essay about your house in french

Welcome to this episode of French Coffee.

French Coffee is my French conversation group.

In this group, the goal is to gain confidence in speaking French and to express themselves more naturally in French.

If you are interested, the doors of the group are open, and you can join now.

This week at French Coffee, we will talk about our home, our house or apartment. We will also talk about the problems related to housing and our dream home, ideal.

I will answer a few questions that my students will answer as well.

The objective is:

to have an oral comprehension of what I am going to say
to learn new vocabulary on this theme which is a theme of everyday life.
to see an example of oral production on this theme

Present your home. Describe it:

My house is located in a small village of less than 1000 inhabitants. It is a large house of 195 square meters with a small garden.

The project is to divide this house in two to make two houses, with a part gite and a part where we live.

It is an old house, as it dates from the 17ᵉ century.

There is a lot of work that needs to be done in this house. We need to do some renovations and remodeling.

There is a living room with an open kitchen, four bedrooms, a bathroom, a toilet, a cellar and an attic.

What is your favorite aspect of your home?

My favorite part of my house is the kitchen that opens to the living room. It's a very warm, bright and pleasant space.

I have more motivation to cook because I feel good there.

In my old kitchen, I didn't feel good in it so I didn't feel like cooking.

What improvements would you like to make to your home?

There are many! There is the electricity to be redone already, because the electrical installation is not recent at all.

There is the renovation work to be done. In some rooms, the floor is not finished.

The windows need to be changed, because you can feel the air coming in, so it's not well insulated.

There is also the insulation of the roof to be redone.

There is already glass wool, but it is rotting and it is unhealthy.

After that, we also have to decorate the house when the work is finished.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this episode of French Coffee! If you want to come and chat about family with us, you can sign up here: French conversation group.

🇫🇷 I'll see you soon for new adventures, in French of course.

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Essay on Ma Maison In French – 100, 200, 500, 1000 Words

Essay on Ma Maison In French: Ma Maison, or “My House” in French, is a topic that holds a special place in the hearts of many. From the cozy warmth of a family home to the grandeur of a luxurious estate, our houses are a reflection of our personalities and lifestyles. In this essay, we will explore the significance of Ma Maison in French culture, the importance of home as a sanctuary, and the unique characteristics that make each house a special place to call our own.

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Ma Maison In French Essay Writing Tips

1. Start by introducing the topic of your essay, which is Ma Maison (My House) in French. Explain that you will be describing your house and the different rooms and features it has.

2. Begin by describing the exterior of your house. Talk about the size, color, and style of the house. Mention any unique features such as a garden, balcony, or porch.

3. Move on to describing the interior of your house. Start with the entrance or foyer, and then move on to the different rooms in the house such as the living room, kitchen, bedrooms, and bathrooms.

4. Describe each room in detail, mentioning the furniture, decorations, and any special features. For example, you could talk about the cozy sofa in the living room, the modern appliances in the kitchen, or the comfortable bed in the bedroom.

5. Talk about how each room is decorated and how it reflects your personal style and preferences. Mention any artwork, photos, or other decorations that you have chosen to display in your house.

6. Discuss the layout of your house and how it is organized to meet your needs and lifestyle. For example, you could talk about how the kitchen is located next to the dining room for easy access during meals, or how the bedrooms are located on the second floor for privacy.

7. Mention any renovations or improvements that you have made to your house to make it more comfortable and functional. Talk about any future plans you have for your house, such as adding a new room or updating the decor.

8. Conclude your essay by summarizing the key points you have made about Ma Maison. Reflect on what your house means to you and how it reflects your personality and values.

9. Proofread your essay carefully to check for any spelling or grammar errors. Make sure your writing is clear and concise, and that your ideas flow logically from one paragraph to the next.

10. Consider adding some personal anecdotes or experiences to make your essay more engaging and interesting for the reader. Share some memories or stories about your house that illustrate why it is special to you.

Essay on Ma Maison In French in 10 Lines – Examples

1. Ma Maison est située dans un petit village pittoresque en France. 2. Elle est une maison de campagne avec des murs en pierre et un toit en tuiles rouges. 3. Le jardin est rempli de fleurs colorées et d’arbres fruitiers. 4. À l’intérieur, il y a des poutres en bois apparentes et des meubles anciens. 5. La cuisine est spacieuse et lumineuse, avec une grande table en bois pour les repas en famille. 6. Le salon est confortable, avec un grand canapé et une cheminée pour les soirées d’hiver. 7. Il y a trois chambres à coucher, chacune décorée dans un style différent. 8. La chambre principale a un balcon donnant sur le jardin. 9. Ma Maison est l’endroit parfait pour se détendre et profiter de la tranquillité de la campagne. 10. C’est un lieu de rassemblement pour ma famille et mes amis, où nous partageons de bons repas et de beaux souvenirs.

Sample Essay on Ma Maison In French in 100-180 Words

Ma Maison est un endroit très spécial pour moi. C’est là où je me sens le plus à l’aise et en sécurité. Ma maison est située dans un petit village pittoresque entouré de verdure et de tranquillité.

Lorsque je rentre chez moi après une longue journée, je suis accueilli par le doux parfum de la cuisine de ma mère et le rire de ma famille. Ma maison est remplie de souvenirs et de moments précieux que nous avons partagés ensemble.

Chaque pièce de ma maison a une histoire à raconter, des murs qui résonnent de rires et de conversations. C’est un endroit où je peux être moi-même, sans jugement ni pression.

Ma maison est mon refuge, mon havre de paix. C’est là où je me sens le plus en harmonie avec moi-même et avec les autres. Je suis reconnaissant d’avoir un endroit aussi chaleureux et accueillant pour appeler chez moi.

Short Essay on Ma Maison In French in 200-500 Words

Ma Maison est un endroit très spécial pour moi. C’est l’endroit où je me sens le plus à l’aise et en sécurité. Ma maison est située dans un petit village pittoresque entouré de verdure et de tranquillité. Elle est de style traditionnel avec des murs en pierre et un toit en tuiles rouges.

En entrant dans ma maison, on est immédiatement accueilli par une atmosphère chaleureuse et accueillante. Le salon est décoré avec des meubles confortables et des coussins moelleux. Il y a une grande cheminée en pierre qui ajoute une touche de charme rustique à la pièce. C’est l’endroit idéal pour se détendre et passer du temps en famille.

La cuisine est l’une de mes pièces préférées de la maison. Elle est spacieuse et lumineuse, avec des armoires en bois et un plan de travail en marbre. J’adore passer du temps à cuisiner et à expérimenter de nouvelles recettes dans cette pièce. C’est aussi l’endroit où toute ma famille se réunit pour les repas et les discussions animées.

Ma chambre est mon sanctuaire personnel. Elle est décorée dans des tons apaisants de bleu et de blanc, avec un lit confortable et des draps doux. C’est l’endroit où je me retire pour me reposer et me ressourcer après une longue journée. J’aime m’asseoir près de la fenêtre et regarder le coucher de soleil sur les collines environnantes.

Le jardin qui entoure ma maison est un véritable havre de paix. Il est rempli de fleurs colorées, d’arbres fruitiers et d’herbes aromatiques. C’est l’endroit idéal pour se promener et se détendre en plein air. J’aime passer du temps à jardiner et à prendre soin de mes plantes.

Ma maison est bien plus qu’un simple bâtiment pour moi. C’est un lieu de souvenirs et de moments précieux partagés avec ma famille et mes amis. C’est là que j’ai grandi, ri, pleuré et appris tant de choses sur la vie. Ma maison est le reflet de qui je suis et de ce qui est important pour moi.

En conclusion, ma maison est un endroit unique et spécial qui occupe une place très importante dans mon cœur. C’est là que je me sens le plus chez moi et le plus heureux. Ma maison est bien plus qu’un simple lieu de résidence, c’est un lieu de vie et de bonheur.

Essay on Ma Maison In French in 1000-1500 Words

Ma Maison est un endroit spécial pour moi. C’est l’endroit où je me sens le plus à l’aise et en sécurité. C’est là où je peux être moi-même et me détendre après une longue journée. Ma maison est un refuge, un havre de paix où je peux me ressourcer et me retrouver avec ma famille.

Ma maison est située dans un petit village pittoresque, entouré de champs verdoyants et de collines ondulantes. C’est un endroit tranquille, loin de l’agitation de la ville. La maison elle-même est une belle bâtisse en pierre, avec des volets bleus et une porte en bois massif. Elle a un charme rustique et chaleureux qui me fait me sentir chez moi dès que je franchis le seuil.

En entrant dans ma maison, on est accueilli par un grand salon lumineux et spacieux. Les murs sont peints d’une couleur crème apaisante, et de grandes fenêtres laissent entrer la lumière du soleil. Il y a un grand canapé confortable et des fauteuils moelleux, parfaits pour se détendre et lire un livre. Au centre de la pièce, il y a une cheminée en pierre, qui répand une chaleur réconfortante les soirs d’hiver.

La cuisine est ma pièce préférée de la maison. C’est là que ma mère prépare de délicieux repas pour toute la famille. Les arômes alléchants de ses plats se répandent dans toute la maison, créant une atmosphère chaleureuse et accueillante. La cuisine est équipée de tous les appareils modernes, mais conserve un charme rustique avec ses meubles en bois et ses carreaux de céramique colorés.

Ma chambre est mon sanctuaire personnel. C’est là que je me retire pour me reposer et me ressourcer. Les murs sont peints d’une couleur apaisante et il y a un grand lit confortable au centre de la pièce. Des étagères remplies de livres et de photos de famille ornent les murs, créant une atmosphère chaleureuse et personnelle. Ma chambre est mon refuge, où je peux m’évader du monde extérieur et me retrouver avec mes pensées.

Le jardin qui entoure ma maison est un véritable havre de paix. Il est rempli de fleurs colorées, d’arbres fruitiers et d’herbes aromatiques. Il y a un petit étang où nagent des poissons colorés, et un banc sous un arbre où je peux m’asseoir et contempler la nature. Le jardin est l’endroit idéal pour se détendre et se ressourcer, loin du stress et de l’agitation de la vie quotidienne.

Ma maison est bien plus qu’un simple bâtiment. C’est un lieu chargé de souvenirs et d’émotions, où j’ai grandi et évolué en tant que personne. C’est là que j’ai ri, pleuré, aimé et appris. Ma maison est le reflet de qui je suis, de mes goûts, de mes valeurs et de mes rêves. C’est un endroit où je me sens en sécurité et aimé, entouré de ma famille et de mes proches.

En conclusion, ma maison est un endroit spécial pour moi. C’est là que je me sens le plus à l’aise et en sécurité, où je peux être moi-même et me détendre. Ma maison est un refuge, un havre de paix où je peux me ressourcer et me retrouver avec ma famille. C’est un lieu chargé de souvenirs et d’émotions, où j’ai grandi et évolué en tant que personne. Ma maison est bien plus qu’un simple bâtiment, c’est le reflet de qui je suis et de ce en quoi je crois.

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We're Alone: Essays

By Edwidge Danticat Graywolf: 192 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.

Essay collections appear infrequently on the lists of most popular nonfiction — memoirs and historical narratives dominate conversations about the genre. Those forms of nonfiction are wonderful in their own ways. They are also the versions that are closest to fiction. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it can exclude the unique offerings of the essay.

An essay collection presents a compressed reading experience, sometimes poetic, and often requiring the author to demonstrate the act of forming an opinion. In its most exalted form, the essay collection is about many things at once. Its goal is not to share information about a topic but to dramatize the formation of a perspective, the development of an informed point of view — a focus that makes the form much more dependent on the writer than the subject matter. “We’re Alone,” a collection of eight short essays by the celebrated Haitian American novelist and short story writer Edwidge Danticat, exemplifies that achievement.

Readers who have appreciated other voice-driven essay collections, such as Zadie Smith’s pandemic-inspired “Intimations,” Erica Caldwell’s “Wrong Is Not My Name,” Jordan Kisner’s “Thin Places,” Cathy Park Hong’s “Minor Feelings” or Elissa Gabbert’s “ The Unreality of Memory ,” will find something familiar with Danticat in “We’re Alone.” The thematic thread of this collection binds loosely around experiences of disconnection or isolation that are exacerbated by a sense of risk predicated on racial, political or social vulnerability. In the essay “A Rainbow in the Sky,” Danticat writes: “The less stable your house, the more terror you feel.” She has elegantly captured that those who face a storm with all foundations intact have a different relationship to the experience than those who were already struggling before it.

In the preface to the book, Danticat discloses that writing essays allows her to feel alone with herself and present with a reader. These pieces represent her outstretched hand, an invitation to spend shared time in reflection. Danticat took the book’s title from the French poem “Plage” by the Haitian writer Roland Chassagne, whose tragic history of imprisonment is also explored in the book. His poem envisions a night spent under palm trees, and the longing for the end of a deep disappointment. Here Danticat finds an early foothold into one of the book’s chief concerns: thresholds where someone’s feelings have been constricted for the sake of other people’s comfort. The title also invokes a plural self, a collective that shares in the writer’s experience of solitude and disaffection.

In the literary essay, a tradition that unites personal insight with anecdotes, evidence and reasoning, one of the most satisfying moments is finding where the writer’s logic breaks and she struggles to fully accommodate the proportions of her subject. Such moments make the inquiries appear vulnerable and honest, even when in reality they are simulations of sense-making. Not all essayists are invested in showing their struggle in understanding or are given the space to do so. But Danticat invites readers into the challenge of putting facts and feelings together. She excels at showing how hard it is to know what the right questions are to ask or how to answer them, and like many of us, she struggles to talk about difficult subjects, especially with her children.

For example, in “By the Time You Read This…,” Danticat debates how much and when to tell her children about how police violence affects the way Black people and immigrants think about safety. She writes, “Each time a young Black person is killed by a police officer or by a vigilante civilian, I ask myself if the time had come for me to write to my daughters a letter about Abner Louima and the long list of nonsurvivors who have come after him.” There is dignity in her doubt, which makes way for the kind of compassion that characterizes these essays.

Danticat’s insights are informed by accounts of the trials of friends and family: Her beloved mother wanders off in an airport; an uncle suffers from an irresolvable, progressive disorientation; Louima, a family friend, is attacked and raped by police; and two mentors, Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall, live through their final months. These experiences emphasize the possibility of loss and disconnection, reflecting a kind of hypervigilance that can be an inheritance of trauma. She approaches these accounts with the courage of an intentional witness, maintaining that perspective even when she looks beyond her own circle. In “Chronicles of a Death Foretold,” Danticat tells the story of a self-proclaimed prophetess who predicted the 2021 assassination of the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, and the collection’s penultimate essay, “Wozo, Not Mawozo,” examines the weeks following the kidnapping of Christian missionaries in Haiti in 2021.

These are clearly the essays of an accomplished novelist. They move swiftly through detailed anecdotes and varied landscapes, even when the principal action the speaker engages in is “thinking.” There is room in an essay for dramatic action, for the expression of the body as it relates to thought, which was somewhat lacking here. At times, I struggled to see the author as a figure in the dramatic action she cited. Even so, it’s a testament to Danticat’s skill that these brief, intense works about serious matters do not feel heavy. She brings us close enough to the trouble at hand that we cannot mistake what we have seen.

But we are not alone in trying to make sense of feelings that come from becoming a witness to this world. No one is.

Wendy S. Walters is the author of the prose collection “Multiply/Divide” and an associate professor of nonfiction at Columbia University.

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Cooper Hoffman (“Licorice Pizza”) is set to join Olivia Wilde in Gregg Araki ‘s provocative thriller ‘I Want Your Sex.’

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CAA Media Finance is set to handle U.S. rights. Arlie Day and Mike Page are associate producing and casting the picture.

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Real-Estate Shopping for the Apocalypse

Person in a hazmat suit vacuuming an underground shelter.

What if they’re right? What if a nuke drops, or climate change turns the world into a foaming puddle, or the next pandemic is spread through selfies? Billionaires have recently been spending millions building themselves customized bunkers, in the hope that they can ride out the apocalypse in splendor. In January, a video surfaced of the rapper Rick Ross bragging that his bunker will be better than Elon Musk’s bunker. (Musk is not known to have a bunker, but that’s a detail.) Ross’s bunker will have multiple “wings” and a “water maker.” Also, plenty of canned goods. Ross’s bunker might even have its own bunker. But what about me—and, if I’m being generous, you? Are there affordable underground shelters available for us to hole up in?

A few months back, I started to scan real-estate Web sites. Hmm, I wondered. Might throw pillows brighten up the underground scheelite mine in Beaver County, Utah, that was converted into a community fallout shelter during the Cold War (a steal at nine hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, when you consider how many light-bulb filaments you could make from the leftover tungsten you could knock loose)? Or how about the concrete-and-steel stronghold in Hilliard, Ohio, built by A.T. & T. and the Army in 1971 to protect the nation’s communications system in case of nuclear attack? It comes with a “1970’s-era smoking room.” (Note to self: Take up smoking a few months before world ends.) Would house guests get the hint if I mentioned that my new home had three-thousand-pound blast-proof doors? ($1.25 million for nine acres.)

I considered breaking the bank ($4.9 million) for a compound in Battle Creek, Michigan: more than two hundred and ninety acres encompassing several dwellings, the largest being a fourteen-thousand-square-foot affair that looks like a soap opera’s idea of a mansion, with indoor pool and “high-end” appliances (if there’s a Miele waffle-maker, I need that house!)—and, below, a spacious bunker with its own shooting range and grow room. (Phew! Who can survive without daily fresh fenugreek?) Unfortunately, the owner of that particular McBunker wouldn’t allow me to tour the place, because I couldn’t show proof of funding. This is a standard requirement when shopping for bunkers; so few “comps” exist that banks cannot assess their value, and thus won’t give mortgages.

After weeks of scrolling, I found a handful of dream hideaways on the market whose sellers were willing to let me take a tour. There were two bunkers in Montana, one of which sleeps at least ninety; a prepper bunker in Missouri that features an inconspicuous entrance and a conspicuous arsenal of guns (not included in sale, but makes you think twice before criticizing the kitchen-countertop choice); a defunct missile-silo site in North Dakota; and a twenty-thousand-square-foot cave in Arkansas used by its previous owner to raise earthworms. (Favorite bit of real-estate marketing copy: “The worm room speaks for itself.”)

Two Earth Sheltered (Bunker) Homes on +/-7 acres in the beautiful Paradise Valley of SW MT. . . . The second earth home shelter is +/-6000 sf. . . . Over 300 feet long underground, with 2 floor levels living area, and a basement storage area. Many small BR, with options for bunk beds; 1 master suite. 11 toilets, 7 showers, 15 sinks. 2 alcohol cook stoves/ovens. . . . —$1,550,000, Survival Realty

I decided to tour the larger of the two advertised earth homes in Montana. Theresa Lunn, a local real-estate broker who specializes in bunker sales, showed me around. From the outside, this hole in the ground looked as if it could be the home of a paranoid hobbit. Built into an otherwise unremarkable snow-speckled knoll is a three-foot-thick concrete slab, artfully flanked by boulders. Positioned in the slab was a rusty steel door so tiny that I would have to duck to enter. Lunn took out a small key and struggled for a long while to open a padlock that secured a heavy chain around the door handles.

We were at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of Paradise Valley, not far from Yellowstone Park, but exactly where, I cannot reveal. I promised Lunn, who’d promised the seller, that the location would remain secret.

She had told me earlier that this was the largest of four getaways originally built in 1989 by a member of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a cult led by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who predicted that nuclear Armageddon would occur in the spring of 1990, and urged her thousands of followers to bunker down ASAP . (She’d previously sent out a “save the date’’ claiming that the world would end the previous October, but she changed her mind.)

After Lunn got the door open, she ushered me into what looked like a large drainage pipe with ten feet of headroom, painted in a cheery shade of teal. This was the bunker’s entry hall. I made a mental note that, if I were to move in, I’d relocate the cartons of apple juice, canning jars, and other jumbled supplies piled there to the food pantry in the basement. Better yet, I’d toss them. I noticed that a bunch of the stuff was expired. Among the stored food: a three-foot-tall barrel of walnuts and cartons of barley, adzuki beans, “health food” mayonnaise, “home storage” wheat, and abundant bacon bits.

Just past the entryway, there is, for your convenience after a long day out in the radiation, a roomy decontamination shower alongside handy instructional posters. For example, “Eyes: Irrigate with large amounts of normal saline or water. Direct flow from inner angle (close to nose) toward outer angle of eye. Save fluid and survey. . . . If okay, wrap [self] in blanket and proceed to your room.” “Your room” would likely be a nook the size of a substantial walk-in closet containing four wooden bunks; some of the beds I saw were painted a Laura Ashley-adjacent shade of lilac (which coördinated with the chintz floral coverlets but not with the brown industrial carpeting or the blobby blown-insulation walls). If you are lucky enough to get the master bedroom, you’ll find a good amount of space and privacy, as well as a life-size marble-composite statue of the Virgin Mary watching over you. On a side table, I spied a souvenir copy of USA Today from September 12, 2001, with the headline “ ACT OF WAR .”

“What I think is the most inadequate thing about the bunker is the laundry facility,” Lunn said. “When everybody’s out working in the fields or whatever, growing their own stuff, and then comes home. . . .” She raised an eyebrow. On a more positive note, she pointed out that the temperature never drops much below forty-eight degrees: “The cool thing is that the pipes never freeze!” When I asked her whom she viewed as her ideal buyer, she said, “It takes a special type. But at this price point, you couldn’t even pour the concrete used here.”

On the drive back to my hotel, I asked Lunn, partly as a joke, where the weapons were kept. “You weren’t shown them,” she said, dryly, then explained one of the regular gambits of the bunker-selling trade: “It’s very common to put in the listing that there are hidden doors and bookcases and rooms that will be shown to the buyer only once the property is purchased.” As we drove through picturesque mountain scenery, Lunn said that eighty per cent of the houses we were passing had bunkers underneath. There isn’t much bunker inventory these days, however, because owners don’t want to sell.

What was the most pressing fear, I asked. “You can just feel the general uneasiness,” she answered, and explained that a lot of her clients are “in the know”—meaning former C.I.A. or F.B.I. agents, ex-military, or ex-police. She asked, “Do you know why they all want property above twenty-five hundred feet?” Hint: It’s not for the views. An ex- NASA guy had told her that soon the water will rise, “and climate change has nothing to do with it.” Rather, it’s because “two or three planets or asteroids are going to collide and mess up the natural spinning of the Earth.”

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I asked to what extent current events affect the bunker market. “Business improved after the Baltimore bridge collapsed,” she said. “Nothing like a big old boat taking out a bridge.” (Lunn has heard that the Russians or the Chinese were behind it, but let’s not get into that.) Among the eight or nine buyers who’ve come to tour the bunker I saw, she said that most were looking for a solid investment and protection against “an N.B.C. event”—nuclear, biological, or chemical devastation. “Or civil unrest, if there’s another biological attack on the country—as there has been once,” she said with a grim smile, referring to COVID -19.

The address of the bunker that Lunn showed me that day was listed as “123 Discreet Location, Montana.” I realized that selling something whose selling point is that nobody knows where it is presents a marketing challenge. Before heading out on my bunker tour, I had asked one broker about visiting Vivos Indiana, a multilevel underground complex “strategically located in Midwestern America,” according to its Web site. It’s operated on a “country club ownership model”; vacancies go for thirty-five thousand dollars per person. I was told that, as a reporter, if I were to visit, I would be picked up at the nearest town, Terre Haute, and, after I surrendered my phone, would be either put in a van with blacked-out windows, or be blindfolded several miles from the listing. I declined, thereby missing out on seeing what the Vivos Web site describes as an “impervious” complex that was built during the Cold War. Boasting twelve-foot ceilings, a checkerboard backsplash in the kitchen, plenty of board games, and leather sofas that look as if they came from Restoration Hardware, the place is guaranteed to withstand a twenty-megaton blast. And they’re concerned about intruders?

According to a 2023 YouGov poll of a thousand respondents, sixty-six per cent are worried that the human race will be wiped out by nuclear weapons; roughly the same number worry that we will be killed off by a world war; fifty-three per cent think the next pandemic could do us in; fifty-two per cent bet on climate change; forty-six per cent on A.I.; forty-two per cent on an act of God; thirty-seven per cent on an asteroid; thirty-one per cent global inability to have children; twenty-five per cent an alien invasion. Only a small chunk of people believe the end will come in the next ten years. But for the eight per cent who believe it’s “very likely,” that’s soon enough to make their starter home their finisher home, too. In 2022, the Pew Research Center found that thirty-nine per cent of adults in the United States believe we are living in end times.

Discover the ultimate retreat . . . a custom-built Underground Prepper Bunker that perfectly balances security and comfort. . . . Step inside the 1,250-square-foot bunker and experience a space designed to be both welcoming and practical. With three well-appointed bedrooms and two full bathrooms, there’s plenty of room for family or guests . . . while the large kitchen and expansive pantry make meal preparation and food storage effortless. . . . The full-size shower and tub provide a refreshing escape from the demands of self-sufficient living. —$284,900, Special Finds, Unique Properties

These are the directions a visitor is given for how to reach the bunker listed above. On the outskirts of Mountain Grove (a town motto: “Take a closer look”) is a country road. Take that, and after you pass a lot of farmland and occasional fields of grazing cattle, you’ll come to a sign.

NOTICE NO TRESPASSING Anyone Found On This Property Will Be Shot On Sight. No Government Entity Is Allowed On This Property. If You Wish To Enter You Must Have a Valid Warrant.

Wouldn’t a few potted petunias be a better way to enhance curb appeal? But now you’re on the premises; if still alive, read on. If an intruder: the barnlike galvanized-steel structure in front of you is a decoy; it contains twelve hundred and fifty square feet of nothing. The real house is underneath, and is breachable only via a set of stairs that is revealed when a diversionary staircase is retracted, using a remote control.

This bunker is for sale by owner, and the owner is Malachi Twigg, an Orthodox Jew who wears a yarmulke on his head and a Glock 17 on his hip. While Twigg showed me around, he explained that he built his retreat after moving from Chicago twelve years ago, as a precaution against tornadoes and invasions. Except for the lack of windows—“Nope, never miss them. You want to look outside, go outside,” he told me—the space feels like a regular apartment, with nice-sized rooms branching off a central hallway. Amenities include cedar-lined closets, taupe wall-to-wall carpeting, and an in-unit washer and dryer. Mounted in a wooden case, where others might have displayed their Hummel figurines, was a pair of assault rifles.

I asked Twigg how old he was. “Fifty-four? Oh, fifty-six,” he said. “What’s the point in counting during end times?” He explained that Biblical math, which is evidently very precise, suggests that—to make a long Armageddon short—“a bunch of countries” are going to gang up against Israel within six years; the Messiah will “get personally involved” and “wipe out two-thirds of the world’s population.” But, wait, there’s a feel-good ending: “All bad people will be gone.” Specifically, he added, in two hundred and sixteen years.

Most definitions of a bunker stipulate that the shelter be underground and used as protection from attack (or storms). In other words, dirt plus danger. Although the word comes from a Scottish term for “bench” which first appeared in the eighteenth century, bunkers have been around a lot longer than that. Consider, for instance, the sprawling subterranean cities of Cappadocia, in present-day Turkey. The cities’ groundwork was laid in ancient times, but they served as hideouts from the Muslim Arabs during the Arab-Byzantine Wars, starting in the seventh century A.D., and they continued to be used for centuries, affording refuge from the baddie du jour. Bunkers (and their cousins, trenches) were used extensively in Europe during both World Wars as cover against enemy fire, storage for weapons, and command centers. It was the Cold War, though, that ushered in the golden age of bunkers. Several European governments considered it their responsibility to provide safe hiding places for their citizens. No nation took this more seriously than Switzerland. In the nineteen-sixties, the country mandated the construction of shelter space for every inhabitant; today there are roughly nine million bunker spots for a population of 8.8 million—enough for some refugees to bring a plus-one.

In this country, the powers that be took a different approach—one made explicit in the subtitle of Garrett Graff’s 2017 book, “Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself—While the Rest of Us Die.” Although President Eisenhower opposed a federally financed shelter program, worried that it could lead to a too-powerful military-industrial complex, President Kennedy implemented a program by which basements in churches and schools were turned into fallout shelters, marked with those signs that resemble yellow-and-black pizza slices.

Meanwhile, even if you ended up blown to smithereens, your leaders would be thriving in undercover fortresses. A number of these facilities remain, including one in Culpeper, Virginia, that was meant to house hundreds of Federal Reserve employees. Probably the most ambitious government bunker was code-named Project Greek Island, a shelter seven hundred and twenty feet beneath the Greenbrier resort, in West Virginia. Built clandestinely in the late fifties, it was intended to house the entire U.S. Congress. After passing through a twenty-five-ton blast door that blends in with the Greenbrier’s garden-club décor, our elected officials could safely be squirrelled away à la Dr. Strangelove. The facility had a cafeteria that could serve four hundred, a television studio, and a trash incinerator that could do double duty as a crematorium. It is now open to the public for tours.

This property, for sale by owner, was one of 4 Sprint Missile Sites located approximately 10-20 miles from a central radar control site. Constructed in the early 1970’s, these bases were a last line of defense meant to intercept ICBMs coming over the North Pole. . . . This facility would make an ideal investment opportunity for a number of uses. Among them being, but not limited to: . secure survival retreat/community . secure data storage facility . cannabis grow site . cold storage facility —$799,500, ClearingandSettlement.com

From my hotel in Langdon, North Dakota, a small town seventeen miles from the Canadian border which holds the U.S. record outside Alaska for the longest stretch of below-zero weather, it’s an easy fifteen-minute drive to Anna and Jim Cleveland’s nuclear-bomb-resistant compound. I would soon learn that it’s an easy drive from anywhere to anywhere in North Dakota; as the Avis car-rental guy at the Grand Forks airport told me, “There are no turns in North Dakota.” You know you’ve arrived at the Clevelands’ place when you see two Stonehenge-y monoliths of concrete rising from the earth. One is an exhaust stack for the generators that used to be buried below; the other is a fresh-air intake. Clustered nearby are twelve shallow fibreglass domes that look like a conference of igloos designed by Louis Kahn. Each dome caps a thirty-five-foot-deep silo that formerly housed a short-range missile.

Anna and Jim Cleveland, fifty and sixty-three, welcomed me to their maximum-security home. Because of cost considerations and shifts in strategy, Congress voted to decommission their missile base, along with the four other sites that made up the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, in October of 1975, one day after the facilities became fully operational.

We entered the houseplant-filled hallway of what was once the aboveground guard shack. In this building, a twenty-four-hundred-square-foot one-story structure made of beige poured concrete with a flat roof and a row of windows, security personnel would vet visitors before opening the gate that allowed entry onto the premises. For the last nine years, the guard shack has been home to Anna and Jim, plus various permutations of their thirteen children and two cats.

“We had a good-sized home in Nebraska, but when we had family get-togethers it was too small,” Jim said.

“And taxes were killing us,” Anna added.

Jim: “It’s not that we were necessarily looking for a bunker, but when you have a structure that’s underground, you don’t get taxed on the underground.” (Fact check: The taxation of underground shelters is largely determined by the state or municipality.)

They nabbed the property, which had been derelict for forty years, for next to nothing in a General Services Administration auction. But turning their bargain-basement fixer-upper into living quarters was daunting, and more expensive than they’d anticipated. They hadn’t planned on cramming the whole family into the guard shack. Anna said, “So what we envisioned when we bought the place just didn’t work.”

Their dream gone askew, the Clevelands put their missile base on the market only a year after they purchased it. In the ten years since then, fewer than five potential buyers have gone to see it. Hundreds have phoned or written about the listing, however, detailing such fantasies as turning the property into a survival community, a munitions plant, a cryptocurrency data center, or a mausoleum for cremated remains. Most inquiries, the Clevelands said, are fear-driven. “Everybody’s got a theory,” Anna said, “and everybody is just freaking out about something.”

Jim chimed in, “We even had somebody that kept talking about zombies.” Care to place a bid?

Before closing the deal, let’s walk the hundred or so yards from the guard shack to the bunker itself and take a quick tour of the underscape. The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock. Nearby, something that looks like a maquette of a Richard Serra sculpture is a gun-discharge station, a rusty cannister once used by G.I.s to insure that their guns were bullet-free before bringing them indoors. (It could make a serviceable umbrella stand.) After you pass through the exterior doors, you traverse a seventy-five-foot concrete tunnel, lit by strings of Christmas lights. (“Cheery,” Jim said.) At the end of the tunnel is a blast door, a behemoth weighing several tons. Twenty feet later is a second blast door, which opens onto a hundred-and-forty-five-foot hallway.

Inside, it’s so quiet that you can hear a nuclear bomb not drop. The Clevelands walked me through a warren of interconnected chambers. First we visited what they call the Tentacle Room—a gray space that had clusters of flexible electrical conduit dangling from the ceiling like rigatoni. Next was the Suspended Room, where, back in the day, missile-firing computers sat on a metal platform that was suspended from the ceiling by giant Wonka-esque springs so as to minimize any shaking caused by a nuclear detonation in the vicinity. Other cavernous rooms contained industrial fans, metal lockers, and a movie-theatre-size popcorn-maker.

When the Clevelands’ kids were young and the guard shack felt cramped, they used to go down into the bunker to play video games and do homework. Jim and Anna now use a section of the windowless lair as a studio; they have a business making mail-order kits for model-railroad enthusiasts. It can get chilly twenty-four feet below the earth’s surface, so the Clevelands initially heated the space with coal. This proved unwieldy. I saw, scattered around, the boiler they installed for the coal, the forklift they used to unload it, and the long lineup of metal bins in which it was stored. “That was silly, but we do silly things,” Jim said. Today, they wear layers of sweaters and use space heaters when they work.

Vincent van Gogh sitting at bar with friend.

The studio itself had a Santa’s-workshop vibe. The boxes lining the shelves were brimming with adorable miniature versions of the world above, intended to accessorize toy-train environments (the labels read, for instance, “Beanery Diner,” “Pete’s Tavern,” “Barrel and Box Company”). There’s room to accommodate thirty or more elves, but before reporting to work after a nuclear attack, they’d have to deposit their radiation-contaminated pointy shoes in the closet marked “ FOOT GEAR DROP. ”

Most of the people who visit or call about the bunker are “driven by panic stuff,” Jim said. “But we are putting a positive spin on the marketing. This is a great community in a beautiful place to live. If the end of the world happens, you’re in a good spot, too. But guess what? The sun’s going to come up tomorrow, and my taxes are still due.”

If vintage charm isn’t your thing, you might consider a hot-off-the-factory-floor bunker from Atlas Survival Shelters, prefab or custom-made to your whims and worries. “I sell on average a bunker a day,” Ron Hubbard, the founder of the company, told me over the phone from his headquarters, in Sulphur Springs, Texas. “Sales have been quite steady since COVID started, in 2020, and it hasn’t slowed down. The war in Ukraine was a big influence, and the war in Israel gave us a tiny spike,” he added.

Hubbard said that his customers are typically married, about fifty-five. Sixty per cent are male, ninety-nine per cent are conservative Christians. “At this time, Democrats are not buying bunkers,” he said. “I don’t understand it, but I guess they think everything’s fine.” Most Atlas shelters cost between a hundred thousand and five hundred thousand dollars, but they can go as low as twenty thousand and as high as several million. At the most affordable end is a precast-concrete number that Hubbard calls “a true working man’s off-the-shelf.” It comes with four cot-like bunks inside what looks like a giant bowler hat, but one with a watertight aluminum hatch and a polypropylene ladder.

I asked Hubbard if he’d seen the rendering that recently circulated of a bunker planned for a mogul in the U.S. which has a thirty-foot-deep moat that can set itself on fire in the event of an assault. He hadn’t, but he said that he’d worked with such high-net-worth individuals as the Tate brothers of Romania and the YouTuber known as MrBeast—he even lent a bunker for the Kardashians to try on their reality show. “Your normal non-eccentric billionaire is not wasteful with his money,” he told me. “They might put in a few bunkers, but they don’t want to spend more than a million for each. They might want a game room, but they don’t get too crazy.”

Hubbard has his own bunker, of course—a twelve-year-old fifty-footer equipped with a Swiss air system, gas-tight doors, and a mudroom. In December of 2012, he stayed inside it for eleven days, coinciding with the time frame that many people (reading the Mayan calendar erroneously) predicted would see the end of the world. Did he feel sheepish about that? “Look, I make bunkers,” he said. “I’m not crazy. But if the world did end, at least I was in my bunker.”

If you have been looking for your own personal safe place, you already know properties like this don’t come along very often. . . . This is a legitimate very large and spectacular dry limestone cave. . . . The first of the three large rooms inside the cave is what my friend called the worm room. It was in this room that he ran his business of raising earthworms. . . . He had a very successful business going and shipped his worms and worm casting fertilizer to all parts of the US. . . . The worm room is . . . silent, still, and ancient. It is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And the musical acoustics of the room need to be heard in person to be fully appreciated. —$1,500,000, Survival Realty

Bring your architect and your imagination—and maybe a flashlight—and, oh, while you’re at it, perhaps a pail to catch the water dripping from the stalactites. But first let yourself onto the property—ninety acres of deciduous woods in Arkansas with a trailer home and two large unfinished structures made from upcycled materials like tires. Locate the fence with the handwritten corrugated-metal sign that reads “ WE BITE GO AWAY ,” a nice complement to the one at the cave entrance that says “ TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT. SURVIVORS WILL BE SHOT AGAIN .” The two signs were posted by the previous owner, a semi-recluse named John Nelson (in the event that his food stockpiles ran out, he planned to eat squirrels). Nelson, who died in 2022, willed the cave and its environs to three friends.

Two of those friends agreed to show me around the place: John Perry, a potter who looks like a folksinger and describes himself as a Bernie guy, and Tom Crum, a retired FEMA employee who, with his painter’s-brush mustache and a pair of overalls, called to mind the host of a children’s TV show. Marketing the cave as a bunker was the idea of the third friend, Rob Repin, a gold miner who lives in Washington State. Noting the high number of anxious rich people around these days, Rob wrote in an e-mail to me, “advertising as an underground shelter seems like the most bang for the buck.” In 2015, he’d bought part of a railroad tunnel in Oregon and flipped it for a hefty profit.

As Perry and Crum led me into the cave’s front room, where Nelson slept and ate, I was reminded of those old Lower East Side apartments that had the bathtub in the kitchen: Nelson had set up a shower and a faucet by connecting pipes to a rain barrel. He’d installed electricity, but the lights weren’t working the day I visited. Next stop was the vaunted worm room, reached by tiptoeing over the dirt floor. It was here, in an open space bigger than three pickleball courts, with a ceiling height of fifteen to twenty feet, that Nelson’s tens of thousands of earthworms lived, in plastic kiddie pools.

“Tell her about the time the worms—” Crum said to Perry.

“Well,” Perry interrupted, “one time, the power had gone out, and John heard this sound through the whole cave.” Perry made a slurping noise. “The earthworms were crawling all over the walls. And glistening. That’s why he kept the lights on all the time.” Evidently, if you’re a worm, lights-out means “Paaar-ty!”

Using our phone flashlights, we stumbled through a narrow passageway, through stacks of Styrofoam cups that Nelson had packed the worms in before shipping them to his worm customers. “The cave goes on for miles. I wish we had more lights, so you could see how beautiful it is,” Perry said. “Lights-out” had become a trigger phrase for me, but luckily we called it quits and made our way back to sunshine.

Later, musing about other uses for the vast worm room, I envisioned an ideal home theatre for staging a Plato-inspired shadow play or an immersive “Flintstones” remake. Or, with a cute sectional sofa, soft lighting, and a cozy area rug, you could turn this man cave into a woman cave. A skylight might be nice, too.

The next night, arriving home from my bunker-shopping trip, tired and jittery, I opened my apartment door and heard a sustained, ear-shattering beeping. My heart began to pound. Was this it ? The end?! Nope. My smoke detector needed a new battery. My doomsayer friends weren’t right. Yet. ♦

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French rugby player Hugo Auradou arrives from Mendoza to the airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. He and teammate Oscar Jegou were arrested following charges of sexual assault after France played Argentina in Mendoza on July 6. (AP Photo/Virginia Chaile)

BUENOS AIRES – Argentine prosecutors said Monday they would let two French rugby players accused of violently raping a woman fly home, even as the explosive case remained under investigation.

A judge in Argentina’s western city of Mendoza, where the alleged assault took place, still must sign off on the decision, which clears the way for the departure of the two French national team players, Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou. The 21-year-old athletes were arrested in early July after a woman filed a complaint accusing them of repeatedly raping her. They maintain their innocence.

As a Teenager in Europe, I Went to Nudist Beaches All the Time. 30 Years Later, Would the Experience Be the Same?

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In July 2017, I wrote an article about toplessness for Vogue Italia. The director, actor, and political activist Lina Esco had emerged from the world of show business to question public nudity laws in the United States with 2014’s Free the Nipple . Her film took on a life of its own and, thanks to the endorsement from the likes of Miley Cyrus, Cara Delevingne, and Willow Smith, eventually developed into a whole political movement, particularly on social media where the hashtag #FreeTheNipple spread at lightning speed. The same year as that piece, actor Alyssa Milano tweeted “me too” and encouraged others who had been sexually assaulted to do the same, building on the movement activist Tarana Burke had created more than a decade earlier. The rest is history.

In that Vogue article, I chatted with designer Alessandro Michele about a shared memory of our favorite topless beaches of our youth. Anywhere in Italy where water appeared—be it the hard-partying Riviera Romagnola, the traditionally chic Amalfi coast and Sorrento peninsula, the vertiginous cliffs and inlets of Italy’s continuation of the French Côte d’Azur or the towering volcanic rocks of Sicily’s mythological Riviera dei Ciclopi—one was bound to find bodies of all shapes and forms, naturally topless.

In the ’90s, growing up in Italy, naked breasts were everywhere and nobody thought anything about it. “When we look at our childhood photos we recognize those imperfect breasts and those bodies, each with their own story. I think of the ‘un-beauty’ of that time and feel it is actually the ultimate beauty,” Michele told me.

Indeed, I felt the same way. My relationship with toplessness was part of a very democratic cultural status quo. If every woman on the beaches of the Mediterranean—from the sexy girls tanning on the shoreline to the grandmothers eating spaghetti al pomodoro out of Tupperware containers under sun umbrellas—bore equally naked body parts, then somehow we were all on the same team. No hierarchies were established. In general, there was very little naked breast censorship. Free nipples appeared on magazine covers at newsstands, whether tabloids or art and fashion magazines. Breasts were so naturally part of the national conversation and aesthetic that Ilona Staller (also known as Cicciolina) and Moana Pozzi, two porn stars, cofounded a political party called the Love Party. I have a clear memory of my neighbor hanging their party’s banner out his window, featuring a topless Cicciolina winking.

A lot has changed since those days, but also since that initial 2017 piece. There’s been a feminist revolution, a transformation of women’s fashion and gender politics, the absurd overturning of Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction in New York, the intensely disturbing overturning of Roe v Wade and the current political battle over reproductive rights radiating from America and far beyond. One way or another, the female body is very much the site of political battles as much as it is of style and fashion tastes. And maybe for this reason naked breasts seem to populate runways and street style a lot more than they do beaches—it’s likely that being naked at a dinner party leaves more of a permanent mark than being naked on a glamorous shore. Naked “dressing” seems to be much more popular than naked “being.” It’s no coincidence that this year Saint Laurent, Chloé, Ferragamo, Tom Ford, Gucci, Ludovic de Saint Sernin, and Valentino all paid homage to sheer dressing in their collections, with lacy dresses, see-through tops, sheer silk hosiery fabric, and close-fitting silk dresses. The majority of Anthony Vaccarello’s fall 2024 collection was mostly transparent. And even off the runway, guests at the Saint Laurent show matched the mood. Olivia Wilde appeared in a stunning see-through dark bodysuit, Georgia May Jagger wore a sheer black halter top, Ebony Riley wore a breathtaking V-neck, and Elsa Hosk went for translucent polka dots.

In some strange way, it feels as if the trends of the ’90s have swapped seats with those of today. When, in 1993, a 19-year-old Kate Moss wore her (now iconic) transparent, bronze-hued Liza Bruce lamé slip dress to Elite Model Agency’s Look of the Year Awards in London, I remember seeing her picture everywhere and feeling in awe of her daring and grace. I loved her simple sexy style, with her otherworldly smile, the hair tied back in a bun. That very slip has remained in the collective unconscious for decades, populating thousands of internet pages, but in remembering that night Moss admitted that the nude look was totally unintentional: “I had no idea why everyone was so excited—in the darkness of Corinne [Day’s] Soho flat, the dress was not see-through!” That’s to say that nude dressing was usually mostly casual and not intellectualized in the context of a larger movement.

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But today nudity feels loaded in different ways. In April, actor and author Julia Fox appeared in Los Angeles in a flesh-colored bra that featured hairy hyper-realist prints of breasts and nipples, and matching panties with a print of a sewn-up vagina and the words “closed” on it, as a form of feminist performance art. Breasts , an exhibition curated by Carolina Pasti, recently opened as part of the 60th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Franchetti and showcases works that span from painting and sculpture to photography and film, reflecting on themes of motherhood, empowerment, sexuality, body image, and illness. The show features work by Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois, and an incredible painting by Bernardino Del Signoraccio of Madonna dell’Umiltà, circa 1460-1540. “It was fundamental for me to include a Madonna Lactans from a historical perspective. In this intimate representation, the Virgin reveals one breast while nurturing the child, the organic gesture emphasizing the profound bond between mother and child,” Pasti said when we spoke.

Through her portrayal of breasts, she delves into the delicate balance of strength and vulnerability within the female form. I spoke to Pasti about my recent musings on naked breasts, which she shared in a deep way. I asked her whether she too noticed a disparity between nudity on beaches as opposed to the one on streets and runways, and she agreed. Her main concern today is around censorship. To Pasti, social media is still far too rigid around breast exposure and she plans to discuss this issue through a podcast that she will be launching in September, together with other topics such as motherhood, breastfeeding, sexuality, and breast cancer awareness.

With summer at the door, it was my turn to see just how much of the new reread on transparency would apply to beach life. In the last few years, I noticed those beaches Michele and I reminisced about have grown more conservative and, despite being the daughter of unrepentant nudists and having a long track record of militant topless bathing, I myself have felt a bit more shy lately. Perhaps a woman in her 40s with two children is simply less prone to taking her top off, but my memories of youth are populated by visions of bare-chested mothers surveilling the coasts and shouting after their kids in the water. So when did we stop? And why? When did Michele’s era of “un-beauty” end?

In order to get back in touch with my own naked breasts I decided to revisit the nudist beaches of my youth to see what had changed. On a warm day in May, I researched some local topless beaches around Rome and asked a friend to come with me. Two moms, plus our four children, two girls and two boys of the same ages. “Let’s make an experiment of this and see what happens,” I proposed.

The kids all yawned, but my friend was up for it. These days to go topless, especially on urban beaches, you must visit properties that have an unspoken nudist tradition. One of these in Rome is the natural reserve beach at Capocotta, south of Ostia, but I felt a bit unsure revisiting those sands. In my memory, the Roman nudist beaches often equated to encounters with promiscuous strangers behind the dunes. I didn’t want to expose the kids, so, being that I am now a wise adult, I went ahead and picked a compromise. I found a nude-friendly beach on the banks of the Farfa River, in the rolling Sabina hills.

We piled into my friend’s car and drove out. The kids were all whining about the experiment. “We don’t want to see naked mums!” they complained. “Can’t you just lie and say you went to a nudist beach?”

We parked the car and walked across the medieval fairy-tale woods until we reached the path that ran along the river. All around us were huge trees and gigantic leaves. It had rained a lot recently and the vegetation had grown incredibly. We walked past the remains of a Roman road. The colors all around were bright green, the sky almost fluorescent blue. The kids got sidetracked by the presence of frogs. According to the indications, the beach was about a mile up the river. Halfway down the path, we bumped into a couple of young guys in fanny packs. I scanned them for signs of quintessential nudist attitude, but realized I actually had no idea what that was. I asked if we were headed in the right direction to go to “the beach”. They nodded and gave us a sly smile, which I immediately interpreted as a judgment about us as mothers, and more generally about our age, but I was ready to vindicate bare breasts against ageism.

We reached a small pebbled beach, secluded and bordered by a huge trunk that separated it from the path. A group of girls was there, sharing headphones and listening to music. To my dismay they were all wearing the tops and bottoms of their bikinis. One of them was in a full-piece bathing suit and shorts. “See, they are all wearing bathing suits. Please don’t be the weird mums who don’t.”

At this point, it was a matter of principle. My friend and I decided to take our bathing suits off completely, if only for a moment, and jumped into the river. The boys stayed on the beach with full clothes and shoes on, horrified. The girls went in behind us with their bathing suits. “Are you happy now? my son asked. “Did you prove your point?”

I didn’t really know what my point actually was. I think a part of me wanted to feel entitled to those long-gone decades of naturalism. Whether this was an instinct, or as Pasti said, “an act that was simply tied to the individual freedom of each woman”, it was hard to tell. At this point in history, the two things didn’t seem to cancel each other out—in fact, the opposite. Taking off a bathing suit, at least for my generation who never had to fight for it, had unexpectedly turned into a radical move and maybe I wanted to be part of the new discourse. Also, the chances of me going out in a fully sheer top were slim these days, but on the beach it was different. I would always fight for an authentic topless experience.

After our picnic on the river, we left determined to make our way—and without children—to the beaches of Capocotta. In truth, no part of me actually felt very subversive doing something I had been doing my whole life, but it still felt good. Once a free breast, always a free breast.

This article was originally published on British Vogue .

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Thousands of students across the country will soon be finding out their GCSE results and thinking about the next steps in their education.

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When is GCSE results day 2024?

GCSE results day will be taking place on Thursday the 22 August.

The results will be made available to schools on Wednesday and available to pick up from your school by 8am on Thursday morning.

Schools will issue their own instructions on how and when to collect your results.

When did we change to a number grading scale?

The shift to the numerical grading system was introduced in England in 2017 firstly in English language, English literature, and maths.

By 2020 all subjects were shifted to number grades. This means anyone with GCSE results from 2017-2020 will have a combination of both letters and numbers.

The numerical grading system was to signal more challenging GCSEs and to better differentiate between students’ abilities - particularly at higher grades between the A *-C grades. There only used to be 4 grades between A* and C, now with the numerical grading scale there are 6.

What do the number grades mean?

The grades are ranked from 1, the lowest, to 9, the highest.

The grades don’t exactly translate, but the two grading scales meet at three points as illustrated below.

The bottom of grade 7 is aligned with the bottom of grade A, while the bottom of grade 4 is aligned to the bottom of grade C.

Meanwhile, the bottom of grade 1 is aligned to the bottom of grade G.

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Leveraging class-based methods to predict chemical toxicity

A recent commentary by researchers from the Division of Translational Toxicology promotes a better understanding of clustering and classification approaches (CCAs) in toxicity research and risk assessment, and advocates for increased use within international collaborations.

The field of toxicology has witnessed substantial advancements in recent years, particularly with the adoption of new methodologies to understand and predict chemical toxicity. In particular, class-based methods such as CCAs help scientists understand hazard and risk concerns associated with groups of chemicals without additional laboratory work. However, due to their intricacy, deep understanding and careful selection are imperative to align the adequate methods with their intended applications.

In the new commentary, the authors set out to deepen the understanding of class-based approaches by elucidating the pivotal role of chemical similarity (structural and biological) in CCAs. According to the authors, one important take-home message is that the effectiveness of these approaches depends on the right definition and measure of similarity, which varies based on context and objectives of the study. They distinguish between end point–agnostic similarity, used in unsupervised methods for exploratory analysis with general features, and end point–specific similarity, used in supervised methods for predictive modeling based on specific outcomes. Unsupervised methods help in generating hypotheses, whereas supervised methods focus on creating models based on particular biological or toxicological responses.

This choice between the two types is influenced by how chemical structures are represented and the respective labels that indicate biological activity. Another key take-home message is that interdisciplinary collaboration and implementation of recommendations presented in the commentary could play an important role in enhancing the use of CCAs across diverse fields. ( JW )

Citation : Mansouri K, Taylor K, Auerbach S, Ferguson S, Frawley R, Hsieh JH, Jahnke G, Kleinstreuer N, Mehta S, Moreira-Filho JT, Parham F, Rider C, Rooney AA, Wang A, Sutherland V. 2024. Unlocking the potential of clustering and classification approaches: navigating supervised and unsupervised chemical similarity . Environ Health Perspect 132(8):85002.

How a protein called Pms1 affects genome stability

Instability throughout the yeast genome can be caused by defective activity of a protein called Pms1, according to NIEHS researchers and their collaborators.

In most bacteria and eukaryotes, which are cells with a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, mismatches made during DNA replication are corrected by DNA mismatch repair. Inactivation of this repair pathway strongly increases mutation rates, which can affect evolution and have several adverse consequences. Pms1’s endonuclease activity directs mismatch repair by generating a nick in the newly replicated DNA strand. Inactivating Pms2, the human homologue of yeast Pms1, is known to increase colorectal and uterine cancer risk.

The researchers used whole genome sequencing to show that loss of Pms1 endonuclease activity results in strong mutator effects throughout the Saccharomyces cerevisiae (budding yeast) genome. Mutation rates were strongly increased for mutations resulting from all types of single-base substitutions and for a wide variety of single- and multi-base indel mutations.

Additional results revealed similarity in the rates and specificity of mutagenesis due to loss of Msh2 and Pms1 endonuclease, implying that these two proteins act similarly to reduce mismatch rates. According to the authors, the results are consistent with studies demonstrating that endonuclease activity in the PMS1 gene in budding yeast is critical for DNA mismatch repair. ( JW )

Citation : Lujan SA, Garbacz MA, Liberti SE, Burkholder AB, Kunkel TA. 2024. Instability throughout the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome resulting from Pms1 endonuclease deficiency . Nucleic Acids Res gkae616.

Microbes in house dust may affect lung function

State-of-the-art metagenomic sequencing has revealed specific microorganisms in indoor dust related to pulmonary function and airway inflammation, according to NIEHS researchers and their collaborators.

Respiratory health can be affected by chronic exposure to microorganisms inside homes; however, few studies have used advanced sequencing methods to examine adult respiratory outcomes. In the new study, the researchers aimed to identify metagenomic profiles in house dust related to pulmonary function and airway inflammation in adults. Using whole metagenome shotgun sequencing, they characterized 1,264 microbial species in vacuumed bedroom dust from 779 homes in the United States.

Although overall microbial diversity was not significantly related to pulmonary function, many individual microbial genera, which are groups of species, were differentially abundant in relation to pulmonary function or airway inflammation. Among the genera related to pulmonary function, several were previously linked to lung diseases. The results suggest that chronic exposure to specific microorganisms indoors may play a role in respiratory outcomes.

According to the authors, further investigation of the genera identified could reveal how exposure to indoor microorganisms contributes to respiratory health. Moreover, this comprehensive investigation of microbial signatures in house dust and adult respiratory outcomes could help elucidate complex mechanisms of chronic exposure to house dust and respiratory health across the life course. ( JW )

Citation : Lee M, Kaul A, Ward JM, Zhu Q, Richards M, Wang Z, González A, Parks CG, Beane Freeman LE, Umbach DM, Motsinger-Reif AA, Knight R, London SJ. 2024. House dust metagenome and pulmonary function in a US farming population . Microbiome 12(1):129.

Prenatal organophosphate ester exposure may affect fetal development

Exposure to organophosphate esters (OPEs) during pregnancy may be linked to an increased risk of developmental toxicity, according to NIEHS researchers and their collaborators.

OPEs are chemicals used as flame retardants and plasticizers in a variety of consumer products (e.g., furniture, textiles). Various studies have reported that continuous exposure to OPEs may adversely affect reproductive health and birth outcomes. Although previous animal studies have revealed developmental toxicity due to OPE exposure, evidence in human studies has been limited and inconclusive.

To address this knowledge gap, the researchers examined the link between prenatal exposure to OPE flame retardants and plasticizers and fetal growth. Their analysis involved 900 participants from the LIFECODES Fetal Growth Study (2008-2018), an enriched case-cohort for babies born at the small and large ends of the growth spectrum. The authors evaluated the levels of urinary OPE biomarkers and used both ultrasound and delivery measures to assess fetal growth.

The researchers found a strong and consistent association between prenatal OPE exposures and an increase in fetal growth during pregnancy. However, these associations were not significant at the time of delivery. One OPE biomarker named diphenyl phosphate (DPHP) was associated with an increased risk of babies being born small for gestational age.

Together, the results provide new evidence indicating that OPE exposure during pregnancy may affect fetal growth and development. According to the authors, this work demonstrates a possible effect of prenatal OPE exposure on a baby’s development that could potentially involve downstream consequences across the life span. ( SS )

Citation : Bommarito PA, Stevens DR, Welch BM, Ospina M, Calafat AM, Meeker JD, Cantonwine DE, McElrath TF, Ferguson KK. 2024. Organophosphate ester flame retardants and plasticizers in relation to fetal growth in the LIFECODES Fetal Growth Study . Environ Health Perspect 132(7):77001.

Early-life pesticide exposure associated with higher IBD incidence

Exposure to pesticides during childhood and adolescence may increase the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to NIEHS researchers.

IBD is an autoimmune disease characterized by chronic intestinal inflammation and includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. There are few known risk factors for the disease. Use of specific pesticides was associated with higher IBD incidence among farmers, but no study has examined the effects of pesticide exposure in early life.

The researchers evaluated pesticide use during childhood and adolescence and IBD incidence among 48,382 U.S. women ages 35-74 at enrollment in the Sister Study. They identified 277 incident IBD cases and found women whose long-term childhood residence was regularly treated with pesticides were 1.26 times as likely to be diagnosed with IBD than those without exposure. The risk estimates were higher for those who personally applied pesticides.

The study team also found a positive association between IBD and exposure to pesticides sprayed from a truck or airplane before DDT was banned in 1975. In addition, those who lived on farms and reported being in the fields during pesticide use were approximately twice as likely to develop IBD as those who were not exposed.

According to the researchers, the findings contribute to a small but growing body of evidence indicating pesticide exposure is a contributor to IBD development. In addition, the study establishes childhood and adolescence as a potential window of susceptibility. Practices that reduce pesticide exposure during early life may help reduce the burden of IBD. ( DM )

Citation : Chen D, Woo JMP, Parks CG, Lawrence KG, O’Brien KM, Sandler RS, Sandler DP. 2024. Childhood and adolescent residential and farm pesticide exposures and inflammatory bowel disease incidence in a U.S. cohort of women . Sci Total Environ (946)174475.

(Janelle Weaver, Ph.D., is a contract writer for the NIEHS Office of Communications and Public Liaison and Douglas Murphy, Ph.D., is a technical writer-editor in the same office. Shruti Somai, Ph.D., is a visiting fellow in the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Laboratory.)

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essay about your house in French
Ma maison idéale a trois chambres en haut, avec de grandes fenêtres d'où on peut voir la plage. Ma chambre a tout ce qu'il me faut : un lit, un divan, une armoire, un bureau, un ordinateur, une télé, une chaîne stéréo et une bibliothèque. J'ai tous mes posters préférés aux murs. La maison a deux salles de bains, comme ça je ne suis pas toujours obligé d'attendre ma soeur. En bas ...
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39 people found it helpful. Dsnyder. report flag outlined. J'habite à Blackburn mais j'ai aussi un autre maison en Pologne. J'habite dans un immeuble et mes voisins sont très sympa. Dans mon appartement il y a six chambres qui inclut: trois chambres, une cuisine, une salle de bains et un salon. Il n'y a pas d'escaliers.
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An essay on my house in French
Answer:Je vis dans une maison faite par mes parents, avec mes parents et mes grands-parents. Mes parents ont construit cette maison pour nous avec beaucoup de travail et des efforts. Il dispose de trois chambres, un balcon, une cuisine, deux salles de bains et une terrasse. La maison est ouverte vers le sud et très aérée. Le balcon est assez grand pour que nous puissions passer beaucoup de ...
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Mon village a un marché où la population locale achète et vend des choses. Il y a une école et un petit centre de santé dans mon village. Les gens pratiquent l'agriculture et l'élevage dans mon village. Ils célèbrent tous les festivals ensemble. Les habitants de mon village mènent une vie simple. Ils vivent paisiblement et heureux ...
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