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San Francisco Chronicle
08-05-2025
- Politics
- San Francisco Chronicle
Real ID is finally required to fly. Here's how SFO is faring
Impatient travelers lined up Wednesday morning outside the United Airlines checkpoint at San Francisco International Airport, where crews had posted signs everywhere, warning that a key deadline had arrived. Starting Wednesday, federal officials require travelers to have security-enhanced Real IDs to board flights or enter certain government buildings. The change provoked widespread consternation, exacerbated after U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem told a Congressional panel that people without Real IDs would still be allowed to fly. But the first day of enforcement unfolded with relative ease. 'So far so good,' said Scott Brown, who had a Real ID in his wallet and planned to fly to Oklahoma that afternoon. 'No hassle,' Brown continued. 'No disruptions. It's not that busy.' Airport staff had done everything, it seemed, to convey the message. Real ID notifications winked from banners on the SFO website, and from digital screens throughout the terminals. Passengers who spoke with the Chronicle said they were ready, and brandished their identification cards, with an official Real ID star in the upper right hand corner, to prove it. 'Yes, I have my Real ID,' Matthew Ponce de Leon said, rummaging through his bag outside a checkpoint. He expressed surprise that everything had gone smoothly up to that point, though he was running late for a flight to Los Angeles. A few people stared at the Real ID signs with befuddled expressions. Some fished through their pockets as though to look for a card. Many carried passports, which under the Real ID Act are an acceptable alternative. 'I'm expecting really long security lines,' said Monica Naranjo, who sat on a bench propping her injured leg while she waited for a wheelchair. Though Naranjo has her Real ID, she anticipated that others would blow off the mandate. She got to the airport 2½ hours early. The law had a stumbling rollout. Many people had no idea how to interpret Noem's remarks, which suggested that the U.S. government might be waffling on its deadline, 20 years after passing the Real ID Act of 2005. By Wednesday morning, however, the Transportation Security Administration had devised a process for people who showed up without compliant identification. TSA agents handed these violators a red quarter-page flier with a QR code that explained the Real ID law. Authorities picked people at random for additional screenings. 'We're not turning anyone away,' said Lorie Dankers, a TSA spokesperson who observed the first day of enforcement at Los Angeles International Airport. 'I've seen an extremely high rate of compliance,' she said. 'I saw passports, I saw military IDs.' Staff at SFO who spoke with the Chronicle said they aim to wean people off of regular California IDs and driver's licenses, though no one had a timeline for harsher enforcement. Like Naranjo, other SFO travelers budgeted extra time on Wednesday, bracing for chaos that ultimately did not happen. Even so, tension was palpable on a San Francisco Airport-bound BART train that passed through Berkeley shortly after 9 a.m. Passengers gripped the handles of their roller suitcases and nervously checked their phones. Susan and Richard Landon boarded with their luggage in tow, four hours ahead of their scheduled flight to Connecticut. The pair said they had obtained Real IDs a long time ago and carried their passports on Wednesday as a backup. They didn't want to take any risks. 'I expect there's going to be confusion,' Susan said. 'Maybe they're going to shovel people off to the side,' she added, referring to those who would arrive without federally compliant identification. Yet, when they walked into Terminal 3, all appeared quiet.
New York Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Every Love Letter Had Its Rose
Amy Milagro Badia and Daniel Naranjo share a 'memory box' from their 12-year relationship. In it is a plane ticket from his first trip to Moca, Dominican Republic, where her family is from; an Eiffel Tower key chain from their vacation to Paris; the cork from the champagne bottle they popped the night of their proposal; and love letters they wrote each other in high school. Ms. Badia took out mementos from the box a few days before her wedding, getting emotional as she reminisced. 'One of the first things Daniel ever taught me was how to draw a rose,' Ms. Badia said of their high school years. 'And on all of our love letters, there's little roses that we've drawn each other.' 'You could just see the love from the beginning,' she added. 'We've talked about this day for so long, and now, it's here.' Technically, Ms. Badia and Ms. Naranjo, both 29, met in prekindergarten in Englewood, N.J., where they're both from, but she doesn't remember him. He does, though: 'She was part of the cool kids in the pre-K class,' he said. (During their adult years, they discovered photos together from prekindergarten, including a photo of them posing at his birthday party.) After prekindergarten, Mr. Naranjo and his family lived in West Palm Beach, Fla., for a few years before returning to Englewood, where the two attended the same middle school and high school. In middle school, he said, he sent her some messages on Myspace, but she never responded to them. (Again, she doesn't recall this.) One weekend in May 2012, during her junior year and his senior year, a friend hosted two parties when his parents were out of town. At the first party, Mr. Naranjo was too shy and nervous to even look at Ms. Badia, she recalled: 'I was like, 'Is this guy gonna talk?'' 'I was so shy that first day because I was like, 'Yo, I don't want to mess it up,'' Mr. Naranjo said. At the second party the following night, Mr. Naranjo loosened up, and they started chatting. 'We just hit it off like if we were together forever,' she said. He walked her home, and they messaged each other the whole night. That summer, they spent many nights climbing ladders on buildings for scenic rooftop views. 'Our dates were super simple because we were in high school, so we didn't really have money to do stuff,' Ms. Badia said. One of those nights, when they saw a shooting star, they made wishes. When she asked him what his wish was, he said, 'That you're my girlfriend.' Ms. Badia responded: 'I'm already your girlfriend.' 'It was so high school, just like so cheesy,' she said, but endearing. [Click here to binge read this week's featured couples.] In the fall of 2012, Mr. Naranjo went to Bergen Community College to study fine arts, eventually dropping out to pursue a career as a tattoo artist. Ms. Badia graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in public health. In September 2019, they moved into an apartment in Englewood. 'We were having a ton of fun,' Ms. Badia said. 'We finally had money.' And in November 2022, Mr. Naranjo proposed in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during a dinner at a waterside gazebo. In December 2023, the couple moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., so that Ms. Badia could pursue a career in aviation. She currently works as an administrative coordinator at Merriman Market Analyst. Mr. Naranjo is a tattoo artist at Monarch Studio in Phoenix, and he is an owner of Ink Wave Studio, a tattoo shop in Hackensack, N.J. On April 16, the couple were married at Bel Vino Winery in Temecula, Calif., in front of 35 guests. The ceremony was officiated by Hector Duron, a minister from an officiant service in La Verne, Calif., called Joining Hearts. On the morning of the wedding, they had breakfast together before splitting up to get ready. They met at the venue for their first look, and they read their vows to each other privately. After the ceremony and dinner, the night ended with music and dancing. The D.J. played traditional Latin American genres like bachata, merengue and salsa, as well as hip-hop, R&B, reggaeton and dembow. Looking back at it, Ms. Badia said that the first night they spoke at their friend's party in high school was when she knew he was the one. 'We were walking home and there were some sprinklers because it was nighttime, and Daniel playfully picked me up and ran through the sprinklers,' Ms. Badia said. 'When he touched me, I had this sensation inside and I was like, 'Whoa, what happened?' That feeling is the same feeling that I get now to this day when he hugs me.'
WIRED
24-04-2025
- Health
- WIRED
The Apple Watch Just Turned 10. Here's How Far It's Come
Every year, Apple launches one standout health feature, from measuring VO2 Max on the Series 3 to the ECG sensor on the Series 4, all the way to sleep apnea notifications on the Series 10. 'If you zoom out way into the future, and you look back and ask what Apple's biggest contribution was, it will be in the health area,' Cook said in an interview with WIRED last year. This is a bold thing to say, especially given that the Series 10 and Watch Ultra 2 don't even have blood oxygen measuring, due to a patent dispute with the medtech company Masimo. For a while, Apple has been doing research into features that would transform the Apple Watch for people with chronic conditions, like adding noninvasive blood glucose monitoring for diabetics, or adding blood pressure measuring for people with hypertension. Alas, despite promising advances, these features have yet to materialize. Apple's latest project, an AI-assisted comprehensive health service, is far behind other health manufacturers such as Oura, Whoop, or even Garmin. Imagine, for example, being able to take a picture of your meal with the Watch Ultra and uploading it to the (still rudimentary) Health app, the way you already can with the Meals feature on an Oura Ring 4. You have to imagine it for now, of course, because the Apple Watch doesn't currently have a camera, and Apple's Visual Intelligence is still limited to the iPhone 16. But it seems within reach. Still, the Watch's wearability and seeming ubiquity does mean that it has a track record of saving peoples' lives, whether that's by notifying users of an irregular heart rhythm via the ECG feature or calling the emergency services if it recognizes the user has fallen or been in a serious crash. I also have a personal anecdote to report—before the blood oxygen feature was removed, I had pneumonia. How did I know? My blood oxygen level, as measured by the watch, was at 84 percent. I went to urgent care and got antibiotics, stat. While Apple has not historically always been first to market with a new health feature, it's a fast follower, and the features nearly always work. 'Apple owners are very patient when it comes to Apple,' Naranjo says. 'They've come to believe that Apple doesn't rush to market with something that isn't almost perfect.' Why You Wear It That point seems to bear out with the research. In 2022, nearly 80 percent of Apple iPhone owners also owned an Apple Watch, and it accounted for 56 percent of smartwatch sales in the North American market. Most importantly, research suggests most people who own an Apple Watch are pretty satisfied with their device. As most of them are likely Apple users already, it helps that the Watch—like all Apple devices—integrates seamlessly with Apple's ecosystem. It's intuitive, easy to use, and has an interface that is pleasing to experience—both for the first time, and 10 years on. I still twirl and push every day the tiny digital crown every day, and find it a great way for navigating the device's smaller menus without obscuring text with your fingers.
