. appears to be promoting vaccination less vigorously than usual, especially given the "Aussie flu" worries. Dr. Jernigan expressed surprise at hearing that, but said changes in leadership within the Trump administration might have shifted media attention away from the issue.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
Now Lives: Cat sitting at a friend's one bedroom apartment in Chinatown, after a three month stint in Los Angeles. Claim to Fame: Zsela Thompson is a rising singer and songwriter of melodic, folksy ballads popular with the bicoastal art and fashion scene. She is still a relative unknown, but her songbird voice and breezy downtown style have won her high praise. Vogue described her voice as "transfixing," likening her to Joni Mitchell and Joan Armatrading, and featured her as a "bold talent remaking fashion," in a feature photographed by Ryan McGinley. Big Break: Ms. Thompson grew up singing, surrounded by an artistic family. (Her father is Marc Anthony Thompson, a funk and rock musician known as Chocolate Genius. Her mother, Kate Sterlin, is a fine art photographer, and her half sister is Tessa Thompson, an actress.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
WASHINGTON Election to the elite National Academy of Medicine is one of the highest honors a doctor can achieve. Many of its members have been giants in public health: Dr. Herbert Needleman, who discovered the dangers of lead on children's brains; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, known for his groundbreaking work on AIDS; and Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former head of the Food and Drug Administration. And then there's Eric K. Noji, a disaster medicine specialist who was admitted in 2005. Here is how Dr. Noji's work is described on one of his LinkedIn pages: "So much has been said and written about the life and work of Eric Noji, a story so mythic in its epic sweep and inspirational in its chronology of service and unrelenting self sacrifice on behalf of those who suffer that it is difficult to summarize." Dr. Noji also, until recently, listed impressive honors: the Ordre des Palmes Academiques, presented by President Hollande of France; nomination to the Royal College of Physicians of London; the Antarctica Medal of Honor for Scientific Exploration; and an M.B.A. from Stanford. But the French never bestowed that award on Dr. Noji. The Royal College didn't nominate him. There is no such prize as the Antarctica Medal of Honor for Scientific Exploration. Stanford Business School says it has no record of his existence. And some of his papers plus a book chapter were copied from former colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for International Development, according to a complaint filed with the academy by Dr. Arthur Kellermann, dean of the nation's military medical school. This is a strange tale of a staid institution whose rules for members are lax enough that even an official investigation that found blatant plagiarism did not qualify as cause for expulsion of an elusive doctor. The core of the complaint, filed by Dr. Kellermann of the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., concerns a research paper in which Dr. Noji described some daring emergency medicine work he performed during the 2003 Iraq invasion. But an investigation in 2016 by the Uniformed Services University (a military medical school), where Dr. Noji was an adjunct professor, found that the mission was actually handled by Dr. Frederick "Skip" Burkle Jr., records show. The investigation also concluded that Dr. Noji plagiarized other research papers and misrepresented his credentials, according to the university's complaint. Dr. Noji did not respond to multiple requests for an interview, but in a letter in 2016 to the university, he denied wrongdoing. Correcting the record has become something of a personal mission for Dr. Arthur Kellermann, dean of the military medical school, and a group of high profile colleagues that includes a former surgeon general, an astronaut and a former White House doctor. They argue that the reputation of their mentor, Dr. Burkle, has been severely damaged and that the good name of both the university and the academy is at stake. The case has pitted the military medical school, which prides itself on honor and service, against the academy, which considers its members above reproach. "If you want to try and have an independent effort to investigate, it can be a very significant undertaking, with due process, so that you are confident in the outcome," said R. Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is also a member of the academy. "A lot of it will be confidential because they are personnel actions." In this case, it wasn't until Dr. Burkle heard about the plagiarism, years after it occurred, that he notified the military medical school. An investigation by the medical school found that before Dr. Noji was named to the academy, he had plagiarized five research papers, fabricated an account of his personal exploits in Iraq, and claimed unearned degrees and awards, according to the school's documents. The school dismissed him in May 2016. But when Dr. Arthur Kellermann asked the academy to dismiss Dr. Noji as well, he hit a roadblock. Nothing in the academy bylaws allowed for ousting a member who had committed scientific misconduct. So Dr. Kellermann, who was on the academy's governing board, and colleagues, lobbied for the change. Dr. Victor Dzau, president of the academy, supported it. Formerly known as the Institute of Medicine, the organization is a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and has over 2,000 members in the United States. It accepts about 70 new members from the U.S. a year. It is not a government agency, but it is often relied on as a source of independent, objective analysis for policymakers on subjects ranging from gun violence to regulation of medical devices. There is a long list of researchers who would like the cachet that comes from election to the academy and the high profile that can come from serving on one of its advisory panels. In a compromise reached in December 2016, in the wake of the Noji complaint, the academy decided that membership could be rescinded if an individual provided false information before becoming a member. Falsification, plagiarism or fabrication after a doctor becomes a member of the elite organization isn't grounds for removal, said a spokesman for the organization. They are still considering Dr. Noji's case. Brian Martinson, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, and a specialist in research ethics, believes that's an unfortunate loophole. "That's crazy," Mr. Martinson said. "I serve on a district council in my neighborhood and our bylaws are such that if you behave badly while you are on the board of directors we can kick you out.'' Attempts to reach Dr. Noji at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he is a professor, according to the school's website, were unsuccessful. A native of Hawaii, Dr. Noji spent roughly 20 years as a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, leaving in 2008. In "Notes from the Field: Crisis in Iraq," published in the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters in March 2003, Dr. Noji wrote that he played a major role in the disaster assistance response after the invasion.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
But the lower monthly payments available with leases and longer term loans come with some trade offs. Longer loan terms mean buyers will pay more in interest for the car over all, and increase the risk that some sort of economic shift an increase in gas prices, say may make the car less affordable during the life of the loan, Mr. Bartlett said. Leasing, meanwhile, can lock consumers into a stubborn pattern of monthly payments. "When you enter a lease for the first time, it seems wonderful," Mr. Bartlett said, since the lessee gets a new car with low monthly payments, and down payments that are usually quite low as well. It is easy to overlook that at the end of the lease, there will not be a car to trade in to help finance the purchase of another one. That makes another lease more likely, so the consumer never has the benefit of a payment free period, as when a shorter term loan is paid off. "It's hard to break the cycle," he said. People who drive long distances, or who often transport children or pets, may not be good candidates for leasing, he said. Leases typically include a fixed mileage amount often 12,000 miles a year and charge drivers hefty fees for exceeding it. Leases also usually include fees for "excessive" wear and tear. That means that dents or scratches, or stains on the upholstery, may cost hundreds of dollars at the end of the lease. "If you have messy children or a hairy, slobbering dog, think twice," Mr. Bartlett said. Lease agreements can also be confusing and contain jargon, as well as hidden fees, that make it difficult for shoppers to understand clearly the overall cost. "It pays to go slow and look at all the numbers," he advised. Consumer Reports has a list of leasing pros and cons on its website. Mr. Reed of Edmunds said the cheapest option was usually to buy a used car, perhaps with a small loan. But some people enjoy driving new cars and, if they understand the trade offs, he said, leasing can make sense. The consumer has a car with the most up to date safety features and will be driving it during its most reliable period, so there is less worry about budgeting for repairs. "It's quite likely you won't even have to buy tires," he said. Here are some questions and answers about leasing a car: Can I negotiate the mileage terms in a car lease? Yes, Mr. Bartlett said. Mileage fees can add up. If you drive 1,000 miles over the limit, and the overage fee is 25 cents a mile, that's an extra 250. So if you suspect you will go over the allotment, you can seek to negotiate upfront for extra miles, at a lower rate, and be reimbursed for the miles not used.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
Richard Dobatse, a Navy medic in San Diego, dabbled infrequently in stock trading. But his behavior changed in 2017 when he signed up for Robinhood, a trading app that made buying and selling stocks simple and seemingly free. Mr. Dobatse, now 32, said he had been charmed by Robinhood's one click trading, easy access to complex investment products, and features like falling confetti and emoji filled phone notifications that made it feel like a game. After funding his account with 15,000 in credit card advances, he began spending more time on the app. As he repeatedly lost money, Mr. Dobatse took out two 30,000 home equity loans so he could buy and sell more speculative stocks and options, hoping to pay off his debts. His account value shot above 1 million this year but almost all of that recently disappeared. This week, his balance was 6,956. "When he is doing his trading, he won't want to eat," said his wife, Tashika Dobatse, with whom he has three children. "He would have nightmares." Millions of young Americans have begun investing in recent years through Robinhood, which was founded in 2013 with a sales pitch of no trading fees or account minimums. The ease of trading has turned it into a cultural phenomenon and a Silicon Valley darling, with the start up climbing to an 8.3 billion valuation. It has been one of the tech industry's biggest growth stories in the recent market turmoil. But at least part of Robinhood's success appears to have been built on a Silicon Valley playbook of behavioral nudges and push notifications, which has drawn inexperienced investors into the riskiest trading, according to an analysis of industry data and legal filings, as well as interviews with nine current and former Robinhood employees and more than a dozen customers. And the more that customers engaged in such behavior, the better it was for the company, the data shows. More than at any other retail brokerage firm, Robinhood's users trade the riskiest products and at the fastest pace, according to an analysis of new filings from nine brokerage firms by the research firm Alphacution for The New York Times. In the first three months of 2020, Robinhood users traded nine times as many shares as E Trade customers, and 40 times as many shares as Charles Schwab customers, per dollar in the average customer account in the most recent quarter. They also bought and sold 88 times as many risky options contracts as Schwab customers, relative to the average account size, according to the analysis. This kind of trading, where a few minutes can mean the difference between winning and losing, was particularly hazardous on Robinhood because the firm has experienced an unusual number of technology issues, public records show. Some Robinhood employees, who declined to be identified for fear of retaliation, said the company failed to provide adequate guardrails and technology to support its customers. Those dangers came into focus last month when Alex Kearns, 20, a college student in Nebraska, killed himself after he logged into the app and saw that his balance had dropped to negative 730,000. The figure was high partly because of some incomplete trades. "There was no intention to be assigned this much and take this much risk," Mr. Kearns wrote in his suicide note, which a family member posted on Twitter. Like Mr. Kearns, Robinhood's average customer is young and lacks investing know how. The average age is 31, the company said, and half of its customers had never invested before. Some have visited Robinhood's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., in recent years to confront the staff about their losses, said four employees who witnessed the incidents. This year, they said, the start up installed a glass barrier at the front entrance. "They encourage people to go from training wheels to driving motorcycles," Scott Smith, who tracks brokerage firms at the financial consulting firm Cerulli, said of Robinhood. "Over the long term, it's like trying to beat the casino." At the core of Robinhood's business is an incentive to encourage more trading. It does not charge fees for trading, but it is still paid more if its customers trade more. That's because it makes money through a complex practice known as "payment for order flow." Each time a Robinhood customer trades, Wall Street firms actually buy or sell the shares and determine what price the customer gets. These firms pay Robinhood for the right to do this, because they then engage in a form of arbitrage by trying to buy or sell the stock for a profit over what they give the Robinhood customer. This practice is not new, and retail brokers such as E Trade and Schwab also do it. But Robinhood makes significantly more than they do for each stock share and options contract sent to the professional trading firms, the filings show. For each share of stock traded, Robinhood made four to 15 times more than Schwab in the most recent quarter, according to the filings. In total, Robinhood got 18,955 from the trading firms for every dollar in the average customer account, while Schwab made 195, the Alphacution analysis shows. Industry experts said this was most likely because the trading firms believed they could score the easiest profits from Robinhood customers. Vlad Tenev, a founder and co chief executive of Robinhood, said in an interview that even with some of its customers losing money, young Americans risked greater losses by not investing in stocks at all. Not participating in the markets "ultimately contributed to the sort of the massive inequalities that we're seeing in society," he said. Mr. Tenev said only 12 percent of the traders active on Robinhood each month used options, which allow people to bet on where the price of a specific stock will be on a specific day and multiply that by 100. He said the company had added educational content on how to invest safely. He declined to comment on why Robinhood makes more than its competitors from the Wall Street firms. The company also declined to provide data on its customers' performance. Robinhood does not force people to trade, of course. But its success at getting them do so has been highlighted internally. In June, the actor Ashton Kutcher, who has invested in Robinhood, attended one of the company's weekly staff meetings on Zoom and celebrated its success by comparing it to gambling websites, said three people who were on the call. Mr. Kutcher said in a statement that his comment "was not intended to be a comparison of business models nor the experience Robinhood provides its customers" and that it referred "to the current growth metrics." He added that he was "absolutely not insinuating that Robinhood was a gambling platform." Robinhood was founded by Mr. Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, two children of immigrants who met at Stanford University in 2005. After teaming up on several ventures, including a high speed trading firm, they were inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement to create a company that would make finance more accessible, they said. They named the start up Robinhood after the English outlaw who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Robinhood eliminated trading fees while most brokerage firms charged 10 or more for a trade. It also added features to make investing more like a game. New members were given a free share of stock, but only after they scratched off images that looked like a lottery ticket. The app is simple to use. The home screen has a list of trendy stocks. If a customer touches one of them, a green button pops up with the word "trade," skipping many of the steps that other firms require. Robinhood initially offered only stock trading. Over time, it added options trading and margin loans, which make it possible to turbocharge investment gains and to supersize losses. The app advertises options with the tagline "quick, straightforward free." Customers who want to trade options answer just a few multiple choice questions. Beginners are legally barred from trading options, but those who click that they have no investing experience are coached by the app on how to change the answer to "not much" experience. Then people can immediately begin trading. Before Robinhood added options trading in 2017, Mr. Bhatt scoffed at the idea that the company was letting investors take uninformed risks. "The best thing we can say to those people is 'Just do it,'" he told Business Insider at the time. In May, Robinhood said it had 13 million accounts, up from 10 million at the end of 2019. Schwab said it had 12.7 million brokerage accounts in its latest filings; E Trade reported 5.5 million. That growth has kept the money flowing in from venture capitalists. Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates are among those that have poured 1.3 billion into Robinhood. In May, the company received a fresh 280 million. "Robinhood has made the financial markets accessible to the masses and, in turn, revolutionized the decades old brokerage industry," Andrew Reed, a partner at Sequoia, said after last month's fund raising. Mr. Tenev has said Robinhood has invested in the best technology in the industry. But the risks of trading through the app have been compounded by its tech glitches. In 2018, Robinhood released software that accidentally reversed the direction of options trades, giving customers the opposite outcome from what they expected. Last year, it mistakenly allowed people to borrow infinite money to multiply their bets, leading to some enormous gains and losses. Robinhood's website has also gone down more often than those of its rivals 47 times since March for Robinhood and 10 times for Schwab according to a Times analysis of data from Downdetector.com, which tracks website reliability. In March, the site was down for almost two days, just as stock prices were gyrating because of the coronavirus pandemic. Robinhood's customers were unable to make trades to blunt the damage to their accounts. Four Robinhood employees, who declined to be identified, said the outage was rooted in issues with the company's phone app and servers. They said the start up had underinvested in technology and moved too quickly rather than carefully. Mr. Tenev said he could not talk about the outage beyond a company blog post that said it was "not acceptable." Robinhood had recently made new technology investments, he said. Plaintiffs who have sued over the outage said Robinhood had done little to respond to their losses. Unlike other brokers, the company has no phone number for customers to call. Mr. Dobatse suffered his biggest losses in the March outage 860,000, his records show. Robinhood did not respond to his emails, he said. A Robinhood spokesman said the company did respond.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
The Democratic National Convention featured not only a slate of the party's heavyweights, but also several prominent Republicans. Missing from the lineup? Prominent progressive Latinos. Julian Castro, the only Latino to run for president in 2020 and who delivered a keynote speech at the 2012 convention, wasn't given any speaking time. And don't tell me that giving Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a rising superstar and arguably the most effective political communicator, about 90 seconds of airtime was enough. She had less time to speak than a former Republican governor who got nearly 4 minutes. The two other Latino politicians who had major speaking slots Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada were moderates with lower profiles. Rather than growing the electorate, which is how Democrats will win in November and beyond, it seems as though they are reaching out to Republican voters. This sends a terrible message to the Latino voters they need to win in November. There are a record breaking 23 million naturalized citizens eligible to vote this November, 34 percent of whom are Latino. I became a citizen last year, and I will be voting for the first time in a presidential election this November after many years of being undocumented. Yet, Joe Biden continues to have an enthusiasm problem with Latinos. A PBS NewsHour NPR Marist poll showed Mr. Biden underperforming: Only 59 percent of Latinos said they'd vote for him over Donald Trump, compared with the 66 percent who voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Biden campaign has tried to close its Latino enthusiasm gap by releasing a policy plan to address economic inequality and empower Latinos. The plan includes a commitment to ensuring that immigrants have access to free Covid 19 testing, treatment and an eventual vaccine. It also includes a reinstatement of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and limiting the use of programs that force local law enforcement to take on the role of immigration enforcement. But, there's much that is lacking. One glaring omission is Medicare for All. The Covid 19 pandemic has exposed the fact that millions of immigrants live without health insurance and have suffered disproportionately in recent months. Access to affordable health care was a top issue for Latinx voters who sided with Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries. Mr. Biden has refused to endorse Medicare for All a popular solution to our nation's health care catastrophe that would serve all people, including undocumented immigrants. Mr. Biden isn't doing enough to move the people he needs to persuade to vote for him. Just a few weeks ago, 90 field organizers for the Florida Democratic Party signed an internal letter saying the Biden campaign has no "fully actionable field plan," and is "suppressing the Hispanic vote" in Central Florida. These are significant missteps that the Biden campaign should fix quickly. But we don't want watered down deportation policies. We want him to stop deportations in his first 100 days and eliminate for profit detention facilities. We want the Biden administration to push Congress to defund ICE and C.B.P. We want him to reunite families that have been separated by wrongful deportations and asylum denials. Protecting DACA is the floor, not the ceiling. After all, the immigrant justice movement has turned public opinion against Donald Trump's deportation force. More Americans today than ever before dislike ICE. A 2019 Pew Research Center survey found ICE was the only agency asked about in the survey viewed more negatively (54 percent) than positively (42 percent). Only 19 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners view the agency favorably. Electoral coalitions are about addition, not subtraction. The math is straightforward. Mr. Biden can persuade a larger number of voters by making it clear that, if elected, immigrants will have reason to be optimistic about the future, despite the horrors of the present. This pro immigrant version of Mr. Biden has yet to emerge. The best time for that version to arrive is right now. It would make Mr. Biden a much more compelling presidential candidate, one who could drive an enormous number of voters to the polls and defeat Donald Trump in a landslide and enable us to rebuild the country from the ground up. Cristina Jimenez Moreta ( CrisAlexJimenez) is the co founder of United We Dream Action. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We'd like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here's our email: letters nytimes.com. Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Twitter ( NYTopinion) and Instagram.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
When Sanford Smith talks about working in "show business," he's not referring to Broadway or Hollywood. Over the last four decades he has produced some 130 fairs nationwide, bringing together dealers in art, design and antiques. "At the high point of my career, I did 11 shows a year," Mr. Smith, who recently turned 80, said at his home, an Upper West Side brownstone brimming with an eccentric personal collection. The examples of Americana and modern and contemporary art and design there reflect the fairs he has created over the years. Art by early American modernists including John Marin, Charles Burchfield and George Bellows is mixed with contemporary pieces by Judy Pfaff and Michael Zelehoski and furniture designed by George Nakashima, Charlotte Perriand, Paul Evans and Ettore Sottsass. It's the kind of eclecticism that Mr. Smith favors in his high end show Salon Art Design, now in its eighth edition and opening Nov. 14 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. In Mr. Smith's house you'll find more than two dozen antique weather vanes featuring sculpted animals, hundreds of miniature toy soldiers battling on the shelves and a cigar store Indian. These were the kinds of objects sold in the All American Antiques Show that he started in 1980, the first fair devoted to such material. After noticing a niche within this show, he spun off the Outsider Art Fair in 1992, helping to establish a market for work by self taught artists. Pointing to several Thornton Dial works on paper he bought at that first fair, he said: "I paid maybe 100 bucks for these originally. I just saw that Jane Fonda has consigned one of Dial's big drawings to Sotheby's for 200,000." Growing up in Brooklyn on Ocean Parkway, Mr. Smith avidly collected comic books and baseball cards "including some that today would be worth a fortune," he said, lamenting that his mother had thrown them away when he went to college. After graduate school, he went to work in the office of his father's funeral business. "I was bored out of my mind," he said. On his way home he would alleviate the tedium by perusing the antique shops that used to line University Place in Greenwich Village. The collecting fever snowballed with weekend trips to auctions in Connecticut, where he would fill his Country Squire station wagon with pictures, furniture and bric a brac. What he didn't have room to keep, Mr. Smith and his first wife began reselling at the now extinct 26th Street flea market. "In those days, the stalls were 15," he said. "The first time we did it, we made 50 net. I said, 'This is for me.'" Following are edited excerpts from our conversation. What was the first thing you collected as an adult? Little Vienna bronzes, painted figures of animals and people that were made in the late 19th century into the early 20th century in Austria. They stopped being produced around 1935 because the materials were then used for armaments by Nazi Germany. Did you know anything about them originally? No, but like everything else that I ever bought, or dealt with, I got library books so I could learn. I liked them aesthetically. Some were vignettes. Pigs playing instruments. Acrobatic animals standing on each others' shoulders. They were whimsical. How have you typically found things? I used to go to every antique store on Routes 5 and 10. I'd start out in Connecticut and work my way up into Massachusetts and back. This is before online. Now it's so much easier. All these shooting gallery targets and the soldiers came from eBay or somewhere else online. But I go through every show I do. I look through almost every place I go to see if there's something that interests me. I get every magazine published in the business. Are you still acquiring as actively these days? I'm not buying any more weather vanes because I have no place to put them. But I'm bidding on a lamp by Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis school. I can't help myself. I go through collecting binges. That entire collection of toy soldiers I picked up in about four months. I will build a collection, like of American pewter, and then I'll sell it all. The acquisition is the fun. I love the hunt.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
"I think once the writers saw that I was playing Lalo with charm, they started writing charm into the scripts," said Tony Dalton, whose Lalo Salamanca was the central villain of Season 5. This interview contains spoilers for the Season 5 finale of "Better Call Saul." Cheerful, easygoing and sociopathic, Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca has caused agita for just about everyone in "Better Call Saul" since he showed up in Albuquerque last season. By the end of the Season 5 finale, which aired Monday, he had survived the crew of assassins dispatched to his home in Mexico by his arch nemesis and drug trade rival, Gus Fring. The clash ended poorly for the assassins Lalo killed them all and very well for Tony Dalton, who has turned Lalo into the sort of irresistible rascal you hate yourself for loving. The role is a breakthrough for Dalton, 45, a standout in what is easily the most compelling season yet of "Better Call Saul," a prequel to "Breaking Bad." Until last year, Dalton was largely invisible to American audiences, aside from brief appearances in "Sense8," a sci fi drama on Netflix. Raised in Mexico City and educated at a private school in Massachusetts, he studied acting briefly at the Lee Strasberg Theater Film Institute in Manhattan, and then headed to Los Angeles. There, he confounded a lot of casting directors. "I have this thing that's sort of chased me around," he said on the phone last week. "'Well, you don't look that Mexican, you don't sound Mexican, but you are Mexican. So, do we give you a Mexican part or do we give you an American part?' It's been the bane of my existence as an actor. It finally worked in my favor." Dalton spoke about creating Lalo and surviving for Season 6 from his home in Mexico City, where he is sheltering in place with his girlfriend and eating a lot of barbecue. "I'm trying to go with barbecue every day," he said. "It's not like I have something better to do." These are edited excerpts from the conversation. My favorite line from this season isn't really a line. It's a word. At least I think it's a word. In Episode 3, as Lalo is getting into his car, Jimmy (a.k.a. Saul Goodman) says he doesn't have time for more cartel legal work, because his schedule is tight. Lalo smiles and says, "You'll make time," before gleefully tilting back his head and making a sound like, "klah!" Was that in the script? No, it was not. As a matter of fact, Peter Peter Gould, a showrunner and executive producer was like, "What the hell was that?" He said: "I love it, I'm keeping it. I just don't know what you're saying." It sort of means "C'mon!" the way a mother might say to a kid. But without the anger. There are a lot of things I do in Spanish that I see people react to on Twitter. Stuff that the gringos don't get, man. Laughs. The scripts are really specific. You say what's on the page. But once in a while I get a "klah" in there. For a coldblooded sociopath, Lalo is such a charming guy. Was it your idea to play him that way? The charm part was mine, to be honest. I had played a hit man in a series for HBO Latinoamerica called "Sr. Avila." He had zero personality. If he was standing against a wall, you couldn't tell him apart from the wall. My character was the lead, and he was invisible. I thought that with Lalo, I need to turn this around, do something different. I remember an interview with the director Shekhar Kapur, who was asked about casting Geoffrey Rush, who was playing yet another bad guy in "Elizabeth." And Kapur said something like, "Yeah, but this guy kills with a smile." That always stayed in my mind. I thought maybe I could explore a character like that if the opportunity ever presented itself. But the stars have to align. Someone needs to not only like that idea, but make it better. I think once the writers saw that I was playing Lalo with charm, they started writing charm into the scripts. It's completely and totally a collaboration. When did you find out that you would survive the end of Season 5? I learned maybe a week before I got the script. Somebody told me. But they can tell you anything they want. Not until you read it on the page do you know. When I finished reading the last episode, I thought, "OK, looks like I'm in this for the long run." To be honest, I try just to make the character shine, and if it's going to end, it's going to end. At the same time, I didn't think that Lalo was going to die. I thought that the writers had to explain why Saul Goodman is so scared of Lalo. Right. I just thought, if there's going to be another season of "Better Call Saul," it would be hard to explain Saul's fear in "Breaking Bad" if Lalo wasn't around for the last season. We know so little about Lalo as a person. In the last episode, he returns to his home in Mexico and we learn he has a staff, with a cook and some heavies. But no wife, no family, no lover. Have you ever discussed Lalo's back story with the writers? Sort of. A little bit. We've kind of come up with something that works for the story. For example, one reason I don't do him with a thick Mexican accent is because I think he's kind of a second generation narco. He might have gone to a good school in Texas or Arizona or something because his family had money. He grew up with a little of the American way of life. He's a narco rich kid. That's different from a poor farmer who stumbles across some marijuana. Aside from his love of mass marketing meth and his violent streak, he's not like the other Salamancas in the show. I have a feeling that Lalo's mom is a gringa. That's why he's a little whiter, he speaks a little bit better. That's just my own crazy character development thing. And I think the cartel sends Lalo all over the place. Maybe he was in San Diego before. He's moving up the ranks. That's how he operates. And not having a family, it's one reason he's so carefree. It's why he's such a charming guy in Albuquerque, why he has such a laid back demeanor. He doesn't care where he is. It seems like the writers kind of want parts of Lalo's life to remain a mystery. When we visit Lalo's home, you may not find out everything you want to know about his life, but you learn a hell of a lot more than you knew before. You find out that he's got a maid whom he loves, and the writers make sure you can tell that he loves her. So when she's killed by those guys at the end of the episode, you go, "Oh expletive , they killed his maid." When Lalo finds her dead, he's like, "Now I'm pissed." He's the only Salamanca you'd want to get a drink with, but he's a cold blooded killer. I think there's a lot of people out there like that, you know? Sociopaths who don't know how to deal with emotions. There's that scene in Episode 8 where Kim visits Lalo in jail to talk about Jimmy, and Lalo says, "Oh, you looove him." He's trying to figure it out. "Oh, there's love there. Right, of course. She loves him." Lalo always seems a step behind Gus Fring, who manipulates the police to have Lalo thrown in jail. Then he gets Lalo out on bail, which causes Lalo to drive to Mexico, the only place Fring feels he can have Lalo killed. He also seems outmatched much of the time. Does that concern you? It should concern Lalo. I once saw an interview with Peter and Vince Vince Gilligan, a showrunner and executive producer where Vince said that Gus is playing chess and Lalo is playing checkers. That helps me understand this whole situation. Because sometimes you think you're playing chess, too. But if God, or in this case, the writers, say you're playing checkers against a guy playing chess, you're probably going to be outsmarted. It's OK. I don't worry about it. Gus Fring is one of the greatest villains in television history.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Television
When Stephanie Schneider of Brooklyn began planning her wedding eight months ago, she knew that a January event presented the risk of inclement weather. But it never occurred to her that she'd be married in the middle of a blizzard what Mayor Bill de Blasio called "one of the largest snowfalls in the history of New York City." As a lawyer, she had read her wedding contracts carefully. The paperwork for her photographer included a clause on canceling or rescheduling "due to acts of God or nature or terror." The whiteout on Saturday, Jan. 23, was certainly an act of God, or nature, dumping over two feet of snow in some parts of the city. Then New York State imposed a travel ban for part of the weekend, including the window of time on Saturday evening when Ms. Schneider and Matthew Schwartz were meant to be exchanging vows. "It wasn't until Friday that we started to realize just how big the storm was going to be," said Ms. Schneider, who until that point had 186 guests confirmed for the wedding. Things took another turn Friday when, because of the ominous forecast, their officiant, A. Gail Prudenti, a former chief administrative judge of New York State, offered to perform the legal ceremony that same afternoon in the Brooklyn Heights apartment of the bride's mother and late father. (The couple decided to play it safe and were married a full day early.) Saturday morning brought a phone call from Battery Gardens, their Manhattan event space, offering to postpone their scheduled public wedding until the next day. But Ms. Schneider declined, she said, because "I was going to be dolled up, I'd have my husband there, I'd have my photographer there, and I was bringing my family. "I was like, 'We got this!'" she added. "I didn't care." So they sent a text message to their 186 would be guests: "Wedding still on! Please come if you can." The photographer, Sasithon Pooviriyakul, turned up as expected during the snowstorm. The bride's hairdresser, Kerry Lou Brehm, who lives in New Jersey, slept in her Manhattan salon on Friday night so she could make it Saturday morning. And David Gilman, a judicial hearing officer in the Bronx, signed on at the 11th hour to lead the Battery Gardens ceremony. By the time they all walked in, the centerpieces were ready, the wedding canopy was almost up and the cupcake tower complete with vanilla, chocolate, carrot cake and red velvet had arrived from Long Island. The bridesmaids and groomsmen also soon appeared, albeit in snow boots and heavy jackets, but only half the guests were able to make it. "The people who didn't show up were mostly from New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester," Ms. Schneider said. "The people who were from farther away were more able to get there because they had flown in Thursday or Friday." "But this was our wedding," said the bride, who stood bare shouldered in the snow while Ms. Pooviriyakul snapped away. "It was more intimate than expected, and it made it even more special." After the reception, the bride trekked through the snow in her floor length wedding dress to get to the after party down the street. And when the night wound down, with her furry snow boots poking out from beneath her gown, she traipsed to the L train. "I certainly didn't expect to take the subway home on my wedding night," Ms. Brown said. "Everyone was asking, 'Did you guys really just get married?'" Although the wedding went ahead on Saturday, the couple's hired officiant, Mirelle Eid, could not legally marry them that night; she married the couple at a Starbucks on the Upper West Side on Sunday. After news of the travel bans circulated, other couples decided to postpone instead. "We were determined to get married yesterday until the bridges and tunnels were officially closed," Danielle Borovoy said in an email. Her Saturday marriage to Daniel Greenberg was moved instead to the next day. "The biggest challenges were spreading the word to all our guests as quickly as possible and coordinating logistics all over again for today." For Amanda Mott and Michael Gunn, South Carolina residents who had planned their destination wedding for Saturday at the Metropolitan Club in Manhattan, making a last minute decision to postpone the ceremony and reception until the next day became an opportunity for the couple and their wedding party to let off some steam. "Everybody was already done with their hair and makeup, and that's when they announced that the wedding was off and that it'd be on Sunday," said the bride's mother, Charlotte Mott. Between the weather and the date change, their 207 guests, who were flying in from California, Alabama and the Carolinas, dwindled to roughly 140. But that didn't dampen the mood. Their photographer, Terry de Roy Gruber, had already shown up, camera in hand, at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, where the wedding party was prepping. "This was the first wedding I've done that was canceled because of a snow emergency, and it was kind of wonderful," he said. "There was this amazing sense of relief once they made the decision. They were so giddy. Like: 'Let's go out and practice and have fantasy photos in the blizzard. I don't care about my dress. I'm going to brave it and do it.' Not very many brides in my experience have wanted to get their dresses wet and stand in 20 degree wintry weather." Mr. Gruber said the train of the bride's Heidi Elnora dress, covered in ostrich feathers, "looked remarkable against the snow. White on white." The weather changed the bride's dark hair to match. "She was covered in snow," her mother said. "And her hair was white." Mr. Gunn, the groom, said: "She's always wanted a white wedding in New York. This is what she's always dreamed of." Her mother added: "She loves the snow. She said, 'Mommy, I know it's going to snow on my wedding day.' We all laughed and said, 'Well, she prayed just a little too hard because she got a blizzard.'"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
How do you write an adultery tale today? How, coming from the land of prenups and no fault divorce, can a novelist impart new bite to the subject of a married person's illicit love affair? True, the stakes have been declining since the age of Homer, when Helen's flight with Paris resulted in a 10 year war, the fall of a city state and, on the upside, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey." But even in the 19th century novel, adulterers tended to pay with their lives: Emma Bovary swallowing poison; Hurstwood, in "Sister Carrie," turning on the gas. Nowadays, although sex seems once again to be walled in by a new arsenal of prohibitions, it's only the nonconsensual variety that will cause a protagonist's downfall. , an American writer who has spent much of her adult life in Ireland, brings a hyper lucid wistfulness to the genre. Her novel's title may sound jokey, but her book is dead serious about the losses entailed in a marriage's undermining. "Straying" McCloskey's first book to be published in the United States takes place in the town of Sligo in the west of Ireland. Alice, its young American narrator, arrives there "at the tail end of the 1980s," back when the country was poor, inward looking, hidebound, "a place celebrating, insistently, its own collapse." To readers familiar with recent Irish history, this will seem a last moment of bitter innocence, before the '90s boom of property speculation and tech start ups. Already, though, Alice spots the newly wealthy "who dined at Dublin's only Michelin starred restaurant and had a home alarm system that knew exactly where they were and would buzz their beepers if there was trouble," people who are "all spit and polish, proud to be Irish, and with a vague air of plunder. ... It was like witnessing the advent of an alien species." To her Irish hosts, Alice appears equally alien, a visitor from the El Dorado that for generations has swallowed up their young. This mutual appraisal between the foreigner and the Irish not to mention between the various echelons of Ireland's implacable class system will prove one of the many pleasures of this humane and lucid novel. Alice is working in a pub when she meets her future husband; he'd been told "there was a Yank behind the bar and he should have a look." Eddie, a successful importer exporter of furniture, belongs to a prosperous local family. His mother isn't very welcoming to Alice, a woman who "came from nowhere in particular" and "had never been in a house where there was 'help.'" And Eddie, rock solid but taciturn, isn't much use in providing clues to the "teeming, tricky, intricately coded world" in which his fiancee has found herself. They marry, despite Alice's misgivings. They buy a house overlooking the Atlantic, but Alice is at loose ends. Every morning her husband goes off to work, and she doesn't know what to do with herself. She drinks too much everybody does in McCloskey's novel she and Eddie wrangle about her aimless afternoons, about the way she has fallen back in with the unemployed musicians she hung out with pre marriage, pre respectability. This is a place where everything is seen, reported, judged, which is one reason Ireland is such a good setting for an adultery novel. When Alice tells a new acquaintance that she's married, it's as if Meghan Markle were explaining to an attendant at Kensington Palace that she's the American actress who's engaged to Prince Harry: "There are few things on earth smaller than this country." One day Alice meets Cauley, a young playwright who is both ambitious and puppy soft. Almost immediately, she knows she's going to sleep with him; she just doesn't know what it will mean: "I had imagined that it would bring me to my senses, remind me that I was a grown up now, with a cupboard full of wedding china and candlesticks that matched." Instead, it turns her into someone "feral, like an addict, all stealth and unreason." Yet the love affair whose rhythms she describes sitting on her front steps, savoring the arrival of a letter from Cauley; engaging in furtive sex on a bus recalls nothing so much as a teenage passion. No wonder, when Alice's husband confronts her, it's "as though it were all simply beneath him, Cauley and I nothing more than naughty children who had embarrassed him in front of the other grown ups." Toward the end of the affair, there's an emblematic encounter. The circumstances are seedy: Cauley is scrounging money from his mother, a disreputable figure because she's living with the lover for whom she broke up her marriage. (Ireland only legalized divorce in 1996.) They meet in a suburban pub, Alice and Cauley painfully hung over, the mother and her boyfriend "deeply and committedly alcoholic. ... It wasn't only the drink, though, that dishonored them, it was the legal limbo of the undivorced. They had about them a fugitive air, and an uncertainty about how much their transgressions mattered." When Alice and Cauley make their escape, Cauley says, "Well, there's us in 30 years!" and they laugh "as though the voicing of it had rendered it impossible." It is impossible both because Ireland is changing so fast and because there's a wild card in McCloskey's pack, a third mother inhabiting this novel, whose example is far more nourishing than that of either Eddie's mother or Cauley's. Alice, of course, doesn't come from "nowhere." Her own mother is a woman "in some respects ahead of her time," an administrator in a university philosophy department in Oregon who, when she became pregnant after a brief romance with a visiting professor, chose to raise the child on her own. This woman is instantly familiar: a mixture of the naively wonder struck and the old lady ordinary (happy evenings watching "Jeopardy" in her retirement condo; a compulsion to keep her new cellphone charged, accompanied by fear of actually using it). But although Alice feels perhaps excessively adored by her mother, she's never been able to compensate for her lack of a father. "Straying," it turns out, means straying not just from one's partner but from a parent who, for all her delight in the world's possibilities, couldn't give her child the stability she craved. It's only after Alice's own marriage has ended that Alice finds herself "falling in love" with her mother "over and over again," that she's able at a distance to learn from this surprising woman's blend of practicality and joy. In "Conversations With Friends," the Irish writer Sally Rooney's first novel, her young heroine tells a friend's husband, "We can sleep together if you like, but you should know I'm only doing it ironically." Alice, we may come to feel, has been approaching both her marriage and her affair semi ironically, playing at being the stay at home wife with matching candlesticks, playing at being the adulteress addicted to secrecy and ruin. The real heartbreak in this wise, discomfiting novel turns out to be the love between mother and daughter a daughter early damage has driven to exile in a hard place.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Where most people see beloved New York locales, John Honerkamp, Paul Leak and their merry band of some 100 followers see prime exercise sites. One morning last year at precisely 6:28, the group descended on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for perhaps the most physical game of Pictionary ever played: Athletes sprinted to pick up clues, held plank poses while team members sketched and performed penalty burpees (an explosive squat/push up combination) for failing to guess correctly. They have done wall sits and stair runs at Borough Hall, "mountain climbers" outside Gracie Mansion (where security guards cheered them on) and relays around the Lincoln Center fountain (though they were soon asked to leave). And on a recent 19 degree Friday morning, they used another Midtown fountain for jumps on and off its two foot high ledge, although Mr. Leak was already making more ambitious plans for the water. "This would be perfect for an urban triathlon, but there's not a Citi Bike station nearby," mused Mr. Leak, 27, whose later in the day job is event management. "We would entirely get in trouble, but we love that." (Mr. Leak also has designs on the Staten Island Ferry.) Mr. Leak and Mr. Honerkamp, 39, are the New York leaders of an early morning workout flash mob known as the November Project, which began in Boston in 2011 and has since spread to 19 cities in the United States and Canada. It's a point of pride that the group not quite running club, not quite boot camp defies categorization. It blends the intensity of CrossFit, the cultishness of SoulCycle and the weather agnosticism of a Polar Bear swim with the high jinks of an obstacle course and the camaraderie and accountability of a sports team. Workouts in Boston have drawn more than 1,400 people, among them Olympic and professional athletes. Rodale plans to publish a book about the November Project in 2016. Sessions open with members new exercisers and marathoners alike being instructed to touch the nose of someone they don't know and tell the person, "I'm happy you're here." Handshakes upon meeting are forbidden; this is a hugs only zone. And because workouts are free and outdoors, there's no booking hassle, unforgiving cancellation policy or scramble for a spot. Take that, 35 boutique fitness class. (November Project has recently begun working with sponsors: Last year, North Face was among the companies supporting the group's annual summit, and beginning next week will team up with it on another project.) He added, "We're making people be people and put their" expletive "phones down." (Said phones do reappear at the end for the obligatory postworkout group photo, promptly posted to social media.) Kaitlin Fuelling, 23, who moved to the Lower East Side from Pasadena, Calif., in 2013, said November Project friendships account for the majority of her social life. "I did the stint with a gym, but I was looking for people I could kind of relate to," Ms. Fuelling said breathlessly between "hoisties" November Project lingo for squat jumps done while pressing one's palms against a partner's. "Everybody thinks it's a little crazy, but once you go you can't even explain how much fun you have." She has kept her membership at 24 Hour Fitness, but "just for the shower." Leaders of each city's tribe, as the November Project calls its affiliates, are volunteers with athletic backgrounds whose only instructions are that locations must be epic and that workouts must start at 6:30 a.m. (or before), be scalable for all levels of fitness and unpredictable. In San Francisco, organizers drew a version of the board game Chutes and Ladders on the cement of Alamo Square, requiring different exercises to traverse the board. A San Diego session in January involved teams of four pushing Toyota Priuses, with participants instructed to stand between the cars' rear taillights so feet couldn't be run over, recalled Mr. Graham, who was visiting at the time. (No one factored in a slight downhill to the course, so the workout involved an extra cardio challenge: chasing runaway cars.) Like many crazy ideas, the movement grew out of a late night bar chat, this one in October 2011, when Mr. Graham and his former Northeastern University rowing teammate Bojan Mandaric, 33, decided to head off the winter tendency to slack on exercise by making a pact to train every day before work the next month. They tracked their workouts on a Google document named the November Project. "We thought if we did it, we'd become morning people and also more connected," Mr. Mandaric said. "Even if it's your best friend, people get busy. But nobody is busy at 6:30 in the morning." "I didn't know what was going on with the hugging and hooting and hollering, but everyone was really cool," said Mr. Ference, who learned of the group from a bicycle shop. "I went and chased these fast dudes around the stadium, and I just kept going back." He has since moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he is the captain of the Edmonton Oilers and a November Project leader. He is also the creator of November Project's most coveted badge of honor: a Boy Scout like circle patch with " 30" written in blue. It is given to anyone who shows up to a workout when the thermometer reads that number or below. So far, no November Project workout has ever been canceled because of weather. Anyone who has promised to come ("dropped a verbal," in November Project parlance), and then doesn't, appears on the "We Missed You" page of the blog. No matter what the excuse, the November Project makes it look as if the absentee was out partying by pulling old photos from a Facebook page that show him or her drinking or eating nachos. It is a shame theory of accountability that featured in a TEDx talk Mr. Graham and Mr. Mandaric gave recently. "It's in jest but it works," said Peter Kruse, 27, who lives in Midtown. This winter, he arrived three minutes late to a workout when the wind chill was minus 10 because the ski goggles he wore had fogged up and he missed a turn. The group had left, but Mr. Kruse raced to catch up. To start a chapter in a new city, there is a strict pledge process. (At least it's strict by November Project's freewheeling standards.) Aspiring leaders spend a year proving they can attract a following before they are allowed to use the November Project name. They start with a Wednesday morning workout Wednesday because no one is recovering from the weekend or getting on a plane for a coming weekend and eventually add Fridays, then Mondays. They are encouraged to start in the dead of winter, to attract a core group of die hards, because summer members can be fair weather participants. On a recent Friday, about 30 members of the New York group, most of them in gear spray painted with the graffiti like November Project logo, huddled in a passageway in Midtown near the Fox News studio. They warmed up by jumping up and down, turning in midair and yelling "Fox" on the ascent and "Friends" when they landed. They ran past Radio City Music Hall calling to people they passed to "have a spectacular day," and they face planted on the concrete after their arm muscles failed from seven minutes of push ups and triceps dips before 7 a.m. Mr. Honerkamp urged them closer. "We need subway close; we need the 6 train close," he yelled. "If anyone's new, it might be a little awkward, but that's the point."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Before a concert, the lobby of David Geffen Hall, the home of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, can bring to mind Penn Station at rush hour . It's hard to know what to do in the crush of people jammed in front of the box office. Then you have to wait in line to go through airport style security checkpoints to take the escalator up to the Grand Promenade which, with a few paltry refreshment stands and yet more lines at intermission, doesn't feel very grand. The auditorium especially the stage, with its curiously low ceiling and odd looking, acoustics aiding "bongo drums," as Philharmonic officials call them remains an uninviting place to attend a concert, nondescript at best. Many of the seats in the huge shoe box feel insuperably distant from the players. The color scheme is a brown that Deborah Borda, the Philharmonic's president, has taken to describing with an unkind expletive. In truth, the much invoked deficiency of the hall's acoustics has been exaggerated. There are many, many performances Esa Pekka Salonen's resplendent recent account of Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" Symphony with the Philharmonic comes to mind at which no one in the audience could think the acoustics were problematic. Still, the sound is not ideal. Indeed, "amenities" seems inadequate to describe how transformative the improvements could be for performers and audiences. I'd argue that the physical details of a concert hall are crucially important for classical music, more so than for other performing arts. With theater and dance, there's much to watch and stories to follow. Many older Broadway theaters have terrible amenities, as anyone who's tried to go to the bathroom at intermission will know. But you don't really care if you have a seat any seat for "Hamilton." Opera is in this category. But an orchestra doesn't offer the same kind of visual stimulation. While there's certainly an impressive visual component to a big ensemble uniting for a Beethoven or Mahler symphony, the drama comes almost entirely from hearing the music. You have to lean in and pay attention, which requires feeling at ease. Anything that makes the experience more intimate and pleasurable helps you immerse yourself. From the plans described on Monday by the project's acoustician, Paul Scarbrough of the firm Akustiks, there will be notable improvements to the pure sound in the hall, especially the resonance of bass frequencies. Seating capacity will be reduced from around 2,700 seats to roughly 2,200, much closer to the widely agreed upon sweet spot for a concert hall's acoustics. But that reduction in seating will be just as important because it will increase the hall's intimacy and warmth. Along those lines, the stage will be moved forward some 25 feet, and seats will wrap around it. Sightlines will improve. Everyone stands to feel more immersed in the music, as they do at Walt Disney Concert Hall, which Ms. Borda opened in her previous job with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Geffen Hall's teeming lobby will double in size, hopefully reducing congestion; the designers have pledged to make the security situation smoother. The currently wasted northeast corner of the building will be turned into a "Sidewalk Studio" for educational and community activities, visible from the street. The Grand Promenade will be reconfigured, with expanded intermission seating and food service (and, therefore, shorter lines). And we are promised that most important of amenities: more bathrooms. Thank goodness, a new bistro and bar to the side of the lobby will stay open after concerts. I've been struck by how enthusiastically the public responds when, after a concert at Lincoln Center's White Light Festival across the street at Alice Tully Hall, complimentary wine is offered in its beautifully renovated lobby. People linger to talk, and even mingle with the musicians who drop by. This could be the norm at Geffen Hall, too. Audiences stand to benefit from the renovation. Another beneficiary will be Jaap van Zweden, now in his second season as the Philharmonic's music director. Ms. Borda said she expected Mr. van Zweden to lead the orchestra when the hall reopens in March 2024 which signals the extension of his current contract, due to end a year before that. The announcement of the renovation happens to have come at a moment when a series of guest conductors Mr. Salonen, Santtu Matias Rouvali, Jakub Hrusa and Susanna Malkki among them, with Gustavo Dudamel to arrive for two weeks next month have appeared with the Philharmonic. Their performances have sometimes impressed more than Mr. van Zweden's. But the news that he will open the new hall means that the Philharmonic is truly committing to Mr. van Zweden, who will also have to lead the orchestra through two nomadic stretches during construction. After that, he'll deserve our thanks as will Ms. Borda, who has suggested that this project will be the capstone of her career. New York music lovers will owe them both big time and want to cheer their success. Maybe over a drink in the new bistro.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music

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