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a nonviolent resistance movement in “This is not a government that wants of Khartoum that the “revolution has Hell we’ll take it all out, like we’ve
Sudan, told Al Jazeera English. to negotiate,” he said. “The way they only just begun,” other Sudanese ac- done before
started, the way they took over power, tivists voiced their rejection of military
“We’re not going to negotiate with and the way they didn’t negotiate – rule online, with rhyming couplets. Peace, justice, freedom for Sudan
this government, we don’t hold this they didn’t talk to us – it means we can’t Not just the fall of one wicked man
government as our government, and deal with them.” Wrote one activist on Twitter: We want it all, and bring it we will
we’re going to fight against it. It has to “We take out the trash, and you bring If not for our kids, then for the inno-
fall,” said Kuka. While some chanted on the streets us more?
cent you kill” 

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Amazon workers are listening to what you tell Alexa

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and “We take the security and privacy of our customers’ requests lines up with what the person said. The re-
their voice software to play games, find music or trawl personal information seriously,” an Amazon spokes- cordings they review lack personally identifiable infor-
for trivia. Millions more are reluctant to invite the de- man said in an emailed statement. “We have strict mation and are stored for six months tied to a random
vices and their powerful microphones into their homes technical and operational safeguards, and have a zero identifier, according to an Apple security white paper.
out of concern that someone might be listening. tolerance policy for the abuse of our system.”
At Google, some reviewers can access some audio
Sometimes, someone is. In Alexa’s privacy settings, Amazon gives users the snippets from its Assistant to help train and improve
Amazon.com Inc. employs thousands of people option of disabling the use of their voice recordings the product, but it’s not associated with any personal-
around the world to help improve the Alexa digital as- for the development of new features. The company ly identifiable information and the audio is distorted,
sistant powering its line of Echo speakers. The team says people who opt out of that program might still the company says.
listens to voice recordings captured in Echo owners’ have their recordings analyzed by hand over the regu-
homes and offices. lar course of the review process. Amazon’s review process for speech data begins
The Alexa voice review process, described by seven when Alexa pulls a random, small sampling of cus-
people who have worked on the program, highlights A screenshot reviewed by Bloomberg shows that the tomer voice recordings and sends the audio files to
the often-overlooked human role in training software recordings sent to the Alexa reviewers don’t provide a the far-flung employees and contractors, according
algorithms. In marketing materials Amazon says Al- user’s full name and address but are associated with to a person familiar with the program’s design.
exa “lives in the cloud and is always getting smarter.” an account number, as well as the user’s first name
But like many software tools built to learn from expe- and the device’s serial number. Some Alexa reviewers are tasked with transcrib-
rience, humans are doing some of the teaching. ing users’ commands, comparing the recordings to
The team comprises a mix of contractors and full- The Intercept reported earlier this year that em- Alexa’s automated transcript, say, or annotating the
time Amazon employees who work in outposts from ployees of Amazon-owned Ring manually identify interaction between user and machine. What did the
Boston to Costa Rica, India and Romania, according to vehicles and people in videos captured by the com- person ask? Did Alexa provide an effective response?
the people, who signed nondisclosure agreements bar- pany’s doorbell cameras, an effort to better train the
ring them from speaking publicly about the program. software to do that work itself. Others note everything the speaker picks up, includ-
They work nine hours a day, with each reviewer ing background conversations – even when children
parsing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift, accord- “You don’t necessarily think of another human lis- are speaking. Sometimes listeners hear users discussing
ing to two workers based at Amazon’s Bucharest office. tening to what you’re telling your smart speaker in the private details such as names or bank details; in such
The work is mostly mundane. But occasionally the intimacy of your home,” said Florian Schaub, a profes- cases, they’re supposed to tick a dialog box denoting
listeners pick up things Echo owners likely would rath- sor at the University of Michigan who has researched “critical data.” They then move on to the next audio file.
er stay private: a woman singing badly off key in the privacy issues related to smart speakers. “I think we’ve
shower, say, or a child screaming for help. The teams been conditioned to the [assumption] that these ma- According to Amazon’s website, no audio is stored
use internal chat rooms to share files when they need chines are just doing magic machine learning. But the unless Echo detects the wake word or is activated by
help parsing a muddled word – or come across an fact is there is still manual processing involved.” pressing a button. But sometimes Alexa appears to be-
amusing recording. gin recording without any prompt at all, and the audio
Sometimes they hear recordings they find upsetting, When the Echo debuted in 2014, Amazon’s cylin- files start with a blaring television or unintelligible noise.
or possibly criminal.Two of the workers said they picked drical smart speaker quickly popularized the use of
up what they believe was a sexual assault. When some- voice software in the home. Before long, Alphabet Inc. Whether or not the activation is mistaken, the re-
thing like that happens, they may share the experience launched its own version, called Google Home, fol- viewers are required to transcribe it. One of the peo-
in the internal chat room as a way of relieving stress. lowed by Apple Inc.’s HomePod. ple said the auditors each transcribe as many as 100
Amazon says it has procedures in place for work- recordings a day when Alexa receives no wake com-
ers to follow when they hear something distressing, Alexa software is designed to continuously record mand or is triggered by accident.
but two Romania-based employees said that, after snatches of audio, listening for a wake word. That’s “Al-
requesting guidance for such cases, they were told it exa” by default, but people can change it to “Echo” or In homes around the world, Echo owners frequent-
wasn’t Amazon’s job to interfere. “computer.” When the wake word is detected, the light ly speculate about who might be listening, according
ring at the top of the Echo turns blue, indicating the to two of the reviewers. “Do you work for the NSA?”
device is recording and beaming a command to Ama-
zon servers. they ask. “Alexa, is someone else listening to us?” 

Apple’s Siri also has human helpers, who work to A version of this column by Matt Day, Giles Turner,
gauge whether the digital assistant’s interpretation of and Natalia Drozdiak first appeared on Bloomberg.
It does not necessarily reflect the views of Vero Beach
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In the years since Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl His plan – as claimed by him – was they would respect what he’d done Delusion factors heavily into Berg-
walked off his platoon’s base in eastern to walk 18 miles from his small com- and hear his concerns.” But instead dahl’s understanding of his actions.
Afghanistan in the early hours of June bat outpost to the nearest large base, Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban At his court-martial, his defense team
30, 2009, he has become many things to where, after having instigated the cri- and held in captivity for five years. diagnosed him as schizotypal. Unlike
many people, from a conscience-driv- sis of a soldier “missing in action,” he After his release, he said of his men- schizophrenics, schizotypal patients
en whistle-blower to a traitorous Tali- would become his command’s savior tal state when he walked away from don’t suffer from complete breaks with
ban collaborator. What would compel a by appearing and, thus, be granted his platoon’s base: “Happily with my reality but often become lost in their
23-year-old soldier to leave his weapon the audience he desired. “They might ignorance, from a young man’s mind own fantasies. If Bergdahl suffered the
behind and wander off into hostile ter- think he was crazy,” Farwell and Ames and my imagination, I came up with a delusion of believing he could become
ritory with nothing more than some write, parsing Bergdahl’s logic, “but fantastic plan.” a savior by solving a crisis of his own
water, food, a compass and $300 in making, the case is artfully made in
cash? The compelling new book “Amer- “American Cipher” that America itself
ican Cipher: Bowe Bergdahl and the is a schizotypal, that we became lost in
U.S. Tragedy in Afghanistan” by Matt our own fantasies for Afghanistan, in
Farwell and Michael Ames attempts to which we could become the savior, de-
answer these questions or at least to livering the Afghan people from a cri-
place a framework around them. sis of our own creation.

In “American Cipher,” Farwell and In “American Cipher” the specific
Ames tell Bergdahl’s story alongside a facts of Bergdahl’s case are elevated
history of the Afghan war. A deft move, to the allegorical, and this is where
as it is impossible to understand Berg- Farwell and Ames’s storytelling really
dahl’s actions outside a deeper con- shines. The U.S. government’s inter-
textualization of that conflict, with its departmental dysfunction when ne-
many contradictions. That is because gotiating with the Haqqani network,
the arc of Bergdahl’s story draws such which was holding Bergdahl, mirrors
strong parallels with the American ex- the government’s dysfunction in na-
perience in Afghanistan. Which leads scent Taliban peace talks brokered
to the bitterest irony of all – particularly by then-special envoy Richard Hol-
among many veterans – that the most brooke. The dysfunctional recruit-
iconic figure of the war in Afghanistan, ing process of an overextended U.S.
a war deserted by many Americans, is military mirrors the specifics of Berg-
in fact a deserter himself. dahl’s recruitment into the Army, even
though the government knew of his
Within a month of arriving in Af- psychological issues. And when Berg-
ghanistan, Bergdahl had become dis- dahl deserts, the dysfunction of the
illusioned. “The war he had been sold military’s counterinsurgency strat-
was a lie, he thought, a con spun from egy mirrors the dysfunction of U.S.
the desire in the American heart to attempts to elicit intelligence about
spread freedom and liberate the tyr- Bergdahl from a distrustful Afghan
annized peoples of the world,” the au- population.
thors write. “This wasn’t the war story
Bergdahl had written for himself, so The parallels go depressingly on.
he decided to write his own.” Having Farwell and Ames convincingly show
chosen to take matters into his own that so many of the reasons we’ve been
hands, Bergdahl became convinced fighting in Afghanistan for 18 years –
that he needed to address his griev- bureaucratic inertia, partisan dysfunc-
ances to at least a general officer. tion, domestic indifference – are the

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same reasons that, even when Bergda- remote part of eastern Afghanistan to vent fluid from collecting in his lungs, ask of Bergdahl. And in light of our
hl’s captors eagerly hoped to broker his track down information on Bergdahl. and Shannon crushes pills for his 80- nearly 20-year misadventure in Af-
release, it took so long to recover him. Mark Allen remains largely in a vegeta- odd prescriptions. Watching the video, ghanistan, it is also a fair question to
tive state despite at times responding Shannon concluded through tears that
And when we did recover Bergdahl, to prompts from Shannon and their at least Mark was back home, “where be asking of ourselves. 
the cost of his actions, particularly for young daughter. On the witness stand he’s safe.”
his former comrades and those sent to Shannon said, “Instead of a wife, I am a AMERICAN CIPHER
search for him, became acutely evident. caretaker,” at which point the prosecu- Whether Bergdahl’s actions were
Some of the most moving pages in the tion showed a video of the Allens’ daily a mistake or a crime is the central BOWE BERGDAHL AND THE
book recount the testimony of Shan- routine, in which Mark is fed through a question of “American Cipher.” In U.S. TRAGEDY IN AFGHANISTAN
non Allen, whose husband, Mark, was tube and wears a percussion vest to pre- light of the amount of suffering his BY MATT FARWELL AND MICHAEL AMES
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Keen to attach a coveted “Liberated Other correspondents braved much Man Trapped Between Public Relations consumption. No accounts of GIs frat-
Paris –” dateline to their dispatches, more than the occasional embrace to and the Axis.” The book’s subtitle cap- ernizing with German citizens, thank
five Canadian newsmen threaded jeeps get the story. They rode in open vehicles tures the situation faced by every corre- you. And not a whisper, please, about
through French crowds “mad with hap- down narrow streets where sniper fire spondent and photographer profiled in French youths counterfeiting Resis-
piness” on Aug. 24, 1944. Their destina- still rang out. Three American news- “Dateline” – notablyWalter Cronkite, Iris tance armbands to loot and intimidate.
tion: the fashionable (and aptly named) men were captured and imprisoned Carpenter, Ernie Pyle, Virginia Cowles,
Hôtel Scribe, the newest Allied press in Germany until war’s end. Reuters Howard K. Smith, Robert Capa, Lee Given the various battlefront hazards,
camp on the march from Normandy correspondent William Stringer – that Miller, George Orwell, Martha Gellhorn it’s a marvel any dispatch got through.
to Berlin. Though Nazi propaganda of- nominative determinism again – was (Hemingway’s third wife) and Mary Typescript had to be ferried to the near-
ficers had abandoned the hotel only killed by enemy fire on Aug. 17. Two Welsh (informed by Papa that she would est wireless transmission facility, so it
earlier in the day, the journalists suc- days later, Thomas Treanor of the Los inevitably be his fourth). Gellhorn’s routinely went MIA or got KIA. Such
ceeded in broadcasting word of the Angeles Times died when an American work, recalled British censor Harold Ac- was the twin fate of a surefire front-page
city’s impending deliverance from the tank hit his jeep near Chartres. ton, was “the best written and most vivid story written by Army Sgt. Andy Rooney
rooftop that night. of the articles submitted to me.” 34 years before he surfaced as the eye-
Earlier in the year, Treanor had re- brow-waggling scold of “60 Minutes” on
As recounted in historian Ronald We- turned stateside from the Italian front Reporters looked on helplessly as CBS. Having entered Paris with French
ber’s immersive “Dateline – Liberated to complete “One Damn Thing After Acton and his fellow “pedantic spoil- Gen. Philippe Leclerc’s men in advance
Paris,” the Canadian reporters were the Another: The Adventures of an Innocent sports” sanitized stories for home-front of rival correspondents accompanying
vanguard of an offbeat invasion force: American troops, Rooney banged out
By two months after D-Day, more than what he witnessed – including grue-
900 Allied scribes had been accredited some reprisals against German strag-
to cover the European theater. Some 200 glers and French “collabos” — and sent
of them infested the Scribe by sundown the story off to Stars and Stripes. But the
on Paris’s Liberation Day, Aug. 25. Soon pages disappeared from the French in-
the hotel lobby would be converted into formation center to which Rooney en-
a press room filled with telegraph ma- trusted them, and engine trouble befell
chines and typewriters, their rapid-fire the American pilot who attempted to
keystrokes mimicking the “machine- deliver them to rear headquarters.
gun barrage” of champagne corks from
the bar below. Within a month, recalled Female correspondents risked los-
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Barney Oldfield, 250 ing their press credentials – or being
“public-relations officers” (military banished from the war zone – if they
speak for censors) had taken up blue ventured closer to the fighting than
pencils inside the hotel,“pawing over an a field hospital. “The public relations
average of more than 3,000,000 words boys thought we gals ought to be
… 35,000 still pictures, and 100,000 feet happy [at the Scribe],” wrote Virginia
of movie film every seven days.” Irwin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“But I was itching to see what our
Lingering gunfire understandably Joes were doing.” Irwin went AWOL to
overheated some of those words. On scratch that itch, shadowing Ameri-
Aug. 26, as bullets from Wehrmacht can troops to within mortar range of
die-hards stippled the courtyard walls the front lines. “That’s about a mile
of the Ritz (its bar “liberated” by a gre- closer than any other woman corre-
nade-festooned Ernest Hemingway the spondent has been,” Irwin crowed,
day before), the occupant of a “sinfully “or I’ll eat my correspondent’s beret
luxurious suite” upstairs was painting dry without any butter.”
the City of Light in purple prose: “Paris
today is Betty Grable on a bicycle and Short of food, cigarettes, coal and
Billy the Kid on a bender,” wrote Ralph public transport, Paris in the post-liber-
Allen, reporting for Toronto’s Globe ation period lacked “virtually everything
and Mail. “Paris is the Mona Lisa in a needed for everyday life,” Weber writes.
jeep and François Villon behind a Sten “Yet what it singularly had was itself, the
gun.… Paris today was partly itself at magnificent and largely undamaged
its best, partly Deadwood Gulch at its city that appealed as much as ever to the
worst and partly Strauss’ Vienna at its
most improbable.” Western mind and imagination.” 

One woman who kissed him in the DATELINE – LIBERATED PARIS
street, Allen reported, had laughed off
the gunfire with patriotic sang-froid: THE HOTEL SCRIBE AND THE
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It’s game (set and match) on for St. Ed’s tennis in playoffs

BY RON HOLUB Jacob Neenah Bao-He round out the roster – and have
Chesley Brown found court time when possible.
Correspondent
Miranda Coach Joseph “Our girls from positions 6 through
Everything seemed to be on serve Morey Van Deinse 10 are all really close to each other. We
for St. Ed’s boys and girls varsity tennis wanted them to gain experience, so
teams on the eve of the district playoffs Amira PHOTOS BY when we could we had them play exhi-
this week. The coaching staff wanted Hussamy KAILA JONES bition matches against other schools.
the teams to peak at this point of the We also worked them into doubles
season, and the final district match That made the role of former head Ryan matches as well.
certainly pointed in that direction. The coach Paco Munoz as critical as ever. Niederpruem
boys defeated Jupiter Christian 7-0, He was no longer involved day to day, “And if we did have injuries or some-
and the girls prevailed 6-1. but he had something extremely vital All of the boys are underclassmen, body was missing that day, it was easy
to contribute while still coping with and you won’t find a senior on the girls to pull someone from 6 through 8 be-
Joseph Van Deinse and Chad Miller the aftermath of a near-fatal car crash roster either. cause they are really close to 3, 4 and 5.”
had to deal with slightly different dy- several years ago.
namics when it came to coaching the “We have a pretty young team on the The boys and girls struggled in dis-
two squads. Six boys started the sea- “Chad and I have taken over most girls side. Our No. 1 is a sophomore, trict matches when the opponent
son, but now they are down to a bare- of the coaching duties – we focus on and 2 through 5 are freshmen. They wasn’t Jupiter Christian. No huge sur-
bones five. The girls have 10 on the ros- shot-making, strategy and determin- have all been doing a good job; most prise there, especially after no seniors
ter, and the challenge there was finding ing the lineups. Paco is still a special are playing in their first high school showed up in late January. Most of
meaningful court time for as many as resource for us. He stopped by once a season ever. And we are pretty deep, these players will be tournament test-
possible. week to work with the kids on fitness. similar to the boys.” ed for the first time. Despite all of that,
And by any stretch he also knows ten- Van Deinse is optimistic about the po-
“We are suffering a little bit now with nis.” Miranda Morey, Lily Strauss, Neen- tential trajectory of this group for the
the loss of Jack Zoltak,” Van Deinse said ah Brown, Amira Hussamy and Zayna remainder of this year and beyond.
of the leg injury that sidelined his No. Shaikh started the season at 1 through
3 singles player in the boys rotation. 5. Natalie Burgoon, Catherine Caldwell, “We were pretty competitive with
“But Cole Hackenburg stepped up to Olivia Rekus, Sophia Tripodi and Mei the rest of the schools in our district,
take the next position, and we just keep but crunch time is now and the post-
marching forward. season starts this week. I’m hoping that
our win at Jupiter Christian will give us
“We still have a pretty deep team, good momentum leading into districts.
and what I mean by deep is that our 1
through 4 are super close. On any giv- “There is something special about
en day our 2, 3 and 4 could beat No. 1. coaching high school kids. They are
That has ended up making for a deep, young, they are rambunctious, and
strong lineup when it comes to match- they are spunky. They will run to the
ing up against other teams.” moon and back for you if you ask them
to. They really care and they want to
One thing the coaches and guys can get better as players. You can laugh and
applaud is the absolute absence of any have fun with them. There are a lot of
internecine squabbles about playing great personalities.
time.The main worry is further attrition.
Ryan Niederpruem, Jacob Chesley, Jake “Just about all high school kids at
Damiani, Toby Tettamanti and Hacken- some point think they know more than
burg can’t afford to get nicked up. the coaches, but St. Ed’s is pretty out-
standing with the students they have
“When there are only five, and we and how receptive they are to coach-
have five positions to fill, it makes ing. I am very happy to be here.
scheduling pretty clear,” Van Deinse
said. “We’ve got to make sure that we “It’s going to be a lot of fun to see
all stay healthy so we can finish the how this core group of tennis players
season as strong as we can.” develops together in the next year or

two.” 

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ONE QUANDARY HELPS A SECOND DILEMMA WEST NORTH EAST
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Jessiqua Wittman, in her book “A Memoir of Love,” wrote: “Information can be such a J54 — 87632
double-edged sword.”
SOUTH
That is true at the bridge table. While you and your partner are bidding, sensible opponents 853
will be interpreting your calls. But if you are always in the correct contract, you will be A 10 9 4
impossible to beat. 7
A K Q 10 9
In today’s deal, look at the West hand. What should West lead against four hearts?
Dealer: South; Vulnerable: Both
In the bidding, North was right to respond one diamond, not one heart. With a game-going
hand, bid the longest suit first. North-South might have even belonged in seven diamonds The Bidding:
for all North knew at that point. Then, when South rebid one heart, North was worth a slam
suggestion. By far his best rebid was four clubs, a splinter (yes, even in opener’s first-bid SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
suit) showing four-card heart support, at least game-going values and a singleton (or void) in 1 Clubs Pass 1 Diamonds Pass
clubs. South, with so much wasted in clubs, signed off in four hearts. (But if South had had, 1 Hearts Pass 4 Clubs Pass LEAD:
say, five low clubs, he would have headed for six or seven hearts.) 4 Hearts Pass Pass Pass ??

What should West lead? He knows that dummy is coming down with five or more
diamonds, because with 4-4 in the reds, North would probably have responded one heart,
not one diamond. Also, leading a side suit bid by an opponent is rarely best. Since a trump
or a club rates not to be effective, West should choose the spade two, guaranteeing at least
one honor in the suit.

East should confidently put in the spade jack, cash the spade ace, lead a third spade and
wait for a heart trick to defeat the contract.

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15 Riband (6) 10 Lay poem (anag.) (7)
16 Place for keeping bees (6) 12 Bitter (4)
18 Golf club (6) 13 Weapons (9)
20 Customer (6) 14 Wealthy (7)
22 Deanery (anag.) (4-3) 17 Himalayan monster (4)
23 Soft fabric (6) 19 Hold onto (6)
25 Bold (9) 20 Nook (6)
26 Songbird (4) 21 Influx (6)
27 Deadly sin (4) 23 Valley (4)
28 Cover (4) 24 Continent (4)

How to do Sudoku:

Fill in the grid so the
numbers one through
nine appear just once
in every column, row
and three-by-three
square.

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INSIGHT GAMES

ACROSS 86 It can precede “pede” (label dictum) The Washington Post
87 Offhand 32 Impulse carrier
1 Meas. of a hurler’s talent 89 Gave grub 33 “What’s a nice I, GLUTEUS By Merl Reagle
4 Fable followup 90 Radioactive
9 Power for Tower of Power girl ___ ...”
12 Digs, dig? run-throughs 35 Reminiscent of the Kalahari
15 Stick that humans 92 Number, often 37 Not ___ (fewer)
93 Wind in the Willows Mr. 38 Humorist-mom
chew on 94 “Assert yourself, ___!” 39 Wash.-Mont. separator
16 Nixon crony Bebe 96 Pint-sized 41 Romantic Italia city
17 “Still living at 98 Across-the-board ruling 43 Qualifying race events
99 Easy letters 45 Japanese aborigine
home, ___?” 100 Role for Marlon 47 Tie up a few loose ends?
20 “Care to join us, ___? 101 Taylor of fashion 49 John Sebastian tune, “She’s
102 “Your exploits are so
(as if I have to ask)” ___”
22 “That’s quite a fascinating, ___” 50 Uses a sponge on
104 Undo a smidge 52 Dress flounce
dress, ___” 106 Ray of GoodFellas 53 “Trouble sleeping, ___?”
24 A devil of a name 108 Gal of song 55 Honeycomb makeup
25 Sets foot 109 “Don’t stand so close to me, 56 Excellent
27 Has ___ (is favored) 57 “Most assuredly”
28 “You seem bitter, ___” ___” 60 Cute Little Rascal
31 Cheer, to Che 112 “Have you changed your 61 Bands after bandits
32 “On the same bill ...” 62 Hawaiian porches
34 Hunk of corn sandals 63 Where to see P.O.V.
35 Class with perspective lately, ___?” 64 Dave Bowman’s computer
36 Not in contemp. usage 117 “I’ll be there in less than a 65 Hardly amicable
37 “Eat something, ___” second, ____?” 67 Spacy
39 Concerning 118 King Kong’s world 68 George or Keanu
40 Relief for Death Valley 119 Cry of disgust 71 Essayist Charles
42 Fast crowd 120 Firms: abbr. 74 Vowelless gamma-ray unit
44 Korean soldier 121 Ali feats, briefly 77 Generic dog
45 ___ in the life 122 Gawky group 79 Last words heard in a
46 Suggestions 123 Protein source
48 Huggers or killers huddle, often
49 “Remember me, ___?” DOWN 80 “Nice lava lamp, ___”
51 “How was lunch, ___?” 1 McMuffin stuffin’ 81 Arm bones
53 In the style of 2 Metal-man work 82 MERGE, for one
54 Hither’s opposite 3 “Look! This hotel has 83 Funding, often
55 Word after hall, head, 84 Nautilus builder
free breakfasts, ___!” 85 Hollywood risk taker
or high 4 Cousteau milieu 87 “I fall down, ___”
58 Have debts 5 Geisha’s wrap 88 Terse
59 Ma ___ Kettle 6 Chicken George chronicle 90 Day-care don’t
61 “Is it me or is it getting 7 Côte d’___ 91 Theol. school
8 ___ cool (get mad) 93 Tailor’s “chalk”
crowded in here, ___?” 9 Author Kingsley 94 Slight coloring
63 TV Dr. 10 Bus. degree 95 Mrs. Gorbachev
66 “How are Tom, Dick, and 11 Lulu 97 Downs or salt
12 John’s instrument 100 Salome’s septet
Harry, ___?” 13 Puberty woe 102 Less colorful
69 Things to grind 14 Intestine sections 103 Shell pusher
70 “Another cold coming on, 16 Communicating device 105 French battle town
17 Cow feature 106 Director Buñuel
___?” 18 Tibet’s capital 107 Cassette content
72 Kings, in Madrid 19 Sweet 110 Familiar relative
73 Fancy pot 21 Semisolid stuff 111 Fab Four’s fifth?
75 Knowing 23 Withered 113 Quite queer
76 Prefix meaning “self” 26 Copious amounts 114 It made Bill Gates billions
77 The Bucs stop here: abbr. 28 Civil War photographer 115 Actor Tognazzi
78 “You may find this hard to 29 Receiver of a 116 Unassertive

swallow, ___” vb.’s action
83 “How do you get 30 “___ directed”

your windows so
clean, ___?”
85 Cameraman Nykvist

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Moving to another continent hits mom like a ton of bricks

BY CAROLYN HAX tional symptoms. Sadness, resentment and burn-
Washington Post out aren’t going to be shamed or ridiculed away by
the part of you acculturated to scoff at such pain. Or
Dear Carolyn: Last year, for my else they would have been by now, right?

husband’s job, our family (with And would you be as tough on a friend in your
position as you’ve been on yourself? People with
three teenagers!) had to move sud- “good friends” seldom would.

denly and permanently, not just So be that friend to you and nurse the pain. Ex-
press your sadness and get screened for depression.
across the country but to an entire- Dig to the source of the resentment and see wheth-
er and how you can fix it.
ly different continent. The kids are
Most important, give yourself extra rest, extra
adapting reasonably well but I’m having a hard time. self-care and extra patience as you recover from
this shock to your emotional system. If you’re used
Our new location isn’t the problem – it’s that I can’t to feeling settled in after six months, then set a goal
of two or three years, longer even, before you start
get over what I’ve lost. I’m missing my good friends, to feel rooted again.

social structure, our community and the house I If you remain unconvinced of the healing proper-
ties of patience, time and rest, then try this oddball
loved. Because our move was so sudden, I also had to exercise: Give your brain a challenge, like doing a
crossword or writing an essay or making complicat-
downshift to a lower-paying, nonmanagerial posi- ed plans. Something doable except for some sticking
points.
tion.
When you hit those points, walk away. Do other
I know with the right kind of positive energy and things. Forget about it.

just a little bit of enthusiasm, I would easily make Then return to see how many sticking points are
“suddenly” unstuck.
new friends, rebuild my career, decorate our new
This isn’t an argument against mental-health care,
home and eventually feel at home again. I’m just re- nity and your career, with very little warning and for obviously – still make the screening appointments.
reasons you couldn’t control? It’s just a demonstration to yourself of the kind of
ally struggling to find that positive attitude. behind-the-scenes problem-solving a resting brain
They still exist in some form, so, yes, we’re not talk- can do. 
I feel I worked so hard to build everything that is ing about mass death or destruction, mercifully. But
having your circumstances fall beneath that thresh-
now lost, I’m sad, resentful and burned out – as if I old doesn’t mean your feelings of loss are a frill.

was too tired and old to start over (I’m youthfully in So stop treating them as if they are.
And stop flogging yourself for not bucking up or
my mid-40s). Can’t help feeling “traumatized,” while can-doing or blooming where planted or clicheing
where you think you’re supposed to cliche.
fully realizing it’s ridiculous to compare the move I’m not suggesting you wallow. The point of re-
specting the scope of your losses is to allow you to
to a traumatic experience. How do I get my “can do” address those losses appropriately – and their emo-

spirit back?

– Dislocated

Dislocated: What, please tell me, is not traumatic
about losing your friends, your home, your commu-

4

STOWE: DEDICATION AT HEART OF
CARDIO SURGERY TEAM’S SUCCESS

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Stowe: Dedication at heart of cardio surgery team’s success

BY TOM LLOYD Dr. Cary Stowe. ‘When we come out,
Staff Writer we have a game
PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES
Certainly, $350-million health plan. We have looked
mergers and acquisitions are almost at all the potential
never launched, debated or decided pitfalls that could
upon because of one individual.
happen, what are we
Nonetheless, when the world- going to do if that
renowned Cleveland Clinic agreed happens, and I just
to invest some $250 million in Vero
Beach’s hospital and assume over think it’s a great way
$100 million of the hospital’s debt, Dr. to practice.’
Cary Stowe and his colleagues at the
Welsh Heart Center played a far more – Dr. Cary Stowe
significant role than many people
realize.

Stowe, who came to Vero some
13 years ago from Florida Adventist
Hospital in Orlando to build a top-
flight heart center here, undoubtedly
caught the Cleveland Clinic’s eye.

In 2006 that would have been even
easier. As Stowe explains, “for the
first 14 months, I was the only cardiac
surgeon here.”

He was not, however, a complete
stranger to Vero Beach residents.

“I had taken care of a vast major-
ity of the patients from here. They

would be transferred to Orlando and

I would operate on them there. So

there were hundreds of patients here

in the Vero Beach area that I had op-

erated on” by the time he relocated

here.

After Stowe was in Vero for about

two and a half years, Dr. Mark Malias

joined him at the hospital and

together they “hand-picked” every

member of a team that now includes

anesthesiologists, interventional

cardiologists, perfusionists,

physician assistants and, of course,

surgeons.

“We take a special interest in each

member that joins the team,” Stowe

adds. “Their dedication to the pa-

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the patients and dedication to getting the best of knowledge from a acid test in the long run.” has to recognize. It will be about 18
our mission, which is basically to group of talented people.” Stowe also advises patience in months to three years for the full
provide first-class cardiovascular integration,” and while he freely
surgery,” is what has helped this That, incidentally, is about as close judging the impact of the Vero admits “all of us would like to have
heart program grow. to a mirror image of the Cleveland hospital merging into the Cleveland it happen quicker,” he is aware that
Clinic’s famed “caregiver team Clinic system. anything really good is worth the
And grow it has. concept” as you can get. wait: like – for example – starting to
Going from a one-doc heart shop Coming from a man with over build a world-class heart center with
to a program with a fully functioning While Stowe may be happier 10,000 heart surgeries under his belt, just a single cardiac surgeon.
team of multiple, interacting talking data and bragging about that’s probably sound advice.
specialists that is now consistently his team members, this particular Dr. Cary Stowe is the Director of
ranked by the Society of Thoracic cardiovascular surgeon also appears “The fact that Cleveland Clinic has Medicine at the Welsh Heart Center
Surgeons as one of the top cardiac to enjoy the time he spends with his come here,” says Stowe, “is going to at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River
surgery programs in the country is patients. “Dr. Malias and I round on be wonderful for the hospital, for the Hospital. His office is at 3450 11th
no mean feat. every patient as a team,” Stowe says. community and for the healthcare of Court, Suite 105 in Vero Beach. The
That STS recognition is especially “I always tell the patients, I’m the one this entire area. It’s going to be great,” phone number is 772-563-4580. 
important in Stowe’s eyes because it with hair.” but it won’t happen overnight.
is “data-driven.”
“On each patient that we operate Being data-driven does not “It’s going to take a few years. I
on for their heart, we fill out sheets mean avoiding new procedures or think that’s the thing the public
that have close to over 1,000 points of approaches. Stowe and Malias were
data,” Stowe explains, “It’s about five among the first Florida physicians
or six pages long. And we have done to perform those TAVR procedures
that since day one.” mentioned earlier.
The data are then analyzed and
compared against all the other cardio And Stowe sees a big future
programs – over 2,500 of them – in for other trans-catheter valve
the country and is updated every six surgeries.
months.
While many in this area may be TAVR is for the aortic valve. That
anticipating big changes in the way leaves three other heart valves which
Vero’s hospital operates after joining can – and sometimes do – require
with the Cleveland Clinic, one thing replacement: the mitral, tricuspid
that likely won’t change much is the and pulmonary valves.
way the Welsh heart team approaches
each surgery including the newest “I think [the trans-catheter
trans-aortic valve replacement approach] will be adapted to all
(TAVR) procedures. valvular replacements,” Stowe says.
“Every morning – like this morning “They’re already working on the
when we did two TAVRs – we meet mitral valve to do that. It’s going to
at 7 a.m. with the entire team. be somewhat more complex because
We go through each one of these with the aortic valve you basically
cases. We go over the films, we look have a valve inside of a cylinder.
at everything and we assess that The mitral valve is basically located
patient and potential complications between two chambers of the heart,
or problems or things we may need so the structure that will support the
to think about during that case from [new] trans-catheter valve is going to
each perspective. be very different.”
“When we come out, we have a
game plan. We have looked at all And it will take time.
the potential pitfalls that could “To give you an example,”
happen, what are we going to do if Stowe continues, “I think there’s
that happens, and I just think it’s a something like 68 prototypes for the
great way to practice. That patient is mitral valve right now. So, I’m sure
one or two or maybe three of those
will ultimately work out, but right
there it tells you, in development,
there are a lot of mousetraps out
there and most of them, the vast
majority of them, will not pass the

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How to decipher contradictory nutritional research

BY CARA ROSENBLOOM nutritional research works, so you’ll search Chair in Nutrition at the Uni- tific issue is generally a very good bet to
The Washington Post have an easier time making sense of versity of Toronto and St. Michael’s make.”
food headlines. Hospital in Toronto. For that reason,
It’s frustrating when nutrition stud- nutrition research trials usually have It is also easier to understand nutri-
ies seem to contradict earlier ones: Let’s focus on one of the most vexing only 70 to 120 subjects. “When you don’t tion research when you know more
“Are Eggs Good or Bad for You? New dietary issues: saturated fat. There are have big enough numbers, that’s when about the types of studies that scientists
Research Rekindles Debate,” the As- studies that suggest it increases cardio- things can flip-flop,” says Jenkins. conduct. The gold standard for evaluat-
sociated Press groused in mid-March. vascular disease risk, and studies that ing cause and effect (for example, if sat-
Though it may seem that dietary sci- suggest it doesn’t. Why the apparent Small studies don’t provide power- urated fat causes heart disease) is the
ence is changing every day, that’s not contradiction? ful results, so researchers repeat the randomized control trial (RCT), where
really the case. I’m here to explain how same small study many times, then participants are divided by chance into
“Nutrition research is not well-fund- group similar studies together in what’s separate groups that undergo different
ed,” says David Jenkins, Canada Re- known as a meta-analysis. “We pool regimens. But it’s not always possible to
data and come up with a moderately big do RCTs because they’re expensive and
study and reliable result,” says Jenkins. it’s hard for people to follow strict diet
“Without meta-analysis, that’s when regimes long-term.
we’re left with ‘He said, she said.’”
Instead, researchers often rely on
So, imagine that a small study is rep- correlational studies, which don’t show
licated many times. One research team cause and effect, but tell us if two things
may discover something that contra- are related in some way. One big prob-
dicts the commonly accepted science. lem in this research is controlling for
They are the outlier. When pooled in variables outside of what’s being stud-
a meta-analysis, it won’t really skew ied. With saturated fat for example, re-
the results. But when it’s reported as a searchers try to control for other factors
stand-alone study, it can cause sensa- like income or exercise, but can never
tionalist headline news. That’s when account for all variables.
you need to remember that small
studies that have not been replicated Correlational studies leave more
shouldn’t shift your thinking on a given room for interpretation than RCTs – and
topic. Base your nutrition decisions on when human nature comes into play, it
the weight of evidence, not on the trend can seem like advice is flip-flopping.
of the day. “Even when scientists try to be objec-
tive, their existing beliefs can get in the
That’s true for the saturated fat de- way,” says Riis. Personal bias, funding
bate, too. Although there are certainly sources or the pressure to succeed can
good studies that indicate there’s no unintentionally creep into a research-
link between saturated fat and heart er’s work and influence the results.
disease, the overwhelming majority of
the evidence still supports the connec- Another possible influence is social
tion. Jenkins advises choosing more conformity. The need to fit in is power-
plant-based foods and lowering satu- ful: Studies show that ostracism from
rated fat intake from animal products. a peer group activates the same part
of the brain that experiences physical
Jason Riis, a cognitive psychologist pain. “Researchers care about speak-
and senior research fellow at the Be- ing the truth in their area of expertise,
havior Change for Good Initiative at but they also care about how their peers
the Wharton School at the University of and audience will value their ideas,”
Pennsylvania says, “By all means, read says Riis. “Some experts can also get
dissenting views, and continue to look themselves into a situation where they
at evidence, but following opinion of feel they will look foolish by backing
the vast majority of experts on a scien- down, or admitting they are wrong.” 

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Wife’s shortness of breath should be checked by doctor

BY FRED CICETTI is most common after age 65. other than the lungs. low, your body doesn’t get enough oxy-
When something from your mouth When the heart fails, it loses its ability gen. In addition, a high thyroid level,
Columnist shock, systemic infection, kidney or
goes down “the wrong pipe,” you have pump blood. This elevates pressure chronic liver problems, stroke, nerve
Q. My wife has complained of being aspiration. Aspiration is inhaling food in the blood vessels around the lung. and muscle disorders, and anxiety can
short of breath while shopping in the particles, liquids or bacteria. If the Sometimes fluid collects in the lungs bring on dyspnea.
mall. She says it’s just a sign of age, but amount of aspirated material exceeds and interferes with breathing, causing
I’m concerned about her. the ability of the immune system to shortness of breath, especially when a The following are some symptoms
handle it, you can get a serious lung person is lying down. that indicate a medical condition:
The likelihood of suffering shortness infection. shortness of breath at rest, with exer-
of breath or “dyspnea” (disp-nee-ah) A low red-blood-cell count causes cise, when lying down or upon expo-
becomes greater the older we get. As we Shortness of breath can be caused dyspnea because the red cells carry ox- sure to allergens. 
age, our air passages get smaller, chest by a variety of abnormalities in organs ygen. When their number is extremely
muscles weaken, and our lungs become
less flexible. These changes reduce our
air flow.

Dyspnea should happen rarely to
healthy people. It can be brought on
by exhaustive exertion, high altitude
or extreme temperatures. Otherwise,
shortness of breath is commonly a sign
of a medical problem. So your wife
should get this symptom checked by a
doctor immediately.

Dyspnea is associated with the
major breathing disorders that can
develop in seniors. These disorders are
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD), asthma, obstructive sleep
apnea, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary
thromboembolism and aspiration.

COPD involves difficulty in exhaling.
Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
are COPDs. Emphysema makes the
small air spaces in the lungs collapse.
Bronchitis is inflammation of the
airways.

Most asthma is caused by allergies
to airborne particles such as dust and
mold. The airways become inflamed,
which causes them to spasm. Unlike
COPD, asthma is reversible.

Diagnosing conditions in seniors
can be challenging, because asthma
in older people is often difficult to
distinguish from emphysema and
chronic bronchitis. In addition, many
seniors have both emphysema and
chronic bronchitis.

Obstructive sleep apnea is common
in older adults. People with sleep
apnea stop breathing for as long as 30
seconds at a time. These interruptions
can happen hundreds of times a night.
Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when
the muscles in the back of your throat
relax, narrowing your airway and
cutting off your breathing.

In pulmonary fibrosis, the lung’s air
sacs become filled with scar tissue.
The damage is permanent. Pulmonary
fibrosis usually begins in your 40s or
50s, but can develop at any age.

Pulmonary thromboembolism is a
life-endangering blockage of a blood
vessel by a blood clot that travels – often
from the legs – to the lung and damages
tissue. Pulmonary thromboembolism

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How Coachella killed festival fashion

BY CHLOE MACDONNELL trousers and a silk jacket, the latter in with rain boots and a low in the other, the festival style scene was
a white leather tassel top and bell bot- slung leather belt, ciga- changed forever. Throw Alexa Chung in
The Telegraph rette in one hand, can denim hot pants and Sienna Miller in an
tom jeans, little did embellished waistcoat into the mix and
Last night on my way to dinner, I they know what of Red Stripe
walked along the big store windows in- their looks suddenly “festival fashion” was a
cluding Forever 21, H&M and Topshop, term on in everyone’s lexicon.
and all had one thing in common. would still I’m not going to lie, as I’ve
be informing packed my backpack for vari-
Mannequins styled in denim hot- trends nearly ous festivals over the years,
pants, fringed skirts and cropped cro- half a century denim shorts and a silk dress
chet tops, while giant glitter embossed later. have featured. But just like
lettering scrawled across the glass read: Chung’s Hunter wellington
“Festival Edit.” The 400,000- boots or Moss’s 2010 khaki
strong crowd jacket, these were already
Over the past five days I’ve re- gathered in up- items in my existing
ceived over a dozen festival-inspired state New York wardrobe. I didn’t
press releases from various brands – a sea of smock specifically go
asking me if I have my “festival aes- dresses, flared jeans, out and buy
thetic ready?” and one telling me it embroidered waistcoats, them. Sure, I’d
was time to “Get lost in the essence of peasant tops, orange tint- had Moss and
free-spirited babes.” ed sunglasses and flower Miller in mind when I
crown – was also just thought about what I
The latter’s product guide includes as influential. Mari- was going to wear but
transparent plastic trousers, a faux anne Faithfull and Joni I also packed a water-
fur trimmed bikini top and a mesh Mitchell were poster proof parka.
bodysuit. How this equals a free-spirited girls but the focus still In 2019 it’s a com-
babe was certainly lost on me. remained the music. pletely different story.
And there’s one festival to
Festival fashion has become a bit of Fast forward to 2005 blame. Coachella. Held in
a dirty word but it wasn’t always like and when Kate Moss was
this. When Janice Joplin and Jimi Hen- pictured in a gold shim-
drix appeared on stage in Woodstock mering shift dress worn
in 1969, the former in tie-dye flared

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the Colorado Desert, it’s a two-part, with this amazing Native American Kendall Jenner and Joan Smalls. Re- day [before Coachella] beat our
three-day successive weekend af- volve have essentially created their Cyber Monday,” Revolve’s CEO
fair which this year is expected to at- headpiece,” wrote the supermodel Ales- own stand-alone mini festival de- Michael Mente has said.
tract over 100,000 people for each of signed for sharing on Instagram. “Holiday season, for a lot of peo-
those six days. Everyone from Prince sandra Ambrosio on Instagram in cap- ple, is very discount/sale oriented and,
in 2008 to Beyoncé in 2018 has per- Search for #Coachella and photos for us, this is just, like, the best stuff –
formed, and this year’s festival line- tion accompanying a photo of her in a of girls either at the #RevolveFestival and everything’s full price.”
up includes Ariana Grande, Childish or wearing clothes from Revolve With multiple outfit changes,
Gambino and Janelle Monáe. feathered headdress in 2014. dominants. According to Fashionista. and a schedule full of #spon events
com in 2017, the company generated 4.4 it all sounds slightly exhausting. I
I use the word festival lightly Last year, Vogue.com scrapped their billion social impressions. mean don’t get me wrong, if some-
here as anyone who has been to one wanted to pay me thousands
it will tell you it’s the antithesis of best dressed Coachella gallery, the first “This was our best week ever: Mon- of dollars to pose in front of a brand-
an actual festival. It’s so hot people ed flower wall wearing clothes from
stay off-site in fancy hotels or Airb- time in the website’s history. Writing at said brand’s website, then I’m sure I’d
nbs then drive into the festival site muster the energy.
once the sun has cooled in the late the time explaining they said: “It wasn’t However, I do worry that these
afternoon. Drinking is only allowed influencers and their followers may
in designated penned-off areas in so much the lack of taste that struck us, think this is how a real festival works.
which you’re only allowed to buy two I do worry that they spend all day
drinks (starting from $16) at a time but rather, a depressing lack of imagi- in a flap about whether they’ve got
enough content rather than just feeling
Coachella welcomes brand part- content. After all, a festival is meant to
nerships with open arms. Combine be about escapism.
this with the rise of social media A chance to leave your day-to-day re-
and it’s become globally known ality behind and just dance in a field.
and commercially bloated. With its You shouldn’t have to care about what
naturally Instagrammable setting – you’re wearing or that your phone has
think palm trees, cacti and golden run out of battery so the only photos you
sunsets at 4 p.m., not to mention pur- have are the ones you’ll remember.
pose built “Instabait” including a gi- Let’s face it, a waterproof mac and
ant ferris wheel – Coachella has be- plenty of water are the only festival
come a content mecca. essentials anyone should really ever
need. 
Naturally, dozens of fashion brands
have maxed out their marketing bud- nation: ironic slogan tees emblazoned
gets on events and parties both onsite
and off-site including H&M, Moschino with slang epithets (i.e. “ratchet”),
and Levi’s, with guest lists featuring
Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Rihanna bandanas that would have been bet-
and countless celebrity style influenc-
ers flown in from all over the world. ter left at the rodeo, bikini tops spray-
Poppy Delevingne teamed up with Su-
perdry to host her hen party dubbed painted with sparkling body paint, a
“Popchella” in 2014.
trend more popularly known as “glitter
Forget the music, Coachella’s focus
is the festival fashion. It’s a genre that’s boobs.”
practically become another retail
season, with drops starting in March in This year isn’t looking too hopeful
preparation for the actual event. Even if
you’re not in Palm Springs, you can still either. Worryingly for 2019, the global
shop like you are.
fashion search platform Lyst is report-
Erika Fox, a New York based blogger,
has attended both Coachella and ing that there has been a 2,250 percent
some of the events which take place
around the festival for the past four increase since mid-March in page views
years. “It has definitely turned into a
‘business trip’ almost for me at this for Y/Project’s “Denim panties.” Lyst has
stage. It’s great for networking and yes,
engagement is usually much higher also discovered a 350 percent increase in
during the festival so it’s good for
exposure. I think people love to see the search for rainbow cycling shorts while
outfits & the behind the scenes of the
festival,” she says. sequin bikini tops have generated 40

And just like “the more ridiculous, percent more page views.
the better” genre of street style that ex-
ists during fashion week, Coachella has A key player in the Coachella market
spawned a whole new way of dressing.
From lace bodices to strappy high heels is Revolve, an American based fashion
and PVC hotpants, over the years we’ve
seen it all. There’s plenty of contouring, e-commerce site.
inflated glossy lips and immaculate
blow-dried hair. And don’t even get me This year marks the fourth the
started on the cultural appropriation.
“Becoming more inspired for Coachella #RevolveFestival, which they describe

as a “week-long curation of star-

studded aspirational style, beauty and

entertainment experiences, dynamic

brand partnership activations, special

guests appearances and surprise

performances.”

Invite-only, last year the company is

said to have hosted over 90 influencers

from over 14 countries including big

players like Aimee Song and Danielle

Bernstein plus styled over 450 others,

using its variety of in-house brands.

Past performers have included A$AP

Rocky and Snoop Dogg alongside

high-profile guests.

Think Emily Ratajkowski,

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Is the bridal-shop trip with besties in trouble? Maybe ...

BY ROBIN GIVHAN husband and business partner, Neil
The Washington Post Brown, who together are aiming to carry
on Aberra’s creative legacy. But even
The bridal wear designer Amsale more ambitiously, they are looking to
Aberra was among the first to give upend the entire bridal wear industry,
women a sleek, restrained alternative to which typically measures innovation by
a wedding dress as a sugary confection. gradations of off-white to ivory to blush.

A year ago this month, Aberra Brown wants to change the way
died of uterine cancer. The 64-year- brides purchase wedding gowns, trans-
old left behind her daughter Rachel, forming the enterprise from a “Say Yes
a handpicked design team, and her to the Dress” field trip – in which it

takes a village to choose between an and the launch of Amsale e-commerce,
Empire waist or a trumpet hem – into which Brown said has grown rapidly –
an luxury online experience. the company is launching Amsale x You.

“I see the company transitioning from Shoppers can go online and design
a fashion company to a fashion technol- their own wedding dresses – within the
ogy company,” Brown said one after- tasteful confines of the Amsale aesthet-
noon last fall. ic. “We’re not just decorating a sneaker,”
Brown said during a recent demonstra-
Gathered around a conference table tion of the site. “We’re inviting the bride
in the brand’s headquarters in New into our design room and sharing our
York’s Garment District, he and the intellectual property with her so she can
Amsale team were explaining their next express her own design impulses.”
steps. One wall was covered in a hodge-
podge of sticky notes, each one marked A bride can select her dress’s bodice
with a nugget from a brainstorming ses- and skirt and add a wisp of a belt. She
sion about what brides want and when can pick from size 0 to 24, mixing and
they want it. Brown, with the help of matching different-size tops and bot-
business and technology consultants, toms for an optimum fit. It won’t matter
was considering how best to move for- if a customer chooses tulle or silk faille,
ward in a time of e-commerce, cus- long sleeves or strapless – the cost is a flat
tomer impatience, an emphasis on per- fee of $5,000, which counts as a bargain
sonalized experiences and the ominous in Designerville, since custom gowns
reality that David’s Bridal – the coun- ordered through Amsale’s Madison Ave-
try’s largest bridal gown retailer – had nue salon would start at around $10,000.
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protec- The dress is made-to-order and shipped
tion, from which it has since emerged. out in four weeks.

“So many in this industry see tech- The site officially launched last
nology as a support function for what Friday, as the brand debuts its spring
we do, but it’s really a place of creativ- 2020 bridal collection on the runway
ity that’s complementary to what we here.
do,” Brown said.
It all sounds wildly efficient and
Several months later – after layoffs stress free – except for that part about

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style Vero Beach 32963 / April 18, 2019 69

imagining what the dress will look like return policy, and the site advertises pany lead another shift? may have been dreading the tradition of
in real life, worrying that the dress won’t that most dresses cost $1,000 to $1,500. Today, brides have an endless sup- dress shopping by com-
be as flattering as you thought or com- Others offering such services include mittee.
ing to grips with the reality that contrary Bluethread and a host of Etsy entrepre- ply of Pinterest design inspiration.
to what you have firmly believed since, neurs. Finding a dress – or a jumpsuit or a Just as it was
well, forever – you actually hate tulle. suit – that reflects their personality is something of a
What on earth possessed you to buy a But a wedding dress is not a gala gown not the high hurdle it once was. The revolution when
custom tulle wedding dress that night or a cocktail frock. It’s a singularly sym- challenge is doing so conveniently, at women shunned
you were sitting at home alone with a bolic garment that speaks of girl squads a reasonable price and in a multitude the wedding
glass of wine and your wildest fantasies? and multigenerational bonding. The of sizes. gown frippery,
What were you thinking? dress sets the tone of the wedding as it may be a
much as the location and even more Many millennials are planning 21st century
In other words: The proposition has a than the flowers, the cake, the every- their weddings online, and pre-gam- revolution to
few hurdles. thing else. The bride-in-the-dress serves ing wedding attire before they even declare one’s
as the day’s big reveal, the moment of get engaged. And plenty of women shopping in-
Eventually shoppers will be able anticipation, the embodiment of over- skip the designated bridal gowns and dependence. To
to create a personalized avatar with flowing emotion. simply buy a great party dress with refuse the group-
their exact measurements. More bod- the click of a button because they’re think and the
ices and skirts from the company’s Shopping for the dress is a social out- more excited about their destination solicitous sales
vast pattern archive will be added for ing that includes the bride, her mother, wedding than Swarovski crystals on representative.
even more dress possibilities – but re- her friends and anyone else she consid- silk organza. Solitary contem-
ally, even today, while silhouettes and ers part of her inner circle – or simply plation in front of
beading may vary, it’s still all about a in possession of good taste. The dress There are plans for Amsale x You to a laptop may be
traditional white dress. is not a solo event; it’s a shared experi- include an option for an online group its own special
ence, both fraught and celebratory. It’s shopping experience – a kind of e- joy. 
Some stats: According to the Ameri- an adventure to be documented on In- commerce meets Google Docs meets
can Wedding Survey by Brides maga- stagram. FaceTime. But a virtual gaggle is not
zine, 83 percent of brides in 2018 chose quite the same as giving a bunch of
a dress that was white or off-white and Thus, Brown doesn’t just want to sample dresses a real-life spin in
76 percent wore a veil. The survey also change the way Amsale dresses are front of an audience of besties sipping
noted that 66 percent of brides shop for sold; he wants to change the cultural champagne.
their dress in specialty salons and they perception of the wedding dress itself,
spend an average of $2,260. which is akin to changing the way To take advantage of a full, online
in which brides – and women – see shopping experience means, ulti-
Brown said that about 25 percent themselves individually and in rela- mately, going it alone.
of brides were responsible for about tion to each other. That point of view
75 percent of wedding spending and has remained stubbornly static over That’s not necessar-
the Amsale customer is firmly within the years: Have you picked out your ily bad. Many brides
that category. He figures, if shoppers dress? What are you going to wear? might prefer it. They
are willing to go to websites such Let’s discuss.

as Net-a-Porter, Mythe- The seed for the Amsale brand was
resa and Matches and planted more than 30 years ago. Ab-
spend $4,000 and erra, a graduate of the Fashion Insti-
$5,000 on designer tute of Technology, sketched her own
dresses, surely they wedding dress in 1985 as a matter of
will be willing to do necessity. The kind of restrained, so-
the same for phisticated gown she wanted didn’t
their wedding. readily exist; wedding dresses had a
Perhaps. Prob- fairy-tale princess complex. Aberra’s
ably. dress, elegant with a chiffon bodice,
Amsale was the foundation on which she and
would not be Brown built their company, and its
the first to offer aesthetic signified a shift in think-
custom-made ing: A woman did not have to redefine
gowns online, herself just because she was a bride.
but it would be Instead, her dress could reflect the
at the top of the woman she had always been.
price range and
offer a singu- Amsale gowns, at their best, exude
lar design point special-occasion joyfulness but with a
of view. At the grown-up, refined air. They are crafted
website Anoma- with strong lines and judicious embel-
lie, a team of design- lishments, rather than an over-abun-
ers helps shoppers dance of ruffles, crystals and beading.
through a months- They are the equivalent of a perfectly
long process that calibrated martini rather than sweet
offers wide cocktails.
aesthetic lati-
tude and a Amsale opened the door for brands
liberal such as Vera Wang and Monique
L’Huillier. Their designers ultimately
eclipsed Aberra in name recognition
thanks to their ready-to-wear collec-

tions, which regularly ap-
peared on the red
carpet.
Can the com-

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DINING REVIEW

Nino’s Cafe: A beachside favorite still going strong

BY TINA RONDEAU Chicken Pesto Rigatoni.

Columnist PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES

Not many island restaurants that
were here a quarter century ago are
still in existence, let alone still packing
’em in.

But Nino’s Café, a beachside pizza
joint that also offers a variety of au-
thentic red-sauce Italian-American
dishes, appears to be going even stron-
ger today than when we first visited in
the ’90s.

Just as its longtime neighbor on the
south side of Humiston Park, Corey’s
Pharmacy, seems to get better with
each passing decade, Nino’s recent-
ly was freshened and now appears
brighter and more inviting than ever.

For years when heading to Nino’s, we
generally ordered pizzas, which we’ve
long considered the best thin-crust
pizza on the island. The basic Maria’s
pizza – fresh tomato, basil, spinach
and garlic – was always our favorite.

But on this visit, we thought we
would try some of their other classic
dishes.

To start, we ordered the fried cala-
mari appetizer ($10.95). While the
calamari rings could have been a bit
crispier, they were tender and tasty,
and served with a light tomato sauce.

Then instead of the
house salad

fare, it’s also hard to beat.

Margherita Pizza. I welcome your com-
ments, and encourage you to
send feedback to me at tina@
verobeach32963.com.
The reviewer dines anony-
mously at restaurants at the ex-
pense of Vero Beach 32963. 

Bruschetta Burrata. eggplant parmigiana ($14.95). Both entrées were very good. Hours:
My cannelloni consisted of excellent For dessert, we finished with a slice 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
that comes with entrées, we decided to Open to 10 p.m. Fri. and Sat.
share a relatively new item on the menu, homemade crepes filled with a well- of tiramisu.
the burrata salad ($12.95). The creamy seasoned mix of ground veal, sausage Dinner for two, with a half-carafe of Beverages: Beer & Wine
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are included with dinner orders. The mesan cheese, topped with a light years is you are no longer in trouble at
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For entrées, I chose the cannelloni
($16.95) and my husband ordered the After a quarter of a century of insist-
ing on payment in cash – even install-
ing an ATM in the front room so cus-
tomers could make a withdrawal on
the spot – Nino’s is now willing, albeit
a bit grudgingly, to accept credit cards.

For a very casual dinner on the
beach, it may be tough sometimes to
get into Nino’s – but for simple Italian

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WINE COLUMN

Blue Nun makes its latest wine sparkle with gold leaf

BY DAVE MCINTYRE Langguth Erben, the German firm as the winemakers aim for a consistent after you pop the cork, gently swirl
The Washington Post that has owned and produced the Blue style, and it features 32 grams of the bottle,” Tramont explains. “If
Nun brand since 1996. residual sugar per liter, which Tramont you hold it by the neck, and roll your
Blue Nun is back. And she has bling. describes as “less than moscato or asti wrist around, you’ll see the gold come
Wine lovers of a certain age will Joking aside, Tramont explains spumante.” up immediately. As soon as it starts
remember Blue Nun Liebfraumilch, the 24K Gold Edition is aimed at the swirling it comes up to the top, then
the popular white wine that took way many people drink wine today. But what about that gold? “It’s like pour a little shot and top it off. You’ll
America by storm in the 1970s and “Our core audience is millennials, a snow globe,” my wife said as she get the gold.”
1980s. The Liebfraumilch, an off-dry first-time wine drinkers aged 30 to twisted and turned a bottle up and
nondescript white blend, disappeared 45, predominantly female, looking down and the flakes fluttered through The last glass of the bottle will get
in the late ’90s, but Blue Nun didn’t. for something easy to drink and not the wine. Tramont said adding the the most gold flakes, Tramont says,
The brand’s current push is with caring if it came from the Left Bank or gold was the tricky part in producing adding that “people wait in line at
the Blue Nun 24K Gold Edition, a the Right Bank,” he told me in a phone the wine and required a proprietary tastings” hoping to taste the dregs.
sparkling wine dusted with flakes of interview. process. What other wine can claim that?
edible gold leaf. The 24K Gold Edition
sparkler, which retails for about That was a reference to Bordeaux, “Edible gold leaf is very thin and I followed Tramont’s instructions
$12-$13, was introduced to the U.S. and how wine geeks like to suss out the light,” he explained. “When you while pouring two glasses, and indeed
market in 2017 and is now distributed subtle differences between a Pauillac shred it, it tends to float away in the a few gold flakes flickered in each
in 38 states. and a Pomerol. air.” The gold is added after the wine glass. My wife and I swirled, sniffed
You can probably hear my inner is carbonated (a process similar to and sipped, struggling to suppress our
wine geek screaming, “NOOO!” Why “It’s a wine you can ‘pregame’ with, a prosecco, not champagne, where the skepticism.
try to dazzle us with flimflammery drink before the main event,” Tramont bubbles are produced by a second
like gold leaf instead of putting a better says. “When friends come over, get the fermentation in the bottle). “It isn’t bad,” she said. Indeed, it
wine in the bottle? And what if we get evening started before going out on was a nondescript, off-dry white wine,
gold leaf stuck in our teeth? the town.” So how to get that gold from the much like the Liebfraumilch of old,
“Better than spinach,” says Mark bottom of the bottle into your glass? but with bubbles and glitter.
Tramont, U.S. representative for F.W. The Blue Nun 24K Gold Edition is You obviously don’t want to shake the
a nonvintage blend of white wines wine before popping the cork, or you’ll Blue Nun was created in 1921, after
sourced throughout the European be wiping gold off your floor. all. For an iconic brand approaching
Union, but primarily from Germany. its century mark, why not celebrate
The blend varies from batch to batch, “Chill the wine really good, then with a little jewelry? 

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PETS

She’s another Little Bit of sunshine in Bonzo’s life

Hi Dog Buddies! Pooches Allowed place, and she had- Little Bit White One an The Brown One,” she
da stuff me in a big bag and sneak me explained proudly. “Would you like a
Woof! Another first for me. LAST week out to Do My Duty, which was a Major KI-yakkin,’ an I play in the warm shallow little nibble?” She brought The Gray
I hadda fun innerview with a white Mal- Pain in the Kazoo for All Concerned. water. We do that here, too. One over carefully, between her teeth.
tese named Little Bit Powers. Didja see So she found us a Pooch-Frenly town-
it? Then, THIS week, I realized my in- house.” “We take two 25-minute walks every “That is so sweet of you, Miss Bitty,
nerview was with a black Chihuahua day, which is a lotta chihuahua steps, but I’m on deadline. You sure have a
named – wait for it – Little Bit Newman. “Woof, Miss Bitty. That’s love all buh-lieve me. We also do lotsa bike ri- Cool Kibbles life!”
I’ve innerviewed dogs with the same right.” din.’ I have my own BAS-kut. Me an my
names before, but never right together pooch pals Lolli an Peta – chihuahuas “True, true, Mr. Bonzo. Like They
like that. Miss Bitty yawned a really big yawn. like me – have play dates, and me an Say: ‘Grrrls just wanna have fun!’”
“I’m so sorry,” she said. “It’s not the Lolli have our birthday parties together.
Anyway, there were no yaps when comp-nee. It’s just that I spent the I also like goin’ over to Blaze’s place cuz “It would seem so. Do you have
we knocked or when the door opened, whole weekend at Gramma Beverly she has a POOL! We sometimes have PJ any food pref-rences?”
and there stood Little Bit, right next an Grampa Mark’s with my pooch parties at her house when our Mommys
to her human. She was So cute, like a pals Zoey, April, Blaze an Billy, runnin’ go to the moo-vees. “YES! Anything that isn’t nailed
liddle loaf of bread, tail going at propel- around an playin’ the en-TIRE time, an down. I officially get boring kibbles
ler speed: she was black ’cept for some I’m totally POOPED.” “We all like to dress up. I have a bunch two times a day. I also get One-an-
white around her eyes – like a cool Zorro of outfits. My favorite’s my Cupcake Only-One Greenie a day. Unofficially,
mask – white paws, round, black eyes an To illustrate, she collapsed onto one dress. On Halloween, I’m usually a Bum- I get teeny bits of Mommy’s food if it’s
those sig-nuh-chure, sticky-uppy Chi- of the two pooch beds nearby. ble Bee.” Pooch Appropriate, an same with her
huahua ears. After the Wag-and-Sniff, snacks. Wa-ay more innersting.
she said, puh-lightly, “Good afternoon, “That is a comfy lookin’ bed,” I ob- “I assume you have a Big Toy Basket,” “Me an Mommy also do Very Impor-
Mr. Bonzo an Mr. Bonzo’s Assistant. I’m served. I ventured. tant Work. I’m a fully trained, registered
Little Bit Newman. You may call me Bit- Therapy Pooch. Mommy’s job is helpin’
ty. This is my Mommy, Lisa.” “I KNOW,” she replied, from a reclin- “Ackshully, I only play with three toys. humans she calls The Elderly People. We
ing position. “An, LOOK! It has my very I’ve had ’em for 12 years. Here, I’ll show visit nursing homes and assisted living
“It’s a great pleasure to meet you own name with my very own apostro- you.” places an bring ’em love an cheer. I’m
both. I understand you’re South Florida phe. It’s my first apostrophe.” great at both of those. Also nuzzles, kiss-
grrrls.” She trotted over to her bed and point- es, wags an snuggles. Hangin’ out with
I looked. Sure enough, along the end, ed with her paw. Three liddle stuffed, The Elderly People’s the Best. Feeling.
“Indeed,” Bitty replied. “We moved up in Special Stitching, it said “Bitty,s Bed.” well-worn somethings, neatly arranged. Ever. knowin’ I ackshully make ‘em Hap-
here a few years ago. I find it a lot more I looked closer. py just by bein’ ME. PLUS, I get wunner-
ruh-laxing. It’s always been just me an “That is Cool Dog Biscuits,” I said. ful tummy rubs, pats and ear tickles.
Mommy. We’re in-duh-pendent grrrls.” “But your apostrophe looks kinda like “They look like … sorta like … are Heading home, I was feeling inspired
a comma, since it’s down at the bot- they …?” by Miss Bitty: by her Happy Attitude and
“So how’d you two first meet?” tom.” (I’m a journalist, so I notice these Her Important Work. Seeing her in her
“I was ackshully a PRESENT to my things.) “Yep. They’re RATS, Mr. Bonzo. My fa- Cupcake Dress would make anybody
Mommy from a fren when I was 2 vorite toys.” smile. There are some things only a dog
months old and only 4 pounds. I was a “That’s true. That’s why it’s special. can do.
boo-TEEK puppy, not from one of those ANYbody can have a REG-ular apostro- “Woof,” I said. “Don’t buh-lieve
other, DOO-bee-us Places. I have PAY- phe, at the top.” I’ve ever seen toy rats. What are their The Bonz
pers an everything. My pooch Mommy names?”
was Tinker Bell, an my pooch popy was “Ah. Well, it’s Totally Cool Kibbles, Don’t Be Shy
Pepe. Even though I wasn’t a fluffball – Miss Bitty. I’ve never had my own apos- “I like to call them The Gray One, The
us short-haired Chihuahuas don’t DO trophe. So whaddya ladies do for fun?” We are always looking for pets with
fluffy – I was Super Cute. Me an Mommy interesting stories.
became BFFs right away. She loves me “We love ad-VEN-ture. ’Specially
so much she actually relocated for me. travel. Flyin’ always puts me to sleep. An To set up an interview, email
See, when she first got me, she discov- road trips. I’ve been to Cali-FORN-yuh, [email protected].
ered that where she was livin’ was a No Nashville, Fort Myers, and tons of other
places. My FAV-rut is the KEYS. That’s a
buncha liddle blobs of land with lotsa
water all around. Key West is way at the
end an, DOG, do they know how to par-
TAY! Plus, I met the coolest pooch down
there, Pi Carpenter, a Portuguese Water
Dog. In Key Largo, me an Mommy go

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ON FAITH

Pollyanna found joy amid hardship
... what’s so wrong with that?

BY REV. DRS. CASEY AND BOB BAGGOTT You probably remember the sto- a huge sensation in her small town doves” was an admonition of Jesus to
Columnists ry by Eleanor Porter of the little by showing even the grumpiest res- his followers that seems to promote
girl Pollyanna, orphaned and liv- idents things for which they could just such a balance in outlook and
ing with her stern aunt, who made be glad. It seemed no difficulty, no practice, though these days it’s hard
illness, no heartache was too grim to find that sort of balance. We tend
to prevent Pollyanna from finding to be serpents or doves, but not both.
something redeeming to celebrate.
Eventually, because of the book’s For example, we frequently hear
success, Pollyanna became a house- people speak out who are deeply
hold word, though her name was discouraged about the world and its
not always appreciatively recalled. prospects, don’t we? They judge the
In fact, Pollyanna is still used as a hard realities of our political, social
dismissive label for someone too and economic problems to be dire
naïve or too unrealistic to face the and possibly irredeemable. They see
dismal facts. their own well-being as threatened.
But if their pessimism leads only to
But is finding joy amid hardship re- anger or outrage, nothing much is ac-
ally all that foolish? Are hopes, ideals, complished. Because, when we lash
and dreams just so much fluff? May- out or strike back, we rarely achieve
be not. Maybe they just need tem- the outcome we truly desire – we just
pering with enough sober reflection contribute to more unpleasantness
that they are capable of buoying us (and serpentine hissing.)
up without letting us float away. “Be
ye wise as serpents and innocent as On the other hand, wide-eyed op-
timism doesn’t get us too far, either.

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We dare not assume our problems, ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, be-
whether communal or personal, can cause I am not sure that everything
be quickly and easily transcended. ends badly. I just carry hope in my
Nor should we expect that at heart heart. Hope is the feeling that life
everyone is good and kind and sim- and work have a meaning. You either
ply wants the best for us. There’s no have it or you don’t, regardless of the
use in pretending we human beings state of the world that surrounds you.
are any nobler than we are. If we are Life without hope is an empty, bor-
emotionally undefended and practi- ing, and useless life ... I am thankful
cally ill-prepared, we’re sitting ducks to God for this gift. It is as big as life
(or helpless doves). itself.”

So what’s the answer? We like what Maybe Pollyanna got a bad rap.
Vaclav Havel, Czech writer, author Maybe acknowledging life’s strains,
and statesman, once had to say about heartaches and hardships, while still
the perspective he adopted in facing carrying within us the hope to tackle
life’s difficulties. and redeem them (and even claim
some joy in the process), is the very
He said, “I am not an optimist, be- heart of wisdom. 
cause I am not sure that everything

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ONGOING APRIL on the Loop free entertainment at 6:30 p.m. 772- tian) with farm animals, children’s activities, egg
231-6990 hunt for ages 1 to 10, mechanical bull and family
Riverside Theatre - Legally Blonde, The Mu- 18 Vero Beach Easter Parade at Humis- fun. $1 donation pp; additional charge for pony
sical on the Stark Stage thru May 5. 772-231- ton Park hosted by Dale Sorensen Real 20 Hop for Habitat 5K Run/Walk, 8 a.m. rides & food. LaporteFarms.com
6990 Estate to benefit Boys & Girls Clubs of IRC, 4:30 from South Beach Park to benefit Habi-
p.m. Children’s Easter Egg Hunt, free photos tat for Humanity. 772-567-3510 20 OBA Sunset Saturday Concert Series
McKee Botanical Garden - Seward Johnson with Easter Bunny and other children’s activities presents David Roberts & the Sounds
exhibit thru April 28. 772-794-0601 followed with 6 p.m. Golf Cart and Bonnets and 20 Easter Cantata, 4:30 p.m. & 7 p.m. at of Sinatra, 5:30 p.m. on Ocean Drive at Humis-
Ball Caps Parade along Ocean Drive. Christ by the Sea, with full mix choir, ton Park. Free; BYO lawn chairs.
Vero Beach Museum of Art - Victorian soloists, 35-piece orchestra, liturgical dancers
Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the 19|20 Blues, Bourbon & BBQ- and dramatic narration. 772-231-1661 20 Sebastian Inlet State Park Night
Arts and Crafts Movement thru May 5. 772- themed Riverside Theatre Sounds Concert Series presents St.
231-0707 Comedy Zone, 7:30 p.m. & 9:30 p.m., with Live 20 Easter at the Farm, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at John’s Wood, 7 p.m. at Coconut Point pavilions.
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GEM ISLAND ESTATE EXEMPLIFIES
ELEGANT LUXURY IN NATURAL SETTING

201 Terrapin Point in John’s Island: 6-bedroom, 8.5-bath, 8,891-square-foot
waterfront residence with pool and dock on 1.78-acre lot offered for $8.9 million

by John’s Island Real Estate Company: 772-231-0900

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Gem Island estate exemplifies
elegant luxury in natural setting

BY SAMANTHA ROHLFING BAITA You’ll approach past impeccably land-
Staff Writer scaped lawn and towering palms, into
the parking courtyard. The doors to
The elegant manor house at 201 the 3-bay garage are frequently framed
Terrapin Point sits serenely on the en- with deep raspberry bougainvillea,
chanting Indian River at the northern in appealing contrast to the exterior’s
end of Gem Island, embraced within creamy walls, soft green shutters and
what can accurately be described as pale peachy-hued tile roof.

its own 1.78-acre nature preserve. Low curved stairs lead to the
Birds skim across the sparkling wa- home’s impressive front entrance,
ter, searching its depths for a snack; which is recessed between front bed-
dolphins roll and play just off the long rooms to the north and south. Its
dock, so close you could touch them. three columned arches are mirrored
in the arched French doors with star-
It is clear, from the very first glimpse, burst transoms.
this stately home is built to impress.

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Stretching between the north
and south wings, the foyer gallery is
graced with sand/gold-hued marble
floors and a series of white-columned
archways supporting the golden bar-
rel ceiling. The lighting is soft and
dramatic. The exquisite white mill-
work that begins here a grand archi-
tectural signature throughout the
home. Just off the foyer, to the south,
is a charming powder room.

From the foyer, you pass between
columns to enter the living room with
its lofty, coffered ceiling, and another
wall of French doors and windows
with starburst transoms that open
onto the terrace, with its outdoor liv-
ing area and views of the pool and
the sparkling Indian River. Here, and
throughout the interior living spaces,
handsome white oak flooring en-
hances the home’s excellent flow.

North off the living room is an-
other millwork stand-out, the fully-
paneled, formal library/den/office,
with built-in shelving, a hidden bar,

an inviting fireplace and a bank of
windows providing excellent ambi-
ent light.

South from the living room, the for-
mal dining room impresses with its
rich raspberry walls, a dynamic con-
trast to the white double crown mold-

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ing, chair rail, wainscoting and pair is, itself, a work of art. A wall of French cabinets, and countertops are satiny wall between ceiling and cabinet tops
of tall, elegant doors leading to the doors leads to the covered porch. white. The splashes and the island is robin’s egg blue – precisely the right
kitchen. A crystal chandelier extends top are white tile. Cabinet and drawer touch.
from a medallion in a ceiling which The kitchen has been called a space is bountiful and the expanse of
“chef’s wonderland.” All the millwork, There is a lunch bar and the is-

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land houses a small, secondary sink. a “regular” pantry, which includes
Stainless-steel appliances include a another Sub-Zero fridge, beverage
6-burner range and a Sub-Zero fridge. cooler and a built-in desktop counter
beneath a south window. Just past the
The kitchen’s piece de resistance is a butler’s pantry is a spacious laundry
gorgeous butler’s pantry/party stag- room.
ing area, with white tile countertop
on four sides, a tall beverage cooler, a Farther on is the VIP suite, which
sink and miles of display-front glass- includes full bath and separate sitting
ware shelving. The splash here is an- room, with a broad bay window. Take
other work of art: Italian tile painted a deep breath. Relax.
with graceful grape vines all the way
around, with a ceramic spread of Past the pantry is a full bath and
glasses, grapes, bread, cheese and the entrance to a bright, spacious
a few bottles of vino above the sink. family room, with cozy fireplace and
Enchanting. outdoor access, and a wonderful oc-
tagonal solarium, featuring floor-to-
Off the other side of the kitchen is ceiling windows. Here you can decide

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to nap, daydream, read, enjoy the in- This solarium opens onto a magi- dow view of the river, with a sitting private hide-away. The master bed-
comparable views, work on that New cal garden gallery, then leads to a cov- room between the bedrooms that has room is light, airy and wonderfully
York Times crossword, make plans ered colonnade/loggia that fronts the two sets of French doors to the loggia. spacious. It offers French door access
with your pals or have a cup of fra- large guest cottage – two spacious en to the porch; a south window; and a
grant tea. suite bedrooms, one with a bay win- The luxurious master suite occu- beautiful bay to the west, one of the
pies the home’s north side, a peaceful, home’s perfect locations for enjoying
the exquisite sunsets over the river.
There are also separate his-and-hers
custom walk-in closets and his-and-
her bathrooms.

His bathroom is quite handsome,
with pale, sandy gold walls; marble
vanity top; tan, carved stone chair
rail and mirror frame; and marble tile
“wainscoting” throughout, including
the elegant glass shower.

Hers is simply fabulous, in large
part because it is in pink marble: Gor-
geous pink, gold-veined marble tile,
vanity top, soaking tub surround.
There is a sumptuous glass shower,
gold fixtures, soaring powder pink
ceiling with crystal and gold chande-
lier, recessed lighting; a water closet
with bidet.

From this divine retreat, you enter
a sitting room in the home’s north-
east corner, which receives light from
two sides and can also be accessed
from the foyer gallery vestibule.

This is the home you’ve dreamed
of, kissed by tropical breezes, waiting
for its next owners in a riverside para-
dise. It is indoor and outdoor island

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living at its finest, ready to serve and community only minutes away from
shelter family or open in welcome to Vero’s charming island village, with
parties and events of every kind and its myriad shops, boutiques, restau-
size. rants, resorts and pubs. Riverside
Theatre (Equity) and the Vero Beach
While wonderfully secluded, Gem Museum of Art are among nearby
Island is located within the pres- cultural opportunities. 
tigious John’s Island country club

VITAL STATISTICS
201 TERRAPIN POINT IN JOHN’S ISLAND

Neighborhood: Gem Island
Year built: 2000 • Architect: Harry Howle
Builder: Jones and Jones Construction: Concrete block/stucco

Lot size: 1.78 acres
Home size: 11,688 square feet living space; 8,891 square feet under air

Bedrooms: 6 • Bathrooms: 8.5
Additional features: Nearly 400 feet of Intracoastal Waterway frontage;
dock; kayak access; pool with spa; deluxe cabana; stunning architectural
features; soaring, custom ceilings; solarium; chef’s kitchen; 3-bay air-

conditioned garage
Listing agency: John’s Island Real Estate
Listing agents: Bob Gibb and Kristen Yoshitani, 772-231-0900

Listing price: $8.9 million

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MORTGAGE RATES DRIFT HIGHER IN EARLY APRIL

BY KATHY ORTON said Sam Khater, Freddie Mac’s chief dent of LoanLogics, disagrees. He applications last week were 13 per-
Washington Post economist, in a statement. points to the symbiotic relationship cent higher than a year ago and have
between oil and the U.S. dollar. now increased year-over-year for two
Mortgage rates are starting to crawl The 10-year Treasury yield has hov- straight months.” 
back up after falling to 14-month ered around 2.5 percent since the “When markets are calm, oil and
lows. start of the month. the dollar tend to trade inversely,”
Parker said. “If the dollar takes off
According to the latest data re- The upturn in mortgage rates and oil falls, then mortgage rates will
leased by Freddie Mac, the 30-year comes in the face of recent economic fall.”
fixed-rate average increased to 4.12 news that typically keeps home loan
percent with an average 0.5 point. rates in check. Last Friday’s employ- Meanwhile, rising rates caused
(Points are fees paid to a lender equal ment report showed wage growth had mortgage applications to pull back.
to 1 percent of the loan amount and slowed. The consumer price index for According to the latest data from the
are in addition to the interest rate.) It March, which was released last week, Mortgage Bankers Association, the
was 4.08 percent a week ago and 4.42 saw its biggest jump in 14 months, market composite index – a measure
percent a year ago. but core CPI fell to its lowest level in of total loan application volume – de-
a year. And the Federal Reserve re- creased 5.6 percent from a week earli-
The 15-year fixed-rate average also leased the minutes from its March er. The refinance index fell 11 percent
moved higher to 3.6 percent with an meeting, which reinforced the posi- from the previous week, while the
average 0.4 point. It was 3.56 percent tion that central bank officials expect purchase index ticked up 1 percent.
a week ago and 3.87 percent a year economic growth to be slower than it
ago. The five-year adjustable rate av- was last year and are unlikely to raise The refinance share of mortgage
erage jumped to 3.8 percent with an the benchmark rate. activity accounted for 44.1 percent of
average 0.4 point. It was 3.66 percent all applications.
a week ago and 3.61 percent a year Bankrate.com, which puts out a
ago. weekly mortgage rate trend index, “The combination of slowly ris-
found that nearly two-thirds of the ing inventory and more favorable
“Despite the recent rise, we ex- experts it surveyed say rates will re- affordability conditions continues
pect mortgage rates to remain low, main relatively stable in the coming to provide a solid boost to the hous-
in line with 10-year Treasury yields,” week. Les Parker, senior vice presi- ing market,” said Bob Broeksmit,
MBA president and CEO. “Purchase

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The wild beasts of Chinese real estate are growing up

BY SHULI REN sales, accounted for almost 48 per-
The Washington Post cent of its total funding, a record high.
While developers still depend heavily
Last September, China’s third-big- on bank loans and “self-raised funds”
gest real estate developer said some- (either cash on hand or money raised
thing that sent shivers throughout from shadow banking), they’re get-
the country and beyond. ting wiser.

China Vanke Co.’s goal for the next There’s a shift in attitude too. Sunac
three years would be simply “to sur- China Holdings Ltd. just posted stel-
vive,” its chairman Yu Liang warned. lar earnings, with a 50-percent profit
This was a startling admission from surge last year, yet its founder Sun
one of the few investment-grade com-
panies in the sector, acknowledging the $3 billion it raised in January to in-
the severe squeeze from Beijing’s de- vest in electric vehicles, its chairman
leveraging campaign. Hui Ka Yan’s new pet project?

Yu’s remark was timely. Shortly af- Yet there are tentative signs that the
terwards, the average yield for Asia’s sector – sick of being burned by Chi-
dollar junk bonds, which is largely na’s frequent credit cycles – is starting
determined by Chinese property de- to grow up. Just look at how it reacted
velopers’ notes, soared. to Beijing’s project to slash corporate
debt. In 2018, new real estate project
What a difference six months starts soared by 17 percent from a year
makes. Now real estate companies earlier, but completions (measured by
are thriving. This year, Vanke man- floor space) tumbled by 17 percent.
aged to quickly sell more than 70
percent of 126 luxury apartments
available at the launch of a new riv-
erside project in Shanghai. They were
priced between 25 million yuan and
35 million yuan ($3.7 million and $5.2
million) each, a pretty striking sign of

returning confidence. One explanation, according to
On average, sales by listed Chinese Macquarie Bank economist Larry Hu,
is that developers were prudently try-
developers should increase by 18 ing to speed up their cash turnover.
percent this year, according to esti- Seeing a long winter ahead in terms
mates from Credit Suisse Group AG. of debt funding, companies were
Most importantly, developers can re- keen to cut their land bank exposure
finance again. Yuzhou Properties, a and pre-sale the properties from their
junk-rated real estate group, has been development projects as early as pos-
given the nod by regulators to issue sible. Then they could take their time
3.5 billion yuan of notes after a dry to finish the construction phase.
spell of two long years.
As a result, China’s developers have
The worry, of course, is that Chinese become better at cash collection than
developers remain reckless and will ever. Last year, the sector’s cash flow
take bond investors’ money for a wild from operations, including mortgage
ride. What’s stopping, for example, payments and deposits from pre-
China Evergrande Group from using

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Hongbin remains cautious about land ing more carefully. I can count at Bank of China’s interest rate cuts in quidity windows, it appears it might
purchases. This follows a more disci- least three big Chinese credit cycles late 2014. And now the tap is being re- be possible to tame even the wild-
plined approach by listed developers in the past decade alone. There was opened after the squeeze of the pre- est corporate beasts. China’s notori-
overall in 2018, with new land acquisi- the 4-trillion-yuan stimulus after the vious two years. In between Beijing’s ously debt-hungry developers may
tion accounting for only 42 percent of collapse of Lehman Brothers, the lo- bouts of generosity, there are always just learn to slim down. Who knows,
sales, versus 72 percent in 2017. cal government financing vehicles in painful periods of fasting. a few more might even become fit for
the summer of 2012, and the People’s investment grade one day. 
One can see the rationale for tread- In an economy with such short li-

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What to know about holding title to a home with a loved one

BY ILYCE GLINK AND SAMUEL J. TAMKIN ily marketable property with no sur- incurs gambling debts, the creditor son’s share goes to the person named
The Washington Post prises,” he said. “The best advice for a can’t force the sale of the home. There in the will or as set forth by the laws
widow or widower is to have the title are conditions to keeping the tenancy in the state in which the property is
Whether you’re single, coupled up reviewed by an attorney. Of course, by the entireties valid, including that located.
or married, deciding how to hold title when the couple engages in any es- the home must be your principal resi-
is one of the most important deci- tate planning, a competent lawyer dence and you must remain married. You can also own a home using var-
sions home buyers make. The ramifi- will review such documents. ious estate planning trusts, such as
cations of that decision might not be A third form of ownership is to hold revocable trusts or living trusts of one
apparent for years. We wrote that a surviving spouse title as tenants in common, where of the spouses or part ownership of
need not do anything upon the death each owner has a specific percentage the home among two trusts, and then
One of our recent columns dis- of a spouse depending on how they ownership interest in the home. Upon there are variations of these forms of
cussed the various ways homeowners held title to their home. This attor- the death of one co-owner, that per- ownership. 
hold title to their property and consid- ney thought we should have directed
ered the question of whether a spouse the homeowner to an attorney, who
should change the way the home is might have suggested making chang-
titled after his or her partner dies. es to the title of the property. That’s
good advice, and may even be a bet-
Not surprisingly, several readers ter way to get things done, but it has
had a few thoughts and suggestions higher costs associated with it, in-
for home buyers considering title cluding transfer taxes and attorney,
questions. Here are two: filing and recording fees.

One real estate attorney wrote in to A second reader
thought that we should
say that, in his view, there are three have gone into more de-
ways to title property between spous- tail on the intricacies of
es. “The ‘joint tenant’ approach is the the different ways peo-
least common and usually must in- ple should hold title to
clude the language ‘with right of sur- their homes.
vivorship and not as tenants in com-
mon.’ Spouses typically acquire title “You discussed ‘joint
as “tenants by the entireties,” which tenancy with rights of
only applies to spouses. survivorship’ and ‘the
other way couples own
“Sometimes you will see a couple property’ (tenants in
who acquired the property before common), indicating
marriage. In some states, a premari- there are only two ways
tal joint tenancy automatically be- for couples to jointly
comes tenants by the entireties upon own property. You ne-
marriage. The drawback to joint ten- glected the most de-
ancy is that it is possible for one per- sirable ‘tenants by the
son’s interest to be alienated by deed entirety,’ which covers
or by suffering a judgment lien, bank- survivorship and protects both par-
ruptcy or similar,” he said. ties from the value of the property
being sued for debts of the other, as
Our correspondent said some states I understand it,” this correspondent
allow joint tenancy to be partitioned, wrote.
meaning that the ownership can be True, there are many ways married
separated. The purpose of getting ti- couples or those in a civil union can
tle cleared in one spouse’s name after hold title to a home. As noted by the
the other’s death is just that. prior correspondent, joint tenancy
with rights of survivorship gives each
“While records are fresh, a check of owner the ability to own the entirety
the dates of valid marriage” syncing of the home upon the death of the co-
with a clear title “can produce an eas- owner. This transfer is automatic and
does not require owners to do any-
thing.
A second form of ownership for
married couples or those in a civil
union takes the form of tenancy by
the entireties. This form of owner-
ship gives the couple the same survi-
vorship rights as a joint tenancy deed
but it also affords the couple certain
protections against some creditors.
Without going too deep, we can gen-
erally say tenancy by the entireties
provides that debts entered into by
one of the spouses shouldn’t cause
the loss of the home. So if one spouse

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Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: April 5 to April 11

The barrier island had another strong week of real estate activity with 18 transactions
recorded, including six for more than $1 million.
The top sale of the week was of an oceanfront home in Orchid Island. The residence at 191
Beachside Drive was listed on Feb. 22 for $6.8 million. The sale closed on April 11 for $5
million.
Both the seller and the purchaser of the property were represented by Matilde Sorensen of
Dale Sorensen Real Estate.

SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS

SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING
ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE
$2,495,000
$2,695,000 $2,475,000
SURF CLUB 4798 HIGHWAY A1A 1/31/2019 $2,695,000 $2,695,000 4/5/2019 $1,800,000
ESTUARY THE 140 RIVERCOVE LN 12/16/2017 $2,495,000 $2,695,000 4/8/2019 $1,200,000
$1,239,000 $1,095,000
CASTAWAY COVE 1020 OLDE DOUBLOON DR 1/11/2019 $1,095,000 $1,995,000 4/5/2019 $925,000
$1,050,000 $585,000
PALM ISL PLANTATION 107 ISLAND PLANTATION TER 10/2/2018 $625,000 $1,239,000 4/5/2019
$850,000
BRIGGS TIERNEY 816 GAYFEATHER LN 2/19/2019 $1,095,000 4/10/2019 $687,000
$582,000
RIVER CLUB AT CARLTON 1312 LAKE BEND CT 2/23/2018 $969,000 4/10/2019

RIVER OAKS ESTATES 625 IRIS LN 1/18/2019 $595,000 4/5/2019

TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT

ORCHID ISLAND 100 BEACHSIDE DR, #102 2/27/2019 $925,000 $925,000 4/9/2019
SEA COVE 1616 OCEAN DR, #501 2/8/2019 $685,000 $685,000 4/5/2019
GALLEONS CONDO 1070 REEF RD, #106 5/14/2018 $650,000 $650,000 4/8/2019

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Palm Isl Plantation, Address: 107 Island Plantation Ter Subdivision: Castaway Cove, Address: 1020 Olde Doubloon Dr

Listing Date: 10/2/2018 Listing Date: 1/11/2019
Original Price: $1,239,000 Original Price: $2,495,000
Recent Price: $1,239,000 Recent Price: $1,995,000
Sold: 4/5/2019 Sold: 4/5/2019
Selling Price: $1,200,000 Selling Price: $1,800,000
Listing Agent: Steve Owen Listing Agent: Joan Chesley

Selling Agent: Berkshire Hathaway Florida Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Meg Hickey Michele Ritchie

Premier Estate Properties Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Subdivision: Surf Club, Address: 4798 Highway A1A Subdivision: Orchid Island, Address: 100 Beachside Dr, #102

Listing Date: 1/31/2019 Listing Date: 2/27/2019
Original Price: $2,695,000 Original Price: $925,000
Recent Price: $2,695,000 Recent Price: $925,000
Sold: 4/5/2019 Sold: 4/9/2019
Selling Price: $2,495,000 Selling Price: $850,000
Listing Agent: Kimberly & Mike Thorpe Listing Agent: Heidi Levy & Scott Oberlink

Selling Agent: Treasure Coast Sotheby’s Intl Selling Agent: Orchid Island Realty

Karen Gaskill John Drnec

Coldwell Banker Paradise Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Briggs Tierney, Address: 816 Gayfeather Ln

Listing Date: 2/19/2019
Original Price: $1,095,000
Recent Price: $1,095,000
Sold: 4/10/2019
Selling Price: $1,095,000
Listing Agent: Sally Daley

Selling Agent: Daley & Company Real Estate

Michael Bottalico

Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Subdivision: Estuary The, Address: 140 Rivercove Ln SEE IT! BELIEVE IT! ACHIEVE IT!

Listing Date: 12/16/2017 Billero & Billero Properties successfully assisted
Original Price: $2,695,000 with 774 transactions in 2018
Recent Price: $2,695,000
Sold: 4/8/2019 Deeded Beach Access | East of A1A!
Selling Price: $2,475,000 Gated community w/low HOA across from St Ed’s
Listing Agent: Matilde Sorensen
Over 3,400 sf | Gracious 3 BD + den
Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Move right in.
$895,000
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