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September 27, 2015
WEEK in REVIEW
ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 24, 2015) – An HH-60H Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the Dragonslayers of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 11 takes off from the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys/Released)
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entorship is the one-on-one transfer of knowledge, life lessons and useful advice from an elder to a new generation. Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) strive to develop balanced and goal-oriented people by employing the command mentorship program. Mentorship is an avenue to seek guidance and access resources. Sailors choose leaders who can positively affect their careers and lives in the Navy. “Mentorship is easy to get involved with,” said Air-Traffic Controller 1st Class Milford Ford. “That’s the reason I started promoting this program, to encourage more people to be mentors, so they can benefit from the healthy relationship between a senior and junior [Sailor].” Sailors choose senior shipmates based on a number of contributing factors; career path, compatibility and experience. “That person does not necessarily have to be in your rate,” said Ford. “It just has to be somebody that you are comfortable talking with to help you build yourself professionally and personally.” According to Theodore Roosevelt Instruction 1040.1C, mentors and protégés must meet once a month, however, mentors and protégés can meet more frequently if they want. Keeping track of the meetings helps make sure the program works. “I learned a lot from my mentor,” said Fire
Controlman 2nd Class Nicholas Carter. “I can benefit from his experience and I can learn from his mistakes.” Mentorship meetings can cover any topic, from work to personal life, depending on the guidance the protégé needs. “We discuss family and our pasts,” said Carter. “[My mentor] is an officer, and I am trying to be an officer so he is helping lead me down the right path. He teaches me about his job, because I am trying to do the same thing. I talk to him about everything.” Junior Sailors can reap the benefits of experience by seeking the counsel of those who have been serving longer. “I am the Assistant Mentor Coordinator,” said Ford. “I love being a mentor because when I was coming up, I had a lot of people help me out. If I didn’t have all those people help me out, I definitely would not be the person I am today.” As Sailors grow up in ranks, progressing from protégé to mentor, they can now share all the experiences of their mentor, in addition to their own memories. “It has helped me be a better mentor because I also have two people that I mentor,” said Carter. “One is actually applying for the same officer program I applied for. I got my help from LT [lieutenant], and I can pass that knowledge down to [my protégé].”
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TR KickStart is an event to let Sailors network with other Sailors. SAPR, SARP, ASIST, DAPA, CCS, FCPOA, SCPOA and representatives of TR’s Enlisted Warfare programs will offer networking opportunities on the Aft Mess Decks, Oct. 1, at 2000.
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MWR kicked off their tour sales, Sept. 26, for our next port visit. Sales will continue throughout the week. Be sure to bring your cash cards for purchase. Tour listings can be found on the MWR SharePoint.
SCPOA invites all enlisted Sailors to their Warrior Wednesday event Sept. 30th at 2000 on the Aft Mess Decks, bay 2. If you’re pursuing your warfare qualifications be there to get some training and PQS signatures!
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MWR and Supply invite all Sailors and Marines with a birthday in September to their monthly birthday dinner, Sept. 29th from 1600-1730 on the Aft Mess Decks. Sign ups will be at the MWR Window until today, 1800.
MWR will host a Halloween costume competition in October. Ensure that your costume is appropriate. Guidelines can be found on the SharePoint.
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Diversity Committee The Diversity Committee invites you to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month during an event on the Aft Mess Decks, Oct. 2, at 2000. The event will include a Salsa dancing demonstration, a guest speaker and cake. HHM runs from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
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ASIST hosted Sunrise Yoga on the Flight Deck, Sunday, Sept. 20 to continue to raise suicide prevention awareness. Sailors attended the event to decompress and enjoy some fresh air.
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TR’s Rough Rider Radio airs daily on ILARTS, channel 94, with their “Daily Radio News,” broadcast. Join TR’s very own Dr. J on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 0600. The show features news, sports and music. Don’t forget the “XO’s Happy Hour Show,” on Fridays at 1300 to get your Intel Update *beep bop boop,* Rock News and a crew favorite, Stupid News.
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Obama and Xi Agree to Steps On Cybertheft WASHINGTON — President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China took their first concrete steps on Friday toward reining in the rising threat of cyberattacks between the world’s two largest economies. The two leaders pledged that their governments would refrain from computer-enabled theft of intellectual property for commercial gain even as Obama suggested he might still impose sanctions if rampant Chinese hacking persisted. With Xi standing beside him at a Rose Garden news conference, Obama said they had reached a “common understanding” that neither the United States nor China should engage in state-sponsored cyberintrusions to poach intellectual property, and that they would together seek “international rules of the road for appropriate conduct in cyberspace.” But Obama said that he had told Xi during two hours of meetings at the White House that the escalating threat of cyberattacks against American targets “has to stop,” warning Xi that the United States would go after and punish perpetrators of those offenses through traditional law enforcement tools and, potentially, with sanctions. “The question now is, ‘Are words followed by actions?’ ” Obama said of China’s commitments on cyberthreats. “And we will be watching carefully to make an assessment as to whether progress has been made in this area.” It was the third set of meetings between Obama and Xi in the last three years, and it came at a potential pivot point in United States-China relations, with the Obama administration determined to find areas where it can cooperate with Beijing but increasingly wary of its behavior. Besides their meeting at the White House, the two presidents spent more than two and a half hours together Thursday night at a private dinner at Blair House, across from the White House. JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and DAVID E. SANGER
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Boehner to Resign, Undone by Strife WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, an Ohio barkeeper’s son who rode a conservative wave to one of the highest positions in government, said Friday he would relinquish his gavel and resign from Congress, undone by the very Republicans who swept him into power. Speaker John Boehner, 65, A. Boehner made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning as lawmakers struggled to avert a government shutdown next week, a possibility made less likely by his decision. Boehner told almost no one of his decision before making it Friday morning. “So before I went to sleep last night, I told my wife, I said, ‘You know, I might just make an announcement tomorrow,’ ” Boehner said at the Capitol. “This morning I woke up, said
my prayers, as I always do, and thought, ‘This is the day I am going to do this.’ ” His downfall again highlighted the sinewy power of a Republican Party faction whose anthem is often to oppose government action. It also made vivid the precarious nature of a job in which the will and proclivities of a politically divisive body must be managed. No speaker since Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., who held the gavel from 1977 to 1986, has left the job willingly. Boehner has been pressured to push for deeper spending cuts and more aggressive policy changes than were possible with President Obama in the White House. He seemed both exhausted by the fight and yet at peace with his final move: to leave rather than face a potentially humiliating fight within his party. “My first job as speaker is to protect the institution,” Boehner said. “It had become clear to me that this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution.” Boehner became emotional
as he recalled a moment alone on Thursday with Pope Francis when the pontiff asked the speaker to pray for him. Reflecting on that scene and his ascent, he said, “I never thought I’d be in Congress, let alone be speaker.” Boehner’s announcement lessened the chance of a government shutdown because Republican leaders joined by Democrats will almost certainly go forward with a short-term funding measure to keep the government operating, and the speaker will no longer be deterred by those who threatened his job. The leading candidate to replace Boehner is Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, who is viewed more favorably by the House’s more conservative members. The preferred candidate among many Republicans, Rep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, has said he does not want the job. Obama said Friday that Boehner’s resignation took him by surprise. He praised the speaker as a “good man” and a “patriot.” JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Pope Recalls Divine Presence Among the Poor By motorcade, popemobile and shoe leather, in a daylong tour up and down Manhattan that found pockets of joy and pain, wealth and want, Pope Francis on Friday called for social justice and peace in addresses to world leaders and workaday New Yorkers alike. The pope ended with a stirring homily that was both an ode to the city and a reminder to watch for glimpses of the presence of God among the poorest of the poor. “In big cities, beneath the roar of traffic, beneath the rapid pace of change, so many faces pass by unnoticed because they have no ‘right’ to be there, no right to be part of the city,” Francis said in a Mass before 20,000 at Madison Square Garden. “They are the foreigners, the children who go without schooling, those deprived of medical insurance, the homeless, the forgotten elderly. These people stand at the edges of our great avenues, in our streets, in deafening anonymity.”
ERIC THAYER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Pope Francis visited a school in East Harlem on Friday. That theme, that “God is living in our cities,” provided an apt conclusion to a day spent navigating New York’s complicated fabric of rich and struggling. It was his first visit to the city, where commerce and prosperity have brought the excesses he has spent his papacy pushing against. It was impossible to ignore, behind the rows of well-wishers: the skyscrapers that are home to many of the world’s wealthiest people. He spoke of that divide, from his
first remarks before the United Nations General Assembly, where he called for respect for “those considered disposable because they are only considered as part of a statistic,” to his closing homily’s observation that “big cities also conceal the faces of all those people who don’t appear to belong, or are second-class citizens.” Francis sought out some of those faces on a day that brought him to the footprints of the twin towers, where he met a long line of relatives of those who died on Sept. 11, and, hours later, the upturned smiles of East Harlem schoolchildren not yet born the day those buildings fell. Perhaps the greatest spectacle was his winding sweep through Central Park, a logistical feat that included screening tens of thousands of ticketholders. The throngs roared their greetings to the “people’s pope” in the name by which is he commonly known: “Viva Papa!”MICHAEL WILSON
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Schisms Flare After Tragedy at a Unifying Rite BEIRUT, Lebanon — For the two million Muslims from across the world performing the hajj in Saudi Arabia this year, the annual pilgrimage is a time to forget the differences in race, sect, wealth and even nationality that divide believers and focus instead on their equality before God. But when tragedy strikes, as with the massive human crush that killed over 700 pilgrims near a holy site on Thursday, those differences come rushing back to the surface. A Saudi official blamed the tragedy on African pilgrims, prompting accusations of racism. Iran fired up its state apparatus to lambaste Saudi Arabia, its sectarian and regional rival, over its crowd management. And some questioned Saudi Arabia’s right to solely oversee sites of pre-eminent importance to the world’s nearly 1.6 billion Muslims. The fact that such schisms can so swiftly cloud a mass rite meant to emphasize Muslim unity disappoints many who wish for greater
Protesters in Tehran on Friday condemned Saudi Arabia, Iran’s Sunni rival, for its handling of the hajj. Iran said 131 of its citizens died in the stampede there. ABEDIN TAHERKENAREH/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
international cooperation. “Hajj is the great unifier,” said Khaled Almaeena, a Saudi writer and editor who has taken part in the rite many times. “But it is unfortunate that you can’t use the hajj for a greater good, because the concept of hajj in Islam is to get people together.” Worldly divisions often intrude, even though all the pilgrims wear simple, white gowns meant to promote the sense of equality, and the theological rifts that divide Shiites, Sunnis and other sects are easily set aside in Mecca since all
perform the same rituals. “You could be an Arab prince, you could be a South Asian construction worker, you could be an Afghan warlord and you are all wearing the same clothes and you just walk through this barren landscape and it is miserably hot,” said Basharat Peer, an Indian journalist who has written about Mecca and the hajj. “But when you look a little more carefully,” he added, “what you see is that even during the hajj, the distinctions of wealth and class do not disappear.” BEN HUBBARD
Climate Change Fight Takes Stunning, Ironic Turn WASHINGTON — When President Obama tried to tackle climate change in his first term, he pushed Congress to limit and put a price on carbon pollution, but the socalled cap-and-trade bill died in the Senate in 2010. Among the chief reasons: Lawmakers from both parties feared that any law to cut greenhouse gas emissions would harm the nation’s competitiveness compared to China, which was then emerging as the world’s largest polluter. Since then, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates have repeatedly cited China’s lack of action on climate change as the chief reason that the United States
should not take stronger action. On Friday, the story of how Washington and Beijing fight climate change took a stunning turn as President Xi Jinping of China stood with President Obama and announced that China will implement its own national cap-andtrade system in 2017. Environmentalists hailed the announcement and said China’s move should effectively end Republicans’ objection to enacting a domestic climate change policy. “The ironies are rich,” said David Sandalow, a fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and a former senior official in the Obama administra-
tion. “Carbon emissions trading is an American idea. Now it’s an American export. The Europeans have moved forward in implementing it. Now the Chinese are embracing it on a large scale.” But news of China’s cap-andtrade policy did not seem to change the views of a number of G.O.P. presidential candidates. “Any deal that our current representatives make with China will allow China to laugh all the way to the bank,” said Donald J. Trump, who is leading the Republican field in most polls. “Their negotiators are too smart, sophisticated and cunning for the people representing the U.S.” (NYT)
Ukraine Bans Flights by Major Airlines From Russia Ukraine will ban major Russian airlines including Aeroflot, the Russian national airline, from flying to its airports starting next month as part of trade sanctions imposed on Russia for supporting a separatist revolt in Ukraine. The ban, which will take effect on Oct. 25, was authorized in legislation passed this month that lists 90 Russian companies and about 900 individuals as targets for sanctions. It is the latest step
in a trade war that has raged along the sidelines of the armed conflict, which has been in abeyance lately even as the political atmosphere has deteriorated. Speaking to the Ukrainian cabinet on Friday, Prime Minister Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk said that Russian airlines, “primarily Aeroflot and Transaero,” another large carrier that is in the process of merging with Aeroflot, will be banned from Ukrainian airports. It was
not clear what other Russian airlines might fall under the ban. The ban also prohibits Russian cargo airlines from flying over Ukrainian territory while carrying military hardware or troops, a provision further limiting Russia’s options for projecting power toward the Mediterranean or the Middle East, after Bulgaria and other countries prohibited such flights earlier this summer. ANDREW E. KRAMER
In Brief Iran Hints at Resolution For Americans in Prison Iran’s president and foreign minister dropped hints on Friday of movement toward a resolution in the fates of Americans imprisoned or missing in Iran. The president, Hassan Rouhani, who was visiting New York for the United Nations General Assembly, told guests at an invitation-only meeting that he wanted the governments of Iran and the United States “to be helpful” in finding a solution. In an encounter with an American congressman in the General Assembly hall, the foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said he was hopeful that the prisoner issue could be resolved, according to Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich. Kildee, whose constituents include the family of Amir Hekmati, the longest-held American among the three known to be imprisoned in Iran, quoted Zarif as saying that the Iranian and American sides “continue to work on this and hope they can find some resolution.” (NYT)
No End in Sight to Tide Of Migrants, U.N. Says The flood of Syrian refugees pouring into the heart of Europe is unlikely to ease anytime soon, and worsening conditions in Iraq could send new waves of displaced people onto the Continent, United Nations officials warned on Friday. “I don’t see it stopping,” said Amin Awad, of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. If anything, he said, the thousands of refugees arriving daily at the borders of European countries may be “the tip of the iceberg.” (NYT)
Costa Rica to Shield Turtles From Tourists Two weeks after an onslaught of tourists disrupted thousands of olive ridley sea turtles nesting on a Costa Rican beach, the turtles have arrived again to lay their eggs. Absent this time were the selfie-taking tourists who had wandered among them, leading to stricter security measures. More than 100,000 turtles have arrived so far, according to the Environment Ministry’s Workers Union. (NYT)
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In Brief Board Backs New Limits On Carbon From Fuels California air regulators on Friday approved a substantial cut to carbon pollution from gasoline and diesel fuels, a move that will force oil producers to reduce the amount of carbon generated by all transportation fuels in the state at least 10 percent by 2020. The action, coming two weeks after a stinging defeat for Gov. Jerry Brown’s planned 50 percent cut in petroleum use by 2030, signaled his administration’s determination to press forward with an aggressive environmental agenda through the regulatory process rather than by legislation. The state’s projections estimate that fuel costs could rise 13 cents per gallon by 2020 as a result of the low-carbon standard. (NYT)
High-Profile Detainee Will Be Sent to Britain Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter has notified Congress that he has approved sending a high-profile detainee at the Guantánamo Bay prison to Britain, a move that will ease a point of diplomatic tension between the United States and a close ally. The detainee, Shaker Aamer, is a Saudi citizen but was a longtime British resident. A task force recommended him for transfer in 2009, but disputes over where he should go — his native Saudi Arabia or Britain, where his family lives — and internal concerns among American security officials about what would happen if he were freed have kept him at Guantánamo. Aamer has denied involvement with Al Qaeda. (NYT)
In West, Number of Starving Birds Rises Malnourished seabirds have been appearing across California in alarming numbers, some shrunken to little more than feather and bone. Many of the thin-billed species are being brought into the International Bird Rescue Center, which says it is taking in the birds at the highest rates in 18 years. Scientists consider the murres a marker species. That means their movements and numbers signal changes in the ocean’s food supply. (AP)
Hard Job, Getting Harder WASHINGTON — Hours after Republicans swept to victory in November 2010, catapulting John A. Boehner to the speaker’s chair, he was asked how he could possibly persuade House News conservatives to do Analysis some of the tough jobs of governing like raising the federal debt limit. “We will be working that out over the next couple of months,” a confident Boehner, of Ohio, said. A canny veteran of many tough Washington negotiations, Boehner always thought it could be worked out. What he did not count on was commanding a Republican majority with scores of lawmakers who had no interest in working things out but were willing to risk the party’s brand and unleash economic and governmental havoc over policy fights. Since the first days of his speakership, Boehner found himself under siege from his right flank for being unwilling to defy President Obama over issues ranging from the debt limit to immigration
to Planned Parenthood. After holding off the rebellion for years, a visibly weary, possibly relieved Boehner surrendered on Friday, stepping aside rather than submitting to an ugly struggle to hold on to power. He insisted he could have survived a challenge to his speakership. “I’ve got plenty of people following me,” he said, “but this turmoil that’s been churning now for a couple of months, it’s not good for the members and it’s not good for the institution.” Despite the criticism from the right of Boehner as a “squish” or a Republican-in-name only, he was actually a strong conservative with the two-decade voting record and beliefs to match. He was someone who knew how Washington worked and wanted to keep it working as much on Republican terms as possible, given a Democratic president and for a time, a Democratic Senate. And he succeeded to a significant degree in cutting spending and eliminating the costly ear-
marks he despised even as he padded the Republican majority through his political savvy and fund-raising prowess. But Boehner’s years in Washington and his resistance to putting government through upheaval over unwinnable policy fights were serious sins to conservatives inside and outside the House who have a strong distaste for government and were eager to push their views to the limit. Those same antigovernment conservative influences have had a notable impact on the Republican presidential primary, moving outsiders like Donald J. Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina to the fore while castigating the Republican establishment in Washington as part of the problem. Now, Boehner’s critics see his retirement as a capitulation and a recognition that conservative unrest against the establishment — the nexus of K Street and Capitol Hill that Boehner represented — is taking hold and that the old guard is on the run. CARL HULSE
Before Any Syrian Refugees Arrive, Fears Arise DUNCAN, S.C. — The worried citizens gathered in the high school cafeteria, about 200 strong. Patriotic songs played on the stereo, a man in a blue blazer from the John Birch Society hovered by a well-stocked literature table, and Lauren L. Martel, a lawyer from Hilton Head, told the crowd that 25 Syrian refugees were already living among them. “The U.N. calls it ‘refugee resettlement’ — the Muslims call it hijra, migration,” said another speaker, Jim McMillan, a local businessman. “They don’t plan to assimilate, they don’t plan to take on our culture,” he said. “They plan to change the way of American life.” The United States government has pledged to increase the number of worldwide refugees allowed in the country each year from 70,000 to 100,000 by 2017. Earlier this month, the Obama administration said it would take in at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. But the anger and anxiety here show just how hard this might be in some parts of the country. None of Syria’s four million refugees have been resettled in this part of South Carolina in the last
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About 200 people at a meeting in Duncan, S.C., to discuss Syrian refugees moving to the area. year, according to the State Department. Since May, a Christian nonprofit group, World Relief, has placed 32 refugees in the region, but most of them were Christians fleeing troubled countries like Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Even so, in South Carolina’s Upstate region, as its conservative northwest corner is known, the crisis has divided those who want to welcome new waves of huddled masses from those who question the federal government’s ability to weed out Muslim extremists.
Some critics, echoing concerns in towns across the country, fear the newcomers will burden local government agencies or alter the character of their communities Jason Lee, 41, a Southern Baptist preacher who is the director of World Relief’s Spartanburg office, said he had been surprised by the vehement resistance. In the mid-2000s, when he helped Somali refugees adjust to new lives in Kentucky, there were very few local complaints. “The fear-mongering seems really different,” Lee said. RICHARD FAUSSET
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VW Selects Porsche Chief to Lead Overhaul too slow. For the last week, Volkswagen, one of the global auto industry’s biggest corporations, has been dealing with the fallout of revelations that millions of its vehicles were enabled with software designed to deliberately trick diesel air-quality tests. The deception enabled Volkswagen diesel cars to pass air-quality tests in a lab setting but emit pollutants up to 40 times the allowable United States limits when driven, a ruse that enabled the cars to have more power and better fuel economy than they would have been able to achieve. Volkswagen has admitted that the devices exist in 11 million cars worldwide. Volkswagen said employees had been suspended in connection with the scandal, but did not
name them. The company said it would hire an American law firm, which it did not identify, to conduct an internal investigation of the emissions deception. Berthold Huber, a labor leader who is the acting chairman of the company’s supervisory board, blamed the deceit on “developers and technicians” in the company’s motor development operations. In the United States on Friday, federal regulators announced a rigorous new series of road tests. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency said carmakers selling vehicles in the United States were informed that the spot checks were designed to find so-called defeat devices like those used by Volkswagen. JACK EWING and BILL VLASIC
F.T.C. Said to Be Looking at Claims Against Google SAN FRANCISCO — Google’s regulatory problems stretch across the globe. Now, they are coming back home. The Federal Trade Commission has started investigating complaints that Google unfairly uses its Android mobile operating system to bolster products like Google Search and Google Maps, according to two people involved in the inquiry. These people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the investigation was in a preliminary stage, meaning it could ultimately go nowhere. Still, it is the latest in a growing number of antitrust problems facing the Internet giant. Google does not directly profit
from the mobile operating software, which is installed on the vast majority of smartphones not made by Apple. And while Android is used on the majority of smartphones in the United States, around 52 percent, Apple still has close to half the market. Regulators are looking at whether Google unfairly uses the software to promote its other dominant services, the people involved in the inquiry said. Android is an “open” system that Google gives away. Smartphone makers like Samsung and Motorola are free to package it with their own apps and services, but there’s a catch: If they want to include any Google services, they have to take a bundle that in-
cludes the Google search engine, Gmail and Google Maps, which comes preinstalled on the phone. A number of mobile application makers have complained to the Justice Department that this requirement — the “home-screen advantage” — makes it all but impossible for them to compete in a world where people are spending less time on desktop computers and more time on mobile phones. Justin Cole, a spokesman for the F.T.C., said that the agency’s “investigations are nonpublic, and we do not comment on an investigation or the existence of an investigation.” Google declined to comment for this article. CONOR DOUGHERTY
G.D.P. Growth in the Second Quarter Tops Predictions WASHINGTON — The United States economy expanded in the second quarter more than had been estimated on stronger consumer spending and construction. The development strengthens the case to raise interest rates before the end of the year, despite September data that sounded a note of caution. The Commerce Department said on Friday that gross domestic product rose at a 3.9 percent annual pace in the April-June quarter, up from 3.7 percent reported last month.
The data suggests that the American economy may be gaining enough strength to withstand an increase in benchmark interest rates from record low levels despite concerns about the global economy. Still, many economists expect a cooler pace of growth in the third quarter, a view supported by data showing slower growth in services and a drop in consumer sentiment in September. The Federal Reserve held off on raising rates last week, but the central bank’s chairwoman, Jan-
et L. Yellen, kept the door open to an increase this year in a speech on Thursday night, provided that inflation remains stable and growth is strong enough to boost employment. “The survey data point to sustained, steady expansion of the U.S. economy at the end of the third quarter, but various warning lights are now flashing brighter, meaning growth may continue to weaken in coming months,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit. (Reuters)
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FRANKFURT — Volkswagen on Friday tried to move beyond the emissions cheating scandal that has threatened to cripple it, naming Matthias Müller, the head of the company’s Porsche unit, as chief executive. He replaces Martin Winterkorn, who resigned on Wednesday and took responsibility for the fraud but said he was not personally involved. “The same thing must never happen again,” Müller said Friday in the company’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. He promised to overhaul the company’s management structure. Volkswagen also said on Friday that it would revamp itself to give more independence to individual vehicle brands, addressing criticism that decision-making had been too centralized and
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Food Box Businesses Sate Appetite for Novelty When promotions for two subscription snack box services, Naturebox and Graze, popped up in his Facebook feed, Matt Feit was interested. “I’m a firm believer in snacking, having worked to completely change the way I’m eating,” said Feit, an aspiring horror and comedy writer who lives in Los Angeles. “I’ve turned lunch into two smaller meals and have a snack at the end of the day, all healthy stuff.” He placed orders to try both, first Naturebox, then Graze, and even sent his father a snack subscription as a gift. But after one or two boxes arrived, Feit had had enough. Naturebox’s online interface was “a little wonky,” he said, and both services were trying to sell him what they had on hand rather than trying to tailor the offerings to his preferences. “The snack didn’t blow me away. Ordering felt kind of like a job, and they sent samples I just wasn’t interested in,” Feit said, acknowledging that he is a picky eater. “I ended up thinking, ‘I don’t have time for this.’ ” Subscription snack and food box businesses are popping up everywhere, hoping to cash in on America’s insatiable appetite for novelty, convenience and munchies. Cratejoy.com, a service that
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Subscription services are seen as a way to get fast feedback. helps would-be food box entrepreneurs get started, lists more than 120 subscription services under its “Food & Artisan Edibles” category. Food businesses view the subscription services as a relatively inexpensive opportunity to get new products in front of consumers — and to get feedback and data fast. “Subscriptions have been a key driver of early growth, helping lead to the first $1 million in revenue for some of the companies we work with,” said Rory Eakin, a founder and chief operating officer of CircleUp, which connects investors to small consumer and food businesses and offers them management support. “As for the
model itself, I do think it’s been somewhat overinvested in, to be candid — it’s hard to answer the question, ‘Why can’t Amazon do this?’ ” Williams Sonoma, Neiman Marcus and other retailers with high-end culinary businesses have long sold food subscriptions, allowing customers to send three months of, say, cheese as a gift. But the business is not so easy or lucrative, apparently. General Mills started a subscription snack box service, Nibblr, in 2014 — and closed it down a little more than a year later. Walmart, too, tried its hand at a food subscription service, Goodies.co, for about a year before shutting it down. STEPHANIE STROM
Rhode Island Averts Pension Crisis and Higher Tax Chicago is facing its biggest tax increase in memory, to raise money for pension payments. Illinois is stymied by a $110 billion pension shortfall. In New Jersey, public workers are in court over a failed pension deal. From Pennsylvania to California, pensions costs are crowding out aid for pubGov. Gina M. lic education. Raimondo But even as pensions keep squeezing budgets and setting off court battles around the country, Rhode Island. America’s smallest state, appears to have found its way out of the quagmire. Its governor, Gina M. Raimondo, has finished a four-year pension overhaul without raising taxes or issuing risky pension-obligation
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bonds. Union leaders who fought her at first ultimately negotiated the terms, deciding that a court fight over her plan might do more harm than good. “Raimondo had the highest hill to climb,” said Daniel DiSalvo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has been comparing states’ efforts to rein in pension costs. Her initiative was among the most ambitious, he said, and she started “from what was, in many respects, the weakest institutional position.” That is not to say everyone is happy with the result. To the contrary, bitterness remains in Rhode Island, where public retirees’ annual increases have been suspended, and public workers have had to trade in part of their defined-benefit pension plan for a 401(k)-style benefit, where they must bear investment risk. “No other entity would get
away with what the State of Rhode Island is doing to their retirees,” said Louise Bright, a retired state financial manager, who had wanted a trial to resolve key legal issues. “A contract is a contract, even when that contract involves senior citizens.” The obstacles Raimondo faced were not unlike those confronting Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago. Emanuel’s attempts to rein in pension costs, in contrast, have been thrown out by a judge, leading to his appeal this week for a big tax increase. Without raising taxes, Emanuel warned, Chicago would have to finance its pension promises by laying off thousands of police officers and firefighters, ending rat-control programs and letting street repairs lapse, among other cost-cutting measures. “Our city would become unlivable,” he said. MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Nike Inc., up $10.21 to $125. The footwear and sportswear maker reported a boost in fiscal first-quarter profit and the results beat Wall Street expectations. Pier 1 Imports Inc., down $1.06 to $7.61. The furniture retailer reported worse-than-expected second-quarter results and issued a disappointing outlook. BlackBerry Ltd., down 54 cents to $6.49. The struggling smartphone and software company reported worse-than-expected fiscal second-quarter results. Marvell Technology Group Ltd., up 31 cents to $9.33. The mobile and wireless technology company is cutting 17 percent of its work force as it restructures its mobile operations. Finish Line Inc., down $4.86 to $19.91. The shoe store reported a decline in second-quarter profit that met Wall Street's expectations, but its revenue fell short. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., up 46 cents to $59.79. The home goods retailer's quarterly sales fell short of expectations. Google Inc., down $14.76 to $640.15. The Internet search company is facing scrutiny from the F.T.C. over its Android operating system, according to media reports. (AP)
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Experience Doesn’t Have to Start at the Top whom Jules doesn’t want The director Nancy Meyto engage, to at last catch ers doesn’t just make movher attention. And he does ies, she makes the kind of just that when he clears it, lifestyle fantasies you sink inaugurating a work relainto like eiderdown. Her tionship that turns into a movies are frothy, playful, friendship. homogeneous, routinely The table is a silly, lazy maddening and generalscreenwriting contrivly pretty irresistible even ance, and it says more when they’re not that good. about Meyers’s conflictIn her latest, Robert De ed ideas about powerful Niro plays Ben Whittaker, women than it conveys a 70-year-old widower who anything interesting shakes up his life when he about Jules. becomes an intern at a web Ben doesn’t sweep up start-up where he soon the damsel like Daniel becomes an office mascot Day-Lewis in “The Last and geezer Tinker Bell. of the Mohicans,” but he Mostly, though, Ben is the proves more than up to benign face of patriarchy, the task. Meyers’s script a gentler, kinder father figFRANCOIS DUHAMEL/WARNER BROS. PICTURES makes sure that’s the ure who comes equipped with a handkerchief and Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway star in case, as does the smartest choice she makes in “The wisdom. He shares both the dramedy “The Intern.” Intern”: De Niro, her looswith his new boss, Jules est, most valuable player. Ostin (Anne Hathaway), Hathaway, who’s regularly forced to take Jules’s the founder of an online clothing site that has rocketed from zero to zillions in record time. She runs her inner girl out for a sniffle and a sob, does her best, company with a steely grip and a forced smile. She’s but it’s hopeless. Jules is less of a character and more a success and possibly an obsessive-compulsive, but of a fast-walking, speed-talking collection of gender grievances, some of which originate with a squirmy she’s also floundering, one crisis at a time. Jules’s problem is as familiar as the last headline house husband Matt (Anders Holm). One look at that that recycled the plagues of career women who want guy’s smile and you want De Niro to wipe it off. He it all, apparently can’t have it all and are unsure if doesn’t, but there’s no need to because De Niro owns they want any of it in the first place. For her part, the movie from the moment he opens his mouth, and Jules mostly wants someone to tidy up a cluttered is staring into the camera and right at you. You can’t table that sits like a reproach in the middle of the im- look away, and soon you don’t want to. Certainly Meymaculate office and that for some reason she won’t or ers doesn’t want anyone to because, though she loves can’t tell someone to clean. Structurally, the messy the idea of the successful woman, she also ardently table is a means for Ben, the ultimate can-do type wants to make room for daddy. MANOHLA DARGIS
A Retired C.I.A. Killer Meets a High School Nerd Mickey Rourke, who plays the title character in “Ashby,” is a bizarre sight in this overstuffed semicomedy, which has no idea what it wants to say. In his towering gray pompadour, Ashby suggests a vain, surgically altered Mafioso relocated to Virginia through the witness protection program. In fact, Ashby is something even more exotic: a retired C.I.A. assassin who by his own account killed 93 people in the line of duty. Is he a heroic patriot or a sociopath? The movie doesn’t dare ask, but Rourke’s gruff, sentimental performance suggests a little of both, tilting toward patriot. Ashby, who passes as a napkin salesman, spills the beans to Ed (Nat Wolff), a nerdy teenager who lives next door with his divorced mother, June (Sarah Silverman). Ed and Ashby meet when Ed, given a high school assignment
Nat Wolff stars with Mickey Rourke in “Ashby.”
to interview and write about an older person, notices Ashby and pays him a visit. Rummaging around Ashby’s house, Ed discovers shelves of guns and knives and asks questions. As they drive around town, Ashby tells his story on the condition that Ed not reveal his cloak-and-dagger past. An unlikely mentor-protégé bond develops. Written and directed by the Australian filmmaker Tony McNamara, “Ashby” is a movie divided against itself. It’s a comedy
afraid of being too funny lest its macho sentimenPETER TAYLOR tality seem even more ridiculous than it is, and a drama afraid of appearing too serious lest you dismiss it as hogwash. “Ashby” winds the story of Ed’s personal growth around Ashby’s coming to terms with his deeds after he collapses and learns he has months to live. Discovering that one of his victims was innocent, he visits a priest seeking absolution and confronts a colleague who dismisses the dead man as “the enemy of the state of my bank balance.” STEPHEN HOLDEN
‘Stonewall’ Chokes On Its Intentions “Stonewall,” Roland Emmerich’s would-be epic film about a turning point in the gay liberation movement in 1969, is far from the first historical movie to choke on its own noble intentions. For its two-hour-plus duration, the movie struggles to fuse incompatible concepts. On one level, “Stonewall” is a sweeping social allegory whose central character, Danny Winters (“War Horse”), is an all-American boy from the provinces (Indiana) thrown out of the house by his father (David Cubitt), a high school football coach, for being gay.
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Jonny Beauchamp as Ray/ Ramona in “Stonewall.” Arriving in New York with little money and no fixed abode, Danny is radicalized by observing, then experiencing, police brutality. On another level, the movie wants to be as specific as possible in its reconstruction of chaotic events that took place 46 years ago and have acquired a mythic dimension. Had the movie’s central character been Ray, a.k.a. Ramona (Jonny Beauchamp), an androgynous, volatile Puerto Rican who unrequitedly falls in love with Danny, there might be no quarrel that the movie fails to pay tribute to a full multiethnic range of gay and lesbian characters. Ray’s saucy “girlfriends” are treated with respect but remain peripheral. The strident tone of Jon Robin Baitz’s screenplay is so far removed from the subtlety and sophistication of his plays, that the most logical explanation for its bluntness is that he felt compelled to substitute melodrama and agitprop for psychological complexity. Too much of his dialogue gives “Stonewall” the tone of an inspirational teaching tool for future generations. STEPHEN HOLDEN
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GULF OF ADEN (September 19, 2015) – Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Roberto Colon-Cruz, from Ponce, Puerto Rico, participates in a practical weapons training course as part of an M9 service pistol qualification course on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81). USS Winston S. Churchill is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor L. Jackson/Released)
U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF OPERATIONS (September 22, 2015) –Yeoman Seaman Anthony Tarrant, from Nutley, New Jersey, fires an M16 service rifle during a weapons qualification course aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98). Forrest Sherman is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations as part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts is the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Anthony N. Hilkowski/Released)
GULF OF ADEN (September 18, 2015) - Fire Controlman 3rd Class Oman Eastman, from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, monitors air contacts while on watch aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99). Farragut is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations as part of Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jackie Hart/Released)
GULF OF ADEN (September 17, 2015) - Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) conduct a passenger transfer with the guidedmissile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81). Farragut and Winston S. Churchill are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations as part of Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, strike operations in Iraq and Syria as directed, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jackie Hart/Released)
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