August 06, 2015 Rough Rider by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

THURSDAY EDITION

YELLOW SHIRTS

FLIGHT DECK CHOREOGRAPHERS

SAILOR 2.0

PHYSICAL READINESS

BY THE NUMBERS

IMMUNIZATIONS AND PREVENTING DISEASE

AUGUST 6, 2015

by MC3 Jennifer Case

Yellow Shirts:

Ballet on the Flight Deck A

Sailor stands on the non-skid of the flight deck for hours in more than 150-degree weather with the heat index, directing Navy and Marine Corps pilots who are driving multi-million dollar aircraft, accounting for every hazard, including the various technicians, plane captains, ordnance handlers, other pilots, other planes and whatever random item might interfere with launching this aircraft safely, but the pilot in the cockpit isn’t worried because the Sailor on the flight deck is wearing a yellow shirt. A yellow shirt on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is a symbol of pride, trust and respect, earned the hard way. Sailors don the yellow shirt only after hours of studying the world’s most dangerous work place. Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (handling) 3rd Class Tiesha Wilson is under instruction as a supervisor on the flight deck wearing the archetypal yellow shirt responsible for all aircraft movements and personnel safety on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). “You start as a T-head (trainee) in a blue shirt, this means learning how to chock and chain, and being a

basic safety observer,” said Wilson. “When I got my yellow shirt, a third class fought for me. I would work with him and show initiative, so he fought for me to be in his work center, now he mentors me.” All yellow shirts start as blue shirts. Until they are qualified, blue shirts wear a T, for trainee, on their cranials, protective head gear designed for work on the flight deck. First, Sailors learn to drive tractors and maneuver aircraft around the deck. Then they are chock and chainers, sprinting out from safe zones to secure aircraft to the deck with chocks and chains. The last qualification is elevator operator, where Sailors work with the aircraft handling officer (Handler) to ensure all aircraft are moved as scheduled. On board, this community stands at roughly 50 Sailors. TR divides the flight deck, and her 50 yellow shirts, into what is called “flies.” A fly is an organizational method of dividing the flight deck into three work centers from the front of the ship to the rear or, bow to stern. This allows aviation boatswain’s mates (handling), or ABHs, to better govern a smaller district of an otherwise massive flight deck.

“Certain areas on the flight deck, bow to about [elevator one], that’s Fly one. Fly two is [elevator one] to the [arresting gear] wires. From the wires all the way aft belongs to Fly three,” said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (handling) 1st Class John Keith Elopre, Fly one’s leading petty officer. All Sailors are responsible for their own safety, but leaders such as Elopre are also responsible for ensuring their teams remain as safe as the people they direct. “If my guys don’t have their PPE (personal protective equipment), I have to make sure they get it,” Elopre said. “Every morning I walk my Fly one to make sure birds are properly tied down, look for discrepancies and safety hazards. Yellow shirts do it every day, but as Fly [leading petty officer] that’s my responsibility.” Regardless of paygrade, yellow shirts have a responsibility to ensure safety of flight in their Fly and on their deck. “We are accountable for a clean and safe flight deck, meaning no foreign object debris (FOD). All birds need

to be tied down and all personnel, including squadron personnel, have to be aware of flight deck procedures,” said Wilson. ABHs are responsible for all moving parts on the flight deck and how they interact. For instance, to turn an aircraft, ABHs need to be aware of the location of all personnel and ordnance. The heat from jet exhaust could harm personnel or even set off ordnance. “Once you have your yellow shirt, you look at the flight deck differently,” said Wilson. “You pay more attention to the location of equipment, and how it got there. We have to know what ABE’s (aviation boatswain’s mates (equipment)) do, what ABF’s (aviation boatswain’s mates (fuels)) do. We have to understand those jobs as well as our job. All of us under instruction need to study all the information. It’s a lot of studying.” ABHs are professionals in a range of disciplines, from directing and organizing aircraft to shipboard firefighting. “In my rate we have the directing side, but we also have the firefighting side,” said Wilson. “If something ever happened we would have to be firefighters right away. We drill it regularly.” Yellow shirts wield positional authority. An airman or petty officer provides direction to commissioned officers and can potentially cancel a launch if that Sailor notices anything unsafe about the aircraft. “I love working on the flight deck,” said Wilson. “Officers and enlisted look at you differently when you are able to move them around the flight deck flawlessly. ” Rank has its place on the flight deck, but yellow shirts require qualification and skill along with their positional authority. Hard work and initiative count for more during flight operations than rank alone. “Blue shirts need to show leadership, initiative and selfconfidence,” said Wilson. “They want it for themselves not for anyone else. You have to know that you want this yellow shirt before trying to please anyone else. The job is not for everyone, it’s hard, and it’s a lot more hours up there, all day, in the heat.” The flight deck appears to flow smoothly but under the surface it can be a frenzied torrent of activity. The continuous launching and recovering of aircraft is the result of concern and communication. “It can get a little hectic,” said Wilson. “If you could hear some of what goes on in the headsets, identify some of the more stressful hand motions, you would know things are getting real. It is not as smooth as it looks, you have to make sure you keep your head 360, our Handler preaches it every day. Safety, safety, safety.” Yellow shirts are integral to executing flight operations while maintaining safety on the flight deck so Theodore Roosevelt is able to accomplish her mission.

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by: MC3 Taylor Stinson

saturated fats vs. unsaturated fats: saturated fats are worse for you than unsaturated and can raise cholesterol avoid processed carbohydates such as white bread and eat whole-grain carbohydrates such as brown rice or whole-grain bread

fats carbohydrates protein & sugar

protein is important for building muscle but too much protein can strain the kidneys and other organs. Gradually increase your protein consumption throughout the day avoid refined sugars such as high fructose corn syrup whenever possible. Hidden sugars in beverages can increase caloric intake exponentially

and don’t forget to drink plenty of water ever y day! a c c o r d i n g t o m e n ’s fitness... “Rather than trying to drink a specific number of glasses of water a day,” says [Spero Tsindos], “you should consider your overall fluid intake. This includes not only tap and bottled water, but also water in unprocessed fruits and vegetables, and juices.”

- shawn radcliffe

your body is

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PRT readiness steps to excel on your next PRT

1. Wear good running shoes 2. Get a good night’s sleep 3. Take responsibility for your warm-up 4. Bring a towel or a pad 5. Bring water 6. Hit the head before the test 7. Work out with a buddy 8. Know the standards for PRT 9. Take a pre-PRT 10. Stay off supplements and/or energy drinks

sit ups 1. Practice with added weight. Try elevating your hips higher than your head and torso. 2. Hold the feet. It helps to train with your feet held to get used to what it feels like for the real PRT. 3. Do timed intervals. Over time, work to increase how many you can do in a minute. 4. Do regular intervals. i.e. 30 sit ups, rest, 40 situps, rest, 50 sit ups, rest, then back down to 30 to build core strength

why?

1. Subtracts time and supports knees and back 2. Improves performance 3. Warms up your body before the test 4. Keeps you comfortable and ready to excel 5. Staying hydrated is key to good performance 6. Better safe than sorry! 7. Helps encourage you and stay motivated 8. Knowing the minimum score may prevent you from failing 9. Take a pre-PRT a few weeks prior to know what areas to work on 10. If your body is not accustomed to it, taking it before the test can cause sugar/caffeine shock

running 1. Set a good pace. If you can talk to someone in a complete sentence you are jogging not running. 2. Run shorter distances faster. Running distance intervals improves one’s running time and improves cardiovascular endurance.

push ups 1. Use proper form. If you practice with bad form, you’ll do the same thing for the “real deal” and the observers won’t count your push ups. 2. Try adding weight. Same thing for sit ups, add weights so normal push ups seem easier.

3. Run softly. You want to make as little impact as possible when you run to avoid injuring yourself.

3. Try different kinds of push ups. Varying your push ups between diamond and wide angle can stress your muscles more in a positive way.

4. Focus on “going forward”. Minimize your up-and-down movement and lean slightly forward to keep momentum when running.

4. Do intervals. There is a distinct difference in the way your body moves for a fast push up as opposed to a slow push up.

Sources: www.navy-prt.com/10stepstoexcel.html www.lukeswartz.com/nrotc/athletics/tips.pdf www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/what-to-drink/how-much-water-should-you-drink-a-day

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infected person. Hepatitis A is rarely fatal unlike hepatitis B, which affects 240 million people with 780,000 deaths annually

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic diesase transmitted by infected mosquitoes. Once infected the virus incubates in the body for 3 to 6 days. There are an estimated 200,000 cases of yellow fever causing 30,000 deaths each year.

Typhoid fever is a bacterial diesase transmitted through the ingestion of food or drink contaminated by the feces or urine of infected people.

PREVENTING DISEASE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY WEBMD.COM, WHO.INT

#1. WASH YOUR HANDS MOST COLD AND FLU VIRUSES ARE SPREAD BY

DIRECT CONTACT.

#2. DON’T COVER YOUR SNEEZES AND COUGHS WITH YOUR HANDS GERMS AND VIRUSES CLING TO YOUR BARE HANDS.

The number of over the

MUFFLING COUGHS AND SNEEZES WITH YOUR HANDS OFTEN RESULTS IN PASSING ALONG YOUR GERMS TO OTHERS.

counter medications

Medical has

#3. DON’T TOUCH YOUR FACE COLD AND FLU VIRUSES ENTER YOUR BODY

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THROUGH THE EYES, NOSE OR MOUTH.

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#4. DO AEROBIC EXERCISE REGULARLY AEROBIC EXERCISE SPEEDS UP THE HEART TO PUMP

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LARGER QUANTITIES OF BLOOD; MAKES YOU BREATHE FASTER TO HELP TRANSFER OXYGEN FROM YOUR LUNGS TO YOUR BLOOD, INCREASING THE BODY’S NATURAL VIRUS-KILLING CELLS.

ON AVERAGE THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE SEEN BY MEDICAL AT SICK CALL IN ONE DAY

beginning of deployment.

#5. EAT FOODS CONTAINING PHYTOCHEMICALS “PHYTO” MEANS PLANTS, AND THE NATURAL

CHEMICALS IN PLANTS GIVE THE VITAMINS IN FOOD A SUPERCHARGED BOOST.

#6. DON’T SMOKE STATISTICS SHOW THAT HEAVY SMOKERS GET

MORE SEVERE AND FREQUENT COLDS.

#7. CUT ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION HEAVY ALCOHOL USE SUPPRESSES THE IMMUNE

SYSTEM IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. HEAVIER DRINKERS ARE MORE PRONE TO INITIAL INFECTIONS AS WELL AS SECONDARY COMPLICATIONS.

#8. RELAX IF YOU CAN TEACH YOURSELF TO RELAX, YOU MAY

BE ABLE TO REV UP YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. THERE’S EVIDENCE THAT WHEN YOU PUT YOUR RELAXATION SKILLS INTO ACTION, YOUR INTERLEUKINS -- LEADERS IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM RESPONSE AGAINST COLD AND FLU VIRUSES INCREASE.

midnight in New York F R O M T H E PA G E S O F

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

Belated Look At Top Suspect In an Outbreak Since the outbreak that gave Legionnaires’ disease its name nearly four decades ago, water-cooling towers have been identified as prime breeding grounds for the deadly disease. But even as cases have increased across the nation, and experts have called for more safeguards, New York City has done little to address the risks that the towers pose. Now as New York faces the largest outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the city’s history, Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials are trying to marshal a more aggressive approach to the disease and to quell concerns raised by the seven Legionnaires’ deaths since July 10, all of them in the South Bronx. At a news conference on Tuesday, the mayor said that the total number of cases has risen to 86 and more cases were expected to be reported, even as the outbreak appears to ebb. Often described as a severe form of pneumonia, the disease can spread through air-conditioning units mounted in windows, exposed overhead pipes and other common features of urban life. And it can take as little as walking by one of these sources carrying the legionella bacteria and inhaling water mists to contract the disease, though certain people — the elderly, smokers, those with weakened immune systems — are more susceptible. Precisely how and where the 86 people with Legionnaires’ in the South Bronx outbreak contracted remained under investigation by health authorities. But five water cooling towers — a component of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems in many modern buildings — have tested positive for legionella in the affected area and are thought to be the source of the outbreak. That finding has highlighted longstanding concerns about the upkeep and oversight of the cooling towers, which provide the damp, warm environment that the bacteria need to thrive and must be cleaned regularly to prevent the bacteria from taking root. (NYT)

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U.S. Officials Divided on Chief Risk WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s top intelligence, counterterrorism and law enforcement officials are divided over which terrorist group poses the biggest threat to the American homeland, the Islamic State or Al Qaeda and its affiliates. The split reflects a concern that the Islamic State poses a more immediate danger because of its unprecedented social media campaign, using online messaging to inspire followers to launch attacks across the United States. Many intelligence and counterterrorism officials warn, however, that Qaeda operatives in Yemen and Syria are capitalizing on the turmoil there to plot much larger “mass casualty” attacks, including bringing down airliners. This is not an academic argument. It will influence how the government allocates billions of dollars in counterterrorism funds, and how it assigns thousands of federal agents, intelligence analysts and troops to combat a multipronged threat that senior officials say is changing rapidly.

The issue already has prompted a White House review of its counterterrorism policy toward the Islamic State. And the National Counterterrorism Center has diverted analysts working on longer-term threats to focus on the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIL, intelligence officials said. In June, the F.B.I. had so many people under surveillance in terrorism-related investigations that supervisors reassigned criminal squads to monitor terrorism suspects. For all the concern, there have been no Qaeda attacks in the United States in 14 years, and most of the Islamic State-inspired plots so far have been unsophisticated. American officials say this is not a black-and-white debate between those who worry more about Al Qaeda as the main threat to the homeland and those who say it is the Islamic State. It is more a shift in emphasis. The F.B.I., the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security are concerned more about the rising risk from the Islamic State, while the

Pentagon, intelligence agencies and the National Counterterrorism Center are more anxious about Qaeda operatives overseas. The debate is evolving in real time, thus there have been no large shifts in money or personnel yet in one direction. But it is the first time senior American officials have spoken so openly about the evolution. Senior American officials say that counterterrorism programs employ roughly one in four of the more than 100,000 people who work at the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies, and account for about one-third of the $50 billion annual intelligence budget. About 3,400 American troops in Iraq are helping the Iraqis fight the Islamic State, while about 9,800 troops in Afghanistan are assisting that country’s security personnel in combating the Taliban and other extremists there. James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, told the Aspen forum, “To say one is of greater magnitude than the other, at least for me, is hard.” ERIC SCHMITT

Obama Begins His Own Push for Iran Votes WASHINGTON — President Obama is rolling out a campaign of private entreaties and public advocacy over the next several weeks to build support in Congress for the nuclear deal with Iran, an effort to counter a well-financed onslaught from critics who have promised to use a monthlong congressional recess to pressure lawmakers to oppose the accord. In a speech at American University in Washington on Wednesday, Obama will seek to explain and defend the agreement reached last month, which would lift some sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon. Obama will use the speech to frame Congress’s choice as the most consequential foreign policy decision since the vote to go to war in Iraq. “He will make the case that this

should not even be a close call,” a White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Anticipating a month of heavy lobbying and television advertising by opponents, led by the pro-Israel group Aipac, Obama and top members of his team are leaning on Democrats to declare their backing for the agreement before they leave Washington to face their constituents. Obama, who will decamp to Martha’s Vineyard for his twoweek summer vacation, will have limited personal contact with wavering lawmakers, but his team has been instructed to make the president and other senior administration officials available to any skeptic with an unanswered question or concern about the deal. Officials said that Obama’s address on Wednesday would be followed by a series of news media interviews that would be shown

next week. And the administration plans to dispatch cabinet members, including Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz, the nuclear physicist who helped negotiate the accord, to travel the country outlining its provisions. On Tuesday, three closely watched Democratic senators — Barbara Boxer of California, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Bill Nelson of Florida — declared their backing, along with a handful of House Democrats. Obama’s team is working with Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority leader, to build support to potentially sustain a presidential veto of legislation rejecting the accord. But some prominent voices, including Rep. Steve Israel of New York, the highest-ranking Jewish Democrat in the House; Nita Lowey, also of New York; and Ted Deutch of Florida came out against the agreement. JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

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INTERNATIONAL

Israel Orders Scion of Jewish Militancy Held JERUSALEM — He has the pedigree: Meir Ettinger is the grandson and namesake of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy. He has the record: For years, Ettinger has joined the radical group of Israeli settlers known as the hilltop youth in clashes with Palestinians and Israeli forces, leading to a ban on his entering Jerusalem or the West Bank. He also has the ideology. In a series of Bible-quoting blog posts, Ettinger calls for the “dispossession of gentiles” who inhabit the Holy Land and the replacement of the modern Israeli state with a new “kingdom of Israel” ruled by the laws of the Torah. “The key is not to seek to delay the explosion,” he wrote on July 22, “but to try to bring it on as soon as possible and on our own initiative.” Amid politicians’ promises to crack down on Jewish terrorism suspects, Ettinger on Tuesday became the name and face of what critics call a scourge on Israeli society. An Israeli court ordered him held for five days. Shlomo Fischer, a sociologist at Hebrew University, said Ettinger was representative of a band of “violent activists” who “conceive of themselves as having a sort of charismatic, prophetic authority.” He likened it to the Jewish underground that plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock in the 1980s. It was unclear whether Ettinger was suspected of any connection to the masked men who witnesses said set fire to two homes in the West Bank village of Duma Friday, killing 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsheh and leaving his parents and 4-year-old brother critically injured. That attack has been condemned worldwide. Israeil’s security cabinet on Sunday directed law enforcement agents to “take all necessary steps and to use all means at their disposal” to apprehend the arsonists and “prevent similar attacks.” The cabinet specifically endorsed administrative detention — holding suspects for months without formal charges — a tactic used widely against Palestinians but rarely against Jews. JODI RUDOREN and ISABEL KERSHNER

Greece Again Faces Crisis as Migration Surges LESBOS, Greece — The immigration center here, a cluster of prefabricated buildings surrounded by rows of chain-link and barbed-wire fences, was full again on a recent evening, leaving hundreds of families, some with infants, to find a place among the piles of garbage outside. The toilets were clogged and the temperatures still well above 90 degrees. “Look, her eyes are sick,” said Ibrahim Nawrozi, a desperate 27-year-old Afghan mechanic, holding up his 10-month-old daughter for examanation. “We are in this garbage three days. We can’t stay here another day.” Since the beginning of the year, the number of refugees and migrants arriving here and on other Greek islands has surged to fullscale humanitarian-crisis levels. Arrivals by sea have surpassed 107,000 through July, according to United Nations figures,. Most of those who arrive on the shores of Lesbos are fleeing the wars in Syria and Afghanistan. In June, 15,254 migrants and refugees arrived on Lesbos, according to the Greek Coast Guard, compared with 921 during the

Migrants pulled a boat crowded with Syrians last month onto the shore at Lesbos.

SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

same month last year. But only squalor awaits them here. They arrive in a country that is deep in its own crisis. There are volunteers scraping together what assistance they can. But what they muster does not come close to the need. Human rights groups have called the conditions here and on other nearby islands appalling. The migrants and refugees land at all hours, packed into inflatable boats that should hold 15, according to the manufacturer’s instructions. But they usually hold 40, sometimes more. They cross from Turkey, where they have paid smugglers about $1,200 for a place

on the boat, more if they want life jackets. The distance is as little as three and a half miles in some places. But the overloaded boats, taking in water because they sit so low in the sea, can take hours to make the crossings. Passengers that arrive in the night are often exhausted and freezing. Others arrive sunburned. Some end up throwing everything they own overboard, even wheelchairs. Still, the volunteers who watch for the boats from cliffs say that many of the passengers fall to their knees with happiness when they make it to the rocky beaches here. SUZANNE DALEY

In Brief Russia Claims North Pole Russia formally staked a claim on Tuesday to a vast area of the Arctic Ocean, including the North Pole. If the United Nations committee that arbitrates sea boundaries accepts Russia’s claim, the waters will be subject to Moscow’s oversight on economic matters, including fishing and oil and gas drilling, though Russia will not have full sovereignty. Under a 1982 United Nations convention, the Law of the Sea, a nation may claim an exclusive economic zone over the continental shelf abutting its shores. The claim Russia lodged on Tuesday contends that the shelf extends far north of the Eurasian land mass, out under the planet’s northern ice cap. In a statement posted on its website, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the claim would expand Russia’s total territory on land and sea by about 463,000 square miles. (NYT)

Pakistan Hangs Tortured Inmate A man whose lawyers said he had been tortured into confessing to murder, and who they said was a minor at the time of the crime, was hanged early Tuesday, despite pleas from rights groups in Pakistan and overseas. The case of the man, Shafqat Hussain, had become a cause célèbre in Pakistan, where rights groups portrayed it as a stark example of the country’s flawed judicial system as they renewed calls for abolishing the death penalty. Hussain, a night watchman, was convicted in 2004 of kill-

ing a 7-year-old boy in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, after abducting him and demanding ransom. The conviction was based on Hussain’s confession to the police, but Justice Project Pakistan, a law firm specializing in human rights cases, said he had confessed only because he was tortured. (NYT)

Ebola Cases Fall, U.N. Reports The number of new Ebola diagnoses in Sierra Leone and Guinea reached its lowest point in well over a year last week, according to the World Health Organization, with only one reported case in each country. There were no new cases in Liberia, the third nation most severely affected by the outbreak. Dr. Bruce Aylward, an assistant director general of the organization, said Tuesday that it was realistic to expect the epidemic to be quelled by the end of the year. He cautioned that in the interim there would probably be additional flare-ups of the disease, which has killed more than 11,000 people since late 2013. (NYT)

U.N. Chief Appeals for More Aid Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations beseeched donors on Tuesday to fill an emergency $100 million gap in funding for the agency that aids five million Palestinian refugees in the Middle East. Ban said the shortfall confronting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency risked disrupting the education of a half-million children. (NYT)

NATIONAL

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

Biden Friends Worry Run Could Bruise Legacy WASHINGTON — Later this month, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will escape for a family retreat to mourn his late son, Beau, but also to mull a campaign for president. Some of Biden’s friends and allies worry that he will decide it is a good idea. Those supporters fear that the legacy Biden has built as an effective partner who took on tough jobs for President Obama could be sacrificed in the pursuit of an unsuccessful challenge to Hillary Rodham Clinton. They fret that Biden, as well known for his undisciplined, sometimes self-immolating comments, as he is for his charm on the trail, could endanger Obama’s own legacy by injuring Clinton’s candidacy and causing his party to lose control of the White House. While the concern about Biden appears widespread among his political allies, few seem eager to tell him out of fear of hurting his feelings. “People deeply care about him and admire him,” said

one person who is close to Biden. “But you obviously have to worry about the feasibility and ultimate impact of a run.” Admirers of Biden inside and outside the administration said they understood his interest in running given his years at the highest levels of government, but were mindful, and hoped he was mindful, that it could end disastrously. But they are concerned that the rawness of his son’s death has made processing the pluses and minuses of running difficult. Obama, according to those knowledgeable about his sentiments, feels highly protective of his No. 2 and is worried about the effects of a presidential race at a difficult personal time for Biden. In a sign of the conflicting pressures surrounding Biden, the vice president has told people that the terminal brain cancer of Beau Biden, who died in May, had caused him to consider resigning the vice presidency to take care of his grieving family, though those

aware of the vice president’s thinking say that idea never became too serious. David Axelrod, a former Obama adviser who has spoken with Biden, said out loud what many were thinking. “I understand completely why he would consider running,” said Axelrod, pointing to Biden’s 36 years in the Senate and two White House terms at Obama’s side. “On the other side is the reality of running for president. The fundraising, the demands of campaigning and organizing, the constant and irritating exposure and the prospect of running against a well-fortified opponent who has a huge head start. Add all that up and it is a counterweight to why he should run.” White House officials and others say Biden’s long record of public service gives him the right to make his own decision on his own timetable and then to proceed as he chooses. CARL HULSE and JASON HOROWITZ

Tennessee Gunman a Solitary Visitor in Jordan AMMAN, Jordan — The young visitor from America rode his skateboard, jogged near his house or strolled to the market, barely acknowledging his neighbors. He was a regular at the mosque, but never bothered to introduce himself to fellow worshipers. “He made no effort,” the mosque’s imam said. After Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, was identified by the police as the gunman who killed five servicemen in Chattanooga, Tenn., last month, speculation arose about what he might have experienced in Jordan last year, during a visit to his family. No one was able to say what Ab-

dulazeez was doing in the privacy of his home, where he seemed to spend most of his time. But his apparent solitude added weight to early theories by investigators in the United States who suspected he had acted alone. Abdulazeez drifted from job to job, had run-ins with the authorities and abused drugs and alcohol. Some have speculated that he became swept up in politics or militancy, in a country seared by wars across borders, or grasped for answers to his personal struggles in Islam. But the imam, Ayoub Bourini, and others in the middle-class neighborhood in east Amman

where Abdulazeez lived for a time said they had seen no sign of the rage he unleashed in Tennessee. Abdulazeez, an American citizen who was born in Kuwait to Palestinian-Jordanian parents, had at times skipped his medications for depression, been arrested for drunken driving and faced bankruptcy. He had written about his “worthless” life and suicide, as well as his anger at American policies in the Middle East. In the days leading up to the shooting, he searched the Internet for Islamic scholarship on martyrdom, apparently hoping it might absolve his sins, investigators said. KAREEM FAHIM

Fox News Whittles Field for the First Republican Debate Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is in and former Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is out of Fox News’s Republican debate on Thursday in Cleveland, officials with the network said Tuesday. The network announced the 10 candidates who will have a podium spot for the main forum. The remaining seven will be part of a forum airing at 5 p.m. that day. Fox News’s “decision desk,” which does its election night calls,

sifted through five national polls, including the network’s own survey released Monday, to select the top 10 candidates for the debate based on the polling. The others included in the lineup are Donald J. Trump, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ben Carson, former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas

and Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey. The process has been fraught with complaints, but driven by the reality of dealing with a candidate field far bigger than was ever anticipated. The current rules, however, mean that a sitting governor, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and a sitting senator, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, will be relegated to the second-tier event. MAGGIE HABERMAN

In Brief State Regulators Act To Ease Quake Peril Oklahoma regulators have told energy companies to sharply reduce underground wastewater disposal across an earthquake-prone stretch of the state, a move that ratchets up a so-far unsuccessful effort to reduce quakes related to oil and gas production. The wastewater is pumped out of the ground when oil or gas is extracted, and then put back underground at what is known as a disposal or injection well. The instruction, issued Monday, seeks a 38 percent cut in the amount of wastewater being pumped underground by the operators of 23 injection wells, largely northeast of Oklahoma City. The roughly 40-mile stretch that includes the wells has experienced a dramatic increase in earthquakes in the last two years. (NYT)

Mother of Bland Files Wrongful-Death Suit A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the mother of Sandra Bland, the Illinois woman found hanging in a Texas jail cell last month, contends that Bland should never have been arrested and that she was later held in dangerous conditions without proper supervision. The wrongful-death lawsuit named the Texas state trooper, Brian T. Encinia, who made the arrest, and two guards at the Waller County Jail, where Bland died, as defendants, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the county. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Houston, said that Encinia made up a reason to arrest Bland and that jailers failed to react when she refused meals and “had bouts of uncontrollable crying.” (NYT)

Archdiocese Settles Sexual Abuse Cases Leaders of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee said Tuesday that they had reached a $21 million settlement with hundreds of victims of sexual abuse by clergy members, though the agreement is still subject to approval by a federal judge. Mike Finnegan, a lawyer whose Minnesota law firm represents most of the 330 victims, said that the settlement amount should have been higher. (NYT)

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

THE MARKETS

Puerto Rico Has Another Debt Worry Ahead stood behind them. Puerto Rico issued such bonds to raise money for a variety of government projects, and investors bought them because the island’s constitution guaranteed that such bonds would be paid. The general obligation payment due to bondholders on Sept. 1 is for $5 million, an amount so small that even if the redemption fund is empty at that point, Puerto Rico could still produce the cash out of general revenues. But a much bigger payment on the general obligation bonds, about $370 million, comes due Jan 1. If Puerto Rico misses that one, “it would be an earthquake for the markets,” said Matt Fabian, a partner at Municipal Market Analytics, a financial research firm. Fabian sad he doubted Puerto Rico would risk such a move.

Still, market participants trying to understand Puerto Rico’s overall negotiating strategy sense that a pattern may be taking shape. Monday’s bond default was preceded by a missed payment into a similar pot of money, collected in advance to make scheduled payments on the Public Finance Corporation’s bonds. It was not paid as scheduled on July 15 because it depended on the Puerto Rico’s legislature making an appropriation by the end of June. No appropriation was made, but the significance was not widely recognized. Two weeks later, when no pre-payment was made, officials said it was still not tantamount to a default. But by the time the actual default took place on Monday, active market participants were not surprised. (NYT)

Exchange in Australia Woos Listings From China SYDNEY, Australia — Just two companies are listed on the Asia Pacific Stock Exchange in Sydney, and it has to rely on its biggest Australian rival to clear and settle trades. But that has not diminished the ambitions of George Wang, the chairman of the AIMS Financial Group, which acquired the exchange in October 2008. Wang hopes to capitalize on the voracious appetite for stock market listings by Chinese companies. Before this year’s plunge in Chinese shares, 500 mainland Chinese companies were lined up to list on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A stock markets, according to investment bankers and fund managers in Hong Kong.

Now the plans of these Chinese companies are in limbo after Beijing froze initial public offerings. The stock turmoil has not curbed Wang’s optimism that his stock exchange can act as a bridge between capital-hungry Chinese companies and the $1.53 trillion in Australia’s pension funds. Wang also thinks his stock market can be a tonic for the Chinese market volatility that can scare off everyday investors. In 2015, Chinese initial public offerings on average rose about 44 percent on their first day of trading, according to a banker based in Hong Kong, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Such offerings sometimes rose by their 10 percent daily limit for a few

days after that. “China’s market is up and down, but Asia Pacific exchange is a market for long term,” Wang said. There is still a lot of work to do, though. Regulators in Australia and China have not approved Wang’s vision for trading renminbi-denominated stocks on the Asia Pacific Stock Exchange. And the exchange’s existing trading system, criticized as being outdated, is being replaced with the Nasdaq OMX platform. Still, Wang expects the business to break even next year. By the end of 2017, he predicts that more than 30 companies will be trading on the exchange. BRETT COLE

G.E. Plans an App Store for the Gears of Manufacturing General Electric has seen the future of manufacturing, and it involves competing with some very big technology companies. G.E. will announce on Wednesday a push into computer-based services, connecting sensors that are on machines to distant computing centers where data will be scanned for insights on things like performance, maintenance and supplies. G.E. plans to spend about $500 million annually building the business, said William Ruh, the head of G.E.’s software business.

The move highlights how important the so-called Internet of Things, a term for matching sensors with cloud-computing systems, has become for some of the world’s biggest companies. G.E. expects revenue of $6 billion from software in 2015, a 50 percent increase in one year. Much of this is from a pattern-finding system called Predix. G.E. expects future profits will increasingly lie in servicing things like its jet engines, wind turbines and medical equipment. G.E. calls its new service the

Predix Cloud, and hopes it will be used by both customers and competitors, along with independent software developers. The goal is to have a place where manufacturers can buy the software applications they need, something like the way consumers pick up a new game in the mobile app stores of Apple and Google. Pitney Bowes has said it will use the system for its business in sending invoices and direct mail. Other customers will be announced, Ruh said. (NYT)

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While Puerto Rico’s first bond default reverberated through the financial markets Tuesday, another move by the cash-poor island may provide a clue to where the next trouble spot lies. After acknowledging Monday that it had not made a $58 million bond payment, the government disclosed later that night that it had temporarily stopped making contributions of $92 million a month into a fund that is used to make payments on another $13 billion in bond debt. A small payment to the fund is due on Sept. 1. Unlike the bond payments that went into default on Monday, the ones coming due are on general obligation bonds, the type that many investors have been led to believe would never go into default because the issuer’s full faith, credit and taxing authority

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BUSINESS

A Clue in the Case of ‘Happy Birthday’ It is one of the most beloved and famous of all songs. Yet “Happy Birthday to You” is actually considered private property. A federal lawsuit filed by a group of independent artists is trying to change that, and lawyers in the case said they had found evidence in the yellowed pages of a nearly century-old songbook that proves the song’s copyright — first issued in 1935 — is no longer valid. A judge may rule in the case in coming weeks. If the song becomes part of the public domain, it would cost the Warner Music Group, which holds the rights, millions of dollars in lost licensing fees. It would also be a victory for those who see “Happy Birthday to You” as emblematic of the problems with copyright — a song that has long since survived anyone involved in its creation, yet is still owned by a corporation. The case also highlights the centrality of copyright claims to media businesses like the music industry, where the question of who owns the rights to a song can be worth millions of dollars. Part of the dispute over “Happy Birthday” derives from the song’s byzantine publishing his-

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A 1922 songbook containing “Good Morning and Birthday Song,” with the birthday lyrics in the third verse. tory. Its familiar melody was first published in 1893 as “Good Morning to All,” written by Mildred Hill and her sister Patty, a kindergarten teacher in Kentucky. Birthday-themed variations began to appear in the early 1900s, and soon “Happy Birthday to You” was a phenomenon. Its appearance in a scene in Irving Berlin’s show “As Thousands Cheer” in 1933 led to a lawsuit, and in 1935 the copyright for “Happy Birthday to You” was registered by the Clayton F. Summy Company, the Hill sisters’ publisher. Warner acquired the song in 1988 when buying the

song’s owner, Birchtree Ltd., as part of a publishing deal reported at the time to be worth $25 million. According to some estimates, the song now generates about $2 million in licensing income each year, mostly from its use in television and film. Jennifer Nelson, who is making a documentary about the song and first filed the lawsuit against Warner two years ago, said that the company charged her $1,500 to use the song. The case, which has been joined by other artists and seeks class-action status, is being heard in federal court in Los Angeles. BEN SISARIO

Microsoft Aims at Growing Legion of Elite Gamers KIRKLAND, Wash. — A team of hundreds here was recently putting the final touches on a video game expected to be one of the biggest holiday sellers. The game, Halo 5: Guardians, will depict interstellar combat in new levels of graphical realism and offer new twists in multiplayer capabilities. It will be the latest game in the Halo series, which has generated more than $3.5 billion in global sales. But Microsoft, the company that makes the game, cannot afford to coast on warm feelings alone for Halo, as other big game franchises, like Call of Duty, have overshadowed it. So the team making the game is focusing on the booming world of competitive video games — in particular, elite gamers. For Microsoft and other game makers, e-sports is considered a crucial leg to the multimillion-dollar marketing push. As part of that push, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its Halo competition would give away a total of $1

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

Halo 5: Guardians, due out on Oct. 27, will be the first in the Halo series created for the Xbox One. MICROSOFT

million in prize money. “The bottom line is all game developers everywhere are looking for ways to turn their games into e-sports titles,” said Rahul Sood, chief executive of Unikrn, a startup that runs a site for betting on e-sports. In part, the interest from the companies is the result of the money pouring into e-sports. Revenue from tickets to e-sports events, corporate sponsorships and other sources are expected to increase by 30 percent to more than $250 million this year, according to Newzoo, a market research firm.

There are more than 113 million e-sports fans worldwide, Newzoo estimates. Many are the most committed and loyal gamers, playing the games, watching them online and paying for extras to enhance their experience. For them, e-sports competitors are celebrities of the highest order. “The pros who play e-sports are famous,” said Bonnie Ross, the head of 343 Industries, the Microsoft game studio here in the Seattle suburbs that develops Halo. “They’re icons who people look up to. These are people that fans aspire to be.” NICK WINGFIELD

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Baxalta Inc., up $3.95 to $37.10. Shire PLC is offering to buy the biotechnology company in a $30 billion takeover to boost its portfolio of rare-disease drugs. MGM Resorts International, up $1.90 to $21.75. The casino operator reported a drop in quarterly profit, but the earnings and revenue results beat forecasts. The Allstate Corp., down $7.04 to $62.34. The insurance company reported worse-than-expected second-quarter profit, partly on high auto claims. Cognex Corp., down $9.95 to $35. The maker of barcode readers and machine vision sensors reported mixed results and gave disappointing guidance. Endologix Inc., down $2.05 to $12.01. The medical device company reported worse-than-expected second-quarter profit and lowered its outlook. IPC Healthcare Inc., up $20.79 to $79.25. The in-hospital medical services provider is being bought by Team Health Holdings Inc. for $1.6 billion. Luminex Corp., up $2.90 to $20.21. The maker of testing systems for biotechnology companies reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings and revenue. (AP)

FOOD

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

A Culinary Feat For New Orleans NEW ORLEANS — On a brutally humid day almost 10 years ago, Donald Link was a sweaty, desperate man in a respirator mask lugging a rotting pig’s head to the curb. Unlike nearly 80 percent of New Orleans, his French-influenced restaurant, Herbsaint, hadn’t flooded when the levees failed during Hurricane Katrina. But the pig’s head, along with enough food to fill 50 trash bags, had been putrefying ever since the storm hit three weeks earlier. The city still felt a lot like an armed camp then. But five weeks after the storm, using paper plates and bottled water, Herbsaint was up and running. “It seems like forever ago and it seems like it was just yesterday,” Link said. Now, Link employs about 300 people and has five restaurants, including Cochon in New Orleans. A decade later, few would disagree that New Orleans has not only come back, but is a much better place to eat than it was even before the storm. The number of restaurants as of 2013 is up by at least 11 percent from 2005, according to the Census Bureau. Some are small efforts run by an influx of new talent, others are giants developed by Link and the chef John Besh, who have emerged as the city’s new culinary quarterbacks, in the way Paul Prudhomme, Emeril Lagasse, Frank Brigtsen and Susan Spicer were before them. But with the revival comes a new debate. Have the developers and true-believer transplants brought with them a brand of gentrification that is diluting the scruffy neighborhoods and odd traditions that make New Orleans a terrific place to eat? “We had always said our biggest competitors were home cooks,” said Ti Adelaide Martin, a proprietor of the restaurant family that runs Commander’s Palace, where turtle soup, bread pudding and Gulf fish pecan are always on the menu. “Now the whole game is different. These guys just start on a shoestring and go for it and people flock there. It’s just like a big old petri dish of food.” Regional Mexican cooking, has a niche. Vietnamese restaurants, which were largely cloistered in New Orleans East and immigrant enclaves on the Mississippi River’s West Bank, have opened in the middle of the city. The cooking style has infused itself into modern menus at both the fanciest restaurants and casual spots like MoPho in Mid-City, where young parents spoon pho into their babies and the bar crowd drinks Sazerac bubble tea cocktails. The shuffle of post-Katrina cultural influences is just another example of Creole culture expressing itself through food, said David Beriss of the anthropology department at the University of New Orleans. “Creolization — that way of adapting and being in the

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After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the chefs Donald Link, left, and John Besh have emerged as the city’s culinary leaders. world — shows up everywhere.” The joke used to be that New Orleans is a town of 5,000 restaurants and five recipes. The town still reveres its tradition, but restaurants that have been cooking New Orleans-style Creole dishes for more than 100 years have become sharper. “We really have polished some beautiful aspects of the culture we used to take for granted,” said Besh, who became the face of the New Orleans restaurant recovery. Besh had two restaurants when the storm hit. Restaurant August was a softly lavish place of fennel pollen and scallops. Besh Steak was a moneymaker inside Harrah’s casino. “It ended up being my saving grace,” he said. “The money from that contract with Harrah’s kept August afloat.” He forged a path back, securing federal contracts to feed workers rebuilding the city and working with his most talented chefs to open new restaurants in hotels that offered inexpensive leases. He has since put out four cookbooks and employs more than 1,000 people at 10 restaurants. Like Link, he has become less a culinary presence in his restaurants and more of a coach, allowing chefs who work with him to develop their own concepts. This week, Willa Jean bakery opens in the Central Business District. Kelly Fields, who will be at the helm, was working for Besh when she evacuated. She stayed away for five years and then returned to the Besh fold and eventually ran all his pastry operations. In February, the Besh team opened Shaya in the Uptown neighborhood under the direction of Alon Shaya, a native of Israel who worked to keep August alive in the recovery years. Would the city have embraced modern Israeli cooking if the storm hadn’t hit? Similarly, would a utilitarian and bohemian neighborhood like Bywater, which barely escaped massive flooding, have turned into a hipster food haven? Brett Anderson, the longtime writer and restaurant critic for The Times Picayune, said newcomers may arrive and find a place here, but the heart of the city remains constant. “So it has Stumptown coffee,” he said. “That doesn’t even come close to making it a hipster city. It just never will be.” KIM SEVERSON

Start Your Day The Japanese Way Put aside that croissant or bacon-and-egg biscuit, and consider starting your day with a typical Japanese breakfast. A steaming bowl of miso soup, some dusky kale with sesame seeds, root vegetables, a piece of classic tamago (egg) omelet, grilled fish, steamed

rice and a cluster of tangy pickles come nicely set out on a tray. Genji, the sushi company that has counters in Whole Foods markets, is now serving the set breakfast, with a choice of mackerel or salmon, daily from 9 to 11 a.m. in the Time Warner Center store: $10.99 at Whole Foods, 10 Columbus Circle, 212823-9600, wholefoodsmarket. com. (NYT)

“Chickens were always my thing,” said Hannah Kirshner, the founder and editor of Sweets & Bitters, a hybrid magazine-cookbook the size of a personal diary. “And once people know that. ...” She waved ruefully at her rooster-print apron, rooster mug and tiny rooster scissors meant for cutting off the tops of soft-boiled eggs. All were gifts. But the object in the kitchen that she most treasures reveals a more practical relationship to her favored animal: a cast-iron omelet pan. It is almost identical to the omelet pan her mother used on the farm in North Bend, Wash., where she grew up. Now 30, she has three chickens of her own: Cookie Dough, a Mottled Java; Hillary Chicken, a Rhode Island Red; and Black Bettie, an Australorp. They live in her backyard in Brooklyn, and lay about a dozen eggs a week. These she sometimes

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Hannah Kirshner with Hillary Chicken. shares with the neighbors, an act of good will and a peace offering. (She said that the chickens don’t squawk much.) Kirshner studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she once made a dress that looked like a cupcake, spreading paint on it with a spatula for an impasto effect. She went on to train as a competitive cyclist, then found that she preferred life as a bartender and baker. She started Sweets & Bitters in 2012 with a focus on desserts and cocktails. She envisioned a quarterly; the current publishing schedule puts it closer to an annual. “It was a really terrible business idea,” she said with a laugh. Kirshner has other jobs, as a recipe developer and a food stylist. Having a steady supply of eggs to fry eases the bills. “I default to putting an egg on everything,” she said. She slid a newly fried egg over a tuft of salad and doused it with the pan’s remaining sesame oil. “It makes a meal.” LIGAYA MISHAN

JOURNAL

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

Sun Besieges an Iraq With Few Ways to Fight Back surrounded the governor’s house on Sunday evening and demanded that he resign. But any insurrectionary impulse must overcome a competing instinct to surrender to the heat. Iraqis refer to this month as “blazing August” — it rhymes in Arabic, “ab al-lahab” — and they spend it doing as little as possible. Much of what they do do is find ways to cool down. A showerhead, sprinkling lukewarm water that felt practically icy in the baking shade, was rigged up outside a cellphone shop belonging to Ziad Abdelhalim. “Clients pass by just to use it,” said Abdelhalim, 42, wet from dunking his own head in the stream.“We have two rivers — lots of water,” he said, gesturing toward the Tigris, a couple of blocks away,

BAGHDAD — At noon, the light bouncing off the hot concrete seems to bleach everything. Standing for more than a minute in the sun sets off a full-body sweat. Even after sunset, as the temperature coasts down from 122 degrees Fahrenheit to perhaps 108, Baghdad’s heat can seem like a living thing. It clings to every contour of the body. Iraq has been hot even by its own standards. The Weather Channel calculated that the peak day in Baghdad this summer felt like 159 degrees. Iraqis have taken to the streets, blaming government corruption for the chronic electricity shortages that shut down air coolers and fans all but a few hours a day. In Samawa, south of Baghdad, protesters

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Ruins serve as a platform for children to jump into the Tigris River in Baghdad. and the Euphrates farther west. In fact, the rivers that made Mesopotamia the cradle of civilization are threatened by drought and upstream water disputes. Yet water bills are so low that the cost is negligible for Iraqis, who in times like these often resort to taking three or four showers a day. The heat, of course, is not new to Iraqis. In the Iraqi novel “The Palm Tree and the Neighbors,” one character declares that his countrymen have no fear of hell because “we are so used to it.” What is relatively new is the modernization and war that in a couple of generations have turned a city of low houses and brick-walled gardens into an expanse of concrete-block apartments and concrete blast walls, requiring artificial cooling from an unreliable electrical grid. Overhead on Rasheed Street, spider webs of spaghettilike wires testified to decades of electrical improvisation. Long rickety from years of sanctions and mismanagement, the power grid was gutted after the United States invaded in 2003 and failed to prevent the looting of infrastructure. Insurgent attacks, which have not stopped since, continue to do damage. “The invasion took Iraq back 20 or 30 years,” Abdelhalim said. ANNE BARNARD

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OPINION

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2015

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

The Voting Rights Act at 50 For the first 48 years of its existence, the Voting Rights Act was one of the most effective civil rights laws in American history. Centuries of slavery, segregation and officially sanctioned discrimination had kept African-Americans from having any real voice in the nation’s politics. Under the aggressive new law, black voter registration and turnout soared, as did the number of black elected officials. Congress repeatedly reaffirmed the act and expanded its protections. In 2006, overwhelming majorities in both houses extended the law for another 25 years. But only seven years later, in 2013, five Supreme Court justices elbowed in and concluded that there was no longer a need for the Voting Rights Act. In truth, the battle for voting rights has had to be unrelenting, and the act itself has been under constant assault from the start. As Ari Berman writes in his new history of the law, “Give Us the Ballot,” the act’s revolutionary success “spawned an equally committed group of counterrevolutionaries” who have aimed to dismantle the central achievements of the civil rights movement. Today there are no poll taxes or literacy tests. Instead there are strict and unnecessary voter-identification requirements, or cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration — all of which are known to disproportionately burden black voters. A federal trial that ended last week in North Carolina provided the clearest example of the challenges faced by those who want to protect democracy’s most fundamental right.

The case involves an anti-voter law, H.B. 589, that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature passed in a duplicitous maneuver only weeks after the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling. The law rolled back 15 years of voting rights measures, including same-day registration, which 90,000 North Carolinians used in 2012; a week of early voting used by 900,000; out-of-precinct registration; and preregistration for 16- and 17-year-olds. If North Carolina were under federal supervision, H.B. 589 would almost surely have been blocked for its disproportionate impact on black voters, who tend to vote Democratic. But because of the ruling, the state’s legislators were free to impose a raft of restrictions based on bogus claims of electoral integrity and efficiency. Powerful voting-rights advocacy groups — including the N.A.A.C.P., the A.C.L.U., the League of Women Voters and the Advancement Project — sued immediately upon the law’s passage, claiming that it intentionally targeted minority voters, and yet more than two years and one federal election later, it remains largely in place and may well survive the current challenge. This demonstrates the need for the Voting Rights Act’s supervision scheme, which the Supreme Court eliminated. If there was any question that the court had misjudged the reality on the ground, it was answered by the speed with which North Carolina, Texas and other states moved to impose discriminatory new voting laws.

A Judge’s Rebuke of Immigration Detention Children do not belong in prison. The mass detention of families offends American values, a lesson this country learned long ago at the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II. Learned, but apparently forgotten by the Obama administration, which has just been ordered by a federal judge to release several hundred women and children locked up in its immigration detention centers in southern Texas. In a ruling on July 24, Judge Dolly Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles found that the administration was violating a 1997 court settlement of a lawsuit involving the care and treatment of children in detention. That settlement requires the government to hold children in the least-restrictive settings appropriate to their ages and needs, in places licensed to care for children, and to release them without needless delay to their parents or other adult relatives whenever possible. The judge found it evident that the filthy holding cells of the Border Patrol, and the unlicensed lockups in Texas where families languished for weeks and months did not meet those legal obligations. The administration says it has made great

progress in improving conditions at the centers. But clean, tidy prisons are still prisons. The judge gave the administration until Thursday to respond to her order. The Homeland Security Department should accept the opportunity to do the right thing: Close the detention centers and open the courtrooms. The country has more than enough money for catching, imprisoning and deporting immigrants. But there never seems to be enough money for justice and values. The administration worries about detainees absconding — even though a majority of families do show up again in court. Immigration courts, meanwhile, are underfunded and overwhelmed, and asylum seekers wait many months or years to have their cases resolved. These deficiencies make a mockery of America’s claims to be a haven for refugees. Through all this, the immigrant tide at the border has sharply receded from last year. The administration’s fears about the embarrassment of another border surge have not. But political anxieties have to be weighed against real human suffering, and the United States’ obligations under the Flores case and to asylum seekers under international law.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

A Debate Question If I got to ask one question of the presidential aspirants at Thursday’s Fox Republican debate, it would be this: “As part of a 1982 transportation bill, President Ronald Reagan agreed to boost the then 4-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax to 9 cents, saying, ‘When we first built our highways, we paid for them with a gas tax,’ adding, ‘It was a fair concept then, and it is today.’ Do you believe Reagan was right then, and would you agree to raise the gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon today so we can pay for our highway bill, which is now stalled in Congress over funding?” The gasoline tax is 18.4 cents a gallon, and was last increased by Bill Clinton in 1993. Average gasoline prices have fallen roughly a dollar a gallon in the last year, so a 5-cent increase would hardly be noticed. No matter, the Senate last week passed a six-year transportation bill, but funded it for only three years. And because Senate Republicans refused to pay for any of it with a gas tax, they raise the funds instead, in part, by selling oil from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Why is this such a key question? Because it cuts to the core of what is undermining the Republican Party today: There is no longer a Republican center-right that would have no problem raising the gas tax for something as fundamental as infrastructure. America has more natural advantages to thrive in the 21st century than any other country. But we prosper only by making the right investments and adaptations to maximize our strengths. That can happen only if there is a center-right party offering creative, market-based solutions to meet these opportunities and challenges. In today’s G.O.P., the farright base is setting the agenda. The Republican Bruce Bartlett, writing in Politico last week, said he hoped that Donald Trump becomes the G.O.P. presidential nominee, riding the Tea Party wave, and is so badly defeated in the national election that the party has to return to the center-right. “A Trump rout is Republican moderates’ best chance to take back the G.O.P,” Bartlett wrote. What does it mean to be a center-right Republican? It means starting each day by asking, What world am I living in and how do I best align the country to thrive in that world? Offering market-based responses to science- and fact-based problems and opportunities. Being ready to compromise to get fundamentals like a transportation bill passed. There is a big difference between funding energy research, bioscience or a new university — and some pork-barrel project. Making cuts across the board, like the sequester, is stupid. What do center-right policies look like? On infrastructure, it’s a gas tax. On immigration, it’s a high wall, to assure citizens that we can control our borders, but with a big gate to promote legal immigration of the high-I.Q. workers and high-energy less-skilled workers who have always propelled our economy.

HOMETOWN HERO

Joshua Timm

AIRCREW SURVIVAL EQUIPMENTMAN 2ND CLASS

DEPT/DIV: AIMD/IM2 HOMETOWN: Davenport, Iowa WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY:

Money for college.

HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB:

Being a PR and packing parachutes.

PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Completing my first deployment. SHOUT OUT: To my mom and dad.

FUN

FACT

I’ve been playing guitar for over 20 years.

HOMETOWN HERO

Benjamin Campbell CHIEF LOGISTICS SPECIALIST

DEPT/DIV: Supply/S-12 HOMETOWN: Cincinnati, Ohio WHY HE CHOSE THE NAVY: Travel the world and earn money for college. HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB: Teaching and interacting with junior Sailors and seeing them advance when exam results come out.

PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Making Chief. SHOUT OUT: To Supply department.

FUN

FACT

I have six kids.

WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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Staff Commanding Officer

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MOVIE TRIVIA

Q: how many times was the trailer of avengers: age of

ultron viewed on youtube after 24 hours.

Previous Question: Why didn’t Angelina Jolie attend the premiere of unbroken? Answer: She came down with the chicken pox.

AUGUST 7, 2015 Times Ch 66

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Capt. Jeff Craig Public Affairs Officer

Lt. Cmdr. Reann Mommsen Media Officer

Lt. j.g. Jack Georges Senior Editor

MCC Adrian Melendez Editor

MC2 Chris Brown MC2 Danica M. Sirmans rough rider contributers

MC3 Taylor Stinson MC3 Jennifer Case Theodore Roosevelt Media command ombudsman

cvn71ombudsman@gmail.com The Rough Rider is an authorized publication for the crew of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

A: See in the next edition of the Rough Rider.

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT

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