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Electronics Technician 2nd Class Kelsey Schunk (left), from Seattle, Electronics Technician 3rd Class Tu Nguyen (center), from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Electronics Technician 2nd Class Amanda Craig (right), from Huntsville, Alabama, grease the ball bearings of the SPN 43, primary marshaling radar for aircraft during a maintenance check aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jennifer Case/Released)
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J Walsh, Danny Villalpando, Tom Foss and Reno Collier flew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to provide some comedic relief to the crew, Aug. 24. The four stand-up comedians provided an evening of entertainment in the ship’s hangar bay. during a comedy show sponsored by Navy Entertainment. “We really appreciate those guys coming out and sharing their time with us,” said Capt. Craig Clapperton, TR’s commanding officer. “It’s a great way to bring a little touch of home to the ship.” The show opened with Villalpando, who gave his comedic views on marriage, children and the most common theme of the night: the heat in the Arabian Gulf. Villalpando also thanked the Sailors and Marines for their service and sacrifice while on deployment. “You guys are true super heroes, not only for what you do on this ship, but for doing it in this heat,” said Villalpando. “That makes you true champions.” PJ Walsh brought his energetic brand of humor to the stage next. A former Sailor and Marine, Walsh told jokes about his experience in the military as well as his experience visiting service members deployed overseas. “I met PJ in 2007 during my last deployment,” said Yeoman 2nd Class Steven Strickland. “It was great seeing him again, and I’m glad that we’re able to have entertainment come aboard.”
Collier followed Walsh on stage. His jokes about weight, divorce and drinking received a big response from the crowd. “[Collier] was definitely my favorite,” said Marine Cpl. Michael Wood. “It was an amazing show, and I wish it could have been longer.” After his performance, Collier spoke to the crowd about his participation in the charity organization, A Soldier’s Child, that arranges birthday celebrations and offers college scholarships to the children of deceased service members. “If you know anybody who could use our organization, you can visit our website or you can come talk to me after the show,” said Collier. “I want to thank you guys so much for serving our country and thank you so much for having us here.” The final comedian of the night was Foss. He entertained the crew with witty one-liners and added TR to the list of Navy ships that he has performed on, bringing the total to 11. Foss has also entertained service members across the U.S. and in 23 other countries. Following the show, the four comedians held a meetand-greet in the hangar bay. The Sailors and Marines onboard gave one last round of applause before lining up to meet the entertainers. “It was a really great show,” said Logistics Specialist Seaman Hannah Reissmann. “[Navy Entertainment] picked good people to come to the ship. They all appreciate what we do, and PJ has been there so he really gets what it’s like out here.”
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I came to laugh. I enjoyed the jokes and my favorite comedian had to be the third guy and his whole skit. I’m definitely a fan. I like that they can make jokes out of inappropriate things. EN3 MICHAEL ROE
The comedians were extremely funny. Plus I liked that one had a military background. I liked that it wasn’t censored, though a bit crude, the jokes were still really funny. I came to have a laugh and relax after work, and I definitely enjoyed it. Lots of fun! EN3 CHARLES GANT
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Comedy now really breaks up the monotony and brings all of us together. I enjoyed the variety as well. Reno was my favorite. He had funny facial expressions mixed with a great act. Huge fan of all four guys, they were great. AO2 TRAVIS WILLIAMS
I enjoyed all the comedians. They really made us laugh. It was a nice way to spend a part of my night. It definitely makes deployment better. Reno was my favorite though, I couldn’t stop laughing. I am a fan, I liked that we could somewhat relate to them. It was great. I wouldn’t change anything! ABFAN MEAGAN TILLER
I always go to all of the MWR events! They are the best! My favorite part was with Tom Foss and all the kid jokes. It would be nice if we had A/C in the hangar bay though! IC3 ELENA CARMONA
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We appreciate the hard work that each one of you is doing and our prayers go out to all of you. Thank you for keeping our men and women safe. I am one of the proud mamas waiting on a safe return home. Donna Sexton August 24
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I liked all of the comedians! I enjoyed the whole show and all they had. Every bit was my favorite. I liked the real life comedy that all the comedians weren’t afraid to talk about.
Just a shout out to my girls on the ship....Stephanie Balch & Hanna Sandeigo! Hang in there girls! We LOVE you and we got your back! XxOo...Mom, Garret & Kelly. Shelli Sigl August 23
Go Chance Go!!! Thank you for your service!
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My nephew is aboard this ship now. Thanks for your service! Stay safe!
My LPO actually suggested that this would be fun. The comedians all turned out to be hilarious. My favorite part was when they talked about all the height restrictions. I love stand-up comedians and all the stories they have. Nothing could be better, everyone was great.
Joanne Carroll August 22
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Future Risks of Iran Nuclear Deal WASHINGTON — As President Obama begins his threeweek push to win approval of the Iran nuclear deal, he is confronting this political reality: His News strongest argument Analysis in favor of passage has also become his greatest vulnerability. Obama has been pressing the case that the limits on how much nuclear fuel Iran can hold, how many centrifuges it can spin and what kind of technology it can acquire would make it extraordinarily difficult for Iran to race for the bomb over the next 15 years. His problem is that most of the significant constraints on Tehran’s program lapse after 15 years — and, after that, Iran is free to produce uranium on an industrial scale. Even some of the most enthusiastic backers of the agreement, reached by six world powers with Iran, say they fear Obama has oversold some of the accord’s virtues as he asserts that it would “block” all pathways to a nuclear weapon. The administration’s case es-
sentially is that the benefits over the next 15 years overwhelmingly justify the longer-term risks of what comes after. Here is a look at the significant issues of contention: A Loss of Leverage The duration of the agreement is the most important and complex issue. Supporters are betting that improved intelligence would deter Iran from racing for a bomb. Under the agreement, inspectors will be able to monitor the production of rotors and other centrifuge components for up to 20 years and can monitor Iran’s stocks of uranium ore concentrate for 25 years. Skeptics counter that, after 15 years, the United States would lose much of its leverage to stop a program. Obama said the United States retains the option to use economic sanctions and even military force should Iran break out of its agreement. Accounting for Past Activities One of the trickier issues for Obama, and for Congress, is how to assess whether Iran has truly come clean about its past nucle-
ar activities. The job of assessing past activities is up to the International Atomic Energy Agency. It must certify on Oct. 15 that Iran is complying with a “roadmap” for cooperation and report in December on its conclusions, especially about Iran’s alleged work developing nuclear triggers and designing warheads. Accessing Nuclear Sites The issue that has garnered the most attention is a “24-day” rule for resolving disputes if Iran refuses to give inspectors access to a suspicious site, another measure that expires after 15 years. Critics say that is far different than “anywhere, anytime” access, a phrase Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz used. If Iran balks at an inspection, then a commission — which includes Iran — can decide on punitive steps, including a re-imposition of economic sanctions. A majority vote of the commission suffices, so even if Iran, China and Russia objected, the sanctions could go into effect. DAVID E. SANGER and MICHAEL R. GORDON
Dogged Lawyer on Front Lines for Clintons WASHINGTON — At first, he had to worry about a remote piece of land in Arkansas that no one wanted. Then there were billing records that went missing before mysteriously reappearing in the White House. And of course there was the blue dress. Today, the object of concern for David E. Kendall is a tiny thumb drive that sat in a safe at his law firm until a couple weeks ago before attracting the attention of Congress, the F.B.I. and the news media. Once again, the whirlpool of Washington politics has arrived at Kendall’s doorstep as he defends perhaps the world’s most famous client. For more than 20 years, Kendall has been on the front lines for Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton as their personal lawyer. From Whitewater to impeachment, he has waged legal warfare to keep the Clintons’ political careers on track. So as Clinton fac-
es questions about her use of a personal email server as secretary of state, no one is surprised she turned to him. The latest David E. furor has put Kendall Kendall under a spotlight in a way that discomfits the tightlipped and camera-shy lawyer. From Clinton’s foes come public questions about why he had the thumb drive containing her email and whether he secured it properly. From Clinton’s friends come private questions about whether he should be more outspoken to protect a Democratic presidential candidate leading in the polls. “They always say, ‘Is Kendall the lawyer to do this or that?’ ” said James Carville, the former political strategist for Clinton
who expresses great admiration for Kendall. “I never saw that there was a huge conflict.” Slender and fastidious, reserved and precise, Kendall, 71, stays off talk shows, turns down book agents and prefers to speak in letters and legal documents. If he gets to court, he lays out a meticulous set of arguments crafted over hours. Until now his biggest moment in the spotlight came during the long-running investigation by Kenneth W. Starr, the former independent counsel, into the Clintons’ Whitewater land dealings and later into whether the president lied under oath to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky. The Clintons leaned on Kendall heavily. “He became an anchor in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton later wrote in a memoir. “David was perfect for the job.” Now she needs Kendall to be an anchor again. PETER BAKER
EUROPE PONDERS TERROR THREAT TO SOFT TARGETS PARIS — Two days after a young Moroccan man was thwarted from an apparent plan to cause carnage on a Paris-bound express train, European officials confronted the deepening quandary of what additional steps they could take in the face of such attacks on soft targets, short of paralyzing public spaces or even more intrusive surveillance. Enhanced security and surveillance measures had already filtered out the young man, Ayoub El Kahzzani, 26. But he was one of thousands of Europeans who had come on the radar of authorities as potential threats after traveling to Syria. Kahzani was on a French list as a security threat, and Spanish officials told news media there that he had traveled to Syria — not in itself an offense, unless he went there for jihad. Yet with all that the authorities already knew about Kahzani, he managed to board unhindered the heavily traveled Amsterdam-to-Paris high-speed train with a sack of weaponry, probably in Belgium, and was ready to inflict serious damage, with dozens of rounds of ammunition, an AK-47, an automatic pistol and a box cutter. If not for three Americans, and the help of a British and a French passenger, many could have died. “We are now faced with unpredictable terrorism,” said JeanCharles Brisard, a French security consultant and terrorism expert. “Terrorists henceforth will be choosing soft targets, those where there is little security,” said Brisard. “And that’s why he chose a train, because there is little security.” Some antiterrorism experts agreed that control of the movements of suspect individuals with residency permits across European borders was weak. And that played into the weaknesses in controlling rail passengers. Because of the European Union’s borderless frontiers, there are no “systematic controls on Europeans” or those holding resident cards, “only on foreigners,” Brisard said. And that is “the real problem.” ADAM NOSSITER
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Nine Candidates Are Barred From Venezuela Ballot SAN DIEGO, Venezuela — When he handily won a primary to run for the National Assembly, Enzo Scarano hoped to be part of a wave carrying the opposition to a legislative majority that would alter the political balance in Venezuela. But when a government agency stripped him of his right to hold public office, scuttling his candidacy, he found himself caught up in a different kind of wave — of government measures that appear aimed at weakening the opposition ahead of a make-or-break legislative election in December. “It was a message to the Venezuelan people: ‘Look, we can do whatever we want,’ ” Scarano said of the move to bar him and at least eight other prominent politicians and activists from running for office. He said the goal was “to discourage people from voting and to create an internal conflict” in the opposition’s Democratic Unity coalition. Scarano, 52, who served for a decade as mayor in this opposition-dominated city, became a national figure last year after he was thrown in jail and removed from office on charges that he failed to stop protests against the leftist government of President Nicolás Maduro. His 10-and-a-half-month sentence ended in February, and in May he won the primary to be the congressional candidate for the opposition. But on July 15 the national controller’s office ruled he was prohibited from holding public office for a year. The controller’s office said Scarano was late in filing a financial disclosure required of public officials after they leave office. Scarano said he filed the papers in time — the dispute centers on the date he was officially removed from office but he argued that even if he missed the deadline, he should only have been fined. The government has used similar measures to rule that eight other opposition politicians or activists were ineligible to hold office for at least a year, eliminating them as candidates in the election. The controller, Manuel Galindo, dismissed criticism of the actions, saying recently that his office “does not conduct political persecutions of anyone. It simply is in charge of safeguarding public property.” WILLIAM NEUMAN
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Sprawl of Abandoned Homes in Tokyo Suburb YOKOSUKA, Japan — Since her elderly neighbor moved a decade ago, Yoriko Haneda has done what she can to keep the empty house she left behind from becoming an eyesore. Haneda regularly trims its shrubs and clips its narrow strip of grass, maintaining its perfect view of the sea. The yard work has not extended to the house two doors down, however. That one is vacant too, and overgrown with bamboo. Dozens of houses in this hillside neighborhood are abandoned. “There are empty houses everywhere, places where nobody’s lived for 20 years, and more are cropping up all the time,” said Haneda, 77. Despite a deeply rooted national aversion to waste, discarded homes are spreading across Japan like a blight in a garden. Long-term vacancy rates have climbed significantly higher than in the United States or Europe, and some eight million dwellings are now unoccupied, according to a government count. Nearly half of them have been forsaken completely — neither for sale nor for rent. These ghost homes are the most visible sign of human retreat in a country where the population peaked a half-decade ago and is forecast to fall by a third over the next 50 years. The demographic pressure has weighed on the Japanese economy, as a smaller
The Utagawa family recently agreed to have a house belonging to an elderly aunt demolished. KENTARO TAKAHASHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
work force struggles to support a growing proportion of the old, and has prompted intense debate over long-term proposals to boost immigration or encourage women to have more children. But after decades in which it struggled with overcrowding, Japan is confronting the opposite problem: When a society shrinks, what should be done with the buildings it no longer needs? Many of Japan’s vacant houses have been inherited by people who have no use for them and yet are unable to sell, because of a shortage of buyers. But demolishing them involves questions about property rights, and about who should pay the costs. The government passed a law this year to promote demolition of the most dilapidated homes, but experts say the tide of newly emptied ones will be hard to stop.
“Tokyo could end up being surrounded by Detroits,” said Tomohiko Makino, a real estate expert who has studied the vacant-house phenomenon. Yokosuka is on the front lines. Located within commuting distance of Tokyo and close to naval bases and automobile factories, it attracted thousands of young job-seekers after World War II. Land was scarce and expensive, so the newcomers built small, simple homes. Today the postwar economic boom is reversing itself. The young workers of the postwar years are now retirees, and few peoplewant to take over their homes. “Their kids are in modern high-rises in central Tokyo,” Makino said. “To them, the family home is a burden, not an asset.” JONATHAN SOBLE
In Brief President Pressured to Resign Calls for the resignation of the Guatemalan president, Otto Pérez Molina, mounted on Sunday after prosecutors described him as a leader of a far-reaching scheme to defraud the government of customs revenue in exchange for bribes. Pérez Molina, who has not been seen in public since Friday, was increasingly isolated as three key ministers in his cabinet resigned on Saturday, and Guatemala’s most powerful business group demanded that Pérez Molina step down immediately. The scheme, in which importers paid bribes to Tax Authority officials in exchange for discounts on duties, has rocked Pérez Molina’s government and generated four months of mass demonstrations. (NYT)
North Korea Pressures the South North Korea had deployed twice as many artillery pieces as usual along the border with South Korea on Sunday, and most of its submarines had departed from their bases, as the two Koreas held a second day of talks to try to break a tense military standoff, officials said. Negotiators from both sides resumed
talks in the border village of Panmunjom on Sunday afternoon after a marathon overnight meeting failed to reach a compromise over the terms under which South Korea would withdraw 11 batteries of propaganda loudspeakers from the border. The North calls the broadcasts by the speakers, which include criticism of its political system and its leader, Kim Jong-un, an “act of war.” (NYT)
ISIS Blows Up Ancient Temple Militants from the Islamic State destroyed a temple in the ancient ruins of Palmyra in Syria, activists and government officials said Sunday, continuing a pattern of destruction they have visited upon historical sites across the territory they control there and in Iraq. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist and monitoring group based in Britain, said Sunday in a statement that Islamic State fighters detonated “a large quantity of explosives” they had arranged around the Temple of Baalshamin, one of the most grand and well-preserved structures in the sprawling complex of ruins. A government official told reporters that it was heavily damaged by the blast. (NYT)
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Obama’s Quiet Vacation Will Yield to Noisy Fall WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a daunting list of tasks after returning to Washington on Sunday from a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard — with legislative deadWhite lines and visits from House world leaders already Memo penciled into his September schedule. On the domestic front, Congress will have to pass funding legislation by the end of September to avoid shutting down the government. With only 15 legislative days on the Senate calendar for the month, a brewing fight over whether to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and a raft of senators running for president, it could be difficult to pass even a short-term funding measure despite vows by senior Republican legislators that they will not support a shutdown. And there are other pieces of must- and should-pass legislation, including extending authority for highway and infrastructure
spending, reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank and dealing with expiring tax provisions. One of the most anticipated legislative battles of the year will be over whether Congress can override an expected presidential veto and reject the Iran nuclear deal. The deadline for the first vote is Sept. 14, and if both the House and Senate reject the deal with anything close to veto-proof majorities, the Iran drama could consume much of September and even the first week of October. While Obama has defended the Iran deal, he will face myriad distractions during the month. He will have to put on a tuxedo and a wary smile for a rare state dinner and summit meeting with President Xi Jinping of China. Among other issues, the two men are likely to discuss the alleged hacking of United States government personnel records by Chinese operatives and China’s growing military assertiveness
in the South China Sea. Pope Francis will arrive in Washington on Sept. 22 and visit the White House the next day, according to his schedule. The pope will deliver a speech before Congress on Sept. 24. Far more delicate decisions will be needed on how to handle the world leaders who are expected to arrive at the end of September to attend the United Nations General Assembly. Michael E. O’Hanlon, a foreignpolicy analyst at the Brookings Institution, said that even without the budget and other issues in Congress, the visit by Xi, the Iran vote and the United Nations meeting, September made for a challenging month. “The bottom line is that it will be a heck of a September, rivaled in recent years perhaps only by last September, when we had Ebola and ISIL’s rise to contend with, along with the war in Ukraine and a few other matters,” he said. GARDINER HARRIS
An Old Policing Model Is Put to Test in Queens The 101st Precinct of Queens in Far Rockaway, an overgrown former beach resort dotted with Robert Moses-era public housing at the city’s eastern edge, is an early testing ground of a model of so-called community policing that fell out of favor in the 1990s as crime levels hit all-time highs. Here, the New York Police Department, the country’s largest force, is embarking on an ambitious effort to reshape everyday interactions between its patrol officers and residents of the city after a period of searing tension. The idea is as simple as it is old-fashioned: Rather than chase 911 calls, certain officers patrol
only a small area. They are meant to solve problems, not simply enforce the law. There have been some minor achievements. But breaking through walls of silence and suspicion that often keep officers and residents at a distance is no simple task. The fact that most residents are black or Hispanic and most officers white adds an undeniable hint of distrust. “People are still hesitant to be seen talking to us in uniform,” said Officer Matthew Ruoff, who patrols with his partner, Gregory Lomangino. “But it’s been a few months and they are starting to open up. My goal is for people to
view us as more than just, ‘Oh, those two cops.’ ” Other departments around the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, have tried versions of community policing with varying levels of success. Now, law enforcement leaders are watching to see if New York’s return to an old idea will bring new and lasting change. “It will send a message across the country,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based research group. “It’s a major shift nationally — to have the biggest department in the country talking about problem solving.”J. DAVID GOODMAN
Church Takes Unusual Step to Illuminate Its Slavery Role PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of the darkest chapters of Rhode Island history involved the state’s pre-eminence in the slave trade, beginning in the 1700s. More than half of the slaving voyages from the United States left from ports in Providence, Newport and Bristol — so many, and so contrary to the popular image of slavery as primarily a scourge of the South, that Rhode Island has been called “the Deep North.”
That history will soon become more prominent as the Episcopal diocese here establishes a museum dedicated to telling that story. Many of the shipbuilders, captains and financiers of those slaving voyages were Episcopalians. Among the most notable Episcopalian slaveholders were Thomas Jefferson, who was active for a time in the church, and George Washington. Over the last decade, the Episcopal Church of the Unit-
ed States has formally acknowledged and apologized for its complicity in perpetuating slavery. “I want to tell the story of how the Episcopal Church and religious voices participated in supporting the institution of slavery and how they worked to abolish it,” said Bishop W. Nicholas Knisely, who became the Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island in 2012. “It’s a mixed bag.” KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
In Brief Large Crowds Attend Carter’s Sermon The Sunday school lesson was familiar: When your burden grows heavy, ask God for strength. But the message carried a more powerful and personal meaning than usual because of who delivered it: Jimmy Carter. The 90-year-old former president, taught Sunday school in Plains, Ga., for the first time since he disclosed on Thursday that cancer had spread to his brain. Carter gave back-to-back Bible lessons to crowds totaling more than 700 people — some of whom had traveled hundreds of miles — just three days after undergoing radiation treatment. He spent less than five minutes recapping his illness before saying, “That’s enough of that subject” and beginning the lesson on faith, love and relationships. (AP)
Trooper Is Critically Injured in Traffic Stop A Louisiana state trooper was shot in the head and critically injured Sunday during a struggle with a man whose pickup truck had run into a ditch after being reported as driving erratically, the Louisiana State Police said. Other drivers stopped to help, said Sgt. James Anderson, southwest Louisiana spokesman for state police. “As I understand it, they rendered aid to the trooper, they called for help using the trooper’s radio, and they detained the suspect,” Anderson said. The officer was in critical but stable condition Sunday evening. (AP)
Fooling a Panda Mom To Nurse Twin Cubs Officials at the National Zoo in Washington were nearly giddy on Sunday. They have an apparently healthy pair of twins, born Saturday night to panda mom Mei Xiang, and they have a template to follow that gives the cubs a strong chance of survival. Pandas won’t usually nurse twins if left to their own devices. They will care for one and allow the other to die. But in the past decade, Chinese breeders have come up with a system: Every several hours, they swap out the cubs, giving each one the critical time it needs to nurse and bond with its mother. (AP)
BUSINESS
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2015
Sillerman’s Failed Bid and Losses Test SFX Robert F. X. Sillerman didn’t start the dance-music festival promoter SFX Entertainment out of a love for the music. Instead, he acted with cold logical reasoning backed by demographic marketing. “I don’t consider myself anything more than a sociologist, a student of cohort groups,” Sillerman said last week. “I was not the first, although we have been the most aggressive to recognize the seismic shift in the consumption of music that the millennial generation is enjoying.” That view appealed to Wall Street when Sillerman, who pioneered the corporatization of the concert business in the 1990s, started SFX in 2012 and announced plans to build an international network to unite the fragmented world of electronic dance music, or E.D.M. The company
raised $260 million through an initial public offering of stock in October 2013. Its portfolio includes festivals like Tomorrowland, Rock in Rio and Stereosonic, and the online music store Beatport. Yet SFX has tested investors’ patience recently with high debt, growing losses and a failed takeover bid by Sillerman, who controls 38 percent of the company. Its stock has fallen more than 80 percent since May, going below $1 a share last week, leading analysts to wonder whether the company is headed for bankruptcy and the music industry to fret over its implications for the dance genre. Its problems have mounted even as the concert industry has been enjoying a record summer and rivals like Live Nation Entertainment have posted strong returns. By some estimates, the
global market for E.D.M. is worth $6.9 billion a year. “They have a lot of debt and a C.E.O. whose core competency is creating investor angst,” said Richard Tullo, an analyst at Albert Fried & Company who has been a critic of Sillerman’s management. At the center of the controversy is Sillerman, who, after his success in the concert business in the 1990s, emerged with bold plans to accomplish the same in the fragmented world of dance music. In an interview, he dismissed SFX’s naysayers and insisted that the company was growing apace. “There are people who either have misinformation or a vested interest in seeing SFX suffer,” he said. “I’m proud of all our people, and they continue to put on great events. All of the constituent companies are doing better than they’ve ever done.”BEN SISARIO
Intel to Invest in Big Way in Software for the Cloud SAN FRANCISCO — Intel, the biggest maker of computer chips, has seen its future. There may not be room for some of Intel’s old friends in it. “A new world is coming, and it is inevitable,” said Diane M. Bryant, who runs Intel’s business in chips for industrial-size computing centers. “Everyone has to act differently.” Intel’s venture arm is expected to announce on Monday that it will put $100 million toward software used in cloud computing, an increasingly popular method for making bigger and more efficient computing systems. Intel will lead a $75 million equity investment in Mirantis, a little-known start-up
specializing in open-source cloud software, and will spend $25 million more on bolstering its own resources for working with Mirantis-type products, according to people familiar with the deal. Many longtime Intel partners like Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM also make this kind of software, called OpenStack. But in anointing the start-up with more of its investment money, Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is doing what a number of older tech giants have done recently: rely on a young, nimble firm to remain competitive. The advent of cloud-driven businesses like Google, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon Web
Services, or A.W.S., which rents cloud capabilities to businesses, is shrinking the number of companies that would buy or build machines using Intel’s server chips. “When you sell semiconductors to just a few cloud providers who buy at giant scale, you can be at the mercy of an A.W.S.,” said Lydia Leong, an analyst at the information-technology research firm Gartner. Leong estimated that by the end of this year, one-fifth of the applications that companies build would be made on cloud systems. “Google is already in the top five server manufacturers. They can have power over Intel.” QUENTIN HARDY
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In Brief Mideast Markets Slip After Oil Price Drop Stock markets in Saudi Arabia and Dubai closed around 7 percent lower on Sunday on the back of a further slide in oil prices. Dubai’s main index closed 6.96 percent lower on its opening day of trading for the week. Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul, the region’s largest index, lost 6.86 percent. Other Mideast indexes, which trade from Sunday to Thursday, also tumbled. Egypt’s main index, the EGX30, dropped 5.4 percent, while Abu Dhabi’s index dropped 5 percent. Sunday was the first day of trading in the Middle East after Brent crude, a benchmark for international oil, fell more than a dollar to close Friday at $45.46 while the price of U.S. crude closed at $40.45. (AP)
Chromebooks Gain Traction in Schools As school districts across the country increasingly invest in technology for their students, the volume of personal computers in the classroom is surging. And it is Chromebook — notebook computers that run on Google’s Chrome operating system — that is largely responsible for the growth trend in schools, according to a new report from IDC, a market research firm. Last year, the market for desktops, laptops, tablets and two-in-one computers shipped to schools including kindergarten through 12th grade and institutions of higher education in the United States amounted to $7 billion, according to estimates from IDC. (NYT)
Restaurants Are Saying No to Tipping, and Yes to Higher Prices SEATTLE — Restaurant owners, customers and staff have long railed against the tyranny of tipping, but the practice has proved difficult to end. Now, prompted by new minimum wage proposals in major cities, an expanding number of restaurateurs are experimenting with no-tipping policies as a way to manage rising labor costs. In Seattle, where the first stage of a $15-an-hour minimum wage law took effect in April, Ivar’s seafood restaurants switched to an all-inclusive menu. By raising prices 21 percent and ending tipping, Bob C. Donegan, the presi-
dent and co-owner, calculated he could increase everyone’s wages. “We saw there was a fundamental inequity in our restaurants where the people who worked in the kitchen were paid about half as much as the people who worked with customers in front of the house,” Donegan said. Restaurateurs tick off a long list of reasons for being drawn to the idea. In some cities like New York, where tipping is subject to a confusing welter of federal, state and local regulations and tax laws, eliminating it would simplify bookkeeping. Managers say it would
also allow them to better calibrate wages to reward employees based on the length of their service and the complexity of their jobs. Several also cited research showing that diners tend to tip black servers less and that the system can encourage sexual harassment of women. Still, many fear a backlash from their customers and servers. “The tipped culture is still what draws many people into our industry,” said Christin Fernandez, a spokeswoman at the National Restaurant Association. At Ivar’s, eliminating tipping
has been a success, said Donegan, thanks in part to the summer tourist season and a booming economy. Since the policy began four months ago, wages have risen between $3 and $12 an hour, he said, with the lowest-paid worker earning $15 an hour. Everyone, including part-timers, has health insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan. The No. 1 complaint from customers? The prohibition on tips. So while the menu still states that prices include service, the credit card slips now have a line that reads: “If you INSIST on leaving a tip, write it here.” PATRICIA COHEN
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Rolling Stone Is Moving Beyond the Fray Gus Wenner is 25, not much older than his father, Jann S. Wenner, was when he started Rolling Stone in 1967. His office at the magazine’s headquarters in Manhattan, where he oversees the digital side of his father’s company, Wenner Media, is decorated with pieces of Rolling Stone’s illustrious history. Now, the magazine finds itself at a precipitous moment. Jann Wenner, 69, who has overseen, to some extent, every issue since its founding, is gradually handing over the operation to his son. The longtime managing editor, Will Dana, was replaced this month after a hit to Rolling Stone’s journalistic reputation: a flawed report on an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia that was soon discredited. Current and former staff members, who spoke on condition of anonymity to safeguard their jobs, or to speak candidly about confidential matters, said Rolling Stone has followed the path set out by its founder so ceaselessly that it has never adapted. The elder Wenner, these people said, has declined to pursue lines of business, including festivals and conferences, that might have provided new revenue streams. He was skeptical about the web
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as others were embracing it. And he has been reluctant to shift the magazine’s focus away from baby boomer rockers — U2, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones. “Obviously the culture has evolved, but most of the same rules still apply,” Jan Wenner said. “Is it news? Is it interesting to a lot of people or not?” The solution, both Wenners said in interviews, is to stick with the magazine’s original values. “From Day 1, the mission was to cover rock ’n’ roll music and all the ideas and stories that rock ’n’ roll embraces,” Gus Wenner said. “I don’t think it has changed in the last 50 years, and I don’t think that will ever change.” But Rolling Stone’s newsstand sales have diminished, to about
Gus Wenner runs the digital side of Wenner Media, publisher of Rolling Stone, the magazine that his father started in 1967.
58,000 copies from 134,000 in 2004. Its web traffic is about 13 million unique visitors per month, according to comScore. Those who have worked with Gus Wenner say he does not fit the stereotype of a privileged scion being handed the family business. Gus Wenner said he feels his father’s focus is easily adaptable to a more current vision. He later sent an email, to clarify. “You asked when we first met how my dad and I were different,” he wrote. “His great skill is as an editor, and he used that skill to capture the hearts and minds of a generation. I wish I had the gift he has in that regard, but I don’t. Few people do. My focus is far more on what we can do as a business.” RAVI SOMAIYA
The ‘Unicorn’ Club, Now Admitting New Members SAN FRANCISCO — One hallmark of the current technology boom is a generation of start-ups valued at $1 billion or more by investors. Now meet the start-upsin-waiting that may be next to reach that mark, if the white-hot market continues. The $1 billion valuation metric was popularized by the venture investor Aileen Lee. She found that many of the start-ups that reaped the hugest riches for venture capital investors — Facebook and LinkedIn — often reached a valuation of $1 billion or more while they were privately held. Because of their rarity, Lee called those companies “unicorns,” named after the mythical creatures. Investors are rushing to bet on the next big thing: The ride-hailing service Uber received a valuation of $51 billion, while Airbnb, the online room-rental service, is pegged at about $24 billion. To find out which companies might be next to ascend, CB In-
sights, which tracks venture capital and start-ups, conducted an analysis for The New York Times. The CB Insights analysis resulted in a list of 50 companies that cover the globe. Half of the companies are based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, but 10 are international, hailing from China and India. The private companies such as the handset maker Xiaomi of China and the Indian e-commerce company Flipkart have already risen to unicorn levels. Now more American investors are pushing into those markets and into start-ups such as Uxin Pai, a Beijing-based used car auction site. Many of the companies that CB Insights identified are part of the hot tech sectors of the moment. Those include the British food delivery start-up Deliveroo and Postmates, which delivers goods from any store or restaurant. The satellite company Planet Labs and the drone companies 3D
Robotics and Airware also appear on the list, showing how investors are betting on the skies as a source of future profit. Many entrepreneurs said they were happy to be on the list. The founder of the Beijing-based online learning company 17zuoye, Chang Liu said his start-up had been striving to become a unicorn. Others, such as Kirt McMaster of the software maker Cyanogen, were more skeptical. “The community gets carried away with the unicorn thing,” said McMaster, whose company is building a mobile operating system to rival Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. “There are a lot of $1 billion companies that will never turn revenue positive and will cease to exist in the next couple of years.” McMaster said he recognized there were benefits to gaining a big valuation. “Increasing my company’s valuation is a way to get money cheaper. Period,” he said. KATIE BENNER
Investors Find Ripe Start-Ups Across Europe Klaus Hommels has invested in some of Europe’s most successful start-ups. That includes Spotify, the music-streaming service, and Klarna, a Swedish online payments company valued at more than $2 billion. He has also backed several American tech giants like Facebook and Airbnb. Now, the German venture capitalist is doubling-down on Europe’s tech sector. On Monday, Hommels’s venture capital firm, Lakestar, will announce a new fund worth 350 million euro, or $398 million, one of the largest European fund-raisings this year. It is more than double his previous fund, raised in 2013, whose portfolio of start-ups includes Harry’s, the American online shaving company, and Algomi, a London-based social network for bond trading. Hommels, 48, who lives in Zurich, plans to spend most of the money on European start-ups, but also a few American fledging tech companies looking to fast-track their global ambitions. “Technology has become integral to how we live,” said Hommels, who also invested in King Digital, the maker of Candy Crush, but sold his stake before the company went public, missing out on roughly $1 billion. “We won’t be afraid to back start-ups with high valuations if we can accelerate their growth.” The fund-raising is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that investors have rekindled their interest in European venture capital. Europe is fast approaching the funding highs of the dot-com era, according to industry figures. That has raised concerns, however, that Europe is mimicking some of the excesses now widespread across the West Coast that have many fretting the industry is entering another investment bubble. Those concerns could intensify with the sharp fall last week in markets around the world. “In a tech boom, a lot of people want to get into venture capital,” said Hussein Kanji, partner in Hoxton Ventures, a London firm that is expected to start raising a new fund by the end of the year. “There’s an influx of both good and bad capital.” MARK SCOTT
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It’s a Strange World at Banksy’s ‘Dismaland’ WESTON-SUPER-MARE, England — Rain pelted down for much of Sunday afternoon on this drooping beachside resort town where “Dismaland,” the gloomy anti-Disneyland created by the artist Banksy, opened this weekend. Sophie King, 27, who lives in southwest England, and Andrea Griffiths, 28, who lives outside of London, were among the roughly 2,000 visitors inside the mock theme park early Sunday afternoon. The pair had planned to camp this weekend in the area, but when they heard about Banksy’s exhibition — and saw the weather — they nixed their plans, rented a motel room and headed to the exhibition. “They’re intentionally being so rude,” Griffiths said of “staff members,” who greet visitors with an angry pat down. “It is hilarious because I mean, we’re British, we’re so polite,” Griffiths said. “They’re really good actors,” King said. “Or they’re just rude.” “Dismaland,” a satirical take on a theme park, features grumpy guards, funereal theme park games and art by about 60 artists — including Banksy, Damien Hirst and Jenny Holzer. The exhibition had a “locals” day on Friday and opened to the public on Saturday; it runs through late September. The exhibition came largely as a surprise: Members of the British news media had spotted construction at the exhibition site — the abandoned grounds of a former
offering small loans with interest rates of several thousand percent. The exhibition also has an undoubted political edge: On Sunday, the artist Shadi al-Zaqzouq rolled a sheet over his artwork and scrawled “R.I.P. Gaza” in capital letters across it. In an interview with The Guardian, TOBY MELVILLE/REUTERS Banksy called “Dismaland” “a theme A steward at “Dismaland,” a theme park-style exhibition featuring works by park whose big theme is — theme parks Banksy and about 60 other artists. should have bigger themes.” Alessia Acciari, 26, a visitor, family swimming pool — early last week, and had begun to speculate said the weather fit the “Dison what was taking place there. maland” mood. Acciari, who lives But organizers managed to keep and works in Bristol, England, the exhibition a secret until Thurs- came with Ruben Martinez, 35, a day, when a local newspaper, The Portuguese pizza chef in London. They arrived later than they Weston, Worle & Somerset Mercury, formally announced it on Twit- expected because no trains were running from the area where ter and ran a front-page article. The exhibition includes new they camped on Saturday night. and old artwork by Banksy, in- (Workers at First Great Western, cluding a pool with mobile boats the train company, announced a full of figurine immigrants in partial strike early Sunday.) “I think they have been told to what apparently is the English Channel, and a mural-style work behave like this because of the that shows a fat cat in a suit gorg- occasion,” Acciari said jokingly ing himself while a gaunt woman of the train employees, adding, with children stands across from “Wherever there is Weston-suhim. One installation on the site per-Mare, there has to be some — billed as only for children — disappointment around.” CHRISTOPHER D. SHEA features a trampoline and a stand
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Oscars in Search Of New Overseer LOS ANGELES — Will the next Academy Awards show be street smart, like the “House Party” movies? Digitally savvy, with a BuzzFeed twist? Or as grandly News mainstream as almost anything Tom Analysis Hanks has ever done? The answer may depend on a talent search that will soon be concluded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. After three consecutive Oscar shows from the producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, officers and executives of the Academy have been quietly examining an intellectually and professionally diverse group of prospects as possible overseers of the next broadcast, set for Feb. 28. The 2015 show, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, saw its audience drop nearly 15 percent, to around 36.6 million viewers, from 43 million in 2014. That decline, along with the generally poor reviews the telecast received, added urgency to the Academy’s mission to update what has been viewed in recent years as a shopworn entertainment show. People briefed on the search said the Academy’s president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and executive director, Dawn Hudson, had examined at least a half-dozen possible producers or producing teams, each of which would most likely bring a different approach to the annual awards show. A producer who has figured in the search, those people said, is Reginald Hudlin, a black filmmaker who earned a reputation for raucous urban humor with the “House Party” films, and who was a producer of “Django Unchained,” which in 2013 won two Oscars and was nominated for five, including best picture. Another prospect, according to several people, has been Michael Shamberg, who has been helping BuzzFeed Motion Pictures find its way in the movie world. As for Hanks, both he and his producing partner, Gary Goetzman, have also been discussed as possible producers, though they don’t appear to be in talks for the job. Hanks has told the Academy that it could depend on him as an emergency replacement if, in the group’s ultimate nightmare, a host ever dropped out at the 11th hour. MICHAEL CIEPLY
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Afghan Politician Wins Hearts and Minds Through Stomachs of many. But as the ranks of Western-style technocrats have grown in Kabul these days, Dostum has retained an edge as an old-school purveyor of Afghan hospitality. Just last year, as Dostum campaigned on the ticket of Ashraf Ghani in Jowzjan, his home province and the center of his ethnic Uzbek base, on some days he fed more than 4,000 people in his sprawling pink palace in Sheberghan, his aides said. “People were sitting on the roofs, in the yard, in the garden,” said Ghayeb Nazar, the logistics chief at Dostum’s kitchen who has been with him for 27 years. “We had rice cooking in all of those,” he said, pointing at dozens of huge tin pots, hoisted on stoves. Each one of the pots
SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan — It is an unassailable truth of Afghan politics, particularly after the advent of a democratic system here, that influence is gained one stomach at a time. Election gatherings, rallies, and protests barely attract crowds if there is no promise of huge platters with small mountains of pilaf on them, the oilier the better. Politicians may break their campaign promises, but at least their supporters get fed. The rise of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum to the senior ranks of the national government has been far from orthodox. Warcrimes accusations have dogged him for decades, and his past as a brutal warlord makes him a liability for the government in the eyes
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holds about 90 pounds of rice. The kitchen is run by a soft-spoken cook named Abdul Manan, who has been with Dostum or one of his commanders for more than 20 years. These days, with the big election gatherings behind him, Manan can relax a bit: A typical lunch now requires only 125 pounds of rice and 66 pounds of meat. Though the kitchen’s output has become more manageable of late, the atmosphere has become even more urgent. The Taliban have made incursions onto Dostum’s turf, and in recent weeks, he has vowed to rally his old militia commanders against them. On Friday, his bodyguards had to fight off a Taliban ambush on his convoy in nearby Faryab Province. Back in Jowzjan, within the vice president’s vast palace complex, the guest list of late has included his unit of nearly 400 bodyguards. The bodyguards are lodged in the guesthouse. As lunchtime nears, some crowd the hallway, drawn by the smell of steaming rice. It takes Manan about an hour to serve lunch, after he unseals the pots of rice and meat with a soft prayer under his breath. He serves in plates, in bowls, and in buckets brought from checkpoints around the palace and outside. He serves soldiers, needy neighbors who send their children to fetch food, and party workers. While Dostum’s officials would not discuss how much the general’s tradition of hospitality and feeding costs every year, it is clear such a brand of politics — which requires maintaining guesthouses and kitchens across many provinces — runs on money. To give a sense of how much he spends, Dostum recalled the installments of cash that United States Special Forces paid him in the first weeks of the invasion. “They were giving me $50,000 every 15 or 20 days,” Dostum said, adding that the Americans also brought food for his horses in their helicopters. “All of their money to me probably wasn’t more than $400,000. I spend that much in one day,” Dostum said, laughing. MUJIB MASHAL
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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus Names Virginia-Class Submarine By Secretary of the Navy Public Affairs
BOISE, Idaho (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus hosted a ship-naming ceremony today to announce that SSN 799, a Virginiaclass attack submarine, will bear the name USS Idaho. The submarine will be named to honor the history its namesake state has with the Navy. Idaho is home to the former Farragut Naval Training Station, which was the second largest training facility in the world during World War II. From the early 1950s to the mid1990s, the Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) located within the Idaho National Laboratory, trained nearly 40,000 Navy personnel in surface and submarine nuclear power plant operations with three nuclear propulsion prototypes including the
first nuclear-powered submarine prototype, S1W. The facility continues to support the Navy by examining Naval spent nuclear fuel and irradiated test specimens, which are used to develop new technology and to improve the costeffectiveness of existing
designs. And nearby, Lake Pend Oreille, the fifth deepest lake in the United States, continues to conduct tests of largescale submarine and surface ship prototypes in a setting with acoustic properties similar to that of the ocean. The future USS Idaho
will be the fifth naval vessel to bear the name. The first, commissioned in 1864, was a steam sloop that served as a store and hospital ship; the second, commissioned in 1905, was a battleship that largely supported American Foreign Policy in Central America and conducted operations and exercises in Guantanamo Bay. The third Idaho was a motorboat commissioned in 1917 that patrolled New Jersey and Pennsylvania harbors. The last Idaho was a New Mexico-class battleship launched on June 30, 1917 and saw action in World War II. For more news from the Secretary of the Navy, visit http://www.navy. mil/SECNAV.
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SAN DIEGO (Aug. 20 2015 ) Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) fight a simulated fire during a flight deck firefighting drill. George Washington is conducting a hull-swap with the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) after serving seven years as the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier in Yokosuka, Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Clemente A. Lynch (Released)
SAN DIEGO (Aug. 18 2015) The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS George Washington (CVN 73) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) are pierside at Naval Air Station North Island while conducting a hull-swap. The force structure change allows George Washington to undergo its mid-life refueling complex overhaul and Ronald Reagan to support the security and stability of the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel M. Young (Released)
HOMETOWN HERO
Shawn Morris LIEUTENANT
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HOMETOWN: Portland, Indiana WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY: To get into healthcare administration. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Seeing the world. PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Selecting for O-4. SHOUT OUT: Medical department and my family back home.
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I brew my own beer.
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Travis Bond AVIATION BOATSWAIN’S (HANDLING) 3RD CLASS
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HOMETOWN: Cedar Falls, Iowa WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY:
I wanted to do special operations.
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Travel the world. PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Making third class. SHOUT OUT: My two kids: Gabriel and Aubrie.
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I ran Division 1 track.
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