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As diplomats consider a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, the shipping container is Mr. Bakshi’s attempt at restoring a relationship with that country. Mr. Bakshi, a Yale graduate student and artistic entrepreneur, enlisted a team based in the United States and Iran to transform the shipping container into a communications portal. Equipped with videoconference applications, the portal allows people in the two countries to have conversations with one another...READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455298489471-ADLX56TI2FN5RW8ECMT1/image-asset.jpeg International The Iran Nuclear Talks, and a Matter of Trust Before dawn on a freezing February morning, Amar Bakshi watched as a crane lifted a gold-colored shipping container off a flatbed truck outside the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn. As diplomats consider a deal over Iran’s nuclear program, the shipping container is Mr. Bakshi’s attempt at restoring a relationship with that country. Mr. Bakshi, a Yale graduate student and artistic entrepreneur, enlisted a team based in the United States and Iran to transform the shipping container into a communications portal. Equipped with videoconference applications, the portal allows people in the two countries to have conversations with one another...READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455300103033-8TN2ATIZKUNNV4VDD81E/Pakistan.jpg International News Analysis: Pakistan School Attack The Pakistani Taliban’s attack on a school in Peshawar in December signaled a significant change of tactics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455299531637-ZMDA7PBP3JZXO50LCL14/Oil.jpg International Targeting ISIS’ Black-Market Oil Trade Along the border between Iraq and Turkey, guards are keeping a watchful eye out for oil smugglers. Oil from the Islamic State’s territories feeds an estimated $1 million a day into the organization’s coffers and is an essential part of its financing. The smuggling routes are decades old, and corruption – in the oil fields, along the pipelines and across borders – provides significant economic incentives for many...READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://emilybhager.com/metro-1 daily 0.75 2016-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455215518940-727Z7V4YKQTHKZA5PH8S/MotherSon.jpg New York Putting Her Son's Well-Being First Many people feel the tug between family and work. Tawana Gilbert left her job as an accounting supervisor and spent her retirement savings to help keep her teenage son from slipping into drug addiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455215518940-727Z7V4YKQTHKZA5PH8S/MotherSon.jpg New York Putting Her Son's Well-Being First Many people feel the tug between family and work. Tawana Gilbert left her job as an accounting supervisor and spent her retirement savings to help keep her teenage son from slipping into drug addiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455216433656-SDVYOP428QEFNMB0ILTJ/DivingBoard.jpg New York An Ode to Diving Boards Remember the summertime thrill of leaping off a diving board? Since the 1970s it has gotten harder to find in New York, as diving boards have steadily disappeared from the city’s pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455216664068-SXC5RU8R9Y9ONXT7OS3J/Met.jpg New York What's Behind the Possible Met Lockout With a lockout increasingly likely, the show may not actually go on this fall at the Metropolitan Opera. https://emilybhager.com/minute daily 0.75 2016-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455303342691-MM6KZH1SHX21FXN6YLIC/image-asset.jpeg Minute Mitch McConnell's Path to Victory The career of the Kentucky senator expected to become Senate majority leader and his promises to change the Senate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455303342691-MM6KZH1SHX21FXN6YLIC/image-asset.jpeg Minute Mitch McConnell's Path to Victory The career of the Kentucky senator expected to become Senate majority leader and his promises to change the Senate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455303964731-OCJI77KVAW92O11PM785/image-asset.jpeg Minute Modern Technologies and the Ebola Fight How some modern technologies — from airport screening to cellphones — may help in the fight to contain the Ebola virus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455304198574-0WH9RVMTZ0AXBWZW0GS4/image-asset.jpeg Minute About the Khorasan Terror Cell The jihadi group’s origins and why United States forces attacked it alongside ISIS. https://emilybhager.com/national-1 daily 0.75 2016-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455217159863-RM3WSEDYE27JNRMBFIHN/Screen+Shot+2016-02-08+at+12.06.34+PM+copy.png National The Psychologist Warden A new warden at Cook County Jail in Chicago is looking for ways to treat an influx of mentally ill inmates. 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Her hiring comes at a time when many public mental health facilities have closed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455217956128-OKGY63IN5QBIMXK8UA8Q/SuperPac.jpg National The Age of Super PACs The 2016 race could be the most expensive in history, in part because of spending by “super PACs.” Legally, the groups cannot coordinate with candidates, but there is plenty of wiggle room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455218589758-3NTW0U1MGQUVCJH71HGO/Chicago.jpg National Chicago Pays for Past Pain Chicago’s City Council approved $5.5 million in reparations for a group of black men tortured by the police in the 1970s and ’80s under the watch of a notorious police commander, Jon Burge. https://emilybhager.com/print daily 0.75 2016-02-12 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/56b8da7e2eeb817f29aa24b9/56b8da872eeb817f29aa2513/1454955143791/ Print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1454957605799-U06L3ZOP3J8F53MYDND6/image-asset.png Print - Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Emirates Secretly Sends Colombian Mercenaries to Yemen Fight   WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that country’s raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran. It is the first combat deployment for a foreign army that the Emirates has quietly built in the desert over the past five years, according to several people currently or formerly involved with the project. The program was once managed by a private company connected to Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, but the people involved in the effort said that his role ended several years ago and that it has since been run by the Emirati military... READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455212683741-NOF79JYJXNHD2R0RYD79/iPad.jpg Print - Photo: Emily Hager/The New York Times For Children Who Cannot Speak, a True Voice via Technology Enrique Mendez, 9, and his older brother, Cristian, 11, sorted through a plastic bin of toys in their New Jersey home. “I want to play with the wrestling guys,” said Enrique in a voice not quite his own, but pretty close. Enrique has Down syndrome and speech apraxia, which means that he cannot speak, aside from a few grunts and “Ma” in the word “Mama.” He was able to speak to his brother, though, with an iPad loaded with the latest version of a widely used text-to-speech application, Proloquo2Go... READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1454957876391-KQOWZ536DOK6ANASME9A/Screen+Shot+2016-02-08+at+1.56.54+PM.png Print - Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times Push to Ban New York Carriage Horses Gains Steam A ride through Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage is one of New York City’s most storied attractions, the rhythmic clip-clop offering a respite from the hustle of everyday life. But now this old-fashioned industry is facing unprecedented turmoil. After campaigning for decades, animal rights advocates are gaining support for legislation that would ban those horse-drawn carriages, including endorsements from mayoral candidates and celebrities...READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455296414130-JPA709MFTDU8E1RXC7SV/image-asset.jpeg Print - Photo: Adam Ferguson/VII Network Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater’s Founder ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer, the group boarded an unmarked bus and drove roughly 20 miles to a windswept military complex in the desert sand. The Colombians had entered the United Arab Emirates posing as construction workers. In fact, they were soldiers for a secret American-led mercenary army being built by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of Blackwater Worldwide, with $529 million from the oil-soaked sheikdom... READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1454955428144-0GBV9R0EMOZBS48UB8R3/Screen+Shot+2016-02-08+at+1.16.30+PM.png Print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1454957644046-V0KQSNPRL0V6QMFPT3J1/Screen+Shot+2016-02-08+at+1.21.27+PM.png Print - Photo: Damon Winter/The New York Times Learning to Walk in the Slippers of a High-Wire Artist Amye Walters tried not to look down. Her feet gripped a cable less than an inch thick that stretched 21 feet in front of her. Sweat dampened her long dark hair, black tank top and spandex pants. The potential seven-foot fall to the ground did not scare her, but if she did not advance, she could imagine her father saying: “You should have gone all the way. 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After someone cheers for runners for a long time, stationary objects may appear to move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455301278205-UJVIMSSV3CSSBAXJ05QA/Net.jpg Science & Tech The New Net Neutrality Rules The Federal Communications Commission is to take a more active role in regulating the Internet as a public utility, which is expected to provoke court cases from major broadband providers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1455301794527-FNNAYG6V5EYFTT6BP1CU/Girlzilla.jpg Science & Tech - Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Using a Robot to Throw a Wrench Into the Stereotyping of Girls Yuan Zhou, 14, softly crooned a pop chorus, but drew a blank look from her audience: a 14-foot robot named Girlzilla. School was done for the day, and Yuan and her friends had gathered at the Lower East Side Girls Club on First Avenue to dress the mechanical teenager, which they built over the summer. Mounted on the base of an electric wheelchair bought on Craigslist for $200, and fashioned of steel piping, recycled electronics and fabric remnants, Girlzilla will parade through the Lower East Side on Saturday as part of the annual Howl! arts festival. “She’s one crazy diva,” Yuan said as she wove multicolored plastic streamers onto the robot’s head to simulate hair...READ ON NYTIMES.COM https://emilybhager.com/series daily 0.75 2021-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56b8c89c27d4bd8894373814/1560292777382-22QDXY3NI2ATV4G44D87/032118-NCLUSIONVID6.jpg SERIES - RESEARCH, REPORTING AND DEVELOPMENT When I begin a new series or single-video project, I identity the project’s goals and audience. Next, I collaborate with key stakeholders to develop treatment options, i.e. how the video will look and what kind of tone it will have. Is it cinematic? Does it have animation? How will it stand out among competitors? What metrics should be used to measure its performance? 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