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Travis Clark, lead singer of American rock band “We The Kings�, takes a photo with Sailors and Marines during a Navy Entertainment sponsored event aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chris Brown
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SS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) celebrated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month, Jan. 27 on the aft mess decks. TR’s Diversity Committee member Chief Legalman Tiffany Garfield kicked off the event, which aptly followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states. “The United States is the 21st country to legalize same-sex marriage,” said Garfield. “Same-sex couples can now enjoy the same legal rights and benefits as heterosexual married couples and they will be recognized on legalized documents such as birth and death certificates.” Capt. Daniel C. Grieco, TR’s commanding officer, followed Garfield’s introduction and offered his remarks. “I want to thank you all for being here and I’d like to thank the Diversity Committee for all of their hard work in making this celebration happen,”
said Grieco. “Today we celebrate and we come together on the mess decks for some fellowship in recognition of each of our unique aspects that we bring to the fight. It’s important to acknowledge our differences and to embrace them as each and every one of us has something different to offer that makes us special.” Rear Adm. Andrew Lewis, commander, Carrier Strike Group 12, echoed Grieco’s sentiments. “As we celebrate and commemorate LGBT Pride Month I want to talk about leadership and command,” said Lewis. “I’ve led at five commands and I’ve had one priority at every single one. The priority is the mission. The mission that we have right now cannot be achieved without leadership at all levels. We could also not achieve our mission unless we get the most out of every Sailor and Marine regardless of what they look like, what their beliefs are and what their sexual orientation is.” Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Adjon-Alber Watkins was excited to be a part of the celebration. “This is a huge milestone,” said Watkins. “What seemed like a never-ending battle for human rights finally feels like a win. It feels like we’re more accepted – to celebrate something like this on one of
America’s warships. We’re actually embraced as a part of the team.” Operations Specialist 3rd Class Kali Washington was appreciative to the chain of command for the celebration. “This has been a pretty monumental week,” said Washington. “This event shows how open-minded our chain of command and Navy really are.” In his presidential proclamation, President Barack Obama said, “I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.” According to the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), former President of the United States Bill Clinton issued Proclamation No. 7316, June 2, 2000, establishing the first Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. “This June, recognizing the joys and sorrows that the gay and lesbian movement has witnessed and the work that remains to be done, we observe Gay and Lesbian Pride Month and celebrate the progress we have made in creating a society more inclusive and accepting of gays and lesbians,” said
Clinton in his address. 15 years later, President Obama applauded the Supreme Court’s decision, calling it, “a big step in our march toward equality.” Operations Specialist 2nd Class Fatoumata Diallo thanked the chain of command for the event and said she looks forward to the next diversity celebration. “These events bring people together to celebrate each other and what we all have to bring to the table,” said Diallo. “It lets you know that you can be yourself around your chain of command and that’s something I value.” The ceremony concluded with a cake cutting and fellowship. June is LGBT Pride Month in honor of the tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement. Gay rights movement supporters took to the Manhattan streets in June of 1969 in what is referred to as the Stonewall riots. The group of activists and supporters resisted police harassment of the LGBT community and are recognized as the catalyst to the Gay Liberation Movement in the States.
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Left: George Harris, left, 82, and Jack Evans, 85, marry in Dallas. Right: Pooja Mandagere, left, and Natalie Thompson outside the Supreme Court following the ruling Friday.
With Each Victory, an Outsider Culture Erodes From Capitol Hill in Seattle to Dupont Circle in Washington, gay bars and nightclubs have turned into vitamin stores, frozen yogurt shops and memories. Some of those that remain are filled increasingly with straight patrons, while many former customers say their social lives now center on preschools and playgrounds. Rainbow-hued “Just Be You” messages have been flashing across A.T.M. screens in honor of Pride month, conveying acceptance but also corporate blandness. Directors, filmmakers and artists are talking about moving past themes of sexual orientation, which they say no longer generate as much dramatic energy. The Supreme Court on Friday expanded same-sex marriage rights across the country, a crowning achievement but also a confounding challenge to a group that has often prided itself on being different. The more victories that accumulate for gay rights, the faster some gay institutions, rituals and markers are fading out. And so just as the gay marriage movement peaks, so does a debate about whether gay identity is dimming, overtaken by its own success. “What do gay men have in common when they don’t have oppression?” asked Andrew
Alejo Jumat, left, hugged his husband, Christian Crowley. The couple rode their bikes to the Supreme Court after hearing about the ruling. that there was something valuable about the creativity and grit with DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES which gay people reSullivan, one of the architects of sponded to persecution. “People are missing a sense of the marriage movement. “I don’t community, a sense of sharing,” know the answer to that yet.” John Waters, the film director said Eric Marcus, 56, the author and patron saint of the American of “Making Gay History.” “There is something wonderful marginal, warned graduates to heed the shift in a recent com- about being part of an oppressed mencement speech at the Rhode community,” he said. In Provincetown, Mass., a longIsland School of Design. “Refuse to isolate yourself. Separatism is time gay male summer capital, for losers,” he said, adding, “Gay Sullivan continues to track what he has dubbed “the end of gay is not enough anymore.” No one is arguing that preju- culture,” which he says erodes a dice has come close to disappear- little more each year. Lately, he ing, especially outside major said, he has noticed that the old American cities, as waves of hate gay bars have become popular crimes, suicides by gay teenag- sites for heterosexual bachelorers, and workplace discrimina- ette parties, the women showing tion attest. Far from everyone up in sashes and white veils. When they do, friends tease agrees that marriage rights are the apotheosis of liberation. But him about the consequences of even many who raced to the al- the gay marriage fight he helped tar say they feel loss amid the ignite. “See what you asked for?” JODI KANTOR celebrations, a bittersweet sense they say.
WASHINGTON — In a longsought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. “No longer may this liberty be denied,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority in the historic decision. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.” Marriage is a “keystone of our social order,” Kennedy said, adding that the plaintiffs in the case were seeking “equal dignity in the eyes of the law.” The decision, which was the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, set off jubilation and tearful embraces across the country, the first same-sex marriages in several states, and resistance — or at least stalling — in others. The court’s four more liberal justices joined Kennedy’s majority opinion. Each member of the court’s conservative wing filed a separate dissent, in tones ranging from resigned dismay to bitter scorn. In dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the Constitution had nothing to say on the subject of same-sex marriage. “If you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision,” Roberts wrote. “Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.” (NYT)
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No Accord Within E.U. on Migrants BRUSSELS — Facing a migration crisis that has infused Europe’s usually arid and consensual decision-making with angry passions, European leaders ended an ill-tempered discussion early Friday about what to do with a vague pledge to spread 40,000 migrants around the Continent. But they scrapped what had been the heart of a plan to share a burden now borne largely by Greece and Italy — a system of mandatory quotas to spread the tens of thousands of migrants in the two countries across the European Union. The intersection of the Greek debt crisis and the migration issue underscored the dangers to the European Union of a potentially bankrupt and destabilized Greece on the front line of what has been a surge of migrants to eastern Greek islands from Turkey. Many of them are fleeing conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Even so, just hours after finance ministers representing 19 countries that use the euro again failed to break the deadlock between Greece and its creditors, European Union leaders killed proposals that would have forced each country to take a certain number of asylum seekers, opting for a voluntary program instead. A final statement adopted Friday committed all 28 member states to “agree by consensus by the end of July” on how to distribute across Europe the 40,000 people now in Italy and Greece who are “in clear need of international protection.” ANDREW HIGGINS
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Terrorism Evolves, Striking 3 Continents BEIRUT, Lebanon — In a matter of hours and on three continents, militants launched attacks on Friday that killed scores of civilians, horrified populations and raised questions about the evolving nature of international terrorism and what can be done to fight it. On the surface, the attacks appeared to be linked only by timing. In France, a militant stormed an American-owned factory, decapitated one person and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the facility. In Tunisia, a gunman drew an assault rifle from an umbrella and killed at least 37 people at a beach resort. And in Kuwait, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque during communal prayers, killing 25 Shiite worshipers. In only one instance, the attack in Kuwait, did a terror group, the Islamic State, claim responsibility. In terms of the global implications it almost did not matter if the attacks
were connected, or not. Each reflects the difficulty with anticipating threats and protecting civilians. The attacks occurred at a time of evolution for the world’s premier terrorist groups, which continue to find ways to strike and spread their ideology despite more than a decade of costly efforts by the United States and others to kill their leaders and deny them sanctuary. The United States has killed leaders of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere, but the group has maintained a string of franchises and melded itself into local insurgencies. The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has worked on two levels, seeking to build its self-declared caliphate on captured territory in Iraq and Syria while appealing to sympathizers worldwide to plan and execute attacks on their own. Fueling that expansion are civil wars and the collapse of state struc-
tures in Arab countries from Libya to Yemen that have opened up ungoverned spaces where jihadists thrive, while social media has given extremists a global megaphone to spread their message. While investigators in France and Tunisia worked to determine which organization, if any, had directed the attacks, many noted that leaders of the Islamic State have repeatedly called for sympathizers to kill and sow mayhem at home. Earlier this week, the spokesman for the Islamic State, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, greeted the group’s followers for Ramadan, telling them that acts during the Muslim holy month earned greater rewards in heaven. “Muslims, embark and hasten toward jihad,” Adnani said in an audio message. “O mujahedeen everywhere, rush and go to make Ramadan a month of disasters for the infidels.” BEN HUBBARD
Fear and Uncertainty Become Routine in Burundi BUJUMBURA, Burundi — When the order came to leave their protest camp, the students voiced the same refrain. “It is better to be killed in front of the American Embassy than to return to our campus to die,” they said. But after being pursued by the police, escaping to the parking lot of the United States Embassy and then being cast out of the compound, over 100 university students gathered on Friday at the one place they felt safe: a church. They had no money, no food and no idea what the future would bring. “No one knows who is going to
attack,” said one student leader, the morning after the police had stormed through their protest camp, sending them scrambling for safety. “We are living in fear and uncertainty. They are not alone. Burundi has become a nation gripped by fear and uncertainty, with the independent news media largely forced into silence, so rumor is often taken as fact and political tension can quickly lead to violence in the streets. When President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his intention to run for a third term in April, large pro-
tests erupted across the capital. The government moved to stifle dissent. About 70 people have died. Nearly all of the nation’s opposition parties on Friday announced a boycott of both Monday’s parliamentary elections and the presidential vote scheduled for July 15. Asked earlier if the students would vote in Monday’s election, the student leader, who asked that only the Western version of his first name, Pete, be used, said they would not. The decision, he said, was a matter of survival. “We fear we will be blown up,” he said. MARC SANTORA
In Brief Tsipras to Seek Referendum In an unexpected move, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras went on national television early Saturday to call for a referendum on July 5 so that Greek citizens can decide whether to accept or reject the terms of a bailout deal proposed by the country’s creditors. With his speech, Tsipras upends the stalemate in negotiations between Greece and its creditors, throwing into doubt whether Greece will be able to make a 1.6 billion euro debt payment that is due on Tuesday to the International Monetary Fund, while also deepening concerns that the beleaguered country could leave the eurozone. Tsipras said he was calling the referendum because Greece’s creditors — the I.M.F., the European Central Bank
and the eurozone countries — had refused to negotiate in good faith and present a fair compromise. (NYT)
expressed its disappointment Friday.
Accord Nods to Statehood
A senior Russian official rejected calls Friday for the establishment of a United Nations tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down a Malaysia Airlines flight in Ukraine last year. “We are against it; we think it is not timely and counterproductive,” said the deputy foreign minister, Gennadiy Gatilov, according to Russian news agencies. The Netherlands, Malaysia and three other countries want a tribunal to investigate the crash in 2014 that killed 298 people. The jet was shot down during some of the worst fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. (Agence France-Presse)
The Vatican signed a treaty on Friday with what it called the State of Palestine, a development that the church contends could lead to improved relations between Israel and the Palestinians. The accord covers “essential aspects of the life and activity of the Catholic Church in the State of Palestine,” the Vatican said in a statement. The Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said the agreement could be a “stimulus to bringing a definitive end to the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” The Israeli Foreign Ministry
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Obama Scorns Racism in Soaring Eulogy CHARLESTON, S.C. — In one of his most impassioned reflections on race, President Obama eulogized the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney on Friday by calling on the nation to emulate the grace that he displayed in his work and that the people of South Carolina demonstrated after the massacre of nine worshipers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Before nearly 6,000 mourners and a worldwide television audience, Obama, who met Pinckney during his first presidential campaign, placed the shootings in the context of America’s long history of violence against African-Americans. He also reiterated his plea to restrict the availability of firearms and called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of the State House in Columbia. He thrilled the mostly African-American audience by preaching with revivalist cadences, and by closing his address by singing, in solo, the opening refrain of “Amazing Grace.” The crowd came to its feet and joined in, leading the Rev. Norvel Goff, a presiding elder in the A.M.E. church, to later “thank the Reverend President.” “Maybe we now realize the way racial bias can infect us even when we don’t realize it,” Obama said as Pinckney’s coffin, draped in a blanket of red roses, sat before him. “So that we’re guarding against not just racial slurs, but we’re also guarding against the subtle impulse to call Johnny back for a job interview, but not Jamal.
Jennifer Pinckney, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney’s wife, held their daughter Malana at the service. ly motivated killings in Charleston and the deaths of black men at the hands of white police officers, the president on Friday dispensed with his usual reticence, rediscovered the soaring rhetoric that inspired his supporters in 2008, and spoke with unusual — and occasionally acerbic directness. STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES “For too long,” So that we search our hearts when Obama said, “we’ve been blind to we consider laws to make it hard- the way past injustices continue er for some of our fellow citizens to shape the present. Perhaps we to vote.” By treating every child as see that now. Perhaps this tragedy important regardless of skin color causes us to ask some tough quesand by opening up opportunities tions about how we can permit so for all Americans, Obama said, many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated “We express God’s grace.” As the nation’s first Afri- schools, or grow up without proscan-American president, Obama pects for a job or for a career.” Obama was backed by a stage has often struggled to find the proper balance of timing, words filled with African Methodist and place to speak about Ameri- Episcopal preachers, cloaked in ca’s racial divisions. But political- the purple vestments, and a blackly unfettered after his re-election robed gospel choir. KEVIN SACK and GARDINER HARRIS in 2012, and angered by the racial-
Escaped Killer Is Fatally Shot by a Federal Agent Richard W. Matt, one of the two convicted murderers who escaped from New York’s largest prison, was shot and killed Friday by a federal agent, the authorities said, ending one prong of a three-week manhunt across large stretches of the state’s northern terrain. Agents from the federal Customs and Border Protection agency found Matt in the woods in Malone, N.Y., after he fired a shot at the back of a camping trailer while on foot, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a news conference. Officers heard him cough as he fled, and a federal agent killed him when Matt, still armed with a 20-gauge shotgun, refused orders to put up his hands. On Friday night, officers closed
in on the other escapee, David Sweat, 35, who was believed to be penned inside a perimeter of law enforcement officers, Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico of the New York State Police said. Officers had not seen Sweat, but they believed he had been near Matt at the time Matt shot at the trailer, the authorities said. Matt’s killing drew the curtains back on a mystery that has hung over the search: how the fugitives, wily friends who won the good will of prison workers and learned rudimentary engineering skills, planned to elude more than 1,100 officers after their escape. After a civilian prison employee failed to show up with a getaway
car, any alternative plans did not carry them very far. Matt, 49, was killed 40 miles from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora. For all the planning that helped the inmates cut holes in their cell walls and slither through pipes underneath the prison, the killers were apparently forced, in the last days of their getaway, to move between hunting cabins under the cover of woods and darkness. The developments were greeted with relief by residents of northern New York who had begun locking their doors and readying their firearms, some of them so on edge that they called the police when they heard a rustling in the woods. (NYT)
In Brief Weather Hampers Search for Victims An investigation of a plane crash that killed nine people in rural Alaska has been stymied for the second day by bad weather and the location of the accident site, high above a lake on the face of a steep cliff, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said. The small floatplane operating a sightseeing excursion for passengers aboard a Holland America Line cruise ship slammed into the side of a cliff roughly 800 feet above Ella Lake on Thursday, officials said. The crash site is about 20 miles northeast of Ketchikan. Rescuers are battling rain, wind and low cloud cover, said a spokeswoman for the Alaska Department of Public Safety, Megan Peters. “The wreckage is in an area where the terrain is very steep,” she said. Investigators are hoping to gain access on Saturday. (NYT)
Recall Effort Against Ferguson Mayor Fails An effort to recall the mayor of Ferguson, Mo., in the wake of last summer’s shooting death of Michael Brown has fallen short. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the St. Louis County Board of Elections says the organization spearheading the recall effort, Ground Level Support, was 27 names short of the required 1,814 valid signatures needed to force an election to recall Mayor James Knowles III. The group’s recall push also fell short in May. Knowles, who is white, was criticized for comments he made after last August’s shooting death of Brown by a white police officer, Darren Wilson. (AP)
School Funding Law Is Unconstitutional A district court panel in Kansas ruled on Friday that key parts of a new state law for financing public schools violated the state constitution. The three-judge panel in Shawnee County District Court in Topeka ruled that the law failed to distribute more than $4 billion a year so all children received a suitable education. The state is expected to appeal the ruling. The new law scrapped an older per-pupil distribution formula in favor of predictable grants. (AP)
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The Hard Politicking That Won a Trade Pact Boehner endorsed it on the call. It would be up to Obama, the two Republicans said, to deliver a handful of Democrats in each chamber for a new set of trade votes — a highstakes test for a president who has often seemed indifferent to legislative arm-twisting and whose relationships with lawmakers, even in his own party, have frequently been questioned. “I said, ‘Mr. President, all you have to do is get the same 28 Democrats in the House who voted for it once to do it again,’ ” McConnell said this week. And, he told the president, “get the 14 Senate Democrats” too. Obama made no firm commitments to the Republicans on the call, according to White House aides, though he warned McConnell and Boehner that they would have to come up with some addi-
tional measures to “sweeten the pot” for his pro-trade Democrats. If the trade vote failed a second time, the broader agreement among 12 Pacific nations could die along with it. The plan worked. On Thursday, the House voted on the final piece of trade legislation Obama needed to clear the way to a legacy-defining pact linking 40 percent of the global economy into a web of rules, from lower tariffs to intellectual property protections to expanded Internet access. In the end, all it took was McConnell’s parliamentary acumen and creativity, the president’s nonstop pleading and House Democratic maneuvers that at first blush looked like tactical brilliance but proved too clever by half. JONATHAN WEISMAN and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Red-Hot Markets in China Suddenly Turn Cold SHANGHAI — Share prices in China plunged on Friday in one of the sharpest sell-offs in years, accelerating a downturn this last week in what has been, for much of this year, the world’s best-performing stock market. China’s two major market indexes fell in tandem. The Shanghai composite fell 7.4 percent on Friday. The Shenzhen composite fell even more, dropping 7.9 percent. Share prices in Hong Kong, which is regulated separately, also weakened, dropping 1.8 percent. Analysts had been warning for months about the risks of a stock market bubble in China, where investors have driven up stock prices by purchasing shares on
margin, or with money borrowed from brokers. Even though the broader Chinese economy has been relatively weak, which is typically bad for corporate profits, share prices of many Chinese-listed companies have skyrocketed in the last year. Many traded at record valuations, often 80, 90 or 100 times their projected earnings. In the last few months, some Chinese companies have announced plans to buy back shares and delist from the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange, including Wuxi Pharma Tech, HomeInn Hotels and Qihoo 360, the Internet services provider, whose management is offering $9 billion to complete the buyout.
The second inquiry involves about 54,000 Mazda CX-9 sport utility vehicles from 2007-8, which are being investigated after reports that corrosion on the suspension could allow a wheel to break free. In the third inquiry, about 20,000 Jeep Grand Cherokees from the 2014 model year are being investigated after nine owners said that the anti-collision system suddenly applied the brakes and slowed the vehicle “with no pending threats in the line of travel.” About 250,000 Ford F-150 pick-
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Auto Regulators Open Investigations Into 5 Vehicles The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, under a new administrator, Mark R. Rosekind, has opened five investigations into vehicles made by Ford, Fiat Chrysler and Mazda after receiving complaints from owners about problems with brakes, airbags and anti-collision systems. The largest inquiry involves about 630,000 Jeep Wranglers from the 2007-12 model years after over 200 owners complained about the airbag warning light illuminating, indicating the safety device would not work in a crash.
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up trucks from the 2011-12 model years are being investigated after the agency received 32 complaints about braking problems, stated the report, which noted one possibility was the failure of the electric brake vacuum assist pump. In the fifth action, about 121,000 Dodge Darts from the 2013 model year are being investigated after the agency received complaints that the brake pedal “may be hard to depress suddenly and vehicle stopping distances may unexpectedly increase,” according to the report. (NYT)
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WASHINGTON — On the evening of June 15, President Obama joined a conference call with the two men who had done more than anyone in six years to disrupt, derail or defeat his agenda in Congress. Now they were asking for something that was in short supply: trust. The president desperately needed their help. Most of Obama’s own party had deserted him on a critical trade vote three days earlier, hours after he had begged them not to. And the Democratic leaders in both chambers were bitterly opposed to his plans to cooperate with Republicans on a far-reaching trade pact with Pacific Rim nations. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, bluntly laid out his plans to save the president’s trade push, and House Speaker John A.
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Bans Ease on Pyrotechnics in Many States NEWBURGH, N.Y. — After stocking up on sparklers and flaming fountains, Don Eason couldn’t resist adding one more impulse buy to his incendiary items: a Fiery Frog, which promises to erupt in a column of crackling, multicolor sparks. “Daddy’s getting you a green thing, too,” he told his 3-year-old twin sons. “Green!” Devine said enthusiastically, as his brother, Daylan, waved a box of sparklers and shouted, “Fireworks!” For the first time in more than century, shoppers like Eason can legally buy some small, consumer-grade fireworks in parts of New York State. They remain banned in New York City, but in November, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation allowing limited sales in counties that choose to permit them. More than 30 of New York’s 62 counties opted in, allowing “sparkling devices” to be sold and used within their borders. New York’s law is the latest outcome of a nationwide movement toward relaxing fireworks restrictions. Only three states — Delaware, Massachusetts and New Jersey — still ban all consumer sales, and this year, Georgia expanded its law, allowing a broader range of products to be sold.
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A fireworks stand in Newburgh, N.Y. The wave of legalization began in earnest in 2000, when Connecticut passed a limited law allowing only the sale of sparklers and fountains, said Julie L. Heckman, the executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association. Following that model, at least half a dozen states that previously had forbidden all sales changed their laws to allow residents to buy and use some types of fireworks. “The states are all competing for revenue,” Heckman said. Keeping residents’ cash within the state was a big motivation for New York’s change. The bill’s sponsor, Michael F. Nozzolio, a Republican state senator from the Finger Lakes region, estimates that New York could collect $2 million in tax revenue on sales this
year. New York’s rules remain stricter than those in many other places. Consumer fireworks can only be sold during two annual time periods — June 1 through July 5, and December 26 through January 2 — and only ground-based and hand-held devices are allowed. Projectile fireworks that launch aerial displays remain off limits. Merchants say plenty of shoppers are undeterred by those restrictions. “People are just so delighted to buy sparklers,” said Camille Esposito, the owner of July 4 Ever, a fireworks company in Walden, N.Y., that she runs with her husband, Anthony. “They’ve been our biggest seller. Everyone picks up a box or two.” STACY COWLEY
A Microbudget Comedy’s Struggle in a Major Studio LOS ANGELES — In the spring of 2013, Paramount Pictures held a research screening for a new comedy called “Drunk Wedding.” The studio’s vice chairman was so eager to learn the results that he attended in person. In success — that is, if the test audience laughed — Paramount could have had a very profitable film on its hands; “Drunk Wedding,” directed by Nick Weiss, cost the studio a mere $600,000 to make. In failure, the film would probably go to Hollywood’s version of Siberia: video on demand. The audience response was strong. “Drunk Wedding” scored well above the industry norm for an R-rated comedy. “The studio was ecstatic,” Weiss recalled. Visions of the film becoming a low-budget “Hangover” began to take hold. So why was “Drunk Wedding” sent to Siberia? How Weiss’s film went from darling to outcast is an archetypal story about the difficulties faced
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AMY DICKERSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Nick Weiss, the director of “Drunk Wedding.” by little movies inside big studios. Hollywood craves low-priced original hits, and often works harder than outsiders realize to find them: Paramount tried for years to get “Drunk Wedding” into theaters. But Paramount and the other old-line studios often conclude that the marketing hurdles are insurmountable. Herding ticket buyers toward a microbudget movie with no stars typically requires a market-
ing budget of at least $20 million. Even with a hefty ad budget, the idiosyncrasies of a small film can defeat the most masterful marketer: Who is this movie for? Remakes and sequels have a clear target audience. Other factors working against Weiss’s movie included varying gut instincts — some Paramount executives found the vulgar scenes hilarious, others cringed — and executive churn at the studio; most notably, the president of Paramount, Adam Goodman, who had been the primary supporter of “Drunk Wedding,” was edged out of his job. “I don’t think anybody is entitled to anything, and I appreciate how hard Paramount tried,” said Weiss, who had never made a feature film before. Still, he acknowledged learning a hard lesson about the vagaries of working inside the movie factories. “I do feel like I’ve graduated from studio school,” he said. BROOKS BARNES
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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday: Nike Inc., up $4.49 to $109.71. The maker of sneakers and athletic apparel reported that its profit and revenue grew during its fiscal fourth quarter. Synnex Corp., down $7.46 to $74.88. The high-tech contractor reported better-than-expected earnings, but its revenue fell short of expectations. Winnebago Industries Inc., up $1.89 to $24.46. Shares of the recreational vehicle maker rose again, a day after reporting better-than-expected results for its third quarter. Vince Holding Corp., down 89 cents to $12.11. The fashion company said that its chief financial officer resigned and it named a C.F.O. from an investment firm as an interim replacement. Micron Technology Inc., down $4.36 to $19.66. The chipmaker reported disappointing third-quarter results. Finish Line Inc., up $1.25 to $28.25. The sneaker and athletic apparel retailer reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that topped expectations. Celladon Corp., down 85 cents to $1.35. The drug developer said that it is looking to sell itself, and if it doesn’t find a buyer, it may have to liquidate. (AP)
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An Unsettling Attempt to Make Racism Funny A Tale of Despair with ejaculate that At one point in has been excluded the comedy dead because the dozone known as Seth nors have sickle MacFarlane’s “Ted cell anemia. As 2,” the title charJohn writhes, Ted acter — a stuffed laughs. “You’re toy bear voiced by covered in rejectMacFarlane — and ed black guys’ his dimwitted best sperm,” Ted says. friend, John (Mark “You’re like a KarWahlberg), visit a dashian.” comedy club to enMaybe this movgage in a favorite ILOURA/UIVERSAL PICTURES ie might have been pastime: throwMark Wahlberg again plays Ted’s friend in “Ted 2.” funny before dead ing bleak improv black bodies again ideas at the comics onstage. So, seated in the back of ment: a gag in which Ted dresses became an emblem of our national the auditorium, the friends start up in yellow rain gear like Pad- trauma. The audience I saw “Ted shouting out suggestions like 9/11, dington the Bear while attempting 2” with, though, seemed uncomfortable with the Kardashian joke. Robin Williams and Charlie Heb- to procure Tom Brady’s sperm. Ted’s efforts to be a husband The uneasiness, I think, came do to the unnerved comics. The topics don’t mean anything and father lead to a legal battle from a deep, unsettled recognition to Ted and John, who, like Mac- that forces him to prove he’s hu- that many of us share these days: Farlane, take pleasure in making man rather than property. To that No matter what we tell ourselves, others squirm. They could have end, MacFarlane aligns Ted’s we have not really figured out how just as easily yelled gang rape, the struggle with enslaved black to talk about race, much less joke Americans so that, while watch- about it. MacFarlane sure hasn’t. Holocaust and dead puppies. “Ted 2” comes off as more inept MacFarlane can be funny, but ing a scene in “Roots” in which “Ted 2” is insultingly lazy hack Kunta Kinte is whipped, Ted jokes and thoughtless than intentionalwork that is worth discussing pri- that he’s just like the brutalized ly hateful. MacFarlane wants to marily because of how he tries and slave. The joke is absurd, weird be an equal-opportunity insulter, fails to turn race, and specifically and unfunny, and it exemplifies which is impossible because there MacFarlane’s reliance on surface is no genuine equality, either onblack men, into comedy fodder. Again, the story involves Ted, shocks as well as his assumption screen or off. And this isn’t a question of politwho once upon a time was trans- that engaging with race is mereformed from a fuzzy-wuzzy into ly a matter of putting black peo- ical correctness. If anything, coma dope-smoking insult puppet. It ple on-screen; or having a black edies need to take on race more, opens with Ted marrying an ac- woman “comically” explain the to test boundaries and audiences tual woman, Tami-Lynn (Jessica history of slavery; or having Ted alike. First, though, they have to Barth); soon afterward, they de- and John repeatedly employ a vul- grasp the differences between appropriation and engagement, and cide they want a baby. Because garism for black penises. MacFarlane’s fixation on anat- between comedy that supports stuffed animals don’t have the right equipment, Ted and com- omy reaches its nadir in a scene the racist status quo and comedy pany try to harvest some suitable at a sperm bank. There, John ac- that shreds it to pieces. Just slimheirloom seed. This leads to the cidentally knocks over a shelv- ing us doesn’t cut it. MANOHLA DARGIS movie’s only genuinely funny mo- ing unit and ends up splashed
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The title of Jay Martin’s tightly wound debut film, “7 Minutes,” is the time that three aspiring bank robbers imagine it will take to pull off a heist that might net them a half-million dollars. These naive co-conspirators — Sam (Luke Mitchell), a former high school football star with a pregnant girlfriend and a nightmarish factory job; his drug-dealing older brother, Mike (Jason Ritter), who is married with a small child; and his best friend, Owen (Zane Holtz) — fantasize that robbing Sam and Mike’s uncle’s bank will be a snap. Their shabby Washington state town is a grim dead end whose residents all seem to supplement their meager incomes through crime, be it dealing drugs or white-collar chicanery. Owen’s father, Mr. B (Kris Kristofferson), is a professional criminal whose motto is simple: “Don’t get caught.” B’s partner in crime, Tuckey, who muscles his way into the scheme, is a brute with a bloodthirsty gleam in his eye. As the movie zigzags in time, the three friends bungle a major drug deal that leaves them owing $60,000 to their vengeful supplier. The heist, if successful, would solve their problems, and Sam and his sweetheart, Kate (Leven Rambin), a former cheerleader, could leave town and start over. “7 Minutes” knows exactly what it is: a directorial calling card to the Quentin Tarantino school of blood-bath cinema. It is a nasty piece of work. STEPHEN HOLDEN
In ‘Max,’ a Dog Traumatized by War Reverts to His Heroic Roots One of the most memorable televised arguments Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert ever had was about “Benji the Hunted” and Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket.” Ebert gave thumbs up to “Benji” and thumbs down to “Full Metal,” the opposite of Siskel’s votes. I recalled this controversy while watching “Max,” which, while nobody’s idea of a masterpiece, seems at first glance to be a hybrid of “Benji the Hunted” and “Full Metal Jacket” — a war movie about a heroic canine. The director, Boaz Yakin, is no Stanley Kubrick: His earlier work includes serviceable offerings that fit comfortably into the pretty-
good-for-what-they-are category defended by Ebert. “Max” might belong there, too, if it could figure out just what it wanted to be. Following Max, a handsome black-and-brown Belgian Malinois, from Afghanistan to Texas, the movie starts out as a doggy variation on “American Sniper.” After Max’s handler, a Marine named Kyle Wincott (Robbie Amell), is killed in a firefight, the traumatized dog is sent back stateside and slated for euthanasia. Instead, he winds up in the care of Kyle’s younger brother, Justin (Josh Wiggins). The strains in the family — Justin, a slacker and a cynic, is a thorn
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Josh Wiggins with Max in a film directed by Boaz Yakin. in his straight-arrow father’s side — promise an all-American domestic melodrama. But what follows is a kind of updated Hardy Boys detective adventure in which Justin, Max and Justin’s
friends chase down a bunch of bad guys. As the intrepid kids and the fearless hound unravel a weapons-dealing scheme, “Max” finds its sweet spot, leaving behind its overwrought patriotic swagger and settling into the kind of story that would fill a decent hour of television. The violence that concludes their sleuthing is a bit jarring in such a carefully kid-friendly entertainment. Not that “Max” has any clear or coherent sense of mission. Max, on the other hand, does, and his virtues might make you wish the movie were good enough to deserve him. A. O. SCOTT
MOVIE the
ARTIST Review By MC3 Anna Van Nuys
4/5
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beautiful tribute piece by Michael Hazanvicius, The Artist (2011) follows silent film superstar, George Valenti as he struggles to adapt to the advent of speaking films. George’s fate intertwines with rising young starlet, the stunning Peppy Miller, as she skyrockets to stardom while his career fades as he fails to remain relevant. Opening in 1927, the film begins at the height of the roaring 20s. Life is good, everyone’s happy, everyone has money and everyone wants to spend their hard earned cash and be entertained so they head to the theaters. George Valenti, played by French actor Jean Dujardin, is at the peak of stardom. Adored by many, including the then unknown Peppy Miller, played by Bérénice Bejo, charismatic George is nearly unstoppable, until he must speak. The first film we see George in begins and
the orchestra starts up. The film about a criminal followed a popular theme among American audiences. After the show is over, George goes out to greet his audience and members of the press. A girl in the crowd, Peppy, trips and bumps into the star. The press loves it, George and Peppy pose rather dramatically. She daringly kisses him on the cheek for a photo that makes the front page of newspapers everywhere. Their relationship takesoff when the pair share an intimate dance sequence in the film “A German Affair.” Multiple retakes leads to love as the duo are entranced with one another foreshadowing an epic romance. It’s a predictable romance that you’re surprisingly cheering for. Everything about this film is cheesy, from the romance, to the gestures and dances, even down to the sidekick dog George keeps
with him everywhere he goes. Basking in his glory and popularity, George confidently gives Peppy his personal advice to succeed. She has to have something special, something that makes her stand out. Peppy hangs on to every word, and ironically will skyrocket to fame, leaving George behind in the dust. George’s life begins to unravel first as he battles with a troubled marriage devoid of love. His stagnant relationship leaves little to interest George in his down time at home. Soon after, silent films become a thing of the past. George, so successful at being silent, refuses to see the potential. He can’t take it seriously; laughing at the idea that sound and voice are going to be added. Sound isn’t art to him, whereas silence is. The director ironically glares at him, saying, “Don’t laugh George, this is the future.” The Artist is whimsical and light, especially in the beginning with score matched every scene perfectly. Many of the longing stares and portrait shots were hazy and dream-like, matching the quality
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of film for the day. Some may not enjoy the slapstick humor and over exaggeration, but Hazanvicius hit the nail on the head by not just mimicking a film for the time, but actually creating a modern day silent movie. The Artist won 5 Academy Awards. Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Achievement in Costume Design and Best Achievement in Music Written For Motion Pictures, Original Score. The Artist also won 3 Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, Best Original Score Motion Picture, and Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. Not only was The Artist a beautifully done tribute to silent films, but it also captured the essence of change. In order to rise above the tide and stay current, George needed to move with the times, not glue himself to the past. As hard as you may try to prevent things from changing, things will never be as they were.
FACTS ABOUT THE ARTIST • There is not a single ‘zoom shot’ in the entire movie because Zoom technology did not exist in the movie’s time period. • The movie was originally shot in color, then converted to black and white. • The first spoken word of the film is ‘Cut’ while the final spoken word is ‘Action.’ • Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) does not have an audible spoken line despite being the talking movie star. • This film was inspired by the work of film directors such as Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau and Billy Wilder. [source: imdb.com]
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Aviation Electronics Technician 3rd class
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Birthplace: Queens, New York When did you join the Navy: July 17, 2013 When were you assigned to vfa-211: Feb. 14, 2014 What is your job within your rate: Maintaining avionics systems on F/A-18F Super Hornets. why do you think you were chosen as rough rider of the week: My work ethic and desire to ensure aircraft are up for missions. what are your goals while you are in the navy: Learn as much as I can about my job and the aircraft I work on. Improve my leadership skills and travel the world. what are your future plans: Officer programs or possibly something in the law enforcement field; NCIS or FBI. Planning on making the navy a career: At the moment I do not. What are your hobbies: Martial arts
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cryptologic technician (collection)
3rd class
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Department: Operations
Birthplace: New York, New York When did you join the Navy: Sept. 2012 When were you assigned to TR: Aug. 2013 What is your job within your rate: Ship’s Signal Exploitation Space Watch Supervisor why do you think you were chosen as rough rider of the week: For exceeding the expectations of a third class petty officer and ensurig that our SSES team is the best on the waterfront. what are your goals while you are in the navy: To make second class petty officer, earn tri-warfare qualification before the end of deployment. what are your future plans: To become a web designer Planning on making the navy a career: Undecided What are your hobbies: Wrestling, soccer and reading
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Cryptologic technician (technical)
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Birthplace: Crystal River, Florida When did you join the Navy: Jan. 3, 2013 When were you assigned to CSG-12: Oct. 1, 2014 What is your job within your rate: CSG-12 Battle Force ELINT Analyst why do you think you were chosen as rough rider of the week: Because of my strong military bearing and appearance, for hard charging on my warfare qualifications and havig a strong and positive work ethic. what are your goals while you are in the navy: To increase my technical expertise and professional knowledge while being a leader among my shipmates. what are your future plans: To come off this deployment as a triple warfare qualified second class. Complete my bachelor’s degree during my shore command and apply for OCS. Planning on making the navy a career: Yes What are your hobbies: Competition shooting, hunting, fishing, spear fishing and scuba diving
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quartermaster 3rd class
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department: Navigation Birthplace: Indiana
When did you join the Navy: Apr.17, 2013 When were you assigned to tr: Sept. 1, 2013 What is your job within your rate: Chart Petty Officer and Voyage Management Operator why do you think you were chosen as rough rider of the week: I feel I was chosen because of my character, leadership, positive attitude and because I hold myself to a higher standard. what are your goals while you are in the navy: To make my work place better for those who follow. what are your future plans: To make rank and learn my rate so I can get as far as I can before I need to make a decision on the Navy. Planning on making the navy a career: Undecided What are your hobbies: Doing whatever my wife tells me to do for the day. It’s easier to do what you’re told. I like to spend time with my wife and my dogs. Those are my kids!
NAVY NEWS
Female Enlisted Sailors Selected for Submarine Service From Enlisted Women in Submarines Task Force Public Affairs
KINGS BAY, Ga. (NNS) -- With the release of NAVADMIN 142/15 “FY16 Enlisted Women in Submarines Selections”, the first group of enlisted female Sailors from across the Navy has been chosen to serve in the U.S. Navy’s submarine force. Rear Adm. Charles “Chas” Richard, commander, Submarine Group 10 and Enlisted Women in Submarines Task Force Commander, said the interest to apply was impressive. “We couldn’t be more pleased with the amount of interest shown by enlisted women in wanting the opportunity to serve in the undersea warfare domain. It’s an exciting time in the submarine force, as we continue to move forward in shaping the future of our force, drawing from the best pool of talent possible.”
A strong response fleetwide was received in the call for enlisted female Sailors applying for conversion into submarine force ratings. Applications from women representing 31 different ratings from shore and sea commands worldwide were received for the initial application period to fill four chief petty officer (E7 paygrade) and 34 rating conversion positions in the paygrades of E6 and below across
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the two crews of the USS Michigan (SSGN 727). Michigan is one of the Navy’s Ohio-class guidedsubmarines homeported in Bangor, Washington. Sailors from nearly every community throughout the Navy applied and the selections represented this diverse group of applicants, including junior Sailors who enlisted under the Professional Apprenticeship Career Tracks (PACT) program. The skills and
experience they are bringing with them into the submarine force will set the foundation for excelling in their new ratings. Based on the number of applications, the selection process was competitive and used an objective review and scoring of each application. Selections were made based on the Sailor’s performance in their current rating, the Sailor’s desired submarine rating assignment, the needs of the ship to fill billets of planned rotations where appropriate, and lastly the needs of the Navy for rating community health, both in the old and new ratings. Applications were scored on performance evaluations, warfare qualifications, commanding officer endorsements, sea service time, physical readiness testing, and similarity of current rating to desired submarine rating.
from around THE FLEET
S e e w h at yo u r s h ipmat e s ar e doin g aro u nd t h e W O R L D
Lt. Serena Leung, from Fresno, Calif., an optometrist assigned to Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Lt. Cmdr. William Hill, from Houston, Texas, an optometrist assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., conduct eye exams at a medical site established at Centro Escuela Lisandro Larin Zepeda during Continuing Promise 2015. Continuing Promise is conducting civil-military operations including humanitarian-civil assistance, subject matter expert exchanges, medical, dental, veterinary and engineering support and disaster response to partner nations. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Andrew Schneider (Released)
Sailors engage in a simulated aircraft fire in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). Harry S. Truman is underway conducting tailored ship’s training availability (TSTA) off the east coast of the United States. TSTA is the first combined training event of a ship’s inter-deployment training cycle that tests and evaluates shipboard drills, including general quarters, damage control, medical and firefighting. Upon successful completion of TSTA, Harry S. Truman will be considered proficient in all mission areas. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class T. N. Fulgham (Released)
WHAT’S ON u nd e rway mov i e sc h e d u l e
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A BUG’S LIFE
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CINDERELLA MAN
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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
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EARTH TO ECHO
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THE ARTIST
GROUNDHOG DAY
DOOM
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WHITE HOUSE DOWN
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AFTER EARTH
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MOVIE TRIVIA
Q: There are a record-breaking 36 animated locations in this film.
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Previous Question: Black hawk down misattributes the quote, “only the dead have seen an end to a war,” to the greek philosopher plato. which legendary army general made this mistake first? Answer: ARMY GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
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REPENTANCE
TYLER PERRY’S PEEPLES
BOURNE IDENTITY
1600
THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER
THE LUCKY ONE
GHOST
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MY WEEK WITH MARILYN
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH
CARRIE
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CABIN IN THE WOODS
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THE LUCKY ONE
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