ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
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SNOOPIE AWAY THE SNOOPIE TEAM, AWAY!
YOUR THOUGHTS ON ... art therapy
August 18, 2015
Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Jordan Austin, from Renton, Washington, reinforces the wing flap of a F/A-18E Super Hornet in the hangar bay during TR’s Teddy Challenge, Aug. 16. (U.S. Navy photo by MC3 Jennifer Case)
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SHIP’S NAUTICAL OR OTHERWISE PHOTOGRAPHIC AND INTERPRETIVE EXAMINATION by MC3 Anna Van Nuys
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way the SNOOPIE team, away!” Suddenly, a group of Sailors bolt through the passageways and clatter up ladderwells on their way to the top the ship’s island, known as vulture’s row. The Ship’s Nautical or Otherwise Photographic and Interpretive Examination (SNOOPIE) team aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is composed of intelligence specialists (IS), mass communication specialists (MC), and a yeoman (YN) who are responsible for photographing, videotaping and recording on paper the actions of unidentified contacts within visual range. “SNOOPIE team will be called away for anything from an unidentified ship or aircraft, or just something of interest,” said Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Michael Dorobiala, a member of the visual information (VI) cell, which is part of the SNOOPIE team. “Obviously the TAO [tactical action officer] has a lot of situational awareness in [the Combat Directional Center (CDC)], but all he is seeing in there is a radar track on a screen.” The team is composed of a team leader, recorder, photographer, videographer and photography team leader. Operating from vulture’s row, these Sailors collect imagery to help the TAO and intelligence officer (IO) paint the entire tactical picture. “Once we all get up there we have to let the IO know that the team is manned and ready, and if we have visual of the contact or not,” said Yeoman 2nd Class Robert Fields, the team leader for SNOOPIE. “At that point, I direct the ISs to write down their script.” While the recorder logs the available data and writes a script, the photographer and videographer set up their gear and ready themselves to document the contact. “Every time a contact is called away, our job is
to get as much imagery out of the contact as we can,” said Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian Flood, one of the photography leads. “Whether it’s something that’s known, or something that’s not known, the photos we take are used for later analysis. So they want us to get as many angles of the contact as we can. We need to gather any imagery of its actions and the manner in which it’s interacting with us.” SNOOPIE team imagery can be used to identify weaponry, if the weaponry is manned or unmanned, and radars and antennas along with any other activity that is in view topside, said Flood. Since TR arrived in the Arabian Gulf, the team has seen a wide range of vessels, said Flood. He stressed the importance of accurate photography so new imagery can be compared to old photographs. “All those [ships] can come up with new equipment at any time,” said Flood. “You can see the new technology of [the contacts]; see what their capabilities are. It’s important to know those capabilities because it defends our ship.” On top of the images and video, the team provides basic information such as the number of contacts to even the temperature and wind speeds in the region. Whether one contact is called away or five, Flood believes that every member of the team works hard to get where they need to be and is exceptionally well trained in what is expected of them. “I think everyone both the ISs and the MCs do a fantastic job doing what they need to do to get this imagery and information,” said Flood. “We have less than five minutes to get up twelve flights of stairs, get their gear ready, and get on station and start shooting. The fact that everybody does this efficiently, quickly and to the best of their ability every time - it’s fantastic. It’s an amazing thing to see.”
YOUR THOUGHTS Art has always been my way of expressing myself, and it’s one of the many things that I’m actually good at so I like to come out here and draw and show people that I actually have a talent. I didn’t know it was out here until a friend of mine came up and was like, “Yo, you love to draw, you should come out!” So I thought it was really cool, I’ll definitely be coming out more. ABHAN WAGNER
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I’m here to have a good time: color, relax, chill. It’s actually pretty cool. OS3 Christopher Lee
To be honest I wasn’t planning on coming. But my friends and I were just sitting out here and I was like, “Oh, this is so cute!” I have a daughter at home, she’s five-years-old. So I thought, I should draw a picture so I can send it home. This is really fun and relaxing and I’m having a great time.
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Blessings to all our fine men and women serving on the Big Stick.
Linda Lesemann August 16
Stay strong, stay safe! Our thoughts are with you.
MM2 ASHLEY COLBERT Frances Sullivan August 16 Gotta be proud of the people serving in our military. A 9 month deployment on a ship or deployment anywhere is admirable. Always in harm’s way. Stay safe!
I love to color. I have coloring books up in my office, but I really love the painting. Out here we really don’t have the option to do that much. When I’m at home I’ve very artsy and I color all the time but I love the opportunity to be able to paint. I’m definitely coming out again. AO3 DANIELLE YEARIAN
JoAnne Burgi Fogg August 16
Go Big Stick Get Er Done, Peace to her & Crew
David Morris August 15 My daughter is on the THE BIG STICK!!! Love my sailor and all her comrades!!!! Randy Grimes August 12
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New Questions on Racial Gap on Juries CHINA IS WARNED OVER ITS AGENTS ON AMERICAN SOIL
SHREVEPORT, La. — Here are some reasons prosecutors have offered for excluding blacks from juries: They were young or old, single or divorced, religious or not, failed to make eye contact, lived in a poor part of town, had served in the military, had a hyphenated last name, displayed bad posture, were sullen, disrespectful or talkative, had long hair, wore a beard. The prosecutors had all used peremptory challenges, which generally allow lawyers to dismiss potential jurors without offering an explanation. But the Supreme Court makes an exception: If lawyers are accused of racial discrimination in picking jurors, they must offer a neutral justification. “Stupid reasons are O.K.,” said Shari S. Diamond, an expert on juries at Northwestern University School of Law. Ones offered in bad faith are not. In Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, where Shreveport is the parish seat, a study to be released Monday has found that prosecutors used peremptory challenges
three times as often to strike black potential jurors as others during the last decade. That is consistent with patterns researchers found earlier in Alabama, Louisiana and North Carolina, where prosecutors struck black jurors at double or triple the rates of others. In Georgia, prosecutors excluded every black prospective juror in a death penalty case against a black defendant, which the Supreme Court has agreed to review this fall. “If you repeatedly see all-white juries convict African-Americans, what does that do to public confidence in the criminal justice system?” asked Elisabeth A. Semel, the director of the death penalty clinic at the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. As police shootings of unarmed black men across the country have spurred distrust of law enforcement by many African-Americans, the new findings on jury selection bring fresh attention to a question that has
long haunted the American justice system: Are criminal juries warped by racism and bias? Some legal experts said they hoped the Supreme Court would use the Georgia case to tighten the standards for peremptory challenges, which have existed for centuries and were, until a 1986 decision, Batson v. Kentucky, considered completely discretionary. (Judges can also dismiss potential jurors for cause, but that requires a determination that they are unfit to serve.) Many prosecutors and defense lawyers said peremptory strikes allow them to use instinct and strategy to shape unbiased and receptive juries, but excluding black jurors at a disproportionate rate does more than hurt defendants’ prospects and undermine public confidence, said Ursula Noye, a researcher who compiled the data for the report. “Next to voting,” she said, “participating in a jury is perhaps the most important civil right.” ADAM LIPTAK
JULIAN BOND, 1940-2015
Magnetic Leader of the Civil Rights Movement Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a champion of equal rights, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He was 75. The Southern Poverty Law Center announced Bond’s death on Sunday. His wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz, said the cause was complications of vascular disease. Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was the committee’s communications director for five years and deftly guided the national news media toward stories of violence and discrimination as the committee challenged legal segregation in the South’s public facilities. He gradually moved from the militancy of the student group to
the leadership of the establishmentarian N . A . A . C . P. Along the way, Bond was a writer, poet, television commentator, Julian Bond lecturer and college teacher, and opponent of the stubborn remnants of white supremacy. He also served for 20 years in the Georgia General Assembly. Bond’s wit, cool personality and youthful face — he was called dashing and handsome — became familiar to millions of television viewers in the 1960s and 1970s. On the strength of his personality and quick intellect, he moved to the center of the civil rights action in Atlanta, the unofficial capital of the movement, at the height of the struggle for racial equality in the early 1960s.
Moving beyond demonstrations, Bond became a founder, with Morris Dees, of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization in Montgomery, Ala. Bond was its president from 1971 to 1979 and remained on its board for the rest of his life. He was nominated, only somewhat seriously, as a candidate for vice president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He declined to pursue a serious candidacy because he was too young to meet the constitutional age requirement, but from that moment on he was a national figure. In a statement on Sunday, President Obama called Bond “a hero and, I’m privileged to say, a friend.” “Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life,” Obama said. “Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.” ROY REED
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has delivered a warning to Beijing about the presence of Chinese government agents operating secretly in the United States to pressure prominent expatriates — some wanted on charges of corruption — to return home immediately, according to American officials. The officials said that Chinese law enforcement agents covertly in this country are part of Beijing’s global campaign to hunt down and repatriate Chinese fugitives and, in some cases, recover allegedly ill-gotten gains. The Chinese government has officially named the effort Operation Fox Hunt. The American warning, which was delivered to Chinese officials recently and demanded a halt to the activities, reflects escalating anger in Washington about intimidation tactics used by the agents. And it comes at a time of growing tension between Washington and Beijing on a number of issues: from the computer theft of millions of government personnel files that American officials suspect was directed by China, to China’s crackdown on civil liberties, to the devaluation of its currency. Those tensions are expected to complicate the state visit to Washington next month by Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. The work of the Chinese agents is a departure from the routine practice of secret government intelligence gathering that the United States and China have carried out on each other’s soil for decades. Liu Dong, a director of Operation Fox Hunt, has said Chinese agents must comply with local laws abroad and that they depend on cooperation with the police in other countries, according to a news report last year. But in a telling admission, he added, “Our principle is thus: Whether or not there is an agreement in place, as long as there is information that there is a criminal suspect, we will chase them over there, we will take our work to them, anywhere.” MARK MAZZETTI and DAN LEVIN
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U.S. to Remove For Migrants, a Relatively Easy Path to Greece Turkey — As darkPatriot Missiles nessBODRUM, falls and the last of the shoreLaith Majid front cafes in Bodrum clear their from Syria, From Turkey tables for the night, dozens of miholding his WASHINGTON — The United States said on Sunday that it would withdraw two Patriot missile-defense batteries from southern Turkey this fall, a sign that the Pentagon believes the risk of Syrian Army missile attacks has eased since the Patriots were deployed in 2013. Officials said the antimissile systems would be needed elsewhere to defend against threats from Iran and North Korea. A statement issued by the United States Embassy in Ankara from the American and Turkish governments said the Patriots would be sent back to the United States for “critical modernization upgrades.” If needed in a crisis, the batteries and their 250 troops could be rushed back to Turkey “within one week” to fulfill an American and NATO commitment to Turkey’s air defenses. Air defenses aboard American warships in the region also could help carry out the security mission over Turkey, the statement said. What the statement did not mention was a far more complicated story behind the Patriot decision, which for a brief time last month seemed poised to dash months of painstaking, delicate talks with Turkey about allowing American armed drones and fighter jets to fly combat missions against the Islamic State from Incirlik Air Base and other Turkish installations. American diplomats and other senior officials were so concerned that they delayed notifying Turkey of the impending Patriot pullout until after President Obama and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey reached agreement on the bases and other antiterrorism steps in a phone call on July 22, senior American officials said Sunday. “Before there was a deal, any announcement that could be perceived as the U.S. diminishing its commitment to Turkey would have sent the wrong signal,” said Derek Chollet, a former assistant secretary of defense who is now a senior adviser for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund. ERIC SCHMITT
grants pour out of a waiting bus. In the gloam, they charge for the sea, dragging a large rubber dinghy. Their smugglers point them toward the flashing lighthouse on the Greek island of Kos, as little as 25 minutes away in a good boat. In their flimsy inflatables, they usually reach there by dawn, puncture their dinghies so no one can force them back, then walk into town. Viewed from either side, the passage, while risky, is remarkably organized and unfettered. Compared with other routes for migrants crossing the Mediterranean, where more than 2,000 people have died this year, it is a relatively first-class ride. So easy and efficient is it, in fact, that in July the route was used by more than 7,000 refugees — most fleeing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. At least 2,000 crossed last week alone. The human tide has overwhelmed the island of Kos, leading its mayor, George Kiritsis, to predict that if he does not get help from Athens, “blood will be shed.” Already, for those who have made the journey, seeking safety, opportunity and a new life, the wel-
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come has been less than hoped for. “In Istanbul, they let us use the toilets for free,” said Ayman Almotlak, 31, a Syrian who teaches Arabic and made the crossing to Kos, speaking of the local merchants. “Here not. Why do the Greeks hate us?” His traveling companion, a veterinarian, Nour Hamad, 31, was similarly disillusioned. “They throw bottles at us, sometimes glasses,” he said. Part of the reason is the sheer magnitude of the wave of migrants and refugees, which the Greek government has said is too much for such a crisis-ridden country to handle. Doctors Without Borders complained that the Greek authori-
son and daughter, cried for joy after arriving in Kos, Greece, from nearby Bodrum, Turkey.
ties were “abusing” the refugees by, at one point last week, forcing them into a stadium where they remained without proper hygiene, food or water. For many of the refugees, Greece is seen as a steppingstone to Western Europe. Although Turkey is hosting nearly two million Syrian refugees many Syrians say that they do not see a future there even as the Syrian civil war grinds on. “A year ago people were still hopeful that the war might end, but now, with no end in sight, people want to leave and build a new life,” said Bashar, 32, a Syrian refugee in Bodrum, who did not want to give his last name. CEYLAN YEGINSU and ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
In Brief Brazilians Vent Ire at Leader Tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets of cities across Brazil on Sunday to express their ire against President Dilma Rousseff, reflecting a low ebb for her as she grapples with a colossal bribery scandal and a declining economy. Still, the protests in some cities appeared to lack some of the urgency of huge demonstrations earlier this year calling for the ouster of Rousseff, a leftist who won re-election just 10 months ago, suggesting tension may be easing somewhat on the president as congressional and business leaders try to prevent a political crisis from intensifying. A protest in Rio de Janeiro was marked with vitriol, with some urging the president to kill herself or calling on the military to take power. (NYT)
Iraq Premier Reduces His Cabinet Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq ordered his cabinet reduced to just 22 members from 33 on Sunday as part of a major overhaul in response to mass protests against corruption and poor governance. The decision, announced by his office, would eliminate four ministries, including those of human rights and women’s affairs, and consolidate others. The announcement did not mention whether there would be changes to the remaining ministries. The
move follows a far-reaching plan approved by Parliament last week that eliminated Iraq’s three vice presidencies and three deputy prime ministers. The plan also reduced the budget for senior officials’ personal bodyguards. The overhaul cut positions held by a number of prominent Iraqi politicians, including Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, who was prime minister for eight years before being pushed out last August in response to growing outrage over the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, to Islamic State militants. (AP)
Airstrikes Kill Over 80 in Syria Government airstrikes on a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, killed more than 80 people and wounded about 200 on Sunday, according to local activists and monitoring organizations. The attacks came one day after the area’s largest rebel group, the Islam Army, announced a new offensive against government forces in a neighboring suburb. While it was unclear if the two attacks were linked, the government of President Bashar al-Assad has often bombed communities where the insurgents hold sway, killing civilians in an attempt to undermine the rebel cause. Residents said Sunday’s attack struck a crowded market area in the city of Douma, northeast of the capital, leaving streets strewn with rubble and destroyed cars. (NYT)
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Obama Plots His Future in Campaign Mode WASHINGTON — The dinner in the private upstairs dining room of the White House went so late that Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn billionaire, finally suggested around midnight that President Obama might like to go to bed. “Feel free to kick us out,” Hoffman recalled telling the president. But Obama was just getting started. “I’ll kick you out when it’s time,” he replied. He then lingered with his wife, Michelle, and their 13 guests — among them the novelist Toni Morrison, the hedge fund manager Marc Lasry and the Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr — well past 2 a.m. The writer Malcolm Gladwell recalled how the group, which also included the actress Eva Longoria and Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems, tossed out ideas about what Obama should do after he leaves the White House. “Where we’ll end up, I don’t know yet,” said Marty Nesbitt, Obama’s longtime Chicago friend who is leading an extensive plan-
ning effort for Obama’s library and an anticipated global foundation. Publicly, Obama betrays little urgency about his future. Privately, he is preparing for his postpresidency with the same discipline and fund-raising ambition that characterized the 2008 campaign that got him to the White House. The dinner this past February is part of a methodical effort taking place inside and outside the White House as the president, first lady and a cadre of top aides map out a postpresidential infrastructure and endowment they estimate could cost as much as $1 billion. The president’s aides did not ask any of the guests for library contributions after the dinner, but a number of those at the table were potential future donors. The $1 billion — double what George W. Bush raised for his library and its various programs — would be used for what one adviser called a “digital-first” presidential library loaded with modern technologies, and to establish a foun-
dation with a worldwide reach. Supporters have urged Obama to avoid the mistake made by Bill Clinton, whose associates raised just enough money to build his library in Little Rock, Ark., forcing Clinton to pursue high-dollar donors for years to come. Including construction costs, Obama’s associates set a goal of raising at least $800 million — enough money, they say, to avoid never-ending fund-raising. One top adviser said that $800 million was a floor rather than a ceiling. So far, Obama has raised just over $5.4 million. In an interview on the website Tumblr last year, Obama was asked what he expected to be doing in 10 years. “I haven’t projected out 10 years,” he said, offering his standard promise to remain engaged in policy-making until his last days in the Oval Office. “I know what I’ll do right after the next president is inaugurated. I’ll be on a beach somewhere drinking out of a coconut.” MICHAEL D. SHEAR and GARDINER HARRIS
Messes Pile Up for de Blasio in His Second Year Mayor Bill de Blasio was already having a bad week. Then Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called. Cuomo had cast the city as slow-footed in responding to a recent outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx. Fed up, de Blasio’s press secretary, Karen Hinton, issued a sharp retort. “What about the state’s performance?” she said to a reporter. “What has the state been doing to prevent this disease?” Taken aback, the governor quickly called de Blasio. Aides at City Hall issued an unusual clarification: The mayor’s chief spokeswoman, the public face of the administration, had not been
speaking for the mayor. The episode, recounted by several people familiar with the discussion, was an extraordinary public moment of discord, laying bare a host of challenges confronting the de Blasio administration in a messy second year: tension among aides; a perilous, often powerless relationship with Cuomo, a fellow Democrat; and the struggles of de Blasio, a political operative by training, to control the perception of his stewardship. While federal authorities praised the mayor’s handling of the Legionnaires’ outbreak, the response was still questioned by some city Democrats. Frustrated, the mayor
led a marathon weekend meeting with agency leaders, demanding details on their progress. De Blasio forcefully defended his record in an interview on Saturday, citing what he called “fundamental achievements with a very big reach,” including a rare rent freeze on many rent-regulated apartments, progress on affordable housing and his universal prekindergarten program. “We have a government that is very effective, and people all over the city know we are trying to do things for everyday New Yorkers,” de Blasio said. “It is self-evident.” MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and MATT FLEGENHEIMER
Lack of Video Influences Attention Given to White Victim To Zachary Hammond’s supporters, the shooting death of the 19-year-old man was yet another example of questionable police behavior that has roiled communities around the country. In their view, the police in Seneca, S.C., falsely claimed Hammond was shot as he tried to drive his car over the officer who fired on him, when his wounds show he was actually shot from the side and back. They also say the confrontation,
in which officers approached with their guns drawn and screaming profanities, evolved from an absurd sting effort to trap his date into selling a tiny amount of marijuana. Yet the case has not received as much attention as the officer-involved shooting deaths of Walter L. Scott in North Charleston, S.C., or Samuel DuBose, a motorist who was killed in Cincinnati. Like both of those men, Hammond was apparently unarmed.
Unlike them, he was white. And his family’s attorney, Eric Bland, contends that is why most people have never heard of Hammond. But aside from race, there are major differences: Most notably, investigators have refused to release a police dashboard camera video that may show Hammond’s death. Videos of the killings of Scott, DuBose and other African-Americans quickly went viral, galvanizing outrage. (NYT)
In Brief Trump Proposes Immigration Reform After staking his early campaign on caustic and contentious remarks about undocumented immigrants, Donald J. Trump on Sunday outlined his plan to fix the country’s immigration system and deal with people who are in the country illegally. The position paper, published on Trump’s website, centered on three principles. The first called for a wall to be built along the southern border. He also repeated his promise to make Mexico pay for the wall and laid out how he would do it: largely through increasing fees on border movement between the United States and Mexico. The third principle says that “any immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.” (NYT)
Midair Collision Kills 4 Near San Diego Two small planes collided midair while approaching an airport in California’s southern San Diego County on Sunday, killing at least four people and sparking brush fires in a remote field where the wreckage landed, the authorities said. The collision occurred around 11 a.m. about two miles northeast of Brown Field Municipal Airport, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, Ian Gregor, said. The aircraft caught fire when they hit the ground and broke apart, said Nick Schuler, a division chief with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. (AP)
Target of Manhunt Killed in California An 18-day manhunt in the high desert of central California ended when two deputies opened fire on a man who pulled out a handgun during a confrontation, the authorities said Sunday. Benjamin Peter Ashley, 34, was struck by several shots after he failed to comply with orders to drop the weapon as he walked toward foothills east of Bakersfield on Saturday, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said. Ashley, who was suspected of killing a retired dentist and wounding two deputies, may have turned the gun on himself after being shot by the deputies, Youngblood said. (AP)
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Japan’s Economy Slips as Consumers Spend Less TOKYO — Burdened by weaker consumer spending and exports, Japan’s economy contracted in the second quarter, government data showed on Monday, the first such setback since a short but painful recession last year. The Cabinet Office said gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 1.6 percent in the three months through June. Japanese growth rates have fluctuated wildly in recent quarters, and the latest downturn only partially erased gains from a strong expansion in the first quarter, which the government estimates at 4.5 percent. Last year was even more volatile: Consumer spending surged before a sales tax increase in April 2014, lifting the economy to its fastest pace in years, then evaporated afterward, setting off a recession. The size of the contraction in the
quarter through June was roughly in line with the expectations of private-sector economists. In surveys by news agencies, analysts had forecast an annualized contraction of 1.8 percent to 1.9 percent, on average. The slowdown is nonetheless a setback for the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which has been trying to pull the economy out of nearly two decades of deflation through a stimulus program known as Abenomics. The program, under which the central bank injects vast amounts of cash into the economy, has kept borrowing costs low and weakened the yen. It has been a boon for global manufacturing companies like Toyota that earn much of their revenues abroad. While Abenomics has increased profits at big corporations and lifted the stock market, many or-
dinary Japanese say they feel few benefits. Jobs are plentiful — the unemployment rate is just 3.4 percent, close to an 18-year low — but the paychecks that go with them buy less than they used to. Adjusted for inflation and taxes, average wages have been stuck in a persistent decline. Household spending fell at an annualized rate of 3.1 percent in the second quarter, the economic report on Monday showed. A government sentiment survey released last week showed consumer confidence had slipped to its lowest level since January. Pay has been increasing comfortably for some workers, but economists caution that gains have accrued disproportionately to those with permanent jobs at major companies — an elite but shrinking minority. JONATHAN SOBLE
Racial Wealth Gap Said to Persist Despite Degree Even with tuition shooting up, the payoff from a college degree remains strong, lifting lifelong earnings and protecting many graduates against the worst effects of economic downturns. But a new study has found that a college degree fails to shield black and Hispanic college graduates from both short-term crises and longstanding challenges. “The long-term trend is shockingly clear,” said William R. Emmons, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and one of the authors of the report. “White and Asian college grads do much better than their counterparts without college, while col-
lege-grad Hispanics and blacks do much worse proportionately.” A college degree has long been recognized as a great equalizer, a path for minorities to help bridge the economic chasm that separates them from whites. But the report, scheduled to be released on Monday, raises troubling questions about the ability of a college education to narrow the racial and ethnic wealth gap. Economists emphasize that college-educated blacks and Hispanics over all earn more and are in a better position to accumulate wealth than blacks and Hispanics who do not get degrees. But while these graduates had more assets,
they suffered disproportionately during periods of financial trouble. From 1992 to 2013, the median net worth of blacks who finished college dropped nearly 56 percent (adjusted for inflation). By comparison, the median net worth of whites with college degrees rose about 86 percent over the same period, which included three recessions — including the severe downturn of 2007 through 2009, with its devastating effect on home prices in many parts of the country. Asian graduates did even better, gaining nearly 90 percent. “Higher education alone cannot level the playing field,” the report concludes. PATRICIA COHEN
In Brief Merkel Seeks to Halt Opposition to Bailout Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that she expected the International Monetary Fund to take part in the new bailout for Greece, as she sought to head off opposition to the aid package in the German Parliament. In her first public comments on the bailout, Merkel cautioned that one could not yet say with certainty that the bailout would work, but she said there was definitely hope. Her wariness seemed partly to be a nod to the skepticism of many lawmakers in her own conservative bloc, who must vote along with other parliamentary deputies on whether to approve the package in a special session on Wednesday. (NYT)
‘Compton’ Is a Hit At American Theaters The boys from Compton smashed opening weekend expectations, while the “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” struggled to find its footing. Universal’s N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton,” earned $56.1 million in its debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. Director F. Gary Gray’s film charts the formation and rise of the influential rap group. N.W.A. members Dr. Dre and Ice Cube served as producers on the film, which has Ice Cube’s real son O’Shea Jackson Jr. playing his father. Dr. Dre also released the companion piece “Compton,” — his first new album in 16 years. “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” debuted in third place. (AP)
News Outlets Seek Widely Covered Stories That Are Hard to Ignore Early last month, a lion known as Cecil was killed by a hunter near Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. The first international news articles on his death appearedin mid-July. By the end of July, once it had emerged that the man who killed Cecil was an American dentist, the global news media had claimed its own trophy. The phrase “Cecil the lion” now returns about 3.2 million Google News results. Among those are celebrity takes (“Jean-Claude Van Damme Responds to Cecil the Lion Outrage”), emotional takes (“Like
All Lions, Cecil Had a Huge Capacity to Love”) and contrarian takes (“Eating Chicken Is Morally Worse Than Killing Cecil the Lion”). There were local takes, millennial takes, arguments that other global concerns were more pressing, roundups of previous stories and condemnations of the amount of coverage. (Not to mention articles like this one.) More than 2,100 articles were posted to Facebook by mid-August, according to data from the social media tracking firm CrowdTangle, where they were shared about 3.6 million times, and liked
1.3 million times. According to Twitter, mentions of Cecil peaked at nearly 900 tweets a minute, for a total of more than three million. The effect, for online readers, was inundation. Many of those readers have now deplored a race toward repetitive, trivial journalism, so noisy that it drowns out more considered work. Reading disposable web journalism is “like eating a whole bag of Doritos,” Joshua Topolsky, a founder of the technology website The Verge, said. “You look up and think, ‘What I am I doing?’ ” Topolsky recently left his job
overseeing Bloomberg’s web properties, and afterward posted an essay that in part expressed frustration with what is published online. Others are not as troubled. “I like Doritos,” said Kevin Merida, a managing editor of The Washington Post, which has two reporting teams that monitor and react to stories that seem to be gaining attention on the web and social media. “We’re in the business of people reading our work,” he said. “If we were to ignore the information that people are talking about, we would be news snobs.” RAVI SOMAIYA
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When Silicon Valley Came to the Tenderloin SAN FRANCISCO — Carlo Gascon’s organization took a chance last spring on this city’s technology boom, paying $1.4 million to turn a run-down single-family structure in the troubled Mid-Market area into its headquarters. His neighbors are still an issue. “Tech people — they see a bunch of kids hanging out in front of the recreation center, they call the police,” said Gascon, a 29-year-old lifelong neighborhood resident. “They don’t know; you live with 10 or 12 people in one apartment, you want to be outdoors until you sleep.” Gascon belongs to United Playaz, an organization in which former gang members try to keep young people from turning to crime. Now, he and others on both sides of this divided district are seeking some level of coexistence. Four years ago, tech companies like Twitter entered San Francisco’s Mid-Market, an area that includes the Tenderloin and South of Market, or SoMa, neighborhoods. As an incentive, these companies were given tax breaks, which are still in effect, on payroll and stock options. But as this neighborhood’s longtime residents are learning, newfound wealth for some does not mean newfound prosperity —
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or even livability — for everyone. If anything, it has amplified the gap between rich and poor. As that money heads into Mid-Market, nothing shows the gap like the price of shelter: Around the corner from the United Playaz building is a single-room occupancy residence, or S.R.O., called the Sunset. It costs $65 a night. One short block away, a refurbished Best Western Plus Americania recently posted rates of $460 a night. Across the street from Twitter, the NEMA, or New Market, apartments are 96 percent occupied. Some studio apartments in the building rent for more than $4,000 a month. On a Tenderloin block with $70-a-night S.R.O.s, a business called Bulldog Baths charges
“What we’d really like to see is these companies hiring people into their tech cathedral,” says Del Seymour, a former Tenderloin resident.
up to $90 nightly to board a dog. Despite these disparities, it is unlikely that tech will dislodge the poor. The Tenderloin’s residential hotels were built soon after San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, giving the district hundreds of historic buildings that cannot be easily demolished or even revamped. Besides, low-paying work is booming, too, and people who do those jobs need a place to sleep. “Restaurant workers, retail employees, dog walkers — all those jobs that serve wealthy people — have exploded,” said Ted Egan, the city’s chief economist. “If you don’t have Tenderloin-type S.R.O.s, they have nowhere to go. We also have married couples with four kids living in 100-square-foot spaces.” QUENTIN HARDY
Dr. Dre Album Serves as a Test for Apple Music When Apple introduced its new streaming service, Apple Music, at the end of June, one of the big questions hanging over it was whether it could compete with outlets like Spotify to deliver blockbuster results for big new albums. In Apple Music’s first major test, the answer is a qualified yes. Dr. Dre’s album “Compton: A Soundtrack” — a loose tie-in to the hit film “Straight Outta Compton” — had 25 million streams around the world in its first week, and sold nearly half a million downloads through Apple’s iTunes store, Apple executives said on Sunday. “We’re beginning to show what we can do in terms of communicating music to a worldwide audience and helping artists at the same time,” Jimmy Iovine said. Iovine, the former record executive, helped build the new service after Apple paid $3 billion last year for Beats, the electronics company and music brand he started with Dr. Dre.
Still, the album’s performance was not quite enough to send it to No. 1 in the United States. When Billboard’s latest album chart is released on Monday, “Compton” is expected to open in second place, beaten by “Kill the Lights,” from the country star Luke Bryan. According to industry estimates, “Compton” — which is being offered only through Apple for its first two weeks — had about 11 million streams in the United States. Apple, long the biggest retailer of music, has more than 800 million customer accounts around the world, but as a late entry to streaming it has to rely heavily on the heft of its brand to compete in an increasingly crowded market. This month, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president for Internet software and services, said that since Apple Music was released on June 30, it had attracted 11 million people to sign up for trial subscriptions, which are free for 90
days. Once those trials expire, the service costs $10 a month, the going rate for comparable subscriptions from outlets like Spotify. Compared with other big streaming hits this year, the showing for “Compton” is also modest. Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” released in February, had 48 million streams in one week, while Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” had nearly 39 million in March. Those albums benefited from the popularity of Spotify, which has 20 million subscribers around the world, and another 55 million people who listen to the service free with advertising. “You’ve got really established services out there, like Pandora, Spotify and Deezer, that people really like,” said Russ Crupnick, an analyst at MusicWatch, which tracks the habits of online music consumers. “It’s hard to penetrate the market as the second, third, fourth brand in, even if that brand is Apple.” BEN SISARIO
Disney Bulks Up Two Theme Parks As Universal Rises ANAHEIM, Calif. — The empire is striking back. While insisting they pay little attention to each other, America’s two largest theme park operators, Disney and Universal, have been locked in what seems like an arms race. Universal kicked it off in 2010 with a “Harry Potter” mega-expansion. Disney then introduced or announced new “Cars,” “Avatar” and Fantasyland attractions. Universal has since spent billions on new rides and resort hotels. Now, Disney is rolling out the heavy artillery: After a few years of aggressive investment in overseas theme parks, Disney on Saturday announced expensive “Star Wars”-themed expansions at its California and Florida resorts. The pair of “Star Wars” lands, each 14 acres in size, will be built at Disneyland here and at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Fla. Hollywood Studios will also get a new “Star Wars”-themed weekend fireworks show and 11-acres of new “Toy Story” rides. Estimated by analysts to cost more than $2 billion, the expansion marks an effort by Disney to use its parks to capitalize on its 2012 purchase of Lucasfilm. Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, described the “Star Wars” plans as “jaw-dropping.” Disney has long dismissed Universal as a challenger. But the bold building plans were, in part, read by analysts as a competitive response to Comcast, which is pouring billions of dollars into its California and Florida properties. The Hollywood Studios, which in some ways started the Disney-Universal rivalry when it opened in 1989, has been especially at risk from Universal’s surge. Hollywood Studios attracted 10.3 million visitors in 2014, a 2 percent increase from the previous year, making it the least visited of Disney’s four major parks in Orlando. Nearby Universal Studios handled 8.3 million guests, a 17 percent increase. “It’s hard for us to recommend spending $80-$100 on a park that has so little to offer,” the new edition of “The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World” says of Hollywood Studios, suggesting a trip to the movie-themed Universal instead. BROOKS BARNES
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Stepping Back in Time at the Highline Janelle Monáe is on her third, maybe fourth life, a striking fact given that she’s been an avowed futurist from the very start. For almost a decade, she’s been treating R&B and CritiC’s funk as technolNotebook ogies badly in need of updating, Jon planning for their Caramanica cyborg future and waiting for everyone else to catch up. But in the same way that hip-hop is able to manifest its politics without overtness, much of the music Monáe has been fiddling with is also comfortably next-wave. In this environment, Monáe’s sleek eccentricity has often felt overwrought, or at minimum, inessential. Which is perhaps why, over the last few months, Monáe has retreated to the present, or sometimes, to the past. Her thumping, au courant single “Yoga” was the first song on which she was the lead artist to crack the Billboard Hot 100. That song features a protégé, the rapper and singer Jidenna, who has an actual breakout pop-rap hit, the dandy theme song “Classic Man,” which takes Monáe’s tomorrow template and applies it to preaching the benefits of yesteryear. They can both be found on “Wondaland Presents: The Eephus” (Wondaland/Epic), the spotty compilation from Monáe’s Wondaland label that was re-
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Janelle Monáe at the Highline Ballroom. leased on Friday. (Eephus is a reference to that unpredictable, often unhittable baseball pitch.) On Thursday night, the whole Wondaland massive — Monáe, Jidenna, Roman GianArthur, the funk-rock duo Deep Cotton and the acoustic soul duo St. Beauty — convened at the Highline Ballroom for a group show, artists flowing on and off stage, in and out of one another’s sets. The concert, like the EP, showed a crew brimming with ideas, though often with execution falling short of the aesthetic. Onstage, Monáe is a lightning bolt, vibrating at a unique frequency. Here, she delivered old songs like “Tightrope” and “Electric Lady” with church fervor. “Yoga,” though, is vexing. It’s a hippie celebration, and also a
strip-club ready anthem, with one showstopping line that functions in either setting: “You cannot police me/ So get off my areola.” Before “Yoga,” she’d solemnly asked the crowd, “How many of you … have preordered ‘The Eephus’ ”? It was unintentionally hilarious, this brief shilling from an artist never much concerned with the marketplace. As a unit, the statement of aesthetic protest was loud, as was the political protest. At the end of Thursday night’s show, the crew all gathered onstage to perform the bracing, scathing “Hell You Talmbout,” an almost seven-minute recitation, over a sharp drumline beat, of the names of victims of police violence, with urgent pleas to “say his/ her name!” Jidenna has made politics central to his mission, though not exactly in the same way. In the “Classic Man” video, there is an awkward segment in which Jidenna sees some young men being rousted by cops, intervenes on their behalf, then brings them to a kind of gentleman academy, in what feels like a dose of respectability politics incarnate. Before “Classic Man,” Jidenna performed a new song, “Some Kind of Way,” but there were also flickers of Bobby McFerrin, maybe even Harry Belafonte. As the music played, Jidenna gripped the chain of his pocket watch and began madly swinging it, grinning all the while.
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Darkly Wry Stories Reflecting A Rowdy Life Lucia Berlin made fiction from her roving, rowdy life, and had a surplus of raw material. Born in Alaska in 1936 to a father who was a mining engineer, Berlin lived all over the American West and in Chile, New York City and Mexico. She survived childhood abuse and adult alcoholism, an addiction that sent her, in her words, to “jails, hospitals, psych wards.” By her early 30s, she had been divorced three times and had four sons. She worked as a house cleaner, a substitute teacher and a hospital clerk. She put much of her life onto the page in vivid stories that garnered the respect of a modest audience and now could be on the verge of making her posthumously famous. “A Manual for Cleaning Women,” which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish on Tuesday, collects 43 stories, a bit more than half of Berlin’s output. (She died in 2004, on her 68th birthday.) Berlin’s narrators and many of their experiences are transparently autobiographical. The stories, set in locales familiar to Berlin, feature children in back braces (she had scoliosis starting at 10), stark reports from detox wards, arguments in laundromats and distracted observations in hospitals. (“My Jockey” starts, “I like working in Emergency — you meet men there, anyway.”) Her stories speak in a voice at once direct and off-kilter, sincere and wry. In the title story, she writes: “Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.” And later: “All I really steal is sleeping pills, saving for a rainy day.” The novelist and short story writer Elizabeth McCracken said of Berlin’s stories: “There are sentences that just make me bark with laughter. Her work is a strange combination of mercilessness and warmth. There isn’t that coldness that sometimes goes along with writing about addiction and unhappiness. The characters seem fully human and not reduced to their circumstances.” JOHN WILLIAMS
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In St. Francis’ Hometown, a New Kind of Pilgrim ayurvedic essential-oils massage. They come, drawn by the same mystical essence that more traditional religious pilgrims believe can be felt in the woods around Francis’ hometown. “Assisi is one of the special places where you can tune into a spiritual energy,” said Katharina Daboul, who sometimes manages the Simple Peace Hermitage, a meditation center here. Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian guru who introduced yoga to the West, ranked Francis with Buddha and Jesus in his multicreed pantheon of spiritual guides. Yogananda said he had seen a vision of Francis while giving a speech in the 1950s. After that he came to regard him as a spiritual icon and eventually visited Assisi.
ASSISI, Italy — For centuries, pilgrims have trekked to Assisi to walk the same steep and narrow lanes on which a rag-cloaked radical monk named Francis preached an anti-materialistic message 800 years ago, rocking the medieval Roman Catholic Church. Francis, one of Italy’s two patron saints, is a global figure for hundreds of millions of Catholics, and the pope is named for him. The saint’s hometown, perched on the broad slope of Mount Subasio, attracts four million to five million tourists annually. But lately, those visitors have included a new sort of pilgrim. The town has attracted non-Catholic tourists, of the sort who hope for rejuvenation in the ashrams of Indian or in an
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Francis, who was born in Assisi and died there 44 years later in 1226, was in many ways the original hippie. A nobleman, he gave up all his earthly belongings to follow in Christ’s footsteps. In the centuries that followed, many pilgrims have followed a path he took up the scraggy woods of Mount Subasio. But until recently, most of them were Catholic. This new breed of tourist has found in Assisi a hive of ecclesiastical commerce. On sunny Sunday mornings, sonorous bells toll as nuns in crisp habits and monks in brown robes crisscross the bleached piazzas in their sandals and socks, sending doves soaring above the sunflower and hayfields of the surrounding valley. Trinket shops sell wood carvings of the tau symbol with which Francis signed his letters; ceramic tile refrigerator magnets of angels; and posters of Francis, who was canonized two years after his death. But Assisi’s New Age retreats are not all spartan refuges for peace-seekers packing yoga mats. In a Roman quarter on the northern edge of town, well-off travelers can book a luxurious room with a restored fresco on the wall at the Nun Relais Hotel and Spa Museum, a converted 13th-century convent that opened in 2010. Konstantin Mirzajev, a Russian engineer who lives in Prague, described his experience as a guest at the Nun Relais: “When I am in the spa, looking at the stone arches of the Roman Amphitheatre, I feel like an ancient Roman. I feel like I have traveled back in time, through centuries, and can taste the luxury the Romans knew so well.” Asked about touches of the lavish in a place known for shunning it, the Rev. Stephen Platten, an Anglican bishop from London who often visits Assisi, said: “I just think people shall enjoy themselves. Then I hope the luxury does not anesthetize the people and take them into their own bubble far from St. Francis’ message.” NINA BURLEIGH
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Chattanooga Hosts Final Memorial For Fallen By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael J. Lieberknecht, Navy Public Affairs Support Element East
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (NNS) -- The Department of the Navy and City of Chattanooga held a ceremony Aug. 15 at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga’s, McKenzie Arena in memory of the Sailor and four Marines killed in the Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC) shooting on July 16. The lives of Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Sullivan, Staff Sgt. David Wyatt, Sgt. Carson Holmquist, Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, and Lance Cpl. Squire Wells were honored with military traditions. Marine Corps Band New Orleans and United States Navy Band Sea Chanters provided music as Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Secretary of the Navy
Hon. Ray Mabus, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Greenert and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Mike Stevens arrived. Chattanooga Mayor Andrew Berke opened the ceremony by speaking about his community and their appreciation of local
service members and the police department. “I want to say, on the behalf of our entire city, we grieve with you,” said Berke. “God bless these families, our great city and the United States of America.” Mabus talked about the close relationship
between Sailors and Marines. “We are a family, the Navy and Marine Corps family,” said Mabus. “We work together, serve together, overcome together.” He repeatedly called the fallen and their former co-workers heroes. As the ceremony drew to a close, every head in the arena bowed for the benediction and remained silent for the last ‘Roll Call,’ a tribute paid by service members to their fallen comrades. Echo Taps, played by two members of the Marine Corps band, served as a final solemn salute. “Although we will heal,” said Mabus. “Our Navy and Marine Corps family will never again be completely whole.”
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Aug. 12, 2015) A helicopter from the Israeli Navy Sa’ar 5-class corvette INS Hanit (503) transports an Israeli rescue swimmer to the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) during a medical exercise as part of Reliant Mermaid. Porter is on a routine patrol conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Quartermaster 3rd Class David Folino/Released)
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS (Aug. 13, 2015) An MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), embarked aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), flies through the air over the Northern Mariana Islands. Bonhomme Richard is the lead ship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group and is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor A. Elberg/Released)
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HOMETOWN: Napa, California WHY HE CHOSE THE MARINE CORPS: I always wanted to be in the military. My father was a pilot in the Navy. I chose the Marine Corps because it was the most challenging and aggressive branch of service and seemed to be a better fit for my personality.
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Working with the Marines on a daily basis. It is truly impressive to watch the Marines put in the monumental effort required to support Operation Inherent Resolve. The Marines do more with less while maintaining an intense focus on the mission.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Landing on the TR after my first combat mission. SHOUT OUT: Shout out to Cpl. Priutt for having the fastest time in the Teddy Challenge.
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HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Working with other Marines and learning new things every day.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: When I recieved my Eagle, Globe and Anchor. SHOUT OUT: To every Marine on this boat.w
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