August 11, 2015 Rough Rider by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

TUESDAY EDITION

THE IRON TEMPLE four in the morning

SHIP SHAPE PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES WHILE UNDERWAY

YOUR THOUGHTS ON ... ROUGH RHYMERS

August 11, 2015

the iron

temple by MC1 David Valdez

PHOTO BY MC3 JENNIFER J. CASE

here are multiple places to exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), and they are all excellent places to exercise, but there is one, if a Sailor or Marine is brave enough to find it, which caters to a different sort of fitness enthusiast. Down in the belly of the ship there is a space which only offers two forms of cardiovascular options, generally unused, with the exception of the rare person who wants to punish a heavy bag or row until they are covered in sweat. Pale fluorescent lights illuminate the space, the bulkheads are a dingy white, and a single fan cycles air amidst the men and women who choose this place to strengthen their bodies and clear their minds. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quiet there at four in the morning. Even the people working out together speak a little softer than they might elsewhere. The loudest noises are generally the grunts from people trying to move mass against the force of gravity. A kind of fraternity exists in the room. With only a facial expression and a gesture, one person steps around to spot another. Everyone gets their own space. People arrive and people leave. These are serious people about serious business. Regardless of their background, every person there has one ambition: strength. Some might have other goals along with that pilgrimage: getting thinner, getting more muscular or finding some calm before a hectic day, but achieving strength is the devotion in this place. Lifting can be as much of a meditative experience as anything else. Achieving strength without injury requires proper form, and the people in the room seem less concerned with ego or competition than just doing it right. The rules posted on the wall are never referenced because a person serious enough to come down to this place already knows and respects those rules. Like monks from an older time people come into this space, hallowed by sweat and effort, and they offer up their effort as a sacrifice for their goals. However, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be a sacrifice. The effort is just as rewarding as the result.

by MC3 Justin Diniro

PROMOTING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES WHILE UNDERWAY

eployment can be a challenge for service members. It can be mentally exhausting, stressful and all-around time consuming in addition to the countless factors such as working hours, sleeping, eating and accomplishing necessary tasks to achieve the mission. How is it possible to complete mission requirements, make time for self, maintain fitness standards and healthy eating habits and get downtime? Ship Shape can mitigate some of these factors for Sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The eight-week program coordinated by TR’s Health First Committee in conjunction with The Navy and Marine Corps Health Promotion Committee is held Tuesdays and Thursdays. The program challenges service members to get ready, get fit and get healthy, by taking their personal health and nutrition into their own hands. Lt. Colleen Hopkins, the program’s coordinator, explained the value of Ship Shape. “Each week we have a different topic, and it’s for helping people lose weight, maintain weight and get ready for the physical fitness assessment (PFA). It’s for people who are working to pass their body composition assessments (BCA) or if they have any questions in general about weight management and nutrition.” Class members learn about a variety of topics including physical activity, psychology of weight management, nutrition, weight loss tracking and trends creating supportive environments and future goals. “The course supports an ongoing lifestyle that includes long-term changes in daily eating and exercise habits,”

said Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 3rd Class Joseph Hickey, a Ship Shape participant. “Our goal is to help service members reach and maintain a healthy weight for life, and understand all the important factors that go into that.” The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center’s Health Promotion and Wellness Department focuses on three important components of weight loss: mindset, nutrition and physical activity. The goal is to equip all of the program’s participants with the skills and resources necessary to make incremental adjustments toward a healthier lifestyle. “The program encourages each participant to make weekly changes,” said Hopkins. “Some of those changes include increasing physical fitness activity to 250 minutes per week, increasing healthy food choices like fruits and vegetables in replacement of fried or high-fat foods, tools to combat craving and how to avoid negative self-talk.” Daily improvement is another key principle and programs such as “Ship Shape” can help people take little steps into living a positive healthy lifestyle. “Simply put, there’s a lot of people who don’t have a very strong education in what to eat, how to eat, when to eat and how to incorporate fitness into their schedules,” said Hickey. “I think it all depends on the mindset of each person and that is the most important thing if they want to change.” Ship Shape gives Sailors and Marines the tools they need to improve every day and achieve the best level of fitness they can. “This portion of the class is about the psychology of understanding the difference between appetite and hunger,

your want for food and your actual need for it,” said Hickey. Attending the class is a valuable tool, but practical application is necessary for a healthy lifestyle. Sailors and Marines must maintain discipline to make positive changes in their lives. “The end goal is to give Sailors and Marines a solid base knowledge to make an informed lifestyle change when it comes to weight management, physical fitness and overall health,” said Hopkins. “Each Ship Shape participant should walk away from the program with tangible tools to aid in their weight management goals – that includes understanding of proper nutrition to fuel their lifestyle, appropriate forms of exercise to increases physical fitness and healthier ways of thinking about food in general.” Anyone with a passion for helping others to achieve weight loss and fitness goals, and an interest in being a member of the Ship Shape team in San Diego, should contact Lt. Colleen Hopkins.

YOUR THOUGHTS ON

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ROUGH RHYM

I really wanted to come support my good friend Jeffries. We go all the way back to “A” school. Overall, I like when the rappers get in the groove. Crazy lyrics really come out then you know? The only thing I wish was better was that sometimes the mic wouldn’t work, or we couldn’t hear them. But I would recommend it, it’s a break from everything else.

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I came out to support MWR. I loved the creativity. I’m always anxious to see what line the MCs might say next! It’s a great way to meet new people and to see what hidden talents are on the TR! AE2 BRITTANY BRITTON

ABHAA JOVANI LOSSISIRONI

I wanted to relax. I came out, everything was good, and it was pretty funny. GM2 RICK JONES

I wish we had longer rounds but the music selection was great. Next time, BRING THE HEAT! ABE3 TANTALOUS HOLLIDAY

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I wanted to see some good rap. The best part was when Jeffries clowned Huff! I would recommend this, it’s a good place to have a good laugh. FC2 BRANDON THOMAS

I came to laugh. The turn out was really good and the talent from everyone was great. Nothing could be improved! LSSN MARQUAVIS WILLIAMS

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MERS

I came to see the talent on the ship. I loved the dancing and seeing everyone relax after work. It really was a good time, and you get to see the ship in a different light.

What your family is saying. Stay safe guys. Come back to land soon.

LS1 ROBERT STANLEY

You could feel how alive the crowd was. I would tell anyone to come out and hear some bars. I just wish there were longer rounds. AOAN CORI CANTY

Dorothy Davi August 9

My heart is overjoyed for this amazing group of Sailors already leading from the front. BZ from a serious fan! Bill Smalts August 7

I want to wish my son Josh Devosha HAPPY 26TH BIRTHDAY on August 8th. We love you and miss you lots. Lori Devosha August 4

I came to support my fellow ABE! I love that there are no hard feelings. We can all just laugh and have fun. Don’t be shy though, we are all here together. Let’s have a little fun. ABEAN KAHIL JUSTICE

LAYOUT AND DESIGN BY MC3 ANNA VAN NUYS

Midnight in New York F R O M T H E PA G E S O F

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015

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Coke Funds Effort to Alter Obesity Fight ACROSS COUNTRY, A SCRAMBLE IS ON TO FIND TEACHERS

Coca-Cola, the world’s largest producer of sugary beverages, is backing a new “science-based” solution to the obesity crisis: To maintain a healthy weight, get more exercise and worry less about cutting calories. The beverage giant has teamed up with scientists who are advancing this message in medical journals, at conferences and through social media. To help the scientists get the word out, Coke has provided financial and logistical support to a new nonprofit organization called the Global Energy Balance Network, which promotes the argument that weight-conscious Americans are overly fixated on how much they eat and drink while not paying enough attention to exercise. “Most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific press is, ‘Oh they’re eating too much, eating too much, eating too much’ — blaming fast food, blaming sugary drinks and so on,” the group’s vice president, Steven N. Blair, an exercise scientist, says in a video announcing the new organization. “And there’s really

virtually no compelling evidence that that, in fact, is the cause.” Health experts say this message is misleading and part of an effort by Coke to deflect criticism about the role sugary drinks have played in the spread of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. They contend that the company is using the new group to convince the public that physical activity can offset a bad diet despite evidence that exercise has only minimal impact on weight compared with what people consume. This move comes in a period of rising efforts to tax sugary drinks, remove them from schools and stop companies from marketing them to children. In the last two decades, consumption of full-calorie sodas by the average American has dropped by 25 percent. “Coca-Cola’s sales are slipping, and there’s this huge political and public backlash against soda, with every major city trying to do something to curb consumption,” said Michele Simon, a public health lawyer. “This is a direct response to the ways that the company is losing. They’re desperate

to stop the bleeding.” Since 2008, Coca-Cola has provided close to $4 million in funding for various projects to two of the organization’s founding members: Blair, a professor at the University of South Carolina whose research over the past 25 years has formed much of the basis of federal guidelines on physical activity, and Gregory A. Hand, dean of the West Virginia University School of Public Health. Records show the network’s website, gebn.org, is registered to Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, and the company is also listed as the site’s administrator. Coca-Cola’s public relations department declined requests for an interview with its chief scientific officer, Rhona Applebaum, who has called attention to the new group on Twitter. In a statement, the company said: “It’s important to us that the researchers we work with share their own views and scientific findings, regardless of the outcome, and are transparent and open about our funding.” ANAHAD O’CONNOR

Sanders Resembles, to a Point, Firebrand in ’04 WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — It was a summer Friday night in Iowa, and a high school auditorium here was overflowing, as more than 1,000 people, holding signs and collecting names, spilled out into the lobby and onto the sidewalk. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont strolled onstage and stopped at the sight in front of him. “What this campaign is doing is sending a loud and clear message to the billionaire class: And that is that their greed is destroying the United States of America,” Sanders, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, shouted above the roar of the crowd. “This country belongs to all of us — and not just a handful of billionaires.” To many in this state with the first nominating contest of 2016, it was a familiar scene: a candidate from Vermont challenging the Democratic Party status quo with a lusty if slightly cantanker-

ous presentation — and drawing huge crowds. In 2004, it was Howard Dean, the doctor and former governor of Vermont, who commanded his party’s attention with booming rallies and displays of populist passion; this summer, it is Sanders, a candidate with a similar pedigree who seems to be playing off a similar script. Yet for all the obvious similarities, there are striking differences between the two — in their campaign appeals, ideologies and skills as candidates — which may go far in determining whether Sanders follows Dean’s trajectory: a once-hot comet who quickly burns out after Iowa. “In terms of Dean’s politics and mine, they are different,” Sanders said recently. “I look at issues much more from a class-based perspective than he does. He did health care stuff. My perspective is a little bit different. I say we do

need a political revolution.” Yet in a tribute to Dean’s signature argument that the party had to compete in all 50 states, Sanders is campaigning in such unlikely Democratic states as Louisiana and Texas. It appears to be working: He walked out to a rally in Arizona to find 11,000 people waiting to hear him on a Saturday night. He waited for the cheering to die down, and as he began to speak, his words seemed to echo the other Vermont politician who walked the path he is on today. “Somebody told me that people are giving up on the political process,” Sanders said. “Not that I’m seeing tonight. Your incredible presence here tonight gives people all over this country hope that when we stand together, when we come together in meetings like this, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish in transforming America.” ADAM NAGOURNEY

ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — In an about-face from just a few years ago, school districts have gone from handing out pink slips to scrambling to hire teachers. Across the country, districts are struggling with shortages of teachers, particularly in math, science and special education — a result of the layoffs of the recession years combined with an improving economy in which fewer people are training to be teachers. At the same time, a growing number of English-language learners are entering public schools, yet it is increasingly difficult to find bilingual teachers. So schools are looking for applicants, whether out of state or out of country, and wooing candidates earlier and quicker. Some are even asking prospective teachers to train on the job, hiring novices still studying for their teaching credentials. Louisville, Ky.; Nashville; Oklahoma City; and Providence, R.I., are among the large urban school districts having trouble finding teachers, according to the Council of the Great City Schools, which represents large urban districts. Just one month before the opening of classes, Charlotte, N.C., was desperately trying to fill 200 vacancies. Nationwide, many teachers were laid off during the recession, but the situation was particularly acute in California, which lost 82,000 jobs in schools from 2008 to 2012, according to Labor Department figures. This academic year, districts have to fill 21,500 slots, according to the California Department of Education, while the state is issuing fewer than 15,000 new teaching credentials a year. “We are no longer in a layoff situation,” said Monica Vasquez, chief human resources officer for the San Francisco Unified School District, which offered early contracts to 140 teachers last spring in a bid to secure candidates before other districts snapped them up. “But there is an impending teacher shortage,” Vasquez added, before correcting herself: “It’s not impending. It’s here.” MOTOKO RICH

INTERNATIONAL

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015

Turkey’s Entry Into ISIS Battle May Upset Allies’ Balance HASAKA, Syria — Talal Raman, a 36-year-old fighter with the Syrian Kurdish militia, worked on a tablet, annotating a Google Earth map marked with the positions of the deserted apartment buildings and crumbling villas where his colleagues were battling Islamic State fighters near this northern Syrian town. “Our comrades can see the enemy moving at the GPS address I just sent you,” he wrote in Arabic to a handler hundreds of miles away in a United States military operations room. Then he waited for the American warplanes to scream in. The strike blasted a crater at the coordinates provided by the Kurdish fighter. It left a ring of bodies, including one Islamic State fighter who died slumped over his AK-47. The tight coordination of American air power with the militia, known as the Y.P.G., from the Kurdish initials for People’s Protection Units, has dealt the Islamic

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State its most significant setbacks in recent months. Now, the U.S. air campaign is set to expand, aided by a deal with Turkey to allow American aircraft to fly bombing missions from bases closer to the border. Yet at a time when the militia, the Americans’ most effective ally in Syria, would otherwise be celebrating the help, its members are worrying. Until last month, Turkey had re-

Iraqi Premier Proposes Government Reforms BAGHDAD — Facing widespread protests against government corruption and poor services, as well as a crucial call for change from the country’s top Shiite cleric, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proposed on Sunday to radically reshape the dysfunctional political system of Iraq that has been entrenched since the American-led invasion in 2003. The proposals, which came as the war against Islamic State militants has stalled in western Anbar Province, are wide-ranging and include a new corruption inquiry and the elimination of what has been a hallmark of the American-imposed system: sectarian and party quotas in the appointment of top officials. Abadi also vowed to eliminate the three vice presidency positions, largely ceremonial jobs that come with expensive perks. Those jobs are held by three figures who have dominated Iraqi politics since the United States toppled Saddam Hussein: the former prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, a Shiite; Ayad Allawi, a Shiite whose Sunni-dominated bloc won the most seats in elections in 2010; and Osama al-Nujaifi, a prominent Sunni Arab leader. Abadi has the backing of the public — protesters gathered in Baghdad on Sunday in support of Abadi — and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country’s top Shiite cleric who holds enormous sway over the Shiite population. With the proposal, Abadi has shifted the narrative that had grown around him, portraying him as a weak and ineffectual, if well-meaning, leader. “We are witnessing the end of the post-2003 Iraq,” said Maria Fantappie, the Iraq analyst for the International Crisis Group. (NYT)

A Kurdish fighter on a hill overlooking a field of oil wells near the village of Derek in Syria. Kurds are fighting the Islamic State.

sisted calls to do more to support the fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, mindful that it might further Kurdish ambitions to eventually carve out an independent state. The Kurds, who number roughly 30 million people spread out over Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, have been described as the world’s largest ethnic group without a homeland. So even as it agreed to join the

fight against the ISIS, Turkey immediately began bombarding the mountain camps of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, or P.K.K., an insurgent group in Turkey and Iraq that is allied with the Y.P.G. The United States and members of the militia take pains to note that it is not the same group as the outlawed P.K.K. But Syrian Kurds are starting to worry that their success might not outweigh Turkey’s importance to the United States. “There is only one group that has consistently and effectively battled ISIS in Syria, and that is the Y.P.G.,” said Redur Khalil, a spokesman for the militia who says it has grown to include 35,000 soldiers, roughly 11 years after its start as a self-defense force in a single town. “Opening another front in the region — as Turkey has by attacking the P.K.K. — will make the forces fighting ISIS weaker,” he said. “Which in turn makes ISIS stronger.” RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

In Brief Israel Tackles Extremist Cells

Abuse of Children Is Claimed

The Israeli authorities on Sunday continued their crackdown against the young Jewish zealots believed to be associated with the Revolt, a shadowy network described by its members as an anarchistic vision of redemption. The extremists’ working plan calls for fomenting unrest to bring about the collapse of the State of Israel, with its democratic system of government and courts, and establish a Jewish kingdom based on the laws of the Torah. Six-month administrative detention orders were issued Sunday against two high-profile activists from the radical right, Meir Ettinger and Eviatar Slonim, both in their early 20s. Ettinger is the grandson of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy. (NYT)

Pakistani officials have initiated an investigation into allegations that a gang of men sexually abused more than 200 children and sold videos of the abuse. The accusations have rocked Pakistan, drawing the attention and condemnation of human rights activists and politicians in a case that involved subjects long considered taboo. At least 280 children under the age of 14 from three villages in eastern Punjab Province were said to have been subjected to sexual abuse by a gang of 15 men, who made videos to extort money from the children and their parents. Seven of the accused have been arrested, police officials said Sunday. (NYT)

29 Die in Afghan Bombing At least 29 people were killed and 19 others wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a militia in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, Afghan officials said Sunday. The deadly attack late Saturday came a day after a wave of bombings rocked Kabul, killing at least 65 people and wounding hundreds of others. The target of the attack in Kunduz was a militia commander called Qadir, who controls about 100 men, according to Hayatullah Amiri, the governor of Khanabad. The bombing took place as Qadir and his men were leaving a meeting. As part of a Taliban offensive in the north, large parts of Kunduz Province have come under Taliban fire. (NYT)

Disorder as Haitians Vote Haitians were electing legislators to Parliament Sunday after a yearslong wait, but the vote was plagued with delays, disorder and occasional fistfights. The elections had been postponed for nearly four years due to a political showdown between Haiti’s executive and opposition, and they have been billed as a test of the country’s electoral system ahead of a presidential vote in October. Sunday’s first round sought to fill two-thirds of the 30-member Senate and the entire 119-member Chamber of Deputies. But a number of polling stations had to wait for ballots a few hours after voting was supposed to start at 6 a.m. In sections of Port-au-Prince, voters also grew exasperated after being told they could not cast ballots because their names were not on official voting lists. (AP)

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015 3

NATIONAL

A Year Later in Ferguson, Still Seeing Wrongs FERGUSON, Mo. — Returning Sunday to the very spot here where, a year ago, the killing of an unarmed black 18-year-old named Michael Brown by a white police officer sparked local unrest and a national debate on race and policing, hundreds of people chanted, sang and marched in a vigil that was as much a call to action as a remembrance of the death. The event drew a range of political leaders, national activists and ordinary people who said they felt a connection to the events of a year ago. With the writer and academic Cornel West, behind them, Brown’s family stood over the freshly repaved patch of Canfield Drive where Brown died. Relatives of Eric Garner and Oscar Grant, two other black men who died in confrontations with the police in Staten Island and in Oakland, also attended. Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Brown and has since resigned from the Ferguson police force, was cleared of criminal

wrongdoing by a local grand jury in November. And while a Justice Department investigation concluded that the city unconstitutionally targeted black people for an array of fees and fines largely intended to raise revenue, it also concluded that the shooting did not warrant criminal charges. But people here spoke of the need to overhaul the system, calling for an end to racism and what they see as the unfair treatment of blacks by the police. They demanded that national politicians address the grievances of blacks. They called for a national day of resistance on Monday through acts of civil disobedience. “Every city, I want us to close it down!” Anthony Shahid, a local activist, screamed into a microphone before leading the crowd in a chant, “If we can’t get it, shut it down.” Throughout the weekend, protesters and activists held rallies and vigils remembering Brown and others killed by the police or

while in custody in cities around the world. In New York, protesters gathered on Sunday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and at a government building in Harlem before a planned vigil in Manhattan’s Union Square. In Ypsilanti, Mich., demonstrators gathered at a library park for a rally demanding an end to racial injustice. Similar demonstrations took place in Pittsburgh and at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass. Others were planned for Denver; at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia; at the Waller County Jail in Hempstead, Tex., where Sandra Bland was found dead; and in St. Petersburg, Fla. In London, demonstrators picketed outside the American Embassy. More demonstrations were planned for Monday in St. Louis and in Philadelphia, where organizers have adopted the hashtag #MoralMonday on social media. JOHN ELIGON and MITCH SMITH

Trump Remains Defiant on News Programs A defiant Donald J. Trump suggested on Sunday that he had been singled out for attacks by the hosts of last week’s Republican presidential debate and again threatened a third-party White House bid if he was not treated “reasonably fairly” by party leaders. In a rapid-fire series of phone interviews with four Sunday television news programs, Trump defended his record on women’s issues, arguing that his real estate company had been among the first to put women in charge of major construction projects and that he had “always had a great relationship to the women.” And he struck back at critics of

his remarks about Megyn Kelly, one of the Fox moderators, which had resulted in his invitation to a meeting of conservatives in Atlanta on Saturday being rescinded. He said that his appraisal of Kelly’s motives for questioning him sharply during the debate — that she had “blood coming out of her wherever”— was being misconstrued by his rivals as a reference to menstruation in an effort to dampen his surge in the polls. He had made similar remarks, he said, about her co-moderator, Chris Wallace. Trump’s counterattack came amid escalating criticism from other Republicans, who demanded that Trump apologize to Kelly and

openly fretted that Trump’s rhetoric could alienate female voters at a time when the party was under pressure to broaden its appeal. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said he would not mount a sore-loser third-party bid. Even if he did not win the nomination, he said, he would stay out of the race “if I’m treated fairly by the Republicans.” But he seemed to relish his power to create difficulty for the party. When the host, Chuck Todd, asked him whether he was a Republican or not, Trump invoked a business metaphor. “My whole life has been leverage, O.K.?” Trump said. “ I believe in leverage.” (NYT)

Texas Police Investigate an Officer’s Role in a Shooting The police in Arlington, Tex., on Sunday were trying to determine what prompted a black college student to crash his car into an auto dealership, and why a white police officer who was in training fatally shot the unarmed man four times. Christian Taylor, 19, was shot on Friday night by Brad Miller, 49, an officer with the Arlington police who was undergoing training with the department, said its chief, Will Johnson. The authorities said

Taylor was shot as he attempted to flee from officers who had been dispatched to the dealership after reports of a suspected burglary. The Tarrant County medical examiner found that Taylor had gunshot wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen. The police said Taylor had been seen on security surveillance footage vandalizing cars at the dealership. But Johnson did not explain what led to what he described as a

confrontation inside the building, in which Miller fired on Taylor while a second officer used a Taser. The officers were not wearing body cameras. Taylor’s brother Joshua, 23, said the family wanted details, calling the information given by the police “blurry.” Miller was placed on leave after the shooting, and Johnson said he had asked the F.B.I. to help investigate Taylor’s death. (Reuters)

In Brief Texas Man Charged In Killings of Eight A family of six children and two parents were handcuffed and fatally shot in the head at a Houston home by a man with a violent criminal history who had previously been in a relationship with the mother and had a dispute with her, the authorities said Sunday. David Conley, 48, was charged with capital murder. Conley, who is being held in Harris County Jail, did not appear at a court hearing Sunday where an arrest affidavit was read. The judge denied him bond. The dead were identified as Dewayne Jackson, 50; his wife, Valerie Jackson, 40; and children Nathaniel, 13, Dewayne, 10, Honesty, 11, Caleb, 9, Trinity, 7, and Jonah, 6. (AP)

Robbers Targeting News Crews’ Gear Camera crews from major San Francisco Bay Area television stations and news photographers from two newspapers are being robbed of their pricey gear. Two have been pistol whipped. An Oakland Tribune photographer lost five cameras in two incidents. San Francisco Examiner photographer Mike Koozmin was on a routine assignment at the city’s Hall of Justice in the middle of the day when he was robbed of his camera equipment. “They pulled me into an alley and were tugging on my camera strap,” Koozmin said of his two assailants, who ended up with $10,000 worth of equipment last month. (AP)

After 9 Years, Dog And Family Reunite An Alabama family drove to Colorado to be reunited with their dog Boozer on Saturday after a nine-year separation. Boozer, now 10, had gone missing while the family was moving from Tennessee to Alabama. KUSA-TV reported that a man who had owned Boozer, a boxer, recently moved to Denver and gave the dog to Foothills Animal Shelter in Golden on Aug. 2. The man said he was unable to take care of Boozer. The shelter scanned Boozer’s microchip and discovered that he was registered to Lloyd Goldston of Alabama. Goldston said he kept an album of Boozer. “We never forgot him,” he said. (AP)

MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015 4

BUSINESS

S.E.C. Is Moving Ahead in High-Profile Cases Wall Street’s chief regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission, appears to some to be in need of a makeover. Critics say it is too focused on minor cases, it is not aggressive enough in forcing wrongdoers to admit liability and yet it is too aggressive in seeking an unfair advantage for trying cases. The agency contends that it has been ramping up enforcement. And it is pursuing some high-profile cases that could enable it to redefine its regulatory role and reclaim some momentum. In one case, the S.E.C., in tandem with other authorities, is poised to file charges soon in an unusual investigation that combines insider trading with cybersecurity, according to people briefed on the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly. It is also pushing ahead with

another insider trading case that involves trading activity in the shares of Dean Foods by the golfer Phil Mickelson and the professional sports gambler William T. Walters, said several other people briefed on those investigations. And the agency is pursuing an investigation into Wall Street’s hiring of the children of China’s elite. Coming out ahead on any of these fronts would be a boon for the agency, but for now the S.E.C. finds itself on the defensive. In a dressing-down this year, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., called on the agency to be more aggressive in pursuing Wall Street banks. Warren has faulted Mary Jo White, the S.E.C. chairwoman, for not being quicker to enforce her own policy change of requiring parties that settle to admit liability and wrongdoing. At the same time, the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce and some law professors have criticized the agency’s use of administrative courts, where S.E.C.-appointed judges hear cases. A number of defendants have filed lawsuits arguing that these courts give the S.E.C. an unfair home field advantage. Addressing the critics, Andrew J. Ceresney, the director of the S.E.C.’s enforcement division, pointed to the agency’s record number of enforcement actions across the securities markets. “Under Chair White’s leadership, the enforcement division has demonstrated tremendous momentum over the last couple of years, with an unprecedented level of enforcement activity leading to innovative cases in every area of the securities markets,” he said. ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

Company Helps Hollywood Reach China Film Fans LOS ANGELES — Now that Hollywood has mostly figured out how to get its biggest movies approved for release in China, studio marketers here are grappling with a new puzzle: What is the best way to woo China’s ticket buyers? Trailers and television advertisements are difficult marketing tools to use. Chinese theaters do not typically play trailers. The cost of advertising on TV can be exorbitant. Instead, film companies pay for outdoor banners and signs, advertise online, team up with local promotional partners and, increasingly, call a company that few people outside of China have ever heard of: Mtime.

Founded in 2005 in Beijing by Kelvin Hou, 49, a former Microsoft executive, Mtime started as an online listing of movie times. Then a film database was built and added. Next came a movie-news service, aggregation of user-submitted reviews, a movie scoring system and an online ticket service for 3,000 theaters. Now attracting 160 million unique desktop and mobile users a month, according to Hou, Mtime is effectively Fandango, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo Movies rolled into one. Mtime, which counts Fidelity Growth Partners and CBC Capital among its backers, has also started designing movie-themed products

that are sold on its website and inside Chinese multiplexes. Mtime began opening these “merchandising centers,” many in partnership with Wanda Cinemas, China’s largest theater operator, in January. Hou will have 80 of these centers operating by December. “Mtime is useful as a marketing partner, but it’s not totally indispensable,” said one studio executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his relationship with Mtime. “At the same time, you have to be mindful that it controls a huge amount of ticketing and has an influential movie scoring system.” BROOKS BARNES and AMY QIN

In Brief Metal Parts Maker Is Target of Buffett Warren E. Buffett has long spoken about his “elephant gun,” the huge pile of cash at Berkshire Hathaway that is reserved for big deals, and his itchy trigger finger. Now, the billionaire appears to be ready to fire that gun and claim his largest-ever acquisition. Berkshire Hathaway, the sprawling industrial empire that includes the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad and Fruit of the Loom underwear, is near a deal to buy the metal parts manufacturer Precision Castparts, a person briefed on the matter said. An agreement is expected as soon as this week. Such a deal would probably be worth more than $30 billion, given Precision Castparts’s market value of about $27 billion. (NYT)

Chobani Founder Sets His Sights on Coffee Having shaken up the yogurt world, Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder of Chobani, now has his sights on a much tougher target — coffee. Ulukaya has taken a stake in La Colombe Coffee Roasters, one of the many coffee brands that have sprung up over the last 10 years to cater to the tastes of coffee drinkers who consider themselves connoisseurs. Ulukaya would not say how much he has invested. But he is buying out Goode Partners, a small private equity firm that invested $28.5 million in La Colombe last year. Ulukaya stressed that he will not have any management role at La Colombe. (NYT)

In Finland, Former Nokia Tech Workers Regroup and Refocus Kimmo Kalliola knows the feeling that thousands of Finns have been dealing with in the last couple of years. He spent more than a decade working on geolocation positioning at Nokia, but the Finnish tech giant hit hard times. In late 2012, Kalliola and 10,000 others at the company were laid off. “I remember those sleepless nights,” said Kalliola, 42, who holds a Ph.D. in radio engineering. Troubles at Nokia have hardly slowed. Last year, the company sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft. Within three months, Microsoft announced 18,000 lay-

offs, many of them in Finland. Further job cuts are underway. Microsoft said it would reduce its Finnish work force by up to 2,300 employees, or roughly two-thirds of its local work force. Nokia now focuses almost entirely on its telecom infrastructure business. Some workers in Finland may be struggling to find a good job, but many have already started their own businesses or have been recruited by tech companies moving to Finland. Kalliola started Quuppa, a company that provides precise indoor geolocation positioning, employing connections

he made while at Nokia. Finnish politicians have also forced Nokia — and are putting pressure on Microsoft — to support former employees’ re-entry into the labor market. Because of these efforts, the unemployment rate for the country’s tech workers is several percentage points lower than Finland’s current 10 percent unemployment rate, according to government officials and national statistics. One of the individuals helping to lower this number is Risto Kivipuro, who was 58 and a lifelong Nokia employee when his team

was scrapped in 2012. A group of younger former colleagues persuaded him to join a fledgling company, Piceasoft, which is based on the mobile data-transferring technology they built at Nokia. By tapping into the wide diaspora of former Nokia sales employees, they have been able to sign up mobile operators as clients from Germany, across Central Europe and even Russia. “At 58, no one was going to hire me,” Kivipuro said. “If I had known that running my own business was so fun, I would have left Nokia a lot earlier.”MARK SCOTT

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Investors Take Circuitous Route to Big Returns Vogue Ads Link SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb’s valuation has ballooned over the last few years as large financial firms like Fidelity Investments and T. Rowe Price have rushed to invest in the start-up. But a small San Francisco-based hedge fund called Pier 88 Investment Partners has decided that the fervor for Airbnb shares creates a different kind of opportunity. While other investors paid dearly to buy a piece of Airbnb — the start-up’s latest funding round valued it at $24 billion — Pier 88 did not invest directly in the privately held online home-rental company. Instead, Pier 88 put money into HomeAway, a publicly traded Internet company that competes with Airbnb, but has a market capitalization of $2.95 billion. Frank Timons and LeAnne Schweitzer, the co-founders of Pier 88, believe the public companies are such relative bargains that they will make great acquisitions for purchasers that want to better compete with upstarts like Airbnb. When those publicly traded companies are snapped up — often for a more than 50 percent premium — Pier 88 can profit from the bet. “People think there’s something inherently wrong with public assets because they’re cheaper,” Timons said. “But if I’m

32, started Pier 88 in October 2013, naming the firm after a pier in Lake Geneva, Wis., where Timons’s family has a summer house. In addition to HomeAway, Pier 88 has shares of the collaboration software maker Jive, which has a $292 million market capitalization versus a $2.8 billion valuation PETER EARL MCCOLLOUGH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES for its private competitor Slack. The firm Hedge fund managers LeAnne also owns shares of Schweitzer, Frank Timons and Jackie Pandora, the online Fertitta of Pier 88 Investment Partners. radio company whose $3.8 billion market buying decent assets at a relative capitalization is less than half the discount to the private market- $8.5 billion valuation of privately place, the risk-reward is probably held Spotify. “These companies aren’t in my favor.” Apart from Airbnb being perfectly analogous with their pegged at eight times the value private counterparts, but we’re of HomeAway, the ride-hailing looking at neighborhoods to find start-up Uber was recently valued assets that could be useful to lots at around $51 billion, compared of different companies,” Timons with $7.3 billion for the rental-car said. “Pandora could make a nice company Hertz. The storage fit in a media or Internet company. start-up Dropbox has a valuation Jive could be a nice tuck-in for a of around $10 billion, while its pub- big enterprise company or, givlicly traded rival Box has a $1.9 bil- en its huge cash balance sheet, it would be a great private equity lion market capitalization. KATIE BENNER Timons, 46, and Schweitzer, target.”

Wooing Driverless Cars, Open Roads and Fake Towns Whether it is fuel savings, safer commutes or freed-up time behind the wheel, motorists have many reasons to embrace self-driving cars. But another group is just as eager to see these vehicles on the road: politicians. Lawmakers from California, Texas and Virginia are wooing the autonomous-car industry, along with the jobs and tax revenue that come with it. They are financing research centers, building fake suburbs for testing the cars and, perhaps most important, going light on regulation, all in an effort to attract a rapidly growing industry. The prize: a piece of the estimated $20 billion automakers and other companies will spend globally on development in the next five years, according to an analysis by Gartner. Virginia is trying to attract carmakers with its clogged highways. In June, the state designated 70 miles of roads in Northern Virginia for autonomous-car test-

ing. The roads run from hilly to flat and congested to clear, giving carmakers a variety of conditions for testing. “If we are able to help companies by facilitating the process for them, we’re going to help bring business to the state,” said Myra Blanco, director of the Center for Automated Vehicle Systems at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va. Michigan, sensing a potential threat to its traditional leadership position in the auto industry, is taking no chances. In July, officials unveiled a 32-acre testing ground in Ann Arbor specifically for researching self-driving cars — a mock suburb with asphalt and gravel roads lined by brick and glass building facades, where self-driving cars could be tested away from pedestrians. The state spent $6 million to build the site, with $4 million more coming from private companies. Fifteen companies, including

Ford, General Motors, Honda and Toyota, have committed to spending $1 million each to conduct research there. And Florida is setting up a fake town of its own, outside Florida Polytechnic University. Officials want the site to be able to simulate urban and highway driving to test enhanced tolling and intersections, among other things. Florida is one of only a handful of states, including California, Michigan and Nevada, that have passed legislation addressing self-driving cars. Researchers in Florida need only to make sure that a licensed, insured driver is behind the wheel of an autonomous test vehicle and that the driver is able to take control of the car if things go awry. “We think the quicker we get to market, the safer we’ll make the technology,” said Jeff Brandes, a state senator who sponsored Florida’s legislation on self-driving cars. DINO GRANDONI

To Target Goods

Iconic images from the pages of Vogue are getting a makeover, courtesy of Target. In an ad campaign running in the September issue of Vogue, the discount department store has reimagined classic images from the fashion magazine, dating to the early 1900s. In this topsy-turvy world, carpets and curtains sold at Target replace high-fashion dresses, a chunky necklace stands in for a golden crown and a feather duster serves as a peacock’s plume. “This felt like a perfect way to bridge the relationship between Vogue’s history of creating iconic images and expressing that in a way that’s unique to Target,” said Todd Waterbury, the chief cre-

A visual-recognition app streamlines mobile shopping for consumers. ative officer of Target. The goal, however, is not just for consumers to admire Target’s cleverness. Rather, with help from Shazam’s new visual-recognition technology, each ad becomes a portal to a “digital experience,” where consumers can click to shop for individual items. Target is looking to streamline the online and mobile buying process for shoppers who like what they see. Plenty of technology companies, including Google, Twitter and Facebook, are introducing “buy” buttons to make it easier for consumers to buy products they see while browsing on their mobile devices. With its Vogue campaign, Target is trying to drive sales by reducing the steps it takes consumers to go from magazine-flipping to online purchasing. “The ability to be one click away from a product that we sell is essential,” Waterbury said. “We’re always looking for ways to complete that experience in the easiest way possible.” About a hundred Target products appear in the company’s Vogue ads, with roughly 30 available for purchase using “shop now” buttons on the Shazam-enabled online site. Target declined to comment on how much it spent on the Vogue campaign. SYDNEY EMBER

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Doing the Time Warp With Headphones It is a cinematic ritual that unconventional film fans have shared in for nearly 40 years, but it has probably never been presented quite so unconventionally. On Friday night in Damrosch Park, the darkness of a giant cinema screen was pierced by a disembodied set of crimson lips that began to sing an opening incantation to 2,000 moviegoers. This crowd chanted along, intoning an a cappella tale of science-fiction monsters and corrupted youth. Outside observers of this strange sacrament at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival would have noticed that something was missing from this showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” — namely, the audio from the movie. But the seemingly absent soundtrack could be heard by the audience members who wore wireless headsets that glowed green, blue and red, in what Lincoln Center described as a “silent” screening of “Rocky Horror.” The result was partly an anatomical dissection of the cult worship surrounding the movie and partly a tribute to the film’s enduring, endearing goofiness. Jill Sternheimer, Lincoln Center’s acting director of public programming, said before the screening: “The actual movie might be quaint. Going out late and dressing up in crazy wigs and makeup, that’s never going to be quaint. I don’t want to live in a world where that’s quaint. It’s a rite of passage.”

characters, stand in front of the screen and re-enact the film; and audience members seize on every awkward pause to shout out their own sarcastic dialogue and comeback lines. (Yes, they still throw toilet paper, playing cards and pieces of toast at the screen, too.) After the movie, Mariel Davis, who was AN RONG XU FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES seeing “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” Coral Weber and Ian Murphy at the screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture for the first time, said she had gained a satShow” at Damrosch Park on Friday. isfying introduction to its traditions. “It is “The Rocky Horror Picture really strange when you’re doing Show,” Jim Sharman’s 1975 film it with headphones on,” she said. adaptation of Richard O’Brien’s “There’s probably a lot of energy stage musical “The Rocky Horror that you would get from being in Show,” tells the story of a virginal a bigger group environment that couple (played by Susan Saran- you wouldn’t get from being in isodon and Barry Bostwick) who lation, essentially.” Indicating her headphones, she spend a life-altering, libido-awakening night in the castle of Dr. added, “These things squeezed Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a my brains out through my nose.” Jahn Dusenbery, a member of cross-dressing mad scientist with a “Rocky Horror” fan cast from an omnivorous sexual appetite. The film has come to be regard- Pennsylvania that had attended ed as much more than a campy the screening, declared the headsalute to B-movies, rock ’n’ roll phone experiment a success. “For loudmouths like us, who and surrendering to absolute pleasure. The “Rocky Horror” basically just yell obscenities, experience has evolved into an they had a really good idea to keep anthropological case study, in it focused,” he said. “And if people which fans adorn themselves in didn’t want to hear us, they had DAVE ITZKOFF the revealing garb of the show’s that option.”

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‘Fantastic Four’ Flops in Debut LOS ANGELES — 20th Century Fox’s big-budget “Fantastic Four” went down in flames at the weekend box office, adding to fears about superhero fatigue and calling into question Hollywood’s willingness to hire novice directors for major films. “Fantastic Four,” with an estimated production and marketing budget of $200 million and directed by Josh Trank, a 31-year-old filmmaker with only one previous feature to his credit, sold about $26.2 million in tickets in North America. Box office analysts had expected sales of at least $40 million for the disastrously reviewed movie, which would have been a disappointing total in itself. Fox, facing a ticking clock to make a new “Fantastic Four” movie or watch the rights revert to Disney-owned Marvel, was trying to reintroduce the superheroes to audiences after two “Fantastic Four” films underwhelmed in 2005 and 2007. The latest attempt, which took in $34.1 million overseas, will instead go into the failed superhero movie hall of fame, joining efforts like “Catwoman” and “The Green Lantern.” Chris Aronson, Fox’s president of domestic distribution, said by phone on Sunday that his studio had no plans to let go of the “Fantastic Four” characters, which were introduced by Marvel Comics in the 1960s; Fox bought the rights more than a decade ago, before Marvel made its own movies. Asked to comment on the box office results, Aronson said: “There’s not much to say. I have never seen a confluence of events impact the opening of a movie so swiftly.” He was referring to negative reviews and a renegade post by Trank on Twitter on Thursday night that blamed the studio for poor reviews. The comment was quickly deleted, but it had already spread like wildfire online. The lack of audience support for Trank’s movie will no doubt fuel emerging concerns about superhero burnout. There are at least 20 superhero movies planned for release over the next five years. For the weekend, “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation” (Paramount) was the No. 1 draw in North America, taking in $29.4 million, for a two-week total of $108.7 million. “Fantastic Four” was second. BROOKS BARNES

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As Villages Empty, Even Primary Schools Fall Silent empty, weed-filled playground surrounded by old cherry trees. “Young people have all gone to cities to find work and get married there.” Nogok, which lies 110 miles east of Seoul, is typical of many rural South Korean towns. A cluster of 16 hamlets, it is nestled in a series of narrow valleys surrounded by lush hills. In the hills and valleys, farmers tend crops of potatoes, beans and red peppers; in town, persimmon and apricot trees grow in the gardens of every home. But the town also bears scars from the country’s rapid industrialization, a great transformation that places like Nogok helped unleash. And the primary school itself played a large part in those changes.

NOGOK, South Korea — The post office pulled up stakes and moved away years ago. The police station is long gone. And so is the bank. Over the years, the residents of Nogok have watched almost every major institution disappear, victims of an exodus of young people that is emptying villages and towns across much of rural South Korea. Now, Nogok is about to lose an important symbol of youthful vitality: Next spring, the local primary school will close when its only student, a 12-year-old named Chung Jeongsu, graduates. “Villages around here have no more children to send,” the school’s only teacher, Lee Sung-kyun, said recently, looking over an

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Like countless other parents after the Korean War, the slash-and-burn farmers of Nogok saw education as the ticket for their children to escape lives of backbreaking work and poverty. Every morning, they would Chung send them to study at Nogok Primary, with some of Jeong-su the children walking as many as five miles each way. Later, the children joined streams of rural youths migrating to cities to seek higher education or factory jobs from the 1970s and onward, providing cheap and disciplined work forces to fuel the economy. This exodus also overlapped with a government birth-control campaign that started in the 1960s and continued into the 1990s. In Nogok, married men reporting for mandatory army reserve training would receive condoms or exemptions from serving if they agreed to a free vasectomy. Across South Korea, birthrates dropped from 4.5 children per woman in 1970 to 1.2 last year, one of the lowest rates in the world. Over the same period, the number of primary school students decreased by more than half to 2.7 million. Hardest hit by this demographic shift were rural towns like Nogok and their public schools. Since 1982, nearly 3,600 schools have closed across South Korea, most of them in rural towns, for lack of children. Today, many villages look like ghost towns, with houses crumbling and once-bustling schools standing in weedy ruins, windowpanes cracked or full of cobwebs. In Nogok, the only store in the town center was closed during a recent visit in the afternoon. “There are only old, useless people left here,” said Baek Gye-hyun, 55, a farmer here. “If we come across a young woman with a child, we stop and stare as if they were an endangered species.” CHOE SANG-HUN

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FEMA Sends USS Ashland, Marines to Provide Typhoon Soudelor Relief to Saipan From Joint Region Marianas Public Affairs

ASAN, Guam (NNS) -- Through the coordination of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) will depart Guam and arrive in Saipan Aug. 8 to provide relief in the aftermath of Typhoon Soudelor, which devastated the island Aug. 2-3. Agencies including the Government of Guam, American Red Cross, Ayuda Foundation and other non-profit/ non-governmental organizations have provided drinking water, bed sheets, food, generators, power lines and other electrical restoration supplies to aid in the effort. Upon arriving in Saipan, the supplies will be sent

to distribution sites, shelters and schools around the island to provide the much needed supplies to local residents and government agencies. “Ashland, as part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Readiness Group, has been

underway in the region conducting routine training and exercises. We have precisely the capabilities and capacity, at the right place and time to respond,” said Ashland Commanding Officer Cmdr. Daniel Duhan. “Along with the

31st MEU [Marine Expeditionary Unit], we are just one part of Typhoon Soudelor relief efforts. With the collaboration between the Navy, Marines, local and federal government agencies, we hope to make significant contributions to the effort.” Ashland, homeported in Sasebo, Japan, is the eighth and last of the Whidbey Islandclass ships to be commissioned and the second U.S. Navy ship to bear that name. She is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations with her crew of more than 600 Sailors and Marines. For more news from U.S. Naval Forces, Marianas, visit www.navy.mil/local/ guam/.

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