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No matter who takes home Academy Awards this weekend, Sofia Coppola and Anjelica Huston will remain an exclusive club of two: the only third generation winners in Oscar history. Ms. Coppola, 43, the writer and director of films such as "The Virgin Suicides," "Somewhere" and "The Bling Ring," won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for her 2003 film "Lost in Translation." Her father, the filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, has won five Academy Awards, three of them for "The Godfather, Part II." And her grandfather, the composer Carmine Coppola, won for best score, for that film. Ms. Huston, 63, an actress and writer, won the best supporting actress prize for her breakthrough role as Maerose Prizzi in 1985's "Prizzi's Honor," directed by her father, John Huston, who was also a screenwriter and actor. He received 15 Academy Award nominations and won twice. Ms. Huston went on to star in "The Grifters," "Crimes and Misdemeanors" and "The Addams Family." Her grandfather Walter Huston won the Oscar for best supporting actor for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" in 1948, directed by his son. The second volume of Ms. Huston's memoir, "Watch Me," was published last year. In a suite at the Trump International Hotel, over kale salads and Dover sole, as well as a Bloody Mary for Ms. Huston and water for Ms. Coppola ("I have a parent teacher conference later"), the pair spoke about their showbiz clans and infamous acting debuts (directed by their fathers), the routes they took to their own success and their shared debt to fashion. PHILIP GALANES: Family dynasties are so appealing: one generation nourishing the next. Do they? ANJELICA HUSTON: Our fathers took great big bites out of life. And we watched them taking pleasure in the senses, celebrating characters. Mine would have been as happy in a prison as a palace as long as there were interesting people around. SOFIA COPPOLA: So many interesting people coming through. And my dad liked us kids around. I'd be at dinner, sitting next to Vittorio Storaro, the great cinematographer, talking about color and light. AH: And now I take big bites. SC: You can't grow up like that and not have an appetite for living. PG: I heard a tape of Sofia's dad interviewing her as a little girl. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" he asks. And you say: "Middle sized not too fat and not too skinny." Was there a family expectation about your careers? SC: No, but my dad always talked to us about writing. I remember being 12, and his saying: "Now, in the second act ." But it didn't feel like expectation, more like exposing us to something that was important to him. SC: We were up and down, too. AH: It's the artistic situation. But my dad knew I was bound to be an actress. I used to imitate all his girlfriends. He liked it, despite himself. PG: He must have. He gave you your debut in his film "A Walk With Love and Death." AH: Well, that's what you get for saying: "I want to be an actress, I want to be an actress." Suddenly, this role came up in one of his movies. But at the same time, Franco Zeffirelli had put a school call out to find Juliet for his "Romeo and Juliet." They came to my school. And they liked me and asked me to come back to meet Zeffirelli. But my father sent him a letter saying, "My daughter will be working with me." I was not happy about that. AH: I wanted to be in Italy with Zeffirelli. As you can tell from my opus, I have more feeling for the bad girls. I like a bit of picante. And the part in my father's film was so boring. He didn't even let me wear makeup because 15th century maidens didn't. And I was obsessed with makeup. No, my father and I didn't get along on that movie. PG: Tell us about your debut in "The Godfather Part III." SC: I didn't have any acting aspirations. I just didn't want to go back to college after Christmas. So, when Winona Ryder fell out, I read her part during a table read. Someone said, "Sofia can do it." I probably looked more like a real Italian girl than these movie stars. I said O.K. I was at the age when you want to try everything. I had no idea there would be so many opinions about it. But it was awkward. When you're 18, you don't want your dad telling you what to do. I had to kiss Andy Garcia in front of him. AH: I had to kiss Assi Dayan in front of mine. And there he was, looming over me and angry looking. I said: "This isn't exactly conducive." AH: No, it took a long time recuperating from that experience. SC: I never wanted to be an actress. And when I started thinking about directing, that experience of being in front of the camera was really helpful. It made me see how vulnerable actors are. Other good things came out of it, too. Steven Meisel asked to photograph me for Italian Vogue. And he introduced me to all these people in the fashion world, who embraced me, after everyone else was so harsh. AH: I thought: I'd better put acting on ice for a while, because this isn't going in the right direction. So, I came to America. My mother died very suddenly in a car crash, and I didn't want to live in London anymore. AH: I was 17. She was 39. PG: There's a sad coincidence: Sofia lost her brother at about the same age. SC: I was 15. I remember seeing Anjelica around then. She was a comfort to me. She was always like a fairy godmother. But it was a terrible shock, and had a big impact on who I am. PG: We see that in your films: stories of people who are a little lost. SC: For me, "The Virgin Suicides" was very much about losing my brother. The way the town loses these girls. But when you lose someone, the impression they made on you, our interactions with them, stay with you forever. They're not completely lost. AH: We can find them again. SC: I connected to that teenage time because it's supposed to be fun and carefree. But mine was exactly the opposite. AH: I can remember coming downstairs the morning after I knew my mother had died, and it was like someone had sprayed everything matte. The shine was gone from everything. Ms. Huston accepting her Academy Award for best sup porting actress in the film "Prizzi's Honor." PG: It's like your staircase scene in "The Dead," hearing the song your boyfriend sang to you before he died. The change that comes over your face is amazing acting. AH: That was my father's last movie. He was very sick. I was at the top of the stairs, and all I had to do was look down at my father in his wheelchair to have everything I needed to do that scene. It was all there. PG: Amazing what we can make from loss. AH: When my mother died, London was over for me. So, I put on my yellow Afghan coat and jumped on a plane to New York. PG: On your own at 17? AH: My mother was a good friend of Dick Avedon. And my father was friends with Diana Vreeland. So between them, they asked me to do this trip to Ireland for Vogue. It was a beautiful layout, 30 pages. And when I got back, I did more work with Dick. And Harper's Bazaar asked me to do some pictures. Before I knew it, I was modeling and being told, for the first time in my life, that I was beautiful. I loved it. I made my own money. I always hated having to ask for money. SC: I love the pictures of Anjelica did David Bailey take them? where you're wearing these '40s dresses and bracelets. It's my favorite look for a chic woman. AH: Grace Coddington styled those pictures. She's still the best stylist. PG: So, how did you find Marc Jacobs, Sofia or did he find you? SC: When Marc did his first collection for Perry Ellis, it was the grunge collection. And when I saw it, I was excited. We were coming to New York, so I asked my mom if we could see it. I met Marc, and we just hit it off. We had a lot in common. A similar aesthetic, and we liked the same bands. PG: Speaking of aesthetics, critics often say your films are "too aesthetic." But you tell stories visually. Music plays a big role, and there's not a lot of talking. AH: My favorite kind of movie. I want to work for you. SC: Sometimes, people think aesthetics are superficial. But I think they can be deep. I love the atmosphere and the visuals. So, I do what I love. Some people connect with it, and others don't. It reminds me of something Anjelica told me in my 20s: "Not everyone is going to like you." It saved me years of disappointment. PG: What was the bridge back to acting, Anjelica? AH: I had a boyfriend when I was modeling, Bob Richardson. He was a master photographer. AH: Always underappreciated. Also schizophrenic. Working with Bob was always about acting for the camera, feeling something. When we broke up, in the Los Angeles airport, I went to live with my father in L.A. SC: Did you ever see Bob again? AH: No, it was a big split. But it set me free. There was no reason to believe I'd work in Los Angeles as a model. I wasn't a California girl. But I'd learned a lot about my body walking the runway for Halston and Giorgio Sant'Angelo which had hitherto been a declasse thing to do. But I loved it. It drew me out of my shell. AH: I met Jack Nicholson in the first months I was in L.A., and I knew what I wanted: to be with him. And that happened. For a couple of years, I was watching him work and thinking about his leading ladies. I wished I had this part or that, but nothing much happened. It was difficult because I didn't want the parts to come because of him. It was kind of back to Dad. PG: You'd already separated from one strong father. AH: Oh, I go on looking for them. I always like to have a nice big father figure in the background. And then "Prizzi's Honor" came around. A producer who worked with my dad sent it to me. I read it overnight and loved it. But he wanted Dad to direct and Jack to co star. And I thought: Damn! This was supposed to be my passport to independence, but it wasn't. I said: "There's no way I'm getting those two tires in a row." But they loved each other. And it was a great part. That was the difference. SC: I love you as that character. PG: Could you collaborate with your father again, Sofia? AH: Jack was at the top of his game and really fun to be with. PG: Still, you both moved on to quieter relationships. AH: That's true. But not necessarily about being with a famous person. SC: I never thought about my being in a public relationship until you mentioned it. It was an exciting time, but not ... PG: Really? In the '90s, I thought: Don't they ever go to sleep? SC: Sure, but that's when you're in your 20s. AH: You're up. You've got the energy. You're at clubs. SC: It's just a different time in your life. PG: Fair point. No parent teacher conferences back then. Let's end with memoirs. Why two of them, Anjelica? AH: Well, I wrote it all at once, 900 pages. My publisher said we've got to make this into two books. And there were two separate lives: before L.A. and after L.A. It seemed like a natural punctuation. SC: Did you keep a journal? AH: I'd write things down that were pertinent to the way I was feeling, but I didn't do it day by day. When people started asking: "When are you going to write a book?" I started thinking about it. SC: I've never thought about it.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
"Acting editorial page editor Kathleen Kingsbury wrote about the decision to publish our writers' responses to the Tom Cotton Op Ed in Friday's edition of our Opinion Today newsletter. Re "The Times's Opinion Editor Resigns Over Controversy" (Business, June 8), about the resignation of James Bennet after the publication of an Op Ed on Wednesday by Senator Tom Cotton calling for a military response to the protests: Really? This is an overreaction that plays directly into the narrative the right has of left leaning media: They are too sensitive and intolerant of heterodox views. I read the Tom Cotton Op Ed and survived. It was a poor piece of writing with a ridiculous premise. But it was written by a U.S. senator who was making a newsworthy claim that was completely different in tone from the other editorial pieces that day. To claim that it put in danger the lives of protesters because it incited violence is ludicrous. The Op Ed section is (or used to be) an interesting place. It presents a far more diverse and well written set of opinions and viewpoints on news of the day than rival national publications. What The Times has done amounts to self censorship, a dumbing down of the contents of the paper and an insult to the critical faculties of The Times's readers. I was glad to see the resignation of James Bennet over the publication of "Send In the Troops," by Tom Cotton. Senator Cotton has a right to his authoritarian, fascist, un American views, although it is a shame that he holds them. But The Times need not lower its reputation and standing by publicizing those views. A powerful man like Senator Cotton has many ways of making his voice heard. He does not need the support of The New York Times to do so. This was not a First Amendment case; it was simply a gross error of judgment on the part of The Times. Mr. Bennet's resignation is a good first step toward rectifying the problems in the editorial department that caused such an egregious error. As a dutiful Times reader for more than half a century, I was very saddened that James Bennet resigned as opinion editor. In his years as editor, he has been a stalwart voice for social justice and for eloquent dialogue about the deep problems that roil America. He has steered the opinion page in innovative directions, helping it remain a voice of integrity in a chaotic online age. It is particularly sad that the publication of one Op Ed overshadows the body of excellent work that he has produced. While the decision to publish the Cotton Op Ed had drawbacks, the dialogue it produced and the vigorous outcry against his positions it spurred, which would have never occurred had it not been printed, are testaments to the journalism that Mr. Bennet championed. Richard M. Perloff Cleveland The writer is a professor of communication, psychology and political science at Cleveland State University. While I deplore the views of Senator Tom Cotton, I am dismayed at viewpoint censorship on the opinion page of my daily source of news. As a retired editor of the opinion page of a national newspaper, I labored (albeit sometimes with gritted teeth) to make sure that my pages were used as an honest platform and not a selective method of indoctrination. However desirable and tempting that option might appear, it is a misuse of a powerful press weapon that can rapidly turn journalism into dangerous propaganda. I am troubled by the resignation of James Bennet over Senator Tom Cotton's Op Ed. This comes on the heels of demands that Facebook edit, censor or delete certain of President Trump's posts, and a day after GoFundMe's suspension of the right wing commentator Candace Owens's page to raise funds for a bar owner who denounced George Floyd as a "thug." I detest what Senator Cotton stands for and disagree totally with what he espouses in his Op Ed, and I have zero respect for Ms. Owens's grandstanding statement. But we should be reminded of George Orwell's observation that "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." As the saying goes, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." In Donald Trump's world, there is even more reason to defend it. The exchange of ideas on the Op Ed page does not give license to promote hate or incite riot, but political correctness plays into Mr. Trump's hands. Just as every tweet allows us to peer into Mr. Trump's mind, so too has Senator Tom Cotton's Op Ed revealed his inner authoritarian, anti democratic views.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
Xiao Min, left, and her cousin Chen Yuanzhen on a train heading to the city of Huzhou in Wang Bing's documentary "Bitter Money." The two teenagers were among scores of rural migrants who left their villages for low paying jobs in urban factories. No other filmmaker has been more immersed in the social upheavals of contemporary China than Wang Bing. Beginning with "Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks" (2003) a three part, nine hour look at the painful decline of a once thriving industrial zone, the 52 year old documentarian has consistently portrayed those dispossessed amid the changing landscape of his rapidly developing country. Dislocation is Wang's great theme and the subject of "Bitter Money," his 2016 portrait of young rural migrants who leave their villages for low paying jobs in the booming garment factories of Huzhou. (The film, along with five of his other documentaries, is available on the new OVID.tv subscription streaming service.) Wang's camera wanders among the lives of the men and women who have flocked to the sewing factories. Sensation precedes explanation. Using no narration in his fly on the wall verite, Wang resembles the American documentarian Frederick Wiseman. But where Wiseman explores institutions, Wang focuses on individuals. He follows them into their workplaces and homes (often the same), recording their conversations and family relationships. Wang spent two years filming "Bitter Money," maintaining that he shot 2,000 hours for this two and a half hour film. Working alone with a small digital video camera customized with an autofocus lens, he seemingly blends into his subjects' lives. Because he edits less and holds shots longer than more conventional documentarians, his films are akin to Warhol screen tests full of revealing behavioral tics and transcendent empty moments. Wang's presence is not exactly invisible but only occasionally addressed. "Time to sleep you can film tomorrow," one man tells him. One wonders if the existence of China's extensive surveillance network has accustomed his subjects to this sort of attention. "Bitter Money" begins with a 15 year old girl and her older cousin leaving Yunnan Province in southwestern China to find work in Huzhou. The quarter hour or so that Wang devoted to their days long journey on a crowded train is a film in its own right a stolid pilgrimage into the future. The passengers seem to be in a state of suspended animation. Once in Huzhou, Wang finds other subjects at a workshop. In one sequence, he cuts from tailor to tailor, showing how the coats are made but he is mainly observational. Wang does not flinch from recording a domestic quarrel in which the husband has to be restrained from attacking his wife. He devotes considerable camera time to the despair of an older, obviously intoxicated worker fingering a pair of scissors and vaguely harassing a female colleague as he delivers a rambling diatribe against their unseen boss. Working 12 hours a day, seven days a week, under unpleasant conditions, harsh lighting and intense time pressure, Wang's subjects are essentially free agents hired by small entrepreneurs to fulfill a particular quota. In his book "Adam Smith in Beijing," the sociologist Giovanni Arrighi describes these "hyper exploited" young migrants as the "backbone of China's export industries." Given the monotony and deprivation of their lives, their economic uncertainty and the constant talk of money, the movie cannot be anything other than an indictment of China's so called socialist market economy. However local, "Bitter Money" is also universal. The spectacle of these men and women hunched over their sewing machines will not only resonate with those whose family histories include time working in a sweatshop, but anyone who reaps the benefit of inexpensive Chinese manufactured clothing, which is to say, everyone. WANG'S DESIRE to wrest a story out of daily existence and to acknowledge the struggle of making a living makes him heir to the Italian neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and '50s, including Giuseppe De Santis. His 1949 film "Bitter Rice," available for streaming on the new subscription Criterion channel, is a fascinating example of neorealist pulp. It also concerns migrant workers. A story of the women, known as mondine, who harvest Italy's rice crop, "Bitter Rice" begins like a documentary with a radio reporter outside the Turin train station, urgently describing the mondine's annual migration to the rice paddies of the Po Valley. Their backbreaking work is amply acknowledged, but "Bitter Rice" is neorealism plus a crime melodrama encompassing instances of theft, sabotage, rape, childbirth, references to abortion and multiple violent deaths, including one by suicide. It also features abundant pulchritude. When the movie opened in the United States in late 1950, The Los Angeles Times called it "something like a Hollywood women's prison movie, only more so." Following previous Italian hits "Open City" and "The Bicycle Thief" into the World Theater, a Times Square movie house specializing in imported films, "Bitter Rice" ran for months. The main attraction was the movie's statuesque, sultry star Silvana Mangano as a teenage rice harvester introduced executing a solo boogie woogie. Impulsive and naive, she comes under the spell of a swaggering thief played by Vittorio Gassman, soon himself to achieve international recognition. "Bitter Rice" is an early example of globalist cinema. De Santis was a leftist whose sweeping panoramic shots of the hard working and at times singing masses suggest Soviet celebrations of collective labor. He was also a fan of American movies; the two fisted fight scenes are pure Hollywood. The movie's frank sexuality, however, struck Americans as distinctly European. "Passion toils and tumbles through it like the wrestlers in a gas house free for all, and torments of carnal hunger are boldly and rawly exposed," the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote in his enthusiastic review. This is undoubtedly why "Bitter Rice" which, according to Time magazine, would gross nearly 8 million in the United States was criticized by the American Legion as "a serious threat to Christian morality." Linked by William Mooring, the film critic for the Catholic journal Tidings, to the international Communist conspiracy, it was briefly banned in Albany, but also nominated for an Academy Award.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Alexander Davis admits that he can be a glutton for punishment. He staked part of his Ph.D. on finding some of the world's best camouflaged fishes in the ocean's deepest depths. These animals are so keen on not being found that they've evolved the ability to absorb more than 99.9 percent of the light that hits their skin. To locate and study these so called ultra black fishes, Mr. Davis, a biologist at Duke University, said he relied largely on the luck of the draw. "We basically just drop nets and see what we get," he said. "You never know what you're going to pull up." When he and his colleagues did cash in, they cashed in big. In a paper published Thursday in Current Biology, they report snaring the first documented ultra black animals in the ocean, and some of the darkest creatures ever found: 16 types of deep sea fish that are so black, they manifest as permanent silhouettes light devouring voids that almost seem to shred the fabric of space time. "It's like looking at a black hole," Mr. Davis said. To qualify as ultra black, a substance has to reflect less than 0.5 percent of the light that hits it. Some birds of paradise manage this, beaming back as little as 0.05 percent, as do certain types of butterflies (0.06 percent) and spiders (0.35 percent). A feat of engineering allowed humans to best them all with synthetic materials, some of which reflect only 0.045 percent of incoming light. ("Black" paper, on the other hand, returns a whopping 10 percent of the light it meets.) Now, it seems fish may come close to trouncing them all. One species profiled in the paper, a bioluminescent anglerfish in the genus Oneirodes, reflects as little as 0.044 to 0.051 percent of the deep sea light it encounters. The other 99.95 percent, Mr. Davis and his colleagues found, gets lost in a labyrinth of light swallowing pigments until it effectively disappears. "I'm always arguing with bird people on the internet," said Kory Evans, a fish biologist at Rice University who wasn't involved in the study. "I say, 'I bet these deep sea fish are as dark as your birds of paradise.' And then boom, they checked, and that was exactly the case." Super dark skin might seem redundant hundreds or thousands of feet beneath the surface of the sea, where the sun's rays don't reach. But thanks to the D.I.Y. light cooked up by bioluminescent creatures, this part of the ocean can actually "sparkle like the sky," said Prosanta Chakrabarty, a fish biologist at Louisiana State University who wasn't involved in the study. Birds, butterflies and spiders tend to use ultra black for contrast, making vibrant patches of color pop against an extreme backdrop. Some fish may do this, too. But in a world where many deep sea lurkers use their homemade glow to lure in prey, ultra black may function more as a disappearing act for swimmers that don't want to be spotted, Dr. Evans said. To suss out how deep sea fishes conjure their cloaks of invisibility, the researchers took skin samples from nine species of ultra black fish and analyzed them under the microscope. Like many other animals, including humans, fish pigment their skin with melanin, a light absorbing compound stored in microscopic compartments called melanosomes. Typically colored fish scatter these pockets of pigment into a sparse, even layer held up by a protein called collagen. Any light that hits the melanin head on is gobbled up, while light that misses the mark ricochets back toward the viewer. To maintain their stealth, the researchers found, ultra black fishes skimp on the collagen. That allows them to pack their melanosomes together like piled grains of rice. When light contacts the clutter, what's not absorbed is deflected sideways straight into the path of another ravenous melanosome. Ultra black birds, butterflies and spiders do something similar, but perhaps in a less efficient way, said Karen Osborn, a zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and an author on the study, which she began in 2014. Rather than using the same structure melanosomes to absorb and deflect light, as fish do, these land living animals embed their melanin in mazes of bumps, boxes or spikes that bounce photons back and forth. What deep sea fish do "is a much simpler system," Dr. Osborn said. That could be a saving grace for creatures that must eke out a living in an environment as harsh and unforgiving as the deep sea, said Anela Choy, a deep sea researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego who wasn't involved in the study. Down there, Dr. Choy said, everything "has to do with survival: eating, not being eaten and reproducing yourself."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
Each of the 21 piano pieces that make up Erik Satie's "Sports et Divertissements" has a title defining its subject: fishing, racing, tennis, golf. The program for "Sport," Mark Morris's new dance to the Satie score, doesn't reproduce those titles. For this dance, such labels would be redundant. The work, which had its world premiere at the Rose Theater on Wednesday, the opening night of this year's Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, is one of Mr. Morris's droll pantomime pieces. In each section, the dancers very clearly act out the corresponding title (though not, it seems, Satie's accompanying prose poems). Now they're swimming; now they're playing blind man's buff. To identify what's going on takes almost no time at all. Very little time is available, since most of the pieces (crisply played by Colin Fowler) last only 20 or 30 seconds, none longer than a minute and a half. Brevity is the soul of wit here, but also a recurring limit, as time keeps running out. Mr. Morris contributes some continuity with choreography between the pieces, yet each section essentially stands alone. You see how a sheet becomes a sail, or a waterslide in which a dancer is dragged. You notice how four men contort into an octopus. You smile.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
Certainly the supermodel Ashley Graham is stunning. But Ms. Graham, 32, is also keeping it real, varied and interesting, whether on her Instagram account, her YouTube workout series or her podcast "Pretty Big Deal," which is back for Season 3 this week, where she hosts conversations with successful people she looks up to. Here is a behind the scenes peek at how she does it all. Ms. Graham, who is also a Revlon ambassador, muses on her career, managing a 9 month old baby and sticking to her Covid adjusted beauty regimen. It's a weird time. I'm a new mom, but I'm also figuring out how to live life at home. We moved to Nebraska when the pandemic hit. That's where I'm from. It was my mom, my husband, my baby and me, and on March 13 we drove for 20 hours straight. We were there for six months. And we were all staying in the house I grew up in. It was very nostalgic for me. And I was so grateful that my husband was so kind to bear with me through all of it. We've been back in New York now for maybe a month and a half. It feels so good to be back. I have a new normal morning routine. I don't set an alarm. I learned that from interviewing Arianna Huffington on my podcast. She said that the time from when you put your head down to when you wake up is your own. I don't sleep with my phone next to me either. The baby monitor is my alarm, and I know Isaac will wake me up between six or seven. I feed him right away, and it's morning snuggles time. I'm ever so proudly breast feeding. I put it on my social media all the time because I want it normalized in a way that is truly normal. We all eat in public, so why not breast feeding? Once he's close to a year old, I'll probably stop. Isaac has four teeth now, so, buddy, if you're going to bite me, we're gonna have problems. I'm a nighttime shower girl. My morning routine is really prepped by my evening routine. I use whatever shampoo I can get my hands on that doesn't have sulfates. To stimulate my hair follicles, I've been doing an apple cider vinegar rinse about once a week. It smells! If you go to the gym the next day, you're going to sweat and smell like vinegar. I go to sleep with my hair wet. I part it down the middle and then douse my head with John Frieda Dream Curls. I've been using it since I was 15 years old. This is the only way I can get a full head of hair when I wake up in the morning. In the morning, I have slightly frizzy waves. I have this finishing gel by Vientti. Four months postpartum my whole hairline fell out, and now I have a bunch of cowlicks from all the baby hair growing in. This gel isn't too thick, and it tames my center part. It can be so heartbreaking when you're looking at your child, and he's so healthy and adorable, and then you look at yourself, and you're, like, what is happening to me? These are things women go through! My favorite deodorant is the Crystal spray deodorant. I feel like it doesn't mess with my PH, and it's aluminum free. I also love the Flamingo spray moisturizer. It's my biggest beauty mommy hack. It's so fast you spray it on. I feel so moisturized, and it smells like a hotel! I use SkinMedica face wash. It's light, and it gets any residue off my face. I use it morning and night. Then I use the skin toner by Vivant. It burns really bad. That's how I know it's working. Ha! I think I have early signs of rosacea, so I've been looking into LED lights. I have the Dennis Gross one it's the face mask with all the LEDs. It makes me feel like I'm doing something helpful for my face. I like to use skin care products that my skin idols use. Tracee Ellis Ross, her skin looks phenomenal. She's on Skinceuticals right now, so I'm on Skinceuticals right now. I've been using the Phloretin CF serum. It's stinky, but again because it stinks, I know it's working, ha! I also use the vitamin C serum and the Triple Restore moisturizer. It's ah mazing. Sometimes I use the Restore lip stuff. It tastes disgusting, but I think it's helping my lips. Through quarantine, I've been eating whatever I want. That's probably why I've been getting acne on my forehead. I use my Mario Badescu drying solution only after my Dr. Pimple Popper picking kit. If you've ever used a lancer on yourself, this is addictive! You have to be OK with poking a needle in your face, but I'm really good at it. Doing Things for Yourself Sometimes I wonder if I even have time for a skin care regimen. If I have a second kid, there goes that! But I just went to Milan for work, and I left Isaac with his dad for the first time. It was amazing! It was like a mini vacation! My husband and I are big into prayers. We both grew up in the church, and it's something we brought into our marriage. We treat it as a sacred date night sometimes. We'll turn off the lights and turn on worship music and just pray together. I'm shooting my podcast now. I'm getting some really good glam for that. I get my eyebrows dyed, so I don't have to think about that. Otherwise, everything I wear for makeup is Revlon. If I need to be camera ready, I wear the Candid Glow foundation in shade 270. I love that it's coverage with a glow, and you don't have to mix anything with it. I usually use a concealer under my eyes and on my chin if I have acne which, yes I do have right now! I like the SkinLights bronzer and the powder blush in Naughty Nude, but not too much. My eyelashes will stick straight out if I don't do something about them. The So Fierce mascara pulls them up like Tammy Faye. I don't use eyeliner, but my favorite pro tip whether for Zoom or a run to the grocery store actually that's a lie, I don't always do this for the grocery store! is something I learned on set. You use an eyebrow pencil in a muted brown, and you draw just on the outside of your upper lip. It makes your upper lip look a little bigger, like you got lip filler but it was 4.99 instead of 4,099. An eyebrow pencil is better than an eyeliner pencil because the pigment is more powdery and softer. You don't want that hard '90s lip liner situation again unless that's your look, then you go for it! I do that, then I put Brazilian Tan lipstick and Aquaphor over that. It looks so juicy! I wasn't wearing fragrance after Isaac was born, but when he was about seven months old, I figured he could handle it. My favorite is Byredo Mojave Ghost. I love clean scents. I'd smell fresh laundry all day if I could. Sometimes I think about diet, and other days I don't. Today, for example, I had Levain Bakery delivered. The chocolate walnut cookies are so good! I worked out so hard during my pregnancy. I started a series called Thank Bod in my second trimester. It's on YouTube. Every episode is only 15 minutes. I wasn't finding anybody that looked like me online, and I wanted to make a point that working out is for any age and any size. I don't want to look at ripped abs and toned arms I will never look like that. I started modeling when I was 12 years old, and I was already a Size 12. Now I'm a 32 year old postpartum, Size 16 mom, and my body is ever changing, and so is everybody else's, so why not showcase that? I supplement that with boxing at Gleason's Gym in Dumbo. It's really tough. It's not about losing weight but staying healthy, and that can also benefit your mental health. Working out and being able to move my body has been crucial for me, especially through the pandemic. We all need to release tension somewhere.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Heloise Letissier, who records as Christine and the Queens, has adopted a slightly revised persona for her new album: Chris. In the spring of 2017, the French pop singer, songwriter, producer and choreographer Heloise Letissier felt ready to reintroduce herself. It had been three years since the French release of her debut album, "Chaleur Humaine" ("Human Warmth"), announced the persona Christine and the Queens, an androgynous, hip hop enamored outsider with flickers of Michael Jackson and David Bowie. After the record sold over 850,000 units in France alone, its mostly English language reissue, which arrived in 2015, propelled Ms. Letissier into even more rarefied terrain for an international artist: the American pop music buzz machine. Ms. Letissier was summoned for an onstage anointing by Madonna, performed on "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" and even figured into the plot of the FX comedy "Better Things," which featured an extensive dance sequence to her song "Tilted." During that time, the artist, who grew up as the daughter of two professors in Nantes, a midsize Northwestern city, was evolving. Nonstop touring had physically changed her her body was more muscular, toned, athletic. And she felt more powerful in other ways, too. For the first time, she had real money some of which she spent on a secluded house in Paris that made her parents' eyes widen and near total creative and professional autonomy. The last time Ms. Letissier's life had taken such a dramatic turn, after a traumatic breakup and sudden expulsion from her college drama program (for insubordination), she created Christine, a suit of armor for conquering self doubt. Now it was due for an upgrade. She wondered how she should wield her new powers. As a queer woman, could she lean into them wholeheartedly? Or would that make people uncomfortable? If she were a man, would there be any question? Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder. She started writing a new album a new chapter in the life of Christine about a woman she described as "horny, hungry and ambitious," with a masculine mien, now going by the name Chris. The album, also called "Chris," is to be released on Sept. 21. "When I compared my situation with some male rock stars, I was really interested in how different the feeling was," Ms. Letissier, 30, said in an interview in English this summer in a Lower East Side hotel, while she was visiting for an industry showcase and to perform the new album's lead single, "Girlfriend," on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." "For men, with success comes power, admiration and respect. But when you're a woman and you succeed, people either question your authorship immediately, or you get accused of being bossy, bitchy or capricious." In April of last year, she sat for her first photo session as Chris, for a spread in the cult French magazine Egoiste. By that time, Ms. Letissier had fully conceived the new persona and written an essay about it. After makeup and wardrobe she wore a crisp white oxford shirt and loosefitting black trousers she felt transformed. So she was surprised when the photographer, the high fashion maven Paolo Roversi, objected. Mr. Roversi suggested that she cut it. Ms. Letissier, ambushed in the moment by latent insecurity, resisted. "My jaw is a bit square," she murmured. "Your jaw is square, that's why it's cool!" she recalled Mr. Roversi replying, undeterred, with infectious conviction. "Cut your hair and allow yourself to be exactly who you want to be!" On her way to the train after the shoot, with short, slick hair that made her look like a boyish Chet Baker, she basked in her reflection in store windows. Passers by turned their heads. "It was like Christmas," she said. "I felt like, 'This is how I want to exist.'" FINDING NEW WAYS of existing is a specialty of Ms. Letissier's. Over three interviews this summer, she seemed consistently at ease hyper articulate, with a born performer's inclination to augment her speech with silly voices, or by breaking into song. But she spent most of her youth uncomfortable in her own skin. She found refuge in theater, but her body often felt like an ill fitting costume. "I always wanted to be Romeo, not Juliet," she said. "Romeo is a much cooler way to be Juliet's just up in a balcony, waiting." Uncertain of how to perform femininity in high school, she went through a phase in which she wore heavy makeup and frilly skirts, earning her the nickname Marie Antoinette. One of the first songs she ever wrote, "iT," a spiritual prelude to "Chris" from "Chaleur Humaine," is a Freudian fantasy about acquiring a penis and its privileges. On the new album, Ms. Letissier, who described herself as gender queer and pansexual, doesn't seek to abandon her womanhood so much as expand its turf. In evolving the character of Chris, she looked to famous women who had drunk from the cup of male privilege before her, including Madonna, Janet Jackson and Sigourney Weaver, as well as one pretty boy: Leonardo DiCaprio, circa 1996 Romeo himself. Though innuendo and omission have long been tools of convenience for gay and lesbian pop stars worried about alienating straight audiences, that calculus is changing with a new, more socially progressive generation. Hayley Kiyoko's "Curious," about competing with a man for another woman's affections, was an insurgent hit on Top 40 radio this year. And Ms. Letissier, along with indie contemporaries like Fever Ray and Sophie, is one of a handful of pop agitators using an explicitly queer perspective to grapple with gender norms in their music. "Chris is approaching these themes with nuance and as a means to tell a human story," said Arjun Pulijal, vice president for marketing for the Capitol Music Group, which signed Ms. Letissier after the success of "Chaleur Humaine." The label group, also home to Katy Perry and Halsey, is hoping that story will resonate. "We ultimately believe there is a broad audience to reach," Mr. Pulijal said. IN A COLLISION of life and art, Ms. Letissier went through a phase of dating those she described as "macho men" while writing "Chris," spurred by both animal attraction and heedless curiosity. The experiment partly validated her pessimism about the chasm between the sexes: Men with whom she initially shared chemistry often lashed out when she exhibited dominance while chatting in a group at a party, for example, or when picking up the check at a restaurant. "They felt so easily emasculated by everything," she said, reflexively clenching both fists in exasperation, as if reliving a quarrel. She was dressed with muted whimsy, in a denim jacket with a fringe collar, black culottes and white Nike Air Max sneakers, like a poet at her day job. "'You're too loud! You're too funny! Something about you is too much!'" But the experience also confirmed another hunch: In private moments, many of her alpha suitors confessed their own feelings of being trapped by their gender. "They were telling me stories about being a young man and having to fight back or get labeled a faggot or weak," she said. "I think they were searching for something in me that they couldn't find elsewhere. But at the same time, I was too complicated. I actually felt empathy for them. You can't even embrace your desires, can you? You're still obsessed with being the strongest dude in the room!'" Her misadventures in heterosexual pair bonding formed the seed of "Girlfriend." The song's groove laden, electro funk production is pure '80s. But its lyrics, about craving an intimacy free from the gravitational pull of traditional gender roles, are unmistakably modern. She sings: Girlfriend Don't feel like your girlfriend But lover Damn, I'd be your lover. She created it with the help of old instruments, including an E MU Mo' Phatt synthesizer that came preloaded with campy hip hop and new jack swing samples. For all of the album's heady themes, it derives its power equally from the hips, deepening the connection to dance that animates her live shows and was captured in the indelible videos for "Tilted" and "Saint Claude." "The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm," Ms. Letissier said. Having previously contended with collaborators who sought to undermine or overrule her, a common complaint among women in the male dominated music industry, Ms. Letissier restricted creative sessions for the album to a small circle of trusted confederates. "She wasn't the kind of artist who wanted anyone to do the thing for her," the neo funk musician Dam Funk, who is featured on "Girlfriend" and recorded with Ms. Letissier on two occasions in Los Angeles, said in a phone interview. "She came in with a plan 'What if we tried this chord here? Or this cadence there?' I usually produce the records that I'm on, but I respected that she knew what she wanted and wasn't going to let anyone run her over." A FEW HOURS BEFORE her showcase in New York, under the spotlight in a darkened theater on the Lower East Side, Ms. Letissier was lithe but purposeful as she ran through the choreography for a cover of Travis Scott's woozy trap ballad "Goosebumps," featuring Kendrick Lamar. As she capably chewed into a section of Mr. Lamar's verse, in which he serenades a select region of a woman's anatomy, her four backup dancers kept limber by doing push ups and stretches in front of the stage. Choreography has always been a lodestar for Ms. Letissier, who is quick to use her body as one more weapon in her storytelling arsenal. It was her rigorous commitment to the physical requirements of the "Chaleur Humaine" shows that precipitated the changes to her physique that first inspired "Chris." "Dancing for me is like a second language," she said over breakfast the morning after the performance. "It's the best way for me to get out of my shell and be expressive in a very personal way." For Ms. Letissier, trading her bodily shell, that ill fitting costume of her youth, for the new shell of Christine was never merely a prerequisite for pop stardom; it was an emotional survival tactic, a system for aligning her inner and outer selves. What surprised her about becoming "Chris" was that it often felt as if there were no shell at all. "There is a feeling of incarnation that is a huge shift in my life," she said. "I used to want to escape other people, because I was afraid of being seen as a monster. Now I'm like, 'Let them come closer and see.'"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Apple reported another strong quarter of profits on Tuesday, as consumers kept buying iPhones and paying more for them, news that could soon help make the Silicon Valley giant the first public company to be worth more than 1 trillion. Apple said its profit increased to 11.52 billion in its most recent quarter, up nearly a third from the same period a year earlier, showing that the company's enormous business selling iPhones and other gadgets continues to breeze along. The strong results beat Wall Street estimates, sending the company's shares about 4 percent higher on Wednesday to a new record and for a market value of more than 950 billion. Apple's ascent past 1 trillion in market value would further confirm a remarkable turnaround from the brink of bankruptcy two decades ago. The steep growth was driven by a series of new products that upended the technology industry and, in some cases, society and that remain big sellers.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
What is it? A mildly refreshed version of Volkswagen's top seller, the Jetta sedan Is it real? Absolutely. Jetta is a crucial product for VW and has been a top moneymaker since 1979 when the automaker responded to what it saw as the needs of the American market by putting a trunk on the back of its Rabbit. What they said: "Jetta is one of the world's most successful sedans with more than 14 million units sold since 1979. Last year alone, Volkswagen delivered 925,000 units worldwide, making the Jetta the top selling car for both the brand and the entire VW group." What they didn't say: Jetta soldiered on for years as a styling alternative to the VW hatches first Rabbit and later Golf, son of Rabbit. The Jetta was always popular but never a singular model line. According to Car and Driver magazine, that symbiotic relationship ends now: The new MkVII Golf will be built on the Volkswagen Group's modular MQB architecture, but the 2015 Jetta will continue to use the PQ35 platform that has provided the underpinnings for the last two generations of VW compacts. What makes it tick? Three conventional gasoline engines, a 2 liter 4 cylinder, a 1.8 liter turbo 4 cylinder and a 2 liter turbo 4 cylinder are carry overs from last year, as is the 1.4 liter 4 cylinder gas burner used in the full hybrid Jetta. At least partially new is an improved version of the automaker's 2 liter TDI turbodiesel 4 cylinder. The revised 2 liter TDI generates 150 horsepower, 10 more than the previous engine. Fuel economy is also better, with VW estimating 32 city/45 highway. Upgrades to the engine include reduced internal fraction, intake manifold cooling and separate coolant loops for engine block and cylinder head to improve thermal management and help retain heat energy. Radiator grill shutters that close when the engine is not in need of cooling also provide thermal control while improving aerodynamics. A revised exhaust aftertreatment system, necessary to reduce diesel emissions, is said to provide better emissions control and improved fuel economy.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
The Broadway revival of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" will close on September 16 after a surprisingly short six month run. Though it opened to largely positive reviews and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, the box office has dropped sharply. Ticket sales peaked the week of April 29 at 1,289,712; for the week ending August 5, the show earned 675,660, about 42 percent of its potential. Directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by the ballet star Justin Peck, "Carousel" stars Joshua Henry as the ill fated carnival barker Billy Bigelow, Jessie Mueller as his love interest Julie Jordan, and the opera singer Renee Fleming, in her Broadway musical debut, as Nettie Fowler. The show won two Tonys, for Mr. Peck's choreography and for Lindsay Mendez in a supporting role. The production is the fifth revival of the musical, which first opened on Broadway in 1945. The last revival, in 1994, played for about a year and won five Tonys.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
The pandemic has been a boon to retail alcohol sales of all kinds. Beer sales are up, as are those of wine and vodka. Even the lowly vermouth the anonymous mixer that blends with the name brand spirits in martinis and Manhattans has seen a spike in business as consumers substitute drinking at home for visits to local bars or restaurants. What has also changed in the pandemic is consumers' choice of libations: They're drinking more expensive bottles. "A trend we see is an accelerated rate of buying premium brands," said Danelle Kosmal, vice president of beverages and alcohol at the research firm Nielsen. "Consumers are trading up and spending more, and it's a trend that's been accelerated since the pandemic started." Sales of wines, for instance, dipped in the first quarter, before the pandemic. But they are now selling at a brisk rate, making up for the slower months, according to SipSource, which collects data from wine and spirits distributors. And sales of premium wines during the post pandemic period have grown more than other categories. "The higher end wines are doing better than the lower end wines," said Peter Mondavi Jr., a third generation owner of the Charles Krug winery in Napa Valley. "People are buying and consuming them. It's rather amazing in this environment." He said that in previous economic contractions, particularly when unemployment was high, his winery had seen the opposite. "During a traditional recession, which this is not, people do buy down," Mr. Mondavi said. "They abandon the higher end category. Whatever price they're customarily buying at, they go down to the next rung or two on price. This is not a traditional recession. Those who have the money are still buying up." The difference this time is that the people who are still employed are not spending money elsewhere. They're not traveling and not going out to dinner. Instead, they're looking to buy something that will make yet another dinner at home more interesting. And because they're not paying the markups that bars and restaurants usually charge, they can afford higher quality bottles. "People who are still working have more disposable income because they can't stop at happy hour, they can't go to expensive restaurants, and they can't travel, so they're more likely to splurge when they buy their next bottle of wine," Ms. Kosmal said. "A bottle of wine can cost half the amount at home from what it is in a restaurant." But are people drinking more over all? That's not clear. They're certainly drinking more at home. "At the end of February, 14.8 percent of all wine volume was sold through a restaurant or a bar," said Dale Stratton, an analyst at SipSource. "By the end of this year, that number is likely to be about 7 percent. That 14.8 percent number is normally a wildly solid number." Ms. Kosmal at Nielsen said that sales volume would be higher if people were drinking as much as they did when restaurants and bars were open. She calculated that sales would have to increase by 22 percent in retail channels to match the amount from when people were going out to eat and drink. Only spirits led by vodka have surpassed their pre pandemic volume, with overall retail sales up 24 percent since March. Retail sales of wine are up 16.6 percent since the lockdown and 13.4 percent for beer. As part of the trend toward buying more premium wines and spirits, consumers' interest in learning more about these products, particularly fine wine, has increased, said Austin Walsh, vice president of Cult Wines North America, which advises on fine wine investments. "Throughout these difficult months, we've seen a huge uptick in demand for education," he said. "People are exploring their passions more. They have more time on their hands." That interest plays into the move by several top California vineyards to release older vintages from their own wine cellars this year. These library, or cave, releases are a relatively new way for vineyards to show skeptical collectors, and high end drinkers, that their wines age well, a claim that they have been making for years but that hasn't been as readily accepted as it is in Bordeaux, which has centuries of winemaking behind it. And buying an older California vintage instead of pulling it out of your wine cellar at home does not cost that much more than a newer vintage. Quintessa, a winery in Napa Valley, is selling its first "decade release" this year, at 250 a bottle. The cost of a 2017 bottle from this year's new release it takes three years for its wines to be ready is 200. "There's a lot of speculation about the potentiality of California wines to age," said Rodrigo Soto, estate director at Quintessa. "When you prove it and do something like we're doing, with a decade release, we're saying we did it, and we want to show it to you." It's also a way for wine lovers to catch up on older vintages. Charles Krug, among the oldest wineries in America, has been owned by a branch of the Mondavi family since the 1940s and has a vast collection of Vintage Select cabernets to rerelease, Mr. Mondavi said. "We're in a unique position where we can dig deep," he said. The first library release was in 2018 to mark the family's 75 years of owning the vineyard; it contained cabernets from 1974, 1991 and 2003 and cost 1,000. In comparison, this year's vintage select costs 125. The Far Niente winery has taken a more open approach to its cave collection. Every January, it announces what past vintages are still available. This year, it offered wines from 2011 to 2017, priced from 200 to 255. Mr. Soto, of Quintessa, said the winery planned to release the current vintage as well as rerelease one from 2011. "It was considered a very bad vintage, initially, because it rained so much that year," he said. "You taste the wine today, and a lot of the elements that are rare to find in normal vintages in Napa are there. That only shows we know very little." What do buyers of these library wines do with them? Jim Blasingame, a small business consultant and radio host in Florence, Ala., has about 1,000 bottles of wine in his cellar. He joined Charles Krug's library club about eight years ago and has often bought multiple three bottle sets in a year. The prices have ranged from 800 to 1,000 per set. "A few years ago, I got a '79, an '89 and a '99 cabernet," Mr. Blasingame said. "I drink some of it, but I give some of it to my customers. I like to send them something they might not get otherwise." Brian Devine, the former chief executive of Petco, said he had been collecting French and California wines since the 1970s, when he worked for Toys "R" Us in Northern California. His personal collection includes more than 10,000 bottles, with a mix of French wines from Bordeaux and Burgundy, as well as top California cabernets and pinot noirs. He said he buys older wines at auction and through trusted wine retailers. But several years ago, he gained access to a group of vineyard owners in France and can now buy wine directly from the chateau. "If the chateaus are offering wine that I don't have, I'll pay a little more to know that it's sat in their cellar all these years," Mr. Devine said. The library offerings from West Coast wineries are a way for them to show that their wine can age well, too.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
Facebook said on Tuesday that it would allow some advertisers to run political issue and candidacy ads in Georgia, a change from its recent ban on political ads in the United States and just weeks before a major runoff election in the state could decide the future of the Senate. Beginning Wednesday morning, Facebook said it would allow authorized advertisers to buy and run political ads targeted to people within Georgia. Only those previously authorized to run such ads on the platform will be permitted, a process that involves identity verification and other safety measures. Facebook's ban on political ads will otherwise remain in effect for the remaining 49 states. Georgia is the home to two consequential Senate runoff elections. Two Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, are fighting two Republican incumbents, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue. The results will determine which party will control the Senate when President elect Joseph R. Biden takes office next year. "In recent weeks we've heard feedback from experts and advertisers across the political spectrum about the importance of expressing voice and using our tools to reach voters ahead of Georgia's runoff elections," Sarah Schiff, a Facebook product manager in charge of political advertising, said in a company blog post about the change. "We agree that our ad tools are an important way for people to get information about these elections."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
Wolfgang Fruhauf's bookstore, which now offers more than just books, is emerging as an important center in this rural part of Germany. Would You Like Some Sausage With Your Novel? BAD SOODEN ALLENDORF, Germany At five minutes after seven on a Saturday morning, the bookstore in this idyllic town was not yet officially open that happens at 7:30 a.m. but Susanne Fruhauf had already rung up the first three customers of the day. At a shelf in the corner, behind a rack of discount paperbacks, her husband Wolfgang was working as quickly as he could. "They're like moths," said Mr. Fruhauf, genially, of his customers. "As soon as the lights go on, they come." With that, he got back to work, stacking not books, but rows of freshly baked bread rolls sprinkled with poppy, pumpkin, flax, sesame or sunflower seeds that have brought townspeople flocking. Next to him stood a small refrigerator hung with "ahle wurst" a delicious air dried, salami like pork sausage that is one of the region's culinary specialties while in the center aisle, organic tomatoes and cucumbers vied with crime novels for table space. "In 2013, we had something like a quarter less revenue," said the third generation bookseller, of how the idea of selling bread and sausage came about. "There had always been seasonal ups and downs; you sell less in the summer, then there's an uptick in the fall. But this wasn't like that." Mr. Fruhauf's grandfather founded a bookbindery nearly a century ago, right here on the ground floor of the family house on the market square; Mr. Fruhauf grew up above the bookstore, which his parents and uncle ran together. Five years ago, when he saw the numbers, Mr. Fruhauf who still lives upstairs, with his mother and his wife said the situation was clear: "We had to do something." 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. At the same time, news came that the town's last two bakeries were closing. For residents like Mr. Fruhauf, who remember when half a dozen local bakers strove to make the town's best cream covered plum cake, cumin roll or pumpernickel loaf, this blow was followed by hopeful news: Norbert Schill, who had lost his storefront lease, wanted to keep baking. "I said, 'before there's no fresh bakery, I'll clear a shelf, and we can sell the bread here,'" Mr. Fruhauf said. Mr. Schill agreed to give it a try. The experiment was a success. Mr. Fruhauf began keeping baker's hours, and Mr. Schill's former customers started coming to the bookstore to buy their daily bread. Some, like Norbert Bergmann, a retired Catholic priest, got into the habit of picking up a book or TV guide, too. Some of Mr. Fruhauf's regular customers found the idea strange at first, but they came around quickly. "It's fun to eat breakfast again," said Regina Kistner, who raised her family here, and had been making do with the processed rolls sold at the supermarket. "These taste good," she added, leaving the store with two rolls (one rye and one sesame), a tabloid paper (for her neighbor) and the British romance novel "A Summer at Sea." Mr. Schill, the baker, said he for one was very happy to have found such an open minded partner in the bookseller. "There's a saying, I remember learning as a child, from the old people. 'Go with the times, or with time, you'll go.'" Before long, customers asked Mr. Fruhauf if he could start selling the sausages Mr. Schill used to sell like the bakeries, the town's once plentiful supply of butchers had dwindled, as shops went out of business or owners grew old and died. Customers, particularly older ones, were not always able to drive out of town to get their cumin or garlic fix. So Mr. Fruhauf cleared some more space and bought a small refrigerator. Of course, these traditionally made products are more expensive than their mass produced counterparts. But Jurgen Meyer, an electrician who comes to the bookstore for sausages and whole grain rolls, and might pick up a magazine now and then, said the extra money was worth it. "It has to taste good," he said. "Food is important." "Good products cost money," agreed Manuela Busch, one of the butchers who works with Mr. Fruhauf and likes to read Stephen King novels. "That's just the way it works." Readers, said Mr. Fruhauf, tend to understand this. "As consumers, readers are very aware," he said. "It matters to them where things come from, what they are made of." Narrative, he added, is as important for food as for books: "I know the story of every product I sell," he said. This includes the fact that his eggs come from chickens whose view is of not one, but two local castles. "Even when supermarkets have regional products, no one there can tell you about them," said Mr. Fruhauf, who only sells things he personally thinks taste good. Timm Fuchs, who works for the German Association of Towns and Municipalities, said that sales models like Mr. Fruhauf's are emerging in rural centers, whose downtowns empty after big box shopping centers open down the road. "What's important is to have a central place, whether it's a bookstore or someplace else, to consolidate and sell these regional products," he said. "That also improves the quality of life in these towns and villages. Suddenly there is a meeting place, again." Andreas Hilme, a school principal, brings his children Anna, 7, who likes books about twin vampire sisters, and Alex, 9, who likes all books, every weekend for just this reason. "We want to support local businesses," he said. "There is a problem with young people leaving and going to Hamburg or Berlin. But this is a great place to live, and we don't want all the stores to disappear." Older people in particular like to drop by for a roll, said Mr. Fruhauf, and stay for half an hour to chat. "For me, that's part of the job," he said. "We're in the countryside, everybody knows everybody. It's very personal. Someone might come in and say, 'what book should I get my mother in law?'" The Fruhaufs hope to work another 15 years or more before retiring. But for now, they are glad to have not just shored up the business, but actually increased sales by some 20 percent. They're looking forward to the store's centennial, and, if all goes well, keeping it open until they reach retirement age. In the meantime, the bookstore continues to serve as a hub for town life, past and present: In addition to hosting regular card game evenings for young and old, this year Mr. Fruhauf published a book about the town's 800 year history, from its origins as a center for salt production to its less publicly memorialized Nazi history. Locking up after a long, warm morning, Mr. Fruhauf paused. He took a look around at the 17th century building that houses his eclectic store, and said he enjoys being at the center of a new network of butchers, bakers and beekeepers. "In Germany, I think there's a tendency now, to be very backward looking, to say, 'everything used to be better,'" said Mr. Fruhauf. "But all you really need are some new ideas."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Andy Lindsay, a lung cancer patient, was among the climbers and porters heading up Mera Glacier in Nepal to Mera High Camp on a three week trek this fall. On Oct. 15 at 8 a.m., Andy Lindsay stood atop 21,247 foot Mera Peak in Nepal, a wildly improbable place for him to be both athletically and medically. Andy, a veteran climber and a friend of mine, had been living with Stage IV lung cancer for three years. "To live one year was statistically unlikely, and two years looked like a miracle," he said. He was able to make the climb thanks to the success of a cutting edge targeted therapy clinical trial. It targeted his specific lung cancer mutation, shutting off the fuel to his tumor's growth and shrinking the tumor. He wasn't cured, but his scans were strikingly improved and he was almost symptom free. The trip illustrates a shifting landscape both for oncologists and cancer patients exploring a return to active lifestyles. Dr. Tomas Neilan, the director of the cardio oncology program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and part of Andy's medical team, said the recent success of these targeted therapy treatments alters the way specialists like him view and treat advanced cancer patients. "They're taking Stage IV cancer and turning it into a chronic disease no different than high blood pressure," he said. Andy, 61, of Ipswich, Mass., had a window of good health, a honeymoon of indeterminate time during which he could resume the activities he loved. He played in his coffeehouse band, traveled and took long bike rides up the coast. He also accepted a friend's invitation to climb in Nepal. Over three strenuous weeks he and his wife, Jan, who is a registered nurse and an experienced outdoorswoman, trekked alongside eight other climbers and several guides, most of whom they'd traveled with in the past. In announcing the trip on his Caring Bridge page to ask for donations to fund lung cancer research, Andy had said there was a slim chance he'd summit. At the altitude he reached, there's 70 percent less air pressure than at sea level to push air into the lungs. Breathing is hard for the fittest climbers. There was no data on what the high altitude would do to an advanced lung cancer patient: None were found to have tried. He gave Andy the O.K. to go to Nepal not as a dying man attempting his last climb but as a person with a deep experience in the mountains who exhibited solid cardiovascular function and health. In the previous months Andy had climbed high peaks in Maine and New Hampshire. Years earlier he'd traveled to Nepal for a trekking trip without incident. Dr. Neilan, a climber himself, said he found no data around altitude sickness the most dangerous and common health risk for climbing in high mountains and Andy's conditions. But Dr. Neilan knew that at lower altitude even healthy younger climbers tended to have a greater likelihood of pulmonary edema and cerebral edema. They reviewed a series of warning signs of altitude related health problems ranging from coughing up blood to severe, unshakable headache. He gave his blessing but acknowledged: "If you polled physicians you might have gotten a lot of different advice." Another of Andy's doctors, Dr. Zofia Piotrowska, a medical oncologist at Massachusetts General, said her team wanted to help him go where he wanted to go, knowing the trip's meaning to him. However, if she thought the trip was a "medically very unsafe thing to do," she'd have asked him not to go, she said. Dr. Piotrowska focuses on the type of lung cancer Andy has, which has a mutation in the gene called epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR. The EGFR subgroup represents about 15 percent of all non small cell lung cancers and is relatively common in "never smokers" like Andy. When he was given his diagnosis in 2014, he was treated with a first generation EGFR inhibitor, an oral pill that turned off the mutant protein on the surface of the cancer cell. His response was swift, but the remission lasted less than a year. In 2016 he enrolled in his current trial after a biopsy showed his cancer had developed a specific mutation to resist the original drug he'd been on. A newly developed drug known as EGF816 targeted his acquired resistance. Within days of being treated, Andy noticed he was breathing better. He resumed his outdoor activities and adventures in the months to follow, doing more as his fitness improved. Dr. Piotrowska said that before clearing him for the climb, she thought his lung function was pretty close to normal. The question nobody could answer was how lungs that were once filled with cancer would tolerate altitude. Also unanswerable was how he'd respond to the exertion and stress of the expedition, which included waking in darkness in subzero temperatures and a 16 hour climb on summit day. Andy admitted that he was pleasantly surprised that his doctors signed off. His most recent scan had confirmed two small, slow growing nodules, one on each lung. There were no immediate symptoms. "It's not like we were told to expect these spots to blossom forth while he was gone," his wife said. "If we had, it would've been an absolute no go." A longtime ski mountaineering friend, Brian Lambert, invited Andy to join the trip. They felt he'd be in good hands: the lead guides were Jim Gudjonson, a longtime alpine guide on several of Andy's previous trips, and Deryl Kelly, an Everest veteran and the head of Parks Canada rescue service who, as an E.M.T., would oversee the clients' health on the mountain, along with a team physician. The trip itself was a test. Though Andy went at his own pace the opening week, staying mostly to the rear of the rest of the party as he combined walking steps with periodic "rest steps," he struggled. He said he was within a day of letting the others advance on the summit without him when his stamina markedly improved. As they crossed the Mera glacier above 17,000 feet he found himself alongside the group's faster members. Although it is poorly understood who acclimatizes well and who doesn't, Andy said he found that he did better at higher altitudes. He likely also benefited from his superb technical skills in using crampons and ice tools on the high glacier. And he joked that he might have another useful mutation: "I seem to love a sufferfest." In ascending on the final day the climbers were tethered to one another with rope Andy described the despair of a too fast pace in the darkness melting in the uplift of a spectacular daybreak. The "beautiful crimson" lit up all the neighboring high peaks, including Everest. Late last year, he was among several Stage IV cancer patients invited to a small gathering in Boston of top Massachusetts General researchers who outlined their thinking on future therapies. The researchers were clearly energized by the presence of the pioneering patients. "This is an example," Dr. Piotrowska said, "of something that none of us ever thought would be possible a few years ago."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
Apes know what you're thinking. Or at least an experiment suggests they do. Researchers at Kyoto University and Duke University had chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans watch a video of an actor and a man in a King Kong suit hiding an object under boxes. In the end, King Kong runs away with the object. Then the actor returns. The experimenters tracked the apes' gaze, which showed the animals correctly anticipated that the actor would head for the last place he saw the object. The apes knew the object was no longer there, and they apparently knew the actor would believe it was. Put another way: They knew what the actor believed, and they knew the belief was false.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
Rob Austin and his wife, Natalia, have a 10 month old son, healthy incomes and plenty of cash in the bank for a down payment on a house. But they are happily renting a townhouse in Pasadena, Calif., with no plans to buy for now, given the frothy prices in their area. "As long as there is such a disconnect, where a couple like my wife and me have to put down a gargantuan down payment and still have a large monthly payment to get into a decent, and not necessarily nice, house, that is a game we don't wish to play," said Mr. Austin, a 39 year old business manager at a biotechnology company. "When home price to income levels come back to a more normal level, when that happens, then we will be the first to jump in. If that never happens, that is O.K." More American households are renting, across all income levels and generations, for different reasons. But when homeownership is the centerpiece of the American dream, most of us have internalized certain ideals: Buying a home builds equity, putting you on the fast track to building wealth. Renting, by contrast, is essentially throwing money to the wind. But with renters now accounting for 37 percent of all households, the highest level since the mid 1960s, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, more people may be renting for longer. Does that mean people who rent for extended periods, perhaps decades even a lifetime are forever at a disadvantage? "Arguing about whether rent versus buy is a better financial decision is like debating active versus passive investment strategies, hedge funds versus mutual funds, Apple versus Google," said Milo M. Benningfield, a financial planner in San Francisco. "Somebody's going to be right in terms of higher returns in the future, but we can't know in advance who that will be and it will be tough to quantify how much risk was taken along the way." The arguments in favor of ownership are persuasive, particularly for people who expect to stay in place for at least five to seven years but probably more. A mortgage acts like a forced savings plan, even if you're paying the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest for the privilege of building equity. Call it the cost of enforcing a positive behavior. Buying also generally protects consumers from rising rents, while traditional mortgage payments remain constant. Then, there is the fact that buyers are using borrowed money to purchase an asset that is likely to appreciate over a long period, though that can backfire as well (see housing market plunge, millions of underwater borrowers, circa 2008). Being able to call a place your own has a real, albeit intangible, value too. How well any household will fare financially by buying or renting really depends on factors no one can predict. Other studies have found that renters who invest their down payment and any savings from renting as opposed to owning often come out ahead. Either way, most financial professionals would caution against viewing a home purchase as an investment, particularly after factoring in the cost of maintenance, taxes, insurance and the high costs of buying and selling, though it's difficult not to. It may be hard for people living in bubbly markets to believe, but, over all, home prices in the United States have risen just 0.37 percent annualized, after inflation, for the last 126 years, according to calculations by Robert J. Shiller, an economist who received the Nobel in economic science in 2013 and wrote the book on speculative bubbles, "Irrational Exuberance." "Disregarding the special amenities that many people value in homeownership," Professor Shiller said, "it would be hugely better invested in the stock market." And many people do accumulate substantial equity in their homes, which often becomes a cushy safety net in retirement. A study by the Harvard Joint Center found that, even after the housing crash, the median household who bought a home after 1999 still accrued significant amounts of wealth through 2013 (though whites gained more than African Americans and Hispanics). Christopher E. Herbert, managing director of Harvard's Joint Center, said he believed the results could be tied, in large part, to behavioral incentives. "The motivated savings up front and the forced savings over time," he said of accumulating a down payment and making mortgage payments. There may also be something about many people who buy. As Mr. Benningfield pointed out, they may have other attributes that may contribute to their economic success. Renting can still be financially advantageous under certain circumstances. Consider the work in 2012 by the academics Eli Beracha of Florida International University and Ken Johnson of Florida Atlantic University. They simulated a horse race between buyers and renters, and concluded that in many cases, renters came out ahead, at least during the eight year stretches they studied. Theoretical renters put their down payment in a portfolio that often consisted of more than 50 percent stocks (the professors created a portfolio that approximated the risk of owning a home), and continued to invest any savings from renting. But this assumes that there are savings from renting, which is not always the case, and that the renter is disciplined enough to actually set the money aside. The authors' point, however, is that people often blindly believe that buying is usually the smarter option. "Most of the public drive to buy is without looking under the hood," Professor Johnson said. Another study, from HelloWallet, a unit of Morningstar, came to similar conclusions in 2014 when comparing a hypothetical, moderate income family that bought, with one that rented, in 20 major cities across the country. The study projects that median income families, or those who earn about 50,000, will often end up with more net wealth if they rent versus own over the 10 years from 2013 to 2022. But any number of variables can quickly shift that calculus, including the price of the home relative to the rent, whether the family is affluent enough to benefit from tax savings, and the time spent in the home. "The longer you stay, the stronger the argument is for buying, all else equal," said Aron Szapiro, who conducted the analysis. But he also contends that the tax advantages of homeownership are often oversold, particularly to moderate income households. If you're trying to determine the right option, some guideposts may help. Mr. Szapiro, for example, found that in households with about 100,000 in earnings, net wealth typically rose more 10 years after buying a home than if they had rented but only if the annual rent was 6 percent or more of the purchase price. So it would pay to buy a 600,000 home when rent in the area was about 3,000 a month or more. (In a couple of places, including New York and Washington, he found that it made sense to buy when the cost of renting was a bit lower relative to home prices.) William Bernstein, an investment adviser who has written several books for do it yourself investors, offered another rule of thumb: Never pay more than 15 years' fair rental value for any home, or 180 months of rent.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
A little over a week after Robbie Myers left her position as editor in chief of Elle, there was a fire in her building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan: a "Towering Inferno" like blaze that erupted from her neighbor's apartment, reaching to the top floor of the building. "Have you seen the pictures?" she asked on Wednesday night at a party celebrating her 17 years at the magazine, held at the writer Daphne Merkin's apartment on the other side of Central Park. She pulled out her phone to show a photo from a local newspaper: the top three floors of the left side of the building completely engulfed in flames earlier this month, as Ms. Myers and her daughter stood in the window, just feet away, at 2 a.m. "It was a traumatic experience," she said. "Your mind goes into kind of overdrive for a couple of days, until I could sort of see that everything is settled and that my kids are going to be O.K." (Three firefighters were injured, according to the West Side Rag; Ms. Myers and her children were unharmed and are staying in a hotel.) She was first hired by Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone in the early 1980s, then went to Interview (where she worked with Andy Warhol), to Seventeen, to InStyle, and then ran the defunct Mirabella, at the time a sister publication to Elle. "I mean, I've been working at a steady clip pretty much since I came to New York," Ms. Myers said. "I never really had any downtime to speak of." Over the course of the evening at least a hundred guests, including Hal Rubenstein (the former fashion director of InStyle), Cindi Leive (the former editor in chief of Glamour) and many Elle staffers past and present, crowded the apartment, which was warmly lit and lined with walls of books. The intellectual setting seemed appropriate; Ms. Myers encouraged introspective and journalistic work from her writers, including essays about abortion, political and cultural profiles, and an extensively reported piece about a murder abetted by social media. In 2014, she wrote a scathing response to a New Republic story that questioned whether women's magazines could do serious journalism. Along with the departures of Ms. Leive, Graydon Carter and Nancy Gibbs, Ms. Myers's seemed to signify the end of an era in glossy magazines. But this evening felt more specifically like an elegy Elle gy? for a thoughtful time in women's monthlies, before the incursions of Instagram and other digital media. "I always thought Elle was different in that it let you write dense, crunchy, textured stories in an age where everything is quick," said Ms. Merkin, who most recently wrote for Elle about considering a same sex romantic relationship. "And I always admired Robbie for standing firm for that kind of piece." Nina Garcia, the "Project Runway" personality who had been creative director at Marie Claire, and who worked under Ms. Myers as Elle's fashion director from 2000 to 2008, took over the editor role at Elle a week after Ms. Myers's departure. Some contributors worried that Ms. Myers's interest in the inner lives of women may be replaced by a heightened focus on their appearances. "I hope that what separated Elle out from the other magazines will be preserved," Ms. Merkin said. "But I don't know if that's the very thing that's going to be preserved." Also present was Anne Slowey, Elle's longtime fashion director (she left in February, after 18 years), who has known Ms. Myers since the early 1980s and was once on a competitive swim team with her. "The thing that saddens me about this year in particular is about the Women in Hollywood event," Ms. Slowey said, referring to Elle's 24th annual event celebrating women in the entertainment industry, which was held on Oct. 16 in Beverly Hills. After the accusations against Harvey Weinstein, actresses including Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lawrence and Laura Dern delivered an outpouring of personal stories about sexual assault and harassment. "I was particularly saddened that Robbie wasn't there to receive credit at this moment when it could represent something more important," Ms. Slowey, now a self described "soccer mom" of two, said, before leaving to join her family dogs, Edie and Maude, waiting for her in a 1991 Volvo stuffed with groceries. So what's next for Ms. Myers? "I got very good advice from David Granger," she said, speaking of the former Esquire editor in chief, who is now a literary agent. "He said to me, 'A lot of people are going to call you. So don't do anything for 40 days.' "He said, 'Just give yourself a little time.'"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In less than 10 years, Charlotte Wagner has turned herself into an art collector to be reckoned with. Having the means certainly helps (her husband, Herbert S. Wagner III, is a financier) but what Ms. Wagner has in abundance is focus. "We collect artists who are socially concerned," said Ms. Wagner, 50, who is a trustee at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and is chairwoman of its education committee. "They're from diverse backgrounds and raise our consciousness about issues confronting society," she said. The social justice theme is also the driving force behind the Wagner Foundation, which she runs. She and her husband established the foundation, based in Boston, to further social justice goals in areas from education to health to community development. However high minded the contents, the genesis of the collection was practical. In 2009, Ms. Wagner found she had to fill up a new home, and began to buy art, largely from galleries. Several dozen of those pieces currently hang on the walls. Most fit the socially concerned theme, like Yinka Shonibare's "Planets in My Head, Philosophy" (2011), which Ms. Wagner said dealt with "the legacy of colonialism in Africa." Other artists represented include William Kentridge, Cecily Brown, Cornelia Parker, Mark Bradford, Doris Salcedo, Alice Neel and Jean Dubuffet. Ms. Wagner, who once worked in marketing for Fidelity and Goldman Sachs, does her homework, and she does it in a library with a large Cindy Sherman photograph looking down at her. "I'm somebody who researches artists' intent. I want to understand what they are trying to accomplish with their work and the messages," she said. "But the hook is always the visual." On a recent afternoon she talked about her collecting, starting with a striking work in her entrance hall, "Dzodze" (2006), by the Ghanaian born, Nigeria based sculptor El Anatsui, known for his assemblages of castoff materials like bottle caps. The conversation has been edited and condensed. It shimmers. It's a beautiful piece, and it sets a magical tone. What do you know about his process? He would see all this trash in his neighborhood and on his walks. He started picking it up, collecting it and bringing it back to his studio. He decided that he needed to make some positive use of that material. Does that practical part appeal to you? He's taken something very negative, and through his genius, he has created work that is so reverential to the people, the community and the culture of Africa. And you can be awe struck by its physical beauty. It's very layered. There are lots of stories that can be told through the work. What else here fits the theme to a T? Glenn Ligon's "White 2" (1993) a densely layered graphic text painting in black and white . The work has optical power, as well as a profound message and meaning. The words, all by African American authors, get a physicality to them. It's about how we talk about race and perceive race in this country. I respect Glenn because he's an amazing curator, too. He is certainly a hero. I see Alice Neel has pride of place over the fireplace with "Carmen (Man With Guitar)." She mostly painted portraits, of people from all walks of life who interested her. She invested the time to truly see her subjects and to reflect their humanness in her work. Her work reminds me to always live my values, as she lived hers. In addition to social justice, what else guides your collecting? When I started I had a young family I have three kids. I wanted art on the walls that my family could enjoy, that they could understand and grow with, that had a complex narrative, that represented lots of different voices, featuring artists from all over the world. Do the children have a favorite work? The El Anatsui. It's so majestic, it's hard not to love it. And they went with me to the Brooklyn Museum to see his work at the show there in 2013 . So I think that furthers your love of a piece when you get to see it in a different context. What would you hang if it weren't a family setting? I would probably would choose something by Sarah Lucas the British artist known for frankly sexual work . I really respect her just her commitment to femininity, and her strong commitment to her ideas. I'm not sure my husband would love it as much laughs .	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
HOW far can a modern car really go? Given the increasing age of vehicles on American roads, we may be on the verge of finding out. As a stubborn recession made drivers wary of new purchases for several years, the average age of vehicles on the road in the United States stretched to a record 11.1 years in 2011, according to the research firm R. L. Polk, which tracks vehicle sales and registrations. Multiply that number of years by the annual miles driven the E.P.A. uses 15,000 for the cost calculation on fuel economy labels and it becomes evident that one pearl of conventional wisdom has become outdated. In the 1960s and '70s, when odometers typically registered no more than 99,999 miles before returning to all zeros, the idea of keeping a car for more than 100,000 miles was the automotive equivalent of driving on thin ice. You could try it, but you'd better be prepared to swim. But today, as more owners drive their vehicles farther, some are learning that the imagined limits of vehicular endurance may not be real limits at all. Several factors have aligned to make pushing a car farther much more realistic. Cars that have survived for a million miles or more have been widely documented, of course, but those tend to be exceptional cases. What's different, and far more common, today are the online classified ads offering secondhand Hondas, Toyotas and Volvos with 150,000 or 200,000 miles or more not as parts donors but as vehicles with some useful life left. One driver who has firsthand experience with this new paradigm of durability is Mark Webber, a 57 year old Porsche salesman. Mr. Webber has a full grasp of powerful new sports cars in January he was in Southern California for sales training and track time with the 2013 Porsche 911 but for his 35 mile commute to Herb Chambers Porsche in Boston, from Scituate, Mass., he drives a 1990 Volvo 740 with over 300,000 miles. "I just can't see the point of spending a lot of money driving a newer, racier car every day in city traffic when my old Volvo just wants to keep on going," Mr. Webber said. "I guess you could say I'm just a New England tightwad." In Mr. Webber's case, the enabler of his thrift may be global competition and the Environmental Protection Agency. Customer satisfaction surveys show cars having fewer and fewer problems with each passing year. Much of this improvement is a result of intense global competition a carmaker simply can't allow its products to leak oil, break down or wear out prematurely. But another, less obvious factor has been the government mandated push for lower emissions. "The California Air Resources Board and the E.P.A. have been very focused on making sure that catalytic converters perform within 96 percent of their original capability at 100,000 miles," said Jagadish Sorab, technical leader for engine design at Ford Motor. "Because of this, we needed to reduce the amount of oil being used by the engine to reduce the oil reaching the catalysts. "Fifteen years ago, piston rings would show perhaps 50 microns of wear over the useful life of a vehicle," Mr. Sorab said, referring to the engine part responsible for sealing combustion in the cylinder. "Today, it is less than 10 microns. As a benchmark, a human hair is 200 microns thick. "Materials are much better," Mr. Sorab continued. "We can use very durable, diamondlike carbon finishes to prevent wear. We have tested our newest breed of EcoBoost engines, in our F 150 pickup, for 250,000 miles. When we tear the engines down, we cannot see any evidence of wear." Dr. George Akerlof, who shared the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in economic science with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz, may have predicted this trend of owners keeping cars longer. He reasoned that a buyer must assume that any used car is a lemon, because he has no way of knowing for sure whether that car has been abused or crashed. So a buyer, on average, is only willing to pay a below average price. But the owner of a good used car knows that it is reliable, that he has driven it carefully, changed the oil regularly and maintained the car well. If the owner of that good used car is not offered what he thinks it is worth, he won't sell it, Dr. Akerlof reasoned. The overall quality of used cars goes down, because only below average cars are offered, which drives down the value of used cars as a whole. The market is, in economics terms, broken, because the best cars in it are undervalued and are seldom offered for sale. Because new car sales and leases dropped during the downturn, there are fewer of those to go around. So used car prices have been rising over the last few years as recession shy and economics savvy drivers have pushed their cars ever farther. With the value of some older cars actually rising, many drivers decided to drive their current car until it wore out. And because of the improving overall quality of today's automobiles, many are discovering that it is entirely possible for a driver to wear out long before his or her automobile. J. D. Power customer surveys of problems with new and three year old cars have shown, over the years, that cars are simply getting better. And that many of the problems that do surface involve new electronic gadgets like navigation, audio and phone systems that new owners may have a hard time understanding. The trend toward better, longer lasting cars seems to have begun way back in the '60s, when the first imports from Asia started to encroach on American and European carmakers' sales figures. Another factor is that cars from the '60s and '70s were susceptible to rust and corrosion many literally fell apart before their engines and transmission wore out. But advances in corrosion protection, some propelled by government requirements for anticorrosion warranties, have greatly reduced that problem. "Competition is part of it," said Peter Egan, a former auto mechanic and now editor at large of Road Track magazine. "Japanese cars kind of upped everyone's game a bit. With some exceptions, the engines would go a long time without burning oil or having other major problems." Hyundai and Kia, the South Korean carmakers, now include 100,000 mile/10 year warranties on their cars' powertrains. If a relatively abusive driver can count on no major mechanical failures before 100,000 miles, a careful owner can and does expect his car to go much farther. "With a '66 Chevy Impala, you could rebuild everything on the car with a reasonable level of mechanical skill," said Mr. Egan of Road Track. "My parents, with their '56 Buick, used to have the wheel bearings repacked with grease before a long trip. Nobody does that anymore. The lubricants are better, the machining is better." Some drivers, of course, keep driving their cars simply because they love them. Edmund Willcox Clarke Jr., a Superior Court Judge of Los Angeles County, has driven his 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera for over 300,000 miles. "It was my first brand new car," he said. "It was designed the way I wanted it, and looked and drove exactly as I wanted it. I loved it from the beginning, and I'm still fond of it." But Judge Clarke has lavished plenty of attention on his Porsche. "I rebuilt the engine a couple of times, because of wear and tear and to keep the performance up," he said. "I had it painted a couple of times to keep it looking stylish. My body fit into that seat and the car felt like an extension of me. I could tell when it was tired. "I think the car was well made that was one reason it lasted so long," he said. "I stayed ahead of it. As long as it was reliable and loyal to me, I was loyal to it." Judge Clarke finally bought a new car last year, an electric Tesla Roadster that he can drive in the carpool lane on the clogged Harbor Freeway every weekday. But his 1989 Porsche still sits in his Manhattan Beach, Calif., driveway, carefully covered, as if waiting for its owner to return.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
In the Federalist Papers No. 65, Alexander Hamilton, talking about the reasoning behind giving the Senate the power to try impeachments, wrote: "Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel confidence enough in its own situation, to preserve, unawed and uninfluenced, the necessary impartiality between an individual accused, and the representatives of the people, his accusers?" Stirring words, but Hamilton clearly did not foresee a situation in which the majority leader of the Senate, far from being independent, declared that he would take his lead from the president and that he was not impartial, despite having to take an oath that requires impartiality, and several of his fellow senators have expressed similar views. Dignity? Impartiality? Independence? Not this Senate. Because Chief Justice John Roberts has Supreme Court responsibilities in the morning and cannot begin his impeachment duties until 1 p.m., Mitch McConnell's compressed trial schedule would result in a trial that would go, with breaks, well beyond 1 a.m. Doesn't this amount to forced sleep deprivation for the jurors, not to mention the chief justice? What's more, how can jurors be expected to process information efficiently and think rationally over a span of 12 hours extending beyond bedtime? Or is rational thought no longer considered necessary in trials?	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
Before Wednesday night's game at Madison Square Garden, Carmelo Anthony found himself glancing up at the rafters. He was wondering whether his No. 7 would be up there someday. The Knicks will ultimately make that decision, he said. But he was hoping to nudge the process along. "They say in life you have to envision," he said, "so I was envisioning." Anthony was back at the Garden for the first time in 25 months, this time as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers. He is playing again and scoring again after resuscitating his career at age 35. Against the Knicks, he dusted off his familiar wares: the midrange jumpers, the low post turnarounds, the skyscraping 3 pointers. In fact, Anthony was terrific. He finished with 26 points and 7 rebounds while shooting 11 of 17 from the field. But while one game does not define much of anything, it did seem symbolic of Anthony's complicated legacy: so much production and potential with so little to show for it. Portland left with its fifth straight loss after being clobbered, 117 93, by the Knicks, who won their third straight game under Mike Miller, their interim coach. Afterward, Anthony expressed mixed emotions. The Trail Blazers have big problems, which the Knicks exposed. But he also sounded nostalgic and grateful. Again: It was complicated. "The love was definitely felt tonight," he said. "Just being back, I think that feeling is hard to explain." During player introductions, the crowd greeted Anthony with a warm ovation and even cheered when he touched the ball early in the first quarter. It was an offensive set that would have looked familiar to anyone who remembered Anthony from his Knicks days: isolated against his defender near the 3 point line. Iso Melo: Back again! Sure enough, as Anthony weighed his options, scattered murmurs grew into a roar. When Anthony finally passed to a teammate, the crowd groaned. Team officials did not assemble a video tribute for Anthony, as they did when he first returned with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017, but the atmosphere was no less charged. Even when Anthony went to the bench late in the fourth quarter, a chant surfaced: "We want Melo!" "I think being in the city makes you a specific type of person," Anthony said. "And for me to embrace that and want that and take that challenge on, I think that's why I got the love that I got tonight. And I will continue to get that from this city." The energy could not have been more different when Kristaps Porzingis made his return to the Garden with the Dallas Mavericks in November. During that game, Porzingis was booed throughout. The general perception among fans, fair or not, was that Porzingis had forced his way out of New York last season, that he had fled the dysfunction rather than fight through it and try to be a part of the solution. But unlike Porzingis, Anthony stuck around, even when things soured and even when it was clear that he had become a part of the problem. In the dystopian world of Knicks basketball, there is honor in the simple act of sticking around. If fans are stuck with this team, perhaps the players should be, too. Of course, if the Knicks were in a better place instead of languishing (again) toward the bottom of the standings, then maybe Anthony's occasional returns would not be such spectacles. But he was the face of the Knicks the last time the franchise was decent, a reminder of better days or at least more interesting days. In his six plus years with the Knicks, Anthony was a perennial All Star. He once led the N.B.A. in scoring and propelled the team to three trips to the playoffs. (Remember the playoffs? No? Never mind.) In any case, Anthony was charismatic and more than proficient most nights and a bona fide presence in a city that celebrates people who have presence. But only once during his tenure did the Knicks advance past the first round of the playoffs. And over his final four seasons, they were 117 211, setting various records for futility. There was the season he insisted on playing in an All Star Game even though he needed knee surgery. The summer he went on a protracted free agency tour before re signing for more than 120 million. The quarrels with Phil Jackson, the squabbles with hecklers and the struggles with injuries. As the Knicks sought to rebuild ahead of the 2017 18 season, they traded Anthony to the Thunder. But when the Houston Rockets released him less than a month into last season, it appeared as if his career might be finished. No one else picked him up. He watched the rest of the season unfold without him. "I don't think people understand how difficult that was, how hard that was," Anthony said. It is a credit to him that he stayed in shape during his hiatus. The Blazers signed him in November. In 20 games, Anthony is averaging 16.2 points and 6.2 rebounds while shooting a respectable 40.3 percent from 3 point range. Before Wednesday's loss, Coach Terry Stotts lauded Anthony's "professionalism." "We've relied on him probably more than we thought we would when we got him," Stotts said. "He's playing big minutes for us. I think the experience he brings, the time he's had in the league, his leadership he's been a very positive influence in the locker room. So we couldn't be more pleased that we were able to get him." But the Blazers, who are 14 21, are beginning to fray at the seams. When Anthony was asked about his team's problems after Wednesday's game, he might as well have been transported to 2013 when the Knicks were mired in one of their losing streaks. He used the same script. "We just have to go through it," he said. "That's all I got to say. We have to go through it. We have to figure it out. Nobody's going to figure it out for us. We have to figure it out for ourselves. And times like this, when you're going through it, you have to continue going through it." Anthony would know. On throwback night at the Garden, he was speaking from experience.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. 'HENRY VI' at the Mezzanine Theater A.R.T./New York Theaters (in previews; opens on Aug. 21). The National Asian American Theater Company fills the months before the midterm elections with this tale of a dangerously unfit ruler and a fiercely divided nation. Stephen Brown Fried directs a two part version "Foreign Wars" and "Civil Strife" of the trilogy. 866 811 4111, naatco.org 'CARMEN JONES' at Classic Stage Company (closes on Aug. 19). John Doyle's reclamation of Hammerstein's reimagination of Bizet's opera about a fiery femme fatale finishes its run. Ben Brantley called the show, starring Anika Noni Rose, "sublime," adding, "There's no point trying to resist such sheer, distilled beauty." 866 811 4111, classicstage.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
Greece skirted disaster this week by persuading investors and politicians that it is finally on track to fix its finances. But even before the dust settles, the government is setting the stage for a potential conflict with Germany, France and other European governments that may raise doubts about the sustainability of the euro project. In the last two days, Greece's finance minister has threatened to turn to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout if Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and other European politicians resist pledging aid to help Greece cope with its newfound frugality. Asking the fund for help could create a new round of financial and political turmoil by sending the message that Europe cannot resolve its own problems, analysts said. "It would be damaging for the euro zone going forward because it would sow seeds of doubt about whether this is really a currency union, or just a group of countries that share a currency," said Simon Tilford, the chief economist of the Center for European Reform in London. Policy makers and leaders of many countries that use the euro see Greece's troubles as a problem within the family. They want a homegrown political solution to show that Europe can fix internal economic crises without outside help. Turning to the I.M.F., which often helps struggling emerging market nations, is seen as a stigma that is to be avoided, a concern underscored by the European Central Bank's president, Jean Claude Trichet, on Wednesday. "I do not trust that it would be appropriate to have the introduction of the I.M.F. as a supplier of help," he said. No member of the euro zone has had to borrow from the I.M.F. since the official use of the common currency began in 1999, and no major industrialized country in Europe has done so since Britain in 1976. But from Greece's perspective, the I.M.F. would force the government to swallow nearly the same bitter medicine that Germany, France and others have required but at least Athens would receive guaranteed financial aid from the I.M.F. in return. In addition, it is not clear that Germany and other European governments seeking to contain the crisis have the resources or expertise to monitor Greece and other profligate euro members for the many years that it will take for the troubles to blow over. And if Greece has to refinance more and more of its debt in the coming months, the crisis could intensify. "It's a black eye for the euro zone if one of their members has to turn to the I.M.F. for support," Randall W. Stone, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, said. "That's embarrassing. On the other hand, it's potentially more damaging to create a precedent for the rich European countries to bail out the poorer ones when they get into financial trouble." For Greek leaders facing wide civil unrest, including the unions' occupation of the country's finance ministry on Thursday, the threat of turning to the I.M.F. can serve useful ends. "People like to blame the I.M.F. for the policies they impose, but in many cases these are policies the governments know they have to push through," said James Raymond Vreeland, a political scientist at Georgetown University. "They use the leverage of the I.M.F. so it's a little more politically palatable." But even setting aside the symbolic implications, some experts believe that an I.M.F. bailout would deeply rattle the markets. Despite the reassuring bond sale on Thursday, investors could quickly drive up Greece's borrowing costs if they come to believe an I.M.F. intervention is likely, said Michael L. Mussa, a former I.M.F. research director who is now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. "The market is expecting other Europeans to do something," Mr. Mussa said. "If that expectation is disappointed, I don't see how they're going to resolve the crisis." The biggest challenge is in Germany, which has historically tended to enforce fiscal and economic rectitude on its neighbors. Many German taxpayers are vehemently opposed to paying for the profligacy of their free spending neighbors in Greece and other southern European countries that let their deficits soar sky high instead of taming them when times were good. At the same time, German banks also underwrite much of the Continent's debt and exert considerable influence in domestic politics, according to Mark S. Copelovitch, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Germany "doesn't want its banking sector to go under because Greece has defaulted," he said. Yet nightly broadcasts of widespread strikes in Greece, and accusations by some in Athens that Germany owes Greece for inadequate reparations paid out after the Second World War, have some Germans thinking that intervention by the I.M.F. may be worth the trouble. "In Germany, the public might favor an I.M.F. intervention if it reduced Greece's reliance on German funds," said Justin Vaisse, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. European power struggles are also at stake. Simon Johnson, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former I.M.F. chief economist, said that Germany has long sought to have a German lead the European Central Bank, and an I.M.F. intervention could be seen as tarnishing Germany's credibility. Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, views Dominique Strauss Kahn, the I.M.F. leader and a former French finance minister, as a political rival, and would be loath to give him a perceived victory. For weeks, the I.M.F. has tried to say as little as possible about Greece other than to state that it stands ready to help. Mr. Stone said that strategy seems the wisest for now. "The only thing worse than announcing an I.M.F. program is announcing that maybe you're going to have one," he said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
Last Friday, on a sunny December morning, chaos descended upon a glossy shopping mall in the Canoga Park section of Los Angeles. Thousands of young women (and a few men), many of whom had slept in the parking lot of the Westfield Topanga mall overnight or traveled from several states away, surged en masse at 10 a.m. toward a monochrome, recently erected temporary store on the first floor. Hours later, most shoppers were still there, waiting in snaking lines and shrieking intermittently. Others, their eyes downcast, tapped on smartphones. The reason for the mall mania? The unveiling of the Kylie Pop Up Shop, the first IRL (in real life) retail venture from Kylie Jenner, the pouting 19 year old reality TV star whose Snapchat led marketing of her namesake Kylie Cosmetics line has become a recent e tail phenomenon. See more Year in Style articles Over the last 13 months, the youngest member of the Kardashian/Jenner clan has built a business empire for herself, with an estimated 10 million in personal earnings from sales of branded merchandise, which ranges from Kylie Lip Kits (pairs of matte liquid lipstick and lip liner that retail for 29) to Kyshadows and Kyliners (eye shadows and eye liners) in a multitude of colors and themes. She offers them exclusively on her own website in limited time frames for as long as stocks last. Appetites are stoked to near fever pitch by video clips of Ms. Jenner applying the cosmetics or giving tutorials using them. Those clips are posted to Snapchat, with hints dropped on Twitter or Instagram as to when these products may be available. Although no one knows exactly how many followers she has, a spokesman for Snapchat said in August that Ms. Jenner was the most followed person on the platform. So when the latest batch of new stock does go live on her website, all products are sold, on average, in less than a minute. Then the process begins again. Ms. Jenner is part of a growing cohort of both individuals and brands that have embraced the sales strategy known as the "drop." It works like this: A seller controls the release of exclusive new items outside the traditional fashion cycle, cleverly marketing the impending arrival of the product to build demand. Pioneered almost two decades ago by the American skate wear brand Supreme, which took its cues from the Japanese street wear scene, the trend has gained particular momentum in recent years thanks to its adoption by some in the booming limited edition sneaker industry: Kanye West's Yeezy line with Adidas, for example, and Nike's Air Jordans. It is also at the heart of the limited edition designer collaborations championed by retailers like H M and Target. Even Snapchat itself tried to jump on the bandwagon last month when it began exclusive sales of its new Spectacles glasses via randomly placed bright yellow vending machines, giving no indication of where they would crop up next. The overwhelming majority of drop customers, whatever the product, are younger than 30. "In the e commerce age, older consumers have shown that they want ease, convenience and plenty of variety from their shopping experience," said Avery Booker, the chief executive of Enflux, a digital influence mining tool. But, he said, when it comes to Generation Z, those born in the years from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s, and the younger millennials, "in many cases the opposite is emerging." "They are excited not just by a product's rarity," he continued, "but also by what credibility owning that product can give them within their social media communities, as well as its possible resale value." The flourishing secondary markets, fueled by online resellers and prompted by the growing clout of drop culture, has been one of the most significant changes to the retail landscape in recent years. Mere hours after the latest Kylie Lip Kit, Supreme sneaker or H M/Alexander Wang piece has sold out on official distribution channels, these items are often available elsewhere on the internet, though with one or more zeros added to the price. For savvier fans, the use of auto fillers or bots to skip the digital lines for valuable items is increasing. Lucie Greene, the worldwide director of the innovation group at advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, said Generation Z was far more entrepreneurial than its predecessors. "If millennials are digitally savvy, then Generation Z are total digital natives," Ms. Greene said. "They are completely au fait with the internet and social media platforms, and comfortable using them to create anything from fan forums to charities and their own minibusinesses. Their identities are defined by their interactions and relationships online, both with one another and celebrities. "That's why stars like Kylie Jenner, who interact with them like peers on the mediums they feel most comfortable with rather than more traditional retail platforms, are seeing such astronomical success." Some independent businesses are also recognizing new opportunities to profit and are building new services accordingly. Depop, which was started in Britain in 2012, is a buying, selling and swapping app for clothes, accessories and other wares. It created communities of influencers and like minded shoppers and has strong roots in the resale market. Eighty percent of its user base is under 30. "Brands like Supreme and Palace really understand successful 21st century branding and how to appeal to younger consumers from the selfie generation," said Maria Raga, the chief executive of Depop. "There is no question that our business is capitalizing on their success. Many of the most successful resellers to emerge out of the drop culture don't just see what they do as a way of making money. They see it as a way of building their own brand. They can gain huge profiles and followings in their own right." It's not necessarily in their nature to save the earnings from transactions either. "To keep up their social media credentials, Generation Z feel they need to change their clothing much quicker than shoppers in their late 20s upward," Ms. Raga said. "Plus there is always a hot new pricey brand on the up. Most of them are students. They aren't really earning money yet. So to buy more, they need to keep selling stuff." Charles Fitchew, a 13 year old in Manchester, England, is one example. He said he did 95 percent of his shopping online, with the traditional majority of any new purchases coming from drops. Lately, however, he said a growing number now came from transactions that took place on Facebook messenger chat groups, particularly for sneaker resales, which tend to be dominated by young men. (No surprise: Kylie Jenner's sales are predominantly driven by teenage girls and women in their 20s.) "These days, if you want the coolest stuff you have three options," he said. "You can queue up overnight outside a store before a drop or hope for the best online. You can go to an established site if you miss out or can't be bothered to wait, like eBay or Depop, but expect to pay double the original price. Or you can go on Snapchat or a Facebook Talk group, get a better bargain and really be able to ask questions about the quality and condition of what's being sold." "If it isn't up to scratch, then the seller gets kicked out by the rest of the community," he added. "That's how things work at our age. The best things should never be easy to get, otherwise what's their value? To be honest, I can't really imagine things being any other way." There is no question that Ms. Jenner understands, and is exploiting, that philosophy. Back at the Kylie pop up, shoppers could also get their hands on hoodies and sweaters featuring her scantily clad image or best known catchphrase, Like, Realizing Stuff, which she offered about 2016 as part of her New Year's resolutions, and which went viral. Customers had as long as 15 minutes in the store and could not see any prices until they were at the register, where they could buy only up to three versions of a single item. Those who came away with items exited beaming, with many showcasing their spoils on social media. The general reaction, as expressed on Twitter by Jaaaazzilla: "I'm so happy with everything I bought today." Heart and lip emoji included.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Seventeen years ago, Manhattan was still the kind of place where a musician could arguably become more famous just by being seen out on the town every night. So the Strokes were especially lucky to find a place to record their first album that was just across the street from 2A, one of their favorite bars in Alphabet City. "They spent supposedly as much time there as in the studio," said Jesse Rifkin, standing outside a graffiti covered doorway on East Second Street that once led to Transporterraum, the basement level recording studio where the Strokes mined the area's rock history on their 2001 debut, "Is This It." "They made a point of going out every night as a unit all five of them to every cool bar that they could think of, so that people would see them together and be like, 'Oh, it's those guys.'" Rifkin, a 32 year old musician and historian, was speaking to a small crowd of onlookers on an overcast day late last month. Since June, he has been ushering people to inconspicuous looking buildings like this one all over the East Village and the Lower East Side to trace the rise and fall of the Manhattan indie rock scene of the 1990s and 2000s, personified by bands like LCD Soundsystem and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. His company, Walk on the Wild Side Tours NYC, bills itself as "walking tours for music nerds," and Rifkin's two hour Indie Rock Tour outlines how the area's artist friendly rents, walkable geography and counterculture roots helped fuel that era's music scene and how that scene lent momentum to the wave of gentrification that would ultimately displace it. The tour tells that story roughly chronologically. One of the first stops is Sin e, the defunct Irish owned coffee shop on St. Marks Place where a young Jeff Buckley got his start playing for tips in the '90s. The last is a squat brick building on Norfolk Street once home to the club Tonic, a hub for free jazz and avant garde music before it closed in 2008 because of rent arrears. During a protest on Tonic's last day, two artists refused to vacate the premises and were arrested. "They were cheered on by a crowd of friends and supporters standing outside," said Rifkin. "Nobody wanted to give it up. Nobody wanted to leave." Along the way, Rifkin offers glimpses of a city where musicians could still afford street level rehearsal studios and where crust punks, folk musicians, ravers and drag performers mingled along the periphery of Tompkins Square Park. An East Third Street storefront was once home to Plant Bar, where the future LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy was D.J.ing the first night he hung out with Jonathan Galkin, an eventual co founder of the influential DFA Records label. The site of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first band practice, on Avenue B, was just two blocks away from one of their lead singer Karen O's first New York apartments (which was above Odessa, the Avenue A diner where Henry Rollins was invited to audition for Black Flag). "I don't want to belabor that point, but that band was very much a product of the neighborhood," Rifkin said of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. "The proximity of all of these spaces together." Still, Rifkin was careful to note that the narrative he was tracing is still unfolding. In addition to shuttered venues like Brownies and Cake Shop, the tour visited spots that are still holding out, including long running Lower East Side spaces like Pianos and Arlene's Grocery . Rifkin grew up outside Baltimore, where he says his father, a New York native, regaled him with stories of seeing the Velvet Underground play at Max's Kansas City in the early 1970s. After studying ethnomusicology at Sarah Lawrence, Rifkin spent 10 years playing in a series of indie music projects, then had a change of heart. "About a year ago, I was on tour and I woke up on somebody's floor in Ohio," he said in a recent phone interview. "My back hurt and I was tired and I was suffering some hearing loss, and I was just like, 'I can't do this anymore.'" Back in New York, trying to figure out what to do with his life, he started reading music history books and taking walks to pass the time. "Walking around and actually seeing this stuff the geographic relationships, how close the clubs were to people's apartments or recording studios was kind of a big 'aha' moment," Rifkin said. "Seeing how somebody's life might have been lived in those circumstances made the idea of a right place and a right time a lot easier to pinpoint." Of course, there have been many right times in New York City's music history. One of Walk on the Wild Side's two most popular tours explores how the financial collapse of 1975 gave rise to the cross pollination of post punk, disco and hip hop in NoLIta, SoHo and TriBeCa. The other, the Birth of Punk tour, guides listeners from the Velvet Underground's first residency at Cafe Bizarre in the West Village to the CBGB heyday of Patti Smith and the Ramones. People in their late 20s and early 30s, Rifkin said, form the core of his customer base folks who want to approach the city's history from a "record collector perspective, or who grew up reading music blogs every day." One guest on the indie rock tour was Julien Deloison, a 38 year old French sound technician in town for a couple of Lincoln Center performances with Akram Khan Dance Company. He said he discovered Walk on the Wild Side after Sonic Youth, one of his favorite bands growing up, posted on Facebook about Rifkin's tour commemorating the 30th anniversary of its 1988 album, "Daydream Nation." (Rifkin also offers tours on Sonic Youth and Arthur Russell by appointment, and is planning to roll out one on the history of dance music in Chelsea next year.) Another was Alana Skyring, a 36 year old from Brisbane who toured the globe as the drummer for the Australian garage rock band the Grates before settling in Queens. This winter the Grates are going on a reunion tour, and Skyring said revisiting some of the band's old New York haunts from the late 2000s felt like a good way to prepare. "For a brief second, we were part of a whole bunch of stuff happening here," she said. There's a sense of loss running through Rifkin's tours on Ludlow Street, a hotel parking lot obscures the former location of the music and comedy club Luna Lounge. But millennials aren't the first generation to feel like the New York where they came of age is disappearing in plain view, said Ada Calhoun, an East Village native and the author of "St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street." "If you were a hippie in the '60s, and you walked around in the early '70s," then you felt like "it was done the whole Summer of Love magic," Calhoun said in an interview. "I can see how growing up with indie rock, and then walking past the Death Star, you'd feel the same way."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Uncertainty manifested itself in a complicated stance, sometimes fostering democracy and at others sticking to the letter of the Constitution. Convinced that states had a right to determine their economic and social priorities, Lincoln debated the use of military force to coerce recalcitrant states to remain in the Union. He wavered only when states' rights threatened national unity. But once decided, he acted unilaterally to increase the size of the Army without elucidating lines of command. From that followed Lincoln's dragging his feet on the issue of slave emancipation because he hoped that he could bring the South back into the Union with compromise rather than military victory. The dilemma inherent in using force to ensure liberty emerged most starkly in loyal border states that continued to legitimize slave owning. To ensure their commitment to the Union, Lincoln simply turned a blind eye, dashing the democratic aspirations of thousands of enslaved people. In other instances, Lincoln did not hesitate to curtail constitutional rights in the interests of an initially controversial war. He famously ignored habeas corpus, claiming the right to seize suspicious individuals in wartime, and he attempted to control flows of information: acts that placed him at odds with the principle of safeguarding informed criticism in a democratic society. Nor did Lincoln imagine extending democracy to Native Americans or to women. Pryor tells us that the greatest contradiction he faced was between the ideal of democracy and prevailing negative views of Indians. Like others of his generation, he thought all men were created equal except for Indians and women. He did not hesitate to abrogate Indian treaties, though he sometimes expressed concern for Indian life. He consistently rebuffed or denigrated women's efforts to participate in wartime activities, rarely acknowledging even their heroic work as nurses. Pryor died in 2015, and so she could have hardly intended this posthumously published book to suggest any parallels between Lincoln's ambivalent politics and contemporary efforts to limit suffrage, spread fake news and eliminate federal efforts to protect the civil rights of women, African Americans and the poorest wage earners. Yet the notion that democracy involves compromises resonates today. Lincoln's dilemmas illuminate how apparently benign federal mandates like universal health care, paid maternity leave or federal land acquisition that seem on their face to extend democratic possibilities, can be viewed from within state borders as coercive. Fascinating reading on its own terms, "Six Encounters With Lincoln" nevertheless confronts readers with startlingly relevant questions.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
When a fireball whizzed over Florida on Jan. 24, more than a hundred witnesses reported spotting the flare on the American Meteor Society's website. Within a week, Mike Hankey, an amateur meteorite hunter based nearly a thousand miles away near Baltimore, was holding a muddy chunk of the space rock he found near a swamp. "With A.M.S. we are connecting the sky to the ground," Mr. Hankey, 43, said, referring to the fireball tracker he manages for the American Meteor Society, a nonprofit organization that monitors fireballs and meteor showers, when he's not running a software development business. "People are seeing this object in the sky and then a few weeks later they are holding it in their hands." Since last October, citizen scientists like Mr. Hankey have uncovered fragments from at least three different fireball sightings using data collected and analyzed by the society. For his Florida hunt Mr. Hankey reconstructed the trajectory of the fireball from the eyewitness reports and then compared it with Doppler radar readings he received from a colleague at NASA. Doppler radar are normally used to measure rain clouds and weather patterns but on occasion they catch a meteor's path through the sky. Using both tools, Mr. Hankey pinpointed where the fireball's fragments could have fallen. A fireball, if you don't know, is a bright meteor that streaks through Earth's atmosphere, usually breaking apart and scattering into small pieces. Most chunks that land on Earth are small, weighing a few pounds at the most. But on occasion they can be large and destructive, like the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013, and was captured on multiple dashcam videos. The fireball that flew over Florida did not cause any damage, but it too was caught on a dashcam. With the newly drawn treasure map, Mr. Hankey embarked on a 13 hour drive to Jacksonville, Fla., in search of a bounty billions of years old. Once there he met with a few other amateur meteorite hunters and they began searching a large ranch near the map's metaphorical "X," but found nothing. On the second day they set their sights on some swamps near Osceola National Forest. A heatmap showing eyewitness reports submitted to the American Meteor Society following the Jan. 24 fireball over Florida. The team walked through muddy trails, but again found nothing. Then, as Mr. Hankey paused for a stretch, he spotted a glimmering black rock, about the size of a thumbnail, amid the dried out grass. The team scored its first meteorite. "It's a neat rush," Mr. Hankey said. He had been on five hunts previously, but had not found one himself. "It's been traveling for hundreds of millions of miles for billions of years and came down in this giant explosion, and I'm the first person to look at it and find it." Two hours later the hunters made their second find about a half a mile away, and the next day they found a few more. They had hit the jackpot he recalled thinking. "There are meteorites everywhere around here." After several days he drove back home. Some of his colleagues stayed behind another week and unearthed their biggest treasure: an 840 gram fragment about the size of a tennis ball. In total the team found six meteorites. The team mailed samples from the hunt to Alan Rubin, a geophysicist at U.C.L.A. who later confirmed their finds. Dr. Rubin said in an email that he suspected the meteorite they recovered experienced several intense collisions before breaking from its parent asteroid and plummeting to Earth. The team's finds were only the sixth time that meteorite chunks were found in Florida, according to Mr. Hankey. It was also the first time that a team of meteorite hunters had recovered fragments in the state from a fireball that people had witnessed. Most of the previous meteorites found in the state had been dug up years after they fell. Reached by phone in Pittsburgh last month, where he was conducting yet another hunt, Mr. Hankey said: "For me to find a meteorite from a fireball I tracked, and find it meters away from where I said it would be it's supreme validation, to be like, 'Wow, I connected all these dots.'"	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
Barnard/Columbia Dances, a project produced by Barnard College's department of dance, matches students from Barnard and Columbia University with notable choreographers and puts on a show with what they make together. The program that opened at the Miller Theater on Friday was unusual in including an early '80s classic, Mark Morris's "Gloria." That is great material, although the crucial material in these programs is the cast of students. Jodi Melnick's "Grace Notes" largely followed this model. To a soundtrack by Robert Boston that rotated among von Biber Baroque, silence and nighttime neighborhood noises, seven dancers passed around steps as they passed around curious props (bags of frozen vegetables, ice scrapers), occasionally snapping into collective order. With its suggestions of courtliness and swishing hips, the many layered work could be read as notes on different kinds of grace. The students caught different facets of the choreographer's personal style, and the stage often resembled a party of mini Melnicks, with Maya Lee Parritz a standout among equals.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
This is going to sound like anathema to all those economists who lived through the inflation of the 1970s, but there's a good case for trying to double the inflation rate. Remember Japan's "lost decade"? Around the turn of the century, as the Japanese government failed to reinvigorate economic growth watching haplessly as the economy slid into deflation and stagnation despite lowering its short term interest rate to nearly zero many macroeconomists dismissed this as some idiosyncratic Japanese thing. Maybe other countries might briefly suffer from the "zero lower bound" in which interest rates could not be lowered any further to stimulate a stagnant economy because they had already hit the floor but these episodes would be infrequent and quick to fix, the experts thought. Today, much of the industrial world is stuck at this zero bound. Japan has still not emerged from the doldrums. Europe is barely treading water. In the United States, the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate target has been hovering just above zero for seven years. Yet inflation has consistently undershot the Fed's stated goal of 2 percent in the face of persistently weak economic growth. "We've realized that the zero lower bound on the funds rate is a bigger deal than we thought a decade ago," said Douglas W. Elmendorf, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office who is now at the Brookings Institution in Washington. John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, put it more gingerly. Reality, he said, has "called into question some of the assumptions that went into previous research." And that calls into question what the Fed is almost universally expected to do this week: raise interest rates for the first time since 2008, and then keep on raising them at a pace of about a percentage point per year. Still, the urgency to head off alleged inflationary pressures seems premature, especially given that the Fed and many economists on and off Wall Street have been crying wolf about inflation for years. Experience with the zero lower bound raises questions that some are now asking Janet L. Yellen, the chairwoman of the Fed. Why not keep interest rates at rock bottom until inflation actually picks up? Indeed, why not aim for higher inflation? "I don't see anything magical about targeting 2 percent inflation," Ben S. Bernanke, former Fed chairman, wrote on his blog a few months ago. For that matter, why not 3? Or, as Laurence M. Ball of Johns Hopkins University suggests, why not even 4? "There is no question that if you had a higher inflation target, you would be in a situation that hit the zero lower bound less often," said Frederic Mishkin, a former Fed board member now at Columbia University. Why does that matter? Because if the economy falls into a recession when inflation is very low, it might be nearly impossible for the Fed to engineer the negative real interest rates after accounting for inflation needed to jolt the economy back to life. Some central banks are experimenting with truly negative interest rates requiring banks to charge people for holding their money. But in most circumstances, nominal interest rates can't easily go below zero. There are other tools at the government's disposal to reinvigorate the economy. Notably fiscal stimulus, but with today's Congress, that's doubtful. The Fed could resort again to quantitative easing: immense purchases of government bonds to depress long term rates. But that, too, could prove problematic. At the zero bound, "it turned out that the Fed has less leverage than some thought," Mr. Elmendorf said. "All the trillions in quantitative easing amounted to the equivalent of a small reduction of the funds rate." The risk of hitting the zero bound has risen, as slow population growth, strong inflows of capital from overseas and other market forces outside the Fed's control have conspired to push interest rates down. That leaves less space to lower rates in response to a recession. The previous consensus among economists that we would rarely, if ever, reach this floor was based on analysis of the American economy after World War II, a period of mostly robust, stable growth. Extrapolating from that track, Mr. Williams calculated, a nearly two year contraction like the Great Recession, which shaved 5 percent off economic activity, could be expected only once every 570 years. The postwar golden age, though, turned out to be atypical. Basing the analysis on broader historical data the experience of 17 developed countries since 1870 raises the odds to once every 23 years. "Based on these metrics, recent events would scarcely be considered rare or unprecedented," Mr. Williams wrote. "History teaches us that very large downturns are not only possible they are probable." The question is more important than ever. Five years ago, Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and his colleagues pointed out that the costs of higher inflation must be weighed against the alternative. "The question remains," they wrote, "whether these costs are outweighed by the potential benefits in terms of avoiding the zero interest rate bound." So what are the odds the Fed decides higher inflation is the way to escape this quandary? Probably close to zero. A critical problem with aiming for higher inflation is how to get from here to there. The Fed has spent enormous effort anchoring people's expectations to 2 percent. Even economists sympathetic to a higher target are wary of what such a shift might do to its credibility. "A perfect world, where you could commit to 4 percent and everybody believed it, would be great," Mr. Mishkin told me. "We are not in a perfect world. Moving much higher than 2 percent raises the risk that expectations become unanchored." So here is an alternative proposal. If the Fed is too cautious to risk unhinging inflationary expectations, how about just delivering what it has promised? Among economists and investors, the problem with the Fed's 2 percent target is that just about everybody believes it is really a ceiling. That makes it even harder for inflation to rise to that level. The market expects the Fed to act pre emptively to ensure it never goes over that line which is what it seems to be doing now.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
When you think of waterfront property, beach houses and restaurants probably supersede motorcycle shops among the things that come to mind. But Brooklyn Motor Works, the Harley Davidson repair shop that occupies the garage perched on a small pad of concrete and gravel in Red Hook, on the banks of New York Harbor, wasn't always a waterfront property. It took Hurricane Sandy for it to end up there. The shop used to be at 74 Verona Street, but when the storm surge crept into the shop, ruining or severely damaging 67 motorcycles, Carlos Dos Santos's four year old business was in tough shape. "People had been storing them with us to keep them out of the storm," he said in an interview, explaining that after the storm much of his clientele assumed he was finished. "We had about 1,500 customers, and now we have around 200. After the storm, we were too busy to focus much on getting the word out." "It was one of those timing things," Mr. Tarpin said in a telephone interview. "I was driving by his shop and he happened to be standing outside at the time, and we started talking." Mr. Dos Santos says Mr. Tarpin introduced him to Brian Robbins, who owns Cornell Paper Box Company, as well as several large buildings in Red Hook and that's how he eventually took over the 2,400 square foot waterfront garage attached to the back of a warehouse filled with the pulpy remains of storm drenched cardboard boxes. "It was about reinventing myself and my company by organizing my own warehouse usage requirements, which, in turn, created space for renters," Mr. Robbins wrote in an email. "Plus, did I mention I'm a motorcycle nut?" Although it was salt water that nearly toppled his business, Mr. Dos Santos looks to the bright side about having his shop right next to it, where the floodwaters rose much higher than four feet during Sandy. "It's pretty awesome as long as it's not surging eight feet above sea level," he said. "It's the best sunset in town." Mr. Dos Santos is also upbeat about the state of his business, which specializes in Harley repair and performance upgrades, but also does maintenance, repairs and parts distribution for all sorts of motorcycles. He says that although the storm set him back significantly, it also pared his operation to the bare essentials. Before he had several employees and a lot of responsibility, but now it's just him, an occasional helper and a bunch of bikes to work on. "It's really been a back to basics, but it's been good," he said. "I've had a chance to focus in on what's important, and that's being happy." As winter approaches, the oil changes and brake jobs that keep Mr. Dos Santos busy and riders on the road through the spring, summer and fall riding season give way to larger projects: the big rebuilds and hot rod projects that take a lot of time, but are best done without the constant thrum of customers coming and going. "I think the concentration on modifying and increasing the performance of factory V Twins sort of extends our season a little," he said. "Tail end of the season guys are jonesing for more power, so I can generally ride that wave into the second week of December. Then it starts to get quiet." Sort of. A 3,600 watt stereo system belting out artists like Edvard Grieg, Ella Fitzgerald and Killswitch Engage keeps him company during the more involved jobs that dominate the winter. "I can go for days without seeing a soul," he said. Last winter, that period of big projects and intense concentration never came, ripped away by post Sandy chaos. A shelf lined with thick, black binders filled with application forms and information about state and federal relief that still hasn't come remains as a testament to the sort of bureaucratic madness that replaced the hum of business after the storm. "We're still in the application process one year later," he said, pointing out that it hasn't stopped him from accomplishing what needs to be done to keep his business running. Mr. Tarpin, whose Key lime pie making operation is just on the other side of the building, says he is glad Mr. Dos Santos was able to hang on through tough times. "He was just at the edge of being finished after the storm, but he got a second chance," he said. "As a small business owner, it's a good feeling to see that." Despite the trials of the flood and the bureaucratic lethargy, a glance around Brooklyn Motor Works suggests that things are going well. The small garage is packed with bikes in various states of repair and disrepair, and with warm weather beginning to stretch into November, customers still walk through the big bay door every day. Mr. Dos Santos says he's happy to be keeping people out there riding. "I've learned over the years that you need a little humility to survive just about any professional game," he said. "My job is spiritual: To bring people closer to that moment that every biker chases, when everything else is silent, your eyes are on the horizon and there's nothing to say. It's just you and the road and absolute freedom."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
Pottery shards nearby date from the second century B.C. through the sixth century A.D. "It was large, significant given its location, and significant resources were used to construct it," said Sarah Parcak, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. "But its exact function? We don't know."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
One fact repeatedly cited by Mr. Ghosn and others as a prominent feature of the Japanese criminal justice system is the country's "99 percent conviction rate," often through confessions. The objectives of prosecutors in Japan help explain this. The aim of achieving corrective behavior and reintegration into society, rather than simply determining guilt and punishment, is a high priority for Japanese prosecutors. This requires recognition of wrongdoing and remorse. Restitution and forgiveness of victims is an important element of this process (a highly unlikely outcome in this case, where Nissan's interests are decidedly aligned with the prosecutors'). Once these objectives are achieved, prosecutors have considerable authority and discretion to grant leniency, and they often do. Only cases with a high likelihood of conviction tend to go to trial. This leads to one of the most troubling issues to outside observers: the presumption of innocence. How can there be a determination of guilt and an admission of culpability before there has even been a trial on the merits? Protections for the accused do exist under the Japanese Constitution; they were introduced by the United States during its occupation of the country after World War II. Under the Japanese civil law system, however, they generally apply only at the trial stage, where issues of guilt or innocence are formally determined. During the pretrial stage, local rules place emphasis on the investigatory powers of the prosecutors. So, the right to counsel during questioning depends on whether in the prosecutors' estimation a lawyer's presence is likely to "interfere" with the investigation. (Invariably, the determination is that it will, as in the case of Mr. Ghosn.) Conditions for contact with others during detention and the granting of bail are based on assessments of the suspect's good faith and willingness to cooperate and the perceived likelihood of evidence tampering. This explains why a defendant might be cut off from their spouse and held for prolonged periods without bail, as Mr. Ghosn was. Suspects are free to refuse to "confess," as Mr. Ghosn has done, but that inevitably results in increased exercise of substantial prosecutorial powers to obtain a confession. Mr. Ghosn has fled to Lebanon, which has no extradition treaty with Japan, so the prospect of a trial is unlikely. But if his case does go to trial, additional factors will come into play. In the context of Japanese prosecutorial objectives, going to trial would indicate that prosecutors' efforts to obtain Mr. Ghosn's remorse have failed, increasing the pressure on them to achieve a conviction. For Mr. Ghosn, everything would then rest on the discretion and probity of the judge, a career bureaucrat.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
Most of America's greatest photographers set out to be something else. Berenice Abbott wanted to be a sculptor. Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1898, she never thought of studying photography in college because such courses did not exist. Her "aha" moment occurred in Paris, where she was living in the 1920s, an expatriate enamored of art. In need of money, she took a job as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray, the Brooklyn raised Dadaist and devotee of the absurd. He supported himself as a photographer, and before long Abbott left his employ, set up a rival portrait studio on the Rue du Bac and surpassed him as a pictorial chronicler of James Joyce, Andre Gide and other members of the European avant garde. Returning to New York in 1929, Abbott abruptly gave up portraiture. She wanted to photograph America, or rather make New York and its architecture her primary subject. Most of the work on which her reputation rests was done in the 1930s, when she took some of the best ever photographs of the city. Her specialty was crystalline black and white images that lavish equal attention on steel skyscrapers and crumbling brick tenements. Working with a bulky view camera that could record the most minuscule details, ducking her head beneath a black focusing cloth and then peeking out, she took photographs that demanded long exposure times and are so crisp and hyper legible that you can make out the price of a loaf of bread in a bakery window (10 cents) or the titles of the dozens of now defunct magazines displayed in long rows at a Midtown newsstand (Ballyhoo, anyone?). Her most popular photograph, "Night View, New York," from 1932, offers an overhead view of Midtown that is oddly oblivious to the disfigurements of the Depression. It creates a portrait of New York as the electric sum of thousands of street lamps and lighted office windows, an ode to a city that works. When she was in her 30s, she met Elizabeth McCausland, a well educated critic and historian of American art who became her life partner. Together they moved to Greenwich Village, to the fourth floor of 50 Commerce Street, where they lived in adjacent studio apartments. Although their relationship had its ups and downs, they did achieve an intermittent domestic calm, playing board games like Parcheesi and impressing at least one friend as "homebodies with house cats." Their shared interests also included a devotion to the Communist Party. Abbott, a fellow traveler, was deemed enough of a national menace for the F.B.I. to start a file on her in 1951. In characterizing her appearance, agents noted: "Wears slacks constantly." Strange what passed for subversive in the old days. She was stubborn in her loyalty to the documentary tradition, and dismissive in speaking about her colleagues. She considered Edward Steichen, the head of MoMA's photography department, her "nemesis" because he championed abstract photography, a flight from reality. Nor did she care for Alfred Stieglitz, a self anointed pictorialist whose work, she lamented, was "spiked with mystical and subjective overtones." Ansel Adams, with his grand views of the mythic American West, was a "slick, self satisfied" Californian whose photographs were merely of "sticks and rocks." The socially conscious photographs of poor people taken by her colleagues in the Photo League? Please. She wrote them off as "crying pictures." An attractive woman with large blue eyes staring out from beneath a fringe of bangs, Abbott could be belittling and ungenerous. Once, for a Thanksgiving dinner, she invited about 10 guests to her home and planned to purchase one chicken for the group. As I write this, I feel a twinge of feminist guilt and am aware that I might not fault a male artist for failing to serve enough food to his friends. Still, Abbott's self centeredness is noteworthy, and I wish I could unsee the image of her in her later years, when she settled in Maine and would honk her horn a block before arriving at her local general store so that an attendant would be waiting for her at the gas pump when she pulled up. It's funny that such a strong personality devoted her career to creating what she saw as an egoless, anonymous art. Her ideas derived in part from the only photographer about whom she spoke glowingly, Eugene Atget. In the 1920s, during her days as a young expatriate in Paris, she saw her first Atget photograph and was instantly captivated. Atget, at the time, was a poignant figure who sought to provide a comprehensive record of the architecture and streets of turn of the last century Paris. While most of his fellow artists wrote him off as a joke, Abbott believed that his devotion to realism made him "a Balzac of the camera." When he died in 1927, shortly after they met, she tracked down his executor and purchased the bulk of his enormous archive some 1,500 glass negatives and 8,000 prints. She hauled the material back to New York and kept it in her studio on Commerce Street. She deserves credit for saving his work from oblivion and selling it, in the interest of eternal safekeeping, to the Museum of Modern Art. As historically important as all of this is, Van Haaften's biography could have benefited from more analysis and insight. She has a tendency to pile up facts without putting them in perspective. In a typically careless passage, she reports that Lynn Davis became Abbott's assistant in 1974, but the author fails to identity Davis as a photographer. Instead, she tells us that Davis was a married woman who arrived for the summer "with her painter teacher husband and their young son." Surely there is far more to be said on the subject. Davis, one of our leading contemporary photographers, is known for black and white images that lend the natural world (icebergs, gushing water) the monumentality that Abbott brought to her scenes of the city. How should Abbott and her work be remembered today? Some of her ideas can put her admirers in an awkward position. Few of us are likely to agree with her dictum that photography is best practiced as a purely objective art that makes no concession to inwardness or interiority. Today, we are more likely to avoid such reductive binaries, to acknowledge that even the most objective photographs are inseparable from the identity of their makers. But Abbott, who died in 1991 at the age of 93, remains a giant despite some regressive ideas. You cannot think about the '30s in New York without thinking about her images the old Greyhound bus terminal, the former Penn Station, the streets of the Lower East Side where brick buildings light up in the sun and rusty fire escapes cast a jagged play of shadows across their facades. When you look at Abbott's pictures, you see not only buildings that have vanished, but a style of photography that itself has waned. "Straight" or documentary photography is no longer fashionable among artists. We're in a moment when many younger photographers, schooled in postmodern theory, are less interested in taking photographs than in critiquing the limitations of the medium. Their pictures can require a thousand words to explain, and they can make you miss Abbott's blunt and lucid immediacy.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
WHEN THE CENTER HELD Gerald Ford and the Rescue of the American Presidency By Donald Rumsfeld Illustrated. 331 pp. Free Press. 28. In September 1974, a month after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace, President Gerald Ford pardoned him. "Jesus, don't you think it's kind of early?" asked Ford's friend Tip O'Neill, the Democratic House majority leader. "You're not gonna believe it," Carl Bernstein exclaimed to his fellow Nixon chaser at The Washington Post, Bob Woodward. "The son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch!" The public was also taken aback. A majority of the nation 55 percent believed the pardon was the "wrong thing" to do, versus only 35 percent who felt it was the "right thing." Ford's approval ratings, a robust 71 percent when he took office, spiraled down to 40 percent by December. The decision to pardon Nixon may have ensured that Ford would not be elected to his own full term as president in 1976. "When Ford made his final decision to pardon Nixon, he did it without making any political calculations," Donald Rumsfeld writes in "When the Center Held," his sympathetic insider's memoir of the Ford presidency. Rumsfeld had befriended Ford as a fellow Midwestern congressman in the 1960s and helped him make the transition from vice president when Nixon resigned. "He did not, for example, share his intention with any Republican members of Congress, where he certainly would have been able to find some support. Nor did he take any steps to prepare a media strategy. To the contrary, on learning of Ford's decision to pardon Nixon the newly appointed White House press secretary, Jerry terHorst, promptly submitted his resignation 30 minutes before Ford was scheduled to address the nation." The rumors that Nixon's chief of staff, Al Haig, had brokered a deal with Ford were "wildly inaccurate," Rumsfeld writes. Ford was acting out of the goodness of his heart, from his basic sense of decency, Rumsfeld argues. "We are not a vengeful people," the new president told himself, perhaps a little wishfully. One poll showed that a significant majority 56 percent believed that Nixon should be prosecuted. Rumsfeld has written a kind of modern day "Pilgrim's Progress" about a good and godly man who enters the Slough of Despond (Washington, D.C.), is tried and tempted, but ascends to Celestial City with his virtue intact. That the narrator is a figure who has been likened in some quarters to Beelzebub makes the story more interesting, or at least curious. 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. Rumsfeld himself was "not sure" what he would have counseled about pardoning Nixon. Ford did not ask his advice. But the new president did ask Rumsfeld to be his chief of staff. Rumsfeld initially balked, saying that Ford's open door "spokes of a wheel" management style was a prescription for disorder. "Come on, Rummy," Ford pleaded. "Say yes." Rumsfeld did, but he was soon frustrated by his lack of control over the large egos wandering in and out of the Oval Office. The members of Ford's cabinet did not get along. The prideful and condescending defense secretary, James Schlesinger, squabbled with the prima donna secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. "Jim's problem isn't with you; it's with me. He thinks I'm a dummy," Ford told Kissinger with characteristic self effacement. Kissinger would try to get his way by threatening to quit, as he had under Nixon. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was a bull in a china shop. The bulls at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue were no easier to herd. Congress refused to spend any more money to aid South Vietnam, despite Ford's appeal to "fundamental decency." "Those bastards," Ford exclaimed when the Senate rejected his appeal in the winter of 1975, as Saigon was collapsing. But that was as angry as he got. "Ford tended to assume most people were like him: essentially open, up front and without guile or cunning," Rumsfeld writes. The president's chief of staff was a little puzzled by his boss's persistent amiability: "I did wonder whether there might be a bit of disadvantage to his characteristic down home relaxed demeanor." Rumsfeld noted privately at the time: "He never protects himself from having other people see him in a relaxed situation. Can a great leader let down and still inspire?" Looking back, Rumsfeld concluded, "I may well have underestimated the positive impact of the president's natural approach." Indeed, he concludes that Ford's genial Midwestern decency was just what the country needed in the wake of Nixon's excesses and the Watergate scandal. Still, Rumsfeld himself quit when he was unable to persuade the president to consolidate power in his chief of staff. (Ford was leery of Nixon's "Berlin Wall" of the White House advisers H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.) Rumsfeld became secretary of defense instead. More in sorrow than in anger, Ford held Rumsfeld (along with the Kremlin leader Leonid Brezhnev) responsible for thwarting a final arms control deal with the Soviet Union that Ford badly hoped for as his legacy. Ford was so trusting that before the 1976 campaign, he wanted all the potential presidential candidates to meet at Camp David to forge a bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. Instead, Ronald Reagan attacked him for being soft on the Russians with his policy of that French word detente. Narrowly surviving at the Republican convention after a bruising campaign, Ford spontaneously invited Reagan to join him at the podium as a show of Republican unity. Reagan promptly upstaged him with a fiery speech that laid the groundwork for his 1980 Reagan Revolution. It would have been easy enough to cast the earnest, well meaning Ford as a bit of a chump, but Rumsfeld portrays him as an honorable and brave man. Escaping an assassination attempt by Lynette Alice (Squeaky) Fromme, the president acted as if nothing had happened and, later in the day, had to be persuaded by the Secret Service not to shake hands with all the people waiting for him at the airport. With the help of his two longtime speechwriters, Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn, Rumsfeld has produced a warm bath of a book. Readers may find it a little odd that Rumsfeld, that terror of bureaucrats in the George W. Bush administration, extols the virtues of Christian turn the other cheek leadership. In his career, Rumsfeld's true ideology seems to have been power America's and his own. Rumsfeld was initially talent spotted by Nixon, who brought him into his administration to dismantle the war on poverty, but then decided he could not trust Rumsfeld's political ambition and dispatched him with an ambassadorship to Brussels. As secretary of defense during the 2003 Iraq war, Rumsfeld steamrollered Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and the secretary of state, Colin Powell. What, besides a desire to warm up his image, moved Rumsfeld to tell the story of Gerald Ford's beneficent 895 days? Perhaps, as he says in his author's note, he wanted to show that "the Washington, D.C., of today is not entirely different from that of 1974." Or, possibly, he has become nostalgic because Washington really was different a half century ago, when the Republican Party still had moderates and you could solve problems over a round of golf. In any case, he offers us a reassuring morality tale of virtue if not immediately rewarded, then ultimately redeemed.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
It was Orson Welles's idea, the Fala Speech. "These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or on my wife, or on my sons," President Franklin Roosevelt said at the end of a speech to the Teamsters. "Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them." Fala was the president's Scottish terrier. (His full name was Murray the Outlaw of Falahill.) It was September 1944, and Roosevelt had been accused by congressional Republicans of wasting taxpayer money by sending a destroyer to retrieve his dog, supposedly left behind on an island during a trip to the Pacific. It was fairly clear that the story was not true. That it was as a cat lover might have put it fake meows. His audience went wild. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that "the Fala bit was so funny, one reporter observed, that 'even the stoniest of Republican faces cracked a smile.'" "How did I do?" the president asked Welles later. "Was my timing right?" His timing was pretty good. Roosevelt was re elected two months later, with 53 percent of the vote. It is not impossible that the Fala speech generating humor and good will during a time of national crisis ensured Roosevelt's re election. At the very least, the contrast with Thomas Dewey, his opponent, was stark. Dewey responded to the Fala speech with a bitterly partisan one that he later called "the worst damned speech I ever made in my life." After that, as an old joke had it, the contest was between Roosevelt's dog and Dewey's goat. Dogs have been part of the presidency longer than the White House itself. George Washington owned an array of foxhounds named Drunkard, Mopsey, Taster, Cloe, Tipsy, Forester, Captain, Lady Rover, Sweet Lips and Searcher, among others. The White House has been lousy with dogs since, from Abraham Lincoln's Jip to Lyndon Johnson's long suffering beagles, Him and Her. And more than just dogs; according to the online Presidential Pet Museum, the White House grounds have hosted cows, chickens, a goat, a pair of bald eagles, Shawl Neck game chickens, at least one alligator and a tobacco chewing ram. Calvin Coolidge alone hosted a black bear, a pygmy hippo, a bobcat, a donkey, a wallaby, a goose, a thrush, several canaries and two raccoons. Plus a pair of lion cubs, named seriously Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau. These creatures have provided fleeting glimpses of the gentler side of the world's most powerful person. (OK, maybe not the alligator or the bear, but the others.) It is in those glimpses that we are reminded that the leader of the free world has a heart and that the decisions he makes have been guided, in at least some small measure, by the tenderness and grace of dogs. Also raccoons. Much has been written about what might be generously described as Donald Trump's lack of interest in dogs, and as the election of 2020 slowly draws near, it's a subject worth considering again. (For the record, I should note that former Vice President Joe Biden is the owner of a rescue dog named Major, a German shepherd who has been described as looking a lot "like the dog version of himself.") My colleague Frank Bruni has written, "For Trump, all relationships are transactional and God's creatures possess value only in accordance with their ability to elevate and enrich him." Indeed, our current president's only apparent interest in dogs so far has been to use them as way to insult people he does not like. Donald Trump is, in fact, the first president since William McKinley not to have a dog. What's telling is not Mr. Trump's disdain for dogs, specifically after all, plenty of people don't like dogs, or for that matter, cats or pygmy hippos. It's the reasons he gives for this contempt that are so depressing. "How would I look, walking a dog on the White House lawn?" he said at a rally in El Paso last year. "I don't know, I don't feel good. It feels a little phony to me." I wonder what he means by "phony." It is that he believes the only reason a person would ever own a dog is for P.R. reasons? It's true many presidential dogs have been used to help shape a politician's image cue Richard Nixon and his Checkers speech, or Herbert Hoover's campaign photo of himself posing with his shepherd, King Tut. But surely the presence of an FDOTUS has other, less cynical effects. Is it so wrong to think that Donald Trump's character might have been changed just the smallest bit if there were a dog beneath his roof? It almost happened. On Thanksgiving in 2016, Mr. Trump's friend Lois Pope told the president she wanted to give him a goldendoodle named Patton (after the general). Ms. Pope thought it might be sweet for Barron Trump, the president's son, to have a dog in the White House. She showed the boy a photo of Patton, and she said later, "This big smile came over his face, and it just brought tears to his eyes." But Mr. Trump told Ms. Pope he was too busy for a dog. Later, he told supporters he didn't need one. Because "that's not the relationship I have with my people." Maybe. But if he'd become the owner of a goldendoodle, maybe he'd have had a different relationship and not just with "his people," but with all of us. Because a dog might have encouraged Mr. Trump to take himself just a little less seriously. Because a dog might have given him someone to love besides himself. Dogs have changed a president's mind set before. President John Kennedy's Welsh terrier, Charlie, was given to the family during the 1960 campaign. After the election, the dog became part of a White House that included a menagerie that truly rivaled Coolidge's, including seven horses, a cat, several birds and according to former White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger a rabbit named Zsa Zsa that drank beer and could supposedly play part of "The Star Spangled Banner" on a trumpet. And there were 10 dogs, including a fluff ball named Pushinka a gift from Nikita Khrushchev. (The C.I.A. at the time feared the puppy had been implanted with listening devices, and it had to be inspected at Walter Reed Army Medical Center before being cleared for residence with the Kennedys.) Then he said, "I suppose it is time to make some decisions." The current moment, in its own way, is no less harrowing than that one. It is a moment that calls out for decisions made with wisdom and calm. It is a moment in which we need Donald Trump to be a better kind of man, the kind that both dogs and humans all of us might look to with affection and respect. For over three years now many Americans have been anxiously waiting for Mr. Trump to grow into the job, to show that he understands he is the leader of the whole country and not just his core supporters. For a while, we thought, national moments of mourning, from Charlottesville to El Paso, might engender a new Trump, showing us a man governing just once from his heart, rather than his spleen. Donald Trump has failed to be that man. Now, with tens of thousands of Americans dead from the coronavirus and an economy in ruins, he's the man who boasts that his TV ratings are as high as "The Bachelor" finale's. The Fala speech, 76 years ago, generated humor and good will during a dark time. Surely right about now we could use generous portions of both. Oh, I know full well that the odds of the president's becoming a different sort of man at this hour are slim. He's an old dog. The era of new tricks is over. And yet, the seven dogs with whom I have shared my life Playboy, Sausage, Matt the Mutt, Brown, Alex, Lucy and Ranger have made me into an optimist. They have taught me to have hope. They have shown me what it means to be loved. It is impossible for me not to wish that the leader of the free world could feel this too. Mr. President, I want to believe that somewhere deep inside you, there is a good boy, still waiting to be born. 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
Each week, technology reporters and columnists from The New York Times review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Hello there, everyone! Mike Isaac here, your trusty, San Francisco based reporter covering all things Facebook, ride hailing and other Silicon Valley ephemera. It has been a while since I wrote my last newsletter, so bear with me if I'm a bit rusty. Social media was the thing to watch this week. The midterm elections finally took place, with Americans poised to see whether or not a widely predicted "blue wave" of Democrats would sweep the country. As it turned out, that wave was more of a choppy surf; Dems took back the House, while Republicans held onto their majority in the Senate. As Americans made their way to the polls on Tuesday, another big story was whether we would see a repeat of the 2016 presidential election: Everyone was looking for trolls and disinformation. Facebook, home to more than two billion regular users, was the obvious target. Since Russian backed trolls succeeded in a widespread influence campaign that reached millions of Americans in 2016, Facebook has been under pressure to safeguard its network against the threat of further foreign meddling. The company, to much ado from the press, set up a "War Room" to catch any last minute information operations. There were other blind spots even before the election in the United States. WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app owned by Facebook used by more than a billion people globally, was a key target for political disinformation in Brazil ahead of its presidential election. Jair Bolsonaro, often called the Donald Trump of Brazil, surged to an Election Day victory, aided at least in part by voter suppression and disinformation tactics that flooded private groups in WhatsApp. That problem is more difficult to deal with on WhatsApp because it is encrypted. And users generally trust private messaging services more than they do more public venues like Facebook. Facebook has also spent the past month dealing with fallout from a breach involving tens of millions of its users, a gargantuan lapse that came at the worst possible time. Regulators are taking a closer look at the company in response, while Facebook connected apps have scrambled to increase their security. Now the social media giant is on the hunt to buy a security company to help out, though it hasn't publicly announced a decision. Election Day in the United States was indeed a spectacle for Facebook, but for different reasons than we thought. Save for one episode, the day went off without much of a hitch. We're still holding our breath, but according to Facebook, there were no enormous reveals, no last minute election night disasters, nothing that seemed to throw the electoral process completely off the rails.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
This four story, mixed use property in Bushwick was built in 1915 and redeveloped in 2018. It has three commercial spaces and 17 high end, rent stabilized apartments over a total of 18,000 square feet. All commercial and residential units are occupied. The Mermaid Inn, a seafood restaurant, is opening a location in Chelsea at the site of the former Red Cat restaurant. The restaurant's 15 year lease covers the 800 square foot portion of the basement and the 2,100 square foot ground floor in this four story, mixed used building. Built in 1924, the building at 115 Seventh Avenue in Chelsea was the home of the original Barneys New York department store. Built in 1924, this eight story building in Chelsea was the home of the original Barneys New York department store. The long term lease for the ground and lower level floors has a total 6,761 square feet. The lower level is below a 40,000 square foot co working space.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
With Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's death this week, a little shy of his 100th birthday, obituaries have commented on his prominence as "America's pediatrician," on his many honors, which include recognition for his work with diverse populations around the world, and on his extraordinary ability to connect with infants and also with their parents. He was also beloved by pediatricians, and an extraordinary number of us were taught and shaped by a man who believed deeply that it all came back to looking at the baby and the parents. "We're very good at identifying everything that's wrong with anybody, but we don't have any idea about what's going on in them or what's right about them," Dr. Brazelton said in 1997 in a long retrospective interview for an oral history project at the American Academy of Pediatrics. That led him to start looking carefully at newborns, before parents had had any influence, and what he saw, looking at the babies, was how their behavior actually shaped parental responses. "He was a scientist, and as a scientist he had endless spontaneous curiosity," said Dr. Joshua Sparrow, a child psychiatrist who is the director of the Brazelton Touchpoints Center in the division of developmental medicine at Boston Children's Hospital. Touchpoints is an approach built on the theory that "human development proceeds through disorganization and reorganization, with windows of vulnerability and opportunity, that require strong relationships and support for those relationships," Dr. Sparrow said. From his initial work observing the behavior of newborns, and their interactions with their parents, Dr. Sparrow said, Dr. Brazelton "demonstrated that newborn behavior is purposeful and meaningful." That was the foundation of his work, and also influenced much research on brain development and on the importance of the early years of life for lifelong development and health. Dr. Suzanne Dixon, who is professor emerita of pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego, had a fellowship with Dr. Brazelton beginning in 1971. Her three years of work included studying babies in a village in Kenya; Dr. Brazelton came for part of the time, guiding the study, and practicing in the medical clinic. "The family of Berry's fellows has completely changed pediatrics," she said. Just last week, Dr. Dixon said, she had called Dr. Brazelton, and in talking about the new movie "Black Panther," she had commented on the gorgeous African inspired costumes and recalled their work in Africa. "And he said, 'Don't you wish we could do it all over again?'" When she noted that the film presented the African characters with great dignity, "Berry said, 'Well, it's about time, isn't it?'" In the 1950s, '60s and early '70s, Dr. Dixon said, the focus in pediatric training was much more on organic disease and metabolic processes. Parents had concerns about their children's behavior and worries about their own strategies, but they didn't think of those as questions for the pediatrician, or expect to hear that there was medical research to address their worries. Dr. Dixon, a former editor of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, said that now everyone who cares for children understands the importance of developmental screening and of offering parents help and resources to deal with behavioral issues. "He really caused a Copernican revolution, an entire paradigm shift in our understanding of child development," said Barry Lester, a psychologist who is director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at the Alpert Medical School and Women Infants Hospital, and who came to study with Dr. Brazelton in the 1970s, and worked with him in Boston for a decade as director of research for the child development unit. "He put the infant and the infant mother relationship at the center of the universe, and everything he has done stems from that change." His research on newborns led to the development of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, which was first published in the 1970s (and is often referred to in pediatrics as "the Brazelton") and has been used in about 1,000 research studies. It's the gold standard for observing and documenting newborn behavior, Dr. Sparrow said. It was a revolutionary idea, Dr. Lester said, that "the baby actually contributes to shaping his or her own environment, that development is not based on passive exposure." Instead, he said, Dr. Brazelton's work helped doctors and psychologists understand that "there's a built in reciprocity; infant behavior is modified by the mother, mother's behavior is modified by the infant in a mutually reciprocal relationship." I remember being a little awed when it came my turn in residency to spend time with Dr. Brazelton in a small group because he was a celebrity. But it was such a joy to watch him with patients, and after all, he was still a practicing pediatrician, so he astonished us by concentrating on a topic important to parents that had otherwise been neglected in our residency, which was rich in rare and obscure diseases. He asked us what we knew about toilet training, and its problems, and he told us about his patients and what he had learned from them. "Parents really told me what I should be thinking about these things," Dr. Brazelton said in his 1997 interview. "And so the research became a window into how to think for me as a provider, but also into how they were thinking." When I watched Dr. Brazelton speak to an audience of parents, it was clear that they connected immediately with his concern for their babies, but also with his understanding of the insecurities that plague parents in their daily interaction with their children, as well as the larger stresses that complicate families' lives. What Dr. Sparrow called his "combination of curiosity, questioning received wisdom, and careful observation," in researching parents and children also helped so many doctors understand both sides of that reciprocal relationship. "The best gift he gave me was being able to simply and easily demonstrate to parents and to trainees what babies are capable of, from the start," wrote one pediatric friend, Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, a pediatrician on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health who spent time as an undergraduate in the Child Development Unit at Boston Children's Hospital. "To this day, I've called upon those skills, and watched as a new parent is sequentially astonished, then delighted, then proud of what their baby can do. And it's all this New Yorker can do to stop myself from affirming their joy in a kindly Texan drawl," like that of Dr. Brazelton, who was from Waco, Tex. Another good friend, Dr. Eileen Costello, now chief of ambulatory pediatrics at Boston Medical Center, emailed me a memory from 10 years ago, when Dr. Brazelton spoke to a group of fellows in developmental behavioral pediatrics in Boston. One of the fellows asked what the biggest change was in dealing with families. "He said 'the anxiety of parents about having a perfect child.' He talked about what an anxious generation of parents we are, that not every child will excel at everything, and that that should be O.K. He felt parents were having less fun and joy in parenting because they were heeding all this unnecessary advice about how to tailor a child's life to maximize success, and how sad he felt about it." Last December, Dr. Dixon said, when she and her husband spent a couple of days with Dr. Brazelton in his home on Cape Cod, she asked him if he had any regrets. "He said no, I haven't, I've had a really wonderful life, I wouldn't change a thing," she said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
IN an engineering move that pursues the delicious if elusive goal of having one's cake and eating it, too, Ford is offering the 2013 Taurus family sedan with a fuel efficient turbocharged 4 cylinder engine.In doing so, Ford is going unconventional with its most conventional vehicle, a large sedan with a curb weight of almost two tons. Not radically unconventional, mind you: small engines are arriving in big cars from many makers, and Ford even offered a 4 cylinder in the original Taurus of 1986, when gas seemed cheap at a pump price of less than 1 a gallon. The goal in 2013, of course, is to provide full size accommodations with something closer to pint size fuel economy. It is a tactic that makes the Taurus, with a combined city highway rating of 26 m.p.g., the country's most fuel efficient large traditional sedan, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In second place is the 2013 Toyota Avalon, with a combined rating of 24 m.p.g.; that car has a 3.5 liter V 6. In recent years the once popular Taurus it was America's best selling car five years running and peaked at more than 400,000 in sales twice in the 1990s has had a troubled on again, off again existence. When its popularity dimmed to near invisibility, it was replaced by the 2005 Five Hundred. But the Five Hundred was so disappointing that Ford in what some saw as desperation renamed it Taurus for the 2008 model year. The base engine in the new Taurus is a 3.5 liter V 6 built in Lima, Ohio, and rated at 288 horsepower. In a reversal of the norm, the extra cost option is a smaller engine, the 240 horsepower 2 liter EcoBoost 4 cylinder built in Spain. It costs 995. The EcoBoost 4 is a relatively advanced engine, using not just a turbocharger but also direct injection of gasoline into the combustion chamber, a design intended to provide more power and better fuel economy. Its torque output of 270 pound feet tops the V 6 engine's 254, and it reaches that peak 1,000 r.p.m. sooner. Both the 2.0 EcoBoost and the V 6 engines are paired with attentive and effective 6 speed automatic transmissions. The EcoBoost label, incidentally, simply means it is part of a family of Ford engines in various sizes, all sharing turbocharging, direct injection and a higher price. To Ford's credit, the 2.0 EcoBoost is a stand alone option on the Taurus and is available on even the least expensive version, the SE. That model has a starting price of 27,395 with the V 6, and adding the EcoBoost engine option inflates the window sticker to 28,390. With the 2.0 EcoBoost, the Taurus is rated at 22 miles per gallon in town and 32 miles per gallon on the highway. That is 3 m.p.g. better than the standard V 6 in both types of driving. According to the E.P.A.'s Web site ( the EcoBoost would save about 250 a year compared with the V 6. That calculation is based on 15,000 miles a year (55 percent city driving) and 87 octane gas priced at 3.39 a gallon. Stated another way, to reap any savings from the 2.0 EcoBoost option, an owner would have to keep the car almost four years though it could pay off sooner if gas prices zoomed or if the car were driven an extraordinary number of miles. The Taurus can be ordered with all wheel drive, though the 2.0 EcoBoost is available only on front drive models, including the Limited version that I tested. The test car had a starting price of 33,795, including a 795 destination charge. Ford then added 6,880 in options, including the EcoBoost ( 995); navigation system ( 795) and adaptive cruise control and collision warning ( 1,195). There was also a 3,500 package with a long list of features including a heated steering wheel, heated and cooled front seats, heated rear seats, an automatic parallel parking system, a Sony audio system and blind spot monitors. The total sticker price was 40,675. Particularly with all the creature comforts, the Taurus is a pleasant and accommodating large sedan. The front seats are comfortable, a good compromise of soft and supportive, making a five hour stretch on the road possible. The 20 cubic foot trunk is huge, however. Ford's notorious and ill conceived MyFord Touch system continues as the bad boy of ergonomics despite the automaker's attempts at rehabilitation. It is supposed to make controlling everything from the audio system to the climate control easier, but it doesn't. It just makes things that should be simple, like changing the temperature, more complicated. A voice control system offers an alternative. But it can be a chore, requiring several steps to do something that one should be able to handle with one twist of an old fashioned knob. On my test car, the touch screen sometimes had to be touched several times before the system responded. During one daylong drive, the lower part of the navigation screen went blank for about eight hours, and then returned. Ford said its dealer was not able to duplicate the problem. Whether on the Interstate or on a country two lane, the Taurus offers a comfortable ride with the kind of dutiful but unenthusiastic handling that one expects from a large family car. For drivers who want a greater level of engagement, Ford offers the Taurus SHO with more power and a sport suspension. Even with three adults and a trunk filled with luggage, the 4 cylinder Taurus easily ambled along at 70 m.p.h. on the Interstate, and it has adequate power for merging onto freeways among New York City's less than forgiving drivers. The issue is not the car's accelerative potency, but its refinement. Under even moderate acceleration there is a level of 4 cylinder noise and vibration that would be marginally acceptable in a modestly priced sedan, but seems out of place in an upscale car like the Taurus Limited. Over 350 highway miles at typical speeds of 65 to 75 m.p.h. I got 27 m.p.g. That's a huge 5 m.p.g. less than the E.P.A. estimate, but I was driving in hilly terrain with a heavy load. Ford is hoping the improvements to the Taurus, as well as the 2.0 EcoBoost engine, will help win sales, which haven't been great. Through the first 11 months of the year, Ford sold 67,471 vehicles, including some police cars and fleet sales, according to LMC Automotive, a market research firm. That compares with 159,710 Chevrolet Impalas, 63,572 Chrysler 300s, 74,725 Dodge Chargers and 55,212 Nissan Maximas, LMC said. The auto industry can be a rude and disappointing arena, and Toyota will try to spoil things with its redesigned Avalon, which goes on sale this month. The E.P.A. ratings for the Avalon with a 268 horsepower V 6 will be only 1 m.p.g. lower for both city and highway use than the 4 cylinder Taurus. There will also be a hybrid version of the Avalon with a 4 cylinder engine, which Toyota says will be rated at 40 m.p.g. in town and 39 on the highway. However, the least expensive V 6 Avalon will be 31,785, which includes leather upholstery and heated front seats. Direct comparisons can be tricky because of variations in standard equipment.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
This article was reported and written in collaboration with ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization. Top officials at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center repeatedly violated policies on financial conflicts of interest, fostering a culture in which profits appeared to take precedence over research and patient care, according to details released on Thursday from an outside review. The findings followed months of turmoil over executives' ties to drug and health care companies at one of the nation's leading cancer centers. The review, conducted by the law firm Debevoise Plimpton, was outlined at a staff meeting on Thursday morning. It concluded that officials frequently violated or skirted their own policies; that hospital leaders' ties to companies were likely considered on an ad hoc basis rather than through rigorous vetting; and that researchers were often unaware that some senior executives had financial stakes in the outcomes of their studies. In acknowledging flaws in its oversight of conflicts of interest, the cancer center announced on Thursday an extensive overhaul of policies governing employees' relationships with outside companies and financial arrangements including public disclosure of doctors' ties to corporations and limits on outside work. The review was one of several steps the nonprofit cancer center has taken in the wake of reports last year by The New York Times and ProPublica that several top executives and board members had profited from relationships with drug companies, outside research ventures or corporate board memberships. Those revelations prompted Memorial Sloan Kettering, based in New York, to hire outside firms to conduct inquiries into those relationships as well as into internal allegations of ethical lapses. The scrutiny of researchers' stakes in start ups has intensified at a time when venture capitalists are betting millions of dollars on the next potential cure for cancer and when expensive treatments like immunotherapy have fueled public concern over rising drug prices. The spotlight on the deals at Memorial Sloan Kettering also swayed other leading cancer centers, like Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, to reconsider their policies. "Memorial Sloan Kettering really does seem to be taking this seriously and this document, I think, shows it," he said, referring to the hospital's revised policies. "Kudos to them." At the staff meeting, Mark P. Goodman, co chairman of the law firm's commercial litigation group, told doctors that the review found "a number of instances of serious noncompliance with M.S.K.'s conflict of interest policies," according to a recording. A spokesman for the hospital, Mike Morey, declined to provide a copy of the Debevoise firm's findings. The conflicts and some profit making deals which were not specified at the meeting did not occur through intentional misconduct, Mr. Goodman said. Rather, the review exposed inadequate oversight and a lack of established protocols for examining whether employees' and executives' affiliations with corporations could result in biased results that favored a company's products. Mr. Goodman also said the review, involving interviews with 36 current and former employees and board members and an examination of 25,000 documents, did not find that the ethical shortcomings had hurt patients or compromised research. In an email, Mr. Goodman disputed the characterization of the findings as violations of rules and said the report did not conclude that top officials acted in a concerted way. In his presentation, he referred instead to "noncompliance" with hospital policies and to instances where executives appeared not to have followed existing policies. Scott Stuart, chairman of the cancer center's Boards of Overseers and Managers, said in an emailed statement: "We took a deep and honest look at what went wrong at our own institution, examined what was occurring in the wider cancer research community, and are putting in place best practices that will not only allow us to learn from our mistakes, but will contribute to best practices for the wider research community." The cancer center has been reeling from the series of reports by The Times and ProPublica, including that its chief medical officer, Dr. Jose Baselga, had failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug and health care companies in dozens of articles in medical journals. Dr. Baselga resigned in September, and he also stepped down from the boards of the drug maker Bristol Myers Squibb and Varian Medical Systems, a radiation equipment manufacturer. The British Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca hired Dr. Baselga to run its new oncology unit this year. Additional reports detailed how other top officials at Memorial Sloan Kettering had cultivated lucrative relationships with for profit companies, including an artificial intelligence start up, Paige.AI, that was founded by a member of the cancer center's executive board, the chairman of its pathology department and the head of one of its research laboratories. The hospital struck an exclusive deal with the company to license images of 25 million patient tissue slides that had been collected over decades. Another article detailed how a hospital vice president was given a nearly 1.4 million stake in a newly public company as compensation for representing Memorial Sloan Kettering on its board. In October, Memorial Sloan Kettering's chief executive, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, resigned from the boards of Charles River Laboratories, an early stage research company, and the drugmaker Merck. Then, in January, Memorial Sloan Kettering went a step further, barring its top executives from serving on the corporate boards of drug and health care companies. Hospital officials also instituted policy changes to limit the ways in which its top executives and leading researchers could profit from work developed at Memorial Sloan Kettering, which admits about 23,500 cancer patients each year. "Although we did not identify evidence of breaches of fiduciary duty, we did find that processes and controls for the review and management of senior executive and board level conflicts were deficient and resulted in instances of noncompliance with M.S.K. policies," Mr. Goodman said. Specifically, he noted, plans to manage executive conflicts of interest, a requirement at the hospital, "were not implemented because it was felt to be unnecessary or because there was a failure to realize that a management plan was needed." Mr. Goodman also said that hospital leaders' corporate ties were handled differently from other employees. Beginning in 2014, senior executives were no longer required to vet financial relationships with a conflict of interest advisory committee because the hospital felt the committee should not be asked to make decisions about executives to whom it reported. While Mr. Goodman said that rationale made sense, the general counsel's office tasked with overseeing the leaders' conflicts did not put in place formal procedures to examine potential problems. "As a result," Mr. Goodman said, "conflicts were allowed to persist without formal firewalls in place." Hospital leaders also did not always disclose to faculty and staff when they had relationships to companies whose research was being conducted at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mr. Goodman said. The policy changes that Memorial Sloan Kettering announced on Thursday include the creation of a board committee to focus on overseeing conflicts, an existing hospital policy that the law firm learned had not been carried out. The hospital also said it would disclose financial interests of faculty members and researchers on its website and create a more centralized review of conflicts between employees' work at the hospital and their outside duties. Other changes included new limits on how income is distributed from research discoveries that originate at Memorial Sloan Kettering, and regular audits to ensure the hospital is complying with its own rules. The cancer center reinforced its earlier statements that many profits from outside work should flow back to M.S.K. research. Heather H. Pierce, the senior director for science policy and regulatory counsel at the Association of American Medical Colleges, said the hospital decided to undergo a review that "was far broader than the initial concerns that were raised." As an outside member of the task force recommending changes, Ms. Pierce noted that "there was nothing that wasn't up for discussion." Dr. Gellad, of the University of Pittsburgh, said the issues raised at a prominent institution like Memorial Sloan Kettering have placed others on notice. "We've seen what happens when these conflicts, even if they're only perceived, they lead to problems in terms of how an institution is judged," Dr. Gellad said. "Every institution, if they're not, should look to see how that impacted Memorial Sloan Kettering."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
PALO ALTO, Calif. In June, about 30 seniors will graduate from a little known online high school currently called the Education Program for Gifted Youth. But their diplomas will bear a different name: Stanford Online High School. Yes, that Stanford the elite research university known for producing graduates who win Nobels and found Googles, not for teaching basic algebra to teenagers. Five years after the opening of the experimental program, some education experts consider Stanford's decision to attach its name to the effort a milestone for online education. "This is significant," said Bill Tucker, managing director of Education Sector, a nonpartisan policy institute. "One of our country's most prestigious universities feels comfortable putting its considerable prestige and brand behind it." As the line between virtual and classroom based learning continues to blur, some see Stanford's move as a sign that so, too, will the line between secondary and higher education. Several other universities though none with the pedigree of Stanford already operate online high schools, a development that has raised some questions about expertise and motives. "From my perspective, colleges, concentrate on what you're good at," said Ronald A. Crutcher, president of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., who added that he had recently declined an offer from a for profit education company to join other small liberal arts institutions in forming an online high school in their image. "Be consultants, but don't contribute to a trend that I think has some real problems." About 275,000 students nationwide are enrolled full time in online schools, according to Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K 12 Online Learning, a nonprofit advocacy group. Most of these are free public charter schools, but colleges private and public have begun to get into the business as well. The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the University of Missouri have awarded diplomas to about 250 and 85 students, respectively, annually for the last several years. The George Washington University Online High School opened in January. Capitalizing on its reputation in foreign language instruction, Middlebury College in Vermont last year worked with K12, a for profit company, to develop online high school language courses serving 50,000 students nationwide. An individual student's course costs 749 per year, and Middlebury will share the profits. Ronald Liebowitz, Middlebury's president, said that while "it looks like mission creep beyond belief," the opportunity to raise revenue carried the decision. "The risk is great, and I'd be silly if I said otherwise," Mr. Liebowitz said of lending Middlebury's name to a program whose teachers are not affiliated with the college. But, he noted, "we could have millions of dollars coming into the operating budget, which eases the burden of other revenue streams mainly tuition and other fees. It's a for profit venture." Ms. Patrick said the typical online high school student lives in a remote area, was previously home schooled or is deeply involved in an extracurricular activity that is incompatible with traditional schooling. In this growing market, Stanford Online High School aims to be the destination for the most talented students. About 20 percent of the current 120 students receive financial aid to offset the 14,800 tuition, which is about half the average private school tuition nationwide but far more than the University of Nebraska program's 2,500. About 300 more students take one or more 3,200 per year classes to supplement a bricks and mortar program. Stanford officials said that the online high school had not yet yielded a profit, but that if it did, the money would be used for high school financial aid, not for the wider institution. There is no entrance exam, but a college like application requires essays, letters of recommendation and standardized test scores. About 70 percent of the applicants were accepted this year, a far cry from Stanford University's 7.3 percent acceptance rate in 2010 11. Of the high school's 75 graduates, 69 so far have enrolled directly in four year colleges, according to Raymond Ravaglia, the high school's executive director. Eight attend Stanford, and 25 others are at Ivy League institutions or other elite campuses. "I don't see this for a second competing with quality high schools, but for some people this could be an education they can't get," said John Etchemendy, Stanford's provost. "I'm quite impressed with it, and they are clearly attracting capable students. It's something that does make me comfortable making Stanford's ownership of it more prominent." Mr. Ravaglia, a 1987 Stanford graduate, helped pioneer the university's online education programs in the 1990s. A few years after the 2001 opening of the university's summer program for high school students, he recommended a fusion of the two that could cater to Stanford caliber high school students wanting an online option. The high school teachers are not university professors, though Mr. Ravaglia said a majority had doctorates. He declined to say how much they are paid. In a typical class session, about 14 students simultaneously watch a live streamed lecture, with video clips, diagrams and other animations to enliven the lesson. Instead of raising hands, students click into a queue when they have questions or comments; teachers call on them by choosing their audio stream, to be heard by all. An instant messaging window allows for constant discussion among the students who, in conventional settings, might be chastised for talking in class. "You're interacting with people all the time with people all over the world," said Nick Benson, a senior whose career as an actor required the flexibility of online schooling. "The nature of the classes is that you do interact with people quote unquote in person you're seeing their face and responding to them like in any normal class." Nick, who scored 2,340 out of 2,400 on the SAT and is applying to Stanford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ivy League schools, said some college admissions officers needed some convincing. "It's a conversation starter," he said. "I haven't had an interview that doesn't run long, because they're curious what the school is about." Students taking a full five course load must be present for 10 seminars per week, each of them 60 to 90 minutes, with an additional 15 to 20 lectures of about 15 minutes that are recorded by the teachers and viewable at the students' convenience. Fridays are reserved for activities like a student newspaper and an engineering team. Papers are submitted electronically, and students are required to find a Stanford approved proctor to oversee exams. "It's uncommon for an online high school to not rely on more of an honor system, and it is a pain for kids to find suitable proctors," Mr. Ravaglia said. "But we want legitimacy in the results, and don't want students coming to the school for the wrong reason."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Education
Most science teachers in the United States spend some time on climate change in their courses, but their insufficient grasp of the science as well as political factors "may hinder effective teaching," according to a nationwide survey of the profession. The survey, described in the current issue of the journal Science, found that teachers spent little time on the topic just one to two hours on average over an academic year. "It's clearly not enough time to really provide students with a good scientific understanding," said Eric Plutzer, the lead author of the paper and a professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University. Many teachers also provide misinformation about climate change, the survey found. The evidence that human activity is a major cause of recent climate change is overwhelming, but 30 percent of the 1,500 teachers surveyed said they emphasized that recent global warming "is likely due to natural causes," while 12 percent said they did not emphasize human causes. Half of that 12 percent said they did not discuss any causes at all. The authors of the paper suggested that those teachers "may wish to teach 'both sides' to accommodate values and perspectives that students bring to the classroom." The survey also found, however, that only 4.4 percent of teachers said that they had faced overt pressure from parents, school administrators or the community to teach about climate change. Professor Plutzer, who is the academic director of Pennsylvania State's survey research center, said that he and his colleagues were surprised by the level of ignorance the teachers showed in the survey, especially in describing the current state of scientific consensus on the topic. More than 95 percent of climate scientists agree that recent global warming is caused mostly by human activity, but only 30 percent of middle schoolteachers and 45 percent of high school teachers correctly identified the degree of consensus as 81 percent to 100 percent. The research team, which collaborated on the project with the National Center for Science Education, surveyed 1,500 teachers from high schools and middle schools in all 50 states. Josh Rosenau, the programs and policy director for the science education center, said that he found it "encouraging" to see how many teachers were spending at least some time on climate change. "Coming into it, we expected the number to be a lot lower than it was," he said. And while the teachers might not be reporting a great deal of overt pressure, he said, "The broader environment that they are living in is shaping how willing they are to be forthright about the science." Bertha Vazquez, a teacher in Miami who incorporates climate change into all her courses, said the pressure was real. "Every year, I get the email from a father who says, 'This is garbage,' and why am I teaching this?" she said. The fear of that kind of response might dissuade other teachers, she said, even though climate change is included in Florida's education standards. "If you're not as confident in the subject area, you're going to avoid it," Ms. Vazquez said. "It's no fun to field those phone calls." An advocate for climate education, Ms. Vazquez has persuaded colleagues, including those teaching German and art, to incorporate climate issues into their courses. The lack of knowledge of the science is understandable, Professor Plutzer said, because "very few current teachers had much exposure to climate science when they were in college." Climate change is still not often part of a formal curriculum, so the instruction in one year rarely can add to the previous year's work, Professor Plutzer added. And teachers feel pressured to focus more intensely on topics that appear on "high stakes tests" that define much of today's educational process, he said. The evolving nature of climate science means continuing teacher education is essential, said Mr. Rosenau of the science education center. "If you graduated college in the 1990s and are teaching evolution the way it was taught when you were in school, you're not doing anything wrong," he said. "If you're teaching climate change the way you learned it in the 1990s," when the role of human activities and burning of fossil fuels was less clear, "you're kind of teaching climate change denialism." Still, climate science has increasingly become part of lesson plans, and is likely to become more prominent. The Next Generation Science Standards developed several years ago by 26 states, while not providing a specific curriculum, serve as guidelines that describe what students should learn in science classes. The standards have been adopted by 16 states and the District of Columbia, but have a wider influence, because many school districts around the country have independently adopted the standards. Mr. Rosenau said that the spread of the standards to states that included more than half of the nation's students meant that textbook publishers would be more likely to include information about climate change in books and teacher training materials distributed nationwide.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
MELBOURNE, Australia Novak Djokovic, the men's world No. 1 from Serbia, has been lifting up people from his homeland for years, but not usually like this. At the end of a practice session during last year's Australian Open, Djokovic walked over to a waist high fence where fans were packed 10 deep to watch him and hoisted a boy from the front of the crowd over the barricade and onto the court. That boy, 8 year old Novak Pokrajac, then got to play a few points with the man for whom he was named, including a 29 shot rally that ended with him hitting an overhead smash past Djokovic for a winner. For the tens of thousands of Australians of Serbian descent, Djokovic is the secular saint of sport, worshiped by Serbs who still feel an acute sense of persecution nearly two decades after the worst of the Balkans' fractious ethnic violence. That was evident on Wednesday afternoon, when Djokovic hit with the Australian teenager Alexei Popyrin in front of a crowd that included about a dozen fans flying the red, blue and white colors of the Serbian flag. Even during the 50 weeks of the year when the Melbourne Park courts go quiet, Djokovic's presence looms. In the office off the Serbian Voice, a weekly newspaper on the western edge of Melbourne, one wall serves as a shrine to celebrated Serbian figures from history: Serbian Orthodox Church figures; Vuk Karadzic, the creator of the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet; Nikola Tesla, the Serbian American inventor; and Djokovic. For Serbia, a nation of seven million people, it is "a big deal" to be able to claim the top ranked player in men's tennis and one of the best ever said Zeljko Prodanovic, the newspaper's editor. "After the war, it's not so easy to say, 'Here we are,'" he said. "You look at the movies, Serbs are always the bad guys. But now we can say we have the best tennis player in the world. That makes us proud." The newspaper's owner, Zivana Jovanovic, has welcomed several Serbian luminaries to her office in her two decades at the helm, including the actor Dragan Nikolic and the retired N.B.A. player Vlade Divac. She has never met Djokovic but said she felt as if she knows him because of his high profile. For all his fame, Jovanovic said, Djokovic comes across as humble. Djokovic's celebrity status has made it hard for him to move freely in public in Melbourne, but in his younger days he had regular haunts: a church where he would ring in the Orthodox New Year, or the restaurants on Lygon Street, known for its outdoor cafes and European eateries. Now, though, when Djokovic ventures out into the city, as he did before the tournament for a photo opportunity for one of his sponsors, he is swarmed by admirers. Still, Djokovic said he tries to meet and chat with Serbs wherever he goes and invite them to watch him play. "I guess it nurtures the culture and tradition," he said. "Me as one of the athletes from our country that is internationally successful, I feel there is also a responsibility to represent the country in a right way. For a lot of those people, especially who live here, they have not seen or been to Serbia for a long time. So for them it's quite a treat to have me playing here and other tennis players from Serbia." Michael Popovic, a middle aged Serb who emigrated from Belgrade to Melbourne in his 20s, was at Rod Laver Arena in 2008 when Djokovic defeated Roger Federer in the semifinals to reach the final, where he would defeat Jo Wilfried Tsonga for his first major title. "The feeling I had at that moment was very hard to describe," said Popovic, a restaurateur. "It was like I just won." But the only Djokovic whom Popovic has served is Novak's uncle Goran. "Somehow I've never had the pleasure of having Novak here," he said. That nearly changed last weekend, when a large party of Serbs including the pro Janko Tipsarevic, who every year distributes tournament tickets to the local Serbian community through one of his friends stopped in for dinner. Djokovic was supposed to join them, but long after they had been seated, they received a text from him saying they should eat without him because he was stuck in meetings related to his responsibilities as the president of the ATP Player Council. "It was a pity," Popovic said. "I was really hoping he would come." On Monday, Pokrajac, the young fan, made sure he wouldn't miss Djokovic, arriving at Melbourne Park with his mother, Snezana, more than an hour before the player was scheduled to practice. He wanted to claim a prime viewing spot, up against the fence again. The night before, Pokrajac said, he had imagined getting to hit again with Djokovic, borrowing a technique that has served him well in his matches. "If I visualize something before," Pokrajac said, "then it will happen." After Djokovic finished practicing, Pokrajac shouted, "Remember me, Novak? I'm here from Perth." Djokovic remembered. He came over, hoisted Pokrajac over the fence again, handed him a racket, and they began to hit. They played four "points." The second rally was 34 shots; the fourth ended on the 16th, when Pokrajac hit a half volley for a winner. Two days later, Pokrajac staked out his same spot. He unfurled a Serbian flag that he had signed and which he intended to present to Djokovic as a parting gift. After his session, Djokovic came over and accepted the flag. He read what Pokrajac had written: "To Novak from Novak from Perth." Under his signature Pokrajac had written, "It's going to be worth gold money" and added a smiley face. Djokovic hugged him. As Pokrajac turned to rejoin his mother, his smile was incandescent. "I feel like I know him," Pokrajac said. "I think we're going to be friends now." Want more Australia coverage and discussion? Sign up for the weekly Australia Letter, start your day with your local Morning Briefing and join us in our Facebook group.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
The European Union and Japan said on Friday that they had finalized a sweeping deal that would create a free trade area covering more than a quarter of the world's economy, pushing against rising calls for protectionism in much of the West. Leaders of both parties to the agreement trumpeted its strategic, as well as economic, importance. That it was announced just hours after Britain and the European Union broke a deadlock to start a new round of talks over that country's withdrawal from the bloc only heightened its symbolic impact. The so called economic partnership agreement, which would be one of the largest free trade deals ever, "demonstrates the powerful political will of Japan and the E.U. to continue to keep the flag of free trade waving high," the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and the president of the European Union's executive arm, Jean Claude Juncker, said in a joint statement. The deal is subject to ratification by lawmakers in Europe as well as Japan, but Mr. Abe and Mr. Juncker said that they were confident that once in place, it would "deliver sustainable and inclusive economic growth, and spur job creation." "It sends a clear signal to the world that the E.U. and Japan are committed to keeping the world economy working on the basis of free, open and fair markets with clear and transparent rules fully respecting and enhancing our values, fighting the temptation of protectionism," the leaders added. The agreement also reaffirms its parties' commitment to the Paris climate accord, from which the Trump administration has said it will withdraw. Tokyo and Brussels began trade talks in 2013, and said in June that they were nearing a deal. Japan trades less with the European Union than it does with the United States or China. But completing a deal with the European Union became a more urgent priority for Tokyo after President Trump's decision in January to withdraw the United States from another agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership. Japan has also pushed to revive that deal, even without the United States. Japan had effectively paused its talks with the European Union while it focused on the larger Pacific Rim deal, which included 10 other nations along with the United States and Japan. Mr. Abe has made liberalizing trade a centerpiece of his economic agenda a notable shift in a country that, despite its success exporting cars, electronics and other merchandise, had long shied away from trade deals. The change of direction on trade owes partly to the waning power of Japan's farm lobby, which has fought to keep tariffs on imported agricultural products high, impeding the country's ability to strike agreements. Japanese negotiators still focus much of their efforts on protecting farmers, but with Japan's rural population rapidly aging and shrinking, governments no longer see making concessions on agriculture as politically fatal. The European Union and Japan have a combined annual economic output of around 20 trillion, and together would constitute a trading area roughly the size of the one created by the North American Free Trade Agreement. The future of Nafta, which comprises the United States, Canada and Mexico, has also been cast into doubt by tense renegotiations. 15 minimum wage for federal contractors will take effect Jan. 30. Jeff Bezos gives 100 million to the Obama Foundation. Still, while Japan and the European Union have expressed confidence over the agreement they announced on Friday, political interests are still at play. National and some regional legislatures in Europe will have a say, a process that nearly derailed a trade deal with Canada. The main beneficiaries from the agreement are likely to be Japanese carmakers and European food and beverage producers. The deal will make it easier for European producers of cheese, beef, wine and processed meat to sell in Japan, which imposes duties of as much as 40 percent on some products. European makers of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and trains are also expected to come out ahead. The pact also presents Japanese carmakers with an opportunity to increase sales in Europe, which has long been difficult for them. Toyota and other Japanese manufacturers have only a 13 percent share of the auto market in the European Union, in part because of import tariffs, compared to the United States where they account for about 40 percent. But Japan's carmakers already have major manufacturing operations in Europe which are not subject to import duties, suggesting that their meager sales also stem from lack of products that appeal to European tastes. While the pact will be important for some industries, said Angel Talavera, senior eurozone economist at Oxford Economics in Britain, its overall economic impact will be modest. The deal "does not materially alter the outlook for the eurozone, as Japan represents only around 2 percent of total exports," Mr. Talavera said in an email. "I don't think this is a game changer."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
What happens if you get a dream job, and it means giving up on your own name? Increasingly that is an unavoidable choice for young designers who come to public attention by starting their own labels with a few friends, and even fewer funds, and then get snapped up by heritage names with big budgets, reputations and resources. There is one catch: The roles require full commitment. Such was the dilemma facing Paul Andrew. Last month he was promoted from women's wear and accessories design director at the Italian leather goods brand Salvatore Ferragamo to be creative director across all collections for the luxury house. His purview will extend to men's wear and brand image strategy at a critical juncture for the business. Ferragamo, which in recent years has struggled to gain online visibility and win over younger luxury shoppers and has recently been subject to takeover speculation is in the midst of a major restructuring effort. The demands of the new job will require Mr. Andrew to effectively relocate to Italy from New York, his long time home base and the headquarters of Paul Andrew, the namesake footwear line he started in 2012. Though he won the Council of Fashion Designers of America/Vogue Fashion Fund prize in 2014 on the strength of his label and as of January, it was stocked by more than 100 wholesale partners he chose to hit the pause button. His 2019 spring summer collection will be the last one shipped to stores and sold online for now and excess stock will be donated to charity. "It wasn't the easiest decision by any means," Mr. Andrew said by telephone from New York. "It wasn't as if business was bad, and I have worked very hard to build the Paul Andrew brand into what it is today. But I've been offered such a big opportunity from Ferragamo, and I want it to be a success. There is a lot of work to do that will need my one focus and energy, not to mention a lot of time in Italy. This felt like the right call."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Well, this list continues to bring good news for the handful of films that have so far dominated the season, including Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"; Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman"; the South Korean sensation "Parasite"; Noah Baumbach's divorce dramedy, "Marriage Story"; the gritty comic book film "Joker"; and the Golden Globe winning war drama, "1917." The producers often favor critically acclaimed box office successes, and this year included the original mystery "Knives Out" and the racing drama "Ford v Ferrari" among those ranks. The group's citations are rounded out by Taika Waititi's World War II satire "Jojo Rabbit" and Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," a box office hit that needed a nod like this after missing out on some important Oscar season bellwethers. Among the notable contenders left off the producers' list were "Bombshell," "The Farewell" and "The Two Popes." Go here for the full list of the producers' nominees, including animated titles and TV contenders.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Only seven Beatles songs are recognizably revisited (one, "Penny Lane," was written for "Sgt. Pepper" but released as a single). If you go to "Pepperland" to hear "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Lovely Rita" and several other classics, you'll be disappointed. Instead this score homes in on, above all, the mind expanding "Within You Without You" and "A Day in the Life." Mr. Iverson takes certain musical moments (the way individual vowels in "Day in the Life" turn into obsessive two note patterns, like slow trills) and does riffs on them. But Mr. Morris, for all his entertaining cleverness, often seems more detached than Mr. Iverson. "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "When I'm Sixty Four" are labored exercises in cutely sentimental comedy. In "A Day in the Life," the dancers mime individual words or suggestions. This form of gestural enactment has long been a favored device of Mr. Morris: a devotee of Indian dance, he's probably adapted it from the expressional sections (Abhinaya) of the classical genres. Here, however, the actions he sets to "Woke up, fell out of bed, Dragged a comb across my head" and so on, turn the incident into a game of charades. There are many brief vignettes, several of which Mr. Morris iterates during the work, that shrewdly conjure aspects of late 1960s life and art: a lift in which the dancer seems to be driving a car, the chic pop dances of the day, the Buddhist postures that become newly modish, and many more. Mr. Morris's dancers are almost all wonderful. I'll single out just four: Lesley Garrison (the most vividly suggestive of diverse moods), the duo Dallas McMurray and Noah Vinson (central together to the visions of "Within You Without You"), and the brilliantly precise apprentice Brandon Cournay. But Laurel Lynch's over bright array of facial expressions, as if determined to register every point, seemed to capture the over emphatic nature of "Pepperland." At the Shubert, the first night audience many of which had arrived in '60s attire was quick with its ovation. Nonetheless, this is a strangely conceptual piece: a work of art that, deconstructing "Sgt. Pepper" after half a century, feels chiefly like a thesis.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
How does a rock star begin an evening? She puts in her hearing aids. "I can tell people are talking," said Melissa Etheridge, 55. "It's just that I don't know what they're saying. Ms. Etheridge laughed she has a big, staccato "Ha!" laugh. "She's right," she said with a shrug. Ms. Etheridge, who lives in Hidden Hills, Calif., had come to New York to promote her new album, "MEmphis Rock and Soul," which she recorded in tribute to the city's legendary Stax Records. The album includes "Hold On, I'm Coming", her cover of the Sam and Dave standard, and Otis Redding's "I've Got Dreams to Remember." Dressed in a black T shirt, black jeans and black motorcycle boots and wearing blue tinted aviator eyeglasses, Ms. Etheridge was sitting on the couch in the Chelsea apartment originally rented by her wife, Linda Wallem, a creator of the Showtime series "Nurse Jackie." A few minutes before the debate started, the television was tuned to CNN with the volume muted, while Ms. Etheridge ate pan roasted porgy and a salad and philosophized about her dairy free, gluten free pescetarian ways. Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2004, she said she is now 12 years cancer free and believes her diet plays a crucial role in maintaining her health. "To work at the level I want to work at, to be relevant, and to make music and perform worthy shows, I have to take care of myself," she said. "It's like being an athlete. It's food, it's sleep, it's all the un rock and roll things." She relies on her children to stay hip in other ways, like on social media. "You're doing well all my friends follow you," Ms. Cypheridge said. She gives her mother critiques when necessary. In addition, her daughter says she needs to curb the posts about the Kansas City Chiefs. "I love the Chiefs," Ms. Etheridge said. "It's the only time she's interested in men," her daughter said. Her mother responded with another "Ha!" Ms. Cypheridge's last name is a blend of those of her mothers: Ms. Etheridge and her former partner Julie Cypher. Together, the women also have a son, a high school senior. They were conceived by Ms. Cypher with a sperm donation from the musician David Crosby "Bio Dad," as the children call him. With her former wife Tammy Lynn Michaels (who conceived with the sperm of an anonymous donor), Ms. Etheridge has two other children, 9 year old twins. After going through these splits, including a custody battle with Ms. Michaels, Ms. Etheridge has empathy for friends going through similar experiences. And she has a propensity for sharing her feelings publicly, when asked, which is the sort of thing that happens when you are on a press tour promoting a new album, and in fact happened to Ms. Etheridge the day before. On Monday, she appeared on the Bravo host Andy Cohen's program on SiriusXM, and he asked her what she thought about the recent split of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Ms. Etheridge and Mr. Pitt were close friends years ago, and she defended him to Mr. Cohen. Her comments were picked up by publications like Vanity Fair and The New York Post. "If I even think about Brad Pitt, it is the most international event," she said. But of course she didn't just think about him; she spoke. "I told myself a long time ago that I would always answer whatever question was asked of me," she said. "It challenges me to be truthful and to be myself." The Jolie Pitt headlines just rattled her, she said on Tuesday ahead of the debate, reminding her of the sadness she had felt as a parent when her own relationships dissolved. "You think, 'I am now going to lose half the time I spend with my children,' and it is heartbreaking," she said. Since they were first friends in the 1980s, Ms. Etheridge said she knew how important it was to Mr. Pitt to become a father and have close relationships with his children. That is why she didn't turn to him for biological help when she wanted to become a mother. "I did not ask Brad to be a donor because I knew how much he wanted to be a father," she said, "how much that meant to him."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. 'CYPRUS AVENUE' at the Public Theater (previews start on June 2; opens on June 25). In David Ireland's play, directed by Vicky Featherstone, Eric, a protestant and lifelong Orangeman, gets a nasty surprise. His baby granddaughter looks like I.R.A. bigwig Gerry Adams. His baby granddaughter might even be Gerry Adams. Stephen Rea returns to the Public Theater in this bleakly comic exploration of prejudice. 212 967 7555, publictheater.org 'EVERYONE'S FINE WITH VIRGINIA WOOLF' at Abrons Arts Center (previews start on June 1; opens on June 12). Who's afraid of Elevator Repair Service? A devised theater company with an affectionate and mutinous approach to great American classics, E.R.S. returns with Kate Scelsa's new play, a feminist explosion of the Edward Albee four hander. John Collins directs Annie McNamara, April Matthis, Mike Iveson and Vin Knight. 866 811 4111, abronsartscenter.org 'THE GREAT LEAP' at Atlantic Stage 2 (in previews; opens on June 4). In Lauren Yee's play, improving Sino American relations is not precisely a slam dunk. Inspired by her father's sportsmanship, Ms. Yee, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, has written a play about a college basketball team that travels to China. Taibi Magar directs. 866 811 4111, atlantictheater.org 'LOG CABIN' at Playwrights Horizons (previews start on June 1; opens on June 25). A house divided against itself probably makes for a pretty good play. In Jordan Harrison's new comedy, set in 2015, a group of happily married gays and lesbians debate rights and wrongs. Pam MacKinnon directs a cast that includes Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Dolly Wells. 212 279 4200, phnyc.org 'PASS OVER' at the Claire Tow Theater (previews start on June 2; opens on June 18). A "Waiting for Godot" for the urban set, Antoinette Nwandu's play, recently adapted by Spike Lee, centers on two tramps idling on a street corner. It isn't an existential predicament that traps these men, but systemic social problems and a culture that sees young black men as disposable. Danya Taymor directs. 212 239 6200, lct3.org 'RED HILLS' at 101 Greenwich Street (previews start on June 6; opens on June 13). Walk into a financial district office building, take an elevator to the ninth floor and enter the Rwandan genocide. En Garde Arts presents this collaboration between the American writer Sean Christopher Lewis and the Ugandan playwright Asiimwe Deborah Kawe. Katie Pearl directs. 866 811 4111, engardearts.org 'SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS' at Manhattan Theater Club at City Center, Stage II (previews start on June 5; opens on June 19). Set on a plantation in the midst of the Civil War, Donja R. Love's play explores a clandestine relationship. This Manhattan Theater Club production, directed by Saheem Ali and starring Sheldon Best, argues that there is more than one kind of freedom. 212 581 1212, manhattantheatreclub.com 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE' at the Gene Frankel Theater (closes on June 2). A man presumed dead is back in action, but not for long as the revival of Kurt Vonnegut's play, a riff on "The Odyssey" updated for the Vietnam War era, finishes its run. Laura Collins Hughes wrote that this "zingingly relevant comedy" has been given "a ferociously funny revival from Wheelhouse Theater Company." genefrankeltheatre.com 'MLIMA'S TALE' at the Public Theater (closes on June 3). Never forget Lynn Nottage's lyrical, kinetic daisy chain, an exploration of the international ivory trade. Ben Brantley wrote that the play, directed by Jo Bonney and starring Ito Aghayere, Jojo Gonzalez, Kevin Mambo and Sahr Ngaujah, is a "beautiful, endlessly echoing portrait of a murder and its afterlife." 212 967 7555, publictheater.org 'OPERATION CRUCIBLE' at 59E59 Theaters (closes on June 3). The bombardment ends for the four steelworkers in the basement of a collapsed hotel during a 1940 blitz in Kieran Knowles's play. Ben Brantley praised Bryony Shanahan's direction and Mr. Knowles's writing, noting, "It is hard to think of another play that captures so efficiently the dividing, before and after, of war's devastation." 212 279 4200, 59e59.org 'A PINK CHAIR (IN PLACE OF A FAKE ANTIQUE)' at the Performing Garage (closes on June 2). Take your seat for the final performances of Wooster Group's tribute to the visionary theater director Tadeusz Kantor. Ben Brantley praised this poignant work, directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, writing, "the full magic is in being there, as a vivid scene melts into your memory even before it ends." 212 966 3651, thewoostergroup.org 'SAINT JOAN' at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater (closes on June 10). Joan of Arc puts down her sword as Manhattan Theater Club's revival of George Bernard Shaw's play concludes. Jesse Green wrote that Daniel Sullivan's "thoughtful if mostly becalmed staging," with star Condola Rashad at its center, finally pays off in its trial scene. 212 239 6200, saintjoanbroadway.com 'TIME'S JOURNEY THROUGH A ROOM' at the A.R.T./New York Theaters (closes on June 10). Toshiki Okada's play, about a man wrestling with private grief in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, ends its run. In an enthusiastic review of the Play Company production, Laura Collins Hughes wrote, "it is a chronicle of healing, with all its pain and awkward humor and halting steps." 866 811 4111, playco.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
LONDON Doublet, the gender neutral Japanese street wear label with a name inspired by Lewis Carroll and designed by Masayuki Ino, has won the 2018 LVMH Prize for emerging talent. The award was presented to Mr. Ino by the actress Emma Stone on Wednesday at a ceremony in Paris. One of nine finalists for the prize, Mr. Ino will receive 300,000 euros (about 350,900) and a year of mentoring from within the professional ranks of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the French luxury group. Mr. Ino is the first Asian designer to win the main award. And, in a sign of the Asia's growing influence on emerging fashion, a second special prize was awarded to Rokh, a label founded by the South Korean designer Rok Hwang and based in London. The world "doublet" comes from the alternate name for word puzzle, invented by Carroll, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." The brand's foundations, Mr. Ino has said, are constant and humorous reinventions of wardrobe staples like T shirts, hoodies and sneakers, loaded with graphic prints and symbols and references to popular culture. In the prize's final round, he impressed judges with his original approach to products and packaging, like noodle pots that, when water was added, turned out to have T shirts inside. "Masayuki's approach to fashion design is very unique and experimental, both increasingly important traits for a designer to have in order to differentiate themselves in today's market and to stand out from the crowd," said Delphine Arnault, executive vice president of Louis Vuitton and the mastermind behind the prize. "We were also delighted to have a Japanese designer win the prize for the very first time," she added. Although an unexpected choice for the LVMH Prize Mr. Ino's profile is limited outside Japan, although he has been presenting his collections at Paris showrooms twice a year, and he has no formal ready to wear training in other ways his victory was not completely surprising. Casual wear is now driving the growth of the global luxury market, particularly in Asia. It is a business trend underscored by several recent high profile hires from the street wear world to the creative helm of high fashion brands, like the appointment of Virgil Abloh in March as artistic director of Louis Vuitton men's wear. Also, Mr. Ino and two of the other prize finalists this year make gender neutral clothes, another force reshaping the fashion landscape. "The aim of the prize has always been to reflect the major moments and shifts taking place in fashion," Ms. Arnault said. "This year was no exception." Along with Ms. Arnault, the other judges on the panel included the designers Karl Lagerfeld, J.W. Anderson and Maria Grazia Chiuri. This year 1,300 designers applied for the prize, the largest number in the five year history of the award, which is considered the industry's most lucrative prize for emerging designers. It is open to designers younger than 40 who have produced at least two ready to wear collections.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Scientists have created a living organism whose DNA is entirely hu man made perhaps a new form of life, experts said, and a milestone in the field of synthetic biology. Researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Britain reported on Wednesday that they had rewritten the DNA of the bacteria Escherichia coli, fashioning a synthetic genome four times larger and far more complex than any previously created. The bacteria are alive, though unusually shaped and reproducing slowly. But their cells operate according to a new set of biological rules, producing familiar proteins with a reconstructed genetic code. The achievement one day may lead to organisms that produce novel medicines or other valuable molecules, as living factories. These synthetic bacteria also may offer clues as to how the genetic code arose in the early history of life. "It's a landmark," said Tom Ellis, director of the Center for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, who was not involved in the new study. "No one's done anything like it in terms of size or in terms of number of changes before." Each gene in a living genome is detailed in an alphabet of four bases, molecules called adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine (often described only by their first letters: A, T, G, C). A gene may be made of thousands of bases. Genes direct cells to choose among 20 amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, the workhorses of every cell. Proteins carry out a vast number of jobs in the body, from ferrying oxygen in the blood to generating force in our muscles. Nine years ago, researchers built a synthetic genome that was one million base pairs long. The new E. coli genome, reported in the journal Nature, is four million base pairs long and had to be constructed with entirely new methods. The new study was led by Jason Chin, a molecular biologist at the M.R.C. laboratory, who wanted to understand why all living things encode genetic information in the same baffling way. The production of each amino acid in the cell is directed by three bases arranged in the DNA strand. Each of these trios is known as a codon. The codon TCT, for example, ensures that an amino acid called serine is attached to the end of a new protein. Since there are only 20 amino acids, you'd think the genome only needs 20 codons to make them. But the genetic code is full of redundancies, for reasons that no one understands. Amino acids are encoded by 61 codons, not 20. Production of serine, for example, is governed by six different codons. (Another three codons are called stop codons; they tell DNA where to stop construction of an amino acid.) Like many scientists, Dr. Chin was intrigued by all this duplication. Were all these chunks of DNA essential to life? "Because life universally uses 64 codons, we really didn't have an answer," Dr. Chin said. So he set out to create an organism that could shed some light on the question. Instead of requiring six codons to make serine, this genome used just four. It had two stop codons, not three. In effect, the researchers treated E. coli DNA as if it were a gigantic text file, performing a search and replace function at over 18,000 spots. Now the researchers had a blueprint for a new genome four million base pairs long. They could synthesize the DNA in a lab, but introducing it into the bacteria essentially substituting synthetic genes for those made by evolution was a daunting challenge. The genome was too long and too complicated to force into a cell in one attempt. Instead, the researchers built small segments and swapped them piece by piece into E. coli genomes. By the time they were done, no natural segments remained. Much to their relief, the altered E. coli did not die. The bacteria grow more slowly than regular E. coli and develop longer, rod shaped cells. But they are very much alive. Dr. Chin hopes to build on this experiment by removing more codons and compressing the genetic code even further. He wants to see just how streamlined the genetic code can be while still supporting life. The Cambridge team is just one of many racing in recent years to build synthetic genomes. The list of potential uses is a long one. One attractive possibility: Viruses may not be able to invade recoded cells. Many companies today use genetically engineered microbes to make medicines like insulin or useful chemicals like detergent enzymes. If a viral outbreak hits the fermentation tanks, the results can be catastrophic. A microbe with synthetic DNA might be made immune to such attacks.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Science
'Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint' Review: What Did She See, and When? None The career spanning exhibition of the work of Hilma af Klint that toured the world a few years ago including a sojourn at the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan upended the conventional narrative of modern art history. This is hardly an academic matter. As Roberta Smith wrote in her review of the Guggenheim show, af Klint's "paintings definitively explode the notion of modernist abstraction as a male project" a revolution thought to have started with Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian in the years just before World War I and carried to heroic fruition by the likes of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock after World War II. But af Klint, as Smith put it, "got there first." Born in 1862 to an aristocratic Swedish family and raised partly on the grounds of the military academy where her father was an instructor, she trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, mastering the traditional genres of portrait, still life and landscape. By the late 1880s, her notebooks and paintings began incorporating forms that, while they sometimes evoked natural phenomena (like snail shells, flower petals and insect wings), did not resemble anything in the visible world. Her work, which continued to evolve until her death in 1944, uses geometric patterns and curving, gestural lines to suggest esoteric meanings. Sometimes the images look like maps of a world that exists just past the horizon of rational consciousness. "Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint," a documentary by Halina Dyrschka, provides a thoughtful survey of its subject. It's enriched by the dazzling charisma of her art and limited by the scarcity of biographical material. The timeline of her life is set forth, and her voice is conjured by passages from her voluminous notebooks, but the fact that she lived and worked so far from the centers of the art world means that some of the usual supporting material in a film like this is lacking. Nobody who remembers her well is still around. There are a handful of photographs of af Klint at various stages of her life, but no moving images, an absence Dyrschka addresses with discreet re enactments that show af Klint in her studio. The thin background information is a result of the neglect of this prolific and inventive artist for more than a century. "Beyond the Visible" is a chapter in the wholesale revision of the critical and historical record that began only recently, and it enlists a passionate and knowledgeable cadre of curators, scholars, scientists and artists to press the argument for af Klint's importance. The paintings themselves are the best evidence even through the mediation of a home screen, their vibrancy, wit and formal command is thrilling but the intellectual and cultural context is fascinating too. The experts link af Klint's explorations with contemporary scientific discoveries, like radio waves and the X ray, that pointed toward the unseen dimensions of reality, and also with the mystical movements of her time. She was drawn to the Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky and to the teachings of the Austrian spiritualist Rudolf Steiner, with whom she corresponded. Her visionary interests, far from suggesting eccentricity, place her squarely in the mainstream of modernism, many of whose exponents in various arts (including Kandinsky) found inspiration in the esoteric. "Beyond the Visible" bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long. It refreshes the eyes and the mind. Not rated. In Swedish, English and German, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. Watch on Kino Marquee.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Who expected that New York's weeklong Drive East season of Indian dance and music would bring us George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" arranged as a Kuchipudi number, Shakespeare's Cleopatra rendered as a Kathakali character, or Edith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" accompanied by dancing in Bharatanatyam style? But so it was: Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Bharatanatyam among the traditional dance theater forms that Drive East represents show themselves just as capable of absorbing Western influence as the West has been of absorbing others. Drive East, at La MaMa Experimental Theater's basement space, has been an annual fixture on the New York calendar since 2013. (This year, it goes to San Francisco, too, Aug. 22 26, with several of the same artists.) It has always represented a generous cross section of the classical dance forms and musical idioms of India. Wednesday, for example, brought an impressive recital in the Sattriya genre by Anwesa Mahanta; Friday evening three Kathak performers (who also performed at the Battery Dance Festival); and, for the Sunday finale, a superb Carnatic flute trio (Flute Raman). Since Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" (1970) invokes Krishna, it ought to be a gift to Indian performers anyway but the detailed Kuchipudi treatment (Kuchipudi derives from the southeastern state Andhra Pradesh) given by Bhavana Reddy was marvelously judicious. Her percussive footwork enhanced the taped music, her floor patterns and gestures dramatized its spirit with tender vivacity. This was the shortest item on her program, which featured several traditional Kuchipudi specialties, as when the soloist takes up position on a brass plate: her vibrating feet turn the plate into a traveling percussion instrument while she remains otherwise balanced in serenity. My only objection to Ms. Reddy's recital was that when dancing as a gopi, one of the milkmaids in love with Krishna, she exhibited a winsomeness repeated, pointed use of the eyes that became cloying when sustained at length. In the "Kathak!" program on Friday, the duo Piyush Chauhan and Preeti Sharma made a great impression, perhaps because of the indoor space. Dressed in scarlet, they have terrific glamour and flair. It was in their many sudden stops amid speed that I appreciated how Kathak (once associated with the courts of the Indian north) exemplifies a central aspect of Indian dance philosophy: motion in stillness, stillness in motion. But Drive East, building on advances made last year, is showing other aspects of India's diversity. These include feminism and dualities of gender (though not yet homosexual love, still a matter of fierce political debate in India). It's curious that with Drive East and other recent New York presentations of Indian dance, there's more exploration onstage of gender diversity than feminism. Kathakali (from Kerala, in the southwest) has almost invariably been a male form; here, Cleopatra was played by a man, Prabal Gupta, dressed in garb that evoked Queen Victoria. Ms. Mahanta ended her recital (in the Sattriya idiom, from the northeastern state of Assam) in male attire as one of the demon kings of mythology and his son. Both Sattriya and Kathakali are highly traditional genres; I found it easy to enjoy Ms. Mahanta's presentation of monstrous masculinity, but hard to like (at times, hard to understand) Mr. Gupta's very stylized version of the Egyptian queen (eyebrows vibrating, torso slowly circling above parted thighs). More conceptually complex was the program "Dualities of Dance: Addressing Gender in Indian Classical Dance." Kiran Rajagopalan not only performed his recital in female dress but also, in his second number, combined Indian style with Yoruba elements from West Africa. Mesma Belsare, who performed in New York in 2008 as Sudarshan Belsare (then part of the tradition of Stri Vesham, or female impersonation), delivered a virtuoso number, "Shilpa Natana: The Dancing Sculptures," partly invoking the androgynous mythological archetype Ardhanarishwara. Ms. Belsare dances the Bharatanatyam style (associated with Tamil Nadu, India's south easternmost state), as did Mr. Rajagopalan. In a panel discussion, both artists said they hoped that they had made themselves transparent and that their dancing had spoken for them. This kind of selfless objectivity is among the most remarkable features (one of the most classical features, too) of the Indian classical arts. I'm afraid, however, that in both cases I was too strongly aware of the intrusive performer. Ms. Belsare is elaborately stylish, but with such a heavy veneer of charming dignity that I could never get past it; Mr. Rajagopalan's manner is ponderous. It's unfortunate that the most seemingly feminist offering I saw this year, Neha Mondal Chakravarty's recital, addressed the same Hindu mythological figure the strong voiced heroine Draupadi, with her five husbands as last year's most feminist item, by Janaki Rangarajan; both were in the Bharatanatyam idiom, and both featured more speech than dance. But legend can supply other inspiring figures for Indian women. In her Sattriya recital on Wednesday, Ms. Mahanta played both women and men; and her goddess Lakshmi, in "Shree Vandan," showed both power and multifaceted expressiveness. Sattriya is one of the Indian genres in which the dancers wear no ankle bells; it's also considered a form of theater as much as dance. While the feet carry the dancer around the stage, the upper body often bends vividly. It doesn't seem a gymnastic form, and yet Ms. Mahanta in certain situations arched back memorably especially in her final "Nrisimha Lila."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
On a recent Thursday in London, a group of models strutted down the catwalk to "Woman's World," by Cher, donning matching lacy thong and bra sets, which they tastefully accented with silky robes. They were all trans women, and the line, Carmen Liu Lingerie, was full of pieces designed with them in mind. Carmen Liu, 27, created the brand. "You see all these amazing advertisements with lingerie images and lines, but none of it is actually for us," she said, noting that trans women, like herself, have needs that traditional lingerie doesn't take into consideration. Dr. Richard Santucci, 53, a senior surgeon at Crane Surgical Services, a clinic based in San Francisco and Austin, Tex., that performs gender reassignment surgery, said that only a fraction of trans women undergo bottom surgery. According to the 2015 United States Transgender Survey, 12 percent of transgender women respondents had a vaginoplasty. That means there's a market for a functional pair of underwear that should assist with the process of tucking the genitals. Ms. Liu's line features an array of panties, like her "You're Too Cute" thong, which sells for about 29 and comes in 11 colors. Her bottoms are intended for pre surgery transgender women or those who have opted to forgo a vaginoplasty, many of whom have previously relied on supplies like medical tape. But Ms. Liu says her GI Collection, which she designed to be "just as sexy as cisgender lingerie," is outfitted with triple layer fabric: "strong, yet comfortable enough to hold everything in place." Before, Ms. Liu relied on a gaff, which is a thong like fabric designed to hide the genitals and create a smooth line. She refers to this as "a ghastly product it doesn't look very sexy and is not made with lingerie fabric." Others, like Laiah St. Jerry, 26, who walked in her show, have resorted to making their own apparatuses by removing the top from a pair of tights and sliding a cut sock through the elastic. "It's a lot of work and can be quite uncomfortable," Ms. St. Jerry said. Trans women have an easier time with bras, but Ms. Liu said finding matching lingerie can be next to impossible. "You can buy cisgender bras in the shop, but you'd have to buy something that didn't match for your lower half. So when you take your clothes off, straight away you are reminded that you are different." Ms. Liu touts her line as "the world's first transgender lingerie brand," but there are other boutique sellers on the market offering undergarments friendly to trans and nonbinary people. Origami Customs, based in Montreal, has a line of compression gaffs custom made from a double lined power mesh in sizes XXS to 5XL. They range from 28 to 55 and take two to four weeks to make. The brand also formulates bras to any band/cup combination and creates bra inserts for all breast stages. "No piece is designed for any one idea of what a body or gender should be," said Rae Hill, 29, who founded the company in 2010. "Trans existence is not based on whether or not folks decide to choose any medical procedures or body alterations, and I celebrate the uniqueness of each person's experience through the outfits I make them." Rebirth Garments makes a line of tucking undies, which the designer Sky Cubacub, 27, adorns with neon colors and geometric shapes. Rebirth's spandex and velour versions are lined with compression mesh. The designer (who also prefers the third person plural pronoun) started their Etsy based business in 2014, shuns black and red fabrics, allowing their wearers to experiment with bright tones and playful patterns as a means of challenging "heteronormative ideas of sexy." And Rose Rayos, 27 (known as "Miss Boogie"), a transgender woman in Brooklyn, is looking to redefine the gaff with breathable, softer and more flexible options that will pair comfortably with athleisure. "Most gaffs are traditionally made with swimwear material," she said. Rixt Luikenaar, 48, an ob gyn and transgender health care specialist in Salt Lake City, recommends transgender female undergarments, like tucking panties, calling them "friendlier to the body" than D.I.Y. methods of folding back genitalia. "Women who tuck often hold in their urine because they have to untape in order to urinate. This can lead to bladder infections," Dr. Luikenaar said. "I like the idea of a pair of underwear that allows someone to tuck, slide on, and feel pretty in the process." Trans men also have special undergarment needs, and companies are starting to catch on to that as well. Ryan Cassata, 25, is a transgender man and singer songwriter who, for the past three years, has been wearing and modeling TomboyX boxer briefs. "They are extremely soft and look masculine on my body," he said. Ian Harvie, 50, a transgender male stand up comedian and actor in Los Angeles, buys Tommy Hilfiger briefs at T.J. Maxx. He said that discovering a pair to fit his frame took 10 years. "It was all about finding a cut I like," he said. In their everyday lives, many transgender men, like Mr. Harvie, get by with run of the mill boxers or briefs. Some "pack" their genital area when going to places like the gym. This requires a special pair of underwear, typically outfitted with a pouch, into which the wearer can snugly insert a prosthetic. "That's the No. 1 concern, the packer not falling out," said Buck Angel, 56, who is looking to create his own packing brief. Many people shop at places like RodeoH, a company initially known for its strap on underwear harnesses, which the founders quickly learned were being used not only for sex, but also by female to male transgender people. "The interior pockets on our harnesses stabilize and support soft packers (penis prosthetic) and STPs (stand to pee devices)," J. Weaver, the owner, 42, wrote in an email. RodeoH now sells packing specific boxers and briefs on its online retail site, which start at 19. In March, TomboyX introduced 6" Fly Packing Boxer Briefs. Mr. Cassata is the face of the campaign and met with the brand to suggest his desired features. On the top of that list was all day comfort. "A lot of the fabric of packing underwear has been really constricting and will hurt," he said. Some transitioning men purchase a binding garment to flatten their breast tissue and combat dysphoria. All Is Fair in Love and Wear, which was founded through a Kickstarter campaign in 2016, looks to provide comfortable binding options. Christian Dominique, 23, the brand director, who is nonbinary and prefers third person pronouns, said many commercial binders mimic the feel of canvas. "Imagine wearing a tight burlap sack around your chest that is impossible to put on and take off," they said. Their versions are made from swimsuit material with elastic "give" around sensitive areas like the neckline and armpits. The brand director delivers frequent talks on binder safely and stresses against "binding for more than eight hours, while sleeping, or wearing sizes too small," all of which can lead to detached ribs and lung fluid buildup. Kelly L. Reddy Best, 34, an assistant professor of apparel, merchandising and design at Iowa State University who is compiling an oral history on queer fashion brands, said the idea behind pieces "that change the shape of the body" is not new. "People have been doing this for a long time, it's just now we have brands emerging that are catering to a very niche market." Dr. Reddy Best first began noticing trans friendly undergarments around 2010 and credits growth in the market to the transgender rights movement. "As social issues arise around bathrooms and legislation, transgender needs are being brought up and different ideas are circulating," she said. Dr. Reddy Best cited a 2017 U.C.L.A. study of 1,600 California households in which 27 percent of adolescents deemed themselves "gender nonconforming." "This gives gender equality and the things needed to make that happen more widespread attention," she said. Cora Harrington, 34, the author of "In Intimate Detail: How to Choose, Wear, and Love Lingerie," said that products to meet transgender needs have always existed. "What's changed is that it's now easier than ever to reach your target customer through social media and online shopping, and it's easier to source and purchase the fabrics needed for these garments." Knixteen, a teen period panty company, recently enlisted Jazz Jennings, 18, who stars on the TLC reality show "I Am Jazz," to design "The Jazz Bra." Ms. Jennings's brassiere is purple, to represent her family's Trans Kids Purple Rainbow Foundation, and features scalloping inspired by mermaids, which Ms. Jennings said are popular with gender nonconforming youth, as "mermaids have no genitalia and are basically genderless." In 2015, Thinx created a line of "boy shorts" for people who menstruate. "It's one of our top performers," said Siobhan Lonergan, 47, the chief brand officer; 8 percent of its 2018 sales, with Sawyer DeVuyst, a transgender model, featured in its campaign. "We realized that not all people who menstruate identify as female," Ms. Lonergan said. Mainstream lingerie companies have yet to incorporate transgender lingerie into their catalogs. In 2018, Ed Razek, the chief marketing officer of Victoria's Secret, was outspoken about not wanting to put a transgender model in the brand's annual fashion show, implying they were not part of "a fantasy." It was a setback for Carmen Carrera, 33, a model who has been campaigning to be the first transgender Victoria's Secret angel. Ms. Rayos said she is trying to persuade Lululemon to integrate her gaffs into their athletic garments. For now, individuals like Ms. Liu must navigate a market whose challenges include the lack of disposable income available to consumers who have spent thousands of dollars for hormone replacement therapy, gender reassignment surgeries or facial reconstruction. In 2018 Cy Lauz, 38, and Simone Tobias, 44, tried to start a brand called Chrysalis Lingerie for transgender women. The founders said there was strong interest in their Monarch Bra and Original T String shaper panty prototypes, but they received only 1,014 of their 67,000 Kickstarter goal. Ms. Lauz said pricing was largely to blame. "To make one of these undergarments runs really expensive, but then your general market can barely afford a luxury item, which is how this would have to be priced in terms of manufacturing." They hope to eventually make custom pieces by request. "That's going to drive the cost up more, but that's really the only way we can offer it," Ms. Lauz said. Ms. Carrera would love to see conventional brands embrace her community. Fifty thousand people have signed a petition for her to become the first transgender Victoria's Secret model. "I wish that I had a chance to audition, but I'm not going to stop working," she said. "I hope they really think about their next marketing strategy, and I hope to be included."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
High Times Wants to Be the Playboy of Pot Picture a mood lit Las Vegas casino, at first glance indistinguishable from any other pleasure palace on the Strip: salarymen hunch over 20 blackjack tables as waitresses with plunging necklines circle the floor. Instead of bourbon and sodas, however, these waitresses are carrying trays full of vaporizers and water pipes. The games themselves have names that sound more like Cypress Hill songs: "Craps and Blunts," "Roll and Roulette." A casino doubling as a smoker's paradise may seem like a tired Cheech Chong skit from the '70s. But this vision is one of many ambitious concepts being hatched at High Times, the scruffy monthly magazine that, for 42 years, has served as the barely legal bible of dorm room stoners and closet cannabis growers. Just as Playboy transformed from a skin magazine to a branding behemoth during the sexual revolution, a new management team at High Times is looking to pare back its outlaw image to become a lifestyle brand. Its big plans to capitalize on the era of legalized marijuana include a revamped website, apparel, furniture, nightclubs and eventually ganja themed cruises, hotels and casinos. "High Times isn't just for historically self identified stoners anymore," said Larry Linietsky, a former executive at Universal Music Group, whom High Times hired in January as its chief operating officer. "We are appealing to everyone who likes cannabis, or is at least curious about it, both recreationally and for medicinal use. That could be your boss, your neighbor or even your grandmother." High Times, to put it mildly, is no ordinary media property. This is, after all, a magazine where the staff once smoked the founding editor (more on that later). Started in 1974 by Tom Forcade, an underground journalist, drug smuggler and Yippie, the magazine was originally conceived as a parody of Playboy, but with lurid centerfolds of cannabis buds the size of bonsai trees instead of nude women. Most underground publications of that era did not last much longer than the average Jerry Garcia solo. But Mr. Forcade, flush with cash from trafficking (talk about "seed money"), was able to keep High Times afloat long enough to find an audience. While High Times was all but invisible to martini sipping straights, it had an avid cult readership. It featured paeans to pot by William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson, interviews with Mick Jagger and Bob Marley, reviews of the latest strains, tips for cultivators and smuggler's tales from far flung jungles. Among late night doughnut scarfers, it was Vanity Fair, Consumer Reports and National Geographic, all rolled (oh, the puns) into one. Even so, it was a curious media property. While there have been plenty of magazines that are outlaw in spirit (like, say, Thrasher, for skateboarders), High Times was the rare glossy devoted to a pursuit that violated federal law. As recently as a decade ago, High Times was sealed in plastic bags (as if it were Hustler) at Barnes Noble. "High Times was pot pornography," said its longtime publisher, Mary McEvoy. Indeed, High Times lore is filled with stories that sound like old "Miami Vice" episodes. In the 1970s, Mr. Forcade supposedly steered a recreational vehicle carrying nine tons of marijuana and 1 million in cash into the muck of the Everglades to avoid law enforcement. When Mr. Forcade committed suicide in 1978, the staff gathered atop the World Trade Center ("so we could have the highest tribute possible," one editor said), rolled his ashes into joints and smoked them. In 2012, Matt Stang, an advertising executive, was charged with trafficking marijuana in a case involving the rap mogul Kareem Burke, a founder of Roc A Fella records. Mr. Stang, now 36, who paid a fine and received probation but no prison time after accepting a plea bargain, was recently promoted to chief revenue officer. But in the current climate of legalized marijuana, those Wild West stories suddenly seem as dated as prog rock. America, you might say, has caught up to High Times. Medical marijuana is now legal in 23 states, plus the District of Columbia, according to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, known as Norml. Adult use, commercial cultivation and retail sale is legal in four states, with several more, including California, likely to be voting on similar laws in November. Along the way, pot has become big business. ArcView Group, a cannabis research and investment firm, recently called legal marijuana "the fastest growing industry in America," having rocketed 74 percent, to 2.7 billion, from 2013 to 2014. Attitudes seem to be changing just as quickly. In popular culture, potheads are no longer portrayed only as glazed eyed dolts, but everyday professionals with children and mortgages. This week, Whoopi Goldberg announced that she was starting a line of female focused cannabis products aimed at relieving menstrual pain. In that light, the timing seems right for an underground publication once devoted to guerrilla style cannabis advocacy to meet mainstream America head on. "We played defense for 40 years," said Eleanora Kennedy, the widow of High Times's former chairman, who maintains a significant interest in the company. "Now it's time for offense." High Times subscribers who imagine the magazine being published out of a yurt in Humboldt County, Calif., may be surprised to see its actual nerve center. The Midtown Manhattan headquarters of its parent company, Trans High Corporation (T.H.C., get it?) is a warren of gray cubicles in a faceless office tower that could pass for a telemarketing firm. The company's new leadership seems equally corporate. On a recent Monday, Mr. Linietsky was nestled into a white leather sofa along with the rest of the management team, wearing a white oxford shirt and brown blazer. A Wharton graduate, Cub Scout leader and former music industry executive who lives in Montclair, N.J., he may seem like a rebuke to High Times's rebel heritage, but is an embodiment of the "canna curious" consumer that the company is trying to court. "I'm 44, and I can tell you, there are a lot of people my age who are going to a party Saturday night, and they're bringing chocolates, vape pens," Mr. Linietsky said. What is clear to High Times executives is that there is money in the air, along with the blue smoke. Take the High Times Cannabis Cups, weekend festivals with music, seminars, a trade show and celebrity appearances by the likes of Ice Cube and David Arquette. The festivals, which represented 80 percent of the company's revenues last year, have grown to eight events a year, from one, and to more than 500 vendors, from 50. One event in Denver last year drew more than 50,000, who paid 50 to 420 (of course) for tickets. The magazine itself is doing well. Despite a wobbly climate for print, advertising revenues have grown by double digits in recent years, management said, thanks to cannabis centric brands like Kandypens vaporizers and Green House Seed Co. Issues have fattened to 160 pages, from about 130. The editorial team recently brought in Will Dana, a former Rolling Stone editor, as a consultant to bolster its coverage of the booming industry. "Twenty years ago, the magazine was relegated to covering small, secret grow rooms," said Malcolm MacKinnon, the magazine's editor in chief, who works under the pen name Dan Skye. "Nowadays, we see massive indoor and outdoor gardens, and people are begging us for coverage. We get multiple queries per day from companies seeking profiles in our pages." Its website has also seen a traffic surge; on a good month, it attracts more than four million unique visitors. The problem is that the site is blocked by many Internet filters, even on Amtrak. To rectify that, the magazine will soon unveil a safe for work spinoff that will swap out the bud porn for pot themed lifestyle articles, including recipes. Indeed, High Times had to withdraw its bid to hold a Cannabis Cup in Portland, Ore., last year, even after the state legalized marijuana for adult use, because the state liquor commission would not allow cannabis consumption in any place that served alcohol. In addition, High Times 2.0 has gotten off to a rocky start. Two months after Mr. Kennedy died, David Kohl, a veteran media executive who was hired as chief executive in September, abruptly departed in a staff shake up. (Neither High Times nor Mr. Kohl would comment on the move.) Regardless, the upside is considerable. "These are uncharted waters, but we're talking about an industry that is going to be a multibillion dollar industry," said Dean Crutchfield, a New York consultant who advises corporations on brand building strategy. "Who's going to lead the category?" Mr. Stang offered an answer to that question: High Times. "It's the only real brand in cannabis," he said.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Harvard Calls for Retraction of Dozens of Studies by Noted Cardiac Researcher A prominent heart researcher formerly at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston fabricated or falsified data in 31 published studies that should be retracted, officials at the institutions have concluded. The scientist, Dr. Piero Anversa produced research suggesting that damaged heart muscle could be regenerated with stem cells, a type of cell that can transform itself into a variety of other cells. Although other laboratories could not reproduce his findings, the work led to the formation of start up companies to develop new treatments for heart attacks and stroke, and inspired a clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. "A couple of papers may be alarming, but 31 additional papers in question is almost unheard of," said Benoit Bruneau, associate director of cardiovascular research at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. "It is a lab's almost entire body of work, and therefore almost an entire field of research, put into question." Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital began their review of Dr. Anversa's publications in January 2013. In April 2017, Brigham and Women's Hospital agreed to pay 10 million to the federal government to settle accusations that Dr. Anversa submitted fraudulent data to get research funding. Officials at Harvard said that 31 studies by Dr. Anversa should be retracted. New York Medical College, via Associated Press Officials at Harvard declined to comment on why it took so long to take action on Dr. Anversa's published work. Dr. Anversa could not be reached for comment. The cardiac researcher rocketed to fame in 2001 with a flashy paper claiming that, contrary to scientific consensus, heart muscle could be regenerated. If true, the research would have had enormous significance for patients worldwide. His method was to take stem cells from bone marrow and inject them into the heart. As if by magic, he reported, the stem cells turned into heart cells and repaired damage. The first studies were conducted in mice, but the finding electrified researchers. Like the Science Times page on Facebook. Sign up for the Science Times newsletter. Companies were formed, including one headed by Dr. Anversa, based on the claim that by injecting stem cells they could heal hearts that were damaged by heart attacks. Yet researchers failed to duplicate the work. In one paper, Dr . Irving Weissman, co director of Stanford University's Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and his colleagues concluded that bone marrow cells injected in the heart remain bone marrow cells. Another paper, by Dr. Charles Murry of the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues, came to the same conclusion and said the failures to replicate Dr. Anversa's work "raise a cautionary note." But Dr. Anversa held firm. In effect, his response was "you guys don't know how to do it," said Dr. Bruneau. "Many labs said, 'O.K., game on. We will keep trying to do it,'" he added. But the list of failures grew. Dr. Anversa claimed to have discovered that bone marrow cells are not needed to repair heart muscle. The heart has its own stem cells, he reported, which can be removed, multiplied in a petri dish, and injected back into the heart to replace and repair damaged cells. No one else could get those experiments to work, either, said Jeffery D. Molkentin, a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Cincinnati Children's Heart Institute. Dr. Molkentin found a way to label and trace the lineage of stem cells as they morphed into other cells. That let him investigate whether any heart cells were derived from these stem cells. The answer was no, and in 2014 he published a paper that should have put to rest all claims that stem cells could turn into mature working heart cells and repopulate the heart. A study published in the journal Circulation by Dr. Anversa was retracted in 2014 after co authors wrote to the journal saying the data in the paper were not data they had generated. Dr. Anversa left Harvard and Brigham and Women's in 2015. Despite the troubling questions that had been raised about the stem cell work, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute began a clinical trial of injected stem cells for patients with heart failure. The study is still enrolling patients. And there are still companies selling stem cell therapy for damaged hearts. In the past few years, however, skeptical researchers moved on to other prospects for heart treatment. "The field has backed off a lot," Dr. Molkentin said. Some scientists wondered how a questionable line of research persisted for so long. Maybe, Dr. Molkentin said, experts were just too timid to take a stand.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
The number of women drinking dangerous amounts of alcohol is rising sharply in the United States. That finding was among several troubling conclusions in an analysis of death certificates published Friday by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The analysis looked at deaths nationwide each year from 1999 through 2017 that were reported as being caused at least partly by alcohol, including acute overdose, its chronic use, or in combination with other drugs. The death rate tied to alcohol rose 51 percent overall in that time period, taking into account population growth. Most noteworthy to researchers was that the rate of deaths among women rose much more sharply, up 85 percent. In sheer numbers, 18,072 women died from alcohol in 2017, according to death certificates, compared with 7,662 in 1999. "More women are drinking and they are drinking more," said Patricia Powell, deputy director of the alcohol institute, which is a division of the National Institutes of Health. Still, far more men than women die from alcohol related illnesses, the study showed. In 2017, alcohol played a role in the deaths of 72,558 men, compared to 35,914 in 1999, a 35 percent increase when population growth is factored in.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
How do you stay safe and stay connected with family and friends during a Covid winter? Cold temperatures and heavy snowfall in parts of the country have put a chill on safer, outside gatherings, driving more people indoors. But the icy weather comes at a treacherous time during the pandemic: Rising case counts mean there's more virus out there, and any social or holiday gathering indoors will give the virus more opportunities to spread. But the official arrival of winter doesn't mean you have to be stuck inside. With a little planning, the right gear and an understanding of how the human body reacts to cold, it's still possible to take all or at least part of your social life and holiday celebrations outdoors and still stay warm (or at least not get too cold). "In the right conditions, depending on what you're wearing and what you're doing, a person doesn't have to be cold," said John W. Castellani, research physiologist in the thermal and mountain medicine division at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Mass. "People are afraid of the cold, but there's no reason to be if they have the right clothing and the right mind set." But staying warm is more than just a state of mind there are several steps you can take to help your body cope with cold conditions. The human body can adapt relatively quickly to cold temperatures. Habituation to cold is the reason the same temperature can feel really cold in the fall and blissfully warm in the late winter. "In the fall when it starts to cool off, people think 50 degrees feels awful," Dr. Castellani said. "When February comes along and the temperature hits 50 degrees, oh my God, you want to play golf. You think spring has happened. Well, there's a lot that's happened to a person physiologically that makes that adaptation happen between October and February." The good news is your body can begin to adjust to frigid weather in a matter of a days, according to a number of cold acclimation studies. When our bodies step out into the cold, two major physiological responses keep us warm. First, blood vessels constrict to reduce blood flow to our skin and reduce heat loss in the body's core. That's why your distant body parts fingers, toes, ears and nose all get cold so quickly. "The goal is to shunt blood back to the body's core and protect the important organs in there to keep us going," Dr. Castellani said. "It sacrifices those peripheral areas." And if you haven't dressed for the weather or you stay outdoors too long, your body's shivering response kicks in as a way to generate more heat. Researchers don't fully understand how the body habituates to cold weather. But they do know that frequently exposing your body to cold appears to blunt cold sensitive nerve signals. It's the reason people from cold climates can feel comfortable in winter conditions that make a Florida transplant shiver in misery. You can condition your body to adjust to cold temperatures in as little as three to seven days. "Practice" spending time in the cold by going out for a few minutes at first, then stay for longer stretches on subsequent days. Researchers know it works because they've studied cold habituation in soldiers in arctic climates and deep sea divers in freezing ocean waters. "You can't stay housebound and expect to go outside in the cold and feel OK," Dr. Castellani said. "Make a foray outside multiple times to start adapting to the cold." (Another simple trick to habituate yourself to the cold more quickly is to add brief bursts of cold water at the end of your daily shower, but Dr. Castellini knows that recommending cold showers is wildly unpopular advice.) In general, people over 60 are less tolerant of cold than younger people, but they can still adapt over time. Total heat loss tends to be greater in women, compared to men, because they have a larger surface area of skin (relative to their overall body size) and less insulation provided by muscle. And, perhaps a silver lining to the pandemic pounds you may have gained: People with a higher percentage of body fat stay warmer in the cold than lean people. Here's another tip for outdoor socializing: Try to keep everybody moving. Long walks, hiking, outdoor ice skating, cross country skiing or any activity will give your body's warming system a boost. During a sedentary outdoor visit, most people would get cold after 30 to 45 minutes, but add activity, and you can last a few hours in cold weather. "Going out on a 32 degree day to go skiing or to go for a hike is actually kind of warm," said Dr. Castellani. "If you were to go to a restaurant and it was 32 degrees, and you didn't have a heat lamp or something to keep you warm, that would not be pleasant. The difference between those two situations is the activity you're doing." Lisa Martin, 57, and her wife, Jamie Sabbach, 56, of Salida, Colo., have added heaters and a table to their detached garage for social occasions, but they prefer to plan active outdoor time with friends and family during cold weather. "A lot of this is a mental switch," Ms. Martin said. "We have to convince ourselves we can go outside in the winter and not die. Wear long underwear, dress in layers when you go out, and you can go for a walk with a friend." Clothing matters a lot, said Dr. Castellani. Plan for three layers. The base layer should be made of a lightweight moisture wicking fabric. (Moisture, even from sweat, will make you feel cold.) Athletic apparel often is made with synthetic wicking fabrics, including polyester, nylon or polypropylene. Natural wicking fibers include silk or merino wool, a favorite of outdoor enthusiasts because it's softer than regular wool. Don't use cotton as your base layer in winter weather it retains moisture. Add a second layer of fleece, merino wool or regular wool for insulation. Your outer layer, usually a winter coat, should repel wind and rain. Don't forget a hat. If you wrap your body in warm clothes but forget the hat, as much as 10 percent of your body heat can escape through your head. Hands and feet also need special attention. Two sock layers can help, but loosen your shoes or buy winter boots a little larger so they don't fit too tightly and restrict blood flow. For hands, mittens are better than gloves, because they trap more heat. And while many people use hand warmers to keep fingers cozy, studies show that keeping forearms warm (to increase blood flow to the hands) is the better way to keep hands from getting too cold. Don't blow warm breath into your mittens or gloves the vapor from your breath adds moisture and will end up making your hands colder. Adding heaters to an outdoor patio or hosting a few friends in a well ventilated garage can also take the chill off outdoor socializing. If you gather in a garage, wear masks, keep the time you spend together short, and leave the big garage door, as well as any additional windows, open to increase ventilation. "If you open the whole garage door, that sounds less risky, but it's not no risk," said Dr. Asaf Bitton, executive director of Ariadne Labs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "It's semi enclosed, so the more ventilation the better." This fall, Sally Jacobs, 63, of Boston added heat lamps to her patio and hired an electrician to improve the wiring in her garage to accommodate several space heaters. When her adult children or close friends come over, everyone wears masks, and they leave the garage door and garage windows open. For New Year's Eve, she's planning to ring in 2021 with a few friends outdoors on her patio. Ms. Jacobs plans to limit the celebration to about an hour long enough for everyone to raise a glass, make a toast and say goodbye to an awful year. Ms. Jacobs said she knew that preparing the patio and garage for winter socializing was "the only way I'd get through the season."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
Despite a disappointing jobs report on Friday that raised fresh questions about the nation's economic strength, analysts say they still believe the Federal Reserve will start pulling back on its stimulus program in a few weeks. The Labor Department's snapshot of the job market in August had several discouraging details underneath a relatively mundane headline number, which showed the economy added an estimated 169,000 jobs. Perhaps the most striking was a plunge in the share of Americans who are either working or looking for work, which fell to its lowest level since 1978. "If you had a more optimistic view of the economy, which I think the Fed does, this should give you some pause," said Joshua Shapiro, chief United States economist at MFR. "It's been a real struggle here in the labor market." At the same time, earlier estimates of job growth in July and June were revised sharply downward, and hiring over the summer months was largely driven by low wage sectors like retail, food services and health care. Still, economists said they believed that Fed governors would find enough bright spots in this report to justify scaling back their monthly purchases of long term Treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities measures that help push down long term interest rates after their next meeting on Sept. 17 and 18. "There's just barely enough in that report and in other forward looking indicators we've seen to give Fed governors the confidence they need on the 18th to taper," said Ian Shepherdson, the chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. "For the record, I don't think they should, given the risks posed by Syria and the impending fiscal chaos in Washington," he said, noting the expected Congressional battles over the debt limit and spending measures. "The costs of delaying until some of those factors are sorted out is not very great. But the Fed has given no indication it's thinking that way." Investors seemed to agree, with bond yields dipping slightly after the jobs report came out. As for stocks, after a topsy turvy day, the Standard Poor's 500 stock index and the Dow Jones industrial average both closed about where they began on Friday. In Friday trading, the Dow closed down 14.98 points, or 0.1 percent, at 14,992. The S. P. 500 edged up 0.09 points, or 0.01 percent, closing at 1,655.17. The Nasdaq climbed a slight 1.23 points, or 0.03 percent, to finish at 3,660.01. The price on a 10 year Treasury note rose 16/32, to 96 9/32, with the yield falling to 2.93 from 3.00 on Thursday. The number of payroll jobs added in August was just shy of the average pace of hiring over the last year, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.3 percent from 7.4 percent. Unemployment, however, fell for the "wrong reasons," Mr. Shapiro said: because people dropped out of the labor force and so were no longer counted as unemployed, and not because more unemployed people found jobs. The jobless rate is now edging close to the 7 percent level that the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, had identified as the Fed's target for ending its asset purchases altogether around the middle of next year. For several months, Fed governors have been saying that the Fed expected to begin reducing the monthly purchases "later this year," which has been widely interpreted to point toward beginning the shift as early as September. Charles L. Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and one of the more vocal proponents of highly accommodative monetary policy, used this phrasing in a speech on Friday, suggesting he was open minded about the "exact pattern of the reduction in purchases that we eventually take." The Fed's more hawkish members have been more explicit about their desired policy moves. Esther L. George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and a leading critic of the asset purchases, said on Friday that the Fed should cut its bond buying to 70 billion a month in September, from the current 85 billion a month, split between Treasuries and mortgage bonds. "It is time to begin a gradual and predictable normalization of policy," she said. Some economists suggested that Fed governors could react to the latest economic data by tapering their bond purchases slowly over a longer period of time and perhaps in conjunction with other measures that would underscore the central bank's commitment to helping the economy heal. For example, the Fed could announce that it is extending the period that it holds short term interest rates near zero. "This is their chance to lay out a road map for policy to help institutionalize the support the Fed is providing, regardless of who is sitting around the table come January," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial in Chicago, referring to Mr. Bernanke's still unknown successor to lead the Fed over the next four years. "The Fed operates based on institutional momentum. It only flips on a dime in a crisis." Despite the generally dismal picture, there were some bright spots in Friday's jobs report, including a tick upward in the average number of hours worked and a 5 cent gain in hourly wages for private sector workers. Over the last year, average hourly earnings have risen by 52 cents, or 2.2 percent, before adjusting for inflation. (Year over year inflation has averaged about 1.6 percent so far in 2013.) "It's not just about how many jobs, but how much people earn in those jobs," said Douglas P. Handler, chief United States economist for IHS Global Insight. Concerns remain about the quality of jobs being created. The industries driving hiring, like retail and food services, are more likely to hire part time workers and operate on just in time schedules, making it difficult for employees to predict how many hours they will have from week to week. "It's really frustrating not knowing whether I'll have money to pay rent and my bills," said Charles Eden, 20, who works at a Wendy's in St. Louis for 7.60 an hour. Last week, he had 30 hours; this week, 12. Ideally, he wants 40. "It's really hard to find a second job not knowing whether I can work or whether I can't work in a given week." As of August, there were 7.9 million Americans who wanted to work full time but could find only part time work. When these workers and people who want a job but have stopped looking are included, the total underemployment rate rises to 13.7 percent. The labor force participation rate remains so low partly because the population is aging and partly because workers are sitting on the sidelines as they wait for the economy to heal. The big decline in the labor force in August was tied entirely to men dropping out; the number of women in the work force actually grew. "This suggests that much of the decline came from occupations that are male dominated, such as construction, and that many former workers are becoming discouraged about their job prospects and dropping out of the labor force as a result," said Mr. Handler. Three quarters of the jobs added in August went to women, said Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the National Women's Law Center. Most of the new jobs for women in August were in low wage sectors, though, and men have captured most of the job gains since the recovery officially began in June 2009. Some workers who took shelter from the poor job market by enrolling in college and retraining programs these last few years which young women have been much more likely to do than young men are finally starting to cycle back into the work force, and the lucky ones are finding new and higher paying opportunities. "I have people call me all the time now wanting to give me a job, and I have to say, O.K., thank you, but I think I have enough jobs now," said Jordan Douglas of Pampa, Tex., a single mother working 60 to 70 hours a week in three jobs as a registered nurse. Ms. Douglas, 25, was laid off from a nursing home in February 2012 and struggled to find work. She decided to enroll in school full time after finding a program that allowed her to continue receiving unemployment benefits while in training. Given her longer hours and higher hourly wage today, she now earns more than twice as much as she did before she was laid off. "I couldn't have been where I am today had I not gone back to school, and I couldn't have gone back to school if I hadn't gotten laid off," she said. "I didn't know it at the time, but it worked out perfectly."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
Electric fans growl like airplanes taking off and banks of green lights wink in a basement at Mount Sinai's medical school, where a new 3 million supercomputer makes quick work of huge amounts of genetic and other biological information. Just a couple of miles away, a competitor, Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell hospital are building a 650 million research tower. Across the street is a newly completed 550 million tower housing labs for another competitor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Major academic medical centers in New York and around the country are spending and recruiting heavily in what has become an arms race within the war on cancer. The investments are based on the belief that the medical establishment is moving toward the routine sequencing of every patient's genome in the quest for "precision medicine," a course for prevention and treatment based on the special, even unique characteristics of the patient's genes. Among other projects, Harvard Medical School has its Center for Biomedical Informatics, which among a broad array of approaches uses mathematical modeling to predict when genetic information could lead to more effective treatment. Phoenix Children's Hospital opened the Ronald A. Matricaria Institute of Molecular Medicine in December, recruiting researchers from Los Angeles and Baltimore and planning to sequence the genomes of 30 percent of their childhood cancer patients in their search for better therapies. Johns Hopkins, with its focus on public health, wants to develop a "systematic genomic sequencing program" over the next two years that will combine genomic analysis with a patient's environmental exposure, family history and other factors to support preventive medicine, said Scott Zeger, vice provost for research. "There will be a moment in time when whole genome sequencing becomes ubiquitous throughout health care," said Peter Tonellato, director of the Harvard personalized medicine lab and a clinical investigator in pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "Let's say we figure out all the individuals who might have a cancer, and we can predict that with a relatively high level of accuracy. Then presumably we can take steps to avoid those, let's say, decades of treatment." Sequencing an entire genome currently costs in the neighborhood of 5,000 to 10,000, not including the interpretation of the information. It is usually not reimbursed by insurance, which is more likely to cover tests for genetic mutations that are known to be responsive to drugs. The treatments themselves, which are sometimes covered, typically cost several times that. Even optimists warn that medicine is a long way from deriving useful information from routine sequencing, raising questions about the social worth of all this investment at a time of intense fiscal pressure on the health care system. "What's the real health benefit?" said Dr. Robert C. Green, a Harvard professor and a medical geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "If you're a little bit cynical, you say, well, none, it's foolish." Dr. Green is part of a federally sponsored research project that is looking at the economic and medical impact of whole genome sequencing. "One of the most prominent downsides is you start chasing risks for a whole lot of disease you'll never have, and generate a lot of cost for little benefits," he said. He was not ready to dismiss the efforts of Mount Sinai and others, though. "The other side of the question is, what was there to look up on the Internet when the first person got a personal computer? Very little." The race entails large sums spent not only on construction and technology but also recruitment, salaries and incentives for scientists like Weill Cornell's Dr. Lewis Cantley, who was lured from Harvard, or Eric E. Schadt, plucked from the biotech world to head the Mount Sinai Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology. NewYork Presbyterian/Weill Cornell announced a new Institute for Precision Medicine, headed by a prostate cancer expert, in January. (The newly fashionable term "precision medicine" is an updated version of another genomics buzzword, "personalized medicine.") "I am not in this for competition," said Dr. Laurie Glimcher, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. "I consider it collaboration, and I think we all have the same goal in mind, which is to cure disease." The promise of whole genome sequencing can be seen in trials like one for bladder cancer at Memorial, where the effects of a drug normally used for breast cancer were disappointing in all but one of about 40 patients, whose tumor went away, Dr. Baselga said. Investigators sequenced the patient's whole genome. "The patient had a mutation in one gene that was right on the same pathway as the therapy," Dr. Baselga said. "And that explained why this worked." At Mount Sinai, Dr. Schadt, 48, an all around risk aficionado who rides a BMW S 1000 RR Superbike, says he will use the mathematical principles of weather and markets forecasting to assess the risk of disease, and, given a disease, determine the subtype and best drugs to use. Mount Sinai has collected what it calls an electronic "biobank" of information on 24,000 patients, who have agreed to participate in DNA sequencing and research over their lifetimes. Some of that information will be fed into the supercomputer, which is named Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom. Data storage alone is a challenge: one genome is 300 gigabytes of raw data per patient sample. Minerva's supervisor is Patricia Kovatch, 44, a computer engineer who led the team that built Kraken, the world's third fastest computer, in 2009, while working for the University of Tennessee at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. So much hiring has been going on surrounding personalized medicine at Mount Sinai, she said, that "it feels like a start up." At this point, scientists have only an imperfect understanding of how snippets of genetic material can determine a patient's chances of getting many diseases, especially more common ones. And patients are often reluctant to enroll in clinical trials of drugs still in development. But by setting up the right infrastructure collecting and sequencing patient DNA, identifying patients who could benefit from a particular drug and aggressively recruiting patients for trials the academic medical centers hope to play a bigger role in the development of new drugs, which could lead to lucrative patent royalties. "The pharmaceutical companies need the expertise of academic medical centers, they need our patient groups to participate," said Dr. Dennis Charney, dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Those groups could include patients like Kieran P. Holohan, a 45 year old lawyer who received a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia in 2009. After his chemotherapy and the disease's remission, his original doctor pushed him to have a bone marrow transplant to prolong the remission. A friend from his rugby club, a geneticist, told him that "this has a lot to do with chromosomes," he recalled, and sent him to a doctor at Weill Cornell, Gail J. Roboz. A relatively new laboratory test found that Mr. Holohan's leukemia had a mutation that meant that his chances of survival would not necessarily improve with the risky transplant. So he opted for more chemotherapy, and his cancer is still in remission. "They didn't go with a suit off the rack," he said. "This was bespoke medicine." His doctor is more cautious. "Unfortunately, cancer is cured three times a day in the media," she said. But that does not mean that there might not be truly customized treatments for cancer 10 years down the line, she said. Dr. James M. Crawford, chair of pathology at Hofstra North Shore LIJ School of Medicine, said his institution, a competitor in some ways with the Manhattan medical centers, was "quite literally on the fence" about whether to join the race or to "let more data emerge before we decide we are going to commit more resources to this." "What is the ultimate utility of this personalized medicine?" he said. "As a medical profession but also as a society we have not answered this question to our satisfaction."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here's What You Need to Know. SAN FRANCISCO Facebook said on Thursday that millions of user account passwords had been stored insecurely, potentially allowing employees to gain access to people's accounts without their knowledge. The Silicon Valley company publicized the security failure around the same time that Brian Krebs, a cybersecurity writer, reported the password vulnerability. Mr. Krebs said an audit by Facebook had found that hundreds of millions of user passwords dating to 2012 were stored in a format known as plain text, which makes the passwords readable to more than 20,000 of the company's employees. Facebook said that it had found no evidence of abuse and that it would begin alerting millions of its users and thousands of Instagram users about the issue. The company said it would not require people to reset their passwords. The security failure is another embarrassment for Facebook, a 470 billion colossus that employs some of the most sought after cybersecurity experts in the industry. It adds to a growing list of data scandals that have tarnished Facebook's reputation over the last few years. Last year, amid revelations that a political consulting firm improperly gained access to the data of millions, Facebook also revealed that an attack on its network had exposed the personal information of tens of millions of users. In response, the company has repeatedly said it plans to improve how it safeguards people's data. "There is nothing more important to us than protecting people's information, and we will continue making improvements as part of our ongoing security efforts at Facebook," Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's vice president of engineering in security and privacy, said in a blog post on Thursday. Here's a rundown of what you need to know about the password vulnerability and what you can do. Storing passwords in plain text is a poor security practice. It leaves passwords wide open to cyberattacks or potential employee abuse. A better security practice would have been to keep the passwords in a scrambled format that is indecipherable. Facebook said it had not found evidence of abuse, but that does not mean it did not occur. Citing a Facebook insider, Mr. Krebs said access records revealed that 2,000 engineers or developers had made nine million queries for data that included plain text user passwords. A Facebook employee could have shared your password with someone else who would then have improper access to your account, for instance. Or an employee could have read your password and used it to log on to a different site where you used the same password. There are plenty of possibilities. Ultimately, a company as large, rich and well staffed as Facebook should have known better. How do I know whether someone had access my account? There's no easy way to know. Facebook is still investigating, and will begin alerting people who might have had their passwords stored in the plain text format. What should I do? Facebook is not requiring users to change their passwords, but you should do it anyway. There are many methods for setting strong passwords for example, do not use the same password across multiple sites, and do not use your Social Security number as a username or a password. You can set up security features such as two step verification as well. There are a few other steps to take. I recommend also setting up your Facebook account to receive alerts in the event that an unrecognized device logs in to the account. To do so, go to your Facebook app settings, tap Security and Login, and then tap Get alerts about unrecognized logins. From here, you can choose to receive the alerts via messages, email or notifications. An audit of devices that are logged in to your account may also be in order, so that you know what laptops, phones and other gadgets are already accessing your account. On Facebook's Security and Login page, under the tab labeled "Where You're Logged In," you can see a list of devices that are signed in to your account, as well as their locations. If you see an unfamiliar gadget or a device signed in from an odd location, you can click the "Remove" button to boot the device out of your account.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
Just as I was stammering out some version of "no comment" to a reporter from BuzzFeed, my editor was about to field a call from The New York Post. Our company's reputation was careening out of control, and we had no idea how to stop the damage or slow the seemingly endless torrent of social media posts that were berating us for our ties to the world's largest polluter. Thankfully, the situation was entirely fictitious. It was created by a crisis communications firm that regularly simulates dire circumstances for companies in hopes of preparing them for when real public relations disasters hit. The setup is a bit like "Choose Your Own Adventure" for corporate America, where the adventure is in fact a social media driven nightmare. Corporate crises unfold at lightning speed in the digital age. Companies suddenly find themselves on the defensive thanks to criticism, often on Twitter, from President Trump. Products like Tiki torches and New Balance shoes unwittingly become associated with white supremacists. United Airlines deals with a public outcry after a video showing a passenger being violently dragged off a flight goes viral, and Equifax is criticized for its handling of a security breach that compromised the personal information of potentially 143 million Americans. And that's the purpose of exercises like this. CommCore Consulting Group agreed to come up with a situation that would give us a sense of what it's like to be in the middle of a corporate crisis. The firm would provide the story line, play characters like inquiring reporters and angry protesters, and provide supporting material like social media posts and published articles, all designed to make us feel increasingly panicked. We would supply the sweaty palms. The goal is to give companies a better understanding of what they may face and how they should respond. Even if, like me, you mismanage the situation so badly that it ends with a video of a masked hacker growling out his plans to destroy your company. I sat with my editor and a photographer in a small, glass walled conference room. For this exercise, we were pretending that we worked on the business side of The New York Times. In less than five minutes on the job, things went seriously awry. One of the newspaper's biggest institutional investors had become the largest shareholder in a company that was the world's biggest polluter, and the connection was drawing attention. A prominent blog proclaimed that The Times was "exchanging blood money for ink," and a video from a major environmental group called on our organization to cut ties with the investor. Now, the three crisis consultants across the table told us, we had to figure out what to do. While crisis simulations have long been used by the P.R. industry, those from CommCore and its competitors, including a tool from Weber Shandwick called Firebell, are examples of a newer breed. They home in on the speed and cacophony of today's media environment, tossing participants into a virtual pressure cooker of online outrage and escalating press attention. The point is to compress a monthslong disaster into a few stressful hours and see how teams respond. "The whole goal is faster reaction time, faster recognition of the issues and hopefully faster getting the issues off the front page or out of social media," said Andrew D. Gilman, CommCore's chief executive, who has consulted with the likes of Johnson Johnson and General Motors during crises. At the same time, creating a realistic P.R. issue for a company to navigate or, in our case, hobble through is its own challenge. After all, clients weren't concerned about being mentioned in a tweet from the president a year ago, Mr. Gilman said. And last month, the consulting group added the possibility of being tied to white supremacists to its list of risks. On a whiteboard, we had scrawled out the key issues at stake and a list of employees we needed to loop in about the burgeoning situation. It's trickier than it appears: Too many people can complicate decisions about who's doing what; too few and you risk not being able to adequately respond to issues as they appear. Jeff Bezos gives 100 million to the Obama Foundation. Stocks rise after President Biden says Jerome Powell will stay atop the Fed. The story had been picked up by financial news sites like The Motley Fool and environmental groups that were angrily posting to their Facebook and Twitter pages. There was even a nascent petition on Change.org. Just as that was sinking in, two reporters from national outlets called. How was The Times going to respond to this outcry? I fended them off in a panic, saying that we didn't have a comment yet. I couldn't consult with my editor, who was on the phone with a member of the investor's P.R. staff. The simulation blended fact and fiction to make it feel more realistic. The materials included articles and social media posts, complete with pre filmed videos, designed to look as if they had come from real publications and environmental groups. Two of the consultants had left the room to make the reporter calls to our cellphones, timing them so that we had trouble coordinating our responses. Often, the companies doing these drills involve a variety of departments, such as legal, information technology and investor relations, in hopes that they know how to work together if a crisis does hit. The crisis was designed by Dale Weiss, whom Mr. Gilman referred to as something of a "mad scientist" when devising each round of facts. Mr. Weiss likened the pace to cooking a frog. "If you put them in a hot pot, they're going to jump right out, but if you take a frog and slowly create a nice little hot tub environment, he'll stay in and finally boil," Mr. Weiss explained, a little too gleefully. We were the frogs. Our newsroom was covering the disaster aggressively, activists were planning to picket outside our annual shareholder meeting and, somehow, the polluter claimed we were blocking its requests to run a full page ad in the paper. This was all playing out on social media, and people were calling for boycotts of The Times. There were so many outlets, advocacy groups and internal stakeholders to respond to that it was hard to keep them straight and the list of options we could use to respond was similarly lengthy. Post a statement through a series of tweets? Put screenshots of a longer statement on social media? Film a YouTube video? Arrange an interview of our top executives with a journalist we trust? With each question, the room seemed to get a little hotter. Ideally, a company would have different contingency plans set up for various possibilities, along with a set list of employees who would handle them. "There might be holding statements about your investments, your manufacturing facilities, about your people, that you can pull from and take pieces so you're not having to create it at the very last minute," Mr. Weiss said. Mr. Gilman added, "Several of our clients have war rooms where they want to be ready just in case there's a Trump tweet, and in the same kind of way, if it's an agency or a company that's advertising a ton or any other business, they want to be prepared." That sort of thinking could have helped United Airlines respond more quickly to the video of the passenger's removal. "They've got a lot of crisis plans," Mr. Gilman said, "but mostly about aircraft crashing, not a customer issue like that." Nobody cared that our company wasn't responsible for the actions of an investor, but it turned out that was part of the training as well. "You're a public company. People buy your stock," Mr. Weiss said. "Stuff happens. Companies don't do anything wrong they do what they're supposed to do and yet you get hit by this firestorm of stuff." As the crisis worsened, three prominent reporters and columnists quit the newspaper, citing its ties to the problematic investor. A major environmental group sold its shares in The Times and urged other groups to follow, saying the impartiality of our reporting couldn't be guaranteed. The Change.org petition had amassed thousands of signatures, and the boycott was expanding. And just as we were reeling from all of this, here came the grand finale: a video from a masked hacker speaking in a low, distorted voice. He praised the boycott efforts by environmental groups and delivered a grim message. Based on the investment connection, we were told, a group of concerned hackers planned to use a virus to wreak havoc on our facilities so long as The Times kept exchanging "blood money for ink." He proclaimed the group would keep fighting for the environment, ending with: "We're also doing this because we can." Stunned silence followed. Then our photographer, Sam, piped up. "Do we bring the F.B.I. in?" Indeed, Mr. Gilman said, we had "progressed, unfortunately, in the world of crisis communications" to criminal behavior and had become something of a victim ourselves. Still, he added, that didn't mean public opinion would swing in our favor, pointing to the fallout from Target's enormous data breach in 2013. Despite any pressure we may have felt during the simulation, we had the luxury of going back to our actual jobs when it was over. But the quick escalation of the disaster and criticism from all sides made it clear why companies are paranoid about ending up in that kind of situation even without an ominous video from a hacker and why they feel the need to plan. "You can't prevent any crisis from happening," Mr. Gilman said. "But you can shorten the duration, you can lessen the impact and do better preparation."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Media
The floater banked off the backboard, then the rim, and then in came a right hand, redirecting the ball toward the basket one last time toward a climax of a riveting game between Duke and Central Florida, a seismic upset in an N.C.A.A. tournament that has unspooled mostly to form, toward the biggest victory in a program's history. It rolled around the rim as if magnetized. It took half a revolution around the hoop. "It was up there forever, I felt like, in slow motion," said Aubrey Dawkins of Central Florida. That is how close No. 9 Central Florida was to ousting Duke, the top overall seed and presumptive favorite, and upending the East Region, not to mention the entire tournament. Instead, as the Blue Devils hugged one another and slapped high fives after a 77 76 win, the Knights stood there sobbing, disbelieving. "That's as high a level of any team that we've played against all year," Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "They were men. Aubrey wasn't outstanding; he was magnificent." It was not only Dawkins who grew up in Durham, N.C., around Duke, where his father, Johnny, now the coach at Central Florida, assisted and played for Krzyzewski who was magnificent, finishing with 32 points. Each team's best players Tacko Fall and Dawkins for the Knights, the freshmen R. J. Barrett and Zion Williamson for Duke starred throughout and played pivotal roles in what was a spellbinding conclusion. The Knights, who trailed by as many as 8 in the second half, went on a 15 4 run punctuated by Fall's dunk with 2 minutes 9 seconds remaining to go ahead, 74 70. As play stopped so officials could review whether the initial attempt grazed the rim before the shot clock expired, Krzyzewski used the unofficial timeout to deliver his team a pithy directive. "When he looks at you and tells you that you're made for this moment," Williamson said, "it's like the most confidence you can be given." Central Florida turned over the ball on its next possession, misfiring on an alley oop, and Cam Reddish of Duke responded by making a 3 pointer. B. J. Taylor's two free throws extended the Knights' lead to 76 73 with 45 seconds left, and then Williamson acted on his coach's words. With four fouls, he drove into Fall, the Knights' 7 foot 6 center, and invited contact. Fall fouled out, and his absence proved critical when Barrett was able to swoop in on Williamson's missed free throw and score to put Duke ahead by 77 76. Williamson scored a team high 32 points, and, according to ESPN Stats and Information, his 57 points are tied with Kevin Durant for the most points by a freshman across his first two tournament games. "The will to win of Zion and R. J., you can't measure it," Krzyzewski said, adding, "What they did right at the end of that game in willing us to win was just absolutely sensational." In the immediate aftermath, after Taylor's shot clanged off the glass and Dawkins's putback hung tantalizingly on the rim, Krzyzewski shared a long embrace with Johnny Dawkins and told him he loved him. "It's like a yin and a yang here," Krzyzewski said, "because they were deserving of winning." But when the East Region semifinals begin in Washington on Friday night, Central Florida will not be there. Duke will face No. 4 Virginia Tech because of an enthralling 40 minutes that came down to the vagaries of a ball on a rim. The March of the Top Seeds Rarely do all of the tournament's top eight seeds make the regional semifinal round, but Virginia's 63 51 victory over Oklahoma ensured that it would happen this year for the first time since 2009. With all four No. 3 seeds advancing, the round of 16 will include 14 of the top 16 seeds, which has not happened also since 2009, when 14 did. In this tournament of chalk, Virginia, which will face 12th seeded Oregon in the South Region semifinals on Thursday night, remains on track to face its Atlantic Coast Conference rival North Carolina. The Tar Heels mauled Washington by 81 59 to move on to the Midwest semifinals against Auburn on Friday night, never trailing because Coby White never let them trail. In the first half, White, a freshman guard, busted the Huskies' zone by making four 3 pointers in five minutes. Though Washington focused more on him in the second half, White scythed through its defense, on one occasion zipping from one end of the court to another, dribbling behind his back before scoring off the glass. The Tar Heels, as ever, are loaded inside, with size and athleticism that enables them to outrebound Washington by 48 24, and forward Luke Maye had 20 points and 14 boards. It was White, though, the most exciting player in the tournament whose name does not rhyme with Flyin' Williamson, who runs their hyperkinetic offense, directing the Tar Heels at a speed at which they thrive. Tennessee's first two games have shown that the Volunteers are the biggest underachiever still alive or the worst underachiever. The Volunteers played like the tournament's most dangerous No. 2 seed in the first half against Iowa, and then looked like the most vulnerable No. 2 after halftime. Thanks to a dominant overtime by Grant Williams, the Volunteers, who had blown a 25 point first half lead to No. 10 Iowa, avoided what would have been one of the most egregious collapses in N.C.A.A. tournament history. Instead, they edged the Hawkeyes, 83 77, to reach the South Region semifinals. "I feel like a fifth grader who just ate Skittles," Williams said. "Just want to say that." Williams, the Southeastern Conference's two time player of the year, dazzled in overtime, scoring six of Tennessee's first nine points. He also contributed a critical steal for the Volunteers, who will play third seeded Purdue on Thursday night in Louisville, Ky. It will be their first trip to the round of 16 since 2014, when they crashed the tournament as a No. 11 seed. This season, they have rated among the nation's best since November, even spending a month as the top ranked team, but their performance across their two games in Columbus, Ohio, has challenged their standing as a championship contender in a region fronted by Virginia. Tennessee toted into the tournament painful memories of last season's exit, when as a No. 3 seed it was upset in the second round by Loyola Chicago. The Volunteers struggled in a 77 70 first round victory against No. 15 Colgate, and Coach Rick Barnes said Sunday that he thought his team has carried "a little extra stress" to go deeper this year. That stress seemed absent in the first half against Iowa, when they complemented swarming defense with inside out balance, racing to a 44 19 lead. Trailing by 21 at halftime, Iowa opted not to run with Tennessee in the second half. Slowing down the pace, the Hawkeyes fed the ball inside more to Tyler Cook and Luka Garza. Jordan Bohannon's three free throws on what seemed a questionable foul call on Lamonte Turner, who appeared to have blocked a 3 point attempt cleanly tied the score for the first time, at 67 67, with 2:39 remaining, and then Iowa overcame a 4 point deficit in the final 58 seconds to send the game into overtime. Had the Hawkeyes won, they would have matched Brigham Young's comeback against Iona in 2012. "We know it's not going to be perfection it never is," Iowa Coach Fran McCaffery said. "But what you hope to get is a perfect effort. And that's what we got." The other three No. 2 seeds Michigan, Michigan State and Kentucky won their second round games by an average of 13.7 points, and only Kentucky was seriously tested, by Wofford. If the Volunteers are to progress to their first Final Four, they must play better than they have across their first 85 minutes of play and they know it. "The way we started the game, that's the team we win," guard Admiral Schofield said. "The way we finished the game, we can't have that. That's what got us beat throughout the season. The team you saw in the first half is what won 31 games. We have to be consistent in that aspect. But this time of year, it's about winning, about surviving and advancing."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
The Manson family murder spree of 1969 claimed seven victims, most famously Sharon Tate, the Hollywood flower child whose tragic story is told yet again in Quentin Tarantino's new film, "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood." But the murders also altered countless other lives. Consider Tom O'Neill, an entertainment journalist, who in 1999 accepted a three month assignment from Premiere magazine to write about how the murders changed Hollywood. He missed that deadline by 20 years. As the article grew into an obsession, Mr. O'Neill tracked down enough faded Hollywood luminaries, intelligence operatives, mobsters, drug traffickers and former cult members to, well, fill a Tarantino movie. Along the way, he came to doubt the accepted narrative of the case as presented by "Helter Skelter," the 1974 book by Vincent Bugliosi, the lead prosecutor in the case , that Charles Manson was deluded by messianic visions and ordered his drug addled minions to slaughter rich Los Angeles denizens to spur an apocalyptic race war. At last, the book has arrived, just in time for the release of the Tarantino film. "Chaos: Charles Manson, the C.I.A., and the Secret History of the Sixties," which Mr. O'Neill wrote with Dan Piepenbring, is less a definitive account of the murders than a kaleidoscope swirl of weird discoveries and mind bending hypotheticals that reads like Raymond Chandler after a tab of windowpane. Were the murders about a drug burn? A mob hit? Or was Mr. Manson a pawn for government agents? In a telephone interview (edited and condensed here), Mr. O'Neill shares what he found out after two decades. What did you learn about the Manson murders that might surprise us? We've spent the past 50 years thinking the murders were all about sparking a race war. But after 20 years, I found an endless number of holes in that story. The Manson family intersected with a multitude of shady characters at so many levels law enforcement, drug trafficking, even the government, all wiped from the record that I found good reason to doubt that the Helter Skelter motive was the full story, or even the real story. Vincent Bugliosi has been portrayed as a hero who saved Los Angeles from a crazed hippie death cult. What did you find? I thought he was going to be the protagonist of my story. But then when I started interviewing people who worked with Bugliosi in the D.A.'s office, and the cops, the majority of them didn't trust him. I found plenty of documentary evidence that Bugliosi procured false testimony, withheld evidence, and covered up information during the trial, and that law enforcement knew a lot more about the family's potential for violence even before the murders. Are you suggesting that Bugliosi twisted the truth to get a conviction? Bugliosi needed the Helter Skelter motive to convict Manson of conspiracy. But I believe he exaggerated what one of the cops told me was nothing more than a philosophy of the group into a reason for the murders because it was much more sensational. And Vince knew winning a conviction on that would be his ticket to fame and fortune. What were some of the bizarre, inexplicable things you found? Just a week after the murders, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department raided the Spahn Ranch, the old movie ranch where the Manson family was living. Manson, who was a federal parolee, was arrested with 32 followers, including minors. Despite the fact the officers found stolen cars, firearms including a machine gun, and stolen credit cards in Manson's pocket, the entire group was released three days later without charges, supposedly because the arrest warrant had been misdated. I found the warrant in the Sheriff's Office files, and interviewed the sergeant who wrote it. It wasn't misdated. Manson's parole should've immediately been revoked. It wasn't. The idea that the Manson family was trafficking drugs in Hollywood doesn't seem wildly far fetched. But what's with the C.I.A. reference in the book's title? It may sound like a crazy conspiracy theory, but I discovered a lot of evidence that right after Manson was released from prison in 1967, he was spending a lot of time in the same medical clinic in San Francisco where it has been documented that a C.I.A. employee was recruiting subjects for studies of LSD and its ability to influence human behavior. Coincidental or not, Manson suddenly transformed from a harmless little ex con who nobody ever gave a second glance, to an all powerful guru surrounded by a harem of women who would do anything he asked, including kill complete strangers. I had never believed in conspiracies. But it is a documented fact that the C.I.A. had a program called Chaos, and the F.B.I. had one called Cointelpro. The objectives of both of those at the time secret operations was to destabilize the left wing movement and make hippies appear dangerous. And if this was a government operation, then boy did they succeed. Suddenly, everybody looked at anyone with long hair and a beard as a possible Charlie Manson. But Manson was completely insane, right? Manson wasn't necessarily crazy. Or at least, he was never officially diagnosed. I interviewed him two or three times on the phone. I heard all of Manson's verbal gymnastics speaking in riddles, not making any sense. But then I heard recordings that a prisoner named Gray Wolf, who handled publicity for him, made a few minutes after we got off the phone. Manson had completely transitioned. He was making sense, speaking in complete sentences. He sounded like he could have been a paralegal. Just hearing that tape showed that everything he did, with me at least, was an act. For all the wild hypotheticals you explore, none of them implicate the Manson family's most famous victim, Sharon Tate. Sharon's mother, Doris Tate, went to her grave saying that she had information that the killers didn't think that Sharon was going to be at the house that night. And every single person I interviewed who knew her had good things to say about her. You see how Margot Robbie plays her in the trailers for the Tarantino movie, and that's exactly how she was described to me: She was like this beam of light, that was all innocence and beauty and sweetness. You write about the threats and lawsuits you encountered along the way. Was this story worth two decades of your life? I was missing weddings, and even funerals. But I always kept thinking that I was weeks or months away from finishing and that I had to keep going. There were paralyzing moments of reporting one angle for weeks, months, a year, and then all of a sudden saying, "This was all a dead end! How did I let this happen to myself?" Any advice for other reporters who want to pick up the story where you left off? Just move on. Don't make the same mistake I did.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. 'PIERRE CHAREAU: MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN' at the Jewish Museum (through March 26). Pierre Chareau, the gifted French designer and architect of the great modernist landmark the Maison de Verre, or House of Glass, in Paris, receives his due in the city to which he fled during World War II and died, poor and forgotten. Furniture, art, drawings and photographs are presented in Diller Scofidio Renfro's elegant, often amusing design, which accesses interiors with virtual reality and conjures the Maison de Verre with a high tech digital slide show. (Roberta Smith) 212 423 3200, thejewishmuseum.org 'DANIEL GORDON: NEW CANVAS' at James Fuentes (through Feb. 26). Mr. Gordon constructs elaborate still lifes out of paper, photographing them and printing them out at blown up sizes. They have a tropical redundancy, featuring pieces of fruit with Cezannesque fractures. Mr. Gordon then edits these images on the computer, making spare abstractions from the outtakes. Completely digital, these are printed on canvas and resemble painted collages of the Motherwellian kind. Here, in his first show at the James Fuentes gallery, real and unreal play tag, and both win. (Smith) 212 577 1201, jamesfuentes.com 'I'M NOBODY! WHO ARE YOU? THE LIFE AND POETRY OF EMILY DICKINSON' at the Morgan Library Museum (through May 28). This is the second largest gathering ever, anywhere, of prime Dickinson relics, and as such it comes with an aura the size of a city block. It instantly turns the Morgan into a pilgrimage site, a literary Lourdes, a place to come in contact with one aspect of America that can truly claim greatness. And the show has a mission, to give 21st century audiences a fresh take on Dickinson. Gone is the white gowned Puritan nun, and the Belle of Amherst, that infantilized charmer. At the Morgan we get a different Dickinson, a person among people: a member of a household, a village dweller, a citizen. (Holland Cotter) 212 685 0008, themorgan.org 'RAYMOND PETTIBON: A PEN OF ALL WORK' at the New Museum (through April 9). Mr. Pettibon first gained fame for his punk rock album designs in the 1970s, but that was just a phase for a madly prolific artist for whom drawing and writing, usually combined, are inseparable. For this retrospective, more than 800 annotated pictures fill three floors and the lobby of the New Museum. With references to childhood television, literary classics and current politics, they have the prickly, manic buzz of interior rants made public, an impression amplified in the artist's tour de force Twitter feed. (Cotter) 212 219 1222, newmuseum.org	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
Not too hot, not too cold. But not, alas, just right. The economy added a healthy 223,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department reported Thursday, but with other indicators showing wages flat and many Americans remaining on the sidelines, the overall economic picture for workers was not nearly as bright. Although the unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, that was driven largely by an exodus from the work force, rather than more people finding jobs. Moreover, the strong payroll gains for April and May, which had led many analysts to conclude that the economy might finally be gaining momentum, were revised downward by 60,000 jobs. "This was an O.K. report, but the unemployment rate didn't go down for the right reasons," said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. The share of American adults either working or looking for a job, which in many ways is a better gauge of economic strength than the oft cited unemployment rate, fell 0.3 percentage point in June. With June's drop to 62.6 percent, the so called labor participation rate is now at its lowest since 1977. Among prime age adults, those 25 to 54, there has been no improvement in participation this year. The latest jobs report is likely to sharpen debate among Federal Reserve officials about when to start raising the Fed's benchmark interest rate. Janet L. Yellen, the Fed's chairwoman, and other officials have pointed to the healthy pace of job growth as a reason to raise rates later this year. They say a stronger labor market will inevitably result in faster inflation, and the Fed needs to start moving in anticipation of that trend. Some officials, however, point to the weak pace of wage growth, which also continued in June, as evidence that concerns about inflation are premature. The Fed has already indicated that it does not plan to raise rates before September, and some analysts said that remained the most likely scenario. "Altogether, we do not view this report as significantly shifting opinions within the Fed about the timing of the first rate hike," Michael Gapen, chief United States economist at Barclays Capital, wrote on Thursday. "We continue to look for the first rate hike in September." Investors, however, responded to the jobs report by increasing their bets that the Fed will not move until December, and perhaps not until next year. In New York, stocks initially rose after the report but finished the day modestly lower. Bond yields fell. The Fed and private economists have been watching participation in the labor market closely for any sign that millions of people who dropped out of the work force after the recession are being lured back as hiring picks up. Elizabeth Holmes Hones Her Defense in Day 2 of Testimony Kevin Spacey was ordered to pay 31 million to the 'House of Cards' studio after sexual harassment allegations. That did not happen last month. Although seasonal factors and the timing of the survey of households by government pollsters in June may have exacerbated the drop in the size of the labor force, "we're not running out of slack," said Guy Berger, United States economist at RBS. "The good news is that we are not on the verge of an inflation spiral and we can put people back to work for quite some time without the danger of inflation," Mr. Berger said. Wage growth has picked up slightly this year, but gains remain relatively restrained. Over the last 12 months, wages are up 2 percent, only modestly ahead of inflation, which is running at around 1.5 percent, according to the latest data. While the American economy is not delivering as many gains to workers as hoped for six full years into the recovery, conditions are better here than in many other advanced economies. Europe has been rocked by the continuing drama over whether Greece will exit the eurozone, and concerns are rising about the fallout from the slowdown in China's once white hot economy. As a result, exporters have had to contend with the headwinds from Europe, China and a stronger dollar, leaving domestically focused sectors like health care, education and professional services to supply much of the labor market's oomph. White collar workers in fields like insurance, software and marketing have been in especially high demand, a turnaround from the early days of the recovery, when many new jobs tended to be concentrated in low wage sectors like retailing and restaurants. But there is still a feast or famine quality in many corners of the American economy. Since last summer, for example, the financial sector has added more than 100,000 new positions, bringing total employment in finance to just over eight million, the highest since the fall of 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed. In June alone, insurers, investment companies and other financial institutions added 20,000 workers.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
Arne Glimcher, the founder of Pace Gallery, left, with Marc Glimcher, his son and the gallery's president and chief executive, at its new headquarters. Tagging along on a business trip to Paris with his father, the art dealer Arne Glimcher, in the 1970s, Marc Glimcher was struck by the rough hewed warmth of the wood block flooring in Andre Chenue's art storage warehouse. Now, as the 55 year old president and chief executive of Pace Gallery, the younger Mr. Glimcher has been able to bring that memory to life in Pace's new home in Chelsea, which opens next month. The eight story building, on West 25th Street and designed by Bonetti/Kozerski Architecture, is heavy with symbolism, not only because of what it says about Mr. Glimcher's taking the reins from his father who founded the gallery 59 years ago but also because of what it telegraphs about the art market. At a time when small and midsize galleries are struggling, closing or merging because of a decline in foot traffic and the rise of costly art fairs, New York's four mega galleries are doing the opposite: doubling down on major building projects in Chelsea. In designing such new homes, these heavy hitters Gagosian, Hauser Wirth, David Zwirner and Pace, which is consolidating its spaces on the Upper East Side and West 25th Street are redefining what it means to be a gallery, shifting their emphasis from selling and showing art to a more full service visitor experience that offers food, performance spaces, research libraries and open storage. The future of art galleries, Marc Glimcher said, lies in making spaces where people want to congregate, "like church." It is why his new building will feature Pace Live, a multidisciplinary program of music, dance, film and conversation with a full time curatorial director at the helm: Mark Beasley , the former curator of performance and media art at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. But some art experts say the building boom boils down to little more than dueling empires with a "mine is bigger than yours" mentality. "It's a horse race," said Howard Read of Cheim Read, which last year closed its 21 year old Chelsea gallery and now operates a private dealership on the Upper East Side. "They're all out to see who can represent Jeff Koons for the longest." At more than 100 million, the cost of Pace's project is greater than the New Museum's 89 million budget for its expansion, though Pace is technically only renting its space. (It has a 20 year lease.) In addition, Larry Gagosian, the biggest of the behemoths globally, is expanding into two galleries adjacent to his 26,000 square foot space on West 24th Street (one of which formerly belonged to the Mary Boone Gallery). David Zwirner is building a five story, 50 million space designed by Renzo Piano on West 21st Street, to open in 2021. And Hauser Wirth is constructing a new five story building designed by Annabelle Selldorf on West 22nd Street the gallery's first new ground up home, scheduled to open next spring. Hauser Wirth arguably set the standard for the full service gallery with its sprawling Los Angeles complex, which opened in 2016 and features a farm to table restaurant, public vegetable garden (with egg laying chickens), sculpture courtyard, gift shop and bookstore. Some liken this trend in the art market to the kind of consolidation taking place in the retail industry. "The boutiques that were on every main street you see them closing and the same major luxury chains in every major city," said the dealer Jeffrey Deitch, who compared the mega galleries to "a Louis Vuitton flagship." "People like events," Mr. Deitch added, "so visiting a mega gallery emporium is like an event." But the art market has yet to have an online revolution, like the retail industry. Marc Glimcher said the analogy to retail is misplaced, and that there remains a demand for firsthand interactions and a sense of community, which galleries continue to provide. "Retail is suffering because it's replaceable in a virtual world," Mr. Glimcher said . "Art galleries are not suffering; they're growing because we offer an experience." In fact, the period between 2016 and 2018 saw fewer galleries opening and several closing, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. And some galleries are clearly suffering, namely those that have been unable to sustain the steep costs of renting prime real estate and participating in multiple art fairs. In 2017, for example, On Stellar Rays closed on the Lower East Side. Others that have shuttered include the Laurel Gitlen Gallery, Murray Guy and Kansas. The longtime Chelsea dealer Julie Saul announced last month that she had lost her lease and would deal privately. "I've seen attendance diminish a lot," she told Artnet last year. Marc Glimcher acknowledged that the art market demands survival of the fittest but said it has been ever thus, and that the moment simply calls for a course adjustment namely collaboration, so that galleries are not going it alone. Galleries have banded together to drive street traffic through Art Walks, and Mr. Glimcher pointed to Pace's recent announcement that it would team up with the Los Angeles based dealer David Kordansky to represent the abstract artist Sam Gilliam. "Big galleries who are trying to fight that are going to suffer," he said. "We're collaborative because it's the smartest thing to be." "The audience for art has grown radically ," he added. "The number of people who care about contemporary art versus 30 years ago is just crazy. It'll evolve, and there will be many casualties for sure. And I'm not saying the mix of galleries won't change; it will. But there is an audience." Pace which represents the estates of Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko and Robert Ryman along with living artists like Chuck Close, Adam Pendleton and Adrian Ghenie saw 38,000 people pour in for its Rothko dark palette show in 2016. "On some Saturdays we had 2,000," Arne Glimcher said. "That really disseminates your artists' work in the best way." Proffering user friendly amenities to woo future buyers, Pace's new building includes a dining room for catered events; an art book library where scholars can do research; and art storage where visitors can pull out racks of Pace's inventory, modeled after Galeria Luisa Strina in Brazil. Pace bought a food truck to park on its expansive terrace; the gallery also plans to present music four times a year The "my" points up the sense of liberation Mr. Glimcher seems to feel in finally being the guy in charge. His office is bigger than that of his father, who over the past five years has been handing off more responsibility. This building project was Marc's baby and earned Arne's grudging blessing. "He thinks it's extravagant, but he is totally supportive," Mr. Glimcher said of his father. "It took 35 years for him to get supportive. It took me 35 years to be ready." "There were plenty of times when I was like, 'It's you or me,' and he was like, 'Bye bye,' and I'm really lucky that he did that," he continued. "It's really hard to take over. Every gallery is a personality cult. It's hard to be the second generation person. You didn't do your rags to riches, but you have advantages too. You saw all the things that worked and all the things that didn't work." "He used to work for me," he said. "Now I work for him."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Art & Design
A contractor in Central Florida, Hyden was hit hard by the 2008 recession. Needing cash, he eventually set out to retrieve the bags of coke an eccentric neighbor claimed he had buried on Culebra, an island off Puerto Rico. (The documentary was presented at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival as "White Tide: The Legend of Culebra.") Since Hyden had no idea how to either get the drugs or sell them, he hooked up with a Z team that included a doped up goofball and a mysterious operator named Carlos. "I just liked that guy," Hyden says. Carlos reminds him of Tony Montana, and unfortunately, Hyden has watched "Scarface" a lot. Love is not judgmental about Hyden, and lets him be his sunny, deluded self down to a willful obliviousness about the realities of drug trafficking and use. Charged with intent to distribute cocaine, Hyden got 60 days in prison, a year of home detention and community service. It's hard not to ponder what the verdict would have been had he not been white.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
The teenager running alongside me, Luz, doesn't say much. She is focused, her head dead straight, her stride landing rhythmically on the tarmac highway. Luz belongs to La Paz's El Condor running club, which escapes the congestion of the city every Saturday for a training run up on the Bolivian high plateau, the altiplano. A small band of them have gathered for a recreational 10 mile run and kindly allowed me to join in. I am assigned to the slowest group. My efforts at conversation had not gotten far. ?Quantos anos tienes? Fifteen, Luz tells me. ?Donde vives? El Alto, above La Paz. A few minutes into our 10 mile run, her laconic answers are a boon, because speaking is the last thing I want to do right now. All I can really think to say is: Breathe. One single, repeated syllable: Breathe. I had never run at altitude. Not real altitude. Hills, yes. Mountains, once or twice. But never, as now, at just shy of 4,000 meters, or nearly two and a half miles high. My wheezing lungs and leaden legs remind me that I'm in foreign territory in every sense. The nearby snowcaps of the Cordillera Real ram the point home. My regular running route, along the flat, estuarine banks of Portugal's River Douro, suddenly seems very far away. After about three miles, the tightness of my breath and my fear of imminent collapse begin to recede. They have dissipated rather than disappeared. We are jogging at an even pace. "Enjoy yourself," I try telling myself. And I do, as best I can. I had been in Bolivia for five days. My hotel was in La Paz's southern district, a full kilometer below Luz's home in neighboring El Alto. The Casa Grande had a gym with a running machine, which I had used briefly each morning. New arrivals in La Paz, one of the highest cities in the world, often complain of feeling groggy and nauseated. Me, I felt fine. This had encouraged me to hunt down a local running club. I always pack my kit when I go to a new city. Pounding the ground is, in my experience, a great way to get the feel of a place. Only running in La Paz presents unique challenges. Built on a steep sided canyon high in the Andes, the city is all vertiginous roads and hairpin bends. Plus the sidewalks are a disaster. I spotted three runners the whole week. My search had led me to El Condor. Comprising a couple of dozen adults and teenagers, the club is coached by Policarpio Calizaya, a three time Olympian and one of the few top flight runners in Bolivia's history. In his mid 50s, he has a round and cheerful face. I meet him at Gate 9 of Hernando Siles stadium before one of El Condor's regular weekday track sessions. Most of the club's participants are female. He doesn't know why. Men prefer football, he surmises: "Truth is, running is pretty fringe here in Bolivia." The status of running in his home country clearly grates at him. He contrasts the situation with neighboring Peru, which has produced a crop of elite runners in recent years. It's all about government support, he tells me: "In Peru, they have it; here, we don't." To make ends meet, he has a small workshop where he makes sports apparel. His runners, most of whom come from low income families, typically buy their running shorts and vests from one of El Alto's sprawling markets. Their shoes are often secondhand. Evo Morales, Bolivia's charismatic indigenous president, has helped raise the profile of running in recent years. Since 2013, La Paz has hosted the Presidente Evo 10K race every July. Similar races occur annually in Bolivia's eight other major cities. Even so, the winning pot is only around 2,000, says Policarpio. It's not much for a top runner, especially once travel costs are factored in (no Bolivian runner receives sponsorship). His best runner, 22 year old Yessy Apaza, gets by thanks to remittances from his mother, a domestic worker in Spain. Curiosity had also led me to the door of Policarpio's running club. In Vybarr Cregan Reid's excellent book on running, "Footnotes," I had read about epigenetics and the physiological changes brought on by the thinner air found at altitude. The main effects are twofold, the British writer explains: Our bodies begin making more oxygen carrying blood cells, and our muscles learn to use the limited oxygen more efficiently. Processing more oxygen gives runners a competitive advantage, which is why the world's best runners fit in time for high altitude training. In his running days, Policarpio did the same, visiting this same stretch of highway just beyond El Alto. These days, he occasionally takes his best runners to train at Chacaltaya, which, at over 5,000 meters, used to be the highest ski resort in the world until all the snow melted. What I hadn't realized is that it takes at least 10 days for any of these benefits to kick in. Similarly, it can be weeks before our bodies fully acclimatize to the negative effects of altitude. FIFA, the international soccer organization, advises visiting teams to arrive three weeks before a match in La Paz. Back on the tarmac, we hit the eight mile mark. An old woman stands on the roadside waiting for her bus. She is dressed in multiple petticoats and a bowler hat, the habitual attire for rural women of the altiplano. She looks at me quizzically. I try to say "hola" but can't. My throat is too parched. Not to be outdone, my head is now also throbbing. With the end in sight, Luz and her friends pick up speed. I attempt to keep up, but it is beyond me. Breathe, I say to myself. Enjoy yourself. Don't die. As I'm talking to myself, the girls slowly and elegantly begin to stretch away, until soon, without a word, they are gone.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Well
Lionel Messi, arguably the greatest player in soccer history, has informed Barcelona that he intends to leave the club with immediate effect, and to do so by activating a clause in his contract that would mean the team where he has spent his entire career would not receive a cent in compensation. Messi, 33, has spent the days since Barcelona's humiliation by Bayern Munich, in the Champions League quarterfinals just over a week ago, watching his club descend into yet another bout of internal turmoil. Quique Setien, the manager, and the sporting director, Eric Abidal, both departed, and Ronald Koeman, a former Barcelona player, was appointed as coach. Among his first acts was to tell several senior players Samuel Umtiti, Arturo Vidal, Ivan Rakitic and Messi's neighbor and close friend, Luis Suarez that their services were no longer required. Suarez was reportedly told in a brief telephone conversation that he was free to find a new club. Koeman also spoke with Messi, who at that point had stopped short of committing his future to the club. News reports in Spain on Tuesday night suggested that Koeman had warned Messi that he would no longer receive special treatment a threat, it was suggested, that made up the Argentine's mind. Messi's representatives believe he can make that decision unilaterally, thanks to a clause in his contract that enables him to leave free as long as he announces his intention to do so before the end of the season. Barcelona is expected to contest, though, quite when the end of the season is. The club probably will argue that the clause expired at the end of June, when the Spanish and European campaigns were scheduled to finish. Messi's side is reportedly convinced that the exceptional circumstances of a pandemic delayed season rendered that timing irrelevant. It is his, and his representatives', belief that he is able to activate the clause until the end of this month. Sending the burofax, in this interpretation, triggered that clause, ending a spell at the club that has lasted for 20 years. Messi joined Barcelona at 13, recruited when an emissary from Barcelona, sent out to watch him play in his hometown, Rosario, Argentina, drew up a contract on a napkin. His rise, in that time, has mirrored that of his club. Messi's list of honors extends to 10 Spanish championships, four Champions League trophies and six world player of the year awards. His tally of individual records, if anything, is more remarkable. He has scored more goals than anyone else in La Liga history, and holds the assist record, too. He has won more Ballons d'Or the famed trophy awarded annually to the world's best player than anyone else, played in more victories than any other Barcelona player, scored more hat tricks and doubles than anyone else. As Messi developed first into the best player of his generation and then, possibly, into the best in history, so Barcelona was transformed into arguably the most popular sports team in the world. For almost a decade, the club represented soccer's gold standard. Messi has previously insisted that he wanted to finish his career at Camp Nou despite earlier suggestions that he would, eventually, return for a season at Newell's Old Boys, his hometown team but the chaos of the last few seasons, in which Barcelona has suffered a succession of haunting defeats in the Champions League and run through three managers in the last eight months, appears to have been too much to bear. Should Barcelona not be able, or willing, to challenge his decision legally, Messi will not be short of suitors. More complex is which of the myriad clubs who would love to call on Messi would be able to afford his salary, which in some estimations runs at around 90 million a year, including image rights and bonuses. Manchester City managed by Messi's old mentor, Pep Guardiola and Paris St. Germain, home to his close friend Neymar, would be the likeliest candidates, ahead of Chelsea, Manchester United and even Real Madrid. Inter Milan, though less successful in recent years, has maintained a yearslong dialogue with Messi's family, and has long attempted to position itself as his first alternative.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
President Trump may not be terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as Nafta, but that doesn't mean the deal is safe. After telephone calls with President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada in late April, Mr. Trump said he would start the process of renegotiating Nafta, a treaty that he had scorned during his presidential campaign, calling it "the single worst trade deal" ever signed by the United States. Whatever his criticisms, Nafta has had a major impact on the American economy in the decades since it was signed, and any renegotiation would affect certain industries. Perhaps no industry is more closely entwined with Nafta, or has more at stake in any shift in trade policy, than the automotive sector. The sector is a major employer in all three member nations Canada, Mexico and the United States. Hundreds of thousands of workers in the United States are tied to the industry, while Mexico and Canada each rely on automaking for tens of thousands of jobs. The countries' automotive sectors are also tightly linked, exporting and importing billions of dollars' worth of auto parts from one another. Last year, the United States imported 1.6 million vehicles mainly small cars from Mexico. But about 40 percent of the value of the components in those vehicles, such as engines and transmissions, came from plants in the United States. And about 40 percent of the nearly two million vehicles the United States exports go to its Nafta partners, according to data compiled by the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. A tug of war over revising Nafta could disrupt Mexican car making, which has grown rapidly in the past decade, but there would be consequences for the United States, as well. In a recent study, the research center concluded that withdrawing from Nafta, or restricting automotive trade, would increase costs for manufacturers in the United States, make its auto sector less competitive, and lower the returns for investors. Rather than shifting production to the United States, manufacturers would be more likely to move production to low cost countries such as China or India. A severe shock to Nafta could put as many as 31,000 automotive jobs in jeopardy in the United States, according to the research organization. And there are domestic politics to consider: Michigan, a state that helped Mr. Trump win the election, could be among those hit hardest if the current terms are upended, because of its concentration of vehicle production and engineering jobs. NEAL E. BOUDETTE "Obviously, that's some pretty big numbers, and so Nafta is obviously extraordinarily important to the United States textile industry," Mr. Wood said. "That being said, we agree with the Trump administration that Nafta is due for a comprehensive review to determine whether it can be improved." For decades, retailers and the brands they sell have relied on an established flow of goods built around the agreement. If tariffs were to suddenly spike on clothing, for example, companies in the United States could not simply switch overnight to T shirt factories in another part of the world. Changes could also raise prices for consumers, and there are manufacturing jobs to consider as well as related jobs in retailing, shipping and other industries that would be indirectly affected according to Stephen E. Lamar, executive vice president at the American Apparel Footwear Association. Another group, the Retail Industry Leaders Association, has been lobbying for updates to the 23 year old Nafta that reflect modern shopping realities, including e commerce. "We're looking to see a Nafta that is updated and modernized to reflect current supply chains, but also updated to reflect new sectors like the digital economy," said Hun Quach, the association's vice president for trade. RACHEL ABRAMS "The effects of this trade agreement on agriculture, that's something you can't assign a number to," said Ryan Cardwell, an associate professor in the department of agribusiness and agricultural economics at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. "However, there is a broad consensus that Nafta did increase integration of agricultural markets in North America." Certainly, some farmers in all three countries saw immediate and significant changes because of Nafta. American corn, for example, now flows into Mexico, a market from which it was once mostly excluded. And common food safety standards introduced under the pact led to an explosion of Mexican exports to Canada and the United States, particularly of avocados. But the agricultural provisions in Nafta, perhaps more than those for other sectors, allowed the countries to keep some of their markets closed. Canada still has tight controls for dairy, poultry and egg production, effectively shutting out imports from the United States and Mexico to keep domestic prices high. James Rude, an associate professor of resource economics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, said that while cross border integration had certainly increased in the farm sector under Nafta, it is nowhere near the levels found in other industries, like automaking. Integration mainly reflects corporate investment decisions, rather than changes in trade rules, he said. IAN AUSTEN Moving that work back to the United States could be complicated, given that the Food and Drug Administration must sign off on even the smallest changes at medical factories. "Our companies make plans five, 10 years into the future, sometimes at the very least," said Andrew C. Fish, the chief strategy officer at the Advanced Medical Technology Association, a trade group representing the medical device industry. "Uncertainty is always a challenge for our industry, and I think most others. We would certainly welcome policy clarity, sooner rather than later, and would like to work with the Trump administration." KATIE THOMAS	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
Now Lives A one bedroom walk up apartment in NoLIta, which she also uses as her studio. "Have you seen 'Raging Bull'? You know, when his wife is making him dinner in their place in NoLIta? I'm like, 'Did they film this at my house?'" Claim to Fame A rising star in fashion photography, Ms. Gorna is known for her elegant, if risque, portraits of women's rear ends, often clad in tight jeans. While her fashion work is prominent (it has appeared in the pages of Vogue, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Rolling Stone, as well as for Calvin Klein, Saks Fifth Avenue and Nike), it is her derriere centric photographs that have built her reputation. "I have a very intimate portrayal of women, but in a way that doesn't feel exploitative," she said. Big Break Ms. Gorna credits her first shoot with Vogue, in its September 2011 issue, as a jumping off point. She composed a portrait of Tine Peduzzi and Luisa Orsini, proprietors of the bag line TL 180, by the West Side Highway. Larger projects, both fashion and commercial, soon followed. Latest Project "It was a busy summer," Ms. Gorna said. "I worked with Levi's and Nike." Her only break was a short trip to Amagansett, N.Y. "I took a vacation on the beach. It was magical. I didn't see anyone. I just stayed by the beach and hung out with two girlfriends, and went on long runs. My Instagram says it all."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
"Atomic Marriage" is about a Hollywood power broker named Heather Thiesen, who wants to turn an evangelical businessman's best selling guide to a happy marriage, "Atomic Doctrine," into a blockbuster romantic comedy all while navigating her own rocky relationship. "It was revised and edited for audio," said Sittenfeld, noting that they had dropped adverbs and em dashes or eliminated attributions that would be made obvious in the recording. The addition of Sittenfeld is part of Audible's efforts to expand its offerings and meet the increased demand for audio products. Earlier this year, Michael Lewis, one of the most popular contemporary nonfiction writers, signed a multiyear deal to write four original stories for the company, and others who have done the same include Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman. Audible Originals' editor in chief David Blum said, "We're thrilled to work with authors like Curtis who are embracing spoken word as a way to tell their stories." In Sittenfeld's view, the audio adds a dimension beyond what she is able to offer as a writer. Her words "come alive" whenever someone else reads them, she said. The story made her laugh in unexpected places. And when the main character in "Atomic Marriage" travels to Alabama from Los Angeles, Lane takes on the Southern accents of the characters. "It was really fun to listen to a professional person who not only was willing to try it but capable of pulling it off," said Sittenfeld. "I would not be willing to try it and not capable of pulling it off."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Books
Delaying Russia's ban into another Olympics, one official said, is "like having to choose between something quite bad and something worse." The letters arrive at the Court of Arbitration for Sport almost every day now. Sometimes there are more than one. Much of the correspondence comes from the Russian Olympic Committee, which is asking the court to overturn, or reduce, the four year ban from global sports it received late last year from the World Anti Doping Agency. But there are also letters from organizations with an interest in the outcome, and from others widely viewed as friendly to Russia: ice hockey's governing body, for example, and the European Olympic Committees and the Global Association of International Sports Federations, an influential umbrella group for governing bodies and event organizers. For weeks now, the senders have peppered the court with so called interventions related to Russia's case questions about procedure, requests for clarification, routine process queries. But according to people familiar with the correspondence, the volume has slowed the arbitration process so much that the prospect of the Russian doping scandal bleeding into a third straight Olympics is growing. CAS said on Thursday that the panel of arbitrators overseeing the case had agreed to add five organizations and various individual Russian athletes as intervening parties. "A procedural timetable for the filing of written submissions has been established and will run until mid April 2020," CAS said in a statement. "Directions with respect to the holding of a hearing will be issued at a later stage," it added, saying it would not take place before the end of April 2020, and would not be held in public. For now, CAS has provisionally set aside five days for a hearing that could take place between April 26 and May 8. But those dates could slip further as the interventions to the court mount. "Procedural aspects may delay the substantive part of the case," said Gregory Ioannidis, a British sports lawyer who has been involved in several cases at CAS. A final decision could take as long as four months after the hearing, he said potentially pushing a resolution well past the start of the Games in late July. Russia is being represented by Schellenberg Wittmer, a law firm based in Geneva that has defended several Russian athletes accused of doping. Philippe Bartsch, a managing partner at the firm who has represented Russia in doping cases, did not respond to an email seeking comment. The World Anti Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee also declined to comment. Without a resolution, Russian officials, Russian uniforms and the Russian flag could be permitted in Tokyo, and the I.O.C. would face another fraught and fractious buildup to a Games because of the seemingly endless fallout from a scandal that is now in its fifth year. Before the start of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and only months after word of Russian cheating at the 2014 Sochi Games became public, the I.O.C. president, Thomas Bach, told international sports federations to make their own decisions on the eligibility of individual Russian athletes. Two years later, at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the I.O.C. decided to bar the Russian Olympic Committee and any symbols related to the country. That didn't stop Russia from sending one of its biggest contingents to a Games, with its participants competing under the label "Olympic Athlete From Russia." Some national Olympic committees, including Britain's, were furious with the accommodation. "Our support is for the fullest possible sanctions to be taken against Russia at Tokyo 2020," Hugh Robertson, the chairman of the British Olympic Association, said in December after WADA decided against imposing a blanket ban on Russian athletes. "At the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Games, Team G.B. athletes competed against a Russian team in all but name. This should not happen again." The current punishment against Russia, which on paper is the strictest ever issued, was imposed after the World Anti Doping Agency determined Russian officials had manipulated and erased data that might have finally allowed doping investigators to confirm the identities of potentially hundreds of drug cheats. The punishment stipulated that Russia could not have a team at the world championships of any major sport and would also be barred for two Olympics, though it left open the possibility that individual Russian athletes could still compete. Failure to make a decision before the Tokyo Games would therefore create further confusion, with I.O.C. officials suggesting handling the matter would be in WADA's hands and WADA officials believing entrance criteria should be determined by the I.O.C. as the Games' organizer. Both organizations declined to comment. If the ban is not upheld in time for Tokyo, any ruling confirmed later would affect the Paris Olympics in 2024, as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. "I don't know which situation is better in this quite bad situation," Margarita Pakhnotskaya, the deputy general director of Russia's banned antidoping agency, said in a telephone interview. "It's like having to choose between something quite bad and something worse." Pakhnotskaya said the continuing uncertainty was becoming problematic for Russian athletes who could be permitted to attend the Games. While WADA punished Russia its national Olympic committee and government officials are barred from the Games, pending the appeal it stopped short of a blanket ban on all Russian athletes, sparking criticism from sections of the antidoping movement. The criteria for those athletes who could be eligible have yet to be agreed upon, Pakhnotskaya said, and any lengthy delay in a final judgment could lead to them failing to meet the required standards. "A few weeks and days are not enough days to fulfill criteria," Pakhnotskaya said, calling the current situation "confusing." As well as questions from lawyers representing Russia, CAS has also been fielding questions from other organizations.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Sports
Bernie Sanders makes a point of saying that he is not running his campaign for the "millionaires and billionaires," but an event for his presidential campaign at the Flash Factory on West 28th Street Monday night did cordon off celebrities in a V.I.P. area. There was Susan Sarandon (who recently had a noisy clash with the Hillary Clinton supporter Debra Messing on Twitter) wearing an argyle sweater and a hipster cap. Also the Oscar winning documentarian Fisher Stevens. And Gaby Hoffmann, an actress known for her roles on the TV shows "Transparent" and "Girls." Ms. Hoffmann spoke from the stage around 7:30 p.m., talking about mass incarceration, the ills of economic inequality and the threats to the environment posed by climate change. She also invoked brunch, mimosas and shopping as evidence of the country's deteriorating moral fabric. With a little over three months until the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, predominantly liberal Hollywood has yet to reach a consensus on a candidate. Mr. Sanders's supporters are digging in, even as the industry's power brokers have mostly lined up behind Mrs. Clinton. "These lists do not compare to each other in any reasonable way," said Michael Kives, an agent at CAA who began his career as an intern at Bill Clinton's Harlem office and has since become something of a broker between Mrs. Clinton's campaign and the agency's younger clients. If Mrs. Clinton's supporters are the equivalent of the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Mr. Sanders's, perhaps, more suggest the annual bonfire at Burning Man, the festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Steven Spielberg, the director of big budget epics, is with Mrs. Clinton. Spike Lee is with Mr. Sanders. The preternaturally polished Kendall Jenner is with Mrs. Clinton. The earthier Quentin Tarantino favorite Rosario Dawson is with Mr. Sanders. The socialist senator from Vermont has been neck and neck in campaign contributions with the former secretary of state month after month despite having a donor base that mostly gives under 30 a head. Mainstream celebrities have tended to voice their support for Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Sanders doesn't have Anna Wintour, who, with Harvey Weinstein, hosted a cocktail hour in October for Mrs. Clinton at the East Side home of Vera Wang, with attendees who included Martha Stewart and Michael Kors. Mr. Sanders doesn't have Tobey Maguire, who when he isn't playing cards for ungodly sums of money with Leonardo DiCaprio, is having his poker buddy over for Clinton fund raisers in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. (But Mr. Sanders does have Mark Ruffalo and Danny DeVito.) Amy Schumer is aboard Team Hillary. So are Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer of "Broad City," who had Mrs. Clinton on their show last month. In September, Lena Dunham had a friendly chat with Mrs. Clinton that was published in Lenny Letter, Ms. Dunham's feminist newsletter. In January, Ms. Dunham hit the campaign trail, heading to Iowa, where she donned a red white and blue dress and spoke to potential voters about how Mrs. Clinton's resilience in the face of public antipathy had inspired her. "As a newly grown up woman who has experienced my fair share of backlash, of public shaming and of puritanical judgments, that really moves me," Ms. Dunham said. The fund raisers themselves are another point of distinction between the campaigns. Where Mrs. Clinton has luncheons in the Pacific Palisades, with tickets going for 2,700, Mr. Sanders has raucous concerts at trendy downtown Los Angeles hotels, like the Ace, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. "That's what blows my mind," said Chris Kantrowitz, an app developer in Los Angeles who goes out with Sting's daughter Mickey Sumner, and helped organize the affair. "I could have landed them 1 million because the show is so epic, and they turned it down so everyone would have a good time." The Flash Factory event, meanwhile, was free. Ms. Sarandon again delivered a series of bristling remarks about Mrs. Clinton from the stage. The audience whooped and hollered in support. At the side of the stage, Ms. Sumner was wearing overalls and a baby blue Sanders T shirt. Upon concluding her speech, Ms. Sarandon moved back to the V.I.P. area, where a man in a mandarin collared Chinese shirt tried to tell her about his attempts to get his mother to vote for Mr. Sanders. Bands were playing cover versions of songs like "Burning Down the House" and "Disco Inferno," swapping out the original lyrics in favor of Bernie centered bromides. D.J.s spun a steady stream of club classics, the sort heard not at Studio 54 but the grittier, more knowing Paradise Garage. Backstage, Winnie Wong, a former organizer of Occupy Wall Street, held court with bands like the Onyx Collective. Ms. Wong, 40, helped organize People for Bernie she described it as the largest grass roots organization associated with the Sanders campaign in February 2015 after leading an unsuccessful campaign to draft Senator Elizabeth Warren for president. She has a bob haircut, a septum piercing and was wearing a floral print coat over a pair of fitted black jeans from Acne. How would her preferred candidate react if he knew his New York emissary had on a pair of 200 jeans? Yet today, Mr. Clooney and his wife, Amal, are preparing for an April 16 fund raiser on behalf of the Hillary Victory Fund at their Mediterranean home in the Studio City section of Los Angeles. It costs up to 33,000 a head, and the guest list is expected to be heavily weighted with people who ditched the Clintons in 2008 and have returned in 2016, as if nothing ever went wrong. One is Andy Spahn, who advises Hollywood titans like Mr. Spielberg on charitable endeavors. Another is Mr. Katzenberg, who, along with Mr. Spielberg, already made a 1 million donation to a "super PAC" for Mrs. Clinton. Janice Min, the editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter, said she was not surprised to hear that Clinton defectors from 2008 were returning to the fold. "When it gets down to the brass tacks, people are pragmatic," she said. "These are people who get audiences to go see 'Batman v Superman' even though it's not any good."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
Patricia Raynes, a rider at the 44th edition of the Hampton Classic, which is one of the largest and certainly richest outdoor horse shows in the country. BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. They look innocent enough, the 6 pony rides near the entrance to the Hampton Classic, the splashy outdoor horse show that is the Burning Man of the boots and spurs set. Around and around go the toddlers on Jazz, the long maned roan pony, as their parents snap smartphone candids. Little do they imagine that this simple photo op may prove to have been the gateway drug to a costly horse sport addiction. Undoubtedly if those selfsame parents paused to consider how much money they would end up spending over a lifetime on what may be among the costliest of all athletic pursuits, they would quickly hustle their tykes off to see the llamas at the on grounds petting zoo. But that won't happen. This is the Hamptons, after all, where conspicuous consumption is an Olympics caliber sport. By midmorning on the Friday before Labor Day, the supply of 100 a pound lobster salad at the Loaves Fishes food stand has all but run out, and the shelves at Citarella resemble those of a Gulf Coast Publix in advance of a hurricane. The eastward crawl on Route 27 has become a cartoon motorcade of Maseratis, Lamborghini, convertible Bentleys and, during this 44th edition of the Hampton Classic, Ford F 350 trucks towing air conditioned 4 Star gooseneck horse trailers, a form of equine transport that Horse Hound magazine once judged as luxurious as a five star hotel. That fact is not lost on the show's organizers. At 25 square miles, Southampton (of which Bridgehampton forms a part) is one of the larger towns in the United States, encompassing both some of the country's priciest real estate and, in certain pockets, people living paycheck to paycheck. "You have houses on the beach that cost 50 million," said Dennis Suskind, a former general partner of Goldman Sachs and president of the Hampton Classic for over three decades. "And people in Flanders" a hamlet south of the Peconic River "who have trouble to pay the electric bill." With that in mind, Mr. Suskind pegged admission to the show at 10, adding: "If you say you can't afford it, we'll let you in anyway." If admission is affordable, the same cannot be said for participation in a show where a four legged athlete can easily be valued at more than half a million dollars. As with everything else in the Hamptons, lines are ineluctably drawn between haves and have nots on the emerald green lawns of the 65 acre show grounds, hemmed by the hedges that are the area's defining horticultural element. A horseshoe of tented pavilions faces a newly reconstructed Grand Prix Arena, with its formidable vertical jumps paid for and carrying the logos of luxury brands like NetJets and Hermes. The least expensive cost roughly 4,000, Mr. Suskind said, and are set near the caterer's bar or the arena entry, well away from sightlines optimal for experiencing the adrenaline rush produced by watching a rider vault a six foot obstacle. The sum paid by high rollers like Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, for a table closest to those jumps is roughly 50,000. "He's not going to pay 4,000 to watch his daughter ride," Mr. Suskind said, referring to Georgina Bloomberg, a decorated equestrian daughter of Mr. Bloomberg. "There are certain class distinctions involved." That may be. Yet, while the archaic essence of most horse shows has altered little over the four decades of the Hampton Classic's existence (its sartorial guidelines alone make the National Football League's uniform regulations look permissive) few would dispute that class is not quite what it used to be. Historically , horse sport was a pursuit of the landed and, in its earliest iterations, the Classic could still be counted on to draw out what remained of the clubby Hamptons summer elite. The origins of the show can be traced to the early 1900s and a genteel horse show held in Southampton as a hospital benefit. Discontinued after World War I, it was briefly revived in the 1920s and then discontinued until 1952, an on again, off again history that resumed when the Southampton Horse show became the Hampton Classic in 1977. It has been some time since blue blood members of the East End gentry people with names like Phipps or Murray or Bouvier dominated Hamptons society in its broadest sense. The V.I.P.s expected over this particular long weekend, said Christopher Robbins , the show's longtime caterer, include the "Real Housewives" Ramona Singer, Jill Zarin and Luann de Lesseps, almost birthright members of a reality TV aristocracy. Yes, Billy Joel had also been spotted watching an equitation class on family day, Mr. Robbins said. But Mr. Joel is such a low key constant in an area he calls home (the singer lives in nearby Sag Harbor) that remarking you have seen the Piano Man is not unlike saying you once drove past the Big Duck. What is seldom mentioned is how static the celebrity population is in Long Island's coveted summer towns. People come to the Hamptons, it seems, and stay put. This was true of the Abstract Expressionists (many of whom Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning stuck around permanently at the bucolic Green River Cemetery in Springs.) It was true of people like George Plimpton, James Jones and Truman Capote, the boozy "Sagg Main" set that congregated for years at Bobby Van's. It is still true, to judge by the number of Alec Baldwin mentions in the gossip section of Dan's Papers, the venerable East End rag. Brooke Shields turns up routinely at the Hampton Classic, as do Christie Brinkley and Donna Karan, occasionally with Barbra Streisand in tow. Bruce Springsteen and his wife, Patti Scialfa, are regulars (their daughter, Jessica, is a top level equestrian), and so are Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld, Kelly Ripa, George Soros and Sting. Notoriety seems to be short lived here, too, to judge by the appearance of Matt Lauer, the former NBC co anchor, at the Hampton Classic on Wednesday morning, a day of near Biblical rain. Despite having been, as Mr. Robbins said, "socially exorcised" from the Hamptons after his dismissal from NBC in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct, there was Mr. Lauer grinning broadly beneath a Yankees cap as his ex wife, Annette Roque, took photos of their 15 year old daughter, Romy, in the show ring. Contradictions, after all, are as essential an element of the Hamptons as sweet corn and farm stand tomatoes at 6 a pound. And the tales still told of talented but impecunious riders scrapping their way to the Classic on the back of some gifted nag discovered in a barnyard seem more than ever like myth. "Everything about it is costly," Kevin Babington, a leading rider said Thursday morning. After schooling his award winning Irish chestnut gelding, Mr. Babington dismounted in a tent set aside for top riders and handed him off to a groom. Son of the owners of a small department store in County Tipperary, Ireland, Mr. Babington expressed the same amazement a neophyte to the horse world might feel that one of humankind's oldest pursuits has evolved into one of its costliest. Bodily risks aside, Mr. Babington added, the sport is clearly not for the faint of heart. Consider, he said, the 4,000 monthly fees charged by some barns for boarding; the 1,500 Der Dau boots favored by many riders; an imposing list of tack room essentials (bridles, saddles, martingales, girths, blankets, coolers, fly nets, galloping boots, spurs and crops for a start); the 300 fees required to enter certain show classes; the 100 it costs to braid a show horse's mane and tail; and the fact that many horses require new shoeing almost as often as Sarah Jessica Parker. There is, too, the steep price tag on the animals themselves. In the barn Mr. Babington shared this week with fellow professional riders there was more than one horse whose value exceeded 5 million. "My kids are just starting to get into the sport," said Mr. Babington, who recently swept the top three places at the Lake Placid Horse Show. "I asked them, 'Couldn't you take up tennis instead?'" Note: On Friday afternoon, Mr. Babington would suffer serious injuries in a fall from his horse, Shorapur, at the Hampton Classic. Mr. Babington, who is 51, was airlifted by Suffolk County police to Stony Brook Hospital. Hampton Classic officials did not provide further information on his injuries or condition.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
A Shop Vac that retails for 45,280? Fortunately, a new 2014 Honda Odyssey Touring Elite van is included. Tom Voelk discovers that the built in vacuum has the power to keep up with 5 year old twins. WOLFEBORO, N.H. When it came time to update its popular Odyssey minivan for 2014, Honda opted not to make a clean sweep: it just tidied up around the edges. Exterior changes to the fourth generation van are so subtle they practically fall into the "if you say so" category, and the body sides retain a distinctive but polarizing character line that Honda calls the "lightning bolt." While Honda has added some convenience features, it devoted much of its attention to improved crash safety. And, in keeping with the times, it has raised the fuel efficiency a bit on some versions. But the big attention grabber is an addition that Honda claims to be an industry first, and one it is heavily promoting in its advertising and marketing of the new Odyssey: a built in vacuum cleaner intended to appeal to parents of small children, pet owners and the terminally sloppy. Called the HondaVac, it was developed in conjunction with the Shop Vac Corporation and is tucked into the left bulkhead of the rear cargo area. Its hose stretches barely to the farthest reaches of the interior. I tested the top of the line EX L Touring Elite, which for 45,280 included the HondaVac and just about everything else short of the kitchen sink. The base LX model starts at 29,655. My brother, visiting from Ohio, used the integrated vacuum to easily clean up dog hair. I stretched the hose to the front footwells to suck up some gravel tracked in from the driveway. Alhough Honda did not completely re engineer the Odyssey, it made significant structural changes to enhance front end crash protection. The Odyssey uses the second generation of Honda's A.C.E. body structure (for Advanced Compatibility Engineering), which includes high strength steel. Honda credits this reinforced structure for helping most of its new models get the top grade in the new, more stringent small overlap crash test that the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety began conducting last year. The new Odyssey scored the highest rating, Good; because it also received Good ratings in the institute's other crash tests, it received the highest overall designation, Top Safety Pick . No other minivans have yet been subjected to the small offset test. In another effort to improve passenger safety, Honda changed the design of the side curtain air bags so that they extend farther forward. All models now have a rearview camera, and trim levels starting with the midlevel EX L get forward collision and lane departure warning systems. These provide visual and audible alerts if sensors detect an impending crash or if the vehicle strays from its lane. Honda has also included blind spot monitors. The Touring Elite that I tested flashes warnings on the housing of the side view mirrors if a car is detected in the blind spots. Other trim levels get the Honda LaneWatch that first appeared on the Accord: it incorporates a tiny camera on the passenger side mirror that displays a view down the van's right side on the center dashboard screen. The engine is essentially the same as last year's, a 3.5 liter V 6 that makes 248 horsepower. But all versions now come with a 6 speed automatic transmission. Previously, all but the top two trim lines had 5 speeds. The 2014 Odyssey is rated 19 m.p.g. in the city and 28 on the highway, up 1 m.p.g. in either driving mode over the old 5 speed. The Odyssey continues to have a mileage advantage over its main competitors, the Toyota Sienna (rated 18/25) and the Chrysler Town Country and Dodge Grand Caravan (17/25). My best real world mileage in the 2014 Odyssey was 26.7 m.p.g. on a 214 mile round trip with just one passenger. My worst was 21 m.p.g. on a 180 mile round trip from northern New Hampshire to this town on Lake Winnipesaukee with six people on board. Over all, the Odyssey works well as a family room on wheels. It is spacious and seats up to eight. Even adults as tall at 6 foot 4 can sit comfortably in the third row without making passengers in the second row seats which slide forward and back for legroom adjustments suffer. The Odyssey is reasonably quiet on most road surfaces for such a big, boxy vehicle, and the ride is comfortable. My one gripe continues to be the steering. Heading into a turn is a good time for steering to have some weight and feel. But that's precisely when the Odyssey's steering feel seems to get lighter and gives up communicating anything to the driver. The navigation system had some quirks. If you decide to deviate from the mapped route, it does not give up and recalculate as quickly as some others do. And twice it told us that we had arrived several miles before our true destinations, one of which was a major hotel. In recent years, although the Odyssey has not been the No. 1 minivan in J. D. Power's Initial Quality or Vehicle Dependability studies, it has come in second to various competitors. According to ALG, a company that estimates the future value of leased vehicles, the Odyssey is likely to retain more value after three years than any other minivan. Even though it has some minor flaws and the vacuum could be considered gimmicky, Honda is doing something right. Although the Sienna has a more powerful engine and an all wheel drive option and the Grand Caravan is less expensive, the Odyssey has been outselling its competition this year. With families continuing their exodus to crossovers from vans LMC Automotive says the minivan share of the vehicle market has slipped to 3.4 percent this year, from 8.5 percent in 1995 Honda is hoping a gee whiz gimmick like the vacuum will generate some new customers.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
EIFMAN BALLET at New York City Center (June 7, 8 p.m.; June 8, 2 and 8 p.m.; June 9, 2 p.m.). The Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady," soon ending its run, is a modern take on the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion and his creation, Galatea. Now from St. Petersburg, Russia, comes "The Pygmalion Effect" by the choreographer Boris Eifman, known for his maximalist and often quirky stagings of well known stories. In this telling, to the music of Johann Strauss Jr., the sculptor is instead a ballroom dancer who seeks to transform an awkward girl into a star. Ballet is the primary dance language, but in the ostentatious style and boisterous spirit of this production, "The Pygmalion Effect" could be a distant cousin of the Lerner and Loewe show uptown. 212 581 1212, nycitycenter.org Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead. PILOBOLUS at the Joyce Theater (June 11 12, 7:30 p.m.; June 13 14, 8 p.m.; through June 29). It has been five years since the members of this animated, audience pleasing troupe performed at the Joyce, but they're making up for it with a three week residency comprising two programs of dances made from 1971 to 2017. The most recent work is "Branches," set to the sounds of nature and inspired by the woods of the Berkshires, where it was first performed. The oldest is 1971's "Walklyndon," a quartet that epitomizes the company's founding philosophy of playful physicality. Both programs feature "Rushes," a 2007 collaboration with the Israeli choreographer Inbal Pinto that allows Pilobolus to exhibit a rare melancholic poignancy. 212 242 0800, joyce.org SUNDAYS ON BROADWAY at Weis Acres (June 9, 6 p.m.). This intimate performance series, held in Cathy Weis's downtown loft, concludes its spring season with a program curated by Weis and Emily Climer. Their guests include Jeremy Nelson and Luis Lara Malvacias, presenting the seventh in a series of improvised duets that explore time and aging, and Walter Dundervill and the video artist Iki Nakagawa, who have turned the process of creating a dance film into its own work. A programmatic gap in the fall was creatively filled by improvisational dances from a number of artists, and that fix was so successful it will be repeated as "Shorties," described in press materials as "a flurry of micro dances," featuring 10 artists in one to two minute improvisations. cathyweis.org PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at the Manhattan School of Music (June 7, 8 p.m.; June 8, 2 and 8 p.m.; June 9, 2 p.m.; June 11 12, 7 p.m.; through June 23). There was something about Bach that brought out the best in Paul Taylor. Whether he found in the composer a profound joy, as in the carefree classic "Esplanade," set to a violin concerto, or romantic despair, as with "Promethean Fire," danced to the organ blasts of "Toccata and Fugue," Taylor seemed in direct communication with Bach. As part of its Bach Festival, and in memory of Taylor, the Orchestra of St. Luke's presents a program of his Bach dances, as well as a world premiere by the very busy, much admired choreographer Pam Tanowitz. 917 493 4428, msmnyc.edu/performances	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Dance
CONTENDER 1214 Fifth Avenue, with 53 stories, claims the mantle of tallest on the Upper East Side. GROWING up in Chicago, I remember hearing stories of the architectural feats required to build the Sears (now Willis) Tower and the John Hancock Center, two of the tallest buildings in the world. Huge X shaped braces, for example, were needed to absorb the biting winds that blew in from Lake Michigan. And there were surprises once people moved in. Residents of the highest floors in the John Hancock sometimes had to call their doormen to ask about the weather because their apartments were above the clouds. What is it that drives some people to live so high up? And developers to keep building ever taller edifices? New York, it seems, is entering a tall buildings arms race. By 2016, New York could have 6 of the 10 tallest buildings in the country (with Chicago having the other 4), and 3 of the highest residential structures, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in Chicago. Following New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street and the mammoth One57 at 157 West 57th Street, even taller residential towers are in the works, including 432 Park Avenue on the site of the former Drake Hotel, and the GiraSole, proposed for 11th Avenue on the Far West Side. Both of those buildings would be taller than One57, which will be Manhattan's tallest residential building, at 1,004 feet, when it is completed next year. And 432 Park Avenue, a condo structure scheduled to be finished in 2016, would be 1,398 feet, surpassing One57 and second in height only to One World Trade Center, an office complex, the Council on Tall Buildings said. Then there is 1214 Fifth Avenue, which is being pitched as the "tallest residential building on the Upper East Side," though it is actually in Harlem. The 53 story building, to open June 15, will have 185 rental apartments set atop 20 floors of doctors' offices. Taller residential buildings make sense in a city like New York, of course. People are attracted to high altitude residences because of the dramatic views they afford. For developers, the higher the building, the more square footage to sell or rent. Marketing strategies have often turned on "highest" and "tallest" designations. When Donald J. Trump built Trump Tower at 721 Fifth Avenue in 1982, it was billed as the tallest "all glass structure" in the city. Today, at 664 feet, it appears as the city's 52nd tallest building over all. Concern about Mr. Trump's pride in such things apparently led Frank Gehry to make his New York rental tower a few feet lower than Trump World Tower. He told the developer, Bruce Ratner, to "make it a foot lower so we don't have to deal with" Mr. Trump, The Observer quoted Mr. Gehry as saying in 2010 (to which Mr. Trump replied that he was "not a fan of much of" Mr. Gehry's work, "although he is a darling"). Lately, amid the hysteria for luxury apartments being fueled in large part by wealthy foreigners, something else has happened. While there has always been a premium for living on higher floors, developers are packing the biggest apartments in the top floors, giving them leverage to charge even more, said Jonathan J. Miller, the president of Miller Samuel, a real estate appraiser. "The higher you go up, the higher the values go," Mr. Miller said. "Not only are you incentivized to put more floors on the space than zoning permits, but there is a premium on those higher floors on a per square foot basis." But as with most issues in New York real estate, there are trade offs. Height does give residents bragging rights, but you generally can't have a terrace (or open your window at times) because of strong winds. None Testing the Limits: Only three of New York's 25 tallest residential buildings have completed safety tasks required by the city. The Downside to Life in a Supertall: 432 Park faces some significant design problems, and other luxury high rises may share its fate. Luxury Developers' Loophole: Soaring towers are able to push high into the sky because of a loophole in the city's labyrinthine zoning laws. An Evolving Skyline: The high rise building boom has transformed the city's skyline in recent years. Its impact will echo for years to come. Hidden Feats: Our critic looks at some supertall N.Y.C. buildings and how the ingenuity of engineers helped build landmarks. Most of New York's tallest residential buildings are in Midtown. It's an area that lends itself to tall structures because of its popularity with well heeled foreign buyers who are less interested in neighborhoods than in park views and easy walks to theaters and luxury shopping, Mr. Miller said. With so many developers claiming rights to superlatives about their buildings, I decided to investigate a bit more. I started with the structure that is claiming the title of Tallest in the Upper East 1214 Fifth. An official from Related Companies, the building's leasing agent and management company, gave me a tour. It was a gloomy day to see the building, which is just down the street from Mount Sinai Hospital, at 4 East 102nd Street. The lobby is unfinished, as are many other parts of the building. Workers in hard hats bustled about. The apartments themselves are generously sized and boast impressive views of the northeast end of Central Park. The residences have spacious entranceways, roomy closets and luxury finishes, including hidden dishwashers, stainless steel appliances and marble bathrooms. "We were very specific in making sure that we appeal to that Upper East Side idea," said Daria Salusbury, a senior vice president of Related. Prices range from 5,500 to 6,500 a month (depending on how high up you are) for a 950 square foot one bedroom, to 9,000 for a 1,700 square foot three bedroom three bath. A duplex penthouse with a 20 foot high ceiling can be had for 10,500 a month. Related is betting that the building, located amid a sea of co ops on Fifth Avenue, can rise above the competition in the scorching hot Manhattan rental market. Ms. Salusbury said she already had a "V.I.P. wait list" of people who have called to inquire about available rentals. Yet for all its claims of regional superiority, 1214 Fifth, at 513 feet, will be the 183rd tallest building in New York. "It's like an eagle soaring out here," Ms. Salusbury said, while showing off the view from a 53rd floor duplex penthouse. Staring at the softball fields, the bride favorite conservatory and ant sized bikers in the park, I couldn't help but wonder: Are people more likely to get vertigo from the height itself, or from the price tag for these views?	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
After a period of uncertainty and turmoil, Soho Rep will return to its longtime home with a new season that includes new works from Aleshea Harris and Jackie Sibblies Drury. In September, the company abruptly closed its longtime theater at 46 Walker Street because of previously unknown building restrictions that interfered with a production. However, officials at City Hall intervened to help resolve the issues. ("They are a downtown beacon," Julie Menin, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, said in an interview published in April in The New York Times.) Soho Rep has since successfully completed a 500,000 fund raising campaign to pay for renovations, which are scheduled to be done by this fall. The first play in the intimate 70 seat house after the renovations will be the world premiere of Ms. Harris's "Is God Is," which will run Feb. 6 through March 11. The play won the 2016 Relentless Award, a prize given in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and also appeared on the 2017 Kilroys list, which honored new plays by women of color. "Is God Is" follows twin sisters on a journey for revenge, and draws from "the ancient, the modern, the tragic, the spaghetti western, hip hop and Afropunk," a statement said. Taibi Magar will direct.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Theater
It was 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, and Hilary Wagner was getting choked up. She and her fiance, Tyler Train, were driving to Pelican Hill Golf Club in Newport Beach, Calif., where they'd be scouting the oceanside resort for their upcoming nuptials. Ms. Wagner's tears might have been happy ones if she and Mr. Train were making the trip willingly rather than under duress. But the pair, both 28, were dealing with the unthinkable: Less than a week ahead of their Nov. 17 wedding, they learned that their original venue, Saddlerock Ranch vineyard in Malibu, Calif., had been severely damaged in the Woolsey Fire, one of several violent infernos currently ravaging parts of the state. "We couldn't get any real time information about venues that had burned down," Ms. Wagner said. "Last Friday we stayed up all night crying, but we kept holding out hope. We thought maybe Saddlerock was spared." Sunday morning brought bad news directly from Saddlerock Ranch. It was closed, and it would stay that way as long as roads remain closed to the public. The revelation left them reeling, but Ms. Wagner and Mr. Train had 125 guests to think about. Half were traveling to California for the event from New York, Florida and their home state of Texas. And so they changed course. "I started calling and emailing venues," Ms. Wagner said. "I even put friends and family on it." Hilary Wagner and her fiance, Tyler Train, during their engagement photo shoot. The couple's original wedding site, Saddlerock Ranch vineyard in Malibu, Calif., was closed because of the wildfires. Ms. Wagner, an account director for Ibex Global, and Mr. Train, an associate attorney at Ferguson Case Orr Paterson, are among dozens of couples who've had to cram a year's worth of wedding planning into the span of a week because of an especially devastating California wildfire season. As of Thursday, the Woolsey Fire had been proclaimed the largest on record in Los Angeles County, with the blaze charring more than 97,000 acres and killing at least three people. An estimated 250,000 Angelenos have been evacuated, and the flames are 53 percent contained. (The Camp Fire, the largest and deadliest in the state's history, has devastated Northern California, with at least 56 people killed as of Thursday and about 200 still missing.) Among the 57,000 structures in the line of the Woolsey Fire, many were set to host wedding celebrations in the coming weeks, including the Lodge at Malibou Lake in Agoura Hills, Calif. "By 7 a.m. on Friday morning, my phone was blowing up," said Cordelia Culver, the Lodge managing director and caterer. "There was a huge amount of tension, not knowing whether our venue was being burned to the ground or not." Ultimately the structure was spared, but an evacuation forced Ms. Culver to cancel the next day's event. "At first you're like, 'Well, maybe we'll be able to have a wedding,'" she said. "Then you just have to make the call that clearly that's not going to happen." Ms. Culver, 44, took to social media in the hope of finding a replacement venue for the Lodge's Nov. 10 client, which is when she teamed with Jessica Carrillo, the owner of Art Soul Events in West Los Angeles and an administrator in the wedding themed Facebook group "Something Borrowed, Something New." Together they along with others in the events community became a de facto crisis response team, acting fast to compile a living document of bookable venues and vendors and make it available to the group's nearly 8,000 members. "There were so many things being retweeted that weren't true about which venues are standing and which ones aren't," Ms. Carrillo, 36, said. "I don't know if there are any sort of emergency help vendors, but if you're one of those couples who didn't hire a wedding planner, you're at a complete loss. So I thought, let me just get some names and dates and contact information for anyone that's scrambling." Thanks to their quick thinking, Ms. Culver was able to move the Nov. 10 wedding to a space called the Holding Company in the Los Angeles suburb of Westlake. "The bride and groom were so thankful," Ms. Culver said. "I've been catering weddings for over a decade, and this is what you do. You produce. You make it happen. Our Sunday bride we refunded, though, because she couldn't let go of the dream of a Lodge wedding." Ms. Wagner faced a similar internal struggle during the relocation process. "What makes me most sad is that no matter where I go, I'm giving up my vision," she said. "That's been the hardest thing. I had this dream of a winery wedding, and all of a sudden, it's gone." But she's grateful to have some perspective. "We're not in the worst situation. People are losing their homes." Ms. Culver feels similarly. "It's like triaging an emergency but also knowing this is a wedding," she said. In the midst of chaos, the Los Angeles area wedding community is banding together to help couples pull off the impossible. There are stories of venues fully reimbursing early deposits. "I've heard Stonewall Ranch has been refunding people left and right," Ms. Carrillo said of another damaged Malibu location. Vendors and venue owners have also been waiving food minimums or site fees to ameliorate the stress of paying twice over for a wedding. These small gestures have been an invaluable bright spot for Ms. Wagner and Mr. Train. "Every time I get an email from a vendor it makes me cry they've been so understanding," Ms. Wagner said. "And the venues are jumping through hoops to make this happen. When we first got engaged our dream location was actually Pelican Hill, but it ended up being way too expensive. But as soon as I called and explained, they said, 'We have an opening Nov. 17, and we want to make it work.' I can't believe that out of all the craziness and devastation, our dream venue happens to be open, and they happen to be willing to throw us a bone. It's crazy how much good will people have in these situations." In a state where wildfires are commonplace, it wouldn't be unreasonable for couples to plan around fire season (which typically peaks in September and early October). And yet Ms. Culver finds such foresight to be a rarity. "I don't think anybody thinks about that," she sad. "But I think they will now." Even if the bride and groom aren't thinking about it, though, Ms. Carrillo said she'll be taking it into consideration from here on out: "I am getting extra extra fire insurance for my 2019 clients."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
The tiny town of Amenia, N.Y., population 4,436, is perhaps best known for its hamlet of Wassaic, the last stop on the Metro North Railroad's Harlem line and home to an artists' community that hosts an annual festival there. Bordering Connecticut in rural Dutchess County, Amenia has had a tough time since its largest employer, an institution for the developmentally disabled, closed two years ago. But things may soon be looking up for the town, as a luxury development gets underway that will build more than 200 homes priced from 1 million to more than 10 million. The upscale project sets out to redefine what it is to have a country house in the Hudson Valley. It hopes to draw waves of Hollywood stars and business tycoons more common to the Hamptons than to this sleepy area, where a six bedroom Victorian home is on the market for less than 295,000 and a 27 acre plot is selling for just 99,000. The Discovery Land Company, the developer behind Montana's Yellowstone Club, where the billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Justin Timberlake own homes, is moving ahead with plans to build an 850 acre project called the Silo Ridge Field Club. Along with 245 homes, the gated community will feature an 18 hole golf course designed by the golf architect Tom Fazio and 250 million worth of amenities, including an organic community garden, a spa, an equestrian center and an outdoor theater. "There is nothing in this area with this level of amenities and luxury and services," said Michael Meldman, the flashy chief executive of Discovery Land, who once dated Brandi Glanville of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and is an owner of the liquor brand Casamigos Tequila, along with George Clooney and Rande Gerber, the night life entrepreneur and husband of Cindy Crawford. Silo Ridge, which is roughly 90 minutes from New York City by car and two hours by train, is the latest Discovery Land project and its first in the Northeast. "What I love about Silo Ridge is that it is an outdoor pursuit haven; we will have a huge organic garden and a food to table program, and also hunting, fishing, hiking and mountain biking all this stuff adds to our experience," Mr. Meldman said. "Obviously, the primary amenity is golf, but there is so much more to do out there than just golf." For New Yorkers in search of a second home, the Hudson Valley, with its small towns and rural feel, has long been considered a more laid back and affordable alternative to the Hamptons. Of course, there are a select number of large estates and horse farms, particularly in towns like Millbrook, N.Y. Still, multimillion dollar homes are far from the norm and Silo Ridge, with its exclusive, rarefied aesthetic, will stand out. "This is a brand new approach for this area, no question about it," said Elyse Harney Morris, a broker and an owner at Elyse Harney Real Estate, which is based in nearby Salisbury, Conn. "There are not really any comparative properties, because Discovery Land Company is selling a whole lifestyle, with the golf course and the spa and riding facilities. It is not just a farm." From her vantage, the development is likely to increase demand for homes in the area and "is going to have a very positive impact on real estate prices." Victoria Perotti, the supervisor for the town of Amenia, is hoping that Silo Ridge will bring in much needed jobs. "We don't have any light industry and our largest employer has closed, so this will be a big revenue boost for us," she said, referring to the Wassaic campus of the Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services Office, which closed in 2013. Silo Ridge, Ms. Perotti said, is estimated to create 3,000 construction jobs and 200 full and part time jobs for local residents, as well as to generate 7.7 million in annual tax revenue over the next decade. "We welcome anyone from anywhere," Ms. Perotti said. "Whether it is going to be people living in a gated community who have more high end salaries or not, they are all part of the fabric of Amenia." The Discovery Land Company, which is partnering with the development firm Stone Leaf Partners, has broken ground on the Silo Ridge golf course, but it is still awaiting final approvals before it can officially begin selling homes there. Discovery Land, which is based in Scottsdale, Ariz., has also built a private racecar track in California with its own fleet of Porsche Caymans, a 585 acre gated community in the Bahamas, three projects in Hawaii and the El Dorado Golf and Beach Club in Los Cabos, Mexico, which has a golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. The company is also working its way through an approval process in the Hamptons, with plans to construct 108 homes on 594 acres in East Quogue and to redevelop the Dune Deck Beach Resort on exclusive Dune Road. It plans to target New Yorkers in the market for a second home, as well as many members who already own at its other projects some 30 percent of its members at the Yellowstone Club are from New York, and the bulk of its owners at its Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club in the Bahamas are also from the New York area, according to Discovery Land. It is also targeting families whose children attend one of the many boarding schools in the area, including the Millbrook School and, in Connecticut, the Hotchkiss School and the Kent School. The development in Amenia, which will be designed by Hart Howerton, will be family focused. It will be centered around a 30,000 square foot clubhouse, with a spa, fitness center and lap pool, as well as a tennis center and farm to table dining. The spa will feature a nutritionist and doctor who can devise diet and exercise plans. The children's area will be focused on the so called Red Barn, a clubhouse of sorts that will feature a juice bar, a family pool, a kids camp, game room and arts and crafts center, as well as an outdoor theater and lakeside pavilion. A field house will offer indoor facilities such as squash and basketball, as well as batting cages, fields and coaching services, and there will be shooting and archery ranges. An equestrian center is also being built with a barn to house roughly 15 horses. Staff will be on hand to teach families how to fly fish. Members will have access to miles of mountain biking and horseback riding trails, as well as the ability to shoot sporting clays and hunt at the nearby Tamarack Preserve. The development "isn't just for little kids or adults, but also the teenagers and tweens who are the toughest segment to corral," said Steven D. Adelson, a partner of Discovery Land. "The most precious commodity is time and what we do is create the ability for families to spend quality time together." Another key feature will be the development's organic farm, which will employ a horticulturist and supply food to the dining facilities. Families will have plots to farm their own organic produce if they choose. The farm and restaurant are inspired by the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. "We have a state of the art hydroponic and organic farm in our development in the Bahamas, as well as in Mexico, Idaho and Montana, so it is a big part of our corporate culture," Mr. Adelson said. "But there is no better place to do this than in the bread basket of New York, in the Hudson Valley." As for the homes, the 245 planned individual properties will have customized lots that range from three quarters of an acre to 2.5 acres. They will include predesigned houses with customized finishes, priced at an average of 5 million but going up to more than 10 million. Sixty one condominiums and townhouse style homes will be priced from 1 million to the upper 3 million range. Members at Silo Ridge will pay annual dues of 24,000 in addition to an initiation fee of 100,000.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
The New York Philharmonic's current program is a tale of two women: a violinist and a composer. On the first half of the concert Thursday evening at David Geffen Hall, Janine Jansen was a radiant soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto, renewing that war horse with subtly ardent playing. After intermission, Tania Leon, 76, presented her first ever piece for the full Philharmonic, and rose to her belated debut with music of unsettled understatement and quietly ominous power. By now it is no surprise when Ms. Jansen provides a performance of sensitivity and elegance. But it nevertheless feels like a gift each time, especially coming from an artist who has lately struggled with and canceled because of a left arm injury. She has only appeared with the Philharmonic twice before, and not since 2011, so it is a joy to have her back. Ms. Jansen doesn't overplay or press after effect. Her intensity accrues almost imperceptibly over the course of this 40 minute concerto; she builds urgency slowly, by sustaining her silvery tone even at a whisper and by pulling back to let voices from the orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden, amplify her line. (Among the world's star soloists, she's as keen a listener, as adept and intimate a chamber partner, as it gets.) This was supremely restrained playing, though not without meaty muscle in double stops. Her first movement cadenza was a dance that had one foot in an aristocratic court and the other in the country. Her trills alone varied in speed and color, from fluttery delicacy to slightly heavier, more sensuous were a master class. The overall effect was of a coiled energy that kept expanding because it was kept so controlled. Surely this was one of the most memorable star turns of the Philharmonic's season so far. Ms. Leon was a new music adviser to the Philharmonic in the 1990s, but it didn't end up playing her work then. The orchestra is making up for lost time as part of Project 19, a multiyear initiative to commission 19 female composers to honor the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women. "Stride," Ms. Leon's 15 minute submission, was, she said in a recent interview, inspired by the courage of Susan B. Anthony and Ms. Leon's progressive grandmother. A soft whisper of violins yields to sighing, drooping sounds throughout the strings, then forthright brass fanfares begin; they recur throughout the piece, a kind of periodic annunciation. A jauntier section, with some wildly squiggling, jazzy wind solos, is eventually weighed down by a trudging undercurrent, a sense of funeral beneath the party. The pace quickens, then slumps back into a seething quivering. Bells sound at the end, with a West African beat shuffling alongside a reminder, Ms. Leon said from the stage before the performance, that black women were excluded from the right that was granted by the 19th Amendment. "Stride" which Ms. Leon described as being about bounding forward seems an odd title for a piece that is, beautifully, without much sense of forward motion. And it was even odder to follow this ultimately muted, hauntingly inconclusive work with Hurricane "Rosenkavalier": the popular suite drawn from that Strauss opera, given an all too forceful performance here that swept "Stride" off the stage. What could have made a better pairing than loud Viennese waltzes? If Mr. van Zweden wanted razzle dazzle, perhaps something by Gershwin or Bernstein the kind of bumptious American music to which Ms. Leon looks back, with loving yet wary eyes. Or Ellington. Or Ives, a precursor to her complex layerings. Or Janacek, who deployed similar brass fanfares for his own explorations of nationhood. The Philharmonic finally programmed Ms. Leon. But it could have served her better. This program continues through Tuesday at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center; 212 875 5656, nyphil.org.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Music
Re "The Best Care May Be No Care," by Sandeep Jauhar (Op Ed, June 23): As a physician, I read this Op Ed with horror. Dr. Jauhar notes that many people have been putting off routine medical care during the coronavirus pandemic because of fear of contracting the virus. He then proclaims that most people are doing fine despite not having this routine care, citing a survey showing that most Americans think their health has not been affected. This shortsighted analysis has the potential to do harm if readers are persuaded to forgo care that they need. Much of the routine care people receive in the outpatient setting is done before a disease manifests symptoms in order to catch it when it is more easily treatable. Furthermore, ignoring symptoms can have devastating consequences. Dr. Jauhar focuses on the cost saving implications of skipping "unnecessary" care without explaining the nuanced but very important difference between inappropriate and appropriate care. It is too soon to declare with confidence the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on non Covid related care. The results of these decisions will play out over many years and will certainly not be reflected in a survey being conducted just a few months into the pandemic. While it is likely true that a small percentage of surgeries and visits are unnecessary, that percentage is not the main cause of the increase in health care spending. Instead, it is administrative costs. Let's not blame the doctors.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Opinion
As coronavirus cases surge across the country, hospitals, nursing homes and private medical practices are facing a problem many had hoped would be resolved by now: a dire shortage of respirator masks, isolation gowns and disposable gloves that protect front line medical workers from infection. Unlike the crisis that caught a handful of big city hospitals off guard in March and April, the soaring demand for protective gear is now affecting a broad range of medical facilities across the country, a problem public health experts and major medical associations say could have been avoided if the federal government had embraced a more aggressive approach toward procuring and distributing critical supplies in the early days of the pandemic. Doctors at Memorial City Medical Center in Houston who treat Covid 19 patients have been told to reuse single use N95 respirator masks for up to 15 days before throwing them out. The country's largest organization of registered nurses found in a survey of its members in late June that 85 percent had been forced to reuse disposable N95 masks while treating coronavirus patients. In Florida, some hospitals are handing out only loosefitting surgical masks to workers treating newly admitted patients who may be asymptomatic carriers. The inability to find personal protective equipment, known as P.P.E., is starting to impede other critical areas of medicine too. Neurologists, cardiologists and cancer specialists around the country have been unable to reopen their offices in recent weeks, leaving many patients without care, according to the American Medical Association and other doctor groups. "We have kids living with grapefruit sized abscesses for over three months who can't eat or drink and there's nothing we can do for them because we can't get P.P.E.," said Kay Kennel, the chief officer of Lubbock Kids Dental, a clinic serving low income families in Texas that has a list of 50 children awaiting emergency surgery. "It's been just horrible, and given the growing number of infections here, I'm afraid things are going to get worse." In a coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence downplayed the shortages, but said the government was preparing to issue new guidance on the preservation and reuse of protective gear. "P.P.E., we hear, remains very strong," he said. Many of the problems of early spring, when hospital workers in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, California and other states first walloped by the virus scrambled to obtain rudimentary protective gear, have only grown. The United States remains dependent on overseas manufacturers and fly by night middlemen who have jacked up prices sevenfold amid soaring global demand, according to supply chain specialists and public health experts, who warn that the problem will intensify as the pandemic spreads. The handful of American companies still making protective equipment domestically say they are already at maximum capacity. "It's been chaos for us," said Randy Bury, president of the Good Samaritan Society, which has struggled to keep its 200 nursing homes supplied with hand sanitizer, masks and gowns. "The supply chain in the United States is not healthy, and we've learned we cannot depend on the government." The crisis has reinvigorated calls for President Trump to invoke the Defense Production Act and order American manufacturers to step in and help. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said this week that he would use that law to boost domestic protection of medical gear if elected. "It's incredibly frustrating because a lot of attention was paid to the need for ventilators early on in the pandemic, but now we're realizing that there's going to be a tremendous ongoing need for simple things like masks, gowns and face shields," said Dr. Susan R. Bailey, president of the American Medical Association, which last week wrote a letter to Mr. Pence urging the administration to use the Defense Production Act. "We need a national coordinated strategy." In recent weeks, congressional Democrats along with a growing number of governors and medical associations have been urging the White House to play a more muscular role in the production, procurement and distribution of crucial supplies. They are also urging the administration to tackle the flagrant price gouging that has frozen many long term care facilities, low income health clinics and small hospitals out of the market. Mr. Trump has resisted using federal powers to address the problem, saying in March that individual governors should find their own gear because "We're not a shipping clerk." With the National Strategic Stockpile depleted, states have been left to fend for themselves, though the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been distributing modest shipments of gear to nursing homes and long term care facilities. At GetUsPPE, a volunteer organization that helps health care facilities and workers find protective gear, demand has been rising sharply in states experiencing a surge of infections. In June, the amount of P.P.E. requested from medical providers in Iowa jumped 440 percent from the previous month, and more than 200 percent in Texas and Louisiana. "I feel horrible for the health care workers and hospitals that are dealing with this," said Dr. Ali Raja, a founder of the organization and an emergency room doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital. "They are crying out for help." Members of National Nurses United, the country's largest organization of registered nurses, said they were worried about the ability of reused masks to filter out virus particles after so much wear and tear. Many are also concerned about the health implications of a chemical decontamination process recently approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration that involves spraying soiled masks with hydrogen peroxide. The F.D.A. has also granted emergency authorization for decontamination procedures that use ultraviolet irradiation and moist heat, though regulators acknowledge that reusing disposable masks is less than ideal. The risks are not abstract. More than 900 health care workers have died of Covid 19, according to a tally by the organization, and Ms. Burger said many of the deaths have been linked to inadequate protective gear. "There are tools at President Trump's disposal and he has failed us," she said. "These deaths are entirely preventable." FEMA has been distributing 14 day supplies of gear to nursing homes, but many providers have quickly burned through the shipments. There have also been widespread complaints about defective equipment, including child size gloves, gowns without armholes and loosefitting cloth masks that are ineffective for filtering out virus particles, according to LeadingAge, a national association of nonprofit care providers. The dearth of protective equipment at facilities serving older adults has prompted mounting alarm among public health experts. More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths have been linked to nursing homes and long term care centers, according to a tally by The New York Times. FEMA said in a statement that it had made changes to most recent shipments in response to feedback from recipients. The Landscape of the Post Pandemic Return to Office None Delta variant delays. A wave of the contagious Delta variant is causing companies to reconsider when they will require employees to return, and what health requirements should be in place when they do. A generation gap. While workers of all ages have become accustomed to dialing in and skipping the wearying commute, younger ones have grown especially attached to the new way of doing business. This is causing some difficult conversations between managers and newer hires. How to keep offices safe. Handwashing is a simple way to reduce the spread of disease, but employers should be thinking about improved ventilation systems, creative scheduling and making sure their building is ready after months of low use. Return to work anxiety. Remote work brought many challenges, particularly for women of color. But going back will also mean a return to microaggressions, pressure to conform to white standards of professionalism, and high rates of stress and burnout. The national free for all to obtain scarce protective gear has favored large hospital chains with procurement professionals and established supply chains, but even deep pocketed institutions have been rationing masks and gowns. At St. Petersburg General Hospital in Florida part of HCA Healthcare, a for profit chain that includes more than 2,000 hospitals, clinics and surgery centers medical staff members said they were given a single surgical mask each day to make their rounds; only those assigned to the Covid ward were allowed access to N95s, which are kept under lock and key. "If you sneeze in your mask, you still have to wear it your entire shift," said Barbara Murray, a nurse at St. Petersburg General. Ms. Murray said medical staff members worried that surgical masks offered little protection when treating asymptomatic carriers of the virus. She said she was increasingly seized with anxiety as the hospital filled up with coronavirus patients, some of them sent from local nursing homes, because staff members lacked even basic protective gear and were unable to care for them. Hospital administrators, she said, won't even allow employees to wear N95 masks they have purchased with their own money. "We're nurses we want to take care of our patients and we want them to be safe," Ms. Murray said. "But at the end of the day, we want to go home to our families and know that they are safe too." A spokeswoman for St. Petersburg General declined to comment on the hospital's mask policies but said adequate supplies were available to employees who needed them. Across the country, private medical offices, especially those without access to group purchasing networks, are struggling to get protective gear on the open market. Even when they can find them on Amazon and other websites, doctors say they are paying up to 7 for N95 masks that sold for less than a dollar before the pandemic. "Community physicians have it worse because we are at the bottom of the totem pole," said Dr. Inderpal S. Chhabra, an internal medicine specialist in New Hyde Park, N.Y., who recently reopened his office but could see only four or five patients a day because of limited supplies. "Everyone is running around like crazy trying to get N95s, but no one can get them. I afraid for my staff." At Arizona Community Physicians, a private health clinic in Tucson, medical technicians are not given N95 masks but they are still required to see Covid 19 patients, who arrive for nonemergency procedures like mammograms, ultrasounds and chest X rays, according to two employees who asked to remain anonymous for fear they could lose their jobs. The employees say they have been unable to buy medical grade N95 masks online; some vendors have run out of supplies while others say they won't sell to individuals. "Every day I go into work and I am scared to death not just for myself, but for my family," one worker said. Arizona Community Physicians did not respond to emails and phone messages seeking comment. A spokesman for the Arizona Department of Health Services said state regulations for protective gear did not apply to private clinics. That's not the case in Texas, which requires health facilities to have adequate equipment before reopening. State officials said they had distributed 500,000 respirator masks to dental offices, but Ms. Kennel, the chief officer at Lubbock Kids Dental, said her clinic was not among the recipients. Her employees spend much of their day on the phone trying to calm the parents of children in severe pain. Others show up at the door with their children and beg for help. With dental clinics across the state facing the same problem, the staff can only prescribe antibiotics and tell caregivers to sit tight. Her greatest fear is that an untreated abscess will enter the bloodstream and turn fatal, a preventable death that has claimed dozens of lives in recent years. "We're not talking about silver crowns, teeth cleaning or veneers," Ms. Kennel said, her voice choking with emotion. "These are children with severe infections, and there is nothing we can do for them. It's just heartbreaking."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Health
In other words, Republicans' insistence that they have a superior alternative to Obamacare is a zombie lie a claim that should be dead after having been proved false again and again, but it is still shambling along, eating people's brains. But why can't Republicans come up with a better alternative to Obamacare? Are they just incompetent? Possibly but even if they did know what they were doing, they couldn't produce a superior plan, because no such plan is possible. In particular, unless you're willing to move left instead of right, by going for single payer, the only way to guarantee coverage for Americans with pre existing conditions is a system that looks a lot like Obamacare. The logic here has been clear from the beginning. To ensure coverage of people with pre existing conditions, you have to prohibit insurers from discriminating based on medical history. But that's not enough: To provide a decent risk pool, you also have to induce healthy people to sign up, preferably with both subsidies and a penalty for being uninsured. In other words, you need a system that is basically Obamacare. The 2017 tax cut, which did away with the individual mandate the penalty for noninsurance weakened the system; you can see this by the fact that states, like New Jersey, that imposed their own mandates saw a drop in insurance premiums. But the design of the subsidies, which insulated most people from rising premiums, contained the damage: The percentage of Americans without health insurance, which fell sharply as a result of Obamacare, remains near record lows. So is there any alternative to Obamacare? Of course there is. We could go back to being a country in which people with pre existing conditions and/or low incomes can't get health insurance, where for a large fraction of the population illness either goes untreated or leads to bankruptcy. That would, in part, mean becoming a country in which Americans who caught Covid 19 during the pandemic would be uninsurable for the rest of their lives. Indeed, turning us back into that kind of country is the G.O.P.'s true goal, and is what will happen if the party gets its way either as a result of the current lawsuit or through legislation during a second Trump term. But Republicans can't admit that this is their goal. The public overwhelmingly supports protection for Americans with pre existing conditions, so right wing politicians have to pretend they can provide that while dismantling the regulations and subsidies such protection requires. And they have to hope that voters won't remember that they have been promising a plan, but never delivering, for more than a decade. Let's hope voters are smarter than that. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 70 times and counting, shame on me. 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
FRANKFURT Amid growing expectations that Greece will have to restructure its debt, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, warned Thursday that a default could have grave and unpredictable consequences. But Mr. Schauble's comments left room for a less radical solution in which Greece might be given more time to pay its debts. "There is no experience with what happens when a country inside a currency union becomes insolvent," Mr. Schauble said in an interview published Thursday in the German newspaper Handelsblatt. European leaders have begun to discuss openly the possibility of extending the payback period for Greek debt, despite fierce opposition to that idea from the European Central Bank. Mr. Schauble's comments were interpreted by some as a sign that he had moved closer to the central bank's view.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Global Business
The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, which certifies products energy efficient, says depending on location, homeowners can save more than 115 on their annual energy bills by upgrading to high efficiency heating and cooling equipment. The Energy Department has a chart to estimate the savings you would realize by upgrading to a more efficient furnace. The savings on heating bills, of course, must be weighed against the cost of a new system, which varies depending on location and the size and type of furnace. Ms. Hicks said the average cost was 2,300 for a natural gas system and 5,800 for one using heating oil, based on Angie's List contractors. (Those figures include installation but not related duct work, if necessary.) Since costs are so variable, it's best to get estimates from local contractors. Whatever option you choose, be sure you have the proper size furnace installed, Mr. Trethewey said. The most common mistake he sees is homeowners' having too large a unit installed, he said, but a good heating contractor will be able to calculate the proper size. Before thinking about replacing a furnace, however, homeowners should make sure their home is properly insulated particularly the roof, which Mr. Trethewey likens to the "hat" of a house. "Get in your attic and take a look," he said. If you can see gaps in the insulation or holes in the drywall, fixing them should be a priority. Not only will you spend less on heating costs, but you'll reduce the risk of ice dams, or repeated freezing and melting of snow and ice that can cause costly damage to roofs and drywall. The Energy Star website has advice for checking your insulation. Here are some questions and answers about home heating systems: Do I really need to change my furnace's filter? Yes. While the specifics depend on the type of unit and filter you use (check with the unit's manufacturer), chances are you should change it more often than you think. The filter traps dust and animal hair, and if it gets clogged, the furnace will have to work harder to circulate air through the house. Generally, every two to three months is recommended. "If you do it every month, your furnace will run a lot longer," Ms. Hicks said. How can I assess my home's heating efficiency? You might consider a home energy audit, said Steve Baden, executive director of Resnet, a nonprofit group that promotes home energy efficiency. An auditor will examine the house, make recommendations for improvements, and estimate how much each step will cost as well as how much you can expect in savings. An audit can cost 300 to 800, depending on whether it's primarily a visual inspection or the auditor uses diagnostic tools. You can search on Resnet's website for an energy auditor in your area. But first, check with your local utility to see if it offers free or discounted audits for customers. You can also do a quick assessment yourself using the Energy Star's "home energy yardstick tool." How do I prepare my water heater for winter? Mr. Baden recommends flushing your water heater to remove accumulated sediment that can make it run less efficiently. You can do it yourself with a hose and bucket if you're handy and are comfortable shutting off the electricity and the water supply to the tank. Otherwise, leave it to a contractor.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Your Money
The newly passed tax law could save Americans billions of dollars on their utility bills. In recent days, electric companies in Massachusetts, Illinois, Oregon and other states have announced plans to pass their tax cuts on to customers through lower rates. On Tuesday, Pepco, which provides power to nearly 300,000 customers in Washington, D.C., said it would cut rates beginning in the current quarter. Other utilities might be forced to follow suit. In much of the country, investor owned utilities have a monopoly on providing electricity and gas to homes and businesses. State regulators allow them to charge rates high enough to recoup their costs including the cost of paying taxes and to provide a return to their shareholders. Those regulators periodically scrutinize rates to ensure that they are reasonable. When taxes go down, so should customers' utility bills. State regulators across the country have said they will make sure that actually happens. And in a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Tuesday, the attorneys general of several states, including Massachusetts, Texas and New York, asked the agency to act as well. The savings will be modest for most Americans, perhaps a few dollars off the average family's monthly electric bill. But multiplied across tens of millions of households, the savings are significant. Economists at the Penn Wharton Budget Model at the University of Pennsylvania estimated that the new law will reduce the industry's federal tax bill by 1 billion this year, compared with what it would have been if the law had not passed. In 2021, the savings would grow to 5 billion. The Penn economists projected that the law will yield a reduction of about 0.5 percent in electricity prices. Economists have long debated how corporate tax cuts are distributed among shareholders, workers and customers. President Trump and other backers of the tax bill have argued that it will lead to higher wages, more jobs and greater investment. Independent analysts, however, have tended to assume that most of the gains will go to shareholders, especially in the short term. For utilities and other regulated industries, however, the situation is different. They are granted a legal monopoly, but in return are expected to see that their customers benefit from any savings. "When you're insulated from market competition and subject to regulation, the benefits should mostly pass through to consumers," said Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. Ford and Rivian no longer plan to work jointly on electric vehicles. Elizabeth Holmes took the stand in her trial. Follow along with our reporters. Ken Griffin, head of Citadel, bid highest for a copy of the Constitution. That doesn't mean customers should expect every dollar in tax savings to show up as savings in their monthly bills. Some states may allow utilities to use part of their savings to fund infrastructure upgrades or to offset future rate increases. And utilities may challenge regulators' findings about how much they have saved as a result of the tax bill. Mr. Bordoff said there might be one good reason for utilities to hold rates constant, as opposed to reducing them. Consumers, he noted, tend to react angrily to rate hikes so if a utility knows it needs to make investments in the years to come, it might be better to use the tax savings to do so now, instead of cutting rates only to increase them later. David Springe, executive director of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, said regulators in most states would be willing to negotiate with utilities. But one way or another, he said, any tax savings should ultimately benefit consumers, not shareholders. "The simple underlying absolute is that's consumer money and should in some form or fashion come back to consumers," Mr. Springe said. Still, that doesn't always happen. After the last major overhaul of the corporate tax system, in the mid 1980s, regulators in many states were slow to act in effect allowing utilities to pocket tax savings until new rates took effect.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Economy
Q. In my web browser, icons (for changing the text size and adding bold type to new messages I'm writing) at the bottom of my Gmail window have disappeared. How do I get them back? A. When you have a New Message window open in your browser, click the button with an underlined "A" next to the Send button to restore the Gmail formatting bar. As with many web and mobile interfaces, Gmail can collapse tool bars and menus that you do not always need to free up limited screen space but accidental clicking can lead to the sudden disappearance of familiar elements. If you find yourself doing a lot of formatting on new messages to make them look the way you want, you can change your default text style. To do that in Gmail, click the gear shaped Settings icon in the top right corner of the browser window and choose Settings from the menu.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
Seeking to tap into the trophy apartment craze that has gripped New York City's luxury market, Joseph Moinian, the developer of the W New York Downtown Hotel and Residences, is bringing a 40 million duplex penthouse to the market. The apartment, which would be the highest priced listing in the financial district, will combine 12 units on the 55th and 56th floors, offering unimpeded views of Lower Manhattan and the neighboring One World Trade Center. The 12,000 square foot home, which does not have private outdoor space, will also come with a 2 million credit toward design and construction. Prices are being shattered at a record pace across the city, with several eye popping listings coming to market in recent months, including a duplex penthouse at One Beacon Court that is asking 115 million, and a triplex penthouse at the Pierre, at 795 Fifth Avenue, for 125 million. "The market now is demanding trophy apartments," said Richard Nassimi, the head of sales at the condo and a senior associate at the Corcoran Group. "So rather than selling many separate units, we are providing one stupendous penthouse." The move to combine the top two residential floors of the W Downtown represents Mr. Moinian's latest strategy for marketing the 223 apartments that make up the condominium, which is at 123 Washington Street. The units are on the top floors of the building, and the hotel goes up to the 21st floor; there are about 80 units left to sell. Mr. Moinian began selling the apartments in 2008 and has since gone through several brokerage teams; he even tapped the real estate doyenne Louise Sunshine last year to decorate an entire floor of units to sell fully furnished. "This is a big number to swallow for the neighborhood," said Ariel Cohen, a senior associate at Douglas Elliman. "But if you pay between 2,500 and 3,000 a square foot and hold it for 5 to 10 years, it isn't a far fetched investment." Mr. Cohen is representing 75 Wall Street, a 346 unit condo in the financial district above the Andaz Hotel. He recently listed a four bedroom penthouse there for 8.2 million, or roughly 2,500 a square foot. At the W Downtown, the penthouse unit, at 3,333 a square foot, is aggressively priced for the neighborhood. It is by a long margin the most expensive listing to hit the neighborhood. In 2009, the developer of the Philippe Starck designed condominium at 15 Broad Street listed a combined six units for 22.5 million, but it failed to find a buyer and was eventually split up. The priciest actual sale in the financial district occurred in 2000, when a 5,000 square foot unit at 114 Liberty Street sold for 12.46 million, according to Streeteasy.com. Still, compared with prices in other parts of Lower Manhattan, the 40 million price tag is reasonable. In TriBeCa, for example, a four bedroom penthouse at 56 Leonard Street is asking 4,453 a square foot; at 250 West Street, also in TriBeCa, a penthouse is on the market for 5,818 a square foot. The average asking price at the W Downtown is roughly 2,300 a square foot, according to Streeteasy, and brokers point out that if it were possible to buy the 12 units separately, they would cost a total of about 28 million. The 2 million credit is also a novel approach. "If a buyer is spending 40 million at the building," Mr. Nassimi said, "then they deserve a design and construction credit." The developer would do the renovation, "since who better knows the building than the sponsor?" he said, although the credit would still be available if the buyers hired their own architect and construction team. The monthly common charge is typically 1.85 a square foot, but a number has not yet been set for this unit, Mr. Nassimi said. "This apartment provides a buyer with 360 degree views of the Hudson River, the East Side, all of the bridges you can see absolutely everything," Mr. Nassimi said. "And unlike buying in TriBeCa, where you spend 30 million for an 8,000 foot apartment, here you can get a 12,000 square foot home."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
The most popular movies and the movies we love most aren't always the ones that shape the industry, reflect the times or change the terms of cultural discourse for better or worse. The films on the first list, whether we like them or not (and in some cases we very much did), made a difference in the world of entertainment and beyond. In a politicized time, their impact was often measured in ideological terms, by the arguments they started and the passions they inflamed. And at a time of blockbuster hegemony and streaming ascendancy, they also represented a business and an audience in constant and sometimes confusing flux. Like every title on this list, Hou Hsiao Hsien's tale of a female warrior in ninth century China lingered in my mind long after I saw it. The pictorial beauty of "The Assassin" which was shot on 35 millimeter film is astonishing, as is Hou's narrative approach, his use of stillness, silence and ellipses. The movie is a sublime testament to the visually expressive power of cinema, its ability to convey interiority, emotions, feelings and moods with images. It is also a reminder that digital largely remains a diminished substitute for film. (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) In 2002, Richard Linklater assembled several actors to shoot part of a fictional story about a fractured family, a process that he annually repeated over the next dozen years. The result is an intimate epic that seamlessly tracks a boy (played throughout by Ellar Coltrane) from childhood to early adulthood. In 165 captivating, deeply moving minutes, Linklater conveys the sweep and quotidian detail of life. It goes so fast. (Stream on IFC Films Unlimited, Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) Agnes Varda died in March at 90. Toward the end of her life, she was sometimes patronizingly mistaken for a cute old lady. And yes, she was old; true, she was occasionally cute; but she was also a giant of the art whose legacy remains underappreciated. She once said that cinema is about "a re examination of time, movement and especially the image," and, in this documentary, she reminds us of this truth as she and her co pilot, the artist JR, travel across both France and time. They stop in villages, speak to people and make images while Varda reminisces about her past, turning "Faces Places" into a time machine and an indelible memento mori. (Stream on Amazon.) One of the greatest living filmmakers, Frederick Wiseman has made a number of nonfiction masterworks, including "Ex Libris," a documentary about the New York Public Library, which stands as another of this decade's cinematic high points. If "In Jackson Heights," which takes place in the Queens neighborhood of the same name, has maintained a stronger grip on me, it's largely because it is a tribute to New York as well as to the United States at its most utopian and democratic. Here, amid a great and glorious cacophony, both old timers (like Wiseman) and newcomers of various hues, beliefs and tongues are busily, generously, making a better country. (Stream on Kanopy.) 'Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler' (2015) Some of the happiest moments in my recent moviegoing life have been spent watching the cinematic reveries of Nathaniel Dorsky. Working in 16 millimeter film, Dorsky makes short, silent works filled with everyday ecstasies shifting shadows, nodding flowers that capture the magnificence and ephemera of both the medium and the larger world. This dual retrospective, which ran as part of the 53rd New York Film Festival, served as my introduction to the work of Hiler, Dorsky's longtime partner and an artist whose film "In the Stone House" is an eloquent, transcendent ode to their life together, the changing light and the passage of time. George Miller delivers this blast of pure cinema with howls and laughs, snarling engines, shrieking guitars, death taunting stunts, Charlize Theron's steely ferocity, Tom Hardy's velvety vulnerability, kamikaze war boys, a squad of runaway babes and a posse of gray haired motorcycle women. At once dystopian and hopeful, "Fury Road" trades the classic hero's journey for a liberation story in which rebellious women sound a battle cry that echoes across this decade: "We are not things, we are not things!" (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) Chantal Akerman's final feature opens on gnarled, nearly barren foliage shuddering in the wind, a haunting image that as this personal documentary unwinds is revealed as an emblem of perseverance. The movie largely consists of conversations that Akerman had with her mother, Natalia, a Holocaust survivor who died in 2014 after shooting finished. A radical filmmaker who helped redefine the cinematic representation of women (most famously with "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles"), Akerman died the following year from an apparent suicide. Her death was tragic, her filmic legacy profound. (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) Documentaries can instruct, educate and sometimes entertain; they can realign your vision, rewire your brain. Ava DuVernay's powerful documentary, named for the 13th Amendment, both floored me and deepened my understanding about race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States. As she traces the story from the years after abolition to Trayvon Martin, DuVernay doesn't just chart the history of African Americans, she also strips bare the soul of a country that still profits from racial discrimination. (Stream on Netflix.) Soon after Jia Zhang ke's drama opens, you see an overturned truck, its load of apples scattered on a road already splattered with blood in a movie soon drenched in it. Divided into four largely separate stories, each taken from real life events, the movie turns on characters whose lives are violently upended and, in some cases, destroyed in a world in which every human action is reduced to a monetary transaction. It's an unsparing, brutal vision of Chinese capitalism at its most dehumanizing and cruel, as well as a tour de force of form and feeling. (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) I have never heard anything like the silence that descended in a packed, 500 seat theater after the last shot of Barry Jenkins's second feature when it first screened in Telluride. It was the sound of perception being altered in a small but permanent way. (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Netflix, Vudu and YouTube.) The Philippine director Lav Diaz is one of the modern masters of cinema whose work long, slow, novelistic features composed in arresting wide screen images should be more widely known. Loosely adapted from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," this four hour film is both mighty and subtle, a sweeping and intimate anatomy of injustice, inequality and the eternal conflict between decency and cruelty in human affairs. (Stream on Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.) There have been countless movies about radical Islam and terrorism, none as precise, as devastating or as beautiful as Abderrahmane Sissako's observant and impassioned tale of life in a region of Mali controlled by Islamists. Sissako's blend of lyricism and moral clarity make him one of the essential filmmakers of his time. (Stream on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.)	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
The curious started to show up at the soaring, gallerylike space in Red Hook, Brooklyn, around 10 on a recent Sunday morning, wearing skaterish black knit caps, or on trend Italian sneakers, or minimalist single line tattoos. They paused, as in reverence, at the doorway, taking a quizzical glance at the striking metallic installations (industrial sculptures, in a sense) glimmering on the bare concrete floors. They had come to this remote waterfront neighborhood, once home to longshoremen and now to galleries and Post Expressionists, to check out the latest work not by Koons or Hirst but, rather, by Musk Elon Musk, a founder of Tesla Motors. In a corporate statement as audacious as anything in the Whitney Biennial, Silicon Valley's futuristic maker of electric luxury cars has opened a showroom, of all things, in the middle of one of Brooklyn's edgiest arts quadrants. The incongruity was not lost on the locals. "At first I was a little worried," said Elizabeth Freund, a manager and publicist in the music industry and a longtime Red Hook resident, who had dropped by wearing an imitation snakeskin rain jacket. "This is largely an arty neighborhood, we've kept it rugged and industrial. The people who live here are eclectic, slightly bohemian. You wouldn't think of us out here as people who are interested in buying cars, and you wouldn't think you'd want to bring that clientele here." To be sure, a Park Avenue worthy car showroom stands out in an industrial chic neighborhood once known mainly for its public housing complex (Red Hook Houses) and its Ikea, but, these days, increasingly for its craft distilleries (Van Brunt Stillhouse, Widow Jane), Euro retro bike shops (Papillionaire) and single origin organic beans to bar chocolate factories (Cacao Prieto), in addition to its many galleries and art studios. Even so, the Tesla showroom, which opened two months ago, feels oddly Red Hook. Located in a former workshop that rebuilt diesel engines for cargo ships, the gleaming complex, with its track lighting and exposed brick, sits across from the Red Hook Container Terminal, with its hulking cranes looming. You do not have to be a car shopper, apparently, to think of the showroom as a must see. "I'm not really in the market for a car, because I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, but I'm weirdly obsessed with the company, and the mission," said Maia Wojcik, a founder of a conference called the Fashion Tech Forum. A manager with a hollow earplug piercing was playing the automotive industry equivalent of Doc Brown from "Back to the Future," walking visitors through the Teslas' many futuristic features: the 17 inch "infotainment" touch screen, the Autopark self parking option that leaves parallel parking to onboard sensors. The line includes the Model S luxury sedan, starting at about 71,500, and the seemingly Mars ready sport utility vehicle (Model X), which starts at about 83,000. The relatively mass market Model 3 sedan, which the company hopes to release next year, will be priced around 35,000, and already has a waiting list of some 373,000 buyers. Shoppers seemed receptive to the cars, and the location. Wearing high waisted jeans and black nail polish, Misha Nonoo, a Manhattan based fashion designer, was already familiar with the neighborhood from doing a collaboration with Dustin Yellin, a local artist. Red Hook, she said, is a neighborhood of "forward thinkers," and Mr. Musk is a genius who is forever "pushing the needle" to wit, there's the Bioweapon Defense Mode option on the Model X, basically a mega air filter that Tesla says is 700 times better at filtering smog and 800 times better at filtering viruses than a standard car's ventilation system. "I'm supercurious about the self driving feature," Ms. Nonoo said, referring to Tesla's autopilot function, a sort of "Jetsons" age cruise control that allows drivers to remove their hands from the wheel, as well as their feet from the pedals, while built in radar, 360 degree ultrasonic sonar and image recognizing cameras guide the car through traffic.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Fashion & Style
"WEEKENDS out here are crazy," Cynthia Rowley, the fashion designer, said. Ms. Rowley, who has a boutique here on the east end of Long Island, spends summer weekends with her husband, Bill Powers, at the surf shack she bought in 1999. "We wake up and we surf, and then we wakeboard, and we ride bikes and we play tennis," she said. "We just go from activity to activity. And then there's stuff at the store all the time." On this Sunday afternoon, Ms. Rowley was wearing a nautical striped top, cut off jeans and a colorful hat. The activity of the moment? Tracking down a Mexican food truck called the Montaco. "It's a pink truck," she said excitedly, before changing into a print dress and hopping into Mr. Powers's red 1971 Mercury Cougar XR 7 convertible. They headed for Ditch Plains, a beach the Montaco was known to frequent. The Cougar, whose lines emphasize the prominent rear fenders, looks a bit like a muscle car. But the grandiose ambitions of the 1970s can be seen in its long hood and in the wide span of its grille and headlights. Based on the Ford Mustang platform, the Cougar strived to be more of a luxury car. In its advertisements, Mercury said the Cougar was "inspired by classic European road cars." But Mr. Powers's car, one of around 1,700 XR 7 convertibles built in 1971, was still capable of rumbling off the line. "I think it has a 351 Cleveland," he said, describing the car's V 8 engine. Ms. Rowley gave him the Cougar on his first Father's Day. They saw the car in a showroom in Palm Springs, Calif., and Ms. Rowley secretly bought it and shipped it to New York. At the time, the couple rented their weekend cars. When Mr. Powers went to the garage in Manhattan, he expected to pick up the usual rental. "They drive it down, and it's really loud," Ms. Rowley said, grinning as she recounted the car's delivery. "The guy just turns it off and hands Bill the key." It wasn't the first time Ms. Rowley had picked up an old car on an impulse. She once bought a 1964 Ford Galaxie on her way into a concert. "I was walking through the parking lot, and I saw a sign in the window with the phone number," she said. "So I called the number. And the person was in the concert. I went in. We met and made a deal, and I got the car a couple of days later." Before the Galaxie, Ms. Rowley had a 1972 Porsche 911 with a sunroof and its share of problems. "The gas pedal would get so hot," she said. "I don't know what was wrong, but it would get so hot that I would have burns on the bottom of my foot. I had to wear one boot in the summer to drive." Eventually, the Porsche's floor rotted out. "This friend of ours who deals in vintage cars said if I had gone over a bump, the whole bottom could've dropped out," Ms. Rowley said. "It would be like a Flintstones car." Mr. Powers, who used to own an old International Scout, said the family they have two daughters originally drove the Mercury from the city. But a frightening experience squelched that. "There were no real hazards on it," he said, referring to the four way flashers. "Cynthia was calling AAA." Mr. Powers continued: "Finally the guy showed up. And he said he was going to go on break, but that a woman had called saying there was an emergency and there was another woman screaming in the background." Mr. Powers paused, and his wife laughed. "He was screaming and freaking out," she said, as Mr. Powers smiled his admission. "That's when we decided it was probably best that it just lives out here," he said. Arriving at the Ditch Plains beach, Mr. Powers surveyed the mostly empty parking lot. "O.K., I'm not seeing the Montaco truck," he said. "Bummer," Ms. Rowley said. Mr. Powers turned the Mercury around, back onto the Montauk Highway. Mr. Powers, a co owner of the Half Gallery in Manhattan, which specializes in contemporary art, has a boyish face that's tanned and gently rugged. He was wearing a checked shirt, jeans and yellow sneakers. He grew up in Manhattan and first came to Montauk when he was 2 years old. "My grandparents used to have a fishing boat," he said. "We would spend the summers on the boat. Driving down Montauk Highway, Mr. Powers pointed out landmarks. "If you went to the right and went back a little bit, that's the road to Warhol's place," he said. "And that's the Deep Hollow Ranch, which is the oldest cattle ranch in the United States and where Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders holed up." The Cougar has more than 100,000 miles on it, Mr. Powers said. He and Ms. Rowley have left the car in pretty much the same condition it was in when purchased slightly more worn in than worn out. The stereo, however, has been replaced by a newer model with a CD player. Mr. Powers turned the car toward the Montauk Point Lighthouse at the end of the island. He and Ms. Rowley got out of the car and climbed atop the wooden barrier. "See that land there?" he asked, pointing across the water. "That's Block Island. That's Rhode Island. So you can take an hour ferry from Montauk to go to Block Island. Or if you fly there, you can go eight minutes by plane." Then Ms. Rowley, who was on the phone with the Montaco's owner, relayed some bad news. "The taco truck is broken," she said. But it had been found at a motel on the other side of Montauk. Mr. Powers and Ms. Rowley returned to the car and drove on, stopping at Melet Mercantile, a vintage goods store on an industrial road where Julian Schnabel, the artist, was shopping for shirts. Ms. Rowley disappeared inside the clutter of vintage clothes and other items. She emerged a few minutes later in a beige jumpsuit. "While I was here I remembered I love this jumpsuit," she said. A few minutes later, Mr. Powers pulled up at the Seascape Motel in the Cougar. He and Ms. Rowley got out of the car, and Marcia Ostarello, the owner of the Montaco, greeted them. Beyond her was the conspicuous pink truck, left high and dry. Ms. Ostarello expressed her disappointment. "I was heartbroken," she told Ms. Rowley. "It was a beautiful day. I've been waiting for this day." Mr. Powers gave Ms. Ostarello's other ride, a souped up Chevy El Camino with a hot rod paint job, the once over. "I say it's like a bad '90s prom dress," she continued. "Remember the prom dresses from the '90s that used to change? They were like that iridescent color. But at the time we thought they were really cool."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Automobiles
Until recently, the development march of office and apartment towers that displaced warehouses and refineries along the Brooklyn waterfront largely spared Red Hook. Even the addition in recent years of a Fairway market and an Ikea store that attracted shoppers didn't lessen much of the activity in Red Hook, a square mile nub. It still revolves around the loading of freight onto trucks. But this neighborhood may not be an outlier much longer. An ambitious plan for a 12 acre, 1.2 million square foot mixed use project called the Red Hook Innovation District would include offices, shops, performance spaces and a promenade. "The character of Red Hook was always that it was sleepy," said Jeffrey Unger, a commercial real estate broker with Kalmon Dolgin Affiliates who has worked in the area for more than a decade. "There really hasn't been much of a transition for years." Lined with corrugated metal fences, many with spray painted scrawls and graffiti, Red Hook is virtually untested as an office market, said Mr. Unger, who is not affiliated with the project. Estate Four, a Los Angeles firm known for devising stylish new uses for faded industrial properties, plans to phase in the project over five years, at a cost of 400 million, according to firm officials. The purchase of a final property last month gave the developer control of the entire site. While this particular project will feature mostly new construction, Estate Four plans to preserve key parcels. Among them is a three floor factory complex that takes up an entire block at Coffey and Ferris Streets and whose oldest sections date to the 1800s. Though no leases have been signed yet, Mr. Senise said he had approached Jeffrey Deitch, the former director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and an art dealer whose SoHo gallery was known for large scale performances. "We did not proceed with our original plan," Mr. Deitch wrote in an email, "but it is a phenomenal space, and I hope that it will still be possible to work with them in an art project there." A century ago, the building was home to the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company, which produced cable car like construction equipment used to build dams, like one at the Croton Falls Reservoir in Putnam County. More recently, Time Moving and Storage owned the building, which housed stacks of document boxes climbing toward the 45 foot ceilings, company officials said. "The value of the buildings in that neighborhood had grown to such a level, it just made economic sense to consolidate our operations," said James Dowse, chief operating officer of Time Moving, which owned four Red Hook buildings, all of which have been sold. The building shows its age. Supported by wood trusses in places, the roof leaks when it rains. For his part, Mr. Senise will spend 20 million to patch the roof, remove cinder blocks from rows of windows and install a heating system, as well as peel back a section of roof to reopen a courtyard. "But the building itself is beautiful the way it is, so you don't want to change it too much," he added. He paid 11.8 million for it in 2012. Still, given that the site is situated just a few yards from the water and flooded in 2012 along with much of the neighborhood during Hurricane Sandy, protection from future flooding damage is a high priority. Red Hook has been promised a 200 million flood protection system, which as of this winter is a step closer to reality. In December, government officials announced they were accepting design proposals for the system, which will be financed by the city and the state and which could include flood walls, raised streets and pump improvements. In addition, four new buildings in the Red Hook Innovation District will not have basements and will sit about three feet higher than what is there today, developers said. To blend in with the landscape of existing manufacturing buildings, the design for those new structures includes a brick facade for the lower stories, with the type of paned windows found in older factories. Multilevel glass additions will rise from their roofs. Ranging from 215,000 square feet to 300,000 square feet, the buildings will offer offices upstairs and stores below, though plans could change somewhat, said Will Robertson, an architect with the firm NBBJ, which is designing the bulk of the project. One major alteration will entail removing a central section of the building, opening Dikeman Street all the way to the water's edge and creating two acres of public parkland with a promenade. A long pier will tie that park to an existing one on Coffey Street. Plazas and courtyards will dot the site. "You can wander around with a laptop and work from different places, which Brooklyn has in its DNA," Mr. Robertson said. "The intention is to create the same thing here." Estate Four hopes to lure tenants from industries like fashion, music and technology, although it indicated that it did not need to secure anchor tenants in order to proceed with development. The company, which was founded in Milan about two decades ago, has been successful with that approach before, Mr. Senise said, pointing to a Milan turbine factory that now contains fashion houses like Ermenegildo Zegna. Likewise, in London, a red brick former mail sorting facility contains a Phillips auction house and apartments. In fact, one of the few Estate Four projects where a tenant was lined up in advance was 50 Varick Street, a converted former Verizon facility in TriBeCa leased to Spring Studios, which hosts fashion shows there, Mr. Senise said. In much of Red Hook, the industrial zoning allows neither apartments nor hotels, and to avoid a drawn out rezoning process, Estate Four says it will not include those types of buildings. But it is getting some anyway. A few blocks away, at 160 Imlay Street, the firm is at work converting a six story concrete warehouse once occupied by Montgomery Ward and Company into luxury condominiums. And despite the somewhat gritty locale, 54 of 70 units at the building, with wide Manhattan views, have sold since September, at an average price of 1,100 a square foot, said Patty LaRocco, the real estate agent with Douglas Elliman handling sales there. That is well above average for the neighborhood, though condos are in short supply. In fact, more than half of the area's 10,000 residents live in the Red Hook Houses, a large housing project, according to the last census. What has stymied development in Red Hook, some analysts say, is that it is not served by any subways, which could also hurt the Red Hook Innovation District, in that commuters might be hard pressed to get there. But, Mr. Senise said, New York Water Taxi does provide regular ferry service from Manhattan, at least to the Fairway and Ikea, and his firm is pushing for the ferry to add a new stop at the Atlantic Basin, which would be closer to his development. "Red Hook will change it's just a matter of time," Mr. Senise said. "But with us, we feel it can be gentrified in a respectful manner."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate
Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies. The documentarian Frederick Wiseman is, in any medium, one of the great chroniclers of American institutions: His films have immersed us in hospitals and schools; his travels have brought him to locations as sprawling as the Panama Canal Zone and as compact as an Austin boxing gym. Even at age 90, after more than 50 years of filmmaking, he hasn't run out of subjects: His latest film, the Boston set "City Hall," opens in virtual cinemas on Oct. 28. Most of his documentaries can be streamed on Kanopy, a service available through some libraries and universities. But for those who don't have that access, this month there is a special opportunity to see his film "Public Housing," first shown in 1997. Anthology Film Archives in New York is streaming it through Nov. 3 as part of a series on housing rights. Wiseman is one of those directors whose style is so consistent that there is scarcely a wrong place to start. But "Public Housing," filmed at the Ida B. Wells Homes in Chicago, sits at the intersection of several of his careerlong interests. That makes it an excellent gateway to other Wiseman movies, which, because their subject is nothing less than the building blocks of society, are inevitably interlinked. In "Public Housing," the focus on poverty recalls Wiseman's masterpiece "Welfare." The ambiguities of the police's presence at the housing project bring to mind "Law Order," his early portrait of Kansas City cops. "Public Housing" also depicts a location and its workings, like "Aspen" or "Belfast, Maine." A moment of summer joy a dance party on the block demonstrates the attention to rhythm and movement that Wiseman has brought to his films on ballet and a Paris cabaret. Even a scene with an exterminator finds an echo in "City Hall." Wiseman is commonly grouped with the Maysles brothers, Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, documentarians who pursued a style in which directors wouldn't interpose themselves with questions. Instead, they simply observed scenes as they unfolded. But Wiseman takes that mandate to a highly personal, distinctive extreme. In his movies there are no title cards, and Wiseman trusts the viewer to glean any identifications or chronological markers from the context. He allows scenes to play out at great length the film runs more than three hours refusing to oversimplify conversations that often cover a range of contradictions. (In the six hour "Near Death," which spends time with dying patients at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, such conversations often literally mean the difference between life and death.) In a quintessential Wiseman scene in "Public Housing," a man being assessed for what appears to be a drug treatment program relates a litany of details to a caseworker: His family's income, such as it is (about 15,000 per year). His lack of health insurance. His history with alcohol and cocaine. What using did to him and his self respect. That time a man in a drug related encounter hit him in the head with a bat. And at the end, Wiseman drops a bombshell: Under the rules, the man is technically ineligible for the program. Although Wiseman's unobtrusive, observational style might strike some as radically objective, that is absolutely the wrong way to look at his films. On the contrary, each is a pointed, running argument. When he finally cuts away from a scene, the editing pierces like a dagger. Drawing thematic rather than chronological connections among vignettes, his movies teem with rhymed moments and found metaphors. "Public Housing" has not one but two sequences in which underemployed residents learn about how federal funds are available to pay them to improve the housing project itself, whether by fixing the elevators or helping conserve energy. By the second such scene, the opportunities sound emptier than in the first; promised jobs that never materialize are just one element of a never ending cycle. Early on, Wiseman shows us an ice cream truck banner that reads "Sunny Day" a pointed juxtaposition with the grim concrete landscape. By the time the movie ends with the sounds of an ice cream truck over the closing credits, the phrase has new inflections: We've seen how un sunny the Wells Homes can be, but also, in moments of children playing basketball with a homemade hoop or of men cooking barbecue, glimpsed rays of light. Wiseman establishes tension between an inflexible bureaucracy and a complex reality in the first speaking scene. At the homes' resident advisory council office (a location we gather from the sign outside), a woman named Helen Finner (according to her name plate) argues on the phone about getting housing for a young woman with a 1 year old and no place to stay. "A baby with a baby," Finner calls her. Units at Wells sit empty, yet for some reason the homeless are told there is a waiting list. "Some rules are made to bend," Finner says. The authorities or at least the police aren't always painted as unbending. A midnight watch commander offers protection to a drug addict who fears an assault by dealers; he can sit all night at the station, the official says. Elsewhere, the film races along with another officer in pursuit only to watch the cop search and aggressively question a man who appears to have done nothing wrong. (Wiseman being Wiseman, he never comments on race, but it may be noteworthy that most if not all of the project's residents appear to be Black, and the cops largely seem to be as well.) Even shopping for food comes with red tape: Wiseman spends time in a neighborhood store where residents line up to place orders through bulletproof windows. On one level, "Public Housing" is about the failures of American society to provide for its most vulnerable. On another, it is a universal portrait of the grind of getting by. Wiseman may be a chronicler of American institutions, but it's the overwhelming, heartbreaking humanity of his movies that stays with you.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Movies
Colin Munro Wood was not shocked when he learned that federal investigators believed the new website he had been writing for was a facade for a Russian troll operation looking to sway Americans ahead of the November election. It explained the strange emails and writing prompts he had been receiving from his mysterious editor, an individual who admitted he was not based in the United States but wanted to weigh in on the presidential race. "I just felt things were odd," Mr. Wood said. And when his editor made it clear he didn't want him to criticize President Trump or support Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee, he started to figure out "they had a different kind of agenda." Mr. Wood, a 50 year old who lives in Binghamton, N.Y., and has been writing for various online publications for years, was one of dozens of American and British nationals who wrote for the site Peace Data. The authorities said on Tuesday that it was part of a covert operation run by the Kremlin backed Internet Research Agency, which conducted extensive election meddling in 2016. The site, which presented itself as a recently created news organization, represented a new front in Russia's efforts to sway American voters ahead of the November elections. Some American officials are worried about a broad effort by Russian intelligence to use fringe websites, spread conspiracy theories and sow division in the United States. And researchers believe the Peace Data site was an example of those efforts. Facebook and Twitter said on Tuesday that they had removed a number of social media accounts related to the site. The companies said they had been alerted to the activity by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But even as news reports emerged on Tuesday tying the Peace Data site to the I.R.A., an editor for Peace Data wrote in an email to Mr. Wood that the site was facing "a coordinated attack on our website from numerous media outlets. We deny these accusations." "We've published a short refutation and now are preparing a full statement for our readers and authors," wrote Ionatan Lupul, who in previous emails had identified himself as the managing editor of Peace Data. "It seems like it's impossible for an independent media to exist in today's reality." The LinkedIn and Twitter accounts for Peace Data and Mr. Lupul have been removed by the companies. Peace Data did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Wood said he approached the Peace Data editors in June after seeing a link on their website commissioning new writers. Other writers answered job ads, or were contacted through blogs where they were publishing their work. The site typically offered 75 to 200 for each article. Writers were paid through electronic systems, though Mr. Wood said he volunteered to write and was not paid. The first article Mr. Wood wrote, which was focused on the top 1 percent of American wealth, was his pitch and idea. But when he submitted the story, he said, he was asked to cut significant portions, including one section tying Mr. Trump to the economic elite. "It was just a paragraph or two, not serious, but I wondered why they wanted it cut," said Mr. Wood. He would go on to write two more articles for the site, but lengthy email correspondence exchanged ahead of those articles led him to become increasingly suspicious of the editors and their intentions. Many of the emails had obvious mistakes in grammar and strange syntax. In one exchange, after Mr. Wood took offense at what one editor had said, he was told that the editor was Romanian and didn't have a good grasp of the English language. Mr. Wood was troubled by the direction the editors were pushing. On Aug. 12, Mr. Wood suggested a story looking at the potential picks for vice president on the Democratic Party slate, or the "potential fall or dissolving of the Republican Party." He was waved away from writing about the Republican Party or Mr. Trump by a Peace Data editor who told him, "As for my opinion on the elections in America I don't see both candidates as something that will benefit the country in the long run." "Elections in the US will always have a big impact on the whole world, so from my perspective I would prefer Bernie Sanders as the President," the editor wrote. Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook's head of security, said the company was not surprised to find Russians hiring unwitting Americans as part of their influence operations. It was exactly what the company had predicted when it found similar I.R.A. operations in Ghana, Nigeria and Ukraine. "In each of the recent cases we've found, the I.R.A. is trying to get someone else's voices to amplify for their purposes," said Mr. Gleicher. With two months left before the presidential election, Facebook expects the I.R.A. to continue running similar operations, as well as trying a last minute "information drop" to influence American voters, Mr. Gleicher added. It is unclear how many people read the Peace Data articles. The I.R.A. created 13 fake Facebook accounts and two pages dedicated to promoting the site, Facebook said. The pages were followed by 14,000 people. Mr. Wood said he was saddened but unsurprised that so many Americans had been drawn into the Russian plot. "Americans are so divided right now, I guess it makes sense to me that they would want to turn us against each other," he said. Mr. Wood stands behind the articles he wrote for the site, but he's upset to have been used as pawn in a Russian plot to divide Americans. Mr. Wood discovered that the site he had been working for was part of a Russian backed plot when he received an email from a reporter Tuesday evening.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Technology
Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians This spring, John Henry, a 24 year old entrepreneur and the founder of a Harlem based nonprofit, had a very strange first date. The woman he had taken to a SoHo restaurant seemed to know a suspicious amount about the places he'd been in recent weeks and the conversations he'd had. This, Mr. Henry slowly realized, was a byproduct of his recent decision to have a videographer film large swaths of his daily life: his work, travels, lunches and even subway commutes, which Mr. Henry had then posted on Facebook and Instagram. "It removed so much of the humanity of the conversation, because my life is just a big piece of content now," he said. "There was literally no element of surprise." Digital self promotion has gone to a new extreme. Perhaps taking a cue from Beyonce, who has famously recorded almost every single moment of her waking life, Mr. Henry is one of a small but growing number of entrepreneurs who have turned their lives into do it yourself reality shows. They pay videographers, editors and producers thousands of dollars a month to shadow them and create content for their social media platforms. They "star" as part motivational speaker, part life coach, as they dispense advice and speak enthusiastically about the hustle. They are earnest to a fault; you'll find no melodrama here (or even much drama). Despite the self promotional nature of this phenomenon, most of these workaday video protagonists claim altruistic reasons for putting their lives under the microscope. "I wanted to step up as a role model," said Gerard Adams, 32, a founder of the website Elite Daily who calls himself the "Millennial Mentor," a title he has trademarked. "I had to overcome a lot of failure and challenges." Three videographers take turns filming Mr. Adams at his New Jersey based business incubator, at the gym, and with his family and friends. Patrick Bet David, 38, the chief executive of an insurance company, said he wanted "people to see that you can have a wife and kids, and work out, and stay healthy and manage a business. You can pull it off." Just over a third of Mr. Bet David's life is captured on camera for his YouTube channel, Valuetainment. He was interviewed for this article over the phone at a restaurant in Dallas, where he was having lunch. As usual, his director of film production, Paul Escarcega, was there, too. Mr. Escarcega used two different cameras one stationary, one hand held to shoot the call. (Of course, the audio only picked up Mr. Bet David's side of the conversation.) "You never know when you could be having a conversation that naturally leads to something that brings value to somebody watching," Mr. Bet David said. "You try to catch all the moments." Cy Wakeman, 52, the chief executive of a human resources and leadership development company called Reality Based Leadership, which teaches employees how to "ditch the drama," is convinced there are professional benefits of having a video team follow her around Omaha, where she lives, to conferences across the country and on vacations to places like Tulum, Mexico. "If people are distracted at work on their phones, I want to be their distraction," Ms. Wakeman said. Ms. Wakeman said that her company had received significantly more business since a video team began following her in February, and that there had been a bump in preorders for her coming book, "No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Workplace Drama, End Entitlement, and Drive Big Results." "It's no longer just about promoting their company," said Karen North, director of digital social media and clinical professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. "It's about promoting themselves as the star of their company." Dr. North said the psychological strategy was quite clever. "The real sea change of digital is that it makes everything personal," she said, adding that individuals like Ms. Wakeman could "talk to you through Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and you feel as if they're talking to you personally." And if they engage with even a few people in the comments or retweet what their followers say, Dr. North said that "every individual feels validated." Ms. Wakeman's most recent videos are filmed and produced by VaynerTalent, a division of the company VaynerMedia, whose chief executive, Gary Vaynerchuk, is largely credited for starting the full time videographer trend. Since 2015, a videographer has followed Mr. Vaynerchuk everywhere, at least five days a week, for a docuseries called DailyVee. He receives roughly 40 million views a month across his social channels. Hiring a full time or even part time camera and production crew isn't cheap. Adam Hamwey, who shoots and produces content for Mr. Henry, said that daily rates ranged from 300 to 500. Mr. Adams said he pays six figures annually for his three person team. VaynerTalent offers packages starting at 25,000 a month. They work with clients who want a comprehensive personal brand strategy, which means you're not simply hiring a videographer and producer but also a growth hacker, media strategist and analytics expert. Ms. Wakeman, for instance, has a team of seven people. Mr. Vaynerchuk, 41, said that within a very short time of having a camera trail him, he had ceased to notice it. "It makes sense how reality TV could work," he said, adding that it is now completely natural for him to live his life "on the record." It's not always easy to do this, though. Mr. Adams of Elite Daily, said that when he broke up with his girlfriend, viewers reached out to ask why she had suddenly disappeared from his videos. "That was really tough," he said. But even this, he believes, is a way to grow his following. "The more vulnerable you are, the more you will build trust and a real community and people who will take the ride with you," he said. Ms. Wakeman, who keeps most of her personal life off screen, thinks it's harder for women to make themselves similarly vulnerable. "I have been shocked at the posts I get that call out that I am fat or who make sexual comments about me," she said. "I have talked with men, and they simply do not get these comments at all." Mr. Vaynerchuk said he expected some people to consider him self absorbed. "I deploy ungodly amounts of empathy to people who read and hear about this and what their initial reaction is," he said. "I get it. But I fundamentally believe it will be a greater norm in half a decade." He pointed out that Twitter and Facebook were once considered engines of narcissism. Of course, they can be. But it is also commonplace now to tweet about your breakfast or post endless photos of your dog. Maybe a decade hence, the streets will be crowded with pedestrians and their camera crews. If so, here is a glimpse of what that might look like. In April, the investment firm Charles Schwab filmed a short documentary about Mr. Henry, featuring his rise from a 19 year old doorman to the chief executive of a successful mobile dry cleaning company. The Schwab team followed Mr. Henry for three days, as Mr. Henry's videographer, Mr. Hamwey, followed them. And then both camera crews trailed Mr. Henry to Mr. Vaynerchuk's office, where they met up with his cameraman. "You walked in with an army!" Mr. Vaynerchuk said. The cameras were arranged with Mr. Vaynerchuk's and Mr. Henry's cameramen in the conference room and the Schwab team outside, shooting through the glass walls. "That's how we made it work," Mr. Henry said. "It was a little silly."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
MONTAUK, N.Y. It was just past 1 on a Saturday night, and the scene outside the Memory Motel had an air of frenzied desperation. Hedge fund types and N.Y.U. students stumbled out of bars in their white jeans and Tod's loafers as barely legal women in crop tops, jean shorts and Gisele sandals flagged down taxi drivers. One by one, drivers rolled down their windows, asking potential customers how far they were going, then naming their prices, which ran upward of 30 a head for Amagansett and 50 for Sag Harbor. An Australian man in his 20s was sitting inside one cab, moaning about the guy he was sharing it with, who was waiting on a slice from Pizza Village. Twenty feet away, a couple were propped up against a wall, making out. Callie Harris, 25 and decked out in a denim romper from Splendid and a pair of Tory Burch sandals, wanted to go home. "Come on, 40 a person?" she said into her iPhone, pleading with a taxi dispatcher. "Are you serious? It cost 65 for us to get here." Her friend Colleen Elrod (also 25, black Splendid romper) shook her head in disbelief. "We're not spending 80 to get home," Ms. Harris said. "We so need Uber," Ms. Elrod said. Ah, yes. Uber: the trusty car service that is as much a part of modern life as iPhones, Seamless and kale smoothies. Sadly for Ms. Elrod and Ms. Harris, the app is unusable from Montauk to Sag Harbor, having essentially skipped town in June after running afoul of local regulations that stipulate that all drivers picking up and dropping off in the town of East Hampton (which includes Montauk, Amagansett and much of Sag Harbor) have a business office here and a license from the town to operate. The law took effect in the spring of 2014 after gypsy cabs and Ubers clogged the parking lot at the 7 Eleven and camped out by Marshall Sons service station. For the next year, Uber floated more or less under the radar, until the town cracked down shortly after Memorial Day. The dispute predictably morphed into a big local news story as Uber suspended use of the app in East Hampton in June and celebrities like Andy Cohen took to Twitter on its behalf, saying: "I am trying to be a responsible citizen. I don't drink drive. Plz don't ban my designated driver in EHampton." The East Hampton Star published an editorial calling for an accommodation for Uber. But there was a vocal group of dissenters as well. "The town did a brave thing," said Steven Gaines, author of the book "Philistines at the Hedgerow." "Because this isn't just about Uber. This is about East Hampton becoming overwhelmed. Every resort town goes through a cycle, and we've hit a moment when the tail is wagging the dog, and we are completely at the mercy of the summer crowd who trample over everything." Welcome back to the East End, where local controversies have always abounded, like teenagers drinking on the beach or last year's brouhaha, noise emanating from the airport. Each time, the scripts are similar: preservationists against developers, the little guy against big business, everyone else against the wealthiest 1 percent. The difference this time is that the local population seems pretty divided over who the real villain is. Is it Uber, whose behavior toward community leaders was brusque? Is it the local taxi drivers who have united against the company, but are notorious for showing up late (if at all) to appointments and overcharging their customers? Or is it the party crowd in Montauk? Few people out here dispute that getting a taxi is a drag. Just witness Janet Baker, 61, who lives in Detroit and came to the East End this summer with her husband, David Gawlowski, 56. After touching down at La Guardia Airport on July 8, Ms. Baker and Mr. Gawlowski ventured east on the Hampton Jitney and arrived in Amagansett around 5 p.m., where no cabs were on the street. "I thought there would be a line," Ms. Baker said. Through Yelp, Ms. Baker found the number of a local cab company, then spent a half hour waiting for her driver, who arrived in a dilapidated minivan. "He barely looked 16 and he drove like a 16 year old," she said. First, it turned out the young man had no gas. Then he made a sharp left while going through the main part of town, driving up onto the sidewalk, and crashing into a rock. "Because of the damage to the car, we couldn't open the back door," Ms. Baker said. "I climbed into the front seat and got out." This reporter could not even get a cab. Two weeks ago, I took a late jitney to East Hampton and called seven cab companies from the bus. Four didn't answer. Three were "too busy." An eighth, Super Taxi, said taxis were available, but to call when the bus reached Southampton. When I did, the call went straight to voice mail. And that is to say nothing of the fares, which vary about as much as the time of day, because the town does not regulate pricing. "Complaints about inadequate service go back a long time," said David Rattray, the editor of The East Hampton Star. "The town really shot a blank on this one and limited a superior service that people wanted. Uber is less of a pain in the neck than other guys, they are driving safer vehicles, and they're first step of the ladder entrepreneurs, whether they're from Massapequa or Montauk." Ted Kopoulos of Ted's Taxi claims to offer better service. "If you call, the car will be there to pick you up," he said. "You never get stranded. Not with my company." It was 3 p.m. on Saturday, and Mr. Kopoulos, 61, was pacing around the kitchen of his East Hampton home in a denim polo shirt, faded jeans and flip flops. His cellphone and walkie talkie barely stopped making noise. To another, he said: "Where are you? Northwest woods? How many people? When? That would be impossible. More like 4:15. Sorry!" Mr. Kopoulos arrived in the United States from Portes, Greece, as a child and settled in East Hampton. He has lived here since then and spent two decades as a waiter at the Palm restaurant before opening a cafe in Amagansett in 1997. In 2009, it shut down and he began his taxi business. Understandably, Mr. Kopoulos is not thrilled that he pays annual fees of more than 4,000 to the town for his six cars and that Uber takes much of his summer business. "They should have respect for the local drivers," he said. "They tried to take over. They had 500 cars and no permits. I have a place where I park my cars. I have office space at 62 Newtown Lane. Uber doesn't have any of that." Daniel G. Rodgers, a lawyer hired by Uber to represent the company in the Hamptons, was not expecting a battle like this. In the summer of 2014, he said, only four drivers received summonses, and all paid small fines. But things changed after Memorial Day when News 12, Cablevision's 24 hour news station for Long Island, broadcast a report about Uber operating illegally in Montauk, quoting a driver who said that Uber had offered to pay legal fees for any out of town drivers who got into trouble with local authorities. The report gave the impression of a lawless Montauk, filled with noxious partyers and semi homeless drivers camped out on the weekends to earn a fast buck. And numerous local officials viewed it, including East Hampton's town supervisor, Larry Cantwell. "I was upset that they would organize an effort to deliberately break the law," Mr. Cantwell said. "More importantly, it's hardly delivering the hand of cooperation." Over the weekend, 21 drivers were charged with operating without a business license, a misdemeanor. The town's assistant attorney, Michael Sendlenski, threatened unusually harsh sentences that included jail time for the drivers, who would have a permanent criminal record. The following Friday, a group from Uber including its New York general manager, Josh Mohrer, 33, arrived in East Hampton master of the universe style via helicopter for a meeting with Mr. Cantwell. By all accounts it did not go well, but who is to blame depends on whom you talk to. According to Alix Anfang, a spokeswoman for Uber in New York, Mr. Cantwell, 64, essentially told Uber at the meeting that the only way to keep its drivers out of jail was to leave town. According to Mr. Cantwell, Mr. Mohrer and his colleagues essentially came in and warned him he could face the wrath of their consumers. Shortly after the meeting dispersed, the businessmen reboarded their helicopter and announced on the app that they were suspending service in East Hampton, after the town "banned" them from operating there. At the bottom, Mr. Cantwell's phone number was listed, along with a directive to call and complain. Which people did, by the thousands. On a recent afternoon, Mr. Cantwell seemed sanguine, and even somewhat supportive of the idea of Uber's presence. "Uber is a terrific service," he said, sitting on foldout chair on the lawn of the Eastville Community Historical Society, which traces the history of ethnic groups in part of Sag Harbor from 1800 onward. "You don't get to be a 40 billion company in this short a period of time without providing a service people want. My perspective is all they have to do is be a little flexible. There is more than one way to do business." For example, he said, a group of Uber drivers could open an office together in town and then run the business through the Uber app. Or Uber could find a way to go into business with the existing local cab companies. But some continue to assert that that amounts to protectionism. "I'm in the service business just like Uber is," said Mr. Rodgers, the lawyer representing several of its drivers. "And it annoys me when guys come up island to take a D.W.I. case. That's a case I could get. But competition is good. It means I have to work hard." Jayma Cardoso, the founder of the Surf Lodge, a popular Montauk club, would like to see a compromise. "I want to support the local taxi companies like Surf Taxi," she said. "They're fair. You know what to expect. But in Montauk on Saturday nights, there are hundreds of gypsy cabs that aren't regulated. One day they're asking 20 and another it's 50. Uber is basically standardized. People should have options."	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Style
WHAT: A four bedroom midcentury modern with four baths SETTING: Encino is an affluent section of Los Angeles on the north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains, bordering city and state parkland extending to the Pacific Ocean. This house is on a curving residential road less than a half mile from the Encino Reservoir. Neighboring properties are a mix of midcentury moderns, ranches and large, newer houses built on teardown lots. Ventura Boulevard, a commercial corridor two miles away, is lined with grocery stores, small shopping centers and restaurants, including a preponderance of sushi bars (almost 10 places within a couple miles). Nearby San Vicente Mountain Park, high above an unpaved section of Mulholland Drive, has 360 degree views and access to horse and mountain biking trails. INDOORS: This single story L shape midcentury modern was built in 1964, with walls of glass overlooking the city and canyon. Common areas are on an open floor plan, with nearly every room oriented around the patio and pool. Seventy two solar panels were built on the roof within the past few years, powering the property, and most rooms now have built in speakers with individual room volume control. Floors are terrazzo in the entryway; in the rest of the house, they're Pebble Tec, a mixture of epoxy and pebbles commonly used to finish pools, selected here to give the house an indoor/outdoor feel. The living room and adjoining den both have gas fireplaces. A Sub Zero refrigerator was added to the kitchen within the past few years. Three of the bedrooms, including the master, are at one end of the house; the other, a suite, is beyond the kitchen. The master bedroom is part of a suite with a bathroom, a dressing room and access to the pool and patio. OUTDOOR SPACE: Adjoining the pool is a lawn and garden. The lot is a little over a third of an acre.	N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification	Real Estate

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