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TR CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY
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ailors and Marines shrugged off the heat to commemorate Independence Day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) relaxing on the flight deck during a steel beach picnic, July 5. Golf, games, grilled food and fishing replaced the hustle and bustle of normal flight deck operations as all hands headed topside to celebrate America’s independence. “It’s great, last night and early this morning we had a mission that went into Iraq and Syria, it went really well,” said Rear Adm. Andrew Lewis, commander, Carrier Strike Group 12. “They landed first thing this morning, and I could think of no better way to celebrate Independence Day than doing our mission. Now, the chance for everybody on the ship, and strike group, to relax a little bit and get some fresh air is great.” Planning for this event began weeks ago as Supply department stockpiled provisions and made preparations to provide an eight-hour food fest.
“To ease the workload, we have been doing a lot of advanced preparations. We started stocking up the ice because it is going to be hot up there, we need it to cool the food and the drinks, fruits and condiments. We will cook some of the items in the galley, but some items, like the steaks, will be cooked up there,” said Chief Culinary Specialist Nino Villamor. The Mustang Association, Chief’s Mess, First Class Petty Officer Association, Second Class Petty Officer Association, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) and the Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) volunteered in force to coordinate and assist with food preparation, activities and cleanliness. In true Fourth of July fashion, Carrier Strike Group 12’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team put on an explosive fireworks display. “We towed the charges with our boat in line alongside TR at a designated time,” said Explosive Ordnance Disposal 2nd Class John Ludden. “It was a shot just under the water about 40 feet apart from a couple barrels
of diesel then in about another 40 feet there was another block of explosives.” Guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) and British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan (D 37) sailed alongside TR to give a seapower demonstration. “I was standing on the fantail of TR as the ship’s sailed by and fired their five-inch guns,” said Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Justin Ailes. “To be surrounded by my shipmates and witness the true might of the U.S. Navy was an awesome Independence Day experience.” The event was a welcomed break in operations and served as a morale booster with TR nearing the halfway point in her deployment. “The main thing is morale. We have been out for a while now, so spirits aren’t going to be at the highest,” said Seaman Jesse Suhovich. “Everyone has been working hard, it’s nice to take a break. I had a great time. From what I have seen it’s just a giant party with all our shipmates.” Although thousands of miles away, the steel beach picnic provided Rough Riders with a taste of home. “This is the kind of thing we would be doing back home,” said Villamor. “I know that we are not with our families but we are a family, with 5,000 brothers and sisters. I think that makes it special.”
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What the world is saying. I liked the soccer. We didn’t have a team, but we played a little hopscotch game. I also golfed against the Admiral. I guess you could say he won! ABHAN BRANDON ROWE
U.S. Soccer #USSTheodoreRoosevelt at sea supporting the #USWNT with this amazing photo! Thank you U.S. Navy July 5 at 10:15 pm
Cristina Navarro Amazing. Great job to the US Navy and go team USA. 8 hours ago . Edited
I liked the relaxation. Being able to hang out on the flight deck and just being out with everyone. The food was delicious! It was amazing! I had a hot dog and chicken and it was glorious.
Carlos Beato im on the TR right now waiting for this game to start lets go ladies! 9 hours ago
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Erik Hendricks Thanks US Navy for serving this great country. Let’s GO USA 8 hours ago
Jim Martinez Thank you for your sevice U.S. Navy, let’s do this ladies USA ALL THE WAY! 9 hours ago Cindy Taylor Thank you for your service & supporting US woman’s soccer! 9 hours ago Vinny K Sampson Amazing! Thank you for your service... 9 hours ago
Kyla Szemplski Amazing! Well done US Navy! Let’s go Team USA and anchors aweigh to the US Navy! 9 hours ago Domingo C Parede Jr. Thank you for all you do!!!! Well done Navy!!! Thank you for my freedom!!! Go Navy!!!! 10 hours ago
The fireworks wasn’t something you see every day. I was so glad I came out today. It was really nice to be able to get away from the monotony of deployment and just have a day like this. YN3 ANDREW ELLIS
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A lot of hard work, planning and execution went into this. We had to really maximize our manpower to make sure we didn’t drop the ball on the [Sailors] by keeping the quality of service up leading up to this and to make sure we could execute the steel beach picnic. I think everyone did a great job of setting it up. Once everyone got into the routine and saw what needed to happen, they executed. They did well for this being the first one. They had a lot of good teamwork. Even the crew did a great job. That’s probably one of the first steel beacheWs I’ve ever seen where the crew had as much fun as they did. CWO3 BENNY BROCKMAN
Between the barbeque and the dancing, this really reminded me of - AN KRISTEN JACKSON
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I liked the explosions and the music. It was truly a home away from home. ABH3 Tiffany Cozart
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I really liked just getting to actually spend time with my friends and relax. Also, the steak was phenomenal! ET2 TONY WILLIAMS
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I really enjoyed not having to worry about life for a whole afternoon. Also, the food was really good! LSSN HANNA REISSMANN
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U.S. Trounces Japan to Win 3rd World Cup VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Women’s World Cup quickly built from uncertainty to predatory dependability for midfielder Carli Lloyd, then concluded Sunday in a display of startling and rapacious deliverance. Lloyd scored the quickest goal in a Women’s World Cup final, slicing a shot with the outside of her left foot from a corner kick in the third minute of a 5-2 victory over Japan. Lloyd was far from done, delivering three goals in the first 16 minutes before an ecstatic crowd of 53,341 at BC Place Stadium, including Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The United States built a 4-0 lead and found redemption after losing to Japan in a penalty shootout in the final of the 2011 Women’s World Cup. The United States became the first team to win the tournament three times. In the fifth minute, Lloyd ran onto a backheel pass from Julie Johnston and placed a shot between the legs of a Japanese defender. And, in the 16th minute, in an act of great audacity and accuracy, Lloyd launched a shot from midfield. Ayumi Kaihori, the Japanese goalkeeper, was caught off her line. Backpedaling furiously, Kaihori could only reach futilely with her right hand as the ball deflected off the left post into the net, giving the United States a 4-0 cushion. As the World Cup began, Lloyd had faced critical remarks about her confidence from Pia Sundhage, who coached the United States at the 2011 World Cup and to gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Lloyd was also ineffective playing a more defensive role in midfield. But Coach Jill Ellis changed her tactics in the knockout rounds and Lloyd pushed into the attack with freedom and inventiveness. Lloyd had called for the team to take more chances, and Ellis had assured her: “Don’t stress it. We’re going to find a way to get you going.” “I knew my time was going to come,” Lloyd said. JERÉ LONGMAN
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Greek Voters Decisively Reject Bailout ATHENS — Greeks delivered a shocking rebuff to Europe’s leaders on Sunday, decisively rejecting a deal offered by the country’s creditors in a historic vote that could redefine Greece’s place in Europe and shake the Continent’s financial stability. As people gathered to celebrate in Syntagma Square in central Athens, the Interior Ministry reported that with more than 90 percent of the vote tallied, 61 percent of the voters had said no to a deal that would have imposed greater austerity measures. The no votes carried virtually every district in the country, handing a sweeping victory to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, a leftist who came to power in January vowing to reject new austerity measures, which he called an injustice and economically self-defeating. Last month, he walked away from negotiations, called the referendum and urged Greeks to vote no as a way to give him more bargaining power. While Tsipras now appears to have gotten his wish, his victory in the referendum settled
ture” with Europe. “The people today replied to the right question,” he said. “They did not answer to the question in or out of the euro. This question needs to be taken out of the discussion, once and for all.” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she would meet Monday with the French president, François Hollande, EMILIO MORENATTI/ASSOCIATED PRESS for a “joint assessment of the situation.” Later, A crowd in central Athens greeted the two leaders called for word Sunday that Greek voters had a European Union sumrejected creditors’ terms. mit meeting on Tuesday. Germany’s economy little, since the creditors’ offer minister, Sigmar Gabriel, said it is no longer on the table. There was hard to see how talks could remains the possibility that they resume on a bailout deal. “Tsipras could walk away, leaving Greece and his government are leading facing default, financial collapse the Greek people on a path of bitand expulsion from the eurozone ter abandonment and hopelessand, in the worst case, from the ness,” he told the newspaper Tagesspiegel, adding they have “torn European Union. Tsipras went on television to down the last bridges on which say he would resume negotia- Greece and Europe could have tions immediately. He said the moved toward a compromise.” SUZANNE DALEY vote was not a mandate for “rup-
Emphatic ‘No’ Prompts Pride and Revelry ATHENS — As news spread of the surprisingly strong victory for the no side in Sunday’s referendum on the terms of a European bailout offer, Greeks poured into Syntagma Square, which has been the site of many other historic political demonstrations. In a festive mood, they streamed from the subways, which have been free since the banks closed last week, by foot and by car, whistling, tooting horns and banging drums. As if by mass telepathy, they knew that Syntagma Square — Constitution Square — was the place to be. It was almost required of them, they said. Some wrapped themselves in Greek flags, while others sang traditional Greek protest songs — peaceful, happy and proud that they had shown the courage to send a message to the rest of Europe that endless austerity would be a dead end.
There may be almost as many reasons that Greeks voted no as there are Greeks. But if there was a consistent theme among those celebrating, it was that they had taken as much suffering and humiliation as they could stand. Rejecting the endless demands of their European overlords for tax increases and pension cuts, they said, became a matter of national dignity. For Anthi Panagiotidou, who joined the mass of humanity with her daughter, Chrysa, voting no was a simple decision: After five years of austerity, she could not endure anymore. Panagiotidou lost her job in an architectural firm, and though she eventually found work, it was not at the same level. While rich Greeks send their children abroad for college, she can barely pay for tutoring for her daughter, who is 17, to prepare for the entrance exams that will determine
which rank of state-run university she attends, as well as what major she will be allowed to pursue. Her disabled husband cannot afford physical therapy, she said. What is worse, she said passionately, is that they are not alone. “There are people without electricity, thousands without health insurance,” Panagiotidou said as she welcomed the triumph of the no vote in the referendum on accepting terms of a bailout that includes more austerity demands. For her part, Panagiotidou said her no vote represented not a repudiation of Europe, but a demand for understanding about what austerity had done to her family. “I cannot commit suicide because the outsiders want it,” Panagiotidou said. “I am a European, and I always will be. But a Europe that strangles the people — I don’t want her.” ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
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Francis Returns Mother’s Hard Choice to Leave a Child Behind To Latin America GELUGOR, Malaysia — CarryJubair, 13, was QUITO, Ecuador — Met by indigenous children in traditional garb and a stiff Andean wind that blew the white skullcap off his head as he emerged from his airplane, Pope Francis arrived here on Sunday to start a three-nation tour that will take him to some of the poorest and yet most environmentally rich countries of his native continent. “I give thanks to God for having allowed me to return to Latin America,” he said after being greeted on the tarmac with a hug by President Rafael Correa. The first pope from Latin America, he later drove through the streets of Quito, the capital, standing in the back of a white car with open sides, with thousands of screaming followers packing the route, throwing flower petals, hats and other items at him. Francis brings his message of a church in transformation to a region that contains nearly four out of 10 of the world’s Roman Catholics, but that has seen many faithful leave in recent years to join Protestant denominations or abandon organized religion altogether. “My heart is beating faster and faster,” said Filiberto Rojas, 38, a Colombian businessman who flew to Quito on Saturday and set up a small tent outside the park where Francis is to preside over a huge open-air Mass on Tuesday. The faithful will not be allowed into the park until Monday afternoon, but Rojas said the wait was worth it: “We haven’t had a pope like this in a long time, a humble pope, a pope of the poor, a pope of the people.” WILLIAM NEUMAN
ing one child in her arm, a second on her back and holding the hand of a third, Hasinah Izhar waded through a mangrove swamp into the Bay of Bengal, toward a fishing boat bobbing in the dusk. “Troops are coming, troops are coming,” the smuggler said. “Get on the boat quickly.” If she was going to change her mind, she would have to do it now. Izhar, 33, had reached the muddy shore after sneaking down the dirt paths and around the fish ponds of western Myanmar, where she and about one million other members of the Rohingya minority are stateless, shunned and persecuted for their Muslim faith. She had signed up for passage to Malaysia, but knew that the voyage would be treacherous, that even if she survived, the smugglers would demand ransom before letting her and her children go, and that they sometimes beat, tortured or sold into slavery those who could not pay. Her husband, who had raised shrimp and cattle, had been among tens of thousands who made the journey two years earlier, after Buddhist mobs rampaged through villages like their own, burning houses and killing at least 200 people. He had warned her not to follow, telling her that the trip was too dangerous and too expensive. But as she reached the wooden skiff that would take them on the first leg of a weekslong journey, one terrible fact weighed heaviest: She had left behind her oldest child, a 13-year-old boy named Jubair. Since 2012, tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar,
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where they are officially considered intruders. The exodus exploded into a regional crisis in May after smugglers abandoned thousands of them at sea, leaving them adrift with little food or water and no country willing to take them in. Amid a global outcry, Malaysia and Indonesia eventually agreed to accept the migrants, temporarily. But lost in the diplomatic wrangling over the fate of the Rohingya are the anguished choices faced by the families who leave and the harrowing personal consequences they must endure. Izhar knew it would cost as much as $2,000 just to bring her three youngest children to Malaysia. Taking Jubair could double the smugglers’ price, and she had only $500 from selling their house, a bamboo and mud-daub hut in the village of Thayet Oak. Malaysia is a Muslim nation, she knew, and she believed she and her children would be safe there. But she had not told her husband they were coming. She hoped he would still be happy to
left behind when his mother and siblings fled Myanmar for Malaysia. “I didn’t know about it,” he said. “She could not find me.”
see them, and that he would find the money to pay the smugglers. “I had to take the boat full of sadness and fear in my heart,” she said. “My husband wouldn’t let anyone kill us.” Most of all, she was tormented by the thought of Jubair. What would become of him, alone in Thayet Oak, exposed to the very dangers she was running from? What would have become of her other children if they had stayed? When it was time to leave, Jubair was off with friends, and there was no time to think. She gathered up the other children, packed a bundle with clothes for the children, and fled. Now, as the shoreline receded in the distance, she wished she had had a chance to explain her decision to Jubair, and to hug him. “Some words came to my mind,” she recalled later. “If I can stay alive, I will bring him to Malaysia. I felt very sad to leave my boy behind, but it would be better for the family if we left to live or die somewhere else. We couldn’t stay.” CHRIS BUCKLEY and THOMAS FULLER
In Brief Syria and Hezbollah Offensive Syrian government troops and Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon pushed into the Syrian border town of Zabadani on Sunday, continuing an offensive aimed at strengthening their control of routes between Lebanon and Syria. Pushing insurgents out of the mountain town would continue advances aimed at cutting insurgent supply lines to Lebanon. Hezbollah, which has intervened on behalf of its ally, the Syrian government, is trying to cement control of the Lebanese frontier. (NYT)
Russia Launches Supply Ship A Soyuz-U rocket was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, plac-
ing the Progress M-28M cargo ship into a designated orbit, safely en route to the International Space Station. The ship is carrying 2.4 metric tons of fuel, oxygen, water, food and other supplies for the crew, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said. The previous Progress launch in April ended in failure, and last week, a United States supply mission failed when a Falcon 9 rocket launched by Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, broke apart shortly after liftoff. (AP)
Iran Warned of Hard Choices Secretary of State John Kerry warned Iran on Sunday that hard choices were still needed to seal a landmark nuclear accord, and that the United States was prepared to walk away
if a sound agreement could not be reached. “We are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues,” Kerry said in a statement in front of the Palais Coburg, the Vienna hotel where the talks are being held. “This negotiation could go either way.” Kerry’s remarks came two days before a target date for wrapping up the agreement and as foreign ministers from the other world powers involved in the talks are heading to Vienna for what is intended to be the homestretch in the long-running negotiations. Kerry said it was still possible to reach an agreement by Tuesday, which would enable the Obama administration to submit the deal to Congress this week for a 30-day review period. Kerry appeared to be cautioning the Iranians against last-minute brinkmanship. (NYT)
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Rubio Is Hardly a Hero in Cuba. He Likes That. CABAIGUÁN, Cuba — In the lush countryside and teeming city neighborhoods where Sen. Marco Rubio’s family cut sugar cane, toiled in tobacco mills and scraped by to make a better life for their children, the first Cuban-American to have a plausible chance to become president of the United States is the island’s least favorite son. “If Marco Rubio becomes president, we’re done for,” said Héctor Montiel, 66, offering a vigorous thumbs-down as he sat on the Havana street where Rubio’s father grew up. “He’s against Cuba in every possible way. Hillary Clinton understands much more the case of Cuba. Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959.” Resistance to Fidel Castro’s Communist government has served as the foundation of Rubio’s personal and political identity. A Florida Republican who has been identified in the state-controlled newspaper here as a “representative in the Senate of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia,” he has argued for years that normalized relations with the United States would only strengthen an oppressive Cuban government that impoverishes its people, limits access to information and vi-
olates human rights. That did not change in the months leading up to Wednesday’s announcement Marco Rubio that the United States and Cuba will reopen embassies in each other’s capitals, a step in ending a devastating half-century embargo. Signs on the road here read “Blockade: The Worst Genocide in History,” punctuated with a noose. As Rubio has intensified his opposition, Cubans have begun to view him as the most prominent of American hangmen. “He wants to kill us!” Alain Marcelo, 46, said as he sat on a porch next to a grazing horse and a shack scrawled with yellow “Viva Fidel y Raúl” graffiti in Jicotea, the no-streetlight town where Rubio’s great-grandparents arrived from Spain to farm sugar cane in the late 19th century. “He’s our enemy!” The object of these attacks said it was “sad” that the Cuban government had created the impression that he wanted “to starve the Cuban people.” But for Rubio, the
demonizing is only proof of the “information blockade that the people in Cuba are facing” and justification for his opposition to President Obama’s opening to the government of Raúl Castro. “I’m glad they see us as a threat,” Rubio said. “They should.” Rubio added that it made sense that the Castro government was following a presidential candidate whose election would not be welcomed. “If that’s the line the Cuban government has taken against me and is trying to indoctrinate their people in that way, it shows that we’re on to something,” he said. Cuban government officials claim disinterest when asked about American presidential candidates, but Cuba has loomed large in Rubio’s life. As he ascended in Florida politics, he often told audiences that he was the “son of exiles,” who left an island governed by a “thug” in Fidel Castro. But in 2011, The Washington Post reported that the senator’s parents and grandfather had arrived in the United States in 1956, before Castro’s revolution seized power in 1959. The revelation has done little to diminish Rubio’s stature as his party’s leading voice on Cuba. JASON HOROWITZ
Supremacists Using Web to Extend Their Reach In late June, as much of the nation mourned the killing of nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church, The Daily Stormer, a white supremacist website, was busy posting articles on a different issue: black crime against white people. “Adolescent Ape Jailed for Murdering White Man Out of Boredom,” one headline blared. And after Dylann Roof, a white 21-year-old high school dropout and the apparent author of a vitriolic antiblack diatribe, was arrested and charged with the killings, commenters on another white supremacist site, Stormfront.org, lamented something else: the possibility of the massacre’s leading to gun control. “Jews want the white man’s guns. End of story,” one person wrote from Utah. In the wake of the church massacre, many white supremacist groups have rushed to disavow any link to Roof and any role in the murders. And while Roof appears to have been in contact with some white supremacists online, investigators say it does not appear
that those people encouraged or assisted in the deadly shootings. Still, the authorities say, Roof had embraced their worldview. As investigators search through the data streams of Roof’s electronic equipment, a four-page manifesto apparently written by him offers a virtual road map to modern-day white supremacy. It contains bitter complaints about black crime and immigration, espousing the virtues of segregation and debating the viability of an all-white enclave in the Pacific Northwest. That manifesto has refocused attention on a shadowy movement that, for all its ideological connections to the white racists of the past, is more sophisticated than its predecessors, experts say. They say it is capable, through its robust online presence, of reaching an audience far wider than the small number of actual members attributed to it. “There’s really not a lot out there as far as membership organizations,” said Don Black, who runs atormfront.org. “But there is a huge number, I think more
than ever, as far as people actively working in some way to promote our cause. Because they don’t have to join an organization now that we have this newfangled Internet.” The movement also includes more button-down websites run by white nationalism think tanks. Most of the best-known organizations also claim to have disavowed the violence of groups like the Ku Klux Klan. But because the movement has been rendered more anonymous by the Internet, law enforcement officials say it has become harder to track potentially violent lone-wolf terrorists who might draw inspiration from white supremacist sites. “White supremacist lone wolves pose the most significant domestic terrorist threat because of their low profile and autonomy — separate from any formalized group — which hampers warning efforts,” said a Department of Homeland Security report issued in 2009. MICHAEL WINES and STEPHANIE SAUL
In Brief Flag Debate to Move To Carolina Capitol The South Carolina legislature is expected on Monday to take up the fate of the Confederate battle flag that flies on the State House grounds, responding to demands that it be removed after the June 17 massacre of nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston. The State Senate, encouraged by Gov. Nikki R. Haley and many other elected officials, is scheduled to consider a bipartisan proposal to move the battle flag, long viewed by African-Americans as a defiant tribute to South Carolina’s segregationist past, to the state’s Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia. If the Senate approves the measure, the debate will shift to the House; Republicans control both chambers. (NYT)
Man Shoots Firework Off His Head and Dies A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, the authorities in Calais, Me., said Sunday. Devon Staples and his friends had been drinking and setting off fireworks Saturday in the backyard of a friend’s home, said Stephen McCausland, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety. Staples, 22, of Calais, placed a firework mortar tube on his head and set it off, McCausland said. The firework exploded, killing Staples instantly, McCausland said. (AP)
Teen Spits Cherry Pit Farthest but Loses A 15-year-old Michigan girl said there was nothing special about the way she spit a cherry pit Saturday. “I just took a deep breath and pushed hard,” said Megan Ankrapp, whose pit landed at 49 feet, Æ inch — longest of the day at the 42nd annual contest in southwestern Michigan. Megan, who is from Buchanan, won the women’s category but didn’t participate in the overall championship round because her earlier attempts were too short to qualify. The championship was claimed by Kevin Bartz of Niles with a winning distance of 48 feet, 8 inches. (AP)
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China’s Stock Drop May Shake Leadership HONG KONG — For nearly three years, President Xi Jinping of China has crushed his opposition by silencing and often locking up anyone who dares defy the government. But that aura of invincibility has been shaken by stock market speculators who have made a mockery of efforts to halt a steep slide in share prices. The losses — Chinese shares have shed more than a quarter of their value in three weeks — pose an added risk to a global economy grappling with Greece’s difficulties in repaying foreign loans and its possible exit from the euro. About $2.7 trillion in value has evaporated since the Chinese stock market peaked on June 12. That is six times Greece’s entire foreign debt, or 11 years of Greece’s economic output. Skeptical investors have so far shrugged off each step the gov-
ernment has taken to keep share prices aloft: an interest-rate cut, threats to punish rumormongers, allowing the national pension fund to buy stocks and even plans to investigate short-sellers who have placed bets that the market will fall. The faltering of these measures has put a dent in the supremacy built up around Xi’s administration, and this past weekend his government doubled down again. The government rolled out further initiatives in hopes of forestalling another market rout on Monday: 21 brokerage firms agreed on Saturday to set up a fund worth at least $19.4 billion to buy blue-chip stocks, and both of the country’s stock exchanges halted all new initial public offerings. On Sunday, the government brought in the central bank, the People’s Bank of China, and an in-
vestment arm of China’s sovereign wealth fund to support the effort. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said that the central bank would give financial support to the state-controlled China Securities Finance Corporation to “enhance its capacity to safeguard market stability.” The finance corporation lends to brokerage firms, which then lend the money to customers wanting to buy shares. “This is probably the most public and obvious instance where the government’s omnipotence has been challenged,” said Victor Shih, an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the politics of financial policy making in China. “I think the last couple of weeks really showed that, no, they do not have the ability to make anything happen.” KEITH BRADSHER and CHRIS BUCKLEY
With Fusion of Insurers, Questions for Patients The nation’s five largest insurance companies are circling one another like hungry lions closing in on prey. On Friday, Aetna said it would acquire its smaller rival Humana to create a company with combined revenues of $115 billion this year. Anthem is stalking Cigna. UnitedHealth Group, now the largest of the five, is looking at its options. Three national behemoths are likely to emerge. There is also a scramble among the smaller insurers. On Thursday, Centene, which specializes in Medicaid coverage, said it planned to buy Health Net, a for-profit insurer based in Los Angeles.
As insurers grow larger, will consumers benefit from the companies’ ability to bargain with hospitals and doctors for lower prices? Will diminishing competition translate to fewer choices of plans? And what effect will mergers have on innovation in health care? The answers depend largely on how successfully the other insurers, particularly those that were created or attracted by the Affordable Care Act, can compete with these much larger companies. The big for-profit companies — that make most of their revenue from employer and Medicare and Medicaid plans — still face competition from the regional or
state-based nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans. In an interview about the proposed combination of Aetna and Humana, Mark T. Bertolini, Aetna’s chairman and chief executive, emphasized the need to be large enough to invest the capital and resources necessary to be competitive in a rapidly changing environment. “People who did not invest significantly enough in health care reform and a retail marketplace are going to struggle,” said Bertolini, adding that the smaller companies will have a harder time accomplishing the transition. REED ABELSON
In Brief Egyptian Pound Falls Against U.S. Dollar The Egyptian pound has fallen to a new low against the United States dollar, the second such drop in days, the country’s central bank said Sunday, in a move that could help boost much-needed foreign investment. The central bank set a cutoff rate of 7.73 Egyptian pounds per dollar in an auction that sold $39.6 million on Sunday, compared with a previous low of 7.63 on Thursday. Before that, the pound had held at 7.53 since February. The new rate was the lowest level since Egypt’s government introduced an auction system in December 2012 aimed at regulating the pound’s devaluation. Egypt is trying to send the message that the country is open for business, after struggling since the 2011 uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. (AP)
New Releases Fizzle At Theaters on July 4 The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office. Anticipated new releases “Magic Mike XXL” and “Terminator Genisys” fizzled, leaving the popular holdovers “Jurassic World” and “Inside Out” to top the holiday weekend. Despite the brawny enticements of Channing Tatum and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the four-week rule of Universal’s dinosaur sensation “Jurassic World” continued with an estimated $30.9 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. Pixar’s acclaimed “Inside Out” took in $30.1 million in its third weekend of release. (AP)
A Fitting Label, Yet Unicorns Are No Myth in Software Valuations Aileen Lee tried a few lesser terms before she hit on “unicorn.” One was “home run.” Another was “megahits.” Neither quite worked for what she was going for — an unusual, mysterious word to describe what, in the tech industry, was an unusual, mysterious phenomenon: American software companies that had achieved a valuation of at least $1 billion. It was the fall of 2013, and Lee, a longtime venture capitalist, had recently started her own firm, Cowboy Ventures. Lee’s team had conducted a study of the start-up market over the previous decade,
and she was preparing to publish the findings in an article for TechCrunch, an online publication. While Silicon Valley had been trying to separate tech winners from losers for decades, it had never really coined a name for the kind of start-ups the industry most treasured. “What’s the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do,” Lee recalled in a recent interview, “which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?” Then the word came to her: Unicorn. “It felt right,” she said. “Readable
and fun and not a word that had been used before to describe this.” Use of the term exploded. Lee’s article — which carried the headline “Welcome to the Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Start-ups” — quickly generated tweets and blog posts from tech investors and founders. But despite the wide usage of the term she coined, Lee has received curiously little credit. Cowboy Ventures is rarely mentioned in connection with unicorns — neither for the word nor for the analysis that crystallized the concept. On its website, the firm has
posted a short “Unicorn Handling Guide” asking people who use the term to credit the firm. It even offers specific guidance for doing so: “Include a reference and link to Cowboy Ventures or our post in TechCrunch (or hyperlink the text ‘Cowboy Ventures’) within the text of the paragraph where Unicorn or The Unicorn Club are first referenced,” it suggests. “Yeah, I think it’s nice if people credit us,” Lee said, defending the guide. “Obviously, a lot of people haven’t.” Then she added, “But you know, you can’t get too upset about it.” FARHAD MANJOO
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Simple ‘Buy’ Buttons Aim to Entice Shoppers Gay Comic Book SAN FRANCISCO — Denise Chapman, a director at a San Diego advertising agency, is afraid to count how many hours of each day she spends on her mobile phone, browsing for clothes or gifts. But when it comes time to actually buy something, instead of using her iPhone, she fires up an aging Dell computer that sits on a desk in her family’s kitchen. “I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even try” to make online purchases with a phone, Chapman said. “There’s just always something, if it’s your fat thumbs or having to redo your information. I go straight to the desktop because I feel like it’s going to be easier.” Now companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest are vying to close the gap between mobile browsing and desktop purchasing with a “buy” button. Buy buttons have been around since the early days of the web, notably with Amazon’s “One-Click Ordering,” where people set up a button that runs their credit card and ships whatever they have bought to a designated address. But these new buy buttons allow technology companies to act as middlemen between mobile shoppers and retailers — extending one-click ordering to thousands of small retailers and elim-
“We’ve seen that shopping behavior has shifted to mobile in a profound way, but there’s a gap between time spent and dollars spent,” said Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and insights at comScore, a research firm. Here’s how it works for Pinterest’s “buyable pins”: People enter their credit card numbers into the Pinterest app, along with shipLIZ GRAUMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES ping details. When they see something they want to buy, inating exasperating typing on a they click “Buy it,” at which point the retailer is told where to ship it phone’s touch screen. This is a big deal for tech compa- and take payment using that crednies whose multibillion-dollar ad- it card or the Apple Pay service. Tech companies lose out when vertising businesses are increasingly mobile yet remain tethered someone clicks on one of their ads but fails to use a credit card and to the success of online shopping. Despite spending close to three “convert.” User clicks from rehours of each day staring at their tailers’ mobile ads become sales mobile phones, Americans contin- about 84 percent less often than ue to do the majority of their online clicks from ads on desktop search, shopping on desktop and laptop according to adMarketplace, a computers, which have larger company that sells search adverscreens and physical keyboards tising outside of search engines. “In mobile, it’s mobile versus more amenable to browsing and typing in credit card numbers. desktop, and if you want to drive Mobile phones are projected to ac- transactions, you have to make it count for about half the time Amer- simpler than a desktop,” said Adicans spend online this year, but am J. Epstein, president of adMaronly one-fifth of retail e-commerce ketplace. CONOR DOUGHERTY and HIROKO TABUCHI sales, according to eMarketer.
New ‘Terminator’ Film Signals a Producer’s Shift SANTA MONICA, Calif. — David Ellison, the 32-year-old son of Larry Ellison, the billionaire Oracle founder, sat in a temporary office here in early June and offered his take on Hollywood — lessons learned from five years of producing big-budget movies like his “Terminator Genisys,” which was then just a few weeks from opening. “Good isn’t good enough,” he said. “Movies have to be great. If you fall short of that, it is incredibly challenging.” “Terminator Genisys” fell a bit short. It arrived on Wednesday to poor reviews, boding ill for Ellison in more ways than one: His company, Skydance Media, already has two sequels and a TV spin-off in the pipeline. “Terminator Genisys” took in about $44.2 million in North America over its first five days, a soft result for a heavily marketed movie released over a holiday that cost at least $155 million to make. Ellison, an accomplished aerobatics pilot, will do what
well-funded movie producers (and stunt fliers) do when thrown for unexpected loops: shake it off, come back Larry Ellison around. His next movie, “Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation,” arrives on July 31. But “Terminator Genisys” may well end up as another lesson for the young Ellison: Paying for movies is one thing. Steering them creatively is another. Until now, Ellison has mostly taken the safe approach to Hollywood, investing in blockbuster bait like “Star Trek Into Darkness.” In contrast, his sister, Megan Ellison, invested in riskier art films, serving in a creative capacity on critical darlings like “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Her” — and sometimes doing a belly flop, as with “The Master” in 2012.
But “Terminator Genisys” brought a major shift for Ellison. For the first time since arriving in the movie capital a decade ago, he served as a full-fledged producer on a film (as opposed to an “executive producer,” which typically means writing a check). He worked with writers to lay out the ambitious “Terminator Genisys” storyline, helped choose the director and assisted in the development of complex visual effects. Whatever happens with his “Terminator” plans, Ellison said he enjoys the high-risk nature of Hollywood, in part because it makes his last name irrelevant. “One of the things I loved about aerobatic flying as a kid and that I love about the movie business today is that, when you’re flying an airplane low to the ground, the ground doesn’t care what your last name is,” he said. “If you hit the ground, it’s going to kill you just the same.” BROOKS BARNES
Characters Zap Stereotypes
As the comic book industry prepares to gather at Comic-Con International, which begins Thursday in San Diego, publishers will be promoting a wider selection of gay-themed comic books. Industry insiders say the trend mirrors the country’s evolving attitudes toward gays and lesbians. “The population of America has changed, and acceptance of gays has changed,” said Milton Griepp, chief executive of ICv2, which tracks the comic book industry. ICv2 reported last week that total sales of comic books and graphic novels in the United States and Canada hit $935 million in 2014, an increase of 7 percent over 2013. The Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality in June came as a growing majority of Americans said they supported same-sex marriage, according to a Gallup poll. Support among those 18 to 29 is at nearly 80 percent. Against this backdrop, DC Comics revamped its lineup in June. “Our main directive is to make these characters as modern and reflective of the real world,” said Jim Lee, a co-publisher of DC Comics. DC created a series for a gay superhero named Midnighter, a character that fans and critics have praised. His popularity stems in part from efforts to make his sexual orientation just one aspect of his character. For instance, he also likes to fight and is promiscuous. Phil Jimenez, an artist known for his work on Wonder Woman and the Amazing Spider-Man comics, says that many readers no longer want to see the effeminate stereotype of the gay man. Instead, they want gay superheroes to embody normative behavior — to live as typical males. “As long as the dude is dude enough, then he’s acceptable,” he said. Shannon Watters, an editor at Boom! Studios, said she appreciated the efforts of more mainstream publications. She is a creator of Lumberjanes, a series about the summer camp experiences of five girls, two of whom have a crush on each other. “It is very encouraging to see the decisions that DC and Marvel have made in giving marginalized creators more of platform to tell their stories,” Watters said, “but we still have a long way to go.” GREGORY SCHMIDT
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Matching a Museum in Harlem to Its Ambitions A Celebrated The Studio Museum in Harlem, whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, will construct a new $122 million home designed by the British architect David Adjaye on West 125th Street. Plans for the new building, which will occupy the museum’s current lot near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, are to be announced Monday. With the new space, the museum, for the first time in its nearly 47-year history, will have a physical space created expressly to meet its needs and serve its mission: fostering and displaying work by artists of African descent. No more droning air-conditioners in the galleries. Or children sitting on the floor for educational programs. Or total shutdowns of the museum three times a year because the current process of changing exhibitions is so disruptive to its operations. “We have outgrown the space,” said Thelma Golden, the museum’s director and chief curator since 2005. “Our program and our audience require us to answer those demands.” The project also signifies the Studio Museum’s move from the margins to the mainstream, having started as a place that brought attention to black artists who had been largely ignored by major museums. Now black artists are better represented in many institutions.
ing $35.3 million to the Studio Museum project, $11.4 million of which was just allocated in the budget for fiscal year 2016. Tom Finkelpearl, the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, called the project a “great investment.” The Ford Foundation donated $3 million. (The rest is to be raised from other ADJAYE ASSOCIATES sources.) “The time has come A rendering of the expanded Studio for the Studio MuseMuseum in Harlem. um to have a physical space that is worthy of “The museum was a radical its aspiration and ambition,” said gesture to address the exclusion Darren Walker, the Ford Foundaof black artists from the canonical tion president. The new building will also allow presentation of art history,” Goldthe museum to continue its tradien said. After evaluating several archi- tion of providing studio space for tects, the museum selected the three artists in its yearlong resNew York-based Adjaye because idency, which has nurtured nuof what Golden described as his merous now-prominent figures, sensitivity to artists as well as to including Sanford Biggers, Julie the neighborhood. Born in Tanza- Mehretu and Kehinde Wiley. “Without the Studio Museum, nia to Ghanaian parents, Adjaye conducted a 10-year architectural I can’t imagine that these artists study of the capital cities of Afri- would have had the opportunities ca that resulted in a 2010 photog- to soar the way they have,” said raphy exhibition in London, and Anne Pasternak, who is soon to his building projects include the become the new president of the Smithsonian’s National Museum Brooklyn Museum. “These are of African American History and some of the greatest living artists Culture in Washington, now under of our time, yet the museum physically itself is not reflective of their construction. New York City is contribut- strength.” ROBIN POGREBIN
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Ballerina Heads To Broadway Misty Copeland, the ballerina who made history last week when she became the first African-American woman to be named a principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, is taking on a new challenge this summer: She is heading to Broadway. Copeland plans to join the cast of “On the Town” beginning on Aug. 25, stepping into the toe shoes of Megan Fairchild, the New York City Ballet principal dancer who is leaving the show next month. Going to Broadway is Misty the latest step in an extraor- Copeland dinary year for Copeland that has seen her dance some of ballet’s biggest roles, earn a promotion to principal, be profiled by “60 Minutes” and make the cover of Time magazine. She said she was looking forward to being part of a moment in which ballet stars are being featured on Broadway. In addition to “On the Town,” “An American in Paris” is also putting a spotlight on ballet talent: It is directed by Christopher Wheeldon, a leading choreographer, and stars Robert Fairchild, another City Ballet principal, and Leanne Cope, a dancer with the Royal Ballet in London. “It’s such a beautiful time right now, I think, for dance, and especially for ballet and bringing it to a much broader audience,” she said. But what about the acting and singing? Copeland said that her friend Taye Diggs, who is to take over the title role in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” had told her that after seeing all the acting she did while dancing the role of Juliet last month, he did not think she had anything to worry about. And while she will not have much singing to do, she said that singing in public would be new for her. She recalled being asked at an audition to sing something. “I suggested Mariah Carey, because I know all of her songs, and the pianist turned to me and said, “Do you really think you can sing a Mariah Carey song?’ ” she recalled, laughing. “So we went with Madonna.” MICHAEL COOPER
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She Wooed Him With Stew. Now He Does the Cooking. with chicken fricassee. “Vavoom Mama,” he recalled thinking. “I like to eat and I like a good-looking babe.” Twenty-seven years later, Rodriguez, now 71 and a chef and cookbook author, is the one who makes the chicken fricassee. On a recent summer night, he tended the fragrant stew as it simmered on the stovetop while Batista, now 68 and an insurance agent for Allstate, stayed out of his way. She leaves the cooking to him. Whatever he makes for dinner, her response is always the same: “Oh, my favorite.” “This is the meal that brought us together,” he said, scooping out the fricassee. Rodriguez, whose specialty is Caribbean
Julio Rodriguez was a seasoned flirt. Tall and handsome, he persuaded women to call him just by handing them a card printed with “you’re beautiful” and his number on the back. Then, one summer night in 1988, Rodriguez found he was the one being flirted with. He was managing a supper club in the Bronx. She was one of the guests. “I’d like you to make me a drink,” she said. He offered to get a bartender. No, she said, she wanted him. Slipping a $20 tip on the bar, she asked what time he got off. “That’s my line,” he said, pocketing the money. The woman’s name was Dolores Batista. After work, he headed to her red brick rowhouse in Throgs Neck, where she was waiting
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cuisine, dedicated his first cookbook, “Doll’s Kitchen: La Cocina De Dolly,” in 2007, to Batista, whom he calls Doll. The cover has a photo of her as a young girl. They are not married, but might as well be. He refers to her as “my wife” and said he liked the way they fit together when they held hands. She wears a wedding ring he bought for her four years ago, even though she turned down his proposal. “We’re so incompatible that I always thought, ‘It’s not going to last,’ ” she said. “But it has lasted, and now I think, ‘Why bother?’ What would change really?” She married young and raised a son, then divorced her husband of 16 years after they drifted apart. Rodriguez had an ex-wife and dozens of ex-girlfriends, two of whom were the mothers of his three sons. “Willie Nelson and him have the same song,” Batista said. “ ‘To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before.’ ” “That’s what bachelors do,” Rodriguez replied. At first, Batista thought he was charming, but their differences gave her pause. She broke off the romance after a three-week whirlwind of barbecues, salsa dancing and what he called “hot fun in the summer.” It took 10 years for them to get back together. This time, he made the first move. He had just bought a car and needed insurance, so he called her. She asked what he did for a living. He had switched from nightclubs to real estate, clearing the first hurdle. She stopped by his office. “When I saw him, I thought he’s really looking cute still and we did have a good time together,” she said. “But I felt this was going to be trouble.” She had one nonnegotiable condition: no other women. He gave them all up. The pickup cards, the one-night stands, “that was B.D. — before Doll,” Rodriguez said. “I’ve been very faithful to my honey.” WINNIE HU
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USNS Mercy Transports Six Injured From Bougainville to Ship for Critical Care By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Trevor Andersen, Pacific Partnership 2015 Public Affairs
ARAWA, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (NNS) -- The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (TAH 19) sent an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter on a critical care patient transport mission June 30 to retrieve six injured people, including an 18-month old infant, from Han Island, a small land mass off the coast of Carteret Island in Papua New Guinea. Mercy received all six patients who were immediately provided medical care. “All patients are currently in good condition,� said Capt. Melanie Merrick, the commanding officer of the military treatment facility USNS Mercy. The Deputy Chief Secretary of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, contacted the U.S. embassy in Port Moresby to request assistance transporting the civilians, who were survivors of a small vessel reported lost at sea June 27.
The Mission Commander of Pacific Partnership 2015, Capt. Chris Engdahl, directed his maritime operations center aboard Mercy to launch one of its helicopters from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 21 to pick up the injured and transport them to the ship for immediate care. The injured had swam ashore after being lost at sea June 27. On that same day, Mercy received a request for search and rescue support from the Chief Secretary of
the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) through the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby. The ABG reported a small boat missing at sea along with several passengers, one of whom was an infant. The boat had been in transit from Buka to Carteret Island. In response, Mercy launched two helicopters, both with Navy search and rescue swimmers on board, to search the area, but they were unable to locate the boat or any survivors.
Of the passengers on board, six were able to swim to shore including a mother and her 18-month-old infant. The other remaining passengers remain unaccounted for, but a search operation continues led by the Papua New Guinea National Maritime Safety Authority. Mercy is currently in Papua New Guinea for its second mission port of Pacific Partnership 2015. Pacific Partnership is in its tenth iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the IndoAsia-Pacific region. While training for crisis conditions, Pacific Partnership missions to date have provided real world medical care to approximately 270,000 patients and veterinary services to more than 38,000 animals. Critical infrastructure development has been supported in host nations during more than 180 engineering projects.
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Papua New Guinea (June 25, 2015) An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 21 takes off from the Pacific Partnership 2015 landing area in Arawa, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Partnership has provided critical infrastructure development to host nations through the completion of more than 180 engineering projects. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Greg Badger
Sailors assigned to the guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) man the rails as Laboon approaches Batumi, Georgia. Laboon is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Desmond Parks
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The opportunity to serve our great nation in the best
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To serve my country like my grandfather, uncle and
father. I come from a military family and Navy was the best fit for me.
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The people I get to meet from different
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