July 09, 2015 Rough Rider by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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MAINTENANCE TEAM

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or Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), the bulkheads have started to become as familiar to them as the walls in their own homes. Behind these bulkheads are miles of potable water pipes and ventilation shafts. It’s up to a few Sailors to ensure that not only these items, but the decks as well, are constantly in tip-top shape. With just a few capable hands, TR’s maintenance team hits the ground running to ensure the crew’s comfort and safety throughout the ship on a daily basis. The maintenance team, previously called the lagging team, still does lagging but also deck work, sound and hullboard insulation, and cold insulation, said Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Paul Durchuck, the team’s leading petty officer.

“We’re a mix match of work centers that support the ship, however, we run ourselves like a division,” said Chief Hull Technician Rodney Ellars, the chief petty officer in charge of the maintenance team. “From day one when I came here I wanted to treat them like a division, like a team.” Sailors are temporarily assigned to the team anywhere from two months to a year, and are plucked from departments all over the ship. From Reactor to Air and the departments in between, these Sailors roger-up to do hard manual labor each and every day. “We took a lot of them out of their comfort zones,” said Ellars. “Whether they’re airmen or cooks, we’re throwing them into an engineering type of environment that they’re just not used to. This kind of job isn’t the

one [where you] stand watch. This job is about what your output is, and not only that, but does it look good? Does it have good craftsmanship? Would you put it in your house?” Lagging is an insulating material, combined with a paste, that is wrapped around pipes, boilers and other pieces of equipment to prevent heat loss and condensation. One of the team leaders, Airman Travis Bowman, said he enjoyed the work, but there were some difficulties that came along with it. “This job covers the entire spectrum,” said Bowman. “Sometimes you feel like, ‘Why am I doing this? No one will ever notice.’ Other times you’ll sit there and think, ‘Oh man, if I don’t do this right, everyone is going to see it.’ It can be really stressful, but at the same time, it can be really rewarding.” Due to the heat, the chilled pipes need lagging or condensation will drip all over the decks. “Among other things, what we do is ultimately about safety, and it’s about maintaining the comfort level on the ship,” said Bowman. “We help out with the overall mission readiness of the ship.” Before deployment started, the team worked out of an aviation storeroom, and essentially had only one stand-up locker to work out of, according to Ellars

and Durchuck. “I couldn’t bare to see them in the environment they were in,” said Ellars. “No one really seemed to recognize what they were on the cusp of, but didn’t have the means to take the next step.” The team works out of an engineering space on the sixth deck with air conditioning, computers, phones, a televsion and an additional storage area. “What we’re doing now has been exponential compared to what we were doing before,” said Durchuck. “Now we have a space to really work out of and something to look forward to at the end of the day when work is done. I’m not saying we didn’t have support before, but now the ship knows how to get in touch with us. Before, I was having messages [passed to me]. I had no phone, no computer access and no way for people to get in touch with me. Now I have [all of that].” The team doesn’t quite know what’s in store once deployment is completed, but they continue to work every day like nothing will change. “We’re just like any other division,” said Bowman. “You’re going to have your good days and your bad days. Tempers can get rough, especially after a long day, but we have fun with one another. We’re family.”

Sailor 2.0 by MC3 Taylor Stinson

55% of the meaning in our words is derived from facial expressions, 38% is in how the words are said, and 7% is in the actual words spoken.

-- via “Listening Facts You Never Knew” by Kristin Piombino, PR Daily, June 2013

25-50% currently in long-distance relationships

75% have been engaged in a long-distance relationship at some point

3 million married couples in the US live apart

A Most popular means of communication for deployed service members -- via “Communicating with Loved Ones While Deployed” by Eric Tegler, Defense Media Network, April 18, 2013

-- via “Long-distance Relationships Can Form Stronger Bonds than Face-to-Face Ones” by the International Communication Association, July 18, 2013

S 75% of all engaged couples have been in a long distance relationship.

if a relationship is going to break down, it generally happens within the first 5 months of the time that there is distance separating the two parties. -- via brandongaille. com,2013

-- via militaryhomefront.dod.mil and census.gov

since 9/11 close to

2.5 million military were deployed to Iraq/ Afganistan - almost half were married and/or had kids.

-- via militaryhomefront.dod.mil and census.gov

long-distance communication “New communication technologies can have negative consequences for both soldiers/sailors and their families...”

babe <3 hey babe how was your day?

-- via “Communicating with Loved Ones While Deployed” by Eric Tegler, Defense Media Network, April 18, 2013

good what’s wrong? did I say something to upset you? no not at all. y do you ask? oh idk. just seems like something is wrong. i guess i could be freaking out about nothing you know how i can be lol oh lol well i have to go back to work so i will talk to you later ok well i love you and i can’t wait for you to be back from deployment! the kids miss you and send you their love as well! counting down the days! 120 to go! i love you too tell the kids i say hi and i love em too ok babe! i will tell em! keep safe and talk to me when you can. i know that you are busy so i will try and not bother you too much. enjoy liberty and everything else let me know when care package comes in

“Children who are upset about deployment will try to check up on their deployed parents, get some reassurances about something that happened or [describe] what happened at school. They’ll often get a brief message or email back that doesn’t have the encouragement or support they were looking for.” - Dr. Brian Houston

9 Steps to Better Communicate Today by John M. Grohol, PSY.D 1

stop and listen

force yourself to hear

be open and honest with your partner

pay attention to nonverbal signs

stay focused in the here and now

try to minimize emotion when talking about important, big decisions

be ready to cede an argument

humor and playfulness usually helps

communicating is more than just talking

For more information... Your Family Support Center can give you information and support on many issues that affect service members and their families. And MilitaryOneSource, a free 24/7 service from DoD, available to all active-duty, Guard, and Reserve members and their families, provides information and referrals plus face-to-face counseling. Call 1-800-342-9647 or access www.militaryonesource.com.

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Sunday Deadline on Greek Debt Plan BRUSSELS — Frustrated European leaders gave Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to save its collapsing economy from catastrophe after an emergency summit meeting here on Tuesday ended without the Athens government offering a substantive new proposal. “The situation is really critical and unfortunately we can’t exclude the black scenarios of no agreement,” said Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, warning that those possibilities included “the bankruptcy of Greece and the insolvency of its banking system.” Also looming ever larger was the prospect of Greece leaving the European currency union. Tusk said that the government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had until Thursday to deliver a new plan to Greece’s creditors. “Until now I have avoided talking about deadlines,” Tusk said after a day of fruitless meetings. “But tonight I have to say it loud and clear — the final deadline ends this week.” Tusk added, “I have no doubt

that this is the most critical moment in our history.” Deadlines have come and gone without serious consequences, but yet another emergency gathering, this one involving all 28 European Union leaders in Brussels on Sunday, might really be a crunch point. “This could be the last meeting about Greece,” Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of Italy told reporters on Tuesday night. And for the first time, “Grexit” — Greece’s exit from the euro — has surfaced as a serious option, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said late Tuesday night that his staff had drawn up plans for several possible outcomes. “We have a Grexit scenario prepared in detail,” he said. Juncker expressed fury at a barrage of verbal attacks on Greece’s European creditors by officials of Syriza, the left-wing party, led by Tsipras, that won Greek parliamentary elections in January on a platform of rejecting the austerity policies that were a condition of European

bailouts. He singled out a remark made by the recently departed Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, accusing creditors of “terrorism.” “Who are they and who do they think I am?” Juncker said, sputtering with rage. He asserted that he was “strongly against” Greece leaving the euro, but “I cannot prevent it if the Greek government is not doing what we expect it to do to respect the dignity of the Greek people.” At a separate news conference, the German chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear that eurozone leaders were determined to set a very high bar for Athens before the Thursday deadline. “There are only a few days left for a discussion on what’s going to happen in the future,” she said. In comments to reporters after the meeting, Tsipras struck an almost sunny tone by contrast, saying that the talks had been held in “a positive climate” and that his government would continue efforts to secure “a final exit” from the crisis. ANDREW HIGGINS and JAMES KANTER

Islamic Battalions Help Ukraine Battle Rebels MARIUPOL, Ukraine — Wearing camouflage, with a bowie knife sheathed in his belt, the man cut a fearsome figure in the restaurant. Waiters hovered apprehensively near the kitchen, and try as he might, the man, a former Chechen warlord, could not wave them over for more tea. Even for Ukrainians hardened by more than a year of war here against Russian-backed separatists, the appearance of Islamic combatants, mostly Chechens, in towns near the front lines comes as something of a surprise — and for many of the Ukrainians, a welcome one. “We like to fight the Russians,” said the Chechen. “We always fight the Russians.” He commands one of three volunteer Islamic battalions out of about 30 volunteer units in total fighting in eastern Ukraine. Fighting is intensifying around Mariupol, a strategic seaport and

industrial hub that the separatists have long coveted. Monitors for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe say they have seen steady nighttime shipments of Russian military equipment on a rail line north of here. Recently, the Ukrainian authorities released photos that showed a massing of heavy weapons on the rebel side. Anticipating an attack, the Ukrainians are happy for all the help they can get. As the Ukrainians see it, they are at a disadvantage against the separatists because Western governments have refused to provide the government forces with anything like the military support that the rebels have received from Russia. The army has been ineffective. So the Ukrainians welcome backing even from Islamic militants from Chechnya. “I am on this path for 24 years

now,” since the demise of the Soviet Union, the Chechen said. “The war for us never ended. We never ran from our war with Russia, and we never will.” Ukrainian commanders worry that separatist groups plan to capture access roads to Mariupol and lay siege to the city, which had a prewar population of about half a million. The Ukrainian authorities decline to say how many Chechens are fighting in eastern Ukraine. They are all unpaid. To try to bolster the abilities of the Ukrainian regular forces and reduce Kiev’s reliance on these quasilegal paramilitaries, the United States Army is training the Ukrainian national guard. “All of Europe is shaking with fear of the Russians,” the Chechen said. “It’s beneficial for Europe that we fight here as volunteers. But not everybody understands.” ANDREW E. KRAMER

experts Oppose Government Key To Encoded Data SAN FRANCISCO — An elite group of security technologists has concluded the American and British governments cannot demand special access to encrypted communications without putting the world’s most confidential data and critical infrastructure in danger. A new paper from the group, made up of 14 of the world’s pre-eminent cryptographers and computer scientists, is a salvo in a skirmish between intelligence and law enforcement leaders, and technologists and privacy advocates. That has put Silicon Valley at the center of a tug of war. Technology companies including Apple, Microsoft and Google have been moving to encrypt more of their corporate and customer data after learning that the National Security Agency and its counterparts were siphoning off digital communications and hacking into corporate data centers. Yet law enforcement and intelligence agency leaders argue that such efforts thwart their ability to monitor kidnappers, terrorists and other adversaries. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to ban encrypted messages altogether. In the United States, Michael S. Rogers, the director of the N.S.A., proposed that technology companies be required to create a digital key to unlock encrypted data, but to divide the key into pieces and secure it so that no one person or government agency could use it alone. The encryption debate has left both sides bitterly divided and in fighting mode. The group of cryptographers deliberately issued its report a day before James B. Comey Jr., the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the concerns that they and other government agencies have that encryption technologies will prevent them from effectively doing their jobs. NICOLE PERLROTH

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Panel Calls W.H.O. Unfit To Stem Crisis UNITED NATIONS — More than a year after the Ebola epidemic began tearing through three of the world’s most fragile countries, the World Health Organization remains unfit to handle a public health emergency, an independent panel concluded in a blistering report issued Tuesday. The panel faulted the agency for being sluggish, financially unprepared and overly reliant on “good diplomacy.” It pointed to a lack of “independent and courageous decision making by the director general,” Dr. Margaret Chan, in the early days of the Ebola epidemic. The report urged the agency’s regional and country representatives to be independent and ready to speak out against recalcitrant governments. And it faulted donor countries for stripping the agency’s funding. The panel said that W.H.O. leaders should have declared the Ebola outbreak a public health emergency much sooner than they did, and that the delay stemmed in part from not wanting to challenge governments worried about negative economic and trade consequences. The W.H.O. declared Ebola a global health emergency only in August 2014, after the virus had already killed 1,000 people. Ebola has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. To rebuild the health systems of the three countries over the next two years, the W.H.O. estimates that it needs more than $2 billion. The W.H.O. said it welcomed the report and had already begun to make some of the recommended changes, including the creation of “a global health emergency work force and the contingency fund to ensure the necessary resources are available to mount an initial response.” Dr. Joanne Liu, president of the international arm of Doctors Without Borders, the medical aid group that rang the alarm on Ebola much earlier than the W.H.O., wondered aloud about the tangible impact of the panel’s report. “The question is how will this translate into real action on the ground in future outbreaks?” she posted on Twitter. SOMINI SENGUPTA

Afghan Officials and Taliban Delegation Meet KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan government delegation met with Taliban officials in the Pakistani capital for the first time on Tuesday, in a significant effort to open formal peace negotiations, according to Afghan, Pakistani and Western officials. The Islamabad meeting was the most promising contact between the two warring sides in years. And it followed a series of less formal encounters between various Afghan officials and Taliban representatives in recent months. Previous promising moments in the effort to stabilize Afghanistan, including the formal opening of a Taliban political office in Qatar in 2013, either fizzled or backfired. No sooner had the talks begun than it became apparent that the Taliban were divided about whether to engage in a process

facilitated by Pakistan. In an email exchange with a New York Times reporter early Wednesday, a representative of the Taliban’s official political office in Qatar said the delegates to the Islamabad meeting were “not authorized” to attend such meetings, and suggested they had been “hijacked” by Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service to appear. Afghan and Western officials described the Taliban delegates as significant, including some Taliban officials who had gone to the previous, less-formal talks. One senior Western official said that “we know there are senior leaders” involved. The official compared the apparent dispute between the Taliban representatives in Islamabad and the insurgent officials in Qatar to bureaucratic infighting seen in any organization,

and said that Western officials did not consider it a sign of fractiousness within the insurgency. But, the official added, “I’m not saying that somewhere down the line we might not see some of that.” There was no statement from the Taliban’s main spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid. Some Taliban officials had denied or played down the significance of the previous meetings as well, despite confirmation from other officials present at those discussions. Officials from the United States and China were at the meeting as observers on Tuesday, Western officials said, and were expected to attend a follow-up session on Wednesday. China has played a growing role in trying to broker peace talks in recent months. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and MUJIB MASHAL

Pope Calls for Protection of Rain Forest and Its People QUITO, Ecuador — Pope Francis on Tuesday called for increased protection of the Amazon rain forest and the indigenous people who live there, declaring that Ecuador must resist exploiting natural riches for “short-term benefits,” an implicit rebuke of the policies of President Rafael Correa. In his final stops of a busy day, Francis made environmental protection a central theme, invoking the biblical tenet for humans to be guardians of creation, while praising the way of life of indigenous peoples living in the rain forests. Several indigenous leaders

attending Francis’ final event of the day have been fighting the policies of Correa to expand oil exploration in the Ecuadorean Amazon. “The tapping of natural resources, which are so abundant in Ecuador, must not be concerned with short-term benefits,” Francis told a group of civil society leaders at his final stop of the day. “As stewards of these riches which we have received, we have an obligation toward society as a whole, and toward future generations.” Francis had been expected to address the exploitation of the Amazon, after including the issue

in the environmental encyclical he released last month. In the document, Francis warned against the perils of climate change but also highlighted the link between environmental destruction and the plight of the poor, including indigenous groups in South America. “Ecuador — together with other countries bordering the Amazon — has an opportunity to become a teacher of integral ecology,” he said. “We received this world as an inheritance from past generations, but also as a loan from future generations, to whom we will have to return it.” JIM YARDLEY

In Brief Britain Marks Anniversary As Britain mourned the 52 civilians killed 10 years ago in its most devastating terrorist attacks, government officials warned on Tuesday that the threat of terrorism had only increased, though its nature has shifted. Four suicide bombers linked to Al Qaeda detonated explosives on a London bus and on three subway trains in the attacks on July 7, 2005. About 700 people were wounded. Commemorations on Tuesday included a wreath-laying ceremony at a Hyde Park memorial for the victims and a national moment of silence. Less than two weeks ago, 38 people, including 30 Britons, were killed when a young Tunisian, who was reported to have trained in Libya and to have claimed allegiance to the Islamic State, opened fire at a beach resort in Sousse, Tunisia. Britain’s senior counterterrorism officer, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley of the Metropolitan Police, said that the rise of Islamic State militants

meant that Britain was now facing a “very different” threat. “We’ve seen another step change in terrorism in the way it works and connects across the world in the last couple of years,” he said. (NYT)

Militants Kill 14 in Kenya Shabab militants killed 14 people and wounded 11 in the northeastern Kenyan town of Mandera on Tuesday, a government official said, the latest attack in the region by the Somali Islamist group. The grenade attack took place around 2 a.m. at a compound near a livestock market, according to officials, and most of the victims were miners from other parts of Kenya. A spokesman for the Shabab confirmed that the organization was responsible. “We are behind the Mandera attack. We killed over 10 Kenyan Christians,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, a spokesman for the group, told Reuters. “This is part of our ongoing operations against Kenya.” (NYT)

NATIONAL

WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2015

Man Who Says Louisiana Should ‘Kill More’ SHREVEPORT, La. — In a much-discussed dissent from the Supreme Court’s ruling on lethal injection last week, Justice Stephen G. Breyer laid out the problems, as he saw them, with the death penalty. Among them was “arbitrariness in application,” including how simple geography Dale Cox can determine whether someone convicted of murder would be sentenced to death. “Between 2004 and 2009,” Breyer wrote, “just 29 counties (fewer than 1 percent of counties in the country) accounted for approximately half of all death sentences imposed nationwide.” Caddo Parish is one of these counties. Within Louisiana, where capital punishment has declined steeply, Caddo has become an outlier, accounting for fewer than

5 percent of the state’s death sentences in the early 1980s but nearly half over the past five years. Even on a national level Caddo stands apart. From 2010 to 2014, more people were sentenced to death per capita here than in any other county in the United States, among counties with four or more death sentences in that time period. Robert J. Smith, a law professor at the University of North Carolina whose work was cited in Breyer’s dissent, said Caddo illustrated the geographic disparity of capital punishment. But he said this analysis did not go far enough. Caddo, he noted, has bucked the national trend in large part because of one man: Dale Cox. Cox, 67, who is the acting district attorney and who secured more than a third of Louisiana’s death sentences over the last five years, has lately become one of the country’s bluntest spokesmen for the death penalty. He has readily accepted invitations from

reporters to explain whether he really meant what he said to The Shreveport Times in March: that capital punishment is primarily and rightly about revenge and that the state needs to “kill more people.” Yes, he really meant it. And he has been willing to recount his personal transformation from an opponent of capital punishment to one of the more prolific seekers of the death penalty in the nation. Cox’s personal evolution not only serves as a window into the criminal justice system in Caddo Parish, Smith said, but also goes to the heart of the questions raised by Breyer. “When you start to look underneath the counties and ask, ‘Who is actually prosecuting these cases?’ you realize in most of the counties, it’s one or a limited number of prosecutors,” Smith said. “What you’ve ended up with,” Smith said, “is a personality-driven death penalty.” CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

‘Super PACs’ Take on New Role, at Grass Roots IOWA CITY — College students supporting Rand Paul for president were out in force going door to door, using their iPad Minis to help identify Republicans committed to voting for the Kentucky senator in the Iowa caucuses. And when Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana visited Iowa the same week in June for town hall-style meetings in Waukee, Council Bluffs and Sioux City, his supporters collected voters’ names and email addresses. But the Paul and Jindal campaigns were not behind these grass-roots efforts. Instead, the two candidates’ courtship of voters is being carried out by “su-

per PACs,” which are using their abundant war chests to move into the nuts and bolts of campaigning. In previous election cycles, super PACs largely channeled money from wealthy donors into political advertising. But now they are branching out into organizing voters one at a time. The practice of having super PACs take over such operations allows campaigns, which may raise only $2,700 from any one donor, to outsource the work of recruiting activists and building lists of supporters. But there are risks to outsourcing a field campaign. Candidates, who are legally forbidden to co-

ordinate with super PACs, are in danger of being cut off from their most ardent supporters as they head into caucus and primary elections. “As a campaign, you have absolutely no idea” how you’re doing, said Nick Ryan, president of a super PAC supporting Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor. “That would scare me to death. You’d be disconnected from the very base of your campaign, the people who are most passionate about you.” (Still, Ryan hesitated to rule out any grassroots campaign work aside from recruiting volunteers to support Huckabee.) TRIP GABRIEL

Opponents of Confederate Flag Win the First Round COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter here is rallying its membership in opposition to a proposal pending this week in the State House of Representatives to take the Confederate battle flag down from its perch on the Capitol grounds. “Who knows what may happen in the House,” the group’s commander, T. Leland Summers, wrote in a four-paragraph plea to his members on Monday.

By the lunch hour on Tuesday, following the Senate’s final vote on the measure, the president of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, Ted Pitts, had issued a statement of his own. “We now turn our eyes to the House and urge representatives to also address the issue in a timely fashion and pass a bill that removes the Confederate flag and its 15-year-old pole from the State House grounds,” Pitts said.

After a series of votes on Tuesday, the deliberations here about the fate of the Confederate battle flag are poised to move to the floor of the House of Representatives. The 124-member House is expected to begin debate over the flag on Wednesday amid extraordinary pressure for and against the flag. “You kind of lose track after the first thousand” emails, said State Rep. Justin Bamberg, a Democrat in his first term. (NYT)

In Brief Drop in Spending On Birth Control Out-of-pocket spending on most major birth control methods fell sharply in the months after the Affordable Care Act began requiring insurance plans to cover contraception at no cost to women, a new study has found. Spending on the pill, the most popular form of prescription birth control, dropped by about half in the first six months of 2013, compared with the same period in 2012, before the mandate took effect. The study, by health economists from the University of Pennsylvania, analyzed health insurance claims from a large private insurer with business in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It evaluated the effect of the Affordable Care Act on women’s pocketbooks. It estimated that savings from the pill were about $1.4 billion in 2013. The study was published online in Health Affairs on Tuesday. (NYT)

2 Killed When Plane Collides With Fighter Two people were killed when their small civilian aircraft collided in midair with an F-16 fighter jet on Tuesday near Charleston, S.C., according to the National Transportation Safety Board. Authorities on the ground said late Tuesday afternoon that they were still searching for the remains of the two civilians, whom they did not identify, who had been in the plane, a Cessna C150. The pilot of the F-16 ejected from the aircraft and was under medical observation late in the day. The Air Force pilot, Maj. Aaron Johnson from the 55th Fighter Squadron, was taken to nearby Joint Base Charleston after the incident. (NYT)

County Votes to Fly Confederate Flag Commissioners in a north Florida county voted Tuesday unanimously to again fly the Confederate flag in front of a government building, weeks after it had been taken down. The interim Marion County administrator had removed the flag at the McPherson Governmental Complex in Ocala, after the June 17 killing of nine black people in Charleston, S.C. Commissioners say the flag will be flown with a display explaining its historical significance. (AP)

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CVS Quits Chamber Over Stance on Tobacco Health Organization’s efforts to curb use. Four health care companies that serve on the chamber’s board — Anthem, the Health Care Service Corporation, the Steward Health Care System of Boston and the Indiana University Health system — all support antismoking programs. The chamber has defended its efforts around the globe, saying it is safeguarding its members’ business interests. “To be clear, the chamber does not support smoking and wants people to quit,” the statement said. “At the same time, we support protecting the intellectual property and trademarks of all legal products in all industries and oppose singling out certain industries for discriminatory treatment.”

The decision by CVS was the latest criticism to hit the chamber. Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur, said on Twitter that the chamber was on “the wrong side of history.” And on Tuesday, the head of the W.H.O. weighed in, assailing the chamber over its lobbying practices. “By lobbying against well-established, widely accepted and evidence-based tobacco control public health policies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce undermines its own credibility on other issues,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, the director general of the W.H.O., in a statement on Tuesday. “So long as tobacco companies continue to be influential members of the chamber, legitimate businesses will be tarred with the same brush.” DANNY HAKIM

In Admission, Cosby’s Accusers See Vindication She was 19 and visiting her mother when, Therese Serignese recounted later, she met Bill Cosby in the gift shop at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1976. Cosby invited her to his show, and then backstage afterward where he gave her some pills. Her next memory, she said, was of feeling drugged and being sexually assaulted. Last November, days after Serignese went public with that accusation, Cosby’s representative decried the molestation claims that were spiraling against him as “unsubstantiated, fantastical stories.” But on Tuesday, Serignese and many of the women said they felt vindicated by Cosby’s admission

in a newly released court record that he had obtained quaaludes to give young women with whom he wanted to have sex. It was an acknowledgment that Cosby viewed powerful, sedating drugs as part of his sexual encounters with women. “Mr. Cosby branded them a liar,” said Joseph Cammarata, who is representing Serignese and two other women in a defamation suit against the entertainer. The disclosure was contained in a court record unsealed Monday by a federal judge in Philadelphia, part of a civil case brought in 2005 by Andrea Constand, who had been a staff member with the basketball program at Temple University, Cosby’s alma mater.

Constand accused Cosby of drugging and molesting her in a case that was later settled. The unsealed document includes Cosby, under questioning, admitting to having obtained seven prescriptions for quaaludes in the 1970s. He testified under oath that he had given the sedative to at least one woman, who appears to be Serignese, and “other people.” In the records, Cosby, 77, did not admit drugging unwitting women. When asked if the women had known they were taking the Quaaludes, Cosby’s lawyer abruptly cut off the questioning. And Cosby suggested in his answers that the pill taking and sex had been consensual. (NYT)

Market’s Dive Could Delay Economic Reforms in China HONG KONG — China’s stock market tumble has presented the government of President Xi Jinping with a searing test of its commitment to overhaul the country’s financial system and open up the state-controlled economy. Xi has been introducing competition into the banking industry, overhauling state-owned companies and making it easier for foreign investors to buy Chinese stocks. But the pace of reform may slow if the stock market slump persists, or accelerates. Since June 12, the market has

lost $3.2 trillion, roughly a third of its value. And the true extent of the pain could be even greater. Nearly half the listings on China’s exchanges ceased trading by Wednesday morning, mostly because the companies had sought trading halts until further notice, although some listings were also suspended by regulators. Those listings being halted, suspended or frozen by steep falls are disproportionately smaller companies, which had been the most popular with ordinary investors.

While moving aggressively, the Chinese government has relied mainly on market-oriented tools. It has lent money to brokerages for stock purchases, for example, and has not publicly had government agencies buy shares themselves, as Hong Kong did in 1998. Scott Kennedy, director of the project on Chinese business and political economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said,“I think for them, they figured they had to get involved for now, even though it’s not their first choice.” (NYT)

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Uber’s Expansion Employs a Risky Strategy Last week, the home-sharing service Airbnb had more than 40,000 listings in Paris, making the city the company’s most popular destination for travelers looking to rent. Paris officials applaud it for bringing innovation to the city’s hotel industry. The ride-hailing company Uber had a much more difficult week. Thousands of Parisian taxi drivers took to the streets to protest UberPop, the company’s low-cost service that’s similar to UberX in the United States. French politicians denounced the company for defying the country’s transport laws. And two of Uber’s top executives in France were detained by the police and accused of operating an illegal taxi business. By Friday, the company had suspended UberPop across the country. Uber and Airbnb are both flush with investor money and are using the cash to expand rapidly around the world. The starkly different paths in France for these companies lay bare contrasting strategies as they encounter the world of global regulators. Since it began in 2009, Uber has entered city after city, with a largely catch-me-if-you-can attitude. Airbnb has instead tilted toward courting local politicians. So far, Uber’s approach has

Last month, French taxi drivers went on strike over Uber’s low-cost ride service.

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not significantly slowed it down. The company operates in more than 300 cities in almost 60 countries and is valued by investors at more than $40 billion. But Uber’s aggressive attitude has put it at odds with regulators in many of the cities that are crucial to the company’s global ambitions. “A lot of these start-ups initially don’t think much about regulation,” said Thilo Koslowski, head of the automotive practice at Gartner, a technology research company in California. “It’s all about having a punch strategy. They do things first, then ask questions later.” Airbnb has not gone unscathed by regulators. It has faced significant clampdowns in American cities, and last year, Airbnb was fined in Europe for the first time

for violating a law in the Catalonia region of Spain that forbids renting individual rooms for tourism purposes. Airbnb is appealing the roughly $33,000 fine. But by and large, Airbnb’s approach has been to work with regulators, not against them. But as recent events in France have shown, Uber sometimes remains willing to push ahead regardless of the opinions of lawmakers. “Any government can shut you down, so you have to be willing to play the regulatory game,” said Gerald R. Faulhaber, professor emeritus of business economics and public policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “You need to work with regulators. There’s no way around that.” MARK SCOTT

Helping Families Move Far From Public Housing PLANO, Tex. —Lamesa White and her four children moved in February from the most dangerous public housing project in Dallas to a single-family home in this affluent suburb. On the day she left, one of her daughter’s old schoolmates was shot to death. White’s escape from the Estell Village housing project was made possible by an experiment in housing policy the federal government began in Dallas in 2011 and is proposing to expand to many large metropolitan areas. Families in Dallas who qualify for housing subsidies are offered more money if they move to more expensive neighborhoods. To sharpen the prod, the government has also cut subsidies for those who do not move. Housing vouchers were created in the 1970s to help poor families and their children escape public housing, but they largely failed to improve the prospects

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for their recipients. Julián Castro, the secretary of housing and urban development, said it was past time to try a more daring approach, one that pushes harder against patterns of class and racial segregation. White, 32, said she jumped at the chance to leave her old neighborhood. One of her children is thriving in a special education program where he gets one-onone attention. In Dallas, she did not learn that he had been attending the wrong class until she received a notice requiring her to appear at truancy court. “It’s so quiet out here,” White said as she sat in the living room of the first house she has lived in. “I love it.” The government has tried before to fix the rent subsidy program. In the early 1990s, an experiment called Moving to Opportunity required some families to use their vouchers in more ex-

pensive neighborhoods. In 2000, a broader initiative raised the value of all vouchers in 49 metropolitan areas. Officials hoped the change would make it possible for families to find rental apartments in a broader range of neighborhoods. Instead, a recent study by the economists Peter Ganong of Harvard and Robert Collinson of New York University found that most families ended up paying higher rents in the same neighborhoods. “When you give somebody a voucher, it tends to be the case that they buy better-quality housing in the same neighborhood,” Ganong said. “That’s always been a disappointing fact within H.U.D.” He said it raised the question: “If they’re not finding better neighborhoods, why are we putting this money into housing?” The problem, officials have concluded, is that the subsidies were much too small. BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Pinnacle Entertainment Inc., up $2.18 to $39.64. The casino and entertainment facility operator received an increased takeover offer from Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. The St. Joe Co., up $1.19 to $16.97. The Florida-based real estate development company said a key plan has been adopted and it gave a positive revenue outlook. MSC Industrial Direct Co., up $2.11 to $70.09. The metalworking and maintenance products company reported better-than-expected third-quarter profit and in-line revenue. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., down 38 cents to $2.09. The semiconductor company gave a weaker-than-expected revenue outlook, citing weaker consumer demand for personal computers. DepoMed Inc., up $7.98 to $28.62. The specialty pharmaceutical company received a $2.1 billion hostile takeover offer from biotechnology company Horizon Pharma Plc. Baozun Inc., down $2.12 to $7.42. The Chinese e-commerce company and its rivals saw shares fall as China’s major market indexes sink. (AP)

FOOD

In Brief Friendly Gardening For an Apartment It takes about three weeks of growing before you need scissors, but then a bright crop of basil or cilantro is yours to scatter on a caprese salad or ceviche. A sunny window, and restraint when it comes to watering, is all it takes after you plant the seeds in the can of earth. Let dinner guests harvest their own garnishes: Back to the Roots Garden in a Can, $11.99 for one basil and one cilantro; $23.99 for two of each, backtotheroots.com. (NYT)

A Children’s Book With a Sweet Tooth The blackberry fool, simply made with crushed berries and whipped cream, is the subject of a timeline picture book that is charming and instructional. The dish starts in 18th-century Lyme, England, then goes to 19th-century Charleston, S.C., early-20th-century Boston and 21st-century San Diego, using the same ingredients but with progressively mechanized kitchen equipment each time. “A Fine Dessert: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat” by Emily Jenkins and Sophie Blackall (Schwartz & Wade Books, $17.99). (NYT)

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From the Farmers’ Market to the Freezer When the Manhattan chef Marc Meyer opened Rosie’s in the East Village in April, reports focused on the Mexican restaurant’s upscale tortilla-making station in the middle of the dining room. But the more interesting feature may be the walk-in freezer left behind by the previous tenants. “The minute I saw it, I thought, ‘I’ve got to be taking advantage of this,’ ” said Meyer, who plans to fill it with seasonal fruits, tomatoes and tomatillos, all bought from local farmers at their lowest price and at their sun-ripened prime. While dedicated home cooks buzz over pickling, canning and curing projects, Meyer has joined a growing number of chefs who are quietly employing another time-tested method of preservation: the freezer. Other techniques rely on sugar, brine or bacteria to conserve foods, said the chef Paul T. Verica of Heritage Food & Drink in Waxhaw, N.C., but freezing doesn’t change the way things taste. “I know it’s such a cool and hip thing right now,” Verica said of traditionally fermented foods, “but for me, I want pure clean flavors.” At the Greenhouse Tavern in Cleveland, the chef Jonathon Sawyer packs away rare mushrooms, nettles and wild black cherries. In Manhattan, the Oceana chef Ben Pollinger saves at least five frozen 22-liter buckets of shelled cranberry, dragon tongue and

Ana Sortun, the chef and owner of three restaurants in the Boston area, uses her freezer to store blanched and chopped greens. ERIK JACOBS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

scarlet runner beans for the winter, which are sweeter than dried beans, he said, and cook in four to five minutes. And at Verica’s restaurant just outside of Charlotte, where he is spending “every waking moment” shelling sweet peas, the kitchen staff will also put up green tomatoes, corn, edamame, all manner of berries, ginger, sunchoke purée, arugula pesto and squash blossoms stuffed with herbs and goat cheese. Now that even ordinary refrigerators get things colder faster, said Ana Sortun, the chef and owner of three restaurants in the Boston area, all cooks should toss out “the old myth that frozen food was bad.” Indeed while freezing may break down the texture of a plant like blanching, Sortun said, it will still taste fresh. When you use frozen produce to cook with, she said, “you could hardly tell the difference.” At home and at work, she uses her freezer not only as a place to

stash leftovers but as another tool — storing some things like tomatoes raw and whole, but also blanched and chopped greens, or roasted peppers. Like most chefs, she uses a vacuum sealer to remove air from the freezer bags, which prevents freezer burn. She could take a lesson from Tory Miller in Madison, Wis., who has six chest freezers, a walk-in and a small blast freezer that fully chills in minutes, most of them stashed at his restaurant, L’Etoile. To serve a locally sourced menu in a region where the growing season is often just four months, Miller said he often buys three times as much as he will need at the farmers’ market. Miller says his blast freezer is so good at preserving the integrity of soft fruits, like strawberries, that he serves them raw after they are defrosted. “In the winter, it looks like Technicolor,” he said of a dish garnished with whole cherry tomatoes. RACHEL WHARTON

A New Pineapple Rum, With a Nod to Dickens Many of Charles Dickens’s characters like to drink as much as their creator did. For this reason, Dickens’s novels have proved useful as windows into 19th-century drinking habits. And now, one character has lent his name to a new spirit. Plantation Pineapple Rum Stiggins’ Fancy — recently released by Maison Ferrand — is named after Reverend Stiggins, an ecclesiastical hypocrite from “The Pickwick Papers” who preached temperance between nips of his beloved pineapple rum. “That’s his most convivial book,” said David Wondrich, the cocktail historian, who collaborated with Ferrand on the new product. “It’s full of people tippling and gin punches.” Pineapple rum sounds like

something that might have been released last week, to fill a market gap between last year’s mango rum and next year’s snozzberry rum. But it dates back to the late 1700s or earlier. “It was done in the islands,” Wondrich said. “They’d soak pineapple in the barrel; it gave the rum a sweetness and richness.” The idea to bring it back came when Alexandre Gabriel, Ferrand’s president and owner, asked Wondrich, with whom he had collaborated on a Cognac and a Curaçao, if he had “any other bright ideas,” as Wondrich put it. Gabriel steeped the flesh of pineapples in his Plantation Original Dark Rum, an aged rum. Then, seeking more aromatics, he distilled the pineapple rind with his Plantation 3 Stars White Rum.

The two rums were then blended and left in a barrel to spend some time together. Gabriel intended the new liquor as a one-off, something to show off as a novelty. But when he poured some out at the 2014 Tales of the Cocktail, the annual liquor convention in New Orleans, bartender reaction was strong. After numerous demands for more, he eventually decided to release it commercially, with a suggested retail price of $30. The rum’s appeal to bartenders is its subtlety. It is a rum with pineapple notes, rather than a pineapple-y rum. Freddie Sarkis, the bar manager of the newly opened Broken Shaker in Chicago, has been using it in a daiquiri variation. The pineapple tends to sneak up on his customers. “They notice it when

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Freddie Sarkis likes the subtlety of pineapple rum. you mention it,” he said. Jackson Cannon, a partner at the Hawthorne in Boston, thinks it has the potential to grab both bartenders and everyday drinkers — the bartenders because “it’s a very well-made, useful thing,” and the everyday drinkers because “it sounds unintimidating.” As Wondrich said: “It’s not too weird. That’s the strength of it.” ROBERT SIMONSON

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Bridal Whites With Colorful Past Set for Government Auction husband, and the proceeds would go toward the costs of her bridal shop. The bridal show was part of an effort to find buyers for the 3,000-piece wedding collection that has been in the government’s possession for more than two years. The money goes back to the Asset Forfeiture Program of the United States Marshals Service, which uses the funds to compensate victims or to share it with other law enforcement agencies that participated in seizures. The value of the bridal lot from Alaska valued at nearly $500,000. The United States Marshals Service first tried to find buyers in Alaska, but the market was too small. The inventory was put on a

WASHINGTON — The offerings at the Down the Aisle bridal show in Atlanta appeared no different from what you would find in any other shop in America, except for the federal security guards who checked the customers for firearms, knives and explosives. The racks were bursting with lace, tulle and taffeta, and the tables were lined with trinkets. But the dresses were previously owned by an Alaskan drug dealer, and the runway models were federal employees. The F.B.I. seized the dresses and cake toppers from a woman in Juneau who was convicted of smuggling heroin and methamphetamines. Shipments would arrive at a beading supply store that she owned with her

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barge to Seattle, then on a 38-hour truck ride to Atlanta. “You never quite know what kind of unusual things agencies have that they want us to work on for disposal,” said Dave Robbins, director of the Personal Property Management Office at the General Services Administration. “This is the first time we’ve had a major bridal asset seizure.” Instead of just taking snapshots of the items and posting them online, the agency team decided to go one step further. They waded through the collection to curate the federal government’s first bridal boutique. The organizers wanted to make the show feel special for those who would be bidding on items for their big day in a drab government building. They converted large conference rooms into a network of wedding studios. The workers draped white cloth over conference tables and dressed up the walls with photographs of employees modeling the clothing. “It was heartwarming to see that there was a lot of thought and effort put into repurposing these items,” said Kristy Tubbs, who drove from Fredericksburg, Va., with her two daughters to view the lots and bid on them. Tubbs, a marriage and financial counselor, was looking for items for some of the couples she works with. She bid on 16 full lots, which included mother-of-the-bride dresses, bridesmaid dresses, flower girl dresses, evening gowns and veils. She even bid on a diamond ring, something she was eyeing for herself. “I want my husband to ask me to marry him again with that ring,” she said. Tubbs plans to give away some of the dresses to low-income couples or sell them at a steep discount. The items may come from a shady background, she said, but she is focusing on where they can go. “There’s always a sunny side to something,” she said. “When you walk in, you don’t see a crime or a victim. You see hope and joy and future and restoration.” JADA F. SMITH

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

BP Deal Will Lead to a Cleaner Gulf Though no amount of money can ever compensate for the staggering damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill, last week’s provisional $18.7 billion settlement among five states, the federal government and the company will help make amends for one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. If approved, the deal will end years of legal battles and bring the total amount BP will pay for its role in the calamity to more than $50 billion. It will also provide a continuing source of revenue for the repair and restoration of the Gulf of Mexico’s marshes, barrier islands, fisheries and other vulnerable elements of an ecosystem that had been ailing before the spill. The agreement would end all civil suits against BP for its part in a disaster that killed 11 crew members on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and sent millions of barrels of crude oil into the gulf. BP would pay the federal government a penalty of $5.5 billion over 15 years under the Clean Water Act and pay $7.1 billion to the five Gulf Coast states — Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas — for damages to natural resources. These two pots of money are intended largely for environmental restoration. The settlement also provides about $6 billion to the states and local governments for economic damages. There were some complaints from environmental advocates that BP got off too easy. The Clean Water Act penalties could have been more than twice as large, and some legal scholars were baffled by the government’s readiness to settle on a number for natural resource

damages that have not been fully assessed. The most likely explanation is that the two sides saw the possibility of a global settlement that would provide a degree of certainty for BP and reasonably prompt restitution for state and local economies and for the environment. In addition, the deal would yield $700 million more in interest charges for natural resource damages that occur after it is signed. BP pleaded guilty to 14 criminal charges in 2013 and paid $4 billion in criminal penalties in addition to billions more in cleanup costs and economic settlements with individuals and businesses. When all is said and done, the company estimates it will have paid nearly $54 billion, shedding major assets to pay the tab. If that isn’t a deterrent to careless behavior by the oil companies, it’s hard to know what is. The new deal gives the gulf’s ecosystem a real shot at renewal. Years of misguided flood control projects along the Mississippi River plus the slicing and dicing of coastal lands by the oil companies have cost Louisiana alone 2,300 square miles of wetlands over the last 80 years, with more erosion every day. This damage has robbed the state of natural protections against hurricanes and destroyed deepwater corals and coastal nurseries vital to the health of one of the world’s richest fisheries. BP’s money can help turn this around — but only if the officials in charge spend it wisely and resist the ever-present temptation to divert it to politically driven development projects that have no connection to environmental needs.

Common Ground for Vietnam and U.S. Forty-plus years after the Americans withdrew from Vietnam, and 20 years after the two countries re-established diplomatic relations, President Obama took the relationship to a new level on Tuesday by hosting Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, at the White House. Because Trong doesn’t hold an official government post, diplomatic protocol did not necessarily call for a meeting with Obama. But it made sense for Obama to bend the rules because Trong is Vietnam’s highest-ranking political leader and, along with other influential conservatives, has been the most resistant to closer relations with America. The meeting showed Obama’s commitment to building deeper partnerships in Asia. The intent is to balance China’s growing economic, military and political clout and guarantee regional stability. Despite longstanding ties between Vietnam and China, many Vietnamese are anxious about China’s increasing assertiveness, especially in the South China Sea. There are other reasons closer ties should be of mutual interest for Washington and Hanoi. Obama is trying to conclude a sweeping trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, as

early as this month and Vietnam is among the dozen countries that are part of that negotiation. Some of the most difficult TPP-related disputes involve Vietnam. The deal would require Vietnam to curb the state’s role in business and improve labor and environmental standards in exchange for easier access to American markets for clothing and shoes. In seeking closer ties with Vietnam, Obama has come under fire from human rights groups and some Democrats in Congress who criticized Vietnam’s unfair labor practices and low wages. Such complaints are valid. Although the number of political prisoners has declined in recent years, more than 100 Vietnamese are still imprisoned on political charges, and dissent is suppressed. Obama should continue to press Vietnam to open up its political system and allow its citizens greater freedoms, like letting workers organize or join independent unions of their choice. Tangible movement in such areas should be required before the United States lifts its ban on providing lethal weapons to Vietnam — like guns mounted on coast defense patrol boats — or before Obama sets a date to make an official visit to Trong’s country.

FRANK BRUNI

Trump’s Wasted Gift I keep reading that Donald Trump is wrecking the Republican Party. I keep hearing that he’s a threat to the fortunes of every other Republican presidential candidate, because he sullies the brand. What bunk. The truth is that he’s a golden opportunity for them. The brand was plenty sullied before he lent his huff and his hair to the task. And by giving his Republican rivals a perfect foil, he also gives them a perfect chance to rehabilitate and redeem the party. As it stands now, he’s using them. If they had any guts, they could use him. They could piggyback on the outsize attention that he receives, answering his unhinged tweets and idiotic utterances with something sane and smart. There was a hint of this last weekend, when Jeb Bush, whose wife is Mexican-American, lashed out at Trump’s broad-brush comments about Mexican immigrants crossing into America with an agenda of drugs and rape. Bush labeled those remarks “extraordinarily ugly” and “way out of the mainstream.” Neither he nor Marco Rubio exhibited any hurry in distancing themselves from Trump. On Fox Business on Tuesday, Rubio gave a pathetic master class in evasion, stammering his way though an interview in which he was asked repeatedly for an opinion about Trump. As in 2012, Republicans can’t summon the courage to take on the dark heroes of the party’s lunatic fringe. The Charleston, S.C., church massacre and subsequent debate over the Confederate flag afforded them an ideal moment to talk with passion and poetry about racial healing. But the leading contenders reacted in fashions either sluggish, terse, muffled or all three. Trump’s rant about immigrants was another squandered moment. Rand Paul claims the desire and ability to expand the party’s reach to more minorities. So where’s his takedown of Trump? Trump’s hold on voters stems from his lack of any filter and from his directness, traits that they don’t see in establishment candidates. So his fellow Republicans’ filtered, indirect approach to him just gives him more power. They’re wrong to try to ignore him, because the media won’t do that and because he’s probably going to qualify for the debates. Looking ahead to the first of them, the conservative pundit George Will bought into the notion of Trump as an ineradicable pest who “says something hideously inflammatory, which is all he knows how to say, and then what do the other nine people onstage do?” Oh, please. That’s hardly an existential crisis. It’s a prompt for an overdue smidgen of valor. Without any hesitation, they tell him that he’s a disgrace. Without any hedging, they tell him that he’s absurd. It’s the truth. And for the Republican Party, it might just be transformative.

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Charlie Hoke

senior chief aviaition structural mechanic

SQUADRON: VAW-125 HOMETOWN: Medina, New York WHY SHE CHOSE THE NAVY:

Adventure - coming from a really small town there

werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a whole lot of options. The Navy offered a way out and an adventure.

HER FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB:

Professionally - the people

Personally - being out to sea on a cloudless, moonless night and being able to see every star. Its absolutely awe inspiring and calming.

PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: When I was CAP-ed to 3rd Class. And when I made Chief.

FUN

SHOUT OUT: All of VAW-125.

FACT

I had a pet raccoon as a kid. Being from the country allows for some unusual pets.

We have an amazing team of people.

HOMETOWN HERO

Andrew Bridges

AVIATION SUPPORT EQUIPMENT TECHICIAN AIRMAN

SQUADRON: VAW-125 HOMETOWN: Winter Haven, Florida

WHY HE CHOSE NAVY: Pay for school

HIS FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB:

Launching and recovering aircraft on the

flight deck.

PROUDEST NAVY MOMENT: Getting my name painted on an aircraft for being a plane captain.

FUN

FACT

I once sang the National Anthem at a Cleveland Indians Baseball game.

SHOUT OUT: Everyone back home in Winter Haven, Florida and VAW-125 line shack.

WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

THURSDAY JULY 9, 2015

Staff Commanding Officer

Times Ch 66

Ch 67

Ch 68

0900

CLOSED CIRCUIT

AMILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST

TEXAS CHAINSAW 2013

1100

SAVAGES

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

FALLEN

1330

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

POLTERGEIST (2015)

1530

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

THE PIRATE FAIRY

PROMETHEUS

1700

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

ICE AGE

PROMETHEUS

1830

SWORDFISH

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

ANNABELLE

2030

CLOSED CIRCUIT

A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST

TEXAS CHAINSAW 2013

2230

SAVAGES

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

FALLEN

0100

KILLING THEM SOFTLY

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

POLTERGEIST (2015)

0300

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

THE PIRATE FAIRY

PROMETHEUS

0430

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

ICE AGE

PROMETHEUS

0600

SWORDFISH

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL

ANNABELLE

MOVIE TRIVIA

Q: In A Million Ways to Die in the West, what surprise guest star makes an appearance in the fair scene at the end of the movie?

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

Previous Question: tHIS DISNEY MOVIE FEATURES THE FIRST BIRACIAL LEAD. wHAT IS MOVIE IS IT? Answer: bIG HERO 6

friday

JULY 10, 2015 Times 0900

Ch 66

FILLY BROWN

WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

Ch 67

Ch 68

ABOUT LAST NIGHT

YOU’RE NEXT

LIFE OF PI

INDEPENDENCE DAY

1100

MO’BETTER BLUES

1330

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD RIDE ALONG

DARK SKIES

1530

OUT OF AFRICA

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT

BACKDRAFT

1700

OUT OF AFRICA

CHICKEN RUN

BACKDRAFT

1830

IDES OF MARCH

GRUDGE MATCH

THE GIVER

2030

FILLY BROWN

ABOUT LAST NIGHT

YOU’RE NEXT

2230

MO’BETTER BLUES

LIFE OF PI

INDEPENDENCE DAY

0100

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD RIDE ALONG

DARK SKIES

0300

OUT OF AFRICA

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT

BACKDRAFT

0430

OUT OF AFRICA

CHICKEN RUN

BACKDRAFT

0600

IDES OF MARCH

GRUDGE MATCH

THE GIVER

*Movie schedule is subject to change.

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