1. Burial Vaults Inspire a Celebration
of a Church Opposed to Slavery
A Hip-Swiveling
Workout That’s
Steamy in
Every Way
By DANIEL KRIEGER
For those averse to working out in
gyms or who wouldn’t go for a jog if
they were paid to, there are still enjoy-
able ways to get going without feeling
as if it were Exercise with a capital E.
That’s what three dozen women were
after when they attended a recent
Jamaican-inspired dancehall fitness
class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Mid-
town Manhattan.
The class, called Brukwine, is an invi-
tation to women of all shapes and siz-
es to shed their inhibitions and move
with abandon. It’s geared toward those
who may steer clear of more traditional
types of exercise, and it offers a spin
on the sultry moves that accompany
Jamaican-style dancehall music.
Brukwine is all about breaking out
and moving the hips — something that
the creators, Tamara Marrow, 35, and
Autavia Bailey, 34, know all about.
They have performed with the dance-
hall star Sean Paul, pop stars like Be-
yoncé, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears
and Rihanna.
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BREAKING NEWS
In Testimony, Mother Who Killed
Son, 8, Denies She Forcibly
Drugged Him
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
The bodies discovered at a SoHo con-
struction site belonged to members of
the multiracial Spring Street Presbyte-
rian Church, which was sacked by an-
ti-abolition mobs in 1834.
In the fall of 2007, some New York-
ers vowed that the Trump SoHo tow-
er would be built only over their dead
bodies.
Rudolphus Bogert and Louisa Hunter
were not among them.
It’s not that they were in favor of the
project. It’s just that their dead bodies,
and those of about 190 other mem-
bers of the Spring Street Presbyterian
Church, had been removed from the
construction site a few months earli-
er, in an emergency recovery effort by
archaeologists after four burial vaults
were discovered under an old parking
lot.
Miss Hunter, a 16-year-old who died
in 1825; Mr. Bogert, a 76-year-old mer-
chant and volunteer fireman who died
in 1842; and their fellow congregants
were reburied in June at Green-Wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn. A memorial
service is to be held Oct. 19 at the
imposing First Presbyterian Church
on Fifth Avenue, between West 11th
and 12th Streets.“This will be a
celebration of the church’s
abolitionist stance,” said David
Pultz, the archivist at First Presbyteri-
an, who has been involved in the ar-
chaeological and reinterment project
since January 2007. “The church’s his-
tory had been forgotten, like the vaults
had been forgotten.”
The remains as they were found in 2006. Further investigation uncovered four 19th-century
burial vaults under a parking lot. Credit David Pultz
Tamara Marrow, second from right with hat, leading her Brukwine class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Manhattan. Credit Cassandra Giraldo for
The New York Times

2. It so happened that his new Vence
home had a pretty, prophetic name:
Villa le Rêve, Dream House. And re-
markable art came into being under its
roof, though never easily. The cultural
critic Edward W. Said, in his book on
“late style” in art, wrote: “Each of us can
readily supply evidence of how it is that
late works crown a lifetime of aesthet-
ic endeavor. Rembrandt and Matisse,
Bach and Wagner. But what of artistic
lateness not as harmony and resolu-
tion, but as intransigence, difficulty,
unresolved contradiction?” I would say
that Matisse had at least one foot in the
second category.
Surgery had left him debilitated, ba-
sically chair and bed bound. Painting
and sculpture had become physical
challenges and, I think, emotionally, too
freighted with make-it-new demands.
At the same time, sheer relief at hav-
ing survived mortal crises prompted a
rush of creativity. His solution, before
he even recognized it was such, was
almost child-simple. He picked up more
manageable materials and tools: sheets
of paper paint-washed by assistants,
sturdy scissors, and plain tailor pins.
What he made from them was a hybrid
of chromatic brilliance and dimension-
al complexity, work that was not quite
painting, not quite sculpture and — this
‘Henri Matisse:
The Cut-Outs,’ a
Victory Lap
at MoMA
By HOLLAND COTTER
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse’s
preferred attire was evening wear, by
which I mean pajamas. They were the
ideal uniform for the invalid, insomniac
night worker and waking dreamer he
had become in the decade before his
death at age 84 in 1954. And it is the
dreamer and worker we meet in “Henri
Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” a marvelous,
victory-lap show that arrives from Lon-
don, where it drew more than 500,000
viewers at the Tate Modern last sum-
mer, and opens in a larger form at the
Museum of Modern Art on Sunday.
Why is late Matisse pulling such
crowds? Partly because of a popular
image of the elderly artist, derived from
photographs and long in circulation, as
a serene, bespectacled pasha propped
up in a bed in sunny Nice surrounded
by doves and flowers. And the cutouts
themselves, so photogenic, have an
exceptionally direct appeal: color, line,
beauty without reservation.
But the reality, of the life and the work,
was far more complicated. In the years
around 1940, Matisse must have felt
he was living a nightmare. In 1939, he
and his wife of more than four decades
legally parted ways, at her instigation.
Two years later, he was found to have
abdominal cancer and underwent a
grueling operation. During World War
II, he fled Paris, only to have danger
follow him. In 1943, he had to abandon
his apartment in Nice when the city was
threatened with bombardment and rent
temporary quarters in Vence several
miles away.
Miles of Steam
Pipes Snake
Beneath New York
By GREG MOYER
First developed in the 1880s, New
York City’s steam system is the largest
in the world. No other urban steam sys-
tem comes close.
Today, 105 miles of steam pipe run
beneath the streets of the city, deliver-
ing steam to 2,000 buildings for heating
and cooling. Steam also sterilizes hos-
pital equipment, presses clothes, and
cleans restaurant dishes and cutlery.
This episode of “Living City,” a video
series about New York’s infrastructure,
looks at the history of the city’s steam
system and explores how a technology
that eliminated chimneys from the sky-
line in the early 20th century is helping
reduce carbon emissions and provide a
cleaner source of energy for New York
in the 21st.
The film tours the East 14th Street
Consolidated Edison cogeneration
plant, where 55 percent of the city’s
steam is produced, and looks at the
underbelly of some of New York’s most
recent buildings to see how steam is in-
corporated into modern urban planning
and design.
was the really radical part — not neces-
sarily permanent.
Cut-paper art, decoupage, was not
new to Matisse. He had been using it to
wrestle with compositional ideas since
the 1930s, which is when the MoMA
show begins. For him, decoupage was
labor intensive, even when used for
what were technically sketches for work
in other mediums: Adamant, infuriated
doggedness was his way. He forced
models to sit for hours, days, weeks, to
the point of collapse, as he painted and
scraped. A few of his early cutouts look
like the art of an outsider-style obses-
sive.
The visual elements in 1937-38
cut-paper design for a Ballet Russe
de Monte Carlo production, are fairly
spare: two dancers, one standing, one
leaping, against a dark blue ground. But
the piece’s surface is chopped-up and
lumpy, like sculptural relief, with paint-
stroke-size slivers of paper layered
three deep and held down with thumb-
tacks. Puncture marks that dot the sliv-
ers are records of the many times each
had been pinned, unpinned, reposi-
tioned and pinned again.
For Matisse, self-appointed purvey-
or of luxe, calme, and volupté, it seems
that trial-and-error rawness, some evi-
dence of struggle, validated the work.
You find a lot of such evidence in the
zesty pinned-paper maquettes he made
in 1943 for his book “Jazz,” for which he
had high hopes. But when it was finally
published in 1947, he hated it. All the ir-
regularities of texture, the paper-on-pa-
per depths, what Matisse referred to
as the “sensitivity” of the designs, were
missing. Printing had cleaned and
pressed them in high-contrast graphics,
polished, perfect and dead.
From this, he took a lesson: Value the
original, fragile and rough; that’s the
art. But he was already figuring this out
before the book appeared. One day in
Paris, in 1946, he cut a small bird shape
from plain white paper. It wasn’t much,
but he liked it and asked an assistant
to pin it to the wall to hide a stain. Then
he cut some more. (The show has a
delightful short film in which he finish-
es cutting out a big fingery algae form,
then struggles to tame it as if it were a
squirming octopus.)
Before long, two walls of the room
were filling up with cutouts in the shape
of birds, fish, and marine vegetation,
loosely pinned and lifting with every
breeze. Under Matisse’s direction, the
patient studio crew shifted the pieces
around until he was satisfied that he
had two complete murals. One he called
“Oceania, the Sea,” the other “Oceania,
the Sky.” Together, they evoked a trip to
Tahiti he had made years before.
The obvious question, though, was
what to do next with such mutable,
piecemeal creations. Questions about
the practicalities of exhibiting, storing,
and selling them quickly arose. most at-
tractive and prescient about this art was
its impermanence. But it was made de-
cades before the rise of Conceptualism,
before an aesthetic based on immateri-
ality and flux would be embraced, even
institutionalized.
So the wall pieces were disman-
tled, the pins removed, the cut-paper
elements transferred to supports and
glued down.
2 |Thrusday, October 2nd
Burial Vaults Inspire a Celebration of a
Church Opposed to Slavery
In the fall of 2007, some New York-
ers vowed that the Trump SoHo tow-
er would be built only over their dead
bodies. Rudolphus Bogert and Louisa
Hunter were not among them.
It’s not that they were in favor of the
project. It’s just that their dead bodies,
and those of about 190 other mem-
bers of the Spring Street Presbyterian
Church, had been removed from the
construction site a few months earli-
er, in an emergency recovery effort by
archaeologists after four burial vaults
were discovered under an old parking
lot.
Miss Hunter, a 16-year-old who died
in 1825; Mr. Bogert, a 76-year-old mer-
chant and volunteer fireman who died
in 1842; and their fellow congregants
were reburied in June at Green-Wood
Cemetery in Brooklyn. A memorial ser-
vice is to be held Oct. 19 at the impos-
ing First Presbyterian Church on Fifth
Avenue, between West 11th and 12th
Streets.
“This will be a celebration of the
church’s abolitionist stance,” said Da-
vid Pultz, the archivist at First Presby-
terian, who has been involved in the
archaeological and reinterment project
since January 2007. “The church’s his-
tory had been forgotten, like the vaults
had been forgotten.”
It is not just that a great window has
opened on 19th-century urban life
(one-third of the remains were those
of children, and half of them suffered
from rickets). A link has been forged to
New Yorkers who were in the forefront
of early battles against slavery.
For its principles, regarded as fa-
natical, if not demonic in the day, the
church was sacked by a mob during
citywide riots in 1834. The Spring
Street Presbyterian Church had be-
gun admitting African-Americans into
full membership in 1820, while slavery
was still legal in New York State, Mr.
Pultz said.
The multiracial character of the con-
gregation has generally been corrob-
orated by the remains exhumed from
the vaults, said Shannon A. Novak, an
associate professor of anthropology at
Syracuse University, who studied the
remains from 2007 until 2014, working
with Thomas Crist of Utica College, Jo-
di-Lynn Barta of Madonna University in
Michigan and Joan Brenner-Coltrain of
the University of Utah.
Laight Street Presbyterian Church,
were targets of the anti-abolition and
anti-black mobs that took over city
streets in July 1834.
Excavators for the Trump SoHo hotel project
in 2006 came upon the human remains of
nearly 200 members of the Spring Street
Presbyterian Church, which was sacked by
rioters in 1834. Credit Fred R. Conrad
Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
NEW YORK TODAY

3. New York
Comic Con
Adds Sites
and Activities
Nelson Mandela and Fela Anikulapo
Kuti rose to prominence in very differ-
ent circumstances, but both were driv-
en by overarching visions for change in
their countries. This weekend, events
in Brooklyn and Harlem pay tribute to
their enduring legacies.
On Saturday, BRIC, the nonprofit arts
and media group, will host a “Fela Frol-
ic” in honor of this Nigerian musician,
who died at 58 in 1997. Things kick
off at 2 p.m. with a slate of free fam-
ily-friendly activities, including a scav-
enger hunt through the BRIC House,
an African drumming workshop by
Dellwyn Gilkes, a family dance class
with Iris Wilson, a screening of the doc-
umentary “Finding Fela” and a perfor-
mance by the Afrobeat ensemble Zon-
go Junction.
At 8 p.m., a “Jump N Funk” party
starts, with the D.J. Rich Medina on
hand and Sahr Ngaujah, who starred
in Bill T. Jones’s acclaimed Broadway
show “Fela!,” hosting and performing.
Tickets for the evening portion are $10
in advance and $14 at the door.
On Sunday afternoon, the Apollo The-
ater presents a free panel discussion
on the cultural and political connection
between Harlem and South Africa, in-
cluding Mandela’s historic visit to New
York in 1990 after his release from pris-
on. The event is part of the theater’s Af-
rica Now! festival, a celebration of that
connection that also commemorates
Mr. Mandela’s inauguration as presi-
dent 20 years ago. (Mr. Mandela died
at 95 last year.) The actor, singer and
activist Harry Belafonte and David Din-
kins, the former New York mayor, take
part along with a handful of journalists,
professors and artists. The event will
also feature performances by WBAI-
FM D.J.s and the South African Harlem
Voices choir.
(Saturday, 2 p.m. to midnight; 647
Fulton Street, at Rockwell Place, Fort
Greene, Brooklyn; 718-683-5600, bri-
cartsmedia.org.)
Most of us seem to be shaped by a
sense of place, whether it’s where we
were born, an adopted home, a brief
but resonant sojourn or a region of the
imagination. “Iceland: Artists Respond
to Place,” an exhibition running through
Jan. 10 at Scandinavia House. Admis-
sion is free.
Zelda, the Resident Turkey of
Battery Park, Is Feared Dead
By ASHLEY SOUTHALL
Zelda, the famed wild turkey who
made Battery Park in Manhattan her
home and drew a devoted local follow-
ing for more than a decade, is feared
to be dead.
The plumed denizen of the park has
not been seen since a wild turkey was
run over by a car last month while
strolling down South Street near Pier
11, Nicole Brownstein, a spokeswom-
an for the Battery Conservancy, said
on Wednesday.
Ms. Brownstein said a U.P.S. work-
er and a custodian on South Street
told interns on Sept. 26 that they saw
sanitation workers scooping up the tur-
key’s body that day. The group waited
almost two weeks to announce her
death, fearing a case of mistaken iden-
tity. But Zelda, the only known wild tur-
key in Manhattan, has not been seen
since, she said.
“We waited to see if she would show
up and she didn’t,”.
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The organizer of New York Comic Con
says it has found a way to pack more
people into an already packed show.
The event, which celebrates the cross-
roads of comic books and pop culture,
draws such huge crowds that the 151,000
tickets sold out in hours this year, leaving
many fans clamoring for a way to im-
merse themselves in their favorite tales
of science-fiction and fantasy. But even
as the convention expands, it faces criti-
cism that it has lost its focus.
Ticket sales for conventions like New
York Comic Con totaled about $600 mil-
lion in the United States last year, accord-
ing to a study by Eventbrite, an online
ticketing and events service. Revenue
from ticket sales for the New York con-
vention increased 40 percent this year
over 2013, and ReedPop, the conven-
tion’s organizer, says it wants it to grow
even more.
The problem is that attendance, which
was 133,000 last year, has reached the
capacity of the Jacob K. Javits Conven-
tion Center, where the convention opened
on Thursday and will run through Sun-
day. But as the number of conventions
and attendance have surged in recent
years, in part because of the popularity
of the annual Comic-Con International
in San Diego, money can be made by
adding events at other sites.
So this year, ReedPop broadened
the scope of New York Comic Con,
adding a weeklong series of events,
called Super Week. “The investment is
well north of a million dollars to get this
going,” Lance Fensterman, the glob-
al vice president of ReedPop, said of
Super Week. “We were not shy about
launching this thing. It’s 110 events in
25 venues all over the city.”
But Mr. Fensterman acknowledged
that any return on the investment
might not appear for a few years.
“We are not worried about how it
will pay off this year, but in five or 10
years,” he said, adding that he hoped
it would become as well known as oth-
er New York events like Fashion Week
and Advertising Week. “We want this
to be an anchor in the fall.”
Some critics complain that the ex-
pansion ambitions of such conven-
tions take the focus away from comic
books, but industry specialists say the
strategy could pay off for the organiz-
ers and for businesses that rely on
tourism. The city reported in 2011 that
the economic impact of the convention
was $50 million, a number that Reed-
Pop says grew to $70 million last year.
“They are looking at this as a cat-
egory they think they can grow,” said
Milton Griepp, the founder of ICv2, a
website that tracks the industry. “New
York is the media capital of the world,
and Reed is a good show operator that
has been able to build on that.”
ReedPop has plenty of experience
managing pop culture conventions. It
runs the Chicago Comic and Enter-
tainment Expo, the Star Wars Cele-
bration in Anaheim, Calif., the U.F.C.
(United Fighting Championship) Fan
Expo in Las Vegas and several video
game conventions. It has global am-
bitions as well. ReedPop announced
this week that it would sponsor a com-
ic book convention in Paris next year.
It already has shows in Australia and
India.
“They help us with better vendors
for setting up the infrastructure,” said
Jatin Varma, the founder of Comic Con
India and ReedPop’s partner there.
“They are experts; they know how to
move people to these events.”
ReedPop is focusing its experience
on New York. But the logistics of the
cramped, crowded city pose a chal-
lenge to the ambitions for more space.
In San Diego, Comic-Con Interna-
tional spills into the streets of the Gas-
lamp Quarter, taking over restaurants,
bars, parking lots and even Petco Park
and the USS Midway aircraft carrier.
To overcome transportation obsta-
cles, ReedPop worked with Chevro-
let and Uber to offer free rides to Su-
per Week events. Several New York
restaurants will park food trucks near
the convention center to offer more
choices.
But a bigger challenge may come
from comic book fans themselves,
who complain that the inclusion of
movies, television and video games
has pulled attention away from comic
Mandela and Fela,
Honored in Dance
and Song
Comic book fans, some dressed as their favorite characters, bought out the 151,000 conven-
tion tickets in just hours. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s memory will be
honored at BRIC in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Credit Laurent Rebours/Associated Press
In Testimony,
Mother Who
Killed Son, 8,
Denies She
Forcibly
Drugged Him
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr
The woman accused of killing her son
in the Peninsula Hotel broke down into
tears on the witness stand on Wednes-
day, as she admitted to a hushed court
that she had tried to kill herself and her
8-year-old son through a lethal dose
of drugs.But the woman, Gigi Jor-
dan, strongly denied the prosecutors’
account of the murder: that she had
climbed on top of her son and brutally
forced a liquefied mix of drugs and al-
cohol down his throat with a syringe.Her
testimony comes about four weeks into
the murder trial in State Supreme Court
in Manhattan, and about four and a half
years after the death of her son.Ms.
Jordan, 53, was asked by her lawyer,
Allen Brenner, if she had injected drugs
into her son’s mouth, pinching his nose,
covering his mouth and compelling him
to swallow.
“No, I did not,” she an-
swered.“Did you give your-
self and your son an amount
of drugs that you believed
would take your life and
his?” the lawyer asked“Yes,
I did,” she said, and began
to weep. Justice Charles H. Solo-
mon handed her a box of tissues.
Then Ms. Jordan, a former nurse who
made millions of dollars with a home
health care company, said there were
circumstances and pressures that
drove her to take such a drastic step.
She has never disputed that she killed
her son, but has described it to re-
porters and in a bail application as a
mercy killing. In an unusual defense,
her lawyers have contended that she
was in the grip of an extreme emotional
disturbance created by her belief that
she was about to be murdered, and that
her son would end up in the custody of
her second husband, a man she be-
lieved had tortured and raped the boy.
If a jury agrees, that defense could re-
sult in a manslaughter conviction. The
police found the boy, Jude Mirra, dead
in a bed at the Peninsula Hotel at about
noon on Feb. 5. The door had been bar-
ricaded with a chair. Ms. Jordan was on
the floor next to the bed, surrounded by
pills. A pill crusher and a syringe used
to force feed patients were discovered,
along with empty vodka bottles.

4. At Smith’s Bar in
Manhattan, One Last
Drink Before the Neon
Goes Dark
By MOSI SECRET
“I know! I know!” the bartender shouted to her long-
faced customers.
They came in waves, crashing toward the familiar
bar counter for one last tipple, one last memory of
what once was, and may never be again.
They all seemed to ask, “Can you believe it?” She
threw up her hands and waved them off in mock
consternation. Yes, Smith’s Bar and Restaurant is
closing.
The neon-lit northwest corner of 44th Street and
Eighth Avenue has stayed the same for decades,
hosting Broadway stagehands, prostitutes, tourists
and commuters, drunks, Hell’s Kitchen residents,
sailors — even a murder and a suicide. Now it is
going the way of, well, the rest of the old Times
Square area.
Details are still scant. The management at
Smith’s is not saying why the bar is closing, and the
bartenders, like Meghan, who in her impossibly thick
Brooklyn accent can say the sweetest things using
the most offensive language, are not saying much
either — only that Thursday night would be the bar’s
last. But the regulars hardly pressed for details, so
familiar was the narrative of out with the old and in
with the new. Better to pull up and have a drink. Or a
shot, for that matter.
“It was the last vestige of pre-Giuliani New York
City,” said Andrew Hecht, 55, a Brooklyn-born writer
who used to live in Hell’s Kitchen and was in town
from Las Vegas. He had been walking around the
bar in circles, drink in hand, taking it all in for the last
time. “I was sad when I heard it was going to close
down. It’s an institution in the neighborhood.”
“It was everything from business suits going to Port
Authority to old drunks puking on their shoes,” Mr.
Hecht added. “It was a nice mixture.” He got lost for
a moment in a reverie of long nights at Smith’s; then
he said with a smile that none of his tales were fit for
publication.
The scene on Wednesday night, the bar’s
penultimate, was part spirited farewell and part run-
of-the-mill boozing. A group of Smith’s employees
clustered at one end of the bar, downing shots and
sharing laughs. Some patrons came to watch the last
game of the World Series or the New York Knicks’
season opener.
FOR those averse to working out in
gyms or who wouldn’t go for a jog if
they were paid to, there are still enjoy-
able ways to get going without feeling
as if it were Exercise with a capital E.
That’s what three dozen women were
after when they attended a recent
Jamaican-inspired dancehall fitness
class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Mid-
town Manhattan.
The class, called Brukwine, is an invi-
tation to women of all shapes and siz-
es to shed their inhibitions and move
with abandon. It’s geared toward those
who may steer clear of more traditional
types of exercise, and it offers a spin
on the sultry moves that accompany
Jamaican-style dancehall music.
Brukwine is all about breaking out and
moving the hips — something that the
creators, Tamara Marrow, 35, and Au-
tavia Bailey, 34, know all about. They
have performed with the dancehall star
Sean Paul, pop stars like Beyoncé and
Jennifer Lopez and others.
They started Brukwine in 2012 as “a
workout, first and foremost,” Ms. Mar-
row said.
In a dimly lit long room, participants
faced mirrors in rows. Some were
wearing Brukwine-emblazoned short
shorts, tops, leggings or hats. A trained
assistant known as a Brukwine Gyal
guided them through stretches. Then,
after many of the women put on pumps,
platforms and stilettos (sneakers are
also fine), a second Brukwine Gyal led
hip-isolation practice to “Every Gyal a
Mine,” by Demarco. Like belly dancing,
Brukwine involves hip movements that
call for lots of muscle independence.
Ms. Bailey stepped to the front in
golden stilettos. She drew cheers
from the boisterous crowd and began
demonstrating the routine of the day,
which she and Ms. Marrow choreo-
graphed for a song called “Touch You,”
by Konshens.
Ms. Bailey counted slowly as the
class followed along with her steps
and the rhythmic hip gyrations called
“wines,” which she said were “the ba-
sis of our whole workout.” The wines,
varying in speed, are performed with a
circular flow punctuated by a comple-
mentary move called a “tick,” a jerk of
the hips resembling the ticking motion
of a clock.
“Get that hip in it,” she told the class,
which went through some rounds be-
fore taking it from the top with the mu-
sic at a club-like volume. Then Ms.
Marrow, in neon pink stilettos, walked
the class through the next piece in the
routine at an easygoing pace. It includ-
ed more steps, a neck and body roll
and a “drop,” in which everyone squat-
ted down and sprang back up.
At the end of the 60-minute class, the
room steamy and bodies glistening,
the group went through it once more,
followed by loud cheers, laughter and
excited chatter.
Kadian Abrahams, a 25-year-old Ja-
maican lingerie designer who lives in
Midtown, recalled how worn out she
had been after her first class a week
earlier.
“I was sore in places I didn’t know
I could get sore,” she said, smiling.
But that didn’t stop her from putting on
her platform boots and returning for
more, as much for the intensity of the
full-body workout as for the friendly at-
mosphere. (Those with counters have
said that the hourlong Brukwine ses-
sion can burn 1,000 calories.)
Devin Edwards, 33, an administra-
tive assistant who lives in St. Albans,
Queens, said she had been to almost
every class for more than a year and
was in much better shape as a result.
“Gyms are boring — this is
not,” said Ms. Edwards, in a
Brukwine shirt and pumps.
“It’s sexy to work out in
heels,” she added, and some say it
makes the routine more strenuous.
The Brukwine creators feel strong-
ly that there is a place for sexiness in
exercise, achieved by giving women
license to let loose.
“We want women to feel confident
about themselves,” Ms. Marrow said.
“Everyone can be sexy.”
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A Hip-Swiveling Workout That’s
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5. By SABRINA TAVERNISE
WASHINGTON — Facing sharp
questioning at a Congressional hear-
ing on Thursday about the troubled
handling of Ebola cases in the United
States, federal health officials said that
a nurse with Ebola would be trans-
ferred to a specialized unit at the Na-
tional Institutes of Health in Maryland,
to ease the burden of the Dallas hospi-
tal where she became infected.
Health officials said that the hospital,
Texas Health Presbyterian, is strained
in its efforts to monitor dozens of oth-
er health care workers who may have
been exposed to the virus, and that the
nurse, Nina Pham, was being trans-
ferred at the hospital’s request.
“They are now dealing with at least
50 health care workers who may poten-
tially have been exposed,” Dr. Thomas
R. Frieden, the director of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention,
told members of the House Energy and
Commerce Committee. “That makes it
quite challenging to operate, and we
felt it would be more prudent to focus
on caring for any patients who come in
with symptoms.”
The hearing thrust the deadly virus
and the government’s halting manage-
ment of it into the realm of politics in
the midst of a national election season.
“Errors in judgment have been made,”
said Tim Murphy, a Republican from
Pennsylvania. “We have been told,
‘Virtually any hospital in the country
that can do isolation can do isolation
for Ebola.’ The events in Dallas have
proven otherwise.”
Ms. Pham was part of the medical
team that cared for Thomas Eric Dun-
can, a Liberian who died of Ebola last
week. She is to be moved to the N.I.H.
facility in Bethesda, Md., on Thursday
evening, where she will take one of the
unit’s two beds. She is in stable condi-
tion. A second nurse infected at Texas
Presbyterian was moved on Wednes-
day to Emory University Hospital in
Atlanta, which has successfully treated
two American Ebola patients.
Both nurses worked in the hospital’s
intensive care unit, and Dr. Frieden said
that investigators’ “leading hypothesis”
was that the women became infected
in the first few days of caring for Mr.
Duncan, when, according to hospital
officials, they were wearing basic pro-
tective gear but had not yet upgraded
to full biohazard suits.
Dr. Daniel Varga, the chief clinical
officer for Texas Health Resources,
the medical group that oversees Tex-
as Health Presbyterian Hospital, said
during the hearing that since the pa-
tient was having diarrhea when he was
admitted, “shoe covers were added
shortly thereafter,” implying that care-
takers had not been wearing them at
first.
“Do you know how long it took to put
those shoe covers on?” asked Diana
DeGette, Democrat of Colorado.
“I don’t,” said Dr. Varga, who was
speaking by video link.
She asked whether there had been
real training on the job for health work-
ers.
“No,” Dr. Varga said.
Another sharp line of questioning
dealt with why the second nurse, Am-
ber Joy Vinson, was allowed to fly from
Cleveland to Dallas on Oct. 13 even
after she called the C.D.C. from the
airport and told them she had a slight
fever. It was not known yet that she
had contracted the virus.
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“Were you part of those conversa-
tions?” Mr. Murphy asked Dr. Frieden.
“No, I was not,” Dr. Frieden responded.
“I have not seen the transcript of that
conversation,” he added. “My under-
standing is that she reported no symp-
toms to us.”
Ebola is one of the world’s most le-
thal diseases, but is contagious only
through contact with bodily fluids, and
health officials say it is highly unlikely
that passengers on Ms. Vinson’s flight
were at risk.
Over all, the three-hour hearing was
relatively cordial.
“I respect you,” Mr. Murphy said to
Dr. Frieden, during an exchange about
a ban on travel from affected countries,
which Republican lawmakers contin-
ued to press for.
Fred Upton, a Republican from Mich-
igan, said he wanted to know why fed-
eral authorities could not simply look at
incoming people’s travel histories “and
say, no, you’re not coming here.”
Dr. Frieden countered that people
would continue to travel to the United
States, but it would be harder to track
them. He also pointed out that Amer-
ican citizens made up a significant
share of those arriving from the affect-
ed countries.
But lawmakers did not give up.
“There’s no restrictions for travel on
humans, but what about dogs?” said
Morgan Griffith, Republican of Virginia.
“Don’t you think we should at least re-
strict the travel of dogs?”
In his opening statement, Dr. Varga
apologized for what he said were mis-
takes made by the Dallas hospital in
the original diagnosis of Ebola.
“Unfortunately, in our initial treatment
of Mr. Duncan, despite our best inten-
tions and a highly skilled medical team,
we made mistakes,” he said in remarks
prepared for the hearing.
“We did not correctly diagnose his
symptoms as those of Ebola. And we
are deeply sorry.”
Correction: October 16, 2014
An earlier version of this article mis-
identified the flight taken by Amber Joy
Vinson after she called the C.D.C. and
said she had a slight fever, as well as
the date of the flight.
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6. By KEN BELSON
REDMOND, Wash. — Few things are
left to chance when it comes to N.F.L.
games. Strict rules govern everything
from the uniforms to the referees to the
condition of the field.
So when Microsoft agreed to a long-
term sponsorship of the N.F.L. last year,
the company knew it would be doing
business with a meticulous partner. It
learned this firsthand when it developed
a Surface tablet computer for players
and coaches to use during games start-
ing this season.
In months of discussions with N.F.L.
teams, technology experts and the
league’s competition committee, Mi-
crosoft was told the tablets had to
be rugged enough to survive drops,
easy enough to use in a hurry and big
enough for several people to see its
screen at once. They had to work in ex-
treme temperatures (hot and cold), re-
sist glare and hold a battery charge for
a full game, and they had to work on a
secure wireless network without delays.
A cart holding up to 16 tablets had to
have strong wheels so it could be rolled
onto the sideline; a tilted top to prevent
cups from being left there; and a pow-
er supply, a heater and a cooler inside
to maintain optimal tablet performance.
Microsoft insisted that the box be paint-
ed cyan, the same color as the tablet.
“We needed to make sure this can
withstand the rigors of the N.F.L.,” John
Haley, the manager of one of Micro-
soft’s development labs, said as he held
a small replica of the cart, made with a
3-D printer. “We tried to find a balance
between weight, durability and utility.”
As the N.F.L. heads toward mid-
season, the toughened tablets, which
download high-definition photographs
of plays moments after they occur, have
blended into the sidelines. But their de-
velopment offers a window into the rela-
tionship between the N.F.L. and its busi-
ness partners, particularly those vying
for one of the few spots on a field that
tens of millions of fans see every week.
The tablets are also a study in how the
relationships between sports leagues
and their sponsors have evolved, from
the days when companies were happy
to pay to have their names on billboards
in return for tickets to now, when they
push to embed their products in a game.
“There are definitely more compa-
nies trying to be more a part of the ac-
tion and essentially using the sport as
a demo ad for their product,” said Bob
Dorfman, who writes the Sports Market-
ers’ Scouting Report. “There is a strong
connection between the product, sports
and performance aspect of it.”
Microsoft is not the first company to
win a spot on the field.
In tennis, for instance, I.B.M. has pro-
vided statistics to fans in the stadium
and at home as a way to show corpo-
rate decision-makers technology they
can harness.
For decades, N.F.L. players have tak-
en drinks from orange Gatorade jugs,
the contents of which are often dumped
on the winning coach. Coaches wore
Motorola headsets before Bose won
that spot this season. Nike, Riddell and
others have provided athletic gear.
Microsoft’s relationship with the N.F.L.
is more complex because it is not just
trying to sell tablets to consumers and
football coaches. It is also trying to in-
crease the profile of its Xbox game con-
soles.
Since November, millions of users
have been able to use their Xbox Ones
as set-top boxes to receive updates on
their fantasy football teams, invitations
to play the Madden video game and ac-
cess to RedZone and video highlights
from the N.F.L. — all while watching live
games.
The multifaceted sponsorship was not
cheap, and it is one reason the N.F.L.
took in $1.1 billion in sponsorship rev-
enue last year. Microsoft will reported-
ly pay the N.F.L. $400 million over the
five-year life of the deal, figures that the
company and the league would not con-
firm.
Whatever the number, Yusuf Mehdi,
who oversees marketing and strate-
gy for Microsoft’s devices and studios,
which includes the Xbox and the Sur-
face, said it was money well spent.
“By far, the N.F.L. is the crown jew-
el of entertainment,” he said while
showing off the Xbox at the company’s
headquarters, east of Seattle. “It has
that fan passion, and we have that with
the Xbox. And on the sideline, it really
showcases what Microsoft can do when
it brings its full muscle to bear.”
The question of how to create the
“sideline of the future” arose a couple
of years ago, said Brian Rolapp, the
executive vice president for media at
the N.F.L. As Motorola’s deal with the
league was coming to a close, league
officials thought about things they want-
ed to improve. One was the black-and-
white photos of every play of every
game, he said. For years, assistants
grabbed the photos off printers on the
sideline, stuffed them into three-ring
binders and gave them to coaches and
players to review. But the photos were
grainy and cumbersome to collate and
could not be annotated.
The N.F.L. spoke to several technology
companies before settling on Microsoft,
partly because it could produce a tablet
for the sideline and turn the Xbox into
a conduit for N.F.L. content. Microsoft,
meanwhile, saw the value in getting its
products in front of millions of fans.
“I’m not sure where sponsorship deals
end and media deals begin,” Rolapp
said. “People spend a lot of time on a
30-second commercial trying to convey
the attributes of their product. This actu-
ally shows it.”
Introduced in the preseason, the tab-
lets have worked largely as designed.
Brian Schneider, special teams coach
of the Seattle Seahawks, said he liked
that the photos were delivered to his
tablet in seconds because he often had
to chase players running on and off the
field. The clarity of the photos and the
ability to zoom in help him highlight the
blocking schemes and decoys of op-
posing teams.
“It’s so much clearer; you can get so
much more information,” Schneider
said at the Seahawks’ training complex.
“I used to wait for the photos to arrive,
and I’d get antsy. Now, I get the pho-
tos by the time the players come off the
field.”
Giants quarterback Eli Manning said
he liked being able to look at up to
four images on one screen instead of
thumbing through four pages, and he
can enlarge the images as needed.
“I look to see if there’s a way the de-
fense tipped its hand before the play
was called,” Manning said. “The tech-
nology is a help. The more information,
the better off we are.”
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While more sophisticated than the
old photos — which are still printed
as backups — the tablets have limits.
Teams can have only 13 of them on the
sideline and 12 in the coaches’ booth,
and all of them must be returned after
games so photos and annotations can
be erased. Players cannot take selfies
because the cameras have been dis-
abled, and the tablets have no other
programs installed and cannot be con-
nected to the Internet.
There have been hiccups, most no-
tably when the wireless network oper-
ated by the N.F.L. has crashed, forcing
teams to use the paper backups. Bill
Belichick, coach of the New England
Patriots, said the network had tempo-
rarily failed during games. But, he said,
the paper photo delivery has crashed,
too, not to mention the problems with
the radios that coaches use to speak to
their quarterbacks.
“I’d say that’s all kind of
part of the game,” Belichick
said last month. “I can’t think
of too many games where
we haven’t had something
along” the way.
Microsoft has made adjustments.
Software was adjusted to prevent the
tablet from overheating and to make it
possible to scroll through photos while
zoomed in, instead of having to back
out, select a new photo and zoom in
again. Microsoft also added a favorites
button so coaches could quickly return
to photos they liked. Wireless signal
and battery indicators were added.
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Microsoft Wins a Spot on the N.F.L.
Microsoft developed a Surface tablet computer for players and coaches to use during games
starting this season. Credit David Richard/Associated Press
SPORTS

7. Nets and Kings
Continue N.B.A.’s
Basketball
Diplomacy in China
By BECKY DAVIS
BEIJING—InChina,thereisonebastion
of American capitalism and culture that
nobody is shy about supporting: the
N.B.A. The country’s insatiable appetite
for American hoops was on full display
this week in Shanghai and Beijing,
where the Brooklyn Nets played the
Sacramento Kings.
The Global Games — as N.B.A.
teams’ games outside North America
have come to be known — are greeted
here as the sports equivalent of the
Academy Awards. It is the one time
each year that fans can glimpse retired
basketball stars and watch players
whom they have studied on CCTV 5
broadcasts play live.
“The N.B.A. is just too thrilling,” said
Wang Lianying, 24, smoothing an “I
♥ NBA” sticker on her cheek while a
Chinese M.C. directed the crowd at the
18,000-seat MasterCard Center to roar
its approval for the Brooklynettes, the
Nets’ cheer squad. “I was here last year
and just had to come again.”
The N.B.A. averages five million
viewers per game in China for its TV
broadcasts, three million more than for
its cable broadcasts in the United States
last year, and has 80 million followers
on its Chinese social media accounts,
making it the country’s most popular
sports league, by that measure.
With preseason pilgrimages like this
one, the league hopes to cultivate new
audiences and cash in on its growing
Chinese fan base. With an estimated
300 million Chinese people playing
basketball nationwide, the room still left
for market growth appears immense.
“For anyone that wants to go global,
you have to be relevant in China,” said
Brett Yormark, the Nets’ chief executive,
who has made six trips to China in
the past year and a half. Last year,
the Agricultural Bank of China, one of
China’s “Big Four” state-owned banks,
was a Nets sponsor, and Yormark said
the team was close to developing three
or four other major partnerships with
Chinese companies. “They see us as
the bridge from Beijing to Brooklyn.”
The N.B.A. is fortunate that the broad
appeal of its sport transcends national
lines. When even Xi Jinping, China’s
president, is a fan — he took
in a Los Angeles Lakers game while in
the United States in 2012 — you get
the privilege of promoting your brand
through cooperation with the Chinese
Giants
Briefed
on Ebola
Before
Dallas Trip
By BILL PENNINGTON
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — With a
game at Dallas on Sunday, the Giants
have taken steps to ensure that their
players, staff and entire traveling party
have been briefed on the deadly Ebola
government at its highest levels.
“It wasn’t that long ago
when people spoke of Ping-
Pong diplomacy, but I think
we’ve now entered the era
of basketball diplomacy,”
David Shoemaker, chief executive of
N.B.A. China, said.
Thanks to basketball diplomacy, a
number of American N.B.A. employees
had the chance to experience an
authentic, if less celebrated, slice of
modern Chinese reality while hunting for
some night life. After a dinner of crisp-
skin roast Beijing duck the night before
the game, Hwa Wu, stage manager at
N.B.A. Entertainment, and three other
N.B.A. employees found themselves
in Qianhai, where the streets of bars
cupping a placid urban lake have
English names like “Facing the Water
Beautiful Scenery Pub” and the live pop
music emanating from each battles to
be the most earsplitting.
The next night, crowds already
drained from the crush of rush hour
were subjected to a gantlet of scalpers
before being released from the maw of
the Beijing subway. Every four steps a
scalper stood sentinel, each slapping a
thick wad of crisp 100 renminbi notes
against his palms and accosting anyone
who made eye contact.
“Do you need tickets? How many? I’ve
got a great deal,” said one gentleman,
virus that has infected two health care
workers in a Dallas hospital, where one
man died of the disease last week.
Spurred by the N.F.L., which distribut-
ed an informational letter about Ebola
to every team on Monday, the Giants
provided employees with what amount-
ed to an Ebola fact sheet that included
several paragraphs about how Ebola
was spread, key risk factors and other
practical advice. In general, the letter
informed the teams that the chance of
players or employees contracting the
disease was extremely low. The letter
was written by the medical directors
of the Duke University Infection Con-
trol Outreach Network. The N.F.L. has
partnered with Duke in the past and has
regularly sent N.F.L. franchises perti-
nent medical information issued by the
who offered courtside seats with a
face value of 3,200 renminbi for 2,000
renminbi (about $325) and whose
cheapest nosebleed seats would have
still set a fan back 200 renminbi, a bit
over $30.
Inside the stadium, fans waited
impatiently all evening for the Nets to put
Kevin Garnett into the game, chanting,
“K.G.! K.G.!” during every timeout in
the hopes of getting him off the bench.
At halftime, Wang Shuo, 27, a lifelong
basketball fan, said that he was enjoying
the game, but also that he, like many
others, had come to see some star
players rather than support a particular
team. “The most exciting thing
all evening has been waiting
for K.G. to play.”
He never did, causing disappointed
fans to start trickling out in the fourth
quarter.
Except when breaking out the K.G.
chants, the crowd was subdued; at
times, it seemed almost as if the fans
might break out into golf claps.American
standards failed to translate and rouse
them — not the part of the “Cha Cha
Slide” that instructs everybody to clap
their hands, and certainly not the
Baha Men’s query, “Who let the dogs
out?” There was silence where each
responding “Who?” should have been.
“Last year, Kobe Bryant was here, so
the crowds were so much more high,
more full of energy,” said Jia Guo, a
university, a league spokesman said.
“At this point we do not advise screen-
ing of players or staff to make sure that
they have not had close contact with
anyone who traveled to or from areas
where Ebola is now endemic,” wrote
Drs. Daniel Sexton and Deverick An-
derson, who are also professors within
the infectious diseases division of Duke
University Medical Center.
“We do recommend that
medical personnel educate
their players and staff about
the need to inform club med-
ical personnel in the unlikely
event that they actually have
such contact. This informa-
cameraman for Chengdu Radio and TV.
Though the players were groomed to
say only the most positive things about
their interaction with Chinese fans, the
Nets guard Deron Williams nonetheless
admitted postgame that the crowd
lacked a certain energy. “At times it was
a little dull, but they like exciting plays,
and when those exciting plays happen,
they cheer,” he said.
The crowd was at its most enthusiastic
when the retired N.B.A. players Peja
Stojakovic, Vlade Divac and Mitch
Richmond were trotted out to center
court by a sequined Kings dance team
handler.
Terry Rhoads, managing director
of Zou Marketing, a strategic sports
branding firm, put the country’s
fascination with N.B.A. stars in context
by noting that fans here are always in
search of the most superlative athletes.
“They’re enamored with the best,” he
said.
When it comes to basketball, the N.B.A.
has that market cornered. China’s
own league, the Chinese Basketball
Association, remains dependent
on a Soviet-style system of player.
development that struggles to churn out
top talent — one of the country’s last
real traces of socialism. At Wednesday
night’s game, fans’ comparisons of the
Chinese league to the N.B.A. were met
with laughs and scoffs.
tion can then be used along
with consultation with local
public health departments
and local infectious disease
experts to assess wheth-
er any further actions are
needed.”
The letter continued: “Other than the
recommendation that medical person-
nel educate their staff about the need
to report exposures to persons who re-
cently traveled to or from West Africa,
additional new policies, procedures or
activities by team physicians and ath-
letic trainers designed to prevent Ebola
infections in their team members are
not recommended.”
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The Kings’ Darren Collison tried to get around the defense of Brook Lopez on Wednesday in the Nets’ 129-117 victory over the Kings in Bei-
jing. Credit Ng Han Guan/Associated Press

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