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The commissioner of NYC's Office of Emergency Management apologized and said he will remain in his post until the city finds his replacement. Melissa Russo reports. |
A city official who was fired over his agency's response to a snowstorm that wreaked havoc on commutes last month says he will continue working until the city finds his replacement. |
Joseph Esposito, the commissioner of New York City’s Office of Emergency Management, was reportedly fired by Deputy Mayor Laura Anglin on Friday after he refused to resign. |
It was initially unclear whether Mayor Bill de Blasio had approved the firing, as Esposito showed up to work on Monday. In a statement issued late Monday night however, the mayor confirmed that the city would “conduct a national search for [Esposito’s] successor,” noting Esposito would remain in his post during the sea... |
Esposito said he was 'committed to serving as Commissioner until a new person is appointed to the role to ensure a smooth transition and consistent leadership.' Checkey Beckford reports. |
“It has been a great privilege to lead this agency for the past four and a half years, and together we have created an emergency management organization that is a model for other cities in this country and beyond,” he said. |
“I look forward to continuing to work on behalf of the residents of this great city, and I expect that we all will continue to work tirelessly to serve New York City and the millions of people who live, work and visit every year,” he added. |
Esposito spent more than four decades at the NYPD before he became OEM commissioner in 2014. |
News of his termination came less than a month after the Nov. 15 snowstorm that paralyzed the city and prompted some to call for de Blasio’s resignation. |
Several City Council members voiced their support for Esposito after the news broke. |
Controversy continues to swirl around the surprise ouster of NYC emergency management commissioner Joe Esposito over the handling of the November snowstorm. Melissa Russo reports. |
MILWAUKEE — Brent Suter used his bat and left arm to beat the Philadelphia Phillies. |
Suter drove in two runs and pitched a career-high seven innings, Christian Yelich, Hernan Perez and Jesus Aguilar homered and the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers beat Jake Arrieta and the Phillies 13-2 on Friday night. |
Suter (7-4) allowed one run on six hits to win his fifth start in the last six, including a 12-3 victory over the Phillies six days ago. The lanky left-hander tossed a career-high 105 pitches and pushed the Brewers to 43-27, the best record in the NL. |
Suter went 2 for 2, scored twice and got hit by a pitch in his 16th appearance and 13th start. The team originally thought Suter might start the season in the bullpen, but that’s not been the case lately. |
Milwaukee has scored 40 runs against the Phillies in four games, including 27 in three at Citizens Bank Park. Philadelphia has 13 in that span. |
Arrieta (5-5) came in 3-0 with a 2.03 ERA in five career starts at Miller Park, but the Brewers snapped that streak by reaching him for eight runs — four earned — on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out one. |
Arrieta put the blame on his shoulders, ignoring the season high-tying four errors. |
Philadelphia also had four errors on March 31 at Atlanta. |
Suter got hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the second. Shortstop Scott Kingery misplayed Lorenzo Cain‘s liner for two more runs. Aguilar added a sacrifice fly and Cain scored on a wild pitch. |
The Brewers chased Arrieta in the fourth, keeping him winless in three starts in June. |
Suter reached on a fielding error by left fielder Rhys Hoskins and scored on Cain’s double. Yelich hit the first pitch for his ninth home run of the season. |
Perez started the sixth by homering off reliever Mark Leiter Jr. Suter sliced an opposite-field base hit for his second RBI in the game. |
Cesar Hernandez went 3 for 3 with an RBI double in the sixth. Odubel Herrera hit a solo homer in the ninth. |
Phillies: RHP Pat Neshek (right shoulder strain) threw and ran some sprints in preparation for throwing a bullpen session on Sunday. RHP Jerad Eickhoff (right lat strain) threw Friday and should throw another bullpen on Tuesday. |
Brewers: 2B Jonathan Villar missed his second consecutive game with a calf injury. He left Tuesday’s 4-0 win over the Chicago Cubs after legging out an infield single in the eighth inning. |
Kapler believes in Kingery, despite his costly error. |
Kingery has six errors in 63 games so far this season. |
“Right now, we feel like Scottie is developing very well and becoming a much better shortstop,” Kapler said. |
The Brewers are the first team to score at least 12 runs three times in a season against the Phillies since the 1968 Cincinnati Reds. |
Philadelphia infielder Jesmuel Valentin pitched the eighth and surrendered Aguilar’s two-run homer and Manny Pina‘ run-scoring grounder. It was his first pitching appearance and second of the season for the Phillies, who used Pedro Florimon on May 18 at St. Louis. |
Phillies: RHP Zach Eflin (3-2, 3.63 ERA) makes his second consecutive start against the Brewers. He beat them 4-3 on June 10, allowing two runs on three hits in six innings and matching his season high with nine strikeouts. |
Brewers: RHP Junior Guerra (3-4, 2.71 ERA) makes his 13th start and first against the Phillies this season. He is 0-1 with a 7.20 ERA in two career starts against Philadelphia at Citizens Bank park. |
On Thursday a new jewel of a museum is to be celebrated in an elegant 19th-century mansion here. The great and the good of the city are expected to attend: political heavyweights, actresses such as Catherine Deneuve and Charlotte Gainsbourg, designers like Alber Elbaz and Anthony Vaccarello, creative director at Yves S... |
But the man whose dream it was will not be there. |
Pierre Bergé, a former chief executive of Yves Saint Laurent, died Sept. 8 at the age of 86. This fall his last monumental projects are finally coming to fruition: the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, which opens to the public next week in the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation building, and the Musée Yves Saint... |
Both are a tribute to Yves Saint Laurent, the man whose designs changed the way women dress, and to the cities and cultures that inspired him. And both were more than a decade in the making. |
The museums — which will have rotating exhibitions of Mr. Saint Laurent’s couture, including such memorable pieces as the 1965 Mondrian dresses, Cossack-style brocade coats from the 1976 Ballets Russes collection, and the 1988 van Gogh “Sunflowers” jacket — embody “the yin and the yang” of Mr. Saint Laurent’s life, the... |
The plan for the pair of institutions was born in Paris after Mr. Bergé and Mr. Saint Laurent sold the Rive Gauche ready-to-wear brand to Gucci Group (now Kering) in 1999. In the billion-dollar deal, Mr. Bergé and Mr. Saint Laurent retained control of the haute couture division and the company’s headquarters at 5 Avenu... |
Following Mr. Saint Laurent’s retirement in 2002, they bought the building and transformed it into the foundation headquarters, with about 2,200 square feet of galleries on the ground level for temporary exhibits. Mr. Saint Laurent and Mr. Bergé maintained their longtime offices on the second floor, while a climate-con... |
They opened the galleries to the public in 2004, offering three or four exhibitions each year, from ruminations on Mr. Saint Laurent’s designs to celebrations of the art and literature he loved, like the work of David Hockney and Marcel Proust. |
After Mr. Saint Laurent died in 2008 at 71, Mr. Bergé oversaw the foundation on his own and realized the shows that revolved around Mr. Saint Laurent’s clothes were by far the most popular. |
Two years ago, Mr. Cox said, “an idea started to germinate to transform the temporary spaces into a semipermanent exhibition on Saint Laurent. There is great interest in Saint Laurent’s work today, by both those who grew up with him, and the younger generation who know the brand but not his designs. |
“Pierre understood that we needed to create a context where Saint Laurent’s work could be viewed,” he said. |
Mr. Bergé asked an old friend, the interior designer Jacques Grange, who had decorated the couture house in the 1980s as well as several of Mr. Saint Laurent and Mr. Bergé’s homes, to rework the Avenue Marceau floor plan once again. This time, he was to include Mr. Saint Laurent’s studio, which had remained untouched, ... |
Mr. Grange’s original opulent décor in the foyer and adjoining round antechamber included a moss-green moiré printed carpet, plush emerald velvet curtains, crystal-laden lighting and ample amounts of gold leaf. “Yves called me back then, and said, ‘You know what I want, Jacques: mirrors and chandeliers,’ ” like in “Bea... |
He has refreshed the décor in those areas, and now the salon will be the initial point for the museum tour, hung with large-format black-and-white photographs of Mr. Saint Laurent by Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier and Jeanloup Sieff, and displaying a short video on Mr. Saint Laurent’s career. |
In the former grand reception room, where clients such as Ms. Deneuve and the socialite Nan Kempner would take tea while selecting their made-to-measure wardrobes, Mr. Bergé had Mr. Grange partner with the renowned exhibition-set designer Nathalie Crinière to create new galleries. |
Mr. Bergé came upon Ms. Crinière’s work when she designed the 2003 Cocteau exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Since then she has orchestrated several Saint Laurent shows — at the foundation, at the Petit Palais in Paris in 2010 and, most recently, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va. — as well ... |
Where Mr. Grange’s décor is rich and baroque, Ms. Crinière’s is stark and modern, with matte black staging to set off the vibrant colors, pure lines and complex textures of Mr. Saint Laurent’s creations. |
The main ground-floor gallery will feature exhibitions on specific collections, beginning with Mr. Saint Laurent’s 1962 debut. |
Upstairs, another gallery will focus on themes. The first is Mr. Saint Laurent’s design dialogue with art: kaleidoscopic ensembles inspired by van Gogh, Matisse, Mondrian and Picasso will encircle Picasso’s 1914 Cubist tableau, “Instruments de Musique Sur un Guéridon,” which used to hang in the living room of Mr. Saint... |
Tours will conclude with a walk through Mr. Saint Laurent’s studio, the quiet sanctum where he conducted fittings with his team. His desk, a piece of plywood wrapped with muslin and set on sawhorses, is still strewn with his precious bibelots and talismans, including the walking stick of his mentor, Christian Dior. |
As the Paris museum was taking form, a property came up for sale in Marrakesh that Mr. Cox said was “about 50 yards away” from the Jardin Majorelle, a 12-acre botanical feast for the senses purchased by Mr. Saint Laurent and Mr. Bergé in 1980 and managed by Mr. Cox. Mr. Bergé bought the parcel and hired the Paris-based... |
It will be a “quite modest” affair, Mr. Cox said (all things being relative), with an exhibition space dedicated Mr. Saint Laurent’s designs — especially those “concentrating on African themes,” he said — and a hall for smaller temporary shows. Its research center will house 6,000 books, most coming from Mr. Saint Laur... |
In early 1942, when Japan seized the Dutch East Indies, a boy named Harri Widodo lost his leg and found his vision. |
A Japanese artillery shell killed his family and injured him, leaving him with a realization: "I was the only one who lived, so I thought I was special." After a period of fasting and meditation, "suddenly I knew everything." |
Today Mr. Widodo is a spiritual adviser and interpreter of this culture's mystical undercurrents. It is as if, he says, an inner, private television conveys information about the unseen world. |
Last July Indonesia entered a dark period, Widodo says, of which this country's huge economic problems are but one manifestation. The only way to stop the turmoil, he adds, is for President Suharto to step down. |
Indonesia, particularly the main island of Java, is described as a mystical place, a territory of sacred daggers and unseen forces. Mingled with the imported religions are beliefs that give many Indonesians an alternative way of comprehending reality. |
Mr. Suharto, who has run this nation for 32 years, is a master of using Java's culture and mysticism to solidify power. Now this dynamic may be working against him. |
In addition to the complex economic and political problems facing this country, many Indonesians say, he is facing the erosion of his mystical mandate to rule. |
For a king to claim divine authority is truly the original spin, but this political device still carries weight in Asia. Thailand's king is venerated as a god and even the communist leadership in Beijing benefits from the "mandate from Heaven" long claimed by Chinese emperors. |
Since at least the early 17th century, the kings of Java, the home of half of Indonesia's 200 million people and the source of its political culture, have cited wahyu, or divine light, as evidence of their right to rule. Suharto has never proclaimed that he is a Javanese king nor has he publicly basked in his wahyu, bu... |
"Most people think he lost this wahyu when his wife died" two years ago, says Daniel Sparringa, a sociologist at Airlingga University in Surabaya, the major city of eastern Java. |
Mr. Sparringa could be classed as an opponent of Suharto, since he has helped student organizers who are calling for the president to step down, but he voices a view held by many Indonesians. |
Paul Stange, an American expert on Indonesian cultural history who teaches at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was in the country when Suharto's wife, Tien, passed on. "I was immediately struck by how people were interpreting her death as being a statement of the end of his power," he recalls. |
In true Javanese fashion, this idea has been converted to humor. |
One story imagines Suharto and the two eldest of his six children sitting down to break the Muslim fast of Ramadan this February. "Well, Father," one of the children says, "after 32 years, don't you think its time to consider stepping back and spending more time with your grandchildren?" |
"What do you mean?" Suharto replies. "I've only been in charge for two years - the rest was your mother." |
Whether or not Mrs. Suharto took the wahyu with her is open to interpretation, but her passing meant the end of an aristocratic sheen for the president, since she was descended from a Javanese royal family. Widodo was one of the late first lady's spiritual advisers and says the president's power resided in her. "She wa... |
The president is a skilled "supernaturalist" in his own right, he adds, but is clinging to power even though he knows he should leave office. Indonesia's troubles - among them a collapsed economy, two years of drought and forest fires, and the occasional earthquake and plane crash - are said to be signs of disordered u... |
Wahyu is one of the many elements of Javanese culture that underlie the religious life of the island's modern-day inhabitants. |
It is common for Javanese to see certain mountains, talismans, and puppet performances as sacred, even though the vast majority describe themselves as Muslims and pray to Allah. |
Javanese mysticism, says Mr. Stange, offers a means for believers to strive for a sense of union with the divine. Many Javanese venerate objects, places, and ancestral spirits, but Stange says believers see a single entity "beyond all the forms." |
This mystical tradition may predate Java's many infusers of foreign religion - including Hindu traders from India, Muslim merchants from the Middle East, and Buddhist and Christian missionaries - but it has certainly absorbed elements from them. Javanese shadow puppetry generally tells tales from Hindu epics, but their... |
A good example is Hadisukismo, a seer who lives in a village in central Java, near the cultural capital of Yogyakarta. He credits "Dragon King," his kris or sacred dagger, with spiritual power that has brought success to him and his children, one of whom is a district official. |
And where Widodo says an inner television imparts spiritual information, Mr. Hadisukismo reports that some rocks in his garden serve as a "telephone" that allows periodic communication with "Allah." He has made the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia and uses a stamp obtained there when he signs documents. |
His assessment of Suharto's wahyu, however, runs counter to what seems to be the prevailing view. "It's still strong," he says, explaining that Indonesia's leader bathes in water from a sacred lake to stay spiritually fit. |
Some observers, however, question whether Suharto's rituals are indeed matters of faith. "Suharto doesn't believe in that," says one Jakarta lawyer and opposition leader who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He does it to get attention." |
The lawyer argues that Suharto has shrewdly performed his duties as a Muslim for political gain and suggests that signing a letter of intent with the International Monetary Fund was more of a ritual performance than a true commitment to reform. |
At the same time, accounts circulate about steps Suharto has taken to shore up his mystical strength. |
Aristides Katoppo is a journalist and author from the island of Sulawesi who manifests a certain skepticism for Javanese mysticism. Asked how much it really matters, he smiles and raises his eyebrows. "In a way, quite a bit," he says. |
By way of explanation, he tells a long story about Suharto asking an associate to arrange for the performance of a ceremony and shadow puppet play that would reattach the nail or pin that is said to secure the island of Java to the earth. "I was told the president's seer had told him the anchor of Java had come unstuck... |
The associate dutifully commissioned the ritual and the puppet performance, known as a wayang, but the depth of his loyalty was ambiguous. It seems the wayang was open to interpretation - and Katoppo suggests one meaning was to underscore the popular frustration in Indonesia. |
Since the ritual was performed a year ago, things in this country have only worsened and the level of frustration has risen. "I'm a rationalist," Katoppo says. "But those are facts." |
Indonesia elections: Where did Widodo's 30-point lead go? |
Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.14 percent to 15,567.80 while the NASDAQ dropped 0.32 percent to 3,588.91. The S&P also fell, declining 0.12 percent to 1,693.52. |
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co (NYSE: DD) reported a drop in its second-quarter net income. |
DuPont's quarterly net profit fell to $1.03 billion, or $1.11 per share, from $1.17 billion, or $1.23 per share, in the year-earlier quarter. Its adjusted operating earnings came in at $1.28 per share. |
Its revenue declined to $10 billion from $10.21 billion. However, analysts were projecting earnings of $1.27 per share on revenue of $10.04 billion. |
Sourcefire (NASDAQ: FIRE) shot up 27.74 percent to $75.47 after Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) announced its plans to acquire the company for $2.7 billion. |
Shares of CapitalSource (NYSE: CSE) got a boost, shooting up 20.24 percent to $11.82 after the bank agreed to be bought by PacWest Bancorp (NASDAQ: PACW) for $2.29 billion in cash. |
The Wendy's Company (NYSE: WEN) was also up, gaining 12.57 percent to $7.52 after the company posted a profit in the second quarter. |
Shares of STMicroelectronics NV (NYSE: STM) were down 9.50 percent to $8.86 after the company posted a Q2 loss. |
Penn National Gaming (NASDAQ: PENN) was down, falling 7.30 percent to $50.04 on Q2 results. |
Waters (NYSE: WAT) shares tumbled 5.82 percent to $99.27 after the company reported downbeat Q2 results. |
In commodity news, oil traded down 0.01 percent to $106.93, while gold traded down 0.24 percent to $1,334.10. |
Silver traded down 1.12 percent Tuesday to $20.28, while copper rose 0.22 percent to $3.19. |
European shares were mostly lower. The Spanish Ibex Index rose 1.41 percent and the Italian FTSE MIB Index dropped 0.05 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX fell 0.22 percent and the French CAC 40 declined 0.43 percent while U.K. shares tumbled 0.14 percent. |
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