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As the country began celebrating the 4th of July, Mark Zuckerberg uploaded a video to his Instagram account that was viewed by millions of people in no time. Truly, this clip was made to go viral.
Behind the fast moving boat, Mr. Zuckerberg Wakeboard Wearing a tuxedo and sunglasses, he drinks water from a tall boy. The clip is set to Bruce Springsteen’s 1984 song “Born in the USA.” During the half-minute duration, Meta’s billionaire chief executive officer shows off his surf technique.
“Amazing!” commented lauren sanchezJeff Bezos’ fiancée.
One gaming influencer, @StoneMountain64, wrote, “Now this is content.”
“I’m just doing my job,” Mr. Zuckerberg replied.
For Zuck-ologists, the clip was just another example of the 40-year-old executive’s effort Recreate your imageIn recent years, he has transformed from a tech entrepreneur wearing flip-flops and a hoodie into a sleek, Richard Branson-like figure who wears a Brunello Cucinelli T-shirt, a silver chain and carries a smart phone. engrossed Involved himself in mixed martial arts.
As one Commentators OnX said, “The PR team rehabilitating Zuck continues its undefeated streak.”
The video was a sequel of sorts to a video Mr. Zuckerberg posted on July 4, 2021. That video showed him on a moving hydrofoil carrying an American flag to the soundtrack of John Denver’s 1971 hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
The following year he Posted A photo of himself wearing an American flag cowboy hat while grilling sausages. “Smoking these meats,” he wrote in the caption. “Happy 4th!” last year Post It included a candid photo of Mr Zuckerberg and his family.
If social media experts help Mr. Zuckerberg craft his posts, not much is known about them. Meta representatives have suggested that he does not rely on image consultants. A Meta representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
If the intention behind Mr. Zuckerberg’s patriotic content is to make him more relevant to the American public, even though his wealth is around $181 billion net worthAccording to Bloomberg, it seems to have helped. The online response to this year’s Fourth of July post was largely enthusiastic, a stark difference from previous posts. Sarcastic Memes which capitalized on his 2021 hydrofoil post.
But some online observers pointed out one thing wrong with the clip: It frequently uses the words “Born in the USA” misinterpreted As a ‘rah-rah’ anthem, the song tells the story of a Vietnam War veteran who returns home and is met with a lonely welcome and dire circumstances.
Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, which has long been trying to establish a Cage match Following a row between Mr Zuckerberg and his tech rival Elon Musk, people commented positively on the video, saying: “‘MERICA!!!!!!!”
Mr Musk took a different view, writing on X: “He should keep having fun on his yachts. I prefer to work.”
It’s hard to name a single notable guest who attended the Fourth of July white party hosted by business mogul Michael Rubin and his model fiancée. Camille FishelTom Brady, Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Megan Fox, Drake and Emily Ratajkowski were just some of the celebrities who wandered around the couple’s Long Island estate on Thursday in sparkling white outfits, mingling with one another and creating plenty of content.
It was the fourth edition of Mr. Rubin and Ms. Fishel’s annual Independence Day party in the Hamptons, where bodycon dresses ruled. Paparazzi lined up outside the manicured hedges of their property to catch a glimpse of the black SUVs carrying the A-listers who came to fraternize on the tennis court, which was transformed into an ultraexclusive nightclub for the event. Reporters, including The New York Times, were not allowed to attend, and the organizers hired their own photographer.
“Imagine going to Liv Miami. You wouldn’t even know you were on a tennis court,” Ms. Fishel, 33, said in an interview.
The Gatsby-like party was held at a 2-acre, 8,000-square-foot beachside mansion in Water Mill, New York, that Mr. Rubin purchased for 50 million dollars According to The Real Deal, in 2021. The property overlooks Mecox Bay on one side and the ocean on the other.
This year’s guest list featured about 400 people, 300 of whom received invitations in the form of lithographs designed by the visual artist George Condo. (Ms. Fishel met Mr. Kondo in 2013 as a hostess at a West Village restaurant where Mr. Kondo was a regular.) A much smaller group received invitations that were framed, individually illustrated and addressed by name By Mr. Kondo.
Those who RSVPed received a cool, personalized pair of the white Air Jordan 1 Low colorway SneakersA Collaboration Between Nike and the rapper travis scottSpecially manufactured for party guests. Mr. RubinThe 51-year-old is a former co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and the founder and chief executive of FanaticsThe Like Amazon It is an apparel company and a one-stop shop for sporting goods.
A note inside the shoe box read, “Do not vomit on these. These are not for resale… I know who you are.”
White parties have earned a reputation for lavish extravagance since the late 1990s, when Sean Combs started throwing my own annual festival – In one of which he brought an authentic copy of the Declaration of Independence as his date.They haven’t held any white parties since 2009,
Mr. Rubin is the rare man who can gather the richest and most famous people in one place. Representatives for Mr. Rubin and Ms. Fishel said several people offered $1 million to attend their white party this year, and said one person offered $5 million. Unfortunately for desperate partygoers, no one can buy their own spot.
“We joke that we have 400 of our closest friends coming to visit,” Ms. Fishel said.
The guest list is one reason this private party is so interesting, with celebrities from a variety of industries – fine arts, sports, business, film, fashion and music – none of whom are allowed to bring a person with them. It’s a setting where Leonardo DiCaprio and Drake can comfortably sing with Usher, who is one of them. last years artist.
This year, guests saw performances from Shaboozy, Mary J. Blige and Lil Wayne. The festivities kicked off on Wednesday evening with a rousing performance. Beach Soccer Game between teams led by Mr. Brady and. CJ StroudQuarterback of the Houston Texans (Mr. Brady’s team) lost (to Mr. Stroud)
The party began at 5 p.m. on Thursday with cocktails on the deck, but there were no signature cocktails. “This is not a wedding,” Ms. Fishel said.
Guests posed for photos and enjoyed king salmon, fatty tuna and blue crab from Nobu, slices of Margherita pizza from Lucali and meatballs from Rao’s, the East Harlem Italian restaurant with the country’s toughest reservations.
“It’s messy and fun, and these artists are there and they never really get an environment where they can kind of let loose,” said Ms. Fishel, who, like a bride on her wedding day, wore several white dresses for the party. As the evening progressed, she changed from a sheer dress to a transparent one. LaQuan Smith Ensemble cast In a corset and For Love and Lemons skirt.
When partygoers left — whether it was at 2 a.m. or 6 a.m. — they were given a bag of bagels Goldberg’sA Hamptons breakfast mainstay.
There was one rare guest — and occasional neighbor — that Ms. Fishel wanted to see: a humpback whale, which made a special, fleeting appearance last year.
Although the whale had not received an official invitation, Ms. Fishel was hopeful it might return, but no special item could persuade it to perform again.
“He didn’t come,” he said over the phone Friday morning, even as preparations for next year’s party had already begun.
Soon their feelings became clear, and in December, they went on their first official date at a ceramics studio. Mr. Thakkar said the mugs he painted “still exist in my mother’s kitchen.” After the semester ended, they went on a road trip to Disneyland and had such a great time there that they decided to be exclusive when they returned.
Six years later, on December 26, 2022, Mr. Thakkar booked a casual trip to Maui for himself and Ms. Vijay and proposed marriage at sunrise at Ironwood Cliffs, a hiking area on the island of Hawaii.
On June 27, the couple was legally married by Madeline Plasencia, an official of the New York City Clerk’s Office at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. A week and a half before that, they invited 200 friends and family members to a multi-day wedding celebration at four locations outside Lisbon, including a 17th-century castle and a national palace. The Hindu wedding ceremony was held at the Correio-Mor Palace, led by a priest named Madhu Shastri.
“We wanted people to feel like they were sightseeing when they came to a wedding,” Ms Vijay said.
At the sangeet ceremony, they tasted Portuguese olive oils and ginja, a local cherry liqueur, and enjoyed a Portuguese gin bar. During cocktail hour musicians played fado, a traditional Portuguese musical style. The bride’s father, Shyam Vijay, and a family friend sang a medley of her favorite songs from her childhood.
Given the couple’s dance background, the sangeet at Forte da Cruz was more advanced than usual. “Many times at these sangeet dances, there are a lot of people who don’t really know how to dance,” Mr Thakkar said.
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What’s the easiest way to make any room better? A vase of fresh flowers.
This is one of the least expensive methods – if you have a container garden in your garden, patio or balcony.
To create floral arrangements like the ones you see in magazines or on social media, you don’t have to spend a lot of money at an expensive flower shop where they do the decorating for you. A simple grouping of flowers, branches, leaves, and even vegetables can look just as attractive.
“You don’t need to grow 5,000 peonies,” said Christopher Spitzmiller, 52, who designs Lamps and ceramics“You can put a single flower in a vase, and often that’s enough.”
As it happens, Mr. Spitzmiller has a wonderful garden at Clove Brook Farm, Millbrook, NY, which he shares with his husband, Anthony Bellomo, The OrangeryA garden store. But they agree that simpler can sometimes be better.
“We often add kale, chard or leafy vegetables that you would eat,” Mr. Bellomo, 45, said.
This is how they decorate their dining room with flowers and greenery when they want to impress their friends.
Before any branches or flowers are cut, Mr. Spitzmiller and Mr. Bellomo set the table, establishing a color palette.
“The tablecloth, glasses and other items you plan to use determine the floral selection,” Mr. Bellomo said. “If we’re making pink plates, we might use lighter tones of pink, purple and violet in the flowers.”
On this special day, they covered the table with a wood-grain-patterned tablecloth and followed it with green-and-white marble plates, green napkins and purple-and-white glasses designed by Mr. Spitzmiller.
For a playful touch, she added red ladybug ornaments from John Derian and gold frog-shaped salt boxes from KRB, a home-goods store in Manhattan.
After decorating the tables, the couple chose the vases and vessels for the flowers they wanted to use.
They decided on an antique frog tureen for the centerpiece and a pair of small square faux-bois planters for floral and foliage decoration.
Finally, he added a series of vintage glass beakers and single-stem glass vases that could be spread out on the table.
The pair ventured into the gardens, armed with pruning shears and galvanised buckets filled with water. Anything attractive is worth playing with for them.
Mr. Spitzmiller cut down tall peach-colored lilies, and also trimmed off excess leaves and stamens. (“The stamens will stain anything they come into contact with,” he explained.) Mr. Bellomo chose chartreuse lady’s mantle and several varieties of hydrangea.
He also collected some things he hadn’t planned: the bright yellow flowers of an edible green vegetable that had grown from seed, the globular flowers of onions, thin clematis vines and thick hosta leaves.
Back in her kitchen she began filling the vases. In each vase she placed a stem or two of chocolate cosmos and lavender.
“It’s very simple,” Mr. Bellomo said. “Flowers like these can disappear in a large arrangement, but in a small vase you can really appreciate the beauty.”
Lily flowers were given the same treatment: one stem was inserted into each glass beaker.
In frog tureens and faux bois planters, he layered flowers. As Mr. Spitzmiller explained: “In an arrangement, you should have three things: a thriller, a filler and a spiller.”
After stuffing coated chicken wire deep into the tureen to hold the stems in place, he started with the filler: leaves of hydrangea, lady’s mantle, and hosta. (He crisscrossed the stems to support the thriller he wanted to show above.)
On top of it she planted traditional and unexpected flowers, including pink and white roses, an early dahlia, and vegetable flowers.
The spillovers finally arrived: clematis vines that snaked out of containers and spilled onto the table.
When all the vessels were filled, the couple took them to the dining table.
Putting them on the table is always a process of trial and error—even for experienced designers and gardeners.
The frog went in the center. Then Mr. Spitzmiller and Mr. Bellomo experimented with faux bois planters and glass cylinders, trying to leave enough space between the large containers so as not to obstruct sight lines around the table. Vases of buds were scattered around the perimeter.
Mr. Spitzmiller stopped when he noticed something on a hosta leaf.
“There are some holes in it because of insects – that proves its authenticity. You know it came from this orchard and not from some wholesaler,” he said.
He added: “That’s an important thing: it doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect.”
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We got married in my parents’ living room in Boulder, the day after Trump was sworn in on January 21, 2017. This was no accident. You may remember his “American carnage” speech, and we were worried about what would happen next.
Because of my father’s illness, our wedding was just for immediate family, including my parents, my brother, my wife’s cousin, and her husband. Halfway through the ceremony, my father vomited. We didn’t talk about politics. We didn’t turn on the TV or watch the Women’s March, although we learned about it later.
We filed our immigration papers that Monday.
At our first immigration interview, we revealed all the embarrassing facts of our relationship under oath, exploring our personal depths to prove our love. Yes, we met on Tinder. Yes, when we went on a road trip to Las Vegas, we stayed at a cheap Super 8 motel (it was dog-friendly), choosing to spend our money on the buffet and the roller coaster. Yes, she sleeps on the right side of the bed.
The interviewer took notes. Detailed notes.
We used an interpreter for her part of the interview, not because she couldn’t speak English, but because she was so nervous that she feared she would say something wrong and be denied (or deported – that was our mindset at the time). Instead, it was her interpreter who messed up, signaling through miscommunication that she had willingly participated in a social-security scam. We were told she would have to come back the next day. Nervous. Sweating. Scared.
Somewhere on record with our federal government is a record that my wife has never been, nor has she tried to be, a terrorist, a communist, a human trafficker or a prostitute. She has never tried to overthrow a government. She has never dealt drugs.
The government knows her hair and eyes are brown, though I don’t think they know how beautiful her eyes are. They know she’s 5 foot 3 inches, but they don’t know, and they’ve never asked, how perfectly her body matches mine, question marks curled up and splayed on our shared bed at home.
Jamauri Amir Bogan caught the attention of Kayla Kasmir Howard when he was in fifth grade.
“I made fun of her,” said Mr. Bogan, who had a crush on Ms. Howard at Central Five Jefferson in Union, N.J., in 2008, and tried to act cool in front of his friends whenever he saw her at lunch or on breaks. He is now 28.
While in sixth grade at Burnett Middle School, he got a little braver and asked her to be his girlfriend.
“She became No. 1 on my MySpace Top Friends,” he said.
Otherwise, they were ignorant.
“I was very nervous and shy,” she said.
After two weeks, their relationship ended and they became friends again.
“We couldn’t get the words out,” he said. “They came out later in life.”
They frequently ran into each other at outdoor Union Farmers track practices in the spring of their freshman year at Union High School, in 2011. During the summer, they also shared their first kiss on the field.
“I was focused on being the best football player I could be,” said Mr. Bogan, who played running back and became the Gatorade New Jersey Football Player of the Year in December.
In October, to her relief, Ms. Howard took a step.
She said, “I sent my best friend to him and told him that I liked him a lot and he should be my boyfriend.”
He told himself that if his football team wins the match on Friday, he will make his relationship official.
“I passed for 300 yards in the first half,” he said, “and the team won big.” On Monday, October 24, he went to her locker and asked her to be his girlfriend.
A few weeks later, her mother allowed her to go to the movies for the first time, on one condition: she had to take her 4-year-old brother Ian, one of five siblings, with her.
“I was so upset,” she said.
Mr. Bogan gave them both tickets and snacks without flinching, and when his brother dropped the red slushie in his mouth, Mr. Bogan got him another one.
“I love Ian,” Mr. Bogan said. “He’s my little brother.”
In March 2012, when she was about to turn 16, they had their second date at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant, and continued to date throughout high school.
They often stayed at her grandparents’ home in Irvington, New Jersey, and her parents would drop her off for home games every other Friday and she would go to the Huck Finn Diner with her family afterward.
“He was a great football player,” he said, adding that he received several scholarships.
In 2014, he decided to attend Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he received a bachelor’s degree in personal finance and later an MBA. He now owns Bogan Developments, a real estate development company in Kalamazoo that specializes in affordable and workforce housing.
“I just didn’t want to leave New Jersey,” said Ms. Howard, who has a bachelor’s degree in health studies from William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., and an associate degree in nursing from the JFK Muhlenberg School in Plainfield, N.J. Ms. Howard, a registered cardiology nurse, is now a charge nurse at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo.
The night after high school graduation they had dinner and then tearfully walked up to Seaside Heights on the Jersey Shore until about 3 a.m. He left for summer football practice the next day and they continued dating 700 miles away.
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“I actually took my car with my friend and we traveled for 20 hours and stayed for 24 hours,” she said of her first-year road trip in 2014. “I loved it so much.”
They decided to get engaged after she finished nursing school, and in June 2022, in the midst of her graduation party at a New Jersey banquet hall, Mr. Bogan wasted no time and got engaged.
“My father pulled up a chair and told me to sit down,” she said. Then, Mr. Bogan, who was supposed to speak last, got down on one knee. A few weeks later, she moved into his apartment in Kalamazoo.
“She’s my best friend,” he said. “She’s known me through every change and growth. It’s beautiful to have that.”
On June 19, also known as ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, JuneteenthAnthony Mitchell Sr., pastor of Union Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, officiated the ceremony in front of 150 guests at Park Chateau Estate & Gardens, an event space in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He said the couple swept the floor and hired African American vendors who represented “black excellence.” Later, their first dance was to Luther Vandross’ “So Amazing.”
“We will always be excited about Juneteenth,” the bride said. The groom added: “What it represents to our culture and to us as a married couple.”
Madison Chock and Evan Bates became close friends when Madison chose Evan as her ice dance partner in 2011. They became even closer after that.