ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
TUESDAY EDITION
July 28, 2015
RATING IN THE SPOTLIGHT
LEGALMAN
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to the Knighthawks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anna Van Nuys/Released
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ecretary of the Navy John H. Chaffee approved the Rating Review Board’s recommendation to establish the legalman rating January 4, 1972. On October 4, 1972, 275 petty officers converted to the rating. Fast forward to today, and the Navy now has more than 630 legalmen supporting 730 judge advocates. Many laws have changed since 1972, and as the legal landscape evolves, the need for trained and motivated legalman aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) remains. “Legalmen are the backbone of the [Judge Advocates’] community,” said Lt. Cmdr. Justin Hawks, TR’s command judge advocate. “I rely on them extensively to help with things like non-judicial punishment packages, administrative separation packages, the preparation of powers of attorney and the preparation of routine correspondence. Without legalmen in this office, we couldn’t operate at the
high level that we do. I need them involved, I need them engaged and they consistently deliver.” As the Navy’s paralegals, legalmen are experts in matters concerning military and civilian legal systems and are charged with preparing a multitude of court documents. “You spend about six months in Newport, Rhode Island, going to school,” said Legalman 2nd Class Jacob Bassett. “In school, you learn a lot of different stuff about the judicial system, not only in the military but in the civilian world as well. Professionalism is one of the things you learn quickly. People who come in here may be going through a really difficult time in their lives and the last thing that they need is someone to be really unprofessional or overall just mean.” For Sailors interested in becoming a legalman, attention to detail is a requirement for success. “Attention to detail is one of the most difficult things legal work requires from you.” said Bassett.
“It’s not just doing the right thing or knowing the process. You have to be able to look over some of these documents with a fine-toothed comb and point out very small mistakes, and then you also have to be able to look at the big picture as well. Attention to detail is a daily struggle around here. If you can hone that skill, that ability, then you will be a very, very successful legalman.” Legalmen are integral to the mission and the command. Legalmen have a chance to make a positive impact within the command because of the high visibility of their rating. “I think it’s the fact that what we do gets seen on a first-hand basis. If I write up a package, I know it’s going to be in the CO’s hands, [and] I know it’s going to be in the XO’s hands that week,” said Legalman 1st Class Shamia Briscoe. “So you see your impact on the command … like … the About Face program, which helps junior Sailors who get in trouble,” said Briscoe. “The XO can dismiss [a case] and [About Face] allows them a second chance. You can get with those Sailors and say, ‘The decisions and the choices you’re making now could potentially take you down a bad path.’ So being a legalman, I was able to bring that idea [of the About Face program] to the CO and then have the ability to implement positive change. I don’t necessarily know if I was doing another job that I would have that frontline connection with the command but as a legalman, I do. “
Coming up with innovative solutions, such as the About Face program, is one of the many expectations Hawks has for his team, and he trusts his crew to shoulder the load. “I expect a lot of things out of my legalmen,” said Hawks. “First and foremost, I expect them to be competent in their job. I need them to understand how the military justice process works, including everything from a low-level counseling all the way to something as complicated as a general court-martial.” Having thorough knowledge of the military justice system isn’t the only thing legalmen are reponsible for. Hawks relies on legalmen for their perspective. “I also rely on them for their judgment,” said Hawks. “We are constantly dealing with sensitive issues in the legal profession, and I will often turn to a legalman … and ask them: ‘What do you think? How do you feel about a case? Is the command moving in the right direction? Does this make sense from an enlisted perspective?’ And those kinds of frank discussions that I have with legalmen help me shape my recommendations to the command.” Bassett is grateful for the opportunity to be a legalman because of the unique nature of the rating. “I honestly believe that this is the best rating in the entire Navy,” said Basset. “Not just because of the environment that I work in but because the work is interesting. It’s not tedious. Everything that I work on is new and different, there’s a story behind it.”
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I really enjoyed just talking to people on the ship. Everyone was so friendly and so open about their experiences and everyone is really honest about it. If they don’t like something, they’ll be straight forward about it and give criticism and say what’s wrong. It was an absolute blast getting to know everyone. There was an overwhelming amount of information we had to learn and process, but the most valuable thing we learned probably would be the idea of what makes a good officer and what it’s really like to live and work on a ship. MIDN 3/C MAUDE MANZI
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I liked getting to meet all the people here. I didn’t know there were so many jobs in the Navy. Every single person that’s here is important. You couldn’t run this ship without every person on board. No matter how little the job may seem, it’s important for us to make them feel like they count. MIDN 3/C ERIN EVANS
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The most important thing I took away from the cruise was having more appreciation for the [junior enlisted] because they are the backbone of the carrier and the Navy. Also, the leadership panels with the chiefs, junior officers, HODs and mustangs were very useful to help us learn about the different leadership styles and career paths.
I loved the RAS. I had no idea how everything went down. The Sailors out here worked harder than I ever could have imagined. It’s not what I expected. It’s a whole different kind of world out here for sure.
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The most important thing about this cruise was the interaction I had with the enlisted men and women on board. I gained a new level of respect for the Sailors here working behind the scenes to keep TR running smoothly and efficiently. I admired the hard work and dedication. MIDN 3/C SCOTT SERRATO
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I loved the [helicopter] ride. I want to be a helicopter pilot, so that was a great experience. I talked to the pilots too, learning about their everyday life and their mission plan. It was definitely exciting. Also, I’ve learned that ship life is more hectic than I could have imagined. I really gained an appreciation of the enlisted’s daily life. These people do a lot of work every day, and some only get three or four hours of sleep. So, I think the biggest thing I can take away is appreciation. MIDN 3/C CASEY KRAMER
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HOME What your family is saying.
Welcome CO. Thank you for your service and thanks to my grandson ABEAN Littles and all of the Sailors for their service. Babara Seay July 24
Halfway there, Josh Devosha. Can’t wait to see you in San Diego. Love, Mom and the rest of your North Carolina family. Lori Devosha July 24
I learned about all these jobs I didn’t know about and how important they were to the mission of the ship. We did a bunch of different things, we had a lot of different leadership conferences. We also followed around petty officers that showed us what they did on a day-to-day basis. The biggest thing I can take away from this is knowing how important every person is. No matter what they do day to day, it impacts everything.
Love & Hugs Austin. Happy halfway point in your deployment. XOXO
Janet Robertson-Wilhite July 24 It’s great to hear you are at the halfway point. Your new commander seems very interested in keeping families up on information that we need to feel included. Jeanne Tully Raney July 25
MIDN 3/C TARA DOTZAUER Halfway! Seems like forever already! Can’t wait to see my son!
Tim Carey July 24
Midnight in New York F R O M T H E PA G E S O F
MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015
G.O.P. Rethinks The Way It Talks About Abortion WASHINGTON — Rick Perry’s voice softens when he talks about the joy he gets from looking at his iPad and seeing “that 20-week picture of my first grandbaby.” Marco Rubio says ultrasounds of his sons and daughters reinforced how “they were children — and they were our children.” Rand Paul recalls watching fetuses suck their thumbs. And Chris Christie says the ultrasound of his first daughter changed his views on abortion. If it seems like they are reading from the same script, they are. With help from a well-funded, well-researched and invigorated anti-abortion movement, Republican politicians have refined the way they are talking about pregnancy and abortion rights. The goal, social conservatives say, is to frame their opposition to abortion in a way that shifts the debate away from the “war on women” paradigm that has proved so harmful to their party’s image. Democrats were jolted by the latest and perhaps most disruptive effort yet in this line of attack by activists who want to outlaw abortion: surreptitiously recorded video of Planned Parenthood doctors casually discussing how they extract tissue from aborted fetuses. It is unclear whether the new offensive will ultimately succeed in crippling Planned Parenthood. But with the presidential campaign revving up, Democrats and abortion rights supporters are bracing for a sustained, sophisticated and coordinated effort to force a debate on the uncomfortable moral and ethical questions that abortion raises. “Those of us who’ve grown up in the movement have learned a lot,” said Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life. She said, for example, that her group now discourages participants from using the disturbing images of abortion that so often appear at rallies and protests. “You say things differently,” Mancini added. “You see what really counts.” JEREMY W. PETERS
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Death in Texas County Highlights Divide PRAIRIE VIEW, Tex. — When Sandra Bland enrolled in 2005 at Prairie View A&M University, the historically black institution founded here almost 140 years ago, its students were still waging a civil rights war that had ended elsewhere decades before: a legal battle, against white Waller County officials, for the right to vote in the place they lived. It took years and a federal court order, but the students won. When Bland returned here the morning of July 9, driving 16 hours from Chicago to interview for a job at her alma mater, the Justice Department had abandoned its court-ordered oversight of students’ voter registration, the campus had its own polling place, and the county had, in one key respect, passed a racial milestone. Four days later, Bland was dead in a county jail cell after a routine traffic stop by a state trooper escalated into a violent confrontation not 500 yards from the university’s entrance. And any talk of milestones gave way to questions about whether the
county’s checkered history of race relations had set the stage for a tragedy. Prairie View now joins a list of places — Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, Cleveland, Ne w York and others — where mainstream assumptions about progress in race relations have Sandra Bland been challenged, if not dashed. But here, in a county where most blacks and whites are still buried in separate cemeteries, those assumptions have been especially shaky. “The caste system still exists here,” said LaVaughn Mosley, a former counselor at Prairie View A&M who had been friends with Bland since her undergraduate days. Local officials mostly disagree. “We are not a bunch of backwoods, red-necked racists,” said County Judge Carbett J. Duhon III, the region’s chief executive
officer, who is known as Trey and is white. “Far from it.” Some African-American elected officials also insist that the vestiges of racism are being addressed. “It’s not the Waller County of the ’60s and ’70s,” said Mayor Michael S. Wolfe Sr., the third black mayor of Hempstead, the county seat. But at a time when deaths of African-Americans after confrontations with law enforcement already have the nation on tenterhooks, the county’s legacy of racial disparities has only catalyzed suspicions about almost everything that happened to Bland. Johnie Jones, who was president of the Prairie View A&M student body in 2009 and fought for voting rights, has followed the news with sorrow and dismay. “It just blew my mind that we were still in that same place and haven’t really moved forward,” said Jones, who graduated with Bland that year and described her as smart, generous and outspoken. “How could we still be dealing with these issues in 2015?” (NYT)
Raising Wage Moves Economy Into Unknown WASHINGTON — The fight for a $15 minimum wage has gained momentum in New York, California and other places around the country in recent months. But as a national strategy to raise incomes at the bottom of the pay scale, it faces severe obstacles, both political and economic. In many states, particularly those governed by Republicans in the South and the Midwest, there is little chance of raising the minimum wage above the federal level, which has stood at $7.25 since 2009. Congressional Democrats have introduced a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020, but Republicans typically argue that setting a wage floor costs jobs and hurts the very people it is intended to help. Even where the proposals are politically viable, the economic challenge could prove daunting. That is because the sheer magni-
tude of the recent minimum wage increases sets up an economics experiment the country has never seen before. “There could be quite large shares of workers affected, and research doesn’t have a lot to say about that,” said Jared Bernstein, a former White House economist now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who generally favors higher minimum wages. “We can’t assume that because the proposal is out of sample it’s going to blow up. But we have to be less certain.” A number of researchers have found that modestly higher minimum wages can raise incomes for low-wage workers without reducing the number of jobs in an area. Their evidence rests mostly on comparisons of neighboring areas with differing minimum wages. The seminal study in this vein examined restaurants on both
sides of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border before and after New Jersey raised its minimum wage in the early 1990s. It found no evidence that employment there fell as a result. While economists using other methods continue to find a range of job losses, their recent estimates of losses in the restaurant business tend to be small. In any case, wage activists say, the narrow economic logic of the minimum wage misses the broader rationale for their efforts. “Raising the minimum wage for everyone says something profound and profoundly good about the society we want to live in,” said Dan Cantor, national director of the Working Families Party, which has helped secure minimum wage increases in several cities and states across the country. “That all work has dignity and worth, and people deserve a living wage.” NOAM SCHEIBER
INTERNATIONAL
President Gives Some Tough Love During Kenya Trip NAIROBI, Kenya — At one point during his weekend in Kenya, President Obama acknowledged the delicate nature of deciding which of his vast array of half cousins and stepaunts should be invited to dinner. “The people of Kenya,” he said wryly, “will be familiar with the need to manage family politics sometimes.” Over the course of two days here, Obama tried to manage the broader family politics of his father’s land, a country that considers him one of its own, even as it has played a singular role in his own life and career. He nonetheless delivered a tough-love message before leaving on Sunday, challenging Kenya to tackle corruption, sexism and division. For the first African-American president returning to his ancestral home, a moment unlike any before in the history of either country, the visit was powerful and yet, at times, strangely impersonal. At some moments, Obama seemed genuinely moved by the experience, and he reflected on the country’s impact on him. At other times, he talked dispassionately about policy issues, sounding much like he does in plenty of other countries. He made it clear that he resented the security bubble that prevented him from visiting his father’s village or even just strolling down the streets of the capital, Nairobi, as he did as a young man. Kenyans clearly craved his attention, desperate in many cases to see him, talk with him or touch him, but they were largely kept at a distance. In making his personal connection, Obama used it to gently push for progress. He noted that his grandfather had served as a cook for the British Army, and that his father had gone to America to seek an education. “In many ways, their lives offered snapshots of Kenya’s history, but they also told us something about future,” he said. “They show the enormous barriers to progress that so many Kenyans faced just one or two generations ago.” “Kenya is at a crossroads,” he said, “a moment filled with peril but also enormous promise.” PETER BAKER
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‘Sea Slaves’ Put in Peril in Pursuit of Pet Food SONGKHLA, Thailand — Lang Long’s ordeal began in the back of a truck. After watching his younger siblings go hungry because their family’s rice patch in Cambodia could not provide for everyone, he accepted a trafficker’s offer to travel across the Thai border for a construction job. It was his chance to start over. But when he arrived, Long was kept for days by armed men in a room near the port at Samut Prakan, more than a dozen miles southeast of Bangkok. He was then herded with six other migrants onto a shoddy wooden ship. It was the start of three brutal years in captivity at sea. “I cried,” said Long, 30, recounting how he was resold twice between fishing boats. After repeated escape attempts, one captain shackled him by the neck whenever other boats neared. Long’s crews trawled primarily for forage fish, which are small and cheaply priced. Much of this catch comes from the waters off Thailand, where Long was held, and is sold to the United States, typically for canned cat and dog food or feed for poultry, pigs and farm-raised fish that Americans consume. The misery endured by Long, who was eventually rescued by an aid group, is not uncommon in the maritime world. Labor abuse at sea can be so severe that the boys and men who are its victims might as well be captives from a bygone era. In interviews, those who fled recounted horrific violence: the sick cast overboard, the defiant beheaded, the insubordinate sealed for days below deck in a
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The living quarters on the fishing boats are cramped. dark, fetid fishing hold. The harsh practices have intensified in recent years, a review of hundreds of accounts from escaped deckhands provided to police, immigration and human rights workers shows. That is because of lax maritime labor laws and an insatiable global demand for seafood even as fishing stocks are depleted. “Life at sea is cheap,” said Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia division. “And conditions out there keep getting worse.” While forced labor exists throughout the world, nowhere is the problem more pronounced than here in the South China Sea, especially in the Thai fishing fleet, which faces an annual shortage of about 50,000 mariners, based on United Nations estimates. The shortfall is primarily filled by using migrants, mostly from Cambodia and Myanmar. Many of them, like Long, are lured across the border by traffickers only to become so-called sea slaves in floating labor camps.
Often they are beaten for the smallest transgressions, like stitching a torn net too slowly or mistakenly placing a mackerel into a bucket for herring, according to a United Nations survey of about 50 Cambodian men and boys sold to Thai fishing boats. Of those interviewed in the 2009 survey, 29 said they had witnessed their captain or other officers kill a worker. The migrants, who are relatively invisible because most are undocumented, disappear beyond the horizon on “ghost ships” — unregistered vessels that the Thai government does not know exist. Traveling the coast of the South China Sea, it can seem that every migrant has his own story of abuse. San Oo, 35, a soft-spoken Burmese man with weather-beaten skin, predicted that until ship captains are prosecuted, little will improve. He described how on his first day of two and a half years in captivity, his captain warned that he had killed the seaman Oo was replacing. “If you disobey or run or get sick I will do it again,” he recalled his captain saying. Pak, a 38-year-old Cambodian who fled a Thai trawler last year, ended up on the Kei Islands, in Indonesia’s eastern Banda Sea. The United Nations estimated that hundreds of migrants there escaped fishing boats over the last decade. “You belong to the captain,” Pak said, recounting watching a man so desperate that he jumped overboard and drowned. “So he can sell you if he wants.” IAN URBINA
In Brief Turkey Calls for NATO Meeting Turkey on Sunday called for a meeting of the country’s NATO allies to discuss threats to its security and its airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Syria and Kurdish rebels in Iraq. There was no immediate confirmation of the report by TRT television, which came hours after authorities said militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., detonated a car bomb near Diyarbakir, killing two soldiers and wounding four others. (AP)
Scandal Engulfs a British Lord “Scandals make good headlines,” wrote John Sewel, a member of the House of Lords, in a recent blog post about the image of the British Parliament. On Sunday, he featured prominently in those headlines,
as he faced a police investigation into allegations that he had taken cocaine with two prostitutes in a London apartment. Lord Sewel, 69, who is married, was a deputy speaker of the House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber of Parliament, and head of a committee responsible for upholding standards. He resigned those positions on Sunday. (NYT)
Assad Says Army Lacks Manpower In a striking admission, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said on Sunday that the country’s army faced a manpower shortage and had ceded some areas to insurgents in order to hold onto other regions deemed more important. He also acknowledged in a speech televised from Damascus, the Syrian capital, that many Syrians could not watch the address because of the lack of electricity in many areas. (NYT)
NATIONAL
MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015
Trail of Frustration on Aging Northeast Corridor In Maryland, a century-old rail tunnel needed emergency repairs this winter because of soil erosion from leaks, causing widespread train delays. In Connecticut, an aging swing bridge failed to close twice last summer, stopping train service and stranding passengers. And last week, New Jersey Transit riders had a truly torturous experience. There were major delays on four days because of problems with overhead electrical wires and a power substation, leaving thousands of commuters stalled for hours. These troubles have become all too common on the Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest rail sector, which stretches from Washington to Boston and carries about 750,000 riders each day on Amtrak and several commuter rail lines. The corridor’s ridership has doubled in the last 30 years even as its old and overloaded infrastructure of tracks, power lines, bridges and tunnels has begun to wear out. And with Amtrak and local transit agencies struggling to secure funding, many fear the disruptions will continue to worsen in the years ahead. “We’re seeing two trends converging in an extraordinary way,” said Thomas Wright, president
Amtrak, which owns a majority of the tracks, stations and equipment along the Northeast Corridor, has been unable to get the money it says it needs, partly because of partisan politics but also because of the way it was set up. In the meantime, the deterioration of the corridor has caused MATT ROTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES a trail of woe for The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel in the trains, and Maryland, opened in 1873, is a choke point. passengers, using it. At Princeof the Regional Plan Association, ton Junction train station in New a research and advocacy group. Jersey on Friday morning, an an“Ridership is hitting all-time nouncement informed the crowdhighs on the Northeast Corridor ed platform that trains to New at the same time that the system York’s Pennsylvania Station were is just too brittle and does not delayed by 30 minutes. Soumitra Patil, 37, laughed. have the ability to withstand heat waves, storms and other inci- Patil, who works in information technology at a bank in Manhatdents.” The delays are not just misera- tan, said he had missed meetings ble for the passengers stuck on the because of the delays. “I’m playing catch-up the whole trains; they have a ripple effect, sending more traffic onto roads day because of this,” he said. EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and wasting hours for commuters and DAVID W. CHEN who could be working.
Boy Scouts Are Poised to End Ban on Gay Leaders The Boy Scouts of America is expected on Monday to end its blanket ban on gay leaders — a turning point for an organization that has been in turmoil. But some scouting groups will still be able to limit leadership jobs to heterosexuals. To gain the acquiescence of conservative religious groups that sponsor many dens and troops, like the Mormon and Roman Catholic churches, the policy will allow church-run units to pick leaders who agree with their moral precepts. “There are differences of opinion, and we need to be respectful of them,” said Michael Harrison, a businessman who led the Boy Scouts in Orange County, Calif., and is one of many leaders who lobbied internally for change. “It doesn’t mean the Mormons have to pick a gay scoutmaster, but please don’t tell the Unitarians they can’t.” Already struggling to reverse a
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The Scouts likely will give church-run groups leeway. long-term decline in membership, the Boy Scouts have been increasingly consumed in the last two decades by battles over the exclusion of gay people that threatened to fracture the organization. Conservative partners saw the policy as a bulwark against unwanted social change, but the anti-gay stance was costing the Boy Scouts public support as well as corporate funders, and lately had brought the threat of lawsuits.
In a contentious meeting in 2013, the Scouts decided to permit participation by gay youths but not adults. On Monday, the Scouts will relax their policy barring openly gay adults from serving as den leaders, scoutmasters and camp counselors. The Scouts will also on Monday bar discrimination based on sexual orientation in all official facilities and paying jobs across the country, heading off potential suits and violations of employment discrimination laws. But to keep some of the larger church sponsors in the fold, Scout executives concluded that they must allow for diverse policies for local volunteers. The step, if incomplete in the view of many gay rights campaigners, is nonetheless a momentous one for an organization that has struggled to keep the allegiance of conservatives as it faced open rebellion from more liberal regions. ERIK ECKHOLM
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In Brief Gov. Jindal Proposes Tougher Gun Laws Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana called for tougher gun laws across the country on Sunday, breaking his silence on the issue three days after a gunman opened fire in a movie theater in the state’s fourth-largest city. In carefully crafted language on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Jindal called for states to adopt laws similar to Louisiana’s that feed information about potential gun buyers’ mental illness into a federal background check system. Jindal, who received an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association, is one of 16 candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination for 2016. (NYT)
Spelman Terminates Cosby Endowment Spelman College has discontinued a professorship endowed by Bill Cosby, a university spokeswoman said. After suspending the professorship last year in the wake of mounting accusations of sexual assault against Cosby, the college terminated the program and returned the related funds to the Clara Elizabeth Jackson Carter Foundation established by Cosby’s wife, Camille, the spokeswoman, Audrey Arthur, said in a brief statement. Several other colleges have also cut ties with Cosby in the past year, including his alma maters Temple University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (NYT)
Bobbi Kristina Brown, Singers’ Child, Dies Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the pop stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, who grew up in the shadow of their fame and their tumultuous relationship, became heir to Houston’s estate after her death in 2012 and created a media frenzy after she was found unconscious in a bathtub on Jan. 31, died on Sunday. She was 22. Her death was confirmed by a statement from the Houston family. Brown was found unconscious in a bathtub in her townhouse in a suburb of Atlanta, and placed into a medically induced coma. Houston was found submerged in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 11, 2012. (NYT)
BUSINESS
MONDAY, JULY 27, 2015
Senate Adds Export-Import Bank to Key Bill WASHINGTON — In a rare and fiery weekend session, the Senate voted Sunday to resurrect the federal Export-Import Bank, handing the Republican Party’s most conservative wing a major defeat and setting up a showdown this week with House leaders divided over the moribund export credit agency. The bipartisan vote, 67 to 26, broke a filibuster and allowed supporters to attach a measure to a three-year highway and infrastructure bill that would reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. That bill is expected to pass the Senate early this week. The agency’s authorization expired on June 30, halting all new loan guarantees and other assistance to foreign customers seeking to purchase goods from American companies. The agency continues to service existing loans.
A clear majority in the House supports resurrecting the agency, but it will be up to House leaders to decide whether the chamber will get a vote, or whether to allow the bank’s powerful opponents to stand in the way. The agency has become the subject of a kind of proxy war between the Republican Party’s ideological conservatives, who have called the bank an unnecessary bastion of crony capitalism, and its pro-business wing, which sees it as vital to American exporters competing against foreign governments that routinely support their industries. But Sunday’s session showed that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers still hold some sway in a Republican Party increasingly willing to buck business lobbies.
“With more than 60 export credit agencies enabling our foreign competitors to seize opportunities away from workers, it’s critical that Congress restores this important tool for American exports,” Jay Timmons, the president of the manufacturers’ association, said on Sunday. The Senate vote does not assure that the bank will begin new lending operations, however. The House passed a shortterm highway bill this month that would replenish the federal highway trust fund until mid-December as lawmakers work to finance a longer-term infrastructure measure. If the House rejects the Senate’s highway bill before it leaves town Thursday for August recess, it would also leave the Ex-Im Bank languishing. JONATHAN WEISMAN
U.S. Fines Fiat Chrysler $105 Million Over Recalls DETROIT — In their most aggressive crackdown yet on auto safety, federal regulators on Sunday levied a record penalty of $105 million against Fiat Chrysler Automobiles for failing to complete 23 safety recalls covering more than 11 million vehicles. The civil penalty is the largest ever imposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on an automaker for recall violations, surpassing the $70 million fine imposed last year on Honda for faulty airbags. “This civil penalty puts manufacturers on notice that the department will act when they do not take their obligations to repair
safety defects seriously,” said the secretary of transportation, Anthony Foxx. In a consent agreement released on Sunday, Fiat Chrysler admitted to violating federal rules requiring timely recalls and notifications to vehicle owners, dealers and regulators. The sweeping consent order also requires the company to buy back some recalled vehicles and submit to outside oversight of its safety practices. In a statement, the automaker acknowledged the safety violations and agreed to the record penalties. “We also accept the resulting
consequences with renewed resolve to improve our handling of recalls and re-establish the trust our customers place in us,” the company said. The agency said the civil penalty was broken down into a cash penalty of $70 million, plus an agreement that Fiat Chrysler would spend at least $20 million on meeting performance requirements detailed in the order. The government’s action against Fiat Chrysler is the latest in a series of moves by the agency’s new administrator, Mark Rosekind, to turn up the pressure on automakers to fix defective vehicles. BILL VLASIC
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In Brief Teva Eyes Allergan Teva Pharmaceuticals is in advanced talks to buy the generic drug division of Allergan for about $45 billion, a person briefed on the matter said on Saturday. A deal could be announced as soon as Monday, the person said, though talks are continuing and could still fall apart. Should an agreement be reached, it would be the latest huge deal in a wave of mergers within the health care space involving drug makers, insurers and others. (NYT)
Freeze Halts Loans Demand for governmentbacked small-business loans is at a record high, but the momentum came to a halt last week when the agency that guarantees those loans reached its limit for the year and suspended its program. Potential borrowers were pinning their hopes on a House vote on Monday that would allow the lending to resume. The freeze was put in place for the first time in a decade when the Small Business Administration hit its limit of $18.75 billion for 2015. Over 900 applicants were awaiting approvals. (NYT)
‘Pixels’ Falls Short “Pixels” became the fourth original misfire in as many years for Adam Sandler, generating a lackluster $24 million in ticket sales over the weekend. “Pixels” cost $90 million to make. “AntMan” was again the No. 1 draw, collecting $24.8 million. Analysts were mixed as to whether the shooting at a Louisiana theater affected ticket sales. (NYT)
Ads for Podcasts Test the Line Between Story and Product Sponsor For the last several months, Lisa Chow, a reporter for and cohost of “StartUp,” a podcast about starting a business, has been interviewing engineers at Ford Motor. But Chow was not interviewing Ford employees for a news story. She was making an advertisement for Ford to run on her podcast, between news segments. Podcasts — audio stories that can be saved and played on a computer or smartphone — have reached new levels of popularity, as illustrated by the success last year of “Serial,” a story of a
16-year-old murder case that was downloaded more than 80 million times. Behind much of podcasting’s growth, though, is the embrace of ads in which hosts gush over products or even do reporting for advertising spots. That has led to a clash between those coming from public radio and those with a commercial radio background, with some expressing concern that journalists, who rely on trust, are using their position of confidence to push products. Many podcasters say they also try to be clear with listeners about
what is an ad and what is journalism, separating them with music and disclaimers. But the distinction has not always been clear to others recruited to help make the ads. Last November, a Gimlet employee emailed Linda Sharps, a parenting blogger from Eugene, Ore., to ask if a producer could interview her 9-year-old son about a website he had built with the online publishing platform Squarespace. Sharps eagerly said yes. Only when the interview aired did she learn it was for a Squarespace ad.
Feeling duped, she began posting on Twitter about the show’s advertising policies. Alex Blumberg, a co-founder of Gimlet and the host of “StartUp,” called Sharps and apologized, saying that it had been an error. Gimlet eventually aired an episode of “StartUp” about the story. Sharps later said she forgave Gimlet. “My son was a little bummed at the time,” Sharps said recently in an email. “I think his reaction was something like, ‘I’m in an ad? But I hate ads! I skip them on YouTube all the time.’ ” DINO GRANDONI
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Discs Still in the Mail, but Now More Efficiently Using Algorithms FREMONT, Calif. — It was just past sunrise on an early-spring morning at Netflix’s DVD operations here, where metallic arms whirred in a giant glass box and rolling carts holding millions of DVDs lined the walls. The company’s iconic red envelopes buzzed through an assembly line at the other end of the warehouse. About 3,400 discs zip through the rental return machine each hour, five times as many as when teams of Netflix employees used to process the discs by hand. Called the Amazing Arm by engineers here, the machine symbolizes the way Netflix has managed to maintain a profitable physical DVD operation even as it transforms itself into a global streaming service. Netflix now counts more than 65 million streaming members in more than 50 countries and plans to expand across the world in the next 18 months. But that breakneck growth comes at a cost: The company expects its streaming business to just break even globally through 2016 as it pours billions of dollars into content and an aggressive expansion. Helping fuel that expansion is the company’s dwindling, often ignored DVD-by-mail operation, known for envelopes that wind up
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As streaming booms, Netflix still pulls in profit from DVDs. under sofa cushions and viewed by many as an anachronism in an era of lightning-fast streaming. Netflix has 5.3 million DVD subscribers, a significant falloff from its peak of about 20 million in 2010; still, the division continues to churn out hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year. And behind the scenes, engineers are trying to improve customer service and streamline the labor-intensive process of returning, sorting and shipping millions of DVDs each week. Netflix has not put a life expectancy on its DVD division. Even as its subscriber count shrinks, the group has kept a core base of
customers, particularly in rural zones with lackluster Internet service and among people who want access to the breadth of its selection, and executives expect it to stay around. To hold on to those customers — and the profits they bring — Netflix continues to deploy state-of-the-art technologies that help trim costs as well as improve customer service. “If you cut back on service, you are going to lose your subscriber base,” said Hank Breeggemann, general manager of Netflix’s DVD division, who has worked for the company for 13 years. “Expect us to continue to ship DVDs for the foreseeable future.” Here at the Fremont hub, Netflix used to employ about 100 people to handle the returning, sorting and shipping of the DVDs. Today, about 25 employees work through the night, largely assisting the machines. Their shifts start at about 2 a.m. By 8 a.m., the discs are out the door and the steady buzz of the machines starts to fade. “Embrace change — that’s what I’ve learned here at Netflix,” Breeggemann said. “If you don’t like change, this is the wrong place. Something is going to change every single day.” EMILY STEEL
Deregulator of Banks Is Set to Testify Before House When the House Financial Services Committee examines the sweeping overhaul of financial regulation overhaul on its fifth anniversary, legislators will first hear on Tuesday from a former senator with longstanding familiarity with banking regulations. That would be Phil Gramm, one of the chief architects of a sweeping deregulation of the financial rules in the late 1990s, a campaign that led to the creation of mega-banks and looser oversight of financial derivatives. The former lawmaker, an economist by training who served in the Senate from 1985 until 2002, has long opposed what he has viewed as overbroad government regulations. “Unless the waters are crimson with the blood of investors, I don’t want you embarking on any regulatory flights of fancy,” he once told Arthur Levitt, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
That note is expected to be sounded again in Gramm’s testimony, according to a prepared version of his introductory re- Phil Gramm marks. He has publicly and repeatedly criticized the regulatory overhaul known as Dodd-Frank. “Much of our slow growth is not just a product of mounting regulatory burden but of legislative and executive actions that have empowered regulators to set rules rather than implement rules set by Congress,” Gramm says in his prepared remarks. Among his criticisms are that Dodd-Frank has imposed new rules so tough that community banks are hard-pressed to compete with newer financial services technology. Such views were frequently
part and parcel of Gramm’s regulatory efforts in the Senate, where he served on the banking committee. Perhaps his signature accomplishment was headlining 1999’s Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which finally dismantled the Glass-Steagall Act that had prohibited the creation of a financial supermarket like Citigroup. “If we were trying to look around for people who contributed mightily to the financial crisis, Sen. Phil Gramm would be on that list,” said James D. Cox, the Brainerd Currie Professor of Law at Duke Law School. For his part, Gramm has defended his record. “I don’t see any evidence that allowing them to affiliate through holding companies had anything to do with the financial crisis nor has anybody ever presented any evidence to suggest that it did,” the former senator told Bloomberg News three years ago. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED
To Rate Character
Computers aren’t just doing hard math problems and showing us cat videos. Increasingly, they judge our character. A company in Palo Alto, Calif., called Upstart has over the last 15 months lent $130 million to people with mostly negligible credit scores. Typically, they are recent graduates without mortgages, car payments or credit card histories. Those are among the things that normally earn a good or bad credit score, but these people haven’t been working that long. So Upstart looks at their SAT scores, what colleges they attended, their majors and their grade-point averages. As much as job prospects, the company is assessing personality. “If you take two people with the same job and circumstances, like whether they have kids, five years later the one who had the higher G.P.A. is more likely to pay a debt,” said Paul Gu, Upstart’s co-founder and head of product. “It’s not whether you can pay. It’s a question of how important you see your obligation.” The idea, validated by data, is that people who did things like double-checking the homework or studying extra in case there was a pop quiz are thorough and likely to honor their debts. “I guess you could call it character, though we haven’t used that label,” Gu said. ZestFinance, founded by Douglas Merrill, writes loans to subprime borrowers through nonstandard data signals. One signal is whether someone has ever given up a prepaid wireless phone number. Where housing is often uncertain, those numbers are a more reliable way to find you than addresses; giving one up may indicate you are willing (or have been forced) to disappear from family or potential employers. That is a bad sign. Zest recently branched into “near prime” borrowers, who have fallen from the prime category or risen from subprime. The question is why these people have changed categories. Zest tries to figure out if a potentially reliable borrower has had some temporary bad luck, like a one-time medical expense. “ ‘Character’ is a loaded term, but there is an important difference between ability to pay and willingness to pay,” Merrill said. “If all you look at is financial transactions, it’s hard to say much about willingness.” QUENTIN HARDY
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Good King Marke’s Nasty Side BAYREUTH, Germany — It’s the season of re-evaluating wellloved characters we thought we knew. First Atticus Finch, a saintly warrior for racial justice in Harper Lee’s “To Kill Opera a Mockingbird,” was review revealed as a patronZachary izing bigot in Lee’s Woolfe newly published companion novel, “Go Set a Watchman.” Now the revisionists have come for King Marke. In a new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” that opened the Bayreuth Festival on Saturday evening, the thoughtful, melancholy king of the opera’s libretto, shocked and saddened by Tristan’s betrayal, is depicted as a brutal, unfeeling tyrant. At the end, rather than blessing the dead bodies of Tristan and Isolde, as Wagner indicated, Marke drags Isolde — here very much alive — away, still insisting on claiming the bride Tristan stole from him. That is not the only intervention by the production’s director, Katharina Wagner, who has led the festival since 2008 with another of the composer’s great-granddaughters, her half sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier. This “Tristan” abjures magic: The title characters, in an agonized mixture of lust and guilt from the start, ecstatically pour out the famous love potion rather than drinking it.
Rear from left, Stephen Gould and Georg Zeppenfeld in “Tristan und Isolde,” with Evelyn Herlitzius and Raimund Nolte. ENRICO NAWRATH/BAYREUTHER FESTSPIELE
The second act is not the lovers’ secluded summer idyll but a fleeting union in a dystopian prison yard into which Marke’s thugs have thrown them to be watched over by guards and pursued by harsh floodlights. This is a post-Stasi, post-Snowden “Tristan,” or perhaps it shows that the composer anticipated what we have tended to consider a recent phenomenon: the death of privacy — even, in this production, in death. At this point, it is news when a production at Bayreuth, known for its cadre of fierce traditionalists, does not get booed, and on Saturday, Wagner and her design team seemed to receive only cheers at their curtain call. Despite the production’s stage-filling sets and its willingness to tinker with details of plot and character, the overall effect on Saturday was modest. It makes few ideological claims,
but also, more problematic, few emotional ones. It is fluent and sensible, but that may not be enough when approaching one of the most disorienting works in operatic history. It was clearer why the soprano Evelyn Herlitzius, announced last month as a replacement for Anja Kampe as Isolde, got her own catcalls: Her voice is angular rather than luxuriant, though her sound has clarity, and she acts with febrile focus. She was the odd woman out in a cast with considerable vocal glamour. Stephen Gould actually sang Tristan with a tone mellower and more lyrical than the pressured bellowing of many other tenors in this impossible role. Best of all was Georg Zeppenfeld as King Marke, his bass rich and pitch black, his malignancy potently underplayed. He made the production’s most surprising revision entirely convincing.
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Police Shut Down Hologram Concert A performance by the Chicago rapper Chief Keef — or rather, his likeness, beamed live via hologram from California — was shut down by the police on Saturday night in Hammond, Ind., after warnings from the mayor’s office that the performer could not appear, even digitally, promoters said on Sunday. The surprise appearance of Chief Keef at Craze Fest, a hiphop festival in Hammond, about 25 miles outside of Chicago, was scheduled after a series of canceled hologram performances by the rapper, born Keith Cozart. Last weekend, a Chicago theChief Keef ater called off a similar show after representatives for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office deemed Chief Keef “an unacceptable role model,” whose music “promotes violence” and whose presence via hologram “posed a significant public safety risk.” Chief Keef, who has rapped in the past about his gang affiliations, had billed the performance as a “Stop the Killing” benefit concert, meant to raise money for Marvin Carr, a fellow Chicago rapper who died in a shooting this month, and Dillan Harris, a 13-month-old child killed by a vehicle fleeing the scene of that shooting. The rapper opted not to appear in the Midwest in the flesh, citing outstanding warrants for his arrest, stemming from two child support cases. Ahead of Saturday’s concert, Chief Keef’s team defiantly teased a live appearance by the hologram in downtown Chicago that night. But as showtime approached, Chief Keef posted on Instagram that the show would be held just over the Illinois border at the Pavilion at Wolf Lake in Hammond. Alki David, chief executive of Hologram USA, which sponsors Chief Keef, said in a statement: “Shame on the mayor and police chief of Hammond for shutting down a voice that can create positive change in a community in desperate need. And for taking away money that could have gone to help the victims’ families.” JOE COSCARELLI
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Walking her dog through a sun-roasted film set in Queens last Monday, Lois Gillman said she couldn’t believe it at first when she heard about the movie being made, just around the corner from her house. “This story had the greatest impact on me as child,” she whispered during a break in filming, adding, “The whole thing was so horrifying.” The movie being shot — “37” — won’t be a horror film. But its story has been haunting New Yorkers for more than 50 years: In the early hours of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed and sexually assaulted while her neighbors allegedly listened. And watched from their windows. Or
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sain of Game 7 Films, moved a little north: Genovese was killed on Austin Street in Kew Gardens; the exteriors of “37” were being shot on Austin Street in Forest Hills. The Tudor architecture there is close enough to pass (some abandoned South Bronx apartment units were used for interiors), and filming on location was the frugal strategy for an 18-day indie shoot. Whether the classic account of the murder is factually true has been disputed for years. The disturbing article in The New York Times at the time (“37 Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police”) got the probable number of witnesses wrong, among other facts. Some people did call the police; at least one neighbor comforted the victim as she died. But over the years, Kitty Genovese has become more than a true-crime statistic. She’s attained the status of a myth aswirl in urban dread. Grasten is Danish, a six-year resident of New York City and, like Genovese at the time of her death, 28 years old. Grasten is also part of a tradition in American cinema that runs from Fritz Lang to Ang Lee, of foreign-born film artists tackling very American stories and issues. “I’m an outsider in America,” Grasten said. “And in a way, it’s nice to be from the outside: I can look at something and say, ‘This is not supposed to be normal.’” She added: “I like the idea of examining the individual in a community, how we want to stay inside our groups to feel safe. How, when we get scared, we pull the blinds and shut the windows.” The socio-psychological phenomena that were studied after the killing — notably the “bystander effect,” by which individuals pass the buck to other witnesses when present at an act of violence — are universal and ongoing, Grasten said. “But it’s easier for an audience to look back at something that happened 50 years ago and reflect on what it says about today.” JOHN ANDERSON
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US 3rd Fleet Holds Change of Command Ceremony By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class K. Cecelia Engrums, U.S. 3rd Fleet Public Affairs
SAN DIEGO (NNS)Vice Adm. Nora Tyson relieved Vice Adm. Kenny Floyd as commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet during a change of command and retirement ceremony held on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) while pierside at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego July 24. During the ceremony, Floyd retired from active duty after 35 years of honorable naval service. He assumed command of U.S. 3rd Fleet in May 2013. Under Floyd’s strategic vision, 3rd Fleet expanded its influence and contributions across all maritime lines of operations, theater security cooperation, experimentation,
disaster relief, and joint operations. At sea, Floyd served in several F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft squadrons, including tours with the Jolly
Rogers of VF-84, the Grim Reapers of VF-101 as an instructor, and the Red Rippers of VF-11. He participated in Operation Desert Storm while serving
as a department head with the Starfighters of VF-33. He served as the executive officer and subsequently the commanding officer of the VF-32 Swordsmen. Other sea tours include executive officer of USS Constellation (CV 64) and deputy commander of Carrier Air Wing 7 where he participated in Operation Enduring Freedom. Ashore, Floyd served owomen of the U.S. Navy. U.S. 3rd Fleet was formed during World War II on March 15, 1943 under the command of Fleet Adm. William F. “Bull” Halsey. It leads naval forces in the Eastern Pacific from the West Coast of North America to the International Date Line.
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (July 25, 2015) - Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Ray Mabus delivers remarks during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Weekend. During his speech Mabus announced the name of the future Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS 23) as USS Cooperstown in honor of the 64 service members who are also members of the Hall of Fame and served during conflicts ranging from the Civil War to the Korean War. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Armando Gonzales/Released)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (July 26, 2015) - Rachael Hendrickson and her son, Chattanooga, Tenn. natives, kneel to view the memorial at the Armed Forces Recruitment Center. The memorial honors the four Marines and one Sailor who died in the Navy Operational Support Center Chattanooga July 16. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Wolpert/Released)
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HOMETOWN: Burlington, Kentucky WHY HE CHOSE NAVY: To get money in order to go to school. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Working with different people and seeing the world.
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I can play the guitar, piano and drums.
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When I was in college I was in Army ROTC. I put my
paperwork in, but the Army never responded. The Navy sent me something saying, “We’re interested in you,” and I said “Hey, I like the water!”
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: There are so many different things to do. I think the Navy provides a huge variety of military experiences so I can go and help people serve their country.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Serving with Marines in combat.
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BROKEN CITY
THE HEAT
I AM LEGEND
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HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
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