ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
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ailors crowded the deckplates, singing and swaying as The Mulligan Brothers belted out heartfelt love songs over live acoustics in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), July 3. The Mulligan Brothers, onboard as part of a Navy Entertainment-sponsored concert, performed a variety of cover songs and folk music for the crew to enjoy. The Mulligan Brothers are not actually brothers, but they were all raised in Alabama and share a love for bluegrass music. Two of the foursome were unable to make the concert, but lead singer, William Newell, and bass player, Benjamin Leininger, were able to give the crew a show. “This is the first time we’ve played as a duo,” said Newell. “We’re having a good time and hope you are too.” The pair covered a variety of the crew’s favorite tunes. They kicked off the show with “Little Lion Man,” by Mumford & Sons. “We’ve been excited for a long time for this trip,” said Newell. “We get to be musicians back home because of what you do here.” Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Cofer said he was grateful to Navy Entertainment for bringing the acoustic act to the ship. “I’m really enjoying it,” Cofer screamed over the music. “It’s cool that we keep getting acts like this coming out to the ship. It really helps boost crew morale. I can’t wait until the next one!”
Yeoman 3rd Class Israel Vasquez, stood front row at the show while he sang along to every song. “They’re a really good band,” Vasquez exclaimed. “I’m really enjoying myself out here. I’m a huge bluegrass fan. Mumford & Sons is one of my favorite bands so I really appreciated their covers of a few of their songs.” Following the performance, Sailors formed a line as The Mulligan Brothers signed autographs and took photos with the crew. “I’m from Kentucky,” said Aviation Boatswan’s Mate (handling) 3rd Class Stephen Lovak. “The show was right up my alley and I’m glad they came out to show us a good time.” The band joined Capt. Jeffrey Craig, TR’s executive officer, and co-host Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Justin Ailes on XO’s Happy Hour Show for an interview broadcast ship-wide on TR’s Rough Rider Radio. “I drove the ship for you guys today,” said Newell, who visited the bridge as a part of his tour. “I was really nervous but it’s an experience I’ll remember for a lifetime. I’m grateful for the opportunity to be here.” The band followed their TR tour with a visit to the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60). “I can’t tell you how grateful we are for you guys,” said Newell. “Thank you very much for all that you do. Everyone seems to do it so gracefully, it really is amazing.”
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Health Insurers Seek Big Rate Increases ANXIETY BUILDS AS PUERTO RICANS FACE DEBT CRISIS
WASHINGTON — Health insurance companies around the country are seeking rate increases of 20 percent to 40 percent or more, saying their new customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to be sicker than expected. Federal officials say they are determined to see that the requests are scaled back. Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans — market leaders in many states — are seeking rate increases that average 23 percent in Illinois, 25 percent in North Carolina, 31 percent in Oklahoma, 36 percent in Tennessee and 54 percent in Minnesota, according to documents posted online by the federal government and state insurance commissioners and interviews with insurance executives. The Oregon insurance commissioner, Laura N. Cali, has just approved 2016 rate increases for companies that cover more than 220,000 people. Moda Health Plan, which has the largest enrollment in the state, received a 25 percent increase, and the second-largest plan, LifeWise,
received a 33 percent increase. Jesse Ellis O’Brien, a health advocate at the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group, said: “Rate increases will be bigger in 2016 than they have been for years and years and will have a profound effect on consumers here. Some may start wondering if insurance is affordable or if it’s worth the money.” President Obama, on a trip to Tennessee this week, said that consumers should put pressure on state insurance regulators to scrutinize the proposed rate increases. If commissioners do their job and actively review rates, he said, “my expectation is that they’ll come in significantly lower than what’s being requested.” The rate requests, from some of the more popular health plans, suggest that insurance markets are still adjusting to shock waves set off by the Affordable Care Act. It is far from certain how many of the rate increases will hold up on review, or how much they might change. But already the proposals, buttressed with reams
of actuarial data, are fueling fierce debate about the effectiveness of the health law. A study of 11 cities in different states by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that consumers would see relatively modest increases in premiums if they were willing to switch plans. But if they switch plans, consumers would have no guarantee that they can keep their doctors. And to get low premiums, they sometimes need to accept a more limited choice of doctors and hospitals. Some say the marketplaces have not attracted enough healthy young people. By contrast, Marinan R. Williams, chief executive of the Scott & White Health Plan in Texas, which is seeking a 32 percent rate increase, said the requests showed that “there was a real need for the Affordable Care Act.” “People are getting services they needed for a very long time,” Williams said. “There was a pentup demand. Over the next three years, I hope, rates will start to stabilize.” ROBERT PEAR
Obama Looks to Free Nonviolent Drug Offenders WASHINGTON — Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of federal prisoners locked up on nonviolent drug offenses. With the stroke of his pen, he will probably commute more sentences at one time than any president has in nearly half a century. The expansive use of his clemency power is part of a broader effort by Obama to correct what he sees as the excesses of the past, when politicians eager to be tough on crime threw away the key even for minor criminals. With many Republicans and Democrats now agreeing that the nation went too far, Obama holds the power to unlock that prison door, especially for young African-American and Hispanic men disproportionately affected. But even as he exercises authority more assertively than any of his modern predecessors,
Obama has only begun to tackle the problem he has identified. In the next weeks, the number of Obama’s commutations may surpass 80, but more than 30,000 federal inmates have come forward in response to his administration’s call for clemency applications. A cumbersome review process has made it through just a fraction of them. And just a fraction of those have reached the president’s desk for a signature. Overhauling the criminal justice system has become a bipartisan venture. Like Obama, Republicans running for his job are calling for systemic changes. Lawmakers from both parties are collaborating on legislation. And the United States Sentencing Commission has revised guidelines for drug offenders, so far retroactively reducing sentences for more than 9,500 inmates, nearly three-quarters of them black or Hispanic.
The drive to recalibrate the system has brought together groups from across the political spectrum. The Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy organization with close ties to the White House and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, has teamed up with Koch Industries, the conglomerate owned by the conservative brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, who finance Republican candidates, to press for reducing prison populations and overhauling sentencing. “It’s a time when conservatives and liberals and libertarians and lots of different people on the political spectrum” have “come together in order to focus attention on excessive sentences, the costs and the like, and the need to correct some of those excesses,” said Neil Eggleston, the White House counsel who recommends clemency petitions to Obama. PETER BAKER
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — It’s the lunch hour at Baker’s Bakery, a fixture in Río Piedras, one of Puerto Rico’s oldest neighborhoods, but the bustle at the counter is long gone. On the first day of the new sales tax, which jumped to 11.5 percent from 7 percent, the government’s latest rummage for more revenue, Puerto Rico’s malaise was unmistakable. “People don’t even answer you when you tell them, ‘Buenos dias,’ ” said Ibrahim Baker, 55, on Wednesday as he stood at the cash register of the bakery he has owned for 25 years. “Everyone is depressed.” After nearly a decade of recession, Puerto Rico’s government says it cannot pay its $73 billion debt much longer. Gov. Alejandro García Padilla warns that more austerity is on the way, a necessity for an island now working feverishly to rescue itself. With so many bracing for another slide toward the bottom, the sense of despair grows more palpable by the day. “So many people are leaving you can’t even find suitcases,” said Erica Lebrón, 30. Before long, Puerto Ricans will face more tax increases — the next one is in October. Next on the list of anticipated measures, these for government workers, are fewer vacations, overtime hours and paid sick days. Others in Puerto Rico may face cuts in health care benefits and even bus routes, all changes that economic advisers say should be made to jump-start the economy. People blame the government for the economic debacle. Election after election, they say, political leaders took the easy way out, spending more than they had, borrowing to prop up the budget, pointing fingers at one another and failing to own up to reality. “It’s very, very, very worrisome,” said Baker, who added that he wanted the federal government to oversee the rescue plan because “in the hands of Puerto Rico’s politicians, this will never get better.” LIZETTE ALVAREZ
INTERNATIONAL
ISIS Destroys More Artifacts Islamic State militants indulged in new public displays of artifact destruction this week, sledgehammering a half-dozen statues said to have been stolen from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. The militants also broke up a hidden 2,000-year-old lion statue they discovered in a Palmyra museum garden and demolished a 13th-century tomb near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The destruction, publicized in photographs and statements posted by the Islamic State on social media and corroborated by officials and antiquities experts, underscored the risks to the archaeological heritage sites in Syria and Iraq, as well as the impunity of the militants now in command of large parts of both countries. On Thursday, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, said it had smashed six statues from Palmyra seized from a smuggler in an area of Aleppo controlled by the group’s operatives in northern Syria. It said the smuggler had been prosecuted by a Shariah court and punished with a public flogging. On Friday, Iraqi antiquities experts said ISIS had wrecked a tomb dating from the middle of the 13th century about seven miles west of Hawija, a town in Kirkuk Province. Before-and-after photographs showed the rubble. “This is a terrible and tragic addition to ISIS’s long list of never-ending and incomprehensible destruction of some of Iraq’s and Syria’s most important historic monuments,” said Ihsan Fethi, a heritage expert. (NYT)
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Greek Voters Face a Barrage of Doomsday Ads ATHENS — The ads come close to suggesting that the apocalypse could be just around the corner if Greeks make the wrong choice in a referendum on Sunday. Against a blue background, a cheery cartoon rendering of an A.T.M. appears and an announcer asks: Will there be cash on Monday? A big red “X” crosses it out. Will there be gasoline? Will there be medicine? Will pensions be paid? As the ad continues, a dozen such questions are answered with a resounding “no,” before the tagline appears urging voters to say yes in Sunday’s referendum. “Now that we know how many no’s a no can bring,” the voiceover says, “On Sunday, we say yes.” In the referendum, Greeks will be asked to decide whether to vote yes to accepting a bailout package that would keep Greece solvent and in the eurozone — but impose more taxes and pension cutbacks
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A Greek demonstrator Friday with stickers reading “no.” — or to vote no and demand a better deal or, possibly, be kicked out of the euro. On Friday, a day of dueling yes and no rallies, when a top Greek court swept aside a constitutional challenge to the referendum, the role of the news media emerged as one of the most contentious
issues. Ads predicting doomsday scenarios and long newspaper articles on the plight of retirees have been coming fast and furious from Greece’s oligarch-dominated news organizations, which critics say are all-in on the yes side. “There is no discussion of the real issues,” said Nikos Leandros, a news media expert at the Panteion University in Athens. Voters are being subjected to a heavy barrage of ads, many of them suggesting that to follow the call of the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, for a no vote would unleash forces that would see Greece cast out of the European Union altogether, with disastrous results. Tsipras himself has been campaigning for a no vote, most likely in the hope that it would give him new leverage in dealing with creditors who he says are offering harsh terms that would only drive Greece deeper into the economic abyss. SUZANNE DALEY
Weak Power Grids Stunt Growth and Fire Up Tempers JOHANNESBURG — With winter here in South Africa, the worst blackouts in years are plunging residents into darkness in poor townships and wealthy suburbs alike. The cutoffs have dampened South Africa’s economy, Africa’s second biggest, and are expected to continue for another two to three years. Despite a decade of strong economic expansion, sub-Saharan Africa is still far behind in its ability to generate something fundamental to its future, electricity —
hampering growth and frustrating its ambitions to catch up with the rest of the world. All of sub-Saharan Africa’s power generating capacity is less than South Korea’s, and a quarter of it is unproductive at any given moment because of the continent’s aging infrastructure. The World Bank estimates that blackouts alone cut the gross domestic products of sub-Saharan countries by 2.1 percent. The crippling effect on sub-Saharan Africa was recently on dis-
play in Nigeria. Nigeria’s electrical grid churns out so little power that the country mostly runs on private generators. So when a fuel shortage struck, a national crisis quickly followed. The power shortages and blackouts have cast a harsh light on elected officials, causing rising anger among voters for whom reliable electricity was supposed to be a dividend of democracy and economic growth. NORIMITSU ONISHI
In Brief Leader of Ecuador Under Fire
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian
France Spurns Assange’s Plea
Protesters calling for the ouster of President Rafael Correa of Ecuador have filled the streets of Ecuador’s largest cities in recent weeks in some of the largest antigovernment demonstrations in years, creating tensions on the eve of a visit by Pope Francis. Both the government and the opposition have been using the pope’s visit to get their messages across, giving rise to complaints that they are usurping the historic event for political ends. Some government opponents have used social media to urge people to shout a slogan at the end of the pope’s two giant Masses in the country: “Francis yes, Correa no!” The pope arrives in Ecuador on Sunday at the start of a three-country visit to South America. (NYT)
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he and others hurled stones and rocks at their army vehicle, the Israeli military said, while Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank arrested over 100 members of its rival group Hamas in the biggest such roundup in years. The Palestinian news media identified the dead youth as Muhammad Hani al-Kasba, 17, and said he had been shot as he was trying to scale the Israeli-built wall near the Qalandia crossing point, between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. The Israeli military said that Kasba had been a rock thrower and that a different youth had been hurt while trying to scale the wall. (NYT)
The French president on Friday rejected an appeal for protection from Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks co-founder, who has spent three years under political asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Assange made the request in a 2,700-word open letter, in French, that was published Friday on the website of Le Monde and addressed to President François Hollande. Assange said he was appealing to France because he sensed an openness to the idea of being granted asylum, citing comments made by Christiane Taubira, the French justice minister, and because he had a child whose mother is French. He has never publicly disclosed the existence of the child before. He did not identify the child or the mother. (NYT)
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Just Holding On Is a New Western Adventure SANDPOINT, Idaho — Along a curve of mountain road in far northern Idaho, there’s a dinged and rusted guardrail above the tiny town of Sandpoint. The rail is a bit of practicality on a two-lane stretch with hairpin turns; its dings attest to the lives, or vehicles, saved by blocking the way. But stand there for a while, turning your gaze in any direction at a landscape mostly empty of human imprint, and it’s easy to see that little ribbon of highway metal as a perimeter fence. Sandpoint huddles at the bottom, its 7,500 people squeezed together in a tight embrace. The West, writ large, splays out sky and earth in every other direction. In some ways, it’s the perfect place to see hard Western reality — the geographic and economic isolation that has crushed countless hamlets like this one, including new ghost towns in the making from Oshkosh, Neb., to Pedro Bay, Alaska. But for some reason the cen-
ter here is holding. Sandpoint, 400 miles from Boise, and 70 miles from Canada, is bucking a major demographic trend: In an era when many rural places are bleeding out, this one is holding its own. In the all-important sweepstakes of the West — where are people going, and staying — Bonner County, population 41,000, beat out Denver, Seattle, Silicon Valley and other booming urban hot spots, according to census figures. Only 13 other counties in the West did better last year in the net measure of drawing newcomers and holding on to the ones it had. In many ways, it is an unexpected accomplishment. The West has become the most urban part of the nation in the percentages of where people live, and small towns like Sandpoint are especially vulnerable to the powerful new forces blowing through the region — drought, climate change and economic instability are all bearing down on rural western life. Last winter here in northern
Idaho, drought ruined the ski season at Schweitzer Mountain just outside town. The bankruptcy last spring of Coldwater Creek, the women’s clothing retailer that was the county’s largest employer — and had its corporate headquarters here — sent an even bigger shiver through the community. And yet, Sandpoint has survived, signaling what may be a broader shift for the region. If the question that defined the West used to be what motivates people to move (“go West, young man”), today it seems to be the opposite: What makes people want to stay? Jennifer Pratt, 35, had been a store display designer at Coldwater Creek and she could have easily left Sandpoint for other opportunities. Instead, she stayed on. She told her family in Oklahoma that she would not be coming home. “The question was always, ‘What can I do to stay?’ ” she said. “I was dug in.” KIRK JOHNSON
Outsider Went Mainstream, but Message Remained BURLINGTON, Vt. — When he came to Vermont in the late 1960s to help plan the upending of the old social order, the future presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought with him the belief that the United States was starkly divided into two groups: the establishment and the revolutionaries. He was a revolutionary. “The Revolution Is Life Versus Death,” in fact, was the title of an article he wrote for The Vermont Freeman, an alternative, authority-challenging newspaper published for a few years back then. The piece began with an apocalyptically alarmist account of the unbearable horror of having an
office job in New York City, of being among “the mass of hot dazed humanity heading uptown for the 9-5,” sentenced to endless days of “moron work, monotonous work.” “The years come and go,” Sanders wrote, in all apparent seriousness. “Suicide, nervous breakdown, cancer, sexual deadness, heart attack, alcoholism, senility at 50. Slow death, fast death. DEATH.” Chalk some of this up to being young and unemployed. Sanders, now 73, has had a steady, nonrevolutionary job for quite some time now. His current workplace, the U.S. Senate, is not exactly known for its thrill-a-min-
ute dynamism. But through his long evolution from outraged outsider to mainstream man in a suit, Sanders has remained true to his original message: sympathy for the downtrodden, the impoverished and the disenfranchised in the face of the rich and the powerful. Back then, he was part of a crowd of like-minded young people who converged on Burlington at a time when America seemed to be rewriting its history on the spot. For Sanders, everything was about ideas to make the world better, both in real life and in The Movement. SARAH LYALL
Hate Groups and Shooting Suspect in Contact, Officials Say WASHINGTON — Federal and local authorities have found that the man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black people in a South Carolina church last month had been in contact with white supremacists online, although it does not appear they encouraged him to carry out the massacre, according to law enforcement officials. Investigators uncovered that information as they have pieced together where the gunman,
Dylann Roof, 21, received his inspiration, and whether anyone else should face charges in connection with the murders. The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., reported on Thursday that the investigation had widened to include others who may have helped Roof. It did not identify who those people were. The authorities investigating the shooting that took place at Emanuel African Methodist Epis-
copal Church have been able to piece together the communications of Roof in part because they are in possession of his electronic devices, including his cellphone and computer. Senior officials at the Justice Department said that the shooting was such an extraordinary event that the department must bring hate crime charges to send a larger message about it. MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
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In Brief Drought Spoils Shows The annual Fourth of July fireworks extravaganza in Cupertino, Calif., has survived municipal economic crises and fire marshal warnings about exploding shells over this hot and dry landlocked community. But this year, patriotism might have finally met its match: the California drought. The $75,000 show over Cupertino High School will not go on this Saturday night. Officials in Cupertino, the home of Apple, said they could not justify gushing water to protect the school’s artificial turf fields when the state has imposed a 25 percent cut in urban water use. In Cambria, a community 200 miles to the south along the coast, fire officials canceled the fireworks show after citing the potential of a fire disaster posed by a growth of dry and dying Monterey pine trees that frame the village. (NYT)
A Romney Sleepover Mitt Romney is having a slumber party this weekend at his New Hampshire compound with some very interesting guests: Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, along with their families. The sleepover Friday night at Romney’s summer vacation home in Wolfeboro, N.H., came about when the 2012 Republican presidential nominee realized that the two current hopefuls would be campaigning in the area this weekend. Romney remains a coveted surrogate for Republicans and a person whose approval carries weight with donors. (NYT)
Cheers’ Leader Dies Lawrence R. Herkimer, who elevated cheerleading into an aspirational goal for generations of youths and a successful business for himself, organizing camps for would-be cheerleaders and selling the clothing and gear they would need, died on Wednesday in Dallas. He was 89. The cause was heart failure, his grandson Michael Dewberry said. Herkimer was called the grandfather of modern cheerleading and Mr. Cheerleader. Not only did his enterprises net $50 million a year, he also patented the pompoms that have become a staple of cheerleading and invented a leap known as the “Herkie jump.” (NYT)
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Protests and Progress on Farmworker Wages BURLINGTON, Vt. — It was an unlikely place for a labor protest: 120 migrant workers, students and clergy members were shouting outside the flagship store of Ben & Jerry’s, which displayed a “Peace, Love and Ice Cream” sign on its facade. They were demanding that Ben & Jerry’s — which prides itself on its progressive reputation — require the Vermont dairy farms that supply its milk and cream to follow a code of conduct that would guarantee their migrant workers a weekly day off, seven vacation days a year and more, including improved housing. “The majority of us farmworkers, we don’t even have a day off,” Arnulfo Ramirez, a dairy worker from Guatemala, told the crowd last month. “We’re looking for Ben & Jerry’s to help make sure
we’re treated with basic respect.” With many farmworkers frustrated by low pay and substandard housing — and as more consumers are insisting on food that is produced ethically — innovative movements are sprouting across the country to improve wages and working conditions for America’s more than two million farmworkers. And for all the obstacles they face — including the decline of the United Farm Workers union founded by Cesar Chavez, and the fact that large numbers of farmworkers are living in the United States without legal authorization — these movements are starting to have some success. Migrant Justice, the group behind the Ben & Jerry’s protest, is counting on Ben & Jerry’s support to help persuade other ice
cream, yogurt and milk companies to adopt its “Milk With Dignity” goals. In North Carolina, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is pressing R. J. Reynolds and its tobacco growers to reach a threeway agreement to speed unionization. In California, Oxfam America, working with Costco and the United Farm Workers, started the Equitable Food Initiative to address consumer concerns that produce be safe and grown under nonexploitative conditions. And in Florida, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has persuaded McDonald’s, Walmart, Burger King, Whole Foods and other companies to require their tomato growers to improve pay and conditions for 30,000 workers. STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Mindful of Greece, Ukraine Rushes to Get Debt Relief MOSCOW — Nobody knows how the endless dispute will play out between Athens and the European leaders who hold its purse strings. But in Kiev, another European capital in the grip of debt talks, one thing is certain: The Ukrainian government does not want to end up like Greece, squabbling with creditors for years. So, with support from the International Monetary Fund, the Ukrainians are pressing hard to force foreign investors — including Franklin Templeton, a giant bond fund — to accept big losses in an initial bailout deal. Western donor countries are propping up the Kiev government financially; Ukrainian
officials say they should not be spending that money to pay off bond funds while there is a war going on with Russian-backed separatists. The I.M.F. has said Ukraine could save $15 billion by reducing payments to commercial creditors over four years. In early negotiations that opened in Washington on Tuesday, the funds — led by Franklin Templeton, which is based in San Mateo, Calif., and is Ukraine’s largest single creditor — have resisted a deal to write off part of the amount owed, arguing instead for extending the repayment period until 2019. In the creditors’ analysis, Ukraine’s economy will recover
quickly enough to make the payments by dipping into gold and foreign currency reserves. The government is asking for an immediate 40 percent reduction in principal. If bondholders hold out, the Ukrainian officials say, an initial bailout might not work, and Ukraine could be back at the table with creditors again and again — mirroring the situation in Greece. “If there is a lesson to learn from Greece, it is the need to be very aggressive from the very beginning on what kind of haircut is needed,” Ivan Tchakarov, an economist at Citigroup who follows Ukraine, said in a telephone interview. ANDREW E. KRAMER
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Tricky Logistics and Rare Wildlife Trip Up a Chevron Project Off Australia SYDNEY, Australia — Getting anything to Chevron’s gas-processing plant on Barrow Island is a bit of a trick. Some supplies travel 15 hours from Perth to a supply base for shipping. En route, trucks cannot stop under trees, to avoid picking up bugs and bird droppings. When people and cargo finally make it to the island, an army of 300 enforces a quarantine: Every Velcro strap on clothing and bags is checked for seed pods, boots are scrubbed free of dirt. Such measures are intended to
protect the island’s unique wildlife. But these and other logistical issues have also piled complexity and cost onto the gas facility, called Gorgon. The original $37 billion price tag has ballooned to $54 billion. It is an especially big cost to swallow at a time when energy prices have slumped. While companies cannot easily pull back from projects already underway, oil giants are unlikely to approve any new ambitious plans anytime soon. “This is probably the last of the megaprojects
for the oil companies for a while,” said Brian M. Youngberg, an analyst at Edward Jones. When Gorgon was approved in 2009, the plant was meant to convert two natural gas fields into liquefied fuel for Asia’s energy-hungry economies. Today, the industry is more challenging. Liquefied natural gas prices in Japan have fallen 60 percent since February 2014. The current price is about half what Chevron needs for the facility to make money, according to the brokerage firm Sanford C.
Bernstein & Company. Company executives have acknowledged they underestimated the complexity of getting equipment and components to Barrow. “What we found is that it was just much more difficult to get what we would call the tonnage and the volume of material up to the island to feed the work force so they could be productive,” Chevron Australia’s managing director, Roy Krzywosinski, told an Australian legislative committee 18 months ago. A. ODYSSEUS PATRICK
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Teenagers Missing Out on Summer Jobs Ice cream still needs scooping, beaches still need guarding and campers still need counseling. But now, there are fewer teenagers doing it all this summer. Since 2000, the share of 16- to 19-year-olds who are working has fallen by 40 percent, with fewer than a third of American teenagers in a job last summer. Their share of the overall work force has never been this low, and about 1.1 million of them would like a job but can’t find one, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Experts are struggling to figure out exactly why. “We don’t know to what extent they’re not working because they can’t find a job, or aren’t interested, or are doing other stuff — like going to summer school, traveling, volunteering, doing service learning,” said Martha Ross, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research group based in Washington. What is clear is that those who need a job the most are often the least likely to get one. To a large extent, the higher a household’s income, the more likely a teenager is to get a job. Suburbanites have a better shot than city dwellers, and white teenagers face far better odds than blacks, in part because of disappearing federal support for summer jobs.
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One factor that affects all teenagers equally is that summer quite literally isn’t what it used to be. With the proliferation of standardized tests and intense pressure to meet national academic standards like the Common Core, more students are attending summer school than ever before. At the same time, school districts have cut into the number of weeks available to work full time by moving up their start dates before Labor Day. Add year-round practices for serious athletes and parents who make the annual family vacation mandatory, and working barely seems worth it. Still, research shows that for every year teenagers work while in high school, income rises an average of 15 percent when they
Fewer young people are in the summer work force, statistics show. Nasir Mack, 16, is in the Philadelphia Youth Network’s WorkReady program.
are in their 20s. If that’s true for Nasir Mack, he may be wealthy by the time he turns 30. The 16-year-old is starting his third summer in the Philadelphia Youth Network’s WorkReady program. In the past, he was employed by an engineering firm and a community college. This summer, he will work at the city’s Office of Housing and Community Development. When Nasir first heard about the program through friends, he jumped at the chance, given the alternative. “I’m not going to be doing anything but sitting in the house,” he said. “Why would I want to do that when there are so many things out there you can be doing?” PATRICIA COHEN and RON LIEBER
Universal’s Tour Adds a Big Dose of Movie Fantasy UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — When Universal Studios opened its back lot to tourists in 1964, it was one of Hollywood’s biggest wows. For the first time, swarms of everyday people, riding in candy-striped GlamorTrams, could come face to face with filmmaking. Disneyland offered fantasy. Universal served up reality. But how do you keep interest strong for a back lot tour when very few movies are actually shot on your back lot anymore? Universal’s trams still attract millions of annual riders. But in recent years — as outdoor film production has moved to Canada, overseas and other less expensive locales — the back lot attractions have aged. The solution, Universal has decided, involves tilting the tour toward fantasy. On June 23 the company opened an elaborate
“Fast and Furious”-related tour overlay that makes no attempt to take riders behind the scenes of that car-fueled movie series. Instead, the goal is to put them inside the action. It’s also about playing catch-up after years of underinvestment. Comcast finished its acquisition of NBCUniversal in 2013 and has since poured money into Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando. Comcast is spending $1.6 billion to modernize the Hollywood park and adjacent studio. A Harry Potter-themed expansion is scheduled to open next spring. The investment has already raised attendance. Last year, Universal Studios Hollywood attracted about 6.8 million visitors, an 11 percent increase from 2013, according to the Themed Entertainment Association. Universal has more tour tricks
up its sleeve. Starting on a limited basis this summer, the trams will continue operating after sunset. Nighttime tours have been tried in the past (with the use of spotlights), but were abandoned for lack of interest. Now, with the Harry Potter hordes set to arrive next year, creating extra tour capacity has become a priority. Universal says it has spent two years planning the evening tours, in essence creating a second, after-dark tour centered on “Psycho,” “Frankenstein” and other classic thrillers. “The ‘Psycho’ house is never going to stop being cool, but a lot of our guests have probably seen it before,” said John Murdy, a Universal executive who oversees the tour. “At night we can make it so much scarier — a whole new experience, really.” BROOKS BARNES
Protests Disrupt Reddit After Site Ousts Executive Hundreds of sections of Reddit, the popular online message board, were unavailable Friday in what appeared to be a protest by many of the site’s moderators after the abrupt dismissal of a high-ranking company employee. The move affected nearly 300 individual discussion areas — socalled subreddits that focus on individual topics like technology, art and business. Subreddits are generally moderated by self-appointed members of the community, not official Reddit employees. The shutdowns, which began on Thursday evening, appeared to expand rapidly on Friday. They began shortly after Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent, was dismissed on Thursday afternoon. The company has not given a reason for Taylor’s dismissal. But the day before she had moderated a question-and-answer session on Reddit with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, in which a discussion of racial issues grew clamorous. A Reddit spokeswoman declined to comment. Taylor did not respond to multiple email and telephone requests for comment. Reddit is usually one of the highest trafficked sites on the Internet, with more than 160 million regular monthly visitors. It is ranked the world’s 32nd most visited site by Alexa, a web traffic analytics site. By the afternoon on Friday, a number of subreddits — including the popular IAmA section — slowly started coming back online. Taylor, who had been at the company for two years, was one of the most visible employees of Reddit and handled many of the celebrity question-and-answer sessions that have elevated the site beyond an Internet niche to a platform that draws attention from mainstream media outlets. After news of Taylor’s dismissal was made public, moderators for the “Ask Me Anything” subreddit — one of the most highly trafficked areas of the site — shut it down in a signal of discontent to Reddit’s official employees. One by one, other subreddits followed suit. Hundreds of messages supporting Taylor appeared. “The admins didn’t realize how much we rely on Victoria,” wrote one user. MIKE ISAAC
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Fleshing Out a Sequel With Heart as Well as Pecs and Abs Alone in his workshop one night, Mike Lane receives a visit from the muse. Though he’s still played by Channing Tatum, Mike is no longer the Magic Mike we met in the movie of that name a few years back. He’s an entrepreneur with a fledgling custom-furniture business. The dream that beguiled him in “Magic Mike” — to quit the stripping game and work with his hands instead of his abs and his glutes — has come true. But then, as Mike burns the midnight oil amid T squares and two-by-fours, he catches a beat from the music playing in the background and starts to move. As the saying doesn’t quite go: You can take the dude out of the dance, but you can’t take the dance out of the dude. And so the audience watching “Magic Mike XXL,” an outrageously entertaining sequel directed by Gregory Jacobs, is treated to a private, intimate performance, as Mike’s carpentry is turned into an athletic, erotic spectacle. The guy knows how to handle his tools. “Magic Mike,” released in the summer of 2012, was a musical fable for a moment of economic anxiety. The film teased out the complicated relationships between ambition and exploitation, between hedonism and discipline, between the fake cops and firefighters who bare their bodies for cash and the women who shriek and spill their champagne when that happens. It may have been the subtlety of the film’s critique of contemporary social conditions that made it a hit, or it may have been some-
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Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, from left, Amber Heard and Channing Tatum in “Magic Mike XXL.” thing else. In any case, success begets sequels, and the challenge facing “Magic Mike XXL” is how to manage enlarged expectations while remaining true to the authenticity of the original. Rather than trying to replay the first episode, this installment tosses it all aside and throws itself headlong into the intoxicating carnality of what is demurely called “male entertainment.” The plot is flimsy and thoroughly spoiler-proof. Mike reunites with some of his colleagues, and after a brief explanation of why Matthew McConaughey and Cody Horn are not in this movie, the guys roll out of Tampa, Fla., and head to a big stripper gathering in Myrtle Beach, S.C. That’s about it. On the way, they look up some old friends, make some new ones, drop some Molly, smoke some weed and take off their shirts.
Even though flabbier viewers might experience a twinge of envy or shame at the display of chiseled pecs and sculpted quads, the spirit of “Magic Mike XXL” is buoyant and inclusive. Mike and his colleagues — Tarzan (Kevin Nash), Tito (Adam Rodriguez), Ken (Matt Bomer) and Richie (Joe Manganiello) — are disciplined professionals, servants of Terpsichore on a quest to refine their art. You can argue with the film’s depiction of female desire, but it’s hard to quarrel with its exuberance and ingenuity. The dance numbers hum with campy energy, and the quieter moments have a sly, relaxed humor. Embedded in the glitter and flesh are ideas about the human body that could fuel a dozen gender-studies dissertations. The guys are mostly straight, but to point out the homoerotic subtext
of their friendship would be like discovering a red subtext on a fire engine. They find natural allies among cross-dressed nightclub performers and women who “work the pole.” At a beach party on the way to the big show, Mike befriends Zoe (Amber Heard), who is a possible romantic partner, a fellow artiste and a mirror image of who Mike was in the first movie. She wants to move away from stripping to concentrate on her photography, and he offers solidarity, a morale boost and a spectacularly broad shoulder to cry on. “Magic Mike XXL” boldly flouts pop-cultural conventional wisdom. It’s often said that an explanation of a joke can’t be funny, and that the analysis of pornography is never sexy. But here is a coherent and rigorous theory of pleasure that is also an absolute blast. A. O. SCOTT
In ‘Amy,’ an Intimate Diary of Amy Winehouse’s Rise and Destruction In “The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother,” a poem that Ted Hughes addressed to his children, he writes of “a kind of hyena” tearing at the body of his dead wife, Sylvia Plath. In “Amy,” a shattering biographical portrait of the British singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse, you catch sight of some other hyenas every time the paparazzi go in for the kill. The photographers shove their cameras toward her haunted face, ripping at her with each new shot. Some of those images show up in “Amy,” which traces the arc of her short, messy life from smoky-voiced jazz singer to global pop sensation to her death in 2011, at 27, from alcohol poisoning. This material makes for uneasy viewing, as do some of her agonizing self-portraits. The director, Asif Kapadia, doesn’t directly answer whether the public wanted to see Winehouse hit bottom or were instead
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Amy Winehouse in “Amy.” force-fed her downfall, though this question haunts the movie. What’s startling now is to realize that we were all watching her die. We still are, though there’s a great deal more to this documentary than sad spectacle. Kapadia opens that story when Winehouse
is around 14 and goofing around on video in a house with some pals. They were girls from suburban London, and come across as ordinary teenagers until Amy opens the throttle on “Happy Birthday,” the words pouring out in a low, rich quaver. The voice is already there. Kapadia keeps his eyes — and yours — on Winehouse throughout. Shrewdly, he has pieced together the visuals exclusively from archival images, tapping into a trove of home videos, concert material, publicity interviews and recording sessions. This makes “Amy” an intensely intimate experience, which is delightful as you’re getting to know her early on. As this movie reminds you again and again, the commercial entity known as Amy Winehouse was also a human being, and it’s this person, this Amy, whom you get to know. MANOHLA DARGIS
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hen I first slid the disc into the DVD player, I couldn’t help but tell myself, “I know that Paul Walker died, but that will in no way affect the way I feel about this movie.” Within the first 10 to 15 minutes of the film that idea was thrown out the window. Considering, of course, that Paul Walker is deceased, I couldn’t wait to learn how this monumental character within the Fast & Furious storyline is “undone,” so to speak. I wouldn’t consider myself a die-hard fan of the movies, but I have watched each and every one of them … when they came out on DVD. The story picks up where Fast & Furious 6 left off, before going into detail of how Fast & Furious 6 ended, and other secrets within the Fast and Furious franchise, I’ll warn you now, just this once, SPOILER ALERT … I’ll give you a second to stop reading … ok, here we go. The plot unfolds as Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham) seeks revenge on Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew for
thwarting Owen Shaw’s (the younger brother of Deckard Shaw) plans by killing off members of his crew. Deckard Shaw is some secret-squirrel-black-ops-agent-gone-rogue who teams up with some big time terrorist as a mercenary. This plants Toretto and his crew smack-dab in the middle of some secret undercover U.S. government operation to get hold of a device called, “God’s Eye,” which can hack into any visual and audio device to track down anyone, anywhere in the world. According to the movie, this device would have tracked down Osama Bin Laden in a matter of hours. Needless to say, they make this device seem like the sonar device on Batman: The Dark Knight but utilizing street cams, audio receivers and even mobile cameras to pinpoint the person being hunted. Toretto’s quest to find Shaw and the government’s search to find God’s Eye makes for strange bed fellows as Toretto teams up with the Feds. Toretto and his crew are pitted in a race against time in an effort to help out the government.
Sounds like a solid plot idea, right? Well, when you first view the movie, you are shown an overly excessive amount of, how should I word this, behinds? And I mean a whole lot of them. It was not something I’d likely feel comfortable watching right next to my mother (primarily because she is a sweet lady). According to IMDb, this movie cost an estimated $109 million to make. And boy does it show. If you’ve ever watched any of the previous Fast & Furious movies and thought, “I want more special effects, more expensive gimmicks, more car chases, more fights and a whole lot more butts,” then you’re in for a treat. This installment of Fast and Furious has it all. Researching the movie further, I found that, following Paul Walker’s death, filmmakers used Walker’s brother and CGI to film scenes including the character Brian O’ Connor. I thought it was pretty impressive considering I couldn’t really make them out (until the end, which I’ll keep to myself). There were a few “give me a break, that’s not possible,” moments within the movie, which I personally said out loud while watching. In the world of Fast & Furious, I believe that the laws of physics do not apply. Audience members generally give it a pass, more or less, because of entertainment value over real life applications of gravity and science. There are quite a few cheesy lines, mostly said by Hobbs (played by the one and only Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson), but I feel within the Fast & Furious universe he was given the role of “muscle head” and
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simply played the role as necessary. Case and point: Hobbs was injured in the film and bed ridden with a cast due to a broken arm. When it came time for him to “get to work” and help Toretto and his crew, he literally broke the cast off his left arm by flexing. Not making this up, folks. Although I personally wouldn’t want to tango with The Rock, I know that that is just a tad over the top. It was unnecessary for me, but maybe not for the ladies. After all, we did see copious amounts of scantily clad women throughout the film; I guess we can throw one bulging bicep shot in. Reviewing this movie, I am reminded of a handful of underground street racers that were all about fast cars and street credit. When Fast & Furious came out it sparked a huge movement of illegal street racing, illegal car mods, and even under glow lighting fixtures for cars. This movie franchise has drifted so far from where it began. Now including bank heists, murder and undercover off-the-grid government operations, Fast and Furious has accelerated into a lot more than street racing. As a matter of fact, there is zero street racing within the movie. But perhaps Fast & Furious 7 is more than fast cars and government lapdog work. I feel as though I grew up with this crew, almost as if I was a part of it in some way. I feel we’ve distanced from stories of street racing to bonding with the team as a family. Even at the end of the movie, I couldn’t help but feel like I lost a close friend of mine in Paul Walker. It’s like Toretto says in the movie, “Salute mi familia. You’ll always be with me.”
GIVING BRIAN O’CONNER A PROPER SEND-OFF Production on the film was halted on December 1, 2013 following the ironic death of Paul Walker, who was killed in a car crash on November 30, 2013. Shooting had been underway in Atlanta and the film was scheduled to be released on July 11, 2014. Director James Wan and Universal executives held a conference call to determine how to proceed with the production in a manner respectful to Walker’s memory. Walker was nearly halfway through filming at the time of his death. Although there was some consideration about scrapping the film altogether, the film eventually resumed productions following rewrites to address Walker’s absence and give his character a proper send-off. via (IMDB.com)
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PORT KHALIFA, Abu Dhabi (June 30, 2015) - Sailors stand lookout on the starboard bridge wing as the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) enters Port Khalifa, Abu Dhabi. 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)
ARABIAN GULF (June 29, 2015) - Sailors receive stores at midships aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) during an underway replenishment with the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8). 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)
ARABIAN GULF (June 30, 2015) – Line handlers aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) stand by as the ship pulls alongside the Military Sealift Command dry cargo ship USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) to conduct an underway replenishment. Forrest Sherman 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 Anthony N. Hilkowski/Released)
ARABIAN GULF (June 29, 2015) - Sailors stand in ranks on the aft missile deck as the guidedmissile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) prepares to pull alongside the Military Sealift Command fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) for an underway replenishment. 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)
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