ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
TUESDAY EDITION
COMBATING CASUALTIES BEHIND THE SCENES OF TR’S CENTRAL CONTROL
YOUR THOUGHTS ON ... SUNRISE YOGA
September 22, 2015
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ARABIAN GULF (Sept. 20, 2015) – Sailors participate in a sunrise yoga class aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) as a part of Suicide Prevention Month (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chris Liaghat /Released)
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BEHIND THE SCENES OF TR’S CENTRAL CONTROL by MC3 Stephane Belcher
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his is the TAO, missile hit starboard side, all hands relax brace.” Within minutes, reports of flooding, fires and other casualties are are pouring into Damage Control Central (DCC) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). It’s hectic - phone talkers pass message blanks to the plotters who then plot casualties and then pass those message blanks to the damage control assistant (DCA). The DCA calls out casualties on the 1MC and announces fire and flooding boundaries. DCC is the central coordination point for reporting and combating all casualties that occur throughout the ship. There are three damage control conditions. The normal condition is Condition Three DCC is manned with watches around the clock composed of Sailors from Reactor and Engineering departments. These watchstanders monitor everything from water usage, electrical loads and the ship’s propulsion, to any alarms that may be going off around the ship. “Water control watch manages where the water goes and how much is being made,” said Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Natasha Santos, from Reactor department’s Machinery division. “The load dispatcher is electricity. Without him, we won’t be able to run our pumps to make the water, so it’s a teamwork kind of thing. If his electricity isn’t going, then our water isn’t getting made and then the engineering people don’t have water for their air conditioning units.” As the conditions progress, watchstanders continue to monitor their equipment to keep the ship going. Condition Two DC is set if there is a casualty that the at-sea fire party (ASFP) can’t handle without support. Then the rest of Engineering will support
them in combating the casualty. “With Condition Two DC, you can keep calling away more lockers to help respond,” said Lt. Cmdr. Ashley Pankop, TR’s DCA. “The idea is that you don’t want to disrupt all the operations on the ship to go to General Quarters (GQ). That way, the whole ship can keep focus on its current mission.” “If it looks like it’s going to get out of control, we’ll call away Condition One DC which is what we know as GQ,” said Pankop. “We man all the battle dressing stations and repair lockers.” Each repair locker sends Sailors to DCC to talk on the sound-powered telephones and chart casualties during GQ. It’s the central location for damage control communications, whether the ship is in Condition One, Two or Three. All DC messages come through DCC. “I think it’s really important because every casualty will get reported to Central,” said Santos. “We work together, Engineering, DC and Reactor. We’re the ones who know the most about combating casualties. Everyone learns a little, but we’re the experts.” Sailors in DCC have to work together because it’s the one place that tracks the status of what’s going on with the ship. “We’re on a tiny little steel island with 5,000 people, and we’ve got millions of gallons of fuel, thousands of pounds of ammo, two nuclear reactors and a lot of other dangerous machinery and toxic gases,” said Pankop. “We don’t really have a whole lot of room on the ship to deal with casualties. If a fire breaks out or if we have a toxic gas leak, it’s going to affect a lot of people really fast. One small miscommunication can make a huge difference in the response and how we attack the casualty.”
YOUR THOUGHTS ON
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I liked it, it was so relaxing, especially being able to see the water and have the cool breeze and the sun not beaming down right on you. It was really relaxing. MA2 was awesome, she was able to walk us through it and we had our eyes closed and could really feel ourselves. With just the people that came out, it was really nice, but I definitely think more people would have really enjoyed it. This would definitely work for people who are having bad thoughts, because it gives you a chance to kind of look outside the box and focus on just yourself. HM1 ARKESHIA DEVEAUX
It was really pretty with the sun rising. Yoga is supposed to be about connecting with nature. So being open to the elements was really nice. ASIST is raising suicide prevention awareness, and one of the leading causes of suicide is depression. Yoga helps relieve stress. Yoga is a way to help relax and decompress. I thought it was beautiful out there. RP1 WILLIAM MURDY
I think it went well, the turnout was excellent. We h out because I know a lot of people are really stressi get back. I loved when we did the bug pose, I told e like that, but less painful. Everyone started laughin a moral responsibility to take care of each other. W having little things like this really gets people invol MA2 NICOLE LOWERY
It was extremely interesting. I liked it a lot. I haven’t done yoga in forever but it did kind of relieve some of my stress. I loved just laying down and taking it all in and focusing on my breathing and feeling the negativity leaving. I came out here in the first place because of being just, well, overwhelmed on deployment, and me being a person that’s not patient. As we get closer to the end, the fact that we’re not there yet irks me and winds me up a lot so this kind of helped me slow down and take a breather. HM2 ADJON-ALBER WATKINS
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had a lot people, but I do wish we had more come ing out right now. It’s our last stretch before we everyone it was like, if they ever had a kid, it was ng and it was good to see everyone smile. We have We’re all that we have. By getting the word out and lved and hopefully relieves some of their stress.
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My favorite part about the event was enjoying the open air, the glorious sunrise, the reflections on the ocean, and reveling in one of my favorite activities with good company. Also, I can now say that I’ve done yoga on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, which is something quite special, I think, and a memory that I will certainly cherish of my time in the Navy. It is my hope that I can, in some small way, raise awareness about the myriad health benefits yoga can offer. During each of the yoga classes I teach, I work diligently to educate on those health benefits, one of many benefits being reduction in stress. It may not seem like much, but a regular yoga practice has the power to transform not only one’s body, but one’s mind as well. IT3 TARA PARADISO
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Great Job A-gang! Best division out there!!!!
Barbara Ortiz September 20 It is so wonderful to be able to actually see and hear from our Sailors. Hopefully soon I will see my sailor in one of these shout outs. Thanks for Protecting our Freedoms and may safe seas bring everyone home soon. Karen Weihs September 20
Congrats Mo, Hart, Akande, Smith and Torres y’all rock!!
I love Yoga, I’ve done it with MA2 Lowery before, and today was just really nice to get up on the flight deck with the breeze and when we closed our eyes all I could picture was that I was back at home on the beach and there was the sun and I heard little birds and I woke up and realized I was still here but you know what? We’re almost home and this is a good thing; everybody getting together and taking care of each other. Everyone came together and relaxed and it was just really peaceful. AS2 KARRIE RAMOS
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Pope Careful in Navigating Cuba Politics U.S. WILL ACCEPT MORE REFUGEES AS CRISIS GROWS
HAVANA — Revolution Square is the political stage of revolutionary Cuba. Fidel Castro held huge rallies here to castigate the imperialists up north. Looming over the square are immense portraits of the famed revolutionaries, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. Into this charged atmosphere on Sunday came Pope Francis, celebrating an outdoor Mass attended by President Raúl Castro, the leadership of his Communist government and tens of thousands of Cubans. For those hoping Francis would speak about political freedom, the moment seemed ripe. And Francis did speak about politics. Colombian politics. He encouraged that country’s peace talks. As for Cuban politics, Francis so far has spoken in what might be called pope code. At the plaza and other events on Sunday, as he did at the airport welcoming ceremony the day before, Francis refrained from any direct criticisms of the Cuban government but made the sort of oblique asides that could be in-
terpreted as implicit disapproval — or explained away as anything but. “Service is never ideological,” Francis said at the plaza soaked in ideology, after summoning Cubans to embrace the Christian ideal of service, “for we do not serve ideas. We serve people.” Francis is following his predecessors — both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI offered Mass in Revolution Square — and charting a new path. As the first Latin American pope, Francis is enormously influential in his native region, which has raised expectations and pressures that he will wade into regional politics. His role in brokering the diplomatic breakthrough between Cuba and the United States has only boosted his credibility. Yet he is careful to avoid seeming too political and is being especially careful in navigating the politics of Cuba. This cautiousness has frustrated some Cuban dissidents who want a public meeting with the pope. On Sunday, police stopped three men
trying to distribute leaflets near Revolution Square. “I wouldn’t say we are disappointed — it simply doesn’t appear to us to be right or just that the pope doesn’t have a little time to meet with those Cubans who are defending human rights,” said José Daniel Ferrer, the head of the nation’s largest dissident group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba. Daniel said that more than 60 people have been in arrested before and during the pope’s visit, including three prominent female activists who were in contact with the pope’s delegation. Francis gave prominence on Sunday to the Colombia peace talks, though the Vatican has rejected calls to intervene in the negotiations between the government and the FARC rebel group. “There has never been such resonance for the papacy in Latin America,” said Gianni La Bella, an expert in Latin American Catholicism in Rome. “You could almost say that Francis is considered as an alternate United Nations in the region.” JIM YARDLEY and AZAM AHMED
Dueling Allies Await Francis on Visit to U.S. WASHINGTON — Pope Francis will arrive at a military base outside the capital on Tuesday afternoon to open his first visit to the United States, and President News Obama will be there welcome him. It is Analysis to a gesture the president has extended to virtually no other foreign visitor. And little wonder. For Obama, there may be no more potent ally in the world in his quest to bend the arc of history than a pope who helped him restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and who has spoken out on issues like economic inequality, immigration, climate change and criminal justice reform. Yet if the pope’s visit seems likely to bolster Obama on some of his top priorities, it also comes at a moment of sharp focus on moral questions where the two differ. For conservatives assailing the jailing of a clerk who
refused to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples and for abortion foes now mounting a bid to cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood, Francis and the teachings of the church offer a timely boost. The conflicting interpretations underscore the hazards of trying to pigeonhole any pope into the binary left-right spectrum of American politics. At the White House and on Capitol Hill, leaders say Francis cannot be viewed in strictly political terms. But in Washington, both sides in the perpetual American argument hope to make the most of the pope’s three-day visit. That will probably be easier for Obama and the Democrats. Francis is seen as sympathetic to Obama’s priorities. Some conservative Catholics refer to Francis derisively as “Obama’s pope” while some Catholic Republican presidential candidates have
expressed polite disagreement with the leader of their church. The pope’s choice of issues could bolster Obama, said Peter Wehner, a conservative Catholic scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a White House official under former President George W. Bush. But Francis, who met Obama at the Vatican last year, goes beyond the president in denouncing the sins of globalization and capitalism and has criticized American policy in Syria. He may weigh in on abortion, given his condemnation of what he calls the throwaway culture. “I’m sure the pope will make everyone very uncomfortable,” said Rep. Joseph Crowley, a Catholic Democrat from New York. “There will be some things that Democrats may not like to hear and there will certainly be some things, I think, the Republicans will not like to hear.” PETER BAKER
BERLIN — The Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the United States accepts to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday. “This step is in keeping with America’s best tradition as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope,” Kerry said, adding that it “will be accompanied by additional financial contributions” for the relief effort. The American move, announced after talks in Berlin between Kerry and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, still falls far short of the global demand for resettlement from people who continue to flee turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries. “This kind of piecemeal, incremental approach is simply not enough to effectively address this crisis,” said Eleanor Acer, director of the refugee protection program at Human Rights First, an advocacy group that has been pressing the United States to take 100,000 Syrians alone next year. “This minimal increase for next year is certainly not a strong response to the largest refugee crisis since World War II.” Four million Syrians alone have fled to other countries, and hundreds of thousands of others from the Middle East and Africa have been pouring into Europe. Kerry said the United States would explore ways to increase the overall limit of refugees beyond 100,000, while carrying out background checks to ensure that they are not infiltrated by terrorists. “We still need to do more, and we understand that,” Kerry said at a news conference with Steinmeier. Under the plan, the limit on annual refugee visas would be increased to 85,000 in 2016. The cap would then rise to 100,000 in 2017. “The idea is to have a steep ramp up,” said a senior State Department official, who asked not to be identified under the agency’s protocol for briefing reporters. (NYT)
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U.S. Troops Are Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base. “At night, we can hear them screaming, but we’re not allowed to do anything about it,” the Marine’s father, Gregory Buckley Sr., recalled his son telling him before he was shot to death at the base in 2012. He urged his son to tell his superiors. “My son said that his officers told him to look the other way because it’s their culture.” Rampant sexual abuse of children has been a problem in Afghanistan. The practice is called bacha bazi, “boy play,” and Amer-
ican soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on military bases, according to interviews and court records. The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead of weeding out pedophiles, the American military was arming them and doing little when they began abusing children. “The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,” said Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain who
beat up an American-backed militia commander for keeping a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave. “But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban did — that was something village elders voiced to me.” The policy of instructing soldiers to ignore child sexual abuse by their Afghan allies is coming under new scrutiny, particularly as it emerges that service members like Quinn have faced discipline for disobeying it. After the beating, the Army relieved Quinn of his command and pulled him from Afghanistan. He has since left the military. Four years later, the Army is also trying to forcibly retire Sgt. First Class Charles Martland,
a Special Forces member who joined Quinn in beating up the commander. “The Army contends that Martland and others should have looked the other way (a contention that I believe is nonsense),” Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., wrote to the Pentagon. When asked about the policy, the spokesman for the American command in Afghanistan, Col. Brian Tribus, wrote in an email: “Generally, allegations of child sexual abuse by Afghan military or police personnel would be a matter of domestic Afghan criminal law.” He said “there would be no express requirement that U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan report it.”An exception, he said, is when rape is being used as a weapon of war. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Charismatic Leader Returned To Power in Greek Elections ATHENS — Alexis Tsipras, who won election as Greece’s prime minister in January on an anti-austerity platform that he was later forced to abandon, was returned to power by Greek voters on Sunday, many of them saying that he had fought hard to get them a better deal from the country’s creditors and deserved a second chance at governing. With 63 percent of the vote counted, Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza party led with 35.4 percent to 28.3 percent for New Democracy, the main right-leaning party. The third largest number of votes was for the Golden Dawn, a neo-fascist party, which received 7.1 percent,.
Hours after the polls closed, Tsipras told a cheering crowd Syriza had “proved too strong to die though it was targeted by so many.” And as he has throughout his campaign, he focused not on the bailout that he was forced to accept in the summer, but on tackling Greece’s homegrown problems. “The mandate that the Greek people gave us is crystal clear: to get rid of the wickedness and the regime of corruption and intertwined interests that have ruled the country for years,” Tsipras said. “You gave us the second decisive chance to be done with that. We will be judged in the next four years on how efficient we are
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starting tomorrow morning.” Greek pollsters had not predicted his victory , calling it a close race for weeks, and maintaining that Tsipras’s early popularity was fading. But with more than 35 percent of the vote, Tsipras, 41, won almost as many parliamentary seats as he had before. New Democracy’s leader, Evan-
Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister who called for new elections last month, shook hands with supporters in Athens on Sunday.
gelos Meimarakis, conceded 90 minutes after the polls closed. Tsipras wasted no time restoring the coalition he worked with during his seven month in office with the populist right-wing party, the Independent Greeks, a union that should give him 155 votes in a 300-member parliament. SUZANNE DALEY
In Brief 2 Americans Freed in Yemen
ISIS Defectors Disillusioned
Two Americans held hostage for months by rebels in Yemen were freed on Sunday and quickly flown to safety in nearby Oman, which helped the United States secure the release of the men, American officials said. Along with the Americans, a British citizen and three Saudis were also freed by the Houthi rebels, who ousted the government of Yemen this year and are now facing a campaign of airstrikes led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the United States. All six hostages were released in Sana, the capital of Yemen. American officials said on Sunday that they were still working to discover details of what led to the breakthrough in efforts to free the men. (NYT)
A small but growing number of defectors from the Islamic State are risking reprisals and imprisonment to speak out about their disillusionment with the extremist group, according to a research organization that tracks former and current militants. Fifty-eight defectors, nine of them from Western Europe and Australia, have gone public with their testimonies since last year, according to a report to be published Monday by the International Center for the Study for Radicalization at King’s College London. According to the report, some of the defectors said they disapproved of the Islamic State’s hostility to other Sunni rebel groups that opposed President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and its indiscrimi-
nate killings of civilians and hostages. Others were disappointed that the life of a militant was far less exciting, or lucrative, than they had imagined. (NYT)
Nepal Adopts Constitution After nearly a decade of delay marked by haggling and political infighting, Nepal formally adopted a constitution on Sunday. The Constitution aims to reinforce Nepal as a secular, democratic republic with a provision for the protection of religion, and establishes seven provinces. Its passage is the latest chapter in a history that includes a bloody civil war, the overthrow of the 239-year-old monarchy and a devastating earthquake in April that killed thousands. (NYT)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 3
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Fiorina Aims to Redefine Record as a C.E.O. Carly Fiorina was ready when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked her to respond to criticism about her record at Hewlett-Packard during last week’s Republican debate. Looking intently into the camera, Fiorina said a prominent venture capitalist who pushed for her firing at Hewlett-Packard in 2005 had recently taken out a full-page newspaper ad saying that he had been wrong to do so and that she had been “a terrific C.E.O.” What Fiorina did not mention was that the ad — which cost roughly $140,000 — was paid for by the “super PAC” supporting her presidential candidacy. The same group, Carly for America, has gathered video footage of the venture capitalist, Thomas J. Perkins, praising Fiorina, and it could be used in television or Internet ads. The moves are part of an extensive effort by Fiorina and her supporters to redefine her rocky business reputation and fend off attacks on her as an unfit and
heartless executive. Such accusations helped doom her 2010 Senate campaign in California. Democrats called her “Carly Fail-orina,” and the incumbent, Sen. Barbara Boxer, depicted her opponent as the face of corporate greed. But Fiorina’s mission to reshape her business image is also colliding with a painful new chapter for the computer maker: Hewlett-Packard announced last week that it would slash as many as 30,000 jobs as part of a restructuring that will divide the tech behemoth into two publicly traded companies, which Fiorina’s detractors view as a repudiation of her legacy. Fiorina drew effusive praise for her performance in the debate, and she is attracting enthusiastic crowds on the trail. But the growing attention will bring more scrutiny to her record amid a resurgence of economic populism and uneasiness over income inequality in both parties.
Still adamant that she was a successful chief executive, Fiorina is acutely aware of the vulnerabilities her past presents in this race. But she also risks becoming bogged down in a defense of her record at the expense of her message as a political outsider who would bring conservative change to Washington — a message that has resonated with voters in recent weeks. In an interview last month, Fiorina said she had made enemies at HP by challenging the status quo, and she pointed to other ousted chief executives, including Steve Jobs. “Of course there’s going to be scrutiny on my business record, and there should be,” Fiorina said. She encouraged a reporter to examine HP’s quarterly results. “The data about my time at HP is crystal clear,” she said. “Imagine if politicians were held to the same standard of accountability.” AMY CHOZICK and QUENTIN HARDY
Oregon’s Legal Marijuana Comes With a Reprieve PORTLAND, Ore. — About 15 years ago, when she was in her 20s, Erika Walton handed a bong to someone who turned out be a police officer, and was cited for marijuana possession. She paid the fine, but the violation lingered on, she said, haunting her record. But on a recent afternoon, Walton was at a free legal clinic here in Oregon’s largest city, filling out paperwork to have that infraction forever sealed. Once the process is complete, she will be able to legally say to an employer, landlord or anybody else who asks that she has never been convicted or cited for any drug crime at all.
“It’s taken away a lot of my life,” Walton said, as she inked out the fingerprints that Oregon requires applicants for sealing to file. The mark on her record was minor — a citation for possession under Oregon law, even back then, was below the level of a misdemeanor, roughly equivalent to riding the light rail without a ticket. But it still cost her, she said, when she had to divulge it on applications for jobs and volunteer positions at her children’s school. “That’s why this means so much to me today,” Walton added. Oregon was not the first state to legalize recreational marijuana, which happened through a state
ballot vote last November, nor was it the largest. But in preparing to begin retail marijuana sales next month, this corner of the Pacific Northwest is nonetheless blazing a profoundly new trail on drug offenses, legal experts and marijuana business people said. “Oregon is one of the first states to really grapple with the issue of what do you do with a record of something that used to be a crime and no longer is,” said Jenny M. Roberts, a professor of law at American University in Washington, D.C., who specializes in criminal law and sentencing. KIRK JOHNSON
Bush Made Retroactive N.S.A. ‘Fix’ After a Showdown WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush sought retroactively to authorize portions of the National Security Agency’s post-9/11 surveillance and data collection program after an incident in 2004 in which his attorney general refused to certify the program as lawful from his hospital bed, according to portions of a government investigation. Bush’s effort to salvage the program without changes did not
satisfy top Justice Department officials. But the newly disclosed passages of a report by inspectors general of six agencies suggest that the confrontation came after the Justice Department identified several problems, including a “gap” between what Bush had authorized the N.S.A. to collect and what the agency was collecting. A leak of government documents in 2013 revealed the fight had been partly about the legality
of the N.S.A.’s collection of data about Americans’ emails in bulk. But the latest disclosure shows that the Justice Department had additional concerns. Bush’s secret directives said the N.S.A. could “acquire” phone and email metadata if at least one end was foreign or if a specific message were linked to terrorism. But the agency was apparently gathering domestic metadata in bulk, too, the Justice Department found. (NYT)
In Brief Infant and Two Adults Wounded at Church A man walked into a church service in East Selma, Ala., on Sunday and opened fire with a handgun, shooting his 24-yearold girlfriend and their infant son and then the pastor before being disarmed by congregants, according to the police. The police said the three victims were in stable condition. The mother was shot twice, in a shoulder and in her jaw, and the child was wounded in a hand. The pastor was treated for a leg wound, the authorities said. James Junior Minter, 26, was arrested and charged with three counts of attempted murder, the police said. (NYT)
Bipartisan Effort Fights Rise in Health Premiums Members of Congress from both parties, as well as some employers, insurers and state insurance commissioners, are calling for changes in the Affordable Care Act to prevent premium increases that are expected to affect workers at many small and midsize companies next year. Lawmakers see the potential for a bipartisan agreement on the issue, after five years in which Republicans have repeatedly tried to repeal the law. At issue is a provision that expands the definition of a “small employer” to include companies with 51 to 100 employees, subjecting them to stringent insurance regulation starting on Jan. 1. States have historically defined small employers as those with 50 or fewer employees. (NYT)
New Wildfire Destroys More California Homes A new wildfire in Northern California destroyed or damaged 10 homes in Monterey County, and a body was found among the ashes a week after two other fires killed five people and destroyed at least 1,400 homes, fire officials said Sunday. The blaze burning about two miles north of the community of Jamesburg quickly grew to 1,200 acres after starting Saturday, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The person who died has not been identified, and the authorities are still trying to determine how the victim died. (AP)
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Old Treatment, Now Expensive Specialty Drug Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic increase in the price of a 62-year-old drug used in treating a life-threatening parasitic infection. The drug, called Daraprim, was acquired in August by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a start-up run by a former hedge fund manager. Turing raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13.50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars. “What is it that they are doing differently that has led to this dramatic increase?” asked Dr. Judith Aberg, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Aberg said the price increase could force hospitals to use “alternative therapies that may not have the same efficacy.” While most of the attention on prices has been on new drugs for
diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment. Some price increases have been caused by shortages, but others have resulted from a business strategy of buying old neglected drugs and turning them into highpriced “specialty drugs.” Cycloserine, a drug used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, was increased in price to $10,800 for 30 pills from $500 after its acquisition by Rodelis Therapeutics. Scott Spencer, the general manager, said Rodelis needed to invest to make sure the supply of the drug remained reliable. He said the company provided the drug free to certain needy patients. The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine
Association sent a letter to Turing this month calling the price increase for Daraprim “unjustifiable for the medically vulnerable patient population” and “unsustainable for the health care system.” Daraprim, known generically as pyrimethamine, is used mainly to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasite infection that can cause serious or even life-threatening problems for babies born to women who become infected during pregnancy, and also for people with compromised immune systems, like AIDS patients and certain cancer patients. Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of Turing, said that Daraprim is so rarely used that the impact on the health system would be minuscule and that Turing would use the money it earns to develop better treatments for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects. ANDREW POLLACK
Volkswagen Stops Selling Cars Facing U.S. Inquiry FRANKFURT — Volkswagen said on Sunday that it would halt sales of cars in the United States equipped with the kind of diesel motors that had led regulators to accuse the German company of illegally installing software to evade standards for reducing smog. John Schilling, a Volkswagen spokesman, said that the company would stop selling 2015 and 2016 Volkswagen and Audi models equipped with 4-cylinder turbo diesel engines, which the company has marketed as “clean diesel.” It will also stop selling used cars that have the engines, he said. He said he did not know how many models would be stuck on deal-
er lots as a result of the decision. Earlier this month, Volkswagen had said that 23 percent of new cars sold in August were diesels, or 7,400 vehicles. The confirmation of the halt in sales came on the same day that Martin Winterkorn,Volkswagen’s chief executive, apologized for conduct that led the Environmental Protection Agency to order Volkswagen to recall nearly half a million vehicles. The company could face billions of dollars in fines for what the E.P.A. said was a deliberate attempt to evade the rules. “I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public,”
Winterkorn said in a statement. He said the company would “cooperate fully” with the authorities. Winterkorn did not contest assertions by the E.P.A. that Volkswagen sold cars equipped with software that could detect when periodic state government emissions testing was taking place. Only during such tests are the cars’ full emissions control systems turned on. During normal driving situations, the controls were turned off, allowing the cars to spew as much as 40 times the pollution allowed under the Clean Air Act, the E.P.A. said. JACK EWING and CORAL DAVENPORT
In Brief Dialog to Buy Rival Atmel for $4.6 Billion The German chip maker Dialog Semiconductor has agreed to buy Atmel, an American rival, for about $4.6 billion. Dialog said on Sunday that the deal would diversify its client base in automotive markets as well as in network-connected chips used in industrial gear. The company said Atmel shareholders would receive $4.65 in cash and 0.112 of a Dialog Semiconductor American depository share for each Atmel common share, equivalent to $10.42 per Atmel share based on Dialog’s closing price on Friday. Dialog said it planned to pay for the deal with cash, $2.1 billion of debt and about 49 million Dialog American depository shares. (Reuters)
Hackers Find Entrance To Apple’s App Store Hackers have found their way into Apple’s App Store. Apple confirmed on Sunday that a tool used by software developers for the company’s devices was copied and modified by hackers to put bad code into apps available on the App Store. So far about 40 apps with malicious code, or malware, have made it into the App Store, said researchers at Palo Alto Networks, an online security company that is investigating the incident. The list includes some of the most popular apps in China, like the ride-hailing app Didi Kuaidi. Many of the apps are popular elsewhere as well, like the messaging app WeChat. (NYT)
Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over the Pursuit of Profit Many technology start-ups aim to become “unicorns,” the companies that get valued at $1 billion or more on their way to probable vast riches. Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen have no interest in that. As co-founders of Kickstarter, the online crowdfunding website that lets people raise money to help fund all manner of projects, like cooking gadgets and movies, Strickler and Chen could have tried to take their company public or sell it, earning millions of dollars. Instead, they announced on Sunday that Kickstarter was reincorporating as a public benefit
corporation, a legal change they said would ensure that money, or the promise of it, would not corrupt the company’s mission of enabling creative projects to be funded. “We don’t ever want to sell or go public,” said Strickler, Kickstarter’s chief executive. “That would push the company to make choices that we don’t think are in the best interest of the company.” Under the designation, companies must aim to do something that would aid the public (such as Kickstarter’s mission to “help bring creative projects to life”) and include that goal in their cor-
porate charter. Board members must also take that public benefit into account when making decisions, and the company has to report on its social impact. Kickstarter’s move builds upon its decision last year to become a B Corporation, a voluntary designation certified by a nonprofit group called B-Lab. To become a B Corp, companies must meet rigorous environmental and social responsibility standards. All of this stands in stark contrast to the behavior of many tech start-ups. The ride-hailing company Uber, the room-rental start-
up Airbnb and the online storage service Dropbox have all raised billions from venture capitalists and big money managers, with the aim of large profits. Chen and Strickler said their hope was that becoming a public benefit corporation would set an example for the next generation of entrepreneurs. “As younger companies come up and think about how they operate and how they want to be structured, maybe they won’t be so easily be swept up by all the usual choices,” Chen said. MIKE ISAAC and DAVID GELLES
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Los Angeles Times Firing Focuses Discontent A.I. Answers LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company, took his management team to visit The Los Angeles Times, the jewel in his company’s newspaper portfolio. At a reception at the newspaper, and a dinner downtown, there was one notable absentee, The Times’s new publisher, Austin Beutner. At meetings the next day, he showed up for just an hour, to make a presentation on his strategy for the paper — one squarely at odds with that of its corporate parent. Tribune has pushed to centralize virtually all operations and direct them from headquarters in Chicago, running its newspapers as a group. Beutner, 55, a prominent Angeleno who made a fortune in finance and who once served as deputy mayor, was outlining an independent path for The Times that was local and focused on better technology and new sections. He was forging relationships with Los Angeles civic and business leaders who wanted a vibrant Los Angeles Times. He had driven the acquisition of The San Diego Union-Tribune, part of a plan to dominate journalism in California. Two weeks ago, he was called to a conference room and fired. His departure, after only a year in the position, widened a divide
between The Times and its corporate parent. In Chicago, executives saw him as imperious and defiant, imperiling a centralization Austin strategy that Beutner had recently saved the company $75 million, according to a figure it provided The New York Times. But to many at The Los Angeles Times, Beutner and his plan represented ambition and optimism after more than a decade of management turnover, layoffs and cost-cutting that had demoralized many employees and reduced the newsroom from 1,200 to its current staff of about 500. The strategy, focused on growth, had quickly yielded more than $1 million in new revenue, and looked poised to yield more, said three people with knowledge of the company’s finances. “Tribune has just destroyed the paper over the years — they sucked the blood out of it — and only over the last year, since Austin became publisher, did it start to feel like a hometown newspaper again,” said Antonio Villaraigosa, the former mayor in whose admin-
istration Beutner served. Villaraigosa is one of 50 local leaders who signed a letter to Tribune Publishing protesting Beutner’s firing. The City Council sent its own letter, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors also passed a resolution. Hispanic groups have expressed concern that Tribune’s Chicago-based management team has little understanding of one of the most important constituencies in Los Angeles. Those protesting the treatment of The Times see a potential savior in Eli Broad, the billionaire Los Angeles philanthropist who has long wanted to buy the paper but has been rebuffed. In the wake of Beutner’s ouster, Broad is preparing to try again, his friends say. In an interview, Griffin was asked if, were he an employee at one of his papers, he could see why he might want it to be owned by a local billionaire rather than Tribune Publishing. “I can,” he said. When asked why, he cited the public debate on the matter and said, “It seems to have been made pretty evident.” But he said that he had a responsibility to the company as a whole, not just The Times. Pointing to a stack of the company’s newspapers in the middle of a conference table, he said, “All that’s at stake too.” RAVI SOMAIYA
Retailers’ Use of Customers’ Photos Draws Scrutiny Shereen Way did not think twice about posting a photo on Instagram of her 4-year-old daughter wearing a green dress and pink Crocs sandals. Crocs, which Way had identified with a hashtag, pulled the snapshot from Instagram and featured it in a gallery of user-generated photographs on its website. The company had not asked Way for permission, and she was not aware that Crocs had used the photo until a reporter contacted her Instagram. “No one reached out to me,” said Way, 37, of Pearl River, N.Y. “I feel a little weirded out.” Crocs later sought her permission. Instagram and other social sites like Pinterest and Twitter have long been sources of selfies and candid shots that retailers and other companies mine for “consumer engagement,” a broad industry term that can mean anything from Facebook likes to
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hashtags for brands. But as the practice of promoting user-generated content has intensified, the intersection between brands trying to capitalize on social media activity and people’s expectations of some privacy has grown far more murky. No one, it seems, wants to police rights issues like those presented in Way’s situation. Using photos like her daughter’s generally requires getting the consent of the person
Shereen Way and her daughter Gloria, 4, play at a park near their home in Pearl River, N.Y., earlier this month.
who posted the original content. “This is a new area, and we want to make sure our customers are dotting the ‘Is’ and crossing the ‘Ts,’ ” said Sharad Verma, the chief executive and co-founder of Piqora, which helps brands curate user-generated content from sites like Instagram. “It’s important for brands to be very upfront and transparent about how the photos are being used.” SYDNEY EMBER and RACHEL ABRAMS
Questions From SAT Correctly SEATTLE — An artificial intelligence software program capable of seeing and reading has for the first time answered geometry questions from the SAT at the level of an average 11th grader. The achievement, in which the program answered math questions it had not previously seen, was reported in a paper presented by computer scientists from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the University of Washington at a scientific conference in Lisbon on Sunday. The software had to combine machine vision to understand diagrams with the ability to read and understand complete sentences; its success represents a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Despite the advance, the researchers acknowledge that the program’s abilities underscore how far scientists have to go to create software capable of mimicking human intelligence. Ali Farhadi, a designer of the test-taking program, noted that even a simple task for children, like understanding the meaning of an arrow in a test diagram, was not something the most advanced A.I. programs could do reliably. “A lot of my colleagues have said machine vision is a solved problem,” he said. “My answer is, ‘Call me when you’ve solved this.’ ” Ultimately, measuring the progress in artificial intelligence would require multiple tests, said Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist at New York University. “There is no one measure of human intelligence,” he said. “Why should there be just one A.I. test?” One open question is whether the incremental progress that is evident in the Allen Institute program is a significant step forward or whether it has more in common with a series of earlier proclamations in the field of “thinking machines” that ended in blind alleys. In the 1960s, Hubert Dreyfus, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, expressed this skepticism most clearly when he wrote, “Believing that writing these types of programs will bring us closer to real artificial intelligence is like believing that someone climbing a tree is making progress toward reaching the moon.” JOHN MARKOFF
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A Night of Firsts for Actors, and a Victory Lap for HBO LOS ANGELES — It was a night of firsts, as well as one for establishment cable at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. Viola Davis became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for best lead actress on a drama series for her role as a defense lawyer in “How to Get Away With Murder”; Jon Hamm won his first Emmy after seven previous nominations for his role as the tortured Don Draper on “Mad Men”; and HBO, led by victories for the comedy “Veep,” the drama “Game of Thrones” and a fourpart limited series, “Olive Kitteridge,” had a standout night, with 14 victories, including best drama and outstanding comedy series. It was the first time in eight years that HBO won in the best drama category, and the first victory for the sprawling fantasy epic “Game of Thrones,” which is the most watched show in the network’s history. HBO notched 43 awards over all, including 29 Creative Emmys last week, just one shy of CBS’s record set in 1974. On a night that also might be remembered for a few touching moments, Davis gave an impassioned speech, quoting Harriet Tubman and paying tribute to other African-American actresses like Halle Berry and Gabrielle Union. “Let me tell you something,” Davis said, “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles
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that are simply not there.” In another emotional moment, the comedian Tracy Morgan presented the show’s final award, for best drama. It was the first time he had been on a stage since a serious car accident last year that left him in a coma for eight days. “I miss you guys so much,” he said to a standing ovation. Hamm climbed onto the stage, and said to a standing ovation, “There has been a mistake clearly.” “Mad Men” concluded its celebrated run on AMC this year. Andy Samberg, in his first time as host, took the stage with a taped song-and-dance number poking fun at the rising number of scripted television shows, and with a joke that acknowledged one of the running themes of all awards shows this year. “The big story this year is diversity,” he said from the stage at the Microsoft Theater. “This is the
Julia LouisDreyfus won the award for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for “Veep” at the Emmy Awards on Sunday night.
most diverse group of nominees in Emmys history. Racism is over! Don’t fact-check that.” And though many of the awards were won by the old guard — Julia Louis-Dreyfus won best actress in a comedy series for “Veep” for the fourth straight time — there was new diversity on the awards front. Jeffrey Tambor won the Emmy for outstanding actor in a comedy series for his portrayal of a transgender woman in Amazon’s “Transparent,” a notable victory for the streaming service. Tambor, who also won a Golden Globe in January, thanked transgender people for “your patience, thank you for your courage, thank you for your stories, thank you for your inspiration, and thank you for letting us be part of the change.” Jill Soloway, the creator of “Transparent,” won her first Emmy for directing. Diversity — and a lack of it —
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has been a topic of intense discussion surrounding awards shows in the past year. There was an outcry at this year’s Academy Awards over a lack of racial diversity among the nominees. The backlash was enough for the awards to earn a hashtag that spread on social media, #OscarsSoWhite. (Though “Empire,” with its largely black cast, was an enormous ratings success for Fox, the show received only one Emmy nomination in the major categories.) With her victory for “Veep,” Louis-Dreyfus won her sixth Emmy over all. “What a great honor it must be for you to honor me tonight,” she said, before pausing for a beat. “I’m sorry, Donald Trump said that. It’s getting trickier and trickier to satirize this stuff.” Tony Hale, who plays the president’s bumbling aide on the show, won best supporting actor in a comedy series for the second time. “Veep” also won the award for outstanding writing in a comedy series. Its victory for best comedy snapped a five-year winning streak for ABC’s “Modern Family.” HBO’s “Olive Kitteridge,” about a grumpy math teacher and her forgiving husband set in small town Maine, dominated the limited series categories, winning best actress (Frances McDormand), best actor (Richard Jenkins), best supporting actor (Bill Murray), for writing and for the series itself. JOHN KOBLIN
Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Allison Janney, “Mom,” CBS. Writing, Comedy Series: Simon Blackwell, Amando Iannucci, Tony Roche, “Veep,” HBO. Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Tony Hale, “Veep,” HBO. Directing, Comedy Series: Jill Soloway, “Transparent,” Amazon Instant Video. Actor, Comedy Series: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent,” Amazon Instant Video. Actress, Comedy Series: Julia LouisDreyfus, “Veep,” HBO. Reality-Competition Program: “The Voice,” NBC. Writing, Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special: Jane Anderson, “Olive Kitteridge,” HBO. Supporting Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Regina King, “American Crime,” ABC. Directing, Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special: Lisa Cholodenko, “Olive Kitteridge,” HBO. Supporting Actor, Limited Series or Movie: Bill Murray, “Olive Kitteridge,” HBO. Actress, Limited Series or Movie: Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge,” HBO.
NAVY NEWS
Richardson relieves Greenert as CNO From Chief of Naval Operations Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Adm. John Richardson relieved Adm. Jonathan Greenert as the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in a ceremony, Sept. 18, at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Richardson became the 31st CNO, the Navy’s most senior officer and, as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a principle advisor to the Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Defense and the President. The Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, spoke to mark the significance of the event. “We are here today to mark the change of command in one of the most storied, most historic and iconic posts
in our military or any military-the Chief of Naval Operations,” said Mabus. “This job has been held by Leahy and King and Nimitz and Burke and Zumwalt-the very title implies action. It’s the Chief of Naval Operations.” Mabus added, “It
is fitting that this ceremony takes place here at the Naval Academy, where the Navy legacy and legend for both our outgoing and incoming CNO began.” Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, the senior Pentagon official
in attendance, presided over the event. Carter spoke of the Navy’s many accomplishments during Greenert’s tenure. “With Adm. Greenert standing the watch, America’s Sailors and Marines have been where it matters, when it matters rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific, where much of America’s future will be written; reinforcing our longstanding NATO allies; supporting our forces ashore in the turbulent Middle East; and providing humanitarian assistance and disaster relief the world over, in a way that only America can and does do,” said Carter.
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PEARL HARBOR (Sept. 17, 2015) Assistant Teak Deck Supervisor David Kinney uses a circular saw to cut away the chalking between the teak wood deck. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Mark Logico/Released)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 17, 2015) Sailors help a pilot-in-training during pre-flight checks on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). Dwight D. Eisenhower is underway conducting carrier qualifications. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jameson E. Lynch/Released)
CNO MESSAGE TO THE FLEET am honored to be your next Chief of Naval Operations. I’d first like to thank Admiral Jon I Greenert and his wife Darleen for their magnificent
service to our country for over 40 years, and especially for their role in leading our Navy these past four years. They have been tireless and superb advocates for our Sailors and their families, our Navy, and our Nation. I hold some core beliefs about our Navy that guide me. The Naval profession is founded on bonds of trust and confidence - between us and the American people, and amongst us as members of our Navy team. The Navy must be at sea, underway. We must be present in key areas of the world protecting American interests - enabling access to international markets and trade, responding to crises, and providing security. We must be able to operate seamlessly with others. Our premier partner is the United States Marine Corps. We also operate closely with our fellow services, and our allies and partners. The muscle and bones of the Navy are our ships, submarines and aircraft - highly capable, exercised daily, well equipped, and ready to operate at sea and far from home. But the heart and soul of the Navy is you, our people. Every day around the world, you can be found on, under, and over the sea. You are smart, resourceful, committed Americans who want to be part of something special - to serve our country and to be part of a high-performing team. You are rightly proud of what you do and you are a formidable force.
I believe in the strength that flows from our families. The Richardsons are a typical Navy family - 20 moves, dozens of schools, stationed all around the country and overseas. Today, the Richardson family, like all Navy families, remains strong and ready to serve our nation. America sends us their sons and daughters, their brothers and sisters, their fathers and mothers, to join our team and go to sea with us - if needed, into harm’s way. In return for that commitment, we must provide a positive and respectful environment where we can all thrive and reach our highest potential. Finally, the American people demand, as they should, that we execute our mission in a prudent and responsible way, worthy of their confidence in us. It is a privilege to work with, and especially to lead, such a capable and creative team. Despite growing challenges and significant strains, you continue to go to sea to do what must be done today, and you create and innovate in order to prevail tomorrow. You learn faster, adapt quicker, and fight harder than any adversary. The bottom line is that in any situation, in any competition, and certainly in any fight, America expects that their Navy will find a way to win - and we will. Thank you for your leadership and service to keep our nation secure. I am extremely proud to be part of this amazing team. I will give everything I have to honor and strengthen the bonds of trust and confidence we share, and that make our Navy the strongest that has ever sailed the seas.
HOMETOWN HERO
Brian “Porkins” Schussler LIEUTENANT
DEPT/DIV: hs-11 HOMETOWN: Buffalo, New York WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY: I wanted to fly the X-Wing but they had me fly helicopters instead.
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Flying. PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Destroying the death star and earning my wings. SHOUT OUT: HS-11 and to
Lt. Bice.
FUN
FACT
I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life. I once was an ice road trucker.
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Raheem Malloy AVIATION BOATSWAIN’S MATE (LAUNCH/RECOVERY) AIRMAN DEPT/div: Air/V-2 HOMETOWN: Greensboro, North Carolina WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY:
The NWUs
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Doing maintenance on the catapults. PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Going on deployments. SHOUT OUT: V-2 and all of my liberty buddies who keep me out of trouble.
FUN
FACT
I can rap.
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