ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)
THURSDAY EDITION
TR IDOL FINALE
VOTES TALLIED, WINNER ANNOUNCEd
SAILOR 2.0
Plane Captain qualIFICATION
BY THE NUMBERS
WE REVIEW FLIGHT OPS AT OUR HALFWAY POINT
JULY 30, 2015
by MC3 Taylor L. Jackson
THE RESULTS ARE IN! A
fter eight weeks of competition by more than 65 Sailors and Marines, the crew aboard aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) has chosen Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Kaily Gains as the first TR Idol. “It’s an awesome feeling,” said Gains. “It’s a little ironic considering I’m from the Abraham Lincoln, but equally exciting and rewarding.” Gains received a $1,000 Navy Exchange gift card in recognition of her accomplishment during a live broadcast Wednesday on TR’s internal network. The competition, hosted by TR’s First Class Petty Officer Association (FCPOA), began May 24 and over the next two months, TR Idol came down to three contestants: Air Traffic Controller 3rd Class Ruby Wesby , Intelligence Specialist 3rd Class Richard Ayala and Gains. Wesby placed 2nd and received a $500 gift card, and Ayala came in 3rd place and received a $250 gift card. “I think the competition overall was amazing for the ship and the morale of the crew,” said Logistics Specialist 1st Class Rachael Fuller-Ryan. “Over 6 weeks
of time, it’s been crazy, fun and it’s been amazing to be a part of.” Gains was eliminated when the competition went to its top 12 contestants, but was voted back on the show as one of the final six contestants. “It was hard to make a decision on the vote that was sent out via e-mail because after being a judge you feel as though you have a personal connection with all contestants and you want to keep all of them vice eliminating one or two,” said Chief Legalman Tiffany Garfield, one of the five judges for TR Idol. “They should all be proud of their accomplishments and the courage they had to stand up every Sunday and perform.” Although Gains won the competition, each contestant practiced hard and demonstrated the amount of talent the TR crew possesses. “The fact that I made it out of the top 25 to the top three out of a ship of 5,000 people is pretty amazing,” said Wesby. “Singing’s really fun to me and it’s kind of a relief that it’s done, but it’s kind of bittersweet that it’s over now. Seeing the reactions from the crowd was fun and [TR Idol] was a great experience.”
By MC2 J. Michael Drew &MC3 Jennifer Case
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weight(max take off): 65,180 max speed: 1,380 mph max range: 2,070 miles
SAF E T Y
Maintain complete control of the aircraft and surrounding area
Stay aware of any hazards to the aircraft or personnel around the aircraft
C OM MUNICAT ION Act as pilot’s eyes on the flight deck
Tell pilot which flight surfaces to move
“Have a good Flight”
PLANE CAPTAINS’ MAIN CONCERN
FIREPLUG NO. 11
560
570
580
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 9
550
590
600
610
620
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
540
630
640
650
AFFF STA 9A BOMB JETTISON AIRCRAFT FUELING RAMP STATION NO. 11
530
660
670
680
690
700
710
AFFF STA 13A
AFFF STA 7
FIREPLUG NO. 9
520
720
730
740
750
FRESH WATER
510
LOX FARM
500
760
770
780
790
800
810
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 13
490
820
830
AFFF STA 15
480
840
850
860
870
BOMB JETTISON RAMP BOMB JETTISON RAMP
470
880
890
900
910
920
930
940
950
BOAT AND AIRCRAFT BOOM
460
AFFF STA 9B
450
FLIGHT DECK CONTROL
420
FLIGHT DECK BDS
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 7
410
FIREPLUG NO. 13
400
CRASH SHACK
390
AFFF STA 13B
AFFF STA 5
380
AUXILARY TRACTOR FUELING STATION
FIREPLUG NO. 7
370
FIREPLUG NO. 15
360
AFFF STA 17
350
960
980
990
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 12
970
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 15
STEAM
340
FIREPLUG NO. 16
FRESH AFFF WATER STA 20
CIWS AND NSSMS MOUNT NO. 24 BELOW
1000 1010 1020 1030 1040 1050 1060
6
LANDING SIGNAL BOMB OFFICER PLATFORM JETTISON RAMP
AFFF STA 19
330
AFFF STA 18
FIREPLUG NO. 17
50 CAL GUN MOUNT NO. 5
320
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
FRESH WATER
310
AFFF STA 16
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 10
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
AFFF STA 3C
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 5
FIREPLUG NO. 5
300
FIREPLUG NO. 14
RAM LAUNCHER NO. 2 BELOW 290
AUXILARY TRACTOR FUELING STATION
280
BARRICADE
270
UPPER STAGE NO. 2
260
UPPER STAGE NO. 4
FRESH WATER
250
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
AFFF STA 14A
1070 1090
CENTERLINE OF THE SHIP
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
50 240
60
CIWS AND NSSMS MOUNT NO. 21
230
UPPER STAGE NO. 1
220
70 210
FWD ICCS
40 200
CAT OFF EMERG CONT STA
190
80
30
BOMB AIRCRAFT FUELING JETTISON STATION NO. 3 RAMP
50 CAL GUN MOUNT NO. 3
180
90
170
MOBILE JBD CONT STA CATS 1 AND 2
160
110
150
120
140
130
20
AFFF FRESH STA 3 WATER
130
140
120
150
110
160
10
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 1
AFFF STA 3B
FIREPLUG NO. 1
100
170
80
AFT CENTERLINE CAMERA
180
70
FORWARD CENTERLINE CAMERA
AFFF STA 14B
190
60
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 6
STEAM
200
50
FIREPLUG NO. 6
FIREPLUG NO. 12
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 8
210
0 40
FIREPLUG NO. 4
CAT NO. 3 CONT STA AND STEAM
STEAM
CAT OFFICERS EMERG CONTROL STA NO. 3 AND 4
AFT ICCS
220
30
AFFF STA 4B
STEAM AFFF STA 6
RAM LAUNCHER NO. 1 BELOW
FRESH WATER
AFFF STA 10 FIREPLUG NO. 10
230
20
FIREPLUG NO. 2
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 4
AFFF STA 8
240
AFFF STA 3A
10
AFFF STA 4A
AIRCRAFT FUELING STATION NO. 2
50 CAL GUN MOUNT NO. 4
FIREPLUG NO. 8
5
14 376 4
250
50 CAL GUN MOUNT NO. 1 CENTERLINE OF THE SHIP 50 CAL GUN MOUNT NO. 2
BOMB JETTISON RAMP
3
2
TOTAL NUMBER OF FLIGHT HOURS 2,910 TOTAL SORTIES/ LAUNCHES AND RECOVERY
1
NUMBER OF PILOTS AND NAVAL FLIGHT OFFICERS ATTACHED: 177 NUMBER OF SAILORS AND MARINES ATTACHED TO THE AIR WING: 1,524
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INFOGRAPHIC CREATED BY MC2 DANICA M. SIRMANS & MC2 Brian Flood | sOURCEs: lt jennifer yedoni and defense.gov, tr numbers accumulated mar. 9 - Jul. 29
By the Numbers AIR OPERATIONS aT THE HALFWAY POINT OF DEPLOYMENT, WE REVIEW FLIGHT OPS ABOARD
USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71) in support of operation inherent resolve
NO FOD IN THESE POCKETS!
OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE TARGETED OPERATIONS AGAINST ISIL TERRORISTS source: www.defense.gov
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nited States Central Command and partner nations conduct targeted airstikes of Iraq and Syria as part of the comprehensive strategy to degrade and defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL. As of July 15, 2015, the total cost of operations related to ISIL since kinetic operations started on Aug 8, 2014, is $3.21 billion and the average daily cost is $9.4 million for 342 days of operations. As of June 22, 2015, 7,655 ISIL targets were damaged or destroyed becuase of operations associated with Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR). With 98 tanks, 325 HMMWVs, 472 staging areas, 2,045 buildings, 1,859 fighting positions, 154 oil infrastructure, and 2,702 other targets damaged and destroyed, the battle wages on as the U.S. and its coalition forces operate forward. SIL frontlines in much of northern and central Iraq have been pushed back since Aug. 2014. ISIL can no longer operate freely in roughly 25 to 30 percent of populated areas of Iraqi territory where it once could. These areas translate into approximately 13,000 to 17,000 square kilometers (or 5,000 to 6,500 square miles). However, because of the dynamic nature of the conflict in Iraq and Syria, this estimate could increase or decrease depending on daily fluctuations in the battle lines. ISIL’s area of influence in Syria remains largely unchanged, with its gains in Au Suwayda’, Damascus Countryside, and Horns Provinces offset by losses in Halab and Al Hasakah Provinces.
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Escape Helper Tells of Favors, Sex and Deceit PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — A small favor for a killer’s daughter. A stolen kiss and a furtive sexual encounter. And finally, sneaking tools past guards for use in an escape from a maximum-security prison. Such were the moments that marked Joyce E. Mitchell’s evolution from a workaday prison employee to a love-struck and fully aware accomplice, as outlined in a pair of statements Mitchell made to the police last month. Mitchell, 51, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to assisting Richard W. Matt and David Sweat, two convicted murderers, in their breakout last month from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, N.Y. With tools smuggled in by Mitchell, the convicts sawed through their cell walls, and cut their way in and out of a steam pipe, finally emerging in the town. She “didn’t feel I could stop,” Mitchell said, adding, “They were getting out and we were all going to be together.” The escape set off a three-week manhunt before Matt was shot and killed on June 26 and Sweat was shot and captured on June 28. Mitchell’s statements to the police sketch a vivid chronology of how she came to commit her crimes. The plan was to hide out somewhere six to seven hours from Dannemora, “until it quieted down.” Then, after about a week, she and Sweat would continue to hide, while Matt would go on his own. “I was caught up in the fantasy,” she said. “I enjoyed the attention, the feeling both of them gave me, and the thought of a different life.” While she said she liked Sweat, her primary affections were undoubtedly for Matt. “Each time he would ask me for a tool, I would go to the store and get them,” she said of Matt, two days after the escape. The statements, given on June 7, 8 and 10 show the seduction of Mitchell by Matt, 49, who sported rakish good looks and a charming demeanor, according to officials and Mitchell. JESSE McKINLEY
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Push Builds to Relax Sentencing Laws WASHINGTON — For several years, a handful of lawmakers in Congress have tried to scale back tough sentencing laws that have bloated federal prisons and the cost of running them. But broadbased political will to change those laws remained elusive. With a push from President Obama and a nod from Speaker John A. Boehner, Congress seems poised to revise four decades of federal policy that expanded the number of Americans who are incarcerated to roughly 750 per 100,000, by far the highest rate of any Western nation. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he expected to have a bipartisan bill ready before the August recess. As senators work to meld several proposals into one bill, one important change would be to expand the so-called safety-valve provisions that give judges discretion to sentence low-level drug offenders to less time in prison than the mandatory minimum term if they meet certain requirements. Another would allow low-
er-risk prisoners to participate in recidivism programs to earn up to a 25 percent reduction of their sentences. Lawmakers would also like to create more alternatives to incarceration for low-level drug offenders. Nearly half of all federal prisoners are serving sentences for drug crimes. Republicans including the conservative Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and liberal Democrats like Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey have become unlikely allies, citing as the impetus for change federal overreach, ballooning costs and lives they have seen erode behind bars that could have been better served by putting inmates in drug rehabilitation or other programs. “The caricature of the conservative view on this is that we are in this to reduce costs in the prison system,” said Lee, who has been working for months with Sen. Richard J. Durbin, DIll., who has spent much of his Senate career trying to overhaul sentences. “But the biggest issue involves the human costs.” Of the 2.2 million men and women behind bars, only about
207,600 are in the federal system, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. But because the federal system has grown at the fastest rate of any in the country, many on the left and the right say they believe it exemplifies the excesses of America’s punitive turn. “If we can show leadership at the federal level,” Durbin said, “I think it will encourage other states to open this issue up for debate.” The movement to make these changes comes after years of resistance from the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. They are being reluctantly pulled along by other members to move on bills that would overhaul the entire federal prison system. “I’ve long believed there needed to be reform of our criminal justice system,” said Boehner, endorsing a House bill that would change the system. “We’ve got a lot of people in prison, frankly, that don’t really in my view need to be there. It’s expensive to house,” he said. JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Under Oath, Trump Shows Less Flattering Side Donald J. Trump seemed irritated. He had been grilled for two hours in a lawsuit over a failed Florida real estate project, and he told the lawyer that her questions were “very stupid.” When the lawyer, Elizabeth Beck, asked for a medical break, Trump and his lawyers objected. Beck said it was urgent — she needed to pump breast milk for her 3-month-old daughter, and she took the pump out. “You’re disgusting,” he told Beck. He then walked out of the room, ending the testimony for the day. In his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, Trump has portrayed himself as a teller of difficult truths, whose wealth unburdens him from the careful pronouncements of ordinary candidates. “Politicians,” he has said, “are all talk.” Hundreds of pages of sworn testimony by Trump over the
past decade show something less flattering. Some of his claims are shown to be hyperbolic overstatements, and others to be shadings of the truth or outright misstatements. And in rare instances, he turns boorish and demeaning. The testimony, drawn from a series of lawsuits since 2007, reveals much about Trump’s personal preoccupations and business tactics. It showcases Trump’s fixation with his image as a financial success, and lays bare his hypersensitivity to any suggestion of failure. It chronicles his methodical cultivation of a brand name he has licensed around the world for millions of dollars in fees; and it at times displays a lack of sympathy for ordinary consumers who have lost money on the purchase of Trump-branded products. In the Beck deposition, he said that home buyers who had forfeited their down payments
in a building bearing his name were “very lucky” that the project failed because, he asserted, they would have lost more had the project proceeded after the financial crisis of 2008. “Congratulate your clients,” Trump told Beck and her husband and co-counsel, Jared Beck, whose clients had alleged that they lost tens of thousands of dollars each. A lawyer for Trump, Alan Garten, said that the depositions showed “Mr. Trump, unlike the other candidates (all of whom are career politicians), is a determined businessman who stands up for what he believes, speaks his mind and talks from the heart.” Above all, the testimony suggests that Trump’s relationship with the truth can be tenuous — especially when it involves claims about his business. MICHAEL BARBARO and STEVE EDER
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A Reporter’s Strengths Lead To His Undoing TEHRAN — For Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter on trial on espionage charges in Iran, the incident was extraordinary but still looked like another example of the difficulties in covering Iran’s politics. On a spring day in March 2014, his wife and a female photographer were stopped in their car on a busy Tehran highway and taken into a van, where, friends say, a dozen men and a woman interrogated them about the photographer’s personal connection to the office of Iran’s president. Rezaian and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, a reporter for a United Arab Emirates newspaper, were sufficiently shaken by the episode to report it to the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which accredits journalists. Friends say they even reported it to the president’s office. But the couple did not change their reporting habits. Four months later, on July 22, 2014, Rezaian, his wife, the photographer and her husband were taken into custody. Only Rezaian remains incarcerated, a defendant in a closed-door trial in Tehran Revolutionary Court. The van interrogation appears to have been a sign of internal politics that would land Rezaian in deep trouble. He has been confined longer than any other foreign journalist of Iranian descent. While cultivating contacts with government sources is common journalistic practice in most countries, it tends to be viewed with suspicion in Iran, where foreign journalists are often assumed to be spies. Rezaian’s contacts, along with his gregarious personality, may help explain the crisis he is now confronting, according to Iran experts and friends and colleagues of Rezaian’s, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They say President Hassan Rouhani’s internal political adversaries, who see the president as too conciliatory toward the West, may have been responsible for Rezaian’s arrest. The adversaries might have seen an opportunity to embarrass Rouhani by imprisoning an American journalist perceived as close to his administration. THOMAS ERDBRINK and RICK GLADSTONE
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Obama Decries Africa’s Perpetual Potentates ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — President Obama jabbed at the power structures of Africa on Tuesday by calling for long-entrenched leaders to step down, using an off-the-cuff riff about his own political standing and his stature as the first American president with African roots to try to reshape the continent’s politics. “I actually think I’m a pretty good president,” Obama said, adding, “I think if I ran, I could win.” Whether Obama could actually win another term may provide fodder for political debate at home. He has appeared energized by a string of recent successes, including congressional passage of trade authority, a Supreme Court ruling upholding his health care plan, a nuclear deal with Iran and the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Still, he faces deep opposition among many Americans who are critical of his economic and foreign policies.
But as he wrapped up what may be his final trip to Africa while in office, Obama used his own tenure to take on one of the continent’s most enduring obstacles to democratic progress: its history of oneman rule by presidents and potentates who enrich themselves and cling to power for years, if not decades, in calcified regimes. “Nobody should be president for life,” Obama declared in his speech at the African Union. “Your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas.” About half of the more than 50 countries in the African Union have presidents, prime ministers or monarchs who have been in power longer than Obama, some of them for decades. Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979. Robert Mugabe has been in power in Zimbabwe since 1980. Paul Biya has governed Cameroon since 1982. Yoweri Museveni has gov-
erned Uganda since 1986. Omar Hassan al-Bashir has governed Sudan since 1989. On the other hand, there have been transformative moments lately. In Nigeria, Africans celebrated in the spring when the party that had governed since the end of military rule peacefully stepped down after losing elections. Unable to travel to Nigeria because of security concerns, Obama decided to mark that transition by playing host to the new Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari, in the Oval Office last week. None of the long-ruling leaders Obama seemed to have in mind were on hand to hear his speech on Tuesday, but representatives of governments from around Africa attended. The audience interrupted Obama with applause nearly 75 times, but it cheered the most enthusiastically when he talked about leaders who overstay their welcome. PETER BAKER
In Brief Pollard Will Be Released In 2014, after Jonathan J. Pollard had served 29 years of a life sentence for spying on behalf of Israel, his hopes for freedom were thwarted when a federal panel denied his request for parole. On Tuesday, the lawyers’ efforts finally succeeded, as the United States Parole Commission announced that Pollard, 60, met the legal standards for parole and would be released just days before Thanksgiving. Pollard, one of the country’s most notoriJonathan J. ous spies, will walk out of federal Pollard prison in Butner, N.C., on Nov. 20. Eliot Lauer, one of the two lawyers who have been working pro bono for the past 15 years to free Pollard, said it was an “absurdity” to think that Pollard, who was convicted of passing classified materials to his Israeli handlers, would return to spying once he was released. Lauer noted that any information Pollard retained from his time as a Navy intelligence analyst was more than 30 years out of date. (NYT)
Taliban Make Gains The Taliban have seized territory across three provinces in northern Afghanistan in recent days, as the government in Kabul has struggled to reinforce isolated outposts amid the insurgent offensive. More than 100 police officers in the north have surrendered to the Taliban in this latest campaign, and more than a thousand men, including some soldiers, but mostly fighters with pro-government militias, have retreated. The Taliban’s momentum has even reached Afghanistan’s extreme northeast, which was once the mountain redoubt of the anti-Taliban
resistance in the 1990s, when the group governed the country. On Monday, the insurgents overran a large district in Sar-i-Pul Province, in the northwest, when a local police unit surrendered after a 10-day battle, provincial officials said. Several of the district’s civil officials then retreated to a city in a neighboring province, said Salahudin Cherik Zada, a member of Sar-i-Pul’s provincial council. (NYT)
Brazil Arrests Nuclear Chief The sweeping corruption scandal shaking Brazil’s establishment intensified on Tuesday after the police arrested the mastermind of the military’s secret nuclear program during the 1970s and ’80s. With the arrest of Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, a retired navy admiral, what started as a bribery inquiry at the national oil company, Petrobras, has grown into accusations of a broad web of graft. Prosecutors said Pinheiro da Silva, 76, took more than $1.3 million in bribes as chief executive of Eletronuclear, a public company that operates two nuclear power plants. The bribes, which the prosecutors said were paid from 2009 to 2014, were related to contracts with construction companies building a third plant. (NYT)
Qaddafi Son Is Sentenced to Die Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s son and onetime heir apparent was convicted and sentenced to death on Tuesday by a court in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on charges of murder and inciting genocide during the country’s 2011 uprising. But Seif al-Islam el-Qaddafi is unlikely to face the firing squad anytime soon. The sentence was handed down in absentia because he remains in the hands of a militia in western Libya that has refused to hand him over for the past four years. (AP)
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Gay and Transgender Catholics Make a Plea Lui Akira Francesco Matsuo said he was standing in line for communion one Sunday at his Roman Catholic church in Detroit when a fellow parishioner pulled him aside: Didn’t he know that the archbishop had just urged supporters of same-sex marriage not to take communion? Matsuo, who is transgender, left and never returned. Now, two years later, he is among a group of gay and transgender Catholics who are seeking a meeting with Pope Francis during his first visit to the United States. The pressure from gay Catholics and their families poses a unique challenge for the pope as he tries to connect with an American church in flux. The hallmark of his papacy has been his pastoral approach to those living in the margins, but it is unclear whether he includes sexual minorities in his lineup of people in need of justice. In a formal letter sent to Francis, groups representing gay and transgender people, Catholics
and Hispanics said the church in America was in the midst of a “pastoral crisis” over gay issues and asked to meet with him. While some American conservatives are eager to see Francis make use of his popularity on this trip to advance the fight against abortion and same-sex marriage, gay Catholics want him to acknowledge their rejection by the church, and to welcome them as full members. “We see so many people we love abandoning the church because of the kinds of indignities and pain that they’re subjected to, whether it’s being denied a kid’s baptism or hearing a priest make horrible comments during a homily.” said Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of DignityUSA. “Everybody’s got stories of pain and alienation.” Francis and the church in the United States are struggling to navigate a new era. Despite years of opposition from various religious groups, same-sex marriage is legal in all 50 states. Polls show
that six out of 10 American Catholics are in support. And while American bishops are pressing for what are billed as religious freedom laws that would protect the rights of those who object to serving gay people getting married, Catholic institutions, and parishoners, are far from unified. While some parishes welcome same-sex couples and march in gay pride parades, some priests in other parishes refuse to baptize the children of same-sex couples or to give communion to openly gay mourners at their parents’ funeral Masses. Dozens of Catholic schools have fired openly gay teachers only to face revolts from Catholic students and parents. With gay Catholics clamoring to be heard, and the pope expected to address a crowd of more than one million in downtown Philadelphia to close a landmark Catholic event on family life called the “World Meeting of Families,” the stage for a reckoning is set. LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Top Mormons Could Meet Soon About Leaving Scouts In August, the most senior leaders of the Mormon Church are expected to meet and discuss a decision with profound consequences: whether to end a 100-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. This is not what the Boy Scouts hoped would happen on Monday when they officially lifted their ban on gay adult leaders, but said that conservative religious sponsors of local packs and troops can pick leaders who share their beliefs, even if that means limiting these voluntary positions to heterosexual men. In adopting the compromise policy, the Scouts’ national board
hoped to quell the turmoil over its position on gay leaders. But one day later, the Scouts were still torn by the issue, largely because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said it might leave the Boy Scouts altogether. The compromise appeared to work in the case of the Roman Catholics, whose scouting units accounted for 10 percent of the 2.4 million total youth members at the end of last year. In a statement Monday, a Roman Catholic committee that acts as a liaison with the Boy Scouts urged Catholic churches to continue sponsoring Scout troops despite the decision permit openly gay leaders.
While the group, the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, does not speak officially for the church, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops “defers to them” on issues concerning the Boy Scouts, said Don Clemmer, a spokesman for the influential bishops conference. Another major religious sponsor, the United Methodist Church, which accounts for 14 percent of youths in Scouting, also endorsed the compromise policy. That denomination’s leaders and churches have been divided on homosexuality and gay marriage. ERIK ECKHOLM and LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Co-Pilot’s Error Is Blamed for Crash of Space Plane A single mistake by the co-pilot led to the fatal disintegration of a Virgin Galactic space plane during a test flight in October, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday. The board strongly criticized the plane’s manufacturer for not building safeguards into the controls and procedures. The craft, SpaceShipTwo, is designed to be carried aloft under a larger aircraft, then dropped
before its rocket ignites and propels it upward. Near the top of its ascent, two tail booms rotate upward. That is meant to create drag and stability, allowing the plane to descend gently back into the atmosphere, like a badminton shuttlecock. Before the accident, Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., founded by Burt Rutan, a renowned aerospace engineer, knew that early rotating of the
tail booms could be catastrophic, but its analysis considered only possible mechanical failure, not a pilot’s mistaken release of the lock on the booms, investigators said. Scaled did not include a warning in the operating handbook or add a mechanism to ensure that could not happen. Investigators said the company had placed more concern on unlocking the feathering mechanism too late, also potentially dangerous.(NYT)
In Brief T.S.A. Will Target Screeners in Overhaul The new administrator of the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration said the agency would make several changes to security and screening procedures as part of an overhaul to address glaring lapses over the past few months. Peter V. Neffenger, who took over the agency this month, said in an interview that the T.S.A. would retrain thousands of screeners to better detect weapons and other illegal items, scale back a program that allows people who have not signed up for background checks to use expedited security lines and more aggressively police airports’ oversight of security badges. (NYT)
Lawsuit Against Officers Can Proceed A federal lawsuit against three white police officers in Ferguson, Mo., who were accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a handcuffed black man in 2009 can go forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said the District Court in St. Louis had erred in dismissing the claims of Henry Davis. When the police officers transferred Davis to a jail cell after he was arrested on charges of speeding and driving while intoxicated, court papers say, he resisted and a fight ensued. One police officer sustained a broken nose, and Davis sustained a concussion. (Reuters)
New Climate Plan Expected Next Week The Obama administration is expected early next week to unveil the final version of President Obama’s signature climate change policy, according to people familiar with the plans. While the final version is expected to force states to significantly cut planet-warming pollution from power plants, it is expected to extend an earlier timeline for doing so. If enacted, the climate change plan could stand as the most significant action ever taken by an American president to curb global warming. But Republicans and the coal industry have attacked the plan as a “war on coal.” (NYT)
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At Twitter, Slow Growth in Users Disappoints mance in the second quarter. Twitter reported a 61 percent increase in revenue and a narrower net loss than a year ago. Twitter’s stock fell as much as 11 percent in after-hours trading, as Dorsey and Anthony Noto, Twitter’s chief financial officer, laid out the company’s challenges. “What shocked the stock after hours is that despite all of the product improvements, people were less active now than they were seven months ago,” said Richard Greenfield, an analyst with BTIG Research. User numbers rose by only two million over the past three months, to 304 million, although Twitter said an additional 12 million more people in developing countries used text messages to gain access to the service. Revenue, most of which comes
from advertising, was $502 million, compared with $312 million a year ago. The company posted a net loss of $137 million, or 21 cents a share, as it spent heavily on stock compensation to attract and retain employees. In the same quarter last year, it posted a loss of $145 million, or 24 cents a share. Excluding stock compensation and certain other expenses, Twitter posted a profit of $49 million, or 7 cents a share. After several warnings by the company, Wall Street analysts had been cautious in their expectations for the quarter. On average, analysts had projected that the company would post revenue of $481 million and profit of 4 cents a share, after eliminating the compensation expenses. VINDU GOEL
U.S. Extends Its Investigation of Bank Hacking During the government’s long crackdown on insider trading in the hedge fund industry, investigators often looked for ties among a loose circle of friends. Now, federal authorities believe that some of the people suspected in last summer’s big online attack against JPMorgan Chase also turned to friends and acquaintances to further their ends. Three of the five men charged by federal prosecutors a week ago in two criminal cases that grew out of the investigation into the JPMorgan hacking attended classes at Florida State University at roughly the same time. Two of those men, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Anthony R. Murgio, both 31, belonged to the same
fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa, according to records kept by Florida State. A third man charged by prosecutors, Yuri Lebedev, 37, also went to that university with Murgio and Aaron. On his LinkedIn page, Lebedev, describes himself as working for a company led by Murgio’s brother, Joseph, another Florida State alumnus. But the circle of connections to the university and the fraternity is bigger than the three alumni charged by prosecutors. At least five of the people whom the authorities contend Murgio appointed to a small credit union in New Jersey also took classes at Florida State. Others were involved in a number of small companies that Aaron and Murgio
formed in Florida over the last decade, most of which are no longer in operation. None of those university friends or past business associates of Aaron and Murgio have been charged with wrongdoing. On Tuesday, Lebedev appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Frank Maas in the Federal District Court in Manhattan to respond to the criminal charges against him. No plea was entered, and he remained free on a $25,000 bond. His lawyer, Mark Barnett, declined to comment after the proceeding. Murgio is expected to travel to New York in the next few days for a similar court appearance. MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN
Settlement and Sagging Demand Combine for BP Loss LONDON — The British oil giant BP said on Tuesday that it lost $5.8 billion in the second quarter, reflecting a huge settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The roughly 40 percent fall in oil prices since last year is sharply cutting into profits at BP and at other oil companies. In addition, oil price benchmarks have slid 20 percent over the last month to around $50 a barrel. The global market is oversupplied by about 1.5 million barrels a day because of strong production in the United States and
increased exports from OPEC members. Production is also up in Brazil, Canada and Russia despite declining oil company profits and sanctions on Moscow. Besides lower prices, the central causes of BP’s profit decline in its oil and gas operations were diminished production in the Gulf of Mexico because of maintenance and a write down on exploration in Libya. BP also reported an operating profit from oil and gas exploration and production of $494 million in the second quarter, compared with $4.7 billion a
year earlier. BP made $9.8 billion in provisions in the second quarter for the $18.7 billion agreement in principle that the company reached on July 2 with United States authorities to settle penalties and damage claims arising from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. Total provisions for the explosion are now $54.6 billion. The loss for the quarter compares with a $3.4 billion profit for the same period a year earlier. STANLEY REED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS
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SAN FRANCISCO — If you’re like most people, you don’t see the point of Twitter — and that’s a big problem for the company. Twitter’s top executives acknowledged on Tuesday that despite huge name recognition, the vast majority of potential customers did not understand how or why to use the service, stunting its growth. And even among regular users, less than half check it daily. Jack Dorsey, the company’s co-founder and interim chief executive, pledged to change that. The social network should be so simple for users that “they don’t need to consider what Twitter is, just what they are there for,” he said. Dorsey’s candid assessment of Twitter’s failures overshadowed the company’s financial perfor-
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Pressing Reset on a Career for a Job in Tech SAN FRANCISCO — After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more. So Minton, a 26-year-old math major, took a three-month course in computer programming and data analysis. As a waiter, he made $20,000 a year. His starting salary last year as a data scientist at a web start-up here was more than $100,000. Stories like his are increasingly familiar these days as people across a spectrum of jobs are shedding their past for a future in the tech industry. Internet giants have long fought over the top software engineers, but now, companies in most every industry are pursuing some sort of digital game plan. “These are skilled and ambitious people who are seeking an on-ramp to the tech industry,” said Jim Deters, chief executive of Galvanize, the school that Minton attended. For now, it is a seller’s market for those who can master new technology tools for lowering a business’s costs, reaching its customers and automating decision-making. Companies cannot hire fast enough. Glassdoor, an employment site, lists more than 7,300 openings for software engineers. For the smaller category of data
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scientists, there are more than 1,200 job openings. Demand is highest in San Francisco. Nationally, the average base salary for software engineers is $100,000, and $112,000 for data scientists. Students are of a wide age range, but most are in their 20s and 30s. The typical student is a “29-year-old career changer,” said Liz Eggleston, co-founder of Course Report. One sure way to fill job openings in technology these days would be to attract more women. Only 18 percent of computer science graduates at four-year universities were women in 2013, the most recent statistic. By contrast, 35 percent of students at the specialized coding schools are women. Savannah Worth majored in English and graduated last year
Schools that offer training in digital skills are drawing more “career changers,” and graduates can make six-figure base salaries. Galvanize, a coding school in San Francisco.
from Colorado College. Jobs that might use her skills, she says, seem limited to writing marketing materials or blog posts for websites. “The good jobs were all in computer science,” she said. In college, she had dismissed computer programming as all math and numbers, and not a creative pursuit. But she dropped into an open house one evening at the Galvanize school in Denver. She found it filled with creative, smart people. Worth, 22, signed up for the Galvanize 24-week web programming class and excelled. Shortly after completing the course, she was hired by IBM as a software developer in San Francisco. The job placement rate for Galvanize students is 98 percent. “Graduation here is you get a job,” Deters said. STEVE LOHR
Nikkei Vies for Clout by Splurging on Pink Trophy TOKYO — Not long after he took over as president of Japan’s dominant business newspaper in April, Naotoshi Okada delivered a message to his 1,300 reporters and editors. It was time, he said, for Nikkei to attain the global influence it had long craved. The model he envisioned: Britain’s The Financial Times. “I want us to stand side by side with newspapers in Europe and America,” Okada said in a private address to the staff, according to two employees. With the announcement last Thursday that Nikkei will buy The Financial Times from its British parent, Pearson, for $1.3 billion, Nikkei has committed sizable resources to bringing Okada’s journalistic touchstone under its roof. The acquisition took the media world by surprise and has left many wondering how Nikkei — a 139-year-old publica-
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tion read by millions of Japanese office workers but almost no one else — will manage its smaller but more cosmopolitan prize. “Japanese newspapers have the largest circulations in the world, but it’s an almost entirely local industry,” said Yasunori Sone, a media studies professor at Keio University, citing a combination of language and cultural barriers that helps keep foreign competitors out. In interviews with current and former Nikkei journalists, many expressed doubts that The Financial Times would be more than an expensive trophy asset. Shoji Otsuka, an award-winning Nikkei veteran who is no longer at the paper, was one of several who likened the acquisition to the purchase of New York’s Rockefeller Center by the Japanese property company, Mitsubishi Estate, at the height of Japan’s financial
bubble in 1989. “They’re just buying an aspiration,” Otsuka said. Others see more potential for Nikkei to take advantage of The Financial Times’s strengths. “The F.T. is one of the world’s few truly global papers,” Sone said, “and buying it is a big symbolic shift for Nikkei.” Nikkei started an English-language weekly, the Nikkei Asian Review, in 2013, after several unsuccessful ventures. A senior Nikkei journalist familiar with the company’s management strategy said Okada was “prepared to lose a billion yen” — roughly $8 million — “every year for a decade” on the start-up in the hope of nurturing it into a prominent regional publication, a goal he could never be sure of achieving. The Financial Times gives him an established international news organization instantly. JONATHAN SOBLE
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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Masco Corp., up $2.47 to $25.63. The maker of Behr paint and Delta Faucets reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and plans to boost its dividend. Pfizer Inc., up $1.01 to $35.35. The drugmaker beat Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations and raised its 2015 forecast. Reynolds American Inc., up $5.01 to $84.20. The tobacco company reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit, boosted its outlook and plans to raise its dividend. Ingersoll-Rand PLC, down $4.30 to $60.70. The manufacturer reported worse-than-expected second-quarter profit and revenue and provided a weak third-quarter outlook. MicroStrategy Inc., up $23.84 to $202.01. The business software company reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and named a new chief financial officer. IPG Photonics Corp., up $9.85 to $89.71. The high-powered laser maker reported better-than-expected second-quarter profit and revenue and gave a positive outlook. (AP)
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A Hydrometer Makes the Beer The first place Juan J. Camilo, the founder of Dyckman Beer Company, attempted to make beer was in the “concise” (as he puts it) kitchen of his one-bedroom co-op in the South Bronx. “It didn’t ferment properly,” he said. His starter home-brewing kit lacked a floating hydrometer, a device that measures the gravity, or density, of a liquid — in the case of beer, the amount of sugar in the fermenting mixture that has not yet been converted by yeast into alcohol and carbon dioxide. This enables the brewer to estimate the A.B.V. (alcohol by volume) of the beer in progress and adjust accordingly. Camilo, 29, has made sure to have a hydrometer on hand ever since. “You learn by doing,” he said.
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Juan J. Camilo with his hydrometer for beer making. His current model is a long, skinny glass rod with a weighted bottom of steel shot sealed in green wax. Its narrower upper stem is marked off vertically with bands of turquoise, lime and orange, color coded for different gravity readings, which Camilo checks against a chart. It takes four to seven hours to boil the wort. During the twoweek fermentation process, he kept the nascent beer in a closet, covered with a towel to block out light, occasionally testing it with his trusty hydrometer. Now his beer is produced at a brewery in Connecticut. The flavors are drawn from his Dominican roots: chinola (passion fruit), cereza (cherry) and, for a coffee-infused winter stout, Café Bustelo, a bodega staple and “basically the coffee all Hispanics drink,” Camilo said with a laugh. LIGAYA MISHAN
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In Savannah, History Takes Another Turn SAVANNAH, Ga. — A few days before she drove into town to run the kitchen at The Grey, one of the most talked-about new restaurants in the country, Mashama Bailey treated herself to an eating tour of the South. She had spent a chunk of her childhood in Savannah, between the ages of 5 and 11, but she remembered those years only in flashes. Her formative years had really been in New York City, and she thought a fast immersion in Southern cuisine would be inspiring, instructive and delicious. So curving south from North Carolina to New Orleans, she tasted buttermilk and sorghum and Benton’s bacon. Then in Mississippi, at a Jackson landmark called the Mayflower Cafe, it all clicked: She ordered deviled crabs, whose accompanying sauce she recognized from childhood. “I called my mom,” she said. “I was like, ‘Mom, this place has the dressing that you used to make for us when we were little!’ ” The tangy-creamy memory source was Comeback Sauce, the Delta version of rémoulade. That sauce, and Bailey’s spin on deviled crabs, appeared as a special this month at The Grey, a restaurant with a symbolic power that is hard to ignore. Here you find an African-American female chef working side-by-side with her white business partner in a much heralded restaurant built in a former bus station that used to have separate waiting areas and restrooms for black and white travelers. “People walk in and they say, ‘I remember when this was segregated,’ ” Bailey said. John O. Morisano was raised on Staten Island and runs what he describes as an early stage investment firm. He moved to Savannah, patiently negotiated the purchase of a dilapidated and abandoned Greyhound bus station, spent a few million to bring back its powder-blue and stainless-steel gleam and recruited Bailey to be his business partner and executive chef. At The Grey, Bailey is tapping into the traditions and ingredients of the South, yes, but she’s interpreting the concept of Southern cuisine through the filter of her own experience and training. She’s making what she likes to eat. Her roast chicken arrives on a slab of sourdough toast that’s soaked with pan juices. The bird is crowned with a ladle of a sauce that echoes Country Captain. Bailey also serves a “country pasta,” which is like a Dixiefied carbonara with pork belly instead of pancetta, and a seafood boudin delicately stuffed with crayfish, wild shrimp and Carolina Gold rice. With a chef-driven internationally inflected menu like that, Bailey and Morisano know that they are bucking up against gastronomic preconceptions
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Mashama Bailey, executive chef at The Grey, interprets her own concept of Southern food. about the South, and about African-American cooking in particular. “I think there are certain expectations,” Bailey said. “When black people come here, they expect a certain thing: They expect it to be soul food. And I don’t cook soul food. I cook food that’s soulful and that comes from me.” Much of Savannah’s economy hinges on tourism, and it’s no secret that visitors make a beeline for Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room for fried chicken, candied yams, and macaroni and cheese. But Morisano is making a play for a different crowd: locals. Bailey is still learning about the South and the centuries-old etiquette of a place like Savannah, where not much gets done without an introduction from someone who is part of the fabric of the city. She has met Cynthia Hayes, the James Beard Award-winning force behind the Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network. Through people like Hayes, she has met farmers and purveyors who now provide her with everything from local Harris Neck oysters to eggplants, honey and freshdug potatoes. Before long, Bailey found herself digging into a full-on Lowcountry boil, with crabs and shrimp and knobs of sausage and cobs of corn and knuckles of those fresh-dug potatoes piled up on a wooden table under the oaks. If she had had any ambivalence about coming back to Savannah, the look on her face suggested that it had evaporated. “At this particular moment?” she asked. “This is good.” JEFF GORDINIER
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Unearthing Jamestown’s Leaders, and a Mystery site of Fort James. The men, who helped shape the fledgling community during its tumultuous early years, included the Rev. Robert Hunt, thought to be the first Anglican minister in the Americas; Capt. Gabriel Archer, the early expeditionary leader; Sir Ferdinando Wainman, the cousin of Sir Thomas, the Virginia governor; and Capt. William West, the governor’s uncle. “This is the beginning of American society, and religion is a very big part of that,” said James Horn, the president of Jamestown Rediscovery. The men all died during the settlement’s tenuous early years when colonists struggled to grow enough food to survive and clashed
WASHINGTON — One man was thought to be the first Anglican minister in the Americas. Another, an early explorer of the Mid-Atlantic region, was a rival of Capt. John Smith. And two of them, kin of Sir Thomas West, the governor of Virginia, helped save a colony on the brink of collapse. All four, some of European America’s earliest leaders, died in colonial Jamestown between 1608 and 1610 and were long thought lost to history. But on Tuesday, researchers from the National Museum of Natural History and the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation announced that they had unearthed and identified the men amid the ruins of a church on the
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with the Powhatan Confederacy, a Native American tribe that dominated the region. Archaeologists found the men’s remains in the chancel of the church, which was built in 1608 and later served as the site of the marriage of the Powhatan Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe in 1614. The team of researchers, led by William M. Kelso, has unearthed a steady stream of discoveries about the settlement since they began digging there in 1994. Rising sea levels threatening the island have made excavation all the more urgent in recent years. Kelso’s team discovered the remains of the church in 2010 and began investigating the four burials in November 2013. They were able to recover only about 30 percent of each skeleton, but by overlaying findings from forensics testing, archaeology, micro-CT scans, genealogy and other archival records, the researchers said they were confident in the identities of the men. Hunt, who died the earliest, in 1608, around age 39, was buried without a coffin and facing west toward where his congregation would have gathered. Archer died at 34 in late 1609 or early 1610, during the “Starving Time,” a six-month period during the winter of 1609-10, when famine and disease nearly wiped out the colony. The other two men arrived in Jamestown with Sir Thomas after the “Starving Time” in 1610. Sir Thomas, who was also known as Lord De La Warr (for which Delaware was named), resupplied and then led the colony. Sir Ferdinando died later that year, at 34. He is thought to be the first English knight buried in the New World and, along with Capt. William West, appears to have been buried in an anthropomorphic coffin. Captain West died in 1610, at 24, during a skirmish with the Powhatan. Researchers found the remains of a silk sash over the chest of his skeleton, likely indicating his military rank. NICHOLAS FANDOS
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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES
After Marriage Equality, More to Do It’s tempting to regard last month’s Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage as the coda of the gay rights movement. The celebrations it prompted around the nation had an air of finality for the broader effort set in motion decades ago by the trailblazers who demanded to be treated with dignity. Yet the marriage equality victory should not be regarded as the final battle. Discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation remains an everyday challenge in many parts of the country. Currently, 31 states lack comprehensive laws that protect gay and transgender Americans from being fired, evicted or denied lines of credit. Last week, lawmakers in the House and the Senate introduced the Equality Act, a bill that would broaden legal protections by amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to explicitly cover sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill would protect transgender students who are waging humiliating battles against school systems that have allowed hysteria to dictate policies on the use of public restrooms. It would make it harder for landlords to turn down prospective tenants who are gender nonconforming. The Democratic lawmakers sponsoring the Equality Act realize the bill might have little chance of passing while both chambers of Congress are controlled by Republicans. (It was introduced with no Republican backers.) It is nonetheless a worthy piece of legislation that
establishes what more is needed to ensure full equal rights. “I think American people have come to understand in a very deep and inspiring way who gay and transgender Americans are and why exclusion and discrimination is wrong,” said Evan Wolfson, the founder of Freedom to Marry, a group that played a central role in the struggle for same-sex marriage. Wolfson and other leading advocates acknowledge that capitalizing on the shift in public opinion to build enough support for a new federal law may take several years. Their strategy, like the approach taken for marriage, is to continue the fight for equality in courtrooms, state legislatures and corporate boardrooms to strengthen the uneven patchwork of state and local laws. In some ways, the quest for civil rights protections under federal law is on a far more solid footing than the marriage equality movement was just a few years ago, when lawyers began looking for plaintiffs whose compelling stories could bring the issue to the Supreme Court. The shift on that question has been swift since 2011, when a slim majority of Americans began supporting same-sex marriage. Today, a broad majority of Americans support protecting gay and transgender workers from employment discrimination. Nearly twothirds of likely Republican voters and 90 percent of Democrats recently told pollsters that they support such protection. There is every reason, moral and political, to be on the right side of this issue.
Stop Hiding Police Misconduct in New York A state judge in Manhattan acted in the public interest this month when she ordered the city to release a summary of substantiated misconduct findings against the police officer who used a chokehold against Eric Garner last year during an arrest that led to his death. If the city appeals, the court proceedings will provide an opportunity to limit the reach of a state law that has been used to hide the employment records of police officers, even some who have committed crimes. The statute says that an officer’s personnel record cannot be publicly released or cited in court without judicial approval. It was enacted to prevent criminal defense lawyers from using the state’s Freedom of Information Law to request personnel records for information to use against the police in trials. But the definition of “personnel record” has grown so broad that some courts and municipalities have interpreted it to shield almost any information. The case decided earlier this month by the State Supreme Court judge, Justice Alice Schlesinger, involves New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency with subpoena power to investigate and make recommendations to the Police De-
partment on disciplinary matters. The case landed in court after the review board denied the request of the Legal Aid Society, which sought a summary of substantiated complaints lodged against Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who used the chokehold on Garner. The request focused on basic information: the number of complaints against Pantaleo in which misconduct had been found before Garner’s death and what recommendations, if any, the board had made to the Police Department regarding those findings. The board released such summaries for a time during 2014, but ended the practice after the city law department said it violated state law. Schlesinger said the requested summaries should be released, noting that the review board is an independent, investigative agency and that the summaries were limited in scope and dealt only with complaints in which police misconduct was found to have occurred. This narrow ruling applies only to the Pantaleo case. But it points once again to the distressing fact that New York’s disclosure law gives the public far less access to information about police officers than workers in virtually any other public agency.
FRANK BRUNI
Exhausted Superkids There are several passages in the new book “Overloaded and Underprepared” that fill me with sadness for American high school students, the most driven of whom are forever in search of a competitive edge. Some use stimulants like Adderall. Some cheat. But the part of the book that somehow got to me most was about sleep. Many teenagers today are so hyped up and stressed out that they’re getting only a fraction of the rest they need. Back when I was in high school in the 1980s, in a setting considered intense in its day, the most common sleep problem among my peers was getting too much of it and not waking up in time for class. Now the concern isn’t how to rouse teens but how to lull them. And that says everything about the way childhood has been transformed into an insanely programmed, status-obsessed and sometimes spirit-sapping race. “Overloaded and Underprepared,” published on Tuesday, was written by Denise Pope, Maureen Brown and Sarah Miles, all affiliated with a Stanford University-based group called Challenge Success, which urges more balanced learning environments. And it joins an urgently needed body of literature that pushes back at helicopter parenting, exorbitant private tutoring, exhaustive preparation for standardized tests and the rest of it. There’s a unifying theme: Enough is enough. Sleep deprivation is just a part of the craziness, but it’s a perfect shorthand for childhoods bereft of spontaneity, stripped of real play and haunted by the “pressure of perfection,” to quote the headline on a story by Julie Scelfo in The Times this week. In a study in the medical journal Pediatrics this year, about 55 percent of American teenagers from the ages of 14 to 17 reported that they were getting less than seven hours a night, though the National Sleep Foundation counsels 8 to 10. “I’ve got kids on a regular basis telling me that they’re getting five hours,” Pope said. That endangers their mental and physical health. Smartphones and tablets aggravate the problem, keeping kids connected and distracted long after lights out. But in communities where academic expectations run highest, the real culprit is panic: about acing the exam, burnishing the transcript, keeping up with high-achieving peers. “No one is arguing for a generation of mediocre or underachieving kids — but plenty of people have begun arguing for a redefinition of what it means to achieve at all,” wrote Jeffrey Kluger in Time magazine last week. He noted, rightly, that “somewhere between the self-esteem building of going for the gold and the self-esteem crushing of the Ivy-or-die ethos, there has to be a place where kids can breathe.” And where they can tumble gently into sleep, which is a gateway, not an impediment, to dreams.
HOMETOWN HERO
Johnny Martinez
CHIEF AVIATION ordnanceman
DEPT/DIV: Weapons/G-4 HOMETOWN: Bronx, New York WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY:
To get out of the Bronx.
HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB:
Weapons - handling, transferring and delivering
weapons where they are needed.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: The births of my seven children. SHOUT OUT: To G-1 and AIMD. And to Zion’s Sake for being the light in the darkness.
FUN
FACT
I work for two departments and I retire in November after 23 years.
HOMETOWN HERO
Clinton Lucas
AVIATION BOATSWAIN’S MATE 3RD CLASS
DEPT/DIV: Air/V-4 HOMETOWN: Denton, Texas WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY: To seek better opportunities for myself. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB:
Knowing that I am doing something good in
the world.
PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Leaving for my first deployment. SHOUT OUT: Shoutout to ASAN Bridges and SN Schuebel for being the wind beneath my wings.
FUN
FACT
I have a Squirtle tattoo on my foot.
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