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China’s top officials made 79 visits to well beyond the base in Djibouti. Last Congo, Mali, South Sudan and Sudan. Stockholm International Peace Re-
Africa in the decade up to 2018. Since year the People’s Liberation Army This interest in peace goes hand in search Institute.
2008 Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip (PLA) conducted exercises in Camer-
Erdogan, has paid more than 30 vis- oon, Gabon, Ghana and Nigeria. The hand with a brisk business in arms; Chinese expansion has worried oth-
its to African countries, most of them country fields more UN peacekeep- China sells more weapons in sub-Sa- er Asian powers. Japan is enlarging its
sub-Saharan. Emmanuel Macron has ers than any of the Security Council’s haran Africa than any other nation. base in Djibouti. India is developing a
visited the continent nine times since other four permanent members, most It accounted for 27% of the region’s network of radar and listening posts
becoming president of France in 2017; of them in the Democratic Republic of arms imports in 2013-17, compared around the Indian Ocean, though
Narendra Modi has visited eight Afri- with 16% in 2008-12, according to the plans for a base in the Seychelles were
can countries during his five years in blocked by the archipelago last year.
power in India. In March the Indian army will host its
first military exercises with a number
But not all are so keen. President of African countries, including Tanza-
Trump has yet to set foot on the con- nia, Kenya and South Africa.
tinent.
Keeping up with the Joneses is not
Such visits and summits are in part the only reason for military involve-
efforts to make use of Africa’s diplomat- ment. European countries are step-
ic clout. Its 54 nations make up more ping up their presence in the Sahel,
than a quarter of the UN General As- the arid region on the southern edge
sembly and by custom it always has of the Sahara desert, aiming both to
three of the 15 non-permanent seats quell Islamic terrorism and stem the
on the Security Council. flow of migrants to Europe. The EU is
also supporting soldiers from the “G5
China has persuaded nearly ev- Sahel” group of Burkina Faso, Chad,
ery African state to ditch diplomatic Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
recognition of Taiwan; only eSwatini
(formerly Swaziland) remains to be Russia’s moves are more muscu-
swayed. Russia has petitioned African lar, and more mercenary. Though its
politicians over its claims to Crimea; role in the Central Afridan Republic
28 African countries abstained on a (CAR) is the most high-profile, Russia
General Assembly motion condemn- has been intensifying its links across
ing the annexation. Israel has sought Africa. At least 250,000 Africans were
recognition of Jerusalem as its capital, trained in or by the Soviet Union be-
and now has Togo on its side. fore its demise in 1991, which provides
scope for the renewal of old relation-
Military ties are strengthening ships. Russian political advisers have
alongside the diplomatic ones. The been busy in countries such as Zimba-
Horn of Africa has become part of the bwe, Guinea and Madagascar.
broader competition between Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab Emirates As others have bolstered links with
(UAE) on one side and Iran, Qatar and Africa, America has “stepped away,”
Turkey on the other. In 2017 Turkey notes Judd Devermont of the Centre
built its largest overseas military base, for Strategic and International Studies,
and its first in Africa, in Somalia. a think-tank. It has cut funding for de-
velopment and diplomatic programs.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE have
launched attacks into Yemen from America’s relative economic impor-
their positions in the Horn. Saudi Ara- tance is also waning. In 2006 Amer-
bia has also recruited soldiers from ica, China and France were the three
Sudan, some of them children. It is countries doing the most trade with
also thought to be keen to open a base sub-Saharan Africa. From 2006 to
in Djibouti; the UAE is set to open a 2018 Chinese trade increased by 226%
new one in neighboring Somaliland. and India’s by 292%. The EU, still all-

China’s military influence stretches CONTINUED ON PAGE 52

PORT OF DJIBOUTI

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told the region’s largest trading partner, managed China is also sensitive to accusations of “debt-trap ever,” says Carlos Lopes, a negotiator for the African
only a modest 41%. American trade with sub-Saha- diplomacy”: using loans countries cannot pay back Union. They are no longer bound to their colonizer or
ran Africa shrank. to extract other concessions from them. In Africa this in one cold-war camp. They can weigh priorities and
charge is easily exaggerated. China is the primary offers and, at least to some extent, play off suitors. Yet
The top sources of foreign direct investment (FDI) creditor to just three African countries: Congo-Braz- there are reasons to be wary.
are firms from America, Britain and France. But zaville, Djibouti and Zambia, according to the China
last year a UN report on global FDI found that the Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University. The first is that African countries usually remain
“geographical sources of FDI to Africa are becoming the weaker partner in military and economic agree-
more diversified.” But criticism of some loans seems amply justified. In ments. In a rush to sign headline-grabbing deals Af-
Kenya local journalists have been probing the terms of rican leaders often agree to onerous terms.
Access to Africa’s natural resources remains critical. the $3.2 billion railway between Nairobi and Momba-
But economic relations are about much more than sa, with worries that Mombasa’s port may be pledged The second reason to be cautious about Africa’s
commodities. One-third of sub-Saharan countries can as collateral. “Ultimately the debt problem is an Afri- bounty of choices is that it may mean more options
expect GDP growth of more than 5% this year, accord- can problem,” says AnzetseWere, a Kenyan economist. for corruption. What is a good deal for leaders is often
ing to the IMF. “But China is finally getting some pushback.” a poor one for the led. Western diplomats praise Dji-
bouti in private for the skill with which it has played
And African countries are increasingly home to This may encourage the West to increase its eco- countries off against one another to secure rent on
foreign manufacturing firms. Chinese state-backed nomic efforts. In September the EU announced it military bases and infrastructure deals. How much
companies have helped set up “special economic would give more than $40 billion in grants from 2021 this guile improved the lot of the citizenry, rather
zones” in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Rwanda as well as to 2027, building on Germany’s “Marshall Plan for Af- than the country’s elites, is unclear.
Djibouti. Olam International, a Singaporean com- rica” launched in 2017. In October last year America
pany, operates a free-trade zone in Gabon; India is doubled the lending capacity of its Overseas Private Democracy and transparency are the antidotes to
trying to open one in Mauritius. Turkey has a facil- Investment Corporation to $60 billion. corruption. Recently in Kenya and Ghana, for exam-
ity next to the Chinese one in Djibouti, part of a set ple, local media, civil society and opposition parties
of ambitious plans for the continent which include “African leaders realize they have more choices than have been able to scrutinize dodgy deals signed by
building railways in Tanzania, airport terminals their governments.
in Ghana and much of the “futuristic” Diamniadio
Lake City in Senegal. Turkish Airlines, which is 49% Sadly, however, Russia and China do not care
state-owned, flies to more than 50 African cities. about African democracy. They may claim that their
policy is not to interfere. But their propping up of au-
Others are thus positioned to take up some slack tocrats – China’s support for Denis Sassou Nguesso
as China recalibrates its approach to the continent of Congo-Brazzaville, Russia’s for Faustin-Archange
to make it less expensive. Rather than announcing a Touadéra of the CAR – amounts to intervention of a
doubling or tripling of its financial pledges to African particularly reactionary kind.
countries, as it had at previous FOCACs, last year Chi-
na offered a package less generous than the previous The West, too, has a long history of supporting its
one. Part of this shift is because some Chinese deals preferred “strongmen” on the continent. Since the
in Africa have gone sour, angering Chinese investors. cold war, though, it has by and large promoted lib-

eral reforms, if haphazardly. 



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With trust in TV falling, Putin tries to build an internyet

When the Soviet Soviet people turned on their over physical infrastructure and dominance in pro- This heavy-handed approach has alienated young
television sets on August 19, 1991, they knew there viding content. internet users. More recently, the government has
was an emergency. Every channel was playing clas- changed tactics. Instead of persecuting users, it is
sical music or showing “Swan Lake” on a loop. Last month the Duma preliminarily approved a establishing greater control over internet providers.
law on “digital sovereignty” which tries to separate New legislation on “digital sovereignty” will oblige
A few hours earlier Mikhail Gorbachev had been Russia’s internet from the global one. It wants to them to install surveillance equipment that can be
detained during an attempted coup. As the Soviet criminalize anti-government messages online, in ef- operated from a single control center.
Union crumbled, the fiercest street battles unfold- fect reviving laws on “anti-Soviet propaganda.”
ed over television towers. “To take the Kremlin, you This will allow the state to filter internet traffic,
must take television,” said one of Gorbachev’s aides. Yet controlling the internet will take more than isolate regions or even cut off the worldwide web
a few laws. Unlike in China, where the ruling party throughout the country in case of emergency. But
Vladimir Putin took note. He began his rule in built its “Great Firewall” by the early 2000s, in Russia replicating China’s “great firewall” may be difficult,
2000 by establishing a monopoly over television, the the internet was a free zone both in terms of content says Andrei Soldatov, the author of “The Red Web”
country’s main source of news. It has helped him and infrastructure, with hundreds of private service and an expert on Russian internet surveillance.
create an illusion of stability. But the Kremlin’s most providers. In the early 2000s it became an alternative
reliable propaganda tool is losing its power. to state-dominated television. Russia is more integrated into the internet’s glob-
al architecture; its biggest firms, like Yandex, have
Now, the internet is weighing in. The Kremlin did not spot the threat. Indeed, Putin servers abroad, while global giants such as Google
According to the Levada Centre, an independent argued against regulating the internet. But in 2014, have servers in Russia. More importantly, Russians
pollster, Russians’ trust in television has fallen by 30 Putin declared the internet a CIA project and de- have grown used to sites like YouTube, which is a big
percentage points since 2009, to below 50%. Mean- manded that national internet firms move their serv- provider of children’s entertainment.
while, the number of people who trust internet-based ers to Russia. The Kremlin launched groups of “cyber
information sources has tripled to nearly a quarter guards” to search for prohibited content. The number of requests from the Russian govern-
of the population. Older people still get most of their ment to remove or block content has exploded in the
news from television, but most of those aged 18-24 The government pressed Pavel Durov, the co- past two years. The repressive “digital sovereignty”
rely on the internet, which remains relatively free. founder of VKontakte, a home-grown social network, law, already endorsed by Yandex and Mail.ru, two
YouTube in particular is eroding the state-televi- to divulge user information to the FSB, the state se- of Russia’s largest firms, aims to increase the Krem-
sion monopoly. It is now viewed by 82% of the Rus- curity service. When he refused, it made him sell the lin’s power to cajole. And the tactic of “persuasion” is
sian population aged 18-44. firm to Alisher Usmanov, a loyal oligarch who owns partially working. Google’s latest transparency report
Yuri Dud, a YouTube journalist who interviews pol- Mail.ru, a big Russian internet business. shows that it satisfied 78% of Russian government
iticians and celebrities, gets 10 to 20 million views per take-down requests in the first half of 2018.
video, much more than any television news program. Unlike Durov, Usmanov had no qualms about giv-
Even Dmitry Kiselev, the state television propagan- ing users’ data to the security services, which has led Navalny complains thatYouTube wrongly removed
dist-in-chief, felt compelled to appear on Dud’s show. to a series of arrests. According to Agora, a human- a paid advertisement for his protest rally last Septem-
News is the fourth-most-popular YouTube catego- rights watchdog, Russian prosecutors have initiated ber at the request of the electoral commission, and
ry among Russians, after “do it yourself”, music and 1,295 criminal proceedings for online offences and says it turns a blind eye to the Kremlin’s use of bots to
drama. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has be- handed out 143 sentences since 2015. The vast ma- drive down his videos’ ratings.
come a dominant political voice on the internet, has jority originated from VKontakte pages.
two YouTube channels, one of which has daily news But applying the new “digital sovereignty” law fully
programs. In the past year his audience has doubled. might be like smashing a computer screen with a
The Kremlin is desperately looking for ways to hammer.
control the internet. “The government is trying to
work out how to turn the internet into a television,” While cutting off the world wide web in a future
says Gregory Asmolov, an expert on the Russian time of crisis may be technically possible, pulling
internet at King’s College London. This, he argues, the plug to block protesters’ messages from spread-
would require not only strict regulation, but control
ing could be the most powerful message of all. 

A version of this column appeared first in The
Economist. It does not necessarily reflect the views of
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Big hearts accept small offerings with gratitude and grace

BY REV. DRS. CASEY AND BOB BAGGOTT to seek treatment from a specialist in
Columnists a far distant city. But the family didn’t
have the means for such a venture.
An old story tells of a small fam- Concerned, several of their friends
ily whose youngest child developed a went to the village priest to ask his
serious illness. Their local doctor told advice. “Only the miser who lives at
them the only hope for the child was the edge of town has enough money
to help the family,” he said. And so, a
small delegation of friends went with
the priest to visit the miser and ask for
his assistance.

The priest went to the miser’s front
door and knocked. He carefully ex-
plained that a small child was very ill
and the only effective treatment was
very expensive and was only offered in
a city far away. He explained that the
child’s family was poor and unable to

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pay for this. A bright and promising, ny? A penny was all he had the strength Mrs. John Dabney Penick
beloved and happy child was at risk of to give. But when I accepted what he
death. was able to give, that opened his heart Mrs. John Dabney Penick of Watch
to enable him to give more, and more Hill, RI, passed away on March 6,
To everyone’s surprise, the miser was and more.” 2019 at 19 Massachaug Road. She
moved to tears and said, “Wait. I can was accompanied by her grandsons,
help.” He ran into his house and a few Well, that story revolves around the Matthew and DJ Penick, and longtime
minutes later he returned, holding out use of money, but it has a greater signifi- caregiver, Pearl Malburn, at the time
his hand to the priest. But his fist was cance. It is also about our expectations of her passing. Her only surviving
clenched and his whole arm shook with of giving and receiving. It’s about how child, Dabney Penick Pierce, and
the effort he was expending to open his our reactions to unmet expectations in- granddaughter, Clemmie Pierce
fingers and release what he clutched. fluence things. Martin, visited with her the morning
Eventually he opened his fist to reveal of March 6th. Mrs. Penick was born in
the gift he had brought: one penny. The Don’t we all have people in our lives Glen Cove, Long Island, on March 15,
delegation turned angrily to leave, but who have failed to meet our expectations 1922, and was the daughter of Henry
the priest calmly took the coin and pre- from time to time? Whether a spouse, a Herbert and Eileen Rose Clements.
sented an elaborate speech of gratitude child, a friend or a co-worker, undoubt- She was the loving wife of the late John
to the miser. “May God grant you health edly we’ve all been disappointed now Dabney Penick, who predeceased her
and long life. May God increase your joy and then. Even though we might have in 1973.
and surround you with heaven’s love.” needed or deserved what these people Eileen Penick lived an incredible, full life. Imagine growing up just after the
had to give, if they were incapable of giv- end of World War I, seeing the emergence of the automobile, living through
The miser was clearly touched by the ing it to us, we can hardly blame them. the Great Depression, witnessing the beginning and end of World War II,
priest’s expression of gratitude. “Wait We may have expected too much. Per- watching Neil Armstrong take the first steps on the moon, and living through
a minute,” he said. He ran back into haps they just hadn’t yet learned to open the turn of a century and nearly 20 years into a new millennium. Eileen
his house and returned, bringing out a their hands and hearts to give freely of witnessed countless monumental events over the course of her nearly 97 years.
larger gift. Again the priest thanked the their time, resources, affection, or com- In her free moments, she enjoyed playing tennis and golf for many decades,
miser graciously, and again the miser mitment. and particularly relished her 2009 (at the age of 87) hole-in-one on the John’s
ran back to get another gift. This pat- Island (Vero Beach) Golf Course.
tern repeated itself again and again Next time we find ourselves disap- More than anything, though, Eileen served as the matriarch of a large, close-knit
until the priest and the friends had col- pointed by someone’s failure to meet our family. Eileen spent every summer for half a century in Watch Hill, RI, where
lected all the money necessary for the expectations, next time someone de- she was known, esteemed, and occasionally feared (!) by family and friends alike.
child’s medical expenses. clines to give us what we feel we deserve Generations of children and grandchildren considered “Mimi” and “Mrs. Penick”
and the other is capable of giving us, as an unforgettable part of their childhoods. One wouldn’t find a person in all
As the little group of friends turned we might stop and think about our re- of Watch Hill who doesn’t have a story about Mimi! Those surrounding her in
happily away, they asked the priest sponse. Anger at the other’s failure is un- her astounding 96 years of life would agree that she was, to all around her, larger
about the event. Why hadn’t he sim- likely to change anything. But perhaps if than life. Her quick-witted humor aside, you never questioned that she would do
ply urged the miser to give the entire we try accepting what little is offered anything for her family and loved ones, and loved each of them endlessly. Her
amount in the beginning? The priest with gratitude and kindness, a whole children and grandchildren were the light of her life, and each would attest that
responded, “Did you see how small that new realm of possibility will emerge, for she, too, was the light of theirs. She was cherished by all and will be deeply missed.
first offered gift was – just a single pen- that person and even for us.  Eileen is survived by her daughter Dabney Penick Pierce (husband Jim), and
nine grandchildren: DJ Penick (Minneapolis-St. Paul Minn.), Matthew Penick
(Watch Hill, RI), Wilhem Kurth (Wayzata, Minn.), Liam Kurth (Wayzata,
Minn.), Julia Kurth (Wayzata, Minn.), and Miller Pierce (New York City, NY),
Clemmie Pierce Martin (husband Maclean, Houston, Texas), Robby Pierce
(Houston, Texas) and Bar Pierce (Houston, Texas). Her other daughter, Jane
Dorset Penick, predeceased her in 2012.
Funeral services will be held privately by the family. Burial will be held at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery in Montclair, N.J., and will be situated next to her husband,
John Dabney Penick.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the MD
Anderson Cancer Center (https://www.mdanderson.org/donors-volunteers/
donate/honor-loved-ones.html)
For online condolences, please visit www.buckler-johnston.com

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George White spent his childhood in slavery in Vir- cribes to them a “covert abolitionism,” or resentment At every turn in her analysis, Jones-Rogers takes
ginia and had firsthand experience of the behavior at the violence perpetrated by slaveholding men; in care to illuminate how we know what we know. Her
of plantation “mistresses,” the counterparts of slave- such an interpretation, white women shared a mea- central sources are firsthand accounts by enslaved
owning male “masters.” In a 1937 interview, White sure of victimhood with enslaved women. Building on persons, especially the more than 2,000 interviews
recalled that whenever his mistress “wanted a dress, the scholarship of Duke historian Thavolia Glymph, with former slaves recorded by the Works Progress
she would sell a slave.” Drawing on accounts such as who foregrounded white women’s violence in her Administration, a New Deal agency, in the 1930s. In
White’s, the historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers pro- 2008 book, “Out of the House of Bondage: The Trans- those interviews, formerly enslaved people clearly
vides the first extensive study of the role of Southern formation of the Plantation Household,” Jones-Rogers recall having female owners and recall, too, the au-
white women in the plantation economy and slave- demonstrates in “They Were Her Property” that white thority those female owners exercised in exploiting,
market system. women wielded immense power and authority as punishing and tormenting their bondspeople. A
slaveholders in the Old South, and wielded them cal- vast documentary record confirms these recollec-
The field of women’s history has long been commit- lously and cruelly. tions: For example, women appear as slave owners
ted to making the invisible visible: taking topics and in census records; in newspaper advertisements for
sources that were obscured, overlooked or hiding in Slaveholding, Jones-Rogers emphasizes in her the return of runaways; and in court records, con-
plain sight and bringing them into sharp focus. Planta- opening chapter, was learned behavior, and white fronting spouses who refused to recognize their
tion mistresses’ exercise of mastery and their complic- girls were groomed for the role of plantation mistress. property rights.
ity in the system of slavery have been obscured, ironi- At a young age, they were gifted and bequeathed slaves
cally, both by very old forms of proslavery propaganda and participated in slave management, including the Jones-Rogers offers her most potent challenge to
and by modern feminist scholarship. Proslavery pro- meting out of brutal punishments. Jones-Rogers ex- received wisdom in her chapters on the slave market.
paganda from the 19th century depicted white wom- plains that the very term “mistress” did not connote Historians have made great strides in the past gen-
en as the “gentler” face of slaveholding – as benevolent womanly subordination in this cultural setting but eration in mapping the geographic scope and tragic
souls whose acts of kindness softened the system and instead referred to a slaveholding woman’s domin- human toll of the domestic slave trade, which redis-
as domestic creatures content to submit to male au- ion as her husband’s counterpart. Enslaved persons, tributed slaves from the Upper South to the Deep
thority. Some modern scholarship, emphasizing white adults and children alike, were often required to call South “cotton kingdom.” But historians have tended
women’s discontent within antebellum patriarchy, as- white females – even infants and toddlers – by the title to imagine that slave trading was men’s work, and that
“mistress.” And the prerogatives of the master class white Southern women were insulated from the auc-
extended beyond the boundaries of any given house- tion houses and markets where human beings were
hold. Jones-Rogers notes that “young white southern- bought and sold. Jones-Rogers argues persuasively
ers, by virtue of their skin color, were empowered by that white Southern women were active as hirers and
law and custom to exercise control over any enslaved buyers and sellers of slaves, and that plantation house-
person they crossed paths with, even those they did holds were extensions of the market. Again, she is able
not own.” to cross-reference firsthand accounts by former slaves
with other sorts of sources, such as slave traders’ ac-
Tracing the transition from childhood to adulthood, count books and bills of sale. Among these sources are
Jones-Rogers turns to married women’s roles and thousands of previously overlooked advertisements
identities as slaveholders. At the heart of her book is in Southern newspapers for enslaved wet nurses to
the distinction between legal doctrines and everyday feed white infants. White women presided over this
realities: While the doctrine of coverture stipulated marketplace, one that often separated black women
that a woman lost her legal autonomy once she mar- from their own children and even pressed into service
ried, ceding her property to her husband, in practice women who had recently experienced the death of
women often refused to relinquish the power over their newborn infants. 
slaves that they had cultivated since girlhood. Through
legal tools such as marriage contracts (the equivalent THEY WERE HER PROPERTY
of modern prenuptial agreements), deeds, wills and
trust arrangements, mistresses moved to exert control WHITE WOMEN AS SLAVE OWNERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
over their own estates, seeking to ensure, for example, BY STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS | YALE. 296 PP. $30
that their inheritances would not be seized to pay
their husbands’ debts. REVIEW BY ELIZABETH R. VARON, THE WASHINGTON POST

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This deal was used in last week’s column. Then, South made six spades after taking a safety AK3
play in trumps by running dummy’s four. 10 9 4

Can you see any way for a defender to influence declarer to his detriment? Dealer: South; Vulnerable: North-South

In the auction, North’s four diamonds was a splinter bid. It showed four-plus spades, at least The Bidding:
game-going values and a singleton (or void) in diamonds. Then South, confident that his
partner had to have strength in clubs, used 14-30 Roman Key Card Blackwood. He learned SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
that his partner had one key card (an ace or the spade king), then slightly optimistically 1 Spades Pass 4 Diamonds Pass
jumped to six spades. 4 NT Pass 5 Clubs Pass LEAD:
6 Spades Pass Pass Pass 7 Clubs
West, who disliked leading from a jack, chose the club seven to dummy’s king. What might
have happened next?

Here was East’s chance to deceive declarer. If he had smoothly played the club queen under
dummy’s king, what would South have thought?

Surely he would have assumed it was a singleton; and if it were, next running the spade four
would have been risky. If West could have taken that trick with a singleton honor, he could
then have given his partner a club ruff. So declarer was highly likely to play a spade to his
ace and go down.

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SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS ISSUE (MARCH 7) ON PAGE 802

ACROSS DOWN
7 Salad dressing (11) 1 Variety of lettuce (7)
9 Total (7) 3 Prize (5)
10 Style of jazz (5) 4 Italian-style ice cream (6)
11 Meadow (5) 5 Hug (7)
12 Currant bun (7) 6 Shinbone (5)
13 Routine (6) 7 Cosy, snug (11)
15 Calyx parts (6) 8 Placation (11)
18 Craftsperson (7) 14 Enigma (7)
20 Long-handled brush (5) 16 Shunned (7)
21 Gatekeeper’s cottage (5) 17 Agreement (6)
22 Substitute (5-2) 19 __ wave; tsunami (5)
23 Pun (4,2,5) 20 Party (5)

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1 Critter’s hind section 95 Orbital extreme WORLD WAR ONE By Merl Reagle
7 “___ robbed!” 96 Doctor-related freaked-out squid
12 Carpet cleaner, 98 Old English letters 58 Gagarin’s big year TofhCe Aosrmte&ticSScuierngecrey
99 Prickly evergreen 60 Olympic lineup
for short 102 Comedian Don who plays 61 Occur naturally,
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18 Scorpio star Father Guido Sarducci as flowers
20 Haleiwa hello 105 Not apt 64 Braced
21 Casanova was one 110 Let’s Make ___ 66 Believe, to the Bard (or, pitch
23 Query to a stylist 111 ___-Locka, Fla.
25 Biographer Fraser 114 A kind of self-punishment de ball?)
26 “It’s ___-win situation” 115 World War One figure 68 Allowed for the weight of the
27 Voice of Sylvester 119 Winter warmer-upper
28 Feature of a grasshopper 120 Dumb move container
121 Moved very slowly 71 Stiller’s partner
sparrow 122 Garden outcome 72 Planned
30 Handled with carelessness 123 Determining factor? 75 El ___, Tex.
33 Part of YWCA 124 Take care of 76 Draft ratings
34 Drifter’s sighting 125 Haughty 77 Put on
37 Minimally speaking 79 Wrestling win
40 “Flying carpet of the deep” DOWN 80 Slew
44 Renders less dangerous, as 1 “Serves you right!” 82 Sinbad got carried away by it
2 Before you know it 84 Renounced
a bull 3 F. Gary Powers’s plane 86 Art ___
47 Disapprove of 4 “That ain’t it” 90 Dome-shaped home
50 Say for the record 5 Test cheat 91 “That was before
51 “How clever!” 6 Parrot’s word
53 2-D product 7 See Seinfeld ___ you”
54 Chewbacca’s chief 8 Building addition 92 French detective series for 18
55 Singer Carly ___ Jepsen 9 Serenade, e.g.
56 Change for a rainy day? 10 Sailor’s cry years
59 Going-under gases 11 Benefit 94 Of the wind
61 Buckingham guards don’t do 12 Drug containers 97 Town in Assam, India, and
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16 Farm relief, perhaps 100 Costa or Puerto follower
others 17 Catch, as one’s sleeve 101 Engraved stone
63 Slangy sib 19 Box-spring support 103 Alcindor, Grade, and Wallace
65 Drone home 22 Dietetic 104 Watering places?
66 Jogs 24 Atahualpa subject 105 Smidgen (of tea)
67 Affect like a gnat 29 Musical-scale segment 106 Security breach
68 Words 31 Former Cubs manager Lee 107 “Hold ___ your hats!”
69 Inherit the Wind co-author 32 Name on a tractor 108 Woolly mammas
34 “How can ___ 109 See 29 Down
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70 Squabble thank you?” capital
71 What things run into and 35 Car-dealership glass 112 Dickey or Dickinson
36 Driving hazards that may 113 “Factory” owner Warhol
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73 Pot starter shock you? 117 .
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Friend unpacks insensitive remarks during long vacation

BY CAROLYN HAX incident, within recent memory, is the purest form
Washington Post of just asking what’s going on. You say what you
heard, and ask if that’s what she meant.
Hi, Carolyn: I went on a week-
When such incidents accrue, then, yes, it’s time
long trip abroad with a friend of for: “You’ve now offered commentary on my hair,
diet and height. What’s up?”
mine. We are 27. On the trip I saw
Now, after the fact, the exact words are already
a different side of her: She was subject to the vagaries of memory. It’s not impos-
sible to address it, it’s just not as effective.
mean and at the very least insen-
If you want to remain friends with this person (a
sitive, and I can’t figure out why reasonable “if”) and if you’re still bugged by some
of the things she said, then I suggest picking out
she acted this way toward me when I hadn’t seen a couple that rankled the most and mentioning
them: “I find myself still thinking about a couple
this from her before. She commented on my hair be- of things you said to me on our trip. [Example 1] is
one of them, and also [Example 2]. I heard them as
ing a mess, how I eat the same food every day, and [your interpretation here]. Is that really what you
meant?”
when she looked at a picture of us, she commented
Admittedly, what you describe is low-level nas-
how she didn’t realize how much taller she is. She tiness delivered in the hardest way to manage,
meaning there was room for deniability in every
complained there were flies at night and I agreed, incident – which means you faced a tough speak-
up-or-drop-it decision every time. If it was delib-
then she told me, “Well, maybe you should shower erate on her part, too, then it is gaslighting, which
means the whole point was for you not to know
at night” – I shower every day. how to respond. Context is going to be essential in
figuring this out.
I could list more, but you probably get the point.
Also, for what it’s worth: Even some bestest-ever
Am I being overly sensitive and just need to let it go, friends should never travel together. Ever. The ability
to get along 24-7 for days involves a special kind of
or is there a good way to confront her? compatibility. You can be friends without it; you just
can’t travel well without it. True for couples, too. 
– Friend or Foe

Friend or Foe: If every remark was indeed meant is calmly, plainly and in the very moment you real-
as a dig, then this is a surprising level of meanness ize it: “Wait – did you just imply I attract flies be-
to emerge without warning. So I wonder which you cause I don’t bathe?” Even if it’s a half-hour after she
think is more likely, that you missed earlier warn- said it, it’s still the perfect time to find out what’s
ings, or that she only got like this under the duress really going on. That’s because taking it incident by
of an ambitious trip?

Either way, “confronting” people is climbing rap-
idly up my list of ideas that make me flinch.

It’s so confrontational.
The way I’d recommend handling snark like hers

4

RHEUMATOLOGIST RUMINATES
ON HIS 50 YEARS IN MEDICINE

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Rheumatologist ruminates on his 50 years in medicine

BY TOM LLOYD last month. And his Curriculum Vitae
Staff Writer stretches back further still.

One of the newest doctors at Cleve- He held positions in pediatrics, ob-
land Clinic Indian River Hospital is also stetrics and cardiology before turning
one of its longest practicing ones. his talents to rheumatology and the
treatment of musculoskeletal disease
Dr. Alastair Kennedy, who earned and systemic autoimmune conditions.
his medical degree at the Univer-
sity of Glasgow in Scotland, was in “I love medicine, I love the science
private practice in Vero Beach for 40 of medicine,” Kennedy says. “I taught
years before joining the hospital staff medicine in the U.K. and in South Afri-
ca and in Buffalo and I [still] get excited

Dr. Alastair Kennedy.

PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE

‘... I looked back to where we were then and
how we’ve moved forward ... and when I was

starting out there were about 12 drugs for
everything. Now [there are thousands]. That’s

my 50 years.Where do you think your
50 years are going to be?’

– Dr. Alastair Kennedy

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when I see the prospects. Clinic is an exciting concept whereby Italy on vacation, and my friend here, partment’s “We Care” program along
“The last lecture I gave was about two we will be able to access some of the an orthopedic surgeon, his son had a with the sometimes dogged efforts
best medicine in the world and not medical issue. Before I left, he called of local physicians to persistently
or three years ago and it was to pre-med just clinical medicine, but research me and said, ‘Oh, would you mind beat, beg and cajole drug makers into
students. And I said, 50 years ago, I was medicine, too.” checking out the price on the drug providing free or highly discounted
sitting where you are right now. And that my son has?’ medications for those who cannot af-
then I looked back to where we were He notes that research led to the new ford them.
then and how we’ve moved forward “biologic” drugs like Humira, Enbrel “So I’m in Florence, I go to the local
– MRIs, CAT scans, keyhole surgeries – and Remicade now used to treat rheu- pharmacy, I ask the question, get the “There’s no excuse for anybody not
and when I was starting out there was matoid arthritis. answer, and call him. It was one third to be treated – and effectively so – in
about 12 drugs for everything. Now of the price. Now, the drug was made this community,” he says.
[there are thousands]. That’s my 50 “Most of the major research that’s go- in the States, shipped to Italy and it was
years. Where do you think your 50 years ing on is coming from the United States. a third of the price, which tells you that Dr. Alistair Kennedy is a rheumatolo-
are going to be?” That’s the plus side.” The negative side, the American population is subsidizing gist with Cleveland Clinic Indian River
says Kennedy, is the cost of that is being stuff overseas.” Hospital at 3450 11th Court, Suite 305 in
Why the switch to rheumatology? borne by U.S. patients. Vero Beach. The phone number is 772-
As Kennedy explains, “I lost my Ending on a high note, however, 569-8550. 
best friend’s brother at the age of 19 “I’ll give you one little story on that. Kennedy points to the Health De-
to a very mysterious condition called Many years ago I was going over to
‘polyarteritis nodosa,’ which nobody
knew anything about [at that time].
That was my first contact with unusu-
al autoimmune diseases and that was
when I switched.”
Polyarteritis nodosa, or PAN, accord-
ing to the Cleveland Clinic, is a rare
disease that “results from blood vessel
inflammation or vasculitis that causes
injury to organ systems of the body.”
Kennedy’s interest in autoimmune
diseases actually predates the death of
his friend’s brother.
His mother was a decorated nurse
during World War II. “The only disease
that terrified her was rheumatoid ar-
thritis,” he says. “In those days, people
just became totally locked into their
bodies, destroyed by the disease.”
Today, Kennedy says, “we now have
biologic agents” to treat that disease,
and quickly adds, “If you get rheuma-
toid arthritis now, you’re never going
to end up the way that my mother was
terrified of.”
Another advance in medicine Ken-
nedy applauds is the modern emphasis
on collaboration between specialists.
For example, according to the Ameri-
can Society of Cataract and Refractive
Surgery, “ophthalmologists and rheu-
matologists have a good deal of patient
crossover. Patients with rheumatoid
arthritis may have dry eyes or specific
inflammatory processes involving the
eye, such as scleritis and uveitis.”
Similarly, rheumatologist may re-
ceive referrals from pulmonologists
for conditions like interstitial lung dis-
ease, pulmonary arterial hypertension,
scleroderma and vasculitides, while
rheumatologists may refer patients to
pain specialists.
“We’re seeing the lines of orders nar-
rowing and blurring,” Kennedy says
happily, “because there’s so much over-
lap. Some of the treatments that we use
were developed by the anti-cancer bri-
gade and some of our treatments now
are being used in cancer treatments.”
Asked why, after multiple decades
in his own practice, he elected to join
the staff at CCIRH, Kennedy quickly
responds, “Well, I’m excited. I just
wish I was 20 years younger. Cleveland

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Icing a sprain doesn’t help and could slow recovery

BY ANDREW P. HAN flammation has been viewed as the
The Washington Post enemy of recovery.

If you’ve ever needed to recover But what if that’s not quite right?
from an athletic injury, you’ve prob- What if inflammation is an indica-
ably used ice to reduce soreness and tion of recovery, and icing and other
swelling. For decades, doctors and cold-based “cryotherapy” only de-
athletic trainers have recommended lays it?
RICE – rest, ice, compression and el-
evation – to reduce the pain and in- Icing, it turns out, is like flossing:
flammation of sprained ankles. In- an ingrained practice that seems
practical but is not strongly sup-
ported by clinical evidence. The

oldest justifications for icing, dating cluded there is “insufficient evidence
to the 1970s, have melted under sci- to suggest that cryotherapy improves
entific scrutiny, some cryotherapy clinical outcome in the management
researchers say, and most scientific of soft tissue injuries.”
studies on icing haven’t provided
the solid results that would justify Similarly, a 2012 paper published
its popularity. This is true, they say, in the Journal of Athletic Training,
both for icing for daily recovery and which reviewed multiple, peer-re-
for an injury. viewed studies, noted that the prac-
tice of using ice to treat sprained
For example, a 2008 meta-analysis ankles “is based largely on anecdotal
published in the Journal of Emer- evidence” and that “evidence from
gency Medicine, which looked at [randomized controlled trials] to sup-
multiple studies on cold therapy’s ef- port the use of ice in the treatment of
fect on acute soft tissue injuries, con- acute ankle sprains is limited.”

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Moreover, according to these pa- discomfort and unpleasantness of it repairing the damaged cells. juries. And some point out that the
pers and cryotherapy experts, the canceled out whatever benefits there “If done for too long,” icing could lack of evidence cuts both ways. “We
studies that have shown positive were.” Now, she said, after research- don’t have a lot of evidence that ice
results from icing often have been ing the issue, “I know there probably have a negative effect on regenera- doesn’t work,” said Mark Merrick,
plagued by shortcomings such as weren’t any benefits.” tion, said UCLA professor James Tid- director of athletic training at Ohio
small sample sizes, irrelevant mea- ball, who researches the immune State University. “We don’t have a lot
surements and statistically insignifi- Today, Aschwanden is a Colorado- system’s role in muscle injury. of good evidence at all. We have an
cant results. based science writer for the data- incomplete view that limits how well
driven website FiveThirtyEight and In other words, by using ice to try we can draw conclusions.”
Even the doctor who coined RICE the author of “Good to Go,” a new to lessen inflammation, which is the
no longer promotes it. “It’s perfectly book on the science of recovery in immune system response to injury, Though she’s in favor of evidence-
fine to ice if you want, but realize it’s sports. In one chapter, she examined you could also be reducing the ac- based practices, Aschwanden won’t
delaying healing,” Gabe Mirkin said, ice packs, baths and massages and tivity of the cells that are promoting be stealing people’s ice packs or
“[Icing] is not going to change any- concluded that these cryotherapies repair. dragging them out of ice baths. And
thing in the long term.” are “not an evidence-based practice, though a particular recovery meth-
in the sense that they’ve been shown This isn’t to say cryotherapy has no od might not be clinically proven, a
Instead of icing to reduce inflam- to be helpful,” she said. physiological effect. Icing to numb person’s strongly held belief in it can
mation, athletes might be better off something definitely works, and “ic- enhance the placebo effect, she said,
letting it run its course. Better yet, get The experts she cites in her book ing is the safest pain medicine we which actually does help in recovery.
moving again, Mirkin said: “Don’t believe the justifications given for have,” Mirkin said.
increase your pain, but you want to using ice – to reduce swelling and In her book, Aschwanden de-
move as soon as you can.” inflammation – aren’t just lacking in Ice may also help people get a scribes an encounter with a friend
evidence but could be counterpro- damaged area moving again. “If you (an icer) who inquired about its ef-
Athlete and journalist Christie As- ductive. “There’s this idea out there have an injury, the muscles around fectiveness. “What would you say if I
chwanden feels a bit vindicated by that inflammation is terrible, and it switch off,” limiting mobility, said told you it didn’t help?” Aschwanden
the research. Despite her experience you want to reduce it,” Aschwanden Chris Bleakley, a professor of physi- replied.
as a champion cyclist and profes- said. “But the inflammatory process cal therapy at High Point University
sional cross-country skier, the use of is how your body recovers from exer- in North Carolina who has studied “I wouldn’t believe you,” the friend
ice, whether to recover from a hard cise, and rebuilds and recuperates.” icing. “Ice helps to switch those mus- said.
workout or a rolled ankle, has never cles back on again.”
appealed to her. Immediately after tissue damage, “She wasn’t dismissing me, like
cells send out a chemical distress sig- Some experts and research orga- I’m not credible source on this,” As-
“I used to have a teammate who nal that is answered by several types nizations who acknowledge the lack chwanden said. “She was just like, ‘I
was really, really devoted to ice of white blood cells, which arrive on of high-quality data in support of ice know it works for me.’ I think for a lot
baths,” Aschwanden said. “She the scene and trigger inflammation nevertheless maintain that it’s an of this stuff, it really comes down to
would fill our hotel bathtub with ice as they go about their work attack- important tool for athletes. The Na- that. People have their personal ex-
and then go sit in it. I tried it a couple ing pathogens and cleaning up and tional Athletic Trainers’ Association periences and those can be very con-
times, but it was really painful. The and the National Institutes of Health vincing.” 
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Chanel says goodbye to Lagerfeld in stunning winter wonderland

BY ROBIN GIVHAN and mounds of faux snow. After a
The Washington Post minute of silence from the hundreds
of guests – when not even a camera
There were no grand gestures at Karl shutter clicked – a recording of Lager-
Lagerfeld’s final Chanel ready-to-wear feld’s voice echoed across the room as
show – the last one that he worked he ruminated on Chanel having been
on before his death last month. Wind reborn as a fashion object of so many
chimes gently tinkled through the desires. He was once told by Queen
Grand Palais, which was transformed Elizabeth II, after she had seen one of
into a snowy mountain retreat with his shows with its elaborate set and
wooden cabins, white smoke spiral- extravagant flowers, that it was “like
ing from chimneys, elegant pine trees walking in a painting,” a description

that he said he never forgot. talented man had come to an end.
Then the music came to life, and the But the story of Chanel will continue.
That’s the nature of this business and
models emerged to play their role in that’s the rhythm of life. We are all bit
Lagerfeld’s final masterstrokes. His last players in a sweeping dramedy, and if
painting was a thing of beauty. we are lucky and tenacious, we make
the most of our limited roles and man-
Oversized tweed jackets were paired age not to leave too much of a mess in
with roomy trousers, knit dresses had our wake.
the kick and charm of an old-fashioned
ice skating costume and white “snow- Lagerfeld filled his role to the fullest
ball” dresses were constructed with and extended his reach well beyond its
a fitted bodice and a fluffy poof of a boundaries. The brand’s founder, Ga-
skirt. The models kicked up the faux brielle “Coco” Chanel, wrote part one
snow with their furry winter boots, and of this fashion success story, but Lager-
shearling-trimmed Chanel fanny bags feld may well have written parts two
hugged their waist. and three. He gave the house new life
as a fashion company, and then he ex-
There were fewer looks than is usual tended its notoriety deep into popular
for a Chanel show – or at least it seemed culture until it has become emblem-
that way. One didn’t have the feeling atic of what the world imagines a fancy
of being bombarded with a blizzard of French fashion house to be. Today, de-
ideas, some splendid and others landing signer anoraks and track pants, sulk-
with a bit of a thud. There was no excess ing hipsters and gorgeous eccentrics
this time. It was only the best. are part of the fashion universe here.
But when people come to Paris to take
The show was a fine reminder of how in a bit of fashion, Chanel is the touch-
good Lagerfeld could be, just how well he stone to which everything else is com-
could take a theme and tease out myriad pared. It is the default.
grace notes. He could cut a rough dia-
mond into countless sparkling gems.

An incredible career of a flawed and

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backstage, all eyes turned to the top
of the runway. People applauded and
waited. That moment when Lagerfeld
would have emerged with an expres-
sion of pleasant satisfaction, dressed
in a black jacket and trousers, his
white hair swept into a ponytail, came
and went. The stage remained empty.

From the interviews Lagerfeld gave
and the bon mots he batted around in

The street outside the Grand Pal- glamorous and sophisticated that Everyone waited for that big in me- conversations, the designer understood
ais was thick with rabid Chanel fans crossed international borders and con- moriam gesture for Lagerfeld, some- that he was only part of a larger Chanel
and Karl enthusiasts, tourists who nected them to movie stars and roy- thing to imprint this day on their story that was forever moving on to the
were thrilled to have stumbled onto alty. Chanel is their golden ticket past memories. In the end, the models next plot line. His death was not the end.
a moment of fashion history, photog- the velvet rope and up the stairs into made one final march through the It was a pause before another page is in-
raphers hoping to catch a shot of the the VIP box of life. snow. And when they disappeared evitably turned. 
celebrities in attendance, like Pené-
lope Cruz, who walked in the show.
And, of course, there were young
people who sensed a happening and
stood with cameras aloft and ready to
document it. This is the Chanel that
Lagerfeld built.

Inside, editors, retailers, clients and
friends of the house were waiting for
something big and emotional to hap-
pen. As always, the customers came in
their full Chanel kit: the tweed coats
and pearls, the T-shirts, bags, shoes
and perfume – and with the enduring
belief that because they were wearing
Chanel, they were part of something
larger. They were part of something

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Beautiful McQueen show leaves nothing unsaid

BY ROBIN GIVHAN women would want to wear.
The Washington Post The clothes did not come prepack-

The Alexander McQueen show last aged with philosophical baggage. As
Monday night was terrific. Not per- a woman leading a modestly sized
fect, not profound. But the clothes but internationally known fash-
were compelling and exquisitely ion brand, she lets the beauty of her
made. They demonstrated designer clothes speak about power and skill
Sarah Burton’s eye for detail and her and value. Their existence alone is a
ability to make really wonderful suits feminist statement.
and marvelous dresses that plenty of
In recent seasons, Burton had waded
deep into British history. And while that

must have been personally gratifying, mined her personal memories of grow-
the resulting collections often looked ing up in the north of England sur-
more like costumes than clothes. There rounded by textiles mills and a pastoral
was a bit too much authenticity in her landscape. She returned to those mill
historical references. For fall 2019, she towns, took advantage of the fabrics

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produced there and found inspiration defined waist and fluid asymmetric One well-tailored jacket blends Glen kind hand. She introduced softness
in the countryside. In essence, she set drapes are cut in worsted flannels in plaid with herringbone; on another with printed dresses, fabric swirled
out to explore the raw materials of de- shade of charcoal gray and anthracite the navy chalk stripes are slightly off- into enormous flowers and the gor-
sign and the beginnings of her own sto- and edged with a ‘Made in England’ kilter. Both are worn with spiked work geous curves highlighted by corsetry.
ry as a designer. selvage. They are woven in the mill boots with sturdy rubber soles.
towns that are the very soul of the Brit- One of the most beautiful pieces
There were a lot of associations for ish textile industry.” Burton combines menswear with in the collection were plum-colored
her clothes, and she described them a hint of the feminine, and backstage trousers with an elegant corset and
all in a set of show notes that read al- But even if you don’t know any of the after the show, she noted that we all side drape. It was masculinity and
most like a diary. “Sharply tailored background of these clothes, it’s pos- want a bit of armor, but we also need femininity as one. Strength and soft-
masculine suits with a strong shoulder, sible to appreciate them on their own. a human embrace, a gentle touch, a ness. It needed no explanation. 

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DINING REVIEW

Cobalt: Fine dining at the Vero Beach Hotel & Spa

Gulf Blue Crab
Cake and Fried
Green Tomato.

Dark Chocolate Creme Brûlée
with Marshmellow Fluff and

Graham Cracker Crumbs.

BY TINA RONDEAU Lobster Pot. Vegan Tamale.
Columnist
PHOTOS BY KAILA JONES Hours:
On a gorgeous midwinter Dinner daily, 5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m.
evening, we decided it would And my husband’s oysters – half Atlan- a large Dunge- Lunch, Monday through Friday,
be a lovely night to dine on Co- tic ($3.50 each), and half Pacific ($4.50), ness crab. By
balt’s magnificent oceanfront patio. served with a Champagne mignonette baking this 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
– were positively sublime . dish in a very Brunch, weekends 8 a.m. to
As it turned out, this thought had oc- well seasoned
curred to others quite a bit earlier. But Then for entrées, I decided to try the broth, Cobalt 2:30 p.m.
perhaps there might be a table just in- cioppino ($39), my husband chose the managed to Beverages: Full Bar
side the spectacular 15-foot-high glass pompano ($33), and our companion infuse its cioppino with all the flavors
wall that looks out on the firepit? Nope, ordered the swordfish ($28). of the seas. This was the best rendition I Address:
those had all been claimed as well. have had in Vero. 3500 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach
Grilled swordfish has always been
That’s what happens during season a good choice at Cobalt, and our com- We concluded the dinners with a Phone:
when you don’t have reservations. panion said his beautiful piece of slice of grand marnier cake with a 772-469-1060
sword – served atop succotash – was very sweet frosting and chocolate
But the hostess found a perfectly cooked perfectly. My husband also mousse. Dinner for two with wine,
nice interior table (sans view) for our gave high marks to his grilled pompa- before tax and tip, should run some-
party of three, and a server quickly ar- no served with rappini. where around $150.
rived to take our drink orders.
But my hearth-baked cioppino was On a good night, Cobalt is a very
For starters on this visit, I decided the piece de resistance of the evening. good hotel restaurant. While disap-
to pass up a couple of old favorites and pointed at not having a table with a
try a new appetizer – the fried green to- For those not familiar with ciop- view, we did have a fine meal and are
mato with crab ($20). Our companion pino, this dish supposedly was in- pleased to see Cobalt getting the pa-
opted for the crispy calamari ($15) and vented by fishermen who would toss tronage it deserves.
my husband went for a half dozen oys- their leftover catch into a pot at the
ters on the half shell ($24). end of the day. Just about every ciop- I welcome your comments, and en-
pino starts with tomato sauce and courage you to send feedback to me at
My dish consisted of a stack of fried shellfish, but the exact recipe varies [email protected].
green tomato, Caribbean blue crab considerably.
cake, and another slice of fried tomato, This reviewer dines anonymously at
with a Cajun remoulade on top. This Cobalt’s version of this maritime restaurants at the expense of Vero Beach
was accompanied by a pickled jicama stew consisted of a pot of mussels, 32963. 
and mango salad. A very creative mix clams, white fish, shrimp, scallops and
of tastes.

Our companion enjoyed his fried
calamari served with crispy banana
peppers and charred tomato salsa.

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WINE COLUMN

When a wine critic opened a bottle of Playboy red ...

BY DAVE MCINTYRE
The Washington Post

When an email landed in my mailbox bicides and tended preferably on horse- select labels are examples of retail popular Bitch brand – with the usual
recently announcing a new wine, the back, fermented by no added yeast chains producing private label wines marketing hyperbole replaced by the
name caught my eye: Playboy Califor- other than the toe jam of the vineyard that often show well against others in wine’s name repeated throughout the
nia Red Wine Blend. workers who trod the grapes, and ulti- their price range. label – are popular examples.
mately “curated” by hipster sommeliers
The label, a photo with the iconic ears, who – well, you get the picture. Or else Lot 18 is a New York-based company Others, like the Playboy blend, seem
bow tie and bodice of the Playboy Bunny, there’s the tech giant or medical guru that is pushing against the traditional marketed more toward men. My in-
was rendered in a gold mosaic against a who is parlaying his large fortune into a three-tier distribution system by sell- ner wine snob would prefer a company
black background. The wine is a limited smaller one by buying into the utopian ing wine directly to consumers over spend its money on improving the wine’s
edition joint venture of Playboy and Lot ideal of the vintner’s lifestyle. the Internet. Playboy isn’t its only wine quality rather than its marketing.
18, an online wine retailer, to mark the – there’s also one based on Elvis Pre-
magazine’s 65th anniversary. Most of us drink somewhere between sley, as well as other more traditional There’s an industry maxim that says
these ideals, of course, adrift in the sea sounding labels from wine regions the first bottle is sold by the label, while
It was “masterfully created by the of swill, the plenitude of plonk that de- around the world. the second is sold by the wine inside.
team at Lot 18 . . . for wine aficionados fines supermarket wines. The key is in That second bottle will never be sold un-
and Playboy fans alike,” the press re- finding the good ones. And here where’s my initial thought less the first is. That’s why wine names
lease assured me, as though those two of a rant against the Playboy wine have gone well beyond Chateau This and
groups are mutually exclusive. The la- That’s why importers contract with comes into play. There are all sorts of Domain That to emphasize the fantas-
bel artwork was created by the maga- local cooperative wineries in Europe wines we know more for their clever tical and the silly, as well as established
zine’s illustrator Katie Bailie “as a gra- or elsewhere to produce private label labels than the wine inside the bottles. brands such as Playboy. The competition
cious nod to Playboy’s heritage.” wines. Costco’s Kirkland brand, Trad- Some are marketed explicitly toward for our dollars is more about what’s on
er Joe’s, and Walmart’s W winemaker women: Mommy’s Time Out and the the bottle, not what’s inside it. 
I growled audibly as I mulled the
possibilities. It has been a long time
since I’ve written a full-fledged rant.
What kind of message would that send
your date? Holed up in your man cave
with the dudes streaming sports on TV
while revisiting your vintage magazine
collection, maybe, but date night? And
in the #MeToo era?

A sample bottle arrived a few days
later. It sat on my kitchen counter for a
couple weeks. I glared at it while open-
ing dozens of wines I considered rec-
ommending to readers to spend their
hard-earned money on. The label,
showing the costume with just a sug-
gestion of a woman, seemed to be flirt-
ing with me. So finally, I pulled the cork
and poured myself a glass.

And darn, if it wasn’t pretty good.
Were there “flavors of cherry and dark
fruits” and spice notes of vanilla and
toasty oak on the finish, as the press re-
lease boasted? Perhaps. I was impressed
by the wine’s balance of fruit and acidity.
It was lighter than I expected, rather than
the heavy, confected wines all too com-
mon these days.
The press release, label and website
gave no information about the grape
blend of the wine, but that may reflect
current consumer trends. Perhaps to-
day’s wine drinkers don’t care what
grapes make up their wine, as long as the
end product is delicious. The classical
paradigms of Bordeaux or Rhone Valley
blends matter less than the satisfaction
the wine offers in the glass.
The wine industry (and dare I say,
the wine media) would have us cele-
brate the artisan vintner, farming land
her family has toiled for generations,
crafting distinctive wines from grapes
grown biodynamically, organically or
sustainably without pesticides or her-

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PETS

Bonz says Mia and Charlie have a nose for adventure

Hi Dog Buddies! DES-prutt! A buncha Dog one paw in front of
the other,” Mia said.
This week I innerviewed a stylish Park frens suggested get- “If I hadda tail, which
Mini Australian Shepherd, Mia Eby, who I don’t, it wudda been
hadda Big Adventure, an her Mini Pin- ting’ Charlie a pooch play- draggin.’ Suddenly
scher brother Charlie, a fearless, super- something made me
active fireball who knows in his heart mate to keep him busy, look up. I didn’t know
he’s a Big Guy. I wisely never mentioned the neighborhood.
that “mini” thing to him. slow him down a little.” But there was some-
thing. I found myself
Mia trotted up for the Wag-an-Sniff. “So that’s where YOU walkin’ toward this
“Hello, Mr. Bonzo. I’m Mia. This is my house. I didn’t rec-
Mom an Dad, Marcia and Tom; my come in?” ognize it, but there
niece Ava; an my brother, Charlie.”
“Yes. Mom an Dad de- were some smells I
She turned to Charlie, who was sizing did recognize. When
me up, head tilted, sailboat ears in Alert cided a Mini Aussie’d be I got closer I saw
Mode. “Bonzo’s gonna innerview us, re- MY OWN DISH.
member?” best for the job. They in- MY OWN BED. MY OWN BLANKET!
I couldn’t buh-leeeve it. I ran up an
“OH! Right! BON-zo!” Boom! He shift- nerviewed a coupla pooch- scratched on the door. An DAN opened
ed into overdrive. Soon as we sat, both it! I was overjoyed. I couldn’t wait to
pooches jumped into my assistant’s es an finally found the see Mom an Dad an Charlie (who told
lap to bestow welcoming wags, wiggles me I’d been lost for 12 days). The vet
an kisses. Mia jumped down an began Perfect Pooch, ME. I was Mia & Charlie checked me an said I was fine ’cept
their story. the runt of my lidder, only for I lost 5 pounds. I got a shot just in
case, since nobody knew what I’d been
“Charlie was an Only Dog. He picked three-anna-half pounds. PHOTO: KAILA JONES eating, including me. I think I blocked
Mom an Dad when they an their gran- it out. I was HOME! Thinkin’ about all
kids (5, 8 an 9) were lookin’ for a pooch Me an Charlie got on great those Super Crispy Dog Biscuits hu-
at the Humane Society a while back.” mans who spent so much time lookin’
right away. I could ackshul- for me makes me wanna give ’em a Big
“Yep!” Charlie innerrupted. “I KNEW High Paw an some slurps.”
they were MY humans. I was squinched ly walk right under his tummy at first. long walks hopin’ Mia would see us an Heading home, I was thinkin’ how
between a coupla Black Labs, an I just important things get when you don’t
busted through an ran straight to Dad. Now I’m bigger. When he gets too ram- come back. I was so worried about her, have ’em any more.
THEN, when the liddle humans came Till next time,
over, I zoomed right to them. All dogs BUNK-shuss, I grab him by the collar till but also mad cuz she ran off an left me.
know humans with liddle humans won’t The Bonz
even con-SID-er adoptin’ a pooch who he calms down. Right, Charlie?” Mom an Dad contacted all their frens,
doesn’t like kids.” Don’t Be Shy
“Sheesh! Yeah, she does,” Charlie including one called St. Francis, who re-
“Word!” I agreed. We are always looking for pets with
“Of COURSE, Mom an Dad adopted said, rolling his eyes. ally loves animals; our vet; the Humane interesting stories.
Charlie,” Mia said, “I mean, who could
resist, right? But, after a year, they were “I hear you had a Big Adventure,” I re- Society; put pickshurs of Mia all over the To set up an interview, email
getting’ Totally Frazzled.” [email protected].
“Why’s that?” minded Mia. place an on line. An a big buncha dog-
“Well, you might have noticed, Char-
lie NEVER sits still for more than a na- “Yes! Last Christmas. Mom an Dad lovers sprung into ackshun.”
no-second. Evry single second he was
Jumpin’ on stuff. Jumpin’ OVER stuff. hadda holiday gathering Far, Far Away. “Humans kept callin,’ reportin’ in,”
Getting’ INTO stuff. Mom an Dad were
They hadda fly inna plane. Me an Char- said Mia. “I was spotted on Old Dixie.

lie were bunkin’ at our human brother Then somebody saw me crossin’ You

Dan’s house. Charlie was Cool Kibbles Ess 1. I’d never seen anything like it.

with it, but I didn’t understand. I wanted Millions of cars an trucks. It was loud

my Mom an Dad an my own house an an scary. Once inna while, a human’d

comfy bed. So, on Christmas Day, when recognize me an call my name an start

Dan was comin’ in the door, I flew out walkin’ toward me, but I didn’t know

it, an ran away. Dan was FRANNICK! He ’em, so I’d run away.When it got dark, I’d

called Mom an Dad and they were fran- find a hidden spot somewhere to sleep.

nick, too. But they couldn’t come home I scratched my leg in the woods. When it

cuzza no flights. rained, I curled up under a bush.”

“All I was thinkin’ was I gotta find my Charlie continued. “So many nice hu-

Mom an Dad. But I got lost. I was on mans worked day an night, tryin’ to find

strange streets, with strange humans Mia. Then I had an idea: Mom an Dad

an strange dogs. Nothing was fuh-mill- should put Mia’s food an water bowls

yer. I was pooped, an scared, an hungry an bed an blanket out on Dan’s porch

an thirsty. Where was Mom? Where was so, if she was near, there’d be something

Dad? Where was Charlie? WHERE WAS fuh-mill-yer. So they did. And said lotsa

I?” prayers.

“When Mom an Dad finely got a flight “I just kept plodding along, dog tired,

home,” said Charlie.“Me an Dad went on no idea where I was going, just puttin’

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ST. EDWARD’S

No matter the sport, St. Ed’s Zoltak has got game

BY RON HOLUB and after that realized I wasn’t in the adjust to his style because the prac- of 35-7-3 during her first three var-
best shape for the soccer season. So tices last a little longer than they used sity seasons. That included a district
Correspondent I wanted to try something new and to. But there was a lot of improvement championship as a sophomore. There
joined the cross country team in the and I’m excited for what this season is has been a slight downturn recently
St. Edward’s senior Elizabeth fall of my sophomore year.” going to bring. that didn’t in any way diminish the
Zoltak dove head first into a full slate overall experience.
of sports at an early age, and the pat- All of this maneuvering led to three “When I first came out for lacrosse
tern continued through high school. years of round-the-clock athletic ac- I played attack. Then I transitioned to “We had a really good dynamic
She would prefer that to be the norm tivity at St. Ed’s with the varsity cross defense because I was always willing going for four years, but this year it
forever, but has come to grips with the country, soccer and lacrosse teams. to try something new. Last year, after was more of a challenge because we
likelihood that the sports she enjoyed
so much through elementary, middle Zoltak is closing out her career as a a really good cross country season, I PHOTO BY KAILA JONES
and high school will never be as big a Pirate athlete on the lacrosse field. had better speed and endurance, so I
presence in her life again. started playing more in the midfield. lost a lot of key players. While it’s re-
She wasn’t expected to play in the ally fun to win, I’ve also had a lot of
Moving on to college can shift your 2019 home opener against Park Vista “I have definitely played all of the losses. It has all really helped my work
priorities like that. High due to a broken finger, but ban- positions on the field, and I was a ethic. When I try my best and put in
daged up and had two goals and two goalie way back in sixth grade. I have as much effort as I can, that’s when
“I can’t really picture my life with- assists in an 18-11 win. She scored seen the game from every which way. I see the best results. I want to look
out playing sports,” Zoltak said. three more times in a 15-6 victory It’s nice to be a senior now because I back and be happy with everything
“Whether it’s soccer or lacrosse – I over Sebastian River High last week really understand the game. I know that I’ve done.”
even swam for a little bit – I have tried just before spring break. The team is what I can do and I know what I can
a ton of sports for as long as I can re- currently 5-2. help other people do.” Zoltak says she will miss the friend-
member, and I think it always comes ly faces she became accustomed to
back to being part of a team and hav- “Over the last three years with The lacrosse program is clear- since pre-K at St. Ed’s. She is still un-
ing something to work towards.” coach (Rick) Cassara, the lacrosse ly on the ascendency. Zoltak was decided, but has compiled a “pretty
program has really picked up. He also member of some strong soccer good list” of colleges to choose from,
Zoltak also tried cross country and cares about the team and really wants teams under coach Jaclyn Mohr, as specifically mentioning the Univer-
was on the varsity team for three us to succeed. It took a little time to evidenced by a cumulative record sity of Miami, Tulane University and
years. This past season she led the the University of Michigan. 
girls to a third-place finish at the dis-
trict meet with a team-best 5K time of
22:37. Every Pirates team she was on
qualified for the regional tournament.

While she took to distance running
with a characteristic gusto – and ex-
perimented with volleyball for a pe-
riod of time in middle school – soccer
and lacrosse have always occupied
the top spots on her list of favorites.

“I’ve played soccer in pee-wee and
recreational leagues since I was prob-
ably 6 years old. I also played club
soccer for 6 years. Lacrosse was pretty
much the same. I played a lot of recre-
ational lacrosse when I was younger.

“In eighth grade I was asked to
move up to the varsity soccer team. I
was also asked to play varsity lacrosse
in eighth grade because the team was
small and needed some numbers.
As a freshman I played JV volleyball

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HIGH LEVEL OF DESIGN AND DÉCOR MAKE
OCEANFRONT HOME A STANDOUT

700 Reef Road in Floralton Beach: 6-bedroom, 7-bath, 7,669-square-foot beachfront home offered
for $7.5 million by The Moorings Realty Sales Co.: 772-231-5131

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High level of design and décor make
oceanfront home a standout

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF house was built at an elevation higher
Staff Writer than normal to enhance privacy and
as a safety feature during storms. In
The six-bedroom, six full- and addition, the solidly built structure
two half-bath oceanfront home at has sturdy pilings and concrete at its
700 Reef Road in Floralton Beach core. Even the second floor is con-
epitomizes the synergy of sand crete.
and sea with breathtaking ocean
views from nearly every space in the Barin notes that to build a home
7,669-square-foot home situated on a to the level of design seen here takes
lot with 100 feet of ocean footage. effective collaboration between the
owner and the team of profession-
Built in 2017, the home seems brand als. Proof in point is interior designer
new. Leah Muller’s use of color to enhance
the ocean setting paired with archi-
According to David Barin, Coast- tect Jeffrey Ray’s use of clean lines
mark Construction president, the

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that don’t compete with the view.
“I was involved in this project from

the conception,” says Muller. “The
main direction in the interior design
was to go open, coastal and modern.
The palette is inspiring and colorful
from room to room. And the furni-
ture is comfortable and welcoming in
each space.”

“A lot of the fit and finish of the col-
ors is reminiscent of a home in Miami
that was near and dear to the owner’s
heart,” says Barin of Muller’s use of
color, which echoes the ocean envi-
rons beyond.

Ray adds Muller’s use of mother-
of-pearl white, blue- and green-hued
matchstick tiles was genius. The in-
terior designer turned to the sea itself
to further anchor the home in its set-
ting by using ocean-themed accesso-
ries and light fixtures to complete the
sensation.

The starfish hardware and shim-
mering man-o-war light fixtures add
an elegant touch to the beautiful fin-
ishes, including a grotto off the for-
mal dining room that pays homage
to the ocean with a sea turtle mural
made of broken tiles.

Because the house was built as a
weekend retreat with a single-mind-
ed focus on entertaining friends and

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family, Ray used outdoor spaces and
walls of glass to bring elements of
the sand and sea into the home while
keeping functionality at the forefront
of the design.

“From day one, the client was very
focused on how the guests would in-
teract. She wanted to make sure her
guests were taken care of,” recalls Ba-
rin.

When you step over the threshold
into the great room, your eye is im-
mediately drawn to an expansive
ocean view.

This room provides a welcome spot
to greet guests and enjoy drinks at the
custom bar or chat around the fireplace

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while taking in the beautiful vista. bring the outside in, creating a con-
“The onyx bar top with LED light- nection to the water and maximizing
the sunlight.
ing that can be changed depend-
ing on your mood is just one of the The coastal-contemporary design
features the owner had to have,” ex- plays on the light and water views to
plains Moorings Realty Sales Co. list- create a simple elegance that makes
ing agent Erika Ross. you feel relaxed as soon as you step
inside. The ocean is the focal point
To further accommodate the own- in every room, and beachy notes
er’s zest for entertaining, indoor and throughout add to the understated
outdoor seating areas and versa- comfort, making the home open and
tile dining spaces were created and livable.
merged to convey a sense of one-
ness. The spaces are easily accessible The great room opens into the kitch-
through the floor-to-ceiling sliders en and casual eating space with an
leading to the covered lanai which open expanse extending to the covered

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lanai and summer kitchen. Custom eb- got an apartment with a microwave,
ony cabinetry adds a modern touch to fridge, full bath and a private en-
the gourmet kitchen equipped with a trance,” says Ross.
Sub-Zero refrigerator, Wolf appliances
and double dishwashers. Two guest bedrooms and a powder
room finish the first floor on the op-
“This is a lifestyle home,” says Ross posite side of the great room. The rear
noting the large butler’s pantry lo- bedroom, which overlooks the pool,
cated between the kitchen and for- is large enough to serve as a first-floor
mal dining room. “If you do a lot of master. A short hall separates these
entertaining with caterers, this is a guest bedrooms from the public part
dream.” of the house, providing autonomy for
visitors.
“This end of the house is func-
tional, with storage, a large laundry “The home was designed to accom-
room, coat closet, three-car garage modate a lot of people with particular
and a guest suite above. It’s perfect for consideration given so that everyone
guests with young children. You’ve had their own space,” says Ross.

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To get to the private family liv- cantilever alcove where you really
ing quarters, you head upstairs via do get the feeling you’re floating in
a staircase located near the front the ocean. The Kohler tub and basket
entry or the elevator at the center of weave tile create a spa-like feel.
the home. The master suite and two
bedrooms with en suite bathrooms The entire first floor of the home
are centered on a communal space, opens onto an expansive, covered
featuring a powder room and wet bar lanai with a fireplace and summer
and leading out to a covered veranda kitchen. The infinity pool and spa
overlooking the ocean. are ready for a refreshing swim after
taking a stroll down the beach via the
The master suite takes up the entire private beach access.
south side of the second floor. This
spacious area opens onto a private Floralton Beach is located on the
oceanside balcony and has an enor- east side of A1A adjacent to The Moor-
mous walk-in closet, beautiful mas- ings Yacht & Country Club, just min-
ter bath with dual vanities, a walk-in utes from Saint Edward’s School and
shower and lounging seat. close to Vero’s Village by the Sea with
its many shops, restaurants, pubs
One unique feature the owner re- and resorts. Also close by, a 10-min-
quested was a bathtub with a view of ute drive away, is Riverside Park with
the ocean, recalls Barin. To accom- tennis center, art museum and the re-
modate her request, Ray designed a nowned Riverside Theatre. 

VITAL STATISTICS
700 REEF ROAD

Neighborhood: Floralton Beach
Year built: 2017

Construction: Concrete block with stucco
Builder: Coastmark

Architect: Atelier d’Architecture
Architecture: Anglo Caribbean

Interior design: Leah Muller
Lot size: 100 feet by 400 feet
Home size: 7,669 square feet
Bedrooms: 6 • Bathrooms: 6 full baths and 2 half-baths
Pool: Infinity pool and spa • View: Sweeping ocean views
Additional features: Chef’s kitchen; Sub-Zero refrigerator; Wolf appli-
ances; custom bar; butler’s pantry; two laundry rooms; wet bar; two
fireplaces; elevator; guest quarters; summer kitchen; three-car garage;
propane tank and private beach access
Listing agency: The Moorings Realty Sales Co.
Listing agent: Erika Ross, Realtor, 772-231-5131

Listing price: $7,500,000

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Zillow faces $60M suit over hacked listing of L.A. mansion

BY KENNETH R. HARNEY of the mansion’s listing page on Zil- difficult to obtain anywhere near the Zillow does not have adequate “safe-
The Washington Post low’s popular Zestimates site in Febru- price the seller is seeking. guards in place to prevent Internet
ary, causing it to display a series of bo- trolls, criminals” and others “to com-
What may be the first hijacking of an gus sales that were tens of millions of The newly constructed hilltop house mit illegal acts” by “logging into their
active real estate listing online – a pa- dollars below the $150 million asking is a knockout, even by Hollywood stan- system to post the false information,”
latial mansion overlooking the Pacific price, according to the complaint filed dards: 12 bedrooms, 21 baths, 38,000 the suit alleges.
Ocean in Bel Air, Calif. – has led to a in federal district court in Los Angeles. square feet of interior space, 17,000
lawsuit seeking $60 million in damag- The net effect was to inflict financial square feet of “entertainment decks,” Asked for comment, Kate Downen, a
es against home-sale marketing com- damage on the seller by “corrupt[ing] three kitchens, five bars, fitness spa, Zillow spokeswoman, said that “while
pany Zillow. the listing price dramatically,” accord- four-lane bowling alley, basketball and we don’t discuss pending litigation, I
ing to the complaint, making it more tennis courts, wine cellars, and an 85- can tell you that [the company] goes to
One or more hackers seized control foot “glass-tile infinity pool,” to cite great lengths to display current and ac-
just some of the amenities. It is owned curate data.” Downen added that Zil-
by a limited liability company con- low is “in the process of updating” the
trolled by Los Angeles luxury builder verification system for access to owner
Bruce Makowsky. pages on the Zestimate site.

The hijacking occurred when some- In an exhibit accompanying the
one using a Chinese Internet protocol complaint, attorneys for the owner
address and a made-up U.S. phone included a copy of an email from Kim
number managed to successfully Nielsen, senior lead counsel for Zil-
claim “ownership” of the mansion on low Group, in which she says, “Unfor-
Zillow’s Zestimates page. Zillow, which tunately if someone is able to provide
displays pages on 110 million American responses to the verification ques-

homes – properties listed for sale and tions, they are able to claim the home
off the market – offers a feature that al- . . . we do not manually check each time
lows owners to amend descriptions of someone attempts to claim a home.”
their homes on the site. The feature is The complaint also quotes Nielsen as
heavily used by legitimate owners to saying that “any home on our website
modify information posted about their can be claimed by the homeowner.
house – numbers of bedrooms and There are a series of questions . . . but if
baths, for example, or a recent remod- someone attempts to claim [the prop-
eling that affects the property’s mar- erty] enough times, they will know the
ket value. To successfully make such a questions asked and be able to figure
claim, owners must answer questions out what information they need to ver-
designed to verify their identity. ify their identity.”

In this case, according to the suit, Ronald Richards, the seller’s attor-
hackers figured out how to get past ney, asked “How is it that someone with
Zillow’s security questions and began a fake phone number (bad area code)
manipulating information on the site. and Chinese IP address and email can
They erroneously reported that the hijack [a] $150 million house?” In an
house sold for $110 million on Feb. 4, interview, Richards said “it’s impos-
then for $90.5 million on Feb. 9 and sible to have a site” like the Zestimate
$94.3 million Feb. 10. They also listed owner-claim page if effectively there
an open house for the property on Feb. are “no security protections.”
8, something that would be unusual
in the rarefied world of super luxury So what should homeowners whose
homes, where showings tend to be ex- house is listed on Zillow make of this
clusively by appointment. suit? Even if your home is not a daz-
zling palazzo on a hill, the secret is out:
The suit alleges that Zillow was neg- Though it’s highly unlikely, your Zil-
ligent in allowing false and harmful low page can be hacked and stolen by
information to be posted on the man- online troublemakers. Until Zillow an-
sion’s page, despite repeated requests nounces verification reforms, it’s prob-
for “over a week” from the seller’s law- ably worth checking your Zestimate
yers to pull the plug on the hackers. page now and then. 

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Building a pro and con list when looking at retirement

BY JANICE LLOYD like California, I was making myself bage collector who had been told to cut she understands. Parsons didn’t want
The Washington Post sick. short his route. Instead of doing that, to have to worry about maintain-
he looked for people in trouble. He took ing a home after her husband died
When Martha Powers and Larry “Then, we visited Lake Frederick her home to care for her rather than two years ago. That’s when Parsons,
Gomberg heard the news about Hurri- again and agreed we liked the people, take her to a shelter. Since the fire, she’s 74, moved to Greenspring Village, a
cane Florence bringing horrific winds the location, and decided we could still been staying with one of Cummings’s continuing-care facility with accom-
and catastrophic flooding to Wilming- use our same doctors if we wanted to. close friends. modations for independent living, as-
ton, N.C., they grimaced. Suddenly, walking on a beach didn’t sisted living and nursing-home care
seem as important as all those things.” Older people are resilient, but Helms in Springfield, Va. Within such com-
said seniors should anticipate changes munities, residents can move from
that might accompany aging. one level of care to another.

That’s a message Rita Parsons said

Then, they felt relieved. They visited potential new houses
“What if we had decided to build several times and spent the night, re-
our retirement home there,” they said search that is invaluable, Fuller said.
to each other in September, when the “Visit the area during every season to
storm was making headlines. “What if make sure the climate suits you,” she
our brand-new home had flooded?” said.
Like many of the 10,000 baby boom-
ers hitting retirement age each day, And when figuring out affordability,
Powers and Gomberg have decided to be sure to determine the cost of flood
relocate. After coming close to putting insurance and other insurance you
a deposit on a house in Wilmington in might need, depending on the loca-
the summer, they found a 55-and-over tion.
community just an hour from where
they live in Fairfax, Va. They’re build- Asked whether retirees should rule
ing a house in Lake Frederick, Va., near out locations where sea levels are ris-
the Shenandoah Mountains, and will ing or wildfires are becoming more
move there this month. destructive, Fuller said: “It’s impos-
They examined a variety of factors, sible to answer that with a blanket an-
including access to quality medical swer. Many areas of the country have
care, affordability, culture and safety. some sort of risk, from hurricanes to
That includes safety from hurricanes flooding, to tornadoes, to sinkholes,
and deadly wildfires – like the ones to wildfires, to scorching heat, to high
that gutted the rural town of Paradise, winds, etc.”
Calif., a popular retirement area filled
with senior communities. She added that finding an area that
Retirees who want to relocate should has “zero risk is very difficult.”
begin by reviewing their finances with
an expert, and then start to build pro Problems with mobility often sur-
and con lists for each potential city or face around ages 82 to 85, said Ginny
rural area, said Annette Fuller, editor Helms, president of LeadingAge Geor-
of the magazine and website Where to gia, making safe surroundings very
Retire. important.
“Get past the fantasies and evaluate
real life,” she said. That dangerous reality surfaced in
During their two-year search, Pow- November during the California Camp
ers, 63, and Gomberg, 67, kept sepa- Fire blaze. Younger retirees who were
rate lists. “At first, I thought I wanted still driving were more likely to flee to
to walk on a beach every day,” Powers safety, while some older residents with
said. “Larry thought he wanted to live no means of escape were left behind.
in California. I was trying so hard to
That was almost the case for 93-year-
old Margaret Newsum, who was stand-
ing outside her home with her walker
looking for help as the fire approached,
CNN reported. She was whisked off to
safety by Dane Ray Cummings, a gar-

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“They take care of everything for vices. This makes life easy.” cult. “But since I’ve lived here, I walk a 2,000, she walks to church services,
me here,” she said. “They come and Parsons doesn’t have children, and couple miles a day, go to the gym and goes to movies, and participates in
change the filters in the heat pump swim several times a week,” she said. square dancing, line dancing and
twice a year. If a lightbulb burns out said she feels very secure about hav- “Now, my knee is fine, and I try to use classes.
in the kitchen, I don’t have to deal ing her doctors on campus and op- the stairs as much as possible to stay
with a ladder to change it. tional nursing care, if she needs it. in shape.” “We say it’s a lot like living on a
When she first moved in, she said, a cruise ship, but you don’t have to deal
“All I have to do is call building ser- bad knee made climbing stairs diffi- At Greenspring, home to nearly with motion sickness,” she said. 

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Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: March 1 to March 7

The first week of March brought a flurry of high-end real estate sales on the barrier island with 8
transactions recorded, including 3 for more than $2 million.

The top sale of the week was of an oceanfront estate in Central Beach. The home at 3636 Ocean Drive was
placed on the market Oct. 16, 2017, for $6.5 million. The asking price more recently was $4.495 million.
The sale closed on March 6 for $3.6 million.

The seller of the property was represented by Cindy O’Dare and Richard Boga of Premier Estate Properties.
The purchaser was represented by Roger Smith of Alex MacWilliam Inc.

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SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING
ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE
$2,650,000
$2,470,000
WINDSOR 2995 HAMMOCK WAY 4/18/2018 $2,800,000 $2,800,000 3/7/2019 $1,200,000
$990,000
AMBERSAND BEACH 12904 HIGHWAY A1A 10/9/2018 $2,750,000 $2,750,000 3/1/2019 $699,920
BERMUDA BAY 103 HIDDEN OAK LN 1/8/2019 $1,250,000 $530,000
$1,250,000 3/1/2019
$433,000
CASTAWAY COVE 1224 SEA HUNT DR 2/1/2019 $1,095,000 $1,095,000 3/4/2019
MOORINGS 985 TREASURE LANE 10/15/2018 $750,000
$750,000 3/5/2019

FLORALTON BEACH 716 LIVE OAK LN 10/23/2018 $600,000 $585,000 3/4/2019

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Windsor, Address: 2995 Hammock Way Subdivision: Castaway Cove, Address: 1224 Sea Hunt Dr

Listing Date: 4/18/2018 Listing Date: 2/1/2019
Original Price: $2,800,000 Original Price: $1,095,000
Recent Price: $2,800,000 Recent Price: $1,095,000
Sold: 3/7/2019 Sold: 3/4/2019
Selling Price: $2,650,000 Selling Price: $990,000
Listing Agent: Betsy Hanley & Wendy Barin Listing Agent: Stacey Miller

Selling Agent: Windsor Properties Selling Agent: Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Wendy Barin Patty Valdes

Windsor Properties Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Subdivision: Bermuda Bay, Address: 103 Hidden Oak Ln Subdivision: Ambersand Beach, Address: 12904 Highway A1A

Listing Date: 1/8/2019 Listing Date: 10/9/2018
Original Price: $1,250,000 Original Price: $2,750,000
Recent Price: $1,250,000 Recent Price: $2,750,000
Sold: 3/1/2019 Sold: 3/1/2019
Selling Price: $1,200,000 Selling Price: $2,470,000
Listing Agent: Kay Brown & Luke Webb Listing Agent: Grier McFarland

Selling Agent: Premier Estate Properties Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

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Subdivision: Williamsburg Manor, Address: 4109 Silver Palm Dr, #A

Listing Date: 9/7/2018
Original Price: $475,000
Recent Price: $465,000
Sold: 3/5/2019
Selling Price: $433,000
Listing Agent: Debbie Bell

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