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ARABIAN GULF (September 8, 2015) – Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Zachary Wells, from Pleastanton, Kansas, removes a hand rail from a ladder well to lower a new air conditioning motor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys/Released)
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ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) are raising awareness during the Navy’s Suicide Prevention Month while deployed to 5th Fleet. This year’s Suicide Prevention Month theme focuses on a message from its current Every Sailor, Every Day campaign: 1 Small ACT. The theme encourages Sailors to use the Navy’s bystander intervention model ACT (Ask, Care, Treat). “One small act can save a life,” said Lt. Cmdr. Jason Duff, the ship’s psychologist. “That is so true. I see it every day. I see people walk their shipmates down here when that person is at a point where they need help. They take it upon themselves and say ‘Hey, let me get you where you need to go,’ and they will literally walk that person down here to us, the people they need to be with, and get them the help that they need. It happens all the time. We do a really good job already out on the TR in terms of looking out for one another.” Throughout the month of September, TR’s Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) team will host numerous events to bring suicide awareness to the forefront of everyone’s mind. ASIST will host a ‘just because’ card-making event and will finish the night off with an ASIST slogan contest, Sept. 10. The ASIST team will deliver the cards to those in need of encouragement in the days to follow. In conjunction with the Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) team on board, ASIST will also host a suicide prevention trivia and game night, Sept. 17. ASIST encourages Sailors to join them,
Sept. 20, on the flight deck for sunrise yoga. To end the month, ASIST will conclude with a cake-cutting event and movie night. TR began her suicide awareness campaign well before the prevention month began. During the final days of August, Sailors from around the ship wrote personalized messages and held up signs promising one small act they will do to help save a life. The signs were a part of the Navy Suicide Prevention office’s toolkit used to help Sailors and their commands spread awareness of suicide prevention. In addition to creating signs, TR also hosted an ‘Out of the Darkness’ walk, Aug. 30, in conjunction with the Hampton Roads community chapter. “We get new people every day on this ship,” said Duff, “but I’m never surprised when there are people who have been here for a while and still aren’t aware of all the resources and ways they can get help. This [month] helps highlight what we as a resiliency team have to offer. I really think just knowing about it and people not feeling alone, people may realize, hey, this is something I have to deal with, but I don’t have to deal with it by myself.” Duff emphasized the importance of continued support and awareness. “The idea is we don’t want to do this just for a day, or a few hours, even just for a month,” said Duff. “We want to be able to discuss it every day. We want people to be aware of this and we want people reaching out and looking out for their shipmates. That’s one of the best prevention and treatments out there is when people are tuned in, they know what to look for, they know how to help and know how to find their resources. That’s why it’s so incredibly important.”
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The everlasting eff American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston, Massachusetts, crashes into the north tower
United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower
victims, including 246 on the four planes, 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon. All were civilians with the exception of 72 law enforcement officers, 343 firefighters, and 55 military personnel.
“These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.�
people were typically in the Twin Towers by 8:54 a.m. according to turnstile counts from the Port Authority.
- Former president George H.W. Bush
search and rescue dogs from around the country participated in searching for survivors following the attacks on 9/11. The dogs worked 12-hour days. When not searching for survivors, the dogs served as impromptu therapy dogs for the human rescuers.
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fects of how 9/11 shaped our country The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses
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Hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic debris containing more than 2,500 contaminants were spread across Lower Manhattan due to the collapse of the Twin Towers. About 18,000 people are estimated to have developed illnesses as a result of the toxic dust. $4.2 billion was allocated to create the ‘World Trade Center Health Program’ for people with long-term health problems from the 9/11 attacks.
On September 14, 2001, Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists. This led to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, totaling over $3 trillion.
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American Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon
In New York City, about 430,000 job-months and $2.8 billion in wages were lost in the three months after the attack. The city’s GDP was estimated to have declined by $27.3 billion for the last three months of 2001 and all of 2002. The U.S. government provided $11.2 billion in immediate assistance in September 2001, and $10.5 billion in early 2002 for economic development and infrastructure needs.
United Airlines Flight 93, also hijacked, crashes into Somerset County, Pennsylvania
The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses
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The construction of One World Trade Center began on April 27, 2006, and reached its full height on May 20, 2013. It’s height reaches 1,776 feet and thus claiming the title for the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. After Governor Eliot Spitzer took office in 2007, the State of New York was expected to provide $250 million towards construction costs, and the Port Authority agreed to finance another $1 billion through bonds. The tower’s total costs reached $3 billion. On November 18, 2006, 400 cubic yards of concrete were poured onto the foundation of the One World Trade Center. By February 22, 2008, 9,400 of the nearly 50,000 short tons of steel necessary had been ordered. By February 11, 2009, the tower was 105 feet above street level. On July 13, 2010, workers found remains of an 18th century sailing ship at the World Trade Center site. The remains of a 32-foot section of a ship’s hull and a 100-pound anchor were found. By February 2011, the tower reached 56 floors, 667 feet above grade, while the panels reached the 27th floor. On December 12, 2012, the first nine pieces of the spire were lifted to the 104th floor. On May 10, 2013, the last two sections of the building’s spire were installed making it the 3rd tallest building in the world. On May 28, 2015, the One World Observatory, at the tower’s top, opened.
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China Flexes Tech Muscles Before Visit United C.E.O. Out Amid U.S. Inquiry Into Port Agency
HONG KONG — As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for his first state visit to the United States this month, Washington has warned that it could hit Chinese companies with sanctions over digital attacks for trade secrets. Beijing is now pushing back in an unorthodox way: by organizing a technology forum to demonstrate its own sway over the American tech industry. The meeting, which is set to take place Sept. 23 in Seattle, is planned to feature China’s Internet czar, Lu Wei, the overseer of China’s restrictions on foreign technology companies. A number of Chinese tech executives, including Robin Li of Baidu and Jack Ma of Alibaba, along with executives from top American tech companies including Apple, Facebook, IBM, Google and Uber, have been invited, according to people familiar with the plan. Some invitees, including Apple’s chief, Timothy D. Cook, plan to attend, according to one person. The forum is being co-hosted by Microsoft, said another person. The meeting is rankling the
Obama administration by veering off the script agreed to for Xi’s carefully stage-managed visit, two American officials said. For many American tech companies, the invitation is hard to turn down because of the vast opportunities of China’s tech market. Google and Facebook are among those blocked by China’s web filters from doing business in the country, which is the world’s biggest Internet market. While the tech companies have not taken positions opposing American sanctions and some are conflicted about how to approach China, their appearance at the meeting would signal how much leverage China wields. At the meeting, Xi could briefly address the gathering, or a selected group of American and Chinese executives, according to an Obama administration official. In Seattle, Xi is also set to meet the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates at his nearby lakeside estate for dinner before heading to Washington to meet President Obama. A Chinese digital security expert, Zuo Xiaodong, the vice
president of the China Information Security Research Institute, who plans to attend what is being called the U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum, described it as an “industry meeting,” adding that “the Chinese government has attached great importance” to it. “The meeting is mostly to discuss the industry cooperation of the two countries, and big companies from China and the U.S., like Google, will all be there,” Zuo said. At stake is how the global Internet will be managed. While the United States supports an Internet in which companies are allowed to operate worldwide and users are given free online expression, China has said countries should be allowed to force web companies to follow local laws, including censoring content, monitoring users and hosting data about Chinese users within China. By dangling the carrot of market access to American companies that follow its rules, Chinese officials like Lu want to influence global Internet governance. PAUL MOZUR and JANE PERLEZ
Iraqis Join Exodus, a New Blow to Country BAGHDAD — Emboldened by the news coverage showing their countrymen and fellow Arabs fleeing the war in Syria and reaching Europe, many Iraqis see a new opportunity to get out. Their reasons for leaving vary. Some fear for their lives. Others are displaced from areas controlled by Islamic State militants. Still others are lifelong residents of Baghdad escaping harsh economic circumstances brought on by falling oil prices. After years of violence and unmet promises for democracy by a corrupt political elite, Iraqis who resisted leaving during previous crises are now embarking on the country’s next great wave of emigration, an exodus that leaders warn is further tearing at the country at a time when its unity is threatened by the militants of the Islamic State. “I’ve spent all of my life in Iraq in sadness,” said Khalil Hussein,
a Baghdad resident whose relatives have set off for Europe. He said he would join them soon. “There is no hope,” he said. “I just want to get rid of Iraq.” The migrant flight is a small piece of the humanitarian disaster unfolding across Iraq, where nearly 3.1 million people are internally displaced. The International Organization for Migration has recorded about 6,000 Iraqis arriving this year on boats to either Greece or Italy, a fivefold increase over last year. But that is just a small fraction of the number of Iraqis taking the journey, because most avoid being registered when they arrive in Greece. And since mid-August, at least 250 Iraqis a day have been landing on Greek islands, Konstantinos Vardakis, the top European Union diplomat in Baghdad, said. To accommodate increased demand, Iraqi Airways recently added two new daily flights to Is-
tanbul from Baghdad. In recent weeks, the phenomenon has snowballed, as Iraqis track migrants on messaging apps like Viber and WhatsApp and hear back from friends who have reached places like Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed migrants and has become a hero to many Iraqis. The stories Iraqis hear from relatives in Europe are often euphoric, and full of possibility. “When you go to Europe they treat you well, they give you a house, they pay you money, they take care of your health,” said Ali Hattam Jassim, 37, whose brother recently arrived in Belgium. “We have so many friends there and they tell us how great the life is.” That the exodus includes so many young people has alarmed officials, who have issued statements urging them to stay by appealing to patriotism and duty at a time of war. TIM ARANGO
The chief executive and two senior officials of United Airlines resigned on Tuesday amid a federal investigation into whether the airline had traded favors with the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The United States attorney for New Jersey has been investigating whether United, the nation’s third-largest airline, agreed to reinstate a money-losing flight to the airport nearest the weekend home of the authority’s chairman, David Samson, in return for improvements the airline wanted at Newark Airport, where it is the biggest carrier. The resigning chief executive, Jeff Smisek, is the former chief executive of Continental Airlines and prevailed in his bid to lead United after the two airlines merged in 2010. United named Oscar Munoz as president and chief executive to replace Smisek. He is a member of the United board who previously ran the rail giant CSX. Samson was appointed by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey in 2010. He stepped down in March 2014 when documents showed that some senior aides to Christie had worked with Port Authority officials to close down lanes of the George Washington Bridge under false pretenses, to punish a mayor for declining to support Christie’s re-election. The investigation of the flights to South Carolina is a somewhat unlikely outgrowth of the federal inquiry into the lane closings, a scandal that has already harmed Christie’s bid for the presidency. The scandal, which exploded in early 2014, opened a window into the operations of the Port Authority. The agency operates bridges, airports and other transportation resources in the region, and commands an annual budget of more than $8.2 billion. United’s executive vice president for communications and government affairs, Nene Foxhall, and senior vice president for corporate and government affairs, Mark R. Anderson, also resigned. KATE ZERNIKE and JAD MOUAWAD
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Pope Announces Changes to Make Annulments Easier VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis announced new procedures on Tuesday to make it easier for Roman Catholics to obtain marriage annulments, a move intended to streamline a process long criticized by many Catholics as too cumbersome, complicated and expensive. The new rules take effect on Dec. 8 and are expected to speed up cases in which neither spouse is contesting the annulment. These fast-track cases can be heard as soon as 30 days after a couple files an application, and at most within 45 days. The new procedures also eliminate one of the two church trials that are required of all couples seeking an annulment, a process that can drag on for years, at great cost. “To ensure that a case doesn’t sleep, tribunals and judges will have to sleep a little less,” said Msgr. Alejandro W. Bunge, secretary of the commission that drafted the changes, speaking at a Vatican news conference on Tuesday. Church officials acknowledge that many details still have to be worked out, including instructing bishops. Vatican experts said the new system was expected to be free, not counting legitimate fees to maintain the tribunal process. “These reforms say, ‘If you think a marriage is invalid, don’t let the procedure frighten you away,’ ” John Thavis, an author and Vatican expert, said. JIM YARDLEY and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
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U.S. Considers Taking in More Syrian Migrants WASHINGTON — Facing mounting pressure to respond more aggressively to the migrant crisis unfolding across Europe, the White House on Tuesday said it was re-examining whether it should increase its assistance, including resettling more Syrians in the United States. As the leaders of Germany and Sweden appealed to other European nations to take their fair share of migrants, American officials hinted that the United States might be moving toward an increase. White House officials said a “working group” at the State Department was “actively considering” a range of options, including refugee resettlement. The United States currently limits the number of migrants from Syria to 1,500 per year, a tiny fraction of the millions who have
flowed out of the war-ravaged country. Officials declined to say whether a sizable increase in the cap had been discussed. “The international community is looking at the United States right now to determine what additional steps we can take to try to confront, or help Europe confront, this difficult challenge,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary. “We’re certainly mindful of the urgency around increasing the resources and response.” The United States Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nongovernmental agency, has urged President Obama to open American borders to 100,000 Syrians in the next year, in addition to expanding opportunities for resettlement for other migrants. And in two weeks, Pope Francis is expected to highlight the mi-
grants’ plight during a visit to the White House. On Sunday, the pope called on Catholic communities to take in refugees. White House officials took pains on Tuesday to focus on what they said had already been significant assistance from the United States. Earnest said the United States had provided about $4 billion to help improve conditions at migrant camps in Europe, making America the biggest donor. John Kirby, the State Department spokesman, said that Secretary of State John Kerry had told his top aides at a staff meeting on Tuesday morning that “if you’ve got good ideas and options” for better helping the international community deal with the crisis, “including here in the United States,” he wanted to hear them. MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Cheney and Clinton Promote 2 Versions of History WASHINGTON — To hear Dick Cheney tell the tale, he and President George W. Bush were slowly but surely squeezing Iran into submission until President Obama and his team came along and recklessly let up the pressure. To listen to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s account, the BushCheney administration had failed to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions until she and Obama finally tightened the screws enough to force Tehran to the bargaining table. The sharply contrasting narratives reflect the ideological poles of a debate that formally got underway in Congress on Tuesday. For Cheney, the former vice
president now in retirement, the debate is a chance to defend his team’s approach. During a speech on Tuesday, Cheney denounced what he called a “shameful deal” that would risk a new Holocaust and possibly lead to a nuclear attack on the United States. “It is madness,” he said. For Clinton, the former secretary of state now running for president, the challenge is to walk a careful line between claiming credit for a criticized deal and positioning herself as tougher than her former boss. In a speech set for Wednesday, aides said, she will go beyond Obama by vowing to make it official policy to take
military action if Iran violates its commitments, not just keep the option on the table as he would. On probably just one thing do Clinton and Cheney agree. “For every member of Congress, no matter how many years they serve or how many votes they cast, this will be a vote that will be remembered,” Cheney said. The back-to-back Cheney and Clinton speeches came as Congress returned to town to take up a resolution rejecting the agreement. Four more Senate Democrats announced their support for the deal on Tuesday, enough to block an up-or-down vote with a filibuster. PETER BAKER
In Brief Britain Won’t ‘Hesitate’ Brushing aside objections to its lethal drone strike last month in Syria, the British government said on Tuesday that it would not hesitate to carry out similar attacks against militants suspected of plotting assaults against Britain and its allies. The British military drone strike, which happened on Aug. 21 and which officials said killed three men suspected of being Islamic State jihadists — including two Britons, one of whom had been specifically targeted — has stirred debate both about the government’s embrace of extrajudicial killings and its stepped-up involvement in the Syrian conflict. On Tuesday, Michael Fallon, the British defense secretary, gave an unabashed defense of the drone killings, in-
sisting they were legal and hinting that further such strikes could happen. “We wouldn’t hesitate to do it again if we know that there is an armed attack that is likely,” Fallon said. (NYT)
ians had been killed or wounded in artillery exchanges in the three most recent months covered by the report, more than double the number in the preceding three months. (NYT)
8,000 Killed in Ukraine
President to Stand Trial
Nearly 8,000 people have died in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, the United Nations said Tuesday in a report blaming the continuing influx of fighters and weaponry from Russia as the major obstacle to peace. At least 7,962 people have been killed and 17,811 wounded in the fighting that erupted in April 2014, the United Nations human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said in a statement issued with the latest report by his agency’s monitors in Ukraine. They said more than 400 civil-
A Guatemalan judge ordered former President Otto Pérez Molina on Tuesday to stand trial on charges of bribery, customs fraud and conspiracy, and returned him to detention. It was the third day in court for Pérez Molina, 64, a retired general who resigned last week days before Sunday’s election to choose his successor. Pérez Molina denied any involvement in the crimes. Judge Miguel Ángel Gálvez gave prosecutors until December to prepare its case against Pérez Molina. (NYT)
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After Runoff Win, Emanuel Keeps Facing Battles CHICAGO — It was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill town hall meeting, standard fare for a city contemplating a new budget year. But as Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and his top deputies presided over a gathering last week in a majestic hall not far from Lake Michigan, the crowd grew testy. A group demanding that the city reopen a public high school, including some who had been on a hunger strike over the issue, began chanting “Right now! Right now!” and swarmed the stage. Emanuel, looking startled, was hurried off by his security team and taken out of sight. With that, the meeting was over. The mayor, a veteran of Democratic politics here and in Washington, won a second term in April. As it turns out, winning re-election may have been the least of Emanuel’s problems. Just months into his new term, Emanuel finds himself grappling with Chicago’s fiscal problems, including a starkly underfinanced
pension system and rising payment requirements. He is widely expected to seek a property tax increase this month when he proposes a budget for 2016. Chicago, long troubled by guns and gang violence, has experienced a rise in murders, compared with last year when the city reported the fewest homicides in decades. Even pressure over neighborhood issues, like the fate of Walter H. Dyett High School, have at moments overshadowed Emanuel’s agenda. “This is about Dyett, but it’s also larger,” said Prudence Browne, one of a dozen activists who said they stopped eating solid food on Aug. 17. Browne and others want answers from City Hall about the future of Dyett, a South Side school that was closed in June after graduating a class of just 13 students. “It’s also about privatization and squeezing the poor, and it’s about quality neighborhood schools,” Browne said. “This is a big problem for him.”
In the months since Emanuel’s re-election, he has chalked up some tangible victories. Chicago won a contest to host the Obama presidential library, which will be built on the South Side. The N.F.L. held its draft here, and the city announced that it had set a tourism record for the first half of the year. A minimum-wage increase, which Emanuel pressed for, took effect in July. But challenges, especially longstanding fiscal ones, loom. “The problem we’ve had is for decades when it came to fiscal issues we didn’t confront them,” Emanuel said. “So the way I look at it is we have some strengths, we’re going to double down and really invest in those — from our education to our transportation to our pro-business strategy.” As for the abruptly ended meeting last week, Emanuel did not sound troubled. “I’ve been in politics my adult life,” he said, adding, “Last week is part of the process, and I understand people’s passion.” MONICA DAVEY
Clinton’s New Message on Private Email: ‘I’m Sorry’ Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged on Tuesday that her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state was a “mistake,” and apologized directly for it, uttering words that many of her allies have waited to hear from her in hopes that she can quell a controversy that has dogged her presidential candidacy for months. “That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” Clinton said in an interview with David Muir of ABC News broadcast Tuesday. “And I’m trying to be as transparent as I possibly can.” Asked by Muir about a recent poll in which respondents used words like “liar” and “untrust-
worthy” to describe her, Clinton conceded that she still had work to do: “Obviously, David, I don’t like hearing that,” she said. “I am confident by the end of this campaign, people will know they can trust me, and that I will be on their side and I will fight for them and their families. But I do think I could have and should have done a better job answering questions earlier. I really didn’t, perhaps, appreciate the need to do that.” When asked if she had ever second-guessed her decision to make another run at the White House, Clinton began to choke up, admitting that she had, at times, before invoking her mother’s admoni-
tions to “fight for what you believe in, no matter how hard it is.” Clinton’s apology on ABC was the more striking for coming just a day after an interview with The Associated Press in which she maintained that she did not need to apologize, saying, “What I did was allowed.” And in an interview with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News on Friday, Clinton allowed only that she was “sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions.” Clinton’s campaign later sent an email to her supporters with her apology, saying she understood they might have more questions. MAGGIE HABERMAN
Released Clerk Won’t Say If She Will Continue Defiance GRAYSON, Ky. — After five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, walked free Tuesday to a roar of cheers from thousands of supporters, but she and her lawyer would not say whether she would continue to defy court orders and try to block the licenses. Outside the jail here, she walked onstage to thunderous applause, her hands held aloft by her lawyer,
Mathew D. Staver, and Mike Huckabee, the Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor. Another presidential contender, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, was also in attendance. Davis broke down in tears, and spoke only briefly. “I just want to give God the glory,” she told the crowd. But her release came with a stern warning from Judge David L. Bunning of Federal District Court, who on Thursday sent her
to jail and directed her deputies to issue licenses. In a two-page order Tuesday, he wrote that he was setting her free because her office was “fulfilling its obligation to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.” but that he would respond to any further defiance. On Tuesday, reporters asked if she would abide by the latest court order; Davis remained silent, and Staver said, “She’s not going to violate her conscience.” (NYT)
In Brief Baltimore Settles With Family of Gray The family of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who sustained a fatal spinal cord injury in police custody — setting off the worst unrest in Baltimore since 1968 — reached a $6.4 million settlement with the city on Tuesday, just days before a judge is to consider whether to move the trials of six officers facing charges in his death. The tentative settlement, which must be approved by city leaders, was reached before the Gray family filed a civil suit. In making the announcement, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the settlement “should not be interpreted as a judgment on the guilt or innocence of the officers,” but had been negotiated to avoid “costly and protracted litigation.” But the police union president, Lt. Gene Ryan, issued a statement saying it was “obscene” to settle with the family before the officers went to trial. (NYT)
Jury Recommends Death in Bias Killings A jury recommended the death penalty Tuesday for a white supremacist who fatally shot three people at Jewish sites last year in Overland Park, Kansas. The judge in the trial will decide whether to follow the jury’s recommendation for Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., 74. He killed Terri LaManno, 53; William Corporon, 69; and Corporon’s grandson Reat Griffin Underwood, 14. He has said he is suffering from emphysema and wanted to kill Jewish people before he died. None of the victims was Jewish. (AP)
Ex-Bishop Pleads Guilty in Death A former Episcopal bishop pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter, drunken driving and leaving the scene in the death of a cyclist in Baltimore. Under a plea deal, the state will ask a judge to sentence the woman, Heather Cook, to 10 years in prison. Cook, then a newly installed bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, struck the cyclist, Tom Palermo, 41, on Dec. 27. Cook, 58, resigned as the diocese’s second-highest-ranking leader, and the church revoked her clergy credentials. (AP)
BUSINESS
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Investment Strategies May Have Backfired five years have become so large that the end result has been a riskier, more volatile market. Analysts estimate that there is currently around $4 trillion tied up in these investment strategies. The fear is that as their returns continue to suffer, a wave of investor selling will spark a wider market rout as managers struggle to unload high-yield, high-return bonds and equities alike. “The professional investment community is very worried about this,” said Julian Brigden of Macro Intelligence 2 Partners, an independent research firm based in Vail, Colo., that advises large money-management firms. Brigden contends that this latest flurry of investment vehicles produced by Wall Street has created a false impression of robust investment returns with minimal
risks. “It’s this constant striving by the Street to satiate investor demand,” he said. “So you keep seeing these leveraged risk-parity funds and power E.T.F.s.” Risk-parity funds, for example, have used leverage to reduce the exposure that portfolios have to stocks (which tend to be more volatile investments) by loading up on emerging-market and high-yield bonds. Then there are exchange-traded funds, investment vehicles that track an index but trade on exchanges. Brigden thinks that the days of low-volatility investing are over. “We have had this long backdrop of suppressed volatility with equities doing well and an utter lack of bond risk,” he said. “With central banks no longer buying bonds, that virtuous circle is becoming vicious.” LANDON THOMAS Jr.
Intel Says It Will End Sponsorship of Science Contest SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the world’s largest maker of semiconductors, is dropping its longtime support of the most prestigious science and mathematics competition for American high school students. The contest, called the Science Talent Search, brings 40 finalists to Washington for meetings with leaders in government and industry and counts among its past competitors eight Nobel Prize winners, along with chief executives, university professors and award-winning scientists. Over the years, the award for work in so-called STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — has made national headlines and been an
important indicator of America’s educational competitiveness. “When I was a finalist in 1961, it was the Sputnik generation, when America was competing with Russia to get into space,” said Mary Sue Coleman, a former president of the University of Michigan and a current member of the board of the Society for Science and the Public, which administers the contest. “It was a national obsession. People in school cheered us on like we were star athletes. I got letters from the heads of corporations.” Dropping support for the high school contest is a puzzling decision by Intel, since it costs about $6 million a year — about 0.01 percent of Intel’s $55.6 billion in rev-
enue last year — and it generates significant good will for the sponsoring organization. Craig Barrett, a former chief executive of Intel, is a member of the board of the Society for Science and the Public. He said he was “surprised and a little disappointed” by Intel’s decision. “It’s such a premier event in terms of young people and technology,” he said. Gail Dudas, a spokeswoman for Intel, could not say why it was ending its support, but she said the company, which has struggled with a shift to mobile computing devices but is still one of the tech industry’s most influential names, is “proud of its legacy” in supporting the award. QUENTIN HARDY
Exports and Imports Decline in China as Slump Worsens HONG KONG — China’s industrial slowdown is showing signs of worsening, as the country’s trade slump deepened further in August in the face of weaker demand from overseas buyers. China is now facing its most protracted decline since the global financial crisis. Overseas shipments fell 5.5 percent last month compared with a year earlier. That has dragged total exports 1.4 percent lower in dollar terms in the first eight months of the year. It is a sign that the country’s sprawling manufacturing sector
is losing competitiveness: Labor costs are rising relentlessly and the currency, the renminbi, remains relatively strong despite its devaluation last month. Despite the currency move, Chinese goods are notably more expensive for foreign buyers than they were even a year ago. At the same time, China’s imports are falling even more sharply, declining last month for the 10th month in a row, with a drop of 14 percent by value. The declines are a clear sign of weakening domestic demand in China.
Beck Cai, a sales manager at the Shanghai Steel Fashion Industrial Company, a manufacturer and exporter of prefabricated steel structures, said his company’s business in August dipped as much as 40 percent compared with a year earlier. “I don’t think it has anything to do with the way we operate; it is mainly that the overall environment is slowing down,” Cai said. “As far as the recent devaluation of the renminbi, it is still too early to tell how it will impact our business.” NEIL GOUGH
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Chain Offers Service With Impersonal Touch There’s a new quinoa restaurant in San Francisco — yes, quinoa restaurants are a thing in San Francisco, so that’s not what’s noteworthy. At this restaurant, customers order, pay and receive their food and never interact with a person. The restaurant, Eatsa, the first in a chain with national ambitions, is almost fully automated. There are no waiters or even an order taker behind a counter. There is no counter. There are unseen people helping to prepare the food, but there are plans to fully automate that process, too, if it can be done less expensively than employing people. For optimists, it’s a way to make restaurant-going more efficient and less expensive. For pessimists, it’s the latest example of how machines are stealing people’s jobs. Either way, it’s like heaven for misanthropes, or those who are in too much of a hurry to chat with a server. “I would call it different than a restaurant,” said David Friedberg, a software entrepreneur who founded Eatsa. “It’s more like a food delivery system.” Last week, I was in a fast-moving line and browsed on a flatscreen monitor the menu of eight quinoa bowls, each costing $6.95. Then I approached an iPad, where I tapped in my order, cus-
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tomized it and paid. My name, taken from my credit card, appeared on another screen, and when my food was ready, a number showed up next to it. It corresponded to a cubby where my food would soon appear. The cubbies are behind transparent LCD screens that go black when the food is deposited, so no signs of human involvement are visible. The quinoa — stirfried, with arugula, parsnips and red curry — tasted quite good. Whether a restaurant that employs few people is good for the economy is another question. Restaurants, especially fast-food restaurants, have traditionally been a place where low-skilled workers can find employment. Most of the workers are not paid much, though in San Francisco employers of a certain size must
The restaurant is aiming for a more efficient and less expensive experience that brings to mind the automats found in Japan and some parts of Europe.
pay health benefits and in 2018 a minimum wage of $15. Friedberg said that was not the reason his team automated so many roles. “Technology allows us to completely rethink how people get their food,” he said. Automation, in rudimentary forms, is already part of many restaurants. Reservations are made online, orders arrive at the kitchen electronically, and bills are paid with a swipe on an iPad. Chains like Chili’s use tablet computers for ordering and paying. It might be a harbinger of a future in which eating out no longer involves waiters. Restaurants with servers could become the novelty, reserved for occasions when you want more ambience and hands-on attention than Eatsa’s “food delivery system.” CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Los Angeles Times Publisher Fired by Parent Company Austin Beutner, the publisher and chief executive of The Los Angeles Times, was dismissed on Tuesday after only a year in that position, the latest upheaval at a newspaper buffeted by management turmoil over the last decade. Tribune Publishing, which owns The Times, had planned to inform Beutner, a politically connected former investment banker who later became a deputy mayor of Los Angeles, on Tuesday morning that he was being ousted, when the news leaked. He later confirmed his departure in a post on Facebook. “I am not departing by choice, nor is this some ‘mutual agreement’ on my part and Tribune Publishing,” Beutner, 55, wrote in the post. “Tribune Publishing has decided to fire me. I am sorry you will read this on social media, but I no longer have access to my Times email.”
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Within hours of Beutner’s dismissal, Tribune named Timothy E. Ryan, the publisher and chief executive of The Baltimore Sun, as his replacement. Ryan has held that position at the Sun, another Tribune paper, since 2007. He will also be in charge of The San Diego Union-Tribune, which Tribune Publishing purchased in May. Behind the dismissal, said several people with knowledge of the situation, was a fundamental difference of opinion on the best way to run The Los Angeles Times, a storied newspaper that won two Pulitzer Prizes last year for a total of 43 over all, and has in the past been coveted by billionaires including David Geffen. Beutner, according to those people, believed that The Times had to engage closely with its community, with specialized articles specific to the region. In 2013 he had tried to engineer a pur-
chase of The Times, backed by Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist and a Los Angeles resident. Tribune Publishing executives, led by its chief executive, Jack Griffin, believed that operations and strategy should be centralized in Chicago — Tribune’s corporate home — and that many articles could be shared among newspapers, rather than being specialized. The issues were compounded by a lack of personal chemistry between Griffin and Beutner, who were said to have had very little contact. And matters seemed to have come to a head last week, when executives considered a new offer that Broad had recently made for The Times. That offer was rejected at the same meeting at which executives decided to dismiss Beutner, whom they felt was increasingly pursuing his own agenda. RAVI SOMAIYA
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13.53 74.87 29.08 46.34 6.86 14.82 19.78 9.14 17.36 17.77
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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Meredith Corp., up $4.53 to $50.47. The TV station owner and publisher of Parents magazine is being bought by the TV station owner Media General Inc. for $2.4 billion. The Walt Disney Co., up $3.04 to $104.01. Fans can stream the media company’s movies in more places after announcing it signed agreements with Amazon and Microsoft. General Electric Co., up 96 cents to $24.96. The European Union approved the conglomerate’s $14.1 billion takeover of the power and transmission division of French company Alstom. Tempur Sealy International Inc., up $6.73 to $78.48. Scott Thompson was named chief executive, president and chairman of the mattress seller. Del Taco Restaurants Inc., $1.56 to $14.58. A Citi analyst gave the taco and burger chain a “buy” investment rating, saying it has potential to grow its restaurant count. JD.com Inc., up $1.14 to $23.95. The Chinese online retailer plans to buy back up to $1 billion of its own American depositary shares over the next 24 months. (AP)
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Taking the Din Out of Dining of a shift. After years of paying lip service to the idea of fostering civilized conversation over deafening clatter, some restaurateurs appear to be listening to customers’ pleas. Make no mistake, New York City will always have brasseries and pizzerias and saloons that generate the sort of sonic pandemonium that pours out onto the sidewalk like ice water from a bucket, as you open the front door. Still, at some places, at least places where the target audience is more than a few years out of college, owners are spending money so that a big night out is actually decipherable. So how is it that over lunch or dinner at Untitled, a customer can hear his or her dining companion with clarity while that Deerhunter song on the sound system remains in the background without drowning out the chat? Look up: Stewart’s team has covered the ceiling with Baswaphon, a porous acoustic plaster that mops up noise like a giant sponge. Sabato Sagaria, the chief restaurant officer for Meyer’s company, said the art of conversation cannot be overvalued. “People dine out to socialize,” he said. Acoustic buffers and panels are nothing new, but restaurant designers are becoming more precise HIROKO MASUIKE/THE NEW YORK TIMES and scientific, workKatrina Birchmeier, the general manager of Four Horsemen, ing to create self-enclosed huddles of talk shows the burlap-covered walls designed to dampen noise.
From the outside, Untitled looks like one of those places where intimate conversation gets lost in the din. The restaurant, which anchors the architect Renzo Piano’s new home for the Whitney Museum of American Art, has all the makings of a cacophony box. The primary walls are glass. That back wall is concrete. The floors? Blue Catalan limestone. The cooks chop and sear in an open kitchen, and the tables don’t have tablecloths. “Obviously acoustics were an issue,” said Toby Stewart, an architect from Piano’s organization, who worked on the space with Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. That’s because the room is a riot of hard surfaces, which amplify noise. And there aren’t a lot of fabrics to soak it up. So the folks behind Untitled decided to do something. And that in itself signals something
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Untitled’s ceiling is covered with Baswaphon, a porous acoustic plaster. at each table without losing the low rumble of activity that makes a place feel alive. A common topic of conversation at the Four Horsemen, the wine bar in Brooklyn created this year by James Murphy, the frontman of LCD Soundsystem, is how crystal clear the conversations are. Murphy may have a reputation as a dance-floor-stoking D.J., but the Four Horsemen feels like more of a peaceful Danish salon thanks to sheets of burlap and slats of cedar and other elements that seem to suck away the feedback like a vacuum. Not every solution has to be high tech, though. During test runs at Untitled, the crew noticed that when a certain knife and certain bowls were being cleared, there was a nerve-jangling tendency for the knives to wiggle free and come crashing to the floor, “which would negate all the hard work that Toby and his team have put into this,” Sagaria said. As a result, servers were trained to lock down the knives with their thumbs. JEFF GORDINIER
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Bagels and Bread On The Upper West Side
Candy, Candy And More Candy
Suddenly, the Upper West Side is becoming a magnet for baked goods. The first branch of Orwashers, the Upper East Side bakery that turns 100 next year, will open in December in a space where it will bake on the premises. Not counting a kiosk in Bryant Park, Breads Bakery will open its second store in October, this one near Lincoln Center. And the H & H Bagels name will return to the neighborhood this winter. The new bakery is a branch of H & H Midtown Bagels East, the spinoff from the original, which was on Broadway: Orwashers, 440 Amsterdam Avenue; Breads Bakery, 1890 Broadway; H & H Midtown Bagels East, 526 Columbus Avenue.
If customers of New York’s Sugarfina are like customers at Sugarfina stores elsewhere in the country, their first choice among the 150 or so types of candy sold by the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based chain will be champagne gummy bears. Peach Bellini gummies may be another top pick. The stores, which also carry caramels, licorice, chocolate-coated nuts and imported candies, pack them in Lucite boxes. The chain will open a small free-standing shop in the Time Warner Center in October, and it plans to open a larger store later in the year on the Upper East Side: Sugarfina, Time Warner Center, main floor, sugarfina.com. FLORENCE FABRICANT
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Wendell Reveche
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DEPT/DIV: engineering department HOMETOWN: Virginia Beach, Virginia WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY:
I wanted to travel the world.
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Having the honor of leading my guys.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: When my guys and gals get advanced. SHOUT OUT: Shout out to Engineering department (the hardest working division on the ship) and to the Theodore Roosevelt Bears!
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SUPPLY/S-2
HOMETOWN: Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY: To travel the world and earn an education. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Seeing so many places and making new friends.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Making third class and getting a chance to shoot the .50 cal.
SHOUT OUT: Shout out to my buddy CS3 Boyles and his newborn daughter.
FUN
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I have a passion for lacrosse.
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