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The Museum of Broadway, the first-ever permanent museum dedicated to the storied history, legendary artistry, and lasting legacy of Broadway musicals, plays, and theatres, announced it has signed a 26,200 s/f lease at 145 West 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

It will be located in the heart of Times Square at 145 West 45th Street, in the space formerly occupied by O’Lunney’s Times Square Pub and right next door to the Lyceum Theatre, the oldest continually operating theater on Broadway.

Founded by entrepreneur and four-time Tony Award-nominated producer Julie Boardman, and Diane Nicoletti, founder of experiential agency Rubik Marketing, the interactive and immersive experience will offer guests a look at the rich history of Broadway, a sneak peek behind-the-scenes, and a chance to personally engage with the “Game-Changing” shows that redefined Broadway forever.

The Museum of Broadway will also include a retail store, created in partnership with Creative Goods, that will sell everything a Broadway fan could want, from show-specific merchandise to bespoke products from small local businesses. It is expected to open in the summer of 2022.

The Museum of Broadway was represented by real estate advisors Amy Zhen of Cushman & Wakefield and Matt Schuss of JLL and attorney David Bleckner of Lester Bleckner & Shaw LLP. The landlord, 550 Stewart Acquisition LLC, was represented by real estate advisor Daniel Lolai of LSL Advisors, and attorney Casey Smith of Rheem Bell & Freeman LLP.

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Photos From Our Trip To PTown— by Steve Greenberg and Robert Armada

I feel like all of us need to be reminded about our attitudes in these trying times. I hope the following is helpful.

Christina Applegate’s 2012 Advice Rings True Today: ‘You Don’t Have The Luxury of Negative Thought’

Read her powerful words on positive thinking.

At a time when we could all use a little inspiration, we’re looking back at Katie Couric’s 2012 book, The Best Advice I Ever Got. In it, she examines her own experiences from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthropy, the arts, and business — and collects the ingenious, hard-won insights of countless leaders and visionaries. They tell us how to take risks, follow our passions, cope with criticism, and commit to something greater than ourselves. You’ll find thoughts from everyone from financial guru Suze Orman, to Steven Spielberg, to Salman Rushdie, to Maya Angelou.

Couric also reflects on the sage advice that has guided her, from her early days as a desk assistant at ABC to her groundbreaking role as the CBS Evening News‘ first female anchor. 

Today, Christina Applegate’s advice from the book rings especially true: On the heels of her announcement that she has been battling multiple sclerosis for a few months, we’re looking back on the actress’ words about remaining positive in trying times, and we’re sending our support her way. 

Christina Applegate:

“You Don’t Have The Luxury of Negative Thought“

It was March 11, 2005, 8 p.m. The orchestra had just finished the last note before the curtain was to rise on yet another preview performance of
Sweet Charity. I was in the wings awaiting my cue. I ran out to twirl around the lamppost and deliver my first line: “Ya ever have one of those days that was perfect?” I had done this now for a month, eight shows a week, and all without a hitch. But this night as I twirled, an uneven part of the stage caught my heel and I heard a horrible snap. At first there wasn’t any pain, and I continued to deliver my line and to prepare for the show’s opening song. But as the moments went on the pain became unbearable and I looked down and saw that my foot was broken.

There I was in front of 2500 people, with a broken foot and no way off the stage. It was a devastating blow. I was truly frightened. And all I could think was: I have ruined everything. We had been at this for months — working and rehearsing tirelessly as a cast that had truly become a family. We were one month away from opening on Broadway, in a show that was my dream come true. But now time stopped. We were faced with the fact that the show might not go on…After scrambling to get my understudy ready to take over the remaining preview shows, I had one task: to heal. But how? How could I do this? The bone was broken in half. And this was a show in which my character didn’t leave the stage for two hours. Not to mention it was dance-heavy. I needed that foot.

Besides going to many different doctors, most of whom said it was nearly
impossible for me to heal before opening night, I called the one person I knew who could help: my longtime friend and teacher, the Reverend Michael Beckwith. After a conversation filled with tears and incredible fear, he said this to me: “You do not have the luxury of negative thought.” Uhhh…OK. “How can I not have negative thoughts when doctors are telling me I can’t do this?” I asked. “And when we are faced with the fact that the show might be forced to close? And that my amazing castmates are about to lose their jobs? Jobs we have all put our hearts and souls into?” Once again he said, “You do not have the luxury of negative thought.” I had a job to do! Reverend Beckwith gave me the task of envisioning the bone healing faster than was humanly possible. Of playing over and over in my mind the doctor saying to me, “It’s a miracle!” And so I did. Every day I participated in the healing of that bone. I felt those negative thoughts coming through and told them to shove it! I kept my eye focused on the task at hand. I did not have the luxury of negative thought; of listening to the lies we so often tell ourselves; of being talked out of success by my fears. And within two weeks a doctor did say to me, “Wow, I have never seen a bone heal this quickly.”

To make a long story short, the show did indeed go on — with Tony nominations and great success. It was the single most rewarding and unforgettable experience of my life, and it changed me forever. Those same words and the power they held would serve me again in 2008, during one of the most challenging periods in my life: when I was diagnosed with cancer. Again, I said to myself, “I do not have the luxury of negative thought! Not when I need to make the impossible oh-so-possible.” They are words I live by. And although I occasionally falter and my mind tries to convince me otherwise, it was those words that helped fuse a bone together at record speed. So believe me, this s*** works.

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Excerpt(s) from THE BEST ADVICE I EVER GOT: LESSONS FROM
EXTRAORDINARY LIVES by Katie Couric, copyright © 2011, 2012 by Katherine Couric. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

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See Bob Dylan’s Grandson, Who Is a Major Model

HE’S GOT AN INTEREST IN ALL THINGS ENTERTAINMENT—EXCEPT FOR FAME. By LAUREN GRAY

Today, the famed singer-songwriter is 80 years old, and it’s his grandson that’s making headlines for his career moves. The son of Jakob Dylan—the Grammy-winning frontman of The Wallflowers and one of Bob Dylan’s six children—Levi Dylan is now a model, actor, musician, and amateur artist who’s carving out a career path on his own terms.

Levi could’ve easily entered the fashion world through his famous family’s connections, but he told The Cut that it was a former girlfriend, Alana O’Herlihy, who first encouraged him to model. “She kind of set me up and from there it was sort of like dominos,” he said of his then-partner, who is a photographer, director, and multimedia visual artist with ties to the fashion world.

Since then, the 27-year-old has walked the runway for some of the biggest names in fashion. For instance, as part of Fashion Week, Levi graced the catwalk for Dolce & Gabbana alongside several high-profile amateur models including Brandon Lee (son of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee), Rafferty Law (son of Jude Law and Sadie Frost), and Presley Gerber (son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber). Soon after, he signed with Wilhelmina models, and landed ad campaigns with DKNY, Uniqlo, and more. He has reportedly posed for Vogue Italia, GQ Italia, Wonderland Magazine, and VMAN.

A scion of a musical dynasty, it’s no surprise that Levi learned the guitar and bass, and dabbled in musical performance himself. “I’ve always had an interest in performing. I used to play in the band Dreamers Dose,” he told Interview magazine, adding somewhat wistfully, “We were really good.”

However, after three years with the band, Levi says the group parted ways following a final show in 2013. “I stopped because I wasn’t as interested as people thought I would be. I just grew out of it. The guys who I played with musically surpassed me and I stopped trying,” he explained to Daily Front Row. “I got a lot out of it and I keep it with me,” he added.

His decision to walk away from the world of music was also a practical one. “I still love to play, but it’s too hard to make a living. And I think that was a mature decision to make,” he told The Cut in 2016.

Though Levi has only worked on a small handful of film projects, he says acting is a field he’d gladly continue to pursue in the coming years. So far, he’s appeared in three films: 12 Mighty Orphans (2021), Mighty Oak(2020), and Scooter Boyz (2016). “It’s a very foreign world to me, but I enjoy it,” he told Daily Front Row. “I feel like I put on a show, and it makes me happy. I’m going on auditions mainly for short films. I like taking baby steps—I don’t want to step into anything I can’t handle right now,” he added.

When speaking with Interview, he also shared his love of art—and had just come from an afternoon of painting at Brooklyn studio and exhibition space Pioneer Works. “I painted for five hours,” he told the magazine. “Some skull-looking things. A syringe going into a skull. I draw a lot of faces,” he said. “I just leave ’em places,” for others to find, he mused.

Bob Dylan’s ambivalent relationship with fame has been well documented, and it seems his grandson feels the same. Though many of Levi’s professional pursuits lend themselves to the limelight, the young, multi-talented entertainer has made it clear that public recognition is far from his primary goal. “I don’t have any interest in being in Warner Brothers’ newest comedy if it’s going to suck but still be a box office hit and make me famous,” Levi told VMAN. “I want to do things that are cool and that I can be proud of.

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Meet Jewelry Designer Aja Butler-Burns

I met Aja at a Fountainhead event. I loved the simplicity of her work. You can find her on Esty.

CNET, a major tech site, does a nice job spelling it out.

The highly contagious delta variant is continuing to spread across the US, causing more fully vaccinated to become infected. But experts say that’s not a reason to question vaccines.

Katie Teague Aug, 2021

https://cnet.com/component/listen/fully-vaccinated-people-experiencing-breakthrough-covid-infections-what-to-know/?

Even though they can contract the delta variant, vaccinated people are far less likely to end up in the hospital.

The highly contagious delta variant is continuing to spread across the US, causing a spike in COVID-19 infections — especially in areas with low vaccination rates. What’s different about this variant? It’s also breaking through to infect fully vaccinated people. Studies by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the delta infection has similarly high viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. So what does that mean as more of these breakthrough cases continue happening? 

Currently, 167 million people in the US have been fully vaccinated, a little over half the country’s total population. The CDC’s research suggesting that vaccinated people infected with delta can also easily transmit the virus was the key factor motivating the new federal guidance that fully vaccinated individuals continue to wear masks indoors. At the same time, the CDC report underlines that the number of cases and deaths among fully vaccinated people is small compared with the unvaccinated. null

Should you be concerned about getting COVID-19 if you’ve already been inoculated? Since there’s more community spread and there are more breakthrough cases despite vaccination, new data suggests yes. We’ll explain what a breakthrough coronavirus infection is, how it’s possible for fully vaccinated people to become infected and what it all means. This information comes from the CDC, the World Health Organization and other experts.

What a breakthrough COVID-19 infection means

A breakthrough COVID-19 infection is when a fully vaccinated person becomes infected with the coronavirus without any symptoms or experiences symptoms, is hospitalized or dies from the infection. A small percentage of fully vaccinated people can get COVID-19 if exposed to the virus, but they’re much less likely to become sick, according to the CDC. 

If someone’s fully vaccinated and does test positive for coronavirus, it’s likely they’ll have milder symptoms or be asymptomatic as Dr. Clare Rock, a Johns Hopkins medical professor, told me.

Now that it’s been determined fully vaccinated people can be infected with high viral amounts of the delta variant, the CDC is concerned they can transmit the virus. If you do become ill, experts urge you to isolate yourself to prevent others from getting sick, especially people with medical vulnerabilities.

How can fully vaccinated people become infected with coronavirus?

Someone can become infected with COVID-19 just before or right after they get the vaccination, because it takes roughly two weeks before the vaccine is most effective. However, even after the immunity builds up, there’s still a chance they can become infected, according to the WHO, since the vaccines aren’t silver bullets against disease (though they’re highly effective).

With millions of unvaccinated people around the world, new variants will emerge, Rock says. For example, the delta variant can pose a threat to people who are fully vaccinated — especially those who have high-risk medical conditions.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said that more COVID-19 testing needs to be done on fully vaccinated people to better understand the breakthrough cases.

Can coronavirus symptoms still be severe if you’re fully vaccinated?

Someone who’s fully vaccinated has a much smaller risk of experiencing severe symptoms from COVID-19. People who’ve received all their doses of a vaccine are less likely to be hospitalized or die than those who haven’t been vaccinated, the CDC says. Vaccinated people typically see symptoms like a runny nose, which they mistake for a sign of a common cold, Rock said.

But that’s not to say serious cases can’t happen. The CDC says some fully vaccinated people can still be hospitalized and die. This can include people who have medical conditions that make them immunocompromised, including those with cancer and people who’ve had organ transplants — in general, people who are more vulnerable. Data released in Israel by the Israeli Health Ministry shows that people who are unvaccinated are five times more likely to experience a severe infection, as opposed to the elderly who are fully vaccinated, Haaretz reported.

It’s possible for a fully vaccinated person to become infected with COVID-19.

How can you keep yourself protected from breakthrough COVID-19 infections?

If you’re fully vaccinated but worried about getting sick, you can take the following precautions. 

• Wear a mask in public places.
• Practice social distancing.
• Keep your home well-ventilated by opening windows.
• Wash your hands.
• Get a COVID-19 test if you’re experiencing symptoms.

Will fully vaccinated people eventually have to get booster shots?

Given the current circumstances, it’s likely a booster shot will be necessary. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize a COVID-19 booster shot, but the CDC will need to also give authorization before booster shots can be distributed. The shot would be a third dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

Scientists are continuing to study the immunity of fully vaccinated people to get a better idea of how well the vaccines protect them. Moderna is currently researching when a booster shot may be necessary. For instance, Rock said vulnerable people who don’t have a robust immune system — such as those with chronic medical conditions — may need an additional shot.

Pfizer says it’s working on a booster shot for its COVID-19 vaccine (PDF) to enhance immunity among those who’ve already received both doses. The UK is also prepping for booster shots, with vaccine experts in the UK saying a booster shot may be needed before winter.

Which variants are causing the COVID-19 breakthrough infections?

The variant causing the most concern right now is the delta variant, which is now the dominant strain in the US and other countries. This variant has caused an increase in COVID-19 cases, which is also affecting people who are fully vaccinated. 

In comparison with the alpha variant, researchers have found delta to be 60% more transmissible, and hospitalization risks are much higher in unvaccinated people.null

In most instances, the cases are happening in areas with low vaccination rates. For instance, US states like Louisiana and Florida have low vaccination rates and their COVID-19 cases are surging again.

What experts saying about the efficacy of vaccines against coronavirus

The breakthrough infections don’t mean the vaccines aren’t powerful.

“The effectiveness against severe disease is still substantial,” Fauci said during a White House press briefing July 22. “Get vaccinated. It offers good protection against disease.”

The main reason for breakthrough cases is the number of people who still haven’t been vaccinated. Once more people are fully vaccinated, the virus likely won’t infect as many people. Until then, the virus can continue to mutate and spread, creating new variants.

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The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives

The sprawling home is perpendicular to the bay in Provincetown. I never saw anything like it. Beachgoers walk under the house to get to the other side. The bay is under the house during high tide. Quite an attraction.

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Owning a dog like Georgia is a magnet for becoming friendly with strangers on the beach. Everyone loves Georgia, the black beauty.

First purchase in PTown Metamorphosis. Clip on earrings. Owner of store stopped me on the street asking me to stop in. After purchase I got a picture for free. Tee hee. Great marketer. Very interesting jewelry.

Thank you cousin Harvey Oshinsky

……but don’t ever think anything online is private. The Good, the Bad, detailed below.

Apple reportedly plans to make iOS detect child abuse photos

 By William GallagherAug 05, 2021

 A security expert claims that Apple is about to announce photo identification tools that would identify child abuse images in iOSphoto libraries.

Apple has previously removed individual apps from the App Store over child pornography concerns, but now it’s said to be about to introduce such detection system wide. Using photo hashing, iPhones could identify Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) on device.

Apple has not confirmed this and so far the sole source is Matthew Green, a cryptographer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.

According to Green, the plan is initially to be client-side — that is, have all of the detection done on a user’s iPhone. He argues, however, that it’s possible that it’s the start of a process that leads to surveillance of data traffic sent and received from the phone.

“Eventually it could be a key ingredient in adding surveillance to encrypted messaging systems,” continues Green. “The ability to add scanning systems like this to E2E [end to end encryption] messaging systems has been a major ‘ask’ by law enforcement the world over.”

“This sort of tool can be a boon for finding child pornography in people’s phones,” he said. “But imagine what it could do in the hands of an authoritarian government?”

Green who, with his cryptography students, has previously reported on how law enforcement may be able to break into iPhones. He and Johns Hopkins University have also previously worked with Apple to fix a security bug in Messages.

Apple Is Trying To Stop Child Abuse On iPhones—So Why Do So Many Privacy Experts Hate It?

Apple has made a lot of pro-privacy people mad this week with the announcement of plans to start scanning everyone’s iPhone photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

To do that, it’ll compare all photos on an iCloud-enabled device (including iPads and Macs) to databases of known CSAM images and it’ll be done by checking “hashes.” Think of a hash as a number that represents an image. That number, created when the photo’s data is run through a one-way cryptographic algorithm, is supposed to be unique to the image, so it should be quick and easy for a match to be found. Then Apple employees will review the image and share the match with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). 

By law, American companies have to report child abuse and exploitation imagery on their servers to NCMEC, which then works with law enforcement on an investigation. Other tech giants do the same when emails or messages are sent over their platforms. That includes Google, Microsoft and Facebook. So why are so many privacy advocates up in arms about Apple’s announcement? 

It’s because Apple is checking photos on your iPhone, not just on its own servers in the iCloud. It’s going one step beyond what its rivals have done, checking every photo on a device rather than just on a company server. (It’s also scanning images to check whether they’re of nude children, using a different technology, but that’s all done on the device and doesn’t go to Apple. A simple warning comes up, suggesting iPhone users may not want to send or view nude images.)

Alec Muffett, a noted encryption expert and former Facebook security staffer, explained on Twitter that when someone buys a phone, they expect to have control over what’s happening on their property. But Apple is denying that right and “although it ostensibly exists to prevent upload of CSAM to their iCloud platform, they are using the user’s device to do it and making the tectonic-shift statement that ‘it’s ok by us to do this sort of thing to user devices.’”

Muffett and other encryption experts like Johns Hopkins professor Matt Green and NSA leaker Edward Snowdenhave also raised the alarm that Apple could now be pressured into looking for other material on people’s devices, if a government demands it.

“How such a feature might be repurposed in an illiberal state is fairly easy to visualize. Apple is performing proactive surveillance on client-purchased devices in order to defend its own interests, but in the name of child protection,” Muffett added. “What will China want them to block?

“It is already a moral earthquake.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said that the changes effectively meant Apple was introducing a “backdoor” onto user devices. “Apple can explain at length how its technical implementation will preserve privacy and security in its proposed backdoor, but at the end of the day, even a thoroughly documented, carefully thought-out and narrowly scoped backdoor is still a backdoor,” the EFF wrote.

“Apple’s compromise on end-to-end encryption may appease government agencies in the U.S. and abroad, but it is a shocking about-face for users who have relied on the company’s leadership in privacy and security.”

Some people like it

Not that everyone is upset by the move. Nicholas Weaver, a computer security expert and lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, said on Twitter that he didn’t blame Apple for choosing to risk fighting with oppressive regimes and take a tougher stance on child sexual abuse. 

And David Thiel from the Stanford Internet Observatory noted that most people’s images on any internet-connected device are scanned for CSAM imagery. 

“This unyielding hostility to reasonable and limited child safety measures drives me up the wall. Even if this compromised privacy—which, as documented, it does not—there are other harms in the world to be balanced with,” he added.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Catches Week-Long Twitter Suspension. Is a Permanent Ban Next?

Congress’ chief conspiracy theorist has been spreading Covid-19 misinformation for months

Twitter has suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account for one week after the conspiracy-peddling representative violated its policy regarding misleading claims about Covid-19.

The tweet that triggered the suspension came on Monday, with Greene writing that the Food and Drug Administration should not approve the vaccines against the disease, which are “failing.” The vaccines have been proven effective, and an overwhelming majority of new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are among the unvaccinated.

Twitter said in a statement provided to Rolling Stone that Greene’s tweet on Monday “was labeled in line with our COVID-19 misleading information policy” and that her account “will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.” News of Greene’s suspension was first reported by CNN.

Twitter has a five-strikes policy regarding Covid misinformation. One strikes results in no action. A second strike calls for a 12-hour suspension. A third strike calls for another 12 hour suspension. A fourth strike brings a seven-day suspension. A fifth strikes results in a permanent ban. Greene has already been suspended for 12 hours twice, once in January for spreading misinformation about the election and once last month for spreading misinformation about Covid. The week-long suspension handed down Tuesday means she’s now a strike away from being kicked off the platform for good.

When asked for clarification about Greene’s suspension status and whether she is one more infraction away from a permanent ban, a Twitter spokesperson indicated that this is indeed the case, writing that “the information is in the policy.”

Greene has long been one of leading purveyors of Covid misinformation, regularly casting doubt on the efficacy of the vaccine and the severity of the disease, even as it continues to hospitalize and kill Americans. “No one cares about the Delta variant or any other variant,” Greene wrote last month. Covid cases in Georgia have risen 171 percent over the past two weeks, according to The New York Times.

Greene’s anti-vaccination message is resonating. Only 39 percent of Georgians are fully inoculated against Covid. When Greene spoke at a Republican fundraiser in Alabama last week, attendees cheered when she noted that the state is among the least vaccinated in the nation. Greene suggested at the same fundraiser that residents should greet government workers with guns should they knock on their doors to spread vaccine awareness. “What they don’t know is in the South, we all love our Second Amendment rights, and we’re not real big on strangers showing up on our front door, are we?” Greene said. “They might not like the welcome they get.”

When Greene was asked late last month whether she had been vaccinated herself, she refused to say, citing a violation of her “HIPPA rights.” HIPPA rights regard privacy of medical information, but do not pertain to reporters asking her about her vaccination status, nor do they prevent her from revealing whether she has received the vaccine she has repeatedly decried.

As of Tuesday, over 617,000 people have died in the United States from complications stemming from Covid.

Shots Of People Waiting For Flights To New York At MIA

Sometimes we feel like we are going around in circles.

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